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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|Super Speedster]]ster could find a convenient phone booth, change, and return in time to do anything but help gather up the dead). Ferris Wheels are also large open structures with a lot of rods and beams that let athletic types show their stuff. [[Walking Disaster Area|Having a hero in the area]] thus generally causes any Ferris Wheel to suffer a sudden massive breakdown.

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.

* 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.

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' had a fight on a Ferris wheel... one also popped up in the recent Satoshi Kon movie ''[[Paprika]]''.

* In ''[[Ultimate X -Men]]'', at the beginning of the Fenris arc, the team's hanging out at Coney Island. Naturally, bad guys sabotage the Ferris wheel and the X-Men have to save the day.

* In ''[[Catwoman (Filmfilm)|Catwoman]]'', a Ferris wheel mysteriously breaks down while the leads are on it, allowing Tom to shut down the motor and stop it, and Patience to save a little boy who falls out of a seat that somehow suffers a structural failure at the same time.

* In ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer]]'', the London Eye breaks down and has to be rescued, although it had more to do with the Silver Surfer destroying the surrounding area than just a random failure. While the London Eye is not quite a Ferris Wheel but an observation wheel (its gondolas are motorized), it's similar enough to count.

* In the film ''[[Nineteen Forty One|1941]]'', a Ferris wheel in a California seaside amusement park is shot loose by a Japanese sub and rolls into the ocean.

* Avoided in the ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'' movie; there's a Ferris Wheel which fails to break or roll away at all.

* In the Russian film [[Night Watch|Day Watch]], tremors caused by [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] cause a Ferris Wheel to break free and roll down the street. Since the heroes are too busy trying to stop the world from ending, plenty of people get crushed. {{spoiler|Except they don't, thanks to the hero [[Rewriting Reality]]}}

* In ''[[Professor Layton and Thethe Curious Village]]'', Layton and Luke are being chased by a ''remote-controlled'' version of this.

* [[The Remake]] of ''[[Romancing Sa GaSaGa]]'' as this as one of axe techniques. The axe user creates a ferris wheels out of an axe and unleashes them on an enemy.

* There was a mechanically failing Ferris wheel in the first episode of the ''[[Legion of Super -Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' cartoon, "Man of Tomorrow." It made things pretty easy for the Legion when they needed to figure out who Superman was.

** Superman in his own [[Superman: The Animated Series (Animation)|animated series]] had to play tug-of-war using a Ferris wheel in "Monkey Fun" while fighting a [[Attack of the Fifty 50-Foot Whatever|giant monkey]].

* An episode of ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot (Animation)|My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' has a Ferris wheel that does the break-loose-and-roll thing.

* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' had a subversion in the second season. Beast Boy and Terra were on a date, riding on the Ferris Wheel when Slade ambushed them. The ride never broke down, or suffered from structural failure during the entire fight... until earth-controlling Terra destroyed it on her own at the end, to escape from Slade.

* 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 ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'' one-shot short, "A Girl Named Fuzzball", the title character mentions this happening at a previous carnival in town.

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