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* The first stage of the arcade game, ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' has an intense chase scene where you take on enemy mooks on a CarChaseShootOut. In which you can slow them down by shooting their tires.

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* The first stage of the arcade game, ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers1'' has an intense chase scene where you take on enemy mooks on a CarChaseShootOut. In which you can slow them down by shooting their tires.
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%%* Happens in an episode of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' to Troy. Troy repays the favor at the end of the episode, preventing the murderer from escaping. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

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%%* Happens * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': While visiting the Hamlet of Lower Warden in an episode "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS6E4 A Tale of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' to Troy. Two Hamlets]]", Barnaby and Troy repays discover that one of the favor at locals has let down all four tyres on their car. At the end of the episode, preventing after Barnaby has figured out who the murderer from escaping. %%Example needs context killer is, Troy returns the favour by letting down the tyres on the killer's motorbike. When the killer attempts to make sense on its own.escape Barnaby, he runs to his bike only to discover it immobilised and Troy waiting to arrest him.
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* ''Film/DisturbingThePeace'': While chasing after Diablo on [[HorsebackHeroism horseback]], Dillon fires several shots at the rear wheel of Diablo's dirt bike. He doesn't hit the tyre, but he does hit the chain, which disables the bike.
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* While fleeing from the Braga Cartel's henchmen in ''Film/FastAndFurious'', Dominic Toretto grabs a shotgun and uses it to blow out the tires of the cars around him. Given the [[DenserAndWackier over-the-top nature]] of the film, every car immediately catapults into the air the moment one of their tires is shot.
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* In ''Film/TheAccountant2016'', the title character has a .50 Barrett anti-material rifle powerful enough to disable a vehicle by punching a hole in the engine block ([[TruthInTelevision Which is actually the Barrett's intended purpose]]). He takes out first the bad guys' vehicle, then when a mook tries to flee in the pickup owned by his hostages, he disables that one as well.

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* In Averted in a scene in ''Film/TheAccountant2016'', where the title character has uses a .50 Barrett anti-material rifle powerful enough to disable a vehicle the bad guys' car, not by punching popping a hole in tire, but by shooting the engine block ([[TruthInTelevision Which is actually anti-material rifles, like the Barrett's intended purpose]]). He takes out first Barrett, are designed for destroying enemy equipment, like vehicles]]). As the bad guys' vehicle, guys try to escape with their hostages, he shoots out their car's engine, then when a mook tries to flee in the pickup owned by his hostages, he disables that one as well.
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* ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'': In one of the early missions at Clark's Motel, the player can pop the tires of the car in front of the house so when the last enemy gangster will escape in the car with the money, he'll be much slower and easier to catch up with.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Judge Doom takes out a toon car's tires by pouring toon-dissolving Dip on the road.

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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Judge Doom takes out dumps a toon car's tires by pouring toon-dissolving load of Dip on the road.road to stop Benny the Cab (driven by Eddie Valiant) from pursuing him. The Dip doesn't pop the tires, but it does partially dissolve them and cause Benny enough pain to put him out of action.
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* In ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'', following the game of darts between Frederick and Inspector Kemp, it's revealed that (thanks to being rattled by the inspector's pointed, deliberately ill-timed questions) Frederick had inadvertently taken out the inspector's tires.
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* Shooting an enemy vehicle's tires in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' will cause it to spin out --occasionally flipping up in the air-- [[EveryCarIsAPinto and then explode]].

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* Shooting an enemy vehicle's tires in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'' will cause it to spin out --occasionally flipping up in the air-- [[EveryCarIsAPinto and then explode]].

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** In "Taken", While riding on the back of a motorbike driven by the Black Canary, Thea Queen is able to [[ImprobableAimingSkills bend over backwards and pop the tire of a pursuing motorbike]] with an arrow.
** In "The Thanatos Guild", Roy and Thea are leaving Star City to live HappilyEverAfter, but worry it might be TemptingFate. Then an arrow shoots out a tire causing them to run off the road.
** In "Promises Kept", the Jackals use a spike strip to stop a truck they're planning to rob.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In "Dodger", Oliver Queen shoots the tyre in Dodger's car with an arrow and causes it to crash.

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In "Dodger", Oliver Queen shoots the tyre in Dodger's car with an arrow and causes it to crash.crash.
** In the BatmanColdOpen of "The Calm", Roy Harper does one of his fancy flips into the path of a truck which he then tire-punctures with an arrow.

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* In the spy thriller ''Running Blind'' by Creator/DesmondBagley, the protagonist is driving a land rover across Iceland when a tire blows out. This is nothing unusual...until he sees the neat bullethole in the tire. He's able to slip away from his vehicle unobserved and takes a CIA sniper by surprise, whose orders were [[IfIWantedYouDead merely to slow him down]] and then leave when someone turned up. As the next person would likely have been the KGB team pursuing him, he wonders what the hell's going on that the CIA would be aiding the KGB.



* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In "Dodger", Oliver shoots the tyre in Dodger's car with an arrow and causes it to crash.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In "Dodger", Oliver Queen shoots the tyre in Dodger's car with an arrow and causes it to crash.

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