Yumi and Roll inexplicably survive this without burns. She smiles and shows that she's holding a remote detonator. Two of the protagonists stare slack-jawed in amazement for a moment before suspecting that the third one had something to do with it. Subverted in Gunsmith Cats: A villain drives off a raising bridge and her car explodes in midair.She tricks Kogoro into finding the jerk asses who caused the accident so she can burn them and herself to death, but Conan and a friend of the deceased boyfriend manage to dissuade her. His Office Lady girlfriend survives since some bystanders managed to pull her out of the vehicle before it went boom. Also, an early case has a Salary Man dying after his car crushes and explodes.One member of the shadow organization eludes the FBI by shooting out the gas tank of the other car aiming backwards via the side view mirror.Certain cars there will explode if they tip over. See also Shoot the Fuel Tank for a slightly more justified sub-trope. External Combustion combines this with Vehicular Sabotage. Molotov Truck is often a weaponized version of this. Compare Made of Explodium, Hair-Trigger Explosive, Damage Is Fire. Subtrope of Artistic License – Explosives. Still, there are plenty of people who believe that any damaged car is inches from going up in flames, leading to well-meaning bystanders pulling injured persons out of their cars and causing further harm. If the massive numbers of parodies (such as cars going poof at a touch, or things exploding that don't contain gas at all, like bicycles) and Lampshade Hangings in recent years is any indication, this is on its way to being a Discredited Trope, especially after MythBusters debunked it. After several incidents when a Pinto burst into flames after a minor collision, its reputation as a cheap death trap was sealed, and it was taken off the market in 1980 to be replaced by the North American Ford Escort note Which began based on the European Ford Escort mk3. Its fatal flaw was that its gas tank was placed between the rear axle and the bumper - and the bumper itself was not sturdy - meaning that any damage to the car's back end could easily puncture the tank and spill fuel on the hot exhaust pipe. The Trope Namer is the now-infamous Ford Pinto, a low-cost car launched by the Ford Motor Company in 1970. Expect it to intersect frequently with Dangerous Clifftop Road (as in the page image). Some pretty egregious instances might even have them mushroom. Sometimes vehicles tumbling off cliffs will burst into flames spontaneously, in midair, before they've even hit the ground. Aircraft, locomotives, ships: pretty much anything gas-powered and motorized is a fireball waiting to happen. While cars are the most common vehicle to go kaboom, it seems that any form of transport has a good chance of exploding in a huge ball of flames and debris if it's shot at or wrecked. Needless to say, Rule of Cool is in full effect here. At worst your "exploding" car would actually be a car with a small fire. This trope comes from the public knowledge that vehicles are full of flammable substances like gasoline minus the less-public knowledge that liquid gasoline has to be vaporized and mixed with air at the proper ratio before a spark will ignite it. Evidently fictional cars run on nitroglycerine. WatchMojo, "Top 10 Worst Action Movie Clichés"Īny significant impact to a vehicle, particularly when falling off a cliff, will result in the vehicle exploding and/or immediately catching fire.
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