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[[caption-width-right:314:Wake him up early, will you?!]]

->''"There I was, on the one-yard line ready to score a touchdown to win the Super Bowl, when the new guy's alarm clock went off! If he wakes me up one more time like that, he's gonna get struck by Lightning!"''
-->-- '''Lightning''', ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]''

Our lives are increasingly filled with small electronic devices that make annoying shrill noises at us, usually when we least want them to. This often results in sudden, shocking violence toward such devices. Thus, makers of alarm clocks will never go out of business.

The oldest examples of this trope are all alarm clocks (or occasionally the even older non-digital form of the annoying wake-up, [[CockADoodleDawn the rooster]]). Only with the arrival of the ubiquitous cell phone, has this trope wandered out of the bedroom and into public places.

The advent of cell phones has also instituted the expansion of the trope to violence directed toward devices owned by people other than yourself. It's not all that easy to justify whacking someone else's alarm clock (unless it's that pesky rooster owned by the neighboring farmer), but grabbing and smashing the cell phone of an inconsiderate owner -- say, someone talking loudly and obnoxiously in a public place, or someone who forgot to turn the phone's ringer off before entering a movie theater -- is not only simple but may be considered a form of public service. ([[DontTryThisAtHome We do not support doing this in real life.]] You may get hurt or [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope charged with a crime]]. On the other hand... [--WorthIt--].)

Other annoying modern noisemakers that may also be subject to this trope include smoke detectors/fire alarms, car alarms (usually requires demolishing the entire car to stop the noise), and carbon monoxide detectors.

Subtrope of PercussiveShutdown. A common tactic if the cruncher is NotAMorningPerson. A typical reason for this reaction is IWasHavingSuchANiceDream. Compare CuckooClockGag for another kind of clock used for comedic effect. See also CuttingTheElectronicLeash, a cellphone-specific and generally less violent related trope, AgitatedItemStomping, ShootTheTelevision. May go hand in hand with ThatSatisfyingCrunch (for which this is a SubTrope).

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!!Example Subpages:

[[index]]
* RingRingCrunch/LiveActionTV
* RingRingCrunch/WesternAnimation
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!!Other Examples:

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[[folder:Animation]]
* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': In Season 2 episode 10, Adu Du is frustrated with his alarm clock, which keeps going off, and hits it with a hammer to quiet the alarm, to no avail. Then it goes off once again, and Adu Du decides to destroy it with his ray gun, which works once and for all.
* In the Soviet short ''Animation/HisWifeIsAHen'', the husband has this reaction to the alarm clock after waking from his nightmare.
* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Diet Doc", when the alarm clock rings the morning Specs Doc goes to exercise and get fit, he crushes the clock with his fist.
* The Hong Kong animated film ''Color Manhua/OldMasterQ'' features a hapless alarm clock attempting to wake the titular character. It gets bashed with a wrench for its troubles. In spite of being reduced to a clockwork pancake, it succeeds in waking Old Master Q with a little help from MurphysBed abruptly dumping Old Master Q on the floor and closing up so he can't get back on it.
* ''Animation/OyeGolu'': At the beginning of "Oye Chiku", Adi's alarm clock goes off and Golu hits it with a hammer.
* A few ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episodes, among them the series premiere "Sumo Momo", begin with Samosa being woken up by his alarm clock, which he then throws onto a wall, causing it to break and land in a box of broken alarm clocks.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'', Jiro turns off Mimiko's alarm clock by cutting it in half (since, according to Kotaro, he isn't good with new technology).
* At the start of Episode 54 of ''Anime/ChargemanKen'', a lazy museum employee punches his alarm clock(which pops out of the wall), and smacks it with a lamp.
* Specifically averted in ''VisualNovel/DaCapo''. Nemu gets Junichi a round alarm clock so that if he tries to hit it, it will just roll away and ring somewhere else.
* ''Manga/FutariEcchi'' has a coworker of Makoto's wake up and throw her ringing alarm clock against the wall, then goes back to sleep. It's mentioned that this is a habit of hers and she's [[NotAMorningPerson not good with mornings]].
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', during a lull in the battle aboard the H.M.S. Eagle, an alarm clock starts ringing, only to be promptly smashed underfoot by Alucard. [[spoiler: The alarm clock indicates that enough time has passed that Alucard will not be able to be returned to London when it is attacked by the Last Battalion.]]
* ''Anime/InuYasha'' once destroys Kagome's ringing alarm clock so she doesn't wake up and find him in her bedroom.
* Subverted in ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Misao takes a damaged alarm clock in Kagami's room as proof of Kagami's "legendary morning violence", before Kagami corrects her.
* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Saitama wakes up from an action-packed fight dream when his alarm clock starts ringing, to which of course he punches it to stop it. This sends it straight through the floor. Though granted it seemed it was done out of habit rather than annoyance.
* In the first episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Ash smashes his Voltorb-shaped alarm clock against the wall while dreaming -- so it doesn't wake him up at the right time, which directly leads him to get Pikachu as his first Pokémon. The ''Journeys'' season reveals that wasn't the first time: he did the same a few years prior and missed out Professor Oak's summer camp as a result.
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', the titular character smacks away an alarm clock without waking up...only to get a much ruder (or not, if you're into that kind of thing) wake-up call by [[MarshmallowHell Blair]]...
* More of a 'tick tick tick tick SMASH. CRUNCH.' and then probably stomping on the parts in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' when Shiki is getting some spillover from Roa/SHIKI and causing violent rage of which he's not really aware. He wanted to lie down and get rid of his headache so he could talk to Ciel without... getting... horrible destructive. Good luck, Shiki!
* While it doesn't get smashed just for ringing (the owner was refusing to shut it off even though the signal was causing problems with a woman's medical device), Souichi grabs the phone of another rider on the train and stomps on it in ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove.''
* The Rare Hunters do this to Tea/Anzu's mobile phone in ''Anime/YuGiOh''.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'': Achille once tries to get an annoying transistor radio to shut up by smashing it against a rock and feeding the pieces to his pet duck. Unfortunately, the radio keeps working from inside the duck's belly.
* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', we meet the Silver Adept, the premiere sorceress of the Astro City universe in this manner. Raitha, the Silver Adept's personal assistant, finds her sprawled on her bed after a long night partying, reminding her that it's after 8:30 am.
-->'''Silver Adept:''' I set the alarm, I swear I set the alarm!\\
'''Raitha:''' ''[noticing an alarm clock embedded in the wall above the door frame]'' I don't doubt it.
* In the NSFW comic ''The Big Bad Wolf Club'', the trope is played straight when a rabbit smashes his alarm clock with a huge hammer as it wakes him up at 7:00 AM. [[{{Bookends}} Near the end of the comic]], the alarm clock is waking him up at 7:00 ''PM'', [[SubvertedTrope and he calmly shuts it off]].
* In ''ComicBook/ElectricGirl'', Virginia zaps her alarm clock with her electricity powers, and her parents have to warn her not to go through too many clocks.
* In the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comic book, Ben Grimm was forever forgetting his SuperStrength and smashing his alarm clock to bits when he went to turn it off. The next panel would usually show him tossing it onto a pile of similarly smashed clocks.
* Implied in ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie''. While HeavySleeper Basile is never actually shown demolishing his alarm clock, some bedroom scenes show it smashed by a large hammer, or simply with an "out of order" sign on it. Unfortunately for him, his MeanBoss usually wakes him up by much less orthodox and more violent means...
* In ''ComicBook/ReidFlemingWorldsToughestMilkman'', Reid begins a Monday morning by hurling his alarm clock at the wall. When that fails to silence it, he leaps on it, cursing, throws it into the toilet, and then urinates on it.
* In ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'', a miniaturized radio with the volume turned to the maximum is swallowed by the Franchise/{{Marsupilami}} and lodges itself in his nose, where it keeps working until the Marsupilami, exasperated, punches himself in the face.
* ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' has Katchoo go through a new alarm clock every day, often with a large-caliber bullet from a gun she kept under her pillow. She accumulated a large pile of ruined clocks before the RunningGag faded from the series. Interestingly, the story included a DreamSequence that explained, in heart-wrenching detail, ''exactly'' why Katchoo is so upset at being awakened.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** In an old comic, Kitty Pryde used her tendency to fry electrical equipment she "phases" through to the detriment of her clock radio.
** Cyclops on the other hand, merely ''[[EyeBeams looks]]'' at his alarm clock.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'', the Colonel orders seven exploding alarm clocks a week.
* Alice from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' once did this during a meeting where she was explaining the benefits of titanium rods like the one that happened to be in her possession at that time. A cell phone goes off and she shows just one of the reasons ''why'' they are so useful. She hands the offending co-worker the titanium rod with what's left of the cell phone stuck to it with a simple "It's for you."
* Peter does it in a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' Sunday strip when the alarm clock interrupts a dream about making out with swimsuit models.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' does this regularly to his alarm clock. Other times, he has done it to anything that made a ringing noise, including a telephone (at least twice) and an ''ice cream truck''.
* Done with a talking clock in one ''Mad Magazine'' short. The clock says "Time to Wake Up" repeatedly until the CRUNCH, after which it says, "Murderer... murderer... murderer..."
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/BeingDeadAintEasy'', to put it simply, Seto Kaiba is not a morning person.
-->When the alarm goes off at 5:30AM, I hafta duck 'cause instead of turnin' it off, the freak groans, grabs the clock, and chucks it across the room. The poor clock smashes against the wall and dies.
* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/TheBestNightEver'' (a WholePlotReference to ''Film/GroundhogDay'' below), Prince Blueblood whales the springs out of the alarm clock for playing "Equestria Girls" every bucking iteration of the loop. And remember, this is a pony doing the Ring Ring Crunch; a hooved mammal.
* [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2917924 A fan-art by Bobthedalek]] has Trixie in a hammock being woken up by a Twilight-Sparkle-shaped alarm clock screeching "WAKE UP, IT'S TWILIGHT TIME!" The clock is visibly battered, and Trixie is wielding a baseball bat by telekinesis to make it even more so.
* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': When Penny's alarm clock awakens her in "The Insomniac," she silences it by slapping its top.
* Hobbes does this with a doorbell in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13461766/4/Christmas-Miracle Christmas Miracle]]'', a half-asleep Harry banishes his alarm clock at the wall after failing to reach the off button.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10244502/1/THE-GREENGRASS-COMPLEX THE GREENGRASS COMPLEX]]'' Harry shoots his alarm clock every morning. According to Neville, six thousand have been destroyed in this manner.
* ''Fanfic/GreenTeaRescue'': Ochako smashes her alarm clock after it interrupts a particularly steamy EroticDream about Izuku following the Sports Festival.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3875254/1/Hero-High-Earth-style Hero High Earth Style]], Gwen gets Ben an alarm clock for his birthday specifically because it can't be crunched as it is locked in a clear case which requires one to be awake enough to unlock it before it can be shut off.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13562857/6/I-ll-Play-Your-Game I'll Play Your Game]]'' Draco smashed an alarm clock he'd had all of a week because being woken suddenly makes him panic.
* ''Fanfic/{{Metro}}'': In [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/item/927-no-rest-for-the-wicked "Metro 1: Chewing Through the Straps (Part 3)"]], this is referenced, as possibly by implied SuperStrength, but avoided:
-->As much as Geneviève "Spark" Etincelle enjoyed most of her classes, at least those on the designated "tech" track, there was little to love about waking up on a Monday morning to get ready to attend them. She reached over to silence her alarm clock as quickly as an Exemplar could without smashing it.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/PokemonTheOriginOfSpecies'' when Red swings his pillow in an attempt to silence his alarm, but it's slightly out of reach.
--> As if whoever decided where to place it had done so after measuring the length of the boy's arm and a pillow.[[note]]Red knew he would have trouble waking up, due to staying up late out of excitement, so he carefully positioned his alarm clock the night before. Which tells the reader a lot about [[RationalFic what kind of protagonist this is]].[[/note]]
* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/ThePowersOfHarmony'', Twilight Pulls an interesting take on this. The alarm goes off, so she throws it out the window hard enough for it to fly for hundreds of yards. It hits one of her bodyguards.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'', Princess Luna is startled awake by Sundance's alarm clock and blasts it through a door and an outside wall. To be fair, it was her first time ever using one.
* In the fanfic ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/9135/a-slice-of-life A Slice of Life]]'', Celestia does this to her alarm clock. It's vaguely ironic that the Sun Princess, responsible for bringing the dawn at the beginning of each day, is [[NotAMorningPerson not a morning pony.]]
* ''Fanfic/SummerDaysAndEveningFlames'': Gilda's first morning with an alarm clock, since she is now a Royal Guard cadet, she needs to wake up on schedule. Unlike most examples, Gilda comes to regret the event, since it leaves her talons aching for a few days, she needs to spend precious money to buy a new one, and the only one she could afford [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking is a cuckoo clock with a pop-out bunny]].
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12594346/1/Time-Travel-Really Time Travel? Really!]]'', Rose smashes her alarm clock every morning after it goes off and then casts Reparo on it.
* Subverted in ''Fanfic/TheSymbolOfPeaceAndJustice''. Gohan smashes his alarm clock upon waking up, but the sound continues, and he realizes it was actually the doorbell ringing.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'', when Mrs. Mavilda's alarm clock goes off. The awful sound design makes it an unintentional SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} in a SoBadItsGood kind of way.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', Nancy's [[spoiler: (animated!)]] cell phone rings during [[spoiler: her (also animated) wedding]]. She takes it out; comments, "[[SuperCellReception Wow, really good reception here]]," then throws it to the floor with enough force to shatter it to bits.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Grinch|2018}}'', an alarm clock meets this fate when it wakes the Grinch up with Christmas songs. He first hits it, then throws increasingly larger objects at it to get it to shut up.
* ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'':
** Seen in ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', when sleeping in Woodstock's nest on their journey to see Lila in the hospital, Snoopy is startled awake by his very loud alarm clock and smashes it with his fist. Then Woodstock laughs at him, so Snoopy conks ''him'' on the head as well.
** The opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' features a wake-up montage. Peppermint Patty smashes her alarm clock with a hockey stick.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol'' has Grouchy give his alarm clock a single fist pound to shut it off.
* Carl Frederickson in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' pounds his alarm clock with a fist to stop its ringing. This gets a CallBack later when he's in the South American wilderness. A frog chirps and wakes him, and gets rewarded with the groggy [[AmusingInjuries thump of a fist]].
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', this is the first sign that the newly empowered Peter Parker DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength. Not to mention it shows off his new reflexes, the clock only gets in about two rings before the crunching.
* Another variant occurs in ''Film/AnimalHouse'' when Bluto stops an annoying crooner's song by smashing his guitar against the wall.
* ''Film/AxeMurderingWithHackley'': At the start of the movie, we see Hackley stop his alarm clock ringing by taking an axe to it.
* In ''Film/BrainDonors'', this is part of handyman Jacques' morning routine. He even has a dresser drawer full of broken alarm clock parts and a closet full of new clocks for this purpose.
* In ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', Bruce throws his pager out the window, where a car runs over it. It still works. [[AWizardDidIt God did it.]]
* In TheMovie of ''Film/CityHunter'' starring Creator/JackieChan, the movie opens with this, with Ryo Saeba expertly shooting the (hanging) alarm clocks set by his assistant. He doesn't even come close to waking up.
* Played with in movie ''Film/GetSmart''. Agent 23 smashes a colleague's phone in a meeting (the colleague was texting during the meeting). The guy sitting on the other side of 23 angrily takes the pieces and says "Next time, use your own damn phone."
* In ''Film/GroundhogDay'', Phil does this to his clock radio that won't stop playing "I Got You Babe" every morning at 6:00. To be fair, that was only two days that it played the song. He just happened to live the first day over and over for decades.
* In ''Film/TheKillingKind'', Terry responds to be being awoken from a very Freudian nightmare by smashing his fist down on the alarm clock several times and then hurling it across the room.
* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. A kid smashes one up with a hammer because living AfterTheEnd he's no idea what the ringing sound means.
* In ''Film/TheMask'', the titular character is "trying" to sneak quietly past his landlady's apartment when an alarm clock pops out of his pocket and starts bouncing noisily around. He finally smashes it with a giant cartoon hammer.
-->'''The Mask:''' Snooze!
* A Variant of this occurs in ''Film/RainMan'' when Raymond's attempts to get breakfast trigger the smoke alarm in Charlie's apartment, freaking him out until Charlie destroys it.
* As a RunningGag in the Finnish film ''Film/RolloAndTheSpiritOfTheWoods'', whenever Rolli is awakened by an alarm clock, he starts humorously hitting it with a hammer before throwing it into a flowerbed where it finally shuts down. The second time he's shown doing this, there's already about half a dozen alarm clocks in the flowerbed. And by the end of the movie, he still has about as much of them in the cottage he resides in.
* ''Film/AWakefieldProject'': When Eric is awakened by his alarm clock, he shuts it off. Then it starts back up again, to which he unplugs it. Then [[BeyondTheImpossible it starts up [=AGAIN=]]], at which point, Eric picks it up and throws it against the wall. It does the trick.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
* This occurs in ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' because both Remo and Chuin smash phones all the time. They usually tear them out of the walls.
* Played with in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. Harry has a Mickey Mouse alarm clock specifically so that he doesn't do this. He couldn't live with a guy who'd hit Mickey Mouse.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric is having a pleasant dream about how he has returned to Tariatla only to be woken up by his alarm clock, so he stabs it with his Tariatlan mage spear. Then he twists the crystal blade to make sure it's dead.
* Ring Ring CRUNCH is the central theme of Creator/RayBradbury's short story, "The Murderer". The protagonist becomes fed up with the ubiquity and intrusiveness of radios, phones, and the like, so he begins to systematically destroy the intrusive devices in his life. [[spoiler:He pours ice cream into a speaker grille, stuffs another device in the garbage disposal (which, as a useful and non-intrusive technology, is the only thing he feels sorry about), and even uses an EMP on the bus and basks in the panic and subsequent civility as people are forced to ''talk'' to each other.]]
* Creator/NealStephenson examples:
** In ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'', when Randy's wristwatch's alarm goes off, Amy cuts it off his wrist with a kris and throws it into the ocean.
** Similarly, in ''Literature/{{Zodiac|1988}}'', ST is forced to take the back off his wristwatch and screwdriver it into silence after an alarm to remind him to call his ex-girlfriend goes off while he's breaking into a chemical plant.
* ''Literature/TheTillermanFamilySeries'': ''Homecoming'' has a variation: elderly Abigail Tillerman is rumored to have chopped the cord of her phone and tossed it through the window of the phone company building, after [[spoiler:receiving the call that her youngest son had been killed in the Vietnam War]].
* In ''Literature/TheWomanWhoMadeMachinesGoHaywire'', Iris's clocks go a bit crazy due to her jinx, leading her to wreck them regularly.
* ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'': In ''Bitten'', Elena muses:
-->"The phone itself had lost the ability to ring four years ago, when Clay whipped it across the room after it dared disturb his sleep two nights in a row."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
* The song "Cellphone Vigilante" by The Arrogant Worms has the protagonist doing this to people's cellphones going off in appropriate situations.
* The song "Alarm Clock" by The Rumble Strips deals with exactly this: ''Well I don't like doing things/That other folks tell me to do/So I hit him with a hammer/And now he's quite subdued.''
* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Ringtone", a lament about the anguish of having annoying cell phone music, includes the stanza "Well, it made my wife so sick, she smashed my [=iPhone=] with a brick, but I had it fixed and now it's just fine". Oddly, most of the other lyrics (and the video) display violence toward the cell phone's ''owner'' rather than the device itself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Podcasts]]
* In ''Podcast/MetamorCity'' Morgan has a stainless steel alarm clock that takes a vampire-strength karate chop every evening.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* The opening sequence of ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' has a short montage of various Muppets turning off their alarm clocks with varying degrees of force. Out of all of them, the only one to actually break a clock is Sweetums.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'' had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yA2HFd_rBA short skit]] in the early 1990s that subverted this, with an alarm clock being used to count up to twelve in a boogie-woogie style, and among hitting twelve it rings very loudly and then breaks apart ''on its own''.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* Used regularly in the narrative intros and outros to ''Radio/BleakExpectations''. Anytime Elderly Pip gets frustrated with Mr. Sourquill's gadget of the week it's guaranteed to be broken in some manner or another. A notable example being the clock which gives various dings and chimes for every hour, minute, and second; it suffers a very quick ApplianceDefenestration.
* The cellphone variant was used in "The Frequent Flyer"; a very funny parody of "The Ancient Mariner" by Sebastian Faulks on Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 literary PanelGame ''The Write Stuff''.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZLUpQiolA Gun O'Clock]]'' toy-clock-thing invokes the trope by having a pop-up target that must be "shot" with the included light gun to silence the alarm.
* ''Franchise/TheTransformers'': The G1 Decepticon character Snapdragon's bio said that he was extremely lazy and proud of it, and his quarters were littered with the remains of destroyed alarm clocks since being woken up was his BerserkButton. Why an alien robot needed to sleep in the first place was never explained. Given that he's a Headmaster, presumably they're actually for his Nebulan partner, Krunk, who as an organic being actually does need to sleep.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]] version of ''VideoGame/ClockWerx'', the protagonist's destruction of his alarm clock somehow sends him to a ClockPunk dimension which he spends the game trying to escape.
* In ''VideoGame/CoolSpot'', Spot smashes an alarm clock with a hammer when [[TimedMission you run out of time]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Grow}} Cannon'' starts with a man breaking his alarm clock so he can keep sleeping, you need to wake him up.
* In the [[ScrewedByTheLawyers now defunct]] ''Platform/{{Roblox}}'' game ''Pokémon Brick Bronze'', the player character smashes their alarm clock when they wake up, also throwing it out the window.
* ''VideoGame/SuikodenTierkreis'' has a weird variation on this trope. One character, Nomno, is a HeavySleeper, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration reflected in combat]] by a unique ability called "Waking" that causes him to start every battle [[StatusEffects asleep]], then gain the "[[UnstoppableRage Fury]]" status effect when he wakes up.
* In ''Tearstone 2: Thieves of the Heart'' the player character smashes their alarm clock with a baseball bat from ''under their pillow'', which suggests that this is a fairly common occurrence.
* ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' starts off with one of the most elaborate examples. The Black Sugar Gang sneaks into Wario's Castle in order to steal his treasure, and as part of the scheme, they place a living WaddlingHead alarm clock in the castle which proceeds to wake up Wario and distract him from their thievery. The first level is completed upon destroying the clock.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN83DfmH9Tw "ALARM"]] By Mesai is a short film that is essentially built around this trope about a young man with apparent insomnia dealing with his CrazyPrepared system that wakes him up in the morning: involving a Sound System, his Cellphone, and multiple traditional alarm clocks to try and keep him awake. Eventually he gets sick of this system [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and decides to leave his apartment]]: screaming as another Alarm Clock rings at him as he is getting dressed which he promptly tosses and breaks against the wall before stepping out and heading for the elevator. [[spoiler: Only to see hear an Alarm Clock ringing and seeing himself wearing his pajamas reflected in the elevators wall that he finds out [[AllJustADream he was asleep the whole time and has slept through the entire day]]. Waking up at sunset to see that the Alarm Clock on his desk is still ringing, he [[TranquilFury pulls out his handgun and shoots the alarm clock to destroy it]].]]
* On the first episode of ''WebAnimation/BadDays'', Spider-Man crunches his alarm clock on waking up. A wastebasket full of broken alarm clock bits shows this is a daily occurrence.
* The online Toys/{{Furby}} cartoon ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivsU1d3ndqw Furby Goes Back to School]]'' has a Furby managing to do this, smashing his alarm clock with a shoe (the clock and shoe are noticeably bigger than Furby!)
* ''WebAnimation/GenericPurpleProtogen'': In "A Protogen *Tries* to Wake Up", the purple protogen shoots down his alarm clock with a shotgun to silence it. Needless to say, this doesn't stop ''him'' from setting off.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' animation ''If Herobrine Had a Brother'', Herobrine turns off his already beat-up alarm clock by slamming a pickaxe through it.
%%* Killer Bean (from the aptly-named ''Killer Bean 2'') does this too, but with more violence.
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueFamilyShatters'': "The Unbearable Lightness of Zero" shows Zero's wakeup routine: when his alarm clock goes off, a small target pops up from it, which Zero shoots.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Inverted (or played straight?) in ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'': Shadehawk is a deep sleeper, so his alarm clock is programmed to ''explode'' in order to wake him up. It's not enough. (Or maybe he shot it in his sleep? It's hard to tell because of the composition of the panels.)
%%* ''Beckstrom Buzz'': [[http://beckstrombuzz.blogspot.com/2009/12/just-five-more-minutes.html The origin of this trope?]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'', the lead character of the arc "The Games We Play in Hell" uses a knife-hand (this being, as per the arc title, in hell) to silence her alarm.
* In ''Webcomics/TheGreenAvenger'', Abby [[SuperStrength accidentally smashes]] her alarm clock.
%%* [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/342 Strip 342]] of ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}:'' In [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/838 this]] "Shirt Guy Dom" strip, Dom [[StickFigureComic (or maybe just some guy)]] awakens in a drowsily angry stupor and ''eats'' his alarm clock.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rain|2010}}'', apparently Gavin has done [[https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/57/ this]] before.
* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-05-15 Implied]] to have happened to Kevyn's "antimatter alarm" in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', judging from the sledgehammer in his girlfriend's hand.
* This is a RunningGag in ''Webcomic/TheSenkari''.
-->'''Freija:''' I warned you, time box.
%%* Happens in the first strip of ''Webcomic/{{SERGOM}}''.
%%* Taken to an extreme in [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/030505.html this]] ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'' strip.
%%* Done in ''Webcomic/Sorcery101''. But, as the smasher was a vampire, it was an even worse offense.
* Hunter of ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' on the other hand [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060430.html actually shoots]].
* In [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/satisfying/ this strip]] of ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'', Shelly is specifically told not to shoot the alarm clock when she suggests it... so she simply [[ExactWords crushes it to tiny pieces with a clinched fist.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'':
** Subverted in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb428.html this strip.]] Alarm clock rings. Doc's paw comes out from under the covers with what looks like a Colt 1911. [[ShuttingUpNow Clock promptly shuts up.]]
** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb291.html this strip]] Doc applies the more common version of the trope, using a mallet to smash the alarm clock.
* In ''{{Webcomic/Avania}}'', Captain Schmutzesser wakes up [[https://worldofavania.com/post/178394313050 and shoots his alarm clock]].
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* The computers that hand out assignments to agents of the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' tend to have obscenely loud alarms, especially if the agents ''dare'' relax for a moment. At least one was threatened with [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment conversion into a toaster]]. The Canon Analysis Devices have a similar flaw and [[ExplosiveInstrumentation an even greater mortality rate]]. Though in the case of the [=CADs=], their cause of death is much more likely to be an inability to handle [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale especially high]] levels of CanonDefilement than pissed-off agents. The latter is still far from unknown, though, since the shrill alarm has a nasty habit of blowing their cover.
* For a visual, check out [[http://cheezburger.com/2858984704 this entry]] from "There, I Fixed It".
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ihwfQipfo "Alarmageddon"]]
* In ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'', Freeman mentions this when facing some turret guns.
-->'''Freeman:''' I break alarm clocks, I can break you, too!
* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': The Beat-em Ups review opens with Grenier punching his alarm clock.
* Two video fragments from ''Serbu Firearms'': were you ever awakened by your neighbour's lawnmower? Then you surely craved to do something like [[http://www.serbu.com/legacy/lawnmwr.htm this]]. Admit it.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* This is one justification for robotic alarm clocks like "Clocky" that actually run away and hide after you hit the snooze button once. Then you have to get up and look for the clock when it rings again.
* The cheaper alternative, of course, is to just put the clock across the room, where you can't reach it from the bed. Then again, there are accounts of people demonstrating the ability to deal with such troubles ''[[{{Sleepwalking}} and stay asleep]]''.
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