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* In two separate ''ComicBook/SinCity'' stories, main characters rush after cars on foot. In ''Family Values'', Miho uses rollerblades to achieve this goal and in ''Just another Saturday Night'', Marv runs after the car but quickly leaps on soon after.
* The Golden Age ''Franchise/TheFlash'' discovered his powers by trying to catch the bus, starting to catch up...and one blink of an eye later, he was one county over.

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* In two separate ''ComicBook/SinCity'' stories, main characters rush after cars on foot. In ''Family Values'', Miho uses rollerblades to achieve this goal and in ''Just another Saturday Night'', Marv runs after the car but quickly leaps on soon after.
* The Golden Age ''Franchise/TheFlash''
''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Jay Garrick discovered his powers by trying to catch the bus, starting to catch up...and one blink of an eye later, he was one county over.


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* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': In two separate stories, main characters rush after cars on foot. In ''Family Values'', Miho uses rollerblades to achieve this goal and in ''Just another Saturday Night'', Marv runs after the car but quickly leaps on soon after.
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* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s "Taxi," Flack is taking a handcuffed suspect out of a squad car at the precinct when some perps dump a body out of their car and speed off. He takes off on foot after them for a couple of blocks, but barely even gets any of their license number before giving up, being too winded to continue.

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* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s "Taxi," "[[Recap/CSINYS04E20 Taxi]]," Flack is taking a handcuffed suspect out of a squad car at the precinct when some perps dump a body out of their car and speed off. He takes off on foot after them for a couple of blocks, but barely even gets any of their license number before giving up, being too winded to continue.



* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': The killer in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife" is woken up by the sound of a tow truck pulling away with his car that is being repossessed, in which there's a gun he used in an earlier crime. To stop the gun from being found, he grabs a hunting rifle, runs out of the house barefoot (having not had time to get dressed or put his shoes on), cuts through backyards to reach a point that the tow truck has to take a longer route to get to, and shoots the driver when the truck comes by.

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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': The killer in "Mr. "[[Recap/MonkS2E14MrMonkAndTheCaptainsWife Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife" Wife]]" is woken up by the sound of a tow truck pulling away with his car that is being repossessed, in which there's a gun he used in an earlier crime. To stop the gun from being found, he grabs a hunting rifle, runs out of the house barefoot (having not had time to get dressed or put his shoes on), cuts through backyards to reach a point that the tow truck has to take a longer route to get to, and shoots the driver when the truck comes by.
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The expected usual ingredients for a car chase are at least one chaser, at least one fugitive, and at least two cars. Not this time. For one reason or another, the chaser is on foot. In RealLife, this would likely lead to quite a short chase and a cheery wave in the rear view mirror from the fugitive (unless they got in a traffic jam). In the movies, however, count on terrible gridlock, the chaser either knowing the streets really well and thus able to take shortcuts (expect some LeParkour), being able to hitch (temporary) rides on other passing vehicles (may involve HoodHopping and OutsideRide), or even having a SuperSpeed. Pursuers with SuperStrength can be expected to [[PedestrianCrushesCar physically stop the vehicle]].

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The expected usual ingredients for a car chase are at least one chaser, at least one fugitive, and at least two cars. Not this time. For one reason or another, the chaser is on foot. In RealLife, this would likely lead to quite a short chase and a cheery wave in the rear view mirror from the fugitive (unless they got in a traffic jam). In the movies, however, count on terrible gridlock, the chaser either knowing the streets really well and thus able to take shortcuts (expect some LeParkour), being able to hitch (temporary) rides on other passing vehicles (may involve HoodHopping and OutsideRide), or even having a SuperSpeed. Pursuers with SuperStrength can be expected to [[PedestrianCrushesCar physically stop the vehicle]].
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* ''Film/MenInBlack''. When the Bug escapes from J and K in a cab, J runs after the cab on foot. K sensibly goes to get their car and picks up J.

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* ''Film/MenInBlack''. When the Bug escapes from J and K in a cab, J runs after the cab on foot. K sensibly goes to get their car and picks up J.J, reminding him that the alien isn't going to be leaving Earth in a cab.
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* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog and his friends frequently have to chase vehicles down. Examples include a red car speeding down Metal City carrying treasure in ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'', the Egg Hammer Mark II in ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance 2'' (essentially a convertible with a giant hammer in the back), a train with a bomb strapped to it in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', the Frigate Orcan and the Skullian blimp in ''VideoGame/SonicColors'', and a modified race car out of curiosity in ''Anime/SonicX''. The most famous example is an inversion though: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' (and ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''), a paramilitary force sends a gigantic truck after Sonic, who then has to run for his life until the truck crashes into something and incapacitates itself.

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* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog and his friends frequently have to chase vehicles down. Examples include a red car speeding down Metal City carrying treasure in ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'', the Egg Hammer Mark II in ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance 2'' (essentially a convertible with a giant hammer in the back), a train with a bomb strapped to it in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', the Frigate Orcan and the Skullian blimp in ''VideoGame/SonicColors'', and a modified race car out of curiosity in ''Anime/SonicX''. The most famous example is an inversion though: In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' (and ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''), a paramilitary force sends a gigantic truck after Sonic, who then has to run for his life until the truck crashes into something and incapacitates itself.
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* The climactic battle on the first ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movie has Riggs chasing after Mr. Joshua on foot while the latter is running away on a car (and managing to intercept him, but Joshua still manages to run away [[BattleInTheRain for a very short time]]). The second movie starts with a car chase that Riggs spends a short part of running on foot.
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* The climactic battle on the first ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movie ''Film/LethalWeapon1987'' has Riggs chasing after Mr. Joshua on foot while the latter is running away on a car (and managing to intercept him, but Joshua still manages to run away [[BattleInTheRain for a very short time]]). The second movie starts with a car chase that Riggs spends a short part of running on foot.
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