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We Don't Need Roads

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We Don't Need Roads	comment	Cars in fiction tend to be pretty awesome. Some just look cool and go fast. Others have weapons systems and active camouflage built into them. And then there are these cars, which can transform in order to traverse terrain meant for other vehicles. Like boats. Or planes. There are practical reasons for this to be the case, of course; after all, you wouldn't want to have to give up chasing the villains because they planned a water escape that you didn't account for. The primary reason, though, is the Rule of Cool. Because being able to drive off a pier in a sports car, transform on the way down, and hit the water in a speedboat is just plain badass. Less drastic modifications can be expected as well for different terrain on land, like retractable tire studs for driving on ice and other slick surfaces. Any weapon systems the car is equipped with will sometimes inexplicably change in order to fit the new environment; rather than missiles, the car will have torpedos. The Gadgeteer Genius is almost certainly the one who made all these awesome modifications. A subtrope of Cool Car and a Super-Trope for Flying Car, Hubcap Hovercraft and Amphibious Automobile. Often overlaps with Cool Boat and Cool Plane, for obvious reasons.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_218590b0	comment	In Blues Brothers 2000, the updated Bluesmobile could function underwater.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_27c361a9	comment	The Spy Hunter games are probably one of the best examples of this. In addition to being able to transform into a Cool Boat, if the armor takes too much damage, it will be shed to reveal a motorcycle (or a jetski) underneath). In the sequel, it can optionally convert into an off-road mode, where the ground clearance is raised, wheels widened and the tires have spikes come out of then, which reduces speed but significantly improves handling when off-road.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_27d467a3	comment	The Magic School Bus might be the most extreme example ever, since it can transform into just about anything, from a submarine to a spacecraft to a Drill Tank to a time machine.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_2d311a08	comment	The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' van could become a hovercraft of some sort.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_2e2efbf9	comment	At the end of Back to the Future, Doc Brown travels forward to 2015 and gets some pretty major work done on the DeLorean, including a "hover conversion" that's really more of a "flight conversion". At the end of Back to the Future Part III, he does the same thing to a locomotive. The fact that the Delorean is a time machine in the first place qualifies it for this trope.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_3f20192e	comment	In Moonraker. Bond's gondola transforms into a hovercraft, allowing him to drive it onto the streets of Venice.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_48cf61a6	comment	Superfriends (1973/74) episode "Too Hot To Handle". The aliens have a fire truck that can convert into a rocket ship and fly.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers, several of the Autobots were modified so that they could retract their wheels and replace them with hydrofoils for long-distance water travel. In addition, Brawn could turn the front end of his car into a large drill bit for tunneling. These options were never included on the original toys, although Tracks' ability to become a flying Corvette was part of his toy. (The mail-order, toy-only Omnibots Downshift and Overdrive could also become flying cars.) While most of the Triple Changers had vehicle modes that were completely different from each other, Springer was unique in that his helicopter mode was basically the same as his car mode, just with the rear end folded out to the rear to form a tail, and the front bumpers shifted and extended to form wings. Springer was also the only one of the original Triple Changers who retained his Cybertronian vehicle modes. Speaking of Triple Changers, Astrotrain didn't strictly need tracks to ferry his fellow Decepticons about in his locomotive mode, and he could even transform into shuttle mode while in transit without disrupting his passengers... somehow (considering he had to turn upside-down to complete the transformation).
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We Don't Need Roads / int_4ed68f36	comment	Vigilante 8 and the second game feature Power Ups that change the wheels of the vehicles into propellers (for driving on the waters) and, in the Alaska stage, skis for front wheels and bulkier wheels for the back ones.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Both the Batmobile and Green Arrow's Arrowcar can transform into planes. The Batmobile can also turn into a Giant Mecha.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_5690420f	comment	In Double-O-duck, Launchpad McQuack is given a car that can turn into a boat or an helicopter.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_5794205a	comment	Crash Nitro Kart: Emperor Velo tells the kidnapped racers (either Team Bandicoot or Team Evil) that he has their vehicles modified so they can race in the tracks he has set on 4 planets. The modification seems to be the wheels, which can now turn 90 degrees and emit anti-gravity/magnetic waves so they can ride on the heavily-tilted tracks or giant tube tracks.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_5ada53ed	comment	Many James Bond examples. Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun has a car that can fly (with an attachable wing and engine). Bond's Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me converts into a submarine when he drives it off a pier and then back into a sports car again when he reaches the beach. In Moonraker. Bond's gondola transforms into a hovercraft, allowing him to drive it onto the streets of Venice. Die Another Day's Colonel Moon uses hovercrafts to cruise over the Korean demilitarized zone (which is littered with mines). Bond destroys his base, and Moon is forced to go underground and build a giant sunlight-reflecting satellite to destroy the minefield, instead. (Which had to be more expensive than simply buying more hovercrafts...)
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We Don't Need Roads / int_5c0e4258	comment	SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron inverts this trope with the Cyclotrons. Launched from the Turbokat, the Cyclotrons launch as smaller manned aircraft, and after a couple seconds from launch, the wings and heat shield unfurl and the Cyclotron transforms from an aircraft into a motorcycle.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_60fd21c1	comment	In Cursed Halo, one of the Warthog variants is a flying Warthog complete with the wheels serving as rockets in a direct reference to Back to the Future.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_615d90c6	comment	Speed Racer's car can become a sub.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_64dbb72f	comment	Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun has a car that can fly (with an attachable wing and engine).
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We Don't Need Roads / int_79328e7	comment	On Wacky Races, the Mean Machine, Crimson Haybaler, Convert-A-Car and Creepy Coupe can go airborne where necessary. Dick Dastardly's Mean Machine was especially versatile—in "Real Gone Ape" it's used as a submarine.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_7c038c18	comment	The titular boys from Phineas and Ferb built one in the episode "The Secret of Success". After being disappointed by an ATV ad that showcases it can only drive through road and mud, the boys made an all-terrain vehicle that can transform as needed to go through all terrains; cliffs, snow, ice, underwater with propellers, through the sky using wing attachments, etc. And yes, it can also drive through road and mud. As the song puts it:
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We Don't Need Roads / int_7de8951a	comment	MegaTraveller Referee's Companion. At Tech Level 8 vehicle transportation includes triphibians, which can travel on land, in the water and through the air.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_86c3beca	comment	The new Spark built Corbettite train from Girl Genius does not really need tracks and can make its own tunnels through rocks in order to meet up with existing underground lines. The Beast also did not require tracks, but since it was a murderous machine that wanted to eat everything instead of give passengers a ride this was less than optimal.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_87cf8985	comment	Champions. Vehicles can have any form of movement super characters can, including flight, swimming, tunneling and even teleportation. They can also have the power of Shapeshifting so they have an appropriate form for the movement mode they're in.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_957b2f4	comment	Race for the Yankee Zephyr. Barney and Gilbert need money to repair their helicopter in order to salvage the Yankee Zepher. Gilbert's daughter Sally points out that the map shows plenty of roads, so they can just drive. Barney rejects these as "paper roads, government ink". The helicopter later crashes, but some friends of Gilbert modify the helicopter cabin into a caterpillar-tracked all-terrain vehicle.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_a1ea0f34	comment	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang might actually be the Ur-Example of this trope. The major premise was basically "Check out this car: it can fly."
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We Don't Need Roads / int_ae259c31	comment	Bond's Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me converts into a submarine when he drives it off a pier and then back into a sports car again when he reaches the beach.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse has a car that can also become an airplane. In fact, it's seen up in the air more often than not.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_b94ae31e	comment	The Wallace & Gromit short "A Close Shave" features a motorcycle sidecar that doubles as a plane.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_cdeed79a	comment	Car Wars has "Grasshoppers", lightweight car/helicopter hybrids. Their armour tends to be rather poor, but if someone is chasing you too closely? Well, many of them come with bombs, you see...
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We Don't Need Roads / int_cf10c600	comment	Quorra's car in TRON: Legacy can operate in the rough terrain off The Grid, unlike most ground vehicles in Clu's arsenal.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_d64fad36	comment	The Dreamside Road: The Aesir flies from place to place, though this uses a far greater amount of the stored solar power than driving.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_d6d59994	comment	Cool McCool's Coolmobile is another vehicle that can take flight when necessary.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_dac5c36d	comment	The Gadgetmobile in Gadget and the Gadgetinis and Inspector Gadget (2015). The earliest model had a plane mode in "Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas," but only to set up a "Go-Go Gadget Plane" joke.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_ec290eb8	comment	M.A.S.K. featured several cars that could turn into planes, and motorcycles that could turn into flying vehicles as well. Some of the other cars could deploy different types of craft (usually either a boat or a plane), leaving behind the main vehicle as a shell, and still others could convert from street cars into tank-like battle vehicles.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_ece42231	comment	Filmation's Ghostbusters: The Ghostbuggy. To see the car actually driving was a rare sight (the wheels didn't have to be animated.)
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We Don't Need Roads / int_fad1ddfe	comment	The Last Starfighter. Centauri's car is also a starship.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_fb0b20f2	comment	Certain Cybran Nation warships in Supreme Commander can deploy legs and turn into a Spider Ship, walking out of the sea and onto land to support their ground forces when assaulting a shoreline.
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We Don't Need Roads / int_fd49dcff	comment	Die Another Day's Colonel Moon uses hovercrafts to cruise over the Korean demilitarized zone (which is littered with mines). Bond destroys his base, and Moon is forced to go underground and build a giant sunlight-reflecting satellite to destroy the minefield, instead. (Which had to be more expensive than simply buying more hovercrafts...)
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Back to the Future Part III / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
Blues Brothers 2000 / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
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Moonraker / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
Planet of Storms / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
The Man with the Golden Gun / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
TRON: Legacy / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
The Magic School Bus / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
Champions (Tabletop Game) / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
Traveller (Tabletop Game) / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
The Schetch Pad (Webcomic) / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
A Close Shave / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
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Battletoads / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads
Superfriends / int_f8b8f119	type	We Don't Need Roads

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