Line #15 PlayingWith/EveryCarIsAPinto


1	'''Basic Trope''': Cars in movieland explode with regularity.
2	* '''Straight''': A car crashes and bursts into flames. [[FreeWheel A single flaming wheel rolls out of the wreckage.]]
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** A car explodes in a Hiroshima-like fashion when its bumper is lightly touched.
5	** Every car is literally a Pinto.
6	* '''Downplayed''': A car explodes after taking some unusual punishment (Rocket launcher, [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Spitball]]...)
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** The car is... well... a Pinto.
9	** Alternately, there's unstable explosives in the trunk.
10	** The car is a Morris Marina, and it's on ''Series/TopGearUK''.
11	** It's a dystopian future where people race, and the overseer of the races [[ExternalCombustion rig the cars to explode]] if they're rendered non-operational.
12	** The car runs on an exotic future fuel rather than gas, which happens to be highly touchy and reactive.
13	** The setting is a country which has poor manufacturing/product safety standards and strongly discourages imports for political reasons.
14	** The bad guys are attacking the cars with explosive and incendiary weapons.
15	* '''Inverted''':
16	** The car doesn't explode, but whatever it hits ''does''.
17	** Or when the car crashes, it implodes and either pops out of existence or becomes a tiny black hole.
18	** Even when a car is hit by an explosive incendiary rocket it simply falls to a pile of parts with /maybe/ a clean hole through window or the glass shatering.
19	* '''Subverted''': A car explodes when shot. Turns out it was used as a MolotovTruck and packed full of dynamite which was set off prematurely by one of the bullets.
20	* '''Double Subverted''': But it turns out that the car really did just explode on its own.
21	* '''Parodied''':
22	** A RunningGag has all sorts of vehicles exploding when they crash -- a bicycle, a baby stroller, a horse...
23	** Every single car is ''actually'' a Ford Pinto.
24	** A pinto ''horse'' crashes and explodes.
25	** A pinto ''bean'' explodes.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''': The car is subject of a rocambolesque series of incidents, and everytime we expect it to explode. Instead, it ''never'' explodes, while other things do. In the end, the owner comments that the car didn't explode because it was short of fuel. While putting in some gasoline, it inexplicabily explodes.
27	* '''Averted''': The car never blows up despite taking extreme damage from a crash.
28	* '''Enforced''': "Directed by Creator/MichaelBay".
29	* '''Lampshaded''': "[[DeadpanSnarker I]] do not understand why every car [[TheHero you]] drive must inevitably explode."
30	* '''Invoked''':
31	** A PostModernMagick wizard DoingResearch to create a ritual that temporarily enhances a firearm to be able to detonate fuel tanks.
32	** A MadScientist uses MadScience to produce an exotic projectile weapon that has "detonating fuel tanks it fires at" as an explicit feature.
33	* '''Exploited''':
34	** An explosive car is used as a MolotovTruck.
35	** When a beast that can only be killed with fire leaps onto the back of his car, our quick-thinking hero lets it career over a cliff, jumping out JustInTime to watch it plummet to the bottom and roast the monster to death.
36	* '''Defied''': The car is an actual Ford Pinto and is either destroyed without an explosion (''Film/TheBluesBrothers'') or a scene looks like the Pinto's destruction is imminent, but it's either avoided or cut away from (''Film/{{Super 8}}'').
37	* '''Discussed''':
38	** "What are you looking at?" "I'm waiting for it to blow up. They always blow up."
39	** A detective points out a hole in a claim of accidental death by pointing out "cars don't just explode like that."
40	* '''Conversed''': "Why does everything always have to blow up? As if a car plummeting off a cliff and being smashed to bits wasn't dramatic enough!"
41	* '''Deconstructed''': Cars are no longer used as transport -- everyone takes the subway because they're afraid of blowing up. Car races still exist, but they're a DeadlyGame played by {{Condemned Contestant}}s, because every minor collision results in a fireball. Veteran players are almost all covered in horrific burn scars from the past wrecks they miraculously survived.
42	* '''Reconstructed''': Even though cars have been banned by a government worried about the death toll, illicit gangs of petrolheads still drive at top speed along clifftops, driving convertibles and wearing parachutes.
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46	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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48	%%* '''Implied''': ???
49	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
50	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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