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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''[[Captain Ersatz|Black Siren]]''': Flash, look!
''(Flash sees a truck full of dynamite on a collision course with a bus full of nuns, who gasp and cross themselves)''
'''[[The Flash]]''': You've gotta be kidding.|''[[Justice League]]''}}
Sometimes, saving an [[Innocent Bystander]] from [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Doctor Demonica]] just won't cut it: you need more impact to showcase just how dire the threat is and make the scene exciting. Enter the [[Bus Full
Despite the name, it doesn't have to be a bus. Any vehicle or enclosure full of Innocent Bystanders will do, and likewise any kind of person can be put at risk, though usually it will be people who are stunningly innocent, defenseless, and respectable to most viewers.
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Major hero points for the super dude who saves it. It's the hero publicity equivalent of a politician kissing babies.
Not to be confused with
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In one of the funnier [[Filler]] episodes of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Goku and Piccolo save a schoolbus of children from falling off a cliff during their driving tests. Of course, they still fail the test.
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'''Ben Jabituya:''' Nun soup?
'''Newton Crosby:''' ''horrified, covers Ben's mouth'' Ben! }}
* Played straight in ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|perfect effect]] and the added bonus of the title character saving himself from Death Row. [[Jerkass|Who]] would want to shoot him after he saves more than a dozen orphans from a burning building?
* During the first live-action ''Transformers'' movie, Bonecrusher actually rams into a bus, ''breaking it in half in a fireball of death'', and emerges uncathed, Terminator-style.
** A popular joke is that he actually ran through a literal bus full of nuns.
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* ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' used a school bus full of children as the setting for the film's climax, in which Scorpio held them all hostage as our hero chose to disobey orders to pay him his ransom and simply leaps on the school bus himself.
* This trope nearly happens in ''My Life In Ruins'', but the bus is not yet hanging from the cliff, the driver manages to stop it just in time.
* Parodied in the opening sequence of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]], in which Mr Potato Head gives Woody a choice between catching him and saving a trainful of 'orphans' (Troll dolls with their heads sticking out the train windows).
* The climax of ''The Oxford Murders'' involves a threat to an actual bus full of innocents.
* In [[Hobo with a Shotgun]], one of the [[Big Bad|BigBads]] torches a bus full of elementry school children to [[Moral Event Horizon|show that he means business]]. No, no one saves them, and yes, we do see a tiny charred corpse.
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* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Smallville]]''. Metallo explains the reason that he hates Clark: Clark saved a bus from crashing, but later, one of its passengers murdered Metallo's sister.
* An episode of ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'' had the titular Rider try to save a bus full of cute high school girls from a Zodiart who was jealous that they all ignored him in his human form. Though Fourze stopped the monster, it was Shun with the Powerdizer who stopped the bus.
* Horrifyingly subverted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Midnight". The Doctor is trapped in a Bus Full of Innocents when an unseen alien ''thing'' invades. Since he's the only one with enough knowledge to deal with the alien, the passengers suspect him of being the cause of their trouble, and eventually nearly manage to murder him simply to save their own lives. They're all normal, good, innocent people, and none of them were prepared for [[What You Are in the Dark]].
** [[Played With]] in the later episode "Planet Of The Dead", in which the Doctor is (once again) trapped on a bus with innocent passengers while trying to get rid of dangerous aliens. He remembers "Midnight" and shudders for a bit, but quickly manages to convince everyone that he can be trusted and saves the day without too much effort.
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