Tropescilloscope: Car Fu

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

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