History Main / RampJump

* The Batmobile they introduce in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is an example. Or maybe a subversion. Or exaggeration... it's hard to say. Anyway, its entrance into the Batcave is by jumping across a small chasm through a waterfall, and it has several scenes where it jumps and drives across rooftops. When they first show it, it's explained that it was designed to make a no-ramp jump for crossing rivers with a cable in order to build temporary bridges.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Homer ''trying'' to jump over Springfield Gorge on a skateboard. His descent into the gorge (and the hijinks that ensue when medical help tries to get him out) is one of the show's most famous moments.

** Homer and Bart try to jump the gorge on a motorcycle at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''. They come up short, but Bart uses his slingshot to snag a protruding rock and catapult them to safety on the far side. They land next to the ambulance that crashed trying to get Homer to the hospital the first time around.

** Homer and Bart successfully jump the gorge on a motorcycle at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', and roll past the ambulance that crashed trying to get Homer to the hospital the first time around.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Homer ''trying'' to jump over Springfield Gorge on a skateboard. His descent into the pit (and the hijinks that ensue when medical help tries to get him out) is one of the show's most famous moments.

* The good guys in ''Der Clown – Payday'' pull a ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974''-style pamp jump over a RoadBlock of police cars. In [[SloMoBigAir slow motion]], of course. In contrast to most other movies, including ''Gone in 60 Seconds'', their car does a corkscrew in mid-air. In contrast to most cars flying corkscrews, it still runs afterwards! The ramp, by the way, is a piece of helicopter scrap that [[ArtisticLicensePhysics doesn't budge when a minivan races over it]].

Unfortunately (as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2769&v=KmEK6JUCuUo proven]] by ''Series/MythBusters''), a Ramp Jump is nowhere ''near'' as easy to execute as it looks in fiction: The car should ideally land with all four wheels hitting the ground simultaneously, but in RealLife, the vehicle will tend to pitch downwards in flight, causing it to hit the ground nose first (instead of on all fours) with an impact force similar to any other head-on impact: Severe damage to the car's engine and frame (doubly so for sports cars, whose frames are specifically ''designed'' to crumple on impact [[note]]because softening the blow of impact makes the crash less deadly to the driver/passengers[[/note]]), which leaves the car in a more or less inoperable state.

* The good guys in ''Der Clown – Payday'' pull a ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974''-style RampJump over a RoadBlock of police cars. In [[SloMoBigAir slow motion]], of course. In contrast to most other movies, including ''Gone in 60 Seconds'', their car does a corkscrew in mid-air. In contrast to most cars flying corkscrews, it still runs afterwards! The ramp, by the way, is a piece of helicopter scrap that [[ArtisticLicensePhysics doesn't budge when a minivan races over it]].

* ''Series/TopGear'' Stuntman has attempted a few of these, with mixed results. And the original Stig (of sainted memory) met his end when he did one of these off an aircraft carrier. He used [[NitroBoost nitrous]].
** One particularly awesome example was a RampJump off a ski ramp... in a snowmobile.
** An awesome ski jump was done with a (unmanned) rocket-powered Austin Mini.