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[[Seen It a Million Times|We've all seen this before]]. Perchance the character [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]. Maybe he's entering a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Perhaps her [[Berserk Button]] has just been pushed. Whatever the reason, one thing is certain: that glass in their hand doesn't stand a chance.
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* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Light, acting as L, "advises" Near to escape from a situation Light himself created to trap him. While smirking. Near crushes the toy in his hand at Light's brazenness in barely even trying to hide his satisfaction.
* Non-glass example in ''[[Bleach]]''. When three of Barragan's Fraccion are defeated, he crushes one of the baubles on the sides of his makeshift throne, showing that he is quite pissed.
* Roberta does this with a beer
* ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z''
** Vegeta's scouter suffers this fate in the [[Memetic Mutation|infamous]] [[Power Levels|OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAND]] scene.
** Much later, Jeice does this to his scouter after reading ''Vegeta'''s [[Power Level]].
** A much more literal example comes when Gohan and Goku return from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber having learned how to become Super Saiyans in their daily
* Geki Hyuuma crushing his communicator is a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]''.
* Shinn Asuka does this at least three times with soft drink cans in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]''.
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** In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Harry Potter]]'', Aunt Marge believes she has accidentally broken a glass by squeezing it too hard. In actual fact, Harry subconsciously made it explode. However, she does claim to have accidentally broken another glass a few days before at someone else's house.
* In ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Five Red Herrings]]'', Peter is talking to a witness/suspect while playing with a tube of paint. When the witness innocently says something important to the case, Peter accidentally bursts the tube.
* A mild variant of
* Subverted in [[Tim Powers]]'s ''The Anubis Gates'': the protagonist ''tries'' to break a beer mug in his hand to show how tough he is and intimidate his way out of an awkward situation, but discovers, to his embarrassment and onlookers' amusement, that he isn't quite strong enough.
* In ''Magic Bleeds'', [[Kate Daniels]] is on the phone with a man who tried to seduce her away from her love interest. Said interest listens to their conversation with a blank face while slowly rolling his plate into a tube. His ''metal'' plate. Kate has to explain the screeching noise as "construction". When he finally sets it down, it's been compacted into a ball an inch across.
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* In the sitcom ''Sparks'', a judge is talking about a criminal at a party, unaware that said criminal is all spruced-up and standing right next to her. The wine glass he's holding breaks when she calls him "scum".
* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' parodies this in one of their "John and Peter" sketches, where the normally hard-drinking mid-level businessmen have been reduced to operating a public restroom and sipping instant coffee out of paper cups. John, as [[Large Ham|disproportionately passionate]] about their situation as ever, keeps crushing the empty cups in his hand, leading to the prematurely crushing of one that's still full of very hot coffee.
* Near the end of the run of the original ''[[Iron Chef]]'', Chairman Kaga crushes a glass in his hand at the thought of closing his beloved Kitchen Stadium. We later see him holding a glass in his bandaged
* Happened on ''[[The Daily Show]]'', as pictured above. The trope was quickly [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]], as Jon would first break the glass, then the bottle, then a "comedically placed" aquarium.
* In an interesting [[Cut Himself Shaving]] twist, in ''[[The West Wing]]'' Josh's hand is (supposedly) cut up by a broken drink glass in the episode "Noel", when in fact he {{spoiler|smashed his hand through a window during a particularly intense reaction to his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder}}.
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