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Ramming Always Works

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Ramming Always Works	comment	In science fiction, even if a ship has shields that can shrug off atomic weapons, ramming it with another ship always manages to take it down. This is, in fact, pretty credible. The impact of a heavy freight train going 60 mph is equal to that of 1 to 2 tons of TNT — it's just over a much smaller area, and going in one direction. Most spaceships are far heavier, and can go far faster. An object traveling at 3 km/sec does damage equal to its own weight in TNTnote Among hard SF enthusiasts, this is known as Rick Robinson's Law of Space Combat. An object impacting at 6 km/sec would do damage equal to 4 times its weight in TNT, and would be said to do "4 Ricks" worth of damage.; a spaceship traveling at 94% of the speed of light does damage equal to its own weight in antimatter. And that's not even taking into account the ramming ship detonating its reactors and munitions when it hits. In fact, the usual mistake is not to make ramming work too well but to make it work not well enough. Survivors are not unknown, and the effect is usually depicted as "Ship A crashes into ship B and ship B crumples and breaks apart in slow motion," where it should look like, and is only rarely is portrayed as, "Ship A crashes into ship B and both ships are vaporized in a titanic fireball". Likewise, small fighter craft often smash into bigger ships with no visible effect, when they ought to be wreaking massive devastation. And then there's the momentum, even ramming at a few tens of meters per second could create enough force for the people inside to slam into the walls at dangerous if not lethal speed. Though interestingly when one of the ships weighs a lot more than the other the people in the bigger ship might only be knocked off their feet, so for a bigger ship ramming into a much smaller one at 10-30 m/s could be a great tactic for taking out enemy crews while leaving both ships intact... That said, there is one challenge for a ramming ship, which is reaching the target in the first place. At realistic space combat distances (hundreds if not thousands of kilometers), the target should have plenty of time to see the attempt coming and either blow up the ramming ship or dodge out of its way. This ought to lead to a tense cat-and-mouse game as the rammer tries to close the distance and compensate for the target's evasive maneuvers, and the target tries to stay clear long enough to score a killing hit — the ramming ship is essentially a large missile, and the target would be performing a High-Speed Missile Dodge. Sadly, things are never portrayed like this. The reason for this, of course, is that space ramming depictions are probably based on the Space Is an Ocean mindset, and the cultural memory of Real Life naval tactics of the ancient world. Before the advent of cannons, ramming the other ships was the main method for taking them out (other than burning or boarding). Note that this is where the term "ramming speed" comes from — the horator would begin beating the drums faster so the rowers at the oars of the galleys rowed faster in order to drive the ram deep into the side of the enemy ship. Ramming tactics made a brief comeback in the latter half of the nineteenth century, with steamships, when they started making ships out of metal instead of wood which made older cannons obsolete. The first generations of big-gunned battleships, HMS Dreadnought and her successors, were still being built with bows designed for ramming for many years after the tactic ceased to be relevant. In fact, in the early years of ironclad battleships, their armor was so effective against the relatively primitive guns of the era that ramming was seen as the only viable tactic against an ironclad. Better guns and the development of self-propelled torpedoes meant ramming was obsolete against surface ships by the First World War, but it remained the standard method of attacking a surfaced submarine, since gunfire was not very effective against such a low-lying target. Compare Colony Drop, which, depending on what you're dropping, takes this trope to its logical extreme. When combined with the Drop Pod you get the Boarding Pod, which rams a target not to destroy it but to inject heavily-armed troops into it. Although ramming is not unknown in combat between large, heavy, main battle tanks, for land vehicles, see Car Fu or Forklift Fu. In sci-fi terms, a Sister Trope to Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better. Needless to say this trope is more effective with a Battering Ram.
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Ramming Always Works / int_11ec8b	comment	In Darkstar One, ramming is a valid tactic if you have plasma shield. If not, don't. You'll get hurt.
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Ramming Always Works / int_13349140	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): In Issue #9, Tails decides to kick off the Resistance's assault on the Egg Fleet-occupied Angel Island by causing their ship to crash into an Eggman base on the island. In Issue #10, he follows up on this by hijacking an Egg Fleet ship and using it to ram through several others, and in Issue #11 tops himself by then ramming that ship right into Metal Sonic's Master Overlord form.
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Ramming Always Works / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online: Player characters eventually get a skill called "Ramming Speed", which can only be used if the ship is below 50% HP. There are no ship collisions unless this command is used (In-universe (but not in-game) fluff suggests that the navigational deflectors prevent this). If the command is given, the ships hit each other. If shields happen to be down on one ship on the facing side, hurting happens. Not recommended unless you have your own shields up and strong.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1559e891	comment	Ramming is the only tactic that comes close to working against the Hydrogues in The Saga of Seven Suns, at least in the early books. And it only works because you ram them at the same time as overloading your engines. Later on, ships were designed specifically for this purpose — essentially giant lumps of ablative armour, with huge engines for their weight, crewed by robots.
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Ramming Always Works / int_15aa114a	comment	In Submarine 707 R, the titular submarine does this to the U-X at the end of their battle, having run out of torpedoes.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1621b97d	comment	In Invention for Destruction, Count Artigas' Submarine Pirates uses the stolen submarine to sink merchantmen by ramming them below the waterline so they sink, then sending out divers to kill the survivors and loot the ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1641fd92	comment	Sunrider Liberation Day: With the Sunrider having just taken a crippling hit that knocked out all its weapons and the Alliance flagship Machiavelli Actual poised to obliterate his home planet Cera with a weapon of mass destruction, Kayto Shields gives his crew the order to abandon ship and rams the Sunrider into the Machiavelli. He lives, but both ships are destroyed.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1682583	comment	Amuro Ray does this to a Titan mobile suit in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. It is justified, because he was piloting a transportation plane, not a combat one. And he escaped with a parachute. Haman does this using the asteroid Axis towards the Gate of Zedan (the former A Baoa Qu). Axis is barely damaged, the Gate of Zedan is destroyed along with a lot of the Titans' forces. Kamille does this in the finale, he crashes Zeta's Waverider in to The O's pilot block, impaling Scirocco. Subverted slightly, because Scirocco Mind Rapes him into a state of retardation before he dies, which probably could have been avoided had Kamille shot him at long range.
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Ramming Always Works / int_17bfcf60	comment	Homeworld: You can send a right click command KAMIKAZE! to turn your ship (regardless of size) into flying torpedo. In skillful hands, even the humble unarmed harvester can rack up quite a kill score. A ship simply trying to move through the space occupied by another can lead to spectacular results as well, though both ships will take damage; courtesy of some oddities in the engine and AI, the weird needle-shaped super-carriers in the nebula missions seem to score most of their kills when they sideswipe your ships whilst trying to aim their forward guns. Then there's that one level when the enemy strap a thruster-pack on a planetoid and use it as a really big missile... Sometimes small enemy ships will scatter once the main force has been destroyed then one by one return and attempt to ram your mothership. In the sequel Homeworld: Cataclysm one of the ships is the Minion-class Ramming Frigate, a converted asteroid tug equipped with a short-range fusion torch. If the enemy ship survives the initial hit it will be pushed out of the battle by the Ramming Frigate and left some distance away. A few of these can be used to Divide and Conquer. Ironically, Cataclysm actually nerfed the ramming mechanic by making collisions non-fatal unless the 'kamikaze' order is given. Too bad it's not that useful in the campaign where physical contact with a Beast ship will instantly infect the frigate as well. The game backstory provides an interesting justification to the frigate's existence: Somtaaw non-combatants are usually ordered to flee at the first sight of trouble. However, on one occasion the Kuun-Lan was attacked by Turanic raiders while mining a valuable radioactive asteroid field. Seeing that the Acolytes are being overwhelmed, two Minions working nearby defied retreat orders and instead, the crews clocked the engines to maximum and tossed the attacking carrier into a turbulent asteroid field where it was destroyed by repeated impacts. In the same game, Mimics can disguise themselves as asteroids or even enemy ships. Though they made effective scouts, it was quickly discovered that these ships made very effective kamikaze attacks, since they could disguise themselves to get close enough to an enemy ship without raising suspicion. Especially since Mimics were usually crewed by those who have lost their entire family in the Kharakian Genocide and thus had nothing to lose. Cue the Quantum Explosives research option whose description states that while building a dedicated kamikaze ship is a regrettable thing, the command staff finds peace in the thought that their brothers and sisters took the maximum amount of enemies with them. The second-to-last mission of Homeworld 2 has the enemy command carrier pull this as a last-ditch attack. If you've killed all its forces and have it cornered, it'll launch a wave of fighters to kamikaze the closest thing they can find. It's more for spite than anything, as your attacking force will only be mildly inconvenienced by the loss of the few ships destroyed.
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Ramming Always Works / int_188db8fe	comment	Silent Threat: Reborn, a fan remake of the (generally considered below the standards of the other games) official expansion Silent Threat, zig-zags it. At one point, the heavily damaged ship PVD Hope rams the rogue warship GTD Hades, which destroys the ramming ship, does next to no hull damage but knocks out the rammed ship's engines. Then the engines come back online, letting the Hades jump to another system... where it is subsequently revealed that despite that the ramming actually did do catastrophic damage to the engines, allowing GTA forces to catch up and engage the ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_18c0256c	comment	In Total War: Rome II, most ships are capable of ramming, and do massive damage to the recipient while leaving the rammer mostly intact. Common courtesy in multiplayer is to forbid ramming, as it is effective to the point of being unfair, and takes little skill.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1a1a594f	comment	Battlefield: In the games, numerous servers have a house rule that ramming enemy vehicles results in the rammer being kicked from the server. You would expect that smacking a plane into a plane would destroy them both, and it usually does, much to the chagrin of the flyboys. Ground vehicles ram each other with about as much effect as you would expect, depending on what rams into what. In BF2142, the infantry can ram vehicles using Drop Pods (think Starship Troopers). Initially, it was powerful, if hard to aim. However, post-patches, this ability was seriously nerfed, in part to prevent physics exploitation. A tactic that players developed in Battlefield: Bad Company, which has survived as far as Battlefield 4, is to set C4 on a light, fast vehicle like an ATV or Jeep, and drive at a heavy vehicle like a tank. Two packs of C4 will take out a tank, and as long as you bail out properly, the vehicle's momentum will carry it into the tank, and you can blow it up at your leisure. More inventive players have put C4 on unlikely vehicles, like helicopters, jet planes, and UAVs.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1c25dba1	comment	In Suikoden V, the primary method of sinking the enemies archery ships are to attack them with ramming ships.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1c5e55fc	comment	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. While Buckaroo and John Parker are hovering in the Red Lectroid thermal pod, Lord Whorfin tries to ram them with his troopship. John Parker gets them out of the way just in time, but if Whorfin had succeeded they would have been splatters on his windshield.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1d2854c9	comment	"Those Emerald Eyes Are Shining": Supergirl stops Weber's World from colliding with United Planets' main fleet base by ramming herself against it at enormous speed, knocking the artificial planetoid right off its collision course.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1dd8989	comment	Ramming is annoyingly easy in World of Warplanes, and usually mutually destructive.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1de234dc	comment	Surprisingly averted in Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series, considering the entire series is devoted to naval action using a wide variety of ships. Somehow, none of those involve ram-capable ships. Even the Grik whose main tactic is Attack! Attack! Attack! are never observed trying to ram enemy ships. Instead, they will standard grapple-and-board tactics. The only time a ship is used to ram another, a World War I-era American destroyer, whose one remaining weapon has been expended, rams a Japanese World War II-era battlecruiser. However, the collision doesn't do much damage to the big ship, not until one of the destroyer's crewmembers sets off the depth charges on board. Even that is not enough to sink the battlecruiser. It does, however, work for a Japanese plane that rams an American one in a last-ditch effort to destroy it (the Japanese crew was specifically ordered to use this method as a last resort and to not bother coming back to report failure).
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Ramming Always Works / int_1e015a5d	comment	The novelization of The Empire Strikes Back has Hobbie Klivian disable General Veers' AT-AT by crashing his snowspeeder into its cockpit. Hobbie survived more or less intact by ejecting right before, but Veers lost his legs. This was also supposed to happen in the film, but the footage was cut.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1e85c6d6	comment	Mentioned (and averted) in Battalion Wars II; The Xylvanian Kraken-class Dreadnought sports incredible size and a pointed, titanium-tipped prow, but is noted to be "relatively ineffective when used to ram other naval units."
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Ramming Always Works / int_1ee88520	comment	Wild ARMs 4 has Arnaud using Plane Fu to kill one of the Brionac Lieutenants, crashing an entire squadron of fighter jets right on top of him to make him really dead.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1ef3f140	comment	Possibly the Ur-example of this trope is the galley fight sequence of the film Ben-Hur. At the very least it's probably the Trope Maker for yelling "Ramming speed!" In this case it's an order to the galley slaves to row very fast for a short burst.
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Ramming Always Works / int_1f418bf4	comment	At the climax of the pilot movie of TaleSpin, the Air Pirates have mounted a very destructive Lightning Gun on the "beak" of their Airborne Aircraft Carrier, the Iron Vulture. All attempts to counterattack are fried or disintegrated by this weapon. That is, until Baloo covers the fuselage of the Sea Duck in rubber and crashes his beloved plane against the weapon.
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Ramming Always Works / int_22fa3992	comment	In The Expanse, the crew of the Rocinante and the leader of Tycho Station hijacked the Nauvoo, humanity's first Generation Ship, to ram into Eros, an asteroid station infected by an extra-solar lifeform, and send it careening into the sun. It doesn't work — the lifeform moved Eros out of the way just before impact, breaking several laws of physics in doing so.
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Ramming Always Works / int_23c46139	comment	Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade starts out when Kara's rocket arrives in Metropolis and accidentally smashes itself through Lex Luthor's giant robot.
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Ramming Always Works / int_247422c7	comment	The Honorverse has never portrayed ramming as a credible offensive tactic in space combat since the series' Minovsky Physics make it entirely impractical for several reasons. First, ships cannot project Deflector Shields perpendicular to their axis of acceleration, making any ship on a collision course an easy target for return fire; second, ships can change acceleration far more easily than they can change course, giving a strong advantage to the evading ship even if it is larger and slower; and third, even if these problems could be solved, the evading ship could simply pitch its impenetrable gravity bands towards the approaching ship, destroying it like an egg hitting a brick wall. However, there is one downplayed example in the first novel where Harrington deliberately clips the impeller wedge of a Havenite courier boat with her own ship's. In that case, it was done with the element of surprise to overload and disable the boat's drive; if Harrington had wanted it destroyed, a single shot from a laser mount would have been far simpler. A more literal example happens in a sidestory when Rafe Cordones turns a freighter into a giant missile, which only works because the Minovsky Physics principles hold that the practical limiting factor to a ship's acceleration isn't the power of the ship's drive, but the ability of the ship's Inertial Dampening to make the acceleration survivable for the crew. By evacuating the crew and putting the ship on a pre-programmed course, he was able to turn the inertial compensator off and have it reach speeds that were impossible to dodge in time.
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Ramming Always Works / int_24b673e7	comment	Earth's Alien History: During the Battle of Thessia in the Mekon War, the crippled Asari dreadnaught Siege Perilous rams a Romulan warbird, the resulting explosion wiping out several other nearby Romulan ships. This becomes a regretfully standard maneuver during the Reaper War, with ships too crippled to otherwise fight or flee instead slamming themselves into Reapers to destroy them. Later, as the tide starts to turn against them, the Reapers start doing this against their enemies out of desperation.
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Ramming Always Works / int_24c4c4ad	comment	In Showdown At Centerpoint, three Bakuran ships are fighting a mass of smaller enemy craft. Admiral Ossilege notices too late that some of the frigates have windows just painted on: they turn out to be 'robot ramships', simple chunks of solid metal in the shape of ships, disguised so that they can get close to a ship before ramming it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_24e813c	comment	Played straight in a Starlancer cutscene, where your captain makes a Heroic Sacrifice, by ramming his damaged ship (a.k.a. your mothership) into an enemy battleship. At least he waited until everyone else had evacuated. Klaus Steiner pulls the same trick in the last mission. Occasionally worked in-game if you were in better shape than whatever you collided with, though an unfortunate bug in the way kills were counted meant that accidentally ram-destroying a friendly ship was treated as you going rogue...
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Ramming Always Works / int_2615df3d	comment	In The War of the Worlds, the British torpedo ram Thunder Child... well... rams and destroys a Martian tripod which has waded out into the Thames Estuary. A second tripod blasts the ship with its heat ray and promptly gets rammed with/blown up by the ship's flaming remains.note Interestingly, the "torpedo ram" concept never really caught on with the navies of the world, but they were the newest concept in weaponry round about the time that Wells wrote his novel. They were not intended to ram enemy ships, but to ram their way through harbor defenses in order to get in close to the ships at anchor and fire torpedoes. The captain of the Thunder Child opted to ram after the ship had been crippled by a Martian heat ray.
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Ramming Always Works / int_265df58b	comment	300: Rise of an Empire has Athenian ships made this way to ram unto the Persian ships to destroy them quickly. To quote "Themistocles: The Persian ships are strong at the front, but they are weak in the middle", thus those numerically superior Persian fleet must retreat or they'll be reduced a lot.
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Ramming Always Works / int_283b23c1	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: Nanoha flies at Reinforce full speed to build up enough momentum to pierce her barrier, then fires a Wave-Motion Gun directly at her face (or in the case of the movie, slam her through several massive stone pillars then blast her in the face). It fails to so much as ruffle Reinforce's hair.
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Ramming Always Works / int_2a4e6e4e	comment	In Shadows of the Empire, ramming your ship into things will hurt them. In the first level of Shadows you can spend lives to quickly wreck a couple of the AT-ATs to speed things along, though this will mean missing the Challenge Points you get for tripping them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_2acb12c5	comment	Accidental ramming is, fortunately, reduced in subsequent games of the X series; however, since the player can pilot many more capital ships (ranging from small frigates to huge battlecruisers), intentional ramming takes a whole new meaning. The big thing in X3 is to ensure that when you hit the target, you've got more shields than they do. Thus, ramming is the fastest way to clear fighter swarms if you're in a capital ship (just swing the nose around like a fly-swatter), and it's the fastest way to commit suicide if you're flying a scoutship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_2c3cd68a	comment	In X-Wing Rogue Squadron, a sort of repeat of what happened below to the Executor occurs, with an A-Wing ramming into an unshielded bridge and blowing it out. Thing is, this is a New Republic ship, and it survives.
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Ramming Always Works / int_2ef7cb74	comment	This is the primary purpose of Raising Heart's A.C.S. (Accelerate Charge System) mode in Lyrical Nanoha: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: Nanoha flies at Reinforce full speed to build up enough momentum to pierce her barrier, then fires a Wave-Motion Gun directly at her face (or in the case of the movie, slam her through several massive stone pillars then blast her in the face). It fails to so much as ruffle Reinforce's hair. Nanoha provides a more traditional example in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS during the raid on the Saint's Cradle. Not wanting to stop and fight every single Gadget Drone she comes across, she opts to simply fly straight through them, leaving a heap of scrap metal in her wake. In a reverse of her fight with Reinforce, her battle with Stern in Reflection has the two of them get into a Beam-O-War, and Nanoha proceeds to fly straight through the resulting explosion to build up momentum.
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Ramming Always Works / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The team's flying battleship with legs rams into one of the four generals' personal Gunmen, as well as their capital ship; the former is successful due to the sheer difference in size, while the other works because of the Rule of Cool. The battleship's main body is essentially a giant blade. Giga Drill Breaker and all variations thereof are basically just one mecha ramming the other enemy with a Big Fucking Drill. Lagann-hen takes it to the logical extreme. In the series, the Moon tried to crash into Earth but didn't really do anything else. In the movie, the Moon transforms into the Cathedral Lazengann as soon as its defenders are gone then tries to punch the Earth in a unique take on Colony Drop.
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Ramming Always Works / int_303e911d	comment	In Combat Kelly and his Deadly Dozen #6, 'Mad Dog' Martin breaches the walls of an impenetrable German fortress by crashing his damaged bomber into them: creating a hole that allows the rest of the team to storm in.
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Ramming Always Works / int_325f192b	comment	At the end of Assault on a Queen, the sub surfaces too close to the Coast Guard cutter for them to use their main guns. Instead, the captain orders the cutter to ram the sub.
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Ramming Always Works / int_341fddb5	comment	Super Atragon: The climax of the opening battle and the final battle: the Ra and Liberty turn to ram each other, after the Liberty's drill-missiles are foiled by the Ra 's rocket-anchors, the Ra plows through the Liberty's bow, destroying her and killing Avatar.
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Ramming Always Works / int_353b7af3	comment	In Star Trek: Discovery, T'Kuvma's people build a "cleave ship", a giant vessel with a massive sharp prow. The ship is cloaked for much of the Battle of the Binary Stars, then rams into the USS Europa, starting to cut the ship in two. The crew self-destructs the Europa, taking the cleave ship with them. Another one appears during the final battle of season 2, cleaving through several Section 31 ships before decloaking and engaging them with conventional weapons. It also serves as Chancellor L'Rell's flagship for this battle, with the D7s arriving less than a minute later to engage the enemy.
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Ramming Always Works / int_35ada324	comment	Alien: In Prometheus, the titular ship is rammed into the Engineer's craft. Although no physical damage is inflicted (even with the ship blowing up), the impact is enough to knock the Engineer's craft out of the sky. Clearly the captain didn't think to use his tiltable interplanetary/VTOL engines as plasma cannons instead.
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Ramming Always Works / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: The Dragoon from Kirby Air Ride, which shows up again in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. In the latter, the rider gets a crosshair display to select a target, and then plows through for a single-hit KO. Taken to extremes in the Sub-Space Emissary mode, where Kirby, riding the Dragoon, rams straight through the Sub-Space Battleship and destroys it in one shot. In Kirby: Canvas Curse and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Kirby's main method of attack is ramming things while in ball form.
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Ramming Always Works / int_37bef890	comment	Weird (and old) PC game Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies has flying fortresses — essentially huge floating rocks with thrusters on top of which fixed units are built. Various and nasty are the instruments of death meant to make enemy fortresses lose their main sustainment building and plummet to the ground, but when weapons fail — and it does happen, since your enemies do not particularly like the idea of being swatted out of the air and react accordingly - it's often possible to just floor it and pray your fortress' ramming spikes are stronger than the other's walls. This causes inordinate amount of damage even when successful, but the fact that fortresses self-rebuild and repair given enough resources and time makes it a viable tactic.
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Ramming Always Works / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys. In "Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men", The Deep uses his powers to send sharks ramming into their motor yacht, forcing the Boys to Abandon Ship in a speedboat. Then Deep appears riding the back of a sperm whale which he uses to cut off their escape route. Crazy b***d that he is, Billy Butcher just keeps accelerating, ramming straight into the whale, totaling the speedboat and covering them all in whale guts.
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Ramming Always Works / int_38cea298	comment	Plot point in Jedi Starfighter. In mission 7, "Hammer and Anvil", the last action that Captain Orsai takes with his doomed cruiser Kethor is to ram into one of the shield generator platforms and expose Nod Kartha to attack. Because the Kethor's already so badly damaged, Orsai has to pilot it into the generator manually after his crew bail in the Escape Pods.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3a68e5f1	comment	Conquest, a popular Star Wars/Star Trek fanfic, is notable for having the Rebels ram a damaged corvette into a destroyer at many thousands of times the speed of light. The other ship survives, but there is enough havoc for the rest of the Rebels to get through.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3b6a0502	comment	In Kirby: Canvas Curse and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Kirby's main method of attack is ramming things while in ball form.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3c912cc2	comment	Used successfully by the Flynn Brigade in Tales of Vesperia to divert a laser blast aimed at a city.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3cb580c	comment	Ramming is viable in Space Empires as a last-resort tactic. If your ship is going to get blown up no matter what, then you might as well go down in a blaze of glory, and have a shot at killing them, right?
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Ramming Always Works / int_3cf15492	comment	In MechWarrior Living Legends, the Space Plane Aerospace Fighters are for the most part, pretty durable against return fire save Anti-Air weapons like the LB-X class shotguns. However, two fighters ramming each other will almost always result in mutual destruction. A Good Bad Bug with the otherwise jokeish Sparrowhawk scout plane allows it to usually survive ramming aircraft, or at least leave the pilot alive so he can bail; the usage of cheap, disposable Sparrowhawks as one-way Anti-Air missiles against expensive Shiva heavy fighter/bombers led to many jokes, including a video where a developer replaced the Arrow IV cruise missile model with a Sparrowhawk.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3d22c14b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has this happen twice, with varying results... After his GN-X is heavily damaged by Lockon Stratos and his Dynames, Daryl Dodge flies in a suicidal charge towards said Gundam Meister and slams into him. While the Dynames is still intact and Daryl is killed in his GN-X's explosion, it leaves Lockon open to his current opponent, Ali Al-Saachez, who has been analyzing his opponent and realized that he can't see on one side (due to his eye being damaged in a previous episode). Allelujah (or rather, Allelujah with his Hallelujah personality) also does this with his Arios to end his Curb-Stomp Battle against Hiling Care and her Garazzo, running his Gundam in its fighter mode into the Garazzo's midriff and using its Beam Shields to tear it in half, resulting in Hiling's death.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3e53d9f0	comment	In Shadow Raiders, when the Beast finally catches up to Planet Fire, the latter is evacuated save for the Vizier, who chooses to stay behind and use the World Engines to ram the entire planet into the enemy. It doesn't work, and the Beast isn't even scratched.
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Ramming Always Works / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	New Jedi Order: In the fight against the Yuuzhan Vong, the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya is heavily damaged due to attrition. The New Republic has most of its interior stripped, a few of its lasers kept and manned with droids, and a single reinforced spine is added. The ship is then sent on a kamikaze mission dubbed "Operation Emperor's Spear" and smashes into a Vong worldship, completely destroying both vessels. Subverted in Force Heretic III in the same series. The villains try to ram the hero's flagship, only to be vaporized before they can make contact (probably a first for the Star Wars Universe).
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Ramming Always Works / int_41a279b3	comment	Star Fox: Assault: In the attack on the Apparoid homeworld, just when the final shield-generating enemies blocking access to the Apparoid Queen have been destroyed, more activate deep within the planet, where none of the Star Fox team can reach them. Peppy deals with that by crashing the already-doomed Great Fox into the shield to blow it open. Fortunately, the bridge ejected, Peppy and ROB are okay.
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Ramming Always Works / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files novel Cold Days Thomas rams his boat into one of the barges the Outsiders were using to attack Demonreach. Justified in that he wasn't trying to sink the other vessel, only push it off course.
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Ramming Always Works / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-1522-1 does this as part of a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after its mate, SCP-1522-2, is sunk by the GOC launching an unprovoked attack. It does this at Mach 4. The ship on the receiving end of such a blow is destroyed so thoroughly that even its size and classification cannot be determined. Not even a lifeboat is left intact. SCP-1522-1 survived the impact unscathed, but not the aftermath. Notable for SCP-1522-1 being a humble fishing trawler.
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Ramming Always Works / int_438b63e4	comment	In the last mission of Halo: Reach, Carter, fatally injured and piloting an equally fatally-damaged Pelican, rams the craft into a Scarab to clear a path for Emile and Noble Six.
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Ramming Always Works / int_43d04978	comment	In Halo Wars 2, the Ark sends a swarm of sentinels to destroy the Banished carrier Enduring Conviction after the UNSC logistics AI Isabel takes control of the carrier and fires on the Banished settlement below, penetrating the surface of the Ark in the process. This was done by ramming thousands of sentinels in a line across a structural weak point on the carrier, severing its prow.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4561a852	comment	In Planetes the Space Defense Front commandeers a satellite remotely and intends to crash it into the space station ISVP 7 so that the resulting debris cloud would effectively cut off Earth from space (a scenario known in Real Life as "Kessler Syndrome"). Pilot Fee Carmichael objects to this, not because of any world-saving impetus or anything, but because the SDF blowing up Smoking Rooms in every other station has kept her from having a nice, peaceful smoke, and the target station hosts the last available Smoking Room in orbit. To the stupefaction of her crew, she goes alone and takes her own ship and rams the satellite just before impact. Both the satellite and her ship the Toybox I are crippled and fall into the atmosphere, but she ejects in a rescue pod and splash down in the ocean (and gets chewed out by her crew on the sheer improbability of her survival.) She's hailed as a space-saving hero, gets paid vacation time, gets a brand new ship... and gets her long overdue smoke.
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Ramming Always Works / int_459ca4de	comment	Galaxy Angel: Sherry attempts to ram the Elsior with the last bit of strength her ship can muster. Subverted however because just before her ship impacts the Elsior it explodes doing no harm. In the sequel trilogy, Galaxy Angel II, the Holy Blood's Limit Break, Photon Diver, is basically this, as it tucks out its outer wings and pierces through the enemy targed at high speed. It's a guaranteed One-Hit Kill to any non-boss vessel.
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Ramming Always Works / int_467773a6	comment	Used in Rogue One during the climactic space battle above Scarif, when a Hammerhead corvette rams a disabled Star Destroyer. Interestingly, the Hammerhead isn't destroyed in the process; it instead rams at a low enough speed that it functions more like a tugboat with a large tanker ship, using the thrust of its own engines to shove the disabled ship in a specific direction — in this case, right into another, non-disabled Star Destroyer. Both wrecks are then shoved into the planetary shield their weapons couldn't penetrate. Later, Darth Vader's flagship Devastator comes out of hyperspace right in the path of the Rebel Fleet and simply runs over an unfortunate Gallofree Yards transport.
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Ramming Always Works / int_476bc61d	comment	Subversion in Kid Icarus: Uprising: during one helluva Enemy Mine situation, Pit and Palutena are looking for a way into the base for the "freaky alien" Aurum. However, the only access is protected by an energy barrier that only the ships can pass through. Hades then proceeds to 'make freaky alien lemonade' by ramming one of the battleships into it, providing a safe (albeit 'hot hot hot hot HOT!') way in.
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Ramming Always Works / int_47a4daec	comment	In the climatic scene of Mission: Impossible â€“ Fallout, Ethan Hunt has stolen a helicopter and is using it to chase another helicopter carrying the Big Bad who has the detonator for two nuclear bombs and is armed with a squad automatic weapon. As Ethan has no weapons at all, he does this as the only option left to him.
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Ramming Always Works / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: The Final Three make their way from Tijuana Beach to Hawaii by speedboat in "Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles". For the early part of the race, Heather and Alejandro try to intimidate and sabotage their way to victory by ramming the competition aside.
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Ramming Always Works / int_48664104	comment	Deconstructed during an early skirmish in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare: a SATO captain orders his crew to slam their own ship into an enemy vessel in order to force a retreat. It works but a lot of friendlies die in aftermath including the captain who ordered the maneuver, forcing a Field Promotion for the Player Character.
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Ramming Always Works / int_48e6dfa0	comment	In the climax of The Enemy Below, Captain Murrell (Robert Mitchum) rams his critically damaged destroyer into Von Stolberg (Curt JÃ¼rgens)'s submarine.
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Ramming Always Works / int_49a88435	comment	In Final Fantasy XII, as the Sky Fortress falls upon Rabanastre and threatens to break through its Paling, Judge Zargabaath commands his flagship, Alexander, to ram her and hopefully knock it away from the city. He forbids the assembled fleets from interfering and, knowing what the maneuver would entail, orders them to destroy the Alexander's remains before they fall on the city. He is interrupted by a third party taking control of Bahamut and steering it away, but the thought was there.
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Ramming Always Works / int_49ad83ee	comment	The Emerald Dream zone of World of Warcraft's ninth Expansion Pack, Dragonflight, has a world quest where the dragon-riding player simply has to ram 15 enemy Proto-Dragons in the air.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	Space Battleship Yamato: In the second movie, the Yamato skips past Desler's Wave-Motion Gun by space warping, only to warp right next to Desler's ship, ramming it. This works well enough to punch a hole in it, but there's little lasting damage to either ship. And in Space Battleship Yamato 2199, episode 23 has a part where a Gamilas cruiser is on the receiving end of the Yamato's bow after it uses its Wave Motion Shield as a battering ram.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4a8a8f85	comment	World of Warships has ramming as a very effective weapon for larger ships against smaller ones. As long as the relative speed between ships are at least 10 knots, ships do base damage equal to their undamaged hitpoint total to each other, though this can be modified by signal flags. However, if the relative speed between target is less than 10 knots when contact happens, each ship will start having their health chipped away until either they break contact or one ship is sunk. This can allow DD to ram-sink a sufficiently damaged BB◊ and survive. Ramming also has a high chance of causing flooding on both ships involved, assuming they survive the initial impact. Also, as an Anti-Frustration Feature, this only applies to enemy ships - allied ships, even if they ram head on into each other at full speed, only do Scratch Damage to each other as accidental collisions between allied ships are surprisingly common.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4c2f51af	comment	Beast Wars: Uprising: In the finale, the Builder ship Tidal Wave (formerly the Decepticon Tidal Wave) is ordered by its captain, Banzai-tron, to ram the Resistance ship Broadside in a final act of suicidal spite, since Banzai-tron refuses to surrender or flee. The result is a massive explosion which takes out both ships.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4c90a0f7	comment	In United 93, this is discussed as one of the options by military officers after learning that the only fighter jets near a hijacked airliner were sent up without ordnance. They even state that having casualties from the planes are unavoidable and necessary at this point. See Real Life below.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4cf1cb74	comment	Again, Dangerous Visions: Richard Lupoff's "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" has starships that are long, hard, and designed for thrusting vigorously into other ships. And they somehow manage to be slightly less overtly Freudian than the ship the protagonists are in.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4d910120	comment	Similarly to Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Rogue also gives you a ramming prow and the option of charging is available from the very beginning. It's existence is also a bit more justified because it can be used as an icebreaker in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4da11f30	comment	Though not seen in the movie, the novelization of Return of the Jedi refers to Rebels loading transports with explosives and crashing them into the Star Destroyers (which explains why they bothered bringing the unarmed Gallofree transports with their fleet), and a dying Rebel Cruiser limps into contact with another Star Destroyer before exploding and taking out the Imperial ship. The Saga Edition of Starships of the Galaxy refers to a Corellian Corvette doing this, but the Rebels weren't lacking for suicidal actions that day.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4dccc4bc	comment	In Thor: The Dark World, the Dark Elves' craft don't seem to have any weapons at all. They simply slam into buildings (or Asgardian fighters) to destroy them; the only thing that isn't damaged by it is the shield around the Asgardian palace. The Dark Elves' craft remain undamaged doing this, except for the one that hits the aforementioned shield and is destroyed.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4e833283	comment	In Halo: Silentium, this was how Offensive Bias and his inferior forces defeated Mendicant Bias and his Flood-infested ships. After the Halo Array fired and killed off the living crews of both their ships, Offensive accelerated his ships at such speeds that the g-forces would have liquified any organic being inside and used them as physical weapons. The result was millions of Flood-controlled ships destroyed in under sixty seconds.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4f2ad444	comment	In Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, your ship automatically comes with a ramming prow, and plowing into enemy ships is highly encouraged as a combat tactic. If you fully upgrade to the highest quality ram, you can punch through and destroy even the dreaded Man-O-Wars in just a few passes.
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Ramming Always Works / int_4f6620a5	comment	Almost happens in Earth: Final Conflict, when Ma'el's ship is discovered and reactivated. The protagonists discover a living human (and a Roman to boot) aboard in a stasus pod. The Roman ends up speaking flawless English, as he's been leapfrogging through history in order to see if the Taelons have arrived yet (the task Ma'el assigned him) and managed to learn the language during the last several awakenings. After questioning Liam and Renee about the Taelons, he determines that Ma'el's worst predictions have come true and engages the ship's final protocol, programmed by Ma'el. The ship lifts off and accelerates on a collision course with the Taelon mothership. With only minutes left, the mothership is too large to be moved out of the way so quickly. The collision would've destroyed both ships, but Liam manages to engage the ship's self-destruct, before getting into the stasis pod with Renee, correctly assuming that Ma'el would've programmed it to eject if the ship was threatened. The Roman is killed in the explosion, and the mothership is saved.
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Ramming Always Works / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek: In the JJ Abrams movie, this happens not once but twice, with the Kelvin and then the Jellyfish ramming the Narada. It being Star Trek, the shields do nothing and the ramming attempts are successful, though both attempts fail to destroy the ship directly. It's rather big, after all. The novelization of the film reveals that George Kirk activated the warp drive just prior to impact, causing even more damage and disrupting plenty of systems of the Narada. This is why the Klingons were able to get the drop on them shortly after. But that just raises the question of why the Kelvin didn't just try to warp out of there. In a similar instance, the saucer section of a destroyed Federation ship clips the nacelle of the Enterprise, scraping off some plating as though the shields aren't even there. Think about it, energy shields might be able to stop small energy fire and torpedo fires, but it won't do squat against giant spaceships with huge momentum behind them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5106ee7e	comment	In the sequel trilogy, Galaxy Angel II, the Holy Blood's Limit Break, Photon Diver, is basically this, as it tucks out its outer wings and pierces through the enemy targed at high speed. It's a guaranteed One-Hit Kill to any non-boss vessel.
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Ramming Always Works / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Storm over Ryloth", Anakin and R2-D2 ram a damaged Jedi Cruiser into a Separatist Lucrehulk-class cruiser (the doughnut-shaped ships) to destroy it, leaving in an escape pod shortly before impact.
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Ramming Always Works / int_55720656	comment	In Wing Commander: Privateer, the Orion, a heavy merchant/mercenary gunboat, can successfully ram as an offensive tactic because it has heavily beefed up armor on the front quadrant to enable such assaults.
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Ramming Always Works / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z: A tactic Kouji favors when he is battling a flying fortress is ramming through it, destroying and blowing up so much as he is able before using one of Mazinger's stronger attacks to blast the airship off the sky.
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Ramming Always Works / int_56cb92c3	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: Quill points out to Rocket that while the maintenance pods they're in don't have weapons, they're designed to be unbelievably tough. Cue Rocket smashing half a dozen Necrofighters to pieces by ramming them thanks to the fight happening in the constraining inner space of Knowhere. When the Necrocrafts are unable to get past the Ravagers and Nova Corps in a dogfight, they instead just start dive-bombing Xandar. In the climax, Rocket Raccoon flies his ship straight into the Dark Aster, knocking out Ronan for a while and causing his ship to crash.
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Ramming Always Works / int_56dce3c1	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Taking a page from Rocket's book in the first movie, Yondu lands his ship right on top of Ego's human body just as the latter is starting "the Expansion" and using Quill as a battery, interrupting the process.
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Ramming Always Works / int_587db2f9	comment	In Halo: First Strike, this is both played straight and subverted. In a zone of slipspace where all weapons fired would veer off in random directions, Admiral Whitcomb took out one enemy ship not by firing his weapons, but instead by locating the wreck of an enemy ship, and pushing it at max speed towards a Covenant ship, while reversing as soon as the mass had enough velocity. Destruction ensued. Subverted near the ending, where Whitcomb's ship is used to ram into an enemy base several hundred times bigger than the ship itself, but causing little serious damage. However, the true goal was to lure all Covenant ships near that base into close proximity... as the base's fusion systems had been sabotaged minutes before by a team of Spartans, resulting in a nuclear blast that wiped out all 500 enemy ships, as well as, sadly, Whitcomb's ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_58bcf32e	comment	Subverted in the pilot episode of Crusade; a Drakh cruiser attempts to ram the Excalibur, but Gideon simply blows it out of the sky with their Wave-Motion Gun.
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Ramming Always Works / int_58ca0d4e	comment	Enemy of My Enemy: "Hah! The Sangheili ship isn't even trying to run anymore!... Wait... what are they... raise the forward shie—" crunch. Also, Zuka taking out a hostile Scarab by ramming his nearly-destroyed Banshee into its exposed core.
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Ramming Always Works / int_58e15212	comment	In Axis of Time, a radical Islamic group takes control of an Indonesian corvette and approaches the "uptimer" fleet. When they're close enough, they suddenly speed up and prepare to ram the USS Hillary Clinton, as the corvette is loaded with explosives. The reaction of the "uptimers" indicates that this sort of tactic is common among Islamic radicals in the 21st century. Luckily, they manage to blow up the corvette before it gets close enough.
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Ramming Always Works / int_58e3b9fc	comment	The Last Ship: During the Grand Finale, the Nathan James is critically crippled by the Colombians' battleship and starts to sink. Determined to make it a Mutual Kill, after the rest of the crew abandons ship, Admiral Chandler arms every remaining missile onboard the James and then sends it careening on a collision course for the battleship. Both ships are then destroyed in the subsequent explosion.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5b2027bf	comment	World War II: Episode 33, "The Invasion of Norway and Denmark", tells the story of HMS Glowworm which rammed the German Admiral Hipper. The Glowworm failed to destroy Hipper, and sank while on fire shortly after.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5b8afa32	comment	GaoGaiGar: The "Hell and Heaven" move consists in GaoGaiGar ramming its fists against the enemy. The J-Phoenix, where J and Renais set the J-Ark on fire and ram it against the enemy.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5bb406f8	comment	The Expanse: In Persepolis Rising, many Earth-Mars Coalition captains decide to ram their ships into the Laconian battleship once it becomes apparent all of their firepower combined can barely make a dent in it. Not even that can stop the Laconian forces.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Justified: the ship doing the ramming is an ore freighter, with no weapons to speak of. Except, of course, for ramming. It uses the ore it's carrying as chaff to protect it as it closes in on the opponent, and it turns out the "battle" was a test. The narrator also has fun lampshading the obligatory "Ramming Speed" command: Also Petey takes this in an interesting direction in his strategy for fighting big ships — his larger ships basically use his smaller ships as precision projectile weapons flung at close enough to the speed of light to punch all the way through an enemy ship and out the other side, taking out their power generators on the way. It's extremely effective offensively, but not all of the ramming ships make it back. He does have the advantage of being the boss of what's essentially a Cloud-based AI Hive Mind, so it's hard to call it a kamikaze strike. The second use for the ships, one humorously named Predictably Damaged following the scheme of using the initials P.D., is to insert a living clone of Petey to suborn targets, given that the ships targeted had A.I.s that were programmed to respond to their creators. Also subverted when Breya's embassy ship rammed the Touch-and-Go. TAG was being torn apart (and held in place) by gravity weapons, and the ramming saved the second ship (mainly because they could combine their shields, and Breya still had all her fuel). Tagii attempts the same trick as Petey when faced with the battleplate Morokweng. Subverted in that this only worked because the Morokweng was on reserve power to hide from an Eldritch Abomination, and therefore had no shields or gravity weapons. Further subverted in that the actual ramming was a minor inconvenience to the city-sized warship designed to tank asteroid impacts; emptying the ordnance bays on the way out, however... Not to mention that said Eldritch Abomination could see them, and followed them through... In Delegates and Delegations, Admiral Chu ponders ramming a battleplate through a city's shields to save that city from an enemy attack, an act that would kill the battleplate (complement: somewhat above 30,000) and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in the city, but still save most of the city's 4 billion sophonts aaand kill trillions in the ensuing civil war because it would have looked like Earth's military attacked its capitol in a situation that was already volatile. Good thing they found a better plan. Also discussed and defied by Iafa and Elf. Somewhat funny when you consider how often ramming has already been used in the comic.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5d1ce13a	comment	The X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter expansion pack Balance of Power uses this heavily in the final Rebel mission. After the player does sufficient damage to the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Vengeance, a trio of Dreadnought cruisers drop out of hyperspace to ram it from behind, battering down whatever shields it has left. Then a Corellian Corvette rams its bridge tower to finish it off. All four ramming ships are unmanned and packed full of heavy explosives, which is appropriate given the sheer size of the Super Star Destroyer (and the fact that there's no Death Star handy for it to collide with after the bridge is destroyed). Any pilot worth his salt will however lower enemy shields instantly by attacking the shield generators. Just like in the movie...
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Ramming Always Works / int_5e4ba4cd	comment	Overload has a smash attack that can be used to ram enemies to deal damage to them. While it isn't the wisest option against enemies equipped with circular saw blades, it can still be helpful to speed up clearing large numbers of enemies and as an alternative when no other weapon is available.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5e9ea81e	comment	Black Panther: To take out the last of the transports he's chasing, Everett Ross simply rams it with the Royal Talon Flyer, destroying both. It's the best option here since he doesn't need the flyer any more, and is at no personal risk because he's piloting remotely. More importantly, he's in a hurry because another fighter jet is about to destroy the laboratory he's in with its pulse weapons and he has no time left.
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Ramming Always Works / int_5fc0e68d	comment	Last Exile: Vincent Alzey seems to prefer this maneuver in his battle against the Silvana. However, the captain of the Silvana, Alex Rowe, expects such a tactic. It helps that the Urbanus-class ships are equipped with a gigantic, reinforced spike on their bows, and extend wing-like chainsaws from the sides. The ships are made explicitly for ramming, which is what Alex is counting on. Vincent uses a similar trick in the sequel series Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing as well.
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Ramming Always Works / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: Stargate SG-1: Attempted by Hammond and the Prometheus in the season 7 finale with the expectation of a Heroic Sacrifice (the shields of the Prometheus are down, and if it's possible to survive a collision in orbit in the Stargate-verse at all, Earth's technology isn't that far along at this point), but the enemy ship is destroyed before the Prometheus can hit it. Subverted in the season 10 opener. Bra'tac attempts to destroy an Ori mothership by ramming it with a Goa'uld mothership. The Ori ship is bigger and has much more powerful shields, so the Goa'uld ship crashes rather pathetically on the shield, causing no damage whatsoever. And then of course there's the Ancients. After much testing, they decided the best ship-to-ship weapons they could build were swarms of shield-piercing attack drones that fought by smashing into things at high speed. Using ships to ram structures on the ground is pretty popular in Stargate Atlantis: When the Wraith's first attack on Atlantis begins to sour, the cruisers jump into hyperspace to call reinforcements while the Darts (fighters) make a kamikaze run for the city, hoping to destroy it kinetically. Fortunately, Atlantis's team manages to raise the city's shield in time. The team has a Wraith Hive ship with damaged weapons and needs to disable a Wraith cloning facility on the planet below. Originally, their plan is to either steal or overload the ZPMs powering the facility, but an attacking Hive ship encourages them to use their captured Hive ship to disable the facility a little more... thoroughly. Todd steals the Daedalus to destroy a machine that turns Wraith ships entering hyperspace into mincemeat (the Attero Device). When Ronon realizes Wraith have captured the ship, he starts blasting the control crystals of various systems, including weapons. Guess how Todd decides to destroy the facility when they arrive... He is thankfully thwarted, but by all indications it would have worked. A rare ship-to-ship example: in "The Last Man", an alternate reality Carter rams a Wraith Hiveship with the Phoenix, a much smaller 304 Battlecruiser. The Phoenix not only destroys the Hiveship, but two more are destroyed when they get caught in the blast of the first. Of course, the Phoenix is about to explode at the time. This is the standard operating procedure for drone attacks. The Ancients' bread and butter weapon is the Attack Drone, a strangely squid-shaped missile that glows bright yellow when armed, and will fly through a target several times, boring neatly carved bore-holes through it before it eventually runs out of energy or the target is destroyed and the drone recovered for re-use. Capital-grade drone systems combine this with Macross Missile Massacre for dazzling effect. Final example in the last episode of the series: during the Wraith attack of Earth, a pair of Darts escapes the F-302 squadron and crash into the main Area 51 complex, destroying the Ancient control chair brought back from Antarctica, depriving the planet of its last line of defense. In Stargate Universe, the remote-controlled drone fighters, upon learning that Destiny has adapted to their weapons, turn to this trope as an alternative. Thankfully for Destiny, it is really big, the drones are very small, and their shields hold up long enough to destroy the Control Ship. Later they remote-pilot a shuttle into a Control Ship whilst simultaneously detonating its reactors, destroying both ships.
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Ramming Always Works / int_60def055	comment	Narrowly averted in Robots and Empire between a settler DG Baley's merchant ship and an Auroran warship. Not because he was out of weapons, but because it was forbidden to open fire inside Earth's Solar System
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Ramming Always Works / int_6108ba8d	comment	The Last Jedi: Admiral Holdo of the Resistance puts all the above examples to shame by aiming the evacuated Resistance cruiser Raddusnote Appropriately named for Admiral Raddus, the mastermind behind Rogue One's Hammerhead corvette ploy at the First Order's flagship and jumping to hyperspace. The impact bisects the sixty-kilometer-wide Supremacy, and the FTL debris shreds several nearby destroyers. A character in the sequel brings up "The Holdo Maneuver" as a strategy, but it's shot down as a costly, high-risk, and unreliable move, despite its destructive potential; indeed, it's implied that the only reason it worked is because General Hux misread Holdo's intentions until it was too late. The film also points out when ramming doesn't work: when Finn tries to do a similar Heroic Sacrifice against a "battering ram" cannon, we see that his old, rickety air skimmer is falling apart all around him simply for entering the cannon's initial "energy buildup" beam, and would have just smashed harmlessly against the cannon if Rose hadn't rammed her ship into his to divert him at the last second.
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Ramming Always Works / int_61c6b600	comment	Narrowly averted in Star Trek: First Contact by Worf, commanding the USS Defiant while fighting the Borg. Averted only because the Enterprise comes in the nick of time and helps the fleet to destroy the Borg ship without the Defiant ramming into it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_61de95d6	comment	Possible on Freelancer: You can destroy at least one enemy ship with it; it does a fair chunk of hull damage, so if you have the enemy shields down and yours are up, it's quite useful. If your shields are down, it's a bit more risky — it damages your ship too, that being one of the few bits of physics they got right. Played straight towards the end, with Marcus Walker arming the mines on his cruiser and ramming two Liberty battleships.
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Ramming Always Works / int_62280c5f	comment	Silent Hunter III: In a Good Bad Bugs example, early unpatched Versions actually made it possible to sink quite a few ships, including destroyers, by using your U-Boat's tower to ram its hull underwater. It would make tower and periscope inoperable, but hey, you could sink a ship without having to use one of your precious few and slow-loading torpedoes. And you could use it multiple times without bad effects when done precisely, so you could ram an entire convoy to death with your humble submarine if you were lucky and skilled enough. Later fixed in patches that made the effect more realistic — your puny sub is wrecked and sinks.
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Ramming Always Works / int_62aa95a6	comment	In Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series ramming happens, but always by accident. The result is always catastrophic for both ships. In one case both ships get compressed into a "gigantic ball of metal".
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Ramming Always Works / int_63e943da	comment	In the Berserker series of science fiction short stories by Fred Saberhagen, special space ships are designed to ram the huge (as in the size of Manhattan Island) Berserkers. These ships have a nuclear weapon on the end of a very long prow which strikes the hull of the Berserker, creating a hole that the rest of the ship drives into. Once inside the Berserker, human troops deploy inside and seek out vulnerable places and rescue POWs held there.
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Ramming Always Works / int_66d21a27	comment	Harlock: Space Pirate: Since the Arcadia is almost a Ghost Spaceship and virtually indestructible, the crew sometimes finds that the best way past an enemy ship is to simply plow right into them. Reversed at the end, when Ezra commands his personal flagship to ram the Arcadia and push it so the Earth's not in the line of fire of the Coalition's Wave-Motion Gun.
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Ramming Always Works / int_6735aaf4	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, the titular Gundam, the AGE-1, shows just how effective ramming can be, by performing a Zaku-style shoulder bash against a UE... With 4 Beam Sabers protruding from the shoulder. Another of the AGE-1 Titus' attacks is basically a Lariat with a beam-ring just below the wrist.
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Ramming Always Works / int_67b692cc	comment	In the games, numerous servers have a house rule that ramming enemy vehicles results in the rammer being kicked from the server. You would expect that smacking a plane into a plane would destroy them both, and it usually does, much to the chagrin of the flyboys. Ground vehicles ram each other with about as much effect as you would expect, depending on what rams into what. In BF2142, the infantry can ram vehicles using Drop Pods (think Starship Troopers). Initially, it was powerful, if hard to aim. However, post-patches, this ability was seriously nerfed, in part to prevent physics exploitation.
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Ramming Always Works / int_67cdde7d	comment	An article in Dragon described a Traveller player, only identified as "Bob", who "obviously assumed that starships and ancient galleys were built alike." His attempted ram ("I've got the bigger ship!") turned both ships into clouds of debris, much to his confusion.
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Ramming Always Works / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Super Robot Wars: In various entries, the attack "Shin Shine Spark" used by Shin Getter Robo and its counterpart Shin Dragon are portrayed like this. They'll gather Getter Energy into them, then fly into their opponents to obliterate them. Used, and subverted while using it in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: The Rhinoceros-class Land Battleships used by the Divine Crusaders all have great big blades mounted on their bows for ramming attacks. However, late in the second game, when The Neidermeyer's ship is badly damaged, he tries to ram the Kurogane, the ship being captained by his rival. Unfortunately, he forgot that the Kurogane just happens to have a big-ass drill mounted on the front... oops. Various Lion-types (such as the Guarlion, Calion, Astelion, Alterion, and Vegalion) are able to ram their enemies using the Sonic Breaker/RaMV weapon systems. A particularly devastating example of this trope in action is the Elemental Lord of the Wind, Cybuster, and its "Akashic Buster" attack. Often used in the various anime adaptations against an opponent trying to invoke this trope... suffice to say, the Cybuster's ramming is superior every time.
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Ramming Always Works / int_68ced07c	comment	The prequel From Bajor to the Black features a variant. Eleya tunes her shields' waveform to be 180 degrees out of phase with those of a Borg probe so a close pass ramming shield into shield eliminates both. She then beams a photon torpedo onto the unshielded probe, destroying it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_69085a0	comment	Macross and Robotech: The original "Daedalus Attack" ("Daedalus Maneuvre" in Robotech) from Super Dimension Fortress Macross consists of focusing the ship's Deflector Shields onto the bolted-on Landing ship Daedalus, quite literally punching its bow into an enemy ship, and opening the forward hatch to allow the mecha inside to launch a Macross Missile Massacre (with a little Beam Spam, for good measure). The maneuver falls out of use when the enemy provokes it in order to launch a boarding operation (and a little friendly fire incident). But still, not bad for something thought up in the middle of the battle it's first used in... Its use in "Love Drifts Away"/"Force of Arms" takes it one step further. After completing the Maneuver above with it's whole body, the SDF-1 then activates its full Beehive Barrier shield. This is the same malfunctioning shield that took out all of Toronto... and they've activated it right next to the core of Boddole Zer/Dolza's flagship. The SDF-1 is crippled afterwards. It makes a comeback in the Grand Finale of Macross Frontier, to spectacular effect. It's called "Macross Attack" here, though. Not to be outdone, Robotech has some spectacular ramming actions in its second part, "The Masters" (aka Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross). The first time is when a crippled REF ship rams one of the Masters' seemingly invincible mothership and explodes, destroying both, but the most spectacular is when general Emerson, seeing that the troops trying to board the Masters'/Zor's flagship through a hull breach have encountered excessive resistance, rams the enemy with his own flagship Tristar in such a way it only grazes the hull, enlarging the breach and running over the enemy bioroids opposing the boarding. Later, the final battle against the Masters/Zor features Earth ships ramming the enemy motherships and self-destructing. The Tristar is the first to do it. In Robotech's "The New Generation" (a.k.a. Genesis Climber MOSPEADA), the Invid (Inbit) in space combat tend to send ludicrous amounts of flying mechas to ram the enemy warships. It's frighteningly effective, as they are just that numerous. Then brought full circle when a Garfish-class light cruiser, the Invid's usual victim, pops out of nowhere and rams one of their communication towers before self-destructing.
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Ramming Always Works / int_690d43d4	comment	In Factory of the Gods, this is accomplished with a rare example using a train to kill a god.
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Ramming Always Works / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Thor: The Dark World, the Dark Elves' craft don't seem to have any weapons at all. They simply slam into buildings (or Asgardian fighters) to destroy them; the only thing that isn't damaged by it is the shield around the Asgardian palace. The Dark Elves' craft remain undamaged doing this, except for the one that hits the aforementioned shield and is destroyed. Guardians of the Galaxy: Quill points out to Rocket that while the maintenance pods they're in don't have weapons, they're designed to be unbelievably tough. Cue Rocket smashing half a dozen Necrofighters to pieces by ramming them thanks to the fight happening in the constraining inner space of Knowhere. When the Necrocrafts are unable to get past the Ravagers and Nova Corps in a dogfight, they instead just start dive-bombing Xandar. In the climax, Rocket Raccoon flies his ship straight into the Dark Aster, knocking out Ronan for a while and causing his ship to crash. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Taking a page from Rocket's book in the first movie, Yondu lands his ship right on top of Ego's human body just as the latter is starting "the Expansion" and using Quill as a battery, interrupting the process. Black Panther: To take out the last of the transports he's chasing, Everett Ross simply rams it with the Royal Talon Flyer, destroying both. It's the best option here since he doesn't need the flyer any more, and is at no personal risk because he's piloting remotely. More importantly, he's in a hurry because another fighter jet is about to destroy the laboratory he's in with its pulse weapons and he has no time left.
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Ramming Always Works / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Black Lagoon: In one of the early episodes, Rock uses a derelict ship to ramp the title boat, then fire a torpedo directly into an attack helicopter — and flips them the bird in the process, establishing that Rock's got a bit of attitude behind him after all (as he's normally a somewhat milquetoast accountant and negotiator that plays a rather Chick-ish role in the show where violence is concerned).
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Ramming Always Works / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: While it's not shown, Rigel recounts the tale of how his people used massed kamikaze attacks to drive off a race of invaders who'd killed a billion of their fellows and were eating their young. An unusual version: a Leviathan ship destroys a far larger Peacekeeper Command Carrier by going into starburst while docked inside it — essentially ramming it from the inside.
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Ramming Always Works / int_70193ebb	comment	In the Alex Benedict novel Polaris, the villain resorts to ramming the heroes with her spaceship after they disable her weapons system. This ends poorly for her, as the heroes trick her into flying full speed into a lander packed full of rocks.
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Ramming Always Works / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Attempted by Hammond and the Prometheus in the season 7 finale with the expectation of a Heroic Sacrifice (the shields of the Prometheus are down, and if it's possible to survive a collision in orbit in the Stargate-verse at all, Earth's technology isn't that far along at this point), but the enemy ship is destroyed before the Prometheus can hit it. Subverted in the season 10 opener. Bra'tac attempts to destroy an Ori mothership by ramming it with a Goa'uld mothership. The Ori ship is bigger and has much more powerful shields, so the Goa'uld ship crashes rather pathetically on the shield, causing no damage whatsoever. And then of course there's the Ancients. After much testing, they decided the best ship-to-ship weapons they could build were swarms of shield-piercing attack drones that fought by smashing into things at high speed.
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Ramming Always Works / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Avatar Returns", Prince Zuko has his ship ram a Water Tribe village in his search for the Avatar. His (relatively small) ship blows through at least fifty feet of glacial ice to have the front open right in front of the village. (Which isn't too extraordinary, since this is the primary purpose of icebreakers.)
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Ramming Always Works / int_7393c0ce	comment	In Hellsister Trilogy, Satan Girl rams into a moon in order to push it out of orbit. Being all but a Physical God, the deed is easy for her.
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Ramming Always Works / int_73d7930f	comment	The Dominion of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine employ suicide ramming tactics to destroy Federation ships; specifically, the destruction of the USS Odyssey. They also take down multiple Klingon ships using this tactic during the Dominion War. In Odyssey's case, the ship was already withdrawing, but the Jem'Hadar rammed it anyway, just to show how serious they were.
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Ramming Always Works / int_74c659e6	comment	In Rocket Age the Silt Sea pirates of Mars use raiding ships built out of the bones of silt dragons. The prow, made from the skull, is used as a ram and does a devastating amount of damage.
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Ramming Always Works / int_75149ccd	comment	In a simulation at the start of Rogue Squadron, Corran rams an opposing TIE Bomber with his X-Wing. If they had hit head-on, the Bomber's mass advantage would have been enough to overcome the X-Wing's shields, destroying both ships. Instead they hit at a glancing angle, Corran's shields were reduced to a third, and the Bomber got all bent out of shape and went out of control, careening out of the fight.
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Ramming Always Works / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Like her father mentioned in the "Literature" section, Miranda Keyes can pull off some pretty ballsy ramming maneuvers too; back when she was a lieutenant in charge of the unarmed science vessel Hilbert, she found three allied corvettes being attacked by a Covenant destroyer. Keyes responded by having the Hilbert overload its engines and ram into the destroyer, destroying the latter's shields and nudging it towards a nearby planet's gravity well, with the two ships then falling together through the atmosphere at terminal velocity before crashing onto the surface. And then the Hibert's fusion core detonated, obliterating both ships. The corvettes were saved, but Miranda was one of only two members of the crew to make it to the escape pods. In the last mission of Halo: Reach, Carter, fatally injured and piloting an equally fatally-damaged Pelican, rams the craft into a Scarab to clear a path for Emile and Noble Six. Earlier, in Reach's "Tip of the Spear", the player's Falcon is forced to ram through the Spire's Deflector Shields, which causes the chopper to crash and kills all of the non-Spartan crew. In Episode One of Halo 4's Spartan Ops campaign, the UNSC Infinity returns to Requiem six months after the single-player campaign to clear out the rest of the Covenant remnant forces there, starting by popping out of slipspace and plowing straight through a Covenant armored cruiser, ripping the alien ship in half without suffering any damage from the impact. In Halo Wars 2, the Ark sends a swarm of sentinels to destroy the Banished carrier Enduring Conviction after the UNSC logistics AI Isabel takes control of the carrier and fires on the Banished settlement below, penetrating the surface of the Ark in the process. This was done by ramming thousands of sentinels in a line across a structural weak point on the carrier, severing its prow.
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Ramming Always Works / int_761957ad	comment	In Sierra Ops Episode I: Collapsing Daybreak, a Martian frigate will overload its reactors and attempt to ram the UTV flagship Beerkelium during the Rhines ending. The attempt fails when Junius Fahrenheit overcharges his Exoframeâ€™s Deflector Shields and intercepts the frigate, physically stopping it in its tracks before it can reach the flagship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect: During the final attack on the Citadel, the Reaper, Sovereign, is so massive, durable, and well-shielded that he doesn't even bother to avoid ships in his path; he just speeds ahead, ramming clean through several turian cruisers that are unlucky enough to be in his path in order to reach the Tower before the Citadel arms close. During Emily Wong's livetweeting the Reaper invasion just prior to the release of Mass Effect 3, Dying Moment of Awesome she rams her skyvan into a Reaper. However, given that these things can shrug off impacts that can be measured in percentages of the speed of light, her shuttle probably didn't do much. Lt. Vega saves the day in the Mars mission, intercepting an escaping Cerberus shuttle containing vital intel... by broadsiding it with his own shuttle. His own shuttle is at least flyable after the collision, unlike the other shuttle. Vega catches some heckling over this maneuver from trained pilots Joker and Lt. Cortez, not least because the shuttle he was flying was armed. According to the codex, some military strategists consider ramming things at superluminal speed. The Mass Effect cores have hardwired safety systems to prevent this that no one has been able to remove. They theorize that the Reapers put this in their technology specifically to avert this trope.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7668653b	comment	During Emily Wong's livetweeting the Reaper invasion just prior to the release of Mass Effect 3, Dying Moment of Awesome she rams her skyvan into a Reaper. However, given that these things can shrug off impacts that can be measured in percentages of the speed of light, her shuttle probably didn't do much.
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Ramming Always Works / int_76c56f2e	comment	In Biomega, when his Ninja Butterfly informs him that his fighter jet is out of missiles and advises him to retreat, Zoichi responds with: "I still have one projectile left."
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Ramming Always Works / int_76e539c2	comment	Nanoha provides a more traditional example in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS during the raid on the Saint's Cradle. Not wanting to stop and fight every single Gadget Drone she comes across, she opts to simply fly straight through them, leaving a heap of scrap metal in her wake.
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Ramming Always Works / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars: Averted as an intentional tactic. The developers have expressed a dislike for kamikaze ships and have therefore left them out. There is a variant here, though: ships can smash into planets, destroying the ship and damaging the planet (but adding to its resources). Sparky can also ram ships and destroy them, but it is unknown whether the Locust fleetworld takes any damage from this. Two other variants to this rule exists: Firstly, the Kinetic Kill missile is a high-level kinetic weapon that's effectively a guided warhead without a payload. The results of hitting an enemy ship with it are... Noticeable. Secondly, try putting a tractor beam on a defensive satellite. Since the satellite rotates, the ship it ensnares will rotate with it due to the beam... And usually ram right into the planet the satellite defends, insta-killing the poor ship. That's right: You can intentionally make a weapon that makes the enemy do kamikaze rammings of your own planets. This may still be preferable to letting the ship live, as most ships usually have better weapons than defense satellites and will rain even more destruction on the planet than the ramming will cause.
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Ramming Always Works / int_778c0c2c	comment	While not exactly a ship, in Dirge of Cerberus, Vincent manages to destroy Omega Weapon hopped up on ALL of the Lifestream by dive-bombing it. The result destroys both of them & seems to have turned Omega's remains into a new moon. Vincent gets better, though.
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Ramming Always Works / int_77a899a	comment	Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG: Mr. Welch is prohibited from doing this with a probe droid at light speed. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when The Last Jedi does essentially that, and you can check out the film folder to see how well it worked.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7849f0c1	comment	In various entries, the attack "Shin Shine Spark" used by Shin Getter Robo and its counterpart Shin Dragon are portrayed like this. They'll gather Getter Energy into them, then fly into their opponents to obliterate them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_79cc8035	comment	In the Derelict campaign, this is how the GTVA takes down the SD Nyarlathotep, using a corvette rigged with as many high-yield Meson bombs as could be jammed into the hull. This conveniently bypasses the target's superior firepower and durability, which the Alliance has thus far been unable to overcome in a straight fight.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7a4a668c	comment	Captain Harlock: Harlock likes to ram his ship, the Arcadia, into things so much that the ship has a retractable, Bowie knife-shaped ram hidden in the prow. Note that the Arcadia always seems to survive such ramming unscathed, even against much bigger ships. To be fair, the Mazone ships seem to be made of tissue paper by comparison to the Arcadia — possibly due to being crewed by a race of plant-life that burns like paper as it dies... although a more Freudian explanation could be at work...! And in Endless Odyssey, at least the Arcadia fires off several shots from the entire forward facing cannon batteries before whipping out the bowie knife and ramming the eldritch abomination in question....
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Ramming Always Works / int_7ac43256	comment	Used, and subverted while using it in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: The Rhinoceros-class Land Battleships used by the Divine Crusaders all have great big blades mounted on their bows for ramming attacks. However, late in the second game, when The Neidermeyer's ship is badly damaged, he tries to ram the Kurogane, the ship being captained by his rival. Unfortunately, he forgot that the Kurogane just happens to have a big-ass drill mounted on the front... oops. Various Lion-types (such as the Guarlion, Calion, Astelion, Alterion, and Vegalion) are able to ram their enemies using the Sonic Breaker/RaMV weapon systems. A particularly devastating example of this trope in action is the Elemental Lord of the Wind, Cybuster, and its "Akashic Buster" attack. Often used in the various anime adaptations against an opponent trying to invoke this trope... suffice to say, the Cybuster's ramming is superior every time.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7c19a801	comment	Ramming in FTL: Faster Than Light is generally not an option, as none of the ships, even the AI drones, are crazy enough to risk themselves by slamming into an opponent... but there are exceptions. The Rockmen build extremely sturdy ships, and are almost constantly at war with the vicious Mantis and their hunting parties, who have a tendency to decorate their ships with the viscera and parts of their kills. A player-controlled Rock cruiser that encounters a Mantis ship with such trophies can ram them to completely disable the enemy's engines, with your vessel completely unharmed. There is one blue text option where you use a drone to repair a disabled Rock ship's engines while two Mantis ships fight over their prize. Rather than taking the opportunity to jump away and perhaps manage to repair their ship they elect to instead ram one of the Mantis vessels, destroying themselves, the vessel they hit and the other with the debris, leaving you with a very large amount of scrap for the taking.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7cda381e	comment	Assassin's Creed: Odyssey continues the tradition (and is accurate to the era, as seen down in Real Life). At sufficiently high ramming speed, the Adrestia can smash ships in half, especially if the enemy ship is damaged enough.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7d1f75f6	comment	In Footfall, during the final attack on the alien mothership the space shuttle Atlantis rams it, damaging the alien's main drive, allowing Michael to catch them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7dad8347	comment	Fan-made stories for FreeSpace enjoy this trope: One mission in the "Just Another Day" parody series of missions had fun with this. A corvette "blockades" a jump node by sitting right next to it so incoming ships will ram it and blow themselves up before they can steer away from it. After one hilarious example, another ship jumps out in a different vector, avoiding the corvette completely, leading its commander to ask, "Can they do that?" To add to this, the second mission of JAD Episode 1 sends the Colossus Reborn to attack a Sathanas that jumps in near the end of the mission. When the Colossus Reborn arrives, its subspace vortex is just in front of the Sathanas. Guess what happens to both ships? The campaign Ridiculous also shares a mission featuring ships (A Colossus that you win through a lottery) jumping into another ship. As before, neither survive. In the Derelict campaign, this is how the GTVA takes down the SD Nyarlathotep, using a corvette rigged with as many high-yield Meson bombs as could be jammed into the hull. This conveniently bypasses the target's superior firepower and durability, which the Alliance has thus far been unable to overcome in a straight fight. Silent Threat: Reborn, a fan remake of the (generally considered below the standards of the other games) official expansion Silent Threat, zig-zags it. At one point, the heavily damaged ship PVD Hope rams the rogue warship GTD Hades, which destroys the ramming ship, does next to no hull damage but knocks out the rammed ship's engines. Then the engines come back online, letting the Hades jump to another system... where it is subsequently revealed that despite that the ramming actually did do catastrophic damage to the engines, allowing GTA forces to catch up and engage the ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7dc73376	comment	The Force Unleashed: Starkiller can throw a Star Destroyer out of orbit into people. Force Unleashed II arguably trumps it when Starkiller's clone (maybe) flies an evacuated Rebel cruiser down to Kamino and bails out at the last minute, resulting in a gigantic ship smashing into the main Imperial cloning facility. Also, judging by the flash, the ship's reactors went up on impact. The ship was already heavily damaged by the battle and the droids. The only was to take Kamino was to destroy its shield generator. Hence the crash.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7efcefbb	comment	Star Realms has the Blob Ram, which from the name and card art appears to employ the trope. Seems to be a prestigious position too, as Ram Pilots are one of the Blob Hero cards in the Crisis expansion.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7f02dd41	comment	In Star Wars: Battlefront and its sequel, ramming enemy vehicles with yours causes no damage. At least not until you fix a mine or two on the front. Kaboom, yo! However, in the first game ramming enemy infantry in a speeder bike kills the enemy while doing no damage to the biker, but ramming anything else in the bike kills the biker. Interestingly enough, ramming a shielded destroyer droid with a speeder bike kills both the droid and the biker. Playing this trope even more straight, ramming a Hero in the first game (where they were unplayable but had unlimited health) with a Speeder Bike is one of the only ways to successfully deal with them. In the space maps in the sequel ramming does do damage and can actually be used effectively by players. Parked starfighters take more damage than flying ones for some reason, meaning that players can still do damage in enemy hangars. Ramming a bomber into a landing ship in your own hangar can also destroy it much faster than shoulder-launched rockets. Fighters can also collide in space, though it'd be difficult to pull this off in a way that doesn't get you both killed. This was changed in the sequel, Battlefront II, where smashing your ship against the side of an Imperial Star Destroyer on Mon Calamari cruiser does absolutely nothing.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7f5e00d9	comment	In Halo: The Fall of Reach, then-Commander Jacob Keyes does this to a Covenant Stealth Corvette he happens to spot. It's not given how small the corvette was, but the people on the bridge of the 485-meter UNSC Destroyer Iroquois "barely felt the bump", while the corvette was fatally damaged. In an earlier battle above the same planet, Keyes does a variant of this move. He doesn't as much as ram an enemy destroyer as much as he did scrape it, but it was enough for him to fire the Archer missiles on the Iroquois to seriously damage the destroyer at nearly point-blank as Keyes led a homing plasma shot that had been track the Iroquois back at the destroyer. Results were lethal and the maneuver was named the "Keyes Loop". While his ram of the opposing destroyer was enough to let him beat it, once he got back to spacedock and took a look at the ship he realized that "A few more degrees of tilt down and he would have sheared his own craft in two." As is, the Iroquois was heavily damaged by this.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the Peacemillion ramming into Libra's main cannon to disable it. Everyone is evacuated beforehand except for three pilots, who survive presumably because Peacemillion's bridge is on its underside, rather like the gondola of a blimp.
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Ramming Always Works / int_7fd403f8	comment	Subverted, like everything else, in Galaxy Quest. Taggart has the ship launch itself at full speed toward the enemy ship and the enemy notes that with the difference in armor, it would be the ship that's being rammed that would survive, not the ship doing the ramming. However, at the last moment they dodge and allow the mine field they were dragging to take out the enemy ship instead.
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Ramming Always Works / int_80797024	comment	In From the Depths ramming can be augmented with the Ram part, which deals damage proportional the ship's velocity and mass. White Flayer ships in particular are all built for ramming and are usually covered in rams on every surface; they aren't particularly effective at ramming equally sized vehicles as it usually results in them getting stuck, but they will utterly annihilate anything smaller. In the first White Flayer instant action mission, the player is given a high-end ramming boat, the Flayed Soul, and is sicced on a bunch of poorly armed Deepwater Guard fishing boats that will get crushed and minced by the grinders on the ramming ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_80c382f4	comment	In the '80s cartoon Defenders of the Earth, Flash Gordon's personal fighter was fitted with a ramming unit on the nose. This arrowhead-shaped device would glow bright red when active, at which point Flash would just start flying into anything and everything in sight.
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Ramming Always Works / int_80e838cd	comment	Tachyon: The Fringe: Due to the AI's tendency to go into head-to-head duels with the player, this happens irritatingly often. Of course, when you still have shields and your opponent doesn't, especially when he's flying one of the notoriously weak-hulled GalSpan ships and you're flying a Bora fighter, the results can be hilarious. But all too often, because of the ridiculously short ranges that happen in dogfighting, this happens when your shields are already drained... The Bora have an additional advantage for close combat with the Corona Device. When fired, it creates a Sphere of Destruction around your ship that does serious damage to anything in range. This range is pretty small (relatively), and your own shields are drained by this.
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Ramming Always Works / int_81692f99	comment	In this Star Trek fan parody, Emperor Pirk rams his nearly destroyed ship on the enemy flagship, producing the most impressive CG destruction sequence ever seen outside multimillion dollar Hollywood productions, and indeed looking better than most Star Trek fight sequences ever filmed. This is even more impressive when you realise that Pirk's flagship is the Enterprise-E and the enemy flagship is the Excalibur from the B5 spin-off series Crusade. And they created the whole thing on home PCs.
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Ramming Always Works / int_82c3f299	comment	Not to be outdone, Robotech has some spectacular ramming actions in its second part, "The Masters" (aka Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross). The first time is when a crippled REF ship rams one of the Masters' seemingly invincible mothership and explodes, destroying both, but the most spectacular is when general Emerson, seeing that the troops trying to board the Masters'/Zor's flagship through a hull breach have encountered excessive resistance, rams the enemy with his own flagship Tristar in such a way it only grazes the hull, enlarging the breach and running over the enemy bioroids opposing the boarding. Later, the final battle against the Masters/Zor features Earth ships ramming the enemy motherships and self-destructing. The Tristar is the first to do it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_85b855e2	comment	In The Thrawn Trilogy novel Dark Force Rising, Mara Jade's ship is disabled and she aims it at part of an Imperial Star Destroyer before ejecting, figuring that even if it doesn't do much, she might as well do what she can. A few pages later, one of the old Katana Fleet dreadnaughts (roughly 1/4 the size of the Star Destroyer, and thousands of times larger than Mara's fighter) is propelled via remote control into a second Star Destroyer, and this works quite well.
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Ramming Always Works / int_88be979a	comment	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: When the Big Bad goes to destroy Watson for stopping his Action Bomb before it could reach Buckingham Palace, Holmes stops him by slamming his light one-man airship into the Big Bad's much larger, armoured mechanical dragon: smashing both flying machines to pieces.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Garma Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam tries to invoke ("I am a man of the Zabi Family! I will not die in vain!") this trope after his ship is critically damaged. However Bright Noa sees him coming and manages to avoid the blow - the following explosion confirming it would have been fatal. Ryu Jose heroically pulls this off, ramming a Core Fighter into Crowley Hamon's Magella Top Fighter before it could shoot down the Gundam. His death ends up rattling the crew of the White Base. Amuro Ray does this to a Titan mobile suit in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. It is justified, because he was piloting a transportation plane, not a combat one. And he escaped with a parachute. Haman does this using the asteroid Axis towards the Gate of Zedan (the former A Baoa Qu). Axis is barely damaged, the Gate of Zedan is destroyed along with a lot of the Titans' forces. Kamille does this in the finale, he crashes Zeta's Waverider in to The O's pilot block, impaling Scirocco. Subverted slightly, because Scirocco Mind Rapes him into a state of retardation before he dies, which probably could have been avoided had Kamille shot him at long range. In the finale of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Amuro has been divested of all his weapons and ammo, is far from backup, and is faced with the task of removing a falling asteroid from orbit before it collides with the Earth... naturally, ramming is the only solution. Amazingly, this plan actually works, due to Char and Amuro's resonating psycoframes. Unfortunately, the trope is played somewhat straight, since both pilots are killed in the process. In Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, the titular Gundam, the AGE-1, shows just how effective ramming can be, by performing a Zaku-style shoulder bash against a UE... With 4 Beam Sabers protruding from the shoulder. Another of the AGE-1 Titus' attacks is basically a Lariat with a beam-ring just below the wrist. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the Peacemillion ramming into Libra's main cannon to disable it. Everyone is evacuated beforehand except for three pilots, who survive presumably because Peacemillion's bridge is on its underside, rather like the gondola of a blimp. Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: A particularly bizarre example in the Pez Batara, a mecha specifically designed to ram. It mounts a giant beam axe blade down its middle and attacks enemy ships by charging at them. However, the official profile notes that it has a low survival rate and pilots aren't expected to come back. During the invasion of Io, the protagonists' Cool Ship the Mother Vanguard gets to the Jovians' main base by ramming through an enemy battleship, using its beam shield to protect it from most of the damage, then firing its port and starboard beam cannon batteries to scythe through the rest of the line of defense. Of course, the Vanguard doesn't get away unscathed; its mast gets badly damaged, which means they can't use their "Wings of Light" propulsion system until it's fixed. In the Steel Seven sequel, Giri rams the Jovian Colony Laser at the last second before it fires, in desperation. The Jovians initially write this off as a Senseless Sacrifice: a single Mobile Suit impact (even with the aid of the tactical nuclear warhead he was carrying) isn't nearly enough to do any real damage to a Colony Laser. However, what the ramming does do is throw the Laser's aim off by a fraction of a degree... and the Laser was targetting Earth, over 600 million miles away. It therefore misses spectacularly, and it will take hours to correct the Laser's aim for another attempt. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray: Ace pilot Edward Harrelson came to be known as Ed the Ripper after using his jet fighter's wings to slice an enemy mobile suit in half. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, the DOM Troopers have the "Screaming Nimbus", a Mirage Colloid projector that not only deflects weapon fire, but also pulverizes anything in the DOM Trooper's path while they're moving. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has this happen twice, with varying results... After his GN-X is heavily damaged by Lockon Stratos and his Dynames, Daryl Dodge flies in a suicidal charge towards said Gundam Meister and slams into him. While the Dynames is still intact and Daryl is killed in his GN-X's explosion, it leaves Lockon open to his current opponent, Ali Al-Saachez, who has been analyzing his opponent and realized that he can't see on one side (due to his eye being damaged in a previous episode). Allelujah (or rather, Allelujah with his Hallelujah personality) also does this with his Arios to end his Curb-Stomp Battle against Hiling Care and her Garazzo, running his Gundam in its fighter mode into the Garazzo's midriff and using its Beam Shields to tear it in half, resulting in Hiling's death.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8b55fd36	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series: In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Empire's Shogun Battleship can deploy an energy shield in the front of the hull. The ship can then ram and kill another ship. This is used to counteract the minimum range of the battleship's guns. The manual states that, during the initial attack of the Empire on the Soviet Pacific Fleet, several Soviet ships managed to make it inside the battleship's range and confidently start to fire at them. Cue the battleships accelerating and ramming them. The Empire also has the Yari mini-sub, a small attack submarine that normally fires mini-torpedoes. In a pinch, however, the Yari can activate its "Last Voyage" protocols and accelerate towards an enemy. The end result is inherently fatal to the Yari but also usually equally detrimental to the target. No points for guessing that these were based on the historical Japanese Kaiten submarine.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Subverted first in A New Hope, though. Wedge's rescue of Luke involved lunging straight at the enemy TIE Fighter with guns blazing. The theatrically-released remastered movie shows Wedge shooting through the collapsing enemy ship. Note that in the book, that was Biggs, not Wedge. It's not the only film/book discrepancy; the novelization was finished well before the film was. Also (justifiably) averted, when several fighters are shown to crash into the Death Star without destroying it; their relative sizes make this completely understandable.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8c96b29e	comment	In Robotech's "The New Generation" (a.k.a. Genesis Climber MOSPEADA), the Invid (Inbit) in space combat tend to send ludicrous amounts of flying mechas to ram the enemy warships. It's frighteningly effective, as they are just that numerous. Then brought full circle when a Garfish-class light cruiser, the Invid's usual victim, pops out of nowhere and rams one of their communication towers before self-destructing.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: During her final battle against the Diasporans in Red Daughter of Krypton, Supergirl did this with her own body, taking advantage of her Kryptonian invulnerability to ram through their mothership and destroy it. In War World, Kara hurls herself at the eponymous massive weapon satellite at incalculable speed and collides with it, breaking it down. The Supergirl from Krypton: Superman begins the final battle by hurling himself at Darkseid. Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade starts out when Kara's rocket arrives in Metropolis and accidentally smashes itself through Lex Luthor's giant robot. Several Flying Brick characters use this tactic in Krypton No More: One-time villain Protector charges at Superman to knock him down from the sky when they first meet. Superman also charges headfirst against the J'ai warships in order to blow them up. And then a J'ai warrior charges against him, slamming both of them into a warship to take Superman down. Subverted in A Mind-Switch in Time. As travelling from different points in the timeline, Superman and Superboy run into a disturbance stretching across the timestream. Both Clarks decide to brute forcing their way through it, and indeed they manage to ram through it, but they collide with each other. In the beginning of Superman vs. Shazam!, Superman disables a flying saucer vehicle by ramming through it. In Way of the World, Supergirl's punches damage Dolok but they don't seem to be strong enough to knock him out. It is only when Kara rams herself into him, hitting him with both fists simultaneously, that she is able to finish him off. In The Phantom Zone, Supergirl neutralizes three nuclear warheads by crashing through them. "Those Emerald Eyes Are Shining": Supergirl stops Weber's World from colliding with United Planets' main fleet base by ramming herself against it at enormous speed, knocking the artificial planetoid right off its collision course.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8ea1c5d1	comment	Combattler V: The Choudenji Spin — ramming through the enemy — is often used like a Finishing Move. Combattler uses the Choudenji Tatsumaki — paralyzing the enemy by blasting it with a stream of electricity — and then rams through its adversary as spinning endlessly. That movement tends to leave a nice gaping hole in the Monster of the Week. Its second finishing move the GranDasher also involves ramming, this time having the eponymous mecha fire a hard-light road, transform into a vehicle, and run along that road into the hapless opponent.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8f04d767	comment	A tactic that players developed in Battlefield: Bad Company, which has survived as far as Battlefield 4, is to set C4 on a light, fast vehicle like an ATV or Jeep, and drive at a heavy vehicle like a tank. Two packs of C4 will take out a tank, and as long as you bail out properly, the vehicle's momentum will carry it into the tank, and you can blow it up at your leisure. More inventive players have put C4 on unlikely vehicles, like helicopters, jet planes, and UAVs.
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Ramming Always Works / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In the season 4 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the Cerritos breaks through an incredibly powerful forcefield that they lack the firepower to pierce by using the tractor beam to slingshot a derilect Orion battlecruiser they procured from Tendi's sister at it at a fraction of light speed, creating a large enough hole for the captain's yacht to fly through before it closes up.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9058ac65	comment	In Cat City, Grabowski sunk the cat pirates' submarine by ramming it with the ship they thought to have captured, and had in a tow.
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Ramming Always Works / int_909ca4b1	comment	In ReBoot, the attack on the Megabyte-controlled Mainframe Principal Office is initiated by a kamikaze charge by the pirate ship Saucy Mare. It gets shot down right before reaching its target... but was loaded with enough explosives that this turned out to merely spread the damage around and wipe out even more of Megabyte's outer defenses.
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Ramming Always Works / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs's most iconic instance, the final line in the series is Jake giving the order to ram an enemy ship, which could kill four of the Animorphs. Since it's a Bolivian Army Ending, we don't know whether it works or not. Also, Elfangor wins a battle by using this same desperate tactic in The Andalite Chronicles.
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Ramming Always Works / int_90f18253	comment	The Battletech setting, both the tabletop games and the Mechwarrior video game franchise, allows you to attempt "death from above" — that is, using jump jets to lift yourself into the air and then land on your opponent, Mario-style. It's very difficult to aim, but when it hits, it results on 70 odd tons of giant war robot landing on the enemy machine — usually, right on the cockpit. Squish. The major reason for this is because the head is a 1 in 36 shot on the regular hit table (You need 12 on 2d6) however, the punch hit location table (Which is used for punches and DFA attacks) it's 1 in 6. Even if you miss the head, most of the vital components of a Battle Mech are in the torsos and arms. Taking out your opponent's weapons while knocking them on their ass is a very useful way to strike when you can survive it. In fact, one mech called the Highlander is specialized for this; the tactic is known as "Highlander Burial" when done by this mech. The boardgame also has charging rules for both 'Mechs and vehicles, allowing them to crash into each other at high speed under the right circumstances. The way the rules are set up, this usually tends to do rather more damage to the target than the attacker if done right. (This is deliberately unrealistic to make using this maneuver from time to time actually worthwhile.) Incidentally, since 'Mechs are significantly taller than regular ground vehicles, the latter can charge the former (hitting the legs unless the target just happens to be prone) but not vice verse. A BattleMech can kick a vehicle or make a death-from-above attack against it... but not charge at it outright. Two Inner Sphere 'mechs, the appropriately named Charger and the heavier Banshee, are designed for charge attacks. Both are big, heavy and have overgunned engines that give them an impressive ground speed, which combined means a full-speed charge attack will hurt a lot, though they are also rather useless outside of charging. Later timepoints would add the Berserker and Neanderthal, both also close-combat 'mechs designed for ramming and melee attacks. Also, in the background universe, there's the famous incident where Tyra Miraborg rams her near-wrecked fighter into the enemy flagship and thereby brings the entire Clan invasion to a halt for a year. Possibly in something of an aversion, the ship survives the attack reasonably well, though with damage to the bridge — what stops the Clans is the death of their war-leader and the need to convene on their distant common homeworld to elect another. Late in the fiction line, this tactic became fairly common in warship combat, being featured in numerous novels. Interestingly, the game rules themselves go out of their way to prevent this particular scenario from being commonplace. Among other factors, an aerospace unit trying to make a ramming attempt needs to roll dice to determine whether its pilot or crew is actually crazy enough to go through with it — on anything but an 11 or 12 on 2d6 (which is to say, in eleven cases out of twelve assuming fair dice), the attempt stops right there.
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Ramming Always Works / int_91209b29	comment	The Durandal rams a U-Tic battleship in a hilariously phallic manner in Xenosaga. In their predecessor, Xenogears, the Yggdrasil accelerates so fast that it starts hydroplaning off sand, all in an attempt to crash the ship on top of Id Welltall, to keep him from destroying Brigandier and Bart. Subverted in that the tactic doesn't work. Id just picks the ship up and drops it on top of Bart instead. "Dropping a battleship on me is cheating... take it back!" Also, in "Episode IV" of the story (Lacan and Sophia's period, immediately prior to Fei and Elly's "Episode V,") Sophia commandeers the Excalibur I and rams it into Deus' throne, the Merkava. (Although the latter is rebuilt for Deus' ascension, this time it's shot down by the Excalibur II instead.)
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Ramming Always Works / int_91c7e65	comment	In Joe Haldemann's The Forever War, the final space battle is turned by the humans using their drones to ram the remaining Tauran space ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_924b6d63	comment	In their predecessor, Xenogears, the Yggdrasil accelerates so fast that it starts hydroplaning off sand, all in an attempt to crash the ship on top of Id Welltall, to keep him from destroying Brigandier and Bart. Subverted in that the tactic doesn't work. Id just picks the ship up and drops it on top of Bart instead. "Dropping a battleship on me is cheating... take it back!"
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Ramming Always Works / int_94566e52	comment	In the beginning of Superman vs. Shazam!, Superman disables a flying saucer vehicle by ramming through it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9619be60	comment	The situation is, of course, inverted in the sequel TIE Fighter. Veteran players soon learned to hate the A-wing fighter, not for its speed but for its unerring ability to hurl its cockpit directly through their windscreen upon being destroyed. In the instance where capital ships perform ramming (e.g. Battle 12 Mission 1), the result is a mutual kill but is downplayed due to the ramming ship containing explosives.
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Ramming Always Works / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe: In Man of Steel, after Faora attacks the plane carrying Superman's pod, Colonel Hardy rams it into Zod's ship. Played with in that it's not the ramming that does the job, but Superman's ship detonating; the collision course was the only option Hardy had left to deliver the payload. More specifically, it's the Applied Phlebotinum in Superman's ship interacting with the Applied Phlebotinum in Zod's ship to create an Unrealistic Black Hole.
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Ramming Always Works / int_986e857e	comment	Max rams Vilgax's Ship in the Ben 10 season 1 finale.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9bb385be	comment	Pharaoh: Warships have Arrows on Fire or ramming as attacks. While they will use ramming against other ships, they can't keep it up for long, as the crew quickly becomes exhausted, leaving the ship stranded. It's also less than realistic: Ship-toship combat is represented by the ships gliding over the same square of water, with a few sound effects thrown in.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9bd6284a	comment	The Dragoon from Kirby Air Ride, which shows up again in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. In the latter, the rider gets a crosshair display to select a target, and then plows through for a single-hit KO. Taken to extremes in the Sub-Space Emissary mode, where Kirby, riding the Dragoon, rams straight through the Sub-Space Battleship and destroys it in one shot.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9c4446e5	comment	The finale of the Allied and Epsilon Campaigns in Mental Omega sees the Allied Commander ram the crippled Paradox Engine into the Epsilon Army's Mental Omega Tower in a Heroic Sacrifice to take it out before it mind controls the whole planet. It doesn't destroy it, but does damage it enough to delay the activation and slow its projection rate, allowing surviving friendlies the time to Chronoshift the remains of the attack force and Paradox Engine away to later protect themselves before the Mental Omega's mind control wave engulfs the planet.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9cdf817d	comment	In The Last Spartan, while driving the Mako across Therum, the Master Chief follows an old rule in vehicle combat from the previous games: "Don't brake for nobody."
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Ramming Always Works / int_9d47a2a2	comment	This trope is probably responsible for the creation of Swordfish from A Song of Ice and Fire, a warship with a giant iron ram on the end that makes it slow and unwieldy. It eventually manages to ram one unmanned ship, which turns out to be full of wildfire, setting it and everything else on fire. Effective design.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9da6f861	comment	In The Abyss, the Ax-Crazy is trying to kill the male main character by pretty much running him over with a minisub (said character being in a diving suit, with nothing to hide behind). Cue the main female character ramming the Ax-Crazy head-on in her own minisub. She cripples his engine and winds up knocking him over the edge of the Cayman Trench, where the mounting pressure makes his sub implode. An awesome use of Ominous Crack.
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Ramming Always Works / int_9ef49d2f	comment	During the crossover event Vader Down, Vader ends his duel with the cyborg Commander Karbin by having his ally Doctor Aphra ram her ship into the natural stone bridge that Karbin's standing on, collapsing it. This traps Karbin in the rubble, and gives Vader the chance to finish him off.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a183d57f	comment	Averted in Futurama when Leela inexplicably attempts to use the Planet Express ship to ram a war mammoth. The mammoth is somehow able to gore the massive spaceship and wrench it out of the sky.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a21f5559	comment	The bigger ships in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy could be used effectively this way. It'd usually still hurt but could finish off or cripple a smaller ship. Combined with cloaking devices on some ships, you could pull off a completely stealth ramming with some luck. If you weren't careful though, even if your ship survived you might end up losing a warp nacelle or two. In the storyline mode this was an automatic failure, as finishing the mission required returning to the starbase, which required warp drive.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a32d2166	comment	Played at its most blatant in Jaws: The Revenge. Apparently ramming a sailboat into a roaring shark will cause it to explode. Great stuff, guys. To be fair, that was the studio-ordered second ending of the movie. The original ending had the shark bellowing away as the prow of the boat skewers it like a cocktail weenie, the shark's weight tearing the boat in half as both sink into the water.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a40b1126	comment	An F-18 ramming into the primary weapon of the alien ship just as it's about to fire happens to be precisely what's needed to destroy it in Independence Day. It sort of makes sense, as the alien laser, instead of hitting the people on the ground, explodes right next to the ship. Also it probably detonated the armed missile still attached to the plane (thanks to a malfunction).
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Ramming Always Works / int_a4e6a00a	comment	In Skies of Arcadia, every major ship to ship battle will exhibit dazzling special moves from the player and opponent. The Valuan Admiral Gregorio's ship, Auriga, will ram the player's as his special. The Auriga comes complete with extra armor plating and spikes to get the job done. This can be used to his disadvantage. Using Quika to speed the Delphina's engines the turn just before he rams the ship will cause him to not only miss, but also expose the backside of his ship where the bridge and engines are to a counterattack.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a57cf54d	comment	In the Darths & Droids strip here, which follows Pete missing everything in the entire battle. He gives the required line "Ramming Speed."
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Ramming Always Works / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project has "Blazing Star", the Last Word Spell Card of Marisa. When massive laser beams aren't powerful enough, she just applies more firepower, and uses it as a Rocket Jump to attack by ramming.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a68aab11	comment	Daimos: Ramming its fist — or itself — through the enemy is one of the actual attacks from Daimos, and often Kazuya uses it like a Finishing Move.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a7113737	comment	In A Midsummer Night's Dream (Killbles) chapter 7, Spitfire crashes her zeppelin into Rasputin, finally fatally wounding it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a7bb29b2	comment	Mega Man X5: There are two plans to stop the Eurasia space colony from smashing into Earth and possibly causing a mass extinction event. The first involves using the Engima Cannon to blast it to pieces, but it's very old and needs patching up. The second and far more risky plan is to prep an old space shuttle and fly it right into the colony to destroy it (and because the autopilot is busted with no way to fix in time, someone's gotta fly it manually up there). Zero volunteers for that second plan. If you chalk it up to numbers, the cannon has a one-in-ten chance of succeeding (and if failing, only pushing the colony back a bit and giving them an hour or two more), and the shuttle seven-out-of-ten. Even in the best-case scenario with the shuttle (which Zero will in fact survive), Eurasia's wreckage will still impact Earth to cause horrific damage. In the worst-case scenario, not only does the shuttle fail to destroy Eurasia and the colony crashes with devastating results, Zero being at ground-zero of the destruction will survive and absorb the virus on said colony to awaken his Superpowered Evil Side.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy X, Cid's first plan for any situation seems to be "Crash the Airship Into It". He's universally shot down as there's always a less... suicidal plan that can be used. In Final Fantasy XII, as the Sky Fortress falls upon Rabanastre and threatens to break through its Paling, Judge Zargabaath commands his flagship, Alexander, to ram her and hopefully knock it away from the city. He forbids the assembled fleets from interfering and, knowing what the maneuver would entail, orders them to destroy the Alexander's remains before they fall on the city. He is interrupted by a third party taking control of Bahamut and steering it away, but the thought was there.
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Ramming Always Works / int_a9830146	comment	In Terinu, the pirate Mavra Chan's flagship the Celestial Marauder is specifically designed for ramming attacks, with a heavily reinforced prow and emergency safety harnesses for the crew. Of course her primary targets are lightly armed civilian freighters. Still, the comic's fans don't call her "Psycho Pirate Bitch" for nothing.
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Ramming Always Works / int_aaa65d7e	comment	Rebuild of Evangelion: Subverted: in the climax of 3.0., the Wunder rams into Eva-13 in its new godly form, which, while still causing damage, isn't enough to stop it. In 3.0+1.0, Misato sacrifices herself by ramming the Wunder into the Imaginary Lilith, delivering the Spear of Gaius to Shinji.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ac07ba35	comment	In The Miracle at Palaven, a crippled 3,700 kiloton starship falling towards the planet is sent on a collision course with a crippled Reaper capital ship at eleven hundred kilometers per hour.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ac421c4b	comment	In Way of the World, Supergirl's punches damage Dolok but they don't seem to be strong enough to knock him out. It is only when Kara rams herself into him, hitting him with both fists simultaneously, that she is able to finish him off.
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Ramming Always Works / int_adc308e5	comment	In Neon Exodus Evangelion, NERV is fleeing its base in Worcester-3 aboard the RMS Queen Mary while being pursued by the US armed forces. A destroyer places itself in their way, its captain thinking they would turn aside and lose speed. Captain Barraclough instead rams into it at full speed, cutting it in two. This was based on (and the captain makes a reference to) the HMS Curacoa, which was sunk this way in World War II.note In explanation, the Queen Mary had just under ten times the displacement of the US destroyer in question, and was travelling in excess of 30 knots. When that much kinetic energy is concentrated at the relatively narrow point of a ship's bow, steel is no more sturdy than paper.
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Ramming Always Works / int_aed912f3	comment	For the Glory of Irk: In Chapter 63, the Final Battle is kicked off when Zim aims Vero's ship at the Massive and flies into it at hyperspeed in order to breach through its armor and get to IX's secure chamber.
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Ramming Always Works / int_aedc983a	comment	Subverted by Wing Commander III's Bad Ending. Although the Victory takes out the Kilrathi dreadnought by ramming into it, it's still not enough to stop the bad guys from winning. See also the novel End Run, where a Kilrathi fighter rams the bridge of the TCS Tarawa, killing Commodore O'Brien, and putting Jason "Bear" Bondarevski in command. The Tarawa wasn't destroyed by it, but given the make-shift nature of escort carriers, the destruction of the bridge did put a serious cramp in operations, in that unlike a purpose-built warship, the CVEs didn't have a Combat Information Center deep inside the ship where it would be safe from most damage that didn't outright kill the ship. Colonel Badass Mariko "Sprit" Tanaka is an honor crazy National Stereotype 26th century samurai already called out for her Japanese sense of self-sacrifice. She learns that her fiancÃ©, believed dead for ten years, is being held hostage on a space station, the very space station she is ordered to destroy and the traitor threatens her fiancÃ©'s life over. Three guesses what her solution is, and the first two don't count. Ramming enemy fighters is sometimes suggested by other players as one method to kill them fast enough to beat Kurasawa 2, in the original Wing Commander. In Wing Commander: Privateer, the Orion, a heavy merchant/mercenary gunboat, can successfully ram as an offensive tactic because it has heavily beefed up armor on the front quadrant to enable such assaults.
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Ramming Always Works / int_af816544	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray: Ace pilot Edward Harrelson came to be known as Ed the Ripper after using his jet fighter's wings to slice an enemy mobile suit in half.
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Ramming Always Works / int_af872a82	comment	In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Nemo's vessel has rather more sensible armaments than the literary version, like big honking artillery pieces. And mechanical tentacles. Which lead, FWIW, to the awesome moment when we combine this with the previous trope. And Nemo blasts the jelly out of a couple of tripods.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b11e29d2	comment	During the final battle the Outlaw Star rams the Big Bad twice, the second time killing him for good. Of course this is somewhat justified by the Outlaw Star being powered by the Galactic Leyline. Or course, the Big Bad was powered by it too, but he's evil, so it's OK. Also justified by the fact that the ships are designed for close combat in general. They have arms and fight with giant knives on occasion.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b12e31c6	comment	In Star Trek: Federation the Enterprise-D rams a Romulan Warbird under rather difficult-to-duplicate conditions. Picard even phrases the order as "Ramming speed!" and tilts Enterprise relative to the Romulan ship so the saucer hull acts like an axe blade to cut the Warbird's "head" off. The Enterprise, due to having all power routed to the structural integrity field, thus giving the hull a strength rivalling Neutronium, is mostly undamaged. The Warbird, which has just been hit by an enormous object traveling at a large fraction of C, is reduced to bits no larger than a computer chip. Worf is so admiring that he loses his English for a few seconds.There were several reasons this shouldn't have worked. If the warp core hadn't been forced into an emergency shutdown, if all available power hadn't been diverted into the SIF, if they weren't covered by a boundary-layer cloaking effect from yet another Warbird, if everybody hadn't been at relative rest, if the target Warbird hadn't had their shields set for combat conditions rather than simple navigation (which would have at least diverted an Enterprise-D-size rock)... you get the idea. It was a one-in-a-BIG-NUMBER occurrence — which is lampshaded as "not being in the manual". Commander Riker jokes that he isn't sure whether Starfleet will commend or court-martial Picard for it, while Picard says he'll settle for a re-fit. The narrator soon remarks that it would be easier to list the parts of the Enterprise that weren't damaged by the maneuver.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b1e6eef4	comment	In the first episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the GokaiGalleon rams through a battleship. Justified as the bow of the Galleon is made of the swords it wields in its Humongous Mecha configuration Gokaioh. In the final episode, Captain Marvelous and Gai ram the Zangyack flagship Gigant Horse with the Free Joker, the personal ship of deceased Rival Basco ta Jolokia. Another justified case, since the Free Joker is shown to have an incredibly powerful Beehive Barrier that keeps it from getting shot out of the sky by the Zangyack fleet.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b24f49ab	comment	Neither a plane, a starship, nor a boat, but as it is flying... In Back to the Future Part II, Marty suggests to Doc that they land on Biff's car and cripple it. Doc points out this is not a good idea:
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Ramming Always Works / int_b295cab3	comment	Ramming is extremely destructive in Aeon 14, especially when one ship has stasis shields. In the Battle of Five Fleets in Destiny Lost, the Mark fleet forms their individual gravity shields into one big bubble, planning to envelop and board the ISS Intrepid. Sera puts the entirety of her courier ship Sabrina in stasis and rams the bubble, and the shock completely obliterates the Mark fleet. The World at the Edge of Space has an exaggerated version verging on a Colony Drop: Jessica crashes the stasis-shielded Sabrina into a planet that's been turned into a gigantic bioweapons laboratory, ramming it all the way through the planet and out the other side, cracking the crust to the point where magma resurfaces the entire planet in short order. And they live to tell about it! At the Battle of Carthage in Orion Rising, Cary and Saanvi Richards are leading a group of remote-piloted ships in an attack on a group of Trisilieds Alliance troop carriers. They resort to using their own vessels in kamikazes, finally ramming the last one with their own ship—much to their parents' horror, as they weren't even supposed to be anywhere near the fighting in the first place. (Both girls survive.)
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Ramming Always Works / int_b2bd761b	comment	Troy Rising: Ramming doesn't work when you're smashing a couple million tons of spacecraft against several trillion tons of asteroid, as the Rangora found out to their chagrin, in Citadel, when they accidentally crashed against Troy. The damage was patched over before the next book. In The Hot Gate, however, several partially completed cruisers are hastily converted to overglorified battering rams, which are used along with a whole mess of missiles for both taking shots intended for the rammers and to batter down Rangoran defenses in preparation for ramming Assault Vectors.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b3b15bc1	comment	In the first season finale of X-Men: The Animated Series, Professor Xavier — having apparently foreseen the gigantic Master Mold's Not Quite Dead moment — finally solves the problem by crashing the Blackbird into it, with a more-than-healthy dosage of TNT inside.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b3b96688	comment	In No Gods, Only Guns, the Torgue-Urdnot MegaCorp has a warship known as the FISTING BOOMING SHITPUNCHER (literally named in all-caps) whose primary battle strategy is to ram enemy ships with a giant, fist-shaped ramming prow. Even better, said ramming prow can digistruct explosive panels onto its front so it can punch, ram, and blow up the enemy at the same time.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b3ebd61e	comment	Rogue Squadron: The above tactic sadly doesn't work on AT-ATs in Rogue Squadron, but it does wreck most other targets. In the "Razor Rendezvous" mission of Rogue Squadron II, you can suicide-ram the Star Destroyer's bridge after taking down its shields and still complete the mission without penalty, even if it was your last life (as the life count decrement happens at respawn). During the Battle of Endor, you can also ram the bridges of two star destroyers bearing down on Home One, but you'll lose lives and also possibly scrub any challenge medal runs for that mission. In Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, part of one mission involves escorting an unmanned Gallofree Yards transport as it rams the control center of a shipyard.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b3f3228	comment	Under Ten Flags. A British merchant ship gets surprised by a disguised German raider, but The Captain decides to ram it rather than surrender, despite his officers warning him they'll be blown out of the water. However the African crewmen in the engine room (clearly lacking the pluck of our British heroes!) panic and Abandon Ship, forcing the captain to order his officers to abandon ship as well when he realizes the situation is hopeless.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b4149c27	comment	In The Last Angel, Nemesis is known to ram battleships and small space stations. It gives her great satisfaction to "feel" enemy ships break apart on her hull.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b5a03cec	comment	The original "Daedalus Attack" ("Daedalus Maneuvre" in Robotech) from Super Dimension Fortress Macross consists of focusing the ship's Deflector Shields onto the bolted-on Landing ship Daedalus, quite literally punching its bow into an enemy ship, and opening the forward hatch to allow the mecha inside to launch a Macross Missile Massacre (with a little Beam Spam, for good measure). The maneuver falls out of use when the enemy provokes it in order to launch a boarding operation (and a little friendly fire incident). But still, not bad for something thought up in the middle of the battle it's first used in... Its use in "Love Drifts Away"/"Force of Arms" takes it one step further. After completing the Maneuver above with it's whole body, the SDF-1 then activates its full Beehive Barrier shield. This is the same malfunctioning shield that took out all of Toronto... and they've activated it right next to the core of Boddole Zer/Dolza's flagship. The SDF-1 is crippled afterwards. It makes a comeback in the Grand Finale of Macross Frontier, to spectacular effect. It's called "Macross Attack" here, though.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b60b7a6b	comment	The Supergirl from Krypton: Superman begins the final battle by hurling himself at Darkseid.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b6baaf51	comment	In Strike Legion, not only is ramming a very powerful weapon in its own right, but ramming is outright recommended to deal with one species' ships that have Mighty Glacier shielding and armor. Keep in mind, this is a setting where the average military warship can ram a planet and win.
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Ramming Always Works / int_b749205	comment	An unexpected example occurs in Memphis Belle when a gunner shoots down an enemy plane. He is ecstatic until he sees the damaged fighter collide with another B-17, and the crew screams over the radio as they plunge to their deaths. Although not an intentional ram, it still fits the trope in that the fighter cuts cleanly through the bomber without being destroyed by the collision.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ba06ad8b	comment	Warhammer: Used in the Horus Heresy novel Know No Fear as a prelude to the Word Bearers' invasion of Calth. They corrupt and take over a cargo ship, then ram it into the planet's orbital facilities at a decent fraction of lightspeed. The ensuing catastrophe breaks the back of the planet's infrastructure in seconds.
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Ramming Always Works / int_bb478d5e	comment	Bait and Switch: The prequel From Bajor to the Black features a variant. Eleya tunes her shields' waveform to be 180 degrees out of phase with those of a Borg probe so a close pass ramming shield into shield eliminates both. She then beams a photon torpedo onto the unshielded probe, destroying it. Defied in chapter five of the original fic. Referencing the destruction of the USS Odyssey by a Jem'Hadar ramming attack in DS9: "The Jem'Hadar", a Jem attack ship attempts to ram the USS Bajor. Difference is, Captain Kanril cuts power to the engines and aft deflector and diverts the power to the navigational shield, which is built to repel kinetic impacts. The Jems only end up crippling their own ship and a phaser hit to the forward torpedo magazine finishes them off. Played straight in The Wrong Reflection. A Terran Empire Defiant-class ship tries to ram the Bajor from the side after a torpedo attack by another Terran ship knocks out one of the phasers and nearly brings the shields down. Since the Bajor is fighting as part of a fleet this shouldn't have been a problem: the ships assigned as escorts should've been able to deal with the Terran Defiant themselves. Unfortunately three of the four remaining ships in the formation were caught out of position. T'Var ends up using her damaged USS Olokun to shield her former captain's ship, taking the ramming attack herself and dying. The same battle narrative also features a mention of a Gorn Tuatara-class cruiser T-boning a Terran Typhoon-class battleship, with the Terran ship breaking in half. Peace Forged in Fire has a bit during the Big Badass Battle Sequence where Velal's flagship ch'R Eyhon Ehludet'eri, a Scimitar-class warbird, casually runs over a much smaller T'varo-class warbird that simply explodes on contact with the Eyhon's navigational shields. It's a bit like hitting a bass boat with an aircraft carrier. ROADKILL!
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Ramming Always Works / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Battlefleet Gothic (and 40k universe in general) simply could not pass by this topic. Imperial Navy often are built with prows designed for ramming. Considering that their entire culture is built around fanatical belief and willness to sacrifice yourself for the Imperium and the Emperor and the bulk of their military strategy boils down to sheer numbers, Imperial engineers build their ships around the frontal assault, which may result in ramming the enemy. Honestly all considered, as long as you don't mind losing some ships, ramming with their (often far larger) ships is actually a surprisingly effective way of battling more advanced alien ships. Should be noted that this is 40k we are talking about. A ship detonating its reactor (running on Warp itself, or plasma, or whatever else) near the enemy can cause more damage than even ramming at relativistic speeds. During the Tyranid wars, a not-so-uncommon tactic of taking out the gargantuan bioships was to ram into them and activate the Warp engines, basically sucking the enemy ship into Hell. All Ork vessels have armoured prows, spikes and so on for ramming, with one type of ship, named the "Brute" ram ship by the Imperial Navy, designed specifically for ramming. Consisting of a gigantic armoured prow, a powerful engine and minimal weaponry, they are one of the least subtle devices in the entire 40k universe, which is a truly, truly impressive feat. Boarding torpedoes are basically this taken to it's logical conclusion. Guided torpedoes with soldiers inside is considerd such an obvious solution that they are standard armaments for multiple different races. At worst, it will be a blast of unexploding, but heavy and potentially devastating kinetic missiles; at best, it will also deliver armed troops inside the enemy hull. After all, there are only a handful of races in the Warhammer universe that actually have to worry about wasting manpower. The Cestus Assault Ram, as its name implies, is designed primarily to ram into enemy ships or fortresses and discharge its cargo of Space Marines inside. The ship is designed around a huge magna-melta that fires just before impact to soften up the surface, while the ceramite prow is more than able to survive immersion in molten metal/concrete. The Heroic Sacrifice of the Astral Knights chapter involved ramming their Tempestus Battlebarge (a kilometre-long battleship) through the void shields of a Necron World Engine (imagine a Death Star possessed by an Eldritch Abomination and crewed by ancient skeletal death robots). After punching through its void shields, hundreds of Astral Knights spent hours battling across the surface of the World Engine, destroying everything that looked remotely important while beset on all sides by thousands of Necrons. Nearly wiped out to a man, the Chapter Master himself led a handful of survivors down into the bowels of the Engine and destroyed the main shield generators with melta-bombs, allowing the Imperial Navy to finish it off. And so the Astral Knights vanished into legend.
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Ramming Always Works / int_bd41836e	comment	Tassadar does this to the Overmind in StarCraft with his carrier flagship Gantrithor, channeling the energies of the Khala and Void togther through the hull to ensure he kills it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_bf1f233d	comment	Subverted in A Mind-Switch in Time. As travelling from different points in the timeline, Superman and Superboy run into a disturbance stretching across the timestream. Both Clarks decide to brute forcing their way through it, and indeed they manage to ram through it, but they collide with each other.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c007e9c8	comment	Averted in an episode of Space: Above and Beyond, when a pilot attempts to take out Chiggy von Richthofen (the Red Baron) by ramming his customized fighter with his Hammerhead. All it does is get the pilot killed and slow down The Ace somewhat. It is established earlier that Chiggy's fighter has stronger-than-normal armor. It may be stronger, but Chiggy still goes down from one missile, when the human's own ace goes after it (alone) in an ordinary Hammerhead. It helps that the human ace is not entirely human (a genetically-engineered worker/soldier).
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Ramming Always Works / int_c08a07d1	comment	Multiple subversions in the turn-based strategy game Birth of the Federation: In the game's simulated ship-to-ship combat, you can order your ships to ram an enemy vessel, thereby bypassing the shields and attacking the hull directly. As your orders play out, your ships will open fire with everything they have, trying (and sometimes managing) to destroy their target before they ram into it. The ram order, however, leaves your ships unable to avoid enemy fire, potentially allowing them to be destroyed before they can even get close. Finally, when a weaker ship successfully rams a more powerful (re: has more hit points) ship, they only do about as much damage as they have hull strength — ramming a 1000-hp battleship with a 20-hp scout just won't cut it. This is however an excellent way to deal with The Borg. They have incredible shields but weak hull. Ramming ignores shields. You'll still lose a LOT of ships doing it, but not as many as fighting it. One of the few games where a Borg cube appearing is a Oh, Crap! moment. Also a worthwhile strategy for the Ferengi, who can afford thicker hulls.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c09581e4	comment	And in Space Battleship Yamato 2199, episode 23 has a part where a Gamilas cruiser is on the receiving end of the Yamato's bow after it uses its Wave Motion Shield as a battering ram.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c0a760c6	comment	In the Dark Empire series, the reborn Emperor Palpatine has a new superweapon: the Eclipse, a new class of Super Star Destroyer modeled after sea-faring warships of eras long past. The front of the ship is extra-reinforced and the shields are boosted, allowing the titanic battleship to ram into and through other ships without hesitation or damage. The New Republic takes advantage of this in order to eliminate the Empire's other, even deadlier superweapon, the Galaxy Gun. Since a direct attack against the heavily-guarded Galaxy Gun would be doomed, instead they kill two birds with one stone by hacking the Eclipse nav computer and programming it to ram the Galaxy Gun. It turns out to be four birds with one stone, since a Galaxy Gun projectile misfires and hits the current Imperial capital world destroying it and the massive fleet guarding it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	In Stargate Universe, the remote-controlled drone fighters, upon learning that Destiny has adapted to their weapons, turn to this trope as an alternative. Thankfully for Destiny, it is really big, the drones are very small, and their shields hold up long enough to destroy the Control Ship. Later they remote-pilot a shuttle into a Control Ship whilst simultaneously detonating its reactors, destroying both ships.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, you can skip the first part of the Lavos fight by crashing the time machine on him (destroying the vehicle in the process). This also triggers the "more serious" variation of the normal ending. In this ending, your friends are gone for good. In the other ending, your mom falls in a time-gate!
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Ramming Always Works / int_c0eae17	comment	Total War: The "Fall of the Samurai" Expansion Pack to Total War: Shogun 2 has several ram-capable ships, including two ironclads with rams: the French L'OcÃ©an and Japan's own KÅ�tetsu (also historically built by the French). While they're not particularly powerful in terms of firepower, ramming another ironclad amidship, such as the American Roanoke or the British Warrior can be a One-Hit Kill. However, it can be difficult when the enemy is firing AP shells at you. In Total War: Rome II, most ships are capable of ramming, and do massive damage to the recipient while leaving the rammer mostly intact. Common courtesy in multiplayer is to forbid ramming, as it is effective to the point of being unfair, and takes little skill.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c10b63fa	comment	One of the Rebel Assault games has a mission that requires the player to protect a kamikaze cargo ship until it can hit a shield generator. This is in fact the canon ending to that mission. Wedge Antilles just ejected before he crashed, which explains why he started the next mission in a different ship.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c1cb1895	comment	Peace Forged in Fire has a bit during the Big Badass Battle Sequence where Velal's flagship ch'R Eyhon Ehludet'eri, a Scimitar-class warbird, casually runs over a much smaller T'varo-class warbird that simply explodes on contact with the Eyhon's navigational shields. It's a bit like hitting a bass boat with an aircraft carrier. ROADKILL!
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Ramming Always Works / int_c211d8bf	comment	In Star Trek Beyond, Krall's drone swarm attacks exclusively by ramming, and have the ability to bypass shields. Because Federation ships have no armor to speak of, the Enterprise is quickly ravaged by the swarm.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c21bbc01	comment	Getter Robo: At the end of the first season of the anime, Musashi Tomoe piloted the Lady Command into the core of the Dinosaur Army base, while taking heavy fire, through increasingly narrow corridors. Getter Shine Spark, the Getter Dragon's most powerful attack, covers it in energy as it flies towards the target. Subverted in that it pulls out of its path and sends the energy flying into the target. If Shin Getter Robo, from the manga continuity specifically, is featured in a Super Robot Wars game, it will typically play this trope extremely straight with the Shin Shine Spark.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, Cid's first plan for any situation seems to be "Crash the Airship Into It". He's universally shot down as there's always a less... suicidal plan that can be used.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c35747a3	comment	The Jenkinsverse: Justified by aliens being, by human standards, rather terrible at warfare. Several humans have programmed autopilots on shuttles or dropships to turn them into very large guided missiles. Since aliens don't have any actual missiles at first, this is their only option, and it works because the aliens are completely unprepared for it. Adrian Saunders is particularly fond of letting his ship get boarded, killing all the boarders, and then sending the boarding pod back at the enemy as a kinetic projectile. It takes a minute for anyone to realize what's happening, and by then it's too late. Eventually actual missiles and missile counter measures are introduced, causing a sharp drop in instances of this trope.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Last of the Time Lords", "Time Crash" and "Voyage of the Damned" (all of them repeat this scene): The hull of the starship Titanic is one of the few things to ever physically break through the wall of the TARDIS, the strength and safety of which is a major plot point as even powerful enemies are often kept at bay when the protagonists make it inside the TARDIS. This is because the Doctor forgot to turn the shields on; as soon as he does, the Titanic is forced back out and the wall repairs itself. A variation occurs in "The Doctor's Wife". The TARDIS is stolen by an entity called House which possesses its matrix, and the Doctor chases it with a makeshift TARDIS, then successfully gets on board by smashing the makeshift one into his own TARDIS. It doesn't destroy the TARDIS, although an Ood does get vaporized in the process.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c4a9bbdb	comment	Terra Invicta: Ordering a ship to ram an enemy one will inflict spectacular damage. Even a Hydra mothership can be brought down by a crappy tin-can missile ship smashing into it at full speed. However ordering any ship to do this costs you Influence, because it's a Heroic Sacrifice and requires intense loyalty from the crew to perform the maneuver.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c5c11fd2	comment	In the finale of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Amuro has been divested of all his weapons and ammo, is far from backup, and is faced with the task of removing a falling asteroid from orbit before it collides with the Earth... naturally, ramming is the only solution. Amazingly, this plan actually works, due to Char and Amuro's resonating psycoframes. Unfortunately, the trope is played somewhat straight, since both pilots are killed in the process.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c68c51da	comment	Star Wars (Marvel 2015): During the Last Flight of the Harbinger arc, the Rebellion hijack the titular Star Destroyer and use it to run an Imperial blockade of an allied planet so they can drop supplies. They do this by flying right into the other Star Destroyers, knocking them aside and getting them close enough to the planet to complete the mission.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: In "Duel", the Liberator is being fired on by three Federation cruisers. Rather than wait till they've worn down their forcewall, Blake decides to go Straight for the Commander and ram Travis' ship. Instead of taking evasive action Travis decides to fire everything he has at point-blank range. Sufficiently Advanced Aliens intervene before we find out what would have happened next.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: In "Zero Hour", Commander Sato and two of his bridge crew ram their carrier into Admiral Konstantine's Interdictor cruiser so Ezra can get away and find help.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c7d0169f	comment	In An Entry with a Bang!!, a B-1B Lancer crew, faced with being unable to pull off their bombing run and being shot down if they break off, ram their bird into the Dropship of the pirates attacking Chicago and succeed in taking it out.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c7d1edfb	comment	The police tactics in the first two Driver parts are limited to this. In the first part in particular, they would plow head-on into you at speeds that would reduce the Real Life counterparts of the in-game cars to a quarter of their original lengths. The damage isn't as high in the game, but ramming is still justified because it's the only way the police can attack you.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c832776	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, the DOM Troopers have the "Screaming Nimbus", a Mirage Colloid projector that not only deflects weapon fire, but also pulverizes anything in the DOM Trooper's path while they're moving.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c8c98634	comment	In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Empire's Shogun Battleship can deploy an energy shield in the front of the hull. The ship can then ram and kill another ship. This is used to counteract the minimum range of the battleship's guns. The manual states that, during the initial attack of the Empire on the Soviet Pacific Fleet, several Soviet ships managed to make it inside the battleship's range and confidently start to fire at them. Cue the battleships accelerating and ramming them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c9572811	comment	In Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth, Flintlocke's party crash their captured blimp in the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind in an attempt to stop the Horde raid.
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Ramming Always Works / int_c9e61851	comment	Ramming in Space Engineers is extremely potent, to the point where many players place reinforced ramming prows on their ships or just straight up build enormous sword spaceships. On the other hand, ramming in third-dimensional space is no easy task, especially if your target is actively maneuvering, and there's the issue of actually repairing your ship after spearing it through the enemy. The Attract Mode main menu background and the original trailer show gratuitous ship ramming, including one ship snapping in half by a larger one plowing through its central spine.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ca7eba72	comment	Ramming is also a Space Battle gameplay element in the Star Wreck Role-Playing Game, though captains who make a habit out of it won't win any popularity contests.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cbad9b62	comment	Double-Subverted in Legend of the Galactic Heroes: At the end of the battle between Iserlorn and Geiersburg Fortresses, the Imperial commander decides to simply ram Geiersburg into Iserlorn, but the Alliance fleet blasts the fortress off course and destroy it. After getting word of the defeat, Rienhard says the Admiral should've rammed Iserlorn in the first place, rather than the Wave-Motion Gun duel he started with.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online: The buildup for the expansion "Empyrean Age" features tensions between the Gallente Federation and Caldari State reaching a boiling point after a Gallente Admiral rams his Mothership into a highly populated space station during an economic summit between the two empires. He succeeds despite the massive armada present having 4 minutes to shoot him down. To be fair, most of that "armada" was fleeing civilian ships, and the video of the incident ran 22 seconds. A sizable chunk of the non-civilian chips were the Gallente escort, in discord as they realize what their own ship is doing, and the Caldari guards presumably don't have the backup or enough time to take down a mothership, the second-largest ship class in the universe. The novelization adds that the shield generators that could have saved the station were sabotaged. Downplayed in actual gameplay. Ships colliding with each other do not inflict damage, and rebound off of each other like rubber balls. However, that bounce can still be used offensively: in order for a ship to use its Warp Drive to leave combat, it must be flying directly towards its destination at a decent speed. Bumping a ship throws off its heading, thus delaying its alignment and warp. In past years, bumping could be sustained indefinitely against larger ships, however in recent years it was changed so that a ship which got stuck trying to warp for several minutes could skip the alignment and warp anyway. Even so, bumping is still a critical piece of strategy for buying time when trying to kill larger ships, and the phrase "Don't bump the *** Titan" is a running joke and a reminder to newer pilots of what not to do to their allies in capital ships. Bumping can also be used as a Foe-Tossing Charge, either to push ships away from stargates or wormholes and prevent them from jumping out to safety, to push Sieged capital ships away from each other so they cannot support each other, or in areas where PVP is "illegal" to shove mining ships away from their asteroids. Some pilots have created ship designs, fitted with oversized engines, to maximize the Foe-Tossing Charge potential and send their bumped targets tens or even hundreds of kilometers away from their starting positions.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cd899ed6	comment	It makes a comeback in the Grand Finale of Macross Frontier, to spectacular effect. It's called "Macross Attack" here, though.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cde33379	comment	The Great Waldo Pepper: At the end, Waldo and the German ace Kessler decide to have it out. Since neither of them has usable weapons, they decide to use the planes themselves for the most part.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cdedd56a	comment	In Exo Squad, Captain Marcus suicidally rams the otherwise-crippled carrier Resolute into the Neosapien fleet.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cf69b21e	comment	The Nemesis from Transformers: Beast Wars, after taking an Energon blast to the face while underwater, is taken out by Rhinox smashing a shuttle into its front window. It's clear that not all of the Nemesis's systems are online, as Megatron was determined to destroy the Ark at any cost. The crash also only damaged the flight controls, causing the Nemesis to crash back into the ocean, where it would be re-discovered by the Decepticons millions of years later.
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Ramming Always Works / int_cf7a39d0	comment	All Hands! has the Starcougar ramming a pirate ship. It's almost a subversion, however, as it specifically states that ramming was a ridiculous idea. But when the pirates lost their engines...
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Ramming Always Works / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill: In "Imitation Gold", The Naked Sun turns into the Great Naked Blade, but gets heavily damaged by the Primordial Life Fiber's missiles. Mako with her 2-Star Goku Uniform on decides to start the turbines (which are literally treadmills) and power up the Great Naked Blade, allowing it to destroy the core with Ryuko's help.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d2c74459	comment	Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: A particularly bizarre example in the Pez Batara, a mecha specifically designed to ram. It mounts a giant beam axe blade down its middle and attacks enemy ships by charging at them. However, the official profile notes that it has a low survival rate and pilots aren't expected to come back. During the invasion of Io, the protagonists' Cool Ship the Mother Vanguard gets to the Jovians' main base by ramming through an enemy battleship, using its beam shield to protect it from most of the damage, then firing its port and starboard beam cannon batteries to scythe through the rest of the line of defense. Of course, the Vanguard doesn't get away unscathed; its mast gets badly damaged, which means they can't use their "Wings of Light" propulsion system until it's fixed. In the Steel Seven sequel, Giri rams the Jovian Colony Laser at the last second before it fires, in desperation. The Jovians initially write this off as a Senseless Sacrifice: a single Mobile Suit impact (even with the aid of the tactical nuclear warhead he was carrying) isn't nearly enough to do any real damage to a Colony Laser. However, what the ramming does do is throw the Laser's aim off by a fraction of a degree... and the Laser was targetting Earth, over 600 million miles away. It therefore misses spectacularly, and it will take hours to correct the Laser's aim for another attempt.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Sea Hawk's preferred method of attack involves lighting his ships on fire and ramming them into the enemy. It works because he has no other weapons, and because Glimmer can teleport them off the ship at the last second.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d461a59f	comment	In the Battlestar Galactica (1978) episode "Fire in Space", Cylon fighters attempt a kamikaze attack on the Galactica, one crashing inside the launch bay and setting it on fire.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): The Pegasus does this, with rather impressive results: not only does the Pegasus utterly annihilate the targeted baseship but when the Pegasus blows apart from the impact, one of its hangar pods hits a second baseship and destroys that one too The hangar pod also crashed into several Cylon fighters along the way, destroying each of them. All told, counting the first base star that she sucker punched with her forward batteries, the last fight of the Battlestar Pegasus felled three base stars. Also, a Cylon boarding ship unintentionally crashed into the Galactica itself in the Season 2 premiere, although it was okay as it achieved the same results. Used again in an odd way in the series finale. Galactica rams the Cylon Colony, at low speed and after only a very brief run-up, in order to allow boarding teams to directly disembark from Galactica into the Cylon Colony. The good guys' ship ramming the bad guys' to wreak havoc from within sounds suspiciously like a homage to Macross.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d5166b45	comment	In Episode One of Halo 4's Spartan Ops campaign, the UNSC Infinity returns to Requiem six months after the single-player campaign to clear out the rest of the Covenant remnant forces there, starting by popping out of slipspace and plowing straight through a Covenant armored cruiser, ripping the alien ship in half without suffering any damage from the impact.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d518ee3e	comment	In the Spiral Arm series, when Fir Li defeats the Molnar's fleet of Space Pirates, the Molnar's last act is to attempt to ram Fir Li's ship Hot Gates. In this case, however, it doesn't work: Fir Li had been expecting the tactic and prepared for it beforehand, allowing him to successfully evade.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d531b6f7	comment	In Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Frankie Cook rams one of Totenkopf's underwater machines with her amphibious fighter/sub to allow Sky Captain to make his way to Totenkopf's lab, but ejects just in time.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d5505073	comment	David Brin's Uplift: In Startide Rising, a human spaceship is being chased by an alien ship built with vastly superior technology, and the humans are hopelessly outmatched. As the alien ship madly accelerates to overtake the fleeing human ship, the humans release several tons of seawater (on board for the benefit of the dolphin crewmates). The speeding alien ship slams into the expanding cloud of water and is crushed due to the huge velocity differential. But not before the alien captain has time to realize what's happened and (very briefly...) rant about the dirty trick the Earth ship has pulled by coming up with an improvised battle tactic instead of using one of the approved ones.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d5916141	comment	Jedi Academy Trilogy: Ackbar takes over remote control of a partially-completed MC90 Star Cruiser and rams it into an Imperial Star Destroyer attacking the shipyards. Both ships are obliterated. Also done in the previous book. Han, Chewie, and Kyp Durron have stolen the Sun Crusher from the Maw Installation and a star destroyer moves to block their path out of the black hole cluster. Kyp's response is to fly the Sun Crusher—which happens to be Made of Diamond due to quantum technobabble—through the star destroyer. The cruiser is mortally wounded and falls into one of the black holes, while the Sun Crusher basically just has its guns ripped off.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d5f34c70	comment	X-Wing: The trope can be played hilariously straight. Rebel ships have shields. TIE fighters, interceptors, and bombers do not. Do the math. The situation is, of course, inverted in the sequel TIE Fighter. Veteran players soon learned to hate the A-wing fighter, not for its speed but for its unerring ability to hurl its cockpit directly through their windscreen upon being destroyed. In the instance where capital ships perform ramming (e.g. Battle 12 Mission 1), the result is a mutual kill but is downplayed due to the ramming ship containing explosives. The X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter expansion pack Balance of Power uses this heavily in the final Rebel mission. After the player does sufficient damage to the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Vengeance, a trio of Dreadnought cruisers drop out of hyperspace to ram it from behind, battering down whatever shields it has left. Then a Corellian Corvette rams its bridge tower to finish it off. All four ramming ships are unmanned and packed full of heavy explosives, which is appropriate given the sheer size of the Super Star Destroyer (and the fact that there's no Death Star handy for it to collide with after the bridge is destroyed). Any pilot worth his salt will however lower enemy shields instantly by attacking the shield generators. Just like in the movie...
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Ramming Always Works / int_d69b7276	comment	La Pucelle: In order to board the Angel Gate, Prier seizes control of Homard's Airship and prepares to make a crash landing into the gate; the cutscene shows she fires the ship's main cannon to blow open a passage and make ramming easier. That said, Homard does read her the riot act for doing so. In the PSP's Updated Re-release, the "Overlord Priere" story has the titular Overlord use herself to ram into the Angel Gate.
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Ramming Always Works / int_d89f5444	comment	In The Phantom Zone, Supergirl neutralizes three nuclear warheads by crashing through them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_dd654ec4	comment	Vincent uses a similar trick in the sequel series Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing as well.
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Ramming Always Works / int_dd999f6d	comment	In Avengers: Infinite Wars, during the battle to re-take Ryloth, James Rhodes/War Machine inflicts damage on a Separatist ship by leaving explosives in the seat of his fighter and programming it to collide with the ship while he dons his armor and flies alongside it.
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Ramming Always Works / int_de8ae019	comment	An accidental example in one of the Star Carrier books, where a Russian ship ends up slamming at a North American one, when the joint fleet comes out of metaspace. Normally, the AIs of ships coordinate their arrival to prevent such accidents, but the AIs of different nations haven't had much chance to work together yet, and their protocols ended up not meshing well. The resulting explosion vaporized both ships and produces a multi-megaton explosion. At those speeds, it doesn't matter that one ship was much smaller than the other.
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Ramming Always Works / int_defd125f	comment	In Siter Skain's RefleX, Raiwat Virgo tries this against the player's ship, the Phoneix, as a Desperation Attack. It does have the good sense to put up its giant energy shield first. The player has an even more powerful energy shield, so activating it prevents any damage from taking place.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e2083a6	comment	In War World, Kara hurls herself at the eponymous massive weapon satellite at incalculable speed and collides with it, breaking it down.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e33c6082	comment	Subverted in episode 15 of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. After the Nautilus is crippled by depth charges and narrowly missed by torpedoes, the enemy submarine attempts to ram it. However, the Nautilus proves much more resistant than the Neo-Atlantean sub, who totally crushes its prowl in the process before exploding (although it leaves a mark).
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Ramming Always Works / int_e4732abc	comment	Using ships to ram structures on the ground is pretty popular in Stargate Atlantis: When the Wraith's first attack on Atlantis begins to sour, the cruisers jump into hyperspace to call reinforcements while the Darts (fighters) make a kamikaze run for the city, hoping to destroy it kinetically. Fortunately, Atlantis's team manages to raise the city's shield in time. The team has a Wraith Hive ship with damaged weapons and needs to disable a Wraith cloning facility on the planet below. Originally, their plan is to either steal or overload the ZPMs powering the facility, but an attacking Hive ship encourages them to use their captured Hive ship to disable the facility a little more... thoroughly. Todd steals the Daedalus to destroy a machine that turns Wraith ships entering hyperspace into mincemeat (the Attero Device). When Ronon realizes Wraith have captured the ship, he starts blasting the control crystals of various systems, including weapons. Guess how Todd decides to destroy the facility when they arrive... He is thankfully thwarted, but by all indications it would have worked. A rare ship-to-ship example: in "The Last Man", an alternate reality Carter rams a Wraith Hiveship with the Phoenix, a much smaller 304 Battlecruiser. The Phoenix not only destroys the Hiveship, but two more are destroyed when they get caught in the blast of the first. Of course, the Phoenix is about to explode at the time. This is the standard operating procedure for drone attacks. The Ancients' bread and butter weapon is the Attack Drone, a strangely squid-shaped missile that glows bright yellow when armed, and will fly through a target several times, boring neatly carved bore-holes through it before it eventually runs out of energy or the target is destroyed and the drone recovered for re-use. Capital-grade drone systems combine this with Macross Missile Massacre for dazzling effect. Final example in the last episode of the series: during the Wraith attack of Earth, a pair of Darts escapes the F-302 squadron and crash into the main Area 51 complex, destroying the Ancient control chair brought back from Antarctica, depriving the planet of its last line of defense.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e4b1e91e	comment	In the Henry Stickmin Series, there's Charles. Poor guy means well, but him trying to help Henry by ramming his helicopter into things just doesn't work. Except for one option in "Completing the Mission". In one route of "Completing the Mission", it's Henry who rams the helicopter he hijacked into a control tower, prompting the fail screen to ask if he thinks himself to be Charles.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e519be4f	comment	Carnifex: Islamic terrorists attempt to ram the Legion carrier Dos Lindas, but instead get intercepted by the Heroic Sacrifice of one of the gunboats escorting it, that rammed the kamikaze cargo freighter before it could deliver its explosive cargo.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e5822eeb	comment	Skipjack has the titular submarine ram a pirate submarine on the oceans of Mars in chapter 8.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS, being a generic system, addresses issues of ramming in its vehicle rules; how well it works depends on the vehicles involved and their other combat options. Some are fitted with rams that make them a bit more effective for the purpose. GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances has details for a "torpedo ram", an historical design which, despite its heroic appearance in The War of the Worlds (see above), didnâ€™t turn out to be that great an idea. A brief scenario suggestion in the book does actually find a situation in which torpedo rams could be useful. GURPS Vehicles: Transports of Fantasy has some tweaks to the vehicle damage rules to ensure that ramming combat is a viable option between classical Greek-style warships but less useful for Renaissance-style galleys. (Basically, being holed below the waterline becomes a lot less devastating for a more technologically advanced ship.)
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Ramming Always Works / int_e5ea79ee	comment	The Authority: The Authority is unable to penetrate their opponent's force field to attack his island. That is, until Midnighter flies a 50-km long starship into the island and obliterates the enemy lair.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e6267766	comment	Frequently in Star Wars Legends: In The Thrawn Trilogy novel Dark Force Rising, Mara Jade's ship is disabled and she aims it at part of an Imperial Star Destroyer before ejecting, figuring that even if it doesn't do much, she might as well do what she can. A few pages later, one of the old Katana Fleet dreadnaughts (roughly 1/4 the size of the Star Destroyer, and thousands of times larger than Mara's fighter) is propelled via remote control into a second Star Destroyer, and this works quite well. Garm Bel Iblis plans to do this during the Darkest Hour of Vision of the Future, but fortunately Supreme Commander Pellaeon has a Big Damn Heroes moment. New Jedi Order: In the fight against the Yuuzhan Vong, the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya is heavily damaged due to attrition. The New Republic has most of its interior stripped, a few of its lasers kept and manned with droids, and a single reinforced spine is added. The ship is then sent on a kamikaze mission dubbed "Operation Emperor's Spear" and smashes into a Vong worldship, completely destroying both vessels. Subverted in Force Heretic III in the same series. The villains try to ram the hero's flagship, only to be vaporized before they can make contact (probably a first for the Star Wars Universe). In the Dark Empire series, the reborn Emperor Palpatine has a new superweapon: the Eclipse, a new class of Super Star Destroyer modeled after sea-faring warships of eras long past. The front of the ship is extra-reinforced and the shields are boosted, allowing the titanic battleship to ram into and through other ships without hesitation or damage. The New Republic takes advantage of this in order to eliminate the Empire's other, even deadlier superweapon, the Galaxy Gun. Since a direct attack against the heavily-guarded Galaxy Gun would be doomed, instead they kill two birds with one stone by hacking the Eclipse nav computer and programming it to ram the Galaxy Gun. It turns out to be four birds with one stone, since a Galaxy Gun projectile misfires and hits the current Imperial capital world destroying it and the massive fleet guarding it. In Showdown At Centerpoint, three Bakuran ships are fighting a mass of smaller enemy craft. Admiral Ossilege notices too late that some of the frigates have windows just painted on: they turn out to be 'robot ramships', simple chunks of solid metal in the shape of ships, disguised so that they can get close to a ship before ramming it. Though not seen in the movie, the novelization of Return of the Jedi refers to Rebels loading transports with explosives and crashing them into the Star Destroyers (which explains why they bothered bringing the unarmed Gallofree transports with their fleet), and a dying Rebel Cruiser limps into contact with another Star Destroyer before exploding and taking out the Imperial ship. The Saga Edition of Starships of the Galaxy refers to a Corellian Corvette doing this, but the Rebels weren't lacking for suicidal actions that day. Jedi Academy Trilogy: Ackbar takes over remote control of a partially-completed MC90 Star Cruiser and rams it into an Imperial Star Destroyer attacking the shipyards. Both ships are obliterated. Also done in the previous book. Han, Chewie, and Kyp Durron have stolen the Sun Crusher from the Maw Installation and a star destroyer moves to block their path out of the black hole cluster. Kyp's response is to fly the Sun Crusher—which happens to be Made of Diamond due to quantum technobabble—through the star destroyer. The cruiser is mortally wounded and falls into one of the black holes, while the Sun Crusher basically just has its guns ripped off. In a simulation at the start of Rogue Squadron, Corran rams an opposing TIE Bomber with his X-Wing. If they had hit head-on, the Bomber's mass advantage would have been enough to overcome the X-Wing's shields, destroying both ships. Instead they hit at a glancing angle, Corran's shields were reduced to a third, and the Bomber got all bent out of shape and went out of control, careening out of the fight.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e694aadb	comment	Attempted twice in the Ciaphas Cain novels. In Traitor's Gambit, xeno sympathizers try to murder Lord General Zyvan by ramming the ship he's on with a stolen yacht, and fail because Cain warns him in time, at which point the Navy blows the yacht to smithereens long before it can hit. In Cain's Last Stand an attempt is made to destroy the flagship of the Chaos fleet via a ramming attack, which fails because one of the flagship's screening ships takes the hit for the flagship and is destroyed instead.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e740c8b	comment	In Starsector it's a viable tactic, although if the enemy ship explodes it'll strip your ship's armour and a good chunk, if not all, of your hull. Any ship with a speed-increasing system is more effective at it, with the Luddic Path's Prometheus MKIIs being especially fond. The one that really takes the cake is the Odyssey though. It's a capital ship which gives it lots of mass and the plasma burn it has over sextuples its already respectable speed for a brief moment. If you activate the shields at the right time, the combined repulsion from the shields and the momentum from the plasma burn can launch ships across the map if it doesn't destroy them outright.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e7afca1f	comment	Infinite Space: when faced with the destruction of a third of his homeland's fleet by an invading vanguard fielding more ships than exist in his homeland's galaxy in a matter of minutes, Captain Novikov suddenly grows a backbone and, rather than retreat, decides to ram the exposed enemy flagship in a desperate attempt to stop them. He gets through, but the impact proves... singularly ineffective. Later in Act 2, this is subverted again when Eremon desperately tried to ram Yuri's ship after Yuri defeated him in a fleet engagement. Eremon managed to make contact just as his ship was destroyed, but it's only a glancing blow that barely scratches the paintjob.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e7e37776	comment	In the Firefly fic Forward, Serenity doesn't have any weapons, so Wash has to make do, often using the ship's exhaust or throwing things out the cargo hold. In a pinch, and when dealing with ships neither as durable or as large as the freighter, ramming becomes an option too.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e87538ec	comment	Sky Bandits: During the final aerial battle against the German airship, Major Bannock crashes his Fritz "special" into one side of the airship and out the other.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e9c58049	comment	In the Tales of the Jedi comics the Sith cultist rulers of the Empress Teta System attack a Republic battle group with a Zerg Rush of cheap fighters that simply ram them.
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Ramming Always Works / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf: In Fire on the Water, the flagship of the death-hulks fleet (sunken ships manned by The Undead) has a huge ram on its prow◊. At the beginning of the naval battle, it rams the Durenor, the admiral ship of the Durenese fleet, which quickly sinks, forcing Lone Wolf overboard.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ec4e65ca	comment	In X-Tension, enemy ships were known for their sudden turns. It's unclear whether the AI was actively trying to ram you or just doing evasive maneuvers that just happened to cross your path, but the result was almost always a kaboom — whether yours or theirs depended entirely on how much shielding the ships carried. The novelization of X: Beyond the Frontier, to which X-T is an Expansion Pack, pokes fun at this:
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Ramming Always Works / int_ef076a36	comment	In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Year of Hell", Janeway destroys Annorax's temporal incursion ship (a starship built around a weapon that literally erases things from time) by crashing the crippled Voyager into it. Which would have ended the series, except that, by ramming the ship, the catastrophic damage Janeway inflicted caused it to erase itself from existence, pressing the Reset Button on the entire year and for everything Annorax erased with it before.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ef4c300f	comment	Ships can ram each other either accidentally or intentionally in Assassin's Creed III. One of the naval missions, in particular, has an optional objective where you have to destroy three enemy ships by ramming them (they're much smaller than your Aquila). One of the upgrades available for the ship is a ram, which can gut even enemy frigates, especially if your own hull is reinforced and you do it at full sail with the wind.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f0d57197	comment	The Dark Forest: Earth's entire fleet is wiped out by a "droplet," a two-meter long Trisolaran probe. Simply enough, they figured out they'd figured out how to use the strong atomic force to make their technology indestructable and made the droplets essentially a reusable spear which destroys each ship in the fleet by ramming right through them one at a time.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f2cd5221	comment	In the HBO film By Dawn's Early Light, the pilots of Air Force One turn the plane so that Looking Glass can ram it, averting the catastrophic escalation of a nuclear war already in progress by stopping transmission of orders by a more aggressive Unexpected Successor President.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f3f3618e	comment	In the climax of Halloween Unspectacular 5: The Final Push, Cochrane's plan to take down an enemy fleet involves packing a boat with gunpowder and ramming it into said enemy fleet. Athena, upon learning this, drains a glass of wine.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f5a9f859	comment	Queen of All Oni plays with this during one of the scenes in Jade's Mental World. Hero (the Aspect representing Jade's heroic nature) and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits launch an attack to retake control of the Jade (the ship representing Jade's conscious mind) from the Queen (Jade's Superpowered Evil Side), kickstarted by ramming their ship into it. Since their ship is smaller and patched together piecemeal from what scraps Hero could gather, it does no damage to the Jade and breaks apart on impact. However, it succeeds in scattering Hero's crew onto the Jade, and since all Hero wanted was to make an awesome entrance, it can be called a successful maneuver.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f5c28dbb	comment	The second book in the 1632 series, (1633) has no less than three examples. a 20th-century motorboat at top speed could probably do significant damage to a 17th-century warship, and that's without even counting the jury-rigged munitions mounted on the motorboat. Same for a plane.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f5d2ead0	comment	In Transformers: Cybertron, Optimus Prime uses this on Thundercracker. It's actually both this trope and Car Fu, because Optimus is a flying fire truck.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f5db678	comment	Raideen: "God Bird, Change! Chojun Set!" Subverted in that we aren't told whether the attack was actually successful. However, it's an actual attack in Super Robot Wars.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f6b3bb34	comment	Bulletstorm's opening segment has Grayson Hunt drunkenly ram his ship into General Sarrano's much larger battle cruiser. It only works because he smashed it directly through the command center.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f6cd341d	comment	Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: Ramming can be a useful tactic depending on what ship is being used, with heavier ships being better at ramming than lighter ones, with the best ship at ramming being the Dreadnought. Ramming is also useful as a last-ditch attack if all weapons are destroyed, and is the best tactic for dealing with submerged Submersibles. At the end of the game, Admiral Evar tries to ram Jim Hawkins' Ship of the Line, RLS Victory with his Dreadnought, Wailing Wind, as a last-ditch attack when he realises that he has lost the battle at Parliament. However before the Wailing Wind can ram the RLS Victory, Silver's ship, Argentum, rams into the Wailing Wind, causing it to explode (presumably, Argentum hit Wailing Wind's fuel tank or ammunition reserve), destroying both ships in the process.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: It was common for EarthForce captains to try to ram Minbari ships during the Earth-Minbari War due to the fact that, thanks to the Minbari stealth systems, all human weapons had to be aimed visually. This worked several times with both ships being destroyed. The first time this happened was during the Curb-Stomp Battle that was the Battle of Vega, where a Minbari fleet utterly obliterated the EarthForce fleet defending the colony in under 12 seconds. And that was after letting the human ships fire first (well inside the Minbari's own weapons range). This ended up costing them, as one of the new Nova-X prototypes (the future Omega class) managed to get close enough to ram a Sharlin-class war cruiser. Sinclair at the Battle of the Line. It works, but not in the way he expected. Captain Anderson takes out the Shadow Planet Killer around Earth with this tactic. Also seen in "Severed Dreams" when a friendly Earthforce destroyer, damaged beyond repair, T-bones one of Clark's, destroying both vessels. And, of course, in "Z'Ha'Dum", when Sheridan answers the Shadows' offer by ramming their homeworld with the original Whitestar, demolishing their capital city. Though most of the damage was done by the two 500-megaton nukes on board. In "Endgame", the forces opposing President Clarke's putsch were forced to ram a satellite before it wasted the Eastern Seaboard, after Clarke set the kill sats around Earth to destroy it out of spite after it was clear that he was going to lose. Fortunately, it wasn't necessary since backup arrived in time. Still, the explosion was more dramatic than necessary. There aren't any shields in Babylon 5, mind you. The Expanded Universe gives us the Orieni and their hunter-killers, starfighter drones specifically designed for this. While devastating, it's also logistically intensive and their opponents in the Great War, the Centauri, had a larger industrial base. JMS actually got into a debate on this issue, seen here and here. Subverted in the pilot episode of Crusade; a Drakh cruiser attempts to ram the Excalibur, but Gideon simply blows it out of the sky with their Wave-Motion Gun.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed: Ships can ram each other either accidentally or intentionally in Assassin's Creed III. One of the naval missions, in particular, has an optional objective where you have to destroy three enemy ships by ramming them (they're much smaller than your Aquila). One of the upgrades available for the ship is a ram, which can gut even enemy frigates, especially if your own hull is reinforced and you do it at full sail with the wind. In Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, your ship automatically comes with a ramming prow, and plowing into enemy ships is highly encouraged as a combat tactic. If you fully upgrade to the highest quality ram, you can punch through and destroy even the dreaded Man-O-Wars in just a few passes. Similarly to Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Rogue also gives you a ramming prow and the option of charging is available from the very beginning. It's existence is also a bit more justified because it can be used as an icebreaker in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey continues the tradition (and is accurate to the era, as seen down in Real Life). At sufficiently high ramming speed, the Adrestia can smash ships in half, especially if the enemy ship is damaged enough.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f7e78a6f	comment	The USS Ranger does this in the Star Trek: Destiny series to stop a Borg Cube from destroying the Klingon settlement on Khitomer. It only works because the ship had been modified to be out-of-phase with (and thus pass through) the Cube's shields. The Ranger's sacrifice is used by Chancellor Martok to convince the Klingon High Council that they must fight alongside the Federation against the Borg.
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Ramming Always Works / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	The Little Mermaid: Mega-giant Ursula is finally taken down by ramming a ship's prow straight through her. Ouch.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fa46743e	comment	A particularly detailed and impressive example occurs in Star Trek: Nemesis, where Picard, having used up all the Enterprise's weapons, finally makes good on Worf's prior threat to ram an adversary. Ramming the Enterprise directly into the Reman Warbird Scimitar is made more impressive by the fact that a previous torpedo attack had breached the armor over the bridge shell, exposing the interior of the Enterprise bridge to open space (leading to a Red Shirt moment). Fairly "realistic" given that both ships are completely fucked by the impact. To take it to another extreme, the Scimitar then fired reverse thrusters and backed out of the wreckage and was still able to attack! Both ships were essentially unable to move or fire (other than the Scimitar's Wave-Motion Gun). The real culprit here is Shinzon himself holding the Idiot Ball. After blowing out the bridge's front panel, he brought his ship into a place where it could be rammed, and then froze up when Picard began to accelerate towards him.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fad1ddfe	comment	The Last Starfighter: The Kodan Armada's main ship attempts to ram the Gunship during the final battle. This actually makes sense, as all of its weapons and targeting systems had been disabled and the Gunship was floating dead in space without the power to get out of the way. And if Grig hadn't managed to restore the Gunstar's power at the last moment, the effect of that command ship hitting them would've been like an SUV running over a soda can. CRUNCH!!! And in a more down-to-Earth example, Alex's Beta Unit, who's back on Earth decoying for him, sacrifices himself to defeat an alien bounty hunter before it can transmit a message warning the Armada that the real Alex is back in the fight by ramming the alien's spaceship with a pickup truck. The novelization explicitly states that the truck exploding does absolutely nothing to the advanced materials of the small interstellar ship. The very small bomb the beta unit placed on the dashboard just beforehand, however...
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Ramming Always Works / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Ramjet, from various continuities, is often said to enjoy this tactic. While he's specially reinforced for such attacks (and no-one expects a jet fighter to ram into them), the impacts still take a toll on his internal mechanisms. It only works on other aircraft; on one notable occasion he tried and failed to take out Warpath. The Nemesis from Transformers: Beast Wars, after taking an Energon blast to the face while underwater, is taken out by Rhinox smashing a shuttle into its front window. It's clear that not all of the Nemesis's systems are online, as Megatron was determined to destroy the Ark at any cost. The crash also only damaged the flight controls, causing the Nemesis to crash back into the ocean, where it would be re-discovered by the Decepticons millions of years later. In Transformers: Cybertron, Optimus Prime uses this on Thundercracker. It's actually both this trope and Car Fu, because Optimus is a flying fire truck.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fb9fefa6	comment	In Hc Svnt Dracones a spaceship that rams another spaceship both deals and sustains damage equal to the number of hexes it traversed when the command was issued, and if the defending ship has a flak barrier its rating is dealt to the attacker as well. But ships can be equipped with "close-combat weapons" such as vent re-directions that can only be used after ramming.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fbc44b8a	comment	That tactic is also used sometimes by Tetsuya Tsurugi from Great Mazinger and Duke Fleed from UFO Robo Grendizer (in fact, one of the CMOA of UFO Robo Grendizer happened one of the times Duke used that stratagem). Flying Robeasts in those series often attempt to ram the enemy, too.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fccc35cc	comment	Crusader Kings II has an event chain wherein you can acquire the Necronomicon, summon Cthulhu, immediately regret your decision, ram him with your ship, and kill the Great Old One. No one survives as a witness to this act, but your character gains a modifier called "Godslayer" which comes with some cool benefits.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fcf34eec	comment	Happens, with its potential ineffectiveness lampshaded, in Full Metal Panic! Sigma, when Captain Testarossa needs to get the Tuatha De Danaan out of a dock blocked by a Behemoth-class Humongous Mecha.
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Ramming Always Works / int_fd0da518	comment	Played straight in The Wrong Reflection. A Terran Empire Defiant-class ship tries to ram the Bajor from the side after a torpedo attack by another Terran ship knocks out one of the phasers and nearly brings the shields down. Since the Bajor is fighting as part of a fleet this shouldn't have been a problem: the ships assigned as escorts should've been able to deal with the Terran Defiant themselves. Unfortunately three of the four remaining ships in the formation were caught out of position. T'Var ends up using her damaged USS Olokun to shield her former captain's ship, taking the ramming attack herself and dying. The same battle narrative also features a mention of a Gorn Tuatara-class cruiser T-boning a Terran Typhoon-class battleship, with the Terran ship breaking in half.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ff0bf83f	comment	In a flashback in Justice League Unlimited, it turns out the last remaining Thanagarian ship rammed into a capital ship of an enemy fleet, causing a massive explosion that took out the rest of the fleet with it. This actually is possibly the most realistic outcome with starships of that size ramming into each other on this page.
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Ramming Always Works / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Enterprise's second encounter with the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Best of Both Worlds": In the absence of any other way of stopping the Borg from assimilating Earth, Riker orders Wesley to aim the ship at the Borg cube, and go to maximum warp. (It's unclear exactly what happens when a ship in warp hits a solid object, but at a minimum, a forced collapse of the warp field would be chaotic.) Fortunately, this proves unnecessary.
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Ant-Man / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Attack of the Clones / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Babylon 5: In the Beginning / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlefield Earth / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Black Panther (2018) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
By Dawn's Early Light / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Captains of the Clouds / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Casper: A Spirited Beginning / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Condorman / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Diamonds Are Forever / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Duel / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ender's Game / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Flyboys / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Galaxy Quest / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Geostorm / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Godzilla (1998) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
GoldenEye / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Independence Day / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Iron Sky / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Logan / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Lost in Space / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Man of Steel / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mission: Impossible â€“ Fallout / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mortal Engines / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Oblivion (2013) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Pacific Rim: Uprising / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Paranormal Activity / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Popeye / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Prometheus / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Return of the Jedi / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rogue One / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Serenity / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Serenity (2005) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Skyline / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Smokey and the Bandit / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Solo / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Space Sweepers / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Spectre / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Speed / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek (2009) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek Beyond / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: First Contact / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Insurrection / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Nemesis / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starcrash / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
T-34 / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Abyss / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Atomic Submarine / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Enemy Below / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Last Jedi / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Last Starfighter / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Lost World: Jurassic Park / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Rise of Skywalker / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Thor: The Dark World / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
300: Rise of an Empire / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Under Ten Flags / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
United 93 / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
WarGames / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
White House Down / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (Franchise) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Stargate-verse (Franchise) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo: The Fall of Reach / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series (Lets Play) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Full Metal Panic! / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Aeon 14 / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Aftermath: Empire's End / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Carrera's Legions / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ciaphas Cain / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Deathstalker / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Destroyermen / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Factory of the Gods / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Firefly: Generations / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Fortunes of War / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Full Metal Panic! / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo: Contact Harvest / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo: The Cole Protocol / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hand of Thrawn / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Jedi Academy Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Johnny Maxwell Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Lone Wolf / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
New Jedi Order / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Otherside Picnic / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Pandora's Star / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rama II / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Red Rising / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rihannsu / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Space Captain Smith / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Spiral Arm / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Coda / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Federation / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Call of Cthulhu / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Century Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Corellian Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Dark Forest / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Familiar of Zero / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Forever War / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Genesis Fleet / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Hand of Thrawn / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The High Crusade / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Hunt for Red October / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Lost Fleet / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Lost Regiment / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Nameless War / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Nature of Predators / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Saga of Seven Suns / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Sleeper Awakes / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Thrawn Trilogy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The War of the Worlds (1898) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Troy Rising / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
X-Wing Series / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Xeelee Sequence / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
ActionChatroom	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
DeffSkwadron	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
Fastball Special / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ptitle1q6bnq4b	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
PunicWars	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
ScrapheapChallenge	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
SupermanAndBatmanGenerations	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
TypesOfNavalShips	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
War of the Triple Alliance	seeAlso	Ramming Always Works
Area 88 (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Captain Harlock (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hellsing (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Linebarrels of Iron (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Majestic Prince (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Planetes (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Strike Witches (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Venus Wars (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Wa ga Na wa Umishi (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Zipang (Manga) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (Music) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starlight Brigade (Music) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Alice Isn't Dead (Podcast) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ride Alone Complex (Roleplay) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
We Are On A Space Adventure (Roleplay) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Dai Sentai Goggle Five / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
FBI: International / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Firefly / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Kamen Rider Kuuga / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Kamen Rider OOO / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Power Rangers Wild Force / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Robot Wars / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Fleet / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Discovery / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Voyager / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Stargate Atlantis / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Stargate Universe / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Rookie (2018) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Titanic (1996) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlefleet Gothic (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Pirates Constructible Strategy Game (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Fleet Battles (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Strike Legion (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
X-Wing Miniatures (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Airships: Conquer the Skies (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Alien Hominid (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
All Points Bulletin (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Allegiance (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Allegiance (2000) (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Another Century's Episode (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Assassin's Creed Rogue (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Assault Suits Valken (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Axelay (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
BattleTanx (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlefield 3 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlefleet Gothic: Leviathan (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Blood Wake (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Bulletstorm (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Burnout (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Carmageddon (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Creeper World (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Crime Boss: Rockay City (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Cryostasis (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Death Rally (2011) (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Descent (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
DogFighter (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
EVE Online (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
EVERSPACE (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Elite (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Factorio (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Final Fantasy III (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Final Legacy (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Fortnite (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
FreeSpace (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Freelancer (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
From the Depths (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Geometry Dash (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Gundam Vs Series (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo Infinite (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo Wars 2 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hardwar (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Heavy Weapon (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Homeworld (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hot Wheels: Velocity X (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hydro Thunder (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
IL-2 Sturmovik (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Interstate '76 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Into the Breach (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Iron Man 2 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ixion (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Jedi Starfighter (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Jets'n'Guns (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
La Pucelle (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Legacy of a Thousand Suns (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
LEGO Batman (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
LEGO Batman Trilogy (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mega Man & Bass (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mega Man X5 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mega Man X: Corrupted (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Metroid Dread (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Michigan: Report From Hell (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Need For Madness? (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
New Horizons (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Omega Boost (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Oolite (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Overload (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Pacific Fleet (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Phalanx (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Pharaoh (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
PlanetSide (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Power Rangers Wild Force (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Project Sylpheed (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Quake (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Quarantine (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Quarantine (1994) (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
RC Helicopter (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Raft (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Raptor: Call of the Shadows (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Razing Storm (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Real Space (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rebel Assault (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rebel Galaxy (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
RefleX (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rock of Ages (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rogue Squadron (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Satisfactory (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sierra Ops (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Silent Hunter Series (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Skies of Arcadia (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Smash TV (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Space Harrier (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Conflict (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Fox: Assault (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Fox Zero (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek: The Video Game (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Wars: Battlefront (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Stargunner (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starlancer (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starsector (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Streets of Rage Remake (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sublevel Zero (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Super Robot Wars: Original Generation (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Super Robot Wars W (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Tales of Vesperia (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Terra Invicta (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
TerraTech (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Force Unleashed (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Jedi Masters (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Total Carnage (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Total War: Rome II (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Total War: Shogun 2 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Tower Defense Simulator (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Tradewinds (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Transformers: Earth Wars (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Tyrian (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Universal Paperclips (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Valfaris (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
War Thunder (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Wing Commander (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Wings.io (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
World of Tanks (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
World of Warplanes (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
World of Warships (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
X: Rebirth (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
X-Wing (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
DemonStar / Videogame / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Elite: Dangerous / Videogame / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
NieR: Automata / Videogame / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Subnautica (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sunrider (Visual Novel) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Chao in Space (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Clear Skies (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Fantasy Kaleidoscope (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Gigantamax Pokémon Battle Royale (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Monster Face Off (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Trek Retribution (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Wreck (Web Animation) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Aventures (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Chrono Trigger: The Musical (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Everyman HYBRID (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
GTA... but with talking trains!! (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Patman Post (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Soviet Womble (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Greater Good (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Pop Arena (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
World War II (Web Video) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth (Webcomic) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Halo: A Fistful of Arrows (Webcomic) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Second Empire (Webcomic) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn (Webcomic) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Well That Was Unexpected (Webcomic) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The War Hawks / Webvideo / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battle for Terra / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Exo Squad / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Highlander: The Animated Series / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Hot Wheels: World Race / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Justice League vs. Teen Titans / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
PAW Patrol: The Movie / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rio / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Shadow Raiders / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Star Wars Resistance / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Starship Troopers: Invasion / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
TaleSpin / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Little Mermaid / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Mad Doctor / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Wing Commander Academy / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Big Show (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Bob Sapp (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Charlotte Flair (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Chick Busters (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Edge (Wrestler) (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Katsuyori Shibata (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
La Parka (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Masahiko Kimura (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Rhyno (Wrestling) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Irresponsible Captain Tylor / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Red Daughter of Krypton (Comic Book) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
xXx: Return of Xander Cage / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Earth: Final Conflict / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ultraman Leo / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
In the Hunt (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Space Empires (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works

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