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''Use your eyes to look out, use your ears to hear''<br />
''Walk up to the corner when the coast is clear''<br />
''And wait, and wait, until you see the light turn green...''"|'''[[They Might Be Giants (
A specific variant of [[Dropped a Bridge
Plus, it's a kind of [[Karmic Death]]. [[Anvilicious|Remember, folks,]] you were taught in elementary school to [[Look Both Ways]] before crossing the street!
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== [[Anime]] ==
* In the very first episode of ''[[Excel Saga (
* {{spoiler|Akiko}} in ''[[Kanon]]'' is hit by an SUV near the end, {{spoiler|but survives thanks to Ayu's miracle.}}
** That totally wasn't her fault, though, since the driver that hit her was apparently an idiot who can't tell the difference between red light and green light.
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* ''[[Magical Princess Minky Momo]]'' being run over by a truck (and her show not immediately ending) has become infamous among anime fans. In fact, it was the inspiration for the ''Excel Saga'' incident mentioned above.
* An episode of ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi]]'' parodies this by having the title character hit by a car in the first scene and spending most of the episode as a ghost, then come [[Back From the Dead]] and get roadkilled again, revived and flatttened about half a dozen times back to back.
* In ''[[Monster (
** 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.
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* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' starts off with the protagonist dying from being hit by a car to save a boy who had chased his ball into the street.
** 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 ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* The trope occurs ''hilariously'' - twice - in ''[[
* 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]].}}
* In an odd subversion, {{spoiler|Rei Asaka}} from [[Oniisama
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* 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.
* In ''[[Kick
* ''[[Mean Girls]]'': 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."
** And 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.}}
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** 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
* ''El Orfanata'' made horror out of this trope.
* Subverted in ''[[
* Happens to {{spoiler|Diana}} in ''[[Knowing]]''. {{spoiler|She doesn't get better.}}
* In ''[[Superman (
* The leader of the Martian ship in the comedy ''[[Spaced Invaders]]'' 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:
{{quote| "Don't forget to look both ways before crossing the street!"<br />
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* Happens to [[Brad Pitt]]'s character (his original one, before Death borrows his body) in ''[[Meet Joe Black]]''. Although the [[An Aesop|moral lesson]] of the incident is not so much "look both ways before you cross the street; [[Lost Aesop|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]].
* Lampshaded in the 2008 movie ''[[Ghost Town (
* Used with considerable effect in ''[[The Exorcism of Emily Rose]]'' with {{spoiler|the Doctor who gets hit right after admitting that he believes in demons and is afraid.}}
* Emily's fate in ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'', allowing Andy to feel a little bit less guilty about going to Paris instead of her.
* Played with in ''[[Local Hero]]'': Every time the hero steps out into the street he is nearly hit by a guy on a dirt bike. ''Every time.'' And this in a town so small that it only has one street and no other traffic.
* In Rob Zombie's film ''[[The
* In ''[[Prey For Rock And Roll]]'', [[Lori Petty]]'s character runs after some kids who steel her guitar, and gets hit by a car. She doesn't survive the incident.
* In what is possibly the [[Trope Maker]], and one of the few humorous examples of this trope, the [[Buster Keaton]] short "One Week" has this happen [[Crowning Moment of Funny|to a house, via train]]. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
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* In Vladimir Nabokov's ''[[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 [[Unreliable Narrator|his version]]
* This starts off the plot of ''[[Rewind-William Sleator
* In ''[[Carnosaur]]'', an adolescent megalosaur misses its chance to act out the ''T. rex'''s role from ''[[Jurassic Park]] 2'' when it steps out onto a highway and is flattened by an 18-wheeler.
* In ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', {{spoiler|Tom Buchanan's mistress Myrtle}} darts out into the street after an argument with her husband, to be struck and horrifically killed by Tom's wife.
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* ''[[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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* 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.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[The Soup]]'' has been known to edit speeding bus attacks into clips that they feel need it.
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' 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. Heeeat of the moment...
* Alan Bradley from ''[[Coronation Street]]'' was killed by a ''Blackpool tram'' this way, quite an achievement with it being hard to miss and not exactly fast.
* Pete Tyler in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Father's Day", although this was a ''deliberate'' act to put time back on track.
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** A variation occurs in the series finale. 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.
* ''[[Dan for Mayor]]'' sure seems to like this trope. The first episode ended with {{spoiler|Mayor Bud}} getting hit by a bus. 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.
* In the beginning of episode 111 of ''[[The Hard
* In an ''[[X Files]]'' episode with a genie, a man gets his wish of invisibility. He gleefully runs off, [[Too Dumb to Live|right into the path of a speeding semi truck]].
* Subverted at the end of ''[[Due South]]''. Turnbull gets hit by a bus in just that fashion, but it's revealed he only had some badly broken bones.
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* ''[[Laura Bow]] II: The Dagger of Amon Ra''. Look both ways before crossing the road or get run over. (Of course, if you ''look'', there's never any car coming; there's a car coming only if you ''don't'' look.)
** Sierra liked this trope. The first ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' game would kill you if you walked out into the street, which meant the game could end ''mere seconds'' after you started.
** And the largely-forgotter 1988 Sierra adventure ''[[Gold Rush
** 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.
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* Anyone else remember the original ''[[Frogger]]''? Averting this trope was the whole point!
* The subway trains and rollercoaster in ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'' will run you over without fail if you set foot onto the tracks. The latter can be temporarily turned off, though.
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Kestrel from ''[[
** 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.}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Happens to {{spoiler|William Porter's Shadow}} in ''[[
* The cast of [[Everyman HYBRID]] tries to pull this on [[The Slender Man Mythos|The Slenderman.]] {{spoiler|They fail. Miserably.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The same thing happened to Kenny the ''[[
** In a similar situation in the parody film ''[[
* In ''[[
** In a [[Un Cancelled|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.
* [[Tex Avery]] 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.
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'''Friend 2''': Convenient plot device?<br />
'''Friend 1''': Yeah, plot device. }}
* Phil Ken Sebben in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
* This has happened a few times on ''[[
* Toot of the animated show ''[[Drawn Together]]'' falls victim to this, skipping happily and praising her newly purchased muumuu.
* An episode of [[Mighty Max]] 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.
* In the ''[[
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