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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]].

'''Saint of Killers:''' I'll get to him. }}

* ''[[Nextwave]]'': Elsa Bloodstone provides an excellent example when she drives her jeep into the face of an eight-foot car-eating cyborg. [[Stuff Blowing Up|Then she blows it up]].

* In the film ''[[Ultraviolet (film)|Ultraviolet]]'', the eponymous [[Action Girl]] pulls off an awesome stunt, driving up to a row of stormtroopers, braking, turning 90 degrees and smashing them all against the wall (it's in the trailer, too).

* Accidental example: in ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'' a man runs over a bad fae creature and is alarmed he's harmed someone.

'''Jared Grace:''' Yes! Thank you! }}

* Inverted in ''Quicksilver'': the villain used his car as a weapon while the heroic Kevin Bacon beat him with a mountain bike.

** Small point: Forrest is [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]. His classmates are "stupid." "Stupid is as stupid does," after all.

* In ''[[Ernest Scared Stupid]]'', Ernest backs a large pickup truck (at full speed) into a super-strong, evil troll. The troll survives without a scratch, but it certainly left him dazed!

* John Lymangood, in ''[[Blue Thunder]]'', {{spoiler|is killed by being run over with a car, when trying to escape captivity}}.

* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'' has Happy Hogan trying to take out Ivan Vanko with a car. In a deleted scene of the first ''Iron Man'', James "Rhodey" Rhodes saves Tony's life by ramming a car into Iron Monger.

* Happens a lot in ''[[Drive Angry]]''. Milton drives into the middle of a satanic gathering, mowing down anyone who gets in his way. The Accountant uses this trope when he smashes a hole through a cordon of police cars with a hydrogen truck, while humming along to the tune of 'That's the way I like it', catches a police car on the side of the truck, swerves, then calmly steps out of the cab and onto the hood of the car in time to watch the truck slide away, flip over and explode.

* ''[[Bad Boys 2]]'' has Mike and Marcus up against some bad guys in a furious chase sequence, who attempt to smash their vehicle to bits by sending cars off a car carrier at them.

'''Mike:''' They're throwing cars! How can I not see that?! }}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLvTnvsp50&feature=player_embedded This] scene from ''Blood Diner''.

* In one of [[Mercedes Lackey|Mercedes Lackey's]] ''SERRAted Edge'' novels, Tannim takes out an Unseelie Fae with a classic Mustang.

* In ''To the Vanishing Point'', by [[Alan Dean Foster]] it's a two-bedroom Winnebago [RV] versus the elemental Chaos-thing "the Anarchis".

* Averted in ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' where trying to ram a Chtorran gastropede with a vehicle is a good way to commit suicide. They just peel it open like a tin can and eat whoever's inside.

* ''Madam, Will You Talk?'': The heroine of Mary Stewart's mystery uses a car in much the same way as in the [[Larry Niven]] example at the top of this section. Threatening to kill a woman while she's driving along a mountain road at high speed is '''not''' particularly well-thought-out. By the time she pulls to a halt, her attacker is a whimpering wreck, too nerve-shattered to put up a fight even though he's no longer in danger.

** ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'''s Carter Grayson attempted to run down a [[Monster of the Week]] with the team car in the first episode. Didn't quite work, but [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] approved either way.

** ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': In "Enter... The Lizzinator!", this is attempted on Jason. ''By a Putty''. Jason's reaction is [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Funny|priceless]].

'''Jason:''' Whoah, yup, they can drive! }}

*** An earlier episode had the Rangers knock Goldar over with the Megazord's [[Tank Goodness|tank mode]].

* In an episode of the second season of ''[[Coupling]]'', we learn how one of Patrick's past relationships ended:

'''Patrick:''' A Volkswagen. }}

* In one episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', an alien [[Bounty Hunter]] succumbs to the accidental version of this. Tip: before coming to Earth, [[Look Both Ways|learn about crosswalks]].

* In an episode of ''[[Junkyard Wars]]'', the two teams are tasked with building vehicles to demolish a wall. They build two trucks, one with a wrecking ball and one with a hydraulic pick. After getting frustrated with the slow progress of their chosen tool, the wrecking ball crew decides to just ram the wall down, and it becomes an awesome ramming contest.

* In ''[[Chuck]]'', when Chuck and Sarah are surrounded by bad guys, Casey drives his Crown Vic in to the middle of the standoff.

'''Chuck:''' Somebody order drive-thru huh?! Did you think that up as you were racing over to save us?! "Hey! Maybe I'll say ''this'' after I ''crash into the restaurant!!''" }}

* On ''[[Third Watch]]'' head paramedic Doc did this with an ambulance. {{spoiler|Arriving at a scene to find an AK-47 wielding criminal pinning down two officers, he proceeds to tell his partner to buckle up, and step on the gas. After hitting the criminal, he leaps out and begins treating him.}}

* Lois Lane saved a weakened Superman from Metallo this way in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]''.

* In "The Big Chill" episode of ''[[The Batman]]'', Bats uses ''remote'' Car Fu to bring Mr. Freeze down; the car misses him and then Batman uses the jets on the car to melt Freeze.

''(cue activation of jets)'' }}

** A later episode sees the technique used on Metallo to save Superman.

''(cue Batmobile driving into Metallo)'' }}

* [[The Question]]'s final appearance in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' features him running over Darkseid's minions with his car.

** Yet she was surprised when Arachnne did it to her.

* In ''[[Miracleman]]'' when Miracleman fights Kid Miracleman and they end up amongst the refugees from London, he throws a car at him.

* During ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', [[The Incredible Hercules|Hercules]] used Oil Tanker Fu on [[Iron Man]].

** Later in his own series, he employs jeep-fu on three dark elves and a troll.

* Another hand-held version: ''[[The One (film)|The One]]'', with ''motorcycles''. [[Jet Li]]'s villain character picks up two motorcycles, one in each hand, and smashes them together with a poor cop between them.

* ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]'': The Thing chucks a car at Dr. Doom.

'''Thing:''' It's not gonna be a problem. ''(toss)'' }}

* In the 2008 ''[[Iron Man]]'' [[Iron Man (film)|film]], {{spoiler|Iron Monger grabs a motorcycle as its driving down the highway and smacks Iron Man with it. Motorcyle Fu, more specifically, but Tony ''still'' had a van drive over him only moments beforehand.}}

* [[She Hulk]]'s level 3 super move in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' involves grabbing a car out of nowhere and throwing it on top of her opponent. Naturally, [[Every Car Is a Pinto|it explodes]].

* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (video game)|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', the first boss fight (not counting the prequel fight with Venom) is against the Rhino, and ends in a car lot. Naturally, he throws cars at you.

* Vehicular homicide is one of the safer ways to kill people in ''[[Saints Row]] 2''. The "[[Show Within a Show|FUZZ]]" minigame even keeps track of how many enemies you run over and starts penalizing your score if you do it too often. On the other hand, enemies or even civilians can also do serious damage with their own cars, so be careful going too far on food.

* The third [[Mini Boss]] of ''[[Contra|Contra: Hard Corps]]'' throws cars at your character. Thankfully, it's ''pathetically easy'' to avoid, as long as you stay on the left side of the screen.

== Web Comics ==

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

* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': Substitute a motorcycle for a car, and you get [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=15 this].

* ''[http://workhate.co.uk/?p=9 Captain Broadband]'' threw car at Imaginary Cat. It was unsuccessful. Innocent bystander standing in car's path at time loses 50HP. Innocent bystander is destroyed.

** Later in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'': it's a good thing Hawk and [[Wonder Woman]] are [[Made of Iron]]. In its debut episode, the Annihilator decides to smack them both with a ''tank''. Ow.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had a death-match between Homer and a biker that eventually ended with them each ''picking up a motorcycle and dueling with them like swords''.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': The not-yet-assimilated Starfire drop-kicks a car at Robin.

** It's evidently not as effective in Japan due to the absence of gas guzzlers.