Tropescilloscope: Car Fu

Using a vehicle as a weapon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Belligerent Sexual Tension Advertised Extra Diabolus ex Machina Eagleland Leaning on the Fourth Wall Horror Films Too Dumb to Live This Is Gonna Suck Mighty Whitey Foregone Conclusion Tempting Fate Wham Shot Hell Is That Noise The Bully Action Genre Zombie Stories Only in It for the Money As Himself Adaptation Distillation Shut Up, Hannibal! Ship Tease Cool Old Guy Disney Villain Death Male Frontal Nudity Bond Villain Stupidity Only a Flesh Wound Demoted to Extra Smug Snake Creative Closing Credits Sports Stories Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Break the Cutie Big Bad Duumvirate Smoking Is Cool Crapsack World The Bad Guy Wins Neck Lift Drowning My Sorrows Happily Married The Load Adapted Out Idiot Ball Villain with Good Publicity Parental Neglect Deadpan Snarker Storming the Castle Guile Hero Stealth Hi/Bye Better to Die than Be Killed Karma Houdini Novelization Dying Moment of Awesome No Ending Mama Bear Precision F-Strike Spanner in the Works Bury Your Gays Early Installment Weirdness Retirony Slasher Smile Babies Ever After Totally Radical Pretty Little Headshots Cloudcuckoolander Running Gag Japanese Films Small Name, Big Ego Animal Motifs Eye Scream Redemption Equals Death Due to the Dead Dark Is Not Evil Adults Are Useless Rape as Drama Brainless Beauty Faking the Dead Rule of Symbolism Stepford Smiler Chiaroscuro Once More, with Clarity! Mystery and Detective Films Say My Name Here We Go Again! Arc Words I Did What I Had to Do Half the Man He Used to Be Skewed Priorities Token Minority The Un-Reveal Country Matters Bloodier and Gorier Heel Realization Chekhov's Gunman Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Kick the Son of a Bitch Antagonist Title One Steve Limit Lock and Load Montage There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Lancer Training Montage Reality Ensues Hollywood Darkness Make It Look Like an Accident Rich Bitch War Is Hell Have a Gay Old Time Fingore Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Curse Cut Short Destination Defenestration Downer Ending Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Demonic Possession Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Roaring Rampage of Revenge As Long as It Sounds Foreign Hair-Trigger Temper Interrupted Suicide Dogged Nice Guy Killed Mid-Sentence Gorn The Chessmaster Bound and Gagged Reckless Gun Usage Eiffel Tower Effect The Great Depression Heroic BSoD Fanservice Extra Christmas Movies Index Red Herring Deus ex Machina Dies Wide Open Our Vampires Are Different Tranquil Fury Big "NO!" Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Sci-Fi Horror Put on a Bus Catch-Phrase Face Death with Dignity Adaptation Name Change Ms. Fanservice Historical Hero Upgrade Thriller Age Lift Really Gets Around Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Smurfette Principle As You Know Even Evil Has Standards The Stoner Everyone Has Standards Double-Meaning Title Despair Event Horizon Drill Sergeant Nasty Ascended Extra Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Punch-Clock Villain Big Eater Sole Survivor Death by Irony Heroes Want Redheads Intrepid Reporter Mooks Rule of Funny The X of Y Funny Background Event Evil Is Hammy Instant Death Bullet Biopic Pay Evil unto Evil Take a Third Option Fantasy Films Manly Tears Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass She's Got Legs Ax-Crazy Gone Horribly Right Bowdlerise No Celebrities Were Harmed Anachronism Stew Canadian Movies Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Men Are the Expendable Gender Corpsing Call-Forward After the End Action Survivor Double Entendre Fun with Acronyms Fate Worse than Death Auto Erotica Animal Title Index Kill It with Fire Not So Stoic Cain and Abel Stalker with a Crush The Place Becoming the Mask Insult Backfire Dirty Old Man Freeze-Frame Bonus Dissonant Serenity Worthy Opponent Amusing Injuries British Films Documentary Silence Is Golden Bolivian Army Ending Monumental Damage Sir Swears-a-Lot Unwitting Instigator of Doom Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas MacGuffin Laughing Mad Scenery Gorn Kids Are Cruel I'm a Humanitarian Stock Footage Genre Throwback The Starscream Combat Pragmatist Kubrick Stare Celebrity Paradox Bond One-Liner Cowboy Cop Genre Shift Eldritch Abomination Real Life Writes the Plot Batman Gambit Unresolved Sexual Tension Black Comedy Rape Creepy Child Dark Reprise Shipper on Deck Daddy's Girl Earn Your Happy Ending Apocalypse How Spiteful Spit Drives Like Crazy Sassy Black Woman Scare Chord Peek-a-Boo Corpse Slap-Slap-Kiss Stealth Pun Product Placement Not What It Looks Like Danny Peary Cult Movies List Arranged Marriage You Have Failed Me Those Wacky Nazis She Cleans Up Nicely Throwing Your Sword Always Works And Starring Very Loosely Based on a True Story Kill 'em All Coming-of-Age Story Riddle for the Ages Enemy Mine Butt-Monkey Early-Bird Cameo It's Personal Hope Spot Cat Fight Asshole Victim Sequel Escalation Victoria's Secret Compartment Cat Scare Logo Joke Light Is Not Good Fanservice The Chick Obfuscating Stupidity Re-Cut Black Dude Dies First Deliberately Monochrome Vomit Discretion Shot Mistaken for Gay Hypocrite Only Known by Their Nickname Conspicuous CG Outrun the Fireball Driven to Suicide Missing Mom Silent Movie Fantastic Racism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Green-Eyed Monster Camp Gay Not Quite Dead Television Movie Index He Knows Too Much Disappeared Dad My God, What Have I Done? The Ghost Almost Kiss Nothing Is Scarier The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Well-Intentioned Extremist Even Evil Has Loved Ones Recycled IN SPACE! Dark and Troubled Past How We Got Here Air-Vent Passageway Central Theme Disney Death An Aesop Big Applesauce The Quiet One Woman Scorned Dutch Angle And I Must Scream Exact Words Dramatic Gun Cock Irony Foil Comically Missing the Point The Cameo Love Triangle You Killed My Father Blood Knight Actor Allusion Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bring My Brown Pants Bottomless Magazines Never Found the Body Red Oni, Blue Oni timeperiod In Medias Res Show Within a Show Artistic License – History "Awesome McCool" Name Those Two Bad Guys Historical-Domain Character Sacrificial Lion Retcon Beta Couple Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Word of God Psychopathic Manchild Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Suspiciously Specific Denial Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Italian Films All There in the Manual It Will Never Catch On Taking You with Me "Shaggy Dog" Story NO INDOOR VOICE Made of Iron Rule of Cool No Antagonist The '50s Ungrateful Bastard Kick the Dog You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Casting Gag Dual Wielding Captain Ersatz World of Ham The Hero Sadistic Choice Important Haircut Bar Brawl Pyrrhic Victory Wretched Hive Calling the Old Man Out Rule of Three Never Trust a Trailer Action Girl Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Overly Long Gag The Ace Flipping the Bird Hero of Another Story One-Man Army Armor-Piercing Question Gilligan Cut Loads and Loads of Characters "Well Done, Son!" Guy Implacable Man A Minor Kidroduction I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fourth Date Marriage A God Am I Manipulative Bastard Bi the Way Badass Normal Visual Pun Knight Templar Daylight Horror Improbable Weapon User Spiritual Successor True Companions Evil Sounds Deep Villain Protagonist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Serious Business Translation Convention Suspiciously Similar Substitute Badass Grandpa Manchild Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Oner Ominous Latin Chanting Anyone Can Die Children Are Innocent Villain Ball What Happened to the Mouse? Random Events Plot The Film of the Book Cassandra Truth Horror Comedy Curb-Stomp Battle Evil Counterpart Artistic License – Gun Safety Brick Joke Film Noir All Just a Dream Did Not Get the Girl Let's Get Dangerous! Pet the Dog Manic Pixie Dream Girl "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mythology Gag Jerkass Has a Point Bald of Evil Dirty Cop Berserk Button Setting Update Leave the Camera Running Does This Remind You of Anything? Deconstruction Made of Explodium Betty and Veronica Meaningful Name Get Out! BFG Playing Gertrude Guns Akimbo Gainax Ending Blood from the Mouth Mood Whiplash Names to Run Away from Really Fast Captain Obvious From Bad to Worse Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Broken Pedestal Sealed Evil in a Can Evil Laugh Dramatic Irony Together in Death Insane Troll Logic Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Heterosexual Life-Partners Maybe Ever After Neck Snap Disguised in Drag Parental Incest Imagine Spot Public Domain Feature Films Domestic Abuse Toplessness from the Back Nice Guy Shell-Shocked Veteran Rewatch Bonus The Brute Leitmotif The Atoner Determinator aka: The Determinator Shout-Out Hypocritical Humor Framing Device Be Careful What You Wish For Deal with the Devil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sequel Hook The Casanova The Dreaded Black and Gray Morality Spared by the Adaptation Jerk Jock Humans Are Bastards Soft Glass An Axe to Grind In the Back Improbable Aiming Skills Dwindling Party Politically Incorrect Villain Bilingual Bonus Extreme Doormat Back from the Dead Only One Name Jump Scare Slasher Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Spell My Name with an "S" Evil Plan Not So Different Death Seeker Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Stinger It Can Think Film Series Adorkable Pimped-Out Dress Honor Before Reason Karmic Death Pre-Asskicking One-Liner N-Word Privileges Yandere Unspoken Plan Guarantee Broken Aesop Non-Indicative Name Taking the Bullet Beware the Nice Ones Foreshadowing Rated M for Manly Left the Background Music On Badass Boast Blackmail Psychological Thriller The '80s Historical Villain Upgrade What You Are in the Dark Jerkass folderlabel Bloodless Carnage Darkest Hour Aside Glance French Films Damsel in Distress Artistic License – Physics Wham Line It's All About Me Meaningful Echo Dumb Blonde Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Power of Love One-Word Title Face–Heel Turn Costume Porn Death Glare Bad Boss Big-Bad Ensemble Crucified Hero Shot Fat Bastard Overprotective Dad Nice Hat Dirty Coward Hate Sink Book-Ends The End... Or Is It? What the Hell, Hero? Psycho for Hire Scenery Porn Lampshade Hanging Noodle Incident Self-Deprecation Awesome, but Impractical Catapult Nightmare The '60s Madness Mantra Major Injury Underreaction Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Annoying Younger Sibling Artistic License – Law Hidden Depths Shower Scene Market-Based Title The '90s Reasonable Authority Figure Black Comedy Mad Scientist Boom, Headshot! Properly Paranoid Black Best Friend Wrong Genre Savvy Star-Crossed Lovers Offscreen Teleportation Video Credits Evil vs. Evil Death by Sex Corrupt Corporate Executive Obviously Evil Narrator Big Brother Instinct Older Than They Look Last-Name Basis Final Girl Card-Carrying Villain Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Faceless Alas, Poor Villain Protagonist Title Bavarian Fire Drill I Have Your Wife Ripped from the Headlines Suddenly SHOUTING! Lighter and Softer Historical In-Joke Gender Flip Death by Adaptation Fan Disservice Paper-Thin Disguise The Cavalry Shoot the Shaggy Dog Greater-Scope Villain Obstructive Bureaucrat Author Avatar Stuff Blowing Up And the Adventure Continues Crazy Jealous Guy Fainting Film Noir Index Heel–Face Turn Every Car Is a Pinto Needs Wiki Magic Love The Mafia Badass Bookworm Race Against the Clock Hong Kong Films Brother–Sister Incest Alpha Bitch Fish out of Water Grey and Gray Morality Bland-Name Product Parental Substitute Motor Mouth Homage For Want of a Nail Break the Haughty Trailers Always Spoil Arch-Enemy Five-Man Band Naïve Newcomer Loophole Abuse Fake Shemp Cool Old Lady Martial Arts Movie Death of a Child Aluminum Christmas Trees Hero Antagonist Does Not Like Shoes Large Ham Alliterative Name Cluster F-Bomb Mind Screw Body Horror Epic Movie Refuge in Audacity An Arm and a Leg Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Call-Back O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Dragon Extremely Short Timespan Funny Foreigner Establishing Character Moment Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality He Who Fights Monsters Didn't Think This Through Dull Surprise Mercy Kill Evil-Detecting Dog The Reveal Soundtrack Dissonance Russian Films Covers Always Lie Dramedy Contrived Coincidence Not Using the "Z" Word Car Fu Undying Loyalty Distracted by the Sexy Drugs Are Bad Continuity Nod La Résistance Cool Car Disproportionate Retribution Femme Fatale All Girls Want Bad Boys Bare Your Midriff Evil Brit Affectionate Parody Affably Evil May–December Romance Real Life Adult Fear Meaningful Background Event Mexican Standoff All There in the Script The Vamp Sexy Discretion Shot All Men Are Perverts Bloody Hilarious Music Stories Defiant to the End The Voiceless Creator Cameo Epic Fail Failed a Spot Check Your Head A-Splode Grievous Bottley Harm Crazy-Prepared Would Hurt a Child Rousing Speech Getting Crap Past the Radar Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Musical Chewing the Scenery Informed Ability Humiliation Conga Pre-Mortem One-Liner Military and Warfare Films Oh, Crap! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Jerk with a Heart of Gold Police are Useless Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Unreliable Narrator Naked People Are Funny Cool Shades Composite Character Not So Above It All From Nobody to Nightmare Scary Black Man Based on a True Story Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dark Action Girl Moment Killer Off with His Head! The Big Guy The Lost Lenore Gory Discretion Shot The Hero Dies Abusive Parents Developing Doomed Characters Chase Scene Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Stoic Anti-Villain Fiery Redhead No Name Given Anachronic Order Department of Redundancy Department As the Good Book Says... Adaptation Dye-Job Ambiguous Ending Vacation Films Posthumous Character Villainous Breakdown Pragmatic Villainy Rasputinian Death Immune to Bullets Meet Cute Parental Abandonment Bait-and-Switch Fire-Forged Friends Expy The Ditz Stylistic Suck Accidental Murder Romantic Comedy '80s Hair Malevolent Masked Men Facial Horror Sanity Slippage The Remake Super Strength Handicapped Badass Authority Equals Asskicking Faux Affably Evil Our Zombies Are Different Plucky Comic Relief Cool Guns Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Eureka Moment Evil Is Petty Actually Pretty Funny Broken Bird Those Two Guys All for Nothing Anguished Declaration of Love Plot Hole Retired Badass Depraved Bisexual Screw the Money, I Have Rules! For the Evulz Canon Foreigner Whole Plot Reference Title Drop Frame-Up Cruel and Unusual Death Easily Forgiven The Dog Bites Back Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gold Digger Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Defrosting Ice Queen Red Eyes, Take Warning Ambiguous Disorder Author Appeal Ghost Fiction Henpecked Husband Would Hit a Girl Adaptational Badass B-Movie Camera Abuse Poor Communication Kills The '70s A Date with Rosie Palms Male Gaze Race Lift Laser-Guided Karma My Greatest Failure Adaptational Heroism Deliberate Values Dissonance Serial Killer Credits Gag Take That! Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Artistic License – Geography Truth in Television Bunny-Ears Lawyer In Name Only The Alcoholic Your Cheating Heart Chekhov's Skill Insistent Terminology I Need a Freaking Drink Vomit Indiscretion Shot Shirtless Scene Married to the Job Ironic Echo Pretty in Mink Up to Eleven Breaking the Fourth Wall Wounded Gazelle Gambit Darker and Edgier Award-Bait Song Works Set in World War II Punny Name Expository Hairstyle Change Villain Song Abhorrent Admirer Match Cut The Mole Papa Wolf Determinator Morality Pet Badass in a Nice Suit Reality Has No Subtitles Vampire Fiction Mundane Made Awesome Man on Fire Dropped a Bridge on Him Eyepatch of Power Good Is Not Nice Slashed Throat Empathic Environment German Films Red Shirt Australian Movies Action Prologue Adaptational Villainy The Sociopath Redshirt Army Index of Film Westerns Anti-Hero Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Dressing as the Enemy Straight Gay Mugging the Monster Genre Savvy No OSHA Compliance Exactly What It Says on the Tin No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Pragmatic Adaptation Cold-Blooded Torture My Beloved Smother Villain Opening Scene Woman in White Jitter Cam Shown Their Work Mr. Fanservice Chekhov's Gun Superhero Intergenerational Friendship Animated Credits Opening Twist Ending Adaptational Attractiveness The Alleged Car Artistic License – Biology "The Reason You Suck" Speech 20 Minutes into the Future Only Sane Man Agony of the Feet Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Room Full of Crazy Bad "Bad Acting" Tagline Artistic License – Military Heroic Sacrifice Ass Shove Big Damn Heroes No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hoist by His Own Petard Amoral Attorney Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Ambiguously Gay You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Decoy Protagonist Time Skip Brutal Honesty Mr. Exposition Big Fancy House Never My Fault Sinister Minister Vitriolic Best Buds Bittersweet Ending Hollywood Law Flashback Fatal Family Photo Groin Attack No-Sell Knife Nut Took a Level in Jerkass Adaptation Expansion Famous Last Words Big Bad Took a Level in Badass Unusual Euphemism Gratuitous English Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Accidental Misnaming Hooker with a Heart of Gold Tap on the Head Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Smart Guy Beard of Evil Line-of-Sight Name Science Fiction Films Badass Longcoat Blatant Lies More Dakka Police Brutality Reality Is Unrealistic Friend to All Children Character Development Four-Temperament Ensemble I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Same Language Dub Closed Circle Fatal Flaw A Father to His Men Bullying a Dragon Red Right Hand Revenge Freudian Excuse Romantic False Lead Wicked Cultured Improvised Weapon Love at First Sight Attempted Rape