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See also [[Instant Convertible]] for when a car tries to do the same.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Movie example and subversion: in the film ''[[Two Fast Two Furious]]'', the hero manages to zip into a narrow gap between two trailer trucks. One of the bad guys then tries to do the same, but ends up losing control, then gets stuck under the truck, and is finally splatted by the rear wheels.
** Contrast with the opening scene in the original, where one of the cars slips underneath a hijacked semi-truck. And manages to stay clear of the wheels.
* The motorcycle goes under a few library desks in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. Not a chase scene, since the Joker is coming at Batman head on in a truck, while Batman races towards him on the Batpod. However Batman fires two tow cables that hit the truck and then proceeds to weave in and out between the wheels of the trailer to tie it up. Because the Batpod is built low to the ground and the truck is quite high off the ground, he doesn't need to slide, just drive normally.
* In ''[[Gleaming The Cube]]'', the [[Big Bad]] has kidnapped Brian's love interest just after killing her father for plot-related reasons. Instead of chasing the villain's car with another car, Brian sticks to the the movie's theme by holding onto another car while riding his skateboard. During the chase, they end up on a six-lane highway, and Brian in the left lane lets go of the car he was holding to zip under the trailer of an 18-wheeler, grabbing onto a pickup truck driven and ridden in by his skater friends in the right lane.
* In ''[[Spider-Man (
* Another quasi-example, this time from ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]''. Captain Lennox grabs an abandoned motorcycle, drives it straight at the Decepticon walking away, and puts it in a slide right through his legs, ''while firing his [[Grenade Launcher]] straight into said Decepticon's codpiece''.
* Johnny does it in a motorised wheelchair in ''[[Johnny English]] Reborn''
* The 1995 Indian (Telugu) film ''Alluda Majaka'' (1995) features the hero pulling this trick off [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cRs_nnhBe4 with a horse]! The effect is not very convincing, to say the least.
* [[Mike Jittlov]] does this with a ''motorized suitcase'' in the feature-length version of ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]''.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Quasi-example, Computer game: in a cutscene to ''[[Command
* In the video game ''[[Stuntman]]: Ignition'' where you play as a stuntman you have to do this particular stunt frequently.
* You will do this in chapter 8 of ''[[Bayonetta]]'' to avoid oil-tanker trucks.
* Done in the motorcycle chase sequence in ''[[James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing]].''
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Web Comic]] example: ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[DC Showcase: Catwoman]]'', [[Catwoman]] slides her stolen motorcycle under a truck while chasing Rough Cut. For bonus style points, the truck is tipping over at the time.
* Much to his own amazement, Wile E. Coyote pulls this trick off in the short "Vicious Cycles" on ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''. Of course, he is flattened immediately afterwards by a truck going in the opposite direction.
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