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Compare [[Monumental Damage]], [[Smash the Symbol]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', Kamina's statue in Kamina City was pulled down when the people revolted.
* ''[[El Hazard]]'': After infiltrating the Buggrom citadel, and rescuing Fatora, Makoto and the others make their escape. During which, he asks [[Dark
== Comic Books ==
* In the "Day of Chaos" storyline in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', the colossal Statue of Judgement (which symbolically dwarfs the Statue of Liberty in the series) is toppled by the forces attacking Mega-City One. It's not just symbolic in this case--the statue was the headquarters of the Judges' surveillance and electronic tracking activities and its destruction creates many blind spots in the city.
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]: The Black Dossier'' shows a statue of [[Nineteen Eighty
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', orcs defaced a monument to a king of Gondor when they took Ithilien. They broke the head of the king off and put there a boulder with Sauron's eye instead, and wrote some [[Cluster F
* The sonnet ''Ozymandias'' ([[Trope Namer]] for [[Look On My Works Ye Mighty and Despair]]) centers on this concept, a destroyed statue laying in the middle of buried ruins containing an inscription of the great wonders the king built.
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