History Main / BrickBreak

* An episode of {{Pokemon}} featured a contest where Croagunks had to break several bricks in order to proceed, using the [[TropeNamer Brick Break]] technique mentioned below. Brock's Croagunk managed to break all of them. Meowth, disguised as a Croagunk, only managed to break his hand.

* One microgame in the first ''WarioWare'' game involved this in its basic level.

* JackieChanAdventures: Jade signs Jackie up for this during a martial arts tournament. When he protests, she points out his motto: "The greatest victory is the battle not fought. Thought you liked to ''avoid'' hand-to-hand combat?".

* In '''DoctorSlump'', there's a scene where Suppaman tries to convince Arale that he's impressive by setting up a stack of five clay tiles and breaking three of them with a punch (And boasting about it afterward while holding is sore fist). Arale responds by [[WidgetSeries casually punching the Earth and cracking it in half]].

** Also, Mr. Satan breaks a stack of tiles to show how powerful he is. (Cell was not impressed.)
*** Also a slight subversion, as he always, without fail, breaks all but ONE brick.
* In {{DoctorSlump}}, there's a scene where Supaman tries to convince Arale that he's impressive by setting up a stack of five clay tiles and breaking three of them with a punch (And boasting about it afterward while holding is sore fist). Arale responds by casually punching the earth and cracking it in half.

* Sort-of present in the bonus rounds in ''StreetFighter II'' (and ''Super Street Fighter IV''), where you destroy things like cars for more points.

** The [=HM=] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rock Smash]] would probably count as well.

* The [=HM=] [{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rock Smash]] would probably count as well.

Has nothing to do with [[{{LEGO}} LEGO Bricks]]. A FlyingBrick presents somewhat more of a challenge.

* Played with in an episode of ''{{WWE}} Raw'', where to either build him up or get people to mock him more, Eric Bischoff claimed to be an "eighth-degree black belt". He then proceeded to break things with his bare hands and feet, though this troper is certain the harder ones were fake.

* In the parodic 60s ''Casino Royale'', JamesBond is introduced to an agent who breaks a cinderblock with a karate chop... and accidentally knocks himself out saluting Bond.
* ''Karate Kid 2'' features this with a number (6 to 10) sheets of ice. Of course, only the Karate Kid can do it.

* In {{Sidekicks}}, Mr. Lee breaks 10 bricks in the tournament. Barry then breaks nine bricks, which are on fire, for the tiebreaker.

* In KungPow, The ChosenOne proves his strength with one-and no-handed pushups, and punching a board. He starts the punch, stops just in front of the board, pokes it with his finger, and... it explodes, sending the two people behind it flying.
* Happens in at ''Bloodsport'', where van Damme hits a pile of bricks and smashes the ''lowest'' one. His sidekick breaks one brick in two with a simple punch, then another one on his forehead.

* Danica in the R.A. Salvatore series could do this to chunks of rock, being a DungeonsAndDragons monk. Eventually she also tried to do it with her [[HardHead head]], which was considered suicidal until she succeeded.

* The BonusRound in the first ''MortalKombat'' was based around breaking rocks in this manner. The "Test your Might" tests were reintroduced in ''Mortal Kombat: Deception'', but dropped thereafter. For the record, it started with wood, then went to stone, steel, ruby and finally diamond.
* Sort-of present in the bonus rounds in ''StreetFighter II'', where you destroy things like cars for more points.

* The first ''ArtOfFighting'' had one minigame where you broke several sheets of ice, and another where you karate-chopped the necks off of beer bottles.
* One of the bonus minigames in ''KirbySuperStar'' has Kirby and his opponent breaking large piles of bricks. Do well enough and you'll crack the planet itself.

TruthInTelevision: practically everyone who has taken karate classes as a kid will have to do this. They also do this at tournaments, often with cement blocks instead of wood.

* The BonusRound in the first ''MortalKombat'' was based around breaking rocks in this manner. The "Test your Might" tests were reintroduced in ''Mortal Kombat: Deception'', but dropped thereafter.

* TropeNamer: BrickBreak is a fighting-type move in ''{{Pokemon}}'', which, besides being a fairly powerful fighting-type move that is learnable by many Mons, it can be used to break [[DeflectorShields Reflect]] and [[DeflectorShields Light Screen]], moves which halve physical and special damage when active. The lateest games also feature a brick breaking minigame in the pokeathelons

* Kim Kaphwan breaks several boards while they're in the air in one of his ''CapcomVsSNK 2'' intros. Well, that's with his feet, though, I guess...

* In {{Sidekicks}}, Mr. Lee breaks bricks in the tournament. Barry then goes on to breaks nine bricks, which are on fire, for the tiebreaker.

* JackieChanAdventures: Jade signs Jackie up for this during a martial arts tournament. When he protests, she points out that his motto: "The greatest victory is the battle not fought. Thought you liked to ''avoid'' hand-to-hand combat?".

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* Bill Cosby has a routine about a Karate instructor whose advice was "Don't think about the surface of the brick, you think ''through'' the brick." Unfortunately, the brick was thinking "No you won't". He now only picks on things like jello.

* Happens in at least one JeanClaudeVanDamme film, where van Damme hits a pile of bricks and smashes the ''lowest'' one. His sidekick breaks one brick in two with a simple punch, then another one on his forehead.