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Sometimes, saving an Innocent Bystander from Doctor Demonica just won't cut it: you need more impact to showcase just how dire the threat is and make the scene exciting. Enter the Bus Full of Innocents. Despite the name, it doesn't have to be a bus. Any vehicle or enclosure full of Innocent Bystanders will do, and likewise any kind of person can be put at risk, though usually it will be people who are stunningly innocent, defenseless, and respectable to most viewers. Common set ups are for the bus to be teetering perilously on a broken bridge or cliff, and a villain to use it in a Sadistic Choice along with the Love Interest. Major hero points for the super dude who saves it. It's the hero publicity equivalent of a politician kissing babies. Not to be confused with "Bus Full Of Nuns", the old name for Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking. Buses full of nuns are popular for this trope, though. Also has nothing to do with Passing Judgment, which is when a character does something embarrassing in public and gets stared at by appalled passengers of a vehicle. |
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An episode of Kamen Rider Fourze had the titular Rider try to save a bus full of cute high school girls from a Zodiart who was jealous that they all ignored him in his human form. Though Fourze stopped the monster, it was Shun with the Powerdizer who stopped the bus. | |
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Dirty Harry used a school bus full of children as the setting for the film's climax, in which Scorpio held them all hostage as our hero chose to disobey orders to pay him his ransom and simply leaps on the school bus himself. | |
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Once during the Golden Age Diana was once on the bus of innocents, and had to run up and pull the driver out of his seat when he fell asleep at the wheel due to Saturnian Lassitude Gas. | |
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On one episode of Clone High, Abe is so sleep-deprived that he almost crashes his car into a bus full of pandas. | |
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At the last chapter of The Unknown Supergirl, Linda Danvers saves a couple whose car was careening down a precipice. | |
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Miracleman throws one bus at Johnny Bates during the infamous destruction of London. His narration notes that some apologists of his have said that the bus was empty when he threw it, but he himself admits it isn't true. | |
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In "The Super-Steed of Steel", As they are riding together, Supergirl and Comet see a cable-car has broken loose and is plunging towards the ground. Both heroes grab both ends of the snapped cable and carry the passengers back to safety. | |
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The Tick (2016): To keep The Tick and Arthur from chasing him, Ramses declares he will hit The Tick where it hurts, "Right in the civilians!". He tosses an explosive under a bus, which leaves it dangling perilously over a bridge. | |
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In The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IX, one of Snake's three strikes is for blowing up a bus full of nuns (but he insists it was self-defense). | |
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Attempted in Gotham with a bus full of cheerleaders. Thankfully, it failed. The point Jerome Valeska tried and failed to prove with that bus? Every Car Is a Pinto, even those that are yellow and have a long wheelbase. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): In the three part storyline "City at War", an Evil Power Vacuum has emerged as a result of the Shredder's presumed death following his last defeat in "Secret Origins". As a result, all of the Shredder's former forces are now fighting a massive three-way Mob War for control of the New York underworld now that the Shredder isn't there to rule over them, with the ninja turtles unintentionally getting involved. A bus full of innocents ends up right in the middle of a battle between said forces and the turtles have to save them. | |
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In an early issue of Young Justice, Robin found himself riding an out of control superbike towards "Nuns driving a station wagon full of high explosives!" next to the Great Wall of China. | |
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Justice League: In the episode "Legends", a literal bus full of nuns is on a collision course with a truck full of dynamite. Rescuing the nuns distracts the Flash enough to get him captured by Dr. Blizzard after he had easily won their fight. However, given the reveal of Part 2, the actual villain, Ray Thompson, had likely warped reality to make it so Dr. Blizzard wouldn't lose before he was supposed to. Or Ray warped reality to prevent the Justice League from figuring out the truth. | |
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In Season 2 of Luther, a Serial Killer who plans to set himself up as a modern-day Bogeyman is found to have got hold of a bus via his underworld contacts. He uses it to kidnap some schoolchildren whom he plans to have disappear so no-one will ever know what happened to them. | |
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Happens a few times in RWBY In the Black Trailer, Blake and Adam storm an train filled with Dust to steal. However, when Blake realizes that Adam is going to blow up a train with civilians still on it, this is what leads to her Heel–Face Turn as she cuts the link with the civilians on it and leaves with them, leaving Adam behind. In Episode One of Volume Six, Qrow, Team RWBY, Oscar and "Team JNR" have a train attacked by Grimm due to the Relic of Knowledge attracting them. Ren, Nora and Jaune ferry the civilians to the other end of the train while the others take care of the Grimm. |
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Batman: Black and White: In "Good Evening, Midnight", an escaped prison inmate hijacks a school bus, and the driver's attempt to fight back causes the bus to veer off the road and end up hanging precariously half off a bridge. Batman is called in to save the day. | |
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Cemetery Man involves a bus full of Boy Scouts crashing. They all come back as zombie Boy Scouts. | |
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The Spider-Man Trilogy: This happens in the first movie with a tram car, including the Sadistic Choice. The second one too with a train, when Octavius sabotages the controls. Spidey stops the train, which takes such a great physical toll on him that he faints. |
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In the Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns special, Mewtwo saves a bus full of travelers from falling off Mt. Quena during a storm. He states he was simply ensuring no meddling rescue parties would prod into his and his clones' lives had there been an accident, and also adds an emphatic denial of any other ulterior motive, like compassion. | |
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Supernatural: Played straight in Season 1 when Sam and Dean board a commercial flight, despite Dean's fear of flying, to stop a demon from crashing it. Gloriously Subverted in a Season 9 episode which features a bus full of white-clad church-choir singing women stopping by a biker bar and slaughtering the bikers there. |
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In "This Is Not My Life", Supergirl saves a tram full of innocents which was being attacked by Ivo Amazo's flying robots. | |
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Supergirl (Rebirth): In one scene -pictured above-, Supergirl stops a school bus from falling off a bridge. | |
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Played straight in Mighty Joe Young to perfect effect and the added bonus of the title character saving himself from Death Row. Who would want to shoot him after he saves more than a dozen orphans from a burning building? | |
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Used as backstory to 24, where Jack Bauer capturing and torturing a terrorist who had hijacked a bus carrying innocents becomes a plot point in season seven, where the Department of Justice is filing charges against him for it. | |
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In Superman: Doomsday, the Toyman hijacks a school bus full of children and holds it over the edge of a building with his mechanical spider, threatening to dump it if the police don't back off. Lois Lane manages to sneak on board and get most of the children out, but ends up falling with the last child on the bus when the Toyman drops it, only to soon be rescued by Superman (who turns out to be a clone under Lex Luthor's control). | |
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In X-Men: Evolution episode "Growing Pains", a car hanging over the side of a bridge is about to fall on a school bus full of kids. Scott, Kitty and Kurt start arguing over whether or not to help, because they're afraid of revealing themselves. In the end they decide to help after seeing the car beginning to go over the edge. They end up saving the kids and the man in the car. | |
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Supergirl reveals herself to the public by saving a plane full of innocents. A few episodes later, in the course of responding to various post-earthquake emergencies, Supergirl arrives just in time to prevent a school bus full of kids from falling off an elevated highway. | |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Implied at the end of "Super Twins" (the superhero story part of Disney Channel's "Wish Gone Amiss" weekend) after the two defeat the Meanager (Mr. Moseby's supervillain persona): | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Shadow of Malevolence" centers around the Republic's efforts to keep a powerful Separatist warship from destroying an unarmed medical center holding only medical staff and badly injured Clones. | |
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Dreaming the Reality begins with the two Dark Action Girl assassin protagonists, trying to assassinate a rival mob leader using a tripwire-activated exploding trap, but unfortunately the trap was prematurely triggered by a schoolbus full of kids and killing everyone on board. | |
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In Hobo with a Shotgun, one of the BigBads torches a bus full of elementry school children to show that he means business. No, no one saves them, and yes, we do see a tiny charred corpse. | |
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SWAT Kats did this twice. In "The Giant Bacteria", the titular monster actually eats the subway car full of passengers. In "The Deadly Pyramid", a giant mummy threatens a bus full of tourists. |
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Superman: The Animated Series: In "My Girl", Superman crashes a weapons deal by one of Lex Luthor's lackeys. Despite the guns being futuristic laser guns that cause things to explode, they prove to have the same effect on Superman as any other gun. The lackey then spots a train in the distance heading towards a bridge and uses the gun to blow that up instead, forcing Superman to save the train while the lackey gets away. | |
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This happens in the first movie with a tram car, including the Sadistic Choice. | |
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The second one too with a train, when Octavius sabotages the controls. Spidey stops the train, which takes such a great physical toll on him that he faints. | |
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The Dark Knight has this trope and its inverse as part of a Sadistic Choice: A ferry full of civilians and a ferry full of felons. The Joker gives each ferry the ability to destroy the other, and tells them unless one is destroyed both will explode at midnight. | |
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Milla's delusions in Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin are that she is trapped in a bus full of orphans stuck on train tracks, and is forced to hold back the train with her telekinesis. | |
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In the Apocalypse film series movie Revelation, Thorold Stone investigates a bomb explosion that killed a bus full of school children, believing it to be the work of the Haters (the One Nation Earth's name for the group of underground Christians that emerged during the Tribulation), but it turns out to be an inside job by One Nation Earth agents. | |
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The Walker, Texas Ranger episode "Cyclone" finds a bus full of schoolchildren, as well as CD and Alex, buried in a muddy pit dug out of a field where not only will the kids, CD and Alex die but clues to the bus's location will be erased due to an approaching tornado. One of the bad guys was quite disturbed about doing it, angrily protesting he is no murderer before being shot in cold blood, but he luckily lives long enough to disclose the bus's location to Walker and Trivette with his last breath. | |
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Superman II (1980). Ursa and Non throw a bus full of people at Superman during the fight in Metropolis. He's slammed into a wall while stopping it. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had to save a school bus they were currently riding in from crashing when Mr. Mime (Not that one) removed the color from the traffic lights. In "Him Diddle Diddle," they had to save another school bus from falling off a cliff. | |
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Trick 'r Treat: In "Halloween School Bus Massacre", a group of trick-or-treaters travels to a local flooded quarry where Macy recalls the urban legend of the Halloween School Bus Massacre, which claimed the lives of eight children with disabilities in a school bus on Halloween. The driver, who had been paid by their worn-out parents to dispose of them, drove them to that place to kill them. One of them broke free and attempted to escape, but instead wound up sending the bus over the quarry edge with the children shackled inside. The children all perished and the driver was never heard from again. Their undead corpses rise from the grave to kill Macy, Schrader, and Chip when they take Rhonda (who's implied to be autistic) down into the quarry to pull a nasty prank on her. At the end of the film, it's revealed that the elderly Mr. Kreeg, the subject of the final segment, was in fact the bus driver, specifically when the zombie children arrive at his door to claim their revenge. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Smallville. Metallo explains the reason that he hates Clark: Clark saved a bus from crashing, but later, one of its passengers murdered Metallo's sister. | |
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In Shazam!: The New Beginning, Black Adam hijacks a plane full of international delegates after being released from hyperspace, and it's up to Captain Marvel to save them. | |
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Superman/Supergirl: Maelstrom: When the titular villainess starts her rampage across Metropolis, she begins flinging cars full of innocent people high in the air to lure Superman out in the open. | |
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In the pilot of The Equalizer, Robert McCall's estranged son Scott is complaining about how his father was gone for most of his life on missions for his No Such Agency. But once he heard a news report about someone who got a busload of kids to the airport as a country collapsed into civil war, and likes to think that his dad did that. It's implied that his father was in fact the Mysterious Protector concerned. | |
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Batman: During Knightfall, Azrael has to let Abattoir free so he can save a bus full of children he hijacked. Az-Bats is not happy about it. Batman: Black and White: In "Good Evening, Midnight", an escaped prison inmate hijacks a school bus, and the driver's attempt to fight back causes the bus to veer off the road and end up hanging precariously half off a bridge. Batman is called in to save the day. |
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Kingdom Come. A tram full of innocents is in the crossfire of a brawl between AntiHeroes when Superman arrives at the place. | |
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Used hilariously in Batman: The Movie. Batman is trying to dispose of a Cartoon Bomb, but there are innocent bystanders everywhere he tries to throw it away. "Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!" There's a possible parody of this on Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death. First there's a pond full of ducklings, then a pair of the compulsory nuns giving away boxes of kittens, and finally: the Yorkshire border. |
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In WarpZone Project, a Card-Carrying Villain that is being held up by a super-hero that supposed to let him go sooner or later asks if the emprisonment will last any longer because he's late to take a school bus hostage. | |
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Death Note: Deliberately exploited by Light when he arranges for a criminal to hijack the bus he's riding on, as part of a scheme to get the name of the FBI agent who's tailing him. | |
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Superman: Kingdom Come. A tram full of innocents is in the crossfire of a brawl between AntiHeroes when Superman arrives at the place. The Great Phantom Peril: Superman saves several cars full of innocents which were being juggled by an uncaring Faora. In "This Is Not My Life", Supergirl saves a tram full of innocents which was being attacked by Ivo Amazo's flying robots. At the last chapter of The Unknown Supergirl, Linda Danvers saves a couple whose car was careening down a precipice. In Strangers at the Heart's Core, Kara stops a car which is running off the highway. When she checks the driver, who is still asleep at the wheel, Supergirl finds she is one of the students who voluntereed for Sylvia Shadow's sleep experiments. This revelation prompts Supergirl to investigate "Professor" Shadow's "research". In The Phantom Zone, three Kryptonian criminals called Kru-El, Va-Kox and Jax-Ur steal Hal Jordan's Power Battery. When Green Lantern gives chase, they knock over a transport truck driving down the freeway. Hal rushes to save the cars surrounding the truck, and Jax-Ur exploits his distraction by slamming him into the road. Supergirl (Rebirth): In one scene -pictured above-, Supergirl stops a school bus from falling off a bridge. Superman/Supergirl: Maelstrom: When the titular villainess starts her rampage across Metropolis, she begins flinging cars full of innocent people high in the air to lure Superman out in the open. In "The Super-Steed of Steel", As they are riding together, Supergirl and Comet see a cable-car has broken loose and is plunging towards the ground. Both heroes grab both ends of the snapped cable and carry the passengers back to safety. |
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In Little Inferno, one item for sale is the "Celebration Bus." Like everything else, it can be lit on fire for no good reason. As it burns, a gaggle of children's screams issue from it before it explodes. | |
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In a Ben 10 episode, Kevin (as Upgrade) cuts the brakes of a cable car with people and sends it to fall into the ocean. Ben saves them. | |
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Bling features an intense Cable-Car Action Sequence, where the villain willfully damages a school bus full of children (and momentarily turned into a cable car) to get the heroes off his back. They have to struggle very hard to avoid the bus to plummet to the ground. | |
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Wonder Woman: Once during the Golden Age Diana was once on the bus of innocents, and had to run up and pull the driver out of his seat when he fell asleep at the wheel due to Saturnian Lassitude Gas. Judgment In Infinity: During the commotion caused by the Adjudicator's appearance, a car careening out of control almost crashes into a school bus, but it is stopped in its tracks by Wonder Woman's lasso. |
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One of the random street crimes in True Crime: New York City involves rescuing a hijacked bus. Interestingly, the bus is one of the few vehicles in the game you can't drive. | |
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Marvel Future Avengers: After hijacking the Hulk Buster armor, the Green Goblin shows his callous disregard for innocent bystanders by using the armor to try and kill the people inside a bus. | |
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The Siege plays this trope twice. The first time, some Islamic terrorists detonate a paint bomb on an MTA bus, and no one gets hurt. This is a warning. The second time, a group of armed individuals take a different bus hostage with real explosives. Hubbard is able to negotiate the release of a group of children from the bus, but the terrorists proceed to blow up the bus just as a group of elderly passengers are being released. | |
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Parodied in the opening sequence of Toy Story 3, in which Mr Potato Head gives Woody a choice between catching him and saving a trainful of 'orphans' (Troll dolls with their heads sticking out the train windows). | |
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NUMB3RS: One episode centers around a group of con men taking over a tour bus and taking the passengers hostage for ransom, threatening to execute them if the ransom isn't paid by a specified time, including shooting one hostage to prove they're serious. Eventually the FBI realizes the whole thing is all based in illusion — the "hostage" was actually a secret co-conspirator and his supposed shooting was staged — and they're able to free the hostages unharmed. | |
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Pokémon Ranger: In Shadows of Almia, after defeating Kincaid, he orders the Cargo Ship full of stolen Pokémon you are standing on to be sunk, while he escapes on a brainwashed Gliscor. The last stretch of the mission is you racing down to the bottom of the ship to plug up the leak to slow the sinking before time runs out while Barlow attempts to steer the ship to dry land. | |
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In Man of Steel, young Clark is aboard such a bus when he saves his classmates from drowning. | |
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The Great Phantom Peril: Superman saves several cars full of innocents which were being juggled by an uncaring Faora. | |
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The Ultraverse: The Strangers from Malibu Comics. A tram car full of every day people gets zapped by alien energy and crashes into a sports car. Everyone gets super-powers, even the sports car driver (Night Man). Cue start to various series. | |
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Superman: The Movie (1978). After Lex Luthor triggers a major earthquake in California, Superman saves a bus full of schoolchildren from falling off a bridge. | |
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One issue G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) had Major Bludd take one of these hostage. The timely intervention of Stalker and Grand Slam resolved the situation. | |
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During Knightfall, Azrael has to let Abattoir free so he can save a bus full of children he hijacked. Az-Bats is not happy about it. | |
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Young Justice (2010): There's a Running Gag of sorts where a school bus full of kids driven by the exact same guy is constantly in danger of crashing into something or falling off a bridge in numerous episodes. Season 4 eventually reveals that this running gag is the result of Klarion possessing the bus and traveling through time and space trying to find Zatanna after he was "killed" by Child, a Lord of Chaos like Klarion, sent to remove him for not being chaotic enough. | |
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There's a possible parody of this on Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death. First there's a pond full of ducklings, then a pair of the compulsory nuns giving away boxes of kittens, and finally: the Yorkshire border. | |
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Kappa Mikey: The in-universe show LilyMu had an episode where Gonard holds a bus full of schoolchildren and Lily hostage over the side of a bridge, and Mikey is expected to save both while Mitsuki and Guano deal with Gonard from their airship. He fails to hold both up at once, even though the bus is a prop that even Guano can lift. After an adventure where Mikey tries to prove he's tough, the scene is reshot to a more logical solution where Mitsuki uses the airship to save the bus while Mikey saves Lily and deals with Gonard. | |
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In The Incredibles, several items on Bob's wall of memorabilia are notes from innocents he personally saved. A bus is involved. (Earlier in the film, we see him save a train full of commuters about to speed off a broken elevated track destroyed indirectly by Bomb Voyage.) | |
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The main action of the movie Speed has the main characters on a Bus Full of Innocents that can't go under 50 miles an hour without going kaboom. | |
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Danny Phantom saved one of these in the episode "Forever Phantom". | |
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SHAZAM! (2019): Shazam shows off his lightning powers (while singing along to "Eye of the Tiger", no less), which causes him to accidentally fry the tires off a bus and have it fall off a bridge. Thankfully he manages to catch it before it crashes, though he has to wait a minute for a random dog that's standing at the spot where he's going to put the bus down. | |
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Doctor Who: Subverted in "Delta and the Bannermen". The 7th Doctor accompanies a space-busful of alien Navarino tourists to Wales in the 1950s, but one of them is the fugitive Queen of the Chimerons. Pursued by her enemies, the Bannermen, they vaporize the bus and its passengers as it is about to take off again, thinking she is aboard. Horrifyingly subverted in "Midnight". The Doctor is trapped in a Bus Full of Innocents when an unseen alien thing invades. Since he's the only one with enough knowledge to deal with the alien, the passengers suspect him of being the cause of their trouble, and eventually nearly manage to murder him simply to save their own lives. They're all normal, good, innocent people, and none of them were prepared for What You Are in the Dark. Played With later on in "Planet of the Dead", in which the Doctor is (once again) trapped on a bus with innocent passengers while trying to get rid of dangerous aliens. He remembers "Midnight" and shudders for a bit, but quickly manages to convince everyone that he can be trusted and saves the day without too much effort. |
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Digimon Adventure 02: During the first scuffle with the Daemon Corps, SkullSatamon lifts a bus full of schoolchildren and threatens to throw it. At this point he's pretty much already routed the heroes, so he's doing it for no reason other than shits and giggles. | |
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de Blob: In the final level of the second game, Comrade Black traps a group of Graydian scientists in an orbital habitat, rigs the habitat to explode, and forces you into a Sadistic Choice: either charge ahead to try to beat the clock on his plans to hypnotize all of Raydia, or waste precious time saving a handful of civilians while the rest of the planet falls under Comrade Black's control. If you choose the former, you'll be treated to a lovely cutscene of the habitat exploding with everyone inside, choose the latter and Comrade Black will taunt you about your failure to save everyone else on the planet. To add insult to injury, he does this three times. | |
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Person of Interest. At the start of "Dead Reckoning", John Reese wakes up wearing an explosive vest placed on him by the villain. When it looks like Reese is about to attack her in anger, she tells Reese to look around. They're on a bus with women and children. | |
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In the 2008 movie Traitor, one of the main plots was destroying several buses with suicide bombers. The Mole in the terrorist organization defeats this plot by putting all the suicide bombers on one bus. | |
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An episode of Criminal Minds has the UnSubs hijacking a school bus and forcing some of the students into a live-action video game. | |
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The plot of Demolition Man is kicked-off when the hero fails to save a bus full of innocents. He regains his confidence when he learns saving the bus was impossible no matter what he did. | |
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Sailor Moon: In an early episode, the Senshi save half a dozen busloads of victims from a Pocket Dimension. | |
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In The Phantom Zone, three Kryptonian criminals called Kru-El, Va-Kox and Jax-Ur steal Hal Jordan's Power Battery. When Green Lantern gives chase, they knock over a transport truck driving down the freeway. Hal rushes to save the cars surrounding the truck, and Jax-Ur exploits his distraction by slamming him into the road. | |
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The second season of Veronica Mars revolves around the Bus Full of Innocents crashing. A school bus carrying six Neptune High students and a teacher plunges off a cliff, killing all but one passenger. Veronica, who was supposed to be on the bus, makes it her mission to discover why the bus crashed and who is responsible. | |
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Astro City: In story "Pastoral", Team Carnivore wants to flush the hero Roustabout out, so they arrive at the carnival and start to menace the crowds there, including threats of violence if he doesn't show up. | |
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Flashpoint has a hijacked plane version of the scenario, with the passengers being used as hostages. One hostage ends up being killed for trying to play Badass Bystander, but the SRU successfully rescues the others. | |
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The New Adventures of Superman: In "The Wisp of Wickedness", the possessed hat causes a crane driver to attempt to drop a school bus into a metal crusher. | |
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Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a bus with five innocents, one a little kid, murdered by a vampire. Not one, but two, of said innocents later became Trick Bosses. | |
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Family Guy parodied this. Peter has to take over as Death while he recovered from an injury, and does such a bad job of it, Death decides he has to do something big to be taken seriously. He decides Peter needs to kill the cast of Dawson's Creek. He gets on the plane, but when he sees the other passengers, he has second thoughts, and finally says he can't do it when he sees a group of Girl Scouts singing "We like being alive. Oh, we like being alive..." | |
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Dragon Ball Z: In one filler episode, Goku and Piccolo save a schoolbus of children from falling off a cliff during their driving tests. Of course, they still fail the test. In another episode, Videl saves a bus of senior citizens from a hijacking before "Great Saiyaman" arrives. |
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During the climax of Transformers (2007), Bonecrusher actually rams into a bus, breaking it in half in a fireball of death, and emerges unscathed, Terminator-style. | |
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In Shadowpact, Doctor Gotham's introduction has him levitating a bus full of school children as insurance against the heroes doing anything stupid. | |
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: In Cate Randa's flashback to G-Day in the first episode, a schoolbus carrying her and terrified schoolkid evacuees gets caught precariously on a ledge on the Golden Gate Bridge when the military's assault provoking Godzilla causes the latter to begin damaging the bridge. Cate begins evacuating the schoolkids off the bus through the rear emergency door, but she only manages to get several off before a flying piece of debris knocks the bus loose and sends it plummeting into the bay with most of the children still onboard. | |
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In Strangers at the Heart's Core, Kara stops a car which is running off the highway. When she checks the driver, who is still asleep at the wheel, Supergirl finds she is one of the students who voluntereed for Sylvia Shadow's sleep experiments. This revelation prompts Supergirl to investigate "Professor" Shadow's "research". | |
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This trope nearly happens in My Life In Ruins, but the bus is not yet hanging from the cliff, the driver manages to stop it just in time. | |
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Mission: Impossible: In "Banshee", an Arms Dealer blows up a bus full of old age pensioners in order to stir up The Troubles and increase sales of his product. It is this heinous act that gets the IMF sent to shut him down. | |
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The Electric Company: At least three segments of the series' regular animated short "The Adventures Of Letterman" used this, where the evil Spellbinder put school children on a specific mode of transportation in grave harm. One of the segments involved Spellbinder turning a school bus into an octopus. (The others were a train and a plane). | |
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Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: When Jim Hawkins chases the flagship of his former friend John Silver in Mission 11, the pirate buys himself time to escape by blasting a civilian ship near a black hole, forcing you to pull them to safety. This act convinces Jim that Silver is no longer the same Lovable Rogue he was before. Happily, it's shortly after revealed that it was a robotic impostor who did this, while the real Silver is just as anti-heroic as before. | |
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The opening scene of the movie High Risk (also known as Meltdown) has the hero trying to disarm a bomb that's been attached to a bus not only filled with schoolkids, but also has his wife on board. However, he cuts the wrong wire and the bus blows up, killing everyone inside. Yeah, it's not a very cheerful start. | |
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Independence Day: Resurgence. Julius Levinson foolishly drives a schoolbus with children into Area 51, figuring it's the safest place to be (the aliens tried to destroy it in the last movie, so he should know better). Instead the bus ends up being chased by a giant queen alien, who's rather pissed off after its spaceship got destroyed and is apparently intent on taking it out on the first humans it sees. | |
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In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, one of the things Garmadon orders his generals to do is to make a school bus full of little children dangle precariously on a highway. Lloyd later deals with the general trying to push the vehicle into the water on the way to deal with Garmadon and he catches it with his dragon mech when it falls. | |
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Judgment In Infinity: During the commotion caused by the Adjudicator's appearance, a car careening out of control almost crashes into a school bus, but it is stopped in its tracks by Wonder Woman's lasso. | |
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In Swordfish, the Villain Protagonist has loaded all of his hostages, himself and his henchmen on a transit bus that the police have provided. The absurdity of this is lampshaded by one of the police officers, who point out there's no where the bus can drive that the cops can't follow. At least, until a helicopter shows up and picks up the bus, carrying it off into the air. | |
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Unsurprisingly this appears in Invasion U.S.A. (1985). The evil communist-led terrorists plant a bomb on a school bus, but Chuck Norris tears it off the bus while driving past. | |
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