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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Seta in ''[[Love Hina]]'' usually enters a chapter by crashing his van, but emerging without major injury. His protégé Keitaro picks up the trait by the final chapters.
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''
** They're rarely the ones piloting them, but there's a rule that if someone of the Joestar bloodline gets into a plane, ''it will crash''. No exceptions.
** Cars, trains, boats and ''submarines'' have a similar tendency to crash somehow when a Joestar is near. Oh, and an helicopter, but that was highly intentional.
* Sagara Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' seems to be this. Of course, part of it might be explained by how most of the instances where he's driving have been [[Chase Scene|dangerous car chase scenes]] (where it's only natural that he would be crashing through things and [[Drives Like Crazy|driving crazy]]). But then one starts to wonder when, during an instance where he wasn't even being chased, he ended up running an obvious red light and crashed into another car. And then there's his crazy "driving" when he was riding on a bicycle... honestly, people should get the idea and just ''not'' let him drive.
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* Almost everyone in ''[[Sin City]]'' crashes his or her car, often due to [[Car Fu]].
* In the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' episode ''Going Up the Mississippi'' the machinist, [[Meaningful Name|"Bangs"]], is stated to have exploded fourteen river boats. {{spoiler|Subverted in the end: This time the other boat explodes, much to his surprise.}}
== Fan Fic ==
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* The absent-minded Admiral Benson in ''[[Hot Shots]]!'' gives us this line:
{{quote|''You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life.''}}
* Trinity in [[The Matrix]]. She's a great fighter and one of the best characters, but make sure you aren't in a car, helicopter, or motorcycle with Trinity at the wheel! (Granted, most of her crashes are either deliberate, or happen because she didn't need the vehicle anymore and had no time to do anything but jump off and discard it while it was still running.)
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[Sinbad the Sailor]] had a bad habit of getting shipwrecked in his stories.
* Callista Carmel of ''[[Tour of the Merrimack]]'' earned the nickname "Crash Carmel" for totaling a number of shuttles.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Deanna Troi]] [[Never Live It Down|can't escape the fact]] that the [[Star Trek Generations|two]] [[Star Trek Nemesis|times]] she's taken the helm, she's crashed an ''Enterprise.'' Though to be fair, the first was a crash landing after half the ship blew up that miraculously had minimal casualties and the second time, she was ordered to [[Ramming Always Works|ram the ship into the enemy.]]
* This was a running joke when referencing Uncle Albert in ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''.
== Radio ==
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* A naval example in ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', Mister Phillips's standard method of docking is this trope. He caused more damage to Naval property than both world wars.
** Ironically, the ''one'' time he was ''asked'' to deliberately crash HMS Troutbridge into another ship (as part of a ploy to allow Captain Povey to escape his overbearing mother-in-law and join the rest of the crew at a pub) a fault in the steering mechanism ensured he ''couldn't'' hit anything... 42 times in a row!
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* James Vega from ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' gets this reputation after he intentionally crashes his shuttle into ''another'' shuttle to prevent {{spoiler|Dr. Eva from escaping with the plans for the Prothean device}}. ''Nobody'' will let him forget it. He can end up crashing ''again'' if he's the one to take over the skycar controls when Shepard {{spoiler|abandons the control panel to shoot at Kai Leng}} during {{spoiler|the Citadel coup}}--although ''that one'' is [[Drives Like Crazy|Shepard's fault]].
** [[Sarcasm Mode|Vega learned from the best.]] Shepard crashes the skycar no matter who is in the backseat with them. And when chasing {{spoiler|Tela Vasir}} in the last game's DLC missions, Shepard used another skycar to sideswipe {{spoiler|her}} into crashing. And let's not get into [[Drives Like Crazy|all]] [[Car Fu|those]] [[Good Bad Bugs|shenanigans]] with the Mako in the first game. One thing's for sure; if Shepard's driving, ''something'' is going to [[Stuff Blowing Up|end up in a fiery wreck]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Launchpad McQuack. Throughout ''[[DuckTales]]'', it's a marvel anyone gets in a plane he's piloting. He really is a [[Crippling Overspecialization|very accomplished pilot]], capable of taking off on any surface, flying through any storm, and weaving through any enemy air space, but he can't land without crashing.
** It's not just planes - in one episode (after he's crashed a ''submarine''), he pulls out a bingo card from his insurance company with pictures of various land, sea and air vehicles and marks it off. Several other types of craft are already crossed out.
** [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp|Duck Tales the Movie Treasure of The Lost Lamp]]'', when Launchpad confesses that his flying leasons were a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|crash course]].
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* Whistler the heron in ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'' is bad at landing in later episodes and falls on someone before able to take cover.
* The old ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' cartoons featured the world's most incompetent sailor, Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz.
== Web Original ==
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