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* In ''Series/{{Hunter}}'', detective sgt. Hunter has a (deserved) reputation for getting into car chases and wrecking his cars. Although they don't own the cars in question, the people in charge of the LAPD car pool fear the moment Hunter appears to requsition a new car, and tend to give him [[TheAllegedCar the worst clunker available]]. The times Hunter manages (by audacity, oversight or sheer luck) to get a new, or newly serviced, car there is a lot of angst over in which shape he'll return it. Of course, the car ''is'' totalled or at least severely damaged during the episode. This leads to another show of angst and fury when the car is returned in pieces.

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* In ''Series/{{Hunter}}'', ''Series/{{Hunter|1984}}'', detective sgt. Hunter has a (deserved) reputation for getting into car chases and wrecking his cars. Although they don't own the cars in question, the people in charge of the LAPD car pool fear the moment Hunter appears to requsition a new car, and tend to give him [[TheAllegedCar the worst clunker available]]. The times Hunter manages (by audacity, oversight or sheer luck) to get a new, or newly serviced, car there is a lot of angst over in which shape he'll return it. Of course, the car ''is'' totalled or at least severely damaged during the episode. This leads to another show of angst and fury when the car is returned in pieces.
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* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloInHollywood'': After Mr. Kavanaugh tells a couple of valets that he's just gotten his car out of the repair shop, he tells the valet guys to be careful with it. Cue Buzz and Abercrombie crashing into it in "their'' car.
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* ''Literature/StarWarsTheLivingForce'': During the final battle, Saesee Tinn ominously tells the {{Mook}}s he is facing that the vintage starfighter he arrived in is a loaner, and none of them had better dare scratch it. None of them do.
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* Bikes belonging to female main characters in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.

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* Bikes belonging to female main characters in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' have a tendency to be destroyed by Pikachu's Thunderbolt. Small wonder why female leads post-''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'' simply travel on foot than rather ride bikes.
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* ''Series/Annika2021'';
** Annika's Saab. [[spoiler:She gets carjacked by the suspect in 1.6, who blows himself up with a grenade while still inside.]]
** DCI Oban loans her VW Touareg to Annika while she looks for another car. It promptly gets its taillight knocked out while parked when a suspect fleeing Annika and Michael backs a delivery van into it.
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* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father he's quite proud of, so of course it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.

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* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': JerkJock Karl Ranck has a nice sports car from his father he's quite proud of, so of course it gets stolen and damaged during a school dance.

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