Tropescilloscope: Every Car Is a Pinto

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

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