History Main / MonumentalDamage

* ''Anime/LycorisRecoil'': The Skytree ended up being destroyed in [[NoodleIncident in a past incident]] (for which the protagonist Chisato is apparently responsible), and its partially standing wreckage still remains as a monument to peace.

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}''. Qubit forces the supervillain Plutonian to help him clean up the radiation that's been dispersed across the Earth by having Plutonian create giant spears of [[AppliedPhlebotinum radiation-absorbing metal]] and drop them in various places. Plutonian agrees not to drop them on InnocentBystanders, but [[ExactWords drops one on the Sphinx]] [[EvilIsPetty just to piss Qubit off]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}''. Qubit forces the supervillain Plutonium to help him clean up the radiation that's been dispersed across the Earth by having Plutonium create giant spears of [[AppliedPhlebotinum radiation-absorbing metal]] and drop them in various places. Plutonium agrees not to drop them on InnocentBystanders, but [[ExactWords drops one on the Sphinx]] [[EvilIsPetty just to piss Qubit off]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}''. Qubit forces the supervillain Plutonium to help him clean up the radiation that's been dispersed across the Earth by having Plutonium create giant spears of [[AppliedPhlebotinum radiation-absorbing metal]] and drop them in various places. Plutonium agrees not to drop them on InnocentBystanders, but [[ExactWords drops one on the Sphinx just to piss Qubit off]].

* Taken UpToEleven in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheFastAndTheFurry''. The title characters are given jet planes so they can race around the world "in 5 minutes". The monuments destroyed (and how) in order of appearance, are:

* In ''Anime/MacrossII'', the main characters go for a date in a place called "monument park," a collection of world monuments almost identical to the WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} example, below. It is promptly attacked by aliens.

* In general, superhero comics and other superhero-related media will often show their own fictional, yet still iconic, monuments being damaged instead of real ones. [[Franchise/{{Superman}} The Daily Planet]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Wayne Tower]], and [[Comicbook/IronMan Stark Tower]] are frequent victims, with the Daily Planet in particular having its giant globe knocked off practically every week.

* In the ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' the giant monster frog villain Frogzilla pulls up from its foundation the Statue of Ribbity (Earth-C's Art/StatueOfLiberty) and takes it with him into Gnu York (Earth-C's New York), thinking the statue was a real person (and trying to hit "her" up for a date).

* In the fourth episode of the Creator/RubySpears ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon, Mega Man [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI8RPO87vSc jumped in front of]] the statue of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln in Washington DC when Proto Man turned his [[ArmCannon Proto Buster]] on it-

** The fourth Iacon Relic is buried under the Great Wall of China, which leads to chunks of the wall being destroyed during the resulting fight between the Combaticons and Theta Team (the Aerialbots and the Black Wyvern unit).

* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': At the beginning of ''R2 -- Revolution'', [[LaResistance the Autobots and Black Knights]] blow up Mt. Fuji to deny the Decepticons access to its massive Energon deposits. Notably, the Japanese Black Knights do so despite how sacred Mt. Fuji is to them, as it's been defiled beyond recognition by the 'Cons.

* PlayedForLaughs in the Creator/{{MGM}} cartoon "WesternAnimation/LittleJohnnyJet". As the protagonist and his son (both anthropomorphic airplanes) rocket around the world at high speed, some famous monuments get the Trope equivalent of AmusingInjuries; the Sphinx is given a crew cut, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilted the other way, the Eiffel Tower barely avoids a collision by lifting its "legs", and rushing past the Statue of Liberty reveals her panties as her dress is blown to the side. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (Seriously.)]]

* Averted in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', when the very climactic battle against Myotismon takes place on top of Fuji TV Headquarters (known for its unique design by the architect Kenzo Tange) but neither the building nor its massive metal ball is (seriously) harmed. Incidentally or not, Fuji TV is the channel that broadcasts Digimon in Japan.

* In-universe example: ''[[Manga/{{Boruto}} Boruto: Naruto Next Generation]]'' Begins by showing [[spoiler:The Hokage Mountain, the most easily recognizable landmark of Konoha Village, completely smashed alongside with the rest of the village]].

* PlayedForLaughs in the Creator/{{MGM}} cartoon "WesternAnimation/LittleJohnnyJet". As the protagonist and his son (both anthropomorphic airplanes) rocket around the world at high speed, some famous monuments get the Trope equivalent of AmusingInjuries; the Sphinx is given a crew cut, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilted the other way, the Eiffel Tower barely avoids a collision by lifting its "legs", and rushing past the Statue of Liberty results in a PantyShot as her dress is blown to the side. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (Seriously.)]]

If you plan on attacking all over the world make sure you target a wide range of easily identifiable landmarks throughout. Due to SmallReferencePools, no one will take you seriously unless you get the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Westminster Clock Tower ("[[IAmNotShazam Big Ben]]", that is), or in works made before [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]], [[HarsherInHindsight the World Trade Center]]. Just killing people throughout the world won't cut it.

If you plan on attacking all over the world make sure you target a wide range of easily identifiable landmarks throughout. Due to SmallReferencePools, no one will take you seriously unless you get the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Westminster Clock Tower ("[[IAmNotShazam Big Ben]]", that is), or in works made before [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]], the World Trade Center (quite a lot of {{funny aneurysm moment}}s were born out of the latter). Just killing people throughout the world won't cut it.

* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'': In season 3, the Nazis initiate a plan to tear down former American monuments, such as Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, and replacing them with ones exalting National Socialist ideology. They [[spoiler:succeed in blowing up the Statue of Liberty in a pompous ceremony.]]

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}''. We see several Earth monuments, but many aren't really damaged, just floating in air. [[spoiler:The ones with faces have been modified to look like Captain Smek. In the end, the Boov fix it]].

* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': At the beginning of ''R2 -- Revolution'', [[LaResistance the Autobots and Black Knights]] blow up Mt. Fuji to deny the Decepticons access to its massive Energon deposits. Notably, the Japanese Black Knights do so despite how sacred Mt. Fuji is to them, as it's been defiled beyond recognition by the 'Cons.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': During their chariot race at the start of the film, Ramses and Moses drive into a construction area at one of the main temple complexes in Memphis, causing some damage (including inadvertently breaking off the nose of a colossus of Ramses' father, Seti).

* The issue #1 cover of ''[[ComicBook/{{Kamandi}} Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth]]'' prominently shows a fractured Art/StatueOfLiberty listing in floodwaters.

* The first visual of Earth's surface in ''[[Comicbook/TheTransformers Transformers: Regeneration One]]'', 21 years after the end of the Marvel series, is of a destroyed Golden Gate Bridge lying on the bed of the vaporized strait. Several other cities are shown as destroyed as well, including Washington, D.C., where the Capitol Dome is visible among the ruins, and where [[BigBad Megatron]] [[MythologyGag once again has a throne]], though this time it's ''not'' the chair from the Lincoln Memorial (instead being cobbled together from various buildings and structures).
* The Juggernaut destroys the Twin Towers in the "Sabotage" storyline; oddly enough, they return within only a few issues, and the story [[HarsherInHindsight is rarely]] [[DudeNotFunny spoken of today.]]
* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in issue #23 of ''ComicBook/TheTransformers''. The Battlechargers Runabout and Runamuck are revealed to be plotting something against various United States landmarks, such as Mount Rushmore, Independence Hall, the Washington Monument, and especially the Art/StatueOfLiberty. What is their nefarious plan? To...[[PokeThePoodle vandalize them by spray-painting "humans are wimps!" on everything]]. The Battlechargers ''are'' a couple of numbskulls after all.

!!Examples:

* Art/TheSphinx's nose is destroyed in the animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' as well as ''Recap/AsterixAndCleopatra''.

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* In ''Film/AhBoysToMen'', several prominent Singaporean landmarks such as the Merlion Statue and the Esplanade get obliterated by missile fire during the ActionPrologue. A [[MoodWhiplash comedic instance]] happens to the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, where an explosion sends a slot machine spinning towards the camera in slow-motion. Displaying a full ''7'' row. Jackpot!
* ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers''. Some of the earliest (1956) examples of this are the Washington Monument being knocked down after an out-of-control flying saucer rams into it near its base, the front of the Supreme Court building being damaged by flying saucer beams, and another saucer ramming into and destroying the Capitol Dome. All of these were nice pieces of FX work by Creator/RayHarryhausen.
** Somewhat inverted in that in many cases, the aliens weren't intentionally destroying the landmarks; rather, the counterweapon developed by the ScienceHero caused the saucers to veer off course and crash directly into the nearest monument or historic building. So this is one case where the heroes actually cause more damage to their landmarks than the aliens do (unless you interpret it as the aliens deliberately aiming their crashing ships at the landmarks out of spite).
** ''Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers'' provides probably the most iconic instance of this trope from Harryhausen's filmography, but not the first: ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' climaxes with the monster destroying the Coney Island amusement park, and ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea'''s SignatureScene shows the Golden Gate Bridge being pulled into the water by a [[TentacledTerror gigantic octopus]].
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''. The Art/StatueOfLiberty's beheading was something Abrams got from a poster for ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''... even though it's not in the actual ''Escape'' movie. The Woolworth Building, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Time Warner Center get destroyed over the course of the film. The monster is also seen on top of Grand Central Station but the cast don't hang around long enough to find out how much damage it takes.
* The Hong Kong {{Wuxia}} {{Manhua}} movie ''Film/AManCalledHero'' (and ''Manhua/ChineseHero'', the {{Manhua}} that inspired it) features a final battle between the Greatest Warriors of China and Japan, who proceed to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3OU85LtYSE destroy the Statue Of Liberty on which their final confrontation took place]].
* Creator/RolandEmmerich loves this trope:
** ''Film/IndependenceDay'' has the iconic shot of the White House being destroyed, as well as the Capitol building getting destroyed in the resulting wave of energy. In a scene showing the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the Art/StatueOfLiberty is shown being knocked down. The aliens seemed to station their ships right above famous monuments deliberately; in London it was [[ClockTower Big Ben]], in France it was the Eiffel Tower, in New York it was the Empire State Building. The Sydney Opera House and the pyramids both escape undamaged, though.
** An errant missile shot in the 1998 ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' hits the Chrysler Building. The mayor is ''pissed'' if for no other reason than the fact the military missed at all. The Flatiron Building is also accidentally blown up after Godzilla ducks out of the way of some missiles, the Brooklyn Bridge and Madison Square Garden are destroyed deliberately, and the [=MetLife=] Building is seen with an [[ArtisticLicenseEngineering impossibly huge]] hole through it.
** ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' had tornadoes homing in on LA landmarks. The ice storm famously made a popsicle out of the Art/StatueOfLiberty.
** ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' has shown many of these monuments being destroyed by the [[ShapedLikeItself destruction]]. ''And'' the fakes in Las Vegas, too.
** Outright lampshaded in ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' when David Levinson watches Dubai's Burj Khalifa getting dropped on top of London's Tower Bridge. "They like to get the landmarks." Subverted when the giant spacecraft slides to a halt just before hitting the rebuilt White House. The Eiffel Tower also surprisingly survived Paris being laid to waste.
** Played straight and downplayed in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown''. The Capitol Building is mostly destroyed, while the White House is mostly still standing, though rather worse for wear.
* This trope naturally crops up here and there throughout the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films.
** The most notable is in the [[Film/{{Gojira}} first film]] in which Godzilla destroys the Wako Clock Tower and the Diet Building.
** In ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', Godzilla crashes Angurius completely into the Osaka Castle.
** The Diet Building has a gigantic cocoon spun all over and around it in ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth''.
** Another notable example is in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' where Godzilla throws his American counterpart into the Sydney Opera House... then blows the hell out of it with his Atomic Breath. Earlier on, Anguirus destroys the (then three-year-old) Pearl Oriental Tower while rampaging across Shanghai.
** The Golden Gate Bridge and (in a tongue-in-cheek version of this trope) the replica Art/StatueOfLiberty and Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas are among the landmarks that get torn apart in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. Waikiki, with 90% of the hotels on Oahu, gets flooded. Many notable San Francisco buildings are trashed.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' has King Ghidorah starting a massive storm above Washington DC, and a climactic battle that destroys Fenway Park and most of Boston.
* In ''Film/TheCore'', the collapse of Earth's magnetic field targets the Colosseum in Rome, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, without touching much else.
* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', showers of small meteors come in advance of the Big Doomsday Rock. They could strike anywhere on earth. Where does the biggest of the Harbingers of Doom hit? Paris, with the Eiffel Tower being knocked over/split in half by the shock-wave, the Arc de Triomphe however survived. Which city was the first to get hit by these small meteors? [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. And said meteor shower damages/destroys several NYC landmarks, including Grand Central Station, the Chrysler Building -- and the Twin Towers. (The third shower hits Shanghai, but fails to find a globally-recognisable monument.)
* Subverted in ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', The terrorists transmit an image of the U.S. Capitol building being blown up but when the FBI agent in charge runs out to see for himself it turns out to have been faked and the real building was undamaged.
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks'', a saucer rolls a giant bowling ball and knocks over some of the statues on Easter Island. Next they cut down the Washington Monument as a ShoutOut to the aforementioned Harryhausen movie, plus [[JerkAss keeps tilting it from one side to another]] so panicking civilians don't know which way to run.\\
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They are also shown melting the Eiffel Tower in the background while slaughtering the French President and his cabinet, and taking a picture in the Taj Mahal while blowing it up at the same time.
* Subverted in ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'', where the Art/StatueOfLiberty is buried in sand... along with Art/TheSphinx and Eiffel Tower, since they're all Las Vegas casino structures. Played straight with Las Vegas itself. The Las Vegas damage from ''Film/ConAir'' pales in comparison, which is a pity because 1. it was filmed in the real Las Vegas, and 2. buildings marked for demolition in real life were destroyed for real in the movie.
* ''Film/{{Domino|2005}}'' - A ballsy Vegas example has [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters a character sympathetic to Afghani rebels]] blow half the top off the Stratosphere Tower, which is a real 1,000+ foot observation needle. Then, TheHero falls down the elevator shaft in a cabin just like the ones used at the actual tower (though real ones don't have a speedometer on the floor counter). The whole scene was done with startling accuracy and the Stratosphere signed off on its name/identity being used all over the darn thing, giving it that too soon quality.
* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968''. [[EarthAllAlong They blew it up]]. [[ItWasHisSled Damn them all to hell!]]
* In the ''Film/RichieRich'' movie, a lot of damage is done to Mount Richmore (if that counts as a monument) as TheDragon blasts at it with the sculpting laser at maximum power.
-->'''Mrs. Rich''': Oh my god, ''my nose!'' I look like Music/MichaelJackson!
* The titular group in ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' shows off its ability to cause massive collateral damage by destroying the Eiffel Tower and Louvre in France and Art/TheSphinx, Pyramids, and Pharaohs in Egypt. (The Eiffel Tower even ''falls over onto'' the Arc de Triomphe, even though those two landmarks are nowhere near each other in RealLife). Mount Rushmore is also destroyed during the course of the film, though not by ''Team America''.
* The TokyoTower gets destroyed a lot by Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, Mothra, Film/{{Gamera}}, Gyaos, and yes, even Film/KingKong in various Japanese [[{{kaiju}} giant monster]] movies.
** Actually {{averted|Trope}} in the first ''Godzilla'' film, which features the destruction of several Tokyo landmarks, but only as part of the general devastation with no undue emphasis.
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' depicts the Eiffel Tower being vaporized by {{Nanomachines}}.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', One of Cobra's Zeus satellites turns the ''entire city of London'' into a crater, with [[ClockTower Big Ben]] and the Eye / Millennium Wheel smack in the middle.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Averted (barely) in the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' reboot film: When Nero attacks Earth, he fires his drill beam into San Francisco Bay. When the drill is cut, it falls into the bay, just missing the Golden Gate Bridge. (And [[NoEndorHolocaust miraculously avoids]] generating a tsunami that kills everyone in Oakland; surprising behavior for a multi-megaton structure falling from low orbit.)
** In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', [[spoiler:the Dreadnought-class Starship ''Vengeance'']] crash-lands into San Francisco, crushing Alcatraz Island and reducing the prison to rubble, and giving the Transamerica Pyramid a very close call. [[Film/StarTrek2009 The Golden Gate Bridge is spared again, though]].
* In ''Film/TheAvengers1998'', the bad guys damage two London landmarks:
** An off-course balloon knocks the Nelson statue off of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.
** Lightning from a weather control attack damages the clock faces of the [[ClockTower Big Ben]] clock tower.
* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' has an example early on, where Death Eaters rip apart the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge_(London) Millennium Bridge]] in London. This is a mild example since while the bridge is somewhat known, it's not as renowned as things like the Tower Bridge or the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
** What did they do, walk across it in step with each other? No, they ''[[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091120013314/harrypotter/images/c/c9/Death_Eaters_destroyed_the_Millennium_Bridge.gif flew around it]]'' in step with each other. (aside note: if the film is set in the same year as in the book, the bridge is an anachronism as it was set in 1996 - the book destroys a [[http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Brockdale_Bridge generic one]] instead)
* In ''Film/BatmanForever'', Two-Face's helicopter crashes into an obvious {{Expy}} of the Art/StatueOfLiberty, named "Lady Gotham".
* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
** In the first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, Starscream partially destroys the water towers of the Hoover Dam.
** In [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfThefallen the second film]], the Pyramid of Khafre (Directly adjacent to The Great Pyramid) is partially destroyed to reveal the Sun Harvester.
** ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' adds another check to the decreasingly rare defacements of the Lincoln Memorial when Megatron blows the statue to dust and claims the chair for himself, a nod to the G1 cartoon where his animated counterpart had already done the same.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane takes over Gotham by setting off controlled implosions of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, and the Williamsburg Bridge. The Queensboro Bridge is not touched (or at least their stand-ins, given Gotham City isn't exactly New York City). His explosions also destroy the local stadium, though it's based on Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/XMen1'' has the climax take place atop the Art/StatueOfLiberty, but other than the destruction of her torch by Magneto's machine (and a ray of her crown sliced off by Wolverine's claws) it is otherwise unharmed.
** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Magneto rips the Golden Gate Bridge out of its usual position so the Brotherhood can cross it to reach Alcatraz Island.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':\\\
Taken UpToEleven. Magneto uses one national monument as a weapon against another in the climax. [[spoiler:Specifically, he picks up RFK Stadium, levitates it across DC, and drops it in a circle around the White House. Later in the fight, he pulls a panic room out from under the White House through the walls and floors to get at the people inside it.]]\\\
In 2023 Moscow, the Kremlin and other Red Square monuments are in shambles (although scaffolding indicates someone is at least trying to repair it).
** In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', Apocalypse brings Magneto to Auschwitz knowing the painful memories will strengthen his magnetic powers, and he proceeds to fully destroy the abandoned concentration camp. Once this "using Earth's magnetism for massive damage" is used in a global scale, the bridges of New York and the Sydney Opera House are wrecked.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
** In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', the earthquake destroys Hoover Dam and starts bringing down the suspension wires on the Golden Gate Bridge (and in a deleted scene, knocks over the Hollywood sign while some Girl Scouts are hiking next to it).
** In ''Film/SupermanII'', General Zod, Ursa, and Non [[RushmoreRefacement damage the faces on Mt. Rushmore]] and the White House. In the Richard Donner Cut, the Washington Monument is toppled by Zod and Co.
** Not actual damage, but in ''Film/SupermanIII'' Supes [[SuperDickery straightened out the Leaning Tower of Pisa for laughs]].
** In ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'', Nuclear Man demolishes a chunk of the Great Wall of China, and later on, in a close call, drops the Art/StatueOfLiberty in the middle of Metropolis before Supes picked it up.
* Parodied in ''Film/{{UHF}}'', which includes a spoof of ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', where "Rambo" (played by Music/WeirdAlYankovic) starts blowing up famous monuments (including the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum) for no reason at all.
* The last shot of ''Film/TheGreatRace'' is the accidental destruction of the Eiffel Tower.
* The Ghostbusters uprooted the Art/StatueOfLiberty as a RentAZilla in ''Film/GhostbustersII''. In the process, the torch exploded into actual flame, was used to bash in a window, then the entire statue fell on its back once they were done with it. The city had it reinstalled and repaired by the end credits.
* ''Film/{{The War Of The Worlds|1953}}'' (1953). A picture of Paris shows the top half of the Eiffel Tower broken and bent after the Martian attack.
* ''Film/StarWreckInThePirkinning'' has the CPP ''Kickstart'' blow up the Art/StatueOfLiberty when Pirk's forces are invading the US.
* One of the first things we see during Jack's OpeningNarration in ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' is the Pentagon smashed almost beyond recognition by a huge crater. The New York Public Library is completely underground. The Empire State Building is buried up to its observation deck, leaving only the gift shop and the spire above ground. The Art/StatueOfLiberty is broken up and scattered, with the torch-holding hand visible during a high-speed canyon chase. The One World Trade Center building, taller than the ESB and prominent in the flashbacks, is ''nowhere to be seen'' in the present time, implying that whatever wasn't buried was demolished. Though an early shot of Washington, DC. The Capitol Building and the Washington Monument are free and still standing, everything else is gone and replaced by mud flats.
* Subverted to the point of parody in ''Film/PacificRim''. Aside from the Golden Gate Bridge getting destroyed by the first {{Kaiju}} attack, no other famous landmark is directly attacked by the monsters. In fact, in the Sydney attack, Mutavore walks near the Sydney Opera house but she completely ignores it, instead choosing to attack the city itself.
* The Old Bailey and Parliament get blown up by the end of ''Film/VForVendetta''.
* In ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', a rogue cloud of debris destroys the International Space Station, and knocks China's Tiangong space station out of orbit. The Space Shuttle doesn't count, since it's a fictional one.
* In ''Film/Hellboy2019'', during Nimue's siege of London in the climax, one of her demons completely wrecks London Bridge. "London Bridge is falling down", indeed.
* In ''Film/{{Gorgo}}'', the Tower Bridge and [[ClockTower Big Ben]] get demolished during the rampage through London.
* In ''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'', The Art/StatueOfLiberty lost her head and nearly killed the protagonists.
* In ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and other Paris landmarks have been seriously damaged by the aliens.
* Low-budget example: In the Asylum film ''Rise of the Zombies'', an SUV full of refugees crashes while zigzagging its way down San Francisco's Lombard Street, barrel-rolling over its ornamental flowerbeds. Alcatraz later becomes a refuge for survivors and gets pretty well trashed over the course of the movie.
* Played as a HistoricalInJoke in ''Film/TheRocketeer''. The villain is sent crashing into the Hollywoodland sign, destroying the "LAND".
* ''Film/{{Flodder}}'': At the end of the second movie, Mother Flodder accidentally ignites a water tank that Son Kees had been filling with stolen gasoline, causing it to fly into the Art/StatueOfLiberty and destroy the head.
* In ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', both Taj Mahal and Washington Monument are pixelated.
* ''Film/ACuriousConjunctionOfCoincidences'' ends with the destruction of the city center of Amsterdam, including most notably landmarks like The Royal Palace and the World War II monument.
* In ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'', the Lincoln Memorial is ransacked, with dead and burning bodies on the steps. The word "PURGE" is either spray-painted or [[CouldntFindAPen written in blood]] across the columns.
* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''.
** After the events of ''Film/ManOfSteel'' a WarMemorial for the Battle of Metropolis is erected and gets destroyed over the course of the next two movies.
** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', the United States Capitol Building is destroyed when [[spoiler:Comicbook/LexLuthor blows it up both to kill Senator Finch, a Senator who stood against him, and to break Superman, who's inside the building but doesn't see the bomb before it explodes, killing everyone in the room [[NighInvulnerability except him]]]]. Unlike most examples of this trope, the destruction is treated as a serious tragedy, with shots of the injured being treated and the dead being carried out, and [[MyGreatestFailure being unable to prevent the destruction]] sending [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]] into a HeroicBSOD.
** A twofer in ''Film/Shazam2019'': the statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia City Hall is smashed in the climactic battle, and the statue's head falls onto the "LOVE" sculpture in John F Kennedy Plaza.
* Happens accidentally in ''Film/NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation''. The Griswolds visit Stonehenge just before they leave England and Clark knocks down the thing after backing into one of the stones with their rental car. Ironically, he'd just given a speech about how the landmark would endure much longer after they left. At the end of the film, Clark accidentally ends up in the cockpit of the plane taking them home and causes the pilot to hit the Art/StatueOfLiberty's torch, knocking it over.
* In ''Film/OlympusHasFallen'', a [[spoiler:plane piloted by North Korean paramilitary]] clips the top of the Washington Monument, causing a large chunk of masonry to fall.
* ''Film/BigAssSpider:'' While it's not a world-famous landmark, [[ClicheStorm of course]] the giant rampaging alien-hybrid spider chooses the Los Angeles City Hall [[spoiler:as the location for its nest.]]
* ''Film/DeepImpact'' has the World Trade Center be among the buildings destroyed by the titular impact of the comet.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', while Robotnik pursues Sonic through ring-induced portals, he shoots the Sphinx of Giza.
* ''Film/UltramanZearth'' has the gold-feeding kaiju, Cotton-pope, who gains power by absorbing gold. Not content with draining resources from the earth's core, Cotton-pope made itself known to humans by sucking all the gold off the Kinkaku-ji Temple turning it into grey rust.
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* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' starts with the NSF blowing the head off the Art/StatueOfLiberty in the {{backstory}}. At the top level of the pedestal, there is a fenced-off area with a sign, "This building had been condemned"; presumably the statue was no longer structurally sound. In the sequel, the statue is gone altogether and is replaced with a hologram.
** On a similar note, when they didn't have enough space to add the World Trade Center to the game's skyline, they handwaved it by saying it was destroyed by a terrorist attack prior to the game's events. [[HarsherInHindsight The game was released in the year 2000.]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty:''
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar:'' Inn the final American mission you get to call in an airstrike on Shuri Castle, and in the last Russian mission, you lay siege on the Reichstag.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare:'' During the helicopter rail shooter sequence at the beginning of "Shock and Awe", you can [[ToppledStatue topple a statue]] of Al-Asad.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2:''
*** The level "Of Their Own Accord" starts in a damp basement assumed to be somewhere in the Washington D.C. area, filled with wounded and dead soldiers while artillery shells shake the ground above. When a Sergeant orders the player character to follow him outside into combat, the player emerges in a muddy trench and the first thing to be seen of the outside are the scorched remains of the Washington Monument, backlit by dark clouds that reflect the fires of Capitol Hill, which looks more like Berlin in 1945. The Washington Monument ''is'' still standing though, and the White House is later shown to be repaired. Half of the Capitol's dome has been destroyed as well, but it too is still standing.
*** Also in ''Modern Warfare 2'', in a desperate attempt to give the American forces a fighting chance, a nuke is launched and detonated in the vicinity of the International Space Station to trigger a massive EMP over the fighting, which kills everyone up there. Thanks, [[spoiler:Captain Price]].
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3:''
*** The first mission in ''Modern Warfare 3'' features a firefight on the Wall Street trading floor.
*** The first two missions of ''Modern Warfare 3'' prominently feature the New York City skyline in flames, pounded by a constant barrage of artillery and cruise missiles, though both the Freedom Tower and the Art/StatueOfLiberty are intact. The second Paris mission sees the Eiffel Tower literally ''destroyed'' by a series of friendly airstrikes meant to destroy Russian positions at the tower's base. These examples pretty much overlap with SceneryGorn, given how much detail is given to the destruction.
*** The church in "Blood Brothers" seems to be a stand-in for the St. Nicholas church in Prague, but it's not an actual recreation. It still gets blown up, [[spoiler:with you inside.]]
*** The Siberian diamond mine from "Down the Rabbit Hole" does exist in real life, but it isn't a monument. It too collapses, [[spoiler:on top of Team Metal and the remaining Ultranationalist forces.]]
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' sees part of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge torn asunder by explosive drones taking out the cables of the bridge.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'': In a post-apocalyptic Singapore, several Supertrees in Gardens by the Bay gets obliterated by drone missiles and later on, the entire Singapore Flyer Ferris Wheel gets toppled; all in the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs 54 Immortals]] attempts to kill the player(s) and his/her team.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' series.
** If you won the original ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'' as Nod, you got to watch some HollywoodHacking and then you got to choose which monument to destroy, options being the Brandenburger Gate (Berlin), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Tower of London or White House (Washington D.C.).
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' has a {{cutscene}} of the Eiffel Tower getting nuked if you fail one mission as the Allies, and another cutscene of a Soviet airstrike levelling the Parthenon. This highly upsets General Stavros, who vows revenge on Stalin.
** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', one of the Soviet missions involves [[WeaponisedLandmark turning the Eiffel Tower into a giant Tesla coil]]. Plus, you get to demolish the Pentagon and lots of other stuff. And in an unexpected inversion, the second to last mission of the Soviet campaign has you destroy [[spoiler:the Kremlin]]. The Soviets also destroy the Art/StatueOfLiberty at the start of the Allied campaign. This later led to some unfortunate implications due to 9/11, since the twin towers were destroyable structures in the game (and doing so actually ''rewarded'' the player with powerups). The games were pulled and later editions avoided calling the buildings by any names at all.
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' takes this to its most logical conclusion, combining it with WeaponizedLandmark; the last mission for the Allies has you destroying Leningrad's Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral, ''which turns into a massive shuttle launch facility.'' That's not even the silliest part - that would be Mount Rushmore's EyeBeams or the Moai Head Man Cannon. It also has the Soviets destroy the Art/StatueOfLiberty in their campaign only to build a statue of Lenin pointing ahead of him instead. The Empire of the Rising Sun destroys the Kremlin. All of it, in fact, [[SymbologyResearchFailure not just St. Basil's Cathedral]]. Although you do get to ''stomp'' on the cathedral with the King Oni. Emperor Yoshiro's desire to destroy significant landmarks is in fact a point of contention between him and his son, Tatsu. Yoshiro believes crushing hearts and minds is crucial to victory, while Tatsu doesn't see why they should bother when they can just pummel the Allies and Soviets into submission.
** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'', the Scrin mission in London has you destroy Big Ben and Parliament, precisely ''because'' they are significant to the humans.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' was scripted to have Arsenal Gear relocate the Art/StatueOfLiberty as it crashed into New York. [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents This was cut from the final game because of being too close to the September 11th atacks]]. Its crash deposits you onto a different landmark (Federal Hall) for the final BossBattle.
* You can cause a lot of this in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'', especially in the final level of the first game.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict''. The first mission takes place in downtown Seattle, so you might expect the Space Needle to go down. Nope. Instead, the Soviets destroy the Kingdome, a landmark that is 1) only recognizable to actual Seattleites, and 2) ''was demolished in 2000, seven years before the game was released'' (though it was around in 1989 when the game takes place).
** You can however destroy the Space Needle by accident if your airstrikes aren't on the mark. It doesn't cost you the mission or anything, and it can't be garrisoned, but it's still destructible.
** Later on - the Soviets invade New York and seize, among other things, the Art/StatueOfLiberty. If you fail the mission, the Statue is destroyed by an ''American'' airstrike.
* One of the main draws of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' is running around the ruins of D.C. two hundred years after a nuclear war and seeing what's still around and what's been reduced to ruin. Interestingly, the Lincoln Memorial is one of the least damaged structures in the Capital Wasteland although Lincoln's head is missing. You can get a quest to help restore it, though. The Washington Monument has steel rebar support inside of it, which is something the real world monument does not have: in the Fallout 'verse buildings were given reinforcement in expectation of a war with China. Though a big chunk is out of its iconic rotunda, the US Capitol, the meeting place of both houses of Congress, is mostly intact. You can even enter the congressional chambers and walk inside the rotunda (which is now a battleground between Talon mercs and Super Mutants).
** Played chillingly straight with the White House. It is not dilapidated and abandoned, it is not occupied by an evil overlord, it is just... gone. Apparently it was [[NukeEm Ground Zero]]. Two hundred years after the Great War, there is still nothing but an incredibly lethally radioactive crater at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
** Averted in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', as not only has the strip (and Hoover Dam) survived the war, some of the casinos (due to the retro-futuristic styling of ''Fallout'') are of styles that have long been demolished in the real-world Vegas. Justified in both cases; Mr. House's defense systems, while imperfect, still managed to shoot down most of the incoming nuclear warheads, thus keeping it mostly intact, while [[MadeOfIndestructium Hoover Dam is nearly six million tons of concrete and would be fine even with a direct hit]].
*** Parodied in the DLC Lonesome Road. If you have the Wild Wasteland trait (which activates the game's SillinessSwitch) and launch a nuke at both the NCR and the Legion, you are treated to an ending slideshow that parodies ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''. In place of the Art/StatueOfLiberty is the NCR's Ranger Statues near Mojave Outpost. The narrator, [[spoiler:Ulysses]], is a ColdHam here as he speaks in the same dry monotone voice despite his words dripping with ridiculous drama.
* In ''[[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Twisted Metal 2]]'', the third level, fittingly titled "Monumental Disaster," is set in Paris, and you can blow up the Eiffel Tower with a well-placed remote bomb on the upper level. Not only does this look cool, it opens up the rooftops for combat -- the top half of the tower tips over and forms a bridge to one of the roofs, while pieces of debris land elsewhere. You can also go in the Louvre and torch the Mona Lisa and a number of other priceless paintings. Apparently, this was so popular that the developers remade the level for ''Twisted Metal: Head-On''.
** Throughout the series, this happens quite a bit. You can blow up the Art/StatueOfLiberty and Hollywood Sign in ''2'' as well.
* ''VideoGame/WarGamesDefcon1'' has a mission where the Great Wall of China gets a hole ripped through it by the W.O.P.R forces.
* During the introduction to ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'', anti-UFO devices are seen being built at various landmarks. When they turn on, the [=UFOs=] crash, one of them crashing into the Eiffel Tower. The rest of the monuments remain virtually unharmed, until alien radiation creates the titular {{kaiju}}, who then rampage and destroy the landmarks anyway.
* ''VideoGame/SimCity'''s UFO disasters. As the ''[=SC3K=] Unlimited'' manual states: "Aliens who have attacked [=SimNation=] seem strangely attracted to landmarks."
* The FMV scene in ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'': Eve transformed into a giant blob form, traveled across Manhattan, and then appeared near the Art/StatueOfLiberty. Aya who's piloting a helicopter shot her with a missile taking out the blob and knocking down the statue.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' - In the Kasumi DLC, Donovan Hock, the man whose manor you're infiltrating, has a large collection of various ancient (or at least very old) artifacts. Including the Art/StatueOfLiberty's head. In Jack's backstory, she mentions how she committed "Vandalism" towards the Hanar by [[ColonyDrop crashing a space station]] upon their favorite moon.
** And in the debut trailer of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' there are ''eight'' [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] just [[CurbStompBattle annihilating London.]] Big Ben's already partially wrecked, and a Reaper is about to land on the London Eye.
** [[spoiler:Big Ben gets a few scratches, but it actually stays up throughout the entire Reaper invasion, as you find out when Shepard lands in London. It's only destroyed if you don't put enough work into the Crucible.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Tetrastar}}'' - The first seconds of gameplay show the Art/StatueOfLiberty being destroyed by aliens. Then the camera moves to the right to show the World Trade Center and the surrounding buildings. The player spends the rest of the stage trying to prevent the aliens from blowing up the city.
* In the [[BadFuture Post-Apocalypse]] era of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemZeroHour'', the Statue of Liberty is half-buried/submerged, a StockShoutOut to ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968''.
** The entire endgame of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' revolves around [[WhatTheHellHero Duke]] blowing up the Hoover Dam ([[spoiler:it was to stop the AlienInvasion, again]]).
* Captain America's stage in ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' is in front of a destroyed Statue of Liberty (who knows for what reason).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Emogame}} 2'', the second level has you blowing up the Mall of America.
* In ''VideoGame/StarControlII'', as part of the Ur-Quan's subjugation and imprisonment of the Earth, they destroyed every human dwelling, monument, and archaeological site that was more than 500 years old. This included several sites that humanity weren't even aware were important to their history (a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean floor, some of the Amazon Basin, and Antarctica).
* You don't directly see the damage, but ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}'' has Paris getting ''nuked'' by a stolen Russian bomb, and since you and your squad were within reasonable distance of the Eiffel Tower, it's pretty easy to imagine what happened to it. Thankfully, you manage to avert the same thing from happening to Times Square by the end of the game.
* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', the ruins of Shibuya's Scramble are one of the first places to be visited. A possible case might be the Diet Building, but it got dimensionally-distorted in a Creator/MCEscher way rather than fully demolished.
** This is pretty much a staple in the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei" series as you can find recognizable Japanese landmarks such as Tokyo Tower.
* In the first mission of ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' you are given the optional sidequest of destroying Mengsk's holo-statues. There's some logic to this too, the statues have built-in speakers projecting propaganda.
* The fourth chapter of ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Season One]]'', "Abraham Lincoln Must Die" takes things in a weird way. Agents seeking to replace the President animate the Abraham Lincoln statue of the Lincoln Memorial and when Max wins the election, it goes on the run. To destroy it, Sam and Max use ''the Washington Monument'' (in actuality, missiles) to destroy the statue. You can also direct one of the Washington Monuments to destroy [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Krypton]], too!
* P-Jack's stage background in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 2'' has a Big Ben look-alike half-buried in sand; a possible ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' reference.
* The campaign of ''VideoGame/{{Emergency}} 2012'' destroys or endangers the Cologne Cathedral, Tower Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, Brandenburg Gate, the Matterhorn, Red Square, the Kremlin, and the Acropolis of Athens.
* In ''VideoGame/JeffWaynesWarOfTheWorlds'', destroying the British houses of parliament is the Martian victory condition. The ending cutscene that follows culminates in a fighting machine shooting at the clocktower, which then crashes down on top of the camera.
* One loading screen in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' shows the Eiffel Tower being destroyed by the Hiver invasion of Earth.
* One of the trailers for ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' shows the Nazis dynamiting Mr. Rushmore after America's surrender.
** Averted in another trailer, where The Statue of Liberty is shown imposed against [[NukeEm a mushroom cloud rising over New York.]]
* Most of ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' is you protecting several Lady Liberty lookalike statues from invading alien force. It's actually justified in this case, as the statues have reactors in them powering a forcefield around Earth that's holding the aliens off.
* Each of ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'''s titular cephalopod's rampages culminates with the destruction of an incredibly famous landmark, like the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of the Liberty. The final one, the White House, [[spoiler:turns out to be a war machine called Mech Force One.]]
* Invoked in ''The Omega Stone'', in which you have to blow up a moai on Easter Island to access a hidden lava-tunnel network. Blatant vandalism, but excusable considering how the alternative is [[spoiler:letting a comet collide with the Earth]].
* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'': Mysterio's ersatz alien invasion features his equally-false defacement of the Statue of Liberty.
* The first boss fight in ''VideoGame/SuperGodzilla'' is against King Ghidorah, who makes his entrance by destroying Osaka Castle.
* The teaser trailer for ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' showcases a broken and upside-down Eiffel Tower, situated in a desolate desert.
* It appears that in the upcoming indie game ''Kaichu'', meeting up to destroy a famous landmark is kaijus' idea of a date.
* ''Horizon'':
** ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' takes place in a post-apocalyptic Colorado, Utah, and (in the ''Frozen Wilds'' expansion) Wyoming, and features the {{ruins|OfTheModernAge}} of several area landmarks: the Air Force Academy Chapel, the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, Mile High Stadium, Red Rocks Amphitheater, the Mesa Laboratory, the Bridal Veil Powerhouse, the Provo Utah Temple, the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center, and Roosevelt Arch. Thunder's Drum, the mesa [[spoiler:where Project FIREBREAK is located]] that's unnaturally billowing plumes of smoke, is also implied to be either Devils Tower or Squaretop Mountain. [[SubvertedTrope On the other hand]], the fact that Lake Powell still exists implies that the Glen Canyon Dam has somehow survived a thousand years.
** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', moves the setting to the West Coast and prominently features the ruins of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, now partly flooded and covered by a jungle, as a major setting, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Ferry Building, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Transamerica Pyramid, City Hall, Lombard Street, and several of the city's cable cars and Victorian "painted ladies" houses. The trailer also shows Aloy exploring the ruins of what appears to be a Chinese-themed UsefulNotes/LasVegas casino.
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* The third and fourth episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' each had a montage showing the Neosapien invasion of Earth that featured Neo E-Frames blowing up a number of world-renowned structures, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the United States Capitol, the Taj Mahal, and Art/TheSphinx.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', Metlar animates the Statue of Liberty when he's been dosed with a love potion and is looking for a date. Possibly justified, as there aren't that many Inhumanoid-sized female statues made of metal he could choose from. Also, in the opening StoryArc, one of the statues in Metlar's army resembles the Colossus of Rhodes.
* As mentioned under Film, in the original ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' the episode "Atlantis Arise" centered on the Decepticons allying with the city of Sub-Atlantica to attack [[WashingtonDCInvasion Washington, DC]]. The Decepticons damaged the Washington Monument to the point where it would have toppled had the Autobots not intervened, and Megatron himself strode into the Lincoln Memorial and ripped the Abraham Lincoln part of the statue off to claim its chair as his throne. Impossible (hence why the movie version shot the statue), but the symbolism is still effective.
* In the finale of the five-part episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' where Serpentor was born, the eponymous villain leads an attack on Washington DC, and while he doesn't ''damage'' the Lincoln Memorial, he ''is'' enough of an egotist to use it as a throne until the heroes arrive to kick him out. (As even many members of Cobra said but only Cobra Commander would say out loud, the rather spontaneous and reckless assault was the first sign that Serpentor would be no better than the guy he replaced.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' the heads of Mt. Rushmore get destroyed twice and have to be replaced by holograms.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', after the Incurseans conquer Earth, Emperor Milleous has the Waybads replace Lincoln's head with his own, as well as the Statue of Liberty's with his daughter Attea's.
* The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "Grand Canyonscope" has Donald and a mountain lion cause a landslide that fills up the Grand Canyon. The cartoon ends with Ranger Woodlore making the both of them fix it by digging up the whole canyon again.
* In the Book 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' [[spoiler:the giant version of Unalaq pulls down]] the statue of Aang that looks a lot like the Art/StatueOfLiberty.
* PlayedForLaughs in the Creator/{{MGM}} cartoon "WesternAnimation/LittleJohnnyJet". As the protagonist and his son (both anthropomorphic airplanes) rocket around the world at high speed, some famous monuments get the Trope equivalent of AmusingInjuries; the Sphinx is given a crew cut, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilted the other way, the Eiffel Tower barely avoids a collision by lifting its "legs", and rushing past the Statue of Liberty results in a PantyShot as her dress is blown to the side. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer (Seriously.)]]

* One episode of the ''[[WesternAnimation/BabyHuey Baby Huey Show]]'' has the fox try to kill Huey with a ''nuke''. Cue a rip off [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 the Liberty Statue scene]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', when Timmy accidentally frees all the anti-fairies, their bad luck spree destroys several monuments, like the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.

-->'''Mrs. Rich''': Oh my god, ''my nose!'' I look like Creator/MichaelJackson!