History Main / MonumentalDamage

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': The award-winning "Kitten Kong" episode sees the eponymous giant kitten destroying the Post Office Tower in London (now known as the BT Tower). Not exactly a world landmark, but pretty well-known in Britain. The shot became part of subsequent seasons' episode title montage. In the same scene, Tinkles also sticks its head out of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': The award-winning "Kitten Kong" episode sees the eponymous giant kitten destroying the Post Office Tower in London (now known as the BT Tower). Not exactly a world landmark, but pretty well-known in Britain. The shot became part of subsequent seasons' episode title montage.

* In a flashback to the depression era New York in ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building get blown up by Margery Daw. However, [[WeirdnessCensor no one noticed]] and they were evidently repaired.

* ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'''s protagonist Godou will accidentally destroy in the process of fighting ''any monument'' that is introduced in the story. So much that you could probably make a DrinkingGame out of it.

* Shuri Castle, the political center of the Ryukyu Kingdom on Okinawa for four and a half centuries, was destroyed five times since it was first built, two of those times in the years after said kingdom had been annexed by Japan. During the Battle of Okinawa, with its underground complex being used by the defending Imperial Japanese Army as a headquarters, it was shelled for three days by the United States Navy and caught on fire for several days before United States Marines captured it. After the war the complex was eventually rebuilt and reopened to the public as a park in 1992...and then burned down again in 2019, this time by accident.

A weird exception is that it's very, very rare for any monument-destroying force to harm the Lincoln Memorial. It's not ''unknown'', but the Great Emancipator's statue takes significantly less damage than you might expect.

* The Great Sphinx of Giza is missing a few of its original features, most notably its nose. Although some apocryphal stories attribute the loss to acts of vandalism by Napoleon's army, they are false, as artistic depictions of the monument dating to the mid-18th Century also show it without the nose. One of the more likely theories pins the blame on Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the 13th Century who defaced the Sphinx's face in an act of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm iconoclasm]]. And, according to some local legends that persisted after the ignoble deed, there was a noticeable increase in the amount of sand around the Giza Plateau after the Sphinx's nose was removed, [[CurseOfThePharaoh presumably as a vengeful curse to punish al-Dahr.]]

** In ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' the Major also orders this, but explicitly forbids destroying the Holocaust Museum as there will be no [[{{ConspiracyTheories/HToN}} denying what they did]].

* Fuji gets hit by a giant, fist-shaped asteroid holding the [[ConspiracyTheories/HToN dMp]] at the start of ''Anime/UltimateMuscle''.

* ''Animation/WarOfTheWorldsGoliath''. Everyone's cheering over having defeated the Martian forces attacking New York City, when a giant Martian flying wing rises from the harbour and knocks the Statue of Liberty off its pedestal. Incidentally Lady Liberty is holding a sword rather than a torch, as it's a war memorial for the previous Martian invasion.

** In "Inconstant Moon", Professor Stan Hurst imagines UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty and the World Trade Center in full view, being destroyed as a result of UsefulNotes/TheSun going nova.

** And in ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' Obelix breaks the arms of the Venus de Milo while in [[VastBureaucracy The Place That Sends You Mad]].

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' also breaks the Venus de Milo's arms while skipping stones. Megera claims it looks better that way.[[note]]"No, it really does."[[/note]]

** Mount Rushmore is afflicted by some manner of infection thanks to the ADA. The nature of it is unknown, but whatever it does seems to cause the whole mountain to grow bizarre stains, let the presidents' visages slowly seep into the UncannyValley, and [[spoiler:sprout dozens of enormous spikes of unknown material, origin or nature by the end of the week]]. It's unknown, however, if this is actual damage to the monument or simply unmasking its (unknown) nature.

* DC Comics ComicBook/{{Steel}} and [[DorkAge Non-Green-Lantern-Guy-Gardner-But-Rather-Warrior]] fought Sledge (DC villain that is somewhat [[ComicBook/XMen Juggernaut-lite]]) and couldn't put him down until the Washington Monument fell on his head.

'''Birdgirl:''' [reading a copy of the Constitution] The penalty for defacing a monument is up to five months in prison ''or impeachment''!

* In the opening scene of ''Series/SSGB'', London appears surprisingly intact fourteen months after the [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory Nazis won the Battle of Britain]], but then we're shown that Buckingham Palace is a bombed-out ruin.

* The Golden Gate Bridge was pretty messed up in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' when the Breen attacked Earth. [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:San_Francisco_attacked2.jpg "The Changing Face of Evil"]]
** As in Film (above), this isn't just wanton destruction, as Starfleet Headquarters is in the Presidio right next door.

** The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed twice. First, it was burned to the ground by some idiot named Herostratus in 356 BC. The guy's self-proclaimed only goal was [[AttentionWhore to be remembered by history forever]] and, since we're talking about him over 2,000 years later, it obviously worked. Nevertheless, the temple was rebuilt, only to be sacked by Goths (not [[{{Goth}} that kind]]) in 262 AD.

* Out of the [[UsefulNotes/SevenWondersOfTheWorld Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]], only the Great Pyramid of Egypt is still with us, and even then most of its outer limestone has been looted or eroded. The others had all been destroyed by the year 1500:

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': There are a couple examples which are slightly tamer than usual disaster movie standards considering the Monuments' obscurity in RealLife. There's the underwater damage done to the Yonaguni Monument by Godzilla's battle against the Many in Chapter 13, and there's the steeple of the Khram Vo Imya church in Berezniki [[spoiler: [[ImprovisedWeapon being used]] as a weapon by Monster X to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother]], as well as implicitly getting leveled with the rest of the city]], in Chapter 17.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': There are a couple examples which are slightly tamer than usual disaster movie standards considering the Monuments' obscurity in RealLife. There's the underwater damage done to the Yonaguni Monument by Godzilla's battle against the Many in Chapter 13, and there's the Khram Vo Imya church in Berezniki losing a steeple during [[spoiler:Monser X's revenge on [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother and implicitly getting leveled with the city]], in Chapter 17.

** Another one, ''Literature/ForAllTime'', has the Nazis launch an air raid on New York City. Most of their Ju-390's don't manage to get past the anti-air guns, but one manages to start a fire that damages much of Harlem and another crashes into the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and the impact detonates its onboard stockpile of bombs, toppling the statue into the fire. It's rebuilt after the war.

* ''Manga/{{X1999}}'': Most of the landmarks in Tokyo are considered to be barriers that protect the city and the world. It's up to the Dragons of Heaven to protect them from the Dragons of Earth. To do that every Dragon of Heaven (except Kamui) creates a spirit barrier to keep civilians out of harm's way once they engage in battle against a Dragon of Earth. If a Dragon of Heaven dies in combat, the spirit barrier along with the landmark. The movie shows how damaging the battles are such as the destruction of the Sunshine 60 building, the National Diet Building, and Tokyo Tower which is where the FinalBattle between Fuuma and Kamui takes place.