History Main / DestroyingAPunchingBag

* After Aster [[CameFromTheSky gains]] the [[LegendaryWeapon Shooting Star gloves]] in ''Webcomic/StarImpact'', she tests it out on her punching bag, sending it off the chain and into the wall, and leaving a star-shaped dent on both. The page quote comes from when Teddy and Remy saw the damage to the gym (from when the gloves arrived via CometOfDoom) and saw the [[MegatonPunch Star Punch]]'s first victim in ten years.

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* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2garwq/this_is_what_happens_when_you_buy_a_20_punching/ This Reddit post]] shows off the remnants of a $20 punching bag with its fillings all over the floor. Turns out [[YouGetWhatYouPayFor it was filled with actual garbage.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': Tombstone punctuates a conversation with Hammerhead with blows to a punching bag until it bursts in several places and fills the room with sand. This was apparently intentional (in any case, he's completely unconcerned).

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: One scene in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' has Captain America practicing on a punching bag, all the while thinking about the life he had to leave behind because of his decades-long ice nap. Eventually he gets so worked up that he punches it across the room with a hole in it. And then he just picks up the next one of a half-dozen spares he has prepared, implying that he's been at this for a while.

* In one episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbiulmYXbi8&noredirect=1 Videl kicks a punching bag for a straight hour,]] while a group of men more muscular than her watch in awe. When she decides to take a break, the punching bag tears open. She then casually asks the onlookers if they could put up another one.

* ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'': At Gold Saucer, Tifa shows off by punching a punching machine so hard that the bag breaks off and goes flying offscreen, much to the shock of the two men watching her.

* In one episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbiulmYXbi8&noredirect=1 Videl kicks a punching bag for a straight hour]], while a group of men more muscular than her watch in awe. When she decides to take a break, the punching bag tears open. She then casually asks the onlookers if they could put up another one.

* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', Saitama destroys a punching bag by smashing it, and the frame it's attached to, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CJKvevs2M into a wall]].

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' In the sequel ''Ghosts of the Past'', Carol has already done this to an extra-strength bag and nearly destroys a second before she sprains her wrist with a misaimed punch. The reason being she's really, really upset about hearing [[spoiler: Belova sexually assaulted Harry]], and Carol can't do anything to help him.
--> I'd tear the world apart [...] starting with [[spoiler: the bitch that did this to you.]]

* Inverted by one Website/DarwinAwards winner, an electrician who'd somehow connected his punching bag to the power grid, electrocuting himself when he punched the bag. ([[https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-28.html The veracity of the story is somewhat doubtful, however.]])

* ''Series/TheOrville'' episode "[[Recap/TheOrvilleS1E10Firestorm Firestorm]]" sees Lieutenant Alana cope with the death of one of her officers by destroying HardLight sandbags with her SuperStrength. After getting chewed out by her First Officer and the Chief Medical officer, she can just restart reset HardLight projector and re-create the sandbag and punch it apart all over again.

* ''Series/TheOrville'' episode "Recap/TheOrvilleS1E10Firestorm" sees Lieutenant Alana cope with the death of one of her officers by destroying HardLight sandbags with her SuperStrength. After getting chewed out by her First Officer and the Chief Medical officer, she can just restart reset HardLight projector and re-create the sandbag and punch it apart all over again.

* A heavyweight boxer in ''Manga/OnePunchGospel'' enters the hero's gym and breaks a punching bag with one hit, much to the shock of onlookers... because he didn't notice the sign saying, "Broken, do not punch," and now they have to clean it up after him.