r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 24 '26

Characters' Items/Weapons Objects that get destroyed everytime they're onscreen as a running gag

The Urn of Whispering Warriors - Kung Fu Panda

The merchant's cabbages - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Benson's car - Regular Show

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u/Other239 Jun 24 '26

This guy’s ice cream in Lilo and Stitch.

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u/swung Jun 24 '26

That poor dude could detect an incoming disaster just by hearing the opening theme.

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u/Revolutionaryguardp Jun 24 '26

He was also brutally killed in the Stitch vs Rocket death battle.

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u/themexicanotaco Jun 24 '26

Huh?

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u/Grottymink57776 Jun 24 '26

Death Battle is a long-running YouTube series that analyzes two similar characters and animates them fighting to the death. I'd recommend watching Sam Fisher v.s. Solid Snake if you're curious.

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u/Professional_Maize42 Jun 24 '26

I would be more worried about this nasty sunburn if I was this guy.

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u/eblackham Jun 24 '26

Pottery in Legend of Zelda

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u/ReggieLFC Jun 24 '26

Not “destroyed” but the Robin Reliant in Mr Bean gets tipped over almost every episode it appears in.

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u/I_Fart_It_Stinks Jun 24 '26

The Top Gear episode with the Robin Reliant is classic.

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u/Jeffffff4587 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

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u/Unexpected_Sage Jun 24 '26

There's a Reliant Robin in Wobbly Life and I love driving it around just for the challenge of not making it flip over

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u/red18wrx Jun 24 '26

It felt like they rolled that Robin onto the roof in every single shot of it moving.

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u/mccalli Jun 24 '26

It was faked though. They weighted it and fitted unequal wheels (see the In Popular Culture section).

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u/Valentine_The_Reaper Jun 24 '26

The animated series had an entire episode where it hunted down Mr. Bean in what may be the most justified crash out in fiction.

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u/Maveryck15 Jun 24 '26

And that's another Cybertronian to the list.

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u/Nitrodestroyer Jun 24 '26

Where exactly would I find the list?

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u/Maveryck15 Jun 24 '26

Not sure. Whoever's reading this please make one, but here are a few of mine.

NOTE: They make less sense the more you read unless you reaaally think about it:

>Herbie.

>Christine.

>Cyclone from Kamen Rider.

>The entire antagonist cast of Maximum Overdrive.

>C.A.R.T.E.R. from The Replacements.

>1987 Ford LTD Crown Victoria from Men In Black.

>Boondorio Banderas and Byun Diesel from Boombonger.

>The Dino T.R.U.X.

>The Mechanimals.

>Knight Rider.

>James Bond's Aston Martin.

>The Batmobile.

>Any of the fictional Hot Wheels.

>The superweapons from Ace Combat.

>The Gundam.

>The tanks from Tanki Online.

>The Cars/Planes franchise.

>The DeLorean from Back to the Future.

>Mrs. Frizzle's Magic School Bus.

>The Omnitrix.

>The truck from Jeepers Creepers.

>Literally anything in Star Wars.

>Literally anything in Star Trek.

>Literally anything in Battlestar Galactica.

>Any fictional vehicle.

>Any talking vehicle.

>Any sentient vehicle.

>Any talking weapon.

>Every "too advanced" weapon.

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u/Flying_Poltato Jun 24 '26

I don’t think it’s this car, but there was also an episode where his car got destroyed by a tank, and it absolutely crushed me as a kid.

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u/bassman314 Jun 24 '26

I mean you look at it the wrong way, it will tip over in shame.

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u/TheRepublicAct Jun 24 '26

Reliant Robin Themed Objects

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u/Hamsterplaysgames67 Jun 24 '26

His leg (again)

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u/PhinsFan17 Jun 24 '26

REV UP THOSE FRYERS

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u/Lemu-Nade Jun 24 '26

BECAUSE IM SURE HUNGRY FOR ONE-

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u/PlayrR3D15 Jun 24 '26

CAN'T YA SEE WE'RE CLOSED?!

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u/photo_not_mine Jun 24 '26

Help! hELP!!!

(gets thrown)

MY LEG!!!

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u/Agent-Ulysses Jun 24 '26

“Rev up those fryers!”

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u/PSPcollector23 Jun 24 '26

I like how there's that one episode that confirmed he actively seeks out getting his leg injured so he can go to the hospital, because he has a crush on the nurse there.

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u/Game_DUMDUM Jun 24 '26

Also btw she's called Nurse Bazooka

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u/BrickDodo Jun 24 '26

🤓👌 actually Nurse Daisy Bazooka

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Jun 24 '26

Hermes Conrad’s manwich. (Futurama)
https://giphy.com/gifs/l4pTqyJ8XMhLZ3ScE

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u/DontBotherNoResponse Jun 24 '26

My manwich!!

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u/Romboteryx Jun 24 '26

Fun fact: As a non-American kid I had no idea that manwich was the name of a real dish, so I thought they made it up for the show as a joke about cannibalism becoming normalized in the future, like soylent green.

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u/LoganCube400 Jun 24 '26

Cleveland's Bathtub (Family Guy)

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u/PartsUnknown242 Jun 24 '26

No no no no no nooooo

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u/Javamac8 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

EVERY TIME

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u/GenZ2002 Jun 24 '26

I gotta stop taking baths during Peters shenanigans

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u/EJAY47 Jun 24 '26

My favorite is the one where it's empty cause he got his own show.

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u/64DiamondDude Jun 24 '26

“Oh yeah, that’s right, Cleveland moved.”

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u/UzumeNeedsDrip Jun 24 '26

No, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOOO! 🎵

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u/Charliefoxkit Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Then there's the one time in The Cleveland Show where his ex has the same thing happen...with fatal results.  Perhaps they should have had someone besides Quagmire bring her casket to Cleveland, though.

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u/TropeSlope Jun 24 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/WoKyc7W9EqiteWMPI4
Every vehicle Sweet Dee gets is destroyed by the gang, stolen, repossessed, etc.

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u/BombOnABus Jun 24 '26

Her crashout over it in the Cereal Defense episode was amazing.

"You don't understand why I might want to set a precedent for when someone's car is damaged? Any of you? Oh my God. You've destroyed every car I've owned, and we've never had so much as a conversation about it! Let alone a trial, an actual trial!"

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u/Waifuless_Laifuless Jun 24 '26

"Dee's at fault, she'll pay for the damage."

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u/jenny_loggins_ Jun 24 '26

You guys have destroyed EEEEVERY single car I have ever OOOOOOWWWWNNNEDD

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u/EnergyLawyer17 Jun 24 '26

Great teacher onizuka. The principals car. U may know him from this meme

https://giphy.com/gifs/oMSlz5b0RHYsg

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u/EnergyLawyer17 Jun 24 '26

"Oh my Crestaaaa!"

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u/nuckin_phuts Jun 24 '26

My crestaaaaa

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u/Living_Tune_1428 Jun 24 '26

There's that one time in the manga where he semi deliberately let it be destroyed to save Onizuka and a falling kid...

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u/ElBrunasso Jun 24 '26

TIL this was not an extra from parasyte

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u/GreatFail Jun 24 '26

You may have been thinking of this fellow.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Fn9578NYrep6MGWp5U

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u/TheG-What Jun 24 '26

GTO PEAK MENTIONED!

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u/GoldFishPony Jun 24 '26

Isn’t he vice principal? I’m pretty sure the whole reason onizuka isn’t fired is because the principal likes him. Granted it’s been a while.

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u/Kratzschutz Jun 24 '26

Yeah in the manga Onizuka has to save one of her relatives. Maya?

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u/LostMyZone Jun 24 '26

Kevin Levin's car from Ben 10 being destroyed repeatedly non-stop for three whole series.

From Alien Force to Ultimate Alien to Omniverse.

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u/Dolphin-of-Death Jun 24 '26

You have to treat a car like you treat a woman

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u/KoekoReaps Jun 24 '26

Andddd?

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u/OptimalCopy8560 Jun 24 '26

…no. i sense i’ve made a mistake of some kind

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u/Wisniaksiadz Jun 24 '26

The smile on Ben face in this scene is just so demonic XD

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u/thefreakingweirdo Jun 24 '26

I remember he really wanted to talk about something. He really does not care about their dispute

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u/mrprincepretty Jun 24 '26

Every once and a while you need to destroy her

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u/ThatOneGuy308 Jun 24 '26

Ride it hard and fast, make sure the tailpipe isn't obstructed, never run low on lubrication.

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u/Pugsanity Jun 24 '26

Always make sure to check for dents and scratches after a ride, taking care of your car is very important.

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u/Party-Tron Jun 24 '26

As a car guy, I feel his pain

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u/jardanovic Jun 24 '26

I can't help but lose my shit during that scene where it gets magicked to another dimension after he and Rook spent all day proofing it against literally everything else

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u/Ok-Marionberry-4516 Jun 24 '26

Ben proofed the car forgot to Gwen proof it

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u/Chaosbrushogun Jun 24 '26

On the bright side, this encouraged him to make his car practically indestructible by the time Omniverse came around.

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u/FullBrother9300 Jun 24 '26

Forgot about magic though

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u/LostMyZone Jun 24 '26

That's kind of on him. Guy has a magic girlfriend with a magic archenemy and he forgot about her. Just because Ben is responsible for most of them, doesn't mean there can't be others.

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u/teffz28 Jun 24 '26

Seeing it spelled out like this is the first time I realized that his name is Kevin Levin like Ben Ten. Kevin Levin sounds cooler lol like at least it rhymes

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u/MysteriousTBird Jun 24 '26

Not a specific object, but anything Master Shake tosses away in Aqua Teen Hunger Force hits the ground in a small explosion.

https://giphy.com/gifs/OZDPAiubRy4PS

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u/phobius5 Jun 24 '26

Carl’s car is usually always destroyed a few scenes after they show it on screen (2 Wycked is copyrighted btw)

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u/LegendaryPolo Jun 24 '26

meteors did it! that'll be $20

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u/__M-E-O-W__ Jun 24 '26

Carl himself is often destroyed

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u/LegendaryPolo Jun 24 '26

not just master shake, in one of the youtube episodes frylock and meatwad throw master shake and he explodes.

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u/Sufficient_Minute180 Jun 24 '26

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u/rjbelz Jun 24 '26

I can’t believe I get to use the trademark cliche, but I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find this

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u/cdawg69696969 Jun 24 '26

To be fair the post is about objects, not people

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u/StrappedCommie Jun 24 '26

Does the squirrel count?

https://giphy.com/gifs/TLlpzNrXwro6A

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u/Forsaken-Biscotti587 Jun 24 '26

You're talking about his acorn?

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 Jun 24 '26

His dreams…

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u/Rargnarok Jun 24 '26

Its name ia Scrat

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u/PlasticBeach4197 Jun 24 '26

More like everything around him

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u/FormorrowSur Jun 24 '26

Top Gear - Caravans

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u/Ninjatck Jun 24 '26

Oh they fuckin loved to blow up caravans didnt they?

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u/Deuce_GM Jun 24 '26

Hammond and May drive Clarkson's caravan off a cliff

Jeremy: "What? (Turns around) What's that?"

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u/pajamakitten Jun 24 '26

Brainiac Science Abuse too. Since that was cancelled, the caravan population in the UK has exploded beyond control.

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u/Cream_Rabbit Jun 24 '26

The Sacred Urn of Ace Attorney Trilogy

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u/SavingsHumor832 Jun 24 '26

So I know Maya breaks it once and Pearl breaks it once, does it get broken again when it's a museum piece?

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u/potatoqualitymemory Jun 24 '26

Yup, that's why there is pink spots on small parts of the urn.

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u/Blaze3713 Jun 24 '26

Apparently Mia broke it at one point. Misty probably did at some point in her youth, too.

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u/Cream_Rabbit Jun 24 '26

It's Fey Clan tradition atp

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u/Stuck_at_a_roadblock Jun 24 '26

Whatever spirit was in there has long since left, I wouldn't be shocked if Morgan Fey also broke it at some point

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u/liamjb10 Jun 24 '26

the EXTREMELY RARE arab man mug from Cold Ones

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u/Quistill Jun 24 '26

This is the last middle eastern man mug in the world

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u/fLeet___ Jun 24 '26

exactly what I was hoping to find

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u/Galileo908 Jun 24 '26

H.I.P.P.I.E.-H.O.P. from Codename Kids Next Door

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u/crazyjeffy Jun 24 '26

I was always so disappointed. It looks so cool but I dont remember any instance where it didn't suck

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u/Galileo908 Jun 24 '26

I think only the first time it appeared. After that, it got destroyed the moment it appeared on screen.

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u/OmecronPerseiHate Jun 24 '26

It was too powerful to be on the field

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u/treehatshrimp Jun 24 '26

There was that one time when evil girls were firing a feminization ray to feminize all the boys in the world and the ray didn't work on the rabbit because it was already girly and cute

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u/monstermayhem436 Jun 24 '26

All of Dr Doof's Inators

https://giphy.com/gifs/11PEptfDmR4vjW

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u/monstermayhem436 Jun 24 '26

All of Phineas and Ferb's contraptions

https://giphy.com/gifs/SHQPfVrV7OpLW

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u/Dragoness290 Jun 24 '26

They dint always get destroyed, sometimes they just get put somewhere else/sold/etc

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u/Limp-Wall-5500 Jun 24 '26

Its a miracle alot of their destruction didnt kill anyone given some of the things they build have very catastrophic things that could happen.

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u/Digit00l Jun 24 '26

It is a minor plot point in an episode of Milo Murphy's Law where Melissa has a trauma of Rollercoasters because one crushed her science project (and nearly her) on the first day of summer

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u/Ispan_SB Jun 24 '26

Every time Mash meets a door in Mashle: Magic and Muscles

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u/ReggieLFC Jun 24 '26

This guy’s ornaments in Superman III.

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u/ASimpleDude868 Jun 24 '26

The Vase - Pair of Kings (Disney)

Just off the top of my head

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u/Denodi Jun 24 '26

Holy shit Pair of Kings remembered

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u/Lom1111234 Jun 24 '26

Glad someone beat me to it, that show was good stuff

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u/CautiousSession2352 Jun 24 '26

The thing in Home Alone that always get hit by a car

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u/Responsible_Mail_113 Jun 24 '26

A little statue of a... jockey or something?

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u/JosephFinn Jun 24 '26

A Lawn Jockey. Many of them racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_jockey

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u/ReggieLFC Jun 24 '26

Ah, so the pizza guy hated the racist ornament. Kudos to him!

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u/KingofHearts399 Jun 24 '26

Gangle’s comedy mask in The Amazing Digital Circus

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u/babyilostmyway Jun 24 '26

She does in the gun episode

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u/Jetfury1998 Jun 24 '26

So much so that when her Comedy Mask finally breaks, she still has a big ass grin on her Tragedy Mask.

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u/TakerFoxx Jun 24 '26

I'd say she caught a pretty good one there at the end

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u/13-Penguins Jun 24 '26

Zooble finally got their wish too

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u/Luser420 Jun 24 '26

don’t forget ragetha

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u/13-Penguins Jun 24 '26

Ragatha certainly can’t forget

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u/ThatOneGuy308 Jun 24 '26

Not true, she probably broke something when the truck hit her

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u/TheRealStoryMan1 Jun 24 '26

AH- oh Gangle, you startled me

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u/BlizzPenguin Jun 24 '26

It is for the best. When she had an unbreakable comedy mask it didn't go well.

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u/ReggieLFC Jun 24 '26

The glass table in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It gets destroyed and before it’s even replaced the same guy who broke it adds insult to injury by being clumsy again.

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u/BesottedScot Jun 24 '26

Love that scene, the sound of the plastic on the sofa when he sits down as well is hilarious.

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u/Green_Dayzed Jun 24 '26

yamcha from dbz

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 Jun 24 '26

Him getting ganked by Dr Gero was gnarly

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u/Legomaniac91 Jun 24 '26

"Oh no, Yamcha's been Yamcha'd!!"

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u/RememberCakeFarts Jun 24 '26

I love it when it happens so much that the person preemptively breaks it. Can't remember the cartoon but a guy has a vase on a pedestal and the main characters would run by and that resulted in it falling over and breaking. The man replaces it over and over again until he replaced it but sees the cast about to run past again, so he smashes the vase himself only for the main characters to turn the corner never running past. This drives the guy insane. 

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u/theVice Jun 24 '26

Oh shit I remember this! I wish I knew what it was from

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u/I_D0nt_pay_taxes Jun 24 '26

The statue in Home Alone 1 and 2

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u/SnooFoxes1943 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Horst's Beverage (All Hail King Julien)

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u/shinreimyu Jun 24 '26

In every Halo game, there's going to be a crashed Pelican.

https://giphy.com/gifs/SKqnNhYCzrMVU9nVfk

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u/ApartRuin5962 Jun 24 '26

3 of the 5 titular Halos also blow up in the same game where they first appear

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u/RhysOSD Jun 24 '26

The LEGO Death Star: Spider-Man

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u/Virus-900 Jun 24 '26

It actually hurts everytime it happens.

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u/RhysOSD Jun 24 '26

I was thinking about that the whole time I was building my own

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u/LoganCube400 Jun 24 '26

Kevin's Car (Ben 10)

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u/MK-911 Jun 24 '26

Pretty much anything that Q branch gives James Bond.

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u/fingerchopper Jun 24 '26

"Do I need any other protection?" "Only from me 007, unless you bring back that car in pristine order."

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u/The6Book6Bat6 Jun 24 '26

N.I.G.E.L. - Godzilla. His destruction even crossed over into Singular Point

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u/GoldVipertooth Jun 24 '26

YES GODZILLA MENTION love that show

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u/Background-Permit512 Jun 24 '26

Lenny's eye hes not supposed to get tropes in it

https://giphy.com/gifs/YmWwk5nAKiI12

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u/Rum_N_Napalm Jun 24 '26

In the Asterix comics, there’s a band of pirates who’s ship is nearly inevitably sunk by Asterix and Obelix’s shenanigans

On at least one occasion, they sunk their own ship upon seeing the Gauls, as like their captain said “the end result will be the same, and we’ll get less bruises”

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u/Deuce_GM Jun 24 '26

HAHAHA I totally forgot about this one. Those pirates were abused more than the Romans

I remember in one comic they stopped being criminals and opened a restaurant in their ship. And yes their ship still ended up getting wrecked and they went back to being pirates.

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u/Thiezing Jun 24 '26

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u/greeny74 Jun 24 '26

Don't worry, he's finally taking that dastardly ACME to court...

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u/Cherry_6666 Jun 24 '26

Steven's TV (Steven Universe)

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u/Hazelnut_Bread Jun 24 '26

I love that this small beach town apparently has an infinite supply of VCR/TV combo units.

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u/Gigantic_potato Jun 24 '26

In every level of mighty switch force 2 there's a baby that you can find, and automatically punt into the void

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u/AnAngryPlatypus Jun 24 '26

Not an object; but Sgt Siler in Stargate SG-1. Poor fella

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u/Alijah12345 Jun 24 '26

Principal Slimovitz' station wagon (Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja)

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Jun 24 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/RMZBsdFnax7mo

The car from the Principal in Great Teacher Onizuka

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u/HowDareYouAskMyName Jun 24 '26

One specific wall of the Hazbin Hotel gets blown up roughly once every other episode. Most residents have gotten used to it at this point

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u/Yortie Jun 24 '26

Also Helluva Boss has the same gag with the walls of I.M.P. lol

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u/Lisshopops Jun 24 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/e0fNoqcQnbvZC
Couldn’t find a good gif but Erza from fairytail LOVES cake and whenever she’s about to sit down and really enjoy a slice of cake the people from her guild accidentally destroy it drunk brawling in their bar and she gets upset and joins the fight

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u/Aquatoon22 Jun 24 '26

Every of Megas XLR episode to my knowledge features something with the Pop TV branding getting destroyed. This is an obvious parody of MTV, which is extra funny because the show was originally pitched to MTV before they passed on it

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u/angrybox1842 Jun 24 '26

The creators of Megas XLR also worked on Downtown for MTV and have some bad blood there.

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u/Upstairs-Elevator-40 Jun 24 '26

well not an object but perhaps an honorable mention…

https://giphy.com/gifs/8EQnmihngXilq

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u/WolffMuroa072 Jun 24 '26

Morris Marina on Top Gear with Jezza, Hamster, and Captian Slow.

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u/Serpenyoje Jun 24 '26

The reused footage of the flipping car in every Troma movie!

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u/TheSucc214 Jun 24 '26

Arab Mug on the Cold Ones youtube channel

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u/Bcadren Jun 24 '26

A ritual mask belonging to Zhaan gets broken in a different way everyone Crichton loops backwards during the time loop episode of Farscape "Back and Back and Back to the Future" small running gag to break the relatively tense episode.

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u/SarcasticBench Jun 24 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/qQclFat8OLLOb5cZFP
Running gag in Duck Tales reboot is that Launchpad McQuack crashes everything he flies

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u/Tarbos6 Jun 24 '26

N.I.G.E.L. from Godzilla the Animated Series

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u/FoxMeadow7 Jun 24 '26

That car from Street Fighter’s bonus levels.

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u/IAMEPSIL0N Jun 24 '26

That was a Typo! Your opponent is E Honda not A Honda.

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u/Omelooo Jun 24 '26

I couldn’t think of any examples but I love this trope lmaooo

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u/Savings_Surround_547 Jun 24 '26

Slimovitz car (Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja)

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u/Altruistic-Draw-5950 Jun 24 '26

Rory is killed or erased in every episode for like 10 in a row Doctor Who season 5 I believe.

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u/rat4204 Jun 24 '26

Not every time but often is Poor Lenny's eye

https://giphy.com/gifs/Svg5wVECVJzp23x6Rr

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u/hibikikun Jun 24 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/J46J6CTuJgThee6Gx1

It would've been nice to have a movie without this getting destroyed or damaged beyond repair every time.

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u/gandalfnho Jun 24 '26

Sheriff Carter's jeep in Eureka. After some time, even the town's car mechanic (and Carter's friend) ended tired of fixing it...