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Even if he's in the desert with nothing to crash ''into'', he'll somehow find a way. To his credit, the crashes are survivable, so he does have that going for him.
Sometimes the crashes are not his fault; he just seems to attract bad luck. Still, with all the crashes he's been in, it's a wonder anyone trusts him to drive or his [[I Thought It Was Forbidden|license hasn't been revoked]]. His insurance rates are probably through the roof. Is often depicted as [[Innocently Insensitive]] or a [[Nightmare Fuel
Can be somewhat justifiable for rookies crashing planes, because taking off and flying are much easier than landing. The landing is where the real skill shows itself.
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Sister trope of the [[Disposable Pilot]], who generally doesn't even survive his ''first'' crash. See also: [[Drives Like Crazy]].
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** Though not nearly as much as Alto in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', who trashes a new plane every other episode or so. {{spoiler|In the epilogue, he managed to set his perfectly-undamaged Valkyrie on fire, ''after'' the battle was over, and scuttled it as it was breaking apart.}}
* Seta in ''[[Love Hina]]'' usually enters a chapter by crashing his van, but emerging without major injury. His protégé Keitaro picks up the trait by the final chapters.
* ''[[Jo
** They're rarely the ones piloting them, but there's a rule that if someone of the Joestar bloodline gets into a plane, ''it will crash''. No exceptions.
** Cars, trains, boats and ''submarines'' have a similar tendency to crash somehow when a Joestar is near. Oh, and an helicopter, but that was highly intentional.
* Sagara Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic (Light Novel)|Full Metal Panic]]'' seems to be this. Of course, part of it might be explained by how most of the instances where he's driving have been [[Chase Scene|dangerous car chase scenes]] (where it's only natural that he would be crashing through things and [[Drives Like Crazy|driving crazy]]). But then one starts to wonder when, during an instance where he wasn't even being chased, he ended up running an obvious red light and crashed into another car. And then there's his crazy "driving" when he was riding on a bicycle... honestly, people should get the idea and just ''not'' let him drive.
* ''[[Area 88 (Manga)|Area 88]]'': While very much an [[Ace Pilot]], Shin Kazama manages to get at least three or four planes shot out from under him, depending on the continuity. His luckier comrades also have tendencies in this directions. The rest, well, [[Anyone Can Die]].
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'': Heero Yuy. Utterly lethal in mobile suit combat, but the number of suits he's totalled or seriously damaged defies belief. He has had at least two Leos and the Mercurius shot out from under him, as well as wrecking Wing Zero in Endless Waltz (although that [[Rasputinian Death|took some doing]].) And then there is Wing Gundam. Poor, poor Wing Gundam. To date, Heero has crashed it into the ocean, attempted to self-detonate it, attempted to blow it up with torpedoes, actually self-detonated it, then finally had it shot out from under him before getting his [[Mid
** In ''Gundam Seed'' and ''Seed Destiny'' Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala have each had only one of their mobile suits survive the end of the series (one each across two series), every other suit they used was totaled, though Athrun went though far more suits, to the point if he touched it it was probably doomed and Kira's tended to be rebuilt and destroyed again.
* In ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', Rally Vincent wrecks her car on multiple occasions despite proving her worth in multiple street races. At one point it is even mentioned that she can't get insurance anymore.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Lt. Frank Drebin of ''[[Police Squad!]]'' would park by smashing his car into something (trash cans, bicycles, other cars) at least [[Once Per Episode]].
* Although being a competent pilot, Boomer in the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' is known for her terrible landing skills, causing a dent on her ship every time she lands.
** Racetrack and her co-pilot Skulls fall into the bad-luck variety. There is nothing to show that [[Deadpan Snarker|Racetrack]] is a bad pilot. That doesn't change the fact she seems to attract errors, breakdowns, sabotages and attacks. Did the striking workers spike the fuel, casing a Raptor to spin out of control and crash into Colonial One? It'll be Racetrack's. Did chief mess up the repairs and caused a Raptor to crash on the landing deck? It's Racetrack's. Did a saboteur plant a bomb in a Raptor to kill Baltar's attorney? It's Racetrack's Raptor. Did the experimental jump drive cause a mis-jump? It was Racetrack and how she discovered New Caprica.
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** Lee "Apollo" Adama should also bear mentioning. He doesn't necessarily wreck a lot of stuff, but he has a penchant for wrecking important stuff. From the mini-series he manages to first disable his father's old fighter and then utterly trash it before the the end. He goes on to wreck the only stealth fighter another character spend an entire episode fabricating. And then he wrecks {{spoiler|The Pegasus, the more advanced of the pair of battlestars.}} It's a wonder why Daddy keeps giving him the keys.
* Hibiki from ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]''; especially ironic since [[Kamen Rider|Kamen Riders]] tend to be [[Badass Biker|Badass Bikers]] (where do you think the "Rider" came from?).
** Actually a case of [[Writer Revolt]]. [[Dolled
* For Jake Cutter, of ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]'', crash landings were routine and accepted as such on Bora Gora.
* Richard Hammond of ''[[Top Gear]]'' has a... not-undeserved reputation for being accident-prone.
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* [[Batman (Franchise)|Batman]] in [[The DCAU]]. IIRC, the Batwing was destroyed in every appearance it made in JL/JLU. I'm not even sure the thing has landing gear.
** It does. It lands once in the very first JU episode, although [[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]] has to catch it and land it for Batman because a wing was shot off.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash exhibits the non-vehicle version of this trope. Dash is a superb flyer; her landings, however, are sometimes far from graceful, as Twilight's library can attest. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when she's afflicted by Poison Joke, which inverts her wings, leaving her crashing into things every few seconds, thrust-vectoring into the floor, and other such mishaps.
** A lot of crashing is indicated to come from constantly attempting impossibly difficult stunts in an effort to impress the Wonderbolts. She also has a tendency to lose concentration or get distracted at critical moments (if she starts talking to someone while flying, it's a safe bet she's going to hit something in the next few seconds).
* In ''[[Star Wars the Clone Wars (Animation)|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'', Anakin Skywalker proves the apple didn't fall far from the tree in some ways. He's the finest starfighter pilot in the galaxy... and the worst starfighter ''lander'' in the galaxy.
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