A list of tropes that have to do with any form of vandalism.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Banana in the Tailpipe: Slowing down a car by stuffing an object in its tailpipe.
- Bathroom Stall Graffiti: Graffiti in the bathroom stall.
- Battered Bouquet: Destroying gifted glowers.
- Broken-Window Warning: Smashing a window.
- Book Burning: Burning books to destroy free thought.
- Bullet Hole Spelling: Writing a message with a gun.
- Burning the Flag: A flag is symbolically destroyed.
- Chute Sabotage: Destroying someone's parachute during skydiving.
- Deface of the Moon: Vandalizing the moon by carving words or images into it.
- Dead Animal Warning: Killing an animal and threatening someone with it.
- Defacement Insult: Vandalizing to insult someone.
- Destroy the Villain's Weapon: Destroying the villain's weapon.
- Egging: Throwing eggs at other people's houses.
- Face Doodling: Drawing on a person's face while they are unconscious.
- Faking and Entering: Lying about breaking-and-entering as a cover-up.
- Gangbangers: Young street gangs.
- Generic Graffiti: Cliche graffiti with vibrant colors and bubble-letter words, or something else.
- Graffiti of the Resistance
- Graffiti Town
- Grave Robbing
- Ill-Fated Flowerbed
- Intentional Mess Making: Making a mess on purpose for whatever reason.
- Interrogation by Vandalism
- Kilroy Was Here
- Letterbox Arson
- Mailbox Baseball
- Mustache Vandalism: Vandalizing a person's picture by drawing on it to add unflattering features, often a mustache.
- Parking Payback (often involves vandalism)
- Percussive Shutdown
- Percussive Therapy
- Poster Patchup
- Pyromaniac: An arsonist who really enjoys setting stuff on fire.
- Ransacked Room
- Rewarding Vandalism
- Rushmore Refacement: The villain's plan involves either adding their face to Mt. Rushmore or changing the already existing faces so that they bear the likeness of themselves and/or their cohorts.
- Signs of Disrepair, sometimes.
- Skyscraper Messages
- Spill Stain Sabotage
- Sweetie Graffiti
- Toilet Paper Prank: Wrapping toilet paper around stuff.
- Vandalism Backfire: A person attempts to get to someone else by damaging something they assume to belong to their target, but it turns out the object destroyed wasn't even theirs.
- Vehicular Sabotage
- "Wash Me" Graffiti: Writing "wash me", or words to that effect, in the dirt on the back of a vehicle.
- Wrecked Weapon
- Wiki Vandal: A troll who edits wiki pages solely to add (or replace the content with) false information or inflammatory statements just to see how the other editors will react.