History Main / AshesToCrashes

* One episode of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has Agents Coulson and Simmons playing the part of father and daughter, taking mom's ashes by train to be buried. This trope is [[InvokedTrope invoked]], so the bad guys they are tailing will step the ash. The ash has something in it that lets Agent May track them from atop the train, using special [[SeeThruSpecs X-Ray Specs]].

* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDorks''. The protagonists become zombies after the ashes of another zombie get blow over them, when they use his urn in a voodoo ritual, then die in a car accident. And then come back to life.

* ''Series/{{Reno 911}}'': The deputies attempt to comply with a former officer's wish to have his ashes fired from a cannon. [[HilarityEnsues It doesn't end well.]]

* Played very, very much for tearjerker value in ''Styrofoam Plates'' by Music/DeathCabForCutie, where the singer [[CallingTheOldManOut calls out]] the GlorifiedSpermDonor father.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}: In "[[Recap/MonkS6E5MrMonkAndTheBirdsAndTheBees Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees]]",Monk and Natalie are waiting in a funeral home, when Monk starts to rearrange a series of funerary urns in order of height. Natalie objects that he's messed up the nametags in front of the urns, and tells him to put them back. Their argument inevitably tips over ''several'' urns, which they scramble to clean up.

** In Season One's "[[Recap/FrasierS01E20Fortysomething Fortysomething]]", Frasier takes a call on his show from a woman, Rachel (Music/RebaMcEntire) who is ''"caught in a strange LoveTriangle" - specifically, her husband keeps his late wife's ashes in their bedroom. Frasier suggests that she treat the ashes with respect, but move them to another room. The conversation ends with the sound of breaking crockery, and Rachel saying, "Oops... I have some vacuuming to do."

** In "Martin Does It His Way", Aunt Louise's ashes get blown back at Frasier and Niles. Frasier is still pouring her ashes out of his shoe at the funeral, and at the end, a janitor sweeps them under the rug.

** In another episode, Frasier takes a call on his show from a woman who is concerned about the fact that her husband keeps his late wife's ashes in their bedroom. The conversation ends with the sound of breaking ceramics, and the words, "Oops... I have some vacuuming to do."

** They then glance over at Dan, with a mug of coffee frozen at his lips, and (we sense) about to uncork the mother of all [[Spittake]]s.

* ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'': Definitely not played for humor.

* ''Film/DangerDiabolik'': Poor Ralph Valmont.

* ''Film/{{Zathura}}'': The game-come-alive launches meteorites through the ceiling of the boys house. One strikes the urn holding their grandmother's ashes. "Grandma!"

[[caption-width-right:349:[[JustForPun That'll urn you a beating, son.]]]]

** Edie throws Mrs. Huber's ashes in Susan's face when Susan confesses that she actually burned Edie's house down. Susan then decides to get hosed down on her own front lawn.
** Mrs. Huber's evil sister Felicity accidentally knocks over the urn containing her daughter's ashes while driving and has a karmic death when, temporarily blinded, she drives into a truck.