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| 11 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/GhostTown2008 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_05_hit_by_a_bus.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:350:"You are not gonna believe what almost just happened!"]] |
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| 14 | ->"''Don't cross the street in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle of the block'' \ |
| 15 | ''Don't cross the street in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle of the block'' \ |
| 16 | ''Use your eyes to look out, use your ears to hear''\ |
| 17 | ''Walk up to the corner when the coast is clear''\ |
| 18 | ''And wait, and wait, until you see the light turn green...''" |
| 19 | -->-- '''Music/TheyMightBeGiants''', "In the Middle, in the Middle, In the Middle" |
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| 21 | A specific variant of DroppedABridgeOnHim. A character runs across the street without checking for oncoming vehicles, usually because of someone chasing him or something. Often, he attempts to provide the last word in the argument by turning his back to the opposite side of the road. Without warning, a bus or car wheels in from the side of the frame and slams into him, crushing his bones into the dust of death. Often it seems the vehicle was moving pretty quickly for the road it's on. The guy who left his common sense behind in the heat of the moment is KilledOffForReal to provide AnyoneCanDie shock value. Or, it can make for comedy with its abruptness. |
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| 23 | Plus, it's a kind of KarmicDeath. [[{{Anvilicious}} Remember, folks:]] you were taught in elementary school to Look Both Ways before crossing the street! |
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| 25 | Interestingly, the driver almost never slows down (if they try, they will brake so hard that their wheels lock up and they end up not slowing down anyway) and never swerves, even if the person was in the street long enough for them to react. If the victim is "lucky" they might just honk (might). This, however, can be often a case of TruthInTelevision. Drivers are humans, not automated machines, and a quick and unexpected obstacle that shows up in the car's way, such as someone running, may not give the driver time enough to react and cause a traffic accident. In most fictional instances, especially in Anime, this also results in the driver being [[TheGhost rarely if ever seen]]. |
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| 27 | Among other popular death tropes, Japanese media ''really'' likes this one, whether it be for setting up a sudden drama arc, giving a character a tragic backstory where they lost a loved one in this way, or killing some poor sap so they can ReincarnateInAnotherWorld. Calling the vehicle in question "Truck-kun" (or its local vehicular equivalent) has become [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/truck-kun a meme]]. |
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| 29 | Can invoke DiabolusExMachina if done particularly suddenly, or SchrodingersGun in video games in which the vehicle crosses your path ''only'' if you didn't look first. Nearly always invokes MoodWhiplash. Can sometimes be averted by a {{Heroic Sacrific|e}}ial DivingSave. Compare CarFu, where someone is ''trying'' to hit someone else with a vehicle. For instances involving trains and railroads, see RailroadTracksofDoom instead. |
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| 31 | [[FridgeBrilliance The incredibly dangerous roads in Fictionland might explain]] why [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Jaywalking is considered as serious as Murder and Arson...]] |
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| 33 | Not to be confused with the two films ([[Film/LookBothWays2005 2005]] and [[Film/LookBothWays2022 2022]]) of the same name. If the pedestrian can not only survive it, but shrug it off (usually wrecking the vehicle), it's a case of PedestrianCrushesCar. |
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| 35 | Because this is a '''{{Death Trope|s}}, beware of Unmarked Spoilers!''' |
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| 37 | !!Examples: |
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| 40 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 41 | * Happens in one of the early Got Milk commercials to a yuppie on a cell phone as he's in the middle of screaming at the person on the other end that they're fired. He thinks he's in Heaven initially due to winding up in a room with relaxing music, a fluffy cat, and fresh chocolate chip cookies on a plate. But right after he takes a bite from a cookie he finds that the fridge is full of nothing but empty milk cartons.. |
| 42 | * Public information films aimed at kids in Britain in the 1970's used this trope. One popular in TheSeventies repeated the mantra "Look left. Look right. Look left again!" to kids, to try to drum it into them to look before they crossed the street. With visual reinforcement concerning what might happen to ''heedless'' kids who ''didn't''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1UiNZ3G4Y Here's]] one featuring Creator/JonPertwee. '''[[InherentlyFunnyWords SPLINK!]]''' |
| 43 | * Road safety ads naturally feature this trope fairly often. [[https://i.imgur.com/zQ6r4qf.mp4 This Irish advert]] is particularly realistic insofar as it illustrates both the importance of not texting as you cross the street, and not crossing from behind a large parked vehicle that would obstruct you until you suddenly "jump" into traffic. |
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| 46 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 47 | * A variant appears in ''Manga/AstroBoy''. In the DownerBeginning, Tobio takes his dad's car for a drive and ends up driving into a car himself. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/AmalgamOfDistortion'' kicks off the plot when Rokumichi tries to save a kid from a truck crash and gets hit himself. Uniquely, this is then revealed to be an InvokedTrope by [[TheSyndicate SAI]], who used a hologram of a little boy to lure him there so they could knock him unconscious and take him to one of their labs to be [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on]]. |
| 49 | %%* ''Manga/BabyAndMe'': [[spoiler:Minoru nearly dies at the very end because of this.]] (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 50 | * The trope occurs ''hilariously'' -- twice -- in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}''. |
| 51 | ** In the first instance, resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s [[LargeHam Isaac]] and [[TheDitz Miria]] are dancing about and enthusing about their plan to become rich when they are abruptly hit by a car driven by Ennis. Since it wasn't going very fast, they're not seriously hurt. |
| 52 | ** Later on, Szilard leaps out of a window in pursuit of Maiza - and directly into the path of ''his own car'', now [[DrivesLikeCrazy driven by Isaac]]. |
| 53 | * Happens in ''Manga/BlackGod'' to a young pedestrian to throw more angst at the protagonist. It happens again near the end of the anime, only this time the hero saves the civilian's life. |
| 54 | * Implied in ''Manga/BloomIntoYou''. Touko's older sister Mio is said to have died in a traffic accident, and a flashback shows her setting out to do some errands, presumably resulting in her being hit by a car at some point. |
| 55 | * In ''Boku no Kanojo Meguru Isekai'', our boorish hero was run over by a truck before he was reincarnated into a new world. It's only later when he remembers that his StalkerWithACrush was behind the wheel, and realizes too late that she reincarnated into the same world to kill him again. The story then follows a grim cycle where whatever world he goes, another version of her follows. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'': |
| 57 | ** Happened to [[spoiler:Stefan Levin's girlfriend Karen. She was in a hurry to go to Levin's latest match, carelessly tried to cross the road... and got hit ''by a truck'' for her trouble.]] |
| 58 | ** Subverted with [[spoiler:Misaki's sister Yoshiko]], who almost got hit by a bus [[spoiler:and Misaki saved her at the cost of being seriously injured]] -- it happened because she fell over while riding her bike. |
| 59 | ** Also subverted in the first chronological scene of the anime canon. A tiny Tsubasa reaches for the streets when his parents are distracted, is juuuust about to be run over by a car... and his ''soccer ball'' softens the impact enough for him to be completely unharmed. |
| 60 | * A common cause of death for soon-to-be {{cynicism catalyst}}s and/or general dead loved ones in ''Manga/CaseClosed''. For example, there's [[spoiler:Takagi's BigBrotherMentor Date; he accidentally dropped his police notepad and a ring he kept for his girlfriend, tried to retrieve them... and got a face full of a car whose driver fell asleep at the wheel for his trouble]]. |
| 61 | * In an odd version, [[spoiler:Rei Asaka]] from ''Manga/DearBrother'' pulls this with a ''train'', since [[spoiler:she]] fell on its path while [[spoiler:trying to recover a bouquet of roses that she was carrying as a gift to her date, Nanako. This only happens in the anime; in the original manga, she kills herself with a drug overdose.]] |
| 62 | * In ''Manga/DeathNote'', a gangster is splattered by the truck, having been sentenced to death via Light's Death Note to test its capabilities. |
| 63 | * Episode 10 of ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil X'' has Jashin-chan attempt to cross the street in an attempt to defy her fated death by an omikuji, except she stops midway through the crossing to gloat that she will not die. Alas, she was rammed by a "39 Dropkick" truck, driven by Music/HatsuneMiku herself. Thankfully, Jashin-chan survived thanks to her healing factor. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/ExArm'' starts off with Akira reluctantly growing a spine to help a girl harassed by punks... only to IMMEDIATELY get clobbered by a truck just as he started running back. He only wakes up 16 years later InMediasRes. |
| 65 | * In [[Recap/ExcelSagaE01KoshiRikdoAssassinationPlot the very first episode]] of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', Excel gets hit by a bus while prancing home from her high school graduation, and the Great Will of the Macrocosm [[FirstEpisodeResurrection has to resurrect her]]. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/FlyMeToTheMoon'': Nasa gets hit by a truck when he tries to cross the road and speak with the pretty girl standing on the other side. Not only does he survive (albeit with heavy injuries that require surgery and months of physical therapy), it ends up being the catalyst for his romance with the girl, Tsukasa (who tanked the worst of the hit saving Nasa, but walked off with only minor injuries [[AmbiguouslyHuman for some reason]]). |
| 67 | * Subverted in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', where [[spoiler:Tohru's mom Kyouko was fatally hit by a car because the driver actually had a lethal heart attack while driving. Oh, and because Kyou panicked from trying a DivingSave in fear of triggering his curse -- needless to say, [[FailureKnight Kyou couldn't forgive himself for it]].]] |
| 68 | %%* ''Manga/{{Fuuka}}'': [[spoiler:The title character got hit by a truck and died.]] (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 69 | * ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise: Another Mission'' (basically an advertisement for Microsoft's Surface Tablet in the form of a three minute short) has the Major throwing a tablet carrying crucial information to Togusa. An android leaps through the air to intercept it, only to get hit by a truck. |
| 70 | * {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Manga/GoodbyeImBeingReincarnated'', where a princess from another world appears before the main character, asking him for help in her world against evil forces and telling him that he needs to be reincarnated there. He agrees, then the next day, a truck comes at him and almost kills him, stopped only by a goblin who appears out of nowhere and saves him... and the princess herself is revealed as the driver of the truck, while the evil forces are trying to save his life. |
| 71 | * [[spoiler:Hanako-chan]] from ''Manga/HauntedJunction'' died like this, having been hit by a speeding car [[spoiler:when she was running away from her rockstar boyfriend's {{Loony Fan}}s, who were harassing her.]] |
| 72 | * Hitomi from ''Anime/{{ICE|2007}}'' gets run over by a car, which promptly transports her mind into the body of a woman living in the near future, where all males have gone extinct. |
| 73 | * Parodied in ''Isekai Nande Ikumon ka!''. Girls from many different worlds need Komoru to help them out, but none of them want to share, so they often compete against each other as to who will gain his favor. One time, one of the girls invokes this trope by summoning a truck to run him over (in his own room) in a bid to reincarnate him in her world first. The others respond by ''bombarding'' him with summoned trucks. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 75 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Upon [[spoiler:Pucci's activation of [[TimeMaster Made In Heaven]]]], one of the resulting effects causes a civilian to get rammed over by a speeding car. |
| 76 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Just as [[VillainOfTheWeek Aisho Dainenjiyama]] thinks he's cornered Yasuho and Tsurugi, he sees Jobin Higashikata approach him, unaware that Tsurugi has used Paper Moon King on him, which has made every single bus in Morioh appear as Jobin to him, and he finds out the deception too late as he gets run over. |
| 77 | * ''Franchise/KagerouProject'': During ''Heat Haze Days'', Hiyori chases a cat she had been petting out into the road. As the pedestrian crossing sign has just turned red. [[spoiler:[[GroundhogDayLoop And that's not even the worst way she gets to die.]] After realising her fate of dying over and over, Hibiya decides to ScrewDestiny and [[HeroicSacrifice get hit by the truck instead]]. It doesn't work.]] |
| 78 | * The death of [[spoiler:Leon's [[BrotherSisterTeam sister and partner]] Sophie]] in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'' was like this. [[spoiler:In an attempt to get her and Leon disqualified from a very important circus contest, Yuri wrote a fake letter in which he asked Sophie for a meet-up that never took place. When she realized that she had been tricked ''and'' had few minutes to spare, Sophie tried to reach the stadium in time and crossed the streets without looking -- and without seeing a truck that was coming her way.]] |
| 79 | * [[spoiler:Nayuki's mother Akiko]] in ''Anime/{{Kanon}}'' is hit by an SUV running a red light and traveling too fast for snowy conditions near the end, [[spoiler:but survives thanks to Ayu's miracle]]. |
| 80 | * In ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'', [[spoiler:Gilbert]] is run over and killed by a horse carriage after running into the street while [[DrugsAreBad hallucinating]]. |
| 81 | * ''Anime/KnightHunters'': |
| 82 | ** The first episode opens with a girl named Michiru waving goodbye to her boyfriend, who gets on his bike and is suddenly run over by a van. "Run over" as in ''it falls on him from an overpass, on fire, covered in ninjas''. |
| 83 | ** Averted in the case of [[spoiler:Ran's ill little sister Aya-chan]], since it turns out [[spoiler:it was intentional]]. |
| 84 | * The ReincarnateInAnotherWorld version is mocked in ''Literature/KonoSuba'', where the plot is kicked off by the LoserProtagonist dying of a panic-induced heart attack after heroically [[StupidSacrifice pushing a girl out of the path of a slow-moving tractor he mistook for a truck]]. He then [[NoDeadBodyPoops soils his pants as he dies]] and [[HumiliationConga gets laughed at by both his family and the hospital staff]] for dying so embarrassingly. This all happens ''[[EstablishingSeriesMoment within the first five minutes]]''. |
| 85 | * {{Averted|Trope}} in episode 1 of ''Manga/KotouraSan''. Haruka is able [[BigDamnHeroes to save both Manabe's life and her own]] simply because her {{Telepathy}} allows her to see an oncoming, careless delivery van driver that's running the red light at full speed. |
| 86 | * Happens to Hayate in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaTheMovie2ndAs''. In this case, she does look both ways and waits for the stop light to turn green for her. Unfortunately, the driver of the truck has fallen asleep on the wheel, only waking up when braking and swerving won't be enough to avoid her. Fortunately, this is the event that triggers her powers in the movie, leaving a confused truck driver to wonder where the crippled little girl he almost hit went. |
| 87 | * ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' being run over by a truck (and her show not immediately ending) has become infamous among anime fans. It's quite over the top, with the truck being full of children's toys, first swerving to avoid a toddler and ''then'' hitting Momo, and the ambulance sound coming from one of the toys. In fact, it was the inspiration for the ''Excel Saga'' incident mentioned above. It is likely the UrExample within anime. |
| 88 | * ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': |
| 89 | ** An incarceree's brother practices a StagedPedestrianAccident on a road while awaiting the prison van transporting [[spoiler:Tenma]] and the aforementioned. While talking to his girlfriend he steps out backwards into the road, only to be hit by said prison van in a manner far more real than he could have intended, [[spoiler:though Tenma does manage to save his life]]. |
| 90 | ** It later happens to [[spoiler:Tenma]], who's running from the police at the time. He escapes with little more than a twisted ankle and a head injury because the truck wasn't driving that fast and was able to brake. |
| 91 | * ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Parodied when Kimihito decides to prove that he's not about to die by deliberately invoking a bunch of {{death flag}}s, then stepping into the street. It suddenly looks like there's a huge truck bearing down on him at high speed, but then the perspective changes to reveal that it's actually a remote controlled car that some kids are playing with and only lightly bumps him in the ankle. |
| 92 | * In a flashback of ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', a young girl named Ai suffers this fate. After getting a hand-made "Riko-chan" doll as a present from her mother, she rushes over to show it to her friend in another building. She isn't looking where she's going, and as she turns to call out to her mother, she doesn't notice the truck that hits and kills her. |
| 93 | * An episode of ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'' parodies this by having the title character get hit by a car in the first scene and spending most of the episode as a ghost, then come BackFromTheDead and get roadkilled again, revived and flattened about half a dozen times back to back. |
| 94 | * Narrowly averted twice in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. In ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon Sun and Moon]]'', Sandy is nearly hit by a car in a busy street and has to be rescued by Shaymin. Chloe's Eevee reminds Grookey about this in ''[[Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries Journeys]]'' when running an errand, then wait for the crosswalk to turn on to safely cross (but look both ways again to be safe). |
| 95 | * In ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}'', this happened to [[spoiler:Kazuki's brother Haruka because he recklessly crossed the street after his brother when the crosswalk light was off, and his legs are paralyzed in the present day. Kazuki blames himself so much for it he nearly trades away his existence for Haruka's life at the apex of his HeroicBSOD.]] |
| 96 | * [[SoBadItsGood Inexplicably, unfathomably, illogically, and]] ''[[SoBadItsGood hilariously]]'', M. Bison tries to do this to Ryu at the very end of ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie''. Why an international crime lord with near-unlimited Psycho Power, an otherwise brilliant tactical mind, and martial arts expertise would try to run down someone with a truck will [[MST3KMantra forever be a mystery]]. |
| 97 | * Played with in ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'', where [[spoiler:Seishuu]] dies this way when hit by a carriage. The twist comes because [[spoiler:he had gone blind a short while ago ''and'' the rich bastard riding in the carriage had the kid intentionally hit, thus whether he looked both ways or not... it wouldn't have mattered]]. |
| 98 | * Subverted first as a VisualGag, and then played straight, in the first episode of Manga/UncleFromAnotherWorld. The Narrator of the series (the nephew of said uncle) was apparently going to get hit by a truck while crossing the street, but was then revealed to have made it safely across. Then it is revealed that the titular uncle got into the predicament he is in now because he was hit by a truck while crossing the street. |
| 99 | * This is how Jibanyan from ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' died. His teenage owner Amy was crossing the street, but it was supernaturally decided that she was supposed to die that day, so a truck driver was inspirited to run a light. Jibanyan [[HeroicSacrifice saved Amy at the sacrifice of his own life]]. |
| 100 | * In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Cobra gives his adopted son Rick some cards, at which point a strong wind blows them away into the street. Rick runs after them and gets hit by a truck, causing Cobra's StartOfDarkness. In the 4Kids version, it's {{Bowdlerize}}d into having Rick die of an illness. |
| 101 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' starts off with the protagonist dying from being hit by a car to save a boy who had chased his ball into the street. It doesn't really count for Yusuke himself since he saw the car coming and [[DivingSave dove in front of it]] deliberately to save the kid. However, the ''kid'' wasn't looking both ways...and ironically would have come out completely fine if Yusuke hadn't interfered. |
| 102 | * ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'' has this happen in its ''very first minute''. Sakura literally runs out her door and is hit by a speeding truck; the whole thing is given a montage set to death metal. Of course, she comes back as one of the titular zombies ten years later. [[spoiler:Then it happens ''again'' in episode 10. Being a zombie this time, it doesn't kill her, but she does regain her long-sought memories of when she was alive at the cost of forgetting everything she experienced after she became a zombie.]] [[spoiler:In the second season's sixth episode, a FunnyBackgroundEvent shows Sakura, understandably wary after two times getting hit by a truck right after going out the front door, looking both ways before walking through the Franchouchou mansion's front gate.]] |
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| 105 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 106 | * ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'': Terry wakes up in the morgue, walks out, still dizzy and confused, and gets run over by a truck. |
| 107 | * In the final issue of a story arc in Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'', Wildcat and his new-found meta-human son are fighting a losing battle against DiabolicalMastermind Vandal Savage, until Savage charges out into the street after the son, right into the path of a speeding fire truck responding to a blaze started earlier in the brawl. It's not near enough to ''kill'' him, but it does end the fight. |
| 108 | * UndergroundComics artist Gilbert Shelton penned a series of one-page comics on motoring tips -- in a spotlight on Britain, he reminded us that they drive on the left, illustrated with him stepping off a curb looking to his left as a London cab barrels up behind him. |
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| 111 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 112 | * The exact theme in a road safety poster contest that Calvin enters in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', to which his slogan is "Be careful or be roadkill!" While his father's suggested slogan is just a full-sentence rant about something else entirely but still related to road safety, his mother's is something much more coherent and tamer: |
| 113 | -->Before you cross, look each way, and you'll get home safe each day. |
| 114 | * A 1987 ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip had Garfield attempting to teach [[DogsAreDumb Odie]] this as the latter walks onto the street. Odie does look both ways as he crosses yet ends up being almost hit by a car anyway, not catching onto ''why'' he should be looking both ways in the first place. |
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| 117 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 118 | * In ''Fanfic/BeforeWeHadWings'', Hikari died after getting hit by a car in a hit-and-run. |
| 119 | * In 28th ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'' comic, we find out that Ragyo was hit by a car when she was a child (on her sixth birthday no less) and, being mortally injured, [[spoiler:it's implied the only way her life could have been saved was for her to be infused with life fibers]]. |
| 120 | * In the ''Manga/KOn''/''Literature/{{Hyouka}}'' crossover fanvid ''WebVideo/OurTapes'', Mio gets hit by a bus while going to see her boyfriend Oreki on a date. She survives but is wheelchair bound. The crash leaves her [[CareerEndingInjury unable to play in her band]]. |
| 121 | * In ''Secret Sunshine'', Ryuuko is hit by a car after she storms out of the house, which leaves her back injured. She doesn't quite remember the event, but does remember that she managed to throw Kiko out of the way. |
| 122 | * The entire plot of ''Fanfic/YuGiOhResurrection'' occurs because Yugi is hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing the street to meet Joey and Tristan at Burger World, which allows him to [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld travel to a different universe]]. |
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| 125 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 126 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': During a flashback, Kingpin's wife and son, Vanessa and Richard were killed in a SurpriseCarCrash while they were driving away from him in a panic, causing them to run a red light where they were t-boned by a truck. |
| 127 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei steps into the street intent on hiding behind a parked truck so she doesn't see an oncoming car in time to jump out of the way. She ends up bracing for impact instead but fortunately for her the car stops just short of hitting her. |
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| 130 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 131 | * In ''Film/ElevenFourteen'', [[spoiler:Cheri]] not only steps into the street without looking, she stops to answer her phone in the middle of the road. Despite the dangerous driving on [[spoiler:Mark]]'s part, what happens next is at least partially her fault. |
| 132 | * ''Film/TheAbductionOfSaintAnne'': One of Anne's miracles is the healing of a three-year-old boy whose legs were crushed by a news truck because he leapt out of his father's pickup truck without looking around first. |
| 133 | * Paul from ''Film/AdamAndPaul'' walks across the street without looking and is struck by a moped. He spends the rest of the day walking with a limp and complaining about the pain in his leg |
| 134 | * ''Film/TheAirIBreathe'': Trista has a memory of her father trying to entertain her by absentmindedly skipping in the rain on the street before being hit by a bus. |
| 135 | * In ''Film/AngelAngelDownWeGo'', Tara flees her coming out party onto the dirt road where Bogie is driving. Surprisingly, he doesn't hit her - instead, she runs into the side of the moving car and falls over. |
| 136 | * ''Film/BirdBox''. After the mass insanity strikes, Malorie's sister deliberately steps into the path of a truck. [[HeroicBSOD Malorie goes into shock]] and would have ended up dying the same way if a bystander hadn't dragged her off the road. |
| 137 | * In ''Film/BloodyReunion'', Jong-Wo's mother was hit by a car when she she stormed off across the road with Jong-Wa's soiled underpants. |
| 138 | * ''Film/TheBody2012'': At the end of the DramaticChaseOpening, the security guard bursts out of the forest on to the road. He looks the wrong way along the road and gets hit by a car coming the other direction. |
| 139 | * In ''Film/{{Carnosaur}}'', an adolescent megalosaur misses its chance to act out the ''T. rex'''s role from ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' when it steps out into a highway and is flattened by an 18-wheeler. |
| 140 | * Subverted in ''Film/Constantine2005''. A Mexican man finds a spear point and walks out into the street, where he's hit by a car. Not only is he not killed, he runs away completely unharmed. We later find out that he survived because the spear point he's carrying is from [[spoiler:the Spear of Destiny]]. |
| 141 | * One of the first sufferers of the disease in ''Film/Contagion2011'' becomes so delirious from it that he ends up wandering into the street and is hit by a truck. |
| 142 | * At the beginning of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'', as the ZombieApocalypse tears through Ana's neighborhood, her threatening gun-toting neighbor gets mowed down by a speeding ''ambulance''. |
| 143 | * Happens to that one guy from ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'', although it's strongly implied that it was a hit. |
| 144 | * In Music/RobZombie's film ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'', after being the only survivor of the Firefly family's escapades at a motel, a young woman, [[spoiler:wearing the face of her husband]], stops running from the motel room in the middle of a desert highway and is promptly hit by an 18-wheeler. |
| 145 | * Emily's fate in ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' (film version only), allowing Andy to feel a little bit less guilty about going to Paris instead of her. |
| 146 | * Used in a DeathMontage in ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow''. The protagonist is stuck in a nightmarish GroundhogDayLoop in which he dies in the same battle over and over again, [[SaveScumming each time learning from his mistakes]] and lasting a bit longer. In one scene he's making an UnflinchingWalk across the chaotic landing zone, only to get blindsided by a truck. GilliganCut to him doing it again, only this time he runs. There's also a RunningGag involving a soldier [[TemptingFate cheering the fact that he survived the drop]], only for an aircraft to crash on top of him. The first time the protagonist tries to save him, only to get squashed himself. The second time he gets them both out of the way in time, [[RuleOfThrees and the third time]] [[DeathIsCheap he doesn't even bother]]. |
| 147 | * Used with considerable effect in ''Film/TheExorcismOfEmilyRose'' with [[spoiler:the Doctor who gets hit right after admitting that he believes in demons and is afraid]]. |
| 148 | * ''Film/FatalInstinct'': While Ned is getting lost in one of his private monologues, he gets run over by a bus. He shrugs it off in the next scene. |
| 149 | * ''Film/FearInc'': During a traffic stop, the sheriff tells Joe and Lindsey to get out of the van and takes a step back into the road, where he is promptly struck by another van. |
| 150 | * ''Film/FinalDestination'': |
| 151 | ** ''Film/FinalDestination1'': All of the characters in the movie have cheated death, and he (it?) is currently mowing them down one by one, in very elaborate ways telegraphed for the audience. Arguing about their situation while walking down a sidewalk, one of the girls exclaims that all of the others can [[TemptingFate "Drop fucking dead!"]] and steps off the sidewalk. '''[[SurprisinglySuddenDeath BUS!]]''' |
| 152 | ** Happens again in ''Film/TheFinalDestination'' in a scene that's probably a ShoutOut to the first. Two characters leave a hospital, having just witnessed the elaborate and spectacularly unlikely death of the latest victim, and are in quiet conversation when one of them gets [[DeathByIrony hit by an]] [[DeathByAmbulance ambulance]]. |
| 153 | * ''Film/GetSmart'' has a brief montage of compromised CONTROL agents getting assassinated. The first two are quietly shot with poison darts in the middle of their meals, faceplanting into their food. The [[RuleOfThree third]], sitting at a cafe on a street corner, gets shot in the neck with a dart, stands up in pain, and starts wincing and hopping... right into the road, and '''''WHAM.''''' |
| 154 | * Lampshaded in the 2008 movie ''Film/{{Ghost Town|2008}}''. After [[spoiler:Dr. Pincus]] is hit by a bus, just as Frank was, Frank comments to the effect that the Transit Authority buses are a menace. Neither bus so much as slows down, honks, or screeches before striking. |
| 155 | * A RuleOfThrees version in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', the first two times PlayedForLaughs. Ripcord gets hit by a car [[TemptingFate right after he promises]] not to harm his multi-million dollar PoweredArmor, then Duke gets run over by the bad guy's Hummer right after asking where they are, and the third [[spoiler:involves the Hummer being hit by an intercity light-rail train right after they think their pursuers have given up]]. |
| 156 | * ''Film/TheHitList'': Brian Felzner backs away from Allan and steps into the street,where he is immediately run down by Arbor. |
| 157 | * In ''Film/HocusPocus'', when the heroes manage to escape from a sewer and seem to be in the clear, their talking cat Thachary is flattened by a passing vehicle out of the blue. After they mourn over his clearly very dead body and start to turn away, he suddenly reforms to his normal shape and comes back to life, running over to them and saying "Hate it when that happens". He then reminds them that he has so many lives that he's practically immortal. |
| 158 | * In ''Film/IMissYouIMissYou'', the twins Tina and Cilla oversleep and hurry towards the bus stop to catch their school bus. When they run over the road, they don't watch out for cars and Cilla gets hit by a car and dies, while Tina is unharmed. Martin, the driver and a neighbor of the twins, is traumatized and is afraid to even run across Tina and her family. One year after the accident, Tina tells Martin that it wasn't his fault but Cilla and hers, because they jaywalked. |
| 159 | * ''Film/Interstate60'' has a short scene in which a cyclist crashes into the opening door of a parked car just as the car's driver is getting out. In the chaos that ensues, the cyclist's bicycle is run over by a passing truck and the driver's suit and cell phone are ruined. The driver is upset and angry - he's going to be late for an important meeting and can't call to explain - and says that he wishes this hadn't happened. Unfortunately for the driver, the cyclist actually can grant wishes and enjoys being a JackassGenie to people he doesn't like; after giving the driver a chance to change his mind, the cyclist grants the wish. The scene plays out again, and this time the cyclist steers around the car door - and the passing truck hits the driver instead of running over the bicycle. |
| 160 | * Iron Man gets hit by a truck in ''Film/IronMan3'' seconds after saving a bunch of people falling from the sky and breaks into pieces. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that Tony Stark was piloting the suit remotely and was never hurt.]] |
| 161 | * In ''Film/KickAss'', the title character finishes off his first attempt at heroism by getting flipped by a car. To be fair, though, he had just been stabbed in the gut and probably wasn't thinking too clearly. |
| 162 | * Happens to [[spoiler:Diana]] in ''Film/{{Knowing}}''. [[spoiler:She dies by an oncoming truck coming from her left while driving a stolen SUV to chase after some guys who "took" the kids but actually passes away at exactly 12 midnight.]] |
| 163 | * ''Film/LastNightInSoho'': The Silver-Haired Gentleman is run over by a car in the street because he turned his back to the traffic to talk to Ellie. |
| 164 | * ''Film/TheLivesOfOthers'': [[spoiler:Christa-Maria]] is hit by a truck after she [[spoiler:betrays Dreymann]]. Not played entirely straight -- it's ambiguous whether the incident was a suicide or an accident. |
| 165 | * Used as a running gag in ''Film/LocalHero'': Every time Mac steps out into the street he is nearly hit by a guy on a dirt bike (who, by the way, is played by John Gordon Sinclair of ''Film/GregorysGirl'' fame). ''Every time.'' And this in a town so small that it only has one street and no other traffic. At one point, he becomes savvy to this, and stops himself and Danny well before the dirt bike passes. |
| 166 | * ''Film/MeanGirls'': Near the end of the movie, Regina gets hit by a bus while arguing with Cady. She sustains moderate damage; the main effect is that she spends the rest of the movie encased in some kind of spine-straightening braces. Cady's narrating voice fakes the viewer out for a second by claiming that Regina died, but immediately afterwards she says, "Just kidding." Then at the very end the "treatment" for the new junior Plastics is being hit by a bus as well. [[spoiler:This is also just a joke, the girls aren't really hit.]] |
| 167 | * Happens to Creator/BradPitt's character (his original one, before Death borrows his body) in ''Film/MeetJoeBlack''. Although the [[AnAesop moral lesson]] of the incident is not so much "look both ways before you cross the street"; [[LostAesop it's more like]] "Don't stand in the street for two minutes blankly staring back at the girl you just met." It actually happens ''twice'' in sequence, with his body being flung back and forth between the vehicles in a [[{{Narm}} gruesome sort of pinball]]. |
| 168 | %%* A RealLife example nearly happened in ''Film/MidnightCowboy'', leading to the immortal line "I'm walking here". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 169 | * In the film ''Film/{{Mimic}}'', [[spoiler:this happens to the main villain, a giant, man-eating cockroach, when he makes an ill-fated decision to step in front of a moving subway car]]. |
| 170 | * ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'': G-Girl rescues a girl who wandered into the street without looking, rebuking her for forgetting about this... and then promptly gets hit by a car herself, after she fails to as well. Being {{nigh invulnerable}}, she's unharmed. |
| 171 | * In ''Film/TheNakedGun'', Creator/OJSimpson's character, through a series of unfortunate events, ends up stuck under a bus that winds up in Detroit. |
| 172 | * Parodied in ''Film/NightOfTheComet'': After the elimination of the human race, one girl decides that she no longer needs to look before crossing "against the light" -- and is almost run over by another survivor. |
| 173 | * ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII'': While Zosia is leaving the police station[[spoiler:, angry at Adas for not killing Wanessa and suspecting he had feelings for her]], she's hit by [[spoiler:a police car so hard it [[LudicrousGibs gibs]] her]]. |
| 174 | * Happens rather tragically in ''Literature/OneDay'' (both novel and film) to one of the main characters, as she is riding her bicycle to a romantic dinner with her husband. The film actually starts with the bicycle ride, but then cuts back to the beginning of the story. When the bicycle ride resumes, she exits into a street without looking and gets hit by a truck. The rest of the film is her husband dealing with the loss and remembering how they met. |
| 175 | * In what is possibly the TropeMaker, and one of the few humorous examples of this trope, the Creator/BusterKeaton short ''Film/OneWeek'' has this happen to a house, via train. ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 176 | %%* ''Film/ElOrfanato'' made horror out of this trope. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 177 | * In an ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'' VerySpecialEpisode, Mickey is hit by a car while running out into the street to catch a fly ball. The other Rascals spearhead a grassroots campaign called "1-2-3-Go" where you always look left, then right, then left again before crossing a street, while chanting that phrase. |
| 178 | * At the start of ''Film/PaulBlartMallCop2'', his mom steps forward just a bit to pick up her morning paper from the road rather than the driveway. Cue delivery truck. |
| 179 | %%* ''Film/PracticalMagic'' has a tragic DoubleSubversion. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 180 | * In ''Film/PreyForRockAndRoll'', Lori Petty's character runs after some kids who steal her guitar, and gets hit by a car. She doesn't survive the incident. |
| 181 | * ''Film/{{Red 2}}'': In a CarChase through the streets of Paris, Sarah and Marvin are competing with Frank and Katya to catch a KnowledgeBroker called The Frog, who's driving a stolen motorcycle. The Frog races down a narrow alley, and when Sarah tries to follow, her car gets stuck. The Frog stops and turns to [[FlippingTheBird flip them the "V"]], only to promptly get hit by Frank and Katya in their car. |
| 182 | * ''Film/ScaryMovie'': |
| 183 | ** Parodied throughout the series, as someone is unexpectedly hit by a car or bus at the end of ''every movie''. |
| 184 | ** At the beginning of the second one, a couple of people are flattened by a bus. On the back it says "How's my driving? Call 1-800-KISS MY ASS. And yes, we know, that is too many digits for a phone number." |
| 185 | ** Double subverted in the third one. The main character's car barely stops in time to avoid hitting the kid. As he sighs in relief, another car comes out of nowhere at a 90-degree angle and runs him over. And no, there's no intersection, it's a perfectly straight road. |
| 186 | * ''Film/TheSenseOfWonder'': While fleeing a psychological evaluation, Pierre bolts into the road, in the path of Louise's car. He's lucky enough to get only a cut on his temple. |
| 187 | * The leader of the Martian ship in the comedy ''Film/SpacedInvaders'' charges from his spaceship onto the highway as soon as they land on Earth, howling his contempt for Earthlings. He is instantly smashed into the grill of a passing truck. Further spoofed when the less combative Martians interact with a human little girl: |
| 188 | -->"Don't forget to look both ways before crossing the street!"\ |
| 189 | "So ''that's'' the secret. If only Captain Bipto had known." |
| 190 | * ''Film/StreetRacer2008'' (a film by Creator/TheAsylum) has a rather TooDumbToLive example near the end. After the hero wins the climactic race, [[spoiler:his parole officer]] (who bet against him) runs across the race course to attack him. He's instead mowed down by the next pair of racers. |
| 191 | * In ''Film/SupermanII'', Clark Kent carelessly walks out into a crowded Metropolis street and is hit by a cab. Of course, Clark is unhurt because he's really Superman. |
| 192 | * Despite the tendency of Terminators to get run over, a human version occurs in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' when the humans are fleeing a derelict gas station being torn up by a giant robot. One man gets hit by a stationwagon tearing out of a garage, bounces off the hood, and keeps running, [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere with neither party stopping for a moment]]. The unfortunate man then hitches a lift on another vehicle, which is disintegrated shortly afterwards. |
| 193 | * In ''Film/TheTournament'', Tupalov stops his scooter in the middle of the motorway to take a shot at Lai Lai and Father [=MacAvoy=]. He is immediately hit by a bus. |
| 194 | * In ''Film/TwoHands'', the street kids Pete and Helen go on a spending spree with the money they stole off Jimmy. When they are returning, they start to cross the road and Pete gets run down by Acko. Helen watches in disbelief as Acko simply picks the dead boy's body off the street and dumps it in the gutter, concerned more about the damage to his car. |
| 195 | * ''Film/TheWalkingDead1936'': On seeing Ellman coming for him at the railway station, Blackwood panics and runs into the path of an oncoming train. |
| 196 | * The TV movie ''Film/WEIRDWorld1995'' has a rather interesting example of this. One of the scientists working for the titular organization discovers time travel and reveals that she knows she will die in a couple of days. On the day in question, her brother comes to her to steal her research and takes them both back in time half an hour to leave the facility. She tries to escape and throws what she pretends is her research file into the road. He goes to pick it up, discovers that it's actually her ID badge, and gets run over by ''his past self''. |
| 197 | * ''Film/WishUpon'': [[spoiler:Claire uses her last wish to travel back in time and prevent her father from finding the wish box. She gives the backpack containing the box to Ryan and tells him bury it without opening it. Relieved of her burden, she turns and crosses the road to go to school without checking. And is immediately struck by Darcie's car and dies.]] |
| 198 | * In ''Film/TheWitchFiles'', Sarah is explaining what is happening to Claire and Brooke by way of [[TalkingWithSigns holding up notes]] when she steps out of the alley and into the street backwards and promptly gets hit by a van. |
| 199 | * In ''Film/WhiteSands'', Ray tries to chase Bodine across a parking lot, only to be hit by a car. |
| 200 | * In ''Film/TheWolverine'', one of the Yakuza gets hit by a car as they chase Logan and Mariko across the street. |
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| 204 | * Subverted in ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm''. At first, it appears that Urano (the girl who would become Myne) is about to get hit by a speeding truck, but she safely makes it across the street despite being nose-deep in a book at the time. It's not until she gets home that she dies and gets reincarnated after being crushed under an avalanche of books. |
| 205 | * In ''Literature/TheCityWeBecame'', the primary avatar of New York runs away from his enemies across the FDR drive, and they get killed by being run over by the cars there. |
| 206 | * [[spoiler:Moon]] from ''Literature/ADogsLife'' dies instantly when she's hit by a van while trying to hunt a squirrel. |
| 207 | * Narrowly averted at the start of ''[[https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/82363551272/fall-of-doc-future-contents The Fall of Doc Future]]''. Stella is visiting London, is tired, and thus looks the wrong way before stepping into the street. Just as well she was talking to the [[SuperSpeed fastest girl in the world]] at the time. |
| 208 | * In the first ''Literature/SergeStorms'' novel, ''Florida Roadkill'', a Satanic assassin tries to kill Serge and Coleman. Unfortunately, he kneels to pray in the middle of a poorly lit highway in the middle of the night while wearing black and ends up getting run over by a bus full of devout Christians. |
| 209 | * In ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'', [[spoiler:Tom Buchanan's mistress Myrtle]] darts out into the street after an argument with her husband, only to be struck and horrifically killed by Tom's wife. |
| 210 | %%* How Cilla dies in ''Literature/IMissYouIMissYou''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 211 | * In Creator/VladimirNabokov's ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', Humbert's wife Charlotte finds his diary, detailing his disdain for her and lust for her titular daughter, while said daughter is away at camp. Humiliated, she confronts him with the evidence and tells him she intends to take Lolita from the camp to a strict year-round boarding school and away from his grasp forever. However, crossing the street to post letters setting this plan in motion, she is killed by a passing motorist, leaving Humbert as Lolita's sole guardian. At least, that's [[UnreliableNarrator his version]]. |
| 212 | * In ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'', the protagonist is an otaku and hikkikomori who's wasted pretty much his whole life inside. He sees a couple arguing in the street, unaware that they are about to be hit by a truck, and shoves/pulls them out of the way at the cost of his own life. Fortunately, his act of heroism is repaid when he is reborn in another world full of magic and adventure where he resolves not to waste his life a second time. (And for some reason keeps his memories and adult mentality from his previous life despite being in a child's body.) Given how popular it was at the time, this is likely the source of trucks as one of the more popular choices to ReincarnateInAnotherWorld by in late 10s novels. |
| 213 | * "[[NoNameGiven The monkey girl]]" from ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' was killed in a traffic accident while rushing to school. Having died so young, her primary goal when her memories reawaken as Catarina is to live to a ripe old age. |
| 214 | * This starts off the plot of ''Literature/RewindWilliamSleator'', one of Creator/WilliamSleator's less famous novels -- because the main character would have grown up to greatly influence the world, he's sent back in time instead of dying, but he'll get run over again and again [[InSpiteOfANail no matter what he does differently]] unless he makes some very specific changes to the course of events that got him killed. |
| 215 | * ''Searching For David's Heart'': The title character dies this way while chasing Darcy after the two have a huge fight. |
| 216 | -->'''Driver:''' Oh, my God, he darted right out in front of me! |
| 217 | * Ujurak is hit by a car in ''Literature/SeekerBears'', though it's a DisneyDeath. After eating some medicine and sleeping throughout the night, he ends up perfectly fine. |
| 218 | * [[spoiler:Pufftail's OneTrueLove Tammy]] in ''Literature/Stray1987'' is hit by a car the night they plan on running away together. |
| 219 | %%* This is the cause of Vicky's death in ''Literature/VickyAngel''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 220 | * Happens a few times in ''Literature/WarriorCats'': |
| 221 | ** In ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsBluestarsProphecy Bluestar's Prophecy]]'', [[spoiler:Bluestar's sister Snowfur tries to chase some [=ShadowClan=] warriors across the road, but a car comes by and hits her]]. |
| 222 | ** In ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsWarriorsReturn Warrior's Return]]'', [[spoiler:Graystripe gets hit by a car when he isn't paying attention to where he's going. Fortunately he survives, but his shoulder is injured pretty badly.]] |
| 223 | * At the climax of ''Literature/WhenYouReachMe'', [[spoiler:Sal]] is running away from [[spoiler:Marcus]], who he believes is out to get him, and runs out in the middle of the street, where a truck is bearing down on his position with a possibly inattentive driver. [[spoiler:Only a HeroicSacrifice saves him.]] |
| 224 | * In the first chapter of ''Patriot Games'', the chronologically first Jack-centric book in the ''Literature/JackRyan'' series, Jack nearly gets flattened by a double-decker bus because he looked the wrong way for oncoming traffic before crossing the street, forgetting that he's in England, where people drive on the other side of the road. |
| 225 | * One of the assassinations in ''The Teeth Of The Tiger'', a later entry in the ''Literature/JackRyan'' series, ends up going down in a way rather reminiscent of the ''Get Smart'' example above: The {{Designated Hero}}es shoot a terrorism suspect with a poison dart that's supposed to mimic the effects of a heart attack, and when its effects kick in the victim falls directly into the path of an approaching tram. It ends up working in their favour, as the body is so badly mangled that the puncture wound left by the dart is obscured. |
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| 229 | * Happens ''twice'' to a Croatian gangster on ''Series/BlueBloods'', who's fleeing from a park after the police interrupt his attempt to trade a kidnapped girl for some fellow gang members. Not watching for traffic, he gets bounced off a taxi's fender as he steps off the curb, losing his gun. His pursuer, Danny, draws and demands his surrender, but he steps onto the road [[TooDumbToLive without looking]] ''again'', sneering that Danny won't shoot him in the back... and gets hit head-on by a delivery truck. |
| 230 | * ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Gordon Brittas has a nasty habit of going on to the street without looking both ways (out of the belief that the pedestrian always has the right of way). This ends up biting him in the butt when he gets run over by a treacle lorry and put into intensive care. |
| 231 | * ''Series/BroadCity'': The second timeline in "Sliding Doors" ends with Abbi and Ilana both getting hit by a bus while running away from the police. |
| 232 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 233 | ** Nearly unstoppable BigBad Glory gets slowed down (though not killed -- she is [[ImplacableMan The Unstoppable Woman]], after all) when she's hit by a truck... after standing in the road talking to Buffy for almost a full minute. That must be one hell of a bad driver. |
| 234 | ** In the season finale, Glory gets blindslided again... by a ''wrecking ball'', though in this case it was intentional, compliments of [[BadassNormal Xander]]. |
| 235 | * Alan Bradley from ''Series/CoronationStreet'' was killed by a ''Blackpool tram'' this way, quite an achievement with it being hard to miss and not exactly fast. |
| 236 | %%* Happens very satisfactorily in an episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds''. LaserGuidedKarma at work once again. |
| 237 | * Used with odd hilarity in ''Series/CrossingJordan'' when the bastard of the week survives fugu poisoning and an almost-autopsy, and leaves the building threatening legal action... and promptly gets smooshed by a car. |
| 238 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead", a college kid coming down from a bad trip runs away from the cops and straight into the street, where he gets run over by a car. |
| 239 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 240 | ** Thought to have happened in the b-case of season 1's "The Dove Commission" where the body of a young boy is found under the front of a taxi, but it's later discovered that the boy died before the taxi hit him. Unfortunately, this isn't determined until after an angry mob beats the taxi driver to death. |
| 241 | ** Played straight later that season in "The Closer" when a young woman running from her angry boyfriend while clad only in lingerie darts out from an alley and is hit by a delivery truck. |
| 242 | ** Played with again in season 5's "Page Turner" after a young lady runs away from a riot that breaks out during a free Music/Maroon5 concert in Central Park. Looking back over her shoulder, she runs in front of a bus that was just pulling away from the curb. Turns out not to be what killed her...the bus wasn't moving fast enough yet. |
| 243 | ** Played straight again late in season 6 during "Unusual Suspects." Flack is chasing a guy who's wanted for questioning in the shooting of a 14-yr old kid. The guy runs straight into the street without looking either way and is mowed down by an oncoming truck and is dead before Flack reaches him. |
| 244 | * ''Series/DanForMayor'' sure seems to like this trope. |
| 245 | ** The first episode ends with Mayor Bud getting hit by a bus. |
| 246 | ** In the third episode, Dan borrows Charlie's cat; it jumps out of his arms, then runs into traffic and gets hit by a bus. |
| 247 | %%* ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' has a couple of deaths this way, one from a yuppie guy in the convertible. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 248 | * The ''Life on Mars'' example below is parodied by ''Series/DeadRingers'', in which Professor Robert Winston walks into the road while [[LampshadeHanging pointing out that TV presenters never look before crossing]], and ends up re-enacting the opening sequence of ''Life on Mars'' (while still explaining to the camera how it's a hallucination caused by a brain injury). |
| 249 | * ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Mike Delphino falls victim to this trope at the end of one of the earlier seasons, falling into a coma. The culprit? [[spoiler:Orson Hodge.]] Although in this case the driver was ''trying'' to hit him. |
| 250 | * ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Against the Odds", a jockey fleeing the police runs onto the track and gets run over by horses. |
| 251 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 252 | ** Pete Tyler in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]", although this is a ''deliberate'' act to put time back on track (well, it is the last time). |
| 253 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]": Donna also gets hit by a truck on purpose to prevent a BadFuture. Interestingly, Rose is present to comfort the dying person in both cases. |
| 254 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", Creator/RussellTDavies deliberately put in the scene with Luke Smith because of this. He hated how, in most TV shows, people never look before crossing the road and there are no ill effects, teaching a bad lesson to kids. [[note]]This was also a production in-joke; the road was always closed during filming of [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Luke's home series]], so there was no risk of an accident during filming.[[/note]] |
| 255 | ** Danny Pink gets hit by a car in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]". Clara is almost insulted that her boyfriend got such an "ordinary" death, and demands the Doctor fix it or get him back somehow. This... doesn't end well. |
| 256 | * Subverted at the end of ''Series/DueSouth''. Turnbull gets hit by a bus in just that fashion, but it's revealed he only had some badly broken bones. It gets better -- he was trying to break into politics, and the vehicle that hit him was ''his own campaign bus''. |
| 257 | * ''Series/EastEnders'' seems to like this trope, especially concerning the Mitchells: Tiffany, Jamie, and Danielle were all killed in this manner. Jamie's death was also due in part to Martin Fowler texting on his phone and not watching the road, adding a double dose of {{Anvilicious}}ness. |
| 258 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' has a bunch of scientists use a serum that grants them SuperSpeed in order to allow them to complete a project before a rival team. One of them ends up running through the woods and doesn't bother to look before crossing the street, likely figuring that he's too fast for anything to hit him. He's wrong. They later find his broken body in the woods, where he bounced off after a glancing blow (at super speed) from the grill of an SUV. Typical of the show, the guy's death is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 259 | * ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': |
| 260 | ** In "Look Before You Leap," while investigating the death of an apparent bridge jumper, Henry nearly falls off the bridge, himself. Though he would have resurrected, he points out that it's one of the least pleasant ways to die. He manages to climb back onto the bridge... only to be almost immediately hit by a truck. By the time the driver comes out to check what happened, Henry's body has already [[ResurrectionTeleportation vanished to reappear in the river]]. |
| 261 | ** In both "Fountain of Youth" and "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths" this trope is narrowly averted as Henry casually but purposefully crosses a street with absolutely no regard for the surrounding traffic. In the former, Jo quickly pulls out her badge and flashes it at approaching cars to keep them from hitting him, a gesture Henry doesn't seem to notice, or at least pay attention to, any more than the traffic. |
| 262 | ** In "The Pugilist Break" a suspect who's being chased stops and turns to shoot at Henry. Before he can shoot, he's hit by a truck. |
| 263 | ** In "Social Engineering" a woman is tricked by a hacked walk signal into crossing the street, at which point she's hit by a car. |
| 264 | * ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Cunning Stunts", Bill is trying to commit suicide, so he stands in the way of an oncoming truck. Tim and Graeme put up a railway crossing barrier to stop the truck, [[RuleOfFunny only to get run over by a train]] coming from the side. |
| 265 | * In the beginning of episode 111 of ''Series/{{The Hard Times of RJ Berger}}'', Lily is nearly hit by a bus. The bus driver says that the school cannot replace the brakes because of budget cuts. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, she walks into the street without looking and is hit by the same bus.]] |
| 266 | * ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': In "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), Callan is attempting to escape from Francis and runs out of the kitchen of the restaurant and into the street, where he gets hit by a delivery scooter. |
| 267 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 268 | ** On Claire's multiple suicide tape, one of the "deaths" she suffers is getting hit with a car. |
| 269 | ** At one point, Hiro stops time and saves a little girl who would've otherwise been run over. |
| 270 | * ''Series/HighAndLow'' has this happen not only once, but ''twice''. |
| 271 | ** First, when [[spoiler:Noburu]] reconciles with his friends, but [[spoiler:thankfully, he survives]]. |
| 272 | ** [[spoiler:Tatsuya]] getting killed this way by saving a friend from being run over by a car was the main reason that the Mugen gang disappeared. |
| 273 | * The ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E20Miracles Miracles]]" has Barney run to the hospital, look the correct way on a one-way street, but neglect to look the other way and promptly get hit by a bus that was going the wrong way. Luckily, they're in front of the hospital. |
| 274 | * ''Series/LawAndOrder'': |
| 275 | ** Various plots involve a would-be suspect running (they always run) from police. They run out into the street and ''splat''. This has also happened to crime victims fleeing their assailants. |
| 276 | ** One episode opens with a woman trying to escape a paparazzo who's following her, and getting hit by a car when running out into the middle of the street. Half the episode is spent figuring out whether or not the paparazzo was at fault. |
| 277 | * ''Series/{{Life on Mars|2006}}'' kicks off with the protagonist being hit by a car and waking up in the 70s, unsure if he's a time traveller, in a coma, or delusional. |
| 278 | * ''Series/LipService'': [[spoiler:Cat]] is texting Frankie when she steps into the street without looking. She's immediately struck by a car. |
| 279 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'': |
| 280 | ** Juliet tells Richard, facetiously, that she could accept his job offer if her ex-husband were hit by a bus. [[TemptingFate Guess what happens]] later in the episode... |
| 281 | ** Earlier in the series, Michael ended up in the hospital after a similar incident. |
| 282 | ** And John Locke crossing a parking lot. |
| 283 | %%** This also happens to [[spoiler:Nadia]] in "The Incident". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 284 | * ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': |
| 285 | ** Lucifer's mother [[BodySurf wakes up in the body of a human]] who has just died on the sidewalk, stumbles out into the street, and gets hit by a bus. It takes two more tries before she gets it right. |
| 286 | ** Subverted in Season 3 with Abel, who steps into the street in front of a taxi that barely manages to stop in time. [[DoubleSubversion And five seconds later he's hit by an ambulance going the other direction.]] |
| 287 | * In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "Play Blotto... And Die", a hitman fleeing the scene of a failed hit runs right into the path of a bus. |
| 288 | * ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': One of the suspects whom Kahina's chasing runs out into the street and gets fatally struck by a car. |
| 289 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 290 | ** Happens in the [[TheTeaser cold opening]] of one episode to the title character. [[spoiler:It's actually a lookalike, who happens to be an assassin.]] |
| 291 | ** A variation occurs in "[[Recap/MonkS8E15MrMonkAndTheEnd Mr. Monk and the End]]". Kazarinski is hit by a train while running from Stottlemeyer at the train station. Unfortunately, they needed him alive to tell them what he poisoned Monk with. |
| 292 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': One VoxPops sequence, after a few fake-outs, introduces a literal "man in the street", who is run over before he can say anything. |
| 293 | * The first episode of ''Series/MrShow'' features a Creator/BobOdenkirk character lamenting how everything has "really changed", from his friend, to the leaves, to a caterpillar (into a butterfly), to the... traffic light. [[TooDumbToLive As he's crossing the street.]] |
| 294 | * In the first episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', the title character realises he has a winning lottery ticket and, wildly celebrating, runs into the road and gets hit by a car, causing him to lose the ticket, though he gets it back after he leaves hospital and decides to be TheAtoner. Becomes a running joke, usually when LaserGuidedKarma shows up. |
| 295 | * After threatening to tell Sean [=McNamara=]'s wife about their affair on ''Series/NipTuck'', a crazy nanny stops running out of the practice to turn and throw a final verbal jab... and is promptly run over by a bus. |
| 296 | * ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Kira is taken from her house by Helena, and when she sees her mom coming after her, she runs right into traffic to get to her. Justified, as Kira is only eight years old and not savvy about pedestrian safety yet. |
| 297 | %%* In ''Series/{{Oshin}}'', [[spoiler:Oshin's daughter-in-law Yuri]] dies like this. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 298 | * ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}'' has a variation. The Saint of Killers fires a bullet at Jesse, only for a van to drive into its path, killing the driver and sending the van careening out of control into the Saint of Killers. [[MadeOfIron It doesn't stop him.]] |
| 299 | %%* ''Series/Reno911'', multiple times. Once, twice in the same scene. |
| 300 | * ''Series/{{Selfie}}'': Eliza walks out into the road while looking at her phone and gets knocked over by a Smart Car. She pops back up saying it barely even hurt, but then falls into an open manhole and breaks several bones. |
| 301 | * ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': |
| 302 | ** In "The Eye Inside", a woman walking home late night fears a group of men are trying to corner her. They actually turn out to be friends of hers joking around, but by the time she realises, she's standing in the middle of the street. A car hits and kills her. |
| 303 | ** In "Singing For Our Lives", a woman is rollerskating down a steep hill but is hit and killed by a car upon passing an intersection. |
| 304 | * ''Series/{{Skins}}'' has this in the case of Tony, and it takes him half a season to recover from the accident. Given Russell T. Davies' love of the show, this may be a precursor to the "End of Time" example from ''Doctor Who'' that happened nearly three years later. |
| 305 | * ''Series/TheSoup'' has been known to edit speeding bus attacks into clips that they feel need it. |
| 306 | * ''Series/SpecialOpsLioness'': Kate gets injured in a car accident because a friend of hers, who was driving, had been distracted by looking at something on another girl's phone and ran a stop sign, with their car being hit from the side by an oncoming truck. |
| 307 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'': |
| 308 | ** Happens to a bounty hunter who was holding Daniel at gunpoint. To be fair, most other planets don't have cars, buses, or elementary schools, so she likely never learned to Look Both Ways. Strangely, the bus apparently doesn't honk, swerve, or even slow down, despite said bounty hunter clearly standing in the middle of the road for several seconds before being hit. Hell, it even keeps going at full speed afterward. |
| 309 | ** Earlier, a reporter threatening to expose the Stargate program is hit by a car and killed. The audience and O'Neill are "assured" that it was a "legitimate accident". |
| 310 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever The City on the Edge of Forever]]", Edith Keeler is hit by a car as she crosses the street, while Kirk prevents [=McCoy=] from saving her in order to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong restore the original timeline]]. |
| 311 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 312 | ** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E11MysterySpot Mystery Spot]]", Dean sallies forth straight into the path of an oncoming car. He flies through the air, makes several crunchy noises, and dies. But don't worry. He gets better. [[GroundhogDayLoop Heeeat of the moment...]] |
| 313 | ** Fate is killing people off in accidents. Sam and Dean do a DivingSave on an asshole lawyer as he's about to be hit by a car. He's not impressed, as the only reason he was standing in the middle of the street was because they distracted him by calling out. He steps onto the street again, turns to threaten to sue them, and then gets hit by a bus. |
| 314 | * In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Terminators show utterly no ability to Look Both Ways. |
| 315 | ** In "[[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E1Pilot Pilot]]", Cromartie gets creamed in a parking lot by a truck driven by Cameron. |
| 316 | ** In "[[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS1E2GnothiSeauton Gnothi Seauton]]", Vick trips over a motorcycle doing a lay-down by Sarah, despite easily being able to see it coming from about fifty feet away. No more than a minute later, Cameron, chasing Vick, gets stuck in the windshield of a car while chasing Vick across a street. |
| 317 | ** In "[[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS2E1SamsonAndDelilah Samson And Delilah]]", Catharine Weaver lampshades this a bit with a scary monologue about humans "crossing against the light" and getting run over, and that she's looking for a computer that can "cross against the light". |
| 318 | * ''Series/TwinPeaks'': In Season 3, a young boy playfully chases his mom, letting her go a distance before following after. The two continue this across a desolate street -- at least, desolate until a road-raging Richard Horne runs a red light. Suddenly, the child is caught in more than the moment... |
| 319 | * ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' |
| 320 | ** In an episode involving a genie, a man gets his wish of invisibility. He gleefully runs off to enjoy his newfound superpower only to get run over while crossing the road by a truck driver who couldn't see him. |
| 321 | ** The episode "Tithonus" involves a photographer who can see when someone is going to die. He points out a prostitute who is apparently doomed, so when her pimp tries to get rough with her Agent Scully arrests him. The prostitute has a good laugh over this [[YouCantFightFate until she gets hit by a truck]] because she's standing in the street. |
| 322 | * In season 1, episode 9 of ''Series/{{Ozark}}'', real estate agent Sam Dermody is arguing with his overbearing mother Eugenia about the placement of an open house sign. She plugs her ears and outright goes "la-la-la I can't hear you" - which not only stops her from hearing a truck that speeds past, [[spoiler:hitting and killing her]], but also apparently makes her invisible to the truck driver, who only bothers to hit the breaks offscreen. |
| 323 | * ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': In season 2, episode 2, Paxton discovers Davi has been dating another guy. He runs out of her house, and as he argues with her on the street, a car drives past and hits him. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 327 | * Her death is left out in the animated adaptation, but the original ''[[Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo The Birth Of Mewtwo]]'' radio drama shows that PosthumousCharacter Amber from ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' was hit by a vehicle (as a reference to ''Astro Boy''). Immediately after her father told her he couldn't stand losing her and that he was lonely because [[MissingMom his wife left]], too. |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 331 | * In the ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}'' rulebook, "The Incredibly Busy Empty Street" is listed as a possible RunningGag for the [[GameMaster Animator]] to use. The street is empty. [[SubvertedTrope Look left? Empty. Look right? Empty.]] Take one step into the street? ''[[DoubleSubversion VROOOOOOOOOOM!!]]'' |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 335 | * ''Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}}'' Act 13: Iirenren features Koi, one of the IdolSinger main characters, getting hit by Truck-kun and reincarnating in the series' established {{Youkai}} AU. He does get sent back in the end, by his idol group's leaders who are actually ultimate gods of the multiverse (with [[LittleBitBeastly fox ears and four tails]]). |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 339 | * The ending of the game ''VideoGame/{{Deemo}}'' shows that [[spoiler:this trope was the cause for the whole game. Alice, the amnesiac girl the story follows, gets pushed out of the way of an oncoming truck by Hans, her older brother. Hans is killed, while Alice is injured and sent into a coma; the game turns out to have been about about Alice trying remember and accept the accident [[AdventuresInComaland in order to wake up]].]] |
| 340 | * In ''VisualNovel/EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo'', [[spoiler:Yuuko]] gets hit by a car when she suddenly rushes into the street without looking out for traffic. This is especially egregious, since she managed to survive some pretty bad stuff before that. Not to mention you can count the number of moving cars ''in both series'' in all of ''Otowa'' on one hand. In the game, however, she's hit ''not'' because of this, but because [[spoiler:she was trying to save Miki, who was unaware of the approaching vehicle, from being run over]]. |
| 341 | * ''VideoGame/FaithTheUnholyTrinity'': OnceAnEpisode, walking into a road can get the player creamed by a truck with the developer's logo on it. [[spoiler:In the first game, if you shoot Michael, he staggers backwards onto the road and is killed by the same truck.]] |
| 342 | * The largely-forgotten 1988 Sierra adventure ''VideoGame/GoldRush'' has ''stagecoaches'' that can kill you if you don't keep out of their way. Fortunately these are actually avoidable, although heaven help you if you happen to be in one's path when changing screens. |
| 343 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'': |
| 344 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': In a random encounter, a man whom Niko previously helped dispose of the body of his wife gets remarried and, irrationally suspecting her of cheating on him, asks Niko to kill her. When Niko refuses, he resolves to do it himself, crosses the road without looking, and is run over. |
| 345 | ** Happens to another random encounter character in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'', [[ShootTheShaggyDog right after remarking their terminal illness was actually a misdiagnosis]]. |
| 346 | * In the beginning of ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', the protagonist's son runs into the street and is hit by a car and instantly killed. |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/{{Henry Stickmin|Series}}'': In "Escaping The Prison", Henry can attempt to escape using a grapple rope, causing him to land on the road, and immediately gets hit by a truck. |
| 348 | * In the DatingSim ''VisualNovel/HourglassOfSummer'', the heroine Kaho is set to die in a car accident caused by a number of different factors beyond her control. The main character spends the whole game making sure these events don't occur, [[spoiler:only for [[DiabolusExMachina the universe to get snotty]] and hand the girl an IdiotBall as she crosses the road]]. |
| 349 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'', Cindy tells the protagonist to dump a bucket of blood over her bullying victim Lily. If the player chooses to dump the blood over her instead, she'll run into the street ([[NoOSHACompliance which doesn't have as much as a fence separating it from the kindergarten playground]]) in a panic and get hit by a car [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], with only her shoe bouncing back on-screen afterwards. |
| 350 | * In ''VisualNovel/KisetsuODakishimete'', this is how [[spoiler:the Sexy Lady's fiancé]] died. [[spoiler:He was so impatient to meet her, propose to her, and give her a wedding ring that he got hit by a car when he carelessly tried to cross the road separating them, and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight died in her arms]].]] |
| 351 | * ''VideoGame/LauraBow [=II=]: The Dagger of Amon Ra'': Look both ways before crossing the road or get run over. (Of course, if you ''look'', [[SchrodingersGun there's never any car coming]]; there's a car coming only if you ''don't'' look.) |
| 352 | * ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' kills you if you walk out into the street, which means the game can end ''[[PressStartToGameOver mere seconds]]'' after you've started. |
| 353 | * ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' has the busy streets of Dragon City, constantly buzzing with vehicles, where cars will speed past on a semi-regular basis. Plenty of fights occurs in these areas too, and you (and enemy mooks) risk getting run over and losing a chunk of your life. |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan 2'''s "sad song" features an ice skater who is killed because she was focusing too much on her younger sister, who yelled at her earlier for getting too much attention. The aforementioned sister decides to skate at a competition in her place to make up for it. |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/Persona5'': |
| 356 | ** Principle Kobayakawa is murdered this way by The Conspiracy after he tries to go to the police. As he's crossing the street in front of the police station, they cause him to have a mental shutdown so that he's still standing in the road when the light changes and a truck hits him. |
| 357 | ** In ''Royal'', new character Kasumi Yoshizawa's sister, Sumire, was killed due to being hit by a car prior to the start of the game. [[spoiler:Except that she wasn't. ''Kasumi'' was actually the one killed, and Sumire became so depressed by it (due to it being her fault -- she'd ran into the road while the light was red into the path of an oncoming car after fighting with her sister and Kasumi died pushing her out of the way) that Dr. Maruki hypnotized her into believing that she was Kasumi and Sumire was the one who'd died.]] |
| 358 | * In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest2TheVengeance'', crossing the airport street without pressing the crossing button results in your character Sonny Bonds getting hit by a speeding taxicab. Furthermore, like in ''Leisure Suit Larry'', walking out into the street will kill you off screen. |
| 359 | * In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', two junkies steal boxes of Loa Dust and make a blind run for it across a street. The first junkie isn't so lucky. |
| 360 | * The subway trains and rollercoaster in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' will run you over without fail if you set foot onto the tracks. The latter can be temporarily turned off, though. |
| 361 | * The [[HeroicMime mute protagonist]] of ''[[VideoGame/{{Skate}} skate.]]'' gets hit by a bus in the intro. [[SubvertedTrope He survives]], but has to undergo a [[MeatgrinderSurgery brutal operation]]. |
| 362 | * In ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'', [[spoiler:this is narrowly averted in the Japan and Europe versions of Stage 6 when Lammy avoids getting hit by a car. She does, however, [[YouCantFightFate end up getting killed]] [[BananaPeel by other means]]...]] |
| 363 | * In ''VideoGame/WorldsEndClub'', [[spoiler: after it's revealed that the 'Vanilla' that Reycho, Pai, and Pochi were seeing was actually a ghost, it's later explained that she died one summer a while back by getting hit and killed by a truck on her way to the supermarket.]] |
| 364 | * The opening of ''VideoGame/YomawariNightAlone'' involves [[spoiler:the protagonist's dog getting run over by a truck after his owner tosses a pebble into the road.]] It makes for a very shocking FirstEpisodeTwist. |
| 365 | * ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon''; in a first for the series, stepping into traffic now runs the risk of the main character getting hit by a car and losing a solid chunk of health. This feature was carried over into the next game in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' franchise, ''Videogame/LostJudgment''. ''VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth'' also has that happening, but you have to go out of your way to hit a moving vehicle and you lose less health than in ''Y:LAD''. |
| 366 | * ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'' starts with Pirohiko Ichimonji, the previous Unlosing Ranger, getting struck by a car on his way to fighting Darkdeath Evilman. His Bizarro Earth counterpart doesn't even get to fully introduce himself before suffering the same fate. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 370 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'', this is invoked by Khrima when he uses a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0212.html Scroll of Summon City Bus]] to win a WizardDuel. |
| 371 | * [[spoiler:Kevin]] gets struck by a car in ''Webcomic/CarpeDiem''. Over the next few strips, we see his funeral, watch his friends and loved ones grieve, and notice as a few minor background events start getting creepier... [[spoiler:Anyone who paid attention to the dates could probably see the ZombieApocalypse story coming. After Halloween comes and goes, we snap back to moments before the accident, where Kevin just barely avoids getting hit.]] |
| 372 | * In ''Webcomic/GuardianGhost'', Max getting hit by a car [[FirstEpisodeResurrection and then promptly revived]] kicks off the whole plot. |
| 373 | * ''Isekai Transporter'' is a Thai webcomic about Bunrueng Songsawad, a truck driver, and Anna, his assistant from another dimension. They work for a company that provides people from Earth to act as heroes in other dimensions. As per the clichés of the Isekai genre, they do this by hitting them with a truck. Or bashing them over the head with the bumper of their truck, if they manage to dodge[[note]]The front bumper and the front panel of all their trucks are actually reincarnation devices[[/note]]. Bunrueng drives the trucks, while Anna finds suitable candidates, makes sure the target is in position, and keeps an eye out for the cops when he has to escape. |
| 374 | * In ''Webcomic/MyDaughterIsAZombie'', Jeonghye gets hit by a speeding car that ran a red light because she went on the street as soon as the crosswalk light turned green. Jeonghwan blames himself for Jeonghye's death because he left her infant daughter home alone to celebrate his birthday with his friends, which is why she was in such a rush to get home. |
| 375 | * Parodied in the ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' mini-arc "Isekai'd", where truck-kun [[spoiler:Is hit by another, bigger truck, a mere second before it could do what it's known for]]. |
| 376 | * Kestrel from ''Webcomic/QueenOfWands'', upon first arriving in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', calls out to Davan and Peejee... and, true to form, is run down without the two of them even noticing. She does [[NotQuiteDead return with some scars]] some time later; Davan, as it turns out, had been the one to turn down her insurance claim. The driver is revealed to be Avagadro, who also hit a minor character standing in the street crying (and this one he ''did'' kill; [[spoiler:he and Avagadro are neighbors in Hell]]). Then she gets hit in ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'' and ''[[http://irregularwebcomic.net/special/queenofwands.html Irregular Webcomic!]]''. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 380 | * ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': [[spoiler:As the twins fight over the toy car, Lake pushes Lucas to a nearby road, injuring his ankle. Lake stands by as Lucas cries out for help before he gets run over by a car.]] |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 384 | * The cast of ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' tries to pull this on [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos The Slenderman]]. [[spoiler: They fail. Miserably.]] |
| 385 | %%* Happens to [[spoiler:William Porter's Shadow]] in ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 389 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In "Revenge of the Mooninites", Shake is told to stand in the middle of the road after being told a hot chick would meet him there. Several minutes later, he gets hit by a car. |
| 390 | * Creator/TexAvery liked to have characters Look Both Ways and, seeing no cars coming for miles, take one step into the pavement, only to be ran over immediately. Fortunately, since it's just a cartoon, they just get neatly flattened, and recover by the next scene. |
| 391 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': [[spoiler:Ms. Chalice]] is a ghost who was revived by a DealWithTheDevil after getting hit by a streetcar. |
| 392 | * Toot of the animated show ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' falls victim to this, skipping happily and praising her newly purchased muumuu. |
| 393 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 394 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E1RoadToTheMultiverse Road to the Multiverse]]", Stewie and Brian visit an alternate universe where humans are subservient to dogs. When they go back home, Brian's alternate counterpart (a human kept as a pet) goes along with them. Excited about his new prospects in life, human Brian begins his optimistic adventure in a brand new universe but is promptly hit by a car. |
| 395 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E6LifeOfBrian Life of Brian]]", [[spoiler:Brian himself is hit by a car, only to return two episodes later due to Stewie stealing his past self's time machine]]. |
| 396 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 397 | ** Fry is down in the abandoned ruins of Old New York and decides that he can cross the street without looking both ways. So he does... and is trampled by a giant lizard. |
| 398 | ** In a [[UnCancelled post-cancellation]] episode, Fry reassures himself that even though he's not book smart, he's at least street smart... and as he's saying this, he steps in front of a bus. |
| 399 | * Phil Ken Sebben in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' is offed in this way. [[spoiler:Or so we think until he comes back for the final episode. He actually just got lodged in the bus' grille.]] Then, [[spoiler:he kills Birdman this way]]. |
| 400 | * In Creator/DisneyXD's ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', a sweet and enthusiastic teenage boy lives in [[AHellOfATime Miseryville]], a thinly-veiled kid's version of Hell, amongst demons and monsters; WordOfGod says that, had the show been created with its [[DarkerAndEdgier original vision seen through]], it would have been made explicit that Jimmy was sent to Miseryville due to a clerical error after being hit by a bus, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen but since it wound up being a kid's show]], the audience is never told why Jimmy is there when he clearly shouldn't be. |
| 401 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Mako sprints out from behind a parked car to catch a bus on the other side of the street and promptly gets run over by Asami. Fortunately for him, she was just driving a small, slow-moving scooter so it ends up being a MeetCute instead of a medical emergency. |
| 402 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' has an alien follow Max through the portals to Earth, where it continues chasing him up until the point where it chases him across the street and gets run over. |
| 403 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' has Mike going to the island's school for the first time. When Og points to a "school crossing", she says that there are no cars on the island and steps onto the crosswalk, only for a herd of elephants to stampede by and rip open her shoe. |
| 404 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a sketch involving someone who didn't believe in the afterlife step into a street, just to get run over, and sent to said afterlife: |
| 405 | -->'''Friend 1:''' Oh, wow, what a, uh...\ |
| 406 | '''Friend 2:''' Convenient plot device?\ |
| 407 | '''Friend 1:''' Yeah, plot device. |
| 408 | * This happens to Kenny in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E9DoTheHandicappedGoToHell Do the Handicapped Go To Hell?]]". In the next episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E10Probably Probably]]", we find that Kenny somehow survived and wound up in Mexico. |
| 409 | * [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]] fails to do this on occasion, and gets hit with both semis and trains. |
| 410 | * WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther has this happen to him in "Pink Before You Leap." He's trying to cross a street but is victimised by a crosswalk light that goes from "walk" to "wait" too soon, and then with no cars anywhere, he steps on the street and cars zip by in each direction. |
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