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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In one ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' strip, Prunelle manages to bring in De Masmaeker to look at the scale model of their planned office building, hoping to get him to sign the contracts later. While he's showing off the admittedly impressive model, Gaston comes in with a miniaturized Gaffophone a reader sent him, and proceeds to play it. The building model proceeds to collapse instantly.

* In the ''[[Tintin]]'' album ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/The Calculus Affair|The Calculus Affair]]'', the [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection|Bordurian military elite]] displays the effectiveness of a proposed new [[Weapons of Mass Destruction|sound weapon]] through the destruction of a "large North American city" (an [[Expy]] of [[Big Applesauce|New York]]) on a TV screen to the [[Kick the Dog|delight of its audience]], only to reveal that they had merely used a smaller scale version to destroy a model. [[Kick the Dog|Everyone is disappointed]].

* In the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' album ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/The Calculus Affair|The Calculus Affair]]'', the [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection|Bordurian military elite]] displays the effectiveness of a proposed new [[Weapons of Mass Destruction|sound weapon]] through the destruction of a "large North American city" (an [[Expy]] of [[Big Applesauce|New York]]) on a TV screen to the [[Kick the Dog|delight of its audience]], only to reveal that they had merely used a smaller scale version to destroy a model. [[Kick the Dog|Everyone is disappointed]].

== [[Film]] ==

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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy Bot admires a model "City of the Future" at a science fair, but notes that she's never seen people that small.

* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', Bill Adama worked on a model of an Age of Sail ship over the course of the show, which he ends up destroying it in a fit of rage. The destruction was an ad lib by Edward James Olmos, who didn't know the model was very expensive (after all, in [[Real Life]] someone working full time can take a couple months to build one) and in fact on loan from a museum.

** [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|Whoops.]] Still, it was that very act that REALLY drove home how screwed up things were in that episode.

** [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Whoops.]] Still, it was that very act that REALLY drove home how screwed up things were in that episode.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' "Boom Town:" Margret Blaine (really an evil alien) is planning on blowing up the planet and escaping in a Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator, which is hidden in the model of the power plant she's planning to blow up.

* In ''[[The Mighty Boosh]] episode'' "The Nightmare of Milky Joe" there appears to be a ship in the distance that may rescue our heroes from the island they're stranded on. It's only a model, as Vince proves when he reaches out and plucks it right off the horizon.

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Batman Mask of the Phantasm]]'', the climatic battle between Batman and the Joker takes place within a model of what Gotham City might look like in the future. The Joker disguises himself by wearing a skyscraper on his head. An episode of the tv series opens with the apparent explosion of an entire Gotham neighborhood, only for it to be revealed as a model, with the [[Big Bad]] of the episode detailing his plans to make it really happen.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Hail Doofania!", Doofenshmirtz makes a scale model ([[~~Everythings~~ Better With Plushies|made of felt]]) of his floating city, Doofania. By the end of the episode, the city has sunk and only the model remains.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Hail Doofania!", Doofenshmirtz makes a scale model ([[Everything's Better With Plushies|made of felt]]) of his floating city, Doofania. By the end of the episode, the city has sunk and only the model remains.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Mr. Burns shows off a scale model of Springfield when he's demonstrating his plan to blot out the sun.

** In the season eight episode "Homer's Enemy," Homer enters a "build a model nuclear power plant" contest for kids... and ''not only'' kicks their asses, but humiliates his antagonistic co-worker into a [[Villainous Breakdown]] and accidental suicide!