Everything's Better with Motorcycles
This is just true. Imagine your Badass Longcoat is about to square off against a bunch of zombies. Is it better if he does this on foot or on a motorcycle?
See also All Bikers Are Hells Angels, Cool Bike, Badass Biker, Motorcycle on the Coast Road.
Examples of Everything's Better with Motorcycles include:
Anime and Manga
- Triage X - Preferred method of entrance for Arashi and Mikoto
Comics
Fanfic
- Drunkard's Walk - the protagonist's Mitsubishi Nightblade (a turbine-powered superbike that he rebuilt in his visit to a Bubblegum Crisis world).
Literature
- The Dreeson Incident Shows up though out the novel but most obvious with at the eponymous incident. Specifically, the incident involves Buster Beasley riding into a armed mob on a Harley. This combined with the Heroic Sacrifice he makes after dismounting lead to him attaining major in universe status as a Memetic Badass.
- Based on a real Wehrmacht unit!
- These guys gave rise to a modern version of the Headless Horseman story, and one that itself fits this trope, because when La Résistance knew they were coming they'd string wire across the road.
- Also Mutt Williams' Indian in #4.
- Based on a real Wehrmacht unit!
- Harry Potter: This trope + Flying Car = Sirius Black's flying motorcycle.
Live-Action TV
Music
- Meat Loaf employs the trope to great effect on his album covers if nothing else.
Tabletop Games
- Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marines, Orks, & Eldar
Video Games
- Shadow the Hedgehog - why else is he shown riding a motorcycle in all the trailers for his game?
- Wario Ware: Mona
Web Comics
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja - Sparklelord and King Radical's dirtbike
Web Original
- Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series: CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!
Western Animation
- Biker Mice From Mars
- In ReBoot Bob tried to invoke this by replacing his problematic car with a bike. It gets destroyed before he has a chance to use it.
- AndrAIa also has a thing for motorcycles (lampshaded by Enzo occasionally). Later in the series, she gets one of her own.
- By the time we get to the movies, even
EnzoMatrix has one.