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The later in the film that the destruction occurs, the more spectacular it is likely to be. If the hero is chased over a [[Rope Bridge]] in the first half an hour of the movie, that bridge will get off pretty light; a couple of the planks will snap after the hero steps on them. If this bridge is involved in the big finale, however, expect every support and mooring on one side of the bridge to give way or snap in half. Slowly and dramatically. With the hero in the middle, and twenty [[Mooks]] heading toward him from either end. And that's if it's not set on fire. Or rigged to blow.

As there is [[No Ontological Inertia]], the castle, fortress, temple or other elaborate and impressive structure that houses the [[Big Bad]] will make an even more elaborate and impressive explosion after he has been dispatched by the heroes (see [[Load Bearing Boss]] and [[Collapsing Lair]]). A clue that [[Its Going Down]] is if anyone mentions the lair being "bound to or crafted by the villain's will/power/magic." A more mundane version is when the imposing manor or [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|tower]] from which the [[Evil Overlord]] was conducting his operations is beset by villagers wielding impromptu torches, battering rams, and various other weapons of architectural destruction. Usually, there will be a wide shot of the tower in flames and crumbling, even if it is constructed entirely out of stone. [[Rule of Cool]] again.

As there is [[No Ontological Inertia]], the castle, fortress, temple or other elaborate and impressive structure that houses the [[Big Bad]] will make an even more elaborate and impressive explosion after he has been dispatched by the heroes (see [[Load-Bearing Boss]] and [[Collapsing Lair]]). A clue that [[Its Going Down]] is if anyone mentions the lair being "bound to or crafted by the villain's will/power/magic." A more mundane version is when the imposing manor or [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|tower]] from which the [[Evil Overlord]] was conducting his operations is beset by villagers wielding impromptu torches, battering rams, and various other weapons of architectural destruction. Usually, there will be a wide shot of the tower in flames and crumbling, even if it is constructed entirely out of stone. [[Rule of Cool]] again.

Also applies to any and all enemy vehicles in a chase scene. Not only is [[Every Car Is a Pinto|Every Car A Pinto]], but so is every Motorbike, and Plane, and Speeder, and Battle Flyer apparently designed to travel through space.

Then there's [[Falling Chandelier of Doom|chandeliers]], which like rules, are made to be broken.

== [[Film]] ==

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** [[Terry Pratchett]] plays with it oh so much in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''.

* The titular structure in The Fall of the House of Usher by [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]] {{spoiler|collapses into the surrounding lake/swamp}} as the narrator flees, having learned that {{spoiler|Madeline was buried alive, and Rodrick knew she was alive at the time.}} It's a metaphor for Rodrick's mental state as well as the {{spoiler|end of the Usher family, hence the title.}}

* It's a castle that falls off its precarious perch instead of exploding, and it's when the [[Load Bearing Boss|Red Bull]] is defeated instead of the king, but the crumbling is foreshadowed during the characters' visit to the nearby town in the book of ''[[The Last Unicorn (Literature)|The Last Unicorn]]''. And since it's at the end of the story, it does its thing very dramatically.

* It's a castle that falls off its precarious perch instead of exploding, and it's when the [[Load-Bearing Boss|Red Bull]] is defeated instead of the king, but the crumbling is foreshadowed during the characters' visit to the nearby town in the book of ''[[The Last Unicorn (Literature)|The Last Unicorn]]''. And since it's at the end of the story, it does its thing very dramatically.

* In ''[[Otherland]]'', the mile-high tower of J Corp, located conveniently in the Louisiana swamps. It goes out most spectacularly when {{spoiler|[[Death From Above|a satellite deorbits and crashes into it]]}}.

* [[Mistborn|Kredik Shaw]] ''almost'' lasts out the series {{spoiler|Until Vin flattens it}}.