Tropescilloscope: Every Car Is a Pinto

Hollywood cars catch fire and/or explode when badly damaged. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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