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* The ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' event ''Sundays at a Distant Park'' reveals that Hagumi and Kasumi became ChildhoodFriends while playing at the same park together, but were separated when the park was bulldozed to create a community centre. When they find out what happened, they're sad at first that the beloved park from their childhood is gone. However, their mood lifts when they realise that the community centre puts on a lot of shows and events for kids, so it's still creating new fun memories for the new generation, just in a different way.

* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' A forest with a old tree that served as a childhood memory for Joe [[spoiler: especially because his now deceased dad used to take him there]]. They manage to save it.

* InvokedTrope in ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' when Ford, the creator of Westworld, takes Cullen to a restaurant and she belatedly realises that not only is it the same restaurant she visited as a child, but she's sitting in the exact same chair. All the android staff then freeze in place and BadVibrations start as a massive earthmoving machine moves in the demolish the place. It's clearly meant by Ford as a warning to Cullen not to mess with him.

* InvokedTrope in ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' when Ford, the original creator of Westworld, shows his power by taking Cullen to a restaurant in the park, and she realise that not only is it the same restaurant she visited as a child, but she's sitting in the exact same chair. All the android staff then freeze in place and BadVibrations start as a massive earthmoving machine moves in the demolish the place. It's clearly meant as a warning to Cullen not to mess with him.

* ''Series/TheWire'' has a rather cynical version in "[[Recap/TheWireS03E01TimeAfterTime Time After Time]]". The whole neighborhood gathers to watch the demolition of some high-rise housing projects. Most people are glad to see them go, even those who grew up there, because they had been a focal point for some of the worst drug and violent crime in the city. Small-time dealer Poot, however, expresses sadness and nostalgia, mainly because that was where he lost his virginity. His friend Bodie mocks him for his AnythingThatMoves reputation, and Bodie says the real tragedy is that they're about to lose a prime drug market.

* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' where Doug and some other boys were throwing rocks at some old houses that were about to be demolished. Doug got a lucky shot in and not just broke a window, but flattened a whole house. The guys were impressed, but his crush, Patty told him he was "terrible". It's revealed her family used to live in that house when she was little and her mom was still alive. Subverted in that [[spoiler:it wasn't even her house, but her old next door neighbors']].

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* At one point in ''Film/{{Sniper}}'', the title character is told that the old fishing hole in his hometown is now a parking lot.

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* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Saruman did this to Frodo and the hobbits out of malice over his defeat at Isengard. He had his goons tear down trees, destroy buildings, and foul the river of the Shire out of sheer spite.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Shriek", Bruce Wayne fights against Derek Powers' plan to mow over Crime Alley so he'll never forget his parent's murder. Despite Powers now being the CEO of Wayne-Powers (as the name suggests, formed by the merger of the two mens' respective companies) Bruce still holds significant influence among the stockholders and becomes the main nucleus of the anti-renovation movement among them, which leads Powers to hatch a plan to get Bruce out of the way however he can [[spoiler:by attempting to gaslight Bruce into thinking he's going insane and trying to get him to commit suicide by jumping via a small radio disguised as a bandage on his head. Terry discovers the ploy and defeats the scheme, and Powers' motion in turn is overwhelmingly voted down by the shareholders.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Shriek", Bruce Wayne fights against Derek Powers' plan to mow over Crime Alley so he'll never forget his parent's murder.

* The mind workers in Riley's brain in ''Film/InsideOut'' demolish old areas, like an area with princesses and castles, as Riley grows older. They also throw away old memories to make room for new ones.

* ''Series/TheWire'' has a rather cynical version in the opening of the third season. The whole neighborhood gathers to watch the demolition of some high-rise housing projects. Most people are glad to see them go, even those who grew up there, because they had been a focal point for some of the worst drug and violent crime in the city. Small-time dealer Poot, however, expresses sadness and nostalgia, mainly because that was where he lost his virginity. His friend Bodie mocks him for his AnythingThatMoves reputation, and Bodie says the real tragedy is that they're about to lose a prime drug market.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'':

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' does this in at least two episodes, once with a tree (which is saved) and once with a theater (which is also saved). In TheMovie, the neighborhood is saved.

** Subverted when Timmy [[TimeTravel goes back in time]] to acquire the deed to Dimmsdale Flats, a place his father loved as a child. When he gets back to the present, his father promptly sells it to the developers, because he realized that his childhood [[NostalgiaFilter wasn't as great as he thought it was.]] (In fact, his exact words were "My childhood stank!") The name of the company was in fact the Tearing Down Your Most Cherished Childhood Memories Construction Company. So it is also a parody

* ''Film/BatteriesNotIncluded''
* ''Film/ForrestGump'' subverts this trope when he has the house of Jenny's abusive father demolished.

* In ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' Cliff is devastated when he finds out his mother is about to sell his childhood home, and chains himself to a pillar to stop it. Mom Clavin was originally enticed by the money, but is so moved by Cliff's passion that she decides to fight the sale--until the pillar gives out and half the house collapses, at which point they both write it off as a dump.