History Main / LowSpeedChase

* A commercial for winter tires once featured cops trying to chase a pair of thieves in a snowstorm so thick that both vehicles are unable to move... and the guy in each passenger seat is trying to get the vehicle moving with a push.

* ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'' has a hilarious ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding variant in which both the hero and the NaziGrandpa BigBad, Von Zimmel, find themselves in a hospital after falling off an InevitableWaterfall. Von Zimmel, who wasn't too injured, escapes using a walker, while OSS 117 is more severely unjured and tethered to a transfusion rig (which he also uses as a walking stick), and 117's butt is naked. Cue very slow pursuit with the appropriate spy movie chase music.

* In ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover'' Chief Dunby reveals at the briefing at the beginning of the game that the dangerous and high-profile criminal Rex Fury tried to escape using a lawnmower as a getaway car. The scene shows that said lawnmower was travelling around walking speed and held up the highway while there were cops using cars to try and apprehend him.

* The ''WesternAnimation/VivaPinata'' cartoon had a chase on really slow-moving forklifts.

* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Film/Deadpool2016'' when Deadpool cripples one of the BigBad's associates on a hockey rink and chases him down on a Zamboni to make the whole thing as [[ComedicSociopathy comedically sociopathic]] as possible. It even switches camera angles to reveal that instead of being right on top of the doomed minion, as it originally seemed, Deadpool and the Zamboni are still halfway across the rink from him.

* The stair lift chase in ''[[Film/DerWixxer Neues vom Wixxer]]''. It even ends in an [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Stairlift is a Pinto]] moment.

* ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'' has a hilarious ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding variant in which both the hero and the NaziGrandpa BigBad, Von Zimmel, find themselves in a hospital after falling off an InevitableWaterfall. Von Zimmel, who wasn't too injured, escapes using a walker, while OSS 117 is more severely unjured and tethered to a transfusion rig (which he also uses as a walking stick). Cue very slow pursuit with the appropriate spy movie chase music.

* In ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'', the hero finds the NaziGrandpa BigBad in a hospital, as both are injured (the hero is tethered to a transfusion rig which he also uses as a walking stick). Cue very slow pursuit with the appropriate chase music.

* In ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'', the hero finds the Nazi bad guy in a hospital, as both are injured (the hero is tethered to a transfusion rig which he also uses as a walking stick). Cue very slow pursuit with the appropriate chase music.

* The Music/LittleBig music video MOUSTACHE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JOyTf1q6gE features a very slow mobility scooter chase on the beach. After a while, one of the pursuers gets up from the scooter, slowly walks up to the lead vehicle and turns it off.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Team Rocket steal Whitney's Clefairy and flee to the station only to find that the trains aren't running. They attempt to escape [[HandcarPursuit by pumping a manual cart]], but it is so slow a bewildered-looking Pikachu is able to stroll along beside them.

* {{Downplayed|Trope}} but just as played for laughs as any other example in ''Film/KnivesOut'', where [[spoiler:Marta and Ransom]] end up in a car chase against the police that exceeds the speed limit... at best. The car only manages to reach 60 miles per hour while flooring it while the police are booking it at 80 miles per hour, and at one point, the driver resorts to [[DodgeByBraking braking hard so they shoot ahead as they try to turn away]]. When they do end up caught, one of the officers laments "That... [[WorstWhateverEver was the dumbest car chase of all time]]."

* A dramatic example in ''Film/SnakeEyes'' as a badly beaten Santoro staggers away to try and find the girl his former friend Dunne is hoping to kill. Dunne, knowing he'll lead him right to the girl, simply walks calmly after him.

* ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'': In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/WaterWaterEveryHare", Bugs is being chased by a MadScientist when a large jar of ether breaks. They go through the vapors and start running and talking in slow-motion.

-->-- '''Crow T. Robot''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "''Film/SpaceMutiny''"

* ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery'': Austin and Vanessa make their escape in a steamroller. Made extra ridiculous when [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy a guard]] standing about fifty feet away from them stands right in their path for about thirty seconds, repeatedly screaming "[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOO!]]" as they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UFQWKjy_I very slowly approach, and eventually flatten him.]]

* In a Soviet movie ''Film/BewareOfTheCar'' the LovableRogue protagonist is fleeing in his car from a motorcycle cop when he enters a school zone with a very low speed limit. He is a criminal, but he also loves kids, and therefore slows down. Fortunately for him, the cop also loves kids. For a minute they are moving at a snail speed, while school kids run around them in circles and a bicycle (not subject to the same regulations as motor vehicles) speeds by. For [[RuleOfFunny some reason]] the cop does not think of stopping his motorcycle and just walking toward the criminal.

* Invoked in ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' where Deadpool cripples one of the BigBad's associates on a hockey rink and chases him down on a Zamboni to make the whole thing as [[ComedicSociopathy comedically sociopathic]] as possible. It even switches camera angles to reveal that instead of being right on top of the doomed minion, as it originally seemed, Deadpool and the Zamboni are still halfway across the rink from him.

* The stair lift chase in the German movie ''[[Film/DerWixxer Neues vom Wixxer]]''. It even ends in an [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Stairlift is a Pinto]] moment.

* In ''Film/YearOne'' after having killed Abel, Cain flees in a very slow ox-drawn cart, pursued by another slow oxcart. People walking pass them.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]" features a motorised tricycle on which the Doctor and Jo attempt to escape from the Ogrons (because Jon Pertwee had thought the tricycle was [[RuleOfCool cool]]) — which, again, doesn't appear to go notably faster than walking speed.

** Done deliberately and non-comically in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]". The Veil doesn't move fast, but the Doctor can only run so far, can't hide from it, and it never stops coming. He works out that if he lures it to one side of the castle and runs to the other he can have about 40 minutes to eat and sleep — given Time Lord physiology this seems to be enough, but he can never forget it's coming for him.
* The ''Series/FatherTed'' episode "Film/{{Speed}} 3", where Father Dougal is trapped on a milk float that will explode if the speed drops below four miles an hour. Among other chase tropes, includes a scene where the float is heading straight towards a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Ted has to move them out of the way... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-T1FB3Yno one by one.]]
* Done comedically in the ''Hale and Pace'' sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-h7ihvGa8 "Moscow Vice,"]] where the car chase is low-speed because the cars won't start and have to be pushed.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The B-plot of "Murdoch Takes Manhattan" culminates in one of these. Constable Crabtree tries to make an arrest and finds himself ordered at gunpoint to drive a kidnapper and his victim. Dr. Grace, Inspector Brackenreid and Constable Jackson take another car to pursue them, and at one point Brackenreid orders Jackson to bail out so they can go faster and catch up. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the technological limits of the period cars.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' did this a lot, as it seems many low-budget movies [[EnforcedTrope didn't have the budget]] or influence to get permission to cordon off roads or exceed the speed limit.
** In the [=MST3K=]'ed "''Film/SpaceMutiny''", the final chase is down an inside corridor between what looks like a handful of modified baggage carts (Mike and the Bots referred to them as 'floor waxers'). It's hard to look action-packed when it's pretty clear that any of the actors could get out on foot and run laps around the pursuers and pursued. The climactic showdown between the Hero and Villain ended with a chase in said carts, which is as undignified as one would imagine.
** In the episode "''Film/TheAtomicBrain''" there's a moment where the dottering old woman who serves as the film's antagonist sets off after a pair of young girls. Servo quips "Oh, this is going to be some chase scene."
** Similarly, the Creator/EdWood movie "''Jail Bait''" features a car chase at about 20 MPH, possibly because Wood couldn't afford stunt drivers or insurance.
** "''Film/{{Soultaker}}''" features the on-foot variant: the titular character (Joe Estevez in a dark duster) menacingly keeps up with the fleeing protagonists despite the fact that they're running for their lives down a highway and he's following them ominously at a steady, but implacable, walking pace.

* In ''Film/AlanPartridgeAlphaPapa'', Alan, Pat and Michael lead the police on a low speed chase in the mobile studio, broadcasting traffic information about the low speed chase while they do so.

* In ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'', the hero finds the Nazi bad guy in an hospital, as both are injured (the hero is tethered to a transfusion rig which he also uses as a walking stick). Cue very slow pursuit with the appropriate chase music.
* A dramatic example in ''Film/SnakeEyes'' as a badly-beaten Santoro staggers away to try and find the girl his former friend Dunne is hoping to kill. Dunne, knowing he'll lead him right to the girl, simply walks calmly after him.

* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. The title character and Sista Girl are chased by security guards on a golf course - with both groups driving electric golf carts.

* Dramatic example: Patricia Highsmith's short story "The Quest for Blank Claveringi" has a scientist stuck on an island with two giant man-eating snails. They're not much faster than normal snails, and so aren't much of a threat... unless you're an out-of-shape scientist on a tiny island with barely anywhere to hide...[[FromBadToWorse And then he breaks his leg.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', Simon, a new driver, gets into a low speed car chase aided by his grandfather who has dementia but who is supposed to be helping him learn to drive.

-->-- '''Crow T. Robot''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 -- Film/SpaceMutiny''

* The commercial for ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' shows a pair of old women in a golf cart at an airport being chased by airport security in another golf cart.

* Used in a story of ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'': Our anti-hero is chased by a stubborn carabiniere and the fast chase slowly declines to a walking pace, then to a agonizing crawl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', a confrontation between the titular character and Tim over a tape toys with this at one point. BB has the tape and is barreling through the backyard at a clearly apparent high speed in a toy police car, as Tim clings to the back of the car for dear life. The scene then cuts to their parents in the kitchen, showing the same events from ''their'' point of view: BB moseying in his toy car at a snail's pace (as is expected of an infant toy) while Tim is being dragged along lifelessly.

* Something similar happens in the slow-speed climax of ''Film/AFishCalledWanda,'' [[spoiler:when [[BigBad Otto]] is trapped in cement and is unable to run away from [[TheDogBitesBack Ken]], gradually approaching in a steamroller]].

* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. The title character and Sista Girl are chased by security guards on a golf course - with both groups driving electric golf carts.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' did this a lot, as it seems many low-budget movies [[EnforcedTrope didn't have the budget]] or influence to get permission to cordon off roads or exceed the speed limit.
** In the [=MST3K=]'ed ''Film/SpaceMutiny'', the final chase is down an inside corridor between what looks like a handful of modified baggage carts (Mike and the Bots referred to them as 'floor waxers'). It's hard to look action-packed when it's pretty clear that any of the actors could get out on foot and run laps around the pursuers and pursued. The climactic showdown between the Hero and Villain ended with a chase in said carts, which is as undignified as one would imagine.
** In the episode ''Film/TheAtomicBrain'' there's a moment where the dottering old woman who serves as the film's antagonist sets off after a pair of young girls. Servo quips "Oh, this is going to be some chase scene."
** Similarly, the Creator/EdWood movie ''Jail Bait'' features a car chase at about 20 MPH, possibly because Wood couldn't afford stunt drivers or insurance.
** ''Film/{{Soultaker}}'' features the on-foot variant: the titular character (Joe Estevez in a dark duster) menacingly keeps up with the fleeing protagonists despite the fact that they're running for their lives down a highway and he's following them ominously at a steady, but implacable, walking pace.
* A dramatic example in ''Film/SnakeEyes'' as a badly-beaten Santoro staggers away to try and find the girl his former friend Dunne is hoping to kill. Dunne, knowing he'll lead him right to the girl, simply walks calmly after him.
* The stair lift chase in the German movie ''[[Film/DerWixxer Neues vom Wixxer]]''. It even ends in an [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Stairlift is a Pinto]] moment.
* One chase scene in ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'' was so slow that the henchmen following the crooks who just kidnapped the pregnant lady were pushing the car along with their feet.
* The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series and spinoffs use the implacable man variant, with a damaged Terminator pursuing an injured human, especially in the climax of the first movie.
* In ''Film/OSS117LostInRio'', the hero finds the Nazi bad guy in an hospital, as both are injured (the hero is tethered to a transfusion rig which he also uses as a walking stick). Cue very slow pursuit with the appropriate chase music.

* ''Film/TheHeat'' has the overweight, out-of-breath and possibly slightly concussed Sgt. Mullins pursuing a drug dealer whose [[GroinAttack groin she just pulverised]] by yanking him down onto the fence he was trying to clamber over, both of them shambling and groaning. She eventually catches him up by throwing a watermelon at his back, knocking him down.
* In ''Film/AlanPartridgeAlphaPapa'', Alan, Pat and Michael lead the police on a low speed chase in the mobile studio, broadcasting traffic information about the low speed chase while they do so.

* Dramatic variant in ''Film/WeOwnTheNight'', where the heroes are simply in the middle of a commute when the bad guys pull up alongside them and start shooting. The ensuing chase is in pouring rain in mid-day traffic, through crowded and winding city roads.
* In ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'', a student injured by a vehicle crash is pursued through an open field by the Creeper, who's been ''mangled'' by the same crash. Played with in that, although reduced to one leg and one arm, hence a lot slower than usual, the creature still manages to ''bound'' after its belly-crawling prey.
* In ''Film/YearOne'' after having killed Abel, Cain flees in a very slow ox-drawn cart, pursued by another slow oxcart. People walking pass them.
* ''Film/BankShot'': When Ballentine breaks out of prison in a 50-ton scraper, Streiger chases after him in a golf cart.

* In a Soviet movie ''Film/BewareOfTheCar'' the LovableRogue protagonist is fleeing in his car from a motorcycle cop when he enters a school zone with a very low speed limit. He is a criminal, but he also loves kids, and therefore slows down. Fortunately for him, the cop also loves kids. For a minute they are moving at a snail speed, while school kids run around them in circles and a bicycle (not subject to the same regulations as motor vehicles) speeds by. For [[RuleOfFunny some reason]] the cop does not think of stopping his motorcycle and just walking toward the criminal.
* In ''Film/{{Headhunters}}'', Roger escapes from the cabin by stealing a farmer's old tractor. He thinks he is being chased by Clas in an SUV and starts swerving across the road to stop the SUV from passing him and winds up crashing. [[spoiler:Then it turns out it wasn't Clas at all, but just a neighbour driving a similar vehicle.]]
* ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' features a car chase between two [[AllegedCar clunkers]] that are so slow that Mason Dixon finally catches the guy he's chasing by getting out of his car and running the other one down on foot.

* The whole concept behind having Mr Pump the {{Golem}} as Moist's parole officer in ''Literature/GoingPostal''. Yes, a Golem doesn't move very fast... but he can magically pinpoint the exact location of his quarry, and more importantly, never grow tired, hungry or bored. It doesn't really matter how far away an escapee can go by walking or riding a horse in a day, he'll inevitably have to stop to eat and sleep. The Golem doesn't, and by walking non-stop for 24 hours every day, will catch up sooner or later. Even putting ''an ocean'' between a Golem and his quarry isn't going to stop him, since ''a Golem can easily keep walking on the bottom of the sea''.

* The ''Series/FatherTed'' episode "Film/{{Speed}} 3" where Father Dougal is trapped on a milk float that will explode if the speed drops below four miles an hour. Among other chase tropes, includes a scene where the float is heading straight towards a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Ted has to move them out of the way... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-T1FB3Yno one by one.]]

-->'''Margaret: Run! Run for our lives and quickly! We haven’t a fortnight to lose!\\

* In ''VideoGame/LEGOCityUndercover'' Chief Dunby reveals at the briefing at the beginning of the game that the dangerous and high-profile criminal Rex Fury tried to escape using a lawnmower as a getaway car. The scene shows that said lawnmower was travelling around walking speed and held up the highway while there were cops using cars to try and apprehend him.
* ''[[VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever No One Lives Forever 2]]'' featured one on the streets of Calcutta with a mime on a unicycle being pursued by Cate piggybacking on Magnus Armstrong riding a child's tricycle.

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* The ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' story "To Remind You of My Love" features a chase on rented electric scooters. Faster than walking, but once Mike has a head-start (because Blaine had to download the app before he could hire one) he points out that the set maximum speed means it's literally impossible for Blaine to catch up with him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', there's a chase scene at the Central Bureaucracy on "slowmobiles", hover-scooters that travel at slightly less than walking pace.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy is trying to outrun his mind-controlled friends, who are trying to capture and brainwash him. However, their scooters are set to a mere 2 mph -- any faster would mean they would spill their milk (the source of the mind control).

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** One sketch features a baby Terminator and robot dog battling it out in an epic low-speed chase using children's toy cars.
** Snail Cop with a megaphone: "YOUUUU ARE GOIIIIIINGGGG TOOOOOO FAAAAAAAAAASST! PULLLLLLLL OVVEERRRRRR IMMMEDIATELEEEEEEEEEEEEY!"
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' set in New York, Cleveland orders a taxi driver to [[FollowThatCar chase after another taxi driver]]. However, being New York, there's so much traffic that Cleveland could have caught up to the driver by walking.
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': In "Return of the Road to Taz-Mania Strikes Back" Hugh, Drew and Taz get involved in a golf buggy chase. At one point Jean, who is on foot, overtakes them to remind them that they still need to buy orange juice.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E4HeartOfParkness Heart of Parkness]]" has a pursuit down a park's creek where both parties are in rubber-ducky swan paddleboats. The people getting pursued never even notice there's someone on their tail.
* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WaterWaterEveryHare'', Bugs is being chased by a MadScientist when a large jar of ether breaks. They go through the vapors and start running and talking in slow-motion.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': The race between Stephen and Glynn, two of the oldest engines on Sodor, in "Over the Hill". Since Stephen at least has a maximum speed of under 30 mph, they hog two tracks on the main line and make Gordon and James very late.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' has Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, inventor of the first car, driving like crazy and being chased down by police on horseback in what is described as a "relatively high-speed chase".
-->'''Sherman:''' He's going at ''least'' 16 miles an hour! How are we gonna catch him Mr. Peabody??
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E21TheBurden The Burden]]", the six-year-old school hamster Chris Morris is so slow that when Darwin and Gumball try to chase him, they keep running past him until they try going "90s internet slow".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'', the team is running away in their golf cart from a guy on a Segway: very slowly.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the family watches an alternate reality version of Jerry, drugged up and in his underwear, fleeing the police in a golf cart.
* After ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' causes an explosion in a taffy factory, he attempts to run away from security guards... but all of them, and the floor, are covered in quickly setting sugar.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Legends of the Mall", Gene and Louise go joy-riding on animal-shaped electric carts called Ani-malls. Gene's Ani-mall gets its throttle stuck, and Louise tries to stop him as he goes careening through the mall... at about five miles per hour.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a variation in an episode when Peter blows up his hand through reckless use of fireworks, and one of his severed fingers lands in Herbert's yard. Peter tries to retrieve the finger but gets hit by a car as he crosses the road, Joe tries to assist him but falls out of his wheelchair, and Herbert's dog Jesse (whose back legs are paralyzed) sees the severed finger and decides he wants to eat it, leading to a scene of all three of them slowly crawling towards the finger and trying to be the first to reach it.

* When someone hears the term "low speed chase", 99% of the time the first image that comes to mind is UsefulNotes/OJSimpson [[http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oj-simpson-white-bronco-chase-20140617-story.html in a white Ford Bronco]] cruising down the 405 with about 20 police cars following behind. If it isn't the TropeNamer, it is definitely the event that brought the Low-Speed Chase into popular consciousness.

* The ''Series/FatherTed'' episode "Film/{{Speed}} 3" where Father Dougal is trapped on a milk float that will explode if the speed drops below four miles an hour. Among other chase tropes, includes a scene where the float is heading straight towards a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Ted has to move them out of the way... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-T1FB3Yno one by one]].
* Done comedically in the ''Hale and Pace'' sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-h7ihvGa8 Moscow Vice]]", where the car chase is low-speed because the cars won't start and have to be pushed.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjtCS0EEoCY Don't interrupt a giant tortoise who's about to mate with a female]]. They'll get angry and chase you down... slowly.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a variation in an episode when Peter blows up his hand through reckless use of fireworks, and one of his severed fingers lands in Herbert's yard. Peter tries to retrieve the finger but gets hit by a car as he crosses the road, Joe tries to assist him but falls out of his wheelchair, and Herbert's dog Jesse (who's back legs are paralyzed) sees the severed finger and decides he wants to eat it, leading to a scene of all three of them slowly crawling towards the finger and trying to be the first to reach it.

** Kenny and Cartman get into an extremely slow version of the O.J. Simpson police chase in a battery-powered toy car.

* Something similar happens in the slow-speed climax of ''Film/AFishCalledWanda,'' [[spoiler:when [[BigBad Otto]] is trapped in cement and is unable to run away from [[TheDogBitesBack Ken]], gradually approaching in a steamroller]].

* The Ed Wood turkey ''Film/JailBait'' has a car chase that looks as if they're doing 10 MPH.

* The sixth Series/{{Longmire}} novel, ''Junkyard Dogs'', has a [[{{Bathos}} sort-of-dramatic-sort-of-not]] example at its climax, between a rather banged-up Sheriff Walt, on foot, and a huge tow truck stuck in first gear.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' has Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, inventor of the first car, driving like crazy and being chased down by police on horseback in what is described as a "relatively high-speed chase".

* In ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedIII'' this is how Connor and the BigBad's confrontation ends, because it took place in a burning shipyard and Connor got impaled by falling rubble, while he shot the villain mid-gloat, meaning the two are crawling and limping their way through.