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One way of demonstrating the power of a weapon or ability is by going to a Shooting Gallery and seriously damaging or obliterating the practice targets there, and possibly anything else in the surrounding area.
Usually beforehand, other characters will be practicing their own abilities or weapons with varying levels of accuracy or skill just to contrast the difference in strength or ability.
Sometimes it is mentioned how inconvenient or expensive it is to replace or repair the destroyed objects.
If this is unintentional, it overlaps with Gone Horribly Right. May happen in a Testing Range Mishap. Compare with Deadly Sparring when a live sparring partner is involved. See also Destroying a Punching Bag.
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Thud!:
One of the Specials (a volunteer militia used when the City Watch needs more manpower) is Andy "Two Swords" Hancock, a worryingly enthusiastic katana dual wielder.
The City Watch has Detritus and his Piecemaker siege ballista, whose modification to fire dozens of arrows at once had the unforeseen consequence of creating a cloud of fiery wooden shrapnel that obliterates everything it's even vaguely pointed at. When it was tried out in the shooting gallery, the target was removed from existence, along with the two targets on either side and an unfortunate flock of seagulls right above Detritus.
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Bleach anime episode #46. While attending the Soul Reaper Academy, the students practice one of the kido spells, Hado 33 "Shakkaho Red Flame Cannon" (AKA a fireball). When it's his turn, Renji tries to show off by destroying the target. He puts too much power into the spell, causing an explosion and giving him an Ash Face.
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Ōban Star-Racers: Jordan's marksmanship is demonstrated in a flashback, which shows him unleashing so much lead at the targets that there's a veritable crater in the back wall.
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Some college students with Real Genius discover a way to raise the power output of a lab laser, and secretly modify it for a test firing. These wonderballs calculated a beam in the megawatt range; the beam produced was in the terawatt range, which burned a hole completely through a concrete safety shield, then the lab's cinder block walls, then a bronze statue of the college's founder, and on into space.
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Knight's & Magic:
The academy has a shooting gallery where students use their magic staffs to launch fireballs at wooden targets, with varying accuracy. Once Eru steps up with his gun-shaped staff, he shoots with pinpoint accuracy and obliterates the wooden targets.
Eru's testing for a crossbow Arm Cannon for the Silhouette Gear shows that the arrow not only easily breaks the wooden targets, but continues flying and destroying the wall behind it.
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Whenever you research a new weapon tier in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, there's a cinematic of a scientist using one of your shiny new guns to utterly obliterate a target. In the sequel, Lily Shen will demonstrate your new weapons instead.
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One of the cutscenes in Crisis Core has Sephiroth Genesis and Angeal sparring atop Junon's Mako Canon. Sephiroth utterly destroys the the cannon's barrel, Genesis later unleashes some fire magic which Angeal retargets by yanking his arm aside at the last second. The blast blows up a wall revealing that they are in a Holodeck which is now showing significant damage with sparking walls, and is presumably no longer functional.
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One-Punch Man:
When Saitama goes through the physical application for hero registration, he effortlessly destroys a punching dummy machine. In fact, he practically does Practice Range Overkill with his side to side hops creating imprints of his feet on the cement floor and crashing into the roof for the high jump exam.
Genos and Saitama are having a practice bout, with Genos demanding Saitama try harder. Saitama obligingly throws a haymaker that he stops at the last minute. Then Genos turns around to see that the air displaced by the punch has carved an entire canyon out of the cliff behind them.
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Overwatch: one of Hanzo's highlight openings shows him not only Splitting the Arrow, but splitting the entire target as well.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife: After getting her late grandfather Egon's proton pack working again, Phoebe takes it out to see if it would work on a collection of old bottles or blow up in her face. The beam completely demolishes the bottles in the first few seconds after touching them.
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Paranatural: Isabella's grandpa demonstrates the strength of his energy attacks by blasting straight through a target, breaking it in half.
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Played for laughs in Der Schuh des Manitu; Ranger teaches Winnetouch how to shoot and fires multiple times at a target dummy with his rifle. When it's Winnetouch's turn, he pulls a tiny handgun out of his purse and shoots the target once, only for the dummy to explode.
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In Brave, Merida fires an arrow that goes straight through the target and into the wooden support.
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Despicable Me: Subverted, as it's a carnival shooting gallery fired upon by a single shot from a BFG, but when Gru realizes the Space Killer game is rigged, he responds with a "plasma cannon" that fires a miniature sun that completely vaporizes everything in its path. note The intended target, a tiny spaceship, survives the blast, but Delayed Causality ensures that it disintegrates shortly after the carnage is revealed.
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One Piece: Imu orders the Five Elders to unleash the "Mother Flame", Vegapunk's newest weapon, on the Lulusia Kingdom as a way to test its destructive capabilities. The results are most telling: the entire island the Lulusia Kingdom was sitting on is completely and utterly obliterated off the face of the planet in a positively cataclysmic explosion.
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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: After Naoto demonstrates her marksmanship in the shooting gallery, Aigis uses her Finger Firearms to completely destroy the wooden targets.
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The hired assassin from The Day of the Jackal brings his custom-made sniper rifle to a remote wooded area to test it and to align its scope. This needs only two standard rifle bullets fired into a melon in a mesh tote bag, as the gunsmith had already tested it and tweaked the sights. Then came one of the vaned, mercury bullets: the melon disintegrated and the tote was left in tatters.
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Robocop 1987: Robo first demonstrates his capacity as a Job-Stealing Robot when he rips a target to shreds with his Auto-9 on the Metro South station's firing range.
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In Doctor Who, the Twelfth Doctor episode "Robot of Sherwood" has Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham compete for the Golden Arrow by the classic bow and arrow game. Then the Doctor appears to join the game and with his Sonic Screwdriver simply destroys the target, proclaiming himself the "winner" of the game and taking the arrow for himself.
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An episode of CSI involves the discovery of a dead man on the desert, shot with so many guns (some of them of a caliber as big as .50) that it was possible to see right through his torso because of all the bullet holes. Turned out that the man had walked into an open-air shooting range and blown away by the shooting party that was going on.
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The Legend of Korra: When the Spirit Cannon is first tested, it puts a hole clear through a mountain.
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Stargate Atlantis: Sheppard checks Ronon out on the Atlantis expedition's weapons. While he appreciates their fully automatic firearms (and is completely competent in their use), he prefers the Hand Cannon Energy Weapon he obtained while on the run from the Wraith, demonstrating it by blowing a gigantic hole in the target.
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Dragon Ball Z: In Buu Saga, before the Tenkaichi Tournament, Son Goku tells all his friends and allies to use a minimum of their power on a punching dummy machine so they can pass the preliminaries without making a scene. Deliberately ignoring this warning, Vegeta punches it without restraint and destroys it, to the surprise of all the normal people in attendance.
#18 also fails to exercise some restraint: she doesn't break the machine, but it registers her punch at a level about five times stronger than Mr. Satan's, who is supposed to be the strongest one among them for all the Muggles know.
And while Goku asked his friends to hold back, they all scored higher than Mr. Satan by a large margin, leading to the tournament officials to conclude that the machine is broken. Then Vegeta destroys the machine, revealing that there was nothing wrong with it.
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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins: At the end of the film, Christine Lord rectifies Hiram Gummer's ironically poor aim by giving him an honest-to-gods 1861 Gatling Gun. After getting used to it, he proceeds to absolutely shred the improvised targeting range in front of the gun, including part of the stand, with this likely being what sparks the events that lead to descendant Burt's "penchant" for firearms.
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Super Smash Bros. has the "Home-Run Contest" mode, which challenges the player to deal as much damage to the Sandbag as they can, so that their final blow with the Home-Run Bat will send it flying thousands of feet. Note that "Sandbag" is a proper noun with capitalization because it's a sentient creature, but it just so happens to enjoy getting whaled on.
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