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Smash the Symbol
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Suppose people agree that symbol X represents Y, where Y could be a person, or a group of people, a place, or a group of places, or perhaps Y is just some abstract idea. Whatever Y is, the point is that while some may be more fond of Y than others are, people agree that symbol X represents it. However, attitudes can change over time. Often, a way to express that attitudes towards Y are tending further towards contempt is to symbolically destroy at least one version of symbol X. In real life, this was a major aspect of the storming of the Bastille, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and of the toppling of statues. This can occasionally overlap with Allegiance Affirmation. Insignia Rip-Off Ritual and Monumental Damage are both subtropes of this. Compare Symbolically Broken Object. See also It's All Junk, where something that once had sentimental value to a character is destroyed by them to signify it losing it. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Prior to the beginning of the story, Zant destroyed the Mirror of Twilight to prevent passage to the Twilight Realm after he took over. | |
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In Guild Wars 2, many Renown Hearts can be partially fulfilled by destroying symbols. Many events targeting the Grawl involve smashing their religious totems. The Path of Fire storyline includes a segment where you deface the symbol of Palawa Joko as part of a False Flag Operation to draw the government's attention. | |
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Starbound: Apex settlements sometimes feature huge statues of their leader Big Ape, as well as posters of his face with the word "OBEY" over it. Apex rebel camps have the same... except the statues are headless and the posters are defaced with silly moustaches and hats. | |
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Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles: One of the first things Wesker does after his resurrection in the "Rebirth" section of the game, is take off his sunglasses with the Umbrella logo on them and destroy them. He gets a new pair soon afterwards without the logo. This represents how he no longer works for Umbrella and has his own agenda. | |
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In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, a crowd pulls down the enormous statue of Kamina during a period of social instability caused by the impending destruction of Earth. This is likely a reference to the Lenin-statue-toppling example from real life. | |
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Naruto: In a flashback Itachi throws a kunai into an Uchiha clan symbol, while going into a rant about having lost hope in the clan. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: In the bad ending, after Amok uses Ann's Moment of Weakness to take over her body, she delivers a massive slash towards the mark of The Consortium just before unleashing destruction on the world. | |
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V destroys the statue of Justice in both the comic and film of V for Vendetta. | |
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Half-Life 2 has its scene of rebels pulling down a Breencast monitor. Gordon also inadvertently causes this during his narrow escape from Nova Prospekt. Attempting to leave via teleporter, they are interrupted and attacked with Combine dark energy weapons. This evidently backfires and destroys much of the facility, which La Résistance takes as its cue to rise up and begin open warfare. | |
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Death Note: In the beginning of the finale, Light comes across the doll of Mello on a road. But as he comes closer, a truck tips a ton of debris right on top of it, while Light manages to evade being crushed. This was basically Near giving a hint to Light that their Split-Personality Takeover was faked. | |
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In the finale of Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks are using Stormtrooper helmets for percussion. In the Special Edition, we get a view of Coruscant where a statue of the Emperor is pulled down. | |
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In The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Little People", an astronaut finds the race of tiny people and forces them to build a life-sized statue to him. After his karmic demise, they topple it. | |
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The Dark Knight: Towards the end, the bat-signal is smashed with an axe. This moment is after Batman said he would take the blame for Harvey Dent's murders; it's implied that people are smashing the bat-signal to symbolize their increasing disapproval of Batman. This is a somewhat unconventional approach to this trope, seeing as how rather than portraying it as destroying the symbol of a villain, it is instead destroying the symbol of a hero who is (willingly) being mistaken for a villain. | |
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In The Last Jedi, after Supreme Leader Snoke chews out Kylo Ren for his failures from The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren smashes the helmet he wore throughout the previous film. It is welded back together for The Rise of Skywalker, but Kylo discards it for good when he restores the good man that he was. | |
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In a Dragon article about the Dungeons & Dragons evil war god Hextor, one illustration shows the symbol of his twin brother, the good war god Heironeous, broken in half. | |
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Avatar: Avatar: The Last Airbender: When the White Lotus members take Ba Sing Se back from Fire Nation rule, they pull down a statue that Ozai had put up of himself. In the same scene, Iroh burns a Fire Nation flag that had been hung over an Earth Kingdom symbol. When King Bumi reclaims Omashu on the day of the Eclipse, he defaces an Ozai statue with smiley face bits of stone and then pulls it down. General Iroh takes a turn in The Legend of Korra by crashing the plane he had just hijacked into the Equalist mask that they had placed on the statue of Aang. The statue, which is apparently the most durable thing in Republic City, is unscathed, but the mask is trashed. |
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At the end of This Is England, Shaun takes the St George's flag given to him by the nationalist gang leader and hurls it into the sea following his Broken Pedestal moment. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: When the White Lotus members take Ba Sing Se back from Fire Nation rule, they pull down a statue that Ozai had put up of himself. In the same scene, Iroh burns a Fire Nation flag that had been hung over an Earth Kingdom symbol. When King Bumi reclaims Omashu on the day of the Eclipse, he defaces an Ozai statue with smiley face bits of stone and then pulls it down. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Word of God confirmed that the destruction of the Galaxy-class starship USS Odyssey by the Jem'Hadar in their introductory episode was meant to establish the Dominion's threat level, that not even Jean-Luc Picard's USS Enterprise would've survived that one unscathed. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Throughout Hyrule, there are several destroyed stones with the mark of the royal family by unknown forces. Whenever Link uses the ocarina, the stones are restored. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Prior to the beginning of the story, Zant destroyed the Mirror of Twilight to prevent passage to the Twilight Realm after he took over. |
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V destroys the statue of Justice in both the comic and film of V for Vendetta. | |
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Steven Universe: Garnet crushes the console that was displaying Homeworld's plans for Earth. | |
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In the Conan the Adventurer episode "Dreggs-Amon", Dreggs, after getting the Black Ring and gaining control of the Serpent Men, starts destroying anything connected to the former ruler, Wrath-Amon. The fact that he did this despite the fact that Wrath-Amon gave him the ring and the authority voluntarily so that Dreggs could hold down the fort while his boss took a short vacation for health reasons demonstrated how power-mad and unfit for authority Dreggs really was. | |
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Earth 2: Issue 20 features the parademons destroying places of worship all over the world. A building labeled "SCIENTOL—" (the panel cuts off the rest) is included in the destruction. Rather conspicuously, this panel is the one that features a line from Superman calling religion "fiction". | |
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In Purple Days, after killing Aegon Targaryen for the final time, Joff raises the sword Blackfyre, the symbol of Targaryen authority, power, and rebellion, and casts it into the sea, symbolically breaking once and for all the family's right to rule over Westeros. | |
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In the Book of 2nd Kings from The Bible, Jehu after slaying the Baal worshipers in the northern kingdom of Israel proceeded to destroy the temple and turn it into an outhouse. Later on in the same book, the Babylonians come and destroy the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem. In the apocryphal books of 1st and 2nd Maccabees, the Jews under the leadership of Judah Maccabee remove the "abomination of desolation" that King Antiochus IV had set up in the Temple and restored it as a proper place of worship of the one true God. In the Gospels, Jesus tells His disciples that the Jewish temple that was standing during the time of His first coming would be destroyed. |
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In the Superman The Dominus Effect story arc where he is trapped in four different time period realities, the Superman of the Golden Age era smashes a giant Nazi symbol after he had saved it from toppling right on top of the crowd during a Nazi rally headed by the Atomic Skull. | |
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My Hero Academia: After recovering his memories during his fight with Re-Destro, Shigaraki destroys his father's hand declaring it unnecessary. His family's hands were meant to keep his old memories as Tenko Shimura locked away while aggravating his aggressive tendencies to help him embrace his need for destruction. By deliberately destroying his hands, Shigaraki has truly left his past behind him and now fully embraced his role as a vehicle of destruction. | |
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Hilda: In "The Troll Rock", the mother troll destroys the new statue of the town founder Edmund "The Troll Slayer" Ahlberg, which features a troll's head under his boot. | |
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Judgment at Nuremberg opens with Stock Footage of the giant swastika at the Nuremberg Rally site being blown to smithereens by US Army engineers. | |
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One Piece: When Nami reaches her Rage Breaking Point in the Arlong arc, she angrily stabs the Arlong Pirate tattoo on her shoulder repeatedly. Luffy has to stop her before she can mutilate herself further. Later on, Nami takes the less harmful approach of tattooing over it to make something else. At the climax of Luffy's battle with Arlong, Luffy's final attack smashes through the ceiling of Arlong Park, knocking down the Arlong Pirates flag, and eventually Arlong Park itself, signifying the end of the tyrannical Fish-Man's rule of the Conomi Islands. |
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In Summer Camp Nightmare, Mr. Warren's butterfly collection board, which serves as a sort of symbol for the camp director's rather oppressive rule over the campers and junior counselors, gets smashed and taken down by the revolution as they take the supports for it and use it for roasting a pig over an open fire. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness: The statue of Po as the Dragon Warrior is threatened by Hundun, but is actually destroyed by Ke-Pa. | |
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In post-apocalyptic Victoria, the armies of the Northern Confederation burn and bulldoze the capital of Azania's high-tech Lady Land after defeating its Amazons, and literally salt the earth there to symbolize the utter and final defeat of the ideas of women's rights, human rights, and human progress through technology. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Throughout Hyrule, there are several destroyed stones with the mark of the royal family by unknown forces. Whenever Link uses the ocarina, the stones are restored. | |
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The Sound of Music - at least in the film adaptation, Captain von Trapp starts tearing up the Nazi flags hung outside of his house once he's decided that he doesn't want anything to do with them. | |
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The climax of the Trucking strike in F.I.S.T. is when F.I.S.T. tears down the Consolidated Trucking sign. | |
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In the middle of Knightfall, when Commissioner Gordon finished an inconclusive and frustrating argument with the Anti-Hero Substitute Batman, he struck the Bat-Signal out of anger, leaving it cracked but not destroyed. Sometime before Knightfall, Gordon's wife Sarah gets into a heated exchange with Batman on the station roof. After he leaves, a livid Sarah pulls out her gun and puts a bullet square in the center of the Signal (though as with the above example, the bullet didn't shatter it). |
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Fairy Tail: At one point during the "Lucy vs. Flare" fight in the Grand Magic Games arc, Flare adds insult to injury in the eyes of the Fairy Tail mages watching by threatening to burn Lucy's hand in such a way as would disfigure her guildmark. This bites her hard later on because it constitutes insulting Fairy Tail in front of Laxus. | |
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In the Bait and Switch Shared Universe of Star Trek Online fanfics, D'trel's portrayal has gradually been evolving beyond "Romulan with massive PTSD on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Tal Shiar". This culminates in Beat the Drums of War when her ship, RRW Vengeance, is damaged beyond repair in battle. She transfers her flag to a new ship, RRW Sword of Hope. | |
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In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf novel, Empath destroys a statue of himself when he realizes that it has been used as an object of worship by his fellow Smurfs, as his way of saying Stop Worshipping Me. | |
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Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Steeljaw slashes his Decepticon insignia which he says served a dual purpose, both to separate himself from the Decepticons and to disable the tracker device the Autobots have on him. He also does this to any Decepticon he recruits. | |
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General Iroh takes a turn in The Legend of Korra by crashing the plane he had just hijacked into the Equalist mask that they had placed on the statue of Aang. The statue, which is apparently the most durable thing in Republic City, is unscathed, but the mask is trashed. | |
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In the Lois & Clark episode "Super Mann", Nazis disable Superman and take over Metropolis. After the Man of Steel has recovered and stopped them, he heat-visions a swastika flag, revealing the Daily Planet globe behind it. | |
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The "People's Ending" of Republic: The Revolution features a crowd smashing the statue of Novistrana's now-former dictator. | |
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The Firefly episode "Jaynestown" ends with Jayne toppling the statue of himself after the ugly truth about his "selfless" act after which the town has been named comes to light. | |
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In The Red Tent, Jacob destroys the household gods of his wives and father-in-law, believing them to be the cause of all his problems since leaving Padan-Aram. In particular, he finds one that he missed and is particularly harsh about smashing it to pieces, and then urinates on the shattered remains. Zilpah witnesses this and is Driven to Madness over it. | |
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The opening scene of The Mask of Zorro has a peasant climbing a flag pole during a riot in order to rip down a Spanish flag. | |
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In Revenge of the Sith, Yoda and Palpatine's final battle takes place in the Senate Chambers. Palpatine pulls the Pods the senators use off the wall and hurls them at Yoda, destroying them and whatever additional pods are hit by the projectiles. The fight is destroying the very symbol of democracy. | |
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A minor example, but well-timed in its execution and subtle implication. In season 3 of Babylon 5, Captain Sheridan is forced to declare Martial Law. Meanwhile, there is a general riot in the Zocalo as station residents fight back against the oppressive Nightwatch. Then, just as Sheridan finishes the declaration, a thrown chair smashes one of the monitors displaying him: like a nonverbal Precision F-Strike against the order. | |
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In Sewer, Gas & Electric, Dufresne's eco-pirates have a hideout in a replica Nazi submarine base hidden under the Statue of Liberty (long story). When they took possession of the site, Jewish techno-genius Morris Kazenstein blew the swastika out of the clutches of a giant eagle statue, using a magnetic rail-gun that fires kosher salami. | |
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