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* Vice-Principal Uchiyamada in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' has a very shiny Toyota Cresta that he loves very much and it gets thrashed over and over again. [[spoiler: Multiple times people attempt suicide and just happen to land on the car, it also gets stolen (by students) and driven off into Tokyo Bay.]] In its final appearance he's gotten savvy and has lashed a mattress to the roof. [[spoiler: It gets destroyed in a different way.]]

* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A pair of sisters steal a fancy red Ferrari, not realizing it belongs to an international terrorist, and chop it for parts. The man tracks them down and threatens to kill them if they don't return it pronto... with all the original parts back in place. They fail, and he does indeed kill one of them.

* Howard and his 1959 Jaguar in ''Film/TheNorthAvenueIrregulars''.

* Main character's brother's 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge in ''Film/SexDrive''.

* Happens to the yuppie's Jaguar that Jack takes with a FlashedBadgeHijack in order to catch the bus in ''Film/{{Speed}}''.

* Lt. Gruber's tanks in ''Series/AlloAllo''.
* The VillainOfTheWeek in one ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode ("Square One") is allowed to drive Jesse's Porsche Cayman under the belief that it was now his. [[spoiler:To keep Michael's client from blowing his head off, Fiona tries to make the villain flee, and reassures Jesse that she will only shoot the windhield. The guy backs up in a hurry, rips off the back bumper, and drives off. Jesse says, in an a very annoyed voice, "Just the windshield, Fi?"]]

* The Season 3 finale of ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle'' sees his treasured Pontiac GTO destroyed by a car bomb. His sidekick Des collects the salvagable pieces gets it reassembled at the beginning of Season 4.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "The Italian Bob", Homer and his family get sent to Italy to pick up Mr. Burns' new [[BlandNameProduct Lamborgotti Fasterossa]] sports car. While tooling around Italy, the car is crushed by huge wheels of Mortadella and cheese.

* Happens to Bummer's golf cart in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}!'' episode "Reef, Broseph's and Emma's Totally Stupid Adventure".

So there's this total [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] (most likely the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]] or [[JerkJock hateful schoolmate]]), see, and he has a [[CoolCar really nice car]], most likely a valuable, [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he makes one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once dare to so much as touch it, set foot near it, or even ''look at it the wrong way'', he will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

* R.L. Stine really loves his '87 Jeep Wagoneer in ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}''. When the giant praying mantis destroys it, he is visibly distraught.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' gives us a full episode where Cyborg builds a high-tech sports car from the bottom up, only to have it jacked by a couple of hoodlums, given an unwanted flame paintjob, then snatched ''again'' by the even more careless Gizmo. Cyborg finds the little pipsqueak and protests in horror at the sight of him munching down on fast food inside the car.

** Also, the shiny yellow speeder Anakin commandeered early on in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''? [[http://www.holonetnews.com/56/news/13516_5.html Was the extremely prized possession of the Republic's most corrupt senator.]]

* Knockout in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' is his ''own'' Precious Precious Car, being the unusual [[TransformingMecha car-mode]] Decepticon. He's incredibly vain and takes cosmetic damage very seriously.

* The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud owned by Paula Powers' parents in ''Film/GrandTheftAuto''. True to the film's tagline, it, like many others throughout the story, were utterly destroyed.

So there's this total [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] (most commonly the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]] or [[JerkJock hateful schoolmate]]), see, and he has a really nice car, most commonly a valuable, [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he makes one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once dare to so much as touch it, set foot near it, or even ''look at it the wrong way'', he will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

So there's this total [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] (most commonly the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]] or [[JerkJock hateful schoolmate]]), see, and he has a really nice car, most commonly a valuable, [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he makes one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once dare to so much as touch it, set foot near it, even ''look at it wrong'', he will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

So there's this total [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] (most commonly the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]] or [[JerkJock hateful schoolmate]]), see, and he has a really nice car, most commonly a valuable, [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he makes one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once so much as touch it, set foot near it, even ''look at it wrong'', he will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

# Somebody will borrow it without permission.

So there's this total [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] (most commonly the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]] or [[JerkJock hateful schoolmate]]), see, and he has a really nice car, most commonly a valuable, [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he will make one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once so much as touch it, set foot near it, even ''look at it wrong'', they will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

There's this total jerk (most commonly the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], or [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]]), see, and he has a really nice car, most commonly a valuable, [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he will make one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once so much as touch it, set foot near it, even ''look at it wrong'', they will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

There's this total jerk (most commonly the protagonist's [[ArchnemesisDad hateful father]], [[BigBrotherBully hateful older brother]], or [[CrankyNeighbor hateful neighbor]]), see, and he has a really nice car, most commonly a valuable,[[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny, red, convertible]] classic car, sports car, or classic sports car. And he worships the ground it drives on. [[TemptingFate And he will make one thing absolutely clear to the protagonist:]] that if they ever once so much as touch it, set foot near it, even ''look at it wrong'', they will rip off their testicles and use them as rollers to paint over the fingermarks they left.

There's this total jerk, see, and he has a really nice car, very possibly a [[MidlifeCrisisCar shiny red convertible]]. And he loves this car more than anything else in the world. [[TemptingFate He will make it clear to everyone]] that the car is worth more to him than all their lives put together, and they are not to touch it, go near it, even look at it wrong.

[[FinaglesLaw One of three things will inevitably happen:]]

* Series/InspectorMorse's iconic [[HerosClassic Car red Jaguar]] is hit in the pilot - ''twice!''

One of three things will inevitably happen:

** Later on in the series, Tim gets to watch as the remains of his first car are crushed at a junkyard.