History Main / PedestrianCrushesCar

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'', one of the gangster cars flips after hitting a BabyCarriage; the baby was just that big.
** Then Souza flips the last gangster car off a bridge... by tripping it with her foot.

A [[ArtisticLicenseMartialArts martial artist]] may punch through a door without breaking their hand and if a {{super hero}} can [[{{Trainstopping}} stop a locomotive]] by standing in front of it, don't expect a lighter vehicle to survive. Motorcycles? Not a chance. Automobiles? Straight to the junkyard. Aircraft? Not if there's a {{flying brick}}. Metal siding crumples like tinfoil, engines get tossed aside, frames crumple, and passengers will be stunned.

* Orion of the "ComicBook/{{NewGods}}" pulls this off while "helping" to arrest some bank robbers. [[https://i.imgur.com/br9kmis.jpg It does't hurt him, but knocks out the diver and front seat passenger]]

* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', when the Mexican man finds TheSpearOfDestiny, he walks onto a road and a car runs into him. The car is totaled, the man is unscathed.
* In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', The Thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SDZ9Gz-KE#t=01m25s clobbers a semi-truck]] to save someone.
* ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kA0tg8hudw punches a oncoming car with his stone fist]] to save a man lying on the road, causing it to flip over them both.

* The ''{{Film/Carrie}}'' remake has Carrie pull it off by telekinesis: instead of Billy Nolan's car crashing into the pedestrian, it crashes onto an unseen wall of telekinetic force in front of her. For the record, the novel and the original adaptation just have the car forced to drive off-road and crash into something else.
* A variation in movie version of ''Literature/NightWatch''. When TheHero is in trouble and the backup team rushes to the rescue in a truck, they almost run [[BigBad Zabulon]] over. (It was an accident, they were ignoring traffic lights and he just happened to cross the road.) Zabulon protects himself with a magical barrier, but instead of crushing the truck he flips it over his head, making it spin in midair, land on wheels undamaged and continue at full speed.
* ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'' subverts this with Hongo Takeshi (the titular first Rider) merely leaving a handprint on a truck while saving a girl. In the sequel ''Film/KamenRiderTheNext'' this is also invoked - he stops a car from moving without any overt damage, but then one of the buggers tries to hit him with a motorcycle, and he ''tears the front wheel off'' in response.
* ''Nuit Blanche'': in a romantic example, a car cannot keep lovers apart in this exquisite short film. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh7cIs4TuRE here]].
* ''Film/SuperheroMovie'' has the protagonist smash into a truck unharmed while shoving an elderly woman out of the way.[[spoiler:..and accidentally into a nearby [[BlackComedy wood chipper]].]]
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Comicbook/{{Superman}} gets hit by the [[CoolCar Batmobile]] going at full speed. [[NoSell Clark doesn't budge]], but the Batmobile is badly damaged and crashes.

-->-- '''Film/{{Hellboy}}'''

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has the episode "Salvage", which starts out with a car being almost cleaved in half after running into someone.
* A recurring bit on ''{{Series/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 ''Series/LoisAndClark'' a pre-Superman 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 ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'', a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] wandering around New York city is hit by a car; he suffers no injury, but the car is badly damaged.
* One ''Series/{{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.
* The Netflix series ''[[Series/LukeCage2016 Luke Cage]]'' starring the eponymous hero has him do this to an SUV by standing in its way.
* In ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'', the metahuman villains Gorilla Grodd and Griffi Grey do this
* ''[[Series/JessicaJones2015 Jessica Jones]]'' has a heavily downplayed version. The heroine does stop a car, but only a part of the front hood is damaged. Another variation occurs where a truck runs her over. Jessica's ribs are broken, the truck's engine is wrecked, aka a non-lethal MutualKill.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 2, Episode 3, Penny saves Ruby from an oncoming truck by pushing her out of the way and then stopping the truck with her bare hands. The truck gets away with only a dented hood, and Penny is uninjured [[spoiler: save for the skin on her hands being shredded, [[RoboticReveal revealing metal underneath]].]]

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* ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p12/ this scene]] of Dr. [=McLuchador=] punching a speeding hatchback into a lamppost, doing what a whole gang of bad dudes couldn't: intercept a delivery of a lot of super-expensive pizza.

* The Netflix series Luke Cage starring the eponymous hero has him do this to an SUV by standing in its way.
* In The Flash, the metahuman villains Gorilla Grodd and Griffi Grey do this
* Jessica Jones has a heavily downplayed version. The heroine does stop a car, but only a part of the front hood is damaged. Another variation occurs where a truck runs her over. Jessica's ribs are broken, the truck's engine is wrecked, aka a non-lethal MutualKill.

* In Volume 2, Episode 3 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Penny saves Ruby from an oncoming truck by pushing her out of the way and then stopping the truck with her bare hands. The truck gets away with only a dented hood, and Penny is uninjured [[spoiler: save for the skin on her hands being shredded, [[RoboticReveal revealing metal underneath]].]]
** In the second skit of ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' Season 3 Episode 11, Ruby [[DrivesLikeCrazy completely loses control]] of the car Taiyang [[DrivingTestSmashers is teaching her to drive]], eventually careening headlong into Penny by accident. The actual collision isn't shown, since the scene stops just before it with Penny's reflection showing up on the windshield [[FreezeFrameBonus for a split second]], but since the last shot of the skit is an in-universe InMemoriam for the totaled car, a result similar to the above-mentioned scene from the main series is ''heavily'' implied.

* In ''Film/FantasticFour'', The Thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SDZ9Gz-KE#t=01m25s clobbers a semi-truck]] to save someone.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has a Ryu {{Expy}} escaping from his arcade cabinet and going on a rampage across town. In a ShoutOut to Street Fighter and Final Fight, he comes across a car and he proceeds to wreck it to get extra points. The owner even falls to the floor and mutters "Oh! My car!" [[spoiler: his father then says nonchalantly that he can just buy him a new one. "Oh, I love being rich!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': This is how the girls destroy the Smiths' car.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Powerpuff Girls}}'': This is how the girls destroy the Smiths' car.

* Superman's cousin ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' has also done this time and again, either intentionally or unintentionally.
** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/3/33/Supergirl_Vol_2_17.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081031045918 In the cover]] of ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} Supergirl Vol. 2]]'' #17, a car crashes into Supergirl. She said them "Stop", but they didn't listen.
** This is even part of the introduction story of the post-Crisis Supergirl in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.
** In the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/22/Supergirl_v.5_10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062513 cover]] of ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2005}} Supergirl Vol. 5]]'' #10, another car crashes into Kara while she's standing in the middle of the road.
** Variant in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth #1'', in which Kara breaks several cars while she's trying to learn how to drive.
** ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn'': As soon as Supergirl's villain Nightflame steps into the physical world, a car moves in on her, and the woman crushes the vehicle.

* The ''Fanfic/CoreLine'' one-shot story ''Fanfic/CLINEOhCrap'' gives us the "Supergirl Roadstop". It's never really said whether this is an example of InUniverse lingo or an AttackPatternAlpha-nevertheless, it's the invocation of this trope for intimidation factor (and trying to force whoever is on the car to stop). Emphasis here on ''trying''-the poor bastard of a runaway con that the super heroine is trying to stop stole a car of which the brakes die right when he tries to stop, forcing the super heroine to try other methods.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' 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.

** This is even part of the introduction story of the post-Crisis Supergirl in ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.

* ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'' subverts this with Hongo Takeshi (the titular first Rider) merely leaving a handprint on a truck while saving a girl. In the sequel ''KamenRiderTheNext'' this is also invoked - he stops a car from moving without any overt damage, but then one of the buggers tries to hit him with a motorcycle, and he ''tears the front wheel off'' in response.

** This is even part of the introduction story of the post-Crisis Supergirl in ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman #8''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.

* The revenge-seeking Ivan Vanko in ''Film/IronMan2'' rips apart UsefulNotes/FormulaOne cars with high-tech energy whips ''during a race', just to reach Tony Stark.

** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/3/33/Supergirl_Vol_2_17.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081031045918 In the cover of Supergirl vol. 2 #17]], a car crashes into Supergirl. She said them "Stop", but they didn't listen.

** In the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/22/Supergirl_v.5_10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062513 cover]] of Supergirl vol. 5 #10, another car crashes into Kara while she's standing in the middle of the road.

* ComicBook/TheHulk is a giant green behemoth, yet [[TooDumbToLive people seem to think]] he can be taken out by cars that are ''smaller than him!'' The opposite tends to happen.

* [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/supergirl-meets-a-truck-302151529 In this fanart]], ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} meets a truck. Said truck didn't survive the meeting.

* [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/supergirl-meets-a-truck-302151529In this fanart]], ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} meets a truck. Said truck didn't survive the meeting.

** This is even part of the introduction story of the post-Crisis version of Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} (i.e. the one who is Kal-El's Kryptonian cousin). Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.

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