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* Almost every major character does this in ''[[Silent Moebius]]''. It's not all that effective since they're usually fighting interdimensional aliens with magical powers.
* In ''Riding Bean'', the effective [[Pilot Episode]] for ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', Bean Bandit gets a security guard who [[Berserk Button|calls his car a piece of shit]] by pinning him to a tree with his front tire, nearly running him over up the trunk, then using the tire to ''scrape him off the trunk and over the car''. If you're wondering how the hell Bean can do that, keep in mind his car is ''[[Cool Car|absurdly]]'' modified, and built that he can turn the wheels 90 degrees and drive that way.
** Subverted later in the OAV where the [[Big Bad]] tries to ram an on-foot Bean with her car. What does Bean do? He ''shoulder-checks it head-on and lifts it right off its front wheels''! Did we mention that Bean is ''[[Made of Iron|REEEEALLY]]'' [[Made of Iron|tough?]]
* Done very humorously in the end of ''[[Baccano]]'' where Isaac and Miria are [[Drives Like Crazy|driving like crazy]] and take the time to purposely run down Dallas Genoard and his gang, people who were threatening their friends. They also accidentally run down Szilard, who is pretty much the [[Big Bad]] of the show.
** ...And then back up and [[Butt Monkey|hit]] [[Jerkass|Dallas]] again.
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* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]] with Chuck and Fastener battling with See-Through and G-String inside and ''up the side'' of Daten High. Chuck and Fastener are ''pets''.
* ''[[Area 88]]'': [[Intrepid Reporter|Rocky]] takes out a tank by ramming it with a Jeep in the manga. {{spoiler|He survives, but loses an arm and an eye.}}
* In ''[[Until Death Do Us Part]]'', one character's entire style of fighting is pretty much just "hit opponents with souped-up motorcycle".
* ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'': Shizuka can't use guns very well. Fortunately, she is skilled in the arts of vehicular homicide.
* Almost always done in ''[[Supercar Gattiger]]'' when the team combines their Machines into the eponymous vehicle.
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* ''The Little Rascals'': Not intentionally, but movie Spanky and Alfalfa end up running over a few shoppers at a strip mall during the go-cart race. The pedestrians end up fine, and one of them shouts, "You little rascals!" as they drive away.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' has two:
** A very cross McClane drives a police car into a helicopter. While it's in the air. (He was out of bullets).
** Later, after having been beaten by a [[Dark Action Girl]] and thrown out a window ending up several stories down below, he then gets in a car, drives it up a car ramp back up to the floor he came from, and hits her with the car pushing them both into an open elevator shaft. That's our McClane! He just doesn't give a damn about fair.
* In the first ''[[Terminator]]'' film, the title character proceeds to drive his vehicle into the police station after delivering a certain famous line. He also uses this move on the Terminatrix early on in the third film. In point of fact, every time he says the line, he seems to mean "In a vehicle, at eye-height". It's a police van in the second film.
* In the first ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]'' movie The Thing bitchslaps Dr. Doom with an SUV.
* ''[[Death Proof]]'', the second half of ''[[Grindhouse]]''. It even involves ''jousting''.
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* In ''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]'', the hero uses the bad guy's very large hovercraft against him.
* ''[[Dawn of the Dead 2004]]'' has the armored buses.
* ''[[I Am Legend]]'': At one point the hero Robert Neville tries to run down as many Infected as he can with his car.
* In ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]'', Alice rams a licker with her motorcycle, then shoots the gas tank to blow them both up.
** In ''[[Resident Evil: Extinction|Resident Evil Extinction]]'', Carlos makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by driving a gasoline truck into a mob of zombies and blowing it up to clear a path to the Umbrella Base.
* Both of ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' films involve chase scenes where the eponymous brothers are pursued by armies of no less than fifty cop cars. Both times, said armies of cop cars are brought down in scene-stealing pile-ups, all while [[Theme Music Power-Up|the Blues Brothers' theme]] plays.
** Also the bridge scene in the first film. "Illinois Nazis! I hate Illinois Nazis!"
* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'':
** The Joker uses well-timed Bus Fu to take out the second to last henchmen in the bank heist scene.
** The Tumbler kicks the shit out of a ''garbage truck'' before [[Taking the Bullet]] for a police vehicle. And by bullet we mean [[Stuff Blowing Up|rocket launcher]].
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* ''[[Aliens]]''. Ripley manages to kill an alien with nothing but the APC.
* Toward the end of ''[[RoboCop]]'', one of the bad guys is exposed to some toxic waste, RoboCop's primary target, [[The Dragon|Clarence Boddicker]] uses a car to reduce him to a red smear....
** Actually that's a two-for subversion. 1. Goon attempts to use [[Car Fu]] on Robo (extra strength version, the goon is driving a panel van), but Robo distracts him by firing into the windshield (forcing the goon to duck, pulling the steering wheel with him and thus heeling to the left) and dodges. Goon wasn't watching what was behind Robo-it's a tank of [[Hollywood Acid|toxic waste]], which he plows into. Goon stumbles out, melted and screaming, 2. right into the way of a car chase featuring a second cop chasing Boddicker: Boddicker's use was completely unintentional.
* ''[[Film/Night Watch|Day Watch]]'' has a very interesting scene in which Alisia, a "Dark" witch, drives a sports car ''hundreds of feet along the side of a building, then makes the car fall into a wall window, then drives through a corridor on the hundredth (or so) floor and into the [[Big Bad]]'s office for a meeting.''
* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' has the characters run over someone with their car. Unsure if it was actually a zombie, they quickly back up to check on him. Once they're assured it ''was'' a zombie, they drive off.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s short story "The Deadlier Weapon", a hitchhiker pulls a knife on the protagonist driver, who makes it very clear how badly outgunned any hitchhiker trying this stunt is. The Driver buckles his seatbelt, accelerates to over a hundred miles an hour, and tells the would-be car-jacker that he's going to ram the right side of the car (where the car-jacker is sitting) into the nearest underpass support pylon unless the guy tosses the knife out the window.
** Niven later wrote that a couple of people told him they'd done this in real life, and it worked.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Harry Dresden has thrown a car magically at a mystical nasty. It only slowed them down. A Bartender in the know tells Harry that other wizards tend to avoid him because they ''can't'' defend themselves that way from the horrors that target him.
** He has also driven his Beetle into another supernatural nasty. In a subversion, the beetle was more phased than said nasty. This is because said nasty was of Faerie, and the Beetle's steel bumper was its [[Kryptonite Factor]].
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* Sookie Stackhouse of ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' uses this method to rescue her [[Love Interest]], her boss and her Love Interest's boss from a large, vengeful vampire. It works, but her car is totalled in the process.
* In one of [[Mercedes Lackey|Mercedes Lackey's]] ''SERRAted Edge'' novels, Tannim takes out an Unseelie Fae with a classic Mustang.
* In ''To the Vanishing Point'', by [[Alan Dean Foster]] it's a two-bedroom Winnebago [RV] versus the elemental Chaos-thing "the Anarchis".
{{quote|"You have done well," the other orange fish told him. "Steel is good for weakening Chaos. Aluminum is better still."}}
* Averted in ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' where trying to ram a Chtorran gastropede with a vehicle is a good way to commit suicide. They just peel it open like a tin can and eat whoever's inside.
* ''Madam, Will You Talk?'': The heroine of Mary Stewart's mystery uses a car in much the same way as in the [[Larry Niven]] example at the top of this section. Threatening to kill a woman while she's driving along a mountain road at high speed is '''not''' particularly well-thought-out. By the time she pulls to a halt, her attacker is a whimpering wreck, too nerve-shattered to put up a fight even though he's no longer in danger.
* In one of the [[Stephanie Plum]] books, "good girl" sister Valerie, who's just too Stepford to handle her sister's life, blasts a van through the wall of a house to rescue Stephanie from their mutual kidnappers. Considering that Val is doing this while in near-hysterics over the kidnapping and her hands are duct-taped together, she does a quite creditable job.
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* The Terminators seem to have a thing for Car Fu. It happened about, oh, five times in the first couple of episodes of ''Terminator: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.
* Greg in ''[[CSI]]'', which led to an internal investigation and a fairly severe beating from the roadkill's cohorts. He did it to stop the group from severely beating up a tourist.
** Another episode of ''CSI'' has a terminally ill granny program her GPS so she will crash into the office of the insurance company who won't pay her medical expenses.
* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' has a non-lethal version with Lindsay using her Avalanche SUV to stop a fleeing suspect in his car. They were in a parking garage, so neither of them were driving extremely fast, and although she dinged up the vehicle, neither she nor the perp were seriously hurt.
* One of the moments that brings Cordelia around to side of awesome in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is when she drives her car straight through an amassing horde of vampires and right into the high school, plowing through the halls until she pulls up in front of the library.
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'''Chuck:''' Somebody order drive-thru huh?! Did you think that up as you were racing over to save us?! "Hey! Maybe I'll say ''this'' after I ''crash into the restaurant!!''" }}
* On ''[[Third Watch]]'' head paramedic Doc did this with an ambulance. {{spoiler|Arriving at a scene to find an AK-47 wielding criminal pinning down two officers, he proceeds to tell his partner to buckle up, and step on the gas. After hitting the criminal, he leaps out and begins treating him.}}
* In the last episode of season one of ''[[24]]'', Jack drives an SUV into the warehouse where the bad guys are waiting to ambush him. He proceeds to take them all out single-handedly.
* There was a rather beautiful example in the ''[[White Collar]]'' episode "Flip of the Coin."
* The ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Roadkill" featured a serial killer whose MO was vehicular homicide.
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== Video Games ==
* The recent entries into the ''[[Midnight Club]]'' series includes a power up called ''Aggro'' that renders your car invincible, allowing you to literally plow through traffic with aplomb. Using Aggro while riding a motorcycle, though, induces massive lulz...
* A signature of the ''[[Command
** Which can help make up for their [[Crippling Overspecialization]].
*** Not to mention that the splat of running over infantry definitely counts as a [[Most Wonderful Sound]], which in of itself encourages the player to use this form of offense.
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** In ''Tiberian Sun'', at least, a squad of infantry ''can'' destroy a harvester. But they can only do this if the player micromanages them, and [[Artificial Stupidity|tells them]] to [[Too Dumb to Live|get out of its way]].
*** Excess harvesters can also be used as damage soaks during an attack. This trick only really works with AI opponents, though.
* The ''[[Command
** The Mammoth tanks can't crush other tanks, at least not in the first two games.
*** Starting ''Command & Conquer 3'', they do, including stealthed harvesters the player can't see.
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* In the old ''Silent Scope'' game, one of the bosses is fought during a highway chase. Once you shoot him a few times, however, he falls out of his car, and then proceeds to hijack an 18-wheeler truck, which he then tries to ram you with. Whether you LET him is up to you, and your steady aim, of course....
* ''[[Crackdown]]'' features both the standard run-the-baddie over and club/thrown varieties.
* The whole point of the Takedown in the ''[[Burnout]]'' series of games since 3.
** Traffic Checks take this to another level: not only can you use your car as a weapon, you can use ''other'' cars as weapons.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'': In a cutscene Dante used Lady's motorbike to beat monsters.
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** "Pancake!" is actually fairly easy to get in the right vehicle; the Manta sharply descends if one uses the alt-fire, at least in UT2004. Fly/hover above/over some poor schmuck and hit it. Watch the Manta descend like a meteor and the giant fan blades will [[Chunky Salsa Rule|pulverize your victim quite thoroughly and incredibly messily.]] Give yourself bonus points depending on how far up you were when you started the dive, assuming you actually hit your target, given that looking down is not easy with the camera setup.
** If you want to see this in action, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KICiPS1KnWU look no further.]
* In ''[[Starsiege: Tribes]]'', running players over with tanks or the Shrike VTOL fighter is one of the easiest ways to dispatch infantry. In ''Tribes 2'', ramming vehicles usually either blows them up (in the case of Shrike versus Shrike), blows up the smaller one (grav cycle versus tank), or just gets both vehicles stuck (tank versus tank)
* It is a proven fact that one of the best ways to destroy a building in ''[[Red Faction]] : Guerilla'', is to drive a car through the building, park it inside, and then blow it up, possibly setting additional explosives to weaken the building structure, or just taking it out with the much-loved Sledgehammer.
** If you're on ground, the enemy use this as their modus operandi: crash the car into you then get out and start shooting.
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** In addition, many players have discovered a tactic in that they can place mines on the front of their vehicles as they will detonate the moment they come into contact with an enemy unit. As a result, ram tactics can result in a spectacular, albeit suicidal if you don't jump out quick enough, victory.
** If you're really good, you can also kill people by landing on them with starfighters. This is the only consistent method of killing hero characters in ''Battlefront 1'' along with running them down with Speeder Bikes. The ''other'' consistent methiod is using a vehicle to drive them into envirnmental death traps, though bombs still work for that, it's just much easier with a vehicles.
** Sweeping up enemy infantry is particularly potent in levels like "Theed", which afford little room for troops to scatter.
* Eva rides a motorcycle up Ocelot's face the first time they meet on-screen in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]''. He somehow survives.
** [[Temporal Paradox|Time Paradox!]]
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', an easy way of taking out enemy [[Mooks]] is by simply [[Ramming Always Works|running into them]] while riding on Epona in the midst of a gallop.
** An even better ''Zelda'' example is how in both ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''Majora's Mask'', not only can you run into enemies with Epona, but while riding her you're ''invincible''.
* In ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'', Wario can ram into opponents with his motorcycle, dealing damage and knockback based on its velocity (Potentially up to the point of being a [[One-Hit Kill]] due to to [[Good Bad Bugs|an amusing glitch]]). After he falls/jumps off, the motorcycle can be thrown around by anybody, and after it explodes from the abuse, the tires can be weaponized, as well.
* In ''[[Jak II]]'', one easy way to carve some health off KG Blast Bots was to steal a vehicle, gun the engine, accelerate to maximum, and jump off at just the right time to drop the flying car/bike onto the Blast Bot's swollen metal head, before shooting the frak out of it with your collection of guns. Then came the gun-toting vehicles of ''[[Jak 3]]'' and ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak X]]''...
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'' features cars as the most powerful zombie-killing tools in the mall. They're more or less required if you want to get Zombie Genocider - 53,594 splatters on your windshield in less than 6 hours!
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* In an episode of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', Hammerhead's unnamed chauffeur engages in some Car Fu against (especially) Silver Sable. Even earlier in the series, Hammerhead's car door is used to knock the Green Goblin off his glider.
* Subverted in ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. A mysterious car that was probably Blurr ramped off a highway bridge to crash into Blitzwing (a jet), but Blitzwing pulled up and just narrowly avoid crashing into him. It may be a [[Double Subversion]] considering the fact that pulling up made him ''crash into a building''.
** In an episode of ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', a terrorist organization, MECH, is trying to steal a nuclear device from an unarmed group of civilian vehicles. [[Mugging the Monster|It doesn't end up so well for them.]]
* Lois Lane saved a weakened Superman from Metallo this way in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]''.
* In "The Big Chill" episode of ''[[The Batman]]'', Bats uses ''remote'' Car Fu to bring Mr. Freeze down; the car misses him and then Batman uses the jets on the car to melt Freeze.
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* Disney's ''[[Doug]]'': "Ow He hit me in the nose with a car! Why did he do that?" "Because he's pure evil."
* [[Family Guy|Glenn]] ''[[Loveable Sex Maniac|freakin']]'' [[Dirty Old Man|Quagmire]] of all people does this in [[Darker and Edgier|"Screams of Silence:]] [[Very Special Episode|The Story of Brenda Q."]], when after being [[Disney Death|seemingly choked to death]] by his sister's [[Bastard Boyfriend|abusive boyfriend]], [[Complete Monster|Jeff]], he gets into his car, [[This Cannot Be!|to Jeff's suprise]], and ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|squashes Jeff against a tree]]'', killing him.
* In ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' Stitch throws a VW at someone.
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* Related example: A livestock and antique vehicle rally a couple of years ago featured [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Tractor Football"]] as a top-billed event. Whether it was some kind of [[Stealth Parody]] or if playing football on your tractor is [[Serious Business]] in the depths of rural Northamptonshire is a matter for conjecture.
* Bumper cars, anyone?
* Demolition Derby. Take a bunch of rednecks who have modified the hell out of some old junkers, and put them in a pit where they intentionally ram one another. Last car running is the winner.
* The popularity of car bombs (suicide or otherwise) probably falls into this category.
* A rare female mass murderer, Priscilla Joyce Ford sped down several sidewalks in Reno, Nevada, killing seven and maiming over twenty. During interrogation, she boasted about her desire to kill at least seventy-five.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''
** Dio Brando effortlessly throws two cars at Jotaro in their climactic battle. Jotaro later counters with Tower Fu.
** Dio Brando also effortlessly tries to squish Jotaro under an oil tanker. While time was frozen, no less.
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* The illusionary Evangeline of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' against Negi in his [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: kicking the Chao Bao Zi Dining-Car Restaurant right into him -- after he barely escaped its falling frame when she had thrown it into the air with one of her earlier attacks.
* Being both a gratuitous user of [[Improvised Weapon|Improvised Weapons]] and an individual with [[Super Strength]], ''[[Durarara]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima has done his fair share of this.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' Sniper has [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] and can mark opponents so objects hone in on them. Yusuke isn't worried as he is able to avoid rocks and knives. [[Oh Crap|Then he sees a truck heading for him]].
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{{quote|'''Car owner:''' The clutch sticks!
'''Thing:''' It's not gonna be a problem. ''(toss)'' }}
* In the 2008 ''[[Iron Man]]'' [[Iron Man (film)|film]], {{spoiler|Iron Monger grabs a motorcycle as its driving down the highway and smacks Iron Man with it. Motorcyle Fu, more specifically, but Tony ''still'' had a van drive over him only moments beforehand.}}
** In a deleted scene {{spoiler|from the same fight, Stane has Tony on the ropes until Rhodey drives into him with Tony's earlier heavily-featured Audi, knocking him over ''into a hydrogen-fueled bus, which then explodes''.}}
* In the 2008 ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' film, the Hulk turns a police car into a pair of boxing gloves to pound the Abomination into submission.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The Nosferatu from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' are known for using their [[Super Strength]] to wield and throw ridiculous objects as weapons. Because of this their clanbook contains rules for wielding such things as gates, cars and 40-tons trucks (just don't bother with the last one unless you don't have a choice, okay?). The most ironic part of this is that the game has no rules for actual Car Fu. If you crash a 40-tons truck into a werewolf at 120 km/h, the gamemaster just has to make up what happens.
** The latter problem lead to a fully outfitted system for Car Fu in the ''nWoD'', including statistics for vehicles, damage based on speed and weight of both "participants", and examples of when Car Fu is a really bad idea (using a small compact to try to ram a Death Raging Werewolf, for example).
== Video Games ==
* Captain Falcon's [[Limit Break|Final Smash]], the ''Blue Falcon'' in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl''.
** Also Wario's motorcycle. After he's done running fighters over with it, any character can pick it up and throw it.
*** [[Super Mode|Wario Man]]'s bike is, like the Blue Falcon, a [[One-Hit Kill]].
** Also, in an example of Tank Fu, the [[Star Fox (series)|Star
** If you want to extend it to flying vehicles, you could include Olimar's Final Smash, or at least the end of it when his ship crashes back onto the stage, the Warp Star, and the Dragoon.
* For a more literal Car Fu (or Motorcycle Fu), see ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3''. Beating up mooks with a motorcycle while swinging it around as a weapon!
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* In ''[[Wild Arms 4]]'', a member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] is a demon who has complete mastery over space and can thus teleport [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] above your characters and [[Death From Above|drop it on their heads]].
* In the original ''Command & Conquer'', you were able to run over Nod Attack Cycles with GDI Medium Tanks.
* [[Touhou Project|Yukari]] [[Reality Warper|Yakumo]] takes this to a whole new level with one of her spellcards in the ''Touhou'' fighting games, when she literally summons a TRAIN out of nowhere to hit her opponent.
* ''[[War of the Monsters]]'' naturally features Car Fu, being a giant monster brawl. Just don't try punching an enemy with a [[Made of Explodium|fuel tanker in your fist...]]
* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' has the [[Final Boss]], a zombie in a [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Zombie]] [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha]]. Once his health [[Turns Red|drops below half]], he gains an attack where he drops a ''winnebago'' onto six of your plants, [[One-Hit Kill|instantly squashing]] them.
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