'''Basic Trope''': An item of some sort is crushed beyond any and all repair during an OverlyLongGag.
* '''Straight''': The MacGuffin is crushed by two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle.
* '''Exaggerated''': After the motorcycle comes a literal parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, [[SerialEscalation a mobile ICBM, a flatbed carrying an entire cruise liner]]...and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a little old lady with a cane.]] Then it's hit by a meteorite.
* '''Downplayed''': AgitatedItemStomping
* '''Justified''': The MacGuffin landed in the middle of the street during a very bad time, such as a holiday parade or the arrival of the circus.
* '''Inverted''': The MacGuffin, in the form of a HyperDestructiveBouncingBall, falls into the middle of a parade. Carnage ensues, until the ball finally comes to rest, unmarked, AtopAMountainOfCorpses.
* '''Subverted''': The MacGuffin goes through all that, but appears salvageable.
* '''Double Subverted''': Only to get stomped on and then kicked down an open manhole by some JerkAss.
* '''Parodied''': The MacGuffin is trampled by... a litter of playful, mewling kittens. As the [[BigBallOfViolence Tiny Adorable Ball of Violence]] passes on, the [=MacGuffin=] is inexplicably wrecked.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Numerous things look set to destroy the [=MacGuffin=] but miss or cancel one another out in increasingly coincidental ways, while also hindering the efforts of the guy trying to retrieve it. He finally reaches it, loses his footing, and steps on it. Wincing, he looks under his foot... and it's undamaged! Then ''he'' gets hit by a car, a bike, another car...
* '''Averted''': Nothing runs over the MacGuffin.
* '''Enforced''': "Let's put in an OverlyLongGag!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Wait, why wasn't the street cordoned off for the parade?"
* '''Invoked''':
** The villain deliberately throws the [=MacGuffin=] in front of a fleet of trucks.
** After the [=MacGuffin=] gets run over once, ThePrankster redirects a passing parade over the same spot for good measure.
* '''Exploited''': Someone throws a [[SealedEvilInACan can of sealed evil]] in front of a passing parade in order to crush open the can.
* '''Defied''': A [[GoodSamaritan random person in the marching band]] sees the MacGuffin, picks it up, and returns it to Alice before anything bad can happen to it.
* '''Discussed''': Bob, after getting hit by a bike. [[NonSequiturThud "What, no elephants?" *thud*]]
* '''Conversed''': "Now watch, everybody and their dog is gonna trample that."
* '''Implied''': The [=MacGuffin=] lands in the street as circus music is heard from a rapidly decreasing distance. The camera pans to the horrified heroes. Alice yells, "Oh no, not the circus!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. Then Bob yells, "Oh no, not the jugglers!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. [[RuleOfThree Then Charlie yells]], "Oh no, not the clowns!" and makes an ICantLookGesture. Alice asks, "Are they almost gone yet?" and the heroes peek between their fingers. Alice yells "[[OhNoNotAgain Oh no, there's more of them!]]" and covers her eyes again. Bob yells, "Oh no, not the elephants!" and covers his eyes again. [[RunningGag Then Charlie yells]], "Oh no, not the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking poodles]]!" and covers his eyes again. As the circus music fades away, the camera pans to the SquashedFlat [=MacGuffin=].
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** CringeComedy example: A marching band parades through a pile of RoadApples. TheShowMustGoOn, so the band members keep an increasingly strained StiffUpperLip until it's all over. Cue the MassOhCrap and the VomitChainReaction.
* '''Played For Drama''':
** The MacGuffin is destroyed, and it was [[AchillesHeel the only way to defeat]] [[CompleteImmortality Emperor Evulz]]... [[ShootTheShaggyDog Now what?]]
** The MacGuffin in question is some kind of LivingMacGuffin.
** In a story where ArmiesAreEvil, the invaders march over a [[EmpathyDollShot child's doll]] (presumably the offscreen kid is dead).
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