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The collapse often happens just as the last two cards are being placed, leaving the builder holding them in place over the empty air where the house used to be.
Like [[Endangered
[[Dish Dash]] is a related trope.
The trope name is a play on [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''Fall of the House of Usher''.
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
== Basic House-of-Cards Version ==
* Near's tarot card house in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''. He specifically warns his coworkers about how pissed he'll be if they knock it over. They don't. However, in a variant on the trope, he builds a huge structure of ''dice'' which [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|collapses in slow motion]] when {{spoiler|most of his team gets Death Noted}}.▼
▲=== Anime and Manga ===
* Yugi made one and eventually fell in the Toei ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' series.▼
▲* Near's tarot card house in ''[[
▲* Yugi made one and eventually fell in the Toei ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' series.
* ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'': Hisoka did it, too.
=== Comic Books ===
* Done with a bit of symbolism ([[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|like everything else]]) in ''[[
=== Fanfiction ===
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' fanfiction ''[[Decks Fall
=== Film ===
* The 1993 film ''House of Cards''.
=== Literature ===
* Ron does this with Exploding Snap cards in ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]: [[The Dark Tower
=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', episode "54-40 and Fight": The boys and the girls face off in a house-of-cards building contest to settle an argument.
* ''[[Father Ted]]'', episode "New Jack City", as one instance of a [[Running Gag]] where Ted rings Father Larry Duff and interrupts him in the middle of doing something that requires unbroken concentration.
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=== Newspaper Comics ===
* One ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]'' strip.
=== Video Games ===
* Seen in ''[[Ghost Trick]]''. A prison security guard is building a house of cards, but just as he finishes, he thumps the table with outrage at the prospect of escorting a great police detective, who was convicted of murdering his wife with little evidence other than his (slightly dubious) confession, to be executed. This naturally causes his house of cards to collapse.
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] in A Grand Day Out''.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In one of the short segments done for Tracey Ullman, Bart tries to build a house of cards, and Lisa and Maggie keep unintentionally causing it to collapse.
* ''The Imp'' cartoon, episode "Bison" (where it is, perhaps unsurprisingly, knocked down by a rampaging bison).
* The 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* Happens on an episode of ''[[
* At the end of one episode of ''[[Care Bears|Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]'', it's revealed that [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Grizzle]] didn't appear because he spent the day building a house of cards, complete with [[Evil Laugh
* Miss Bitters of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' uses this as an object lesson:
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''(Student adds haphazard pile of cards to the top of a very large tower, which quickly collapses.)''
"So as you can see, children, our whole society is nothing more than a perilous house of cards, doomed to collapse ''under its own weight''." }}
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': Lucius uses his [[Cool Plane]] to destroy a giant house of cards. [[For the Evulz|He's disappointed it wasn't a real house]].
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=== Anime and Manga ===▼
* During the recap episode of ''[[Excel Saga (
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* During the recap episode of ''[[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Saga]]'', Il Palazzo is setting up an extremely long domino chain. The Excel Girls kick a few of them down, though Il Palazzo stops the chain reaction in time, and responds by strangling them. The camera cuts away, and cuts back to plushies of them (a reference to how Japanese TV shows will sometimes sub in a cardboard cutout of a host if they're unavailable).
=== Comic Books ===
* The Klegdixal Ambassador's dust sculpture in ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]''.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (
* In ''[[Malcolm in
* On an episode of ''[[Mama's Family
* Happens on an "Over Our Heads" episode of ''[[The Facts of Life]]'', when Natalie is trying to stack up some boxes in the store. Everyone keeps slamming the store door and knocking them down.
=== Video Games ===
* The opening video of ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' has Narumi building a house out of matchsticks which gets knocked over by Gouto (the protagonist's [[Talking Animal|talking cat]] [[Non-Human Sidekick|sidekick]]) jumping onto his desk.
=== Western Animation ===
* Bigweld's domino layout in ''[[Robots]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly
* ''Mickey's [[A Christmas Carol|Christmas Carol]]'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in mid-count.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Sideshow Bob builds a miniature model of Westminster Abbey, which collapses from the sound of people laughing at the Krusty the Klown Show.
* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. The sultan is stacking some tiny statuettes when Jafar slams open the door and they fall down.
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