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* In ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', whenever Swiper actually manages to steal something, he doesn't even try to keep it for himself, but throws it as far as he can.

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* ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'': Miki accuses longtime TheRival Megumi of letting the air out of Miki’s bicycle tires. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Megumi denies this in public]], [[TheBully but confesses only to Miki]].

* ''Film/KungFuHustle'' has it when Sing stomps a football and says his first line: "NO MORE SOCCER!" It's a reference to the director's previous film ''Film/ShaolinSoccer''.
* Creator/KieferSutherland's character does this with the boy's baseball cap in ''Film/StandByMe''.

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* In the Grand Magic Games arc of ''Manga/FairyTail'', after Raven Tail member Kurohebi defeats Lamia Scale member Toby in their match, Kurohebi points out that the lost sock that Toby's been looking for has been around Toby's neck the whole time. Toby starts to thank Kurohebi, but Kurohebi rips it to sheds in front of it, proudly declaring that he enjoys destroying things that are precious to people. This happens to be one of the ''least'' cruel things [[WouldHurtAChild Raven Tail]] does in this arc.

* In ''Literature/ThePigman,'' thieving {{Jerkass}} Norton smashes the titular Pigman's collection of ceramic pigs, looking for valuables. John beats the crap out of him for it.

* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': This trope could almost be called "The Vyvyan", because he has this as his MO. He routinely destroys not only his housemates' possessions, and those of anyone he comes into contact with, but also ''his own.'' All just for the fun of it. Of course, if your parents had saddled you with a name like "Vyvyan"...
* ''Billy Webb's Amazing Story'' inverted this: the bike put the bully up there.

* One scene in ''Series/GrangeHill'' spinoff ''Tucker's Luck'' shows thug Passmore putting his bovver boot through the protagonists' ghetto blaster as a mindlessly destructive alternative to simply switching it off.
* ''{{Series/Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'' makes this a trait of Tom Servo and Crow, who never saw something they wouldn't smash for fun (including the satellite's ''escape pods'' that no one even knew they had). Joel in one episode [[ReversePsychology almost gets the better of them]] by claiming that he made a toothpick sculpture of Monticello specifically for them to destroy. The bots wander off because destroying something they are ''supposed to'' is no fun... then immediately rush back in and do it anyway.
** Mike had a little more luck in a later episode, when Crow sees a character in the movie they're watching pour beer on someone's motorcycle out of spite. He declares that he will pour (or rather have Mike pour, as he lacks working hands) beer on Mike's most precious possession... which turns out to be a beer stein. Mike then says that Crow is precious to him too, and Crow dutifully demands that beer be poured on his own head. As Mike happily leaves with a stein full of beer, Crow admits [[HoistByHisOwnPetard this didn't go exactly as planned]].

* In Yuuko's chapter of ''VisualNovel/EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo'', bullies do this with Yuuko's indoor shoes, hiding them on top of the lockers, which causes her to have to go around all day in her socks. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted -- Yuuko hid them up there herself to create the illusion that she was being bullied, so that she could better manipulate Yuu.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG-Yvdsgww As this video points out]], in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', if you're [[{{Determinator}} insane enough]] to [[{{Cap}} max out]] the number of key items you have so that they overflow into your inventory, you can [[ExtremeOmnivore consume]] them like most other items in the field (they do nothing). Of course, this means that you can take Goombaria's dolly, ''refuse to give it to her'', and then ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice eat it in front of her face]]''.
* ''VideoGame/FableI'': In the prologue, which has you play the Hero as a young boy and introduces the KarmaMeter, you find a girl's favourite teddy bear and can either return it or give it to her BigBrotherBully for destruction.
-->'''Bully:''' Now, Rosie, what game shall we play? "Teddy No-Legs?" What about "Burning Fur?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Bart and Nelson are with Millhouse in the park, watching him play with his remote control plane and are thoroughly bored.
--->'''Bart:''' Milhouse, this is boring. Make it crash or something.\\
'''Milhouse:''' Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale model pilot.\\
''[Nelson takes the remote and gives a more spectacular stunt... it finally ends its trip crashing on the roof of a mysterious old house]''
** Another, though this time subverted, example from the show is when Mr. Burns does this simply out of curiosity, but he's so old and decrepit that "[[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/like_taking_candy_from_a_baby taking candy from a baby]]" is not as easy as he had thought.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]'' short "Sven Hoek", Stimpy and Ren's equally [[TheDitz moronic]] cousin, Sven, are seen playing their favourite board game, [[SchmuckBait Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence]], which indeed has an actual [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin electric fence]]. When Ren comes home from work, he finds they've also, in their idiocy, destroyed his most precious belongings. In the midst of a psychotic rant [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon outlining the terrible things he has planned for them]], Ren discovers the board game, and asks tauntingly, "Do you like this game? Do you really, ''really'' like this game?" and proceeds to... well, take a whiz on it. The resulting short generates an explosion that literally blows them all straight to Hell, where the Devil cheerfully [[FingerWag admonishes them]] with "So, you whizzed on the electric fence, didn't ya?"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Angelica has kicked several of Tommy's balls into the other side of the yard with the bull dog in it.
** In "The Trial", Angelica broke Tommy's clown lamp because she thought it was ugly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', whenever Swiper actually manages to steal something, he doesn't even try to keep it for himself, but throws it as far as he can.
* Invoked by Buford in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' First, he inadvertently destroys the bounce house at the meatloaf festival because he was too big to jump on it and doing so caused it to pop. After the titular duo build a new and better one, he presents it to the children to atone for what he did only to produce a needle seconds afterwards and pop it on purpose.
* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' ''In Charm’s Way'', Kevin is depressed over the recent accident that left him covered in an amalgam of stone. While on the beach, some kids drop their volleyball near him, and he squishes it until it pops rather than give it back. The kids are upset, but after Kevin and the rest of the PowerTrio defeat an attacking alien, one GenreSavvy kid sympathetically points out that [[HorrifyingHero monstrous looking heroes like him]] are always sad and angry.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Gru's EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he gives a young boy a balloon animal... and pops it with a pin. He ''sets up'' this trope just for fun.

* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': This trope could almost be called "The Vyvyan", because he has this as his MO. He routinely destroys not only his housemates' possessions, and those of anyone he comes into contact with, but also ''[[UpToEleven his own.]]'' All just for the fun of it. Of course, if your parents had saddled you with a name like "Vyvyan"...

* ''ComicBook/Calico2020'': In Issue #1, the first {{Flashback}} to [[TheProtagonist Calico]]'s childhood introduces a childhood bully of his named Guillermito. Guillermito is introduced in his first scene by stomping down on Calico's hand, breaking his toy car underneath it.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'': Old man Nebbercracker meanly confiscates any object that lands on his lawn- but this is only a ploy to keep kids away so the house doesn't eat them. After the house is destroyed, the remnant of its foundations reveals a massive pile of toys and other junk which can be safely retrieved by their owners.

* {{Series/Mystery Science Theater 3000}} makes this a trait of Tom Servo and Crow, who never saw something they wouldn't smash for fun (including the satellite's ''escape pods'' that no one even knew they had). Joel in one episode [[ReversePsychology almost gets the better of them]] by claiming that he made a toothpick sculpture of Monticello specifically for them to destroy. The bots wander off because destroying something they are ''supposed to'' is no fun...then immediately rush back in and do it anyway.
** Mike had a little more luck in a later episode, when Crow sees a character in the movie they're watching pour beer on someone's motorcycle out of spite. He declares that he will pour (or rather have Mike pour, as he lacks working hands) beer on Mike's most precious possession...which turns out to be a beer stein. Mike then says that Crow is precious to him too, and Crow dutifully demands that beer be poured on his own head. As Mike happily leaves with a stein full of beer, Crow admits [[HoistByHisOwnPetard this didn't go exactly as planned]].

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]'' short "Sven Hoek", Stimpy and Ren's equally [[TheDitz moronic]] cousin, Sven, are seen playing their favourite board game, [[SchmuckBait Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence]], which indeed has an actual [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin electric fence]]. When Ren comes home from work, he finds they've also, in their idiocy, destroyed his most precious belongings. In the midst of a psychotic rant [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon outlining the terrible things he has planned for them]], Ren discovers the board game, and asks tauntingly, "Do you like this game? Do you really, ''really'' like this game?" and proceeds to...well, take a whiz on it. The resulting short generates an explosion that literally blows them all straight to Hell, where the Devil cheerfully [[FingerWag admonishes them]] with "So, you whizzed on the electric fence, didn't ya?"

* ''TheSimpsons'':

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/BenTenAlienForce'' ''In Charm’s Way'', Kevin is depressed over the recent accident that left him covered in an amalgam of stone. While on the beach, some kids drop their volleyball near him, and he squishes it until it pops rather than give it back. The kids are upset, but after Kevin and the rest of the PowerTrio defeat an attacking alien, one GenreSavvy kid sympathetically points out that [[HorrifyingHero monstrous looking heroes like him]] are always sad and angry.

* Kiefer Sutherland's character does this with the boy's baseball cap in ''Film/StandByMe''.

* Just after he raids an apartment for drugs in ''Film/TheProfessional'', Stansfield comes across a group of kids playing catch with a basketball. He grabs it out of mid-air, comments that "Kids should be in school," then gets into his car and drives off, taking the ball with him over their protestations.

* In ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'', a group of bikers bully a little klown who arrives on a mini-bicyle by destroying it and laughing to each other. Except [[MuggingTheMonster the klown is a actually a vampiric extra-terrestrial monster]], so he decapitates the biker in question. The rest of the gang wisely take off after that.
* Just after he raids an apartment in ''Film/TheProfessional'', Stansfield comes across a group of kids playing catch with a basketball. He grabs it out of mid-air, comments that "Kids should be in school," then gets into his car and drives off, taking the ball with him over their protestations.

* ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'': Miki accuses longtime TheRival Megumi of letting the air out of Miki’s bicycle tires. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Megumi denies this in public]], [[TheBully but confesses only to Miki]].

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', you can break a kid's toy in a small sidequest. You even get ExperiencePoints for teaching him that "life is cruel and unfair".

* ''TheSimpsons'': Bart and Nelson are with Millhouse in the park, watching him play with his remote control plane and are thoroughly bored.
-->'''Bart''': Milhouse, this is boring. Make it crash or something.
-->'''Milhouse''': Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale model pilot.
-->''Nelson takes the remote and gives a more spectacular stunt. ...it finally ends its trip crashing on the roof of a mysterious old house.''