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{{quote|'''Natalya Simonova:''' Do you destroy every vehicle you get into?
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{{quote|'''Drew:''' Things you can say to describe your boat, but not your girlfriend.
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Then there's [[Falling Chandelier of Doom|chandeliers]], which like rules, are made to be broken.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The windmill in ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''.
* The windmill in ''[[Van Helsing]]''. Unusually, this windmill exploded spectacularly in the film's opening scene.
* ''The Seeker: [[The Dark Is Rising]]'', when a bunch of windmills fall victim to Will's hissy-fit.
* Pretty much any windmill in any action movie (an alternative name suggested for this trope was "Burn Windmill Burn"). Oddly enough, the more techy modern windmills that make up wind farms tend not to get burned down, although they're so new there probably isn't a trope for them yet.
** In ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible]] 3'', a modern windmill gets blown up by a guided missile. It's as close to burned down as makes no difference.
** These tend to undergo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA catastrophic failure].
*** As also seen in an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the fifth season of ''[[24]]'', a plot was hatched involving the natural gas... factory. Thing. The [[Genre Savvy]] audience members immediately knew that this building was doomed to a swift and fiery death.
* ''[[Lost]]'' had an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] imploding (but still producing an enormous blast), and both a DHARMA station and a submarine blowing up (all three with John Locke's involvement, but the first wasn't intentional).
* The entire town of Sunnydale California on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** Don't forget Sunnydale High. Also Buffy often alludes to burning the gym down at her previous school, which went on her permanent record.
* On ''[[Top Gear]]'', any caravan or Morris Marina. Guaranteed.
** Subverted hard with the now memetic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk Toyota Hilux.] That truck makes Rasputin look like a pansy for dying so easy.
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* Planets visited by Samus in the side-scrolling ''[[Metroid]]'' series have a tendency to explode. By the end of the fourth game, ''all'' of the places she'd gone to had been taken out (discounting those from the 3D ''Prime'' series).
* Anything and everything that resembles a tower in ''[[Split Second]]''. That airport control tower? BOOM! That [[wikipedia:Space Needle|Space Needle]] rip-off? BOOM! That crane? BOOM! ... And so on. They'll almost always end up on top of several cars.
* In the history of war games no landing boat has ever made it to shore, they will be destroyed after which point the player will in a cut scene flail around helplessly for a few moments before remembering he can swim.
* [[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet]] has a problem with destroying spaceships for no discernible reason. He's [[Ace Pilot|capable of handling them just fine in a dogfight]], and they don't seem to have mechanical malfunctions, but even [[Word of God|Insomniac themselves]] have admitted that ''they don't know'' why he crashed that first one. And considering half of the game's fun comes from [[Stuff Blowing Up]], it's not surprising he and his [[Robot Buddy]] Clank have left more than a few places in worse shape than they found them.
* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' is full of this. Even if the troops or Infected don't trash Alex's ride, it's not like he's going to use it again, and he can survive any impact, so might as well park it the hard way.
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