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== Anime and Manga ==
* 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}}.
* 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 ''[[Arkham Asylum a Serious House Onon Serious Earth|Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth]]''.
 
 
== Fanfiction ==
* The [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] fanfiction [[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies (Fanfic)|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]] is a metaphorical example. The card house is analogous to the government built around complicated [[Card Games]]. The stuff going on in Jamerica causes the government to fall, leaving the duelists hanging like a card house builder's hand.
 
 
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* ''[[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 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, episode "Scion of the Shredder". The Turtles and Splinter are chilling in their lair, and Michelangelo is building a house of cards. ''Right after'' he places the last two cards, the perimeter alarm goes off. After Donatello hurries to check his computer systems, something starts beating on the front door. The Turtles go for their weapons, and the house of cards gets its very own falling-down shot before it cuts back to the door finally breaking in.
* Happens on an episode of ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]''. SpongeBob is making a snail-shaped house of cards modeled after Gary, when Patrick comes barreling in and knocks it down.
* 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|Evil Laughter]] when it's finished. He promptly sneezes, and the whole thing falls over.
* Miss Bitters of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' uses this as an object lesson:
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== Anime and Manga ==
* During the recap episode of ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|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 (TV)|Mash]]'': propaganda photographers want to make a fragile amateur sculpture into a symbol of the war, but the artists are trying to destroy their own creation.
* In ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'', with Dewey's set of dominoes. They averted the collapse many times, and Hal was really looking forward to the eventual release (trying to keep himself from giving in to the temptation to set them off)... and then he comes home and Dewey has already done it.
* On an episode of ''[[Mama's Family (TV)|Mamas Family]]'', Vint starts stacking up sugar cubes on his plate, claiming to be going for the "world sugar-stacking record". Mama slams the refrigerator door, and they fall down. He starts doing it again, and this time Mama purposely knocks them down with her tongs.
* 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.
 
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* ''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]]'' 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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