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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' justifies this by having the Valley of Peace be evacuated before [[BigBad Tai Lung]] gets there. When he and Po have their throwdown in the city for the finale, no one is there, only seeing the last of the fight from a great distance in the surrounding hills.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' justifies this by having the Valley of Peace be evacuated before [[BigBad Tai Lung]] gets there. When he and Po have their throwdown in the city for the finale, no one is there, only seeing the last of the fight from a great distance in the surrounding hills.
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** Played straight in the Buu saga, where there's nothing keeping the titular Buu and Gotenks from duking it out on an empty Earth. At one point, Gotenks sends Buu flying, which results in several buildings ''also'' sent flying. [[TheComicallySerious Piccolo]] [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on it]] due to the possibility of Dragon Balls lingering around.

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** Played straight in the Buu saga, where there's nothing keeping the titular Buu and Gotenks from duking it out on an empty Earth.Earth (because Buu already killed everyone). At one point, Gotenks sends Buu flying, which results in several buildings ''also'' sent flying. [[TheComicallySerious Piccolo]] [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on it]] due to the possibility of Dragon Balls lingering around.
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* Literature/{{Animorphs}} had a tower disguised as an "office building," but which was really a kind of passageway for alien spacecraft to secretly travel from the sky to an underground base. Even though ItMakesSenseInContext, and even though the tower is conveniently empty, the Animorphs' method of destroying the tower is still something that could never have been published after September 11. (It involves deliberately crashing an airplane.)

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* Literature/{{Animorphs}} ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had a tower disguised as an "office building," but which was really a kind of passageway for alien spacecraft to secretly travel from the sky to an underground base. Even though ItMakesSenseInContext, and even though the tower is conveniently empty, the Animorphs' method of destroying the tower is still something that could never have been published after September 11. (It involves deliberately crashing an airplane.)



* Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm: {{Deconstructed}}. While the first magic-built building to [[spoiler:collapse due to completely running out of mana]] is a small tower used for storage, the possibility of the same thing happening to similar buildings that are ''not'' empty is taken extremely seriously.

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* Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm: ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': {{Deconstructed}}. While the first magic-built building to [[spoiler:collapse due to completely running out of mana]] is a small tower used for storage, the possibility of the same thing happening to similar buildings that are ''not'' empty is taken extremely seriously.
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* Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm: {{Deconstructed}}. While the first magic-built building to [[spoiler:collapse due to completely running out of mana]] is a small tower used for storage, the possibility of the same thing happening to similar buildings that are ''not'' empty is taken extremely seriously.
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* ''Fanfic/PowerRangersTakeFlight'' subverts it, as the first time the Rangers battle downtown, it's against a monster that was an apartment building...the one they lived in as civilians, no less (the villains knew where they lived thanks to having access to the [[MagicalSecurityCam Hoverbirds]]' camera feeds), and they are shown helping to evacuate it before it starts rampaging. The end result is [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the Rangers destroying their own home]]. A later battle against a demon downtown results in several buildings being destroyed, but somehow they'd all been evacuated before the battle. [[spoiler:(This was thanks to the [[HelpYourselfInTheFuture future Rangers knowing which ones were gonna get wrecked and evacuating them quietly]].)]]

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