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* Portrayed very often in ''[[Ranma One Half]]'', particularly when someone is [[Megaton Punch|Megaton Punched]] upwards to turn into [[A Twinkle in The Sky]]... while indoors. Or someone falls from high up in the sky into a house, usually leaving these holes through every floor on the way down. Ranges from [[Miniature Senior Citizens|tiny old man-shaped holes]] to holes in the shape of a winged-minotaur-with-an-eel-for-a-tail.

* In the ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' Episode "Solid as a Solrock", Ash orders his Pikachu to use Quick Attack on Solrock, but Solrock moves; Pikachu misses the attack and lands on [[It Makes Sense in Context|a model of the planet Saturn]], leaving a Pikachu-shaped hole.

* Disney's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. When the Walrus is running to escape the enraged Carpenter inside their shack, he runs right through the swinging door, leaving a Walrus-shaped hole.

* In the ''[[Shrek (Animation)|Shrek]]'' Halloween Special ''Scared Shrekless'', after Shrek's story Pinocchio snaps and runs through the door of the castle, leaving his outline behind.

* In ''[[Peter Pan (Disney)|Return to Neverland]]'', when Jane fails to fly she falls right into the ground, leaving a Jane-shaped hole.

* In ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'', Lightning McQueen leaves a himself-shaped hole in the smoke when he leaps over the wreckage in the first race.

* Happens in ''[[Puss in Boots (Animation)|Puss in Boots]]'', when he crashes into a crate after swinging from a building.

* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', Roger [[Window Pain|smashes through the window]] of his boss's office, leaving a Roger-shaped hole in the blinds and the glass behind them.

* Live-action parody: in ''[[Gremlins 2]]'', one of the Gremlins imbibes a potion which gives it bat wings, and another to protect it from the sun, then flies through a wall, leaving a hole in the shape of the [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] logo.

* In ''[[Batman and Robin (Film)|Batman and Robin]]'', Robin crashes his motorcycle through a museum door, leaving a hole in the shape of the Robin [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman___Robin_1997.aspx?Page=2 logo].

* In ''[[Bad Taste (Film)|Bad Taste]]'', Derek (played by director [[Peter Jackson]]) cuts a self-shaped hole in the wall with a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]].

* ''[[Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World]]'' (1963): Jonathan Winters is in a berserk rage in Ray and Irwin's Garage and bursts through a wall, leaving a perfect Winters-shape hole in it.

* Happens in ''[[Leprechaun (Film)|Leprechaun]]'' when Lep fails to hold on his [[Outside Ride]] and crashes through a fence.

* Bond nearly does this towards the beginning of ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'', though he just smashes messily through drywall, rather than leaving a nice, neat hole.

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel, ''[[Sixth Column (Literature)|Sixth Column]]'', revolutionaries use their [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to spook the [[The Empire|occupying]] army by carving precisely man-shaped holes in the walls of the prison cells they escape from.

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', the zombified Windle Poons does this twice, first by walking through the outer wall of Unseen University, then again after walking through the wall of the UU library when the Librarian refused to let him in.

* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' book #25, ''The Extreme'', the Animorphs (as Polar Bears) are being chased by Venber at the Arctic Yeerk base. Marco stops quickly and a Venber misses him, slamming through a steel door and making a vague Venber-shaped hole in it. Marco even calls it a "Bugs-Bunny-runs-through-the-door kind of hole."

* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', there actually is a Christmas-Tree-shaped hole in the wall after the Christmas Tree attacks in "The Christmas Invasion". Possibly justified in that the "tree" is actually a spinning metal grinder disguised as a tree.

* Averted in [[Supernatural (TV)|Castiel and Uriel's fight]]. While it starts with Cas punching Uriel through a wall, the hole he makes is roughly circular, not Uriel-shaped.

* In ''[[The Muppets (Film)|The Muppets]]'', Walter is asked to perform alongside the Muppets at the big fund-raising telethon. However, he has an attack of stage fright right before he's due to go on and runs through a brick wall, leaving his outline in it.

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' begins in a classroom with an unusual feature -- a silhouette-shaped hole in the front wall. If Lloyd immediately walks over to examine it, he scratches his head and offers nothing in the way of useful speculation; after his conversation with Genis and Colette, he can go examine the hole again, and Colette will admit that [[Dojikko|she tripped and fell through the wall]]. This is later turned into a [[Running Gag]] when she somehow manages the same feat on a ''brick'' wall.

* At the end of ''[[Banjo Kazooie]]'' when Guntilda falls off her tower, she leaves a precisely witch-shaped hole in the ground (hat included, of course) before a boulder falls on her. Oddly enough, the ''boulder'' leaves no imprint whatsoever. If you look at the hole in the sequel, Banjo Tooie, its still precisely Grunty-shaped.

* In ''[[Pilotwings (Video Game)|Pilotwings]]'' for the SNES, if you go skydiving but never open your parachute, when your character hits the ground it leaves a person-shaped crater. Your instructor will reprimand you for not taking the test seriously.

* The Monty Moles from ''[[Super Mario World (Video Game)|Super Mario World]]'' create mole-shaped holes when they jump out of the ground and walls (however, Yoshi can actually eat them while they're still digging).

* Some of the doors in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening]]'' have a man-shaped enterance, and when entered, flip around, preventing you from entering in the other way.

* On [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0374.html this page] of ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', you get a Miko-shaped hole (and a Windstriker-shaped hole) in a stone wall as a result of the too-confident paladin agreeing to play a "game" with the Monster in the Darkness.

* This happens in ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'', in one of the strips where Sam and Helix flee an angry mayor. “But Freefall is that rare comedy that is hard science fiction!” we hear you cry. Indeed it is, and so it makes sure to [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01270.htm justify] itself.

** On two separate occasions, Bugs has used a glass cutter to cut a him-shaped hole in a glass to escape it. Oddly enough, both instances involved [[Jack and The Beanstalk|Giants]].

* In one episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' Rainbow Dash does this to a tree, with her EYEBALLS.

* In ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', the front door is shaped like Master Shake (clearly a remodel based on the condition of the walls around the frame). Probably because he's an egotistic jackass who had their door replaced (at someone else's expense) to suit his oddly shaped physique.

* In ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Animation)|Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Sonic and Tails do this to the sail of a pirate ship upon landing from a time-traveling attempt. Not long after, the force of a nearby cannonball impact launches Robotnik through the same sail, creating his own imprint next to those of the protagonists. And a little while later, a robot pirate is knocked off a mast and leaves a body-shaped hole in the deck (though when he bursts back up through to grab Tails, he makes a starburst-shaped hole instead).

* Happens in ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' with Kid Flash. While being chased by Madame Rouge, Kid Flash spins rapidly in a circle and digs through a building to escape. Each wall has a Kid Flash-shaped hole in it. Note that since he's spinning, he should have left a round hole, like a drill-bit, but [[Rule of Funny|that wouldn't be as funny]].

* ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]''

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Earthworm Jim (Animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'', followed by a [[Public Service Announcement]] regarding the dangers of ''[[Reality Ensues|running into a wall trying to make a hole]]''.

* In ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'', the Kanker sisters run through a closet door, leaving Kanker-shaped holes -- and then we zoom out to reveal an Ed-shaped one as well.

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Bobby's World]]'' where Bobby, in an [[Imagine Spot]] parody of ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', shoots a gun that cuts an outline of himself in the window.

* One episode of ''[[MAD (Animation)|MAD]]'' features Hannah Montana; when she tries to get rid of Justin Bieber, she pushes a heavy sack to him but it comes back to hit her, and she crashes through the wall, leaving her outline.

* In ''[[Codename Kids Next Door]]'', "[[Beach Episode|Operation: B.E.A.C.H.]]", Numbuh Four goes through the wall of the castle during the fight against King Sandy and leaves his outline. It is a ''sandcastle'', though, making it a little more likely than usual.

* ''[[Kid VS Kat]]'' plays with this in the episode "Blasteroid Blues". Coop's jetpack goes out of control and he ends up crashing through the ceiling of a mall, leaving a hole shaped like his body, then when he starts plummeting back down after his parachute fails he notices the hole from before and hopes that he can fall through it instead of hitting the rest of the ceiling. He doesn't.

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': Spike's exit from the library in "Secret of My Excess" leaves a distinct draconic silhouette punched through the wall.

* In ''[[Dan Vs]].'' Chris and Elise decide to buy a painting to cover their noodle incident Dan-shaped hole in their living room wall since they have grown tired of looking at it.

* The [[Mr. Bogus (Animation)|Mr. Bogus]] episode "[[Mr. Bogus (Animation)/Recap/S2 E7 Bogus Private Eye|Bogus Private Eye]]" had a gag where Bogus, while wearing a ballerina tutu and leotard, attempts to stop a pair of [[Wicked Weasel]] mobsters from robbing the house, just as they were conveniently standing next to a blow dryer. One of the weasels turns on the blow dryer, sending Bogus flying through the wall, leaving behind a Bogus-shaped hole in the wall.