History Main / AnimalStampede

* The WickedWitch Mombi from Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/JourneyBackToOz'' meets her doom this way, when her troop of pachyderms are [[ElephantsAreAfraidOfMice 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]].

* 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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* ''FanFic/ItsADangerousBusinessGoingOutYourDoor'': This, as it turns out, is the nature of the yearly komaga incursions through Gildedale. The massive reptiles are running in absolute terror from something -- ''what'' they're running from remains unknown -- and charging through the daleponies' lands in their flight. As they do so, as typical for stampeding animals, they trample and overrun anything that's unfortunate enough to be in their way. This proves to be important knowledge, once Applejack figures out that she can manage and divert the komaga stampede with he same techniques that can manage a cattle stampede.
* ''Fanfic/MarqueAndReprisal'': an elephant stampede was used to enable refugees to flee towards Nairobi.
* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'': A sizable number of stampedes are witnessed by the rescue team over the course of their various adventures in the past to rescue prehistoric animals to bring to the future to be put on display at the titular park. Said stampedes soon end up proving an ideal opportunity for rescues precisely because of how common they turn out to be.
* [[spoiler:The Dominion Jewel]] in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' causes all the non-humans around Hogwarts to go berserk and attack the castle, even intelligent species like the centaurs and [[spoiler:Professor Lupin, who is forcibly transformed into a wolf and sent on the attack]].

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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 bison is about to run him over]].
-->"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam..."
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** In the first film, 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]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', the Forty Thieves herald their WeddingSmasher attack on Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding by provoking the elephants outside the pavilion to stampede. When [[BadVibrations the ground starts rumbling]], Genie remarks that he thought the earth wasn't supposed to move until the honeymoon.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'': The trailer shows cloud-like ceratopsian that charge in numbers.

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* The protagonist of the Creator/DreamWorksAnimation short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bilby}}'' encounters two of these during his journey, one of emus and one of [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia kangaroos]].

* In ''Film/TheBullOftheWest'', Georgia Price and Johnny Wade attempt to stop Judge Garth and his crew from fencing off the winter pasture by stampeding a herd of cattle through the fence and over the top of Garth and his men.

* In 1960s commercials for [[https://youtu.be/epQc4u98WFI Post Crispy Critters cereal]], this happens to spokes-lion Linus the Lionhearted whenever the titular cereal is mentioned.

* ''Film/JurassicGalaxy'', a low budget {{Mockbuster}} of a [[Franchise/JurassicPark certain franchise]], features a stampede of what are ostensibly meant to be ''Camptosaurus'' frightened by a volcanic eruption, but because its NoBudget B-Movie, they're played by raptors, sickle claws and all.

* ''Jurassic Galaxy'', a low budget {{Mockbuster}} of a [[Franchise/JurassicPark certain franchise]], features a stampede of what are ostensibly meant to be ''Camptosaurus'' frightened by a volcanic eruption, but because its NoBudget B-Movie, they're played by raptors, sickle claws and all.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{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 thankfully, Kerchak quick enough to save the infant.

* In ''Film/TheAirUpThere'', Nyaga's goons ride into Winabe on motorcycles and start a cattle stampede, which charges into Beisa's wedding, forcing everyone to flee.

-->-- '''''Film/{{Jumanji}}'''''