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== [[Film]] ==
* Parodied in the film version of ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Prisoner of Azkaban''. The fat lady tries to sing high enough to break a glass, when she fails, she just shatters it against her frame:
{{quote|'''Fat Lady:''' It's amazing! And just with my voice!}}
* In ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', Julie Andrews' character does this with the high note at the end of her stage act (her voice also pops a champagne cork).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' has a scene where Ms. Martin tries to give London singing lessons. They start with the simple "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do", but once London reaches the last Do, the note shatters a glass on the table in front of them.
* ''[[iCarly]]'': There's a video where a girl sings a note so high it shatters one of her mom's really good glasses.
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "The Stolen Musicians", Cilla Black's voice can not only shatter glass, it can bring down an entire building.
* One time on ''[[Get Smart]]'' [[Da Chief]] went undercover as a singing waiter and used his ability to shatter glass with a high D to break a mook bad guy's glasses, distracting them enough to shoot the bad guy.
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* In one episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', special guest Ethel Merman shows Miss Piggy and Kermit what note you need to hit to shatter a glass.
{{quote|'''Kermit:''' Did you also double as an air-raid siren during The War?}}
** A series of newspaper comics had Piggy trying to do it herself. Her first attempt cracked the ''table''.
* [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]] in an episode of ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', where [[Mariah Carey]]'s ultrasonic voice shattered the arena's lights, made nearby dogs suffer and caused [[Jim Carrey]]'s [[Your Head Asplode|head to explode]].
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In one ''[[Making Fiends]]'' episode, Vendetta's kazoo-playing shatters a mirror.
* One ''[[Monster High]]'' webisode has [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Operetta]] breaking Ghoulia's glasses as well as the glass on the school's windows with a ''sneeze''. Cleo's screaming has also broken windows multiple times.
* In the ''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'', Harmony's playing the triangle at a pitch that makes Brainy's glasses crack in "Smurphony In 'C'", and Denisa's scream that makes the vials in Gargamel's hovel shatter in "Denisa's Greedy Doll".
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