Trampled Underfoot: Difference between revisions

* Framed photo with breakable glass

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* In ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6|Blue Sub #6]]'', an enemy machine crushes a human skull while it walks.

* This is how {{spoiler|Seishuu}} dies in [[The Twelve Kingdoms]]. For worse, {{spoiler|he gets trampled by a carriage because he has been blinded recently and can't see it coming... and the dude in the carriage actually doesn't even ''bother'' with changing its path, thus running Seishuu over ''intentionally''.}}

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', many villains do this to Luffy's hat. They [[Berserk Button|really ought to know better by now.]]

== Comic Books ==

* 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.

* In a inversion, the heroes and titular lions from [[Pride of Baghdad]] use this against {{spoiler|the [[Complete Monster]] of a bear, Fajer. Fajer is probably too strong to fight and beat head-on, so the lions knock him out of the building he's been using as a cave, then scare a herd of horses into trampling Fajer. The bear's spine is snapped and he's left helpless due to this.}}

** The T-1000 steps on the T-800's Gargoyle sunglasses, crushing them underfoot.

** When the first film's Terminator parks outside another Sarah Connor's house, the truck's tire crushes a child's toy.

* ''[[Bambi Meets Godzilla]]''. {{spoiler|Bambi is on the receiving end.}}

* [[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.

** 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.

** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] later, where an accidental squashing of a grasshopper undertread is what causes Number 5 to realize that it is alive and start rebelling against his military programming.

* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] is a big user of this trope:

** In ''[[Mulan]]'', the heroine's horse Khan greets "the indestructible Mushu" by trampling the tiny dragon.

** Scar causes Mufasa's death in ''[[The Lion King]]'' by dropping him into a stampeding herd of wildebeest and then blaming Simba for it.

** 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.

* [[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.

== Live Action TV ==

== Web Comics ==

{{quote| While "crunch" fails to capture the sad, wistful sound of daisies being crushed underfoot, it's about the best we can do.}}

* 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.

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has a coach that implies he'd do this to his grade school age charges.

{{quote| If you fall, you will be trampled. If you refuse to trample, you will be trampled.}}

* 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|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.

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