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* In ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' an incarceree's brother practices a [[Flopsy]] routine 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.}}
** It later happens to {{spoiler|Tenma}}, who was 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.
* The first episode of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' opens with a girl named Michiru waving goodbye to her boyfriend, who gets on his bike and is suddenly run over by a van. And by "run over" I mean it fell on him from an overpass, on fire, covered in ninjas.
** Averted in the case of {{spoiler|Ran's sister Aya}}, since it turns out {{spoiler|it was intentional.}}
* [[So Bad It's Good|Inexplicably, unfathomably, illogically and HILARIOUSLY]], M.Bison tries to do this to Ryu at the very end of the ''[[Street Fighter]] II'' animated movie. Why an international crimelord with near-unlimited Psycho Power, an otherwise brilliant tactical mind, and martial arts expertise would try to run down someone with a truck will [[MST3K Mantra|forever be a mystery]].
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** This doesn't really count, though, since Yusuke saw the car coming and [[Diving Save|dove in front of it]] deliberately to save the kid.
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', a gangster was splattered by the truck. Then again, he was sentenced to death via Light's Death Note...
* Hitomi from ''[[ICE]]'' 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.
* In ''[[Ef a Tale of Memories|Ef: A Tale Of Melodies]]'', {{spoiler|Yuuko}} gets hits by a car when she suddenly rushes onto the street without looking out for traffic. This is especially egregious, since she managed to survive some pretty bad stuff before that.
** 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}}
** Not to mention you could count the number of moving cars ''in both series'' in all of ''Otowa'' on one hand.
* In ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' {{spoiler|Gilbert}} is run over and killed by a horse carriage after running into the street while [[Drugs Are Bad|hallucinating.]]
* The trope occurs ''hilariously'' - twice - in ''[[Baccano!]]''. In the first instance, resident [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloudcuckoolanders]] [[Large Ham|Isaac]] and [[The Ditz|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. Later on, Szilard leaps out of a window in pursuit of Maiza - and directly into the path of ''his own car,'' now [[Drives Like Crazy|driven by Isaac]].
* Very cruelly played with in [[The Twelve Kingdoms]], where {{spoiler|Seishuu}} dies this way when hit by a carriage. The twist comes because {{spoiler|he had gone blind a short while ago, thus whether he looked both ways or not... it wouldn't have mattered}}.
* Subverted in [[Fruits Basket]], 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 [[Diving Save]] in fear of triggering his curse - needless to say, [[Failure Knight|Kyou couldn't forgive himself for it]].}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the final issue of a recent story arc in [[The DCU]]'s ''[[Justice Society of America]]'', Wildcat and his new-found meta-human son are fighting a losing battle against [[Badass]] [[Diabolical Mastermind]] 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.
* [[Underground Comics]] 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.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Lives of Others]]'': {{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.
* Happens ''multiple times'' in the film [[The Air I Breathe]], so much that it devolves into [[Narm]].
* ''[[Final Destination]]'': 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 [[Tempting Fate|"Drop fucking dead!"]] and she steps off the sidewalk. '''[[Surprisingly-Sudden Death|BUS!]]'''
* Parodied (and subverted) in ''[[Night of the Comet]]'': After the elimination of the human race, one girl decides she no longer needs to look before crossing "against the light" -- and is almost run over by another survivor.
* Parodied in ''[[Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle]]'', where the two main characters want to cross a street. The light is red, and Harold insists on waiting. They eventually decide to cross, but as soon as they so much as gesture that they're crossing, a police car appears out of nowhere and they get ticketed for jaywalking.
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* In ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'', 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".
* Parodied in the ''[[Scary Movie]]'' series, where someone is unexpectedly hit by a car or bus at the end of ''every movie''.
** 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.
** 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 was no intersection, it was a perfectly straight road.
* Happens to that one guy from ''[[The Devil's Advocate]]'', although it's strongly implied that it was a hit.
* ''El Orfanata'' made horror out of this trope.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', Terminators show utterly no ability to [[Look Both Ways]].
** In the Pilot episode, Cromartie gets creamed in a parking lot by a truck driven by Cameron.
** The next episode, 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.
** The first episode of second season, 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".
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'', more than once.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' On Claire's multiple suicide tape, one of the "deaths" she suffers is getting hit with a car.
** Hiro also stops time and save a little girl who would've otherwise been run over.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' - happens to a bounty hunter who was holding Daniel at gunpoint. To be fair, most other planets don't have cars or buses, or elementary school, so she likely never learned to [[Look Both Ways]].
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* Various ''[[Law and Order]]'' 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.
** One episode opened with a woman trying to escape a paparazzo who was following her, and getting hit by a car when running out into the middle of the street. Half the episode was spent figuring out whether or not the paparazzo was at fault.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', nearly unstoppable [[Big Bad]] Glory gets slowed down (though not killed - she is [[Implacable Man|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.
* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' has a couple of deaths this way, one from a yuppie guy in the convertible.
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** Although in this case the driver was ''trying'' to hit him.
* ''[[Reno 911]]'', multiple times. Once, twice in the same scene.
* Happens in one of the early Got Milk commercials to a yuppie on a cell phone.
* Used with odd hilarity in ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' 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.
* The third season finale of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' has Barney run to the hospital, look the correct way on a one way street, but neglects to look the other way and promptly gets hit by a bus, that was going the wrong way on the one way street. Luckily they were in front of the hospital.
* In the first episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', 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 [[The Atoner]]. Becomes a running joke, usually when [[Laser-Guided Karma]] shows up.
* Happens very satisfactorily in an episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]''. [[Laser-Guided Karma]] at work once again.
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** Also in ''[[Police Quest]] II'', when your character, Sonny Bonds, crosses the airport street without pressing the crossing button results getting hit by a speeding taxicab and also like LSL, walking out into the street will kill you off screen.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'': in a random encounter, a man who 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.
* [[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]] 2's "sad song" features an ice skater who is killed because she was focusing too much on her older sister, who yelled at her earlier for getting too much attention. The older sister decides to skate at a competition in her place to make up for it.
* In the game ''[[Saints Row 2]]'', two junkies steal boxes of Loa Dust and make a blind run for it, across a street. The first junkie isn't so lucky.
* In the beginning of ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', the protagonist's son runs into the street and is hit by a car and instantly killed.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Kestrel from ''[[Queen of Wands]]'', on first arriving in ''[[Something Positive]]'', called out to Davan and Peejee...and, true to form, was run down without the two of them even noticing. She did [[Not Quite Dead|return with some scars]] some time later; Davan, as it turned out, had been the one to turn down her insurance claim. The driver was 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 she got hit in ''[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20050224.html Checkerboard Nightmare]'' and ''[http://irregularwebcomic.net/special/queenofwands.html IrregularWebomic]''.
* {{spoiler|Kevin}} gets struck by a car in ''[[Carpe Diem]].'' 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 [[Zombie Apocalypse]] story coming. After Halloween comes and goes, we snap back to moments before the accident, where Kevin just barely avoids getting hit.}}
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