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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]].

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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 decide how to divvy it up fairly 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 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 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 become friends right then and there and become friends.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]].
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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 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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* The ''Literature/LogHorizon'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10213363/1/Blood-and-Water Blood and Water]]'' has Rudy's father [[AbusiveParent attempting to force his son back home so he can use his accomplishments as an adventurer to boost their standing as nobility]]. Shiroe shows the contract that signifies Rudy's allegiance to Log Horizon when he joined and prevents anyone from forcing him to leave, especially with the guild's backing in keeping him safe. When Guid Rundelhaus tries to rip it half to nullify the contract, Shiroe explains that he just tore up a copy he kept around for display purpose, while the real one is in a safe location so it can't be damaged.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenry'': When the steam hammer arrives to take the jobs of all the railroad workers, the foreman protests, showing the rail men have a contract to work on this land. In response, the steam hammer's driver snatches the contract out of the foreman's hands and throws it in the flames of his machine's engine.
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* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'': After an order is put out for George Bailey's arrest on suspicion of having stolen money that was supposed to be deposited in his Savings and Loan business (money that was really stolen by Potter), the police show up at George's house with a warrant. But when George's neighbors arrive with their own money to bail him out of his debt, the cops admit defeat by tearing up the warrant.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheFaithChronicles'', Quentin Travers comes to Cheyenne Mountain and presents General Hammond with a copy of the agreement with the Watcher's Council that prohibits a Slayer serving in the armed forces as part of his plan to take custody of Faith Lehane. However, Hammond responds by tearing up the contract and throwing the paper in a bin as he makes it clear to Travers that as far as he's concerned, there is no "Faith Lehane" in his facility; the person Travers wants is Ellie Carter, daughter of Major Samantha Carter, and there is no contract authorising the Council to take children away from their families that Hammond is aware of or would ever approve of.
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* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': In "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS3E6WhereTheresAWill Where There's a Will]]", Mr. Howell changes his will to include all the other Castaways and gives them each a copy for when the time comes. Then a series of misunderstood events convince him they're planning to speed up the inheritance. He fakes his death and hides in a tree to observe the funeral. While the others are grieving, each of them tears up their respective copy. This moves Mr. Howell to tears; he'd been convinced they were only interested in his wealth.
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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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* In his autobiography ''Angela's Ashes'', Frank McCourt [=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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* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 37, the rabbit king owns [[spoiler:the Luminous Ray, a shower head used to snap the rabbits out of Darton's curse]], but refuses to keep his promise to the goats to own it for only three days. When Slowy brings out the contract he signed to start the deal, the rabbit king eats it and says "I don't see a contract."
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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.

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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, 27, 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.
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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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* 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.

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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 28th, 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.
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* 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.

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* 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 from his secret sauce.
* Although not a contract, at the end of ''Film/AirForceOne'' ''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.
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* 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.

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

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