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[[File:empowered-carfu.jpg|link=Empowered (Comic Book)|frame|We ''could'' make this picture more awesome, but we're really not sure ''how''.]]
 
{{quote|"Captain Hammer threw a car at my head."|[[DoctorDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|Dr. Horrible]]}}
 
{{quote|"We are in a car!"|[[Doctor Who|K9]], [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E3 School Reunion|on how to enter a school in lockdown.]]}}
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* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'': Roberta, the [[Meido]]/[[The Terminator|Terminator]], who somehow manages to drive a car over the roofs of several buildings and land on the protagonists' car -- and ''keep running after them''. [[Implacable Man|Implacable Woman]], indeed.
* In the last episode of ''[[Daimos]]'', Kazuya uses the truck form of the [[Super Robot Genre|Super Robot]] to smash his way through a hallway protected by laser guns in an attempt to reach the control room at the end.
* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', Soichiro Yagami commandeers a city bus and rams it into the main lobby of Sakura TV to gain access into the building without the Second Kira seeing his face.
* The final episode of ''[[Kurenai (Light Novel)|Kure-nai]]'' features Car Fu in the snow. Even better, it ends with the driver, Benika, calling attention to her parking.
* The final episode of ''Crystal Blaze''. Akira and his brother Shu jets a car off a building top to collide with a helicopter. Just before the impact, they dive out from it, and one of Shu's bullets sets the car on fire, causing a mighty collision explosion. Naturally, just before it happens, Akira drops a comment about how such kinds of things [[Lampshade Hanging|only ever happens in movies]].
* 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 (Light Novel)|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.
* In a recent chapter of the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, [[Cowardly Sidekick]] Yoki runs down the homunculus Pride and gloats about proving himself useful.
* ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' has Sailors Moon, Mercury, and Mars using ''Plane Fu'' on Jadeite [[In the Name of Thethe Moon|in an attempt to kill him]] to stop him from burning Tokyo to the ground. It started with him magically animating the planes to run ''them'' over, but Mars made the spell backfire and target him instead by sticking one of her "Begone, Evil Spirits!" talismans to him. Arguably veers into [[Forklift Fu]] territory.
** And let's not forget how Haruka and Michiru make their badassery known on a motorcycle in their debut episode (as themselves, at least).
* ''[[Karas]]'' has the title characters doing things in their plane and tank forms that should ''not'' be possible.
* This listing is not complete without mentioning ''[[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Anime)|All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku]]''. "Land rover attack!"
* ''[[Ga -Rei Zero]]'' features Natsuki Kasuga using her motorcycle as a weapon against demons.
* ''[[Durarara (Literature)|Durarara]]'': Celty's very first action is to wedge some poor bastard's face in between a parking complex column and the front wheel of her motorcycle.
* ''[[F -Zero]]'': In the first episode of the anime, resident psychopath Zoda gets into a high speed car chase with main protagonist Rick Wheeler/Ryu Suzaku. What does Zoda do? He uses a machine gun to saw off his car door which then hurtles backwards and crashes through Rick's/Ryu's windshield.
* Done ridiculously literal in ''[[Kongou Banchou]]''. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kongou_banchou/c001/30.html There are passengers so he doesn't swing the car though.]
* In one episode of the ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' TV series, Asurada GSX collides with Smith's helicopter which was followed by Bootsvorz performing a [[Heel Face Turn]] by crashing his Missioner VR-4 into his evil boss' said helicopter, killing Smith in the process.
* ''[[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|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".
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* In ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' Megatron's first appearance has him giddily chasing small children in a tank-like alt-mode. Then you hear a 18-wheeler truck's horn and Optimus Prime rams into Megatron's side. Their first Earth battle thus begins. Megatron learns his lesson and stays behind the front lines where his Decepti-behind belongs.
** Another character is called Motormaster. He was rather specifically described as "being able to survive in a head-on collision with any road-based Transformer other than Optimus Prime", as well as liking the tactic. Motormaster is the leader of the Stunticons, a Decepticon Combiner Team. Every member of said team was heavily reinforced for ramming and stunt driving, and often engaged in acrobatic flips, rollovers, and bouncing off walls to change direction, all in vehicle form. And of course they can ''[[Combining Mecha|combine into the really big robot Menasor]]''.
* Does Tank Fu count? Because in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam MSIGLOOMS IGLOO]]'', the Mobile Weapon Hildorfr, when its cannon and transforming arms have failed, will fire a lateral shot to lift one of its sides and smash right into a nearby Zaku with the full brunt of its 220 metric-ton self.
* The first OVA of ''[[Ai no Kusabi (Light Novel)|Ai no Kusabi]]'' has Riki performing Bike Fu in his [[Big Damn Hero]] [[Big Entrance|Entrance]] into a squad of police cars to save his old gang.
* '''All over the place''' in ''[[Speed Racer (Anime)|Speed Racer]]''.
 
== Card Games ==
* In ''Jyhad'' (a.k.a. ''Vampire: The Eternal Struggle''), the Card Game, there is an attack card named "Well Aimed Car".
* The comedic Lovecraftian game ''Creatures and Cultists'' has a Big Honkin' Truck as an attack card that is capable of wiping out three targets in a single charge.
* ''[[Zombie Fluxx (Tabletop Game)|Zombie Fluxx]]'' has the Car, one of many Keepers that can be used to kill zombie Creepers if the right New Rule card is in play.
 
 
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== Films -- Animation ==
* Optimus Prime [[Foe-Tossing Charge|mowing down a line of Decepticons]] in his vehicle form in 1986's ''[[Transformers: theThe Movie]]''. Used again later when Hot Rod knocks around Galvatron a bit by switching into car mode and plowing into him.
** Was there even a single scene in that whole movie than ''didn't'' qualify as some sort of Vehicle Fu? There's even a scene in which two characters, vastly outnumbered and running low on ammo, decide that the best way to deal with their foes is with a ''demolition derby''. Car Fu [[Up to Eleven|turned up to eleven]] [[Hilarity Ensues|ensues]].
* Done with a ''train'' in ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]''.
* ''[[Cars 2]]'' features a literal version of this trope, when super-spy Finn McMissile uses martial arts to attack a group of thugs... while standing in front of a sign advertising "carate" and "car-fu" lessons.
* Done by [[Humongous Mecha|Megamegamind]] in the ''[[Megamind]]: The Button of Doom'' short by loading cars into a wrist-mounted crossbow and firing them.
* Another villain example: ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'', when a mob boss tries to run over Phantasm in the opening scene. Not so much...
 
 
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** 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 (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]]'' movie The Thing bitchslaps Dr. Doom with an SUV.
* ''[[Death Proof]]'', the second half of ''[[Grindhouse]]''. It even involves ''jousting''.
* Parodied in the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie, where he is driving a steamroller (extremely slowly) toward an enemy [[Mooks|Mook]], yelling at the man to get out of the way. The henchman stands in place for at least ten seconds, waving his arms and screaming in horror, until the machine runs him over.
* 1988 was a great year for using steamrollers against villains:
** ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]]'' -- along with an entire marching band.
** ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' -- didn't work.
** ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' -- only delayed Otto. But did wonders for Ken's stutter.
* In ''[[Raw Deal (Film)|Raw Deal]]'', [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s character proceeds to beat up some mob types, before leaving and driving a truck through the building where his victims are getting back to their feet.
* The live-action ''[[Spawn]]'' movie has the Violator drive a truck into Spawn, who protects himself with his cape.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger's partner gets run down by a villain in ''[[Kindergarten Cop (Film)|Kindergarten Cop]]''. Who then comes back and beats said villain with a baseball bat.
* In Baz Luhrman's ''[[William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet (Film)|Romeo + Juliet]]'', this is how Romeo takes down Tybalt for killing Mercutio, right before gunning him down.
* In ''[[Pulp Fiction (Film)|Pulp Fiction]]'', Butch runs down the crime boss who wants him dead after seeing him at a crosswalk. Unlike most, he doesn't get to full speed; he hits him after only going about ten feet.
* ''[[Shoot 'Em Up (Filmfilm)|Shoot Em Up]]'': Smith indulges in some of this.
* ''[[Death Race 2000]]''
* In the movie ''[[Army of Darkness]]'', Ash turns his Oldsmobile into the Car of Doom.
* In the film ''[[Ultraviolet (Filmfilm)|Ultraviolet]]'', the eponymous [[Action Girl]] pulls off an awesome stunt, driving up to a row of stormtroopers, braking, turning 90 degrees and smashing them all against the wall (it's in the trailer, too).
* Accidental example: in ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'' a man runs over a bad fae creature and is alarmed he's harmed someone.
{{quote| '''Driver:''' Did I hit something?<br />
'''Jared Grace:''' Yes! Thank you! }}
* Inverted in ''Quicksilver'': the villain used his car as a weapon while the heroic Kevin Bacon beat him with a mountain bike.
* ''[[The Matrix (Film)|The Matrix]]'' opens with one of these, as the Agents use a garbage truck to smash the phone booth where Trinity is trying to escape.
** ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'': has a villain example. Ends with an example of the rare Semi Fu Chicken. That movie also has Trinity "throwing" her motorcycle into a guardhouse, [[Every Car Is a Pinto|generating a massive explosion]]. Perhaps the 'cycle was rigged to divide by zero.
* In ''[[The Lost Boys (Film)|The Lost Boys]]'' {{spoiler|the sire of the entire vampire gang is killed when one of the characters crashes his jeep in through the wall of his house, with the hood loaded with fence posts.}}
* ''[[Duel (Film)|Duel]]'' is essentially one long episode of Car Fu between Dennis Weaver in a 1970 Plymoth Valiant and a Demon Truck.
* In the recent live-action ''[[Speed Racer (Filmfilm)|Speed Racer]]'' movie, this trope is taken to its literal extreme, including choreographed battle scenes, somersaults, parries, and even "throws"; all done in racing cars. The video game of the movie even ''calls it'' "Car Fu".
** Let's put it this way: You know how the page for [[Martial Arts Do Not Work That Way]] points out how in Hollywood, fights always involve ridiculous flips and spins and mid-air kicks? Speed Racer does that...''with the cars''.
* ''[[Blade (Filmfilm)|Blade]]'' did it, in the first movie, using a bike to smash through the window of the Big Bad's office-building, instead of entering through the door as the waiting goons had expected.
* Used oddly in the ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'' movie; one of the traps used by [[La Résistance|the Lo-Teks]] is setting an ancient VW bug on fire and then dropping it from their fortified bridge onto attackers down below. They have a whole mechanical system that loads a new one each time they do this, and it happens several times throughout the movie.
* The ''[[Mad Max]]'' movies, of course.
* In ''[[Beethoven (Filmfilm)|Beethoven]]'', one of the kids drives the family station wagon through a wall and right into the center of the bad guys' warehouse, impaling the main bad guy with several syringes in the process.
* ''[[Wanted]]'' uses Car Fu liberally, from scooping someone up through an open passenger door to flipping overtop of a limousine in order to kill the guy inside.
* The first ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' with Angelina Jolie. A fight scene that takes place in the garage of her mansion culminates in Lara driving a motorcycle up to a goon, slamming on the brakes, ''spinning around on the front wheel'' and decking him in the head with the rear tire as it comes around.
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* In [[Jackie Chan]] movie ''Mr. Nice Guy'', the eponymous hero destroys the [[The Mafia|mob boss's]] mansion and large collection of expensive cars and scatters his army of [[Mooks]] with an ''one hundred and twenty ton dump truck''.
* In ''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]'', the hero uses the bad guy's very large hovercraft against him.
* ''[[Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Film)|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 (Film)|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]'', Alice rams a licker with her motorcycle, then shoots the gas tank to blow them both up.
** In ''[[Resident Evil: Extinction (Film)|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 (Film)|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]]'':
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* The ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] has the Gadgetmobile (a sentient car) use ''itself'' for Car Fu, slamming into the back of Claw's limo at high speed.
* [[John Woo]] likes doing this: happens both in ''[[Hard Boiled]]'' and the ''Blackjack'' TV movie.
** One of the more memorable ''[[Hard Boiled (Filmfilm)|Hard Boiled]]'' moments was during the warehouse shootout where one poor mook ended up eating bike. As in ''motorcycle''. Ouch.
** ''Bullet in the Head'' ends with the archetypal car duel where two former friends just end up destroying each other's cars with head-on collisions and .45 bullets.
* ''[[Heroic Trio|The Heroic Trio]]'' has one of the greatest examples of motorcycle-fu. One of the heroines uses the back wheel of her motorcycle to catapult it off the wall, and send it spinning sideways as she jumps off across the room, essentially turning it into a five-hundred-pound shuriken to send at [[The Dragon]]. The bad guy's response? He catches it in midair and ''rips it in half!''
* ''[[Aliens]]''. Ripley manages to kill an alien with nothing but the APC.
* Toward the end of ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]]'', 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 (Film)|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.
* Subverted in ''Just Married'': Ashton Kutcher rams his car into a gate... and the car crashes. Causing his friend to comment, "That is one strong gate."
* In ''[[G.I. Joe: theThe Rise of Cobra (Film)|G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra]]'', one of the weapons on the Baroness's Hummer is a ram that flips other cars out of its way, conveniently sending said cars flying towards the pursuing heroes.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Filmfilm)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', [[The Movie]], when Pike barely manages to survive a run-in with a group of vampires using his van... and rip off [[The Dragon|Amilyn]]'s arm... leading to Amilyn's line: "You ruined my new jacket." (Addressing vampire cohorts) "Kill him a lot!"
** In fact, Amilyn is referred to solely as 'Lefty' on the DVD cover because of this.
* In ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]]'', [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] and the freaky villain with diamonds stuck in his face have a Car Fu Duel, where BOTH characters are driving tricked-out spy cars and trying to kill each other with their various on-board weapons and gadgets. This scene ends with a (failed) ramming attempt.
** Played with in ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]''. Bond's [[Weaponized Car]] proves effective in scattering the mooks in Goldfinger's factory, but as he's driving down a corridor between two buildings he's confronted by another vehicle driving head on towards him with its headlights on full. Bond fires his built-in machine guns, but the car doesn't swerve and at the last second he's forced to, crashing into a wall. It's then revealed that Bond was firing at his own reflection in a steel mirror, set up to reveal oncoming cars at a junction.
** ''[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]'': "Use ze bumper! Zhat's vhat it's for!"
* The Russian Superhero Movie ''Black Lighting'' '''is''' this trope as in his flying car ''is'' his superpower
* ''[[District 9]]'' has Wilkus' [[Powered Armor]] getting worn down in battle by a combination of [[More Dakka]] and a pickup truck running into him head-on. Terrifying alien technology it surely is, but it's just made of metal: it can be bent, busted and broken.
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{{quote| "How about a bumper sandwich, booger lips?!"}}
* John Lymangood, in ''[[Blue Thunder]]'', {{spoiler|is killed by being run over with a car, when trying to escape captivity}}.
* ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]] 2'' has Happy Hogan trying to take out Ivan Vanko with a car. In a deleted scene of the first ''Iron Man'', James "Rhodey" Rhodes saves Tony's life by ramming a car into Iron Monger.
** Also in the first film, the Iron Monger whacks Iron Man over the head with a motorcycle.
* ''[[The Bourne Supremacy]]''. In a lightweight taxi, Jason Bourne manages to do a PIT maneuver <ref>Pursuit Immobilization Technique or similar: whacking your car into the side of the back of a car you are pursuing to make it spin out and force it to stop.</ref> on a bigger, heavier vehicle.
* ''[[The Hitcher (Film)|The Hitcher]]'': In the remake, the villain misses the protagonists by a hair after sending a car towards them from the top a cliff. Judging by the precision aim, the only logical conclusion can be that [[Sean Bean]] somehow threw it at them.
* In ''[[Super (Film)|Super]]'', Libby comes to the rescue by ramming her car into a thug trying to off Frank.
* In ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]: The Return of Michael Myers'', Rachel uses her car to run Michael Myers over. But since Michael is Michael, it doesn't faze him in the slightest.
** Also, in ''H20'', Laurie hijacks an ambulance van with Michael in it, and runs it off a cliff in order to kill Michael once and for all.
* Happens a lot in ''[[Drive Angry]]''. Milton drives into the middle of a satanic gathering, mowing down anyone who gets in his way. The Accountant uses this trope when he smashes a hole through a cordon of police cars with a hydrogen truck, while humming along to the tune of 'That's the way I like it', catches a police car on the side of the truck, swerves, then calmly steps out of the cab and onto the hood of the car in time to watch the truck slide away, flip over and explode.
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* 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 (Literature)|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]].
** And he flipped a car onto [[Evil Sorceror|Cowl]] during their first battle. The fact that Cowl blocked it was what caused Harry to reevaluate him to more powerful wizard. Well they're in a city. Cars are convenient.
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* 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.
** Stephanie's mother once hit a man in a bunny costume while he was chasing Stephanie.
* Not quite, but close enough. In the book ''Point Blanc'' of the ''[[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider Series]]'', Alex, near the very end of the book, uses a ski-jump ramp to launch a snow mobile he was riding to {{spoiler|annihilate a helicopter the villain was trying to get away in.}}
* In one of the ''[[Shadowrun]]'' books, there is a Wolf Shaman who mentions that he hates driving while under any spells, as his totem tends to see the car he's driving as nothing more than a large, ''steerable'' bullet.
* [[Ciaphas Cain|Commissarial Aide Ferrik Jurgen]] may [[Drives Like Crazy|drive like crazy]] but he's also a master of this.
* In ''Eye Of The Needle'' by [[Ken Follett]], {{spoiler|David}} tries to kill Henry this way.
* In ''[[Wise Blood (Literature)|Wise Blood]]'', Hazel Motes confronts his [[Identical Stranger]], then runs him over with his car to kill him.
* The [[Elleston Trevor|Hugo Bishop]] novel ''Rook's Gambit'' has a virtuoso performance by Miss Vera Gorringe in the "driver threatened by passenger" mode. She notches the speed up to seventy and dares the fellow to shoot, but she doesn't stop at that: once she ''knows'' there's a police car trying to pull her over, she ''deliberately rolls the auto'', incapacitating the gunman (he wasn't buckled in, tsk). Gorry is in her early sixties.
* One of the later ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' books has several of the team creating a distraction by flatting the house of their vice principal-slash-Yeerk host Chapman-with a tank. And they total Cassie's father's old truck using it as a weapon in Megamorphs #1.
** Elfangor uses a car recovered from a wrecked Skrit Na starship this way in ''The Andalite Chronicles''.
* The cover of [[Eric Flint]]'s novel [[1632]] implies that this will happen, but sadly not.
* In ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'', there's a scene where the main character is trying to cross a road when a car suddenly drives off the road and heads straight at him, That's right - they swerved off a presumably 55 MPH road, drove on the grass, and leaned out of their window, jeering, ''just to hit a cat''.
 
 
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** They also have a [http://www.youtube.com/user/TopGear channel on YouTube] (currently over 300 crunch-tastic uploads).
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Planet of the Dead", the Doctor uses a flying double-decker bus to hit a flying alien.
* Oz rescues ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' in a first season episode by driving through the wall of the villain's hideout and squashing him with his band's van.
** Another episode has Fred's mother rescue Angel by running over a demon in a bus.
** Before the ''Just Married'' example given above, the first episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' had Doyle attempting to ram his way through the gates of a mansion. Didn't really work. (He even said something to the effect of, "Good gate.")
* 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 (TV)|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.
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** Mildly parodied when Buffy lures Glory into the path of a Mack truck; when Buffy explains how she got away, Willow immediately jumps to the conclusion that Buffy threw the truck.
** Xander rescues Faith by taking out one of the Sisterhood of Jhe demons with the 57 Chevy Bel Air that he had borrowed from his uncle Rory.
* In ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', Hurley breaks into a hostage situation by driving over some of the Others using a Volkswagen Minibus.
* The poor, abused Mule in ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' gets used as a weapon so often. In "The Train Job" Wash uses it to run over one of Niska's goons in the cargo bay shootout. Later, in the episode "War Stories", it gets used as a rolling car bomb to clear the hallway when ''Serenity's'' crew starts [[Storming the Castle]].
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' seems to like throwing in some Motorcycle Fu a lot lately.
** Martial arts battles atop unmodified (i.e.: not Battlizer weapon component) motorcycles began in earnest in ''Dino Thunder'', reaching their apex in ''Mystic Force'' where Nick's standard tactic when backed into a corner is to smash a motorcycle into Koragg's face. He does this with both his normal civilian bike and his Mystic Racer. Needless to say, "Bike to the Face" became one of the memes for THAT season...
** ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'''s Carter Grayson attempted to run down a [[Monster of the Week]] with the team car in the first episode. Didn't quite work, but [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] approved either way.
** ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': In "Enter... The Lizzinator!", this is attempted on Jason. ''By a Putty''. Jason's reaction is [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV)/Funny|priceless]].
{{quote| '''Jason:''' Putties can drive?!<br />
''*Putty Patroller floors the gas and drives towards him*''<br />
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* In one episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', an alien [[Bounty Hunter]] succumbs to the accidental version of this. Tip: before coming to Earth, [[Look Both Ways|learn about crosswalks]].
* An episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' has a mild bit of ''Jumper'' Fu; when the Replicators take the city and Sheppard flies a Jumper into the gate room, he runs over two human-form Replicators.
* In the new ''[[Knight Rider]]'' series, KITT pulls off a Car Fu [[Finishing Move|Fatality]].
* Jimmy Palmer [[Took a Level In Badass]] when he runs down a bad guy in an episode of ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', following Gibbs' orders [[Exact Words|not to leave the car]].
* During the second season finale of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Michael uses ''unmanned'' Car Fu to clear out a crowd of agents waiting for him. He puts a brick on the gas pedal and aims the Jeep at the bad guys, using it as a battering ram to clear their blockade, and knock down the spike strip that would have punctured their tires if they had tried to drive out first.
** In the third season's midseason finale he pulls an even more dramatic stunt, sending Sam's girlfriend's Buick sailing off the third story of a parking garage to distract a gang that's trying to ambush Fiona. This is why Sam doesn't let Michael drive.
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* 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 ''[[Twenty Four|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 (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Roadkill" featured a serial killer whose MO was vehicular homicide.
** Several episodes feature either members of the BAU or local police officers using their cars to disable an unsub's vehicle. The latter's tactics are valid but the results tend to be more dramatic than in [[Real Life]] ([[Buffy-Speak|car-flippity-wise]]).
* In ''[[Dark Angel]]'' there is a scene where Max pivots her motorcycle and knocks down an opponent with the back wheel.
* ''[[The Good Guys (TV)|The Good Guys]]'': A favored tactic of Dan Stark, used too many times to count. When in doubt, drive a car through the building. Conveniently, it's almost never ''his'' car, because Dan's car is too [[Cool Car|cool]] to get totaled.
* Used twice in ''[[Breaking Bad]]''.
** In "Half Measures," Walt mows down the thugs Jesse predictably sets out to kill.
** In "One Minute," Hank backs his car into one of the Cousins, effectively crushing Leonel's legs.
* Richie attempts bike-fu on the lady immortal who's trying to take his head in one ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' episode, but she ends up knocking him off it. Although making his escape by smashing through the glass windows on said bike a bit later may count.
* In ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'', Callen and Sam find a group of civilians trapped in a warehouse that the bad guys have set on fire. The door is reinforced steel. Sam then tells Callen to ask their translator how to say "Get back or you'll die" in Vietnamese, and once everyone is away from the outer wall, proceeds to ram their car through the door.
* In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk's Other Brother", Jack Monk Jr. nearing the ending of the episode proceeded to run over the [[Murderer Of The Week]] with Natalie's car just before the latter could deliver the coup de grace. Bonus points with the earlier implication that he was going to leave them to die while he headed to Paraguay.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'': An interesting take on the concept, this is the premise from the popular lighter class mech urban tactic "Death-From-Above". Step 1: Realize your 40-ton mech can't go head to head with a 80-tonner. Step 2: Flee between skycrapers. Step 3: Jump-jet onto top of building, one that's taller than your opponent. Step 4: Wait until opponent is in jump range. Step 5: Gain as much altitude as possible before letting your "light" 35 tons of steel and armament come crashing down on top of your opponent. This is usually considered a last ditch tactic, as even a successful DFA is likely to cause some damage to the attacking unit.
** Not just light mechs, either. The [http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Highlander Highlander], a ''90 ton Assault class mech'', has jumpjets that allow it to DFA. Doing so is called the Highlander Burial, and can easily result in an instant kill by crushing the targeted mech's cockpit.
* This trope is pretty much the whole premise of ''[[Car Wars]]''.
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* In ''Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven'', the car is almost a [[Game Breaker]]. If you are allowed to drive it on a mission against normal thugs, you are indestructible. The mission in the harbor is the most obvious example.
** Depending on how lucky you are, as Tommy still takes damage from inside the car. The car itself also takes damage, and a shot to the gas tank will end your mission fairly quickly. The use of a car is especially problematic in "A Great Deal!" when attempting to access the ground level.
* [[Batman: Arkham Asylum|"No, Bane... THIS TIME, I BREAK YOU!!!"]]
* ''[[Halo]]'' made Car Fu especially fun for drivers, considering getting hit by a vehicle was almost guaranteed to kill you, regardless of its speed. ''Halo 2'' and ''3'' kind of [[Nerf Arm|nerfed]] it, though. In more ways than one.
** That said, ''[[Halo 3]]'' did encourage Car Fu for having achievements for running over and killing someone with a Mongoose (a light, small ATV) and killing someone with objects placed in Forge. (The Achievement is called "Dropped a Tank on Him.")
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** And then there's the car in ''Episode 2'' which has no built in weapons (besides the bumper), but still manages to be far and away the best way to kill the Hunters in the big battle at the end.
** In at least one point in the series you can drop your car on your enemies with a crane. In fact, there's an achievement/trophy for it.
* ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' and ''[[Unreal Tournament III (Video Game)3|Unreal Tournament III]]'' have the Onslaught/Warfare and Vehicle [[Capture the Flag|CTF]] gametypes, all of them which, of course, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgebTIoYQ54 allow this trope to happen]. You have up to 7 to 20 vehicles and, being a competitive game, [[Car Fu]] is a ''very'' important skill in these games. You can also find some vehicles in a few Assault maps as well in 2004, and a Darkwalker in a Deathmatch level in III.
** The announcer will yell "Roadkill!" or "Hit and run!" when you run over a player on foot; "Pancake!" in the rare case you manage to drop a vehicle directly on top of an infantryman; and "Vehicular Manslaughter" and "Road Rage" when running over several players in vehicles, without being killed. The Scorpion even has extendable blades designed to chop up infantry as you zoom past.
** In ''UT3'', the Necris Viper and the Scorpion can be set to self-destruct. If a player aims a vehicle at a given target, sets it to self-destruct, jumps out just as they're about to hit the target, and manages to kill someone with the resulting explosion, the "Bullseye" distinction is granted. Earning Bullseye twenty times grants the "Deathwish" award. Getting roadkill/pancake fifteen times in a match equals a "Road Rampage", ten of which bestow the "Armadillo" award, and killing a player in an aerial dogfight makes you a "Top Gun", twenty of which bestow the "Ace" award. A player who has killed at least one player with each vehicle earns the "Jack of All Trades" award. Destroying certain vehicles with the main gun on the Goliath tank produces a declaration of "Eagle Eye". Many of these can also be found in ''UT2004''.
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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.
* This trope is the heart and soul of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series.
** Especially fun when you use the car as a projectile. Drive at target in police view (say, said police). Accelerate. Abandon vehicle. If the target doesn't dodge... squish. And no wanted levels! Another less than realistic piece of fun from ''Vice City'' was the old standby, the chopper blades of chopping, which I don't think really ticked off the cops in that game, either (they wise up for ''San Andreas'''s sequel, though.).
** [[Car Fu]] is particularly helpful in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto III]]'''s "Waka-Gashira Wipeout", in which the player is tasked with eliminating the mark from inside the vehicle. Sure, you can do a drive-by...but it's a lot simple just to throw the Cartel Cruiser at him.
* In ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]]'' and its sequel, a player can ram ground troops with their vehicles, although this is usually ineffective as most ground vehicles are quite slow. However the swoop bikes can be used to kill an enemy by running them over, although careful timing you will need. The droid AAT, while moving slowly (especially in the first game, with no boost), is rather pointy and will take out clones pretty fast if you ram them.
** 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!]]
** Not something one can do in gameplay, but Raiden gets caught at the end of act 2 in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots|MGS4]]'' by the manipulator cords of two of the Gekko mini-metal gears. He proceeds to spin around like a breakdancer and use the 5ton machines as a pair of flails. With his feet. A hugely immersion-breaking [[Wizard Did It|CyberNanobotsDidIt]] moment.
* In the game ''Total Overdose'' you can do a [[Bullet Time]]-style dive out of a car before it crashes into something, also if you jump out of the car just before an impact, no matter how soft this will be, the [[Molotov Truck|car]] [[Every Car Is a Pinto|will]] [[Made of Explodium|explode]].
* Used in ''KKND'' by certain vehicles, the robot faction in the sequel are immune to it.
* ''[[Carmageddon]]''. Not just the core of gameplay -- ''all'' of gameplay, which made it a very early target for [[Moral Guardians]] and for which it was constantly demonized even though it was not a terribly successful game.
* ''Interstate76''
* In the early days of ''[[Planet SidePlanetSide]]'', the most common use for tanks and other heavy vehicles was ramming infantry, which generally instantly splattered them. The hover vehicles were especially notorious for this, with the hover tank Magrider earning the [[Fan Nickname|nickname]] Magmower (and other less savory names). Eventually, this tactic was sharply reduced in effectiveness, to the great dismay of tank drivers everywhere.
** The New Conglomerate's Vanguard battle tank is still horrifically effective at mowing down infantry, as it can instagib any non-MAX player; combine that with the tank's sheer ''hugeness'' and instagibbing 150 mm cannon and you get a giant lawnmower of death.
** The Terran Republic's Prowler can also squish infantry very nicely, but given its slower speed and dual 100 mm cannons that also kill infantry in one shot but at over twice the rate of fire of the Vanguard's single 150 mm, the driver rarely gets the chance to actually claim any kills.
* Two vehicles, the buggy and the dumptruck in N64's ''[[Blast Corps]]'', also work on this same principle. It helps others destroy a little bit faster, but it's the key to beating these vehicles' missions.
* While there's mostly ranged weapons involved, the ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' series has plenty of Car Fu moments; any vehicle can engage in Car Fu against other vehicles and the occasional pedestrian or enemy driver; there's even damage bonus for T-boning an opponent (colliding with them in their side) in some versions. And certain other vehicles (especially in ''Twisted Metal Black'' and not just Darkside) have Special Weapons that emphasize Car Fu. For example, Yellowjacket's omnidirectional spike launcher has a secondary attack mode where turbo-ramming an opponent with them deployed but not fired will increase the collision damage. Grasshopper's special has her [[Awesome but Impractical|launch into the air to 'squash' other vehicles.]] Axel's hidden secondary Special Weapon retracts him inside his torture wheels, turning it into a single, humongous tire that decides it doesn't need be on a Monster Truck to crush cars and people. And let's not forget Mr. Slam ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]] -a modified backhoe), the only vehicle that can Car Fu with a ''grappling'' attack. Over and over.
** Though any large vehicle does acceptable damage when ramming smaller vehicles, this is ''Twisted Metal'''s Darkside's raison d'être. You even get damage bonuses for hitting them with the side of your truck, or the back of their vehicle with YOUR back.
* Although no damage is dealt, you can use collisions to throw off enemy aim in ''[[Battle Tanx]]'', especially once the flippy hovertank is introduced.
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*** Jeeps are also used to grief friendly players. Since vehicles still have momentum after you jump out, many a jet-camper has died an unexpected death.
*** C4-packed skid-steer loaders (a vehicle added in Back to Karkand) may become quite popular now after this TV ad for the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo5-[[Xp Q 5 Jkk]]
* Opening scene of ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 2'' has X riding a hoverbike, jumping off of it and it crashing into a mechaniloid.
* Midway games' ''Wheelman'' centered its entire gameplay around improbable "Car Combat"
* Like the ''Command and Conquer'' and ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]]'' examples, certain vehicles in ''Star Wars: Empire at War'' can crush infantry, or in the case of the AT-AT, small vehicles. Hover vehicles cannot, but any tracked vehicle or walker can. Averted, however, because usually troops and the T2-B light tanks will move out of the way. The AT-AT can also crush low walls, but will normally just go around them. Used straight, however, with the TIE Mauler, a light tank for the Empire whose main attack (despite 3 laser cannons) is to just run over infantry. With the Mauler, infantry will not move out of the way automatically.
* 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 (Video Game)|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]]''...
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* The superhero RTS/RPG ''[[Freedom Force]]'' when it was first released, prior to a patch, had involuntary NPC Car Fu. If a character ran into the street in front of a car, it would hit him, and knock him away a little bit... then hit him again before he got up, knocking him away a little bit... then hit him again before he got up, knocking him away a little bit, and so on, until either the car turned, or the character died.
** In the second game, ''Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich'', you can easily bludgeon someone to death with a car, hell, it's necessary to complete some maps without taking advantage of El Diablo's brokenness.
* There are a couple examples of this in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] series.
** In ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', on the very first level, an absurdly MASSIVE semi-truck tries to flatten Sonic into road kill. One wonders how this truck got around the sharp corners without smashing the buildings. Mind, this truck was operated by G.U.N. -- the military! All just to squish Sonic.
** And it comes back in ''[[Sonic Generations (Video Game)|Sonic Generations]]'', same stage and this time, it's trying to squash TWO Sonics!
*** [[Up to Eleven|Did we mention the truck's now equipped with saw blades and rocket boosters?]]
** In ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog (Videovideo Gamegame)|Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', you can do this. Convertible, motorcycle, jeep, or Humvee, you can do this.
*** Some levels have large objects that Shadow can flip over. In the first level, the burning city of Westopolis, the large object in question is a ''fire truck''. [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Even better, Shadow flips over said objects with one hand]]. [[Moment of Awesome|The end result is]] [[Cluster F-Bomb|a foul-mouthed]] [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|amnesiac]] furry black hedgehog [[Crazy Awesome|that can flip over a fire truck with one hand while holding an assault rifle in the other.]] Ultimate Life Form much?
* ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]'' has a motorcycle example. Jack has a Bloodbath Challenge where he spins his motorcycle around to knock aliens into various deathtraps. The boss fight in that same level involves both of you on motorcycles, with the final QTE having you smash your motorcycles into each other to try to beat the other's ride into submission.
* You get the Road Rage Execution Style in ''[[The Godfather (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Godfather]]: The Game'' the first time you run over an enemy gangster with a car, while the Traffic Accident Execution Style is collected by shoving an enemy so that someone else runs him over for you.
* The methods of travel used by the protagonists of ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]'' might be counted as a rare ''inversion'' -- since [[Cool Ship|Gummi Ships]] haven't been invented yet, the characters get around by use of a hoverbike, a hoverboard (?) and a glider resembling [[Nausicaa of the Valley of Thethe Wind|Nausicaa's]], all of which are actually non-standard forms of their Keyblades.
* The ''[[Call of Duty]]: Modern Warfare'' games have several examples of these. One of them in ''Modern Warfare 2'' is a pickup controlled by Shadow company running into a minigun-equipped Ultranationalist Humvee.
* Occurs during a cut scene in ''[[Red Steel]] 2'', when the villain Payne tries to run over the player with a tanker truck. The game then starts a series of [[Press X to Not Die|quick-time events]] where you have to fight Payne while avoid being thrown from the runaway truck.
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* For video games, the [[Ur Example]] would have to be the controversial 1976 (yes, you read that right) [[Arcade Game]] ''Death Race'' by Exidy. Apparently inspired by the movie ''Death Race 2000'', the game involved running over human sounding "gremlins" to turn them into grave markers and thereby score points within a time limit. [[Or So I Heard|Word has it]] that several of the machines were destroyed as a result.
* The [[Daytona USA|Hornet]] car in ''[[Fighters Megamix]]'' is a literal example. The car stands on its back tires, and boxes with its front ones.
* Early in ''[[Devil Survivor 2 (Video Game)|Devil Survivor 2]]'', the protagonists run into Dubhe, who is impervious to all of your attacks. The level at first seems to be an "escape" level, but the escape is blocked off before you can reach it. Then {{spoiler|Daichi}} runs a truck off of a bridge and into Dubhe, turning most of its immunities into ''weaknesses'' and taking out about half of its HP in one shot.
* In the later ''[[Mechwarrior]]'' games (the simulator mech combat game set in the ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' universe), ramming an enemy mech with your mech does contact damage based on how fast you're going. It's entirely possible to ram an enemy mech to death, then have them [[Oh Crap|blow up in your face]]. In ''[[Mechwarrior]] Living Legends'', it's possible to do [[Car Fu]] with tanks and ''jet fighters'' - [[Good Bad Bugs|which until recently]], caused the rammed vehicle to go flying off into the distance, spinning wildly.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress (Video Game)|Dwarf Fortress]]'' has recently implemented minecarts. The fanbase have already begun producing minecartillery tracks to fire them at incoming hostiles.
 
 
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* 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: theThe Animated Series]]''.
* In "The Big Chill" episode of ''[[The Batman (Animation)|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.
{{quote| '''Freeze:''' Two words, Batman: Snow Tires.<br />
''(cue activation of jets)'' }}
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** It's later revealed that the first attempt The Monarch made on Venture's life under his super-villain persona involved ''driving his car all the way through the Venture compound and into the lab'', ''[[Blues Brothers]]'' style. Had he not gotten out of the car and gotten his ass kicked by Venture's then bodyguard, he probably could have succeeded.
* Subverted in ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]''. C.A.R.R. tried to drive through a building's wall to make a dramatic rescue, but as Stroker pointed out it was reinforced concrete and he failed to go through.
* ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' has Frankie bash the doors down with the bus in the Halloween special after she has trouble finding the right keys. That and there was a creepy man with a hook...
* In ''[[Code Lyoko (Animation)|Code Lyoko]]'', starting Season 2 Ulrich is fond of using his Overbike to ram against XANA's monsters, destroying the smaller ones or pushing a Megatank into the Digital Sea.
** And in episode "A Bad Turn", William uses Car Fu in the real world against a materialized Krabe in the Factory. After slamming into the Krabe, it is snagged by a rope linked to the car, which is then thrown down the elevator shaft, dragging the monster along.
** The earliest example of this trope in ''Code Lyoko'' occurs in Episode 4, "Log Book". XANA attempts to use a bus to blow up an oil refinery.
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* Some crooks use cars to break into stores. It's rarely very effective, as it alerts everyone to the crime immediately.
** It depends on how busy the area is at the time, and how quickly they can grab and run...
** In the late 90s, at least (unsure if it's still as prevalent) [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|ram-raiding]] was endemic in Sydney and Melbourne. The perpetrators would typically use two [stolen] cars: an old tank such as an XD Ford Falcon to do the ramming, and a fast getaway car. The getaway car was often the newly-introduced Subaru WRX, a car that would leave police pursuit cars of the time standing, under any and all conditions...
** The phenomenon dates back to the late 1970s, according to [[The Other Wiki]], and was invented in Belfast of all places; [[Cool Car|Cosworth-engined Ford Sierras]] were the preferred getaway car in the UK for a while.
* During his [[wikipedia:Akihabara massacre|June 8, 2008 knife rampage]] Tomohiro Kato first drove a truck into the crowd, and only then proceeded to knife people down.
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** A close second would be of a similar deed done by [[wikipedia:Shawn Nelson|Shawn Nelson]], who rampaged in San Diego with a stolen ''M60 Patton main battle tank''.
* For the [[Ramming Always Works]] version of this trope, when facing a roadblock made of vehicles it's recommended you aim your car at the boot of the vehicle (not the heavy engine compartment) and push through at ''slow'' speed.
* Related example: A livestock and antique vehicle rally a couple of years ago featured [[Exactly What It Says Onon 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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos 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.
** This is one of Dio's gigs, really. His typical [[Genre Savvy]] response is to freeze time, shower the opponent with knives thrown during the time freeze so they hit all at once, and then to make certain the guy stays down, flatten him with a steamroller.
*** And then listens for JoJo's breathing... and then his heartbeat. And then sets out to decapitate the "dead" body with a Stop sign. He's one thorough son of a b**** . As dangerously genre-savvy as they can get without actually winning.
* Despite it being unintentional, ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' goes the extra mile by using ''Train'' Fu to take down a giant.
* More recently, we can see {{spoiler|Little Oars Jr., the giant, using one of the government's battleships to open a breach through one of marineford's walls.}}
* The illusionary Evangeline of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' against Negi in his [[Battle in Thethe Center of Thethe 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 (Light Novel)|Durarara]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima has done his fair share of this.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|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]].
 
 
== Comics ==
* Classic ''[[Superman]]'' stuff. The classic image of Superman smashing a green car into someone, as well as the [[Infinite Crisis]] repeat of Superman from Earth-2 beating down regular Superman with a similar-looking green car.
** [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] tries to pull this with a ship on The Parasite in one ''JLA'' comic.
** Also, any homage to the cover of his first appearance, ''[[Action Comics]]'' #1. In that case he's shaking the villains out of their car and smashing it.
** The only bright spot in the otherwise unfortunate ''Hush'' arc was Jim Lee's depiction of Supes' Street Cleaner Fu (against Batman, no less).
* ''[[The Authority]]'': The Midnighter realizes that the [[Evil Overlord]]'s [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]] is a gigantic [[Mook Maker]], and since The Authority's heavy hitters (and Swift) are all busy trying to save LA from the mooks that have already been dispatched there, it falls to Midnighter to take out the tower, which he does by crashing into it with the team's spaceship.
** He's been on the receiving end, too. On one occasion, a pissed off bad guy challenges Midnighter to dodge a hurled car. Instead, Midnighter jumps, tucks, and rolls [[Super Window Jump|right through the car's windows]]. His verdict, as the car crashes into a heap behind him: "Dodging is for amateurs."
* ''Brit'' #7 contains several variations of this during a fight against the [[Body Snatcher]] inhabiting ''[[Invincible (Comic Book)|Invincible]]''. First, Brit looks like he's going to crash into the [[Body Snatcher]], but instead drives past it and uses the car to pull a building onto it. When the [[Body Snatcher]]'s recovered from that, ''then'' Brit crashes into it, and to keep the onslaught going, his friend uses her teleportation powers to drop every car on the block on its head. The [[Body Snatcher]] maintains control just long enough to pick up a car and hit Brit over the head with it.
* Writers tend to forget this, but [[Spider-Man]] is strong enough to [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6340000.html throw Cadillacs.]
** They remembered this in -- of all places -- the videogame adaptation of the first movie. It kills your agility, but you ''can'' hoist up cars. One of the more annoying levels takes place in a multi-storey garage. Beaning Oscorp's little spider-drones with a handy car is ''very'' satisfying... as is doing it to the Green Goblin himself on the bridge.
** At one point, Doc Ock tries to crush Spidey with a pair of cars he picked up from the street. Spidey dodges by jumping in a side window, notices the key is still in the ignition and proceeds to ram the car into Ock.
*** The [[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|second movie]] has Doc Ock throwing a car at Pete and Mary Jane's date, only being saved by the [[Spider Sense]]. (Although as [http://www.moviemistakes.com/film3843?singletype=plothole someone pointed out], it wasn't a wise thing to do.)
** Who can forget him sending a semi on collision course with the Juggernaut? {{spoiler|Didn't work, though.}}
* [[Ms. Marvel (Comic Book)|Ms. Marvel]] does it so often it has acquired [[Memetic Mutation]] status (at least on Scans_Daily) most famously perhaps using one to slap a mind-controlled Stature.
** Yet she was surprised when Arachnne did it to her.
* In ''[[Miracleman (Comic Book)|Miracleman]]'' when Miracleman fights Kid Miracleman and they end up amongst the refugees from London, he throws a car at him.
{{quote| '''Miracleman:''' I'd like to say the car was empty, but that would be a lie.}}
* During ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', [[The Incredible Hercules|Hercules]] used Oil Tanker Fu on [[Iron Man]].
** Later in his own series, he employs jeep-fu on three dark elves and a troll.
* ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'': In Volume 1, the title... heroine(?) tries lifting a car to lay a smackdown on a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|monster]], but ends up: a) accidentally ripping the bumper off first, b) spraining a muscle in her back, c) not fazing the monster any, and d) causing lots of colateral damage. And naturally, the owners of the car weren't too pleased to find out what happened. Probably one of the few instances where this was addressed.
* In [[Ultimate Spider -Man]], this is how Peter finally gets the upper hand against [[Big Bad|Norman Osborn]] - Mary Jane ''steals a Semi'' and rams it at full speed into the Goblin, incapacitating it for a few moments. When the Green Goblin comes to, Peter lifts the Rig over his head and beats him with it until it explodes, [[Killed Off for Real|ending the fight.]]
 
 
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Jumper (Literaturenovel)|Jumper]]'', Griffin invokes Car Fu with his teleportation abilities to drive at a constant high speed and be unimpeded by traffic (he just jumps the car around). He later invokes ''Double-Decker Bus Fu'' by jumping said double-decker bus from a busy urban street straight into his desert lair in an attempt to kill Roland.
* Another hand-held version: ''[[The One (Filmfilm)|The One]]'', with ''motorcycles''. [[Jet Li]]'s villain character picks up two motorcycles, one in each hand, and smashes them together with a poor cop between them.
* ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]]'': The Thing chucks a car at Dr. Doom.
{{quote| '''Car owner:''' The clutch sticks!<br />
'''Thing:''' It's not gonna be a problem. ''(toss)'' }}
* In the 2008 ''[[Iron Man]]'' [[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|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 (Filmfilm)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' film, the Hulk turns a police car into a pair of boxing gloves to pound the Abomination into submission.
** This is taken from the video game that actually came out well before the movie, as seen below.
* The end of ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Film)|The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'': [[World's Strongest Man|Albrecht]] drags an entire fleet of sunken derelicts out of the ocean by their anchors, swings them around in the air, and ''flattens an army'' with them.
* In ''[[X -Men: theThe Last Stand (Film)|X Men the Last Stand]]'', Magneto uses his magnetic powers to throw cars ([[Incendiary Exponent|set on fire by Pyro's powers]]) at the US Army.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Nosferatu from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|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).
 
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** 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 (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] characters' Final Smash summons a Landmaster Tank, which you can drive around the stage, running over your opponents and blasting them with the cannon. [[Pro Tip]]: The Landmaster can also [[A Twinkle in Thethe Sky|carry opponents off the top of the screen to knock them out]].
** 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!
** Too bad it's [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max|only available during a cut-scene]]...
* Various "telekinesis" style attacks in ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' are extremely effective if there's a car or SUV in the battle you can chuck at [[The Heartless|The Noise]].
** Joshua's primary form of attack (when he's not in [[God Mode]], anyway) is to conjure cars and other large metal objects to drop on opponents.
* Some of the stronger characters in ''[[Freedom Force]]'' can pick up cars to throw them at their enemies.
* The swinging cars around version is a major gameplay feature in ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'', to the point where turning vehicles into more practical weapons is one of the big selling points of the game. [[Power Fist|Car fists]], anyone?
* The ''[[Transformers]]: The Game'' game deals with a fair amount of car-throwing.
** Does it count as car throwing if [[Transforming Mecha|it's in robot mode when you throw it?]]
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** Tank + car + alleyway = "survivor bowling"
** Any other similar large objects like forklifts and dumpsters can also cause instant knockdown.
* In the gore extravaganza video game ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'', various vehicles can be used in imaginative ways. The ever-present cars of New York City can be used both as projectiles or literal battering rams if the player keeps the item held when moving through a crowd of civilians, enemies or even other cars, knocking everything out of the way. Significant upgrades to throwing damage are available and the game even provides hints on how to most effectively deal damage with thrown objects. It is very possible to finish the game with cars as your main weapon.
** Also, you can [[Die Hard (Film)|kill a helicopter with a car]]
* In ''[[Crackdown]]'', not only can you run gangsters down with your vehicle, but by bulking up your strength, you can progressively throw a car door, a car, and a semi at enemies. There's an achievement gained for killing gangsters with a giant bronze globe, a la Atlas.
* A [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Giant Monster]] wielding a car on a girder as a giant [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]] in ''[[City of Heroes]]''? [[Incredibly Lame Pun|You bet]] [http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Jurassik Jurassik]! Sadly, [[Player Character|Player Characters]] don't get to wield cars of their own. (That's one of the few things ''[[Champions Online (Video Game)|Champions Online]]'' has on 'em.)
* In ''[[Wild Arms 4 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': Sazh can command [[Summon Magic|Brynhildr]] to transform into an [[Incredibly Lame Pun|extra-hot]] [[Cool Car|ride]] to utilize this form of combat, especially if it involves [[Kill It Withwith Fire|exhaust pipe-delivered burnination]].
* A mainstay of the ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|Mario Kart]]'' games. Bumping your opponent off the road and into trouble is part and parcel of the game, especially with the different vehicle/driver weight classes in the later titles. Several of the power-ups play the trope even straighter: the Bullet Bill rockets the player further ahead, knocking aside anyone it hits, while the Mega Mushroom turns the player into a giant who [[Squashed Flat|squashes flat]] anyone he runs over.
* ''[[Super Tux Kart (Video Game)|Super Tux Kart]]''. Aside from bumping the opponents, the gift boxes include weapons such as bowling balls and cupcakes, which can be thrown to the opponents.
* In ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', one of the weapons that can be equipped is a minecart. Some skills involve riding a ghost train through the target.
* The main gameplay of ''Taito's Chase HQ''. Nothing stopping criminals with vehicles.
* [[She Hulk]]'s level 3 super move in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' involves grabbing a car out of nowhere and throwing it on top of her opponent. Naturally, [[Every Car Is a Pinto|it explodes]].
* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', the first boss fight (not counting the prequel fight with Venom) is against the Rhino, and ends in a car lot. Naturally, he throws cars at you.
{{quote| '''Rhino:''' Let's see how you deal with a car upside the head!}}
* Vehicular homicide is one of the safer ways to kill people in ''[[Saints Row]] 2''. The "[[Show Within a Show|FUZZ]]" minigame even keeps track of how many enemies you run over and starts penalizing your score if you do it too often. On the other hand, enemies or even civilians can also do serious damage with their own cars, so be careful going too far on food.
* The third [[Mini Boss]] of ''[[Contra|Contra: Hard Corps]]'' throws cars at your character. Thankfully, it's ''pathetically easy'' to avoid, as long as you stay on the left side of the screen.
* Once you get the first telekinesis upgrade in ''[[Destroy All Humans!]] 2'', you can pick up a car telekinetically and bounce it against someone's head. This won't kill them until [[Every Car Is a Pinto|the car turns out to be a Pinto]] and explodes, but when this does happen, it's usually fatal. (Although this can lead to some [[Fridge Logic]] where sitting a ton and a half of metal on someone isn't fatal until it blows up.) With the second upgrade, you can move to ''[[Tank Goodness|Tank]]'' Fu.
* ''[[Wangan Midnight]] Maximum Tune'' is infamous for this when players start playing dirty (i.e. ramming other players off, or punting traffic cars around), while it's the staple gameplay in the lesser known ''Wangan Midnight R''.
 
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* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'':
{{quote| '''Baron Diamond:''' [http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20041231.html Johnny says you win a car!]}}
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': Substitute a motorcycle for a car, and you get [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=15 this].
* ''[http://workhate.co.uk/?p=9 Captain Broadband]'' threw car at Imaginary Cat. It was unsuccessful. Innocent bystander standing in car's path at time loses 50HP. Innocent bystander is destroyed.
* ''[[Panthera]]'''s Leo and Pardus use their earth- and air-powers to throw a car at {{spoiler|Oosterhuis}}. It is glorious.
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== Web Original ==
* [[DoctorDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|"Captain Hammer... threw a car at my head."]]
 
 
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* Villains will frequently use cars as weapons in ''[[Justice League]]''. In one episode, Lobo took this to the extreme by ''burying'' Kalibak under a veritable mountain of cars. He's about to add another to the pile, when Hawkgirl admonishes him with "He's beaten. Put the car down!" Lobo mutters, "I was gonna..." and throws the car into a building. Also, one time Superman smacked around Captain Marvel with a bus... and when that wasn't enough, resorted to ''Bank Vault'' Fu.
** Heroes use them, too. The Big Seven came to fight Luthor/Braniac in a Javelin, one of the JL's shuttles for earth-to-Watchtower transport. When they're starting to lose, Wonder Woman wields it just as one would its namesake.
** Don't forget Batman's ''[[Justice League (Filmfilm)/Awesome|satellite]]'' fu at the end of the "Starcrossed" arc.
** Later in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'': it's a good thing Hawk and [[Wonder Woman]] are [[Made of Iron]]. In its debut episode, the Annihilator decides to smack them both with a ''tank''. Ow.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had a death-match between Homer and a biker that eventually ended with them each ''picking up a motorcycle and dueling with them like swords''.
{{quote| '''Biker:''' We both knew it would come to this!}}
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'': The not-yet-assimilated Starfire drop-kicks a car at Robin.
** It's evidently not as effective in Japan due to the absence of gas guzzlers.
* In the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' episode "[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/A_Plague_of_Insecticons A Plague of Insecticons]", Optimus Prime yells "Megatron, catch!" and throws an ''oil tanker'' at his foe.
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