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A favourite assassination method of mobsters and spies alike is to hook up a bomb to the ignition switch of a car, so that it will lie dormant until some poor soul starts it. While the intended target is, naturally, the car's owner, this trope is the number one killer of chauffeurs, valets and helpful Disposable Women - which occasionally raises the Fridge Logic of why you would put an ignition-triggered explosive in a chauffeured car in the first place... A subtrope of Vehicular Sabotage. See Every Car Is a Pinto for cars blowing up that have no reason to.

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  • External Combustion
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  • A favourite assassination method of mobsters and spies alike is to hook up a bomb to the ignition switch of a car, so that it will lie dormant until some poor soul starts it. While the intended target is, naturally, the car's owner, this trope is the number one killer of chauffeurs, valets and helpful Disposable Women - which occasionally raises the Fridge Logic of why you would put an ignition-triggered explosive in a chauffeured car in the first place... A subtrope of Vehicular Sabotage. See Every Car Is a Pinto for cars blowing up that have no reason to.
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  • A favourite assassination method of mobsters and spies alike is to hook up a bomb to the ignition switch of a car, so that it will lie dormant until some poor soul starts it. While the intended target is, naturally, the car's owner, this trope is the number one killer of chauffeurs, valets and helpful Disposable Women - which occasionally raises the Fridge Logic of why you would put an ignition-triggered explosive in a chauffeured car in the first place... There is an interesting case of The Law of Conservation of Detail attached to this trope. In normal circumstances, little to no screentime is devoted to a character walking to their car or starting it. Hence, whenever this does happen - especially if you see a close-up of the key - the more Genre Savvy viewer probably has a distinctly uneasy feeling in his stomach. Wait for it... three... two... one... ignition! Another dead giveaway is if the car is a gift from someone the recipient really shouldn't trust. Variations include remote-detonation and bombs hooked up to other parts of the car, but the idea is to kill the occupant. Cars turned into suicide bombs don't count. A subtrope of Vehicular Sabotage. See Every Car Is a Pinto for cars blowing up that have no reason to. Unrelated to steam engines and Stirling engines, which really do work by "external combustion". Examples of External Combustion include:
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