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* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'': Steven Chapman, a psychotic grocery store manager, uses a weaponized shopping cart as a weapon during his boss fight. Defeating him will let Frank use it. This is a far more effective (and fun) zombie-mowing weapon than the ordinary shopping carts found throughout the mall, [[ImprovisedWeapon though they can still be used to knock down zombies in a pinch]].

* In ''LightNovel/BenTo'', [[spoiler: The Monarch]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser uses one as a club]].

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': The Bundys and the Darcys both win a shot at a local grocery store's ''Series/SupermarketSweep''-type contest. The Bundys show up with a {{Pimped Out car}}t. The Darcys find the best cart possible, but it's disqualified for not being from that store so they have to make do with a rickety old cart with wheels that go all which way.

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* Jason beats an old man to death with a shopping cart during the supermarket massacre in ''Comicbook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh''.

* A ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' parody of ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' has a fake Music/KennyRogers riding a shopping cart as it gets rammed into a curb. HilarityEnsues.

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See also DoomedSupermarketDisplay and WheelChairAntics.

* In ''[[Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka GTO: 14 Days in Shonan]], Onizuka puts Ayame into a shopping cart and pushes her at high speed as they run from a group of yakuza assassins.

See also DoomedSupermarketDisplay.

* In one of the first ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' edutainment [=OVAs=], Horrorman rides through a department store in one, using a broom as an oar to push him around. He stops when he crashes into a fruit and vegetable stand, bringing down both him and the produce.

* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'': Steven Chapman, a psychotic grocery store manager uses a weaponized shopping cart as a weapon. Defeating him will let Frank use it. This is a far more effective (and fun) zombie-mowing weapon than the ordinary shopping carts found throughout the mall, [[ImprovisedWeapon though they can still be used to knock down zombies in a pinch]].

* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'': one of the psychopaths uses a modified shopping cart as a weapon. Defeating him will give Frank West that shopping cart.

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* In one of the first ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' edutainment [=OVAs=], Horrorman rides through a department store in one, using a broom as an oar to push him around. He stops when he crashes into a fruit and vegetable stand, bringing down both him and the produce.

* In the opening scene of ''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Jackass: The Movie]]'', the cast are riding in a shopping cart.
* There's a Creator/JackieChan movie (''Film/RumbleInTheBronx''?) where a shopping cart plays a crucial role during a fight scene.
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''. During her song "I Want It Now", Veruca Salt grabs a shopping cart, uses it to threaten some Oompa-Loompas, then sends it into a pile of boxes and knocks them down.

* In ''Satan's Little Helper'', the main character gets the serial killer he is obliviously helping out to push him around in a shopping cart, and run random people down.
* The documentary ''Film/CartsOfDarkness'' follows homeless men who race shopping carts down steep hills and busy streets.
* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'': Spencer and Warren are sitting in Warren's car in a parking lot, smoking weed and talking about how their lives are going nowhere. They are watching a bunch of people just hanging out in the empty parking lot, two of whom are pushing each other around in a shopping cart. Just before they leave, they see the now empty shopping cart rolling down the hill on fire.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': The Bundys and the Darcys both win a shot at a local grocery store's ''Series/SupermarketSweep''-type contest. The Bundys show up with a {{Pimped Out car}}t. The Darcys find the best cart possible, but it's disqualified for not being from that store so they have to make do with a rickety old cart with wheels that go all which way.
** Marcy and her first husband Steve once had sex in a homeless person's shopping cart.
* In the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Obsession", one of the murders centers around a race run using shopping carts and where it is customary to sabotage the other teams.
* Done on ''[[Series/{{Studio 3}} Bitcom]]'' (a short, live action comedy show that runs as filler between programs on Creator/ABC3 in Australia) where the discovery of a shopping cart in the parking lot causes the two main characters to completely abandon their plans in favor of playing with it.
* A ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' parody of ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' has a fake Music/KennyRogers riding a shopping cart as it gets rammed into a curb. HilarityEnsues.

* This was a staple of ''{{Jackass}}'' itself, particularly Bam and the CKY group in the early years (Phil Margera worked in a supermarket for many years).

* Music/{{Rihanna}}'s music video for "We Found Love".

* In the first ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' game, the assassin Speed Buster is an old lady with a shopping cart full of groceries ... which is actually a disguise for its function as a devastating WaveMotionGun.

* ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom: [[UpdatedRerelease Ultimate All-Stars]]'': one of Frank West's specials has a zombie barreling down the field in a shopping cart, toppling his opponent. In response, Frank screams, "Oh my God!"
* ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'': Frank West uses a modified shopping cart as one of his hypers. It has {{chainsaw|Good}}s mounted on it.
* There's a flash game called ''Shopping Cart Hero'' where you jump off a ramp in a shopping cart.

* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode, "Madame Blueberry", Bob and Madame Blueberry both commandeer shopping carts in order to race towards the sight of where her house is tipping over, except poor Larry, who just winds up dragging along a little handheld shopping basket instead.

* The Ladybugs in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' assassinate unruly members with shopping carts and make it look like an accident.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' try to arrange getting themselves (read: Beavis) hit in a parking lot by inattentive drivers quick to pony up a little cash to avoid legal action. This naturally leads to Beavis in a cart which gets locked onto the bumper of Mr. Anderson's RV, which he takes onto the highway.
* Done in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' when Sector V run out of cereal and the only box left is in a supermarket run by villains. Naturally they don't want to linger too long in the place, so they modify a shopping cart into a high speed vehicle and try to gun it through the store while fighting off baddies (who oddly enough want the cereal too).

* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Baron Greenback brings all of the world's vehicles to a halt, except two: a rusty rocket that is blasting off, and a shopping trolley rolling across a supermarket car park. DM immediately decides that the most suspicious is...the shopping trolley! Professor Squawkencluck then suggests that the rocket might be more worthy of investigation.

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* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'': Spencer and Warren are sitting in Warren's car in a parking lot, smoking weed and talking about how their lives are going nowhere. They are watching a bunch of people just hanging out in the empty parking lot,; two of whom are pushing each other around in a shopping cart. Just before they leave, they see the now empty shopping cart rolling down the hill on fire.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book Discworld/ReaperMan, you get a lot of varied shopping trolley shenanigans as those things are alive (and initially hiding it) due to rather plot-relevant events. But they're useful to store things in. And dangerous when they take off on their own, leaving people running behind them screaming about what's inside them. Or screaming about being inside them. One memorable instance is when one is hijacked and used to store the [[ButtMonkey Bursar]] in - and it then takes off for the hills. A massive comedic ChaseScene (complete with [[ATeamFiring misguided magic blasts]]) ensues. This is not the only such scene, but is one of the stand-outs. In short, there is a whole chunk of Reaper Man devoted to this trope.

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* When wrestlers bring a shopping cart full of weapons to the ring to use in a Hardcore match the cart itself often becomes an ImprovisedWeapon. One memorable incident during the Wrestling/{{Raven}} and Wrestling/{{Rhyno}} match at Backlash 2001 had Rhyno try to hit his opponent with the [[RammingAlwaysWorks Gore]] only to [[http://youtu.be/33lQfKCPGhc?t=8m43s end up stuck in the cart]].