Scale-Model Destruction: Difference between revisions

 

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* A comedic example in a ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' strip: Prunelle is busy presenting a model of a future office building for editions Dupuis to De Mesmaeker, wanting the businessman to invest in the project. Then comes an overexcited Gaston, eager to show a gift send by some of his fans: a miniature of the [[Xenophone|Gaffophone]]. Sure enough, on the first note played, the building model immediately crumbles.

* ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'': "[[Tintin/Recap/The Calculus Affair|The Calculus Affair]]" shows Calculus' ultrasound device used on a model of New York.

 

* In ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'', Egg Stork (played by [[Bobcat Goldthwait]]) gets trapped in a Godzilla costume and rampages over a real-estate developer's model, complete with the cheesy electrical arcs found in the old monster movies.

* ''[[Beetlejuice]]'' had a model town, though it only sustained moderate damage.

* [[Lex Luthor]]'s model town in ''[[Superman Returns]]'' He didn't actually build it, and is unmoved by having it destroyed. A minor key in his dickishness.

 

* ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Lilo and Stitch]]'': Stitch makes a scale model of San Francisco in Lilo's room... then thrashes it in a miniature [[Kaiju]] rampage.

{{quote|'''Lilo:''' No more caffeine for you.}}

* Frollo destroys Quasimodo's model of Paris near the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. As he does so, he takes a wooden figure of Esmeralda, and throws it, [[Rule of Symbolism|knocking over a wooden figure of himself in the process]].

 

* ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'' has an [[In-Universe]] example; the ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' parody made by some of its characters involves a detailed scale model of Ankh-Morpork, which is burned during the climactic scene.

* In the book ''Emperor Mage'' by [[Tamora Pierce]], Emperor Ozorne creates an illusory scale model of Tortall mage Numair only to destroy it.

* In ''Monster Makers, Inc.'' by Laurence Yep, the protagonist works for a company that custom-makes genetically-engineered lifeforms. Their demonstration model is a foot-high replica of Godzilla that's been trained to trash a scale model of Tokyo on command.

 

* In an episode of ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]],'' Hal and Dewey buy an inordinate amount of legos and other building blocks and create a huge model city inside their living room, complete with lights strung about. The mom comes in and accidentally destroys everything, stumbling about in slow-motion and howling like Godzilla.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', although interestingly they intended to avert this until Olmos... improvised, not knowing that the ship model was on loan from a ''museum''.

* In an episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', Joel builds a scale model of Monticello out of toothpicks. Then he allows Tom And Crow to destroy it, since he knows that's what they'll do the moment he turns his back, anyway.

* In ''[[The Middle]]'' Brick tells his mom he needs to make a project of the capitol building. He makes one out of sugar cubes, then promptly destroys it and tells his mom that was just for fun, and he needed a pyramid instead.

 

 

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Mr. Burns's model of Springfield, as he stomps over it like Godzilla in his "cartoonish [[Super Villain|supervillainy]]".

{{quote|[[Take That]], Bowlorama! Take that, convenience mart! Take that, nuclear power plant...oh, fiddlesticks.}}