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* In ''VideoGame/BurningFight'' for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, forklifts are among the many types of vehicles enemies ride on.

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* In ''VideoGame/BurningFight'' for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, Platform/NeoGeo, forklifts are among the many types of vehicles enemies ride on.
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* Forklifts can be lethal when used improperly even if all obvious safety precautions are taken. American Airlines [[MacGyvering [=MacGyvered=]]] a cheaper way of lubricating DC-10 pylon ball bearings using a forklift to bear the weight of the engine. Unbeknownst to them, [[DidntThinkThisThrough the forklift's innate instability caused cracks to form deep inside the pylon which eventually led to the crash of Flight 191 and the deaths of 271 crew and passengers and two people on the ground]].[[note]]A different airline used the same procedure ''but with an overhead crane'', [[ForWantOfANail without any problems]].[[/note]]

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* Forklifts can be lethal when used improperly even if all obvious safety precautions are taken. American Airlines [[MacGyvering [=MacGyvered=]]] a cheaper way of lubricating DC-10 pylon ball bearings using a forklift to bear the weight of the engine. Unbeknownst to them, [[DidntThinkThisThrough the forklift's innate instability caused cracks to form deep inside the pylon which eventually led to the crash of Flight 191 and the deaths of 271 crew and passengers and two people on the ground]].[[note]]A different airline used the same procedure ''but with an overhead crane'', [[ForWantOfANail without any problems]].problems.[[/note]]
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* Attempted in ''Film/TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'', although most of the plan is that the good guys are hiding inside a crate carried by the forklift. It doesn't quite go [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee according to plan.]]

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* Attempted in ''Film/TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'', although most of the plan is that the good guys are hiding inside a crate carried by the forklift. It doesn't quite go [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee according Unfortunately Romeo has no idea how to plan.]]drive a forklift causing the brothers to be thrown about in the crate, then physics reels its ugly head when he stops the forklift, causing the crate to slide off the forks.
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* ''Film/OurManFlint'': While on Galaxy Island, Flint kills a guard by crushing him against a wall with a forklift.

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* ''Film/OurManFlint'': While on The Galaxy Island, Flint kills organisation think that they've killed Derek Flint, so [[EveryoneHasStandards place his body in a coffin]] which is carried by forklift to the elevator where to be taken to the leaders of Galaxy. A guard by crushing watches the doors close on the coffin and the other Galaxy minions, then turns to find Flint, having slipped out of the coffin earlier, [[DressingAsTheEnemy driving the forklift]] moments before it crushes him against a wall with a forklift.the wall.
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* During the raid on the warehouse in ''Film/{{Antigang}}'', Serge takes down one of the robbers by driving a forklift through an interior wall into him.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' -- In "Sauce for the Goose", VictimOfTheWeek Dexter Lockwood is crushed by a forklift before being dumped in a sterilizer.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' -- In "Sauce "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E7 Sauce for the Goose", Goose]]", VictimOfTheWeek Dexter Lockwood is crushed by a forklift before being dumped in a sterilizer.
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* In ''VideoGame/ZombieInfection'', the docks level's exit contains a zombified forklift operator trying to ram you with one carrying cement pipes in its front. You'll need to shoot the oil drums behind said forklift to blow up the operator and disable it.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Vapors Don't Shoot Back''. In their first mission the {{PC}}s must fight against automated forklifts (forkbots) in a warehouse.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Vapors Don't Shoot Back''. In their first mission the {{PC}}s {{Player Character}}s must fight against automated forklifts (forkbots) in a warehouse.
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* The ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', while playing ''Forklift Simulator'' improvise a backstory of the forklift driver [[WithLyrics to the tune of background music]]. They have it so that the driver is on work release from prison and had killed his parents and brother with a forklift. The father [[DisproportionateRetribution was killed for "Backchat"]], the mom because [[LeaveNoWitnesses because she was a witness]] and they drove to their brother's house and killed them for no reason. [[https://youtu.be/A4hga1ebRK4?si=SObOQlocYeH3ft2x&t=423 It even got a remix from Sbassbear]].
-->'''Arin:''' ''(singing)'' An efficient way of killing...
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* ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': While escaping the Hamburg facility, Bond narrowly avoids a mook trying to ram him with a forklift.
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* A forklift driving instructor won a Website/DarwinAward when he killed himself with a forklift while filming a safety video on the dangers on not wearing a seatbelt. He was not wearing a seatbelt while filming.

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* A forklift driving instructor won a Website/DarwinAward [[Website/DarwinAwards Darwin Award]] when he killed himself with a forklift while filming a safety video on the dangers on not wearing a seatbelt. He was not wearing a seatbelt while filming.
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* Related to the toy example above, a couple of video games based on the Movie-universe ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' had forklift Autobot and Decepticon drones as common, low-level enemies (or players!). Contrary to the lumbering but lethal image implied by their alternate modes, the forklift drones are actually weak but quick.

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* Related to the toy example above, a couple of video games based on the Movie-universe ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' ''Film/Transformers2007'' had forklift Autobot and Decepticon drones as common, low-level enemies (or players!). Contrary to the lumbering but lethal image implied by their alternate modes, the forklift drones are actually weak but quick.
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* In episode 12 of ''Anime/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'', after a tank [=BETA=] shows up in the warehouse where an experimental rail gun is being stored in episode 12, it begins to chase Yui. Then the corporal who was assisting her rams it with the forklift he was driving. Although that wasn't enough to kill it, he buys her enough time to grab a high powered sniper rifle and shoot it.

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* In episode 12 of ''Anime/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'', ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'', after a tank [=BETA=] BETA shows up in the warehouse where an experimental rail gun is being stored in episode 12, it begins to chase Yui. Then the corporal who was assisting her rams it with the forklift he was driving. Although that wasn't enough to kill it, he buys her enough time to grab a high powered high-powered sniper rifle and shoot it.
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* In episode 12 of ''LightNovel/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'', after a tank [=BETA=] shows up in the warehouse where an experimental rail gun is being stored in episode 12, it begins to chase Yui. Then the corporal who was assisting her rams it with the forklift he was driving. Although that wasn't enough to kill it, he buys her enough time to grab a high powered sniper rifle and shoot it.

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* In episode 12 of ''LightNovel/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'', ''Anime/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'', after a tank [=BETA=] shows up in the warehouse where an experimental rail gun is being stored in episode 12, it begins to chase Yui. Then the corporal who was assisting her rams it with the forklift he was driving. Although that wasn't enough to kill it, he buys her enough time to grab a high powered sniper rifle and shoot it.
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* In ''Film/ClassOf1999'', Cody kills a robot with a forklift.

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* In ''Film/ClassOf1999'', Cody kills Bryles by chaining him to a robot with a forklift.forklift and [[OffWithHisHead pulling his head off from his body]].
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* In the finale of ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'', Yagami and friends commandeer a forklift and drive it at top speed to break through a metal door.
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* The spoof training film ''Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus'' follows Klaus on his first day of work as a forklift operator, showing dangerous situations that showcase the importance of the rules he learned during his training for an operator license. Things soon get BloodyHilarious, turning the forklift into a terrible instrument of slaughter.

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* The spoof training film ''Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus'' follows Klaus on his first day of work as a forklift operator, showing dangerous situations that showcase the importance of the rules he was supposed to have learned during his training for an operator license. Things However, as Klaus and his coworkers are largely all TooDumbToLive, things soon get BloodyHilarious, turning the forklift into a terrible instrument of slaughter.

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* A goon driving a forklift appears in the warehouse stage early on in ''VideoGame/SpiderManVsTheKingpin''.



* A goon driving a forklift appears in the warehouse stage early on in ''VideoGame/SpiderManVsTheKingpin''.
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* A goon driving a forklift appears in the warehouse stage early on in ''VideoGame/SpiderManVsTheKingpin''.
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* ''Film/OurManFlint'': While on Galaxy Island, Flint kills a guard by crushing him against a wall with a fork lift.
* ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'': On the loading dock, Eric runs over sleazy security guard Devon with a forklift.

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* ''Film/OurManFlint'': While on Galaxy Island, Flint kills a guard by crushing him against a wall with a fork lift.
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* ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'': On the loading dock, In ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'', Eric runs over sleazy kills a guard, who spies on women in the dressing room via mall security guard Devon with video, by crushing him into an electrical panel using a forklift.
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* ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'': On the loading dock, Eric runs over sleazy security guard Devon with a forklift.
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* A few areas in ''VideoGame/SodaCrisis'' allows you to hop on and pilot forklifts, ramming them into enemies along the way. Though said forklifts usually aren't very durable and breaks down after less than a minute.
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* Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-708 SCP-708]], a forklift that compels anyone who looks at it to drive it. If the driver has violent tendencies, they'll use the forklift as a weapon against anyone or anything they can see.

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* Wiki/SCPFoundation Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-708 SCP-708]], a forklift that compels anyone who looks at it to drive it. If the driver has violent tendencies, they'll use the forklift as a weapon against anyone or anything they can see.
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%%*''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend''%%*''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'' has one that's while not used in combat, still serves as a weapon of destruction, breaking a decorative crypt and later a wall.
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-->'''Scooby-Doo''': [[PreMortemOneLiner Play dead.]]
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* ''Series/{{AdamTwelve}}'': In a Season 2 episode, Malloy nearly gets run over by one by a criminal. Luckily, Reed put the brakes on to save his partner.

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* ''Series/{{AdamTwelve}}'': ''Series/Adam12'': In a Season 2 episode, Malloy nearly gets run over by one by a criminal. Luckily, Reed put the brakes on to save his partner.
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* ''Film/CityWar'' had the CowboyCop protagonist using a forklift as cover while shooting at gangsters in a warehouse.
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* ''VideoGame/GangBusters'' occasionally throws forklift piloted by gangsters who attempts ramming into you.
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* ''VideoGame/DemolishFist'' have an area in the warehouse where you're attacked by eight forklifts who forms a circle charging at you.
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* The first boss of ''VideoGame/WildCATs1995'' commandeers a forklift, ramming it all over the area in an attempt to crush Spartan until he's defeated.

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* The first boss of ''VideoGame/WildCATs1995'' ''VideoGame/WildCats1995'' commandeers a forklift, ramming it all over the area in an attempt to crush Spartan until he's defeated.

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