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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 ItsIt's Not Awesome?|collapses in slow motion]] when {{spoiler|most of his team gets Death Noted}}.

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[MashM*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.

* On an episode of ''[[MamasMama'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.

* 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.