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-->--Jonah Heston, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E04Avalanche Avalanche]]"

* In the reboot of ''{{VideoGame/SSX}}'', there is a dedicated Rewind button[[note]]L1 on UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, LB on Xbox 360[[/note]]. When you hold the button, as you're supposed to do, you can reverse time, allowing you a do-over when you get stuck, fall off a cliff, and so on. However, if you merely tap the button, the game goes into slo-mo, which creates a cinematic effect when you're doing crazy tricks or dodging obstacles.

* Invoked in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', when [[BloodKnight Sarge's]] suggestion on how to break through enemy lines is to ramp over the bad guys with an "adrenaline-fueled, slow-motion car crash."

** Go's third upgrade, Beat Magnum, is equipped with a motoocross bike's-esque suspension system, causing it to jump like mad upon slopes. This is effective considering his main rival at time, [[KnifeNut Carlo's Diosparda]], is so obsessive in [[ItMakesSenseInContext stabbing knives into the rear of the car.]]

* ''Der Clown – Payday''. Not only do all cars that are sent flying in this movie adaptation of a German action show perform corkscrews and other insane maneuvers in slow motion—the heroes even manage to drive their minivan out of town after it flew some 10 feet high, spun around, smashed hard into the concrete, and rolled over, a stunt which would lead to [[EveryCarIsAPinto the immediate explosion of the car]] in many Hollywood flicks.

* As one might guess, ''Film/TheMatrix'' trilogy loves this trope. It's subverted once in the first movie when Morpheus demonstrates the roof-to-roof jump to Neo. He covers so much height and distance that a slow-mo would be needless.
** Notwithstanding the RuleOfCool, this is actually an important part of the plot. Every time the action goes into Slo-Mo Big Air, it represents a character bending the reality of the Matrix. The reason it wasn't used during the jump program is that Neo wasn't able to separate from the Matrix at that point, so he saw it happen in real time. There are little tastes of it during the initial martial arts battle (which is why Morpheus decided it was time for the jump program) and in the jump itself, where he almost got a handle on it right at the jump but then fell in real time because he failed to free his mind at that point. Notice on the rooftop scene that, from Trinity's perspective, Agent Jones dodges all of Neo's gunshots in real time, but when Neo does the same to Agent Jones's bullets, the time shift represents Neo freeing his consciousness from the Matrix so he can perceive it slowly enough to get out of the way (almost). The same is true in the beginning when Trinity runs across the walls, and during such events as the helicopter rescue of Morpheus and the fight in the subway station.

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' had this in their Bluesmobile. Some say it was because they were on a MissionFromGod. Apparently, the director said "[[AWizardDidIt It's just a magic car!]]".

** Also, it zig-zags up and down while in the air.

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* The Interceptor in the 2001 ''SpyHunter'' game has a turbo boost which results in this if used while approaching a ramp (or other suitable terrain.)

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* In PVP the characters wished for General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard - and it occasionally reappears as a Running Gag.
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