Basic Trope: Using a vehicle as a weapon. This can involve running them over with it, or picking it up and hitting someone with it.
- Straight:
- Bob runs Alice over with a car.
- Alice picks up a car and hits Bob with it.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob powerslides a bus in order to whack a horde of mooks with it.
- Alice uses trains as Instant Chucks.
- Downplayed: Bob hurls a motorcycle, and then drives over someone in it.
- Justified:
- Alice is one of The Fair Folk, and can't be hurt by any mortal weapon. Technically, Bob's car isn't a weapon...
- Bob had no other means of defending himself, so he resorted to the most dangerous item at hand: his car.
- Inverted: Bob punches a car. The car loses.
- Subverted: Bob seems set to run Alice down with his car, but chickens out at the last second...
- Double Subverted: ...Allowing Alice to nonchalantly pick him out of the car and them beat him with it.
- Parodied:
- Bob's car is insured in case of deliberate manslaughter.
- Alice is trained in the art of Kryptonian car fighting.
- Zig Zagged: Alice picks up a car to hit Bob with... then reconsiders and gently puts it down, before getting in it and ramming it into him, reasoning that this way it'll hit harder than if she threw it.
- Averted: No cars are weaponized in any way.
- Enforced: It's a homage to Action Comics #1.
- Lampshaded:
- "I don't need a weapon. I'm driving one."
- Alternatively:
Alice: "I can't be hurt by your mortal weapons."Bob: "This isn't a weapon." - Implied: All we see of Bob kicking Alice's ass is a very loud engine roar, a crashing sound, and Alice ragdolling past the camera's field of vision.
- Invoked: Bob decide to run Alice over so that it looks like an accident.
- Exploited: Alice uses Deadly Dodging to get Bob to drive off a cliff.
- Defied:
- Alice sabotages Bob's car so he can't use it.
- Bob's family or friends, who were concerned with Bob's recent behaviour and his angry rants with Alice, saw him hurry to his car. After a scuffle, they confiscate Bob's car keys and call a psychologist for examination.
- Discussed:
- "So, are you going to hit him with a van or what?"
- "I found a parking space. It's on YOUR FACE!"
- Conversed: " I wonder which car is the best bludgeon?"
- Deconstructed:
- Bob ends up dying in the crash.
- Alice ends up tearing the car apart instead of being able to club someone with it properly, and it does less damage when thrown than a normal hit. On top of all that, she has to pay the damages incurred by trying the superhero version of this trope.
- Bob gets reported on by the surrounding public and ends up stopped and arrested by the police and SWAT.
- Reconstructed:
- It looks like Bob was killed, but it turns out he bailed at the last second.
- Knowing that just hurling it awkwardly won't hurt much, Alice picks the whole car and then flies into her foes, cushioning her and giving the ram more surface area.
- It's a cruddy option for a superhero, but it's fantastic for supervillains as they don't care about collateral and if the car is occupied it keeps the heroes busy while they make their escape.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice grabs a car to uses an improvised weapon. Bob does as well. Flynning duel ensues.
- Bob treats Alice's face going 'splat' all over his windshield with the same annoyance as running into a bug. Bonus points if Alice gets hurt when Bob uses his window wipers.
- Played For Drama: Bob kills Alice with his car. It leaves an awful lot of blood and gore behind and Bob spends the rest of the series enduring whiplash-related injuries, and on the run from his family and the police who are searching to arrest him.
- Played For Horror: Bob kills dozens of people with his car in one fell swoop. It is labeled a terrorist attack and the survivors are scarred and crippled for life, and many others develop a phobia for locations that have the capacity for a car to drive (or speed) through.
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