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* 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.

* 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]]''.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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).

* The Klegdixal Ambassador's dust sculpture in ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]''.

* 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.

* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. The sultan is stacking some tiny statuettes when Jafar slams open the door and they fall down.