The Precious, Precious Car: Difference between revisions

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'''Winter''': "Now it's scratched. Get closer!" |''[[X Wing Series|Battleground: Tatooine]]'' }}

 

== Film ==

* "[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California.]]"

'''Ferris Bueller''': It is his fault he didn't lock the garage. }}

* Flounder's brother's car in ''[[Animal House]]''.

* Agent Malloy's car from ''[[Con Air]]''.

** Possibly subverted. He actually shrugged off its destruction.

'''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.

* Main character's brother's 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge in ''[[Sex Drive]]''.

* Winston Wolfe's Acura in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'':

** 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:

'''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.

== 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.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]''. Underground racing circuit plus bazooka = win for the player.

* Sully, the leader of the Orphans in ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'', can often be found at Frank's Autobody tinkering with his car. When Cleon confronts him after Sully bragged about intruding on the Warriors' turf on the radio, Sully and his men hide behind a locked gate and then taunt Cleon further. Cleon retaliates by having his "youngbloods" (rookie gang members) smash Sully's car with their fists, their feet, and giant sledgehammers. The sequence ends with a [[Big No]] from Sully.

* Owned by a [[Jerk Jock]] in an episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]''. When he bullies a wimpier classmate, the wimp snags his dad's humongous construction 'bot and crushes it like a beer can.

* Knockout in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' is his ''own'' [[Precious Precious Car]], being the unusual [[Transforming Mecha|car-mode]] Decepticon. He's incredibly vain and takes cosmetic damage very seriously.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' gives us a full episode where Cyborg builds a high-tech sports car from the bottom up, only to have it jacked by a couple of hoodlums, given an unwanted flame paintjob, then snatched ''again'' by the even more careless Gizmo. Cyborg finds the little pipsqueak and protests in horror at the site of him munching down on fast food inside the car.

** Sadly, his ride gets torn apart as he tries to wrench it back from him, and then utterly ruined when it crashes into a police transport. Worse, the recently-captured Overload was sitting inside the truck, and promptly assimilates himself with the wreckage, morphing it into an evil version of the original, egging Cyborg on by boasting that he'll have to waste the car to beat him. Cyborg says it's not his car anymore, then blasts it into oblivion. Afterward, he builds an identical replacement. However, the car gets nothing but abuse in later seasons.