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Rock stars often get so into the hardness of their music that they actually destroy instruments. This most often takes the form of smashing a guitar (hence the trope name) on the stage as hard as possible, pounding it to fragments with a few whacks. Some rock bands set their instruments on fire. The drums and other instruments might get smashed, too. And these aren't fictional works trying to make rock seem bad. This is Truth in Television. So much so that it has its own page on the other wiki. Now this might seem like a waste of a perfectly good instrument, and sometimes it is, but smashing a guitar is much harder than you'd expect from seeing this trope in fiction. Many a young guitarist has gotten frustrated with his instrument in the middle of a show and decided to smash it, only to find out that his instrument is Made of Iron (or plywood). When the instrument destruction is more planned and theatrical, bands will often rig the instrument to smash apart easily in order to please the audience. Or a musician will deliberately buy cheap junk instruments so he can smash them. There have been a number of incidents where a guitar company repaired a shattered instrument. And at least one country-rock star was challenged in a letter from a little boy too poor to buy his own guitar, saying "If you don't want it, why not give it away?" That musician has done so ever since. Compare Great Balls of Fire!, Can-Crushing Cranium, Dramatic Shattering. At times they can push it further with Trash the Set as well. Despite the name, this is not limited to guitars or to rock music. |
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In Scary Larry, Larry and Carnage have a rock contest and one round involves smashing guitars. Carnage, who is rich, smashes several, but Larry, who isn't, refuses to destroy his. | |
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Hi and Lois: At a musical instrument store with Chip, Hi wonders how they can sell guitars for as low as $10. An employee informs him that they're just props for rockers to smash at shows. | |
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Rock Band: the guitarist and bassist may bash their instruments during a Big Rock Ending. If the ending goes long enough, one of them may drop an elbow on their axe. In both this and the Guitar Hero case, the instruments are Made of Iron. | |
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At the beginning of the Full House episode "On the Road Again", Viper does this to his own guitar at the end of their band's rehearsal. | |
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You're supposedly a rock singer in 77p: Eggwife, as seen with the amount of Grammies you have in your room. Your default melee weapon? An electric guitar. | |
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Horrible Histories has the Luddites perform a song in the style of the Sex Pistols. Naturally, they smash their instruments at the end. | |
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The Kids in the Hall spoofed this with Dave trying to play folk on a standard acoustic guitar, the strings kept breaking, (because he is retuning it, even though it started in tune), and in the end, Dave said "What the hell. Long live Rock & Roll" and smashed the guitar. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Parodied during one of the musical games: at the end of a song, Wayne Brady begins to do this with an Air Guitar — before putting it gently back on its stand instead. In another game, Ryan does it straight (just also with an air guitar). In a game of "Props", Colin and Ryan's props were two large lollipop-shaped props. One scene they act out is them pretending to be rock stars using the props as guitars. They then proceed to bang their "guitars" against the floor and Ryan actually breaks his by accident. |
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Beavis And Butthead: In one episode the two decide to start a band. They go to Mr. Van Driessen's house who lets them borrow a guitar of his and offers to have them practice in his garage. Beavis's idea of playing music is to yell "YOU'RE GONNA DIIIIIEEEEEEE!" while smashing the guitar against the ground. Butt-Head thinks it's awesome. | |
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Downplayed in the original Back to the Future. At his (future) parents' prom in 1955, Marty McFly gets so carried away with a screaming guitar solo that he kicks over an amplifier. He stops short upon realizing that everyone else in attendance (including the band he's sitting in with) has stopped enjoying this new sound and is staring at him in utter shock. | |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: The King of Town needs to be maneuvered creatively into swinging his guitar around as part of the final puzzle of "Baddest of the Bands". Strong Bad's comment? "Whoa, check out the King of Townshend!" | |
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Tick Tock Isle: Somewhere between 2009 and 2010 the Masked Luchador got himself a guitar and retired for health reasons, then later wrote on the guitar "loser" and broke it. After the time traveller fixes his life, the guitar is intact. | |
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Scrubs: Dr. Cox smashes Colin Hay's guitar after he spends most of the episode playing guitar in the hospital. Also, it's an acoustic. | |
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In Monterey Pop, a documentary film of the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, Trope Codifier Pete Townshend smashes his guitar as he always did. Later, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire. See more info in the Real Life section below. | |
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Animaniacs: IN "Woodstock Slappy", Slappy the Squirrel's new summer tree-house turns out to be on the same farm where Woodstock is being held. In her efforts to shut up the concert so she can get some peace and quiet, she smashes Jimi Hendrix's guitar, apparently inspiring the Who to include this in their act. In "Piano Rag", a short-tempered pianist smashes his piano, which Yakko calls "very Pete Townshend-esque". Wakko breaks his violin with his head after performing "Wakko's America". |
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Sesame Street: Little Chrissy does this to a piano after performing "Eight Balls of Fur". The keys start visibly coming loose from his frenetic playing from about half way, until finally the whole thing collapses. | |
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Discworld, Soul Music: The only time the band variously known as Insanity, Suck, and Supporting Bands got a positive reaction from their audience is when one of them smashes his guitar on-stage. But only because he smashed it on another band member. Later, Death, with all the style Supporting Bands wished they had, smashes The Guitar. It explicitly does not destroy The Music, but it does limit its power. |
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Total Drama: During the guitar play-along challenge in "Rock 'n Rule", Duncan puts in minimal effort and hits only a small percentage of notes. After that disinterested performance, he smashes his guitar in two on a stage box. For all of his apathy, he wins the round. | |
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The Muppets (2015): At the end of "Going, Going, Gonzo", Animal and Dave Grohl have a drum-off that ends with both of them knocking over their drum kits and declaring the other the winner. | |
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In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the Gigantamax version of Toxtricity, the Poison/Electric Punk Rock salamander Pokémon, does this in one of its attack animations, generating a guitar made of lightning just to smash it. | |
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Johnny and Dukey in the opening titles of Johnny Test. | |
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Charles Mingus once smashed a $20,000 upright bass during a performance in New York City because he got mad at the audience for heckling him. | |
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Happens in the movie Top Secret!. At the end of Nick Rivers' rendition of the song "Tutti Frutti", an octogenarian orchestra player smashes his electric guitar. | |
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In Family Ties episode "Have Gun, Will Unravel," the Keatons return home after watching A Hard Day's Night out at a movie theater. The kids are unimpressed by The Beatles. | |
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This happens with Tommy in an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun. But the guitar isn't his. | |
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The cellist at the ball in Cinderella (2021) does this with her instrument at the end of "Whatta Man/Seven Nation Army", which she'd started strumming like a guitar partway through the number. | |
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Happens in-song on The Young Ones' version of Cliff Richard's "Living Doll", when Vyvyan does this to a piano, violin, didgeridoo, and the heads of Rick, Neil, and Cliff. | |
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An official CD of the soundtrack to Undertale recreated on a piano has on its cover art Undyne, the captain of the royal guard, seated to a classical piano surrounded by the game's cast. This can be traced back to how in-game, Undyne does own a piano and can be heard playing it in her house at one point... but Toby has claimed that if Undyne really performed a full-length concert, the piano would not survive. | |
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Phoebe Bridgers attracted controversy after smashing her guitar at the end of her performance on Saturday Night Live in 2021. David Crosby called the destruction "pathetic" and a waste of a perfectly good instrument, but Bridgers countered that the Danelectro guitar company was okay with the stunt (even wishing her luck because their guitars are tough to break) and SNL built her a fake monitor to smash it into. | |
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Parodied in the opening scene of Wrongfully Accused, to make violin concerts seem awesome. | |
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Roger Fisher of Heart did this in the famous "El Kabong" incident where he smashed his guitar and walked offstage in the middle of a concert. He was kicked out of the band for it. Of course, the reason he did it was that he and girlfriend/fellow guitarist Nancy Wilson had recently split up. | |
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Total DramaRama: Wendel challenges Courtney to a live musical performance in "Way Back Wendel". He opts for a vaudeville one-man band, while she goes for hard rock backed by a mountain of speakers. It literally blows Wendel away and Courtney finishes the act by smashing her guitar into pieces while laughing maniacally. | |
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Zombie Land Saga Revenge: In episode 4, Kotaro finishes his pep talk to Junko by offering her his favorite electric guitar and telling her to smash through her fears and self-doubt. In Franchouchou's opening number at the Iron Frill concert, she takes his advice a bit too literally and smashes Kotaro's guitar at the end of the song, much to his shock and horror. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, Peeslub'n Andistan'dhin plays a guitar riff and smashes his guitar on the witness stand after being revealed as the real killer behind the first case. | |
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An episode of Arthur has DW going to see a Yo-Yo Ma concert, and she asks whether he "jumps around and smash his instrument." When grandma tells her that he doesn't, she says "And he calls himself a musician!" She ends up liking the concert, though. | |
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Subverted in the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Baljeatles"; at the end of Baljeet's rock number, it looks like he's about to smash his guitar, but instead he just neatly throws it back into its case. | |
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You've heard of rockers smashing guitars, but what about a rocker smashing a venue? That's exactly what Japanese noise rock band Hanatrash's frontman Yamantaka Eye did, driving a bulldozer through the wall at a gig. One suspects Keith Moon would have wished he thought of that. | |
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At the end of Minions Stuart gets an electric guitar and goes on an Epic Riff that ends with him smashing the guitar from getting so caught in the moment. | |
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Even Beethoven himself was known for this trope. The pianos of Beethoven's day were much flimsier and quieter than modern-day grand pianos, and he hated it. In order to get the sound he desired, he was known to play so forcefully that he broke them entirely! | |
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Glee: Puck sets fire to his guitar at the conclusion of his performance of "School's Out". | |
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The Loud House: Luna has done this several times with her guitar. A flashback in "Hand-Me-Downer" shows Luna smashing her guitar offscreen and then giving it to Lincoln as a "hand-me-down". In "The Loudest Yard," she does this after her performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on guitar while dressed like Jimi Hendrix. Parodied in "Driving Ambition", wherein Luna smashes a harp after playing it in a fancy concert. Lynn Sr. does it at the end of a guitar training session with Luna in "Health Kicked." |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Downplayed in "Temporal Edict" when Ensign Beckett Mariner throws her electric guitar just after she finishes playing; the instrument is still in decent shape, although the strings have snapped. | |
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Discussed in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. Trucy asks Klavier if he'd ever smash his guitars, and he says he wouldn't because he thinks of them as his lovers. He's also extremely upset when one of them (albeit one with high sentimental value) gets burned during a performance. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: An invention exchange features "The Rock & Wreck Guitar", a guitar which could be reassembled after being smashed, for garage bands who can't afford to keep buying new equipment. Another invention exchange had the Mads create guitars made from squeeze toys. After playing a hard-rocking, squeaky song, Forrester and Frank smash the guitars. Another time Brain Guy pulled the whole burning the guitar bit a la Jimi Hendrix until Bobo wrecked the mood by roasting marshmallows over it. In "Pod People", Joel's invention exchange is a new guitar chord designed particularly for ending concerts. It's so complicated that it takes two hands for Joel to fret it, and when strummed it causes the guitar to explode in his hands. |
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Trolls: TrollsTopia plays this trope straight as an arrow with most Rock Trolls. An added bonus is that when Val Thundershock does it, the impact is explosive and the pieces spontaneously transform into bats. | |
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The Who are the Trope Codifier, if not the Trope Maker. One story has it that the band were playing on a stage with a low ceiling and Pete Townshend unthinkingly raised his guitar whilst playing, driving the headstock into the ceiling and snapping it off. He proceeded to destroy the rest of the guitar, Keith Moon followed suit with the drums, and the audience liked it so much that the band started regularly smashing their gear — even when it got to the point where the damage they did cost more than they were being paid. It eventually got to a point where they didn't have a choice but to smash. Townshend once stated in an interview that if he tried to finish a show without destroying his guitar, fans would get irate. Their musical destruction probably reached its apotheosis during a 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, in which Moon's bass drum was rigged with explosives in order to blow up at the end of the set. During rehearsal, the effect was unimpressive, so Moon bribed a stagehand to load in a much bigger charge without telling anyone. During the actual take, the explosion knocked Moon off his drum riser, left him with shrapnel wounds to one arm, singed Townshend's hair and permanently damaged his hearing, destroyed a camera and a studio monitor, and scared the daylights out of everyone (save for John Entwistle). Just after the explosion, the practice was spoofed when Tommy Smothers, carrying a guitar, walked over to the band. Townshend took Smothers' guitar (actually a breakaway prop) and smashed it to pieces. Cue Tommy asking Dick if he could borrow his bass for a moment. Inverted by John Entwistle. In an interview with Conan O'Brien, Entwistle said he once tried to smash his bass, only for it to bounce back and hit him in the face. |
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Mocked by Tripod in one of their songs where they retell their big rock moment and ruin the effect by mentioning how they had it insured and told the audience to stand back. | |
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Happens at the end of Hard Core Logo, as a sign of the band completely breaking down. Tensions between frontman Joe Dick and guitarist Billy Tallent completely boil over at the last show on the tour, and they get into a fistfight on stage. This ends with Joe grabbing Billy's guitar and smashing it to bits. (Making the scene extra painful, the guitar is a vintage Fender Stratocaster, and a prized gift from the band's mentor Bucky Haight.) Then their drummer completely misreads the mood and destroys his own drum kit just to fit in. | |
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Regular Show: In "Guitar of Rock" Mr. Maellard does this to an autographed guitar that Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson almost died trying to replace. The musician Ace Balthazar was infamously known to "crash" where he goes on a rampage and tears up the entire stage, which led to his supposed demise when he did this driving his band's bus. The Oatmeal Knight who Mordecai and Rigby mistook for an amnesiac Ace Balthazar does an epic "crash" when he's accused by the ghost of the real Ace of being a mere pretender, causing him to declare Oatmeal Knight as the new Ace Balthazar. |
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Space Rangers 2: In one of optional text quests you must create a band for participation in a musical contest. During the concert proper, you can smash your guitar in order to fire up the crowd. It does get you a lot of fan support, but not only does It Only Works Once (because the show's team has no more spares), it also degrades the quality of your music, because of an unfamiliar and quite crappy guitar you have to use after destroying your own. | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, during the Mike Teavee song, one of the rocker Oompa-Loompas smashes his guitar. | |
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The Plasmatics: This infamous punk band did not only smash their guitars but cut them in half with a chainsaw as well! | |
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One of Nikki's Personal Techs in Chrono Cross has him smash his guitar over an enemy's head. | |
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Scooby and Shaggy do this at the end of an episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. | |
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Their musical destruction probably reached its apotheosis during a 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, in which Moon's bass drum was rigged with explosives in order to blow up at the end of the set. During rehearsal, the effect was unimpressive, so Moon bribed a stagehand to load in a much bigger charge without telling anyone. During the actual take, the explosion knocked Moon off his drum riser, left him with shrapnel wounds to one arm, singed Townshend's hair and permanently damaged his hearing, destroyed a camera and a studio monitor, and scared the daylights out of everyone (save for John Entwistle). Just after the explosion, the practice was spoofed when Tommy Smothers, carrying a guitar, walked over to the band. Townshend took Smothers' guitar (actually a breakaway prop) and smashed it to pieces. Cue Tommy asking Dick if he could borrow his bass for a moment. | |
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On Sister, Sister, a classmate of Tia and Tamara's does this with his guitar...when performing Old MacDonald. As with Viper above, he does this during rehearsal, only belatedly realizing the problem when asked if he has another guitar. | |
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Another example would be their performance of the aforementioned song at the Paramount Theatre in 1991, where Kurt just goes psychotic and smashes microphones and even a cooling fan down with his guitar, breaking the guitar in half and leaving Krist Novoselic to play "baseball" with the parts using his bass. Viewers of Saturday Night Live and in the UK, the Jonathan Ross Show, both got to see this trope in action when they played "Territorial Pissings" as musical guests. | |
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Animal House has a famous scene where John Belushi is so annoyed at a crooner that he grabs his guitar and smashes it on the wall. | |
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Cake's song "Rock and Roll Lifestyle" is a long critique of The Man sticking it to The Man. Thus there's a whole verse about a rocker smashing his guitar at the end of every show, and how it's an act of consumerism more than anything else—ultimately supporting the system he claims to be rebelling against. | |
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Some of the "You Rock!" animations in the original Guitar Hero games are this (a good example is Judy Nails in GH2). | |
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Spoofed in an episode of The Monkees. At an art gallery, Mike wanders into a room where it looks like a high-class piano recital is about to take place. Liberace walks in and, instead of playing the piano, takes a sledgehammer out of a case and smashes the piano to pieces. | |
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After performing the solo of his (un)life on the roof of his old apartment building, Eric Draven of The Crow smashes his guitar. | |
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Mad About You has a more erudite version, as once Ryan gets fed up at a recital, he smashes his violin. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", SpongeBob smashes a double bass. In "The Camping Episode", SpongeBob smashes his guitar at the end of "The Campfire Song Song". Then for good measure, Patrick smashes the drums that he had been playing over SpongeBob's head. |
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For a scene in The Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell's character was supposed to grab a guitar from Jennifer Jason Leigh and smash it, eliciting a horrified reaction. However, due to a mix-up when it came time to shoot the film, Russell accidentally grabbed and smashed the actual guitar, rather than waiting for it to be replaced by a prop. To make matters even worse, it wasn't just any guitar but an irreplaceable one-of-a-kind original Martin guitar from the 1870s that was on special loan for the film from the Martin Guitar Museum. Well, he got a horrified reaction all right. Martin was understandably very disappointed. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks music video "Friendship Through the Ages", Rainbow Dash does this as part of her rock-centered portion of the song. | |
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Happens on Jimmy Two-Shoes, when Jimmy is having a dream of being a rocker. | |
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Happens off-screen before the game proper in Brütal Legend's intro cutscene. The lead guitarist for wannabe metal band Kabbage Boy says he's "sorry" for smashing Eddie's guitar Clementine, then after receiving it fixed up like new, he says he won't smash it "so much" this time. | |
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In Ghostbusters (2016), after the team catches a ghost attacking a rock show Holtzmann grabs the guitarist's instrument and smashes it. | |
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In Smite, during Apollo's victory animation, he sets his lyre on fire in a nod to Jimi Hendrix. | |
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One episode of Prank Patrol features a teenager who pranks his dad into believing he has been discovered by a record label and will begin his career as a professional rockstar. At the end of his concert (staged by the show), he smashes his guitar. | |
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One of the enemies in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is Tamako Death, a rocker chick complete with (firebreathing) electric guitar. Defeat her, and she'll spend the last second of her life bringing her guitar down. | |
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One episode of My Wife and Kids has Michael play his son's guitar in front of him and his friend... then he proceeds to download Jimi Hendrix's soul unto himself, smashes the guitar and sets it on fire. He does buy a new guitar for Junior in the following scene though. | |
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Barbie in Rock 'n Royals: Princess Genevieve asks Erika if she ever smashed a guitar on stage and says she once saw it in a movie. Later, Genevieve is about to smash a violin but is talked out of it. | |
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Variation: Yoshiki Hayashi of X Japan does this to his drum kit. | |
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According to Cave, 5pb tried this once in Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2. It made her very upset afterward and she tried to glue it back together. | |
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Phil from Phil of the Future once described a legendary rock show where the lead guitarist not only smashed his guitar but apparently mixed the pieces into cake, which he then fed to the hungry as an act of charity. Granted, the story might have become exaggerated over time... | |
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My Dad the Rock Star: In one episode, the Zillas visit the college Rock attended. There, he smashed a guitar he left behind back when he was a student. | |
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Kuba Sienkiewicz parodies the trope in the video for "Dilemmas" by smashing a guitar into the stage with all his might... except it's not a real instrument, but a plushie. | |
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Rammstein: Perhaps surprisingly, given their penchant for explosions and destruction during their stage shows, the guitars pretty much stay intact (albeit occasionally with some charring from the pyrotechnics). That said, Flake will occasionally go to town on his keyboard, and Till usually smashes a mic stand at least once a show. | |
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