History Main / CarCushion

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. After defeating Bullseye, Daredevil throws him through the church's stained-glass window onto the hood of reporter Ben Urich. On seeing where he landed Daredevil quips, [[BondOneLiner "Bullseye!"]]

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. After defeating Bullseye, Daredevil throws him through the church's stained glass window onto the hood of reporter Ben Urich, though TheStinger shows [[TheEndOrISIt Bullseye survived]].

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* The ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' movie finale.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': The first Count Vertigo takes three arrows to the chest, falls out a window, and lands several storeys below on a parked car. We're pretty sure he's dead.
* ''Series/TheCape'' has The Cape surviving a jump from several stories up by using his cape to slow down his fall, and then landing on a car.
** He conveniently lands on [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Orwell]]'s car, which is barely dented, and both drive away in it.

** In "Dancing with the Fishes," a couple are driving underneath a tramway when a the body of a young lady falls onto their windshield.
** In "Past Imperfect," Clay Dobson falls (or did he jump...hmmm?) from a rooftop and lands on a squad car.

** In "Nine Thirteen," the victim lands on a parked cab after falling off the 10th floor balcony of the episode's eponymous building.

* The Hong Kong action movie ''Film/ShaPoLang'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in some places as]] ''Kill Zone'' has the heroic Inspector Ma thrown out of a window and onto a car to his death by BigBad and AntiVillain Wong Po. This turns [[PyrrhicVillainy especially tragic]] when it's revealed that the car that Ma landed on was the same one that the BigBad's wife and little girl were waiting in. Ouch.

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* ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'': In "Trove," the VictimOfTheWeek is coshed and tossed off a building to come to rest on top of a car in [[NeverSuicide an attempt to make it look like a suicide]]. Naturally, several aspects of the 'suicide' don't add up to Morse.
* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': At the opening of "Audere Est Facere" ("To Dare Is to Do"), a car owner is wiping bird droppings off the windscreen when a BASE jumper crashes fatally onto the roof. A second later, the jumper's partner hits the ground next to the car.
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': "Miami, We Have a Problem" opens with a carjacking that is foiled when a dead body falls out of the sky and impacts on top of the car.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A few.
** In "Dancing with the Fishes," a couple are driving underneath a tramway when a the body of a young lady falls onto their windshield.
** In "Past Imperfect," Clay Dobson falls (or did he jump...hmmm?) from a rooftop and lands on a squad car.
** Downplayed in "Happily Never After" when a dead woman slides off the top of a schoolbus that came to a sudden stop in traffic. Turns out her killer had thrown her out a window onto it the night before, and the guy who had "borrowed" the bus to attend a party didn't realize she was there when he returned it to the lot.
** In "Nine Thirteen," the victim lands on a parked cab after falling off the 10th floor balcony of the episode's eponymous building.
* ''Series/Titans2018''. Dick Grayson goes to investigate the residence of the man who was seen on CCTV stealing Jason Todd's body from the morgue. The moment Dick pulls up in his car, the [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness man in question gets thrown from the rooftop]] onto Dick's windscreen just ForTheEvulz.

* The above-mentioned Most Beautiful Suicide image was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilt_%28album%29 recreated]] for the cover of Machines of Loving Grace's third album, ''Gilt''.

* In some games with vehicles, you can fall fatal distances, but survive fine if your fall takes you near a vehicle and you hit the Mount Vehicle key before you splat.
** The ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' games are well-known for this kind of stunt being done online, where people will fall, unharmed, into the cockpits of aircraft, which they then proceed to fly.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', the first appearance of the Hunters in the main storyline starts with Alex being thrown from a very tall building. He hits the ground. The Hunters following him, however, crush to hapless [=APCs=] parked nearby.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', Madd Dogg is threatening to jump off of a roof because his career is over. To help him, CJ has to get a pickup truck full of cardboard boxes and park it under him so he'll land in the boxes when he jumps. This is subject to a notorious GameBreakingBug - Mad Dogg will frequently jump within seconds of the mission starting, making it {{Unwinnable}}.
** In an earlier mission, CJ has to stow aboard a plane filled with TheMenInBlack, kill each one of them mid-flight, then parachute safely out of the plane. Jumping out of the plane without a 'chute will result in a cutscene of CJ smashing on top of the roof of a car [[ItsAWonderfulFailure and dying]].
* In Preacher's ending in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal Black'', he jumps off a roof because he can't live with the knowledge that he's schizophrenic, not possessed. The screen cuts to black after he jumps - followed by a thud and multiple car alarms.

* The city streets stage of ''VideoGame/XMenNextDimension'' has 3 ways to get knocked off a skyscraper. Directly off; down to another level and then off; or [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill getting blown across to an electric billboard across the street, getting electrocuted, falling off it and onto a taxi on the street, then rolling off it limp.]]
* In the [=PS3=] content for the video game ''VideoGame/TheGodfather,'' throwing mob boss Patrick O'Donnell off a roof causes this to happen. Complete with WilhelmScream.

* After being captured by her ArchEnemy and [[UnwillingSuspension suspended off a bridge]], Petra from ''VideoGame/EmeraldCityConfidential'' slips her binds and conveniently falls straight into a Gump Taxi that passes by.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', during the first battle with a fire summon, it gets [[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-27 knocked]] on to a car.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In "The Mask of Matches Malone!", Catwoman throws 'Matches' Malone (a.k.a. Batman) of the roof of a building and he smashes through the roof a car.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Katya Kazanova is killed by falling out of Archer's balcony and landing on Dr. Krieger's van parked below. Her death brings Archer to tears while Krieger cries over his van getting wrecked.

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* At the "Lights, Motors, Action!" stunt show at Disney's Hollywood Studios (and the original French show "Moteurs...Action!", a stuntman in the third sequence is shot by the hero and falls about four or five stories onto an air bag. In the fake "finished film" sequence shown at the end, the stuntman is shown falling onto a car, the roof of which essentially disintegrates like it was made of sugar glass.
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* In ''Film/EndOfDays'', Jericho throws Satan out of a window and he lands on a parked car. Of course, seeing as how he's Satan, he copes with it.
* An unusual example occurs in ''Film/MenInBlack'' when J fires the Noisy Cricket and ends up flying butt-first into a car windshield.
* In the 1981 film ''Film/{{Looker}}'', one of the commercial actresses falls to her death on top of a parked car from her apartment balcony.
* In the ''Film/{{Apocalypse}}'' film series movie ''Tribulation'', the PsychicAssistedSuicide victim lands on top of a parked car.
* DoubleSubverted in the third ''[[Film/LeftBehind2000 Left Behind]]'' movie ''World At War''. The Antichrist throws the President out of a skyscraper, and he crashes onto a car below. Nicolae looks down and sees the President's seemingly lifeless body... only for the poor guy to get up and start hobbling away. Nicolae muses "Such a thing is not humanely possible...", then glances upward at [[{{God}} the most likely culprit]].
%% * ''Film/{{Timecop}}''.
* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'': When Zero and Agatha fall of the balcony of the hotel, they crash through the canvas roof of Mendel's delivery van, landing in a pile of pastry boxes.
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'': Both the male and female lead land side-by-side on top of the same car after falling into a crater at the Louvre.
* In the Creator/ChuckNorris thriller ''Film/{{Hellbound}}'', the demonic villain kills a prostitute who became an unwitting witness to another murder by throwing her out a window, whereupon she lands on the hood of Norris's parked car.
* In ''Film/FuriousSeven'', Hobbs and Elena are blown out of a window by an ''explosion'' and land together on a car roof. Hobbs deliberately takes the brunt of it and is later seen in hospital, but still gets off pretty lightly. Good thing he happens to be [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson the Rock]].
* The first freerunner to die in ''Film/{{Freerunner}}'' is knocked off a building and lands on the roof of a car.
* Deconstructed in ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' when Gary tries this to escape from a rooftop and is injured, though not seriously.
* In ''Film/TheHitmansBodyguard'', this is how Kincaid kills [[PresidentEvil Dukhovich]] during the climax, kicking him off the roof where he'd just tried to escape by helicopter and sending him falling to crash into a parked car on the street below.
* ''Film/TheDarkTower2017'': At one point during Roland's [[StormingTheCastle assault on Walter's base]], a {{Mook|s}} tackles him out a window, leading them both to crash into a passing bus.
* In ''Film/{{Detention}}'', the killer throws the body of Taylor Fisher out of her bedroom window, where it crashes through the windscreen of her mother's car (with her mother still inside the car).
* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', the gang throws Craddock out of his office window and he lands of top his brand new Lazarus luxury sedan. Somehow, this [[HauntedTechnology allows his soul to enter the car and control it]].
* In ''Film/TruthOrDare2018'', Penelope falls off the roof of the house and lands on top of Olivia's car. Markie and Brad are able to throw a mattress under her before she hits. She survives. [[spoiler:For now.]]
* Justified in ''Film/TheOldGuard'' when Nile Freeman tackles the BigBad out the window of his penthouse and onto a car several dozen stories below. The fall kills her and [[BodyHorror severely mangles her body]], but she has HealingFactor unlike the man she was holding on to...
* ''Film/TheLoft'' opens with a body falling off a balcony and landing on a car parked in the street below.
* In ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', Diana drops the thieves she captured in the mall on top of a police cruiser with enough force to stave the roof in.
* This is how [[BigBad Buddy]] meets his end in ''Film/BabyDriver''. Buddy is shot in the knee by Baby, causing him to fall several stories onto a burning police car. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill And then it explodes for good measure.]]
* In ''Film/TheLovedOnes'', Lola and her father force Brent out of a tree by throwing rocks at him. He loses his grip on the branch, falls out of the tree, and lands painfully on the bonnet of the Kingswood ute, before bouncing off.
* In ''Film/CityHeat'', Swift is killed during a struggle with Pitt. A thug opens the suitcase, but it is empty. He picks up Swift's body and throws it out the window, where it lands on the roof of Speer's parked car (occupied by the horrified Addy, who waits while Speer goes to investigate in the apartment).
* ''Film/BetYourLife'': Falling off the gantry on the lift bridge, Sonny and Joseph land on the bonnet of the truck they blew up earlier.
* ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'': After being shot by Ulrika, Clay falls backwards off the roof of the Citadel and lands on top of a truck.
* ''Film/{{Takers}}'': After [[spoiler:killing Hatch]], Jesse escapes by running along a ledge on the outside of the Monroe Building. He leaps from the ledge onto the rooftop car park of the lower building next door: landing on a car to break his fall.

* In the third ''[[Literature/ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon]]'' book, ''The Never War'', a gangster is scared by Saint Dane into leaping out a hotel window and lands on a car far below.

* In the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' episode "Free Fall", a disturbed woman strips off all her clothes except her lingerie in an elevator after being complimented on a dress, and walks off the roof - and lands right on a car. Being that she's [[WhoWantsToLiveForever one of the immortals]], she survives.
* On ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', a man whose mental state can infect people around him leads several people up onto the roof of a building, where they are all standing poised to jump. Olivia goes up to try to talk him down. At one point she makes a threatening move towards him and one of the followers jumps. The woman's body comes crashing down on a car near where Walter and Peter are waiting, presumably dying.
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* In an episode of ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', there's a possibly suicidal man who disappears from the ER. George and Alex are out in the parking lot looking for him (and fighting about Izzie) when he breaks through a high floor window with a fire extinguisher and jumps, crashing right on top of a parked car. Surprisingly he survives, giving George an opportunity to impress Hunt by taking command of the situation.
* In the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Passages," [=MacGyver=] falls two or three stories onto the roof of a car, putting him into a coma. He fell out of a car park, meaning that there wasn't a lot of sidewalk for him to hit. Since he's the hero, he gets better.
* Used at least twice on ''Series/NashBridges'':
** The first time was a suicide, but the impact occurs off camera. Later, you see the car the jumper landed on. It's Nash's [[CoolCar '71 Hemi'Cuda]].
** The second time was a murder with the victim landing on one of the SIU's surveillance vans. The impact was shown from inside.
* In the ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' episode "The Trevi Collection," a would-be thief is tossed out of a window to land (fatally) on a car.
* ''Series/TheCape'' has The Cape surviving a jump from several stories up by using his cape to slow down his fall, and then landing on a car.
** He conveniently lands on [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Orwell]]'s car, which is barely dented, and both drive away in it.
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Hung Out to Dry" had the victim crash through the roof of a parked SUV after both his parachutes failed during a training drop. He interrupted a date rape though, so it wasn't all bad.

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS04E13Salvage Salvage]]", Faith breaks out of jail by grabbing Wesley and jumping out a window, landing on a conveniently parked car a few floors beneath. The car cushions her fall, and ''she'' cushions his fall. Lack of injury is justified in that Faith, who has superpowers, is shown to take most of the hit and Wesley is still in noticeable pain afterwards.
* In the ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' episode "Allegiance" Reese tackles a mook clean through a window, whereupon they fall four stories and land on a parked car, with Reese on top. Shaw and Fusco just stand at the window, completely speechless. Then Reese, who is clearly MadeOfIron, gets up off poor schmuck he landed on.
--> '''Fusco:''' I hope that guy had health insurance.

* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Ghost in the Machine," a fleeing suspect leaps off a balcony, crashes through a carport roof and smashes into the roof of a car.
* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Shadows in the Sky," the VictimOfTheWeek is pushed off the top of a multi-story carpark and lands on a car parked on the ground; the only car in an otherwise deserted row.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "The Happy Place," the VictimOfTheWeek swan-dives off her balcony onto the roof of a bus; landing with enough force to shatter its windows.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': As punishment for killing Pop, Cottonmouth throws Tone off the roof of Harlem's Paradise. Tone falls, landing on a car parked on the street below, and is killed instantly.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Elektra uses a car to cushion her fall when she makes her getaway after killing Stick, overpowering Matt, Luke and Jessica, and kidnapping Danny.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Boots on the Ground," the VictimOfTheWeek is thrown off the roof of a building and lands on a cab that has stopped underneath.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "A Problem Like Maria" is thrown through a 7th story window, coming to rest on/in a car that is parked in the street below.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' falls maybe three or four stories onto a parked car, and walks away, leaving the car totaled. In this case it's more RuleOfFunny that saves him though. In particular, the wrecked car is always ''[[ChronicallyCrashedCar the same car]]'', belonging to the same person, who hates him. That car is the guy's prized possession, which gets repaired...only to be wrecked again.
* In ''Bremen'', Romio does this purposely. While being slowly crushed by a giant anaconda, he staggers to the window and throws himself out, landing on a car below. The snake cushioned the fall as much as the car did, and died on impact, while Romio suffered some bruises and a minor concussion.

* ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry'': When the spy protagonist leaps out a (second floor) window to escape a room full of confused hostiles.

* ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'': It happens in issue #4 to Firebug. It's only a second story fall, though, so he survives with a few broken bones.

* In ''ComicBook/BlackWidow'' #2, the Widow dives off a skyscraper in Shanghai to avoid an assassin. After attempting to slow her fall, it eventually ends with her landing atop a car.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': Creator/ConanOBrien jumps off a building and lands on a car after regretting giving Terrance & Phillip away to Sheila's mob. All the car's owner does is turn off the alarm.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/{{Darklight}}'', Lilith is thrown away and falls on a parked car, which promptly explodes.
* ''Film/FinalDestination5'': {{Averted}} big time : while Olivia fell on a car, it didn't save her in any way or form, and she was instantly killed.

* Frank Nitti after being thrown off the roof by Eliot Ness in ''Film/TheUntouchables1987''.
-->'''Stone''': Where's Nitti?\\
'''Ness''': [[BondOneliner He's in the car.]]

* Used quite successfully in the movie ''Inside Moves'', a bunch of friends with various handicaps (one is blind, another has a leg problem, another's an old pensioner, another is a guy who has serious back problems, etc.) sit around in a bar and talk with each other. You find out the guy with back problems is that way because he decided to kill himself because life had lost meaning, went up to the top of a building, threw himself off, but landed on a car, which ''caused'' his injuries. He was perfectly normal ''before'' the accident!

* The ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' movie finale.
* The ''Film/{{Crank}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnM64N-JH7M finale does this, too,]] where the character falls from a ''ridiculous'' height and bounces a dozen meters back up from the car on which he initially lands.
* In ''Film/TheFifthElement'', Leeloo jumps from a building and falls into Korben Dallas' taxi. There are huge amounts of cars flying on several levels, so she was pretty much bound to hit one eventually, before she could get hurt.
* Subversion in the beginning of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': The car is their means of escape.
* The Lorry hit in ''Film/TheSaint1997'' was the escape for Val Kilmer.
* In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', this happens to some poor goon. He survives it. Then the occupants of the car kill him.

* ''Film/LethalWeapon'' opens with a young woman on a high-rise balcony throwing flowerpots (and then herself) at the parked cars below.

* In the 80's sex comedy ''Film/BachelorParty'' the evil blond preppie falls, like, 20 stories and winds up butt-first in the sunroof of a car. Neither he, the passengers nor the car suffer any kind of damage, but the passengers end up [[LiteralAssKissing kissing the guy's butt]] when they lean in to kiss each other.
* In the beginning of ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', the title character is thrown out a window by an explosion and lands on a car. Nothing he couldn't handle, though due to the sudden exposure to all the pedestrians, it does [[BrokenMasquerade break the masquerade.]] Which was, of course, his goal.
* In ''Film/XMen1'', Sabretooth has a variation of this. Granted, it's a boat, not a car, but still, closest they could've done at Liberty Island. Sabertooth's healing factor lets him walk away uninjured.
* In ''Film/{{Collateral}}'', this is how Jamie Foxx's character is introduced to the fact that Tom Cruise's character is a hitman. One of the targets has the bad grace to fall out of the window and onto the hood of his taxi.
* In ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', Kevin tricks Harry and Marv into getting onto a makeshift see-saw, launching Harry into the air and onto a car.

* In ''Film/ConAir'', Pinball gets caught in the landing gear during takeoff and they have to shove him out to get it to close. He lands on [[Series/StargateSG1 General Hammond's]] car. And he just got it washed.
* ''Film/KickAss'', the movie version, opens with the same scene as in the comic book.
* A young college girl in the Korean movie ''Nightmare'' commits suicide via diving off a building (and onto a car), though in truth she did not commit suicide--her fall was a coverup for her accidental death. Cue typical ghost revenge movie.
* In ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' (which actually isn't as bad as one would expect), the protagonist's friend commits suicide by jumping off of the school roof. She lands on an unfortunate student's car.

* Averted in ''Film/TheDeparted''. When Queenan is thrown from the roof by a group of thugs, he lands right on the pavement in front of Billy Costigan.
* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
** Justified in ''Film/DieHard''. While it's true that one of the {{Mooks}} is thrown from the top of a building and lands right in the windshield of a cop car, he was already dead, and [=McClane=] aimed him at Powell's car to get his attention.
** By the time of ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', however, nobody can fall from ''any height ever'' without damaging a poor sod's car (on several instances the one driven by [=McClane=]'s).
* The 19th century version appears in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', when the American ambassador leaps out of a window while on fire, landing in the horse-drawn carriage below.
* ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'': Jason pulls Tina through a second-story window and throws her into a car on the ground.
* ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''. Jimmy being thrown off a viaduct. You do the math.
* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' features this trope ''multiple'' times.
** The movie starts with [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Neo dreaming of]] Trinity leaping out of a skyscraper while fighting an agent, then landing on a parked car.
** The car chase has two:
*** After pulling off the freeway and driving onto an overpass, Trinity and the Keymaker try to escape by leaping off the overpass and landing on a big rig hauling motorcycles. Justified because Trinity deliberately tried to jump onto the truck.
*** Once the Agents see where the Keymaker is, an agent leaps from a freeway overpass onto Morpheus's trailer. Justified because the Agent's jump was also deliberately performed.
** Finally, at the end of the film, Neo saves Trinity when she leaps out of the skyscraper by catching her before she hits the car - the agent chasing her falls onto the car instead.

* ''Film/{{Eraser}}''. Arnie lands in a car wrecking yard after barely getting his parachute open.
-->'''Black kid:''' Oh man, did that hurt? It ''had'' to hurt; I saw it!
-->'''Ahnold:''' Where is this?
-->'''Kid's sister:''' Earth. Welcome!
* In ''Film/TheGreatRace'', Professor Fate jumps out of a tall building, his henchman Max waiting below in a car with a trampoline mounted on top - which Fate bounces off of just as Max takes off.

* In the Thai horror movie ''The Victim'', actress May is attacked by the angry spirit of the murder victim that she's playing. It pulls her off of her balcony and she plummets to her death atop a car. It was only a dream, though.

* Taken UpToEleven in ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', when both, the male and female lead, land side-by-side on top of the same car after falling into a crater at the Louvre.

* ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry'' when the spy protaganist leaps out a (second floor) window to escape a room full of confused hostiles. The same scene screws with another trope as the glass is somewhat bulletproof.

* An issue of ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'' has Franchise/SpiderMan throwing ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} out a window for bad-mouthing his wife. Being Wolverine, he survives. He's next seen with a steering wheel around his neck, grumbling about how some people have no sense of humor.

* Happens in Issue 4 of ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' to Firebug. It's only a second story fall, though, so he survives with a few broken bones.
* In ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'', Franchise/{{Superman}} sends [[WellIntentionedExtremist H'el]] flying [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom with a punch]] when he threatens to snap ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s neck. He ends up landing right on a car that a father just bought for his daughter. Since H'el's a [[NighInvulnerable Kryptonian]], he survives.

* ''ComicBook/SimonDark'': The first victim of the cult's zombie-like possession plot tackles her husband out the window of their apartment and they both die upon their collision with a car parked on the street below.

--> "I tried to kill myself and I landed on a fuckin' Pontiac!"
--> ''(kidding)'' "You stupid asshole, first you get injured, ''then'' you kill yourself!"

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', this happens when Tony crash-lands the Mark II after its test flight. Unfortunately, it's one of his vintage sports cars. The DVD with a program on the making of the movie reveals that this really was a very expensive car destroyed for the shot; the director bemoaned its loss before cuing its destruction. Said car likely was a 1965 Shelby Cobra, of which extremely few remain, making this a definitely tearjerker for car buffs.

'''Ness''': He's in the car.

* Scarecrow bashes Batgirl over the head with a pipe in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' causing her to plummet over the edge of a skyscraper and crash through the windshield of the police car her father is riding in. Her father launches into a vendetta against Batman for endangering her. Except at the end of the episode, it turns out to be a [[AllJustADream nightmare]] induced by the Scarecrow's fear gas.

* In ''Film/{{Thirst}}'', the vampiric priest attempts suicide by jumping out of the hospital window after discovering his new condition. With only three cars parked against the hospital, of course he lands on one of them.

* Frank Nitti after being thrown off the roof by Eliot Ness in ''Film/TheUntouchables''.

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', this happens when Tony crash-lands the Mark II after its test flight. Unfortunately, it's one of his vintage sports cars. The DVD with a program on the making of the movie reveals that this really was a very expensive car destroyed for the shot; the director bemoaned its loss before cuing its destruction. Said car likely was a 1965 Shelby Cobra, of which extremely few remain, making this a definitely TearJerker for car buffs.

* In the Film/{{Apocalypse}} film series movie ''Tribulation'', the PsychicAssistedSuicide victim lands on top of a parked car.

* In the ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' episode "The Trevi Collection", a would-be thief is tossed out of a window to land (fatally) on a car.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', in the episode "Consumed" several [[NotUsingTheZWord walkers]] fall from an overpass onto a van that had just fallen off said overpass. The accompanying ''Talking Dead'' episode referred to the first one, in its "In Memoriam" section, as "wait for it walker", as there was several seconds delay between the van's landing and that of the walker.
* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Ghost in the Machine", a fleeing suspect leaps off a balcony, crashes through a carport roof and smashes into the roof of a car.
* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Shadows in the Sky", the VictimOfTheWeek is pushed off the top of a multi-storey carpark and lands on a car parked on the ground; the only car in an otherwise deserted row.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "The Happy Place", the VictimOfTheWeek swan dives of her balcony on to the roof of bus: landing with enough force to shatter the bus windows.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Boots on the Ground", the VictimOfTheWeek is thrown off the roof of a building and lands on a cab that has stopped underneath.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "A Problem Like Maria" is thrown through a 7th storey window, coming to rest on/in a car that is parked in the street below.
* ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'': In "Trove", the VictimOfTheWeek is coshed and tossed of a building to come to rest on top of a car in [[NeverSuicide an attempt to make it look like a suicide]]. Naturally, several aspects of the 'suicide' don't add up to Morse.
* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': At the opening of "Audere Est Facere" ("To Dare Is to Do"), a car owner is wiping bird droppings off the windscreen when a BASE jumper crashes fatally on to the roof. A second later, the jumper's partner hits the ground next to the car.

** Downplayed in "Happily Never After" when a dead woman slides off the top of a bus that came to a sudden stop in traffic. Turns out she had been thrown onto it out of a window by a guy who "borrowed" the bus during the night and then used it to hide her body.

* Referenced for dark humour in Barclay James Harvest's "Suicide?" The narrator steps out onto a ledge and hears someone cry out from the street below: "For God's sake let me move my car!"