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* In ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'', Dante wrecks a bridge to defeat a demon, and has to pay for it out of the reward he got for killing the demon.

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''LightNovel/DirtyPair''. The Lovely Angels' recklessness in their cases mingles with FinaglesLaw to frequently cause the destruction of cities, if not entire planets; nevertheless, the Central Computer of their employer infallibly clears them of blame every time. Which isn't enough to keep them from being hated and feared by most of humanity.

* Justified in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': It turns out that someone actually ''does'' pay for all that property damage [[PersonOfMassDestruction Shizuo]] causes: his manager (not Tom, but another guy above both of them), who docks it from Shizuo's salary in return. Shizuo's honestly surprised that he still gets paid at all ([[UltimateJobSecurity or that he even still has a job]]).

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' generally sidesteps the issue. Organized clashes happen in single-use pocket dimensions explicitly to avoid repair costs, and even a couple of early major antagonists are willing to play by those rules. Later on, both sides of the conflict make a point of fighting in deserted areas or in other ways to limit collateral damage - the heroes do so to avoid unnecessary damage and casualties, and the villains don't want to break the {{Masquerade}} any earlier than they have to, lest their opponents go from GreatOffscreenWar-depleted remnants to seven billion strong (even gods in this setting have to worry about [[DeathOfAThousandCuts a lot of diddly]]). When significant collateral damage is explicitly caused, it's usually discussed, such as Souna agreeing to fund and manage the school's repairs in volume 4 since it was her territory, or [[spoiler:Rias deliberately refusing to reimburse the feuding vampire factions for damage Gaspar caused since they'd been acting like dicks since the word go]].

* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': Kazuma's party destroys a large portion of Axel's walls during the fight with Beldia. It's first a downplayed [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], since the town won't demand he recompense the city for ''all'' of the repairs, but he still has to fork over all 300 million Eris of the reward, as well as go 40 mil into debt. [[spoiler:It later turns into a DoubleSubversion, because the greedy landlord used a demon's powers to make everyone forget that adventurers don't have to pay for damages. The town eventually returns all of the money that was taken from him when the landlord's crimes are exposed.]]

** Averted in the anime, in "Showdown at the Poké-Corral" when Ash's herd of Tauros ram Team Rocket away and save the day while destroying a fence. Afterward, Oak makes Ash and his friends rebuild it to end the episode. Played straight in "[[Recap/PokemonS1E2PokemonEmergency Pokémon Emergency]]" wherein a massive Thundershock generated by several Pikachu ends up destroying most of the Pokémon Center, but nobody seems to get in trouble.

* Horribly messed up in ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' battles take place in barriers similar to ''X'' but the writers can't make up their mind about whether time passes normally outside the barrier or not, after the battles end, human lives are consumed to repair the collateral damage. Depends on who wins. Bad guys use human lives to repair the damage. Good guys use the bits inside "Torches" (the remnant echos of humans whose existence has been consumed by the bad guys).
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''. Though, the poor innocent villagers probably ''would'' make Lina pay for the damage... if they could catch her. Averted; in fact it's a running gag. She's basically what you get if you turn [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]] into a sorceress and take away the insurance girls. While the audience/readers and her close friend know she is a hero, her path of destruction has made her a feared villainess in her world, to the point a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist got away with arresting her with the charge of ''being Lina Inverse''. Even when she does something truly heroic and redeemable, she blows it by losing her cool and nuking the town she just saved. She rarely gets to claim her reward because it will likely be the down payment on rebuild the town from the ground up around the huge crater she just made.

* Averted in ''Manga/{{X|1999}}'', the good guys create a barrier/parallel dimension to protect the battle zones which in this case can't be considered collateral damage, tearing down the buildings is the primary objective of the bad guys. If the good guys die, the area retains the damage from the battle. Note that the good guys have an unimpressive track record for "winning". Also, it's not just "death" that dissolves the barrier. Loss of HeroicSpirit, like that endured by [[spoiler:Subaru]] still results in the damage being permanent. Also, in the manga, one holy site gets blown up without the heroes ever showing up.

* In ''Anime/SCryed'', Alter powers can't ''not'' cause damage, as they rely on the surrounding matter for both energy and mass to make the Alter forms, and the Alter Users don't have much control over what matter gets used.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Averted on at least one occasion where Edward finishes a battle that causes impressive collateral damage, only to be made to clean up after himself by irate shopkeepers. Fortunately, he lives in a setting where powers are as good at fixing messes as they are at making them.
** In another instance, he wrecks a woman's balcony during a big fight. He apologizes mid-battle, and promises to come back and fix it. Later he does fix it (to the woman's surprise) although given his sense of... style, it's debatable whether it's better than it was before.
** Double-subverted when he and Roy have a WizardDuel. [[spoiler:Mustang and Edward end the episode cleaning up the damage with shovels, no alchemy in sight]].
* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' the reason why the Bebop crew is always starving or using sub-par equipment is because a good chunk of the cash they make off of their bounties is used to pay for the collateral damage they tend to leave in their wake.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Averted. The heroes are pirates to begin with, so if they destroy buildings the Navy will respond to it. Normally, the Straw Hat Crew is able to survive their encounters with the Navy. However, if they do commit a serious crime their bounties could increase.
** Also averted when Luffy wrecks a restaurant staffed mostly by former pirates, who make him work off the damage.
* Averted in ''Anime/{{Moldiver}}'', where not only does the city have to pick up the tab for repairs after superbattles, it contracts them out to the lowest bidder -- who happens to be the BigBad in his civilian identity, and who is driven to distraction by the escalating levels of damage cutting into his profit margin.

* Lampshaded in ''Anime/SailorMoon'' episode 13 when Sailor Mars wants to blast some airplanes being used by the villain and Luna replies that she could never afford to pay for the damage. The joke actually made it through to the Creator/DiC English dub.
* Despite not quite being the genre for this, ''Manga/HeIsMyMaster'' subverts this by having the main character's lack of Hero Insurance driving the plot.
* Lampshaded in ''Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight''. After Anubis' defeat, Kaiba leaves in a huff, and Grandpa says, "I'm glad he didn't bring up the damage you all did to his Duel Dome, because I really don't think his insurance is gonna pay for it!"

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'':
** Vash The Humanoid Typhoon. However, it's not without its {{Lampshade Hanging}}s. Two of the characters are insurance society representatives who stick around to keep an eye on him and fail miserably at keeping him out of trouble, and in the fifth episode of the anime, a character mentions that "Class G Property Damage" contributed to Vash's enormous bounty.
** In the end, the Bernardelli Insurance Company just washes its hands of Vash, and declares any and all damage caused by him "Acts of God." Justified, since he accidentally [[spoiler:blew a chunk out of one of the moons; at that point, you can't really call him anything else]].
** This trope is arguably deconstructed, alongside the TechnicalPacifist trope, with the July 5th incident, the primary source of the bounty on Vash's head. Vash somehow managed to avoid killing a single soul when he blew up an entire city... but it probably would have been kinder if he ''had'' vaporised the population, because almost every last man, woman and child either died of thirst/starvation or was murdered for their supplies by their desperate fellows.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', explosive destruction of the first Anti-Spiral ship causes significant damage to the surrounding city, blame falls on Simon for destroying it. Subsequent confrontations involve increasingly elegant ways to prevent said damage from occurring. It wasn't a problem before that either, as there were no cities and most fights were in giant deserts/wastelands like the old ''Transformers'' cartoon, and latter [[spoiler:in space]].
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'':
** Averted in the [[DeconstructedTrope most mean-spirited manner]]. After learning that their ''first'' giant robot battle has ''killed two thousand people and leveled a mountain'', several of the children get notably upset by it and want to break the {{masquerade}} and tell people about it.
** Plenty of people die and plenty of damage is done when Zearth fights. In fact [[spoiler:one of the protagonists father gets crushed while they're fighting, right when he was thinking how [[StrawNihilist a few thousand peoples lives don't matter when it saves the majority]] and how he and his dad are a few of the strong. Kodama dies soon afterwards himself]].
** In the end, a military official notes that while he knows Zearth was the instrument of mankind's salvation, to the vast majority of people, it will probably be remembered as a terrible monster that terrorized the planet.

* Check the end of the second ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' film. The kind of use would be a spoiler. Check the ''beginning'' of any episode. A-Ko causes massive damage just by ''running to school''.

* Averted in ''Manga/{{X|1999}}'', the good guys create a barrier/parallel dimension to protect the battle zones which in this case can't be considered collateral damage, tearing down the buildings is the primary objective of the bad guys. If the good guys die, the area retains the damage from the battle. Note that the good guys have an unimpressive track record for "winning". Also, it's not just "death" that dissolves the barrier. Loss of HeroicSpirit, like that endured by [[spoiler:Subaru]] still results in the damage being permanent. Also, in the manga, one holy site gets blown up without the heroes ever showing up.
* Horribly messed up in ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' battles take place in barriers similar to ''X'' but the writers can't make up their mind about whether time passes normally outside the barrier or not, after the battles end, human lives are consumed to repair the collateral damage. Depends on who wins. Bad guys use human lives to repair the damage. Good guys use the bits inside "Torches" (the remnant echos of humans whose existence has been consumed by the bad guys).
* Generally averted in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' where the Shinigami have the ability to stand on air, which they generally use to keep their battles high above the cities to lower the collateral damage. One time[[note]][[spoiler:The battle against Aizen and his top three Espada]][[/note]], Soul Society even went as far as replacing the town with an exact replica of it so they don't have to worry about breaking anything. They have broken things before, like during Ikkaku's fight with [[spoiler:the arrancar Edorad Leones]]. However, it was mentioned that Soul Society fixes everything afterwards, with the costs being taken out of the budget of the squad responsible (Though that does beg the question of who pays for damages caused by Ichigo's fights...).

* Averted in ''Anime/{{Basquash}}''. In his attempt to bring back basketball with his mecha, his attempt at a slam dunk being blocked by Iceman ends up destroying a good chunk of the stadium, landing him in jail for a year. Cue TimeSkip and Dunk Mask becoming ShroudedInMyth.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''. Though, the poor innocent villagers probably ''would'' make Lina pay for the damage... if they could catch her. Averted; in fact it's a running gag. She's basically what you get if you turn [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]] into a sorceress and take away the insurance girls. While the audience/readers and her close friend know she is a hero, her path of destruction has made her a feared villainess in her world, to the point a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist got away with arresting her with the charge of ''being Lina Inverse''. Even when she does something truly heroic and redeemable, she blows it by losing her cool and nuking the town she just saved. She rarely gets to claim her reward because it will likely be the down payment on rebuild the town from the ground up around the huge crater she just made.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Soun Tendo is on the city council, but one has to wonder if that really helps given the amount of destruction his "son-in-law" and friends dish out on a regular basis. Even though there are those "Do Not Smash Wall" and "Do Not Crush Pole" signs everywhere.
** In FanFiction a common nickname for Ranma and friends is "Nerima's Wrecking Crew" or "Demolition Crew". Joke stories often have companies that want to renovate call Nabiki Tendo to have set up a fight between Ranma and some rival that takes place in their building. Allowing them to collect the insurance money, and renovate.
** One FanFiction even featured the Nerima ''Building'' Crew trying in subtle ways to help save their best source of business.
* In ''Anime/SCryed'', Alter powers can't ''not'' cause damage, as they rely on the surrounding matter for both energy and mass to make the Alter forms, and the Alter Users don't have much control over what matter gets used.
* Averted in ''Anime/{{Zambot 3}}'' about as far as it can go. Many battles happen in cities that had been destroyed in ''previous'' battles and the people of the Japan don't take too kindly to the heroes.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Nanoha flees the scene of her first battle when she hears sirens, not wanting to get in trouble for the damage caused by the MonsterOfTheWeek. Averted after the final battle of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs A's]]'': the TSAB works on repairing the damaged areas of the city.
* Averted in ''Manga/FairyTail'', as [[DestructiveSaviour the massive property damage the members of the titular guild cause]] is the main reason they aren't more wealthy or influential despite the considerable power of their mages. In fact, the Magic Council which regulates them would have probably ''disbanded them'' several times if [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections their leaders wasn't friends with (an increasingly small number of) council members]]. Hell, Lucy even states that no matter how high-ranking and well-paying the missions she completes are she's never getting most of it as long as her partners Natsu and Gray keep breaking crap. Eventually, the Magic Council starts actively looking for a reason to disband them. It ultimately fails as the threats escalate and Fairy Tail are more or less the only people capable enough of facing these monstrous individuals and organizations.

* Perhaps no anime series depicts this trope as often as ''Anime/DominionTankPolice''. Throughout the series, the main characters routinely cause enormous amounts of property damage in the city while attempting to apprehend criminals, sometimes failing to make an arrest in the end. This never results in any member of the tank police being arrested, fired, or disciplined, other then occasionally getting chewed out by a supervisor.
* Justified in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': It turns out that someone actually ''does'' pay for all that property damage [[PersonOfMassDestruction Shizuo]] causes: his manager (not Tom, but another guy above both of them), who docks it from Shizuo's salary in return. Shizuo's honestly surprised that he still gets paid at all ([[UltimateJobSecurity or that he even still has a job]]).
* Both PlayedForLaughs and somewhat {{deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', depending on the chapter/episode. Sister Rosette is a HotBlooded DestructiveSaviour, so she's quite often shown crashing her car into the sides of buildings, destroying buildings--heck, the very first storyline shows her crashing a ship ''into the Statue of Liberty''. However, it's shown that her supervisor in the Order of Magdalene ''constantly'' chews her out for it (even saying they could write a book based on her damage reports), and it's explicitly mentioned that the Order has to help pay for the damages as well as bribing the local media not to mention their involvement with the damage. Also, when civilians are shown badly injured in the aftermath of one of her battles, she's shown being shocked and upset.

* Subverted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''. While seemingly played straight with Kira getting off scott-free with all the destruction he causes in the Battle at Orb, Shinn's family are revealed to have been killed in collateral damage, and this is the cause of all his malice towards Kira as the pilot of the Freedom throughout the series.
* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''LightNovel/DirtyPair''. The Lovely Angels' recklessness in their cases mingles with FinaglesLaw to frequently cause the destruction of cities, if not entire planets; nevertheless, the Central Computer of their employer infallibly clears them of blame every time. Which isn't enough to keep them from being hated and feared by most of humanity.
* At the end of the LXE arc of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', Kazuki attempts to reach Victor's regeneration capsule before he awakens by using Sunlight Heart to rocket to the roof of his school, blasting through floors in the process, as he was inside when he came up with this idea. Because of this, Kazuki ultimately caused more property damage than the entire LXE.
* Aversion: As a result of the numerous destructive car chases in ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', Rally "The Wrecker" has been blacklisted by every auto insurance company in Illinois.
* Averted for laughs in the ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'' action based episodes and TV specials. Kankichi Ryotsu defeats the villain and saves the day, but gets billed by the owners for property damage he caused or blamed for it. Notably, the Fuji TV station [[BitingTheHandHumor (the show's broadcaster)]] is destroyed multiple separate times. Thanks to NegativeContinuity or possibly Ryotsu's gambling winnings, everything's back to normal and forgotten in the following episode.
* Averted in ''Anime/TigerAndBunny''. Damages incurred by a superhero must be paid for either by his/her sponsor company or the hero him/herself. In the very first episode [[DestructiveSaviour Kotetsu]], the protagonist, is berated for damaging a monorail track in order to stop a hijacker. And in episode 5 he is brought before a judge who rules that his company be fined for the property that was destroyed during one of his rescue attempts in episode 4. To be precise, the city pays for any damage deemed necessary for the hero to capture a criminal and/or protect civilians. However, anything the city deems unnecessary is billed to the hero's sponsor company. So a hero who pulls a chunk out of the road in order to stop a bystander being shot would not be charged, but a hero who stomps a car's roof in when he could have just run around it would be charged. All of the heroes in the show are employees or owners of companies which use the hero's "brand" to generate money, so that they don't personally have to pay these charges (and also to generate a living wage for them, as they aren't directly paid to be heroes). One of the reasons co-protagonist Wild Tiger is nicknamed the "Crusher for Justice" is due to his habit of smashing things up with his super strength and earning himself a constant stream of large bills for his sponsor company to pay. The show actually begins with [[spoiler:his original sponsor company going out of business due to the large bills he receives. The only reason he agrees to be in a partnership with Barnaby is because the next company to hire him tells him to do it or quit, and implies that no other sponsor company would agree to take on a hero who's fame (and ability to generate money) is waning but continues to rack up such large bills.]]

* ''Manga/DGrayMan'' usually plays it straight, but it's averted when Allen gapes at a massive hole Lavi puts in a building using his Size-Shifting Hammer and Lavi carelessly mentions not to worry about it and that Komui will 'foot the bill.' Apparently the Vatican have very deep pockets, considering the damage the Exorcists tend to create during their fights.
* One of the reasons Train and Sven from ''Manga/BlackCat'' are so poor is because most of their bounty money is used to pay for the damage they cause when catching criminals.
* ''Manga/BlueExorcist'':
** The series tends to gloss over this kind of thing, though it does happen. Arguably, since the True Cross Order has been established for about ''two thousand'' years, they probably have this kind of thing down pat.
** Actively brought up in an early episode. Since [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Rin]] is the half-breed Son of Satan, even before his awakening he was very strong. Combing this with his HairTriggerTemper and his NiceGuy tendencies, and you get a few scenes of of Shiro yelling at him for costing him money. Not to mention he couldn't hold a job due to this...
** A short omake at the end of episode 13 shows Mephisto confronting Amaimon on the destruction he caused in his fight with Rin. Scratch that, he was just upset over the now-headless statue of him. The wrecked rollercoaster and ball pen are totally over looked.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Averted in the anime, in "Showdown at the Poké-Corral" when Ash's herd of Tauros ram Team Rocket away and save the day while destroying a fence. Afterward, Oak makes Ash and his friends rebuild it to end the episode. Played straight in "[[Recap/PokemonS1E2PokemonEmergency Pokémon Emergency]]" wherein a massive Thundershock generated by several Pikachu ends up destroying most of the Pokémon Center, but nobody seems to get in trouble.
** In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Black battles and captures the Galvantula that attacked a camera crew but destroys the filming equipment in the process. He gets thanked but still gets stuck with the bill, which White covers. He's now [[WorkOffTheDebt in her debt and is stuck working for her]].
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', the Chosen Children find their Digimon to be made out to be bad guys after a few fights wreck the town. Noticeably, Taichi ends up getting flashbacks to the destruction, holding him back.
* The heroines from ''Anime/PrettyCure'' don't have to worry about this trope as it's a tradition in the series for the battlefield to return to normal, negating all the damage from the fights, after the MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated and the villain of turn makes a quick exit. Strangely enough, ''[[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Fresh Pretty Cure!]]'' is the only entry where this doesn't happen all the time, for reasons that were never explained. Made more jarring by the fact this is the first Pretty Cure series where the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] are summoned mainly to attack civilians and wreak havoc rather than only to deal with the eponymous [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Girl Warriors]], and as such the level of destruction is higher compared to previous works.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' generally sidesteps the issue. Organized clashes happen in single-use pocket dimensions explicitly to avoid repair costs, and even a couple of early major antagonists are willing to play by those rules. Later on, both sides of the conflict make a point of fighting in deserted areas or in other ways to limit collateral damage - the heroes do so to avoid unnecessary damage and casualties, and the villains don't want to break the {{Masquerade}} any earlier than they have to, lest their opponents go from GreatOffscreenWar-depleted remnants to seven billion strong (even gods in this setting have to worry about [[DeathOfAThousandCuts a lot of diddly]]). When significant collateral damage is explicitly caused, it's usually discussed, such as Souna agreeing to fund and manage the school's repairs in volume 4 since it was her territory, or [[spoiler:Rias deliberately refusing to reimburse the feuding vampire factions for damage Gaspar caused since they'd been acting like dicks since the word go]].
* The protagonists in ''Anime/DinosaurKing'' cause enormous amounts of collateral damage when fighting rogue dinosaurs, or their enemies. Sometimes to [[MonumentalDamage priceless historical landmarks.]] They're occasionally berated for this by locals, but rarely actually have to pay up for it. [[spoiler:The damage is all undone using the time machine in the end.]]
* Happens at least once in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', when [[TheHero Jotaro's]] first [[FightingSpirit Stand]] [[PowersDoTheFighting battle]] nearly collapses his entire school. He never faces any consequences for it; [[JustifiedTrope granted,]] nobody knows he was responsible as [[InvisibleToNormals only Stand users can see each other's Stands.]]
** In the 1993 ''Stardust Crusaders'' OriginalVideoAnimation, Jotaro's Stand, Star Platinum, ''tears off the top half of a minaret'' and throws it at [[BigBad [=DIO.=]]] Once again, nobody ever calls him out on having destroyed a possibly very old and significant religious building.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. Senshou-dou matches often end up in urban areas, and collateral damage is bound to ensue. Early on, during a Sensha-dou match, a tank runs into a shop belonging to one of the members of the audience. His reaction is to {{Squee}} about how he can now renovate it with the insurance money while the others around him comment on his good fortune and pray that ''their shops'' get wrecked next.
** The same shop gets ''blown up'' in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzerDerFilm'', and once again the same guy is cheerful while the others are envious that [[ContinuityNod it always seems that his place is hit]].
* In ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'', Dante wrecks a bridge to defeat a demon, and has to pay for it out of the reward he got for killing the demon.
* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': Kazuma's party destroys a large portion of Axel's walls during the fight with Beldia. It's first a downplayed [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], since the town won't demand he recompense the city for ''all'' of the repairs, but he still has to fork over all 300 million Eris of the reward, as well as go 40 mil into debt. [[spoiler:It later turns into a DoubleSubversion, because the greedy landlord used a demon's powers to make everyone forget that adventurers don't have to pay for damages. The town eventually returns all of the money that was taken from him when the landlord's crimes are exposed.]]
* {{Subverted|trope}} in ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor''. Sakura paid off the Hinatsuki family 11 years ago for her destroying their family factory in the course of fighting [[spoiler:Ugallu]] by buying the property outright. The Hinatsukis used that money to move westwards and re-establish their business there.
* Discouraged in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', as pro hero agencies often have to pay off any collateral damage caused by their hands, and U.A usually docks points in tests and exams for collateral damage caused in their training facilities by students acting as heroes (or villains) under simulation scenarios.
* In chapter/episode of ''Manga/{{Bastard}}'', Dark Schneider kills a demonically enhanced undead cyclops with a magic earthquake-generating mace with a magic spell that banishes it to another dimension. He brags about how powerful and complicated the spell is, and how he's pretty much the only one capable of using it. Then Yoko clobbers him, points out the enormous crater he just created, and points out that the city would have suffered ''less'' damage if they'd just let the cyclops continue trashing the place.
* ''Manga/GodaigoDaigo'': HeroInsurance is a plot point in [[https://mobile.twitter.com/kounosuke0808/status/1264816262594482177 this story]] which is about a giant-sized man whose job is fighting {{kaiju}} sized lizard aliens. He's fallen on hard times because he's getting little action and thus less [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero sponsorship]] for him and his support staff. He can't help out in other regions, which have their own heroes, because he has an insurance contract for collateral damage only in his district. His manager is able to get them the money they need by liquidating this contract, but at the risk of making him then incapable of taking any action without taking on all the cost. He does it anyway but manages to get the money he needs from a previously failed crowdfunding effort due to all the goodwill he earned.

** Usually averted. Particularly in the movies. While battles usually take place in remote areas by default, Goku has often made a point of taking a fight outside of the city to prevent this kind of thing.

* Generally averted in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' where the Shinigami have the ability to stand on air, which they generally use to keep their battles high above the cities to lower the collateral damage. One time they've even gone as far as replacing the town with an exact replica of it so they don't have to worry about breaking anything. They have broken things before, like during Ikkaku's fight with [[spoiler:the arrancar Edorad Leones]]. However it was mentioned that Soul Society fixes everything afterwords, with the costs being taken out of the budget of the squad responsible. (Though that does beg the question of who pays for damages caused by Ichigo's fights...)

* Averted in ''Manga/FairyTail'', as [[DestructiveSaviour the massive property damage the members of the titular guild cause]] is the main reason they aren't more wealthy or influential despite the considerable power of their mages. In fact the council regulating them would have probably ''disbanded them'' several times if [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections their leaders wasn't friends with (an increasingly small number of) council members]]. Hell, Lucy even states that no matter how high-ranking and well-paying the missions she completes are she's never getting most of it as long as her partners Natsu and Gray keep breaking crap. Eventually, the Magic Council starts actively looking for a reason to disband them. It ultimately fails as the threats and escalate and Fairy Tail are more or less the only people capable enough of facing these monstrous individuals and organizations.

** There's almost nobody living in the city to begin with. Misato appears to be the only person actually living in her building, most wide shots of the city show little, if any, traffic, and almost every classroom in Shinji's school is empty... and this is ''before'' things start getting bad. Dialogue halfway through the series suggests that the population is down to actual NERV employees and a few diehards. It's only in the Rebuild movies that Tokyo-3 is ever depicted as having an appropriate population level for a city that size.

* Averted for laughs in the ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'' action based episodes and TV specials. Kankichi Ryotsu defeats the villain and saves the day, but gets billed by the owners for property damage he caused or blamed for it. Notably the Fuji TV station [[BitingTheHandHumor (the show's broadcaster)]] being destroyed multiple separate times. Thanks to NegativeContinuity or possibly Ryotsu's gambling winnings, everything's back to normal and forgotten in the following episode.

** In the 1993 Stardust Crusaders OriginalVideoAnimation, Jotaro's Stand, Star Platinum ''tears off the top half of a minaret'' and throws it at [[BigBad [=DIO.=]]] Once again, nobody ever calls him out on having destroyed a possibly very old and significant religious building.

* Happens at least once in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', when [[TheHero Jotaro's]] first [[FightingSpirit Stand]] [[PowersDoTheFighting battle]] nearly collapses his entire school. He never faces any consequences for it; [[JustifiedTrope granted,]] nobody knows he was responsible as [[InvisibleToNormals only Stand users can see each other's Stands.]]

* Generally averted in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' where the Shinigami have the ability to stand on air, which they generally use to keep their battles high above the cities to lower the collateral damage. In the latest arc they've even gone as far as replacing the town with an exact replica of it so they can have an all out war without worrying about breaking anything. They have broken things before, like during Ikkaku's fight with [[spoiler:the arrancar Edorad Leones]]. However it was mentioned that Soul Society fixes everything afterwords, with the costs being taken out of the budget of the squad responsible. (Though that does beg the question of who pays for damages caused by Ichigo's fights...)

* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Nanoha flees the scene of her first battle when she hears sirens, not wanting to get in trouble for the damage caused by the MonsterOfTheWeek. Averted after the final battle of A's: the TSAB works on repairing the damaged areas of the city.

* The heroines from ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' don't have to worry about this trope as it's a tradition in the series for the battlefield to return to normal, negating all the damage from the fights, after the MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated and the villain of turn makes a quick exit. Strangely enough, ''[[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Fresh Pretty Cure!]]'' is the only entry where this doesn't happen all the time, for reasons that were never explained. Made more jarring by the fact this is the first Pretty Cure series where the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] are summoned mainly to attack civilians and wreak havoc rather than only to deal with the eponymous [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Girl Warriors]], and as such the level of destruction is higher compared to previous works.