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Running Over the Plot
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Someone is hit by a car, and that kicks off or resumes the plot. It may be that The Hero is driving, or not. Maybe they are a passenger, or it's a Getaway Driver, or it's the hero themselves who is hit by a car. This trope counts regardless of who does what, because what matters is the dramatic potential of a character getting hit by the car. It's a memorable way to bring The Team together, and provides immediate stakes. Put simply, car accidents are dramatic. The injuries incurred by this Inciting Incident can range from death, in which case it's usually a Plot-Triggering Death, to serious injury, to being completely unharmed. The latter often doubles as an a Big Entrance. It may overlap with Drunk Driver or Drives Like Crazy (especially in more comic settings), and it may be caused when Driver Faces Passenger or by Vehicular Sabotage. It can be related to Look Both Ways, if the character doesn't look before they step out. It's a well-observed cliche to start an isekai work with the protagonist being run over by a vehicle so they will die and Reincarnate in Another World. This sudden death can be established without a setup and usually sidesteps the question of sending the protagonist to their home world. Memetic Mutation has conflated these into "Truck-kun", the same truck heroically going around killing ordinary teenagers so as to send fantasy worlds the hero they're summoning. Characters sent to these worlds in this way are often said to have been "isekai'ed", and it's become an oft-parodied cliche. If a character (nearly) runs into someone, but does not actually hit them (and that kick-starts the plot), that would be a subversion. If a plot ends by someone being run over, that would be an inversion. Not to be confused with "being run over by the plot wagon", which some roleplayers use as a synonym for Railroading. As this can be a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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This is how the plot in Zettai Hero Project begins. The first Unlosing Ranger Pirohiko Ichimonji gets recklessly run over by Kyoka and Mana, killing him. The Main Character sees the incident and is more or less forced to inherit the Unlosing Ranger title from the dying Pirohiko and advance the story from there. | |
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Harry and the Hendersons begins with the Hendersons hitting a Bigfoot (the titular Harry) with their car, then taking it home to recuperate. | |
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In BoJack Horseman, BoJack and Wanda's subplot in "After The Party" starts when they run over a deer (an anthropomorphic one) and have to find him and get him to the hospital. | |
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A subtle example in The Shining. Jack, even after breaking Danny's arm, is in denial about his alcoholism. He only comes round and decide to go sober (which is how the Overlook tempts him) after he and a drinking buddy hit a bike while driving under the influence. Both of them are seriously disturbed by what could've happened if someone had been on that bike. | |
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Several examples in The Simpsons: In the episode "Bart Gets Hit By A Car", Bart gets hit by a car. Being more specific, he gets hit by C. Montgomery Burns' car, and the episode revolves around the courtroom hearing that ensues when Homer decides to sue Burns for all the money he can. In "Brake My Wife, Please", Homer gets addicted to walking after losing his driver's license, while Marge gets stressed from all driving she has to do for her family now. This culminates with Marge impulsively attacking Homer, starting with her hitting him with her car. This shows marital issues between them. In "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot", Bart deliberately throws his bicycle in the path of Dr. Hibbert's car. After the collision, Dr. Hibbert assures Bart he'll pay for a new bike, then returns to his car, vowing to keep his eyes on the road... before getting distracted and hitting Snowball II as well, killing her. |
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In Back to the Future, shortly after arriving in 1955 Marty accidentally gets run over by his grandfather's car, which introduces him to his mother (who is instantly smitten with him) and accidentally prevents his parents from meeting. This triggers the main subplot where Marty must work to get his parents back together to stop the Grandfather Paradox obliterating him from existence. | |
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Happens at the beginning of Deadly Premonition, when Agent York crashes his car, startled by the Raincoat Killer that just appeared out of nowhere on the road. | |
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The song and animated film Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer revolve around the titular vehicular accident happening to the protagonist's grandmother courtesy of Santa Claus. While the song is about how the narrator discovers in a darkly comedic fashion that Santa truly exists, the animated special revolves around the Black Sheep of the family trying to sue Santa for whatever she can and Santa accidentally kidnapping Grandma because the collision made her forget where she lives. | |
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Eve and Adam: The first chapter ends when Eve is hit by a car, and that's how she enters the hospital that holds most of the plot. | |
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Inverted in Deadpool 2: The threat of Russell Collins growing up to become evil (which is the reason Deadpool and Cable have come to blows) truly ends when Dopinder the cab driver runs over the orphanage headmaster as he tries to run away during the final battle. | |
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The Poker Face episode "Escape From Shit Mountain" is instigated when finance bro and parolee Trey Nelson goes for a drunk joyride when the ankle bracelet keeping him on house arrest is disabled by a snowstorm. This drive results in him running over a pedestrian (later revealed to be Charlie, who survives) and trying to dispose of the body. | |
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Frankenweenie: The premise of the movie is that Sparky the dog gets fatally hit by a car, then Victor brings him back to life with lightning. | |
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The Benny Hill Show: Benny as an old homeless person gets run over by a car full of young women. They take him home, clean him up, buy him new clothes, and bring him to a party. But it turns out it's All Just a Dream of his. Then he really does get run over by a car full of young women. They take one look at him, see it's just an old homeless bum, and drive off. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "You Drive", Ollie Pope runs over and kills a kid before the opening narration, and the story revolves around his guilt making his car a Sentient Vehicle. | |
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Dead to Me: The plot is kicked off when Jen's husband is killed in a hit-and-run, and she joins a grief support group, where she meets Judy. The two women become fast friends, and Judy agrees to help Jen try and find out who did it. The twist? She did, albeit by accident, and is an absolute wreck from the guilt. | |
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Sonic Boom: Played with in "Three Men And My Baby!", where the episode starts with Sonic and Tails riding their hoverboards being towed by Knuckles' monster truck, which swerves out of control when Knuckles gets distracted by the pizza from his portable oven. Lady Walrus is in the truck's path and Knuckles manages to swerve away at the last moment to avoid running her over... only for the tree his truck crashes into instead to fall onto Lady Walrus and injure her so that she must entrust her baby Chumley to Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles for the episode's plot. | |
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Inverted in Mage & Demon Queen. The summoned hero, Axel, has spent a very long time going from world to world to act as a summoned hero when he really wants to go home to his own world, making him very bitter and willing to do anything to get home, no matter how many people he hurts in the process. Turns out, the reason that the gods never sent him home was because they'd pulled him out of his world moments before being hit by a truck, which happens to him the moment he gets sent back. The Distant Finale shows that he managed to survive, but lost an arm, a leg, and an eye in the crash. | |
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Right before the start of Persona 2 Eternal Punishment, Anna Yoshizaka was the victim of a hit-and-run that resulted in her Career-Ending Injury. This starts a series of events that begin with the murder of the suspect, trigger the events of the game (as it's the investigation behind the murder that brings the party together) and induces a boss fight with the one who ordered the murder. | |
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I Know What You Did Last Summer: What they did last summer was run over a pedestrian walking on a coastal road and put the body in the water. The twist is that he didn't actually die, and he's back for revenge. | |
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Barely avoided in the manga and anime Fly Me to the Moon. The protagonist Nasa meets his love by being almost hit by a truck - from which she rescues him. He's still wounded and loses a lot of blood, resulting in him being hospitalized and spending a long time in rehab. | |
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In Children of the Corn (1984) and Disciples of the Crow (kept from Stephen King's original short story), Burt and Vicky accidentally run over a boy who stumbles out in the road and take him to their nearby town. His throat was already slit, though, because he was trying to escape from there. | |
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Subverted in Monster Musume: Kimiheto gets told he's going to die by Lala the Dulahan, but he doesn't believe it. He steps out into the street and it looks like he's about to get run down by a speeding car, only for the perspective to shift and reveal that it's just a kid's remote control car that harmlessly bumps his shin. He then explains that he'd figured out that Lala is actually just a gothy chuunibyou who looks mystical because of her detachable head. | |
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In Action League NOW!, whenever someone goes out into the road, they will get run over by a car (or some other kind of vehicle on occasion). This has even defeated the Monster of the Week a few times. | |
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) has a truck driver run over a naked woman on a rainy freeway. It turns out to be Project 2501 escaping in a cyborg body. | |
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Played straight in Zombie Land Saga, since the protagonist Sakura literally dies by being hit by a truck in the cold opening of episode 1. A very metal OP ensues, and then she spends the rest of the show as a resurrected zombie/idol at the beck and call of a necromancer/producer. | |
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Inverted in A Simple Favor: The day is saved when Darren runs over Emily just as she was about to shoot Stephanie, which doesn't kill her, but does leave her unable to flee when the police arrive. | |
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In the Drake & Josh episode "Josh Runs into Oprah", Josh accidentally runs over Oprah Winfrey on his way to see her show for his birthday. The rest of the episode has him try to find her at the hospital to apologize. | |
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In The Office (US), Michael ends up accidentally running over Meredith when he pulls in to the parking lot in "Fun Run". While she's in the hospital, the doctor discovers a previous case of rabies, so Michael being Michael decides to host an office fun run for rabies treatment. | |
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Parodied in KonoSuba, where the protagonist, Kazuma, is almost hit by an extremely slow tractor — actually dying of shock — and his death is so absurd, his own family apparently laughed at it. | |
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In Rose Guns Days, the 1948 part begins with Rose hitting a girl who jumped in front of her car, apparently running from procurers. She loses her memories in the process and Rose gives her a temporary name, "Rapunzel". It turns out the girl literally jumped in front of the car so that Rose would "save" her, since her mission was to infiltrate Primavera and get close to Rose. | |
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In Dr. Dolittle starring Eddie Murphy the title character reawakens his ability to Speaks Fluent Animal after hitting a dog with his car, an ability he had suppressed and forgotten since childhood. The dog, who would be later adopted by the doctor, runs off no worse for the wear, but not before yelling at Dolittle to watch where he was going. This incident would lead to the rest of the movie with Dr. Dolittle finding himself dealing with animals coming to him for medical issues once it gets out he can understand them. | |
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M*A*S*H. Whiplash Wang, who makes a meager living by purposely getting run over by GIs in jeeps, then making them pay him off to keep him from reporting it. | |
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While Strange is not exactly hit by a car, a vehicular accident is the incident that sets the plot in motion in Doctor Strange (2016). | |
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The intro of Alan Wake has the protagonist retell a nightmare in which he ran over a hitchhiker on a road at night. Watch the scene here. | |
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At the beginning of The A-Team, Barakus almost runs over Hannibal, which appears to have come out of nowhere from Barakus's view. | |
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Subverted in The World Ends with You. It looks like the protagonist, Neku, is about to be "isekaied" by an incoming truck, only to find that it harmlessly phases through him. It turns out that he had been transported to the Underground version of Shibuya already at the beginning of the story. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: "Christmas" opens with everyone in town in the holiday spirit... and then the Wattersons accidentally run someone over. The family minus Nicole believe the man is an amnesiac Santa Claus, causing Richard to go out and do good deeds to get himself off the naughty list for running over Santa while the kids try to jog his memory. | |
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In Life on Mars (both the British Original and the American remake), this is how Sam Tyler gets sent back in time; he gets hit by a car in the present day, and wakes up in 1973, unsure if he's in a coma, in the afterlife, or really back in time. | |
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Unedited Footage of a Bear doesn't really get started until Donna runs into her evil clone in the street, who attacks her, forces her out of the car, and then hits her with said car. This allows the clone to take over her life for a while and do something to her kids, while the real Donna is stuck crawling home. | |
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Sonic X averts, then nearly inverts this in the first episode, where an outburst of Chaos energy instead causes him and his friends to be transported to Station Square, a city in a world populated by humans. Only then is he almost hit by a truck. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Father's Day", the Doctor takes Rose back in time to the day her father was killed by a motorist. She stops the death but then the Clock Roaches come out; it turns out the only way to stop the destruction of the universe is for him to get hit by a car and die. Inverted in "Turn Left", where an alternate reality version of Donna keeps her main universe version on the correct path by running in front of a lorry, getting killed in an accident but creating a traffic jam so Donna goes the other direction instead. |
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Forever: How "Diamonds Are Forever" kicks off the week's murder case. In this case, not just run over, but reversed over after, to make sure he's dead. | |
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Big Fat Liar: The plot begins when Jason is hit by Marty Wolf's limo and is given a ride to school as a result. Jason accidentally leaves his assignment in the limo and Marty steals a movie idea from them, kicking off the main conflict. | |
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In Big Trouble in Little China, the main character is introduced to the Big Bad when he runs through him with a semi truck. The villain in question was a walking dream (a ghost, essentially). | |
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The intro of Graveyard Keeper shows the protagonist in the real world and a still of a car rushing towards them, with soundeffects of a car suddenly breaking. The protagonist is then sent to the village where the game takes place, unclear if this is some sort of afterlife. | |
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The plot of Russian Doll kicks off when Nadia gets run over by a taxi on her birthday, resulting in her death. She suddenly finds herself back at her birthday party a few hours earlier and eventually realizes that she's stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Every time she dies, she ends up back at the party. Nadia spends the rest of the first season trying to find a way out. | |
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To the Moon mixes this trope with Chekhov's Gun in the opening, as Neil and Eva are driving to their next client. A squirrel runs into the street and Neil can't swerve in time and drives over it, killing it instantly. The squirrel's corpse ends up helping to by-pass John's repressed memories about his deceased brother. | |
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11:14 starts with Jack Levine running into someone while driving while talking on his cellphone. And intoxicated. Due to the film's Anachronic Order, this is also where it ends. | |
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Happens in Midsomer Murders to Barnaby's wife. In the end it turns out it was a real woman who disappeared in the secret entrance of a roadside building. However, the show puts in a Real After All moment when Barnaby also barely avoids running over a woman in the same spot... but this time, there is clearly no one there. | |
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Inverted in Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable: the main villain Yoshikage Kira is ultimately defeated when an ambulance accidentally runs over his head when he's lying on the street after Jotaro beats him up. | |
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Emergency!: John Gage is injured in a hit and run while walking to the squad, which kicks off the episode “The Nuisance� | |
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Played with in The Loved Ones. Brent actually avoids running over the plot (not knowing that's what he'd be doing) when he swerves to avoid a boy stumbling around in the middle of the road, killing his father and restarting the actual plot. But it turns out that he was actually one of Lola and her father's victims, barely clinging to life. | |
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A couple of episodes of The Fugitive started with the protagonist either being hit by a car or hitting someone with a car he was driving. Given that he's on the run from the law, this is obviously a bigger problem for him that it would be for someone else in the same situation. | |
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The first we see of Yusuke Urameshi in YuYu Hakusho is him saving a boy from an oncoming car and getting hit himself. He gets better. | |
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Southbound: "The Accident" starts when Lucas is distracted by his phone while driving, resulting in him hitting someone and causing horrific injuries. He tries desperately to save her life while guided by a 911 dispatcher, a certified EMT, and a surgeon over his phone. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: After Experiment 626 crash-lands on Kauaʻi, he runs into a road, gets distracted by rain and a frog, and then gets run over by three tractor trailer trucks, only knocking him unconscious due to his Nigh-Invulnerability. This would lead to him being brought to the animal shelter where Lilo adopts him as "Stitch", starting the main core of the plot. | |
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