Tropescilloscope: Car Fu

Using a vehicle as a weapon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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