History Main / ConstructionIsAwesome

-->--''VideoGame/DoomII'' ending

* ''Franchise/StarWars''. The construction of the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Death Star.]] The construction of the [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Clone Army.]] The construction of [[WeCanRebuildHim Lord Vader.]]

Occasional parodied with people building much faster than physical possible or lacking organisation having HilarityEnsues.

* Also parodied a pair of times with [[BoomTown Boom Towns]] in ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' with people running around with half houses, a saloon owner building the saloon around the already waiting costumers, an entire city build without streets and so on.

* The book of Nehemiah in ''Literature/TheBible'' is mostly known as "that book about the Jews rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem". (Which is actually just the first half.)

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'', Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton built a new garage for Mr. Conklin in "Do-It-Yourself".

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* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', alchemy makes construction (and repairs) very easy, but cool-looking nonetheless.
** This becomes a DiscussedTrope when Winry helps deliver a baby, and Ed praises the creation of a new human life (and her help in achieving that as a midwife) as being more incredible than alchemy.

* The various stages of the creation of ''ComicBook/IronMan's'' [[PowerArmor armour]].

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* The mice and birds making Cinderella's dress in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''.
* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', in which [[spoiler:Crysta and the other fairies cause a tree to grow around Hexus, imprisoning him again.]]
* This is done with a DeconReconSwitch in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''. There are 2 major sides in the show, [[OrderVsChaos Lord Business vs Cloud Cuckooland]]. The latter is a bunch of creative builders who build awesome and nonstandard things, but their creations tend to either not last long or not working as intended. The former is a paragon of "following instructions" who doesn't tolerate any kind of deviations, but his empire's boring buildings and vehicles are practical. Emmet's journey to become a Master Builder is the reconstruction - in the end, by combining the knowledge of instructions that he has as a part of Lord Business' system with his newfound Master Builder sense, he can make awesome constructions that are also functional.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa uses her cryokinesis to build a fabulous palace out of ice, singing all the while.

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* Every time you see an underwater volcano surging from the ocean to become an island.
* There was that... huge... geological thing Lex Luthor used in ''Film/SupermanReturns''.
* Some of the stuff the protagonist uses in ''Film/{{Tron}}'' once he regains his Admin powers.
* A major theme in ''Film/TronLegacy''.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''. The construction of the [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Death Star.]] The construction of the [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Clone Army.]] The construction of [[WeCanRebuildHim Lord Vader.]]

* The construction of the various [[PoweredArmor Iron Man suits]] in [[Film/IronMan the eponymous films]] combines this trope with TechnologyPorn.

* The climax of ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'', when the Hero of Ages brings the entire Scadrial back to its former glory, undoing all the damage done before.

* The mindset of [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame your average dwarves]].
* In the lore of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4e, this is Erathis' paradigm.
* The Alchemical ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has ''becoming a'' metropolis/patropolis as their final stage of evolution. In their case, they are so Awesome, they become Construction.

* The point of virtually all city-building games. ''Pharaoh'' has you building pyramids (sometimes more than one in a single city), while providing (by ancient standards) ridiculously high living standard for your citizens.
* Some Tycoon games, i.e. ''Railroad Tycoon''.
* The primary appeal of ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' is that it lets you design, build, and fly your own spacecraft, {{space station}}s, and surface bases, including the possibility of assembling them part by part in orbit or on another planet's surface.

* ''VideoGame/ScrapMechanic'', a construction sandbox with DesignItYourselfEquipment at its core, exemplifies this trope. It's really easy for the players to create magnificent, awesome machines [[UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay that use actual physical and engineering priciples]] and [[NotTheIntendedUse utilize the game's available parts in novel ways]] to do pretty much anything one can imagine.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead'' offers many construction options, from renovating abandoned houses and fixing up broken cars to building a zombie-proof fortress or creating a Deathmobile to [[CarFu run down hordes of zombies with]].
* Being inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', this applies to both ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders2''. The latter even makes the duality of creation and destruction a major thematic element of the story.

* The point of virtually all city-building games. ''Pharaoh'' has you building pyramids (sometimes [[UpToEleven more than one]] in a single city), while providing (by ancient standards) ridiculously high living standard for your citizens.

* This trope is the core of ''Series/ScrapheapChallenge''.

* The driving force of the Adeptus Mechanicus in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.

* This is done with a DeconReconSwitch in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''. There are 2 major sides in the show, [[OrderVsChaos Lord Business vs Cloud Cuckooland]]. The latter is a bunch of creative builders who build awesome and nonstandard things, but their creations tend to either not last long or not working as intended. The former is a paragon of "following instructions" who doesn't tolerate any kind of deviations, but his empire's boring buildings and vehicles are practical. Emmet's journey to become a Master Builder here is the reconstruction - in the end, by combining the knowledge of instructions that he has as a part of Lord Business' system with his newfound Master Builder sense, he can make awesome constructions that are also functional.

-->--''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 2'' ending

* The driving force of the Adeptus Mechanicus in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''.

* One of the live-action (or made to look such in this case) trailers for ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' centered on the inside of a Misriah Armory foundry on Mars assembling distinctive UNSC weapons.

* One of the core themes of ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinotrux}}''. A group of dinosaur construction vehicle hybrids working together to accomplish feats of construction that generally end up saving the day. The climax of almost every episode features a building montage set to the show's main theme.

* In ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'', a circus is "built". During a storm. By faceless burly black dudes. And elephants. It is '''awe'''some.

* The mice and birds making Cinderella's dress in Disney's ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}''.

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', Elsa uses her cryokinesis to build a fabulous palace out of ice, singing all the while.

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