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{{trope}}
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A character is so mean, evil or determined that ''nothing'' stands in their way.
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* Framed photo with breakable glass
This scenario is also commonplace in cartoons involving [[Mouse World|mice]], [[Incredible Shrinking Man]] scenarios, or normal-size humans who have to deal with [[Attack of the 50
Named after (but has absolutely nothing to do with) a song by [[Led Zeppelin]].
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* In ''[[Blue Submarine No.
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* In ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6|Blue Sub #6]]'', an enemy machine crushes a human skull while it walks.
* Happens to Team Rocket at the hands (or feet) of the main heroes at the end of episode 4 of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', when X (Howard X Miller in the dub) prepares to duel [[The Hero|Judai]], he walks over to a flower and steps on it, after comparing it to a child and remarking that he enjoys cutting down children's potential and dreams.
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== Comic Books ==
* Averted hard in ''[[Tintin|Flight 714]]'', where Rastapopoulos boasts that he will crush Tintin as he crushes "this insignificant spider!" The spider then manages to elude at least five of his attempts to step on it, reducing Rastapopoulos to incoherent rage ("'''FDJRK'''").
* Used to great effect in the [[Justice League]] storyline Rock of Ages. In a [[Bad Future]] where the Earth is a desolate and corrupt wasteland, Darkseid tramples a lone flower. He didn't just care he stepped on it, he ''went out of his way'' to do it.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Terminator]]''
** The Terminators and HKs step on human skeletons in the first and second movies.
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* [[The Mummy Trilogy]]: In ''The Mummy'', there's a bit where a group of characters are running away from the titular mummy and one glasses-wearing treasure hunter falls over, and his [[Blind Without'Em|glasses fall off]]. The weasely backstabbing guy (who we've already seen selling out [[The Hero]] to almost certain death in the first scene) not only leaves him on the floor, but stomps and smashes the glasses. You get a view of the treasure hunter's dismay as he hears them crunch.
** Downplayed a little in that said weasely backstabbing guy ''probably'' didn't do it on purpose, seeing as he was rather too preoccupied with fleeing in terror for anything clever like making sure there was a decoy behind him.
* In [[The Remake|the 1998 remake]] of ''[[Godzilla]]'' (or something people want you to ''[[Fanon Discontinuity|think]]'' was Godzilla [[In Name Only|but wasn't)]], this scene is subverted as the intrepid cameraman stands in the center of the street to film 'zilla. We see the great reptile's foot come down ... but when it moves on, the cameraman is right there, alive and unharmed;<ref>apparently, upon the foot landing, the cameraman was inbetween its toes</ref>
** Lucky for him, that version of the Big G had splayed toes...
* In the original ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', our heroes nearly get stepped on by Sharptooth, as they were unknowingly sleeping in one of his footprints.
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** Scar causes Mufasa's death in ''[[The Lion King]]'' by dropping him into a stampeding herd of wildebeest and then blaming Simba for it.
** There's also ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', in which {{spoiler|Faciler kills Ray by stepping on him, although death wasn't instant.}}
** In ''[[Tarzan]]'', a dare by Terk causes Tarzan to accidentally cause an elephant stampede, which results in one of the baby gorillas nearly getting trampled if not for Kerchak.
* In the ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' remake, Hades effectively invokes this trope on a deity's scale when he turns into a fireball and heads back to the Underworld ... and demolishes the ship of Perseus's adoptive family in the process, merely because it was in his way.
* ''[[Anastasia]]'' shows Rasputin stepping over a drinking glass that a guest at the ball had dropped as he makes his evil [[Power Walk]] through the crowd. Given a nice [[Call Back]] later during Anastasia's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] the end of the film, when {{spoiler|she destroys his [[Soul Jar|reliquary]] by stepping on it multiple times, [[And This Is For|dedicating the blows]] to her family, Dimitri, and to Rasputin himself--"''Da svidanya!"''}}
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== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Radio]], one of the all-time classics: The first mention we ever get of Mr. Hyde in ''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde'' is a story of how he callously knocked down and trampled a little girl he passed in the street.
* In ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]'', Mowgli finally manages to kill his [[Smug Snake]] nemesis, Shere Khan the tiger, by causing a large buffalo herd to stampede over him.
* ''Municipal'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] describes an encounter with a mad elephant...
* Lily Weatherwax in ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'' transformed some coachmen into beetles for failing her, then trod on them. Later, {{spoiler|the zombified Baron Saturday does the same thing to the Duc, when Lily's magic is withdrawn and he reverts to frog form.}}▼
{{quote|And the next that I remember was a hurricane of squeals,
And the creature making toothpicks of my five-foot patent wheels.}}
== Live Action TV ==▼
▲* Lily Weatherwax in ''[[
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Stilton Jarlsberg, when Ho finally arrives at CheesyUniverse, a stampede of rats is there to "greet" him.
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|episode "A Very Supernatural Christmas"]]'', Sam and Dean are caught by two pagan god who ritually kill people around Christmas time. Their ritual is interrupted by a neighbour bringing fruitcake. After the neighbour leaves, the husband god just drops the cake, and ominously steps on it while going back to the brothers {{spoiler|who had escaped}}.
* In ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'', this happens to a biker during the mayhem he himself caused (by ripping off a female dancer's top) in "Lady And The Trampled" and a jealous cheerleader captain who "accidentally" let the new girl on the team fall (only for the bitchy cheerleader to get run down by the entire football team as they charge out onto the field) in "Pam-Caked!"
== Truth In Television ==▼
* The Mob Effect, of people getting caught up in an adrenaline-fueled moment, is responsible for some unfortunate real life trampling deaths. ▼
** Wal-Mart, 2009, Black Friday: A crowd of shoppers takes "doorbuster" literally and tramples to death the temp working security as he opens the door. ▼
** Air Jordans [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/video/shoppers-trampled-for-air-jordan-sneakers-15222530 cause shoppers to mob and trample]. ▼
== Video Games ==
* The kidnapping of Billie and Teko from the [[John Woo]] game ''Stranglehold'' is underscored by one of the Russian mob dudes knocking a picture of them to the floor and treading upon it as they drag the two off.
* The intro movie from ''[[Battlefield 1942]]'' does it with a tank flattening a helmet.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Digger]]'' [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=66 combines this] with a [[Footnote Fever|footnote]] on the difficulty of properly conveying it in a webcomic.
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== Web Original ==
* Lauren crushes Bill Cowan's family photographs underfoot in ''[[Kate Modern]]: The Last Work'', although that had more to do with mean-spiritedness than badassery.
* Dr. Horrible has an [[Imagine Spot]] wherein Captain Hammer is the trample victim, in Act II of ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Chaotic]]'' shows the bad guys' mount trampling flowers.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has a coach that implies he'd do this to his grade school age charges.
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* In ''Transformers: [[Beast Wars]]'' Rampage runs over a butterfly when the Predacons were {{spoiler|entering the valley that spawned the ancestors of humankind}}, in what is a reference to either the original [[Butterfly of Doom]], or how easily they Predacons could {{spoiler|kill the proto-humans}}.
* In ''[[Justice League]]'', the Thanagarian's little powerpoint of the Gordanians has a close-up of their armies trampling a skull.
* In the ''second'' appearance of Azula, Mai and Ty Lee, their tank crushes a flower in a grassy meadow as they chase the Gaang in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
* In ''G.I.Joe: the Movie'', Lady Jaye trips and falls down and several of her teammates just run by her. Fortunately, Flint stops and picks her up.
* In a ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' scene reminiscent of the one from ''Flight 714'', Mr. Burns threatens to crush someone "like a bug, I tell you, like a BUG!" and then proves too feeble to crush an ant. He steps on it, but it walks away unharmed.
* Defied in the episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
▲== Truth In Television ==
▲* The Mob Effect, of people getting caught up in an adrenaline-
▲** Wal-Mart, 2009, Black Friday: A crowd of shoppers takes "doorbuster" literally and tramples to death the temp working security as he opens the door.
▲** Air Jordans [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/video/shoppers-trampled-for-air-jordan-sneakers-15222530 cause shoppers to mob and trample].
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