Truck-kun/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character is hit by a truck and transported into another world.

  • Straight: Bob is an Ordinary High School Student. One day, on his way to school, he pushes a girl out of the way of a truck. The truck hits Bob. Bob is transported into another world.
  • Exaggerated: At an outdoors school sports festival, an army of Truck-kuns drives down the field, reincarnating the entire high school into different worlds.
  • Downplayed: Bob gets struck by the truck, and is transported to the hospital. There, he has a dream about being Trapped in Another World before promptly dying.
  • Justified: Truck-kun's driver is paid to transport heroes to other worlds. There is a device inside the truck that establishes connections to other worlds, which transports Bob.
  • Inverted: Bob gets struck by the truck. The truck and its driver gets transported into another world.
    • Bob drives a truck. He accidentally hits somebody.
  • Subverted: Bob manages to dodge the truck, so he isn't transported.
    • Alice saves a cat from a truck. The truck closely passes Alice and the cat by, but Alice never gets hit so Alice is never transported.
  • Double Subverted: Truck-kun is so powerful merely their mere presence is enough to transport you. Bob goes to another world regardless.
  • Parodied: There is an entire industry dedicated to transporting heroes with Truck-kun. You only need to pay $150, and you are free to begin your life in another world!
    • While trying to Isekai someone, Truck-kun gets out-Truck-kuned by another, bigger Truck-kun. The bigger Truck-kun hits the smaller Truck-kun at the same time the Truck-kun hits the hero. Everyone is transported to the new world.
    • Bob died from Truck-kun. He didn't die from getting run over by Truck-kun, of course. Instead, he died from the shock of the thought of being run over by Truck-kun.
    • Everyone tries to jump in front of every truck they see to get a shot at life in another world. Recognising this, truck drivers become very cautious around people to avoid running them over. Every parcel delivery is always two days late because Truck-kun drivers are trying to deal with teenagers trying to get Isekaied.
    • Bob is hit by a truck. He goes to heaven, where he talks with God about which world he should be transported to. God insists he goes to a RPG Mechanics Verse, but Bob, tired of the Isekai bullshit, decides to climb the legal system in heaven to sue God and go back to his old life.
    • Bob is hit by a truck that bursts through his bathroom door.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice is Bob's girlfriend. While crossing a road, a truck speeds down a road and is about to hit Alice. Bob pushes Alice out of the way, but Alice comes back and pushes Bob out of the way. The the truck slams its brakes, but the road is slippery so the truck is barely slowing down. Bob and Alice collectively run away from the truck, at the same time the truck starts swerving away to avoid hitting Bob and Alice. The truck, by pure chance, turns in the exact same direction Bob and Alice are running. Bob and Alice gets hit by Truck-kun. In heaven, God doesn't know what to do with Alice and Bob because he has never seen two people get transported by Truck-kun.
  • Averted: Bob gets transported to a new world, this time through a abandoned theme park instead of Truck-kun.
  • Enforced: Bob is the protagonist of a story submitted to a writing competition. The writing competition is titled "That time I got hit by a truck and transported to another world and there I decided to start a writing competition!"
  • Lampshaded: After getting hit by a truck, the first responders to the site remark that they hope "Bob finds a nice life in some other world".
  • Invoked: Bob sees a truck uncontrollably speeding down the road. He pushes his Annoying Younger Sibling in the way of the truck, where they get transported to another world.
  • Exploited: Bob longs for some sort of adventure. Recognising that he has all the character traits of an Isekai protagonist (he is an Ordinary High School Student, has black hair, and no definable personality traits), he knows that he has a very high chance of getting transported to another world. On his way to school, he sees a girl who he doesn't know about to get run over by a truck. Bob, after watching too many Isekai anime, knows this is the perfect opportunity to get transported to a world filled with adventure and cute girls. He pushes the girl out of the way and Bob gets transported into a new world. Bob gets transported into a Darker and Edgier Isekai deconstruction, filled with suffering and torment.
  • Defied: Bob, recognising that trucks are a very dangerous species, vows to never leave his house at all times. It doesn't work, because a truck crashed through his living room.
  • Discussed: Bob and his girlfriend Alice walks down the street. Both are Ordinary High School Students. They wonder what happens to people after they die. Bob, with a high perception, notices that whenever someone is struck by a truck, a brief white ghost-like figure is sucked into the truck and rises into the sky. Alice remarks that the ghost probably transported them to another world. Both have a debate for the rest of their school journey on why only trucks are able to transport people.
  • Conversed: Bob and Alice are watching a new show titled "I Became a Level 999 God in Another World and Now I Have Unlimited Sword Attacks!". Bob and Alice have a bet to see how the hero gets transported to this world. Alice bets the hero gets transported after stepping through a Portal Door. Bob bets the hero gets transported after getting hit by a truck. Bob wins the bet. A truck then falls out of the sky and transports them both to another world.
  • Deconstructed: There is an industry established around transporting heroes into new worlds with a truck. Hitting a hero without actually seeing them travelling to a new world does concern the drivers a bit, though. The drivers start wondering if people are actually transported of if they just die, and whether the drivers are doing the heroes a favour or just killing them. Over time, the job of "Isekai Truck Driver" gets a reputation for being potential murderers, and the police starts following the occupation closely. The demand for therapists throughout the world skyrocket due to the psychological stress experienced by both the family of the heroes transported, and by the drivers.
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