History Main / VehicularAssault

* In one ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' story, a crook acquires the Arrow Car; GA's old {{Thememobile}}. Eventually he attempts to run GA down with the Arrow Car, forcing GA to destroy it with an [[TrickArrow explosive arrow]].

* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Kenshiro shows how it's done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZeD40Rg8A here.]] ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Against a tank]].''

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has Rika of the second game, fighting [[MagicalGirl Reimu]] in a tank. Justified however, as without it she's [[{{Muggles}} helpless]].

* Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Faithful Unto Death", the killer murders the first VictimOfTheWeek by using their larger, more powerful car to force the victim's car in to a trailer full of logs, killing her.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'': In several chapters throughout the series, a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of The Week]] takes over a machine to commit crimes.

** The Stage 3 boss of ''Contra Force'' is an armed gunship. Also the final boss's helicopter.

!!Examples

* Pretty much every adaptation of ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' will feature the scene where the Major goes up against a robot tank and beats it at heavy cost to her prosthetic body.
* Part 3 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has villain ZZ Top with his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Wheel of Fortune. It is a car that can grow spikes on its tires and shoot bullets made of pressurized gasoline.

** In ''Film/AGoodDayToDieHard'' it even serves as a FinalBoss!

* ''Film/MadMax1'', when the eponymous hero's wife gets attacked by the biker gang. Unfortunately, neither she nor her child survive the encounter.
* In ''Film/MurderAtTheBaskervilles'': Moriarty's chauffeur Price rams Holmes' car and knocks it off the road on the moors, after Moran first shoots it up with the automatic airgun.

* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'': "Bennie, [[FunetikAksent Sklew yew]]!"

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' (2007) - Sam vs Barricade. But this pops up all over every version of ''Transformers''.

* In the new Music/FiftyCent game, the Website/GiantBomb review complained that every single boss in the game is a generic helicopter gunship.
** They also [[http://www.giantbomb.com/news/giant-bombs-game-of-the-year-2009-day-three/1807/ award]] their end of the year "Best Villain" award to the Helicopter, beating out [[VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves Zoran Lazarevic]] and [[VideoGame/BrutalLegend Doviculus]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} 64'', Orion, the mini boss from the Red Mountain area, returns at the last section of the world in a large, mining/battle robot.

* The stage 3 boss of ''VideoGame/ContraForce'', an armed gunship. Also the final boss's helicopter.

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'''s first boss is a helicopter.
* The (suplexable) Ghost Train boss in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI''.

** The same basic dynamic happens when trying to hijack an air barge in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar3.'' The barges are even more vehicle-like than the other methods of travel employed by the Locust, as the animal portion seems to be used solely to provide lift, with mechanical portions providing the lateral movement.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'', you have to fight a boss who uses a steam locomotive. That shoots fireballs and exploding crystals. And is almost as big as [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Rex]] and can move incredibly fast. Ouch...

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has three gunship battles: one during Archangel's/[[spoiler:Garrus']] recruitment mission, one during Samara's recruitment mission, and one during Kasumi's loyalty mission.

* The final ''Sons of Samedi'' mission in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' sees you fighting the General in the city mall. Naturally he brings a custom Bulldog, packed with {{Mook}}s and fitted with a roof-mounted, triple-barrel Gatling. Cunning and careful players can also maneuver their own vehicles into the mall... such as the game's resident AwesomePersonnelCarrier.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': You vs a tank. You vs a Hind-D helicopter. You vs a Metal Gear. ''Metal Gear Solid 2'': You vs a Harrier jumpjet. You vs many Metal Gear Rays. ''Metal Gear Solid 3'': You vs the Shagohod. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' is slightly different in that you have to take on a Metal Gear Ray, but you yourself are in a Metal Gear Rex. ''Metal Gear Solid V'': You vs Metal Gear Sahelanthropus.

* In ''{{VideoGame/MOTHER}}'', Pokey Minch's preferred method of fighting. In ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', he fights alongside Giygas in a ghastly spider machine. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', he's upgraded to some sort of spider-mech pod.]]
** [[spoiler:This is the same machine in which he battles]] in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl''.

* A few bosses in the UsefulNotes/GameBoy ''VideoGame/PerfectDark''.
** The original ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' has the [=DataDyne=] Hovercopter which follows you around and fires on you as you ascend the Lucerne Tower in level 1-3. Taking it out requires either an obscene number of bullets or a rocket launcher found on the top floor.

* The heli-gunship isn't it's own trope yet? Oh well, ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has bunchloads of them.

* In the original ''Franchise/{{Robocop}}'' video arcade game (1988), one early boss was an opponent in a large vehicle.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shinobi}}'': the second boss Black Turtle is a helicopter that's a ClownCar full of those damned Fly {{Ninja}}.

* Eggman in ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''. These types of fights usually play out in a combination of the first and second, where the cockpit of the vehicle is the weak point. Usually, the pilot gets away to fight another day (or level in the case of [[RecurringBoss Eggman]]), or survives the destruction of their vehicle only to be captured and/or [[VillainsWantMercy start begging for mercy]].
** One particular instance of the third style in a ''Sonic'' game would be the G.U.N. Truck from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', which made a return in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''.
* ''[[{{VideoGame/Contra}} Super Contra/Super C]]'' has the first boss, a carrier helicopter loaded with turrets and an [[ClownCar endless amount of Mooks]].

* In the [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames video game adaptation]] [[Creator/{{Bethesda}} of]] ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', one of the stages has you running from a gunship that you can't hurt (but can kill you over and over and over...).

* Cannoli from ''VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise'' fights with his Mad Hat machines, because Wario stole his wand that granted him super powers. They're supposedly family heirlooms.
* A planned game that was canceled (because of the fact the creator just postponed the idea in order to create Iron Twilight) has a stage where you fight 3 bandits who drive in futuristic cars. But you get outnumbered when you see the boss in the stage. Compare the boss's high tech racing car to your puny police bike. Yikes...

* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' (1990): "Bennie, [[FunetikAksent Sklew yew]]!"

* This is what distinguishes most of the bosses in ''VideoGame/{{Police 911}} 2'', since every foe, like you, is a OneHitPointWonder. Your pistol isn't powerful enough to destroy the vehicles, so you take out the drivers by firing through the windows.

* Eggman in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''. These types of fights usually play out in a combination of the first and second, where the cockpit of the vehicle is the weak point. Usually, the pilot gets away to fight another day (or level in the case of [[RecurringBoss Eggman]]), or survives the destruction of their vehicle only to be captured and/or [[VillainsWantMercy start begging for mercy]].

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In "South by Southwest", Gibbs and [=DiNozzo=], along with a local sheriff and witness, wind up getting attacked by an assassin in a helicopter. Ended when Gibbs, an ex-marine sniper, [[SnipeTheCockpit shot the pilot]].

* ''Warlord of the 21st Century'', a.k.a. ''Battletruck''. The BigBad, Colonel Straker, commands an armoured big rig, in search of fuel at any cost - even if it means running down anything in its way or murdering civilians. In the end, [[spoiler:Straker kills his driver in a fit of anger, because he is [[BadBoss too arrogant to be warned]] that the motor is overheating. Straker attempts to take the wheel himself, but is incapacitated by the main protagonist, leaving the truck [[DeadFootLeadFoot driverless]]. The end result? The truck flies over a cliff and [[EveryCarIsAPinto combusts big time]].]]

* Pretty much every adaptation of ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' will feature the SignatureScene where the Major goes up against a robot tank and beats it at heavy cost to er prosthetic body.