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Universal Driver's License

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Universal Driver's License	label	Universal Driver's License
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Universal Driver's License	comment	In most action series/computer games, the player character or the hero has the ability to drive any vehicle they come across, be it a tiny Volkswagen Beetle, a Lamborghini with six-speed manual transmission, an 18 wheel truck, or the biggest earth moving machine on a mining site. Not only four-wheeled vehicles are instantly drivable by our hero; he can also jump onto a motorcycle, bulldozer, or a freight train locomotive and drive it. Even if they've never seen it before, as long as the keys are in it, it's fair game for a joyride or hasty escape. Heck, often even if there's no keys, they can Hassle-Free Hotwire it in five seconds. Sure, anyone with a driver's license can be expected to drive about any car or light truck out there, since the controls are more or less standardized, but beyond that realm, most professional or commercial vehicles require some specialized training or familiarity with their controls to drive. Even something as common as a motorcycle is beyond the experience of many people. (What's that lever on the left handlebar? If you said 'brake' guess again, that thing is your clutch.) Things like bulldozers, tanks, tractor trailers, ships, railroad locomotives, etc. would probably leave an inexperienced person at a loss to use if you dropped them behind the controls in an emergency situation and told them to "get us out of here!" Yet time after time, characters just take off as if they operated one for a living for a decade. Sometimes the character fails badly and wrecks the vehicle seconds later, protesting "I told you I don't know how to drive one of these!" or else you get a I Know Mortal Kombat, Suddenly Always Knew That or You Didn't Ask answer as to why they didn't crash. Writers seem to frequently exempt aircraft from this. The plea of "Can anyone here fly a plane?!" when the original pilots get incapacitated is almost a trope by itself. But, everything else out there that doesn't have wings is treated like the family sedan. However some action heros can fly or pilot anything from a helicopter to a rocket ship. Holders of this license are usually also qualified as a Crew of One. Sometimes even alien spaceships fall under this rule, though not always. Can be handwaved as an acceptable break from reality. Also see Improbable Piloting Skills and Instant Expert. Contrast Driving Stick. Examples
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Universal Driver's License / int_1053fec	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_1053fec	comment	He doesn't learn his lesson from this experience, as he attempts to fly it again in Kingdom Hearts II.
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Universal Driver's License / int_1133352a	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_1133352a	comment	Justified with the eponymous cyborgs in the Terminator franchise. They can be seen riding motorbikes, driving cars and trucks, and piloting helicopters expertly. Of course, they're machines who can have all this programmed into them, along with all the technical data on how the vehicles even work.
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Universal Driver's License / int_13a3ebd8	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_13a3ebd8	comment	Averted as a plot point in Guns, Gore & Cannoli, where the mafia chief needs the otherwise unexceptional Frankie escorted safely to him, as Frankie's the only one capable of flying a blimp to escape the Zombie Apocalypse. Later played straight when the Nominal Hero throws Frankie out of the blimp and is able to pilot it just fine.
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Universal Driver's License / int_18a679c9	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_18a679c9	comment	Pepper Roni, the main character of LEGO Island seems to be able to ride on anything from his stakeboard, boats, horses, motor bikes, desert cars, airplanes to a space shuttle. And he's just a pizza delivery boy. Island Xtreme Stunts at least has license tests before you can drive specific types of vehicles.
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Universal Driver's License / int_1a1a594f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_1a1a594f	comment	The Battlefield series of team-based FPS features warring armies in various time periods. Players play as infantry with their choice of specific weapon and/or gear. Still, regardless of "kit" choice, hitting the "use" key will allow your infantryman to use vehicles. Any vehicle. Jeeps, tanks, APCs, naval ships, subs, light inflatable boats, jet aircraft, and in Battlefield 2142, Humongous Mecha. Never mind the fact that none of these vehicles have working canopies or doors, and some have no visible point of possible entry, your basic grunt can drive/fly/hover it with ease. In the series after Battlefield 2, entering a vehicle even magically transforms the clothing grunts wear into appropriate attire for that vehicle (i.e, flight suits and helmets). The uniform is in the back, just don't ask if it's been washed. In the original Battlefield 1942, one can even drive the massive battleships and carriers used as bases by one side or the other (or both as on the Midway map), severely annoying other players when the spawn point runs aground. This was eliminated from later games to streamline play, and the big ships in Battlefield 2 are just terrain. Fortunately, you can still move the Titans in Battlefield 2142. For certain values of fortunate, since idiots sometimes parked them over friendly missile silos, on top of any additional lag caused by a large, moving object with multiple other objects chugging across the map. In Battlefield 1 players spawn into vehicles as specialized tanker (who also captains destroyers, oddly enough) or pilot classes with their own models and gear. Although any class can still operate (but not repair, unless they're a support with a wrench) them should the actual driver abandon it for whatever reason.
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Universal Driver's License / int_1c029994	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_1c029994	comment	Downplayed in Gravity, where Dr. Stone must figure out how to decouple the Tiangong's Shenzhou capsule in order to make it back to Earth. While the controls are in Chinese, everything is more or less in the same place as in an American craft, and she has a manual to help her figure things out.
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Universal Driver's License / int_1ff419c5	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_1ff419c5	comment	In Kingdom Hearts II, Riku pilots a conveniently placed hovercraft, and later goes on to drive a Light Cycle in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], both in very spur of the moment situations. Perhaps keyblades magically grant their wielders knowledge of how to drive any vehicle? Or is it just Riku? Sora also drove a Light Cycle (though a different one than Riku used) at one point. Like Riku, he had no knowledge on how to use one beforehand. Averted in the manga adaptation of the first game. Sora rams the Gummi Ship into a meteor near Traverse Town during his first time as pilot, and gets a scolding from Donald Duck. He doesn't learn his lesson from this experience, as he attempts to fly it again in Kingdom Hearts II.
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Universal Driver's License / int_261c8d3f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied: The control panel of a fighter jet at an airshow has a large button marked "fly" on it, allowing Sideshow Bob to easily steal it. "Thank God for the idiot-proof Air Force," he quips. He ends up driving it into a giant ditch inexplicably dug into the runway. Parodied yet again later in the same episode: Bob and Bart escape on the Wright Brothers' plane. Once they land safely, a young pilot driving a tank finally catches up to the plane and runs it over. The pilot admits "We don't use these much in the Air Force."
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Universal Driver's License / int_2930d0c2	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2930d0c2	comment	In Battlefield 1 players spawn into vehicles as specialized tanker (who also captains destroyers, oddly enough) or pilot classes with their own models and gear. Although any class can still operate (but not repair, unless they're a support with a wrench) them should the actual driver abandon it for whatever reason.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2952bffd	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2952bffd	comment	Averted in the manga adaptation of the first game. Sora rams the Gummi Ship into a meteor near Traverse Town during his first time as pilot, and gets a scolding from Donald Duck. He doesn't learn his lesson from this experience, as he attempts to fly it again in Kingdom Hearts II.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2acb12c5	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2acb12c5	comment	The player character in all of the X-Universe games from X-Tension and beyond are capable of piloting almost anything they come across, be it a tiny scout ship or a multi-kilometer capital ship.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2ba1d958	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2ba1d958	comment	Justified in The Matrix, where learning to pilot/drive any vehicle is simply a matter of having the relevant knowledge uploaded into your brain.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2c1809f5	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2c1809f5	comment	In an episode of Totally Spies!, one of the girls got over her pre-driver's test jitters by flying an alien aircraft...
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Universal Driver's License / int_2c3cd68a	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2c3cd68a	comment	X-Wing Rogue Squadron: In the first arc, the agent Winter gets in an ally's X-Wing, and it takes off because its owner told its R2 unit to be somewhere to cause a distraction. She then takes control and shoots down the squadron of TIE fighters, including the one with the owner in it, and yet at the end of the arc she's told that she's not flight-qualified on an X-Wing and will have to ride in a shuttle. Stackpole was reportedly quite unhappy with this arc. Winter did have Photographic Memory, and admittedly knowing how to do something and having the necessary paperwork to prove you can are two different things, but that's still a hell of a Plot Hole. Averted in a different story, where the former Imperial Ace Pilot Baron Soontir Fel chooses to take the gunner's seat of a Y-Wing while someone else does the flying, because he's only good (or even qualified) at Fragile Speedster-type craft, of which the Y-Wing is not an example. Also averted when a new Rogue mentions she's flight-certified for TIE Fighters and after an Oh, Crap! moment hastily explains she was trained to fly them in the Commenor militia, not an Imperial academy.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2d1fc03d	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2d1fc03d	comment	Front Mission frequently depicts single characters piloting tanks, but this trope really comes into play for Front Mission 3. In this particular game, you have pilots capable of not only driving their usual Wanzers, but they also apparently can pilot tanks, armored trains, helicopters, and mobile weapons just as easily. One character even pilots a methane-powered pickup truck with legs.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2e3e7ac2	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Lampshaded hilariously in Justice League. Flash, who's been put in charge of the vehicle in question, explains it best:
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Universal Driver's License / int_2e839104	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2e839104	comment	Scarface: The World Is Yours: Cars, jeeps, trucks, bulldozer, speedboats, yachts, floatplane. No helicopter, motorcycle or tank unfortunately.
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Universal Driver's License / int_2ffcbd43	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Happens in the GBA Fire Emblem games, surprisingly enough. Archers can take control of Ballistae, steering and shooting them with perfect accuracy. It's not like it's part of the job description, being a Strategy RPG all of your units are named characters with backstories, and your Archers are simply bow wielders and nothing more. Especially strange in that the Ballistician was its own unit type in earlier games. The first time you encounter a Ballista in The Blazing Blade, the group decides a good plan is to create a diversion for the Ballista to focus on, and have another unit sneak up on it and kill the pilot. Then Lyn asks resident archer Will if he knows how to use one, and he replies that he can probably figure it out, since it's "just a big bow". Try GIANT BOW in a carriage on wheels. He uses it with no problem, provided the enemy unit inside the ballista didn't use up all the ammo. Presumably, it uses horses to move, though they're not seen on the unit's sprite. How strange, then, that the other archer you have that actually rides a horse CAN'T use the Ballista.
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Universal Driver's License / int_30940081	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_30940081	comment	Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V is a military-trained pilot. The other two protagonists have this. The only difference between their flying is a little extra wobble in the controls.
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Universal Driver's License / int_310b3174	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_310b3174	comment	Operation Flashpoint plays with this trope. You, as the gamer, need a little training to handle vehicles like tanks and helicopters, but once you get the hang of it you can use any enemy vehicles lying around, (no matter which character you are currently controlling and no matter whether or not that character itself has any training for it). In certain missions, if you manage get your hands on an anti-aircraft Shilka, it's pretty much a Lightning Bruiser that can single-handedly win the mission. Because of its four gatling cannons that can fire on full-automatic to take out anything the game throws at you - infantry, RPG soldiers, vehicles, tanks, and even helicopters, which you can catch on radar from an unbelievable distance. Some missions will stop you from mounting certain vehicles (especially helicopters) to avoid this trope.
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Universal Driver's License / int_310d6df7	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: Tuuri, who only has experience driving tractors, ends up being the one driving the crew's Awesome Personnel Carrier, that is basically an RV with tracks. Sigrun was supposed to know how to drive such a vehicle, but she turned out to be more of case against lying on one's resume and nobody else on the crew knows how to drive anything.
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Universal Driver's License / int_35a060cc	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_35a060cc	comment	Averted in Airplane!, which is one of the few plot elements that the movie plays for drama. While Ted Striker is a pilot, he only ever flew single-engine planes in The War, not a four-engine 707 jetliner like the titular airplane. Because of this, he accidentally blows out an engine because he wasn't watching the oil flow (which gets him called out by ground control), and while he successfully lands the plane without significantly injuring the passengers, he has to be talked through it over the radio, and he ends up missing the gate by a huge distance and ripping off the landing gear.
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Universal Driver's License / int_3aab82a	comment	Rico in Just Cause can drive cars, bikes, boats, and fly prop and jet planes, all kinds of helicopters, gyrocopters, and manouver a parachute with precision. Partially justified in that he is a revolution-stoking, physics-defying CIA agent. The sequel includes a grappling hook that allows Rico to attach to vehicles. Combining these facts lets you hook onto a commercial airliner, then pry off the door and hijack it in ''mid-flight''. This is arguably the best way to deal with enemy helicopters, too. Grapple-jack one, then use it to shoot down the others.
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Universal Driver's License / int_3b05a9de	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_3b05a9de	comment	Power Rangers Time Force: Lucas (the Blue Ranger) explicitly has this as a knack: "Lucas can drive anything." However, he got into a little trouble when he was caught speeding and tried to show his 31st Century driver's license to a 21st Century cop. Everybody who becomes a Power Ranger automatically knows how to pilot their Zord. In the original series, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Billy actually mentions the first time he gets in his Zord that he instinctively knows how to drive it. Apparently, once morphed, a Ranger knows how to use most of his equipment. Presumably, they do get training. And in some of the series, being a Power Ranger is more like being a police officer than being a radioactive civilian. Besides, Zords seem to run off massive amounts of posing and shouting so learning complicated controls or what not is probably unnecessary. Although Justin notes in the Turbo movie that he's thankful that driving a Zord doesn't require a license.
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Universal Driver's License / int_3b11106f	comment	In the cheese-tastic 1980 Flash Gordon movie: Flash is in a floating city under bombardment. He falls down a chute and finds a Hawkman rocket cycle. Despite having never laid eyes on one before (what with him being a football player from late '70s Earth), he immediately knows what it is, how to use it and even knows to put up the safety bar. Flash takes the controls of War Rocket Ajax and flies like a pro even though he has no training or experience whatsoever in flying rockets. Possibly justified because he has taken flying lessons (in human planes) on Earth.
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Universal Driver's License / int_41ecc735	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_41ecc735	comment	Justified in Cyborg 009, where one of the title character's cybernetic enhancements gives him the ability to drive any vehicle flawlessly, which allows him to get a lucrative job as a racecar driver during a sabbatical.
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Universal Driver's License / int_47dc9ef0	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_47dc9ef0	comment	Spirit of the Century has a universal "Drive" skill that covers primarily cars but can be extended to other ground vehicles (aircraft need Pilot, seagoing vessels — controlling most of which would be more of a team effort anyway — aren't really addressed). Somewhat justified in that it's a pulp game set by default in the 1920s, i.e. the still early years of both the automobile and aviation. — In addition, SotC explicitly establishes that most people aren't actually all that good at the skills they use for a living; exceptional skills are for exceptional people while "regular" folk mostly coast through life on being a single step better than the untrained default and just not getting challenged all that much. Which means that the average driver isn't going to be that much more flustered by a tank than by a car because they're not all that hot in a car either to begin with, while conversely a genuinely good one has better narrative license to be able to figure it out on the fly by definition. FATE games can go all over the place with this one. The Atomic Robo adaptation has a single, universal Vehicles skill that can be used for anything from sedans to space shuttles, while grittier versions can break it down a lot further.
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Universal Driver's License / int_49ad83ee	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_49ad83ee	comment	Zig-zagged in World of Warcraft. Every race has its own favored mount, from the humans' horses to the trolls' raptors, and originally this trope was averted since each mount had its own separate riding skill that you needed to purchase before you could ride it. This made sense since the mounts are all completely different animals with their own needs, temperaments, and riding techniques, and then there's the gnomes' mechanostrider, which isn't an animal at all but an animal-shaped motor vehicle. However, a later patch did away with separate riding skills; instead, your skill determines the speed of your mount rather than its species. While not the most realistic, it did allow for a wider variety of mounts since the skill was no longer tied to the type of animal it was, especially once flying mounts were released.
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Universal Driver's License / int_4aeea402	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_4aeea402	comment	Doc Savage could operate any vehicle that existed in the 1930s: car, plane, autogyro, airship, submarine, etc.
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Universal Driver's License / int_4be3aedd	comment	Everybody who becomes a Power Ranger automatically knows how to pilot their Zord. In the original series, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Billy actually mentions the first time he gets in his Zord that he instinctively knows how to drive it. Apparently, once morphed, a Ranger knows how to use most of his equipment.
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Universal Driver's License / int_4c87a7ea	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_4c87a7ea	comment	In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, a bunch of kids and teens travel to a construction site via monorail. Later, they figure out how to use a fire engine.
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Universal Driver's License / int_4c9647dd	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_4c9647dd	comment	Subverted by Savage Worlds, which has separate skills for Boating, Driving, and Piloting in the core book. A sidebar in the skills section of the core book points out that you could combine those three skills into one Vehicles skill, but that it would mean every modern day person who could drive a car could also fly a plane.
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Universal Driver's License / int_4cc06582	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_4cc06582	comment	Parodied in Hot Fuzz: The opening montage states that Nicholas Angel took and excelled in several courses beyond the standard police skillset, including advanced driving (cut to Angel taking a car through a controlled skid-stop) and advanced cycling (cut to Angel taking a bike through a controlled skid-stop). Truer to life than you might think; police cycle training is basically Le Parkour ON TWO WHEELS!.
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Hot Fuzz	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_4cc06582
Universal Driver's License / int_53dc3731	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_53dc3731	comment	FATE games can go all over the place with this one. The Atomic Robo adaptation has a single, universal Vehicles skill that can be used for anything from sedans to space shuttles, while grittier versions can break it down a lot further.
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Universal Driver's License / int_5425ce75	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_5425ce75	comment	Similar to the Grand Theft Auto example above: The Saints Row series has you play as a protagonist that is capable of driving any vehicle. Including vehicles like futuristic jet fighters in Saints Row: The Third and alien spaceships in Saints Row IV.
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Universal Driver's License / int_5690420f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_5690420f	comment	In both DuckTales series, Launchpad McQuack can intuit how to operate any flying vehicle, from planes and helicopters to alien space ships and whatever invention Gyro Gearloose has cobbled together. But while he can fly anything (kinda), landing is another matter entirely: his personal Catchphrase is "If it's got wings, I can crash it." Note that this ability (which carried over to Darkwing Duck) is pretty much Launchpad's. Darkwing himself has difficulties when in a cockpit; the only time he's flown the Thunderquack without Launchpad involve either autopilot or immediate demolition.
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Universal Driver's License / int_587db2f9	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_587db2f9	comment	This is actually lampshaded and justified in the books; when hijacking Covenant vehicles in Halo: First Strike, the Spartan-IIs find themselves instinctively able to drive them. Covenant vehicles are at least partly reverse-engineered from Forerunner technology, the latter of which humans have a strong natural affinity with due to the Forerunners designating humanity as their "Reclaimers". Thus why the IIs find themselves able to easily pilot what's basically an off-brand version of Forerunner tech.
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Halo: First Strike	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_587db2f9
Universal Driver's License / int_59151283	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear's Solid Snake is so much of a badass, the moment he get his hand on a derelict for 9 years Metal Gear REX, the damn thing moves faster and is far more efficient than it has ever been. In MGS1, Liquid could barely make it walk, in MGS4 Snake make it dance effortlessly, and Humongous Mecha aren't exactly the easiest thing to pilot. He had Otacon, who designed it, on his side in MGS4, which has to say something about Otacon's awesomeness too. "RAY might be quicker, but you've got me on your side!" along with his CODEC quips about running REX's software with their plane's computer AND having installed a melee program on REX cause he thought it would be cool.
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Universal Driver's License / int_59215319	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_59215319	comment	In both versions of Persona 2, the protagonists are shown piloting vehicles that high school students and journalists have no business going near. Maya thinks this trope applies to her, even though according to Yukino and Ulala she Drives Like Crazy even in a regular car. In the first game takes the controls of a blimp and a boat, reasoning that she has a driver's licence, so she should be fine. The blimp gets set on hire and crashes, and she rams the boat into the walls several times before handing it over to Tatsuya. In the sequel, she somehow manages to successfully drive a submarine. Tatsuya is better about this, and is subtly justified. Rumors become true in the game, and the rumor that Tatsuya is 'good with machines' did actually give him the power to pilot anything... despite the fact that he's not old enough to even drive a car. He pilots a Mini-Mecha with no troubles, and also flies the blimp better than Maya (he learned his lesson the first time around and stopped her from flying). Lampshaded when Katsuya points out that he only has a learner's permit and should not be qualified to pilot a mecha. Also in the second game, Tatsuya hands over the controls of the blimp to Jun, who doesn't have any such justification, and is also a high school student. He manages to keep the wheel steady for long enough, but the blimp is on fire again so it crashes.
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Universal Driver's License / int_5ada53ed	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_5ada53ed	comment	The list of varied vehicles James Bond has personally used throughout his movies is stunning. Cars, trucks, a fire engine, motorcycles, tanks, snowmobiles, motorboats, hovercraft, gyrocopters, helicopters, light aircraft, fighter jets, submarines, and so on. The training course for double-0 agents must have one heck of a driver's exam. The one aversion to this trope is Moonraker, where Bond understandably doesn't know how to pilot a space shuttle and needs Dr. Goodhead for that.
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Universal Driver's License / int_5c897f4a	comment	Lampshaded in Schlock Mercenary: "I speak warship very fluently."
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Universal Driver's License / int_5d2be66d	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_5d2be66d	comment	The Barrier: A character with no known experience doing so manages to drive an ambulance perfectly fine.
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Universal Driver's License / int_5e91c7d	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4: Ashley, for some unknown reason, knows how to competently operate a giant bulldozer and helps Leon out by doing so. Lampshaded in the remake where she operates a construction crane with a wrecking ball, and credits her driver's ed classes when Leon expresses bemusement at her ability to do so.
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Universal Driver's License / int_5e9ea81e	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_5e9ea81e	comment	Justified in Black Panther. When former Air Force pilot Everett Ross is tasked with using a Wakandan drone fighter to stop the other ships from taking off with Wakandan weaponry, Shuri makes the interface resemble an American fighter jet so that it will be familiar to him.
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Universal Driver's License / int_62570927	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: This actually seems pretty prevalent in the Marvel universe as a whole. It would make sense that people like Captain America and Black Widow would have flight training, but pretty much everybody can fly a plane. Even teenagers. Many people are also great at boats.
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Universal Driver's License / int_64494e71	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_64494e71	comment	The titular Walker, Texas Ranger, throughout the course of the series, piloted numerous vehicles, including cars, helicopters, private planes, and a jet.
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Universal Driver's License / int_67b692cc	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_67b692cc	comment	Fortunately, you can still move the Titans in Battlefield 2142. For certain values of fortunate, since idiots sometimes parked them over friendly missile silos, on top of any additional lag caused by a large, moving object with multiple other objects chugging across the map.
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Universal Driver's License / int_69fa7496	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Donald Duck has had so many jobs that he's a fully competent driver, sailor, and pilot...at least, that is, when the Rule of Funny isn't in effect and causes something to set off is Hair-Trigger Temper. In fact, before the creation of Launchpad McQuack in the animated universe, Donald was the one that flew/sailed Scrooge to many of his adventure destinations. Individual cases tend to be justified, but combined they reach absurd heights: He was in the marine, so he can sail. He can drive as is to be expected from a middle-class adult. He's been a train enthusiast several times, so he would know a bit about how they work. It's unclear where he learned to pilot a plane (though his sister, in both the animated series and in some comics, is a pilot, so he may have picked up something from her).
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Universal Driver's License / int_6ac55ec7	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Implied: the game, under rules as written, only has two sets of vehicle proficiencies; namely, land and sea. In a higher-technology setting, air could presumably be added. This means one can't necessarily transition seamlessly from driving a wagon to sailing a fishing boat, but you could go from a wagon to, say, a chariot no problem.
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Universal Driver's License / int_6ad790d3	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_6ad790d3	comment	In the Top Gear 1940s race Clarkson wasn't allowed to drive the A1 Tornado steam engine on the main line since a license is needed to do that. And Hammond's Vincent Black Shadow bike broke down because he left the reserve fuel tank tap open and clogged the carburetor.
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Top Gear (UK)	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_6ad790d3
Universal Driver's License / int_6ce0d19c	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Quantum Leap: This trope is used to introduce Al's role as observer in the pilot episode: he can show Sam which switches to flick and 'guides' his control inputs but admits that there's no way Sam can land a 1950s supersonic test plane even with holographic assistance, so Sam bails out. A later episode set in a plane above the Bermuda Triangle also showed that when 'The Triangle' (possibly) causes Al to disappear, then Sam still can't fly a plane without help.
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Quantum Leap	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_6ce0d19c
Universal Driver's License / int_6e627c5c	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_6e627c5c	comment	In Halo 5: Guardians, the Promethean Soldiers can be seen driving human vehicles. Justified by them being advanced robots who are being controlled by an advanced human-made military AI.
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Universal Driver's License / int_6eef7601	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_6eef7601	comment	Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs is continuously amazed at the range of vehicles - many of them extremely powerful, dangerous, and/or expensive - that people on his jobs will hand him the keys for. He usually manages okay, although on more than one occasion he's followed up by filming an experienced operator behind the controls of the same vehicle and pointing out the vast difference in the results.The show's "Safety Third" special includes footage of the single instance in which someone on one of Mike's jobs refused to allow him to operate a vehicle because he wasn't qualified to operate it and it would be unsafe to let him do so. Mike was quite impressed, not that it stopped him from delivering some good-natured teasing about what things he would be qualified to do.
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Dirty Jobs	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_6eef7601
Universal Driver's License / int_6f2d1072	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_6f2d1072	comment	In MechWarrior Living Legends, players can pilot pretty much any military vehicle, from tiny hovertanks to building-sized BattleMechs to Space Planes to BattleArmor. The only vehicles that players cannot drive are enormous DropShips and the various civilian vehicles (mostly pickups) littered around some of the levels.
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Universal Driver's License / int_70814599	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1. Archaeologist flies alien cargo ship. Film at eleven. As unrealistic as it sounds, it's better for Jackson to pilot the ship than the two airforce pilots he's with - at least he can read what's on the HUD! And the fact that most Goa'uld technology seems to be thought-controlled, being lifted and slightly modified from the Ancients' tech.
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Universal Driver's License / int_71157a74	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_71157a74	comment	Timemaster used the universal driver's license. If you were originally from 1920's Chicago and learned to drive a Model T Ford, you could use the same skill roll to drive a late 20th century 18 wheeler, a 30th century hovercraft or a 45th century mecha. Possibly all in the same scenario, this was a time travel game after all.
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Universal Driver's License / int_73456d8a	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_73456d8a	comment	In a sillier application of this in Carnival Phantasm, Rider/Medusa demonstrates her A+-rank Riding skill with a cheap granny bike. She pushes the thing so hard that it outpaces actual racing vehicles.
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Universal Driver's License / int_747d9a6f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_747d9a6f	comment	Alex Mercer in [PROTOTYPE] has to separately acquire the skills to pilot armored vehicles and helicopters. Played straight in that the armor skill gives him one-man proficiency with vehicles that require different crews to operate. Though given he's a shapeshifter and that we never actually see the inside of the cockpits he's in, it's not implausible that he can employ Combat Tentacles or just fill the interior of the vehicle and have all the controls and such in easy reach.
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Universal Driver's License / int_755b343f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Aside from being able to drive standard military vehicles like the Warthog, Master Chief and the other Spartans can also steal lots of Covenant vehicles and have a fairly easy time piloting them, though it's implied that they've actually already had a lot of training and experience doing so (especially Chief, who's already been fighting the Covenant for almost three decades by the time we play as him). His ability to drive every single UNSC atmospheric vehicle (be it ground or flying) is justified in that he is a Super-Soldier who had The Spartan Way training. Making sure he (and all other SPARTAN-II's) could drive every vehicle was probably part of that training. Reversed in Halo 2, where the Arbiter can drive human vehicles despite being a member of the Covenant. Regular Marine grunts are also seen piloting Ghosts and the like during the games. This is actually lampshaded and justified in the books; when hijacking Covenant vehicles in Halo: First Strike, the Spartan-IIs find themselves instinctively able to drive them. Covenant vehicles are at least partly reverse-engineered from Forerunner technology, the latter of which humans have a strong natural affinity with due to the Forerunners designating humanity as their "Reclaimers". Thus why the IIs find themselves able to easily pilot what's basically an off-brand version of Forerunner tech. In Halo 5: Guardians, the Promethean Soldiers can be seen driving human vehicles. Justified by them being advanced robots who are being controlled by an advanced human-made military AI.
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Universal Driver's License / int_78e27fa7	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_78e27fa7	comment	The first time you encounter a Ballista in The Blazing Blade, the group decides a good plan is to create a diversion for the Ballista to focus on, and have another unit sneak up on it and kill the pilot. Then Lyn asks resident archer Will if he knows how to use one, and he replies that he can probably figure it out, since it's "just a big bow". Try GIANT BOW in a carriage on wheels. He uses it with no problem, provided the enemy unit inside the ballista didn't use up all the ammo. Presumably, it uses horses to move, though they're not seen on the unit's sprite. How strange, then, that the other archer you have that actually rides a horse CAN'T use the Ballista.
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Universal Driver's License / int_791e7b7f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_791e7b7f	comment	Zootopia: Despite her being a police officer, the ability to start and drive a subway car is apparently on Judy's already impressive list of skills, a fact which Nick wastes no time lampshading.
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Universal Driver's License / int_7988cb68	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect has the Hammerhead (hovertank) and Mako (IFV), but given you almost always have at least one teammate at any given time, it's more likely that (for example) Shepard drives whilst Garrus operates the guns and Tali is watching the sensors/etc. In the one of the Lair Of The Shadow Broker missions, Shepard and Liara are chasing after a Shadow Broker agent in a hovercar, which Shepard is able to fly, albeit badly. When you first activate the Hammerhead, the onboard VI talks you through how to operate it. Of course, as far as Shepard's piloting skills go, it's almost canon that Shepard drives about as well as s/he dances.
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Universal Driver's License / int_7aaf9e41	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Batman knows how to drive the Batmobile, Batboat, Batpod, Batplane, Batcopter, and all the other assorted thematic vehicles he has in darn near every version, up to and including Powered Armor and mecha.
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Universal Driver's License / int_7c038c18	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb can drive nearly any sort of vehicle, though they won't directly drive cars since they don't have licenses. They handle those by remote control.
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Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_7c038c18
Universal Driver's License / int_7ff6586b	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_7ff6586b	comment	Lampshaded in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: the titular hero steals a red Lectroid shuttlecraft over his black Lectroid companion's protests. ("I flunk out of flight school, that is why I am a diplomat.") Later, Buckaroo convinces the Lectroid to take over the controls so he can man the guns.
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Universal Driver's License / int_81692f99	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_81692f99	comment	Not as blatant in earlier Star Trek series, but it seems that a Starfleet helmsman can fly damn near any starship, whether he can read the display in front of him or not (The same seems to go for any station—tactical, ops, whatever.), although they do have the Universal Translator; the only time it really stretches suspension of disbelief is when Archer does so in Enterprise. On the other hand, averted in "A Piece of the Action", when we find that Kirk can't drive stick. It also seems that no matter where you are, a transporter is a transporter. Bad guys from races who've never seen a Federation ship before seem to be able to beam anywhere from seconds of looking at the transporter console if they can manage to reach it.
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Universal Driver's License / int_82439e64	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Nelly says she just sat in an F1 car (also noting it was the slowest lap ever recorded). But just getting an F1 car going takes getting used to as the above-mentioned Richard Hammond out found out and this was after Hammond was prepped in a Formula Renault car (which itself he had trouble launching).
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Universal Driver's License / int_86814e56	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_86814e56	comment	Taken to extreme lengths in Final Fantasy VI, in which lead character Terra is basically given a 30-second lesson on how to pilot an airship by the gambler Setzer. After this, a party can be chosen, and regardless of who the lead character is in the group (and there are many possibilities), the airship can be flown with ease by anyone. This is strange, considering that a past friend of Setzer's crashed another airship and was killed, even though she was a skilled pilot as well. Particularly zany considering it's entirely possible to pilot the ship with not only a yeti, but a yeti who doesn't speak English and who can't be controlled in battle. It's at least notable that while Setzer seems to teach everyone in the party how to go from point A to point B, in cutscenes whenever tricky piloting is required Setzer always personally takes the wheel except in one instance where Edgar (a master machinist who took a notable interest in the ship and presumably learned more about it in his spare time) did and even then Edgar ends up crashing.
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Universal Driver's License / int_87f79296	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_87f79296	comment	The Far Cry games after the first tend towards this - if a vehicle of any variety is in the game, you can drive it. Boats, cars, gliders, mini-helicopters, etc. Far Cry 3 and 4 at least have some restraint and prevent you from piloting actual helicopters or planes. 3 also lampshades this near the ending, when Jason tells Riley to pilot the copter to escape, saying that he'd just got his pilot's license; Riley protests that it was for planes. He still managed to fly themselves out of the airfield to Dr. Earnhardt's mansion, then from there to Citra's temple, without crashing along the way.
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Universal Driver's License / int_89b04b56	comment	In Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode Throw Mummy from the Train a 3000 year old mummy has little trouble driving a bus (the rodents advice him, though). He mistakes brake pedal for gas only once. And while we are on the subject, the main cast of rodents seem to have no trouble driving any human-sized vehicles (from fork lift to space shuttle) or Gadget's inventions. Probably they have a lot of experience — Zipper cannot drive, and neither can young squirrels from The Adventures in Squirrelsitting.
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Universal Driver's License / int_8a339030	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_8a339030	comment	Despite the page quote, Indiana Jones' inexperience with planes is a recurring theme: in Raiders of the Lost Ark he needs someone else to pilot for him, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom he explicitly admits to Willie that he can't fly a plane, and by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade he can finally fly a plane, but not land it. He is pretty good at cars, horses, boats, and motorcycles, however.
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Universal Driver's License / int_905cf99c	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_905cf99c	comment	Justified in The Fifth Element. At one point, it's explained that Korben's training and experience in his former military unit qualifies him in the operation of a list of vehicles that extends to several pages.
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Universal Driver's License / int_9068877a	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_9068877a	comment	Grif from Red vs. Blue is the Red team's designated vehicle operator. He's actually a pretty skilled Warthog driver (he did crash through a wall once, but that was on purpose), but he's less adept at any kind of aerial vehicle: The fact that Caboose from the Blue Team doesn't have one of these is a fairly important plot point in season one. He sets their tank Sheila into autopilot and accidentally kills Church.
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Universal Driver's License / int_90a3a7f4	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Zig-zagged — Kim is able to fly a jetpack and land a space shuttle after watching the controls during the flight up, but has some difficulties and apprehension about learning to drive a car.
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Universal Driver's License / int_90c73dda	comment	Parodied in Animorphs: At one point, on a whim, they decide to steal a tank off this train they were investigating. Marco declares he should drive, as he plays tank sims a lot, but really doesn't expect to get anywhere... and then is shocked to find the controls so well labeled that even a little kid could drive it. "Aren't they even worried that someone could steal these things?!" "Apparently not." They proceed to nearly go off a cliff, drive on the wrong side of a highway and (intentionally) crush their alien infested evil vice principal's house. In a similar vein, in a much earlier book, Marco attempts to drive a car because he's done it in a video game. His driving prompts Jake to say "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!"
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Universal Driver's License / int_93a07966	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_93a07966	comment	In Fate/Apocrypha, Kairi puts Mordred (the red team's Saber) behind the wheel of a car he stole to get to a battle faster. She gets there quick, but not without putting a few dents in the fender.
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Universal Driver's License / int_9459b387	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_9459b387	comment	Snakes on a Plane lampshades this to the point of parody while still playing it straight: after both pilots are incapacitated, bumbling bodyguard Troy has the most experience. The experience being from a PSP flight simulator, displeasing the control tower. He manages to do okay, but has to land the plane under adverse conditions (too much of a tailwind) due to pointing out that he doesn't have time to turn around since the bite victims need help asap. The plane would have crashed into the building if not for all of the fire trucks in the way. Samuel L. Jack's character get's the final word:
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Universal Driver's License / int_948b3e0b	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_948b3e0b	comment	In season 3 of Ice Road Truckers Alex got into trouble because he could not handle the gear shift on his truck. He has driven trucks for decades but was not familiar with the setup in the truck he was given to drive and would shift to the wrong gear. He also had problems with putting on tire chains though it should have been trivial to someone with his experience. He rarely had a need for them on the roads and ice roads he normally drove on.
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Universal Driver's License / int_95226eb6	comment	Cyberpunk 2020 subverts this trope having different skills for separate kinds of vehicles. However with the adequate cyberware and ability chips you can have the basic knowledge on how to pilot anything.
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Universal Driver's License / int_9820db50	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_9820db50	comment	Averted at one point in The Three Investigators and the mystery of the Coughing Dragon where one of the investigators tries to start up a bus and fails due to his lack of understanding of the double-clutch.
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Universal Driver's License / int_9907ac0f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_9907ac0f	comment	Maisy - various picture books in this series and installments of the Animated Adaptation have shown Maisy the mouse driving a car, conducting a train, flying an airplane, driving a bus, and steering both a sailboat and a rowboat.
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Universal Driver's License / int_9a67b688	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: Conan can drive a motor boat and a helicopternote The helicopter he learned from a computer simulation at the science center. Kogoro still doesn't find it very reassuring.. A simple answer on how he can do so is that he has learned how in Hawaii. He seems to have learned everything in Hawaii.
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Universal Driver's License / int_9a8bf274	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_9a8bf274	comment	Any Command & Conquer game with an explicitly given ability to hijack vehicles does this straight, well, for very obvious reasons. Massive AT-AT expy with twin railguns? No problem!
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Universal Driver's License / int_a037ae41	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_a037ae41	comment	In Fate/Zero, Saber drives Iris' BMW and a motorcycle with professional expertise. Berserker, as an incarnation of a knight, also gets this ability, and uses it to skyjack a fighter jet.
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Universal Driver's License / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin is the king of this trope. He's too sickeningly talented for words. Oddly, his main weakness seems to be tanks, which he drives somewhat more awkwardly, despite the fact that his ability to drive a tank is at least partially justified; on one occasion when forced to do so, he implies that the controls are similar to the moon rover from Explorers on the Moon, for which he presumably received training. In the animated series, Captain Haddock is visibly surprised by Tintin's clumsy handling of the tank, as though he expected him to adapt to it as easily as he does anything else.
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Universal Driver's License / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama. Subverted in the pilot. Fry says "I'll get us out of here!" and starts pushing buttons on the spaceship's control panel. Instead of taking off, the ship makes him a cup of coffee. Although played straight with Leela a few seconds later. Apparently knowing "how to drive stick" is all the knowledge you need to pilot an inter-stellar spaceship (though it might have referred to driving spaceships stick). She can't parallel park though. Subverted again in "Insane in the Mainframe," when Bender and Roberto are escaping from a robot insane asylum. They run into a barn, and begin to fly out in an old airplane. The plane rises into the air, turns, and crashes into the barn. Bender and Roberto are promptly seen emerging from the wreckage, continuing their escape on foot.
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Universal Driver's License / int_a40b1126	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_a40b1126	comment	In Independence Day, a fighter pilot is able to fly an alien spacecraft with a relative minimum of fumbling: The director's cut explicitly shows Steven learning to fly the craft, or at least sitting at its controls, long before he makes the offer to fly it; his confusion with the controls stems more from not being used to them than outright ignorance. Even in the original cut, it's shown that the reason he got it wrong the first time is that the helpful sticker somebody added to explain the controls had the directions reversed.
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Universal Driver's License / int_a5e6a399	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_a5e6a399	comment	Played straight in Command & Conquer: Renegade. There is an introductory tutorial to teach players how to drive and shoot using a vehicle, but heck, nobody needs that training to get started. A character can drive anything from a Humvee to a Multiple Launch Rocket System to a Mammoth Tank. In certain deathmatch maps, this extends to piloting aircraft, too. And if it's campaign mode or driver-as-gunner multiplayer mode, he's a Crew of One. And he can probably do it left-handed, too. Damn hardcore, these soldiers are... Any Command & Conquer game with an explicitly given ability to hijack vehicles does this straight, well, for very obvious reasons. Massive AT-AT expy with twin railguns? No problem! In the Generals games, American Veteran Units will sometimes eject a pilot with their level of experience, who can then be put into a vehicle to give it that level, regardless of the pilot's current or former vehicle.
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Universal Driver's License / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: This is one of the abilities granted by membership in the Embassy to Machines. A Princess in that Embassy never takes penalties to her skill rolls for using unfamiliar equipment, meaning that she can use the Drive skill to drive a car, airplane, or space shuttle with equal skill, program in any computer language regardless of whether she's learnt it, repair computers as easily as fixing a car engine, and so forth.
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Universal Driver's License / int_af42a07f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_af42a07f	comment	The Serenity RPG assumes that characters can perform the basic operations of any vehicle, but more complex operations require a proficiency skill for that type of vehicle. Taking a ground-car down the street to a store? Yes. Getting a freighter through a pitched space battle unscathed? No.
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Universal Driver's License / int_afd91eda	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_afd91eda	comment	Lampshaded in Paycheck when Michael Jennings discovers he bought himself a motorcycle, he asks Uma Thurman's character "How good am I on this thing?"
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Universal Driver's License / int_afeeacf6	comment	Also in The Force Awakens is Rey, who explicitly admits to never having flown the Millenium Falcon, wastes no time decimating the much smaller and maneuverable Tie Fighters chasing them, supposedly piloted by elite First Order pilots. Even she seems confused by this.
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Universal Driver's License / int_b0028436	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Subverted in Part 3: with both the pilot and copilot of a plane taken out, Joseph declares he can fly it because he knows how to fly a propeller plane. Kakyoin then yells, "This is a jet!" The plane crashes moments later. Joseph tells JoJo while flying the plane: "I've crashed three planes. Ever met someone who's done that?" A nonplussed JoJo replies "I'm never flying with you again." And then, later in the same series, they get on another plane. Three guesses what happens to it.
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Universal Driver's License / int_b4996199	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Razorback has this as his mutant power. If it moves, he can pilot it. Doesn't explain why he dressed up like a giant warthog. He's a road hog
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Universal Driver's License / int_b97da91f	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_b97da91f	comment	In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the Rider is able to convert any vehicle into his hellish mechanical "steed", even if it's something — like a giant earth mover — that Johnny Blaze has never driven before.
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Universal Driver's License / int_baa0410d	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_baa0410d	comment	In Speed, driving a city bus traveling faster than 50mph is no trouble for Annie:
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Universal Driver's License / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun both subverts this trope and plays it straight. There are separate skills for different kinds of vehicles. It's easier to fly a plane if you don't know how to fly a plane but do know how to drive; it's much easier if you actually have some flying experience. But then, from 3rd edition, "for convenience, Shadowrun assumes that characters can automatically accomplish basic vehicle maneuvers, such as... taking the old helicopter for a little sightseeing hop." So apparently your characters do have a universal driver's license but then forget everything when asked to do something more challenging than moving and stopping.
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Universal Driver's License / int_c0d0d316	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_c0d0d316	comment	Red Dwarf: Averted. The Pilot skill is broken up into several skills, such as ground vehicles like Auto or Cycle, or various spacecraft, such as transport vessels or experimental craft. It is possible to play this trope straight if your character has sufficient skill points or if they're a pregenerated character with an established ability to do this, such as Ace Rimmer.
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Universal Driver's License / int_c0eadab8	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_c0eadab8	comment	In Sonic X, Tails is actually given a literal Universal Driver's License (or rather a whole stack of them) for anything he can build to drive, helm or fly. And this is a (albeit extradimensional fox) kid who is somewhere around 8 or 10 at the most, just as well he's a genius. Granted, these are licenses for "anything he builds". Hopefully the building process includes him designing controls he can use.
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Universal Driver's License / int_c2b8c574	comment	Body Harvest, a Nintendo 64 game made by the same developer using the same engine, in which the hero travels through time, stealing cars (if they're not locked) and using them to fight giant alien insects.
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Universal Driver's License / int_c43df4d8	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: It seems like The Doctor has one of these; he'll ride anything, including horses, cars (any time period), space-cruise liners and spaceships. It should be mentioned that he needed to take a test to learn how to fly the TARDIS, and he failed. This is all partly justified because in 900 years of life, you probably get the hang of these things. In "The Curse of the Black Spot", a 17-century pirate crew are flying an alien starship by the end of the episode. Earlier, when the pirate captain first came aboard the TARDIS, he was able to figure out almost instantly what many of the controls were. When the Doctor looked at him in a bit of surprise, he shrugged and said, "A ship's a ship." Also, in "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe", Madge Sinclair, who was previously shown to be a terrible driver, manages to operate a Humongous Mecha because the cockpit looks kind of like a plane and her pilot husband took her up with him, ONCE. Partially justified since she's looking for her children and this episode repeatedly shows that a Mama Bear can do anything. It should be noted that she doesn't drive it very well. The Doctor even Lampshades this, saying he can recognize her driving. As soon as she reaches her destination, the whole thing tips over and crashes, prompting the Doctor to mutter, "Nice job, Madge, it's a complete write-off." In "Let's Kill Hitler", Rory automatically knows how to drive a WW2-era motorcycle simply because "it's that sort of day".
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Universal Driver's License / int_c4778e4b	comment	Played kind of straight in an episode of Mythbusters, in which both of the main hosts were able to land a commercial jet safely in a simulator by following instructions over a radio from a professional air-traffic controller, whereas they had crashed the plane hilariously several times before when they attempted it on their own. However, it was stated on the show that the sequence of events that would have to happen to make something like that necessary is so unlikely that it has never actually happened.
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Universal Driver's License / int_c6245086	comment	In Crysis, Nomad can drive everything from pickup trucks to M1 Abrams main battle tanks to VTOL aircraft and everything in between.
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Universal Driver's License / int_c7fe972d	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_c7fe972d	comment	Sora also drove a Light Cycle (though a different one than Riku used) at one point. Like Riku, he had no knowledge on how to use one beforehand.
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Universal Driver's License / int_cd3d981c	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_cd3d981c	comment	In the first ep. of Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Lupin was able to adeptly pilot a rocket-propelled stolen Buddha statue. Well, until Fujiko shot down its balloon-cum-float.
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Universal Driver's License / int_cfd860dd	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_cfd860dd	comment	The "riding" skill possessed by both the Rider and Saber classes of the Nasuverse gives the hero who ends up in that class the intuitive knowledge necessary to ride anything, from horses to fighter jets. Well, technically it's given a rank, but everyone who actually has it has high enough rank to ride any vehicle. In Fate/stay night this was an Informed Ability, but it sees actual use in later installments. In Fate/Zero, Saber drives Iris' BMW and a motorcycle with professional expertise. Berserker, as an incarnation of a knight, also gets this ability, and uses it to skyjack a fighter jet. In a sillier application of this in Carnival Phantasm, Rider/Medusa demonstrates her A+-rank Riding skill with a cheap granny bike. She pushes the thing so hard that it outpaces actual racing vehicles. In Fate/Apocrypha, Kairi puts Mordred (the red team's Saber) behind the wheel of a car he stole to get to a battle faster. She gets there quick, but not without putting a few dents in the fender.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d18cf67d	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_d18cf67d	comment	Subverted in Mother 3, when a Pigmask mistakes Lucas for their commander and brings him a Pork Bean to ride, which he proceeds to crash off-screen mere seconds after he gets into it. It turns out he crashed because the vehicle somehow slipped on a Banana Peel (Despite being a hovercraft). He doesn't have any issues piloting the new one he gets shortly after.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d2bae484	comment	The Amazing Race takes full advantage of the fact that many people believe this trope to be Truth in Television, making teams operate things like doubledecker buses, armored personnel carriers, and shipyard cargo cranes, as well as extending it to things like dogsleds and donkey carts. Count on at least one shot each season of a team member saying something like "How hard can it be?" just before they screw up royally.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d461f757	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_d461f757	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (2003) Starbuck learns how to fly the crashed Raider via gut-poke better than Lee can fly his state-of-the-art Viper. Lampshaded when a frustrated Chief Tyrol is totally flummoxed as to how Starbuck could even get the frakking thing to move. Leoben thinks she plucked the knowledge out of "the stream" and considers this a sufficient reason to stalk her. It's one of the first hints that Starbuck is not quite what she seems to be.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d46beefd	type	Universal Driver's License
Universal Driver's License / int_d46beefd	comment	By the end of Wild Wild West, it appears that at least one of the heroes (probably Artemus Gordon) has figured out how to drive a giant mechanical spider. Mostly justified with Gordon, the various things he's first seen to drive were built by him, and it takes him awhile to figure out how to steer the spider.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d494343b	comment	A cool moment for Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson (certified to fly Boeing 757s) was showing on TV that he could land the NASA Space Shuttle simulator (with a little verbal co-piloting from an expert, but still pretty impressive). Indeed. It should be noted that a Space Shuttle doesn't so much "land" as it "plummets to earth in a (hopefully) semi-controlled manner". Different from a Boeing 757 in that you can't abort a landing and climb again if you screw it up the first time in a Space Shuttle. You're dead.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d5166b43	comment	Reversed in Halo 2, where the Arbiter can drive human vehicles despite being a member of the Covenant.
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Universal Driver's License / int_d581c58e	comment	In Biggles: Adventures in Time, Biggles (transported in time from World War I to the late twentieth century) is able to work out how to fly a helicopter after a few minutes experimentation. He even says, without apparent irony, "If you can learn to fly a Sopwith Camel, you can learn to fly anything!" (The Camel was a notoriously hard to handle aircraft, with a well deserved reputation as a pilot killer. It's not a huge stretch to claim that this would be the truth.)
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Universal Driver's License / int_d5b9ab68	comment	Time Chasers parodied the trope when Nick attempts to steal a car to escape pursuers chasing him in a pickup truck. He immediately totals the car because he doesn't actually know how to drive (the film depicted him as an avid cyclist.)
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Universal Driver's License / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Uranus in the Sailor Moon anime. Sure, it's not strange for a 16 year old girl to be able to drive a car and motorcycle, but a helicopter? This is lampshaded in the Dead Moon arc, where the Inner Senshi think of how cool she is for being able to fly a helicopter, and express a desire to learn to do the same. They drop the idea when they realize that they probably need a special license to do so, and really have no idea how to learn.
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Universal Driver's License / int_db6a22a6	comment	The Biggles books are a justified example; having started out in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, spent the inter-war years in civil aviation before re-enlisting in the RAF and then going on to work for a somewhat ill-defined police aviation unit, there's not very many aircraft Biggles can't at least muddle through on. One story did establish that he wasn't Instrument Flight Rules-qualified, which was briefly a plot point, and this may or may not have remained true throughout the series.
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Universal Driver's License / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra's first season finale, Asami tries out a mechatank and, looking at the controls, says they're just like a Future Industries forklift! Iroh is less lucky with the airplane he steals in midflight, wobbling madly. He seems to pick up the basics fast, but fortunately doesn't need to land it. Taken even further in later seasons, in which Asami shows that she can drive or fly literally anything she encounters, which has included: roadsters, mopeds, racecars, Mecha-tanks, motorboats, aeroplanes, and more than one model of airship.
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Universal Driver's License / int_df64a221	comment	Mercenaries' Jennifer Mui, Mattias Nilson, and Chris Jacobs can pilot anything, apparently due to extensive military experience prior to becoming mercenaries. How they manage to operate all systems aboard a tank by themselves is left unexplained.
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Universal Driver's License / int_df8e09e	comment	In BattleZone II, you (Lt. Cooke) can pilot almost any vehicle. Salvage vehicles, floating missile tanks, walkers, morphing alien tanks, and regular tracked tanks. However, floating tow trucks and artillery seems to baffle Lt. Cooke, as you cannot pilot them. Even more-so in the fan-made expansion "Forgotten Enemies", ask a pilot of a Hadean Atlas to pick you up and he responds in an annoying "I could not."
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Universal Driver's License / int_e18af54e	comment	In an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, she insists that since a regular driver can't be found, she'd drive the heavy equipment needed in a snowstorm.
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Universal Driver's License / int_e270b7e1	comment	Genius: The Transgression: An explicit ability of Geniuses. They have an innate understanding of technology, and the skills that let them drive can apply very widely, and thus a Genius that can drive a car and a bicycle can also drive a space shuttle or an airplane.
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Universal Driver's License / int_e4732abc	comment	Colonel Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis has been known to pilot anything remotely capable of flight, including a hollowed-out asteroid.note Yes, really. There is often an attempt to avert the trope by having him bungle the landing in one way or another, even though most of the Alien crafts piloted by Sheppard (ie: Puddle Jumpers, The Orion and Atlantis) are controlled by thought; you simply need to think what you want the ship to do, and it does it. The control sticks are probably installed because having something to do with their hands helps the pilots to focus their thoughts better.
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Universal Driver's License / int_e52e9eea	comment	Interview with the Vampire ends with Lestat attacking Daniel in his car. After biting Daniel, Lestat, a centuries-old vampire who has only recently resurfaced and is still adjusting to the modern world, takes the wheel of Daniel's Mustang and drives off into the night.
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Universal Driver's License / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS has assorted "Vehicle Skills", which requires the PC to buy separate skills for each vehicle type, but also has "Drive!", which works like the Universal Driver's License and is only recommended for use in "cinematic" games.
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Universal Driver's License / int_e6267766	comment	In Star Wars: Rogue Squadron: Luke and Wedge can fly anything they have access to. Whether it be Rebel spacecraft that one would logically assume they were trained to fly at some point, Imperial ships (one mission has Wedge steal an Imperial Shuttle and, optionally, a TIE Fighter as a stealthy means of getting to the shuttle), the Millenium Falcon (which is a personal vehicle of Han and not a Rebel craft), the Slave I (Boba Fett's personal ship), or even an inexplicably flying Buick! Similarly in Battle for Naboo, Lt. Sykes pilots a wide range of vehicles: landspeeders, gunboats, a Naboo police cruiser, the iconic Naboo Starfighter, and a Naboo Bomber.
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Universal Driver's License / int_ea0de5f1	comment	Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures: After Pac fails his driver's license test, his friends boast of the many fruit-shaped vehicles he can still drive.
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Universal Driver's License / int_ebad55e1	comment	PJ Masks: Despite being 6-years old, all 3 heroes have no trouble piloting their respective vehicles (a car, a plane and an amphibian vehicle respectively), or each others vehicles if the situation demands it. In "Take to the Skies, Owlette", Catboy and Gekko likewise had no trouble flying an old plane from the museum.
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Universal Driver's License / int_ee985816	comment	In Mahoromatic, Mahoro once showed a full driving license, complete with every single type of civilian vehicle listed on it, from cars to different tonnage trucks to boats and ships, including even aircrafts. Justified since she's a military-grade Robot Girl, so she likely just had all the required skill downloaded into her.
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Universal Driver's License / int_eec04867	comment	Lampshaded in the Dirk Pitt Adventures, when Giordino points out that Pitt, as an Air Force major, can fly pretty much any airplane or chopper known to man. He also seems to have no problem with boats, and has a large collection of classic cars and planes in his house.
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Universal Driver's License / int_ef53b034	comment	The Before the Awakening Tie-In Novel explains that Rey would play on a realistic piloting sim video game to pass the time when she was trapped in her house by sandstorms.
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Universal Driver's License / int_f3c07f91	comment	The Mask: The Mask turns Stanley's car the Loaner or any car into the Maskmobile that like him shapeshift into various vehicles along with gadgets to spare which is justified as The Mask can access through Stanley's memories and pick out any vehicles that has different gadgets from them.
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Universal Driver's License / int_f3ef0f86	comment	In Artemis Fowl, fish smuggler Doodah Day can allegedly drive any vehicle, be it human, fairy or otherwise.
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Universal Driver's License / int_f43685a2	comment	In Battlefield Earth, set 1000 years in the future, a group of now cave-dwelling humans come across a group of Harrier jump-jets, still miraculously working, and after some second-hand experience from books and a few days with a flight simulator, also miraculously working, they learn to fly them to defeat the group of Aliens currently controlling the planet. These humans had no education whatsoever, only one human was partly educated by the aliens, yet they still managed to learn to read English. In the original novel there are no Harriers: the bad guy teaches the protagonist how to pilot alien aircraft and the protagonist, in turn, teaches other humans.
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Universal Driver's License / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin III Lupin himself, as well as the members of his gang, can handle anything from a car to a helicopter to an experimental fighter jet. And on one occasion, the space shuttle. In the first ep. of Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Lupin was able to adeptly pilot a rocket-propelled stolen Buddha statue. Well, until Fujiko shot down its balloon-cum-float.
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Universal Driver's License / int_fa00b130	comment	Zig-zagged in Spongebob Squarepants. Spongebob can't drive a normal boatmobile competent enough to earn a Boating Licence, but he has been shown to drive other kinds of vehicles with mastery running the gamut of fighter planes, motorcycles, cargo trucks, bubble pods and a realistic-styled boat.
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Universal Driver's License / int_fb26bc2e	comment	Subverted and played straight on The Sentinel Blair knows how to drive a semi from having learned from his uncle, and can operate a magnetic crane because of a summer job; but he has to teach Jim how to drive a semi in preparation for an undercover job.
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