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4->''"Red means STOP!"''
5-->-- '''Hellboy''', ''Film/Hellboy2004''
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7In {{real life}}, when a pedestrian is hit by a car, they suffer physical trauma; as a result, automobiles cause [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate more deaths]] than any other non-disease cause on the planet. While that statistic still applies to drivers, you can expect a number of pedestrians (with CharlesAtlasSuperpower) in fiction to hold their own.
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9A [[ArtisticLicenseMartialArts martial artist]] may punch through a door without breaking their hand, and if a {{super hero}} can [[{{Trainstopping}} stop a locomotive]] by standing in front of it, don't expect a lighter vehicle to survive. Motorcycles? Not a chance. Automobiles? Straight to the junkyard. Aircraft? Not if there's a {{flying brick}}. Metal siding crumples like tinfoil, engines get tossed aside, frames buckle, and passengers will be stunned. This trope is occasionally also used as a gag to show just how monstrously fat a character is.
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11This is generally ''not'' TruthInTelevision unless the pedestrian in question is quite large, like, say… an elephant (other animals, such as moose and deer, have a history of achieving a MutualKill when encountering cars).
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13Often requires NighInvulnerability for straight examples or TheAllegedCar for comedy. The vehicle in question may have a recognizable ImpactSilhouette left behind.
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15Overlaps with {{Trainstopping}}, which is more about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stopping a train]] than damaging it. Contrast with CarFu and ToyotaTripwire. See also ChronicallyCrashedCar.
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23* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': This is Kenshiro's method of {{Trainstopping}} in order to save the villagers from Gyoko.
24* ''Anime/RidingBean'': The BigBad attempts to run down Bean Bandit, only for him to not only stop her car cold by shoulder-checking it, but ''lift it right off its front wheels!''
25* PlayedForLaughs, in ''Manga/MidoriDays'', when Seiji's best friend, Miyahara, tells him about [[MemeticMutation the rumor]] going around the school that says he injured his right hand [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5TZWCcwVU by punching out a Yakuza's car!]]
26* Majin Buu in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had some fun [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwKgNrsW3ek playing with cars]] during an early appearance. They weren't matchbox vehicles, but may have been [[EveryCarIsAPinto Pintos]].
27* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has Accelerator do this to Amai Ao's car when it charges into him by [[SuperpowerLottery using his telekinesis, known in-universe as "Vector Control"]].
28* In ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' this was part of [[BloodKnight Gaou]]'s backstory: He was hit by a car when he was [[CreepyChild a little boy]]. Naturally, [[MadeOfIron the car took more damage than he did]].
29* ''Manga/WorldTrigger'': Yuma's introduction features him walking away from a car crash. The car, of course, hit ''him''.
30* In the first episode of the ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' anime, Shinichi crouches over a kid to protect them from a speeding car. The parasite that's become his right hand armors itself and grabs the front of the car, crushing it in its grip and stopping the vehicle cold.
31* In the first ''Anime/SaintSeiya'' movie, it looks like a pair of orphans got run over by a car, but it got stopped at the last moment by Hyoga using only his hand. The [[BaitAndSwitch red splat]] shown beforehand turned out to be one of the watermelons he was bringing them and had to drop to use his free hand.
32* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'': Yor dealt with the mastermind of an assassination plot by jumping in front of his car and kicking it on the side so hard, it crashes by the side of the road.
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36* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'': Issue #3 has a guy attempt CarFu on [[SuperStrength Jakita]] [[SuperSpeed Wagner]], she kicks the engine out of his vehicle (pictured).
37* ''ComicBook/RichieRich'': In one comic book story, Irona the robot maid (female design) is on a date with Steelo, a male-design robot when a car tries to run the red light while they are crossing and in the way. No effect on the robots. The car is comprehensively totalled. This being a kid's comic book, the driver is merely stunned.
38* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': The first volume has Cassidy attempt CarFu on [[NighInvulnerability The Saint of Killers]]. The truck Cassidy was driving practically folds itself in half and the Saint doesn't even budge.
39-->'''Sheriff Root:''' Ugly fella there just drove a truck into you. Ain't you pissed at him at all?\
40'''Saint of Killers:''' ''[nonchalantly]'' I'll get to him.
41* ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'': In several episodes, Vargen has tried to run over Bamse with his car. One example is in the movie ''Vargen äter dunderhonung'', after Vargen had robbed Katta Lo's candy shop. It usually ends badly for the car. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bamse-vargen-car-crash_9233.png Picture]]
42* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
43** In ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1'', Superman stops a car with his bare hands before lifting and smashing it into a rock.
44** Subverted in ''ComicBook/WhoTookTheSuperOutOfSuperman''. Clark Kent shoves co-worker Steve Lombard out of the path of a speeding car, and it looks like the car is about to get wrecked as usual. Clark gets struck instead, and it's then revealed his powers have somehow been turned off.
45** Downplayed in ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime''. A car is about to run over a kid, and ComicBook/{{Superboy}} brings it to a stop from a kick in the bumper.
46** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has also done this time and again, either intentionally or unintentionally.
47** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/3/33/Supergirl_Vol_2_17.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081031045918 In the cover]] of ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 Supergirl Vol. 2]]'' #17, a car crashes into Supergirl. She said them "Stop", but they didn't listen.
48** This is even part of the introduction story of the post-Crisis Supergirl in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. Some guy crashes onto Kara as she roams the streets of Gotham aimlessly just after her crash-landing.
49** In the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/22/Supergirl_v.5_10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080818062513 cover]] of ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl Vol. 5]]'' #10, another car crashes into Kara while she's standing in the middle of the road.
50** Variant in ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth #1'', in which Kara breaks several cars while she's trying to learn how to drive.
51** ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'': As soon as Supergirl's villain Nightflame steps into the physical world, a car moves in on her, and the woman crushes the vehicle.
52** Subverted in ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge''. Supergirl steps in front of Starfire's gang getaway car, expecting to crush the vehicle when it crashed against her, when her powers suddenly vanish. Then Supergirl activates her power harness, leaps aside at the last possible moment, grabs the under edge of the car and flips the vehicle aside.
53--->As the car rushes down at her at terrific speed... At the last possible moment, Supergirl leaps to the side, leans down and grabs the under edge of the bandit car-- and with a quick flip-- the car crashes on its side...
54** ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'': When they first fight, Kara smashes Thara into a car, which becomes flattened junk upon impact with Flamebird's invulnerable body.
55** ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'': As stopping some bank robbers, Supergirl hoists their getaway car before slamming it into the asphalt.
56* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Orion pulls this off while "helping" to arrest some bank robbers. [[https://i.imgur.com/br9kmis.jpg It doesn't hurt him, but knocks out the diver and front seat passenger]]
57* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is a giant green behemoth, yet [[TooDumbToLive people seem to think]] he can be taken out by cars that are ''smaller than him!'' The opposite tends to happen. Then again, due to his NighInvulnerable body, buses, trucks, tanks, even planes and train end up getting destroyed crashing into him.
58** Likewise for [[VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction video games]] that feature the Hulk.
59* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Jerom frequently does this, either intentionally or unintentionally, to stop other characters from getting away. He doesn't even have to actively run or slam into the car; just standing his ground and letting the car hit him is enough.
60* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'': In ''Transformers: Stormbringer'', Crankcase tries to ram the much larger Thunderwing while in vehicle mode. He ends up wrecking himself against Thunderwing’s leg, to no effect. While Crankcase survives the experience (despite being left for dead), it's possibly the reason he's got an unrepaired head injury when he showed up in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''.
61* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
62** ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': When stopping the lead police car after the cops fail to even attempt to look into a lead when the reporter who tipped them off wasn't waiting at the door of a gang's hidden base Di takes special care not to crush the car. She lets it push her backwards until she's slowed it to a stop to ask the police what's going on, and is understandably unimpressed.
63** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': Diana rams into a German tank before lifting, flipping and wreaking it in "I'm Ageless".
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67* The ''Fanfic/CoreLine'' one-shot story ''Fanfic/CLINEOhCrap'' gives us the "ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Roadstop". It's never really said whether this is an example of InUniverse lingo or an AttackPatternAlpha-nevertheless, it's the invocation of this trope for intimidation factor (and trying to force whoever is on the car to stop). Emphasis here on ''trying''-the poor bastard of a runaway con that the super heroine is trying to stop stole a car of which the brakes die right when he tries to stop, forcing the super heroine to try other methods.
68* [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/supergirl-meets-a-truck-302151529 In this fanart]], ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' meets a truck. Said truck didn't survive that meeting.
69* ''Roleplay/DCNation'': This is how Green Shield discovered that her ProfessorGuineaPig gambit left her with side effects of super durability. Trying to evade mercenaries hired by her crooked boss, she ran out in the street, got hit by a truck, and the truck came out on the worse end.
70* ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'': May's Blaziken has crushed vehicles more than a few times, especially after unlocking his Speed Boost ability.
71* ''Fanfic/CrossAngeTheKnightOfHilda'': Done by [[TheBigGuy Rhino]] in Chapter 6 during Ange's rescue. He uses his Mana to reinforce his body to increase his physical strength and make his body nigh-invulnerable, which comes in handy when a police car comes directly at him, which he stops dead in its tracks by slamming his fist on the hood.
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75* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'', one of the gangster cars flips after hitting a BabyCarriage; the baby was just that big. Then Souza flips the last gangster car off a bridge... by tripping it with her foot.
76* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'', [[TestosteronePoisoning El Macho]] totals an armored truck he wanted to rob by punching it.
77* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'': Near the end, a brainwashed Superman stands in the path of the Titans' vehicle to crush it.
78* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', this is subverted. Mei as a giant red panda is easily massive enough to cause this and it almost happens when she finds herself in the middle of a street with a car barrelling down on her. Instead, the car stops just short of hitting her only to be rear ended which creates a multi-vehicle pileup so she still ends up causing vehicular damage indirectly.
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82* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', ComicBook/{{Superman}} gets hit by the [[CoolCar Batmobile]] going at full speed. [[NoSell Clark doesn't budge]], but the Batmobile is badly damaged and crashes.
83* The ''{{Film/Carrie|2013}}'' remake has Carrie pull it off by telekinesis: instead of Billy Nolan's car crashing into the pedestrian, it crashes onto an unseen wall of telekinetic force in front of her. For the record, the novel and the original adaptation just have the car forced to drive off-road and crash into something else.
84* At the beginning of ''Film/Constantine2005'', when the Mexican man finds TheSpearOfDestiny, he walks onto a road and a car runs into him. The car is totaled, the man is unscathed.
85* ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine:'' Fembot Diane gets hit by a small convertible and strolls away undamaged, with the car taking a massive dent to its front end.
86* In ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', when Cage and Rita steal a car from General Bingham's headquarters, they run into a military policeman in PoweredArmor who stops their vehicle with one smash of his exoskeleton's fists.
87* In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', the Thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SDZ9Gz-KE#t=01m25s clobbers a semi-truck]] to save someone.
88* ''Film/Hellboy2004'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kA0tg8hudw punches a oncoming car with his stone fist]] to save a man lying on the road, causing it to flip over them both.
89* The revenge-seeking Ivan Vanko in ''Film/IronMan2'' rips apart UsefulNotes/FormulaOne cars with high-tech energy whips ''during a race'', just to reach Tony Stark.
90* ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'' subverts this with Hongo Takeshi (the titular first Rider) merely leaving a handprint on a truck while saving a girl. In the sequel ''Film/KamenRiderTheNext'' this is also invoked - he stops a car from moving without any overt damage, but then one of the buggers tries to hit him with a motorcycle, and he ''tears the front wheel off'' in response.
91* A variation in ''Film/NightWatch''. When TheHero is in trouble and the backup team rushes to the rescue in a truck, they almost run [[BigBad Zabulon]] over. (It was an accident, they were ignoring traffic lights and he just happened to cross the road.) Zabulon protects himself with a magical barrier, but instead of crushing the truck he flips it over his head, making it spin in midair, land on wheels undamaged and continue at full speed.
92* ''Nuit Blanche'': in a romantic example, a car cannot keep lovers apart in this exquisite short film. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh7cIs4TuRE here]].
93* In ''Film/RaceToWitchMountain'', the {{Human Alien|s}} Seth increases his density just before a car hits him, causing it to smash against his body without harming him.
94* ''Film/SuperheroMovie'' has the protagonist smash into a truck unharmed while shoving an elderly woman out of the way.[[spoiler:..and accidentally into a nearby [[BlackComedy wood chipper]].]]
95* In ''Film/SupermanII'', when Clark Kent walks across a street and is hit by an oncoming car, he strolls on unconcerned, but the car has extensive front end damage.
96* ''Film/SwampThing1982'': Ferret and the other mooks attempt to run Swamp Thing down with their Jeep, but are stopped dead on their tracks by his newfound SuperStrength. He then proceeds to rips the car's roof off and throw the men about.
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100* In ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'', don't expect you or your car to survive ramming a Chtorran gastropede.
101* In ''Literature/JackBlank'', [[RubberMan Allegra]] falls off the outside of a car during a high-speed chase and lands on top of another car. Because she's MadeOfIron, she's perfectly fine, but the car she lands on isn't.
102* In ''Literature/PresidentsVampire'', Cade stops a car chasing his friend by standing in front of it and then pushing it aside, sending it into the wall and practically crushing it beyond saving. It's a small miracle the passengers managed to survive.
103* In ''Literature/SecretCity'', a Nav operative stops a car by teleporting in front of it and punching it with a gauntlet enchanted to multiply the force of blow tenfold - and Navs are already [[SuperStrength insanely strong]]. The driver managed to hit the brakes when he saw the portal open ahead, so the impact was weakened, denting the car's radiator in and bringing it to dead stop while leaving the passengers disoriented but relatively intact. [[CurbStompBattle Not for a long, though.]]
104* The usual superpowered version is subverted in ''Literature/WildCards'' -- Golden Boy tries to stop a car by blocking its path, and simply gets knocked clear [[NighInvulnerable without much effect on him]] or the vehicle.
105* ''Literature/InstrumentOfGod'': In this case, it's a semi truck that tries to run down 246's boss David. But he's in a wizard's cloak, which gives him invulnerability...
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109* In one episode of ''Series/The10thKingdom'', a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] wandering around New York city is hit by a car; he suffers no injury, but the car is badly damaged.
110* In ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'', Jake and Marco start to suspect their friend [[RobotBuddy Erek]] isn't quite human when they see him jump into the street to rescue a dog and wreck a truck when it crashes into him.
111* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the metahuman villains Gorilla Grodd and Griffi Grey do this.
112* In the first episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' a pre-Superman Clark stops a city bus from hitting a pedestrian. After the event, the bus driver gets out to check on the bus and sees Clark's handprint in the metal of the bus.
113* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
114** The Netflix series ''Series/LukeCage2016'' starring the eponymous hero has him do this to an SUV by standing in its way.
115** ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' has a heavily downplayed version. The heroine does stop a car, but only a part of the front hood is damaged. Another variation occurs where a truck runs her over. Jessica's ribs are broken, the truck's engine is wrecked, aka a non-lethal MutualKill.
116* A recurring bit on ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' when young Clark Kent saves a pedestrian from being hit by a car or bus, which crumples around Clark.
117* One ''Series/Tosh0'' episode had a Web Redemption for a man who got hit by an ice cream truck while dancing in the middle of a street. It ended with the man starring in a music video where an ice cream truck hits him again only to get demolished instead.
118* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E09Salvage Salvage]]" starts out with a car being almost cleaved in half after running into someone.
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122* The [[http://vimeo.com/11533560 music video]] for "Rabbit in Your Headlights" by Music/{{UNKLE}} featuring [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]]. In it, a homeless and seemingly crazy man in a thick jacket is walking in the middle of a road through a busy tunnel. He gets hit a few times by passing cars but always gets right back up and continues walking and ranting to himself. Eventually he begins shedding his clothes. At the climax of the song he suddenly stops, shirtless, and holds out his arms as a car barrels towards him. [[http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/477/914/47791457_640.jpg It crashes into him as if he's immovable]].
123** Recreated almost shot for shot by Korean Hip Hop artist MC Mong in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02qDQkoUzdg video]] for his song (appropriately) titled Invincible(Cheon Ha Mu Jeok).
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127* Wrestling/TheBigShow turned over Wrestling/TorrieWilson's car after he was fired from Smackdown and thought she was laughing at him for it.
128* On ''Wrestling/WWESmackdown'' Wrestling/BobbyLashley turned over a car with intent to crush Finlay during a brawl between the two that spilled into a parking lot.
129* On ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' Wrestling/BraunStrowman unleased a series of attacks on Wrestling/RomanReigns over the course of several minutes. When Roman got loaded into an ambulance, Braun shouted "I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!", punched him some more, then ''lifted the ambulance on its side''.
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133* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'':
134** In the first game Bayonetta accidentally lands on top of Enzo's car when chasing an angel who has kidnapped him, crushing the car due to her SuperStrength. Enzo is not at all happy with the development, and even Bayonetta's face clearly screams "Oops."
135** ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' takes this up to 11 when Bayonetta does this to a fighter jet in the introduction. Kicking it from a dive right at her into a straight vertical climb, [[IBrokeANail and then complaining when her dress got ripped in the ensuing fight]].
136* The opening cinematic of ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' shows off the rapid improvisation the series' nanosuits are intended to make possible. At one point a mook [[CarFu tries to run Nomad down with a Humvee]], but Nomad switches suit modes to SuperStrength and destroys the vehicle by punching it.
137* ''VideoGame/DemolishFist'' have cars filled with mooks in more than one stage, including a heavily-armored vehicle as a boss. And you can destroy them by ''punching'' really hard. There's even a special move where you flip moving vehicles into enemies with your bare hands.
138* The first ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' game has a {{minigame}} where characters can beat up a car with their bare fists '''and there's a time limit'''.
139** This is later used for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', where it's probably more well-known -- though it doesn't have the hapless owner showing up and breaking down in despair. This one is a justified example since the dealer hosts a contest to destroy unsold cars with their bare hands for $10 per try.
140** The car minigame makes a return in ''[[VideoGame/{{StreetFighterIV}} Super Street Fighter IV]]'', and as an EasterEgg, the car's owner will show up if a ''Final Fight'' character (Guy or Cody, as well as Rolento, Hugo, or Poison in ''Ultra SFIV'') is the one who breaks it.
141* In ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'', if the campers get a car going, one of the few ways Jason can stop them from escaping is by teleporting in front of the vehichle, which causes it to crash (and forces the driver to get out, giving Jason an opportunity to kill them).
142* ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' has three police vehicles in Neon Boulevard who attempts a CarFu on you. But you can destroy them by slashing with your weapons.
143* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' and [[VideoGame/{{Prototype2}} its sequel]] treat cars as little more than [[OutsideRide rolling]] [[CarFu ammo]] and even tanks can be literally tossed aside. And forget about them running over the player character, he's a ''lot'' heavier than he looks.
144* ''VIdeoGame/{{Robocop}}'' does this on a regular basis. To be fair, enemy mooks are trying to run over ''Robocop''.
145* In a nod to ''Street Fighter'' and ''Final Fight'', one of Godai's sidequests in ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'' is to find and destroy 4 luxurious cars parked in Downtown (one of whom being driven by Norio with Kamijo as his passenger). Unlike these former two examples, these cars are ''less'' durable, only requiring a few punches to turn them to scrap metal.
146* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' begins with Sonic "snowboarding" down the streets of a San Francisco-esque city. The incoming traffic cannot harm him at all. In fact, the cars are coded to flip over and start a disastrous chain reaction with any nearby ones at the slightest touch with the blue blur.
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150* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 2, Episode 3, Penny saves Ruby from an oncoming truck by pushing her out of the way and then stopping the truck with her bare hands. The truck gets away with only a dented hood, and Penny is uninjured [[spoiler:save for the skin on her hands being shredded, [[RoboticReveal revealing metal underneath]].]]
151* ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'': In the second skit of Season 3 Episode 11, Ruby [[DrivesLikeCrazy completely loses control]] of the car Taiyang [[DrivingTestSmashers is teaching her to drive]], eventually careening headlong into Penny by accident. The actual collision isn't shown, since the scene stops just before it with Penny's reflection showing up on the windshield [[FreezeFrameBonus for a split second]], but since the last shot of the skit is an in-universe InMemoriam for the totaled car, a result similar to the above-mentioned scene from the main series is ''heavily'' implied.
152* In [=LHUGUENY=]'s "Jurassic World 2.5: The Musical", a Brachiosaurus is shown being hit by a pickup truck and a bus, both of which crumple into scrap metal. The dinosaur is unaffected.
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156* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p12/ this scene]] of Dr. [=McLuchador=] punching a speeding hatchback into a lamppost, doing what a whole gang of bad dudes couldn't: intercept a delivery of a lot of super-expensive pizza.
157* We see a subversion [[http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-4/ a few pages into]] ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'' when Alison walks into the path of a bus with her headphones on. The bus receives some cosmetic damage (including a cracked windshield) but remains quite drivable and only stops because the driver [[NighInvulnerable thought]] the young woman he knocked into a sign was badly injured.
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161* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/DoughRayMeOw", a parrot tries to kill a cat by having him play in the railroad track as the train is coming. The train is totaled in the collision, but the cat steps out with nary a scratch.
162* In one ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner'' cartoon, Wile E. is hit so hard by a truck that he leaves a hole through it.
163* A car runs into a bad-tempered turtle on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''... and bounces off. [[NighInvulnerable With a dent in the fender]]. [[ImplacableMan While the turtle keeps on walking]]. This marks the point where the turtle goes from "horrible pet" to "unstoppable menace."
164* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Hawk and Dove", Wonder Woman intercepts a couple of bank robbers this way. She was trying to take a day off, and thus in civilian attire. The driver of the robbers' car, seeing her standing there, [[CarFu accelerates to try to run her over]]. She punches the hood of the car so hard both driver and passenger are ejected through the windshield and sent slamming into a nearby bus.
165* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has a Ryu {{Expy}} escaping from his arcade cabinet and going on a rampage across town. In a ShoutOut to ''Street Fighter'' and ''Final Fight'', he comes across a car and he proceeds to wreck it to get extra points. The owner even falls to the floor and mutters "Oh! My car!" [[spoiler:His father then says nonchalantly that he can just buy him a new one. "Oh, I love being rich!"]]
166* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': When the Smith family chase after the girls and the Professor with their WeaponizedCar, [[RememberedICouldFly the girls eventually realize they have no reason to run]] and simply crush the car with their bare hands.
167* ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' episode [[Recap/DCSuperHeroGirls2019S2E24To25SoulSisters "Soul Sisters"]]: After her soul is taken, Giganta falls on Jessica's van, flattening it like it was a cardboard box. Jessica has to make a replica van with her ring.
168* ZigZagged in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' when Doc Venture's {{yandere}} ex and ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} {{expy}} Myra tries to ram [[MemeticBadass Brock Samson]] with his own car. He's [[BadassNormal no superhuman]], but he manages to jump at exactly the right moment and shatter the windshield with his body, crushing the ''driver'' with not a scratch on himself.
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