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Imagine things are just going great. Maybe the world is at peace; there are no warring factions. Everybody gets along and there is No Poverty or disease or anything else that sucks. Then some asshole has to come along and ruin it for everybody else. This is why we can't have nice things. You've probably heard your mother say this once or twice. This Stock Phrase turns up whenever clumsiness or stupidity once again wrecks something, especially something monetarily valuable or precious. It can also be applied to plans, historically significant things, or emotionally significant things. It's not limited to tangible objects, however. This trope refers to the act itself and not the perpetrator, however in most cases the "crime" needs to actually have a sentient perpetrator in order to qualify. Crappy situations which are inherent and are naturally occurring with no definable source of blame on an entity or a group of entities do not count; it needs a scapegoat. Usually the destructive saviors belong to this trope because after every battle what used to be full of objects now looks like a wasteland. A few common scenarios when it comes to Why We Can't Have Nice Things that aren't limited to tangible objects: 1) The perpetrator is selfish and/or malicious, with the full intention of ruining everyone's fun. Example: Everybody always goes out on Friday night to have fun with their friends. Bob, however, does not have any friends and is extremely jealous. Bob decides to commit vandalism and general mayhem, which in turn causes the enactment of a curfew for everybody. 2) The perpetrator is selfish and/or malicious, but largely ignorant of the full extent of damage their actions will cause. Example: Vampires and werewolves are at peace with one another. Bob the werewolf is dating Alice, the princess of vampires, but one day decides to have an affair with Carol the werewolf. Alice, the beloved princess, decides to commit suicide in a fit of despair. I'm sure you can guess what happens next. 3) The perpetrator is either ignorant of the outcome, careless or innocent, instead thinking they are doing what they consider to be the right thing. This largely depends on perspective, as you'll see in the example — because what is considered fun or nice to one person, may not be felt the same way by another. In fact, this disruption might be a godsend. Example: Bob and Alice routinely make fun of Suzanne behind the teacher's back. Carol notices and decides to tell the teacher, who in turn punishes Bob and Alice and prevents future occurrences that are at Suzanne's expense. Bob and Alice's fun has been ruined. Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things is a subtrope, when the "nice things" in question are relationships with the artist. Examples |
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In one Get Fuzzy cartoon, Bucky breaks a baseball player figurine presumably owned by Satchel. In typical Bucky fashion he wasn't even being clumsy; he just knocked it over because he didn't like the way it was 'looking at him.' Satchel is clearly upset. Rob tells the cat and dog that "See. This is why we can't have nice things." | |
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The Dragon Age series should be called "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Franchise." Many groups of people, in mythology and history, forever lose privilege because of the actions of one or a few knuckleheads, and many wonders are also forever ruined for the same reason. The Chantry teaches that the Maker preferred mortals to His first creation (spirits), and watched over them from His Golden City... until a handful of Tevinter magisters tried to invade His golden realm, and tainted it with their sin. Now the Golden City is the Black City, those magisters became the first darkspawn that ravaged the world, and the Maker abandoned the mortal realm. This is why we can't have nice things. The Chantry also teaches that the Maker was willing to give humanity a second chance after falling in love with Andraste, his prophet and bride... until a handful of Tevinter supporters betrayed and killed her. Then He abandoned humanity for good this time. And that's why the world sucks. After centuries of enslavement under Tevinter, the elves were given their own homeland. Then a small band of elves (allegedly) attacked a small human village, and now the elves don't have a homeland anymore. Mages used to be free, but then a small percentage of them became the tyrannical magisters of Tevinter (and the darkspawn), so this is why mages (at least in Andrastian society) are kept in Circle towers. |
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In the Angel episode "Disharmony", ditzy vampire Harmony rips a page out of an ancient book to dispose of her gum, causing Wesley to flip out. | |
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In the .hack series, the Crimson Knights used to regulate Player Killing by hunting down infamous PKers and punishing them, sometimes working with CC Corp to punish PKers that killed players by cheating. When the Crimson Knights fell apart, PKing got so ridiculously out of hand that CC Corp was forced to remove the mechanic entirely (paving the way for a lack of PKers in the first video game quadrilogy), making it an odd in-universe example of Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Trilogy of Error", Lisa shows Homer the grammar robot she built for her science fair. When the robot corrects Homer's "Me love beer" to "I love beer", he pours beer into its mouth, making it short circuit. Lisa then exclaims this phrase almost verbatim in frustration. In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Homer and his friends go on a drunken vandalism spree of Springfield Elementary in the aftermath of their baseball team's victory in the playoffs. Chief Wiggum blames the students, and when he catches them breaking the resulting curfew, he makes them perform community service. The kids retaliate with a radio show where they reveal the adults' secrets, and this little war of nerves eventually culminates in the kids and adults confronting each other in a musical showdown, each accusing the other of embodying this trope. Grampa Simpson and the other old folks complain about the noise, and succeed in securing a curfew against all under-70's. In “Team Homer� Bart wears a shirt with the words “Down with Homework�, leading to chaos in Springfield Elementary. As a result, Principal Skinner creates a school uniform to the detriment of the student body. In one sequence, military-like marching can be seen and heard. |
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This line is used occasionally by MythBusters after they've blown up a car, or any other expensive machinery they've gotten their hands on. Considering that it's implied they often have to go to great lengths to acquire certain vehicles (for example, when the only snow plow they could find for a myth was one that was broken and a nightmare to fix), it's surprising this isn't said more often. Basically lampshaded during their first Jaws special, where they get hold of three of the actual yellow barrel props used in the original movie to test some shark strength myths. They are told point-blank by the owner that "the only thing we can't do is burn them, blow them up, or lose them." The predictable response is "Has he seen the show?" |
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In the sixth episode of Echo Chamber, Tom wears a Fun T-Shirt that says this, and depicts the Hindenberg crashing into the Titanic. | |
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Uncharted In the beginning of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Nathan sneaks into a museum to steal an oil lamp containing a map to the next Plot Coupon. The first thing he does upon getting said lamp is smash it to pieces on the ground. Humorously Sully says this phrase word for word during the ending of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The nice thing that couldn't be had in question? An entire lost civilization. |
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Lampshaded by Mikey himself in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): | |
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In an episode of Justice League, Superman punched his (invulnerable) opponent right through the Great Pyramid of Giza. | |
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In the "Serious Business" episode of Teen Titans Go!, when Robin gets tired of waiting for such a long time to use the bathroom, he institutes bathroom rationing which limits their visits to 5 minutes, or a bomb will go off. Since the others couldn't finish their leisure activities in less than 5 minutes, they boycott using it, and when he makes them wash up, they get a chance to show him the fun of singing, dancing, playing with hair gel, eating food-shaped water topped with toothpaste, and watching plays where the bathtub and curtain are the stage. After deactivating the bomb, Robin begins to hog the bathroom for himself, and the others have to wait even longer before they can use it. After the others confront him, the bathroom (whose name is John) comes to life and tells him that all the bathrooms came from a destroyed planet to Earth in the hopes they would be appreciated, and after witnessing Robin's blatant abuse of the privilege, all of the other bathrooms leave Earth behind to find a more appreciative civilization that will have more respect for their mysterious magic, all due to Robin's selfish actions ruining it for everyone else. | |
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Tumblr was no stranger to pornography, but the site did very little about it since for the most part, there was no harm to it. Thanks to the people who used Tumblr to upload child pornography and related material, Google and Apple banned the Tumblr app from their storefront and in the end of 2018, Tumblr prohibited pornography of all kinds. | |
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For the first five seasons of Canada's Worst Driver, the creators received hundreds of letters from fans begging the show to stop destroying classic cars in the weekly trials. For the sixth season they destroyed a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro. Cue the tears of a nation of car lovers. They drove the point across even further by introducing the car at the beginning of every weekly challenge with zoom-ins and beauty shots of the progressively worse shape of the car, torn-off bumpers and all. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: The protagonist from the first game discovering the Temple of Sacred Ashes (Andraste's burial site) led to it being open to pilgrimages. This led to it being used for a villainous ritual that went wrong and caused a mountain-wide explosion at the game's opening. Now there is no more Temple of Sacred Ashes. The Trespasser DLC reveals that all ancient elves were beautiful, immortal, and magical. Then a handful of war-leaders turned kings turned gods became insufferable tyrants, which culminated in them murdering their queen (Mythal) for trying to stop their power-hungry schemes. Then Fen'Harel created the Veil to imprison them, which cut elves off from the magic of the Fade, which caused them to lose their magic, immortality, and magic-fueled wonders. This is why elves can't have nice things. |
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Bond fights a bad guy in an Italian glass museum in Moonraker. There had been a tour through the museum earlier, just to establish exactly how priceless each piece was. It goes like you'd expect. | |
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In a season 8 Supernatural Dean throws a beer to Sam, who fails to catch the bottle (the trials are doing a number on him), which then breaks. Dean says "That's why we can't have nice things." | |
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Guilded Age: "Adventurers?! That's why we can't have evil things!" | |
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Martial Law, created by and starring Jackie Chan's friend and frequent director Sammo Hung, once had the main character, who has a Jackie Chan-inspired fighting style, pose as an art fence trying to to sell a Ming vase. Da Chief is with two detectives outside in the van, and he points out that the suspect is going to be able to tell it's not a real vase. The two detectives say it is a real vase, and Da Chief goes Oh, Crap! as he realizes what might be about to happen. They all rush inside to save the vase, but a fight has already started. At the end of the scene, Sammo tosses the vase to Da Chief with a jaunty "See? No damage!" (Outtakes where the actor flubbed the catch reveal they had a crew member on the floor for just that possibility.) | |
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Iron Man: During one of the rocket boot tests, Tony ended up landing on one of his very nice cars. Everyone with a remote interest in cars cringed. Later in the movie, he overestimates the structural integrity of his house's roof after coming home from a successful Mk 2 suit flight test, crashes through the upper floor, through a grand piano, through the lower floor, and butt-first right onto the car he singed earlier during his boot/gauntlet flight test. After one of his barely competent helper bots sprays him down with fire retardant, he just slowly lays his head on the wreck out of tired exasperation. |
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For Jon Stewart, Barbie dolls potentially being used by pedophiles. | |
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The Something Awful forums had the OKCupid megathread closed down after multiple real-life stalking instances (both online and off) were traced back to users on the thread. | |
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Invoked in Looking for Group, when our heroes, comprising a "Blood Elf", an "Undead", a "female Troll" and a "Tauren", get transported through time to a more backwards era - specifically the Apartheid period for Tauren. | |
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The exact phrase was used as a running joke in Frisky Dingo. When the line cropped up again in Archer, a show with the same creators and writers, it may have been a cross-over gag. Not that it wasn't still funny. | |
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Not Always Right has several example of customers' selfishness either resulting in a policy that benefited customers being revoked, or employees who looked the other way at customers breaking a restrictive policy resolving never to do so again. This photo store had to stop offering photo-cropping services because too many people tried to sue them for damages despite signing a waiver. The customer they're explaining this to then demonstrates exactly why they stopped. This car rental employee stopped telling a joke about charging extra for cleaning bugs off a rental car's windshield after a customer, as usual, took the joke seriously and nearly went berserk over it. When this customer asks why a store doesn't offer credit for recycled cartridges anymore, the clerk replies that people were getting cheap junk cartridges from other brands off the internet and recycling them for more credit than they were actually worth. Sure enough, the customer had been doing that scam himself. An employee for a hotel chain decides to use the chain's discounted employee rate for stays at its Hawaii locations to take her family on vacation. However, when they get there, it turns out that she failed to have HR authorize the reservation and she must pay the full reservation. The resultant ear-shattering tantrum the woman throws costs her the trip, her job, and, for everyone else employed at the hotel chain, the employee discount at the chain's Hawaii locations. In this story, the crew of a plane rapidly get tired of a mother not doing anything about her child running roughshod around the plane until… This postal worker isn't supposed to let people in when the post office is closed (like it is during her lunch break), but makes an exception when a woman desperately needs stamps. Then, after the woman turns abusive and demands a refund (stamps are non-refundable), the submitter regrets her decision. This restaurant server was willing to let a five-year-old slide on the "under-4s eat free" policy, until the mother immediately claimed her near-teen was also under 4. And this fast food worker let a mother who'd paid for a budget birthday event push what she was getting all the way to the prestiege event, only for her to still demand a discount because the mascot wasn't dancing enough. |
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On My Name Is Earl, Earl and Randy had discovered that if a certain golfer at a local country club golf course got a hole-in-one, he'd buy everyone at the 19th hole beer. So that they would get more beer (and eventually lunch), they disguised themselves as golfers, and made it seem like he'd gotten holes-in-one every time. The fun was over soon enough, as Randy bragged about their exploits to all the lowlifes at the Crab Shack, who decided to do the same thing, and the country club responded by checking IDs at the door against their guest list. | |
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In a James Bond parody episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, Jackie presses the button to open the suitcase that transforms into a mini-plane so they can get away from the villain's evil lair, only to accidentally send it flying onto the air, alerting the Mooks to their presence. | |
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The Phantomhive house staff in Black Butler, excluding Sebastian, often does more damage than they're supposedly worth. The maid constantly breaks things and mixes up wood and shoe polish due to her far-sightedness, the chef can't do anything but burn food and cause explosions, and the gardener frequently mixes up fertilizer and herbicide. There's a reason Ciel keeps them around, though... | |
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Soul Eater: During his introduction episodes, Death the Kid ended up destroying an entire pyramid by accident. It was symmetrical, but the pharaoh living there, on the other hand... | |
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In The Pink Panther (2006), Clouseau is questioning a wealthy casino owner named Raymond Laroque in his home. He asks to look at Laroque's vases and accidentally gets his hands stuck in them. Just before leaving, he asks Laroque if they're real. Laroque tells him they're worthless fakes. Satisfied, Clouseau tries to smash them on a table, breaking the table. As he leaves, a horrified Laroque mumbles that the desk was priceless. | |
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Mars Attacks! has the aliens destroying Earth's landmarks for giggles. | |
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Appears word-for-word in the American Dad! episode "Lincoln Lover". Roger tries to comfort Stan, who is depressed after having missed out on being chosen to speak at the Republican National Convention, by organising a cheese tasting. In the second it takes Roger to fetch his journals to record their impressions of the fancy imported cheeses, Stan has scoffed the entire tray in one mouthful. A tearful Roger storms out muttering "...can't have nice things!". | |
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In an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray and Robert get into a hilarious fight that involves Bugles, an ugly sweater, and a lamp at Frank and Marie's house. Said parents walk in in the middle of the fight. When Marie notices the broken lamp she quotes the trope - and the meme - word for word. It’s entirely possible that this episode is where the version popularized by Arguecat originated. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: The Ferelden Circle is on a small island in a large lake. Finn from the Witch Hunt DLC reveals that the mages used to be allowed outside for supervised exercise sessions. Then one day Anders bolted and swam across the lake, knowing the Templars couldn't swim after him in their full plate armor. They caught him a week later, and mages haven't been allowed outside since. | |
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Fallout 3: There are two related quests. Both involve going into the ruins of the Museum of American History to recover artifacts. You can either sell them to a group of slavers who have taken over the Lincoln Monument (and want to destroy them, so they won't be used to help rally slaves) or you can kill the lot of them so a group of former slaves can move in (they will also buy the artifacts off you, and enshrine them instead). Notably, one of the pieces of equipment you can find is Lincoln's Repeater, which is a pretty useful gun. The town of Megaton is the subject of this in "The Power of Atom" quest. The city of Megaton is a ramshackle, yet functional, bastion of humanity in the wastes, and is a monument to human survival, as it is a city built in the crater of an unexploded atomic bomb. And then you can decide to blow it up, and kill everyone in the town, for land magistrate Allistair Tennpenny because he finds it an eyesore, which just becomes even more petty once you realize that it's barely discernible in the first place. |
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In Archer, episode "Job Offer", Malory Archer throws a hissy fit when her son leaves ISIS, breaking all the nice things in her office. (Pam: "And that's why she can't have nice things." Cheryl: "Either that or I steal them.") They use the line again at the end of the episode, and in the next one, Dial M for Mother, when Archer bleeds on the carpet. The exact phrase was used as a running joke in Frisky Dingo. When the line cropped up again in Archer, a show with the same creators and writers, it may have been a cross-over gag. Not that it wasn't still funny. |
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In The Legend of Zelda series, the average player doesn't think twice about countless pieces of family heirloom pottery Link destroys in order to take people's money, as exemplified here◊ or here. | |
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Inverted in The Da Vinci Code, where the heroes escape from the Louvre by holding a priceless painting hostage. In the screen sequel Angels & Demons, Langdon and Vetra are out of time, and rip out a page of the priceless Diagramma to take along with them. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters provides a fine example: Tracking the wounded Godzilla, MONARCH finds an ancient city beneath the ocean, where Godzilla has come to rest. It's the historical and archaeological find of the millennium, but Godzilla needs to be healed in order to fight King Ghidorah right now, and the only way to do that is to set off a nuke in his face. For mankind to survive, the city has to be destroyed. | |
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Almost averted in A View to a Kill. Bond is fighting thugs at Stacey Sutton's home, and picks up an urn to use as a weapon. Stacey screams in protest — and Bond hands it to her before continuing the fight. But at the end she's forced to smash it on a thug's head. | |
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The final shootout in Mafia happens in an art gallery (the whole level is actually called "Death of Art"), and a cop whom the protagonist later tells about this actually goes ballistic about how many art pieces were destroyed in it. | |
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Carefully averted by the Gargoyles. Demona flung a vase at Goliath, who caught it carefully, set it down, and then gave chase. | |
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Kaeloo: If anything goes wrong and something gets ruined or broken, it will involve Mr. Cat and/or Stumpy. | |
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Parodied in Team America: World Police. The titular team blows up all sorts of important landmarks every time they face off against the villains. | |
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Kim Possible: "Oh No Yono": When Monkeyfist breaks into a museum, he has his monkey ninja throw and attempt to drop valuable artifacts so that our heroes will have to catch them and he can get away. Almost said word-for-word by Drakken when Shego and Green-Skinned Space Babe Warmonga got into a fight that resulted in a giant screen getting smashed. |
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In the opening scenes of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Launchpad manages to land his plane without crashing (though it is upside-down). However, in doing so, he utterly demolishes several ancient ruins. | |
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Humorously Sully says this phrase word for word during the ending of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The nice thing that couldn't be had in question? An entire lost civilization. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the Hobgoblins episode, Pearl quotes the trope after she has a couch temporarily moved into the Satellite of Love, only to watch Mike and the 'bots bounce around and squeeze juice boxes on it. The film for the episode is how she punishes them. And in Outlaw of Gor, Mike, Crow and Tom are good-naturedly "roughhousing", until Mike throws Tom up in the air, he gets stuck in the ceiling and crashes to the deck. Gypsy says "This is why we can't have nice things" and moves off. In The Movie, while watching This Island Earth, a character complains about blowing out some electronic components, and Mike quips "Oh, we can't have nice things!". |
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In the original Ben 10 in the course of the series — a single summer vacation: Ben and his family managed to destroy priceless artifacts in a Washington museum, burn that boat stuck at Niagara Falls, and blow up Mt. Rushmore. And wipe out an entire Mayan pyramid. | |
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Averted in One Piece, wherein the Archaeologist Lady of War Nico Robin refuses to fight in a ruined city so as not to damage anything, and has to flee to a safer place as a result. When the leader of the enemy Mooks traps her into such a confrontation, thus triggering one of Robin's very few Berserk Buttons, it gets... ugly. | |
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When it comes to special Pokémon cards being given away or sold at certain stores, it takes just a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone: In 2022, McDonald's gave away Pokémon cards with their Happy Meals. What should have been a fun extra for children to have with their meals turned into swarms of adults buying a ton of Happy Meals just to get the cards to sell online while throwing the food away. This caused many McDonald's restaurants to be devoid of the Pokémon cards, leaving none for kids to collect. McDonald's would eventually place limits to discourage adults from snagging up all the cards. A Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam held a collaborative event with the Pokémon Company by selling a Pokémon card displaying a Pikachu wearing a felt hat whose art style was made after Van Gogh's. A bunch of scalpers swarmed the gift shop and bought out all the cards to resell online at highly inflated values. Due to how aggressive the scalpers were, the museum decided to stop selling the cards entirely. |
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Godzilla has the habit of destroying various landmarks in Tokyo, both historic and modern. Godzilla: King of the Monsters provides a fine example: Tracking the wounded Godzilla, MONARCH finds an ancient city beneath the ocean, where Godzilla has come to rest. It's the historical and archaeological find of the millennium, but Godzilla needs to be healed in order to fight King Ghidorah right now, and the only way to do that is to set off a nuke in his face. For mankind to survive, the city has to be destroyed. |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game, even more so than the movie series it's based on. Especially so in the Museum level, where the Proton Packs threaten to destroy priceless historical artifacts (unless the museum owners cunningly switched those artifacts with worthless replicas). | |
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This is included in the 12th chapter of The Vow to the conversation between Lord Shen and Zhan the Wolf Boss about the Bar Brawl the latter took part in with his troops while visiting the Shēnghuó Province: | |
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In an episode of The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy's Dad constantly says "Why can't I have nice things?!" after seeing all the stuff Timmy wished up from Wal-Mart the Wall-to-Wall Mart. He then starts saying this about everything else. In "Merry Wishmas", Timmy turns into an anti-Grinch when he wants to give every disappointed person in Dimmsdale who didn't get what they wanted for Christmas a coupon for one free wish. Everything appears to be going fine... until Vicky feels slighted by just one wish, so she wishes for a million wishes, with some of the extra wishes going to other Dimmsdale residents who go on a wishing spree. In Fairy World, when the big wand gets overloaded, Jorgen traces the problem to Dimmsdale and finds that Timmy is responsible for giving everyone wishes, so he shuts off the magic power and plans to have Wishmas replace Christmas so the fairies can rule the holidays, with Santa Claus moving into Timmy's house after he feels kids don't need him anymore. After capturing Jorgen, Cosmo and Wanda (known as the Magic Mailman and the Mail Mites), Santa comes out of retirement when the kids are disappointed by Wishmas, with the kids filling Santa's sleigh with the mountain of surplus toys. |
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In God of War Kratos gains experience for smashing things. This includes a lot of vases. The game is set in Ancient Greece. In his defense, they're not priceless antiques to him. On the other hand, he'd probably act just the same if they were. | |
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In Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, after Burgermeister Meisterburger trips on a toy duck and hurts his foot, he bans and outlaws toys from Somber Town, and it isn't until his successors pass on that the people realize how ridiculous his ban on toys actually was. | |
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Taken seriously for once on Teen Titans. In one of Robin's nightmares, he fought Slade to prevent him from destroying several statues. He managed to subdue him, but Slade wasn't unhappy about it—"Everything you care about, you destroy." Robin looked around at the ruins of the statues, which suddenly bore the visages of his friends, then pulled off Slade's mask and saw his own laughing face. | |
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The characters in the musical On the Town (and its somewhat different film version) take a trip to the Museum of Natural History, which ends with them demolishing a dinosaur skeleton. | |
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In the beginning of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Nathan sneaks into a museum to steal an oil lamp containing a map to the next Plot Coupon. The first thing he does upon getting said lamp is smash it to pieces on the ground. | |
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In Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John and "Wanda Jo" use this phrase to explain why Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption is getting closed. Ultimately, people took the requests for "seeds" literally, in a bad way ("There were not one, not two, not three, but four pots and/or vials containing semen. And I think some were fake, but some were not!"). | |
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Averted in Dr. No: "That's a Dom Perignon '55, it would be a pity to break it." | |
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This Very Wiki has a few examples. For one, the ability to have strike-through text is disabled outside the forums because some editors would be tempted to abuse it for editorially-inappropriate snark. | |
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The guitar makers of C.F. Martin & Co. gave an authentic 1870s guitar to be used in The Hateful Eight. But upon learning that the real guitar was destroyed during filming rather than one of the doubles, they decided to stop lending their guitars to film productions. | |
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The downside of quality children's programming such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is this, particularly ones who have a real adult fanbase. Predators would see the program and decide to use it as an excuse to connect to the little kids the show was originally aimed at. Not at all helped whenever a brony or adult fan of another show actually is outed as a groomer. Many potential watchers have been turned off of MLP, a legitimately good, well-written show, because if the groomer problem in its fanbase. | |
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One of Harry Hill's sketch shows has the Brigadier from Doctor Who bringing a cut-crystal bowl to UNIT HQ, only for a Cyberman to blunder into him and smash it: the Brig complains "You can't have anything nice around here." | |
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YouTube creator Simone Giertz used to do live-stream videos of opening gift packaged that fans have send to her. Then somebody send her a vibrator. She invoked this trope as to why those videos are pre-edited now. | |
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In Dominion Tank Police, Buaku and the Puma Sisters break into a museum vault to steal a priceless painting kept there temporarily. The painting's owner has hired a merc squad to protect it. Said mercs apparently see no problem with using automatic weapons in an enclosed space filled with priceless artifacts. | |
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Beast Wars Optimus Primal has a similar reaction to Rattrap's behavior: | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) The final episode of the first season features a shootout between Starbuck and a Cylon in a museum on Caprica, destroying plenty of priceless artifacts in the process. This is made even worse by the fact that due to the fact that Caprica's been nuked to hell at the beginning of the series, this might be the only museum of its kind in the entire world that's still standing. Through the early seasons, Captain Adama was working on a model sailing ship, but after an incident, he took out his anger by slamming his fist into it. The problem was that this was an ad lib by actor Edward James Olmos, who thought it was just a prop they provided him. It turned out to be a relatively valuable model lent to the production. Thankfully, it was insured. |
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QI: Here, the reason is called Alan Davies. Alan has become so notorious for playing with and breaking antique and rare items lent to the show, that most museums and similar institutions now only lend items to the show with a stipulation that Alan is not to touch said items. | |
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They are priceless antiques in Tomb Raider: Underworld. That does not stop Lara casually kicking them to pieces to show off her legs in hopes of finding power-ups. | |
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Shigure of Fruits Basket can't even have a door. | |
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InThe Legend of Korra "A Leaf in the Wind", in a fit of frustration, Korra blows up a 2000-year old device for teaching airbending. Tenzin is appropriately horrified. | |
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Dragon Age II: Many mages this game, including First Enchanter Orsino, heavily protest this trope, insisting that Knight-Commander Meredith continually cracking down on all Kirkwall mages because of the actions of a few just makes things worse for everyone. Anders blew up the Chantry, causing Templars everywhere to crack down on all mages, forcing mages all over Thedas to either leave the Circle and fight or get persecuted/killed. |
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In National Treasure, Nicolas Cage has to steal the Declaration of Independence to prevent the villain from getting his mitts on it. Throughout the movie, he treats the document with due respect and at the end of the movie returns it to the authorities, none the worse for wear. There's an awesome scene where he's holding the Declaration, in its frame, and the bad guys break in and see him just about to get in the elevator. Shaw shoots him in the chest. Luckily, as previously mentioned, the Declaration is under bulletproof glass, and Ben gets into the elevator, smirking. | |
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Played with in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where Henry Jones inadvertently brains his son with what appeared to be a Ming dynasty vase. He was initially more concerned about the loss of the artifact than the damage to Indy's skull (hey, he is an archaeologist), but on closer examination was relieved to discover it was a fake. | |
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Buffyverse. Members of the Watcher's Council have trouble with their charges lack of respect for antiquity. In the BTVS episode "Gingerbread", Buffy grabs some paper to draw a magical symbol she saw on a dead body. As the paper is a valuable parchment from the 12th Century, Giles quickly removes it and hands Buffy a notebook. In the Angel episode "Disharmony", ditzy vampire Harmony rips a page out of an ancient book to dispose of her gum, causing Wesley to flip out. |
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The Critic. Franklin delights in destroying priceless art with a monster truck. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: While the crew is in quarantine, Reynir's older brother Bjarni, who happens to be a mechanic on the quarantine ward's boat, is only allowed a two-minute visit during the entire month of the quarantine's duration. While security and limited ressources can account for the number of visits, Bjarni himself gives a good idea of the reason visits are only two minutes long: within that time, he complains about his Hazmat Suit being itchy (which is also an early symptom of The Plague that warrants the quarantine) and tries giving Reynir a fist bump through his cell's glass wall. | |
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On Transformers G1, an idyllic meadow where wildflowers bloom and butterflies flutter is devastated when the Autobots and Decepticons start brawling over possession of a pool of electrum one of them discovered there. | |
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In the first Medal of Honor game one of your missions takes place in an old salt mine where the nazis have stashed art and sculptures they've looted. Have fun wrecking them, the very thing you're supposed to be preventing the Nazis from doing. | |
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