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* Happens to Po on ''KungFuPanda'' as he tries to sneak down a hallway late at night.

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* Happens to Po on ''KungFuPanda'' ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' as he tries to sneak down a hallway late at night.



* Film/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attempted landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.

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* Film/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attempted landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.
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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' averts it by [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=727 bypassing the rickety floorboards altogether]]

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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' averts it by [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=727 bypassing the rickety floorboards altogether]]
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* Several consecutive times in {{iamamiwhoami}}'s video "drops". As it is a NonAppearingTitle, "drops" may also refer to Jonna dropping through the floor.
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* Happened in an episode of ''TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', where Piglet's floor collapsed, leading Tigger to joke about how he has a basement now.
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* In the "TheWitcher2'' trailer for the Xbox-release, the assassin throws an [[KillItWithIce ice grenade]] at a kings ship, freezing the ship and almost everyone on it. When one of the survivors makes a few steps forward to see where the blast of cold came from, a breaking deck plank sets off the TranquilFury sequence while the entire ship starts to shatter around them.

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* Happens twice in the second episode of ''CodeGeass'': the rebels destroy a group of enemy [[HumongousMecha mechas]] by shooting the floor out from under them, and Lelouch's own mech falls through several floors of a concrete building [[PlotArmor (it survives undamaged)]].



* Film/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attemped landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.

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* Film/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attemped attempted landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.
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* In ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'', when the Port Witch Coven is hunting after the protagonists, they are thwarted when the floor of the Coven collapses due to a long-standing giant woodworm attack.
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* The first [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turtles and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.

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* The first [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turtles and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment.apartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.
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* In ''MortalKombat3'', the stage [[FinishingMove fatality]] of Shao Kahn Tower has the winner uppercutting the loser, after which the defeated opponent falls through the floor (which stayed intact for the entire duration of the fight), and keeps falling through several stories of floorboards, before landing on a bed of spikes.
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* In one of the RamonaQuimby books, Ramona falls halfway through the unfinished floor of a friend's attic. She's very annoyed when she tries to tell the story at the dinner table with what she feels is an appropriate amount of drama, and her older sister interrupts, saying how easy it is to step onto the plaster and that she knows someone who fell all the way through.
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* In ''BarrowHill'', entering the barn's loft for the first time causes the floor to collapse, trapping you in the lower part of the building until you find the means to escape.
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* FilM/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attemped landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.

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* FilM/IronMan: Film/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attemped landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.



* In the ''{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Reaction'', Rachel involuntarily morphs an elephant on the second floor of her house, causing the floor to collapse.

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* In the ''{{Animorphs}}'' ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Reaction'', Rachel involuntarily morphs an elephant on the second floor of her house, causing the floor to collapse.



* In {{Fallout 3}}, a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event. The ''Point lookout'' expansion has you falling though several floors and into the basement.

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* In {{Fallout 3}}, ''{{Fallout 3}}'', a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event. The ''Point lookout'' expansion has you falling though several floors and into the basement.
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* A justified variant in ''[[{{Ptitlespc6b57h}} National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'', when Clark is trapped in the attic. He deliberately steps ''between'' the rafters rather than on them, so his weight is supported only by sheetrock, which, unsurprisingly, eventually gives in.

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* A justified variant in ''[[{{Ptitlespc6b57h}} National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'', ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', when Clark is trapped in the attic. He deliberately steps ''between'' the rafters rather than on them, so his weight is supported only by sheetrock, which, unsurprisingly, eventually gives in.
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* In Fallout 3, a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event. The ''Point lookout'' expansion has you falling though several floors and into the basement.

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* In Fallout 3, {{Fallout 3}}, a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event. The ''Point lookout'' expansion has you falling though several floors and into the basement.

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* In Fallout 3, a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event.

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* In Fallout 3, a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event. The ''Point lookout'' expansion has you falling though several floors and into the basement.




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* In {{Bioshock}} 2 Subject Delta is shot at, nearly set on fire and falls though several floors into water.
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* A justified variant in ''[[{{Ptitlespc6b57h}} National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'', when Clark is trapped in the attic. He deliberately steps ''between'' the rafters rather than on them, so his weight is supported only by sheetrock, which, unsurprisingly, eventually gives in.

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*FilM/IronMan: Tony's first flight test ends him crashing though the ceiling ''and'' the floor during an attemped landing. Further causalities are a piano and a car.
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* In ''SeitokaiYakuindomo'', the main characters visit [[TheOjou Shichijou Aria's]] house and are taken to an old storeroom. The floor breaks under Shino and Hata asks if there's a way to get under the floor to take photos.
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--> Donatello: Guys, I'm not so sure if this is, structurally speaking... such a good time for your buddies to drop in.

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--> Donatello: Guys, '''Donatello:''' Uh, guys, I'm not so sure if this is, structurally speaking... such a good time for your buddies to drop in.
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->''Some primal termite knocked on wood''\\
''And tasted it, and found it good''\\
''And that is why your cousin May''\\
''Fell through the parlor floor today''
-->--'''OgdenNash'''
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* Happens quite often in the {{Half-Life}} games. Also happens in ducts as well (once into a room full of laser tripwire explosives).
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* SplinterCell has this when the player character moves too fast in a burning building.
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* In Fallout 3, a couple of buildings have this as a scripted event.
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* A central part of the plot in ''Duplex'', a Drew Barrymore black comedy.
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* In ''The Mighty Queens of Freeville'', Amy Dickinson tells the amusing story of the time her daughter's entire high-school madrigal choir crashed through the boards of the stage in the middle of rehearsal.
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* The first [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turltes and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.

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* The first [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turltes Turtles and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.
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* The first [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turltes and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.

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* The first [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turltes and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.

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* The first [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] movie has this occur in the middle of a fight between the Turltes and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's appartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.
--> Donatello: Guys, I'm not so sure if this is, structurally speaking... such a good time for your buddies to drop in.
--> ''Foot soldiers drop in through the skylight. Seconds later epic floorboard failure occurs.''
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** And in the episode "Lisa's Wedding", Lisa's fiance Hugh falls through the floor of the addition Homer built onto the house. Thankfully, the compost heap cushioned his fall.
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** In this case, the hole was already there with a large rug thrown over it, and poor Walter gets stuck in it for several hours.

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