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** The episode "Applebuck Season" opens with Applejack stopping a herd of stampeding cows coming towards Ponyville.
** The central conflict of the episode "Over a Barrel" is that the ponies planted an apple orchard in the ancient stampeding ground of the buffaloes (who are a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Native Americans). Stampeding seems to be the primary combat strategy of buffaloes, as they use it both to stop a train from delivering a new apple tree, and to bring down the town of the settler ponies.
** The central conflict of the episode "Over a Barrel" is that the ponies planted an apple orchard in the ancient stampeding ground of the buffaloes (who are a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Native Americans). Stampeding seems to be the primary combat strategy of buffaloes, as they use it both to stop a train from delivering a new apple tree, and to bring down the town of the settler ponies.
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** The episode "Applebuck Season" "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" opens with Applejack stopping a herd of stampeding cows coming towards Ponyville.
Ponyville after being spooked by a snake, causing a mass panic among the townsponies as the thundering herd bears down on the village. Later in the episode, Applejack's overly aggressive attempts to round up a group of rabbits send them into a stampede as well, resulting in a comical situation where characters are running and hiding in terror as a herd of bunnies stampedes through the town.
** The central conflict ofthe episode "Over "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel" Barrel]]" is that the ponies of the frontier town of Appleloosa planted an apple orchard in the ancient stampeding ground of the buffaloes (who are a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Native Americans). Stampeding also seems to be the primary combat strategy of buffaloes, as they use it both to stop a train from delivering a new apple tree, tree and to bring down the town of the settler ponies.
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** In ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', the main cast must escape a stampeding horde of man-eating rhinoceroses via a damaged helicopter.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Wild Smurf" begins with one through the Smurf Village, which is a prelude to the fact that the Smurf Forest is on fire.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', George wants to call a stampede of hippos, but he uses the wrong yell, so instead he calls a gang of hippies.
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* In ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', a hunting troop of chimpanzees, led by Caesar, make a herd of elk go on a stampede.
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* In "King Solomon's Mines" (1950) the safari is caught in a stampede of every animal in Africa caused by wildfires. Only Alan Quartermain's expertise saves them, except for a few bearers who panic and run, only to be trampled.
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Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single person but may overlap with this if done by a big group. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
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Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single person but may overlap with this if done by a big group.group, and OnrushingArmy, where a group of soldiers charge at another army in a similar manner. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
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* ''Film/JurassicPark'':
** In the original film, Alan, Lex, and Tim get caught in a stampede of ''Gallimimus''; they survive it by hiding behind a log.
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** ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' has a far less impressive stampede of rhinos. As Kiara and Kovu chase a bunch of birds, they fly towards a herd of rhinos who [[RhinoRampage charge at the heroes]]. Fortunately nobody gets hurt this time.
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* At the climax of ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'', Tarzan stampedes a herd of water buffalo (with a few lions mixed in) through the city of Boma.
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* In ''Franchise/{{Asterix}} Conquers America'', TheChiefsDaughter runs from a stampede of buffaloes that Obelix single-handedly stops, saving her life and earning her gratitude.
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An Animal Stampede is when a large group of animals, usually herbivores, get startled and start mindlessly running from the perceived threat, destroying everything in their way. They are portrayed as a destructive force of nature, and often injure or kill the characters that get in their way. Note that most of the time the stampeding animals want to get away from the predators without the intention of hurting anyone; but some of the more aggressive species, such as buffaloes or rhinoceroses may start a stampede ''towards'' the perceived threat. Since these animals often have horns, accidental or deliberate HornAttack may be involved.
Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single person, but may overlap with this if done by a big group. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single person, but may overlap with this if done by a big group. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
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An Animal Stampede is when a large group of animals, usually herbivores, get startled and start mindlessly running from the perceived threat, destroying everything in their way. They are portrayed as a destructive force of nature, and often injure or kill the characters that get in their way. Note that most of the time the stampeding animals want to get away from the predators without the intention of hurting anyone; but some of the more aggressive species, such as buffaloes or rhinoceroses rhinoceroses, may start a stampede ''towards'' the perceived threat. Since these animals often have horns, accidental or deliberate HornAttack {{Horn Attack}}s may be involved.
Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a singleperson, person but may overlap with this if done by a big group. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', a herd of longhorn bison go on a stampede after attacked by a pack of ''Velociraptor'' cattle rustlers. Arlo and the ''T. rex'' family fight the rustlers among the stampeding bison.
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* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', TheBeastmaster's ultimate skill, appropriately named "Stampede", summons Thunder Lizards to run in straight lines until they run into something and explode.
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* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', TheBeastmaster's ultimate skill, appropriately named "Stampede", summons Thunder Lizards to run in straight lines until they run into something and explode.
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* Chris [=LeDoux=]'s "Stampede" (not the same one) is about a cowboy who dreams of dying in a cattle stampede, and wakes up just in time to hear the night lookout shouting the stampede warning.
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* In ''Film/CitySlickers'', Mitch accidentally starts a stampede by turning on his electric coffee grinder.
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In fiction, compared to predators, herbivores are usually pretty harmless. HerbivoresAreFriendly, after all, and a gentle, grazing cow means far less threat than a fierce tiger.
Now imagine hundreds of those cows, running together and trampling everything in their way. Not so harmless anymore, right?
An Animal Stampede is when a large group of animals, usually herbivores, get startled and start mindlessly running from the perceived threat, destroying everything in their way. They are portrayed as a destructive force of nature, and often injure or kill the characters that get in their way. Note that most of the time the stampeding animals want to get away from the predators without the intention of hurting anyone; but some of the more aggressive species, such as buffaloes or rhinoceroses may start a stampede ''towards'' the perceived threat. Since these animals often have horns, accidental or deliberate HornAttack may be involved.
Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single person, but may overlap with this if done by a big group. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
Has nothing to do with [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]].
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* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Simba gets in the way of a wildebeest stampede in a gorge that was started by the hyenas startling the wildebeests. Mufasa comes to rescue his son, [[spoiler: only to be killed when his treacherous brother Scar pushes him back into the gorge]].
** ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' has a far less impressive stampede of rhinos. As Kiara and Kovu chase a bunch of birds, they fly towards a herd of rhinos who [[RhinoRampage charge at the heroes]]. Fortunately nobody gets hurt this time.
* In ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', the young Tarzan accidentally starts an elephant stampede when he tries to snatch some tail hair from them, and the elephants mistake him for a piranha. The elephants almost trample a baby gorilla, but Kerchak is fortunately quick enough to save the infant.
* The wicked witch Mombi from Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/JourneyBackToOz'' meets her doom this way, when her troop of pachyderms are [[EekAMouse spooked by a mouse]], and flee ''en masse'' from the Emerald City. Mombi, disguised as a rose and rooted to the spot, gets trampled horribly [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by her own massive minions]].
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* In ''Film/KingKong2005'', a herd of ''Brontosaurus'' get startled by a pack of [[RaptorAttack raptor-like]] ''Venatosaurus''. The panicking brontosaurs clumsily run into canyon walls, fall off of cliffs, trip and tumble over each other, and in general harm themselves far more than the predators they're running from ever manage to. Some members of the film crew still get trampled by them.
* The CattleDrive that forms the main plot of ''Film/RedRiver'' is interrupted by a stampede. Many cattle are lost, a man is killed, and cattle driver Tom Dunson (John Wayne) starts growing more erratic under the pressure.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'':
** In the original film, Alan, Lex, and Tim get caught in a stampede of ''Gallimimus''; they survive it by hiding behind a log.
** The sequel, ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', features a variety of dinosaurs stampeding while being chased by [=InGen=] hunters.
* A variety of wildlife stampede through town in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' after being freed by a dice roll, including [[RhinoRampage rhinos]], elephants, zebras and pelicans.
* In ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'', a water buffalo stampede happens, but in a very different context from the book (see below). When Shere Khan ambushes Mowgli, he escapes from the tiger by jumping on a buffalo during the stampede.
* Humorously subverted in ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''. Butch attempts--at some length--to upset a pen of horses in order to get them to stampede [[WeNeedADistraction to cover the gang's escape]], only to be [[NoSell completely ignored]] by the creatures.
* In ''Film/TenThousandBC'', as the slaves try to escape, D'Leh scares a mammoth of burden and starts a mammoth stampede that trample the enemy guards.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. Val yells "Stampede!" in Earl's ear while he's asleep, causing him to wake up in terror that he's in a stampede. This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}}. At the climax of the movie Val uses an explosion to make the last Graboid (which has sensitive hearing) "stampede" out of the edge of a cliff and suffer a DisneyVillainDeath.
* ''Film/{{Australia}}'' is about a CattleDrive through the titular continent. When the cattle are scared by a fire set by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Carney]]'s men, they go on a stampede. [[TheAlcoholic Flynn]] gets trampled, but Nullah manages to stop the stampede before they fall into a canyon.
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* Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' has the orphan Mowgli engineer the demise of Shere Khan by receiving news that the tiger is prowling in a canyon, hoping to surprise a herd of water buffalo. Mowgli and his wolf pack allies launch a mock attack on the herd from the opposite side, driving them into the same canyon as where Shere Khan is staying. [[spoiler: The stampede results in a gruesome overkill.]]
* In a short story featuring Dana Stabenow's detective character Literature/KateShugak, a villain is trampled to death ([[NeverFoundTheBody probably]]) by a stampeding herd of [[WilyWalrus walruses]] after he shoots at Kate while standing between them and the sea.
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* In one ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip, a cowboy is sitting next to a campfire, strumming his banjo, and singing "Home on the Range". Little does he realize that [[DeathByIrony a herd of stampeding buffalo is about to run him over]].
-->"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam..."
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** In both 1st and 2nd Edition cattle could stampede toward opponents. If they did, each target was run over by 2-8 animals, each doing 1-4 HitPoints of damage.
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* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', TheBeastmaster's ultimate skill, appropriately named "Stampede", summons Thunder Lizards to run in straight lines until they run into something and explode.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex'': the jungle levels of the game have a section where Crash has to escape from a stampeding rhinos as an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
* Parodied with the snail stampede in ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist''.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Eddy gets suddenly trampled by a stampede of hippos that came from nowhere.
* A gazelle stampede happens in the climax ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard: The Return of the Roar''. Kiara gets trapped in the stampede that was started by Janja's hyena clan, and gets saved by Bunga, who drives away the gazelles with his {{Fartillery}}.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Applebuck Season" opens with Applejack stopping a herd of stampeding cows coming towards Ponyville.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Beware the thundering herd.]]
In fiction, compared to predators, herbivores are usually pretty harmless. HerbivoresAreFriendly, after all, and a gentle, grazing cow means far less threat than a fierce tiger.
Now imagine hundreds of those cows, running together and trampling everything in their way. Not so harmless anymore, right?
An Animal Stampede is when a large group of animals, usually herbivores, get startled and start mindlessly running from the perceived threat, destroying everything in their way. They are portrayed as a destructive force of nature, and often injure or kill the characters that get in their way. Note that most of the time the stampeding animals want to get away from the predators without the intention of hurting anyone; but some of the more aggressive species, such as buffaloes or rhinoceroses may start a stampede ''towards'' the perceived threat. Since these animals often have horns, accidental or deliberate HornAttack may be involved.
Compare DashAttack, which usually done deliberately by a single person, but may overlap with this if done by a big group. May also overlap with RhinoRampage, if the stampeding animals are rhinos, and with EscapedAnimalRampage, if the stampeding animals escaped from a zoo or another confinement. It may occur during a CattleDrive. In a video game, a stampede can be an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
Has nothing to do with [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]].
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Film - Animated]]
* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Simba gets in the way of a wildebeest stampede in a gorge that was started by the hyenas startling the wildebeests. Mufasa comes to rescue his son, [[spoiler: only to be killed when his treacherous brother Scar pushes him back into the gorge]].
** ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' has a far less impressive stampede of rhinos. As Kiara and Kovu chase a bunch of birds, they fly towards a herd of rhinos who [[RhinoRampage charge at the heroes]]. Fortunately nobody gets hurt this time.
* In ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', the young Tarzan accidentally starts an elephant stampede when he tries to snatch some tail hair from them, and the elephants mistake him for a piranha. The elephants almost trample a baby gorilla, but Kerchak is fortunately quick enough to save the infant.
* The wicked witch Mombi from Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/JourneyBackToOz'' meets her doom this way, when her troop of pachyderms are [[EekAMouse spooked by a mouse]], and flee ''en masse'' from the Emerald City. Mombi, disguised as a rose and rooted to the spot, gets trampled horribly [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by her own massive minions]].
[[AC:Film - Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/KingKong2005'', a herd of ''Brontosaurus'' get startled by a pack of [[RaptorAttack raptor-like]] ''Venatosaurus''. The panicking brontosaurs clumsily run into canyon walls, fall off of cliffs, trip and tumble over each other, and in general harm themselves far more than the predators they're running from ever manage to. Some members of the film crew still get trampled by them.
* The CattleDrive that forms the main plot of ''Film/RedRiver'' is interrupted by a stampede. Many cattle are lost, a man is killed, and cattle driver Tom Dunson (John Wayne) starts growing more erratic under the pressure.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'':
** In the original film, Alan, Lex, and Tim get caught in a stampede of ''Gallimimus''; they survive it by hiding behind a log.
** The sequel, ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', features a variety of dinosaurs stampeding while being chased by [=InGen=] hunters.
* A variety of wildlife stampede through town in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' after being freed by a dice roll, including [[RhinoRampage rhinos]], elephants, zebras and pelicans.
* In ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'', a water buffalo stampede happens, but in a very different context from the book (see below). When Shere Khan ambushes Mowgli, he escapes from the tiger by jumping on a buffalo during the stampede.
* Humorously subverted in ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''. Butch attempts--at some length--to upset a pen of horses in order to get them to stampede [[WeNeedADistraction to cover the gang's escape]], only to be [[NoSell completely ignored]] by the creatures.
* In ''Film/TenThousandBC'', as the slaves try to escape, D'Leh scares a mammoth of burden and starts a mammoth stampede that trample the enemy guards.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. Val yells "Stampede!" in Earl's ear while he's asleep, causing him to wake up in terror that he's in a stampede. This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}}. At the climax of the movie Val uses an explosion to make the last Graboid (which has sensitive hearing) "stampede" out of the edge of a cliff and suffer a DisneyVillainDeath.
* ''Film/{{Australia}}'' is about a CattleDrive through the titular continent. When the cattle are scared by a fire set by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Carney]]'s men, they go on a stampede. [[TheAlcoholic Flynn]] gets trampled, but Nullah manages to stop the stampede before they fall into a canyon.
[[AC:Literature]]
* Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' has the orphan Mowgli engineer the demise of Shere Khan by receiving news that the tiger is prowling in a canyon, hoping to surprise a herd of water buffalo. Mowgli and his wolf pack allies launch a mock attack on the herd from the opposite side, driving them into the same canyon as where Shere Khan is staying. [[spoiler: The stampede results in a gruesome overkill.]]
* In a short story featuring Dana Stabenow's detective character Literature/KateShugak, a villain is trampled to death ([[NeverFoundTheBody probably]]) by a stampeding herd of [[WilyWalrus walruses]] after he shoots at Kate while standing between them and the sea.
[[AC:Music]]
* Music/JohnnyCash has a song called "Stampede" describing a cattle stampede from the perspective from of a cowboy caught in the middle of one.
[[AC:Newspaper Comics]]
* In one ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip, a cowboy is sitting next to a campfire, strumming his banjo, and singing "Home on the Range". Little does he realize that [[DeathByIrony a herd of stampeding buffalo is about to run him over]].
-->"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam..."
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** In both 1st and 2nd Edition cattle could stampede toward opponents. If they did, each target was run over by 2-8 animals, each doing 1-4 HitPoints of damage.
** In 1st Edition herds of herbivorous dinosaurs could stampede if frightened by a large carnivorous dinosaur. If they overran another creature they would kill it if it was smaller, slower and weaker than themselves.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', TheBeastmaster's ultimate skill, appropriately named "Stampede", summons Thunder Lizards to run in straight lines until they run into something and explode.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex'': the jungle levels of the game have a section where Crash has to escape from a stampeding rhinos as an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
* Parodied with the snail stampede in ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist''.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Eddy gets suddenly trampled by a stampede of hippos that came from nowhere.
* A gazelle stampede happens in the climax ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard: The Return of the Roar''. Kiara gets trapped in the stampede that was started by Janja's hyena clan, and gets saved by Bunga, who drives away the gazelles with his {{Fartillery}}.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Applebuck Season" opens with Applejack stopping a herd of stampeding cows coming towards Ponyville.
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