Trampled Underfoot: Difference between revisions

 

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* 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.

 

== 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.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Terminator]]''

** The Terminators and HKs step on human skeletons in the first and second movies.

 

== 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.

{{quote|And the next that I remember was a hurricane of squeals,

And the creature making toothpicks of my five-foot patent wheels.}}

* 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!"

 

== 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.

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

 

== 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.

* 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/Recap/S2/E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]" in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. Fluttershy spots a desert rabbit in their path and screeches to a halt. The glower Rainbow Dash gives her implies they might've jumped over the bunny—or just kept going.

 

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