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It should be noted that if a Ferris wheel ''did'' break off and roll away, it wouldn't get very far. The wheel itself isn't very structurally sound, and would collapse under its own weight.

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* In ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]'', the three-way battle for the key to the titular chest on Isla Cruces eventually ends up on top of a water wheel, which, while not a ferris wheel, still matches this trope when it breaks off its supports and proceeds to start rolling around the island. '''With the characters still fighting on top of it.'''

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* A Ferris Wheel crashes out its supports in ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', except it then is used as a ''[[RuleofCool spaceship]]''

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* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' had a fight on a Ferris wheel... one also popped up in the recent Satoshi Kon movie ''{{Paprika}}''.

* A Ferris Wheel crashes out its supports in ''WesternAnimation/theAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', except it then is used as a ''[[RuleofCool spaceship]]''

* In 100%Strawberry the main character and his on again off again girlfriend are stuck in the Ferris wheel when it stops. Then their door opens up and they almost fall out. Go go Romance Comedy!

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* While not really an action flick, ''Carpool'' uses this trope as well. In the climax of the film, one of the main characters' kids must be saved from a runaway Ferris wheel. Of course [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] and the kid's car breaks off and it turns into a whole big mess...

* There's a dark version in ''{{Carnivale}}''. A boy is killed in a Ferris wheel accident, and his injured mother prays for death to take her instead of her son. Ben resurrects him, and the mother dies as an EquivalentExchange.

* ''{{Bottom}}'': "Hole", in which Richie and Eddie find themselves stuck at the top of a rickety, illegal, death trap Ferris wheel just after the owners have closed it down pending its demolition? How will they ever escape? Well, they pray for salvation and God answers. Unfortunately, they then realise that they don't believe in God, so they fall anyway. They get better in time for the next episode.

* In ''ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage'', Layton and Luke are being chased by a ''remote-controlled'' version of this.
* ''KatamariDamacy'' has a Ferris wheel in the last level (the moon). It doesn't roll away, but you can roll it up.

* In one chapter of the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' manga, a mad bomber rigs Ferris Wheel cars to explode... while Anzu is riding it. Yugi is forced to play a variant of solitaire in which if he stacks all four cards of a given number, the corresponding car explodes. He solves it by putting all the Kings together before Anzu's stack is complete and telling the police that the bomber is in Car 13, disguised as a hostage, because it didn't explode.

* In the film ''[[NineteenFortyOne 1941]]'', a Ferris wheel in a California seaside amusement park is shot loose by a Japanese sub and rolls into the ocean.

* In the Russian film [[{{Nightwatch}} Day Watch]], tremors caused by TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cause a Ferris Wheel to break free and roll down the street. Since the heroes are too busy trying to stop the world from ending, plenty of people get crushed. [[spoiler: Except they don't, thanks to the hero RewritingReality]]
* While not really an action flick, the movie ''Carpool'' uses this trope as well. In the climax of the film, one of the main characters' kids must be saved from a runaway Ferris wheel. Of course [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] and the kid's car breaks off and it turns into a whole big mess...

* ''{{Scrubs}}'': J.D., Cox, Jordan and Jordan's sister Dani get stuck at the top of a Ferris Wheel for an hour.
* In "Mr. {{Monk}} Goes to the Carnival", Sharona goes up on a Ferris wheel (which also happens to have been the scene of the murder) to keep an eye out for the murderer, who is somewhere at the carnival. The murderer suddenly appears and begins to climb towards Sharona. After accidentally breaking the controls on the Ferris wheel, Monk has to climb up after the murderer. For a while, part of this scene appeared during the ThemeSong.

* In one of the "Chicken vs. Peter" fight scenes in ''FamilyGuy'', the thing with the Ferris wheel tearing free happens and they fight on it while it's rolling away.
* There was a mechanically failing Ferris wheel in the first episode of the ''Series/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' cartoon, "Man of Tomorrow." It made things pretty easy for the Legion when they needed to figure out who Superman was.

* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart's Inner Child", Otto's inattentiveness and Willie's laziness causes the Ferris wheel to break loose and run amok through Springfield's "Do What You Feel" festival.
* Subverted in an episode of ''InvaderZim'' has Zim rigging a wheel with rockets in an attempt to launch the giant hamster Peepi into space. Peepi trashes the wheel in anger once it realizes what's happening.
* A Ferris Wheel crashes out its supports in JimmyNeutronBoyGenius, except it then is used as a ''[[RuleofCool spaceship]]''

* Happens in the last episode of ''ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' as part of the storm of TakeOurWordForIt. At one point the girl [[ButtMonkey Dante]] likes starts [[AnythingThatMoves making out with it]].

* ''CardCaptorSakura'' had a fight on a Ferris wheel... one also popped up in the recent Satoshi Kon movie ''{{Paprika}}''.

** Superman in his own [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries animated series]] had to play tug-of-war using a Ferris wheel in "Monkey Fun" while fighting a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant monkey]].
* An episode of ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' has a Ferris wheel that does the break-loose-and-roll thing.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In 'Rose', the London Eye is actually a giant satellite dish used by the Big Bad to control its minions, the Autons.

* In ''ProfessorLayton and the Curious Village'', Layton and Luke are being chased by a ''remote-controlled'' version of this.

* The witch Oktavia in PuellaMagiMadokaMagica uses this to attack. A lot of it.

* ''DoctorWho'': In 'Rose', the London Eye is actually a giant satellite dish used by the Big Bad to control its minions, the Autons.

* ''TeenTitans'' had a subversion in the second season. Beast Boy and Terra were on a date, riding on the Ferris Wheel when Slade ambushed them. The ride never broke down, or suffered from structural failure during the entire fight... until earth-controlling Terra destroyed it on her own at the end, to escape from Slade.

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* In ''{{Catwoman}}'', a Ferris wheel mysteriously breaks down while the leads are on it, allowing Tom to shut down the motor and stop it, and Patience to save a little boy who falls out of a seat that somehow suffers a structural failure at the same time.

* In one chapter of the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' manga, a mad bomber rigs Ferris Wheel cars to explode... while Anzu is riding it.

* Happens at the end of ''Mighty Joe Young'', causing the titular Gorilla to save a small child from it. The resulting good publicity sets up the HappyEnding.

*in 100%Strawberry the main character and his on again off again girlfriend are stuck in the ferris wheel when it stops. Then their door opens up and they almost fall out. Go go Romance Comedy!