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Big Badass Rig

In the future, we will put guns on our trucks

A Big Brother Bully Trope to Cool Car, this is the kind where even four wheels isn't enough, you need the deisel fumes and huge smoking pipes and... well, you have the big rig truck that tends to be a mainstay in action movies and the like.

Examples:

Anime

Daimos in his Tranzer form.
The Mammoth Car from Speed Racer, essentially a train on wheels.

Comic Books

The U.S. 1 rig from the shortlived Marvel Comics title U.S. 1.

Film

The truck from Duel.
Maximum Overdrive. Weren't these from before Stephen King's car accident, though?
The big rig from Land of the Dead is also a Weaponised Vehicle.
Mack from Cars.
The Dreadnought from Death Race
The Joker's semitruck from The Dark Knight.
The tanker truck Max and the tribesmen use in the climatic chase scene in The Road Warrior.
Jack Burton's truck in Big Trouble in Little China.
The finale for the first Terminator movie has the Terminator chasing down the protagonists (on foot) in an 18 wheeler.

Live-Action TV

Power Rangers: Done with the latter-year Disney-owned seasons.
- The truck in Dino Thunder was nearly identical to the one in the previous season, Ninja Storm, but the next season, SPD, went with an original design.
- Rig-styled mecha would show up about half the time in vehicle-teamed seasons, even in the Super Sentai precursors:
  - Kousoku Sentai Turboranger had a tractor cab for their Black Ranger
  - Hikari Sentai Maskman and Choushinsei Flashman had tractor trailer rigs forming standalone mecha on their own
  - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger had green and yellow tractor trailers respectively
  - And some seasons, like Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman and Gogo Sentai Boukenger, would have their vehicles combine into a tractor trailer form while retaining their megazord configuration
B.J. and the Bear. B.J. (Billie Joe) McKay drove a big rig truck. His sidekick was a chimpanzee named "Bear".
A late '80s action series called The Highwayman involved frontier lawmen traveling the roads in big black rigs. The lead character's cab even turned into a helicopter.
The original Knight Rider had one for a mobile base-cum-garage.
The Supernatural episode "Route 666" has a possessed truck.

Video Games

The premise behind the game Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
The Vehicular Combat trucks from Gear Grinder.
Convoy from Vigilante 8 drives a large yellow Mack truck. The sequel gives him the ability to attach a trailer to the back of it.
Darkside in it's many iterations from Twisted Metal.
- The reboot gave us Juggernaut, the Dreadnaught Expy.
PlanetSide and the upcoming sequel have the Sunderer◊ APC, more popularly known as the bang bus. The original Sunderer is absolutely huge, being almost two stories tall. A patch later gave it a cattle-catcher to the front. The sequel's version looks more like a giant APC than the original.

Western Animation

Rhino, Outlaw, Goliath and Bulldog from M.A.S.K..
Optimus Prime. Tractor trailers would become a mainstay after that, and Optimus would appear as other kinds of vehicles, but there's a very good reason he's most associated with a truck.

Real Life