Rolling Updates

---

When a pedestrian is hit by a car, they tend to suffer physical trauma; as automobiles cause more deaths than any other machine on the planet. And while that still applies to drivers, you can expect a number of pedestrians in fiction to hold their own.

If a Super Hero can stop a locomotive by standing in front of it, don't expect a measly car or motorcycle to do anything. Bicycles? Ha! Aircraft? No problem. Boats? Well, a cruise ship may still--Nope. Instead, bolts will go flying, engines smash to pieces, frames crumple, and passengers will be stunned. Bonus Points if the vehicle in question has a recognizable Impact Silhouette left behind.

Overlaps with Trainstopping, which is more about stopping a train than damaging it. Opposite of Car Fu.

---

Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Riding Bean has a scene where the Big Bad attempts to use Car Fu on Bean Bandit, who instead lifts the car off its front wheels.
• Played For Laughs, in Midori no Hibi, when Seiji's best friend, Miyahara, tells him about the rumor going around the school that says he injured his right hand by punching out a Yakuza's car!
• Majin Buu in Dragon Ball Z had some fun playing with cars during an early appearance. They weren't matchbox vehicles, but may have been Pintos.

Comic Book

• Planetary #3 has a guy attempt Car Fu on Jakita Wagner, she kicks the engine out of his vehicle (pictured).

Film - Animated

• In The Triplets Of Belleville, one of the gangster cars flips after hitting a Baby Carriage; the baby was just that big.

Films - Live Action

• Superman II. When Clark Kent walks across a street he's hit by an oncoming car. He strolls on unconcerned, but the car has extensive front end damage.
• The first Fantastic Four film has The Thing clobber a semi-truck to save someone.
• Hellboy punches a oncoming car with his stone fist to save a man lying on the road, causing it to flip over them both.
• Constantine: At the beginning, when the Mexican man finds the Spear of Destiny he walks onto a road and a car runs into him. The car is totaled, the man is unscathed.
• Iron Man 2 has the revenge-seeking Ivan Vanko ripping apart Formula One cars during a race to get at Tony Stark.

Literature

• In The War Against The Chtorr, don't expect you or your car to survive ramming a Chtorran gastropede.

Live Action TV

• The X Files has the episode "Salvage", which starts out with a car being almost cleaved in half after running into someone.
• A recurring bit on Smallville when young Clark Kent saves a pedestrian from being hit by a car or bus, which crumples around Clark.
• In the first episode of Lois And Clark a pre-Suprman Clark stops a city bus from hitting a pedestrian. After the event, the bus driver gets out to check on the bus and sees Clark's handprint in the metal of the bus.
• In one episode of The Tenth Kingdom, a troll wandering around New York city is hit by a car; he suffers no injury, but the car is badly damaged.
• One Tosh0 episode had a Web Redemption for a man who got hit by an ice cream truck while dancing in the middle of a street. It ended with the man starring in a music video where an ice cream truck hits him again only to get demolished instead.

Video Games

• Street Fighter II has a minigame where characters can beat up a car with their bare fists and there's a time limit.

Western Animation

• In the Looney Tunes short "Dough Ray Me-ow", a parrot tries to kill a cat by having him play in the railroad track as the train is coming. The train is totaled in the collision, but the cat steps out with nary a scratch.
• In one Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner cartoon, Wile E. is hit so hard by a truck that he leaves a hole through it.

---

Indexes: Fight Scene, Motor Vehicle Tropes, Superhero Tropes