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* ''{{VideoGame/Darksiders}}'' has many destroyable objects. Unlike many games, they don't actually respawn after leaving the area, which makes completing one of the trophies difficult. (There is one area where they do in the UsefulNotes/XBox360 version, but not the UsefulNotes/{{PS3}} version.)

** ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeWii'', as well as is UsefulNotes/XBox360 and UsefulNotes/{{PS3}} ports, avoids the exploding furniture, but otherwise plays the trope straight, as most bits of scenery can be destroyed with enough firepower.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Beetlejuice}}'' game for UsefulNotes/GameBoy requires the title character to defeat haunted laundry, furniture, and other household objects.

* In ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'', various crates not only drop health but in the UsefulNotes/{{XBox 360}} version you can also get an achievement for destroying a large amount of them.

* Also infamous for destructibles is ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}} II'', where a broken crate could drop money, items, or even spawn an enemy.

* All harmless animals in Creator/BlizzardEntertainment games may be attacked and killed. ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'' brought this to new heights when one could repeatedly click on a critter and have the critter ''explode'' in a bloody mess.

* The video game based on the live-action ''{{Transformers}}'' movie allows you to destroy just about anything. In many cases, there will be pieces remaining that you can pick up, carry around, throw, and sometimes even wield as weapons.

* In the ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' [[ChristmasEpisode Holiday Special 2018]], here's a moment of [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash's Charizard]] vs his training dummies:

* Destroying these things in ''VideoGame/SiN's'' early missions causes J.C. to state that it isn't a shooting gallery.

* Let's not forget ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''. The soda machines spit out cans that can then be shot. In the original game, there is a scene where you are on an elevator with [[TheElevatorFromIpanema muzak playing]]. If you shoot the speaker, [[BreakingTheFourthWall Max says "Thank You"]].

* Played straight in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' prequel ''VideoGame/{{Koudelka}}'', where a few of the random encounters are against possessed sets of chairs and tables.

*** The crown has to go to the Blizzard spell, though. It's got a massive effect radius, throws things around like nobody's business, and as a bonus, its damage rate is low enough that nearby allies won't turn hostile. Not only can you WreakHavok with it, you can get a few skill points at the same time!

* In the ''VideoGame/XCom'' series, leveling fences, objects, and walls (or entire buildings) can be an important tactic since it [[TakeCover denies cover to the enemy]] and in the old Creator/MicroProse games, often raises a smokescreen (which admittedly can also benefit the enemy). Entire farms and orchards (or a suburban neighbourhood) can be destroyed with impunity, and indeed may just be the end result of being liberal with the [[{{BFG}} Blaster Launcher]], while the main use of High Explosive packs is to kill or injure a weak alien on the other side of a wall. In the [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown Firaxis]] [[VideoGame/XCOM2continuity]], explosives and other cover-destroying actions are good for creating sightlines for Squadsight snipers and access routes.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' issues Gordon Freeman's [[WeaponOfChoice iconic crowbar]] for dealing with breakable objects. Almost the entire game is littered with large, breakable crate-like boxes, which often contain cool stuff such as ammo and health powerups.

* In ''Burning Fight'', all {{Bonus Stage}}s are based on this type of vandalism, and the streets also have the occasional vending machines, oil barrels, and [[CrateExpectations wooden crates]] that can be trashed.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has several types of breakable items scattered inside various Palaces. From common vases to piggy banks to mechanical brain jars to daruma dolls. Most of them either contained VendorTrash, materials, healing items, or nothing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Injustice}}'' takes this two ways. Depending on the physical strength of the character, the player can use parts of a certain stage as weapons against the opponent, with chairs being options, depending on the stage. Stronger ones can use statues, dumpsters, and even cars. The more passive incarnation of this trope shows up if characters hit the ground with enough force that the damage spreads to the background. At the end of each fight, the player will get an XP bonus if objects were used as weapons or if the stage was substantially damaged.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' combines this with WreakingHavok. Smash tables, chairs, some trees, stuff like that.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' and all of its sequels include this trope to the penultimate level: if it is clearly not a fixed portion of the scenery, it can and indeed must be destroyed to get at the precious in-game currency; which is supposed to be crystallized ''demon's blood''. Sometimes the destructible object is even part of the scenery ([=DMC4=] took this idea and ran with it), which leads to the few cases of a destructible object ''not'' having currency in it being quite jarring.