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8->''"Man... is only separated from heaven by that which he will not ramp."''
9-->-- '''Dr [=McNinja=]''', ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''
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11A character operating a vehicle is in a tight spot; there's [[RoadBlock something blocking the path]], someplace too high and/or far to reach, etc. What to do? Look for something that could remotely be used as a ramp, or just build one, to perform a RampJump.
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13A SubTrope of ThemeParkLandscape. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with UseYourHead, which covers improvised ''ramming''. Compare BenevolentArchitecture.
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21* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Rock uses a derelict ship to ramp the titular boat, then fire a torpedo directly into an attack helicopter.
22%%* Happens in ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead''.
23* In ''Manga/VenusWars'', Hiro is being chased by police and surrounded. So he lifts the monobike onto the side of the highway guardrail to make an escape.
24* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzerDerFilm'' has Duck Team's plan to defeat the University Team's Morser-Karl siege mortar. [[spoiler:Turtle Team uses Anzio's CV33 to allow their Hetzer to jump a bridge gap and be able to shoot down the Morser-Karl's barrel]].
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28* In Kenya Starflight's "Franchise/StarWars characters are trapped on Earth" story ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1784370/1/Eye_of_the_Storm Eye of the Storm]]'', Darth Vader takes over during a [[ItMakesSenseInContext car chase with stormtroopers]] and uses the Force to pull an under-repair sign across the roadway and use it to ramp over a train, using the Force once more to keep the car stable. It still doesn't handle the landing well, though.
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32* ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'': Lightning [=McQueen=] uses a wrecked competitor during a race.
33* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes'': While trying to escape from the hound in the park, Juliet drives the ride-on lawnmower up a stack of deckchairs that launches the mower into a tree.
34* ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark'': After June and Banky pass through their first ramp, they then jump a treadmill as part of the Grand Wonder in their backyard.
35* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie'', while driving a bus down a broken bridge, Arnold tells Gerald to use a crashed semi-truck as a ramp.
36* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'', Ted attempts to jump a gorge by making a ramp from a rock and an abandoned board, but the board fails to hold his scooter's weight, sending him hurtling down in to gorge instead.
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40* ''Film/JamesBond''
41** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': while in a chase with police cars in a parking lot, Bond uses an overturned car as an improvised ramp to jump his car to safety.
42** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' has a cool broken-bridge improvised ramp that leads to the car making a 360 degree jump.
43** In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' it's Station I agent Vijay who does this in a souped-up autorickshaw, driving up some planks right over the head of a [[AnimalReactionShot startled camel]].
44** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', Bond uses this trope several times; not only to jump his own vehicle but to take out enemy vehicles or avoiding being run over by them. He's caught unarmed on top of an ancient Roman aqueduct with a SPECTRE car about to run him over, so throws himself behind a buttress that's just big enough to cause the car to jump over his body. Moments later, he rides a motorcycle up a staircase, launching it past the landing and onto the next terrace above. Later on in Norway, Bond is being chased by enemy SUV's and uses his environment to cause several of them to crash via this trope, including an SUV driven by [[spoiler:Ash]] that he tricks into driving into a sturdy log hidden by fog and foliage, causing it to flip upside down.
45* ''Film/{{Speed}}'': a BrokenBridge is used as an improvised ramp (busted by the ''Series/MythBusters'' ... turns out the filmmakers cheated and used CGI).
46* ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' used an improvised ramp near the end to bring to a close the big chase scene.
47* ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' (aka ''Die Hard 4.0'') has a Ramprovisation so unusual that [[LampshadeHanging the hacker lead notes how improbable it is.]]
48* At the end of ''Jackie Chan's First Strike'', Jackie uses a conveniently-placed car display ramp to jump a Mitsubishi onto the boat carrying the DamselInDistress.
49-->'''Gerald:''' Jump the hole? Arnold, [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.]] [[CrazyEnoughToWork Let's do it!]]
50* In ''Film/TheCannonballRun'', Mad Dog and Batman use a conveniently placed trailer to jump over a train after the brakes in their truck fail.
51* With much of ''Film/{{Quick}}'' being an extended chase sequence, the film contains multiple examples of Ramprovisation. The first use is when Ki-su, uses an overturned car as a ramp to jump over the pile-up he has just caused.
52* In ''Film/Firestorm1998'', Jesse uses the collapsed roof of the trading post as a ramp to jump a trail bike out of the burning building.
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56* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', this is easy for Hector, whose power allows him to materialize iron.
57* Chapter one of ''[[Literature/{{Newsflesh}} Feed]]'' ends this way. George uses a hill as an improvised ramp.
58* Creator/MatthewReilly's books do it every so often. Avoid torpedoes, drive a truck into a fighter plane... He also figured out that the only way to make this trope more awesome is to blow up the improvised ramp behind the vehicle.
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62%%* OnceAnEpisode (or more) on ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' as they perform their SloMoBigAir.
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66* In ''VideoGame/MidtownMadness 2'', you can jump from one embankment of the Thames to the other by use of strategically placed ramps in the Tower of London, and a (convenient) boat in the middle of the river.
67* Used for many Insane Stunt bonuses in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', as far back as ''GTA 2''.
68* Appears frequently in ''VideoGame/TotalOverdose''. Ram's first mission doesn't exactly require one, but strongly encourages it to flee the top of a parking garage.
69* ''VideoGame/JustCause 2'': There are absolutely ''dozens'' of conveniently placed piles of building materials, collapsed road signs and so on spread around for ramping.
70* ''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'' has lots of single-car carrier trucks driving around San Francisco, none of them carrying cars. They make for perfect mobile ramps.
71* Finding suitable launching-off spots is half the fun of offroading with the [[CoolCar Regalia Type-D]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV''. Note that hardly any of these were planned as such when the game was first released, but environmental landmarks and hazards like meteor craters, cliffs, scenic rock formations, and even ''campsites'' suddenly became instant-ramps for the monster truck's slo-mo "Big Jumps."
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75* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p37 these]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p33 three]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p23 examples]] and gives us the page quote.
76* ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'' shows us [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/478 our heroes' mode of exit from the park.]]
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80* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': In "The Ice Pop Trio", while riding their bikes to the Duck Mart, Craig, Sparkle Cadet, and Cannonball run into the creek, and Craig builds a makeshift ramp to jump across it with rocks, twigs, and a wooden board. It breaks after Cannonball--the last to use it--uses it.
81* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode "Mystery Of the Lizard Men'': while escaping enemy agents in the Sargasso Sea, Race Bannon and his pursuers both use an overturned boat as a ramp to jump their boats high in the air. The 2nd time, Race uses it to turn his hydrofoil into a deadly weapon.
82* Gwen in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' makes her own ramp out of Anodite magic.
83* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited episode, ''[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E6DoubleDate "Double Date"]],'' during a car chase The Question and Huntress (in The Question's GTO) jump up to a raised section of road using the ramp of a car carrier trailer and Black Canary and Green Arrow follow suit on Canary's motorcycle.
84-->'''Green Arrow:''' [[LampshadeHanging This is so unnecessary.]]
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