Tropescilloscope: Every Car Is a Pinto

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

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