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Few rides are as prone to breakage in superhero movies and shows as the Ferris Wheel. When the hero shows up, the wheel typically begins to shudder and collapse, dropping children and sometimes falling completely over. A common variant is to have the Ferris Wheel rip loose from its hub and roll away.
A Ferris Wheel is the most useful ride for TV and movies because it is both big and tall (a hero saving people from a spinning teacup ride gone amok isn't impressive) and slow (If a rollercoaster doing a hundred miles an hour leaves the tracks it boggles the mind that any hero but a [[Super Speed
It should be noted that if a Ferris wheel ''did'' break off and roll away, it wouldn't get very far. The wheel itself isn't very structurally sound, and would collapse under its own weight.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In one chapter of the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga, a mad bomber rigs Ferris Wheel cars to explode... while Anzu is riding it. Yugi is forced to play a variant of solitaire in which if he stacks all four cards of a given number, the corresponding car explodes. He solves it by putting all the Kings together before Anzu's stack is complete and telling the police that the bomber is in Car 13, disguised as a hostage, because it didn't explode.
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* In the ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' TV series, Iris freaks out while on a Ferris wheel and I think ends up breaking the thing accidentally with her telekinetic powers.
* In 100%Strawberry the main character and his on again off again girlfriend are stuck in the Ferris wheel when it stops. Then their door opens up and they almost fall out. Go go Romance Comedy!
* [[Case Closed]] - In [[That One Case]] for Satou, her partner died rather than choose to disarm a bomb in a Ferris wheel so he can send her the directions to another bomb that the bomber had hidden, and the location would not be given in full unless the timer was allowed to run out.
* The main characters in ''[[Girls und Panzer|Girls und Panzer Der Film]]'' disrupt their opponents' tank formation by shooting a Ferris wheel off its axis. They don't plan it quite as well as they might've, and are nearly run over by the wheel themselves.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Ultimate X
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Catwoman (
* In ''[[Fantastic Four (
* In the film ''[[
* Avoided in the ''[[Iron Man (
* Happens at the end of ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'', causing the titular Gorilla to save a small child from it. The resulting good publicity sets up the [[Happy Ending]].
* ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]] 3'': It's not a Ferris wheel exactly, but close enough. Our hero, Axel Foley, gets onto the ride to escape the bad guys, and is hoisted in the air. The bad guys try to get him down by overriding the controls of the ride, and end up breaking it. The ride is damaged, and one of the gondolas is about to fall. Foley then spends the next few minutes jumping from gondola to gondola, and climbing along the supporting beams, to reach the broken gondola before it falls. He, of course, succeeds. And, he's not even a super hero.
* In the Russian film [[Night Watch|Day Watch]], tremors caused by [[The End of the World
* While not really an action flick, the movie ''Carpool'' uses this trope as well. In the climax of the film, one of the main characters' kids must be saved from a runaway Ferris wheel. Of course [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] and the kid's car breaks off and it turns into a whole big mess...
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* The first [[Cutscene]] in ''Hitman: Blood Money'' features a Ferris Wheel falling down and killing several people. (Your target in the tutorial level is the owner of the amusement park; you were hired to avenge the customer's son killed there.)
* On one of the levels in ''[[Twisted Metal]] Black'', you can send a Ferris wheel rolling. If I remember correctly, it either uncovers a secret or does damage to anyone who gets hit by it. Or both...
* In ''[[Professor Layton and
* ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' has a Ferris wheel in the last level (the moon). It doesn't roll away, but you can roll it up.
* [[The Remake]] of ''[[Romancing
* Happens surprisingly in ''Bulletstorm'', with a giant grindwheel taking the Ferris Wheel's role, stalking the player as he tries to outrun it in a minecart.
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* A ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' episode involved The Mole and a Ferris wheel. The wheel ended up slicing Lumpy in two (and grinding the left half)
* In one of the "Chicken vs. Peter" fight scenes in ''[[Family Guy]]'', the thing with the Ferris wheel tearing free happens and they fight on it while it's rolling away.
* There was a mechanically failing Ferris wheel in the first episode of the ''[[Legion of Super
** Superman in his own [[Superman: The Animated Series
* An episode of ''[[My Life
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart's Inner Child", Otto's inattentiveness and Willie's laziness causes the Ferris wheel to break loose and run amok through Springfield's "Do What You Feel" festival.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' has Zim rigging a wheel with rockets in an attempt to launch the giant hamster Peepi into space. Peepi trashes the wheel in anger once it realizes what's happening.
* A Ferris Wheel crashes out its supports in [[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]], except it then is used as a ''[[Rule of Cool|spaceship]]''
* In the ''[[
* Happens in the last episode of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' as part of the storm of [[Take Our Word for It]]. At one point the girl [[Butt Monkey|Dante]] likes starts [[Anything That Moves|making out with it]].
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