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If the one who owns the car is a main character, the trope is [[Watch the Paint Job]]. See also [[It's Going Down]]. Practically a subtrope of [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]
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== Anime/Manga ==
* Vice-Principal Uchiyamada in ''[[GTO]]'' has a very shiny Benz that he loves very much and it gets thrashed over and over again. {{spoiler|Multiple times people attempt suicide and just happen to land on the car, it also gets stolen (by students) and driven off into Tokyo Bay.}} In its final appearance he's gotten savvy and has lashed a mattress to the roof. {{spoiler|It gets destroyed in a different way.}}
== Comic Books ==
* In ''Battleground: Tatooine'', an arc in the [[X Wing Series]] comics, Winter and Tycho have to borrow Huff Darklighter's shiny, expensive speeder to chase after some people who shot up a party. While driving, Tycho takes it a bit slow, telling Winter that they promised to bring it back without a scratch. Winter then shoots the front of the airspeeder and says "Now it's scratched. Go!" A few pages later, the speeder is totally destroyed.
* Characters in ''[[Sin City]]'' love to take care of their cars. Wallace and Dwight's Cadillacs are the two biggest examples. Unfortunately, many of these cars do get wrecked, much to the chagrin of the characters.
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== Film ==
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{{quote|'''Cameron Frye''': Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love. It is his passion.
'''Ferris Bueller''': It is his fault he didn't lock the garage.
* Flounder's brother's car in ''[[Animal House]]''.
* Kirk's stepfather's car in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Star Trek (film)|movie]].
* Kerr's car from ''[[Terminal Velocity]]'' gets driven ''out of a plane''. And Kerr ''leaps out after it''. It does not go well for him.
* Agent Malloy's car from ''[[Con Air]]''.
** Possibly subverted. He actually shrugged off its destruction.
{{quote|'''Vince Larkin''': I know a good body shop in Fresno if it's insured.
'''Duncan Malloy''': I was bored with that car anyway.
'''Vince Larkin''': It worked out nicely, then.
* Starsky's Gran Torino in the ''[[Starsky and Hutch (film)|Starsky & Hutch]]'' movie. Very unusual in that Starsky is a protagonist, and (after being talked into attempting an ill-judged jump) he destroys the car himself.
* Walt Kowalski's titular car in the Clint Eastwood movie ''[[Gran Torino]]''. True to the trope, the car does get 'borrowed' without his consent.
** If by 'borrowed' you mean 'run away from in mortal terror after a would-be thief stares into the wrong end of a fully loaded high caliber rifle
* Variation in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'': Lando, about to borrow the ''Millennium Falcon'' to go with Wedge and Rogue Squadron after the second Death Star, tells Han he'll bring his ship back without a scratch on it. Han has a feeling that he'll never see his beloved ''Falcon'' again. Lando ''does'' bring her back, and her radar dish is missing.
** It should be noted that an earlier version of the script had the ''Falcon'' getting destroyed in the Death Star's explosion.
** Also, the shiny yellow speeder Anakin commandeered early on in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''? [https://web.archive.org/web/20130831142029/http://www.holonetnews.com/56/news/13516_5.html Was the extremely prized possession of the Republic's most corrupt senator.]
* Doug's father-in-law's Mercedes, ''[[The Hangover]]''.
* Main character's brother's 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge in ''[[Sex Drive]]''.
* Winston Wolfe's Acura in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'':
{{quote|'''Winston:''' I get my car back any different than I gave it, Monster Joe's gonna be disposin' of ''two'' bodies.}}
** Fortunately, he's giving it to Vincent, who's [[Watch the Paint Job|similarly attached to his Malibu]].
* Happens to the yuppie's Jaguar that Jack takes with a [[Flashed Badge Hijack]] in order to catch the bus in ''[[Speed]]''.
* We don't really learn about the car's preciousness until after the accident, but I say ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'' totally counts:
{{quote|'''Jefferson's Brother''': My brother's gonna kill us! He's gonna kill you and he's gonna kill me! ...My brother's gonna shit!
'''Spicoli''': Well, make up your mind, dude, is he gonna shit, or is he gonna kill us?
* Archie's dad's Pontiac Firebird that ends up wrapped around a tree in ''[[High School USA]]''. The kids then concoct a scheme to persuade Archie's dad that he wrecked the car himself.
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' features Teddy's red Ferrari, complete with personalized license plates reading "CUL8R".
* Sgt. Murtaugh, driving his wife's station wagon, chasing the South Africans in the opening sequence of ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]].'' At the police station, a cop bets money that Riggs & Murtaugh will catch their target first, but once he's told that they're in Murtaugh's wife's station wagon, he wants to back out of the bet. (Naturally, since Riggs is involved, the car becomes [[The Alleged Car]] in very short order).
* In ''[[Tower Heist]]'', Shaw's most precious possession is his valuable sports car in his penthouse once owned by Steve McQueen, which, in a fit of anger, Josh Kovacs smashes to hell, declaring "Steve McQueen is my little bitch." Also, it {{spoiler|happens to not only be made of solid gold as a hidden emergency treasure trove, but its glove compartment is where he hides his secret ledger of all his fraudulent accounts.}}
* At the beginning of ''[[Project X]]'', Thomas' dad tells him not to touch his Mercedes or let anybody else use it. Predictably, it winds up at the bottom of the pool.
* All of James Bond's cars are this to Q. It especially applies to ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'', in which it gets sawed in half by a helicopter-mounted buzzsaw.
* The titular SUV Sharon from the Venezuelan Movie ''Mi vida por Sharon'' is treated this way. The plot of the movie is all the lengths its owner goes to rescue it from express kidnapers, almost at the expense of his family and the romantic relationships with his ex-wife and actual girlfriend (the man was two-timing with each other, and still both felt more betrayed with his love for his SUV). Although he manages to reconcile with his family and got his car back,
== Literature ==
* Crowley's very attached to his Bentley in ''[[Good Omens]]''.
* In ''[[Shutter Island]]'', Teddy blows up Dr. Crawley's beloved car in order to create a diversion.
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== [[Live-Action
* Here's a handy guide: if Kelso makes even a passing reference to his car in an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'', bad things are going to happen to it.
* In ''[[Power Rangers RPM]],'' when Col. Truman refers to the Project Go-Onger van as his prized possession, you ''knew'' it was [[It's Going Down|going down]]. And it did: the [[Monster of the Week]] planted a bomb on it, causing it to go out of control and right off a cliff. The Rangers bailed out just in time to see it die.
* Lt. Gruber tanks in ''[['Allo 'Allo!
* The [[Villain of the Week]] in one ''[[Burn Notice]]'' episode is allowed to drive Jesse's Porsche Cayman under the belief that it was now his. {{spoiler|To keep Michael's client from blowing his head off, Fiona rassures Jesse that she will only shoot the windhield. The guy backs up in a hurry, rips off the back bumper, and drives off. Jesse says, annoyedly, "Just the windshield."}}
* In ''[[Chuck]]'', Casey is shown lovingly washing his Ford Crown Victoria. Chuck must later divert an incoming missile by reprogramming it to home in on said Crown Vic. Casey is inconsolable.
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* This happens in [[Only Fools and Horses]], and even ties into an earlier plot point too. Del borrows Boycie's Jaguar E-Type (for various reasons), and just when he decides to stop in the road at the end of the episode, the car gets crashed into by a dodgy car with no brakes Del had sold to an Australian guy earlier in the episode.
* Chi Soo from ''[[Flower Boy Ramyun Shop]]'' loves his black car and drove it to school. His father stopped him from doing this by taking the wheels; he had a [[Played for Laughs]] breakdown in the garage because of this.
== Professional Wrestling == ▼
== Music ==
* Invoked in [[Shania Twain]]'s song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqFLXayD6e8 "That Don't Impress Me Much"]:
{{quote|''You're one of those guys who likes to shine his machine.
''You make me take off my shoes before you let me get in.
''I can't believe you kiss your car good night.
''C'mon baby, tell me -- you must be jokin', right?}}
* [[Eddie Guerrero]] and his lowriders. One time when he and [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] were teaming Rey got slammed onto the hood of Eddie's car. Eddie came over to see what happened, cold-cocked Rey, and embraced the car as if it could feel pain.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Death Rally]]'' disables the sabotage option at the Underground Market if the player is going up against the Adversary. Of course, most players beat him by blowing up his car, rather than trying to out-race him, anyway.
{{quote|"What? You crazy, man? Nobody touches the Adversary's automobile and lives, nobody." }}
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* ''[[Altermeta]]'': Josephine has a [http://altermeta.net/oldarchive/archive.php?comic=71 late model Mustang] that she's still too young to drive.
== Western Animation ==
* Mr. Wolffe gets a car like this in an episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''.
* Kevin's car in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]''. The abuse it is subjected to throughout the series (and Kevin's subsequent freak-outs) is a [[Running Gag]].
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