History Main / ReplacementPedestal

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel, like most others, looked up to Ernesto De La Cruz, and eventually believes him to be his grandfather. [[spoiler:Upon meeting him, Miguel finds out Ernesto stole all his music from Hector and also killed him, shaking Miguel's hero-worship; then Ernesto attempts to do the same to him. Soon after, he finds out Hector is his grandfather and not Ernesto De La Cruz, and the real genius who inspired Miguel's style of music, bringing him relief and leading him to look up to Hector, hoping to save him from being forgotten and also ensure that the truth comes out so that proper praise is given.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': After Lightning [=McQueen=] gets lost in Radiator Springs, his two biggest fans, Mia and Tia, leave him and start supporting Chick Hicks. [[spoiler:At the end of the three-way tie-breaker race though, they are among the audience who become disgusted by Chick totalling The King, and they move to Radiator Springs to work for Flo.]]

* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'': In the UsefulNotes/Wii version, World Circuit runner-up Super Macho Man has lots of female fans and camera flashing on him prior to Little Mac defeating him. However, after Little Mac DOES beat him and becomes world champ, the same cameramen and female fans turn their attention to ''him'' instead, leaving Macho Man envious and vengeful. [[https://punchout.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Macho_Man#Trivia His wiki page]] explains that it's possible that his fans were expecting him to mop the floor with Mac, but not so much with Mr. Sandman.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel, like most others, looked up to Ernesto De La Cruz, and eventually believes him to be his grandfather. [[spoiler:Upon meeting him, Miguel finds out Ernesto stole all his music from Hector and also killed him, making Miguel a bit uncomfortable, then Ernesto attempts to do the same to him. Soon after, he finds out Hector is his grandfather and not Ernesto De La Cruz, and the real genius who inspired Miguel’s style of music, bringing him relief and having him look up to Hector with an interest to save him from being forgotten and also ensuring that the truth comes out so that proper praise is given.]]

* In ''LightNovel/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'', Seigi experiences a BrokenPedestal for his former senior in middle school and the karate club, whom he admired as a big brother and a mentor, when it turns out his mentor hasn't turned out nearly as well as Seigi has and no longer wants to see Seigi again. However, he's already met Richard, who he's begun to latch onto as a mentor, and whom his respect for grows immensely after the resolution of the situation.

* ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'': Much like in the original game, Cloud looked up to Sephiroth and strive to become SOLDIER and fight alongside him only for this to change when Sephiroth destroys his village. Eventually he finds a new idol in Cid Highwind, though Tifa feels that Cloud is bad at picking his role models.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Washouts", Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo have a falling-out when Dash tries to warn her number one fan against joining the titular stunt team. Then Lightning Dust, the Washouts' leader, tries to push Scootaloo into performing a dangerous, untested stunt after Scootaloo starts having second thoughts. When Dash saves her, it reaffirms her hero worship.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]" features a "one pedestal breaks as another is rebuilt" version. The boys fawn over the hero of their favorite TV show, ''Courage of the Cosmos.'' Launchpad butts heads with him and the boys (who normally have some respect for Launchpad's heroic side) turn on him, claiming that [[YoureJustJealous he's just jealous]]. Unfortunately, the group gets into an actual space adventure. When Major Courage shows himself to be a coward and Launchpad saves the day, the boys chew Courage out and return to respecting the pilot.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel, like most others, looked up to Ernesto De La Cruz, and eventually believes him to be his grandfather. [[spoiler:Upon meeting him, Miguel finds out Ernesto stole all his music from Hector and also killed him, making Miguel a bit uncomfortable, then Ernesto attempts to do the same to him. Soon after, he finds out Hector is his grandfather and not Ernesto De La Cruz bringing him relief and having him look up to Hector with an interest to save him from being forgotten and also ensuring that the truth comes out so that proper praise is given.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Washouts", Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo have a falling-out when Dash tries to warn her number one fan against joining the titular stunt team. Then Lightning Dust, the Washouts' leader, tries to push Scootaloo into performing a dangerous, untested stunt after Scootaloo starts having second thoughts. When Dash saves her, it reaffirms her hero worship, turning this into a RebuiltPedestal.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Launchpad [=McQuack=] is set up as worshipping the in-universe ''Darkwing Duck'' tv show throughout Season 1 and 2. In "The Duck Knight Returns", Launchpad is recruited by Jim Sterling, the washed-up actor who played Darkwing, to get him into the reboot film. But as Sterling's plans get more and more morally dubious and Launchpad bonds with the actor cast as Darkwing in the reboot, Launchpad realizes that Sterling is not living up to the values of the real Darkwing Duck. In the end, he sees the young actor [[spoiler: Drake Mallard]] as more befitting the role, and encourages him to consider taking up the mantle for real. [[spoiler: He does!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Launchpad McQuack is set up as worshipping the in-universe ''Darkwing Duck'' tv show throughout Season 1 and 2. In "The Duck Knight Returns", Launchpad is recruited by Jim Sterling, the washed-up actor who played Darkwing, to get him into the reboot film. But as Sterling's plans get more and more morally dubious and Launchpad bonds with the actor cast as Darkwing in the reboot, Launchpad realizes that Sterling is not living up to the values of the real Darkwing Duck. In the end, he sees the young actor [[spoiler: Drake Mallard]] as more befitting the role, and encourages him to consider taking up the mantle for real. [[spoiler: He does!]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Washouts", Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo have a falling-out when Dash tries to warn her number one fan against joining the titular stunt team. Then Lightning Dust, the Washouts' leader, tries to push Scootaloo into performing a dangerous, untested stunt after Scootaloo starts having second thoughts. When Dash saves her, it reaffirms her hero worship.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': After Lightning [=McQueen=] gets lost in Radiator Springs, his two biggest fans, Mia and Tia, leave him and start supporting Chick Hicks. [[spoiler:At the end of the three way tie breaker race though, they are among the audience who become disgusted by Chick totalling The King, and they move to Radiator Springs to work for Flo.]]

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In an extremely negative version of this trope, Lorgar of the Word Bearers legion only ever sought to uplift humanity through belief in the divine. His father the Emperor of Mankind was such a mighty warrior, brilliant scientist and overall unparalleled example of humanity's full potential that Lorgar sought to shower respect unto him akin to gods of old. Unfortunately, this clashed with the Emperor's desire for a completely secular Imperium and he not only rejected Lorgar's attempts, he also had the Ultramarines burn the Word Bearers' capital city to the ground and [[KickTheDog forced them to kneel in the ashes and ruins while he chastised him]]. Tragically for ''everyone'', Lorgar then found new gods to worship: the four Chaos Gods who welcomed his worship. [[note]] Ironically, the Emperor's reason for wanting to create a secular Imperium was in order to ''[[GodsNeedPrayerBadly starve]]'' the Chaos Gods, but his rejection of Lorgar led to them becoming more powerful than ever.[[/note]]

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Compare ReplacementGoldfish. Contrast RebuiltPedestal, when the character starts looking up to their former hero again. Some versions might play with this and RebuiltPedestal by having one pedestal rebuilt just as another is dashed.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Monster Kid makes it clear that he looks up to Undyne heavily and wishes to fight alongside her. However, in the neutral and pacifist route, he is torn between siding Undyne or a human he befriended. If the human saves him from falling, then when talked to later, he will say that he sees Undyne as actually being mean and not worth looking up to along with finding somebody new to admire in Papyrus.