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So you're a marauding monster, invading alien force, overblown natural disaster, fanatical terrorist, or anything that has a tendency to cause massive collateral damage. But you are not going to destroy any random building, are you? No, where is the fun in that? You're going to behead the Statue of Liberty, or blow up the White House, or anything recognizable enough that by destroying it, you can show the world that you mean business. Just killing people throughout the world won't cut it. If you plan on attacking all over the world make sure you target a wide range of easily identifiable landmarks throughout. Due to Small Reference Pools, no one will take you seriously unless you get the Pyramids, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera House, the Westminster Clock Tower ("Big Ben", that is), or in works made before 9/11, the World Trade Center. Japan's Tokyo Tower gets this so often its joked by fans as 'Just another bad day for Tokyo Tower.' (A weird exception is that it's very, very rare for any monument-destroying force to harm the Lincoln Memorial. It's not unknown, but the Great Emancipator's statue takes significantly less damage than you might expect.) Occasionally inverted when an occupying power takes control of a landmark of some kind, forcing the defenders to destroy said landmark. A consequence of the Eiffel Tower Effect. Frequently seen in disaster movies. When characters deliberately aim for monuments for symbolic value, this overlaps with Smash the Symbol. Sometimes inverted: The monument —although battered— is the only thing left standing in the city After the End. Compare Big Applesauce, Monumental Battle, Rushmore Refacement, The Tokyo Fireball, Tilting Tower of Pisa, and Washington D.C. Invasion. Tokyo Tower gets messed up so much it's also its own trope. This trope could be Justified if Landmarking the Hidden Base is being utilized and the bad guy finds out. See also Weaponized Landmark when the monument shoots back. Not to be confused with Monumental Theft. |
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Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War sees many iconic American monuments smashed as the nation descends into depression, disorder and civil war. Washington itself is ravaged by looters and rioters when the Federal Government evacuates to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the halls of government are ruined and defaced much like those of Detroit in real life. Protagonist John Rumford comments bitterly: | |
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In The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor, Supergirl and Blackrock almost completely destroy the Washington Square Arch while fighting. | |
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In Megas XLR, Coop once filled in the Grand Canyon to defeat the Monster of the Week. Granted, it's not man-made, but it's recognizable enough to count. He destroyed the Hoover Dam in the same episode; it was faster than turning off the power (the monster fed on energy) like a sane person would. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): There are a couple examples which are slightly tamer than usual disaster movie standards considering the Monuments' obscurity in Real Life. There's the underwater damage done to the Yonaguni Monument by Godzilla's battle against the Many in Chapter 13, and there's the steeple of the Khram Vo Imya church in Berezniki being used as a weapon by Monster X to impale MaNi/Elder Brother, as well as implicitly getting leveled with the rest of the city, in Chapter 17. | |
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In The Shape of Things to Come, the cathedral even ends up completely destroyed, along with a great chunk of London's inner city at the northern shore of the Thames. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Issue 32 seems to open with the Empire State Building being blown up by the alien invader Uvo, but the next page reveals it was a scale model built to test out invasion plans. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Decay destroys the foundation of the Boston Massacre Monument and when Diana prevents the monument from landing on tourists Decay reduces the whole thing to dust. The comic's monument is a bit different from the real one, putting the Spirit of the Revolution at the top of the tapering column. | |
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Wonder Woman (2006): The Washington Monument is destroyed in one of the tie in issues for Amazons Attack!. | |
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In the Mazinkaiser movie, the first shot features Paris and the Eiffel Tower burning. The next scenes depict the main characters trying to fight the Mykene War Beasts in different locations. During the attack on New York, the Statue of Liberty is shown as having been decapitated. Just to add insult to injury, Great Mazinger is knocked through the remains of the statue and falls on the head. Elsewhere, the Great Pyramids, Sydney Opera House, and Great Wall are also damaged by Super Robot / Robeast combat. Mount Fuji also takes damage from the final battle between Mazinkaiser and Ankoku Daishogun, first as collateral damage from Mazinkaiser's Rust Tornado, and again when Daishogun rams Mazinkaiser with his Airborne Aircraft Carrier. During the end credits of the movie, the heroes can be seen fixing it afterwards. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has a character point out that the Statue of Liberty was the only monument spared, but that it might not be should it happen again. | |
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The Immortal Thor: Toranos announces himself by blasting the Statue of Liberty to pieces with a single lightning bolt. | |
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Recurring in Ãœber: During the retreat from Paris, the Allies are forced to destroy many landmarks to keep the Nazis from using them as vantage points; the Eiffel Tower is shown exploding. During the invasion of London, Sieglinde decapitates Nelson's Column and places Churchhill's head on top. The cover of the first issue of Invasion shows the Statue of Liberty with its face partially melted off. In the comic proper, Siegfried begins the invasion by reshaping the White House into an enormous swastika. A later issue of Invasion shows the Statue of Liberty's head reshaped into a swastika as well. |
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In-universe example: Boruto: Naruto Next Generation begins by showing The Hokage Mountain, the most easily recognizable landmark of Konoha Village, completely smashed alongside with the rest of the village. | |
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Pachimon, a collectible card game featuring kaiju, have plenty of these happening in it's "Universal Tour" series. Notably a kaiju trampling over the Colosseum in Rome, a flying behemoth about to land on (and snap) the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pyramids getting chewed apart by another monster, and at least three with the Eiffel Tower getting wrecked. | |
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The title character of Hercules also breaks the Venus de Milo's arms while skipping stones. Megara claims it looks better that way.note "No, it really does." | |
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"The Super-Steed of Steel" Comet is mind-controlled by villain Vostar into destroying the Hoover Damn, beheading the Statue of Liberty, knocking the Washington Monument down and sabotaging the Panama Canal. | |
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In The War of the Worlds (1898), it ends up with what the narrator describes as "a huge gaping cavity on its western side". | |
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In the pilot of For the People, Sandra is assigned to defend a young man accused of trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty. | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: Doctor Who New Adventures novels: Canterbury Cathedral is destroyed in Warlock. In No Future, terrorists (in an alternate timeline) bomb Big Ben. The novelization of "Rose" has the London Eye collapse when the Nestene Consciousness' lair beneath it is destroyed. (Only the novelization, mind.) |
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Miraculous Ladybug: Since Ladybug's restoration power allows her to repair any damage done fighting the villain, monuments get destroyed on a semi-regular basis. The Eiffel Tower is damaged in some episodes, notably in "The Mime" and "Gigantitan", where the whole tower is cut down and toppled. Fortunately, they use Ladybug's power to return everything to normal. In "Anansi", Ladybug tricks the titular villain into destroying the Arc de Triomphe and causing it to fall on her. As usual, the damage is repaired by the end of the episode. In "Startrain", Ladybug has the newly empowered Pegasus teleport an entire train back to Earth after defeating the villain that had turned it into a spaceship. However, his aim is off and he crashes it through Elizabeth Tower in London. Again, Ladybug magics that damage away. Played as a Running Gag in "Optigami", when they repeatedly rely on Kaalki to transport them around. Each time, monuments, buildings and vehicles end up in the strangest places (deserts, the ocean, a volcano, the moon...). None of these things were even nearby; Kaalki's Power Incontinence is just that bad. |
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In the finale of the five-part episode of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero where Serpentor was born, the eponymous villain leads an attack on Washington DC, and while he doesn't damage the Lincoln Memorial, he is enough of an egotist to use it as a throne until the heroes arrive to kick him out. (As even many members of Cobra said but only Cobra Commander would say out loud, the rather spontaneous and reckless assault was the first sign that Serpentor would be no better than the guy he replaced.) | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Inconstant Moon", Professor Stan Hurst imagines New York City, with the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center in full view, being destroyed as a result of The Sun going nova. In "Dead Man's Switch", Washington, D.C. is in ruins after the alien attack. The White House, the Capitol Building, and especially the Washington Monument are severely damaged. In "Final Appeal, Part Two", Ezekiel's cold fusion device detonates in the Supreme Court Building, and the blastwave destroys the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument within seconds. Assuming Ezekiel was telling the truth about its blast radius, half of the Eastern Seaboard is devastated by his device. |
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Star Trek: The Lost Era — The Sundered has a mention that Mecca was hit hard by World War III, including somebody detonating a nuke there in the 2050s. | |
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In the Green Arrow (Rebirth) storyline "Rise of Star City", the villains, discussing their plan to remould Seattle in their image, explain how every city has a heart, and if you cut that out you demoralise the populace. Cut to the Space Needle collapsing. | |
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Almost Live! did a parody of Independence Day, which features the aliens blowing up various local landmarks... that were all really ugly. The military is inclined to let the aliens carry on until the attackers make the mistake of destroying Dick's Drive-In, the town's perennial favorite Local Hangout. "Nuke 'em!!" | |
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In The Last Ship, an American ship steams up the Thames River to link up with friendly forces after a nuclear war. Through the irradiated fog can be seen the ruins of London and Big Ben. | |
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Space Carrier Blue Noah: The Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are flooded by tsunamis. | |
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The novelization of "Rose" has the London Eye collapse when the Nestene Consciousness' lair beneath it is destroyed. (Only the novelization, mind.) | |
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An attacker in Heroes of the Desk: Repercussions does a threefer by smashing up the London Bridge, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower. | |
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Rick and Morty: In "Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular", Morty mishandling a laser while helping Rick steal the Constitution ends up destroying it, the Lincoln Memorial, the Liberty Bell and the Statue of Liberty (as well as unleashing a gigantic, steam-powered robot assassin hidden inside the last as a Trojan Horse by the French). Later in the episode, the Washington Monument gets converted into a weapon to turn all of America's turkeys into super-soldiers and Morty ends up destroying it and the Lunar Flag Assembley. | |
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Two for the Death of One: The nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza gets crushed into dirt during the final battle between Superman and Lord Satanis (time travel was involved). | |
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The Anglo/American – Nazi War, another thread from AH.com, has a particularly tragic example of this. After a number of key victories for the Allies signals the defeat of the Reich, the increasingly insane Nazi leadership adopt Order 571, a policy of systematic destruction across Western Europe, to basically deprive future generations of the European untermensch of centuries of European cultural heritage, and to spite the winners. Several irreplaceable monuments and works of art, including the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, and the Lourdes Grotto, are not only reduced to rubble but the destructions are filmed and broadcast to Britain. | |
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The Dresden Files: In Changes, Harry and his friends wreck part of Chichén Itzá when facing off against the Red Court vampires. Not surprising as this is Harry Dresden we're discussing. Pretty much any major Chicago landmark is liable to suffer collateral property damage when Harry's around, sooner or later. |
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Tends to be played for laughs in Metalocalypse: The Louvre was burned to the ground as a birthday present for Murderface after he declared all the art in it stank. Mount Rushmore was defaced by fans in protest of Dethklok's delaying their album. The Sphinx ends up beheaded after a performance in Egypt, when cats started going berserk and jumped on the button that turned up the bass, the vibrations causing the Sphinx to break apart. It's seen being repaired at the end of the episode, only for the sarcophagus containing Toki's dead cat to fall on it, crushing it. |
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Monumental Damage | |
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The Strain (TV series): In the closing scenes of the Season 3 finale, the Master's stolen nuclear bomb is detonated on Liberty Island, destroying the Statue of Liberty. | |
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The Strain (TV series) | hasFeature |
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Red Fire, Red Planet has an offhand mention that the Optimum (from Star Trek: Federation) dropped an asteroid on Mecca in 2060. The author's note explains this as their way of cowing the Islamic countries, which violently resisted their global takeover attempt, into submission. | |
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RedFireRedPlanet | hasFeature |
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As mentioned under Film, in the original The Transformers the episode "Atlantis Arise" centered on the Decepticons allying with the city of Sub-Atlantica to attack Washington, DC. The Decepticons damaged the Washington Monument to the point where it would have toppled had the Autobots not intervened, and Megatron himself strode into the Lincoln Memorial and ripped the Abraham Lincoln part of the statue off to claim its chair as his throne. Impossible (hence why the movie version shot the statue), but the symbolism is still effective. | |
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The Transformers | hasFeature |
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Future War 198X: The White House, The Statue of Liberty, Tokyo Tower, and the Eiffel Tower all are destroyed in a chain of nuclear blasts killing 13 million people planned by Dirty Communists. | |
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Future War 198X | hasFeature |
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In Ultimate X-Men (2001), where do the newly-formed Brotherhood of Mutants strike first? Why, London's Big Ben of course! | |
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The Donald Duck cartoon "Grand Canyonscope" has Donald and a mountain lion cause a landslide that fills up the Grand Canyon. The cartoon ends with Ranger Woodlore making the both of them fix it by digging up the whole canyon again. | |
Monumental Damage / int_524e2e3b | featureApplicability |
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Donald Duck | hasFeature |
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War of the Worlds: Goliath. Everyone's cheering over having defeated the Martian forces attacking New York City, when a giant Martian flying wing rises from the harbour and knocks the Statue of Liberty off its pedestal. Incidentally Lady Liberty is holding a sword rather than a torch, as it's a war memorial for the previous Martian invasion. | |
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War of the Worlds: Goliath (Animation) | hasFeature |
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In the Mazinger Z vs Great General of Darkness feature film, the Mykene army struck Paris, London, New York, Moscow and Tokyo. During their attacks, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Empire State Building, and the Tokyo Tower got wrecked. | |
Monumental Damage / int_55c5a085 | featureApplicability |
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Mazinger Z | hasFeature |
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In Turning Red, the SkyDome is partially destroyed during Ming's rampage as a red panda. Following the Time Skip, the stadium is undergoing repairs and the revenue coming in from visitors to the temple is paying for the damage. | |
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Turning Red | hasFeature |
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Campione!'s protagonist Godou will accidentally destroy in the process of fighting any monument that is introduced in the story. So much that you could probably make a Drinking Game out of it. | |
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Campione! | hasFeature |
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Life After People speculates, among other things, how long certain man-made structures would last were people to suddenly disappear. Every episode has to have at least one famous monument destroyed by the ravages of time, with said destruction always featuring in promos. | |
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Life After People | hasFeature |
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The Handmaid's Tale: When June visits Washington D.C. with Serena and Fred, she sees now that the whole Washington Monument is no more, replaced by a huge cross. The statue at the Lincoln Memorial has been half destroyed and left that way. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale | hasFeature |
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In the Eclipse Trilogy series, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is destroyed by British fascists. | |
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Eclipse Trilogy | hasFeature |
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DC Comics Steel and Guy Gardner fought villain Sledge and couldn't put him down until the Washington Monument fell on his head. | |
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Steel (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Godzilla: New Era: Several landmarks in Kyoto are destroyed over the course of the final battle. Kyoto Tower is broken and used as a make-shift spear by Godzilla to pin down and heavily damage the Millennian UFO after being stabbed through a break in its hull. Flashbacks to the 1984 attack prominently show the Sunshine 60 Tower as the skyscraper that was collapsed ontop of and crushed the Super-X. | |
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Godzilla: New Era (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Designated Survivor: The U.S. Capitol Building is blown up in a terrorist attack during a State of the Union address, which decapitates the whole government so severely that the 11th person in the line of succession (the character of the title) is sworn in as President. | |
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Designated Survivor | hasFeature |
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In the Amazons Attack! miniseries, Hippolyta decapitates the memorial. | |
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Amazons Attack! (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In the first appearance of Great General of Darkness in Shin Mazinger Zero, he split the Mount Fuji into two halves with a single stroke. | |
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Shin Mazinger Zero (Manga) | hasFeature |
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For All Time has the Nazis launch an air raid on New York City. Most of their Ju-390's don't manage to get past the anti-air guns, but one manages to start a fire that damages much of Harlem and another crashes into the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and the impact detonates its onboard stockpile of bombs, toppling the statue into the fire. It's rebuilt after the war. | |
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For All Time | hasFeature |
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In the Smallville episode "Salvation", Zod and his minions burn the crest of Zod onto the Great Wall of China, Temple of Athena, a pyramid, and the Washington Monument. | |
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Smallville | hasFeature |
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Monumental Damage | |
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Fuji gets hit by a giant, fist-shaped asteroid holding the dMp at the start of Ultimate Muscle. | |
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Ultimate Muscle | hasFeature |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Golden Gate Bridge is pretty messed up◊ when the Breen attack Earth in "The Changing Face of Evil". As in Film (above), this isn't just wanton destruction, as Starfleet Headquarters is in the Presidio right next door. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
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In an episode of The Event, all the non-humans are trapped in a church, surrounded by government forces. Sophia responds by using their portal technology to destroy the Washington Monument and claims this was only a taste of how far they're willing to go. Turns out, it was just a bluff. The portal device only had enough fuel to open a small "window". The President proceeds to order an Apache helicopter to kill all the "terrorists". | |
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The Event | hasFeature |
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In Wonder Woman (2009), the Memorials, the Capitol, and the White House. While there was a battle in front of The Vietnam War Memorial, it was spared. | |
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Wonder Woman (2009) | hasFeature |
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CONSEQUENCES (Miraculous Ladybug): In WORLD BEYOND, Hawkmoth uses the Miraculouses that he's stolen to go on a worldwide murder spree, visiting various monuments and destroying them while slaughtering everyone that he can. Why? Because Ladybug and Chat Noir can't follow him outside Paris — and more importantly in his eyes, can't use the Miraculous Cure to erase the damage and save his victims. Naturally, he blames the heroes, declaring that he'll only stop his rampage if they surrender their Miraculouses to him. This ultimately catches up to him after he's finally Lured into a Trap and arrested, as he's now Hated by All and has much of the world baying for his blood. | |
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CONSEQUENCES (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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The Goodies: The award-winning "Kitten Kong" episode sees the eponymous giant kitten destroying the Post Office Tower in London (now known as the BT Tower). Not exactly a world landmark, but pretty well-known in Britain. The shot became part of subsequent seasons' episode title montage. In the same scene, Twinkle also sticks its head out of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. | |
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The Goodies | hasFeature |
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Near the end of Minions, during the final battle between a giant Kevin and Scarlett Overkill, when Scarlett yanks Kevin into the air when he tries to grab her rocket dress, this also results in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral being destroyed in the process. | |
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Minions | hasFeature |
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The Golden Gate Bridge comes tumbling down in Monsters vs. Aliens. | |
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Monsters vs. Aliens | hasFeature |
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Squadron Supreme has Hyperion and his evil doppelganger from another universe fighting it out at Mount Rushmore (named President's Mountain in this reality), destroying it. It's later mentioned that it's being rebuilt. | |
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Squadron Supreme (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In the opening scene of SS-GB, London appears surprisingly intact fourteen months after the Nazis won the Battle of Britain, but then we're shown that Buckingham Palace is a bombed-out ruin. | |
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SS-GB | hasFeature |
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Superman: In one storyline, the Eradicator, in his "Krypton Man" persona, alters the Lincoln Memorial so that Honest Abe is instead standing and wearing Kryptonian robes. Two for the Death of One: The nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza gets crushed into dirt during the final battle between Superman and Lord Satanis (time travel was involved). In Strangers at the Heart's Core, Klax-Ar wants to begin his planet-wide destructive rampage by blowing the Statue of Liberty up, but his weaponized flying sled malfunctions before he can do so. At the start of Superman vs. Shazam!, the Brooklyn Bridge gets shattered, and Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel must stop it from crumbling down. Later, Karmang's visions include a tsunami sweeping over the Big Ben and a lightning storm battering Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. The Super-Duel in Space: Brainiac shrinks and bottles Rome, Paris, London and New York. Then, Brainiac uses a pair of tweezers to rip the George Washington Bridge, the Eiffel Tower and other monuments loose, using a pair of huge tweezers, to examine them under a magnifying glass. In The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor, Supergirl and Blackrock almost completely destroy the Washington Square Arch while fighting. In The Hunt for Reactron, Flamebird puts a dent in the Eiffel Tower when she smashes Supergirl into it. "The Super-Steed of Steel" Comet is mind-controlled by villain Vostar into destroying the Hoover Damn, beheading the Statue of Liberty, knocking the Washington Monument down and sabotaging the Panama Canal. In Superboy 1949 #117, as an alien is revealing his plan to destroy humanity, he is imagining buildings like the Roman Coliseum, the Notre-Dame cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, the Big Ben Tower, the Sphinx of Giza and the Washington Monument being chucked out into space, and the Statue of Liberty and the entirety of Manhattan disappearing under the water. |
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Hawkeye (2021) has this on a temporary landmark, as Clint Barton ends up stuck in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, visited by millions during the holidays, and Kate Bishop solves it by knocking the tree down with a Trick Arrow. | |
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Hawkeye (2021) | hasFeature |
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During the Inferno (1988), the villains take over the Empire State building and turn it into their demonic Evil Tower of Ominousness. | |
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Inferno (1988) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Transformers (IDW): Regeneration One: The first visual of Earth's surface, 21 years after the end of the Marvel series, is of a destroyed Golden Gate Bridge lying on the bed of the vaporized strait. Several other cities are shown as destroyed as well, including Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Dome is visible among the ruins, and where Megatron once again has a throne, though this time it's not the chair from the Lincoln Memorial (instead being cobbled together from various buildings and structures). | |
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The Transformers (IDW) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Sleepy Hollow averts the "don't damage the Lincoln Memorial" thing. The head gets blown off the statue while the characters are fighting the demon that possessed John Wilkes Booth in the series lore. | |
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Sleepy Hollow | hasFeature |
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At the start of Superman vs. Shazam!, the Brooklyn Bridge gets shattered, and Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel must stop it from crumbling down. Later, Karmang's visions include a tsunami sweeping over the Big Ben and a lightning storm battering Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. | |
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THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: The Cairo Tower is entirely destroyed after a run-in with a crab-like creature awakened in the Suez Canal, which carried the Evergiven freighter ship on its back right until it tripped on the tower and dumped the ship's contents into it by accident; the events killed well over a thousand people. Mount Rushmore is afflicted by some manner of infection thanks to the ADA. The nature of it is unknown, but whatever it does seems to cause the whole mountain to grow bizarre stains, let the presidents' visages turn creepy, and sprout dozens of enormous spikes of unknown material, origin or nature by the end of the week. It's unknown, however, if this is actual damage to the monument or simply unmasking its (unknown) nature. The Statue of Liberty remained unharmed for quite a while, despite its base housing some kind of corpse-eating monstrosity". At some point in time, however, it seems to have just disappeared, pedestal and all; as of 2003, the Statue of Liberty is just entirely gone. Attempted with the Statue of Freedom standing atop the Capitol Building during a massive ADA riot; the rioters succeeded in shooting it off the dome. Unfortunately for them, however, the monument fought back in spades, with about 150 deaths to follow. Unnervingly subverted with the Washington Monument, which holds a Special Tree within it. At some point during 2003, the Tree's transportation reflex activated, and the monument couldn't stop it from bending, but it didn't shatter either. It just bent anyways, tower and all, like the brickwork itself had become part of the tree. |
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THE MONUMENT MYTHOS (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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In Ben 10 the heads of Mt. Rushmore get destroyed twice and have to be replaced by holograms. | |
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Ben 10 | hasFeature |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): Issue 32 seems to open with the Empire State Building being blown up by the alien invader Uvo, but the next page reveals it was a scale model built to test out invasion plans. Wonder Woman (1987): Decay destroys the foundation of the Boston Massacre Monument and when Diana prevents the monument from landing on tourists Decay reduces the whole thing to dust. The comic's monument is a bit different from the real one, putting the Spirit of the Revolution at the top of the tapering column. Wonder Woman (2006): The Washington Monument is destroyed in one of the tie in issues for Amazons Attack!. |
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Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero: Unlike in the film where this is glossed over, Tendo's flashback to K-Day devotes several panels to the kaiju plowing through the Golden Gate Bridge. | |
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Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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X-Force: The Juggernaut destroys the Twin Towers in the "Sabotage" storyline; oddly enough, they return within only a few issues, and the story is rarely spoken of today. | |
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X-Force (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Irredeemable. Qubit forces the supervillain Plutonian to help him clean up the radiation that's been dispersed across the Earth by having Plutonian create giant spears of radiation-absorbing metal and drop them in various places. Plutonian agrees not to drop them on Innocent Bystanders, but drops one on The Sphinx just to piss Qubit off. | |
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Irredeemable (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Godzilla in Hell features an apocalyptic battle between Godzilla and Space Godzilla in Rio de Janeiro where "Christ the Redeemer" is one of the last things standing before it too ends up demolished and the Earth is blown up. | |
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Godzilla in Hell (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Futurama: There's a send-up of the trope in the episode "When Aliens Attack", by having the alien invasion occur on Monument Beach, where a former supervillain governor of New York left his collection of stolen world monuments, complete with the White House being blown up by an alien saucer in a parody of Independence Day. The aliens then go on to destroy Fry's sandcastle with a tiny saucer to complete the parody. The aliens even refer to their weapon as an "anti-monument laser". Mocked again in "That Darn Katz"; when the Earth stops spinning, we see a shot of the Eiffel Tower... which snaps off and flies offscreen, only for Big Ben to land in its place. Then Big Ben is hit by a flying Statue of Liberty. The Leaning Tower of Pisa gets this again, being rebuilt in Pisa after having been destroyed in Monument Beach. In "The Cryonic Woman", Fry and Bender joyride across the world with the Planet Express ship hitting the tower upright then knocked down completely with the Planet Express building being tethered behind the ship. |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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In Macross II, the main characters go for a date in a place called "monument park," a collection of world monuments. It is promptly attacked by aliens. | |
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Macross II | hasFeature |
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The Read or Die OVA has Gennai Hiraga blowing up the White House, with a so-not-George Bush lookalike being dragged out just in time. | |
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Read or Die | hasFeature |
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On The Fairly OddParents!, when Timmy accidentally frees all the anti-fairies, their bad luck spree destroys several monuments, like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
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Played with in Ben 10 (2016). The Xerge invasion is shown on TV destroying significant landmarks throughout the world, but it's soon revealed the footage comes from Las Vegas and simply the copies of famous monuments were affected. They are invading the whole world, however. | |
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Ben 10 (2016) | hasFeature |
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: In this Cosy Catastrophe, the top of Mount Fuji is no longer symmetrical. Like much else in the series, this goes unexplained. | |
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Manga) | hasFeature |
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In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Will Harangue uses a Killer Robot in a bid to defeat Ben Tennyson on national television; only for the robot to crash into the Washington Monument and nearly cause it to fall. Ben immediately transforms into Humongousaur to catch it and slowly set it back upright again. To save face and make Ben look bad, Will uses Manipulative Editing to play the footage in-reverse later on to make it look like Ben was slowly lowering the Monument to the ground. | |
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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien | hasFeature |
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And in The Twelve Tasks of Asterix Obelix breaks the arms of the Venus de Milo while in The Place That Sends You Mad. | |
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix | hasFeature |
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Adventurers!: "Why are you just targeting landmarks?" | |
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Adventurers! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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The Super-Duel in Space: Brainiac shrinks and bottles Rome, Paris, London and New York. Then, Brainiac uses a pair of tweezers to rip the George Washington Bridge, the Eiffel Tower and other monuments loose, using a pair of huge tweezers, to examine them under a magnifying glass. | |
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The Super Duel In Space (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Ultra Series: One episode of Ultraman had Osaka Castle get completely plowed down by the Monster of the Week Gomora. In Return of Ultraman, Ultraman Jack has to battle the beetle kaiju Nokogilin in Tokyo. During battle Jack dodges Nokogilin's antenna-ray, which ends up hitting the Tokyo Tower and bending into half. |
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Ultra Series (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Lycoris Recoil: The Tokyo Skytree ended up being destroyed in in a past incident (for which the protagonist Chisato is apparently responsible), and its partially standing wreckage still remains as a monument to peace. | |
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Lycoris Recoil | hasFeature |
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Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth: The first issue's cover prominently shows a fractured Statue of Liberty listing in floodwaters. | |
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Kamandi (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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This, ultimately, is what gets Phil Ken Sebben the impeachment he wanted in Harvey Birdman: Attorney General. During his inauguration, Ernie Devlin's antics destroyed a monument to Samuel Hahnemann, which Phil took the blame for. | |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | hasFeature |
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In the Moldiver episode "Overzone", Space Shuttle Discovery is destroyed after Mirai Ozora's sky battle with Jennifer and Akron's satellite causes the latter shuttle to crash into the space museum. | |
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Moldiver | hasFeature |
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Final Space: The third season sees the Team Squad visiting a post-apocalyptic version of Earth after the planet was physically dragged into Final Space in Season 1, and we see the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the London Eye lying in ruins. | |
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Final Space | hasFeature |
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One episode of the Baby Huey Show has the fox try to kill Huey with a nuke. Cue a rip off the Liberty Statue scene. | |
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Baby Huey | hasFeature |
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In Inhumanoids, Metlar animates the Statue of Liberty when he's been dosed with a love potion and is looking for a date. Possibly justified, as there aren't that many Inhumanoid-sized female statues made of metal he could choose from. Also, in the opening Story Arc, one of the statues in Metlar's army resembles the Colossus of Rhodes. | |
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Inhumanoids | hasFeature |
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Judge Dredd: In America, pro-democracy terrorists attempt to blow up the already degraded Statue of Liberty as a symbol of protest against the oppressive rule of the Judges. During Day of Chaos, the Statue of Justice is destroyed in a missile attack. Done for both symbolic and practical reasons; as the building also functioned as a surveillance center, it crippled the eyes and ears of Justice Department. |
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Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Prince of Egypt: During their chariot race at the start of the film, Ramses and Moses drive into a construction area at one of the main temple complexes in Memphis, causing some damage (including inadvertently breaking off the nose of a colossus of Ramses' father, Seti, though it might have been intended as The Sphinx). | |
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The Prince of Egypt | hasFeature |
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Doctor Who: In "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", Nelson's Column gets some "Dalek graffiti" on itnote and the BBC got in some hot water when the chalk they used turned out to be more difficult to remove than previously thought. Elsewhere, landmarks such as Battersea Power Station had fallen to Dalek bombardment (the extent of the damage is much clearer in the Special Edition DVD). "Aliens of London"/"World War Three" involves a convoluted alien hoax plot (well, a convoluted hoax perpetrated by aliens) where they deliberately crash their spaceship into Big Ben to put the world on high alert in order to get their claws on the UK's nuclear launch codes. In "In the Forest of the Night", the sudden worldwide forest causes Nelson's Column to fall, nearly hitting the Doctor and Clara. |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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In Asterix vs. Caesar, Obelix causes the partial destruction of the Colosseum by accidentally backing into a support pillar. This is despite the fact that construction of the Colosseum didn't start until 120 years after the time period those stories take place in. And in The Twelve Tasks of Asterix Obelix breaks the arms of the Venus de Milo while in The Place That Sends You Mad. |
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Asterix (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Legacy of the Aldenata: The Washington Monument comes under massive fire from plasma and HVM rounds, as a reaction to a human sniper using the monument as a firing point. The Lincoln Memorial also is destroyed, though by human forces. | |
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Legacy of the Aldenata | hasFeature |
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In The Hunt for Reactron, Flamebird puts a dent in the Eiffel Tower when she smashes Supergirl into it. | |
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The Hunt for Reactron (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, when the falling Junius Seven is destroyed by the Minerva's Wave-Motion Gun, fragments of it scatter randomly around the world. One of them still manages a direct hit on the Parthenon in Greece. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny | hasFeature |
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In one of the Cheat Commandos shorts on Homestar Runner, the villainous Blue Laser plot to blow up the ocean. | |
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Cheat Commandos (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Aftermath: Famous monuments such as the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty begin to degrade from unaddressed rust decay and erosion after about a century. The Eiffel Tower eventually disappears in a new swamp that appears in the former Paris metropolitan area. The Statue of Liberty falls apart and its pedestal is ground down by the expanding Ice Age glacier in North America. | |
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Aftermath | hasFeature |
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One episode of Ultraman had Osaka Castle get completely plowed down by the Monster of the Week Gomora. | |
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Ultraman | hasFeature |
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The third and fourth episodes of Exo Squad each had a montage showing the Neosapien invasion of Earth that featured Neo E-Frames blowing up a number of world-renowned structures, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the United States Capitol, the Taj Mahal, and The Sphinx. | |
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Exo Squad | hasFeature |
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In A Giant Sucking Sound, members of the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria hijack a plane and crash it into the Eiffel Tower in December 1994, causing it to collapse and kill 1,157 people. This event triggers a European War On Terror. | |
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A Giant Sucking Sound | hasFeature |
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In the Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! the giant monster frog villain Frogzilla pulls up from its foundation the Statue of Ribbity (Earth-C's Statue of Liberty) and takes it with him into Gnu York (Earth-C's New York), thinking the statue was a real person (and trying to hit "her" up for a date). | |
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Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In the Wild Cards book Aces Abroad, the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro has been altered to depict the version of Jesus worshipped by the Church of Jesus Christ Joker. | |
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Wild Cards | hasFeature |
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In The Ultimates - some super-powered soldiers push over the Statue of Liberty. Later, some superheroes pull it back up again. Averted in the same story where Ultimate Cap and The Colonel duke it out along The Wall (the Vietnam War Memorial) and it is not damaged. | |
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The Ultimates (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In Ben 10: Omniverse, after the Incurseans conquer Earth, Emperor Milleous has the Waybads replace Lincoln's head with his own, as well as the Statue of Liberty's with his daughter Attea's. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse | hasFeature |
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X1999: Most of the landmarks in Tokyo are considered to be barriers that protect the city and the world. It's up to the Dragons of Heaven to protect them from the Dragons of Earth. To do that every Dragon of Heaven (except Kamui) creates a spirit barrier to keep civilians out of harm's way once they engage in battle against a Dragon of Earth. If a Dragon of Heaven dies in combat, the spirit barrier along with the landmark gets destroyed. The movie shows how damaging the battles are such as the destruction of the Sunshine 60 building, the National Diet Building, and Tokyo Tower which is where the Final Battle between Fuuma and Kamui takes place. | |
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X/1999 (Manga) | hasFeature |
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In the Book 2 finale of The Legend of Korra the giant version of Unalaq pulls down the statue of Aang that looks a lot like the Statue of Liberty. | |
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The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
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Glass Marionette (Naruto): When Shimura Danzo is taken down, they take a chunk of Hokage Rock with them, destroying a sizable chunk of the Sandaime's face on the monument. | |
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Glass Marionette (Naruto) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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In The Fire Never Dies, the Red Army flattens the White House with an artillery barrage during the Battle of Washington, along with the nearby State, War, and Navy Building (today the Eisenhower Executive Office Building), in order to decapitate the White leadership. | |
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The Fire Never Dies | hasFeature |
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AlternateHistory.com: Operation Teufelseelöwe is a thread lampshading many tropes. The Tower of London is destroyed by Panza tanks (prior to which the Ravens fly off with the Crown Jewels'. The Nazi attack on London also gets Tower Bridge: The Anglo/American – Nazi War, another thread from AH.com, has a particularly tragic example of this. After a number of key victories for the Allies signals the defeat of the Reich, the increasingly insane Nazi leadership adopt Order 571, a policy of systematic destruction across Western Europe, to basically deprive future generations of the European untermensch of centuries of European cultural heritage, and to spite the winners. Several irreplaceable monuments and works of art, including the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, and the Lourdes Grotto, are not only reduced to rubble but the destructions are filmed and broadcast to Britain. In The Fire Never Dies, the Red Army flattens the White House with an artillery barrage during the Battle of Washington, along with the nearby State, War, and Navy Building (today the Eisenhower Executive Office Building), in order to decapitate the White leadership. For All Time has the Nazis launch an air raid on New York City. Most of their Ju-390's don't manage to get past the anti-air guns, but one manages to start a fire that damages much of Harlem and another crashes into the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and the impact detonates its onboard stockpile of bombs, toppling the statue into the fire. It's rebuilt after the war. In A Giant Sucking Sound, members of the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria hijack a plane and crash it into the Eiffel Tower in December 1994, causing it to collapse and kill 1,157 people. This event triggers a European War On Terror. |
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In the Bugs Bunny short Long-Haired Hare, the Hollywood Bowl collapses on the opera singer Bugs has a grudge on. | |
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In Changes, Harry and his friends wreck part of Chichén Itzá when facing off against the Red Court vampires. Not surprising as this is Harry Dresden we're discussing. | |
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In a flashback to the depression era New York in Shakugan no Shana, both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building get blown up by Margery Daw. However, no one noticed and they were evidently repaired. | |
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Due to it being a Godzilla-centric fic, this kind of stuff tends to happen in The New Age of Monsters. Kamakuras attack on Paris destroys the Arc de Triomphe and the Tokyo Sky Needle is destroyed during the battle against Megaguirus. | |
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Ciaphas Cain: Invoked by Ciaphas, Hero of the Imperium, in Cain's Last Stand. He mentions that he hopes that an attack on the capital city of Perlia managed to destroy a particularly hated monument to him (a clock that features him decapitating an orc every hour), but he's disappointed to learn it's still standing. | |
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Code Prime: At the beginning of R2 — Revolution, the Autobots and Black Knights blow up Mt. Fuji to deny the Decepticons access to its massive Energon deposits. Notably, the Japanese Black Knights do so despite how sacred Mt. Fuji is to them, as it's been defiled beyond recognition by the 'Cons. The fourth Iacon Relic is buried under the Great Wall of China, which leads to chunks of the wall being destroyed during the resulting fight between the Combaticons and Theta Team (the Aerialbots and the Black Dragon Unit). |
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According to the "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" episode of Plumbing the Death Star, the Hulk's absence from The Avengers (2012) would force Thor to handle the nuke at the end of the movie. While he'd stop it from destroying New York, he'd probably try to return it to its owners - at the Pentagon. Needless to say, Washington D.C. would not have fared too well. | |
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The second novel in The Bartimaeus Trilogy features a hilarious fight scene inside the British Museum where Bartimaeus, not knowing its significance, uses the Rosetta Stone as a projectile weapon. Hilarity Ensues. In the third novel, Nelson's Column gets sliced in half by Nathaniel trying out the Staff. | |
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In Strangers at the Heart's Core, Klax-Ar wants to begin his planet-wide destructive rampage by blowing the Statue of Liberty up, but his weaponized flying sled malfunctions before he can do so. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): Downplayed in issue #23. The Battlechargers Runabout and Runamuck are revealed to be plotting something against various United States landmarks, such as Mount Rushmore, Independence Hall, the Washington Monument, and especially the Statue of Liberty. What is their nefarious plan? To...vandalize them by spray-painting "humans are wimps!" on everything. The Battlechargers are a couple of numbskulls after all. | |
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The fifth Dirk Pitt Adventures book, Vixen 03, features a rare attack on the Lincoln Memorial. The roof collapses and the columns are knocked down but the statue remains upright (five books later, Cussler had already forgotten about that). The Evil Plan involves terrorists (actually a False Flag Operation) using a decommissioned battleship to shell Washington D.C. It becomes a Discussed Trope during the attack when it's pointed out that a car bomb that killed a few innocents would quickly be forgotten, but a warship raining down fire on the nation's capital causing Monumental Damage would long be remembered. | |
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I Am a Hero subverts this. Buildings are usually left standing possibly because the Infected are an attempt to wipe out humanity but not its infrastructure. La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and Sunshine 60 in Tokyo aren't destroyed, but are transformed by Hives into a part of their structure. | |
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From Cannon God Exaxxion: | |
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In a flashback from Just an Unorthodox Thief, Goemon cuts down the Golden Gate Bridge so that Lupin can escape Kiritsugu and Zenigata alike after the former attempts to assassinate one of Lupin's clients and he elects to stop the Magus Killer, as it would be "bad for business." | |
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In the trading card set Dinosaurs Attack!, there are several occurrences where said "dinosaurs" destroy various well-known monuments. Examples include a sauropod destroying the Brooklyn Bridge, the Leaning Tower of Pisa being toppled by battling dinosaurs, pterodactyls pecking the eyes out of Mount Rushmore, Big Ben being assaulted by a giant lizard and the Statue of Liberty being crushed by the neck of a plesiosaur. | |
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1632 series: During the climax of 1632, the Wartburg castle gets napalmed. Comments are made to the effect of "I bet that back in the future, that was a historic monument". In 1634: The Baltic War, as part of the distractions during their escape from London, Harry Lefferts blows up the Tower of London, partially collapses the London Bridge and sets fire to the Globe Theatre. Even funnier, his history teacher, Melissa "Schoolmarm from Hell" Mailey, is present and goes utterly berserk. The climax of 1635: The Cannon Law blows up a large part of the Castel Sant'Angelo to permit an escape. |
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Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry: The title characters are given jet planes so they can race around the world "in 5 minutes". The monuments destroyed (and how) in order of appearance, are: The island of Borneo (set on fire) Taj Mahal (largest onion dome turns upside down, spins like a top, and bumps into the other parts of the building) Mt. Everest (jets rammed through. Reduced to rubble except for the peak, which falls to the ground) Great Wall of China (jets rammed through, reduced to rubble) St. Basil's Cathedral (treated like a pinball machine until it collapses) Leaning Tower of Pisa (straightened, received with applause. No damage occurs) Colosseum (jets rammed through, reduced to rubble) A castle (transformed into a trailer park) Eiffel Tower (uprooted, bent into a pretzel shape) Big Ben (one clock face ripped off, revealing a cuckoo bird) Stonehenge (reduced to rubble without the jets touching it) Loch Ness (water removed, revealing the famous monster) Statue of Liberty (cloak removed, revealing a bikini. She promptly changes her pose) Grand Canyon (both sides make contact, shutting the canyon, now just flat desert) Hollywood Walk of Fame (the stars are blown off the sidewalk) |
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Transformers: The Transformers (Marvel): Downplayed in issue #23. The Battlechargers Runabout and Runamuck are revealed to be plotting something against various United States landmarks, such as Mount Rushmore, Independence Hall, the Washington Monument, and especially the Statue of Liberty. What is their nefarious plan? To...vandalize them by spray-painting "humans are wimps!" on everything. The Battlechargers are a couple of numbskulls after all. The Transformers (IDW): Regeneration One: The first visual of Earth's surface, 21 years after the end of the Marvel series, is of a destroyed Golden Gate Bridge lying on the bed of the vaporized strait. Several other cities are shown as destroyed as well, including Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Dome is visible among the ruins, and where Megatron once again has a throne, though this time it's not the chair from the Lincoln Memorial (instead being cobbled together from various buildings and structures). |
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The Man in the High Castle In season 3, the Nazis initiate a plan to tear down former American monuments, such as Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, and replacing them with ones exalting National Socialist ideology. They succeed in blowing up the Statue of Liberty in a pompous ceremony. A literal version when the Japanese test an atomic bomb in Monument Valley, damaging though not actually destroying the Buttes. |
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In Return of Ultraman, Ultraman Jack has to battle the beetle kaiju Nokogilin in Tokyo. During battle Jack dodges Nokogilin's antenna-ray, which ends up hitting the Tokyo Tower and bending into half. | |
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Doctor Who New Adventures novels: Canterbury Cathedral is destroyed in Warlock. In No Future, terrorists (in an alternate timeline) bomb Big Ben. |
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