History Main / TearUpTheContract

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* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'': In "Dark Agent," Ami and Yumi sell their souls to the devil and replace Kaz with him as their manager. When success becomes ennui, the girls want out, so Kaz does more than tear up the contract--he sets it on fire.

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* ''{{Series/Angel}}'': Wesley burns Lilah's employment contract in an attempt to release her. It doesn't work because the magical contract automatically reappears when destroyed.

* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'', "The Campaign": Myra is a SoiledDove who is engaged to Horace, but she's bound by contract to work at Hank's saloon. Inspired by women taking part in local elections, she decides to leave at once and she rips her contract with Hank in half when he refuses to let her go.

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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'', Gwen, upon seeing the state of Camp Wawanakwa, says that she didn't sign up for this. Chris pulls out a contract pointing out that she, in fact, ''did'' sign up for this, prompting her to grab the contract and rip it up. However, Chris pulls out another one, saying that he made several copies of the contract.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "The Truce Hurts", the titular cat and mouse and Spike the bulldog all decide there's no reason they should be fighting, and they decide to become friends right then and there. To prove their new friendship, they sign a peace treaty. It works out well at first, with Tom and Spike even saving their new friends from other cats and dogs. But when they come into possession of a steak, they can't figure out how to divvy it up fairly and they end up losing the steak in a sewer drainage grate. As a result, Spike tears up the treaty, and [[StatusQuoIsGod the cartoon ends as it had began: with Tom, Jerry and Spike all fighting with one another]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "The Truce Hurts", the titular cat and mouse and Spike the bulldog all decide there's no reason they should be fighting, and they decide to end their feud right then and there and become friends. To prove their new friendship, they sign a peace treaty. It works out well at first, with Tom and Spike even saving their new friends from other cats and dogs. But when they come into possession of a steak, they can't figure out how to divvy it up fairly and they end up losing the steak in a sewer drainage grate. As a result, Spike tears up the treaty, and [[StatusQuoIsGod the cartoon ends as it had began: with Tom, Jerry and Spike all fighting with one another]].

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* In his autobiography ''Angela's Ashes'', Frank McCourt tells about his job writing dunning notices for a woman who lends money to impoverished local families. When he arrives one day to find the woman dead, he takes enough of her money to return to the United States, where he was born, and destroys the woman's account book by dumping it in a body of water, effectively cancelling all the debts recorded in it.

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* Wrestling/CMPunk tore up his contract with Wrestling/{{WWE}} at the end of the July 11, 2011 edition of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FouccjzEEPU The segment]], fresh off the events of the June 28, 2011 edition of ''Raw'', where Punk declared his intentions of [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere letting his contract expire and get out of the company]] holding the WWE title, began with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon wanting to renew the contract, giving him the things he demanded until the whole ordeal devolved into name-calling and rage on both sides. Then Wrestling/JohnCena came to put Punk in his place, and Punk [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech/CMPunk dressed him all over the place]], even going as so far as to tell Cena that [[YouAreWhatYouHate he wasn't the underdog anymore]], he was an empire [[BullyingADragon "like the New York Yankees"]]. Cue the usually calm John [[BerserkButton furious at the comparison]] punching Punk, and Punk getting out of the ring and shredding the unsigned contract.

* Wrestling/CMPunk tore up his contract with Wrestling/{{WWE}} at the end of the July 11, 2011 edition of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FouccjzEEPU The segment]], fresh off the events of the June 28th, 2011 edition of ''Raw'', where Punk declared his intentions of [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere letting his contract expire and get out of the company]] holding the WWE title, began with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon wanting to renew the contract, giving him the things he demanded until the whole ordeal devolved into name-calling and rage on both sides. Then Wrestling/JohnCena came to put Punk in his place, and Punk [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech/CMPunk dressed him all over the place]], even going as so far as to tell Cena that [[YouAreWhatYouHate he wasn't the underdog anymore]], he was an empire [[BullyingADragon "like the New York Yankees"]]. Cue the usually calm John [[BerserkButton furious at the comparison]] punching Punk, and Punk getting out of the ring and shredding the unsigned contract.

* At the end of ''Film/GoodBurger'', Dexter Reed does this to the unfair contract he made Ed sign that gave him 80% of the profits of his secret sauce.
* Although not a contract, at the end of ''Film/AirForceOne'' the cabinet have all signed an order to enact the 25th Amendment while the President was held hostage. Before the Vice President could sign to make it official, AmericaSavesTheDay so it's deemed unnecessary and then symbolically torn up.

* Although not a contract but at the end of ''Film/AirForceOne'' while the president was held hostage, the cabinet have all signed to enact the 25th Amendment. Before the Vice President could sign it to make it official, AmericaSavesTheDay so it's then symbolically torn up.