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Dinky Drivers
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A situation that regularly appears in works with miniature protagonists is to have them operate a car, airplane, spaceship, or other vehicle. Since the vehicle was built for larger, "regular"-sized people and is not a Surprisingly Functional Toy, this will require a team of the diminutive characters working together to operate the numerous controls. Jury-rigged assistive devices made with Bamboo Technology or Noodle Implements might be used. More often than not, Hilarity Ensues as the Dysfunctional Family or Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits fail to coordinate their operations — they end up bickering with each other while their vehicle careens all over the place. If the characters wouldn't normally know how to operate the vehicle, Taught by Television or I Know Mortal Kombat may be invoked to explain how they suddenly acquired some driving skills. Naturally, this typically involves Lilliputians, Living Toys or very Little People, though other character types may be used as the work demands. See also Kids Driving Cars, which may overlap with this trope in some cases (i.e. if two or more kids are cooperating to drive a single car). |
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Appears in The Penguins of Madagascar whenever the penguins commandeer a vehicle for their missions. | |
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A variation is performed by Dory and Hank in Finding Dory when they hijack the Marine Institute's delivery truck. Since Hank operates the controls with his tentacles, the coordination issues of this trope are averted; instead, problems arise because Dory is, well, Dory... | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Bun-Bun occasionally steals Torg's car, with Kiki working the pedals. In this instance, Torg (human) accompanies them — and instead of driving normally, he has to work the pedals, with Kiki on the gear stick. | |
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One time on The Simpsons, Bart was steering while Lisa and Milhouse were operating the gas and brake pedals, and they were doing it kinda randomly. Lisa would push the gas and then Milhouse would push the brake, Lather, rinse, repeat, all without any input from Bart. Milhouse took the opportunity to ask Lisa out. Maggie once drove the family's van. |
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More than once in The Secret Life of Pets, animals team up to operate motor vehicles. It goes about as well as you'd expect, especially since no explanation is given for how they learned to drive. | |
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In the first Leven Thumps book, Clover (officially 12 inches in height) decides to, er, commandeer a motor vehicle in order to catch up to protagonists Leven and Winter. He eventually sets up a system to keep the pedals pushed while he hurtles along the street at breakneck pace. He's the only one on the road who finds it fun, for some reason... | |
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There's an arc in Ozy and Millie where Millie helps Isolde hijack a semi carrying a load of thermometers... it's a long story. Anyway, for whatever reason, Millie ends up steering, even though Isolde is tall enough to manage the task herself, and a good deal closer to legal driving age to boot. | |
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In Skin Horse Renard the fox and the Adorable Murder Turtles steal a truck. Renard is horrified to be told that the turtles controlling the accelerator have drunk all the Red Bull and the turtles on the brake have been denied any because "caffeine is for winners". | |
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The 2006 film Little Man features Calvin, a 30" tall dwarf criminal who's pretending to be a toddler as part of a diamond heist. He gets in a car and drives it by using a toy bat to move the pedals. | |
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In Hey Arnold! The Movie, Gerald is forced to ride the bus after the driver is incapacitated and pushing the gas. Encouraged by Arnold that this could work like in the arcade game "Runaway Bus", Gerald puts Arnold on the clutch pedal, and Helga on the brake. | |
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In Ted, John's teddy bear drives John's car, using built-up pedals so he can reach them. | |
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In Uncanny X-Men Annual mutants try to drive Professor X's Rolls Royce after getting de-aged by Mojo. | |
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The Dalmatian Puppies do this to a London double-decker bus at the end of 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure. | |
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In the Pinky and the Brain short "Opportunity Knox", Brain controls the steering wheel of a van with pulleys while Pinky operates the pedals. Another has an extension system for when the Brain rides a motorcycle. |
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Averted by the Ant Hill Mob on both Wacky Races and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. They have no problem operating vehicles scaled for humans of normal stature. | |
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In Onward one of the obstacles the protagonists have to deal with is a gang of biker pixies that use this trope to (rather effectively) operate their motorcycles. Sounds adorable? Not really, as the pixies are all very aggressive before the obligatory Motorcycle Dominoes scene... | |
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In Despicable Me 2, two of Gru's minions drive Lucy's car to rescue them when their break-in goes awry. | |
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In Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear's team of toys commandeer a Pizza Planet truck in pursuit of Al and Woody. Speeding, swerving, and horn honking from other angry drivers ensues. | |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: The penguins operate a plane using chimpanzees as their motor. | |
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At the beginning of Luigi's Mansion 3, Luigi and friends are in a bus being driven by a red Toad who can barely see over the steering wheel. Predictably, he ends up swerving into various objects on his way to the Last Resort hotel. | |
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Alvin, Simon and Theodore do this in the first Alvin and the Chipmunks CGI movie. Supposedly, Alvin can do this because he played a driving video game earlier in the movie. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: We have Team Rocket's Meowth driving cars and trucks will no visible signs of problem at all (besides the twerps...). | |
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The Mongolian Connection offers a full-size example. Wade and Serik, who are running from gangsters that are trying to kill them, jump into a car. First problem: Wade realizes that the car is a Japanese-made car so the steering wheel is on the right side. Second problem: Serik, who got in the right-side seat that turned out to be the driver's seat, is handcuffed, because he's a criminal under arrest. Third problem: the car is a stick shift, and they don't have time to change seats due to the aforementioned murderous gangsters who are hot on their heels. So Wade and Serik go on a death-defying high-speed car chase through Ulaanbaatar, with Serik operating the steering wheel with his handcuffed hands, while yelling out gear changes to Wade, who operates the stick. | |
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The South Park episode "Towelie" has the kids steal a truck during their quest to recover their video game system. | |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Chuck and Fastener drive their respective owner's cars in Episode 6; this is combined with Car Fu, of all things. | |
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Dreamworks' CGI Over the Hedge movie has the woodland creatures drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; three porcupine kids steer using skills acquired from video games. | |
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: The penguins drive a car with the help of a steering wheel toy. | |
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Occurs in the Dragonlance Legends trilogy of all things. Tasslehoff finds himself unable to operate the full size captain's chair that psychically controls the flying citadel, and has to enlist a nearby gully dwarf in order to do it. Gully dwarves being what they are... | |
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One episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers has the Rangers (rodent-sized rodents) trying to land a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of the space shuttle. | |
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