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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Part of the way a Stoutland's death in S M 021 is shown is its furniture breaking apart.
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* In ''[[Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy The WolfDen]]'', Menander makes a beautiful lamp for Amara as a Saturnalia gift. She attempts to give it back but drops it, shattering it to bits. This symbolizes the breaking of their relationship.
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* In ''[[Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy The WolfDen]]'', Wolf Den]]'', Menander makes a beautiful lamp for Amara as a Saturnalia gift. She attempts to give it back but drops it, shattering it to bits. This symbolizes the breaking of their relationship.
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* Lampshaded in ''Theatre/CriticsChoice'' by Creator/IraLevin:
-->'''Parker:''' ''[Shakes the watch, listens]'' I broke the spring... ''[Looks at Ivy, she looks at him.]'' Symbolism... I cannot stand symbolism! ''[He hurls the watch across the room.]''\\
'''Ivy:''' Parker!\\
'''Parker:''' Don't worry, it's just the old watch my father gave me on his deathbed... ''[Ivy retrieves the watch, inspects it, puts it someplace.]''
-->'''Parker:''' ''[Shakes the watch, listens]'' I broke the spring... ''[Looks at Ivy, she looks at him.]'' Symbolism... I cannot stand symbolism! ''[He hurls the watch across the room.]''\\
'''Ivy:''' Parker!\\
'''Parker:''' Don't worry, it's just the old watch my father gave me on his deathbed... ''[Ivy retrieves the watch, inspects it, puts it someplace.]''
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* ''Fanfic/ThroughTheEyesOfAnonAMiss'': One of the many rifts created by Anon-A-Miss is between Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who argue over a necklace that used to belong to the latter's late grandmother. Diamond Tiara insists that it was hers all along; when the necklace gets destroyed by one of their fights, the rift between them grows significantly worse.
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* In ''Manga/{{Nana}}'', the breaking of the strawberry glasses represents the breaking of contact [[spoiler:between Nana K and Nana O]]
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* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette", Tapper the village bartender keeps a broken picture of Smurfette on the wall of his tavern as a symbol that Smurfette's choice of marrying Papa Smurf has deeply affected him despite his initial reaction of just letting things be no matter how distasteful they may seem.
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* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette", Tapper the village bartender keeps a broken picture of Smurfette on the wall of his tavern as a symbol that Smurfette's choice of marrying Papa Smurf has even deeply affected him despite his initial reaction of just letting things be no matter how distasteful they may seem.
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* ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'': In "Vanisher", the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette", Tapper the village bartender keeps Akuma object is a broken picture of Smurfette on the wall of his tavern as a symbol brooch that Smurfette's choice of marrying Papa Smurf has even deeply affected him despite his initial reaction of just letting things be no matter symbolizes Sabrina's friendship with Chloé. In canon, Sabrina looks at it forlornly after it's destroyed; here, however, she doesn't care about it, reinforcing how distasteful they may seem.Sabrina no longer views [[AllTakeAndNoGive Chloé]] as her friend.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' has Kala the ape lead Tarzan to the treehouse where Tarzan was found as an infant. On the floor, Tarzan finds a photograph in a broken frame with cracked glass of three humans: himself as an infant, his father, and his mother. The vicious leopard Sabor had killed Tarzan's parents, leaving only himself for Kala to rescue and adopt.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'': Jacob smashes his spear over his leg to show that he's quitting the monster-hunting business, although it humorously [[FailedAttemptAtDrama fails to break]]. [[spoiler: Turns out he's got one fight left, against a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters different kind of monster.]]]] He does it again later on, this time successfully.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'': Jacob smashes his spear over his leg to show that he's quitting the monster-hunting business, although it humorously [[FailedAttemptAtDrama fails to break]]. [[spoiler: Turns [[spoiler:Turns out he's got one fight left, against a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters different kind of monster.]]]] He does it again later on, this time successfully.successfully.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' has Kala the ape lead Tarzan to the treehouse where Tarzan was found as an infant. On the floor, Tarzan finds a photograph in a broken frame with cracked glass of three humans: himself as an infant, his father, and his mother. The vicious leopard Sabor had killed Tarzan's parents, leaving only himself for Kala to rescue and adopt.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' has Kala the ape lead Tarzan to the treehouse where Tarzan was found as an infant. On the floor, Tarzan finds a photograph in a broken frame with cracked glass of three humans: himself as an infant, his father, and his mother. The vicious leopard Sabor had killed Tarzan's parents, leaving only himself for Kala to rescue and adopt.
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* In ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', the twin girls each have half of a ripped picture of their divorced parents.
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* ''Film/TheOddWayHome'': [[spoiler:After Francine's final argument with her daughter Maya, whom she hated and abused, she throws Maya's childhood doll in the fire. She plans to do the same with every picture of Maya and her father, as she [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blames Maya for "stealing" her husband by being sexually abused]].]]
* ''Film/TheOddWayHome'': [[spoiler:After Francine's final argument with her daughter Maya, whom she hated and abused, she throws Maya's childhood doll in the fire. She plans to do the same with every picture of Maya and her father, as she [[BlamingTheVictim blames Maya for "stealing" her husband by being sexually abused]].]]
* In ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', the twin girls each have half of a ripped picture of their divorced parents.
* In the climactic destruction of the title cities in ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', just as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Bera]] is crushed to death by the collapsing walls of her throne room, the sigil of the two cities, a male torso pointing upwards and a female torso pointing downwards, falls from the wall and shatters on the floor.
* In ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', the twin girls each have half of a ripped picture of their divorced parents.
* In the climactic destruction of the title cities in ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', just as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Bera]] is crushed to death by the collapsing walls of her throne room, the sigil of the two cities, a male torso pointing upwards and a female torso pointing downwards, falls from the wall and shatters on the floor.
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* Logan from ''Literature/AlmostPerfect'' has a shoebox full of mementos from his relationship with Brenda. Months after their breakup, he takes out a photo of the two of them that he used to carry in his wallet and rips it to tiny pieces.
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* In ''[[Literature/{{Safehold}} How Firm a Foundation]]'', Sailys Trahskhat's lucky baseball bat earned that status because it's the one bat that never broke during a game. When he has to go BatterUp on three armed rioters threatening to rape and murder his family, he wins the fight but his lucky bat breaks in the process. That fight was the point when Trahskhat changed from a Temple Loyalist exile to a Reformist soldier.
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* In ''[[Literature/{{Safehold}} How ''Literature/LoveAnthony'', Beth takes down every photograph that includes her philandering husband Jimmy and rips them all to tiny shreds. Her daughters are angry at her for destroying their family pictures but by that point, it's too late.
* ''[[Literature/{{Safehold}}'': In ''How Firm a Foundation]]'', Sailys Trahskhat's lucky baseball bat earned that status because it's the one bat that never broke during a game. When he has to go BatterUp on three armed rioters threatening to rape and murder his family, he wins the fight but his lucky bat breaks in the process. That fight was the point when Trahskhat changed from a Temple Loyalist exile to a Reformist soldier.
* ''[[Literature/{{Safehold}}'': In ''How Firm a Foundation]]'', Sailys Trahskhat's lucky baseball bat earned that status because it's the one bat that never broke during a game. When he has to go BatterUp on three armed rioters threatening to rape and murder his family, he wins the fight but his lucky bat breaks in the process. That fight was the point when Trahskhat changed from a Temple Loyalist exile to a Reformist soldier.
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* Logan from ''Literature/AlmostPerfect'' has a shoebox full of mementos from his relationship with Brenda. Months after their breakup, he takes out a photo of the two of them that he used to carry in his wallet and rips it to tiny pieces.
* Logan from ''Literature/AlmostPerfect'' has a shoebox full of mementos from his relationship with Brenda. Months after their breakup, he takes out a photo of the two of them that he used to carry in his wallet and rips it to tiny pieces.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Year of Hell", Captain Janeway finds her lucky coffee cup has survived the destruction of the Ready Room. Just then the Krenim attack and the cup is [[PortentOfDoom knocked off the table and smashes]]. In the same episode, [[VillainOfTheWeek Annorax]] keeps a lock of the hair of the wife he accidentally erased from time in a special container that shields it from dissipating into nothing because it can't exist in the world he created. As his vessel is destroyed, he watches helplessly as the container breaks and the hair vanishes from existence.
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* In ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie'', one of [[spoiler:Laura's glass animal figurines is broken by her "Gentleman Caller". The figure is a unicorn. Its horn breaks off, making it "just like all the other horses". It's symbolic of Laura herself, who is fragile and special and no one understands her.]]
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* In ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie'', one of [[spoiler:Laura's glass animal figurines is broken by her "Gentleman Caller". The figure is a unicorn. Its horn breaks off, making it "just like all the other horses". It's symbolic of Laura herself, who is fragile and special and no one understands her.]]her]].
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* In ''VideoGame/Halo4'', Master Chief and his rapidly-deteriorating AI Cortana work together to destroy the BigBad's starship. They succeed in the end, [[spoiler:but it takes the last of Cortana's strength to save Chief, even though he was adamant she'd be cured soon. As she vanishes, the starship is seen falling to pieces behind him, representative of his shattered worldview.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': The Doctor notices a broken picture frame of two young familiar-looking Lung girls together. You later find out that [[spoiler:they're [[{{Deuteragonist}} Ch'en]] and [[BigBad Tallulah]], and also learn that they're half-sisters]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': The Doctor notices a broken picture frame of two young familiar-looking Lung girls together. You later find out that [[spoiler:they're [[{{Deuteragonist}} Ch'en]] and [[BigBad Tallulah]], and also learn that they're half-sisters]].In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', the cracked amulet represents Armageddon: the further it's cracked, the closer it is.
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* In ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'''s chapter "Vanisher", the Akuma object is a brooch that symbolizes Sabrina's friendship with Chloé. In canon, Sabrina looks forlonly at it after it's destroyed, but here she doesn't care about it - symbolizing Sabrina stating she no longer considers Chloé her friend.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', [[spoiler:Dominator destroying a heart-shaped planet represents breaking Hater's heart.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'': Jacob smashes his spear over his leg to show that he's quitting the monster-hunting business, although it humorously [[FailedAttemptAtDrama fails to break]]. [[spoiler: Turns out he's got one fight left, against a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters different kind of monster.]]]] He does it again later on, this time successfully.
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* ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'': Emily tells Cal she wants a divorce after almost 25 years of marriage. In the very next scene their daughter accidentally breaks a photo frame that holds a picture of them. The crack is between their faces.
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* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': In episode 18, Nuriko gives Miaka a special doll, which, when a couple's names are written on the doll which is in turn buried in the ground, supposedly makes a couple's love eternal. After having written hers and Tamahome's names on it, Miaka is unnerved to see it break before her very eyes, thinking of it as a bad sign.
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* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': In episode 18, Nuriko gives Miaka a special doll, which, which according to a legend, when a couple's names are written on the doll which is in turn buried in the ground, supposedly makes a couple's love eternal. After having written hers and Tamahome's names on it, Miaka is unnerved to see it break before her very eyes, thinking of it as a bad sign.
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* In ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'', when BarbaricBully Henri is being a racist jerk to Cesare's Jewish best friend, and deriding the duo's home country of Spain for its culture influenced by Islam, saying the Spanish can't be proper Christians because of that, Cesare manipulates him into crashing into a [[PricelessMingVase conspicuously placed]] statue of the Virgin Mary, symbolizing that Henri is the one who's an insult to Christianity, not Cesare's tolerance, [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory anachronistic as it may be]] (nb: [[UsefulNotes/PopeAlexanderVI his father the Pope]] did historically allow refugees from the Inquisition into Rome, so it isn't all that far from the truth).
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* In ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'''s chapter "Vanisher", the Akuma object is a brooch that symbolizes Sabrina's friendship with Chloé. In canon, Sabrina looks forlonly at it after it's destroyed, but here she doesn't care about it - symbolizing Sabrina stating she no longer considers Chloé her friend.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Amity's mother Odalia has made her wear a necklace ever since childhood that she uses to telepathically spew emotional abuse with Oracle magic. When Amity finally stands up to her, the first thing she does is rip off and crush the necklace to show that she wont let herself be controlled anymore.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Mei breaks a picture frame of herself and Ming when Mei prepares to sneak out symbolizing the destruction of their relationship.
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* According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wand stage magicians break a wand when a magician dies]].
* Also according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funerals_in_the_United_Kingdom state funerals in the U.K.]] include a household official (such as the Lord Chamberlain), breaking a staff of office at the graveside to symbolize the end of service to the dead person.
* Also according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funerals_in_the_United_Kingdom state funerals in the U.K.]] include a household official (such as the Lord Chamberlain), breaking a staff of office at the graveside to symbolize the end of service to the dead person.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by[[UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} Jewish]] wedding tradition, in which a glass is stomped on by the groom at the end of the ceremony. Although the tradition is sometimes said to commemorate the destruction of the Second Temple, it is almost universally a joyous occasion nowadays.
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* ''Anime/Golgo13: The Professional'' has Leonard Dawson, in a fit of emotion, smash a picture of his son Robert, whose death at Golgo's hands started the plot. [[spoiler:This is because Robert arranged his own assassination, breaking Leonard's heart and leaving him with no one to take vengeance on but the assassin. Even Leonard knows it's meaningless, but he can't bring himself to stop.]]
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* In the ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheLifeAndTimesOfTheFantasmicFour'', just before she leaves Texas for university in North Carolina, Phoebe breaks the head off a toy dinosaur that her ex-boyfriend Arnold had given her in a NoodleIncident years before (later depicted in ''FanFic/TheBestChrismukkahEver'') because she's upset that their relationship is over and that she ended it despite the fact that they both still loved each other.
* In the ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheLifeAndTimesOfTheFantasmicFour'', just before she leaves Texas for university in North Carolina, Phoebe breaks the head off a toy dinosaur that her ex-boyfriend Arnold had given her in a NoodleIncident years before (later depicted in ''FanFic/TheBestChrismukkahEver'') because she's upset that their relationship is over and that she ended it despite the fact that they both still loved each other.
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** Literature/BookOfExodus: Moses spends a great amount of time in the mountains getting God's rules for the Israelites to adhere to. Bored of waiting, the Israelites creating golden idols to worship, hoping to get insight from their new pagan gods. When Moses returns bearing the two heavy stone tablets inscribed with the commandments, he is appalled to find the Israelites drunkenly celebrating their golden idol and smashes the tablets in outrage.
** Literature/TheFourGospels: When Jesus dies during his crucifixion, the veil in the Temple that separates the priests from their parishioners was torn from top to bottom, symbolizing that the priests were no longer the only ones who could pray to God.
** Literature/BookOfExodus: Moses spends a great amount of time in the mountains getting God's rules for the Israelites to adhere to. Bored of waiting, the Israelites creating golden idols to worship, hoping to get insight from their new pagan gods. When Moses returns bearing the two heavy stone tablets inscribed with the commandments, he is appalled to find the Israelites drunkenly celebrating their golden idol and smashes the tablets in outrage.
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* Literature/TheBible:
** Literature/BookOfExodus: Moses spends a great amount of time in the mountains getting God's rules for the Israelites to adhere to. Bored of waiting, the Israelites creating golden idols to worship, hoping to get insight from their new pagan gods. When Moses returns bearing the two heavy stone tablets inscribed with the commandments, he is appalled to find the Israelites drunkenly celebrating their golden idol and smashes the tablets in outrage.
** Literature/TheFourGospels: When Jesus dies during his crucifixion, the veil in the Temple that separates the priests from their parishioners was torn from top to bottom, symbolizing that the priests were no longer the only ones who could pray to God.
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* Literature/TheBible:
** Literature/BookOfExodus: Moses spends a great amount of time in the mountains getting God's rules for the Israelites to adhere to. Bored of waiting, the Israelites creating golden idols to worship, hoping to get insight from their new pagan gods. When Moses returns bearing the two heavy stone tablets inscribed with the commandments, he is appalled to find the Israelites drunkenly celebrating their golden idol and smashes the tablets in outrage.
** Literature/TheFourGospels: When Jesus dies during his crucifixion, the veil in the Temple that separates the priests from their parishioners was torn from top to bottom, symbolizing that the priests were no longer the only ones who could pray to God.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', where a framed family photo of the Forgers suddenly falls down, supposedly indicating that this fake family won't last. However, it's then revealed that the photo is unharmed, instead indicating that despite the hardships they may encounter, they'll still be together.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' after the disastrous Eden College interview, where a framed family photo of the Forgers suddenly falls down, supposedly indicating that this fake family won't last. However, it's then revealed that the photo is unharmed, instead indicating that despite the hardships they may encounter, they'll still be together. Played straight however in the anime, where among other bad omens foreshadowing them failing the interview, Yor's gold bracelet snaps.
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Frequently overlaps with LoadBearingBoss, InsigniaRipOffRitual, and WreckedWeapon. Supertrope to BreakUpBonfire and LetThePastBurn.
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Frequently overlaps with LoadBearingBoss, InsigniaRipOffRitual, WreckedWeapon, and WreckedWeapon.StabThePicture. Supertrope to BreakUpBonfire and LetThePastBurn.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', where a framed family photo of the Forgers suddenly falls down, supposedly indicating that this fake family won't last. However, it's then revealed that the photo is unharmed, instead indicating that despite the hardships they may encounter, they'll still be together.
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* Logan from ''Literature/AlmostPerfect'' has a shoebox full of mementos from his relationship with Brenda. Months after their breakup, he takes out a photo of the two of them that he used to carry in his wallet and rips it to tiny pieces.
