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** The titular character lampshades it in the comment at the top of the page
*** Which is of course a [[Shout-Out|reference]] to ''[[Les Misérables]]'', where Jean Valjean's lifelong chase with [[Inspector Javert]] begins with the theft of a loaf of bread.
*** Shouted out in [[The Animated Series]] when a thief is being pursued by both the guards and Aladdin himself. The scene is an almost shot-for-shot remake of the one from the move (before the singing), only the thief in question is nowhere near as good as Aladdin is, and stole a huge diamond ("All this for a diamond?").
** Subverted in that stealing an apple is punishable by instant removal of a hand.
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* Also seen in the ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' movies which are actually made of little less than long pursuits.
* An [[Older Than Television]] example would be any number of old [[Charlie Chaplin]] shorts. The unfortunate tramp had a way of getting into trouble with the police over minor things, usually resulting in a hilarious chase scene.
* ''[[The Chase (film)|The Chase]]'' is basically made of one long
* The ''Der Clown'' movie ''Payday'' contains five [[Chase Scene|chase scenes]], only one of which does not involve police cars, one of which leads to the spectacular destruction of more than one dozen police cars in [[Slo-Mo Big Air]], and one of which has SWAT cars chase an aircraft on a runway.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Video game example: In the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, the police will chase you after a simple fender bender. If the chase goes on long enough (and enough officers [[Lemming Cops|get killed trying to chase you]]), SWAT teams, helicopters, soldiers and eventually tanks will be called in to take you down. Though to be fair, after the player has killed multiple police officers and racked up thousands of dollars in property damage, they have some valid reasons to call in the tanks and jets.
** To be unfair (Ha!), the police will up your wanted level when they kill ''themselves'' in pursuit of
*** Even more amusing, they only chase you if you ding a cop car. You can plow into a civilian car at top speed and leave a huge dent in it, and the cops won't care. So much as tap a cop car though... In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'', they will pursue other civilians that hit their cars (opening up the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|hilarious potential to shunt other cars into the cops]], only to watch ''them'' get busted when they roll dazed from the wreckage).
* ''[[Need for Speed]]: Most Wanted''. While the wanted level increases, the police not only use squad cars, but in Level 3, they use Pontiac GTO, and in Level 5, they use "Corvette C6!" And let's not talk about "[[Bonus Boss|Sgt.Cross]]", with heavily-modified Corvette C6!!! There are several destructible environments while you can laugh at when you crashed on it and see [[Lemming Cops|how the cop cars WRECKED!]] while your car doesn't.
** [[Older Than They Think|Before]] ''Most Wanted'', there was ''[[Need for Speed]] III: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Hot Pursuit]]''. After ''Most Wanted'', there was ''Carbon''. And ''Undercover'', [[Fanon Discontinuity|but fans don't talk about that]].
** As of 2010, there's the new ''Hot Pursuit'', which is basically this trope entirely. With all of the [[
* Another non-car incident occurs towards the latter third of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''. Granted, at this point your character has killed half a dozen important members of society and countless soldiers and guards and they're on the lookout for funny behavior in a white hood, but even so much as knocking someone over or climbing a wall will cause Altair to have half the city watch chasing him.
* ''[[Road Rash]] 64'' has cops going hog-wild all over the game world's island simply for a motorcycle race. If the ending animation is done just right, cop cars will slam into the drivers, sending them flying. Murder for speed.
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