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* In ''[[Toy Story]] 2'', Buzz Lightyear's team of toys commandeer a Pizza Planet truck in pursuit of Al and Woody.

* Dreamworks' CGI ''[[Over the Hedge (animation)|Over the Hedge]]'' movie has the woodland creatures drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; three porcupine kids steer using [[I Know Mortal Kombat|skills acquired from video games]].

* Alvin, Simon and Theodore do this in the first ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks]]'' CGI movie. Supposedly, Alvin can do this because he played a driving video game earlier in the movie.

* The Dalmatian Puppies do this to a London double-decker bus at the end of [[101 Dalmatians|''101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure'']].

* In the first ''[[Leven Thumps]]'' book, Clover (officially 12 inches in height) decides to, er, commandeer a motor vehicle in order to catch up to protagonists Leven and Winter. He eventually sets up a system to keep the pedals pushed while he hurtles along the street at breakneck pace. He's the only one on the road who finds it fun, [[Drives Like Crazy|for some reason...]]

* Occurs in the [[Dragonlance]] ''Legends'' trilogy of all things. Tasslehoff finds himself unable to operate the full size captain's chair that psychically controls the flying citadel, and has to enlist a nearby gully dwarf in order to do it. [[Hilarity Ensues|Gully dwarves being what they are...]]

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Appears in ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' whenever the penguins commandeer a vehicle for their missions.

* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Towelie" has the kids steal a truck during their quest to recover their video game system.

* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' short "Opportunity Knox", Brain controls the steering wheel of a van with pulleys while Pinky operates the pedals.

** Another has an extension system for when the Brain rides a motorcycle.