History Main / RampJump

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE87Mile mile]]" is a [[StylisticSuck Powered-by-The-Cheat cartoon]] that features Strong Bad doing cartwheels for a mile. At one point he goes over a ramp and jumps nineteen buses ("A NEW RECORD!").
-->'''PBTC Bubs:''' Hey, Strong Bad, you jumped over some of my buses!

%%Weblinks are not Examples%% * [[http://www.funlondontours.com/news/double-decker-bus-jumps-tower-bridge Double-Decker bus jumps the Tower Bridge in London.]]

** In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', there was a visually impressive corkscrew jump across a river, although for some reason they decided that it just ''had'' to be accompanied by a stupid cartoon-style slide whistle sound effect. It was the first such stunt to be developed in a computer simulation, and the driver successfully pulled off the actual jump on the first take (and pocketed a $30,000 bonus for it).
*** Perhaps on purpose, because the originator of the Jump, who refused to ever reveal how it's done, never wanted anyone else to try it. Thus the addition of the slide-whistle would make it seem simply impossible to do.

** In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', there was a visually impressive corkscrew jump across a river, although for some reason they decided that it just ''had'' to be accompanied by a stupid cartoon-style slide whistle sound effect.

* Some cases of ramp jumps demonstrating how badly it screws up:
** ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' (where the car just barely limps in)
** ''Film/TheGumballRally'', during the opening race scene in New York, a convertible makes an attempt and breaks in half.
** ''Film/RoadTrip'', where the car doesn't survive the landing. The shocks go through the hood of the car.
%%* The "Little Mule" in ''Film/RomancingTheStone''.

* As does Creator/JohnWayne in the 1975 movie ''Film/{{Brannigan}}'' during a CarChase. The main he's chasing makes it as the bridge has only just started to rise. Brannigan is not so lucky and crashes his car on the other side.
-->'''Brannigan:''' The view from the Bridge was terrific.
* ''Film/ImJuli'' scores extra points for having the jump attempted by a physics teacher who was previously seen putting this exact problem on the blackboard as an exercise. [[spoiler:He still fails, because he has only an estimate of the width of the river to go on.]]
* ''Film/VanHelsing'' does this with a freaking CARRIAGE. And without even a ramp. But then, it's [[SoBadItsGood that sort of film...]]
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' begins with Jimmy Durante careening along a mountain highway in a '57 Ford and then just...sailing out there. Didn't land well.
* 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]].
* In ''Film/TrueLies'', the BigBad motorcycle jumped across from a taller building to a swimming pool of a shorter building to escape from Arnold's character on a horse.
* In a variant, the Lamborgini in ''Film/CannonballRun III'' does a ramp jump onto a lake and ''skips across the surface''. Ironically, ''Series/MythBusters'' tested this stunt, and discovered that it could '''work''' ... but only if you dispense with the ramp, ensuring that the car strikes the water at a very low angle.
* The climax of ''Film/TheSoldier'' (1982) has Ken Wahl leaping the Berlin Wall in a Porsche via a ramp set up by the Israeli Secret Service in a TimeForPlanB (he was originally just supposed to drive through Checkpoint Charlie, but got recognized and pursued by a guard). Earlier in the film there's a ski chase where the Soldier uses a snow bank for a jump, then turns in mid-air and machine-guns his pursuer.
* The courageous motorbike jump in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' fails [[spoiler:with fatal consequences when the bike rider hits a BeehiveBarrier forcefield sealing off the cabin from the outside world.]]
* Plays a big part in the 1971 Biopic and drive-in classic starring George Hamilton, ''Evel Knievel'', for obvious reasons.
* After causing a commotion in a pub, the cast of ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'' hop into their vehicles and drive over a drawbridge that is opening, leading to a series of these. The main character freaks out when the car she is in makes the jump, since it's almost totaled by the drop.
* In ''Film/{{Razorback}}'', the road to Benny and Dicko's place incorporates a ramp jump. Benny and Dicko, it should be pointed out, are crazy.
* One in ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'' (really) results in [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome a car being wedged in-between two buildings]] (the ramp had been set up in an alleyway).
* Owen jumps a motorcycle off a ramp and into a taxiing plane in ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' to catch up with Claire and escape the ''Atrociraptors‘’ chasing him. One still makes it onto the plane with him and he turns the bike around, pushes it at the raptor, and both bike and dinosaur end up in the water below.

* In Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', a "boy racer" Ankh-Morpork coach driver gets a rush of blood to the head and attempts to pull off this feat - in a horse-drawn coach. He is dissuaded by Sam Vimes.

** Another awesome ski jump was done with a (unmanned) rocket-powered Austin Mini.
* Standard occurrence in ''Series/TheFallGuy''. And probably the reason why Colt's [[ProductPlacement GMC truck]] has a massive lift kit.
* Seen in ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' at least once, involving a red Ford Gran Torino during a [[StockVisualMetaphors Stock Visual Metaphor]].
* In an episode of ''Series/HappyDays'' Fonzie sets a new world record by jumping over 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle. He makes it, but crashes after landing. He also does another ramp jump over a shark later in the series on a pair of water skis, [[JumpingTheShark naming a trope in the process]].[[note]]The reason the trope is named after this moment is because, in the episode where Fonzie crashes after jumping the garbage cans, he admitted the stunt was stupid and vowed not to do anything like it again. Jumping over the shark ignored this CharacterDevelopment and was treated in-universe as a good thing.[[/note]]
* In the ''Series/MiamiVice'' episode "Viking Bikers from Hell," one of the bikers jumps his motorcycle over a police car.
* Many, many, ''many'' such jumps are featured on ''Series/WorldsDumbest''. Many scenes of automotive destruction ensue. Sometimes, the commentators even reference ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' (see above).

* Occurs in Creator/{{Premier}}'s ''Pinball/HollywoodHeat'', which features a "Hot Shot" ramp that catapults pinballs from the bottom of the playfield to an enclosed area in the center.
* In ''Pinball/RoboCop'', there is an Entry Ramp that stretches along the back of the playfield and requires the player to clear the gap to complete.
* ''[[Film/LostInSpace Lost in Space]]'' has a jump ramp very similar to the one above.
* ''Pinball/TheLordOfTheRings'' has the Ring Ramp, located in the center of the playfield.
* Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/BatmanDataEast Batman]]'' pinball has a ramp for players to launch pinballs into the Joker's face.

* A pop-up ramp is used in Creator/SegaPinball's ''Pinball/GoldenEye'' to allow the player to shoot pinballs into the [=GoldenEye=] satellite dish.

* ''Pinball/{{Transformers}}'' has a chute in front of Optimus Prime that rises at certain times, allowing players to use a Ramp Jump to launch the pinball and hit him.
* ''[[Pinball/TeedOff Tee'd Off]]'' has the "Pitch 'n Putt" ramp, where the player tries to shoot the ball into the Mean Green Hole.

* Creator/SternPinball's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekStern Star Trek]]'' has the Warp ramp, which launches balls clockwise back to the upper-rght flipper.
* ''Pinball/BoneBusters'' has the Long Jump, which must be made to start multiball.

** Similarly, ''Frank Thomas' Big Hurt'' has a ramp with a baseball glove. The player will get awards either for shooting one of the holes behind it or hitting the glove itself enough times.
* A variation appears in Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''Pinball/{{Sapporo}}'', which has a "Ski Jump" lane on the left side of the playfield. As the ball rolls down the lane, the player must press the left flipper button to operate the lower side wall and make the ball roll over the farthest of four blue switches.
* ''Pinball/{{NBA}}'' has the left jump ramp, which vaults pinballs towards the playfield basket; a magnet in the backboard grabs the ball and drops it through the hoop.

** Based on the RealLife "Oh!" incident from 1953, below.

* A lot of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games designate a number of Unique Stunt Jumps, which are particularly impressive jumps of this kind, for players to find and complete (sometimes required for OneHundredPercentCompletion).
* ''VideoGame/SanFranciscoRush''. Jumps, flips, spins, rolls!

* In ''VideoGame/HarryTheHandsomeExecutive'', you perform ramp jumps in a [[SwivelChairAntics Swivel Chair]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Driver}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/Driver2'', you have to jump your car onto a boat on at least two occasions. In the "Caine's Compound" mission, you jump a drawbridge at the end.
** ''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'' has car transporters that can be used as a mobile ramp. One early mission has Tanner doing just that.
* In ''VideoGame/LastScenario'', this was used to [[spoiler:''launch an amphibious boat over an airship'' so the heroes could jump onto said airship]].
* ''VideoGame/FatalRacing'' had what were known as Twister Jumps, because they also caused your car to barrel roll in flight, thus requiring driving at the right speed, and some luck, to land on your wheels.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stuntman}}'', this is one of the most common types of stunts you pull off (including one film that's Series/TheDukesOfHazzard in all but name), and at some point you even have to ramp jump onto another moving vehicle.
* The ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' mission "Cliffhanger" has you jump a snowmobile across a 100+ foot crevasse at the end.

* An old Windows screensaver had a motorcyclist jump over a random number of school buses. On occasion, the bus jumps over a row of motorcycles.

* This is a feature of many ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' tracks, especially in the later installments.
* ''VideoGame/CobraTriangle'' has stages that require the use of ramps to jump across waterfalls. If you haven't gathered enough Speed-Up power-ups from the previous stages, you won't be able to clear them.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':

* Straight Cougar's alter car in ''Anime/{{S cry ed}}'' has special spring jumpers for this too, though I can't remember it jumping over anything extremely impressive at the moment.
* ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' about OnceAnEpisode, with the assistance of his built-in jacks (which for the record weren't intended to make the car jump, they were there to... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin jack up the car]], for maintenance).
* In an episode of the TV series of ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'', Hayato and his navigator Elena are in a [[BloodSport no-rules race]] called "Fireball", and during the race, they are chased by a racer with a huge truck-like car and the driver bumped his car, the Asurada GSX. Then Hayato saw a car with a slant that looks like a ramp and uses Asurada's effect fans to jump and escape from the racer.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' cars ramp off cliffs, hills, and apparently jump just by going down the street. This is obviously RuleOfCool.

* 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.
* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' was the source of the "Reynolds Ramp" phrase. The Bandit jumped over a lake in that movie.

* Owen jumps a motorcycle off a ramp and into a taxiing plane to catch up with Claire and escape the ''Atrociraptors‘’ chasing him. One still makes it onto the plane with him and he turns the bike around, pushes it at the raptor, and both bike and dinosaur end up in the water below.

** ''RoadTrip'', where the car doesn't survive the landing. IIRC, the shocks go through the hood of the car.

* ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' about OnceAnEpisode, with the assistance of his built-in jacks (which for the record weren't intended to make the car jump, they were there to...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin jack up the car]]).

* Famed daredevil UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel was reknown for this in TheSeventies. In his career, he attempted over seventy-five ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps over cars and buses, including a failed jump across Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket.[[note]]He cleared the canyon, but his parachute deployed early and the winds pulled him back into the canyon[[/note]]
* [[http://www.funlondontours.com/news/double-decker-bus-jumps-tower-bridge Double-Decker bus jumps the Tower Bridge in London.]]
* While ordinary cars usually can't handle this stunt, as described in the intro, vehicles with lots of suspension travel can dissipate the energy from the landing. Off-road race cars like trophy trucks and rally cars frequently get airborne and are built to survive hard landings.
** An [[https://twitter.com/chazzydawgg/status/1505463818670903297 attempt to recreate]] a Bullitt-style jump with a Tesla didn't quite go as planned.

* ''Series/KnightRider'' did this more than once. Usually, the "turbo boost" button was involved.
** In fact, with the Turbo Boost KITT could jump ''without'' a ramp.

* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': During a scene where Batman is chasing The Penguin down a crowded freeway, The Penguin tries to lose the Batmobile in traffic and causes a semi truck to jackknife. This starts a massive chain reaction that collects multiple cars, including a flatbed truck that serves as a convenient ramp that lets the Batmobile jump the wreckage.

* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': During a scene where Batman is chasing The Penguin down a crowded freeway, The Penguin tries to lose the Batmobile in traffic and causes a semi truck to jackknife. This starts a massive chain reaction that collects multiple cars, including a flatbed tow truck that serves as a convenient ramp for the Batmobile to jump the wreckage.

* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': [[spoiler:Batman is chasing The Penguin down a crowded freeway. The Penguin swerves trying to lose Bruce and causes a truck to jackknife. This starts a massive chain reaction that collects multiple cars, including a flatbed tow truck that serves as a convenient ramp for the Batmobile to jump the wreckage.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stuntman}}'', this is one of the stunts you pull off (including one film that's Series/TheDukesOfHazzard in all but name), and at some point you even have to ramp jump onto another moving vehicle.

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* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': [[spoiler:Batman is chasing The Penguin down a crowded freeway, when The Penguin swerves and causes a truck to jackknife. Several other trucks jackknife and topple over, including a tanker which explodes, and a flatbed tow truck which drops it's rear end becoming a convenient ramp for the Batmobile to jump the explosion.]]

* Standard occurrence in ''Series/TheFallGuy''. And probably the reason why Colt's GMC truck has a bodylift so extreme that it makes cornering tricky.

* While ordinary cars usually can't handle this stunt, as described in the intro, some vehicles can: "monster" trucks are more likely to land on four wheels and have shocks that can take the impact. Dirt rally cars are also made for stuff like this.

* ''Film/TheBatman'': [[spoiler:Batman is chasing The Penguin down a crowded freeway, when The Penguin swerves and causes a truck to jackknife. Several other trucks jackknife and topple over, including a tanker which explodes, and a flatbed tow truck which drops it's rear end becoming a convenient ramp for the Batmobile to jump the explosion.]]

** In a lot of these examples, the 'leap' is possible..... just not the landing. They went through so many General Lees, that it's the main reason why the Dodge Charger is so rare.

Unfortunately (as 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.