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* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' accidentally lands on top of Enzo's car when chasing an angel who has kidnapped him, crushing the car due to her SuperStrength. Enzo is not at all happy with the development, and even Bayonetta's face clearly screams "Oops."
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'' takes this up to 11 when Bayonetta does this to a fighter jet in the introduction. Kicking it from a dive right at her into a straight vertical climb, [[IBrokeANail and then complaining when her dress got ripped in the ensuing fight]].
* The first ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' game has a {{minigame}} where characters can beat up a car with their bare fists '''and there's a time limit'''. Later used for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', where it's probably more well-known -- though it doesn't have the hapless owner showing up and breaking down in despair.
** The car minigame makes a return in ''[[VideoGame/{{StreetFighterIV}} Super Street Fighter IV]]'', and as an EasterEgg, the car's owner will show up if a ''Final Fight'' character (Guy or Cody, as well as Rolento, Hugo, or Poison in ''Ultra SFIV'') is the one who breaks it.

* In ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'', if the campers get a car going, one of the few ways Jason can stop them from escaping is by teleporting in front of the vehichle, which causes it to crash (and forces the driver to get out, giving Jason an opportunity to kill them).

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. This trope is occasionally also used as a gag to show just how monstrously fat a character is.

* In ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'', Jake and Marco start to suspect their friend Erek isn't quite human when they see him jump into the street to rescue a dog and wreck a truck when it crashes into him.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'', Crankcase tries to ram the much larger Thunderwing while in vehicle mode. He ends up wrecking himself against Thunderwing’s leg, to no effect. While Crankcase survives the experience (despite being left for dead), it's possibly the reason he's got an unrepaired head injury when he showed up in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''.

* ''Anime/RidingBean'' has a scene where the BigBad attempts to run down Bean Bandit, only for him to not only stop her car cold by shoulder-checking it, but ''lift it right off its front wheels!''

** 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.

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

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': When stopping the lead police car after the cops fail to even attempt to look into a lead when the reporter who tipped them off wasn't waiting at the door of a gang's hidden base Di takes special care not to crush the car. She lets it push her backwards until she's slowed it to a stop to ask the police what's going on, and is understandably unimpressed.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumberOne'', Superman stops a car with his bare hands before lifting and smashing it into a rock.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'', Crankcase tries to ram the much larger Thunderwing while in vehicle mode. He ends up wrecking himself against Thunderwing’s leg, to no effect.

* 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]]
* ComicBook/IncredibleHulk 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. Then again, due to his NighInvulnerable body, buses, trucks, tanks, even planes and train end up getting destroyed crashing into him.

* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'' Jerom frequently does this, either intentionally or unintentionally, to stop other characters from getting away. He doesn't even have to actively run or slam into the car; just standing his ground and let the car hit him is enough.

* Yuma's introduction in ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' features him walking away from a car crash. The car, of course, hit ''him''.

* Yor from ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'' dealt with the mastermind of an assassination plot by jumping in front of his car and kicking it on the side so hard, it crashes by the side of the road.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Wonder Woman intercepts a couple of bank robbers this way. She was trying to take a day off, and thus in civilian attire. The driver of the robbers' car, seeing her standing there, [[CarFu accelerates to try to run her over]]. She punches the hood of the car so hard both driver and passenger are ejected through the windshield and sent slamming into a nearby bus.

** The car minigame makes a return in ''[[VideoGame/{{StreetFighterIV}} Super Street Fighter IV]]'', and as an EasterEgg, the car's owner will show up if Guy or Cody (or Rolento, Hugo, or Poison in ''Ultra SFIV'') is the one who breaks it.

* On Smackdown Wrestling/BobbyLashley turned over a car with intent to crush Finlay during a brawl between the two that spilled into a parking lot.

* The usual superpowered version is subverted in ''Literature/WildCards'' -- Golden Boy tries to stop a car by blocking its path, and [[RealityEnsues simply gets knocked clear]] [[NighInvulnerable without much effect on him]] or the vehicle.

* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', This is Kenshiro's method of {{Trainstopping}} in order to save the villagers from Gyoko.

* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' #3 has a guy attempt CarFu on [[SuperStrength Jakita]] [[SuperSpeed Wagner]], she kicks the engine out of his vehicle (pictured).

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' has more variations on this than can be counted.

* Superman's cousin ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' has also done this time and again, either intentionally or unintentionally.

* In ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' this was part of [[BloodKnight Gaou]]'s backstory: He was hit by a car when he was [[CreepyChild a little boy]]. [[SarcasmMode Naturally,]] [[MadeOfIron the car took more damage than he did]].

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #1, Superman stops a car with his bare hands before lifting and smashing it into a rock.

* ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine:'' Fembot Diane gets hit by a small convertable and strolls away undamaged, with the car taking a massive dent to its front end.

* ''Film/DoctorGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine:'' Fembot Diane gets hit by a small convertable and strolls away undamaged, with the car taking a massive dent to its front end.

* 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.

* ComicBook/IncredibleHulk 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.