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That Poor Car

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That Poor Car	comment	When something big, loud, shaky, or forceful happens, we may hear car alarms going off outside or offscreen to indicate the magnitude of this event. If it's really big, it'll set off all the car alarms in the area. Similar to Disturbed Doves, but not (usually) That Poor Cat or That Poor Plant. Loud sounds can indeed shake a car enough to set off the alarm, making this Truth in Television. Not to be confused with extreme damage to a car, although sometimes they overlap where the extreme damage also causes the car alarm to go off. Not to be confused with The Alleged Car, which is a car with unreliable building qualities or bad safety features. Examples
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That Poor Car / int_14b52449	comment	2012: The tremor and fissure opening at the supermarket causes many car alarms to go off.
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That Poor Car / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "A Star is Burns", Jay outdoes Homer with a foghorn burp that sets off car alarms.
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That Poor Car / int_3f01b5a4	comment	Power Rangers Samurai: Clash of the Red Rangers: When the Grinders attack a highway bridge, the carnage causes this. The first glimpse of Scott is his gloved hand reaching in and turning the alarm off.
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That Poor Car / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural. In "Mommy Dearest" Castiel does this while wiping out a diner full of demons with a blast of light.
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That Poor Car / int_49ff762	comment	In the Torchwood episode "Exit Wounds", the city wide bombing of Cardiff by Capt. John Hart sets off these. Later in Children of Earth: "Day One" when the government blows up the Hub this happens.
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That Poor Car / int_4b790c7a	comment	In Iron Man 2 a couple of car alarms go off as Iron Man and War Machine fly noisily through a parking lot; half a second later Ivan Vanko's air capable Hammer Drones pass through making even more noise, setting almost all the cars off.
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That Poor Car / int_53cac49a	comment	If a stationary vehicle gets clipped by a stray bullet in Freedom Fighters (2003), the alarm will go off. Two or three more, and it explodes.
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That Poor Car / int_542b50e2	comment	In Pelswick, Gram Gram was said to snore so loud that it set off all the car alarms on the street.
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That Poor Car / int_5d4da197	comment	Spider-Man 2: Peter Parker loses his powers and attempts to jump to another building to see if he got them back and at first it looks like he's going to make it. But he doesn't and falls on top of a car. He then slowly gets back up and waddles away trying to support himself on another car and activates the alarm by barely touching it.
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That Poor Car / int_60760b3f	comment	Dragon ShortZ: The end of the first episode, "Two Saiyans and a Baby" has Vegeta fire a Galick Gun at a fleeing Nappa who snapped a pic of Vegeta acting quite nice towards his son. The beam fires out the front door of Capsule Corp and rattles a car, causing its alarm to go off.... and wake Baby Trunks, who had just been laid down to sleep about a minute ago.
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That Poor Car / int_6ad790d3	comment	Top Gear (UK): In the second US special, Clarkson and Hammond set off a whole line of parked cars in Vegas by revving the engines of their muscle cars as loudly as possible. Unfortunately for them, this quickly drew the attention of the local authorities. In the India special, Clarkson makes a massive homebrewed firework which he plans to shoot off at a party. When he does, it ends up being so strong that it sets off more than a dozen car alarms.
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That Poor Car / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim makes a running gag out of this, as at least one car alarm gets set off more or less every single time a kaiju or jaeger steps on a road.
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That Poor Car / int_89dd130e	comment	In the 2008 The Incredible Hulk movie this happens during the fight between the Hulk and the Abomination.
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That Poor Car / int_8d81f086	comment	Exploited on Monk. A woman supposedly jumps to her death and lands on her lover's car, setting off the alarm. He's a teacher who's busy proctoring an exam at that moment. He actually murdered her and left her body in a position that she would fall onto his car during the exam. He knew the alarm would establish an alibi for her death.
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That Poor Car / int_90c73dda	comment	In a rare literature example, in Animorphs Jake sent Marco to cause a disturbance and every car had a car alarm. Really, really much funnier in text.
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That Poor Car / int_b0c48482	comment	Those poor bikes in Mystery Team.
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That Poor Car / int_bee5c9a7	comment	One episode of Pimp My Ride featured one car whose alarm could not stop going off.
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That Poor Car / int_cbe7f8d0	comment	In Tremors, the Gummers' SUV is destroyed by a Graboid after its burrowing disturbs the ground underneath the vehicle and sets off its car alarm.
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That Poor Car / int_ccf875f7	comment	In the third season finale of Criminal Minds, the episode ends with nearby car alarms blaring after an SUV explodes. The catch? One of the main characters (the audience is not told who until the season 4 premiere) is about to get into the SUV when it explodes.
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That Poor Car / int_dda72858	comment	The Iron Giant has the rare case of the horn going off due to direct contact with the vehicle. Basically, the Iron Giant, when he and Hogarth discover the junkyard that Dean works at, starts eating everything in there. He then bites a car... which hadn't had its horn removed yet, causing it to go off.
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That Poor Car / int_df2eb6f4	comment	In Highlander the first quickening sets off several car alarms.
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That Poor Car / int_f3ae2950	comment	At one point in the Video Game Awards 2011 exclusive trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Raiden kicks an enemy soldier into a parked black car hard enough to set off the car alarm and nearly flips it over. Raiden then remarks shortly afterwards "too easy!" before cutting him up.
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That Poor Car / int_f5c936a3	comment	Cloverfield: the first sign of the monster is a tremor causing car alarms to go off.
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That Poor Car / int_fd8ef85e	comment	Left 4 Dead includes cars on some maps with active alarms that will go off if shot (with convenient flashing lights to let you tell them apart from the safe alarmless cars). Since the game takes place in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse, setting one off is very bad news. And heaven help you if you have a Griefer on your team, because if you do, they're all gonna go off.
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That Poor Car	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
That Poor Car	processingCategory2	Motor Vehicle Tropes
Beverly Hills Cop II / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Casino Royale (2006) / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Edge of Tomorrow / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Friday / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Green Lantern (2011) / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Heat / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Iron Man 2 / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Now You See Me / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Pacific Rim / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Real Steel / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
The Wrong Guy / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Tremors / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Canada's Worst Driver / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Eddsworld (Web Animation) / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
CinemaSins (Web Video) / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Danger Mouse / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Monsters vs. Aliens / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Pelswick / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
The Iron Giant / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car

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