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* ''[[Empowered]]'' plays with this one. After a not very successful attempt at the superpowered version in Volume 1 (see below), Emp later defeats a supervillain who's already flattened the other Superhomeys by running him down with a large SUV, at 110 km/h -- and noting that to be more effective than simply throwing a car. Sadly, the others are out cold and she gets no credit for the knockout. The author even refers to this trope on the back of the book jacket as 'Hummer Fu'.

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'': Coming back to save his mate, Cassidy rams his pick-up truck into the [[Badass Longcoat|Saint of Killers]] at full speed. [[Implacable Man|Who doesn't even flinch]].

* In [[Larry Niven]]'s short story "The Deadlier Weapon", a hitchhiker pulls a knife on the protagonist driver, who makes it very clear how badly outgunned any hitchhiker trying this stunt is. The Driver buckles his seatbelt, accelerates to over a hundred miles an hour, and tells the would-be car-jacker that he's going to ram the right side of the car (where the car-jacker is sitting) into the nearest underpass support pylon unless the guy tosses the knife out the window.

** Niven later wrote that a couple of people told him they'd done this in real life, and it worked.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'' does this once in a while and with almost every type of land vehicle you can imagine. Notable examples: "no contact" wacky races (minivans, motorhomes, city buses!) which turn into "full contact" before the end of the first lap; car football using small city cars and a giant inflatable ball; and extreme destruct testing (evaluating a car maker's durability claims by crashing said car into something).

** They also have a [http://www.youtube.com/user/TopGear channel on YouTube] (currently over 300 crunch-tastic uploads).

* ''[[BattleTech]]'': An interesting take on the concept, this is the premise from the popular lighter class mech urban tactic "Death-From-Above". Step 1: Realize your 40-ton mech can't go head to head with a 80-tonner. Step 2: Flee between skycrapers. Step 3: Jump-jet onto top of building, one that's taller than your opponent. Step 4: Wait until opponent is in jump range. Step 5: Gain as much altitude as possible before letting your "light" 35 tons of steel and armament come crashing down on top of your opponent. This is usually considered a last ditch tactic, as even a successful DFA is likely to cause some damage to the attacking unit.

** Not just light mechs, either. The [http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Highlander Highlander], a ''90 ton Assault class mech'', has jumpjets that allow it to DFA. Doing so is called the Highlander Burial, and can easily result in an instant kill by crushing the targeted mech's cockpit.

* The recent entries into the ''[[Midnight Club]]'' series includes a power up called ''Aggro'' that renders your car invincible, allowing you to literally plow through traffic with aplomb. Using Aggro while riding a motorcycle, though, induces massive lulz...

* A signature of the ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' series of video games is that vehicles can crush infantry by rolling over them. For many vehicles, it's actually their most efficient way to kill enemy infantry.

{{quote|'''Majima:''' LET'S FUCK THIS SHIT UUUUUUP!!}}

* Used by the year "MMX" against the death in this Sinfest [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209163205/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3771 strip]

* According to [[Nobody Scores]], the car is a legitimate weapon in a [[Drunken Master]]'s arsenal. Which Jane Doe goes on to prove.

* The machinima series ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has a sequence where the Blue team inadvertently remote-controls the Red team's Warthog jeep, causing it to pin Sarge to a wall. The Reds later use the same vehicle in the penultimate episode of the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' to ram over an army of time-cloned Agent Wyomings.

** {{spoiler|The series makes its intro to CGI in ''Revelations'' by having Grif drive the Warthog ''straight through a wall''. He then barrels into Agent Washington with his ride.}}

* [https://youtu.be/1EMqd5Nznv0 This] ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' short.

* The ''[[Everyman HYBRID]]'' crew try to run down ''[[Humanoid Abomination|the Slender Man]]'' in "Ashen Waste". They get teleported back to their basement for their troubles.

* Akiko Yamaguchi from [[Battle Fantasia Project]], by the time the story starts, had resorted to using cement trucks as a standard weapon against the [[Monster of the Week]].

* In an episode of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Hammerhead's unnamed chauffeur engages in some Car Fu against (especially) Silver Sable. Even earlier in the series, Hammerhead's car door is used to knock the Green Goblin off his glider.

* Subverted in ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. A mysterious car that was probably Blurr ramped off a highway bridge to crash into Blitzwing (a jet), but Blitzwing pulled up and just narrowly avoid crashing into him. It may be a [[Double Subversion]] considering the fact that pulling up made him ''crash into a building''.

* Suffice it to say that armoured fighting vehicle crews refer to infantry as "Crunchies" for a reason.

* During some engagements in [[World War II]], like the Battle of Kursk, Russian tank crews would sometimes ram German Tiger tanks. The hundred-ton pileup would disable both vehicles, but it was a worthwhile tradeoff as the Russians [[We Have Reserves|had a lot more tanks to spare]]—and the Tiger far outclassed the Russian T-34 in a head-to-head fight anyway.

== Superpowered Car Fu variant ==

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''

** Dio Brando effortlessly throws two cars at Jotaro in their climactic battle. Jotaro later counters with Tower Fu.

* Classic ''[[Superman]]'' stuff. The classic image of Superman smashing a green car into someone, as well as the [[Infinite Crisis]] repeat of Superman from Earth-2 beating down regular Superman with a similar-looking green car.

** [[Superman]] tries to pull this with a ship on The Parasite in one ''JLA'' comic.

* The Nosferatu from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' are known for using their [[Super Strength]] to wield and throw ridiculous objects as weapons. Because of this their clanbook contains rules for wielding such things as gates, cars and 40-tons trucks (just don't bother with the last one unless you don't have a choice, okay?). The most ironic part of this is that the game has no rules for actual Car Fu. If you crash a 40-tons truck into a werewolf at 120 km/h, the gamemaster just has to make up what happens.

** The latter problem lead to a fully outfitted system for Car Fu in the ''nWoD'', including statistics for vehicles, damage based on speed and weight of both "participants", and examples of when Car Fu is a really bad idea (using a small compact to try to ram a Death Raging Werewolf, for example).

* Captain Falcon's [[Limit Break|Final Smash]], the ''Blue Falcon'' in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl''.

** Also Wario's motorcycle. After he's done running fighters over with it, any character can pick it up and throw it.

* In ''[[Red vs. Blue|Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction]]'', [[The Juggernaut|The Meta]] first demonstrates its super strength by throwing the Red team's Warthog jeep at Grif.

* In ''[[Red vs. Blue|Red vs. Blue: Revelation]]'', Grif owned Wash with the same jeep while half way out of his seat and taking fire.

* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'':

{{quote|'''Baron Diamond:''' [http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20041231.html Johnny says you win a car!]}}

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

* Villains will frequently use cars as weapons in ''[[Justice League]]''. In one episode, Lobo took this to the extreme by ''burying'' Kalibak under a veritable mountain of cars. He's about to add another to the pile, when Hawkgirl admonishes him with "He's beaten. Put the car down!" Lobo mutters, "I was gonna..." and throws the car into a building. Also, one time Superman smacked around Captain Marvel with a bus... and when that wasn't enough, resorted to ''Bank Vault'' Fu.

** Heroes use them, too. The Big Seven came to fight Luthor/Braniac in a Javelin, one of the JL's shuttles for earth-to-Watchtower transport. When they're starting to lose, Wonder Woman wields it just as one would its namesake.

* A variant of Car-fu happened in China when a guy used his bicycle to knock down two muggers on a motor scooter.

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