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{{quote|"Captain Hammer threw a car at my head."|[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Dr. Horrible]]}}

Sometimes, the best weapon you could possibly use isn't the one you hold, it's the one you ride around in. Which kind of makes sense, considering that getting hit by at least a metric ton of metal moving at several kilometers per hour is bound to be painful.

* In ''Riding Bean'', the effective [[Pilot Episode]] for ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', Bean Bandit gets a security guard who [[Berserk Button|calls his car a piece of shit]] by pinning him to a tree with his front tire, nearly running him over up the trunk, then using the tire to ''scrape him off the trunk and over the car''. If you're wondering how the hell Bean can do that, keep in mind his car is ''[[Cool Car|absurdly]]'' modified, and built that he can turn the wheels 90 degrees and drive that way.

** Subverted later in the OAV where the [[Big Bad]] tries to ram an on-foot Bean with her car. What does Bean do? He ''shoulder-checks it head-on and lifts it right off its front wheels''! Did we mention that Bean is ''[[Made of Iron|REEEEALLY]]'' [[Made of Iron|tough?]]

** ...And then back up and [[Butt Monkey|hit]] [[Jerkass|Dallas]] again.

* In a recent chapter of the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, [[Cowardly Sidekick]] Yoki runs down the homunculus Pride and gloats about proving himself useful.

* This listing is not complete without mentioning ''[[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku]]''. "Land rover attack!"

* ''[[Ga-Rei Zero]]'' features Natsuki Kasuga using her motorcycle as a weapon against demons.

* ''[[F-Zero]]'': In the first episode of the anime, resident psychopath Zoda gets into a high speed car chase with main protagonist Rick Wheeler/Ryu Suzaku. What does Zoda do? He uses a machine gun to saw off his car door which then hurtles backwards and crashes through Rick's/Ryu's windshield.

* Done ridiculously literal in ''[[Kongou Banchou]]''. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kongou_banchou/c001/30.html There are passengers so he doesn't swing the car though.]

** If you're really good, you can also kill people by landing on them with starfighters. This is the only consistent method of killing hero characters in ''Battlefront 1'' along with running them down with Speeder Bikes. The ''other'' consistent methiod is using a vehicle to drive them into envirnmental death traps, though bombs still work for that, it's just much easier with a vehicles.

** Sweeping up enemy infantry is particularly potent in levels like "Theed", which afford little room for troops to scatter.

** [[Temporal Paradox|Time Paradox!]]

** Not something one can do in gameplay, but Raiden gets caught at the end of act 2 in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|MGS4]]'' by the manipulator cords of two of the Gekko mini-metal gears. He proceeds to spin around like a breakdancer and use the 5ton machines as a pair of flails. With his feet. A hugely immersion-breaking [[Wizard Did It|CyberNanobotsDidIt]] moment.

* More recently, we can see {{spoiler|Little Oars Jr., the giant, using one of the government's battleships to open a breach through one of marineford's walls.}}

* The illusionary Evangeline of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' against Negi in his [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: kicking the Chao Bao Zi Dining-Car Restaurant right into him -- after he barely escaped its falling frame when she had thrown it into the air with one of her earlier attacks.

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' Sniper has [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] and can mark opponents so objects hone in on them. Yusuke isn't worried as he is able to avoid rocks and knives. [[Oh Crap|Then he sees a truck heading for him]].