I didn't realize this trope was used as much as it was...holy cow: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NitroExpress#:~:text=Advertisement:,winding roads, etc.).That sounds more like an incentive than a caution. Think about it, fall, break most of your bones and puncture your internal organs . . . vs. exploding on impact.
You'd be exactly correct.I don't know what it's from, but my first thought was "Ray Harryhaussen?". They look like things that are about to come to life in stop-motion animation and attack you.
If it works...it works!
My son was in an FTC robotics team and did exactly that at the start of their finals competition.