History Main / VehicleVanish

If Bob really wants to show off he'll do this with a single person walking past, rather than a vehicle.

* There's a match.com advert where a man is singing to a woman on the opposite platform at a train station. A train passes, and when it has gone past she's gone. He begins to sing again sadly, believing he'll never see her again, when he turns his head and she's sitting next to him.

* In ''Film/SpiderMan3'' Peter leaves a confrontation with Harry in a diner, then once he's across the street glances back; Harry gives him a sinister smile, then a truck passes and Harry is gone from the diner. How he achieved this is unclear, as there's nothing in his goblin powers that suggest super speed. Perhaps he just ducked under the table?

* Inverted in the first ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie, when we see the titular hero latch onto a train as it passes by, and he dislocates his shoulder in the process.

* Creator/ChowYunFat does this a lot in ''Film/TheReplacementKillers''. [[spoiler:Including at the very end, having saved both Meg and his own family]].

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* Subverted in ''Film/NationalTreasure'' (1:19:52). Nicholas Cage is being tailed by the villains. A bus passes in front of him... and when it's finally passed, we and the villains both see him high-tailing it.

* Subverted in ''Film/NationalTreasure''. Nicholas Cage is being tailed by the villains. A bus passes in front of him... and when it's finally passed, we and the villains both see him high-tailing it.

** This is the first sign that Bourne is more than he seems. When he's leaving the boat that found him, he vanishes behind a car passing between him and the camera.

* Artist Ryan Estrada just recently made a blog post indicating he made a mad dash into a shop, so that it would appear he did this to the people who were watching him watching them.

* Played with in the Literature/{{Discworld}} book ''Discworld/NightWatch''. Vimes spots one of the History Monks, who have a habit of disappearing when he tries to get information they don't want him to have, from across the street. A cart blocks his view, but Vimes throws himself to the ground [[GenreSavvy so he can still see the monk's feet under the cart]]. Once the cart's gone Vimes dashes towards him - and [[DoubleSubversion is almost run down by another cart, distracting him long enough for the monk to vanish for real]].

* The Winter Soldier[=/=][[spoiler:Bucky Barnes]] pulls one of these (using a bus) in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* The Winter Soldier/[[spoiler: Bucky Barnes]] pulls one of these (using a bus) in the trailer for ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and, we assume, in the film itself.

* ''Series/MacGyver'': In "For Love or Money", Mac and Pete are watching a pair of defectors at the zoo who disappear when a crowd of pedestrians temporarily blocks the view.

* Used to heart-wrenching effect in the BittersweetEnding of ''Anime/FiveCentimetersPerSecond'': [[spoiler:Takaki and Akari (or someone who looks like her, or even an outright hallucination; it's never made clear) walk past each other at some train tracks. He turns to look just as a train goes past; by the time the train clears, she's gone.]]

* ChowYunFat does this a lot in ''Film/TheReplacementKillers''. [[spoiler:Including at the very end, having saved both Meg and his own family]].

Related to the StealthHiBye, but with large noisy wheeled props. See also TrainEscape. If the vehicle itself vanishes, that's DudeWheresOurCar. A common child-themed variant is CarouselKidnapping.

Related to the StealthHiBye, but with large noisy wheeled props. See also TrainEscape. If the vehicle itself vanishes, that's DudeWheresOurCar.

* Unusual variant in the Creator/BusterKeaton film ''Film/{{Cops}}''-- to get away from a pursuing crowd of policeman, Buster does a ''one-armed grab'' on a fairly fast-moving truck and is yanked away! Strong shoulders!

* ''WhiteCollar'': While it's done for the viewer's benefit rather than a character's, Matthew Keller does this at the end of "Payback".

* Used to heart-wrenching effect in the BittersweetEnding of ''Anime/FiveCentimetersPerSecond'': [[spoiler:Takaki and Akari (or someone who looks like her; it's never made clear) walk past each other at some train tracks. He turns to look just as a train goes past; by the time the train clears, she's gone.]]

Related to the StealthHiBye, but with large noisy wheeled props. See also TrainEscape.

* Spider-Man gets to do the BusterKeaton example in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''.

** JustifiedTrope during the car chase in Paris. A police motorcyclist is pursing Bourne's car by driving along a parallel street. A large van obscures the car for a moment, only for it to vanish. The policeman is craning his neck to see where Bourne went [[LemmingCops when he collides with another vehicle]]. The next shot reveals that Bourne had turned down a side street.

* In ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'', this is the first sign that Bourne is more than he seems. When he's leaving the boat that found him, he vanishes behind a car passing between him and the camera.

* Used to heart-wrenching effect in the BittersweetEnding of ''Anime/FiveCentimetersPerSecond''.

* In episode 22 of ''Anime/YourLieInApril'', Kousei sees a black cat on the other side of some train tracks, which is gone after a train passes, [[spoiler:symbolising Kaori's death]]/

* ''Anime/YourName''has the inverted people variant; when Taki is waiting for Miki to show up for their date, the latter appears seemingly out of nowhere behind him where some people were passing.