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* One of the many, ''many'' ways Tim's Redbird gets damaged in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' is by him pulling in front of an escaping villain in a van and hitting the brakes.

* In ''Film/MovingViolation'', Cam and Eddie's car is being pursued by a deputy on a motorcycle. Eddie slams on the brakes, causing the deputy to crash into their car and fly over the roof.

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. While driving the SWAT van, the T-800 slams on the brakes to make the pursuing helicopter (piloted by the T-1000) crash into the van.

* The "Brake Check" is a dangerous maneuver that basically amounts to deliberately slamming on one's brakes in order to trick the car behind you into either rear-ending you, or trying to evade. Needless to day, it's highly illegal.

During a ChaseScene, this happens when the pursued suddenly brakes in order to make the pursuer run into him. Most of the time, it works if the vehicle being pursued is larger than the one following it, as the pursuer may not react fast enough and would end up being injured in the process.

* One of the many, ''many'' ways Tim's Redbird gets damaged in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' is by him pulling in front of an escaping villain in a van and hitting the brakes.

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. While driving the [=SWAT=] van, the T-800 slams on the brakes to make the pursuing helicopter (piloted by the T-1000) crash into the van.

* In the early ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novel ''[[Literature/TheHanSoloAdventures Han Solo at Star's End]]'' Han pulls this off in a spaceship. The ''Millennium Falcon'' is temporarily attached to a gigantic freight barge (normally a strictly robot-controlled vessel) but a pursuing dreadnought has managed to lock on with a TractorBeam. Han dumps the barge's cargo of grain into the warship's Tractor Beam (temporarily blinding the warship's sensors), activates the barge's retrothrusters, and then blasts the ''Falcon'' loose. The battlewagon collides with the barge (slicing the barge in half while the dreadnought also takes considerable damage) while the ''Falcon'' successfully speeds away.

During a ChaseScene, this happens when the pursued suddenly brakes in order to make the pursuer run into him. Well, for most of the time, it works if the vehicle being pursued is larger than the one following it, as the pursuer may not react fast enough and would end up being injured in the process.

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. While driving the [=SWAT=] van, the T-800 slams on the brakes to make the pursuing helicopter (piloted by the T-1000) crash into the van.
* ''Film/{{Speed}}'' uses a variation: in order to jump from the car he's driving (which he's in via FlashedBadgeHijack) into the bus, Creator/KeanuReeves opens the door, slams on the brakes, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBgl7ps7UQA#t=1m38s lets the bus take the door off.]]
* ''Film/TheLongestYard'' has this in the remake, where Paul Crewe is driving his soon-to-be-ex girlfriend's stolen car and leading the police in a high-speed chase. When he gets a call from his ex who threatens him and tells him she's watching, he suddenly slams on the brakes, causing every single pursuing cop car to smash into it, utterly destroying it. He caps it with this line.
-->'''Paul Crewe:''' Hey Lena! I think we should start seeing other people!

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', a variant is used to disable a car full of bad guys holding a man hostage: they box him in, and then the car in the front slams on the breaks, causing the bad guys inside to lose their grip on the hostage and allowing the police to move in and arrest them all without causing too much harm on said hostage.

** In episode 2, the Condor, The Storm Hawks' carrier ship, is tailed by the Raptors. Stork does this to them.

** In episode 1, the Condor, The Storm Hawks' carrier ship, is tailed by the Raptors. Stork does this to them.

** In the pilot, the Condor, The Storm Hawks' carrier ship, is tailed by the Raptors. Stork does this to them.

* Used as a feint in ''Film/TheEigerSanction''. The protagonist being pursued by another vehicle on a dirt road, kicking up a cloud of dust, so he turns on the brake lights to make them think he's attempting this trope, putting some distance between them when they also hit the brakes.