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* [http://imgur.com/pIurC This billboard.]

 

* Portrayed very often in ''[[Ranma ½]]'', particularly when someone is [[Megaton Punch]]ed upwards to turn into [[A Twinkle in the Sky]]... while indoors. Or someone falls from high up in the sky into a house, usually leaving these holes through every floor on the way down. Ranges from [[Miniature Senior Citizens|tiny old man-shaped holes]] to holes in the shape of a winged-minotaur-with-an-eel-for-a-tail.

** Once, after falling from a bridge across two mountaintops, Ranma, Ryôga, Mousse and Genma fell to solid ground so hard as to press it into holes shaped as themselves.

* In Powerpuff Girls Z, after Princess Morbucks wiped the girls using her new hair, they crashed through the wall, leaving Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles shaped hole in the building.

* In the live-action movie of ''[[City Hunter]]'', one guy falls from a high place onto the cruise ship deck, leaving a perfect man-shaped hole.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Done a number of times in [[Don Rosa]]'s ''Uncle Scrooge'' stories "The Black Knight" and "The Black Knight Glorps Again", thanks to Arpin Lusene's suit of universal-solvent-coated armor.

 

* In ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'', the eponymous monster leaves a Were-Rabbit-shaped hole in the church window during its first rampage. What's odd is that this outline doesn't match the silhouette of the Were-Rabbit when we finally see it.

* The film ''[[Ice Age]]'' does this [[Rule of Three|thrice]] with a wall of ice, first with Sid the sloth going through and leaving his outline, then Diego the saber-tooth tiger, then Manfred the mammoth, resulting in a progressively bigger hole each time.

* In ''[[Cars]]'', Lightning McQueen leaves a himself-shaped hole in the smoke when he leaps over the wreckage in the first race.

* Happens in ''[[Puss in Boots (animation)|Puss in Boots]]'', when he crashes into a crate after swinging from a building.

* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Roger [[Window Pain|smashes through the window]] of his boss's office, leaving a Roger-shaped hole in the blinds and the glass behind them.

* Chevy Chase does this at the end of ''[[Nothing but Trouble]]'' when the villains reveal on TV they know exactly where he lives.

* Bond nearly does this towards the beginning of ''[[Casino Royale]]'', though he just smashes messily through drywall, rather than leaving a nice, neat hole.

* Toward the end of ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'', the villain Pyradonis is [[Megaton Punch]]ed by Edifis and crashes through a series of walls, leaving various funny man-shaped holes in them. Then he ends up half-imbedded in the last, in the posture of an [[Walk Like an Egyptian|Egyptian mural]].

 

== Literature ==

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel, ''[[Sixth Column (novel)|Sixth Column]]'', revolutionaries use their [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to spook the [[The Empire|occupying]] army by carving precisely man-shaped holes in the walls of the prison cells they escape from.

* Tom Holt once [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this, by stating that a robot "left a robot-shaped hole, like in a cartoon".

* In ''[[Posleen War Series|Gust Front]]'', Lt Rogers is said to leave a "vaguely human-shaped hole" in a building he deliberately ran straight through, at the battle in Washington, DC, when stopping to turn would have put the troops he was leading at a tactical disadvantage. As part of an [[Powered Armor|ACS]] unit, the building was the clear loser of the event.

* In ''[[Animorphs]]'' book #25, ''The Extreme'', the Animorphs (as Polar Bears) are being chased by Venber at the Arctic Yeerk base. Marco stops quickly and a Venber misses him, slamming through a steel door and making a vague Venber-shaped hole in it. Marco even calls it a "Bugs-Bunny-runs-through-the-door kind of hole."

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Despite the realistic nature of the show (and the rest of the episode's failure to leave anything except a realistic hole), when ''[[Warehouse 13]]'''s Claudia crashes into a copy of the B&B within the warehouse, Pete mentions that he sees a "Claudia-shaped" hole in the roof.

* Averted in [[Supernatural (TV series)|Castiel and Uriel's fight]]. While it starts with Cas punching Uriel through a wall, the hole he makes is roughly circular, not Uriel-shaped.

 

== Music Videos ==

* In [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Smooth Criminal" (''[[Moonwalker]]'' version), Michael shoots a gangster and [[Blown Across the Room|blows him across the room]] and through a brick wall, leaving a man-shaped hole.

 

 

== Puppet Shows ==

* In an episode of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', after Cookie Monster has a nightmare about cookies, Ernie shows him a plate of cookies. When he sees the plate he runs screaming out of the bedroom, leaving his outline in the door.

* In ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]'', Walter is asked to perform alongside the Muppets at the big fund-raising telethon. However, he has an attack of stage fright right before he's due to go on and runs through a brick wall, leaving his outline in it.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* One of the sample powers in the ''HERO'' system sourcebook, designed for super-strong characters, is essentially the ability to do this by smashing into the wall and crashing through. It's based off of the tunnelling power intended to let you dig through soil at superspeed—except it only works on walls.

* ''[[Paranoia]]'' adventure ''Vapors Don't Shoot Back''. During the adventure the [[PC]]s will attack an old ship. One picture shows a clone-shaped hole in the ship after a PC on a jet ski has run through it.

 

== Theme Parks ==

* [[media:ParcAsterix 6611.jpg|This picture]] from Parc [[Asterix]] alludes of such an incident.

* You actually go through [[media:Barnstormer5 6695.jpg|one]] in [[Disney Theme Parks|Goofy's Barnstormer.]]

 

== Video Games ==

* Appears in ''[[Shining Force II]]'' during an early cutscene where Jaha is knocked through the wall of the ship.

* Some of the doors in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening]]'' have a man-shaped enterance, and when entered, flip around, preventing you from entering in the other way.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Referenced in The Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Drug PSA's, when the critic mentions what he thought would happen after a PSA where a woman dives into an empty swimming pool.

{{quote|"I don't think her hair would weigh so much that it would leave an indent, but you get the idea."}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Dan Vs.]].'' Chris and Elise decide to buy a painting to cover their noodle incident Dan-shaped hole in their living room wall since they have grown tired of looking at it.

* The [[Mr. Bogus]] episode "[[Mr. Bogus/Recap/S2/E07 Bogus Private Eye|Bogus Private Eye]]" had a gag where Bogus, while wearing a ballerina tutu and leotard, attempts to stop a pair of [[Wicked Weasel]] mobsters from robbing the house, just as they were conveniently standing next to a blow dryer. One of the weasels turns on the blow dryer, sending Bogus flying through the wall, leaving behind a Bogus-shaped hole in the wall.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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