History Main / OutrunTheFireBall

* In ''Series/StargateSG1: Film/TheArkOfTruth'', Mitchell sets some explosives off to kill a villain and jumps ahead of the fire just in time, complete with slo-mo goodness.

* The Music/LemonDemon song "Action Movie Hero Boy" parodies this trope in its chorus.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Literature/WhiteNight'', this is played with. Harry Dresden doesn't so much outrun the fireball as [[spoiler:ride it out in a force field, generated via magic that he is powering with the lust generated by a heated kiss he shares with a succubus. Since he knew he wouldn't be able to actually ''outrun'' it, he effectively turned himself (and said succubus) into a ''cannon ball'']].

* In the climax of the Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger movie ''Film/CollateralDamage'', Gordy Brewer runs away from a massive explosion as the BigBad and TheDragon take aim at him while chasing him on a motorcycle.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlsInSpace'', when Red fails to diffuse a bomb that will open a gateway between universes, colour explodes back into our universe and Red is forced to [[http://www.girlsinspace.co.uk/comic/colourblind-page-26/ run for her life.]]

* The ''VideoGame/SpiderMan'' video game ends with you being chased by Monster Ock, the combination of the Carnage symbiote and Doctor Octopus. After the level, a fireball begins to chase the pair of you down a corridor, but Spidey manages to avoid it by spinning a web up an alcove in the ceiling, dodging the fireball. Monster Ock is not so lucky, but the symbiote manages to save Doctor Octopus and leaves him simply unconscious.

* A variation occurs in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'' when Thorin is rising out of a mine shaft via pulley system while being pursued by one of the dragon Smaug's fireballs, managing to reach the top and get out of the way just in time.
* In ''Film/TheExpendables3'', [[spoiler:after Barney kills Stonebanks, Barney has to escape the exploding building and head for Max's chopper as the batteries stalling the C4 ran out by the time Barney kills Stonebanks]].
* Rambo has to outrun one in his [[Film/RamboIV fourth movie]] after he blows up the Tallboy Bomb. Done realistically too, he ties a claymore to it and then runs like hell to get as far as possible from the bomb, and when does it go off the shock-wave still overtakes him in seconds.
** During the FinalBattle in ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', Rambo detonates explosives in the tunnels of his ranch, forcing [[BigBad Martinez]] to make a run for it.
* The family outruns a small fireball as their house explodes in ''Film/FourClosed'' and wind up perfectly fine.
* ''Film/{{Kopps}}'': After [[ItMakesSenseInContext the police officers set fire to the wurst stand]] they remember that several gas cans are stored there. They begin to run away in SlowMotion, Benny leaps himself on the ground while the others keep running, the others hide behind the petrol car and Benny leaps himself over the hood and they wait for the bang, covering their ears. [[DelayedExplosion First, nothing happens, but a few seconds later the stand explodes with a huge fireball.]]
* Happens in ''Film/IlRagazzoInvisibile'' on escaping a ship.
* ''Film/{{Gravity}}''. Happens for a brief moment (yes, yes, InSpace) when an oxygen cylinder explodes during the zero-G fire scene.
* At the end of ''Film/LondonHasFallen'', [[spoiler:Banning and President Asher manage to escape one after jumping into an elevator shaft during the incineration of the terrorist's hideout.]]
* The end of ''Film/{{Overlord 2018}}'' has Boyce running out of the church before the entire place explodes.
* A justified example in ''Film/Freaks2018'' where Henry's time bubble allows him to carry Chloe at a light jog only a few feet ahead of the fireball.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Dash outruns a burst of fire from a rocket launch, and barely escapes. Admittedly, he does have SuperSpeed.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona use this trope as they reach the bridge leading away from the dragon's castle, and the dragon takes one last shot at them with her fiery breath.

* Happens during Finn [=McMissile=]'s introductory scene at the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', when he is escaping the Lemons' oil rig.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Dmitri, Anya, Pooka, and Vlad duck behind, like, three boxes a few seconds before a stick of dynamite blows.

* ''Film/{{Volcano}}''. In order to save the city from a volcanic eruption it is decided that a precision demolition of a 20 story building must be planned and executed in 15 minutes. Unfortunately, a random child wanders into the street directly in the path of the soon to be demolished building. The child is saved by Tommy Lee Jones sprinting (quite fast for an old man), grabbing the boy, then jumping behind cover.

* In the MadeForTVMovie ''Film/SuperVolcano'', a scientist is trying to outrun the fireball, but it catches up and kills her. The film is known for ''actually'' doing their research, but allowing for some exaggeration for the RuleOfCool.
* ''Film/IndependenceDay'':
** Jasmine the stripper with a heart of gold, her cute son and her dog are running from the fireball in Los Angeles. While she has a good lead on it, the dog barely jumps out of the way of the fireball which fills the tunnel, just in time. Conveniently enough, the fire also fails to consume all the oxygen available in the confined space they take shelter in. And the explosion big enough to destroy most of Los Angeles fails to blast through the door behind which our characters are hiding.
*** In the novelization, Jasmine, the kid, and the dog are saved by the presence of a metal grate leading down into the city's subway system. The air rushing out of the grate into the fire saves them by both cooling them and giving them oxygen to breathe. The author specifically writes that Jasmine needs to cling to the grate to avoid being blown back out into the fire. Not that that's much more realistic.
** At the same moment, Air Force One flies like a bat out of Hell to escape the Washington fireball; at the last second, the flames touch the rear of the aircraft, but the pilot manages to escape.
* ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series.
** The end of ''Film/{{Predator}}'', which featured an alien countdown, a spooky, ominous laugh, and an explosion with the power of a tactical nuke. This becomes even more ridiculous in the sequel, when Gary Busey's character reveals that the self-destruct device is powerful enough to completely level a radius of 300 city blocks. Yet Schwarzenegger got away, despite only starting his run when the timer WAS ALMOST UP. Might be FridgeBrilliance when one realizes that the predator could purposely limit the power of explosion to give Arnold a sporting chance of survival for the last time.
** ''Film/{{Predator 2}}''. Harrigan somehow isn't burnt to a crisp while running away from the fiery exhaust of the departing Predator ship.
** In ''Film/{{Predators}}'' the team has to outrun the blast caused by [[spoiler:Nicholai's heroic sacrifice]].
* In Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/{{Broken Arrow|1996}}'', Capn. Hale (Christian Slater) actually outruns an underground nuclear explosion. To be fair, though, the explosion didn't happen until he was above-ground and safe from the blast.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' had an extended "outrun the fireball" scene as Wedge and Lando's crew blew up the Death Star II's core and had to escape the resulting blast; Wedge at least had plenty of a head start. A TIE Intercepter fails to do so and is destroyed. The Millennium Falcon is also partially engulfed by the explosion, leading to an OutOfTheInferno moment and giving the visual impression of the Falcon being shot out of the Death Star like a bullet.
** ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' had the exact same scene, but scaled down. Anakin flies into the main droid control ship, then fires two proton torpedoes straight into the main reactor. The ship starts to blow up from the inside, and Anakin flies as fast as he can toward the exit with flames shooting all over the place, feeling it necessary to quip "now ''this'' is podracing!" as he does so. There is an additional shot of a squad of battle droids failing at this.
* Almost avoided in ''Film/TheMummyReturns''. There's a particularly credulity-stretching scene where our hero must outrun ''the sunrise'' to make it to a temple. It is, in fact, almost correct, scientifically. Phil Plait's [[http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/mummyreturns2.html Bad Astronomy]] page explains what's happening and why it's right and wrong (he even [[ShownTheirWork shows his work]].) In short, the character is not outrunning the terminator line of the sunrise, he's outrunning the '''shadows''' cast by the mountains in the background. However, the moving edge of the shadow is moving away from the sun and toward the temple -- that's the wrong direction; it should be moving down from the top of the temple and toward the rising sun. In the DVD commentary, director Steven Sommers states that they knew they were doing it wrong but kept it in because [[RuleOfCool it looked cool]].
* Interestingly, the "sunrise" example above appears in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', but cranked UpToEleven. The prison-planet Crematoria is such a harsh world that the temperature goes from -300 on the nightside to 700 degrees on the dayside, leaving only a brief 20 minute window before sunrise where the surface is actually traversable on foot and travel to and from the planet is possible.

* In ''Film/ChainReaction'', the main character, Eddie, is in a team that's working on achieving some sort of fusion through sonoluminescence (free clean power). One evening he arrives at the laboratory to find his boss murdered and the equipment rigged to blow up. Unable to stop the chain reaction, he straddles his bike and speeds away from the lab. When the equipment finally overloads, it explodes in a ''very'' large fireball, almost akin to a small nuclear blast. Eddie manages this just barely; the back of his bike is actually lifted by the shockwave (but the forward wheel somehow remains on the ground).
* ''Franchise/DieHard''

* Silk Spectre in ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' during the burning building rescue. She turns away from the oncoming fireball in SlowMotion, then speeds up again for her running down the corridor and across the drawbridge/hatch into [[CoolAirship Archie]], the hatch slamming shut JustInTime.
* Parodied in ''Film/HotFuzz'', where Nick and Danny find a sea mine in some oldtimer's arsenal. He bangs it to prove it's harmless, and it starts ticking. Nick and Danny do the textbook running towards the camera and leaping over a hedge, followed by... nothing. Of course, the mine [[ChekhovsGun DOES blow up later]] in the film, but nobody got to run away from it that time. [[spoiler:Fortunately, no one was hurt.]]
** The climax of ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has the protagonists ''driving' away from an explosion. In reverse. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse We never find out if]] [[spoiler:Basil and the creepy twins]] managed to outrun it on foot, though.
* ''Film/TheBlackHole'' had the heroes trying to make it across a tunnel before a huge meteor going through the ship reached them. This was supposed to be an iconic shot for the movie; people usually remembered the robotic [[TheDragon Dragon]] Maximillian cutting a hole in Anthony Perkins.
* A particularly ridiculous example can be found in ''Film/BladeII'', where Blade and the Vampire ActionGirl outrun the "fireball" created by a big box of "light grenades." Quite aside from the question of how these light grenades caused an explosion in the first place (or indeed, how the "blast front" flows round a curve of a tunnel in spite of the fact that light beams travel in straight lines) one wonders how fast Wesley Snipes must have been running, considering that light travels at the speed of - well - light...
* If fire isn't bad enough, in ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' some characters out-run a "wave of cold", which then ''ices over'' the door they escape behind. It's particularly ludicrous given that the original scene had them running from digital wolves, which were scrapped. The end result means they're running away from something they should be able to see chasing them (and acted as such) but instead it is a "Run! It's the weather!" moment.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''

* ''Film/JamesBond'' franchise: Bond faces fireballs at times.
** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', where he flies a jet through the fireball. The example is slightly ''more'' plausible than the usual fare - assuming that it was a (relatively cold) kerosene/gasoline fire from the trucks and aircraft that were in front of him, and he was flying fast enough, it is entirely possible that James could fly through with no or few ill-effects. It is the same principle as quickly moving one's hand through a (yellow!) bunsen or candle flame. So long as you do it fast enough, you'll be fine.
** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Bond and Denise Richards' character outrun a fireball that shoots up an elevator shaft.
** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Bond outruns the fireball during the final battle when [[spoiler:he blows Skyfall Lodge [[{{Pun}} sky high]] in order to destroy [[BigBad Silva's]] helicopter and kill most of his men. Though he beats the fireball that took out the house, he doesn't beat the second fireball from the helicopter plowing into it. He instead dives into an alcove which spares him the brunt of the blast]].
** Happens again in the final battle of ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', where Bond and Madeleine escape the explosion of the old [=MI6=] building on a speedboat. Earlier, Bond and Madeleine escape Blofeld's headquarters after Bond blows it up.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries''
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'', when Hunt gets a weapon out of a vehicle, then attempts to run clear of the car. When the car explodes, he is blown ''sideways'' by the blast, directly into another car.
** In ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' when Hunt is running from the explosion of the Kremlin, only to be injured in the explosion and hospitalized.
* Overdone in ''Der Clown: Payday'': The heroine is driving a BMW and chased by an aircraft. When [[ImpressivePyrotechnics the whole aircraft explodes in one big fireball]] with its nose still above the BMW's trunk, said fireball also almost completely engulfs the BMW, which, however, manages to drive out of the flames. Without the heroine inside, the car would most likely have been blown up, too. The heroine is affected by the explosion shockwave, but the car isn't. And she gets out of the car with close to no injuries at all despite the fact that the aircraft had crushed the rear window earlier and the fireball would have to have entered the car.
* Handled with a bit of grisly realism in the first scene of ''Film/TheHurtLocker'', when Sergeant Thompson attempts to run away from an active bomb. He gets clear of the visible explosion, but is killed by the shockwave.
* Possibly the lamest example on the page: In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', Samantha/Charly and Mitch try to Outrun The Fireball from a grenade in a hallway, which couldn't possibly ''create'' a fireball, and whose frags would be instantly lethal. But there's more! The scene combines a couple more examples of when poor research fails to be overrun by RuleOfCool.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/{{Flyboys}}'', a zeppelin bomber is going up, and a German airman previously seen manning an ack-ack emplacement runs across the top, just ahead of the exploding gas cells. This begs the question, "What's he gonna do when he runs out of blimp?"
* In the second part of ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532382/ Hooked.]]'' The main hero jumps of the boat a moment before the bomb explodes, however it turns out that the perfect timing wasn't his -it was's the bomb's one. Or rather the bad guys' who were secretly watching him and detonated the bomb at the precise moment, so that he'd believe in his miraculous save and went on with his part of their BatmanGambit.
* ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' has Chris and Gladys escaping the mine on Bret's motorcycle as the methane in the mine was set off towards the end of the movie. Chris and Gladys are on a motorbike and trying to escape the ensuing blast. While they fail at completely outrunning the fireball and are temporarily engulfed they still manage to get out with only minor burns.
* ''Film/DoubleTeam'' does this no fewer than three times. The first time doesn't work out, and the protagonist ends up bedridden for 6 months from his injuries.
* ''Film/TheTerminator'' has a rare, if not unique, theoretically realistic version of the trope. Sarah is able to get away from the exploding truck as it explodes because the truck doesn't go up in only ''one'' explosion but a progressive series of them from back to front. You still have to assume that for some odd reason the truck would do that in the first place but no laws of physics appear to be violated. It could be that fuel truck's tank usually comprises of many smaller compartments (to counter the effects of inertia during acceleration and braking) hence could explain the progressive explosions. Almost all fuel trucks do indeed have several compartments in the fuel tanks for safety.
** Some fuel tankers also have separate compartments for different grades/octane levels of gasoline (regular/87 octane, super/89 octane, premium/92 octane).
* In ''Film/MagicalLegendOfTheLeprechauns'' the fire guardian of [[CrystalDragonJesus The Grand Banshee's]] hotel turns into a fireball and attacks Jack and Kathleen and Jessica and Mickey. Both pairs outrun him.
* In ''Film/TheFifthElement'', Korben and the gang speed to outrun a giant explosion that engulfed everything around their spaceship, except the windshield, prompting Bruce Willis to dramatically scream and coax the craft ever so faster to suddenly outrun the blast into orbit.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. Getting back into the city requires Dredd and Fergie to infiltrate the city via an incinerator vent which spews out a fireball every thirty seconds. A bit of FridgeLogic comes when Herman falls and Dredd has to save him, the fireball is coming from the direction they were running from, when it should be coming from the direction they were running to.
* In ''Film/TheRelic'', Dr. Green sets and escapes a fire in a slow-moving freight elevator. When the room filled with volatile chemicals finally explodes, it takes forty seconds of screen time for the fireball to catch up with her -- plenty of time to run a good twenty yards, climb into a metal container the size of a dumpster, wait for the motorized lid to close, and hurl a final insult at the monster chasing her.
* In the climax of the Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger movie ''Film/CollateralDamage'', Gordy Brewer runs away from a massive explosion as the BigBad and TheDragon take aim at him while chasing him on a motorcycle.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' when Scoutmaster Ward saves Commander Pierce from an exploding tent.
* In ''{{Film/Legion}}'', when archangel Michael and some young girl escape the exploding gas station.
* In ''Film/DeepImpact'', the young man who was the co-discoverer of the asteroid that strikes earth, and is creating a tidal wave ''3000 feet high'' striking near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, basically destroying the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and probably anything within 1,000 miles, and moving across land at ''1100 miles per hour'' is trying to outrun the tidal wave on a ''motorbike!'' Did we mention that his wife is also riding on the bike with him?
* ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'': Mulder and Scully have to out-''drive'' a fireball when a federal building in Dallas blows up.
* Inspector Tequila has to outrun an exploding hospital at the end of ''Film/HardBoiled''. Interestingly, there was a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20363_6-classic-movies-made-possible-by-reckless-endangerment.html 'screw up' with the pyrotechnics]] that caused a bigger explosion than planned, meaning that Chow Yun Fat was really running for his life.

* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': Played straight during the escape by sub. Yes, underwater fireball.
* ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'': Storm Shadow, Firefly, and Cobra Commander do it when the prison explodes. Storm Shadow fails to fully outrun it and is very badly burned on his back.
* Happens to Jack in ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' during the final shootout with the drones inside of LaResistance's bunker-complete with visible OhCrap moment as he starts to run away from the about-to-explode drone.
* In ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' Butch throws kerosene and dynamite down a tunnel, and our heroes must outrun the result.

* ''Film/DemolitionMan''. At the end John Spartan runs away from the cryoprison as it blows up in flames.
* Happens several times in ''Film/{{Quick}}'', with the most spectacular involving Ki-su and Chun-sim riding away from a fireball on a motorbike in the upper floors of an office building.
* In ''Film/EndOfDays'', Jericho and Christine outrun an inferno chasing them down a hallway after rescuing Christine from Satan near the end.
* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
** During the Janjira plant incident, Sandra Brody and the other inspectors run while being followed by an enormous smoke cloud, representing the leaking radiation from the reactor. Unfortunately, none of the inspectors that were ahead of her make it before the blast shield closes.
** In Hawaii, people try to outrun a tsunami. The only known survivors of it were the family that thought to run into (and then up) a building.
** At the climax Ford barely makes out of the way of an enormous gasoline explosion [[spoiler:ignited by him in order to destroy the MUTO eggs]].
* At the climax of ''Film/TheRocketeer'', Cliff, Jenny, and Lothar all try to outrun the fireball on an exploding hydrogen fueled blimp. What they planned to do is unclear, [[spoiler:not that it matters. Lothar is still wearing a harness preventing him from running very far, and is killed. Cliff and Jenny are saved when Howard Hughes and Peevy fly by and drop a ladder for them to grab]].

* At the end of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Bishop does this in the drop ship to escape from [[spoiler:the vapor explosion of LV-426]].

* In ''Film/{{Suffragette}}'' the protagonists run away from a explosion [[spoiler:caused by a bomb one of them built herself. It is not explained why she didn't build the bomb in a way that gives them more time to run away.]]

* Taken to extremes in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', where [[spoiler:Quicksilver notices the vibrations from the explosion, rushes in and manages to evacuate the entire building while the explosion propagates through it in bullet time]].
* In ''Film/TheWave2015'', the protagonists have to outrun (or get the higher ground on) a 300ft GiantWallOfWateryDoom. Made a bit more fair by having a 10 minute headstart once the landslide strikes, but they still only have 10 minutes to escape an 80 meter wave. Oh, and did we mention that [[RippedFromTheHeadlines this will actually happen]]?

* Robin and Gisborne outran a cascade of molten iron the spills out of an upset crucible and comes racing towards them in ''Film/RobinHood2018''.

** When the Twin Towers collapsed, they created a giant dust cloud that flowed through Manhattan. As these clouds roiled down streets, many people misinterpreted them as expanding explosions. There were many home movies of people ducking into buildings to avoid the advancing dust cloud, thinking they had outrun an explosion. Given the respiratory problems people who breathed in the dust have been suffering, that was probably a good thing.

* In the first ''VideoGame/FarCry'' game, Jack Carver and Valerie Constantine detonate a nuclear bomb and must fight their way out of the bunker to avoid being caught in the blast or mutated. [[spoiler:They outrun the explosion, but are rendered unconscious. It is revealed the anti-mutagens they had taken were fake and the bomb had mutated them.]]

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** A regular feature as the final challenge of games. Upon felling the FinalBoss-who is apparently a LoadBearingBoss-with your EleventhHourSuperpower type weapon, the whole place starts coming down around you and you have a running timer to get to your ship before the place explodes and you die.

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* Happens frequently in the ''VideoGame/RedFaction'' series.

* Arthur, Vivi and Mystery just barely manage to outrun a giant explosion of purple fire as it engulfs the haunted mansion they just fled out of in ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated''.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''. [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=20&issue=13 Spoilers.]]

* Season 6 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ends with the Reds and Blues driving away from an EMP pulse before their cars and the MacGuffin are affected by it.

* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' had this for one of the Area 51 levels. Lara has to launch a missile in order to move it out of the way so she can proceed, but by doing so, the flames from the missile's exhaust starts to fill the hallway she is in. You're forced to sprint awkwardly '''towards''' the camera to the very end of the hall so the flames don't touch you. Getting burnt here results in instant death compared to being on fire in the other parts of the game where you live only for a few seconds. Also the FMV scene at the end of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'': When the archaeological site in Planet Sprague is blown away, you can see a RedShirt trying to run away from the explosion that slowly approaches in slow-mo... however, he is also running in slow-mo, and thus he gets swallowed by the fireball.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' ends with you trying to escape Andross' underground base before being consumed by a fireball behind you in both the easy and normal/hard playthroughs. In the easy playthrough the chase is all part of a cutscene, but in the normal/hard playthroughs you have to navigate the narrow passages yourself while being led by ([[MindScrew the ghost/a hallucination of?]]) Fox's father.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''

** Sonic tries this again during the finale of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'', [[spoiler:this time up against a ''black hole'' (created by the rampant Hyper-Go-on energy. Seeing that nothing--not even light--can escape it once pulled in, Sonic (who can only normally break the sound barrier) actually ''fails'' (you do actually play the sequence, where Sonic manages to keep away from the black hole at 30 seconds at most); [[FissionMailed Fortunately,]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Wisps]] [[FissionMailed save him]] while also neutralizing the black hole (presumably since it was made from Hyper-Go-On energy, which the Wisps naturally produce and control]].

** In ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' Tails, Knuckles and a fewer-than-seven-Chaos Emeralds-collected Sonic will hop into a cart to escape Eggman's base as it explodes. In the ''Sonic Mania Plus'' update, Mighty and Ray join in on the escape and if you collect the Chaos Emeralds in Encore Mode [[spoiler:all five turn Super and zip past an escaping Eggman, who gets sucked into the rampant Phantom Ruby]].

* ''{{Videogame/Doom}} II'' has "Barrels O' Fun" for its 23rd level, involving several segments where enemies can set off '''large''' chains of exploding barrels.