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** Please note: '''thin aluminum can'''. Not glass.

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* The ''{{Batman}}'' arc "Prey" has Bruce Wayne break a glass when he hears Hugo Strange perfectly profile what might drive a man to become Batman on a news broadcast.
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** This troper once did it with glass. Although it was not because he was angry. ADD is to blame.
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* [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki]] does this with his cell phone in the second Kasanoda episode.
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*** Same in Dawn of Sorrow, when you fight Soma in Julius Mode.
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* Shizuo ends up doing this in vol. 5 of ''{{Durarara}}''. Since it's [[SuperStrength Shizuo]], he doesn't break a glass. Instead, he crushes a steel cup into a ball of foil. [[DoesntKnowHisOwnStrength Accidentally.]]

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* Shizuo ends up doing this in vol. 5 of ''{{Durarara}}''. Since it's [[SuperStrength Shizuo]], he doesn't break a glass. Instead, he crushes a steel cup into a ball of foil. [[DoesntKnowHisOwnStrength [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Accidentally.]]
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* Shizuo ends up doing this in vol. 5 of ''{{Durarara}}''. Since it's [[SuperStrength Shizuo]], he doesn't break a glass. Instead, he crushes a steel cup into a ball of foil. [[DoesntKnowHisOwnStrength Accidentally.]]
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* In {{Leverage}}, this happens when a Victim Of The Day starts hitting on [[NoSocialSkills Parker's]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "pretzels".]]
* During a season-2 episode of TheWestWing, Josh Lyman tells a psychiatrist repeatedly that he cut his hand like this. The psychiatrist knows he's lying, but it's only toward the end of the episode that we find out that he actually had a PTSD episode and [[PunchAWall put his hand through a window.]]
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*** I once crushed a glass accidentally. Never give your glasses to a powerlifter with a hangover.
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* ''TheScorpionKing'' does this in a similar fashion to the ''{{Watchmen}}'' example above, except the guy doing it wanted the other guy to bow rather than for any practical purpose.
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* Subverted in Tim Power's ''The Anubis Gates'': the protagonist ''tries'' to break a beer mug in his hand to show how tough he is and intimidate his way out of an awkward situation, but discovers, to his embarrassment and onlookers' amusement, that he isn't quite strong enough.

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* Subverted in Tim Power's TimPowers's ''The Anubis Gates'': the protagonist ''tries'' to break a beer mug in his hand to show how tough he is and intimidate his way out of an awkward situation, but discovers, to his embarrassment and onlookers' amusement, that he isn't quite strong enough.



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* [[JamesBond Dr No]] crushes a golden goblet with his metal hand to intimidate Bond.[[/folder]]

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* [[JamesBond Dr No]] crushes a golden goblet with his metal hand to intimidate Bond.Bond.
* In ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Lucas Lee crushes a paper cup filled with coffee after realizing that Scott beat up all his stunt doubles.
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*** I once crushed a glass accidentally. Never give your glasses to a powerlifter with a hangover.
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** Much later, Jeice does this to his scouter after reading ''Vegeta''s PowerLevel.
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* In the {{Liaden Universe}} book ''Conflict of Honors'', Shan does this when he thinks [[spoiler:Priscilla]] might be dead.
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*** In both anime and manga, when Akane has "traded" Ranma to Nabiki, she at one point hears what she thinks is Ranma entering Nabiki's room, which is right next door, and does the "listen through a glass against the wall" trick. Between the sounds she hears and her own imagination, the glass promptly shatters violently between her fingers as she sees in her mind's eye Ranma jumping a not-exactly-unwilling Nabiki for sex, whereupon Akane goes storming into Nabiki's room. [[spoiler: And gets even more pissed off when she finds out that Nabiki psyched her out; Ranma isn't there and never was there, and Nabiki was just messing with her to get her to pay Nabiki to break up with Ranma.]]
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*In the ''KnightRider'' episode "Knight of the Juggernaut", Philip Nordstrom breaks a drinking glass in his hand. Justified, in that the hand in question is cybernetic and therefore super-strong.

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* ''{{Dr.No}}'':Dr.No crushes a golden goblet with his metal hand to intimidate Bond.[[/folder]]

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* {{Dracula}} in ''{{Castlevania Symphony of the Night}}'' holds a wine glass in the prologue, which he then violently throws to the floor before he gets up off his throne to fight Richter. This was later parodied in ''{{I Wanna Be the Guy}}''.

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* {{Dracula}} in ''{{Castlevania Symphony of the Night}}'' holds a wine glass in the prologue, which he then violently throws to the floor before he gets up off his throne to fight Richter. This was later parodied [[EverythingTryingToKillYou parodied]] in ''{{I Wanna Be the Guy}}''.Guy}}''.
** It gets a ContinuityNod in Aria of Sorrow. When the possessed Soma shows up in the Bad End, he does the same pose and throws the glass before fighting Julius.
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* In ''Magic Bleeds'', KateDaniels is on the phone with a man who tried to seduce her away from her love interest. Said interest listens to their conversation with a blank face while slowly rolling his plate into a tube. His ''metal'' plate. Kate has to explain the screeching noise as "construction". When he finally sets it down, it's been compacted into a ball an inch across.
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* Poor Equius, one of the trolls in ''MSPaintAdventures'', suffers from the DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength version of this of this every time he tries to have a glass of lusus milk... or a glass of anything, really.

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* Poor Equius, one of the trolls in ''MSPaintAdventures'', ''{{Homestuck}}'', suffers from the DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength version of this of this every time he tries to have a glass of lusus milk... or a glass of anything, really.
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* Poor Equius, one of the trolls in MS Paint Adventures, is guilty of this every time he tries to have a glass of lusus milk.

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* Poor Equius, one of the trolls in MS Paint Adventures, is guilty ''MSPaintAdventures'', suffers from the DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength version of this of this every time he tries to have a glass of lusus milk.milk... or a glass of anything, really.
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* In the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' anime special "Mewtwo Returns", Giovanni did this once. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Since this is a kid's show]], no blood is shown.

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* In the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' anime special "Mewtwo Returns", Giovanni did this once. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Since this is a kid's show]], no blood is shown.

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* In ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', O'Brien is [[IHaveYourWife compelled to act normally]] at a party by a [[spoiler: pah-wraith]] [[DemonicPossession possessed]] Keiko. The stress becomes too much for him when she shows mock-affection for his daughter, and he shatters his [[INeedAFreakingDrink whiskey glass.]]

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* In ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', O'Brien is [[IHaveYourWife compelled to act normally]] at a party by a [[spoiler: pah-wraith]] [[DemonicPossession possessed]] Keiko. The stress becomes too much for him when she shows mock-affection for his daughter, and he shatters his [[INeedAFreakingDrink whiskey glass.]]glass]].
* In ''TheOuterLimits'', a man is electrocuted while holding a beer bottle, which he proceeds to crush in his hand.
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* ''{{Dr.No}}'':"Dr.No crushes a golden goblet with his metal hand to intimidate Bond.[[/folder]]

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* ''{{Dr.No}}'':"Dr.No}}'':Dr.No crushes a golden goblet with his metal hand to intimidate Bond.[[/folder]]
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* Poor Equius, one of the trolls in [[MS Paint Adventures]], is guilty of this every time he tries to have a glass of lusus milk.

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* Poor Equius, one of the trolls in [[MS MS Paint Adventures]], Adventures, is guilty of this every time he tries to have a glass of lusus milk.
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* In ''TheUsualSuspects'', after TheReveal.
* Used humorously in ''Jaws'', where (big strong tough guy) Quint crushes a beer can, and (bookish weaker guy) Hooper crushes a plastic cup in response.

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* In ''TheUsualSuspects'', after TheReveal.
* Used humorously in ''Jaws'', where (big strong tough guy) Quint crushes a beer can, and (bookish weaker guy) Hooper crushes a plastic styrofoam cup in response.



* ''{{A Raisin in the Sun}}'': Walter crushes a glass in his hand upon learning that his mother has put a down payment on a better house, rather than giving him the money to invest in a bar.

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* ''{{A Raisin in the Sun}}'': Walter crushes a glass in his hand upon learning that his mother has put a down payment on a better house, rather than giving him the money to invest in a bar.liquor store.
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* Isabella snaps a pencil when [[PhineasandFerb Phineas]] talks about failed romantic encounters in Paris, oblivious to the fact that she wanted one with him.

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