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* In ''[[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]]'', Luke crashes his Tauntaun, his snowspeeder, and his X-wing. This is all within an hour of the opening crawl.
** The [[X Wing Series]] gives us [[Ascended Extra]] Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian and his much-lampshaded tendency toward spectacular crashes and long periods in a bacta tank. Despite this, he's unquestionably an [[Ace Pilot]] and even seems to make it work for him: no matter what violent fate befalls his vehicle, Hobbie will ''always'' eject, survive and be back kicking ass within the week.
** The first-published comic arc in that series, The Rebel Opposition, makes it necessary to mention Hobbie's squadronmate Tycho. He put on Imperial guise and reported in saying that his TIE had crashed. They gave him a new one. He flew on a mission, was shot down by his own X-Wing (long story), [[Ejection Seat|ejected and survived]], then returned to the Imperial base. They gave him a new one. Then he betrayed them. In fairness, TIE fighters are light, cheap, unshielded [[Fragile Speedster
* A running gag in ''[[Indiana Jones]]''. Quoth [[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|the third film]]:
{{quote|'''Henry Jones Sr.:''' You know how to fly this thing?
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*** {{spoiler|And yet she manages to perform a post-mortem [[Deus Ex Nukina]], taking out the Cylon Home Colony with her}}.
** Lee "Apollo" Adama should also bear mentioning. He doesn't necessarily wreck a lot of stuff, but he has a penchant for wrecking important stuff. From the mini-series he manages to first disable his father's old fighter and then utterly trash it before the the end. He goes on to wreck the only stealth fighter another character spend an entire episode fabricating. And then he wrecks {{spoiler|The Pegasus, the more advanced of the pair of battlestars.}} It's a wonder why Daddy keeps giving him the keys.
* Hibiki from ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]''; especially ironic since [[Kamen Rider
** Actually a case of [[Writer Revolt]]. [[Dolled-Up Installment|Hibiki wasn't supposed to be a]] [[Kamen Rider]] show, since it was based on a completely unrelated manga by KR's creator, [[Shotaro Ishinomori]]. [[Executive Meddling|The sponsors just wanted to shoehorn it into the Kamen Rider series due to brand recognition]]. The show's original writing staff had nothing but contempt for them and would subvert the living hell out of the various Rider cliches they were forced to add every chance they got... which is probably why they were all fired & replaced by corporate meatpuppets and the show promptly [[Jumped the Shark]].
* For Jake Cutter, of ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]'', crash landings were routine and accepted as such on Bora Gora.
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== Radio ==
* Captain Jet Morgan of the old BBC radio serial ''[[Journey Into Space]]'' could fit this trope. He captains the spaceship Discovery, and when it's required that the ship lands, Jet is always the one who pilots her down. Unfortunately he tends to crash, or at least make hideously bumpy landings, more than he manages to bring her down smoothly. Of course, one of those times he had actually been knocked out before the ship was quite fully landed, but most other times it's just Jet. Nobody ever really comments on this.
** It may also count that he does extensive damage to a Martian asteroid ship when he tries to slow it to a stop. Granted, it doesn't actually
* 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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** Even more amusing is that his gang acts like he isn't blind at all. It is rather confusing especially since you meet him during a high speed race. Through the countryside. The [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] is when he confesses to CJ that he is blind. No shit, homie.
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' showcases the former of the two protagonists destroying every single starship he pilots in the series, at one point or another.
** This even happened to poor [[Sapient Ship|Aphelion]] in ''A Crack in Time''
* More of a player Captain Crash than anything else, but in ''[[Saints Row|Saints Row 2]]'', if the Boss is driving in a car with Johnny Gat and s/he crashes into something, Johnny is liable to muse, "Just like old times."
** Also, <s>me</s> the Boss behind the metaphorical wheel of a helicopter. [[Heroic Resolve|I don't care]] [[Selective Obliviousness|what you say]], [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|those controls are impossible]].
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** There's also a running gag about the Draenei, that any time they're piloting a vehicle they'll crash it. This is likely because their capital, the Exodar, is a magic interstellar space-ship that they crashed into Azeroth.
* The hero of ''[[Grandia (video game)|Grandia]] III'' has designed, built and crashed over a dozen planes before the game even starts. After his personal hero builds him a new plane, he stops crashing. Maybe it was just that he couldn't design a plane that would stay in the air.
* 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}}
** [[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]].
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== Web Original ==
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666-j One of the "joke" articles] of the [[SCP Foundation]] states that Dr. Gerald has this effect on any vehicle:
''A research team hypothesized that rollerblades are, technically, vehicles. We tested their hypothesis by having Gerald skate into the IRG's headquarters in Tehran. They were right.''
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