History Main / TooFastToStop

-->'''Ratso:''' [[SuperSpeed I'll kick your butt in fast-forward!]] ''(runs at El Toro, who moves one step to the right and lets Ratso [[BullfightBoss slam into a wall]])'' Gotta work on the brakes.
-->-- ''JackieChanAdventures''

* In the ''RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', you can't stop or steer at all for the first couple of seconds after you activate the [[SprintShoes Charge Boots]], making it easy to fly off a cliff it there's one anywhere nearby. Later games had you regain control sooner, but there's still a risk.

* In the ''[[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando]]'', you can't stop or steer at all for the first couple of seconds after you activate the [[SprintShoes Charge Boots]], making it easy to fly off a cliff it there's one anywhere nearby. Later games had you regain control sooner, but there's still a risk.

* In an episode of ''TheFlash'' series, a scientist is trying to create a super-speedster, but his test subjects burn up when they accelerate, indicating that not only do they lack speed-resistant cells of the Flash, but the subjects can't slow down either, as only an idiot keeps running if they are overheating. He solves the problem by cloning the Flash.

* A speedy contractor from ''DarkerThanBlack'' once bumped into a tree and was [[spoiler: killed]] when he ran into a rainstorm.
* Captain Kuro of ''OnePiece'' is an interesting case while using his [[FlashStep Shakushi]] attack. He seems to be perfectly capable of stopping himself whenever he wants(though we never see it because Luffy always manages to stop him first), but the attack makes Kuro too fast to see where he's going or who he's attacking, so he's basically "Too Fast ''To Know When'' To Stop".

* During their B-Rank promotion test in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Teana piggy-backed on Subaru while the latter roller-bladed to the finish line at full speed. Teana then asked the dreaded question on how they were supposed to stop. Cue looks of horror as they headed straight to a barricade.

** This was also the cause of Black Stig's "death" after he attempted to reach 100 mph and stop on an aircraft carrier. He mistakenly reached 109 before breaking, and plummeted into the ocean, leaving only a single black glove...

* In ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', [[StarFox Fox, Falco, Wolf]], [[FireEmblem Ike]], [[Pokemon Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Lucario, Squirtle]], [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]], and [[WarioWare Wario]] all have special moves where they dash forwards. All of them can easily shoot off of a cliff and be unable to recover, since the forward specials count as the one allowed recovery move.

* This isn't normally a problem for Sonic in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series, but in his appearance in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'', it's the major downpoint of playing as him. All of his attacks have a chance of sling shotting him right off the screen and to death, at least without some practice.
** Not true whatsoever. Other than in midair, during which, by the way, he can't move nearly as fast, the only attack he has that actually "slides" while he's running is his upsmash. And even then, it stops if it hits a ledge.
** Wearing the Bunny Hood, which makes him faster than normal, can make him run so fast he runs faster than a moving platform that just by touching almost always OHKO's you, and then will be able to run off the screen... on the side opposite that of the where 99% of the other kills occur.
*** Oh and in addition, he still skids quite a bit on his various games, if you build up enough speed first.
*** To explain that a bit - the stage in question is a side-view of an [[FZero F-Zero]] race, with the cars as slower-moving platforms the fighting takes place on. The ''road'', on the other hand, is constantly rushing past, and touching it will quickly suck you off to the left (and a quick self-kill due to moving out of bounds). Sonic with the Bunny Hood can run fast enough to outstrip the road's scroll and self-kill off the ''right'' blast line.
** Jigglypuff's Roll Out attack also has this problem, specifically when charged up to maximum in one of the smaller stages, as she tends to speed off the platform with too much momentum to recover and float back. However, if used on the ground, it's simple to reverse direction before going off the edge. In fact, if you hit the stick any time before you're in midair, it will never "skid off" the edge, instead turning on a dime on the corner.
** You're forgetting about Fox, Falco, and Wolf, I've accidentally gone off the edge with those characters so many times using their side specials.
*** Which, incidentally, is the most maddening thing about any stage during the BossRush that is off the ground. Any time you use the side+b as one of them, you are in danger of falling off and being unable to do anything. And heaven help you if you are P1 and your partner is eying you in an annoyed fashion.
** The official website for ''Brawl'' recommends against using Wario's motorcycle in Wario-Man form for exactly this reason.
*** The idea is to [[CarFu start it, jump off quick and watch it fly into your foes]].

* A speedy contractor from ''DarkerThanBlack'' once bumped into a tree.

* In any game where a "speed up" or "(insert character name here) moves faster" cheat is discovered and used via a Gameshark, Action Replay or some other cheat device, the result is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says on the cheat]] and the character moves to '''incredible''' speeds more times than not. However A) some games do this a little ''too'' well, leading to the aforementioned example above of characters crashing into walls or leap off platforms to their dooms faster than you realize what the hell you're doing, B) it is kind-of-sort-of-not-really [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says on the cheat]] where they ''are'' faster than normal, but not enough to, say, beat [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] in a footrace anytime soon, or C) it works well and you can still control the character in most cases, but ''the code caused everything else in the game to speed up'', making it harder than normal or just not worth using in the first place. [[YourMilageMayVary whether or not the code is practical tends to vary for each game that has it]]. Some games also speed up ''the rest of the game'' in addition to the character
* The 300cc and above cheat codes in MarioKart DS are exactly like this, to the point it's pretty hard to turn, and power slides actually slow you down... You also seem to take off when you hit a ramp while using it, which is never a good way to stay away from bottomless pits. There's also the Aero Glider, which has the effects of this trope not purely due to speed, but because it's stats for handling and drift are awful, so it's like driving on ice (and hitting all the walls in the process).

* In Zone races in ''{{WipEout}} HD'', your car gradually increases in speed (no brakes!) and continues to do so until you sustain too much damage and crash.

* ''TalesOfTheQuestor'', when Quinten first puts on his new boots...

* TheFlash has been known to use this in order to defeat rival speedsters.

* In the second ''Mighty Ducks'' film, a speed skater was introduced into the team. He was extremely fast and actually quite agile and maneuverable, but he had one slight problem... which was shown when he "stopped" by hitting the boards with a splat.

*** On [[http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html#19880417 one occasion]], the cart ride would have been a perfect metaphor for their [[ContemplateOurNavels conversation about life]]... but they don't quite realise it.

-->'''Ratso:''' Invisibility ''and'' speed! I'll kick your butt in fast-forward! ''(runs at El Toro, who moves one step to the right and lets Ratso [[BullfightBoss slam into a wall]])'' Gotta work on the brakes.

* ''KimPossible'': Kim uses a pair of shoes that can move at hyperspeed to fight the Bebe robots, but when she's done and she tries to go to her school dance, she keeps overshooting. [[FridgeLogic Of course, how this can happen when her perceptions are supposed to keep up with the shoes so it looks like time has stopped for everyone but her when they're on is something of a]] WallBanger.
** RuleOfFunny this troper assumed, however the wallbanger gets worse when you realise that her second overshoot which was 'closer this time' put her all the way at the statue of liberty when all indications are that Middleton is somewhere on the west coast. One presumes her initial overshot put her somewhere on Hawai'i
** Fanon generally puts Middleton in Colorado. The first overshoot (that we see) takes her to San Francisco; the second to New York. She wants to be somewhere in between.
** For this Troper, the biggest WallBanger in that episode is that MeanwhileInTheFuture (or closely related) stuff which goes on all the time and makes one want to shout "[[TheyJustDidntCare Come on]], even as an eight year old I would've spotted ''that''!"

* Modern machine guns have such ridiculous firing rates that they can cause a "cook-off" if they get too hot. Basically the ammo being fed into the chamber is so hot the gunpowder ignites of its own accord and the firearm basically fires until it runs out of ammo. The only solution is to break the chain of ammo and let the gun cool down.

* Trains are very heavy, can go very fast, and their particular method of locomotion results in little friction. The end result is that they take about a mile to stop.

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[[caption-width:268:"Subaru, you did think about how we're going to stop, right?"]]