Tropescilloscope: Every Car Is a Pinto

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

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