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{{quote|''"I'm so angry I could punch a hole in this solid concrete wall!"''|'''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater|Colonel Volgin]]''', ''[[Hiimdaisy]]: Let's Destroy the Shagohod!''}}
 
When things are going badly wrong, the hero needs to hit something to prove he's a badass, but can't hit anyone because that would be unheroic. So he hits something inanimate. His pain proves he is sincere.
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* Kaname does this in ''[[Full Metal Panic]]''.
** Sousuke also punches out {{spoiler|the screen of his laptop}} when {{spoiler|he gets an e-mail informing him that he is no longer to guard Kaname and he can't contact her anymore.}}
* In the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' [[Non-Serial Movie]], Ryouko punches a wall when it seems all hope is lost and Tenchi's going to be erased by a time paradox.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' has a variation. When [[Highly-Visible Ninja|Black Star]] hears the location of the organisation that hospitalised Maka he allows some of his [[Ki Attacks|soul wavelength]] to discharge from his open hand into the wall (since all attacks in this series work by hitting the target with the attacker's soul wave and Black Star's is strong enough to do damage without a weapon).
* In ''[[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]]'' Jack puts his fist through a glass window when he learns that his CO willingly put Rei's life at risk.
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* [[Cowboy Bebop|Spike Spiegal]] is mistaken for Vicious in one episode, and responds by bashing in a nearby wall-mounted pipe before doing the same to his would-be attackers.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'', first episode, Ran, who's ''not'' angry at Shinichi at all, punches through a concrete electric pole, [[Made of Iron|laughing afterward.]]
* A filler episode in the ''[[Zatch Bell (Anime)|Zatch Bell]]'' anime has Ted searching for Cherish when he's interrupted by some ill-tempered men he bumps into. Zatch volunteers to take the beating while Ted follows the trail of Cherish's perfume. But his conscience catches up with him, and he comes back to tell the men that if they lay a finger on Zatch, they'll have to deal with him. He then dents the nearby brick wall with a single punch for emphasis.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In [[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami (Fanfic)|Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami]], L punches a wall in frustration and "made a big [[Rouge Angles of Satin|whole]]" after Light uses the [[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]] to kill Mikami as he's identifying him as Kira.
* [[Naruto]] punches things in [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons (Fanfic)|Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]] in jealousy of Ronan being better than he is.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Gran Torino]]'', Walt punches in the doors of several cupboards, culminating in two glass ones.
* Classic example: Jack La Motta beating the shit out of a prison cell wall in ''[[Raging Bull]]''
* At one point ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' the dragon comes back from trying to kill McClane, and immediately starts smashing the scenery. McClane's wife, of course, takes it to mean her husband is still alive, because only he could make someone that pissed off.
* James Dean as [[Troubled but Cute]] teen Jim Stark does this to a desk in the police office near the beginning of ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[They Call Me Bruce]]''. Bruce's Kung Fu master claims that with control of your emotions you can do anything, including punch a hole through a brick wall. Bruce doubts this is possible, and when everyone else agrees the old master losses his temper and punches a hole in the wall, revealing a pretty 'massage girl' on the other side who says he's early for his session.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Darksword Trilogy]]'', Joram punches a tree which falls over and whines endlessly until it gets given brandy.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', Vetinari has come to expect Vimes to punch the wall outside his office after every meeting, and recognizes it as a sign that Vimes [[Let's Get Dangerous|is really going to buckle down on a case]]. Conversely, when Vimes ''doesn't'' punch a hole in the wall after such a meeting, Vetinari wonders whether he pushed Vimes [[Ten -Minute Retirement|too far]].
* In ''[[The Catcher in The Rye (Literature)|The Catcher in The Rye]]'', Holden mentions that after his brother died, he smashed every window in the garage with his bare hands.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Xander puts his fist through the wall after Joyce dies in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. (Albeit, drywall is not difficult to punch through.) He then gets his hand stuck in the wall.
** In Angel's [[Angel (TV)|spin-off series]], Angel begins repeatedly punching a hole {{spoiler|after he finds out that he can't save Darla because she was already resurrected.}}
** And Faith takes out Wesley's entire shower wall after getting her ass kicked by The Beast.
* Also, parodied on ''[[Friends]]''.
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'''Ross:''' No, I missed and hit the door. But it opened really hard! }}
* In ''[[Cardiac Arrest]]'', Dr Monica Broome beat up a soap dispenser in frustration at not having beaten up two senior doctors who had been openly looking down her top a short while before.
* Worf sometimes punches inanimate objects in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' - they always break.
* ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles|Sarah Connor]]'' when they lose track of John's signal.
{{quote| '''Cameron:''' Breaking the computer won't help}}
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* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', we learn that Ted's apartment got a hole in the wall when Robin got drunk on a six-pack of Molson and went Super-Canadian with a hockey stick and puck... Lily caught the puck, leading to Robin challenging her to a fistfight... which Ted broke up, causing Barney to get angry and punch the hole in the wall, because "You never break up a girl fight! Aagh!"
* Played for drama in an episode of ''[[House MD|House]]'' after Foreman fails to save a patient. He wears splints for his broken fingers for an episode or two afterward.
* George from ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'' punches a large dent in a racist suspect's desk to intimidate him into talking. His partner later wonders aloud whether they'll get billed for the desk.
* [[Dexter]] does an epic one of these in season three--he punches the glass out of a cabinet door and smashes the shit out of his office with a howl of "[[Say My Name|MIGUEEEELL!]]"...but it turns out it was just [[Dream Sequence|in his head.]]
 
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* Done by both Heat and Cielo in ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]''.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', Luzzu punches a wall repeatedly if Gatta dies in Operation Mi'ihen.
* Also done by Colonel Volgin in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'', where he makes a rather sizable dent in a concrete wall.
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[The Last Story]]'': The party just ran into a dead end? Have [[The Hero|Zael]] kick a wall. This ''always'' manages to open a secret passage. The party members occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|comment]] on this.
** At one point, whenn the party splits up, [[Iron Butt Monkey|Lowell]] runs into a dead end, and tries kicking a wall... and for his trouble, only a single piece of the wall comes out... [[Groin Attack|straight into his crotch]]. [[Funny Moments|His face is priceless]].
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'''Bender:''' His legend lives on. }}
* Nicole of ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' punches a hole in a door when Gumball keeps giving excuses not to bring a rented DVD back to a store.
* On ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', Stan spends an episode plowing his face into the wall every time someone says something he doesn't want to hear. This goes on until he puts his forehead straight into a stud.
 
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