![]() ![]() L: Well, that's certainly one way to do it. He does this shortly after being admitted to the hospital because of a heart attack. In Death Note, Soichiro Yagami commandeers an armored police car and rams it into the main lobby of Sakura TV to gain access into the building without the Second Kira seeing his face.In the last episode of Daimos, Kazuya uses the truck form of the Super Robot to smash his way through a hallway protected by laser guns in an attempt to reach the control room at the end.Naturally, just before it happens, Akira drops a comment about how such kinds of things only ever happens in movies. 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. Akira and his brother Shu jets a car off a building top to collide with a helicopter. It stuns her long enough for Azami to drive Yamori out of her reach. Call of the Night: Azami rides a motorcycle into Kiku's face while she's trying to drown Yamori.The Boomer, from its position pinned between a brick wall and a giant truck, effortlessly breaks free and flips the truck. Bubblegum Crisis sets the tone of how tough the Boomers are when the driver of the AD Police's Armored Personnel Carrier attempts it in the opening chase scene.Black Lagoon: Roberta, the Meido/ 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.They also accidentally run down Szilard, who is pretty much the Big Bad of the show.And then back up and hit Dallas again. Done very humorously in the end of Baccano! when Isaac and Miria are driving like crazy and take the time to purposely run down Dallas Genoard and his gang, people who were threatening their friends.He survives, but loses an arm and an eye. Area 88: Rocky takes out a tank by ramming it with a Jeep in the manga.This listing is not complete without mentioning All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.The first OVA of Ai no Kusabi has Riki performing Bike Fu in his Big Damn Hero Entrance into a squad of police cars to save his old gang.Kuroyukihime manages to push Haruyuki out of the way and is hospitalized by the impact. Accel World: After Araya was expelled for getting caught punching Haruyuki on camera, he decides to get even by trying to run over Haruyuki and his girlfriend Kuroyukihime with a car.Compare Weaponized Car when your car can attack with attached weapons instead of just ramming.Ĭompare with Toyota Tripwire. For assaults with heavy machinery, see Construction Vehicle Rampage and its Sub-Trope Forklift Fu. If nobody's driving the car, it might be a case of Murder by Remote Control Vehicle. If the car is rigged to explode on impact, it's a Molotov Truck if it just happens to do so, it's Every Car Is a Pinto. If done with ships, airplanes, or spaceships, it's Ramming Always Works. May be part of a Vehicular Combat, and a particularly effective maneuver against zombies. ![]() While rarer than the conventional form, within superhero stories it's quite spite the fact that anybody who's actually strong enough to throw a car faster than it can drive is probably strong enough to not need the car at all. ![]() ![]() This version is most often used by superheroes and supervillains, who generally have the Super-Strength to pull this off. In a rarer form, Car Fu can also include a car being thrown as a weapon. More often than not, it's in an attempt to mow down the bad guys, but sometimes it's a bid to make them scatter in an attempt to avoid getting run over. How convenient.Ĭar Fu is when someone, generally the hero but not exclusively so, uses the car (or van, or bus, etc.) they're driving as a large, improvised, moving weapon. Being killed by a car is a very common cause of Death by Origin Story. note Unless there's a war going on in your country, cars kill more people there annually than any other non-disease source, but they're still way behind firearms if you count deaths in war. Especially if it's someone that Drives Like Crazy.Īutomobiles are, in fact, one of the most efficient killing machines on the surface of the planet. Which kind of makes sense, considering that getting hit by at least a metric tonne of metal moving at several tens of kilometers per hour is bound to be painful. Sometimes, the best weapon you could possibly use isn't the one you hold, it's the one you drive. ![]()
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