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{{quote|''"The buildings are empty. Security, maintenance,'' [are] ''all our people."''|'''Tyler Durden''', ''[[Fight Club]]'' (1999)}}
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* In ''[[Fight Club]]'', {{spoiler|The Narrator is furious at Tyler Durden for the mass murder he's about to commit in Project Mayhem, by blowing up several office buildings. Tyler explains that}} the buildings that explode are all empty because of the time that they'll explode and that only his men are inside.
* [[Fast Five]] of the [[The Fast and the Furious]] series, full stop. One safe dragged behind two automobiles nearly leveled downtown Rio!
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', both hotels where they meet happen to be a
** Averted elsewhere, when the characters actively gun down innocent security guards, to prevent them from becoming bodies for Agents.
* In ''[[Volcano]]'', there is a finished but unoccupied condominium building conveniently located for being turned into a lava barricade. Furthermore, the building is conveniently owned by a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]].
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* In ''[[Monsters Versus Aliens]]'', San Fransisco has been emptied out by the government so the buildings damaged were empty - however during the Golden Gate Bridge scene the alien robot crunches up several conveniently empty ''cars''. When B.O.B. moves the barriers to let the cars through, every other car on the bridge was occupied because they ''all'' drive away.
* In ''[[Megamind]]'', Titan and Megamind crash through one, though the roof and down through every floor.
* In the American version of ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'', several [[Misguided Missile
* In ''[[Die Hard]]'', a security guard conveniently mentions that there's nobody in the building except the folks partying on Holly's floor. Good to know John can blow up elevator shafts without taking out any unsuspecting night-shift janitors or overnight painters and repair crews.
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