Basic Trope: A basic vehicle with transforming capabilities to aid its driver.
- Straight: Agent Bob's car sprouts wings to make a particularly wide jump.
- Exaggerated: Along with the wings, a giant jet engine seemingly assembles out of nowhere which lets the car fly at supersonic speed.
- Downplayed: No actual transformation took place - the car instead has tiny flaps on the side to give that extra amount of lift.
- Justified: The work takes place in a virtual reality where the laws of physics can essentially be ignored, and such transformations are designed more for cosmetic appeal.
- Inverted: A giant monster truck chases Agent Bob before transforming back into a regular sports car.
- Subverted: The car transforms into a plane and makes the jump dramatically, only to immediately nosedive down the cannon.
- Double Subverted: But it turns out that was the plan all along - the car sprouts a drill and digs straight through the earth toward Doctor Bigbad's secret base on the other side of the world.
- Parodied: The transformation scene is overly complicated and takes nearly a full minute to complete.
- Zig-Zagged: Agent Bob's car has all sorts of gadgets, but whenever it's not convenient to the plot for Bob to easily get out of a situation, either the car inexplicably doesn't have what he needs, or Bob just doesn't think to use them.
- Averted: Agent Bob has to spend the entire movie driving his brother-in-law's minivan instead of his super cool secret agent car, which he lost the keys to.
- Enforced: The car transforms into a motorcycle resembling a real life model, the designers of which which are sponsoring the movie.
- Lampshaded: The bad guys comment on the sheer amount of transformations Agent Bob's car has.
- Invoked: Alice designed Agent Bob's car with all sorts of gadgets because "every agent has this kind of stuff."
- Exploited: Agent Bob's dorky brother-in-law finds the keys to Bob's super cool car, and he manages to expertly use every gadget to his advantage in order to save the day at the last minute.
- Defied: Agent Bob tells Alice, "don't be silly, it's just a sports car."
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