You're catching up the other guy's vehicle with your
Cool Car, but he won't let that happen since he's a
Mook or doesn't want to lose the
Wacky Race so he's gonna smash his car against yours, and he's prepared, he's put
spikes on his wheels that now work effectively as a
Drill and will tear yours to shreds on contact. A must have for Roman chariots.
Commonly called Boudica spikes (at least in the UK) after the "Queen" that fought against the occupying Romans in England around 60AD.
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Examples:
Comic Books
- In Asterix and the Black Gold, Roman secret agent Dubbleosix's tricked out chariot has retractable scythe blade.
Film
- Most Triumphant Example would be the Ben Hur Chariot Race. This is also the Trope Codifier.
- James Bond had a car that popped retractable barbed spikes from the center of his wheels that destroyed enemy tires, originally used on the Aston Martin in Goldfinger.
- Used on Gladiator to cut a fighter's legs.
- Taken to an extreme in the Speed Racer movie, where, well 1:57.
- Happens in Grease.
- It happens in the 1993 The Little Rascals movie during the go cart race scene. The resident Spoiled Brat uses his money-fueled machine to take out Alfalfa's new MacGyvered car.
- The movie Death Race (2008or9) had this in abundance, with one vehicle having large enough spikes to go through the car door and kill the people inside.
Live Action TV
- CSI New York ran into such a car (using Frickin Laser Beams to evade the police), and James Bond is explicitly referenced.
- Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson attempts to make a better police car by adding some Boudicea spikes on the back wheels. It doesn't work exactly as planned, mainly because he didn't center them properly thus causing epic wheel wobble.
Real Life
Tabletop Games
- In the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game, chariots of some races get upgraded with these, increasing the number of enemies they can run down when they charge.
Video Games
- Some enemies in Spy Hunter can use these to help force your car off the road.
- in Sants Row 2 you can buy them for you cars.
Western Animation
Anime and Manga
- Bommer (Greiger in the dub) of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds has the trap card Chariot Pile with art work featuring a bike with Spiked Wheels. When activated during a Riding Duel, actual spiked wheels appeared on his own D-Wheel.
