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* This happened momentarily in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' when Nodoka came under the effects of the [[Love Potion]] Negi had just drunk. A large section of the library ended up toppled over.
* In ''[[Case Closed]]'', they set one up on purpose in order to nail a perp.
* Happens in an early chapter of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. When Yugi tries to disprove a classmate claiming to be psychic, said classmate predicts that Yugi would be crushed by "countless letters", and tries to make this prediction come true by pushing a bookshelf onto Yugi.
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* Happens in ''[[Tremors]]'' in a grocery store. This time, it's the monster's fault, forcing the heroes to escape onto the roof.
** In this case, the heroine happens to be standing ''on top'' of the shelves, and is flung out the window by their collapse!
* Done in ''[[
* ''[[Film/Jury Duty|Jury Duty]]'' used this to signal the security guard, only to knock him out.
* In the film version of ''[[Angels and Demons]]'', Robert Langdon intentionally topples the shelves in the Vatican Archives in an attempt to escape the hermetically sealed (and locked) library, which is quickly running out of breathable air. The glass is reinforced and bulletproof, however, so it fails to work... initially.
* In ''Three O'Clock High'', a fight in a library leads to entire bookshelves getting knocked down like dominoes.
* Done intentionally in ''[[
== Literature ==
* Occurs in the book ''[[Angels and Demons]]''.
* [[A Nightmare
== Live Action TV ==
* Used in a sketch in ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show]]'', a British comedy clip show.
* Happens in the ''[[
* Happened in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' when there was an earthquake.
** And again later on during a large fight, with {{spoiler|Willow}} getting crushed underneath them and being put in a coma.
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== Video Games ==
* In the second Manor level of the original ''[[Max Payne (
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* ''[[El Tigre]]'': causes it in his mother's library because the bad guys duck his [[Rocket Punch]]. The falling bookcases end up getting them in the end.
* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'', a flashback shows Coop doing this while trying to get a book off a high shelf. The same episode ends with the same thing happening to an alien ringworld library.
* Happened in the first arc of ''[[WITCH (
* ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'': the episode where Kick had to escape from an evil librarian. The last shelf misses her when it falls against a statue, but then the books fall and bury her.
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