Tropescilloscope: Every Car Is a Pinto

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

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