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== [[Advertising]] ==
== [[Advertising]] ==
* One of Memorex's "Is it live or is it Memorex?" TV commercials, where [[Ella Fitzgerald]] breaks a wine glass by singing a high note... and then replaying the recording of Ella singing also causes glass to shatter.
* One of Memorex's "Is it live or is it Memorex?" TV commercials, where [[Ella Fitzgerald]] breaks a wine glass by singing a high note... and then replaying the recording of Ella singing also causes glass to shatter.
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** A series of newspaper comics had Piggy trying to do it herself. Her first attempt cracked the ''table''.
** A series of newspaper comics had Piggy trying to do it herself. Her first attempt cracked the ''table''.
* [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]] in an episode of ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', where [[Mariah Carey]]'s ultrasonic voice shattered the arena's lights, made nearby dogs suffer and caused [[Jim Carrey]]'s [[Your Head Asplode|head to explode]].
* [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]] in an episode of ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', where [[Mariah Carey]]'s ultrasonic voice shattered the arena's lights, made nearby dogs suffer and caused [[Jim Carrey]]'s [[Your Head Asplode|head to explode]].

== [[Real Life]] ==

*An example not only of glass shattering but ''bone'' shattering. After the Russian bombardment of Finnish positions on the Karelian Isthmus in [[World War 2|1939-1940]] several dead Finnish soldiers were dug out of pillboxes with no wound except having their skulls imploded by the noise.


== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* In the ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode "Chip Off the Old Chip", a [[Running Gag]] involves Timmy's terrible voice winds up breaking some glass, while Chip Skylark's voice makes the glass magically unbreak. When Timmy and Chip wind up switching voices, Timmy now has the ability to fix the glass Chip broke with Timmy's awful voice.
* In the ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode "Chip Off the Old Chip", a [[Running Gag]] involves Timmy's terrible voice winds up breaking some glass, while Chip Skylark's voice makes the glass magically unbreak. When Timmy and Chip wind up switching voices, Timmy now has the ability to fix the glass Chip broke with Timmy's awful voice.
* In ''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'', Harmony's playing the triangle at a pitch that makes Brainy's glasses crack in "Smurphony In 'C'", and Denisa's scream that makes the vials in Gargamel's hovel shatter in "Denisa's Greedy Doll".
* In ''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'', Harmony's playing the triangle at a pitch that makes Brainy's glasses crack in "Smurphony In 'C'", and Denisa's scream that makes the vials in Gargamel's hovel shatter in "Denisa's Greedy Doll".

== [[Real Life]] ==
* An example not only of glass shattering but ''bone'' shattering. After the Russian bombardment of Finnish positions on the Karelian Isthmus in [[World War 2|1939-1940]] several dead Finnish soldiers were dug out of pillboxes with no wound except having their skulls imploded by the noise.


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