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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Team Rocket from ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''. We must capture ''that'' Pikachu!
** Similarly, Team Galactic in Diamond/Pearl. Although they do succeed in capturing some NPC's pokémon, for the most part the (presumably) stolen pokémon they use are pathetic, non-evolved species like Wurmple or Bidoof.
* Nadie and Ellis in ''[[El Cazador Dede Lala Bruja]]'' are constantly on the run, having to evade various traps laid by {{spoiler|Rosenberg and the Witch Coven}} and bounty hunters, sent by the same people.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** (And was itself an inspiration for ''[[Wacky Races]]''. What comes around...)
* In ''[[Caddyshack]]'', Bill Murray's Carl tries increasingly drastic plans to get a certain gopher...
* The full premise of ''[[Mousehunt (Filmfilm)|Mousehunt]]''.
* ''Of Unknown Origin'' plays this trope for ''horror''. Bart Hughes gradually undergoes a mental breakdown as he is repeatedly thwarted in his attempts to kill the rat that lives in his new house.
* ''[[The Villain]]'' is a Western example wherein the titular bank robber is trying to capture The Handsome Stranger (no really, that's his name) and Charmin'. Every scheme is right out of a Roadrunner cartoon, including painting a tunnel on the side of a rock and getting stuck in his own glue trap.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Bounty".
* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'': "Revenging Angel" - the protagonist's hallucination was a direct [[Homage]] to the Chuck Jones cartoon
 
== [[Machinima]] ==
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** ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', particularly [[Bugs Bunny]], [[Daffy Duck]] (the road runner before, and the coyote after he was changed into a near [[Butt Monkey]]), [[Tweety and Sylvester]], and the Road Runner and Coyote, who are the [[Trope Namer|Trope Namers]].
** Some [[Classic Disney Shorts|Disney]] shorts (particularly the ones involving [[Donald Duck]]) had this, but not quite to the degree of the Warner shorts.
** [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] (oddly enough, [[The Itchy and Scratchy Show|Itchy and Scratchy]] almost never actually did this, despite being a parody).
*** Also, some of [[Tex Avery]]'s MGM shorts ([[Screwy Squirrel]], George and Junior, Droopy vs. Spike).
** [[DepatieDePatie-Freleng Enterprises|DePatie-Freleng]]'s ''[[The Ant and Thethe Aardvark]]'' series.
** Columbia-Screen Gems' ''The Fox and the Crow'' shorts of the '40s often have a variation of this.
* A ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' episode in which Dexter got a bicycle turned into a direct homage to the Road Runner cartoons when Dexter tried to get even with a roller-blading Dee-Dee.
** Another episode, "Mom and Jerry", was a [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] pastiche in which Dexter got trapped in the body of a mouse and his mom mistook him for a regular mouse. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* The ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]'' episode where [[Great Gazoo|Mxyzptlk]] first appeared.
* ''[[Dastardly and Muttley Inin Their Flying Machines]]'': "Stop that pigeon!"
** As well as Dick Dastardly's plans to stop the other [[Wacky Races|Wacky Racers]], which often use the ''same visual gags'' as the Road Runner cartoons.
** This makes sense, as one of the writers for both shows was Michael Maltese, who had collaborated with [[Chuck Jones]] on the Road Runner shorts.
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