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And tried to duck it
Kicked first the gas
And then the bucket
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So, you've got a [[Super Speed|speedster]]... let's call him Steve. There are many ways you can show off a character's powers—guys with [[Super Strength]] can lift buses, gals with [[Flight]] can jump off tall buildings and not plummet to their deaths, guys with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Heart]] can... uh... that's not important. But what can good ol' Steve Speedster do? Race a bullet train, that's what!
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* A version of this happens in Legend of Zorro when the horse, Tornado, is racing to catch up to the train
* The famous [[Chase Scene]] in ''[[The French Connection]]''.
* ''[[Cars]]'': Lightning McQueen does it while trying to catch up to what he thinks is Mac, narrowly avoiding a collision at (presumably) a level crossing on the Santa Fe railroad in Seligman, Arizona.▼
* ''Used Cars'' (1982): A race against the clock to get the last of "a mile of cars" to a lot leads to a vehicle being involved in a near-miss at a level crossing.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'': In at least one episode, the villians barely made it across a railroad crossing with a train coming, to escape pursuit by the Duke boys and the General Lee. Bo simply used a convenient ramp to ''jump over'' the train in eventually catching the baddies.
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* ''[[Top Gear]]'' has used the format several times with Jeremy Clarkson in a car vs. James May and Richard Hammond riding the train. In Europe the train was the Eurostar and TGV, and in Japan it was the ''Shinkansen''.
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** The Road Runner's observation of safety is reprised in a later '''Operation:Lifesaver''' commercial aimed at children. In it, the Road Runner, despite his ability to put some extra speed in his already fast run, is aware of safety rules concerning railroad crossings and stops to allow a train to pass. Of course, Wile E. Coyote arrogantly doesn't, and he (once again) is crushed beneath another oncoming train.
* The MGM cartoon ''One Cab's Family'', starting around 5:15
▲* ''[[Cars]]'': Lightning McQueen does it while trying to catch up to what he thinks is Mac.
* In Warners' ''Streamlined Gretna Green'', Junior the roadster tries to outrace a train, gets hit (naturally) and has to go the hospital/body shop; once he recovers he then goes and does it ''again'', this time it's the train that gets the worst of it.
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