And sometimes subverted as well, as one Bugs vs. Fudd cartoon set in winter has Bugs and Fudd efficiently displacing snow as they dash repeatedly through a snowbank... up until Fudd slams into an ice wall that Bugs was painting a fake displacement hole onto. In that very same scene, before Elmer hits the ice wall, one of the silhouettes of Bugs is not of Bugs, but of a sexy female figure. Elmer takes the time to appreciate the shape before continuing the chase.
On two separate occasions, Bugs has used a glass cutter to cut a him-shaped hole in a glass to escape it. Oddly enough, both instances involved Giants.
In Hair Raising Hare, Bugs scares a monster, who screams and runs through a series of walls.
In Bully For Bugs, a bull runs through a matador's cape, leaving a bull-shaped hole.
In Homeless Hare, a construction foreman falls through the floors of the building he's working on. One of the holes he leaves is knelt in prayer.
One Sylvester cartoon has him being beat up by a super-powered mouse in the hold of a ship, which is witnessed from the outside as his body makes impressions on the metal walls.
This now happens to Homer Simpson in the opening titles of The Simpsons (he's run over by Marge's car in the driveway and thrown through a door).
In one episode of Garfield And Friends, Garfield finds Odie after searching a haunted house for him, and asks if he wants to play a game called "instant door". You guessed it—they charge through a wall, leaving their outlines behind.
Blitzwing and Lugnut crash to Earth in the middle of a military aircraft field. Blitzwing's falling velocity is apparently so great, he leaves an impression shaped like himself — wings, gun turrets, and all — in the field's concrete runway upon crashing. This may be reasonable, in that he and Lugnut, like all Cybertronians, are constructed of alien metals and heavily armored, to boot, though Lugnut leaves no such impression where he lands.
Similarly, Bulkhead leaves a Bulkhead-shaped hole in the wall when Sari tells him she book an art exhibit for him. Of course, Bulkhead isn't that oblong a shape.
(the Torso 9000 has gone missing) Ted: But I need my body! Its got my arms and legs on it! Slick: We'll find it. Spin: Yeah, it didn't get up and walk away. Dr. Zub: As a matter of fact, Spin, that's precisely what happened. (shows door with Junkman-shaped hole in it)
In Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the front door is shaped like Master Shake (clearly a remodel based on the condition of the walls around the frame). Probably because he's an egotistic jackass who had their door replaced (at someone else's expense) to suit his oddly shaped physique.
In Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic and Tails do this to the sail of a pirate ship upon landing from a time-traveling attempt. Not long after, the force of a nearby cannonball impact launches Robotnik through the same sail, creating his own imprint next to those of the protagonists. And a little while later, a robot pirate is knocked off a mast and leaves a body-shaped hole in the deck (though when he bursts back up through to grab Tails, he makes a starburst-shaped hole instead).
Happens in Teen Titans with Kid Flash. While being chased by Madame Rouge, Kid Flash spins rapidly in a circle and digs through a building to escape. Each wall has a Kid Flash-shaped hole in it. Note that since he's spinning, he should have left a round hole, like a drill-bit, but that wouldn't be as funny.
In Duckman, Duckman and Cornfed see a ghost, and exit leaving them-shaped holes in the wall (while the ghost turns out to actually be Homer Simpson in a sheet, to steal their donuts).
An episode of Chowder has a monster created from a dish throw Shnitzel into the ground leaving a Shnitzel-shaped hole. Later on when he quits, Shnitzel literally walks through the door without opening it leaving another hole.
When DJ freaks out after seeing Heather wearing a facial and shaving her legs, he proceeds to run a hole through the door screaming his head off.
In "Rock N Rule", when Duncan finishes his rampage, Courtney crashed through the door, and after she threw a drawer at Duncan and missed, we see the whole Courtney-shaped hole in the door.
In one episode of Brandy And Mr Whiskers, the rabbit tries the powerful fan to see if it works, and then the powerful fan blows Brandy away offscreen, leaving a Brandy-shaped hole in the wall.
An extreme (blundered) version of this occurs when Shaggy's attempt at escaping from the Monster of the Week has actually broken the laws of physics and left a floating piece of wood in the Shaggy-shaped hole in the wall.
In the Scooby-Doo Where Are You? episode "Spooky Space Kook", Shaggy and Scooby leave standard holes when they run through a door.
Scooby does this in "A Night Of Fright Is No Delight" in the basement after seeing the two green phantoms.
In "Leave the Busting to Us", when the kids are testing the water slide Phineas and Ferb built, at one point the raft flies through a waterfall, leaving a Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella-shaped hole.
Parodied in an episode of Bobbys World where Bobby, in an Imagine Spot parody of Die Hard, shoots a gun that cuts an outline of himself in the window.
One episode of Mad features Hannah Montana; when she tries to get rid of Justin Bieber, she pushes a heavy sack to him but it comes back to hit her, and she crashes through the wall, leaving her outline.
In Codename Kids Next Door, "Operation: B.E.A.C.H.", Numbuh Four goes through the wall of the castle during the fight against King Sandy and leaves his outline. It is a sandcastle, though, making it a little more likely than usual.
Kid VS Kat plays with this in the episode "Blasteroid Blues". Coop's jetpack goes out of control and he ends up crashing through the ceiling of a mall, leaving a hole shaped like his body, then when he starts plummeting back down after his parachute fails he notices the hole from before and hopes that he can fall through it instead of hitting the rest of the ceiling. He doesn't.
In Totally Spies!, episode "Ski Trip", when Alex's skiboard wouldn't slow down, she ran through the tree, then holds the branch, and when the branch broke she falls into the snow leaving her silhouette.
In Dan Vs Chris and Elise decide to buy a painting to cover their noodle incident Dan-shaped hole in their living room wall since they have grown tired of looking at it.
Happens in the first act of the episode "Lights, Camera, Bogus", when Bogus and Brattus fall through the roof of the tour bus, leaving their outlines behind.
Happens in the first act of the episode "Babysitting Bogus", when Bogus gets flattened by the baby's teddy bear, leaving his impression in the floor of the crib.
The episode "Bogus Private Eye" had a gag where Bogus, while wearing a ballerina tutu and leotard, attempts to stop a pair of Wicked Weasel mobsters from robbing the house, just as they were conveniently standing next to a blow dryer. One of the weasels turns on the blow dryer, sending Bogus flying through the wall, leaving behind a Bogus-shaped hole in the wall.
In the third act of the episode "Kung Fu Campout", this happens to both Bogus and Brattus, after getting thrown through the top of the tent, thanks to Ratty and Mole, leaving behind their outlines in the tent top.
Seen multiple times in The Fairly Odd Parents. One such example involves Timmy's Dad being kicked through a door by a kangaroo, leaving a perfect outline behind afterwards.
In an episode of Futurama, Fry gets radiation poisoning, turning up his body temperature enough for him to melt his way through the door.
In an episode of The Critic, Jay comes home to find his boss in his apartment. He asks "How'd you get in here?" and the boss responds "I have my ways"; the camera pans over to show an Impact Silhouette of him a couple of feet from the door.
Happens in an episode of Hey Arnold when Helga crashes through a shed while flying a hang glider leaving a Helga shaped hole in the side including her pigtails and hair bow.
In a Popeye cartoon, Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto are blown through several structures, leaving such holes. Retracing their steps, they start jumping through the holes, positioning themselves accordingly.
In the House Of Mouse short "Mickey's April Fools", Goofy, thinking Mickey is a ghost, runs scared through several walls, each leaving his outline.
Spike's exit from the library in "Secret of My Excess" leaves a distinct draconic silhouette punched through the wall.
In "Baby Cakes", a broken water pipe blasts Pinkie through a door, leaving a hole shaped exactly like herself.
In "Bridle Gossip," Rainbow Dash does this accidentally when trying to leave Twilight's library. If you look closely, you can see that even her outstretched tongue punches straight through the wall. Maybe Rainbow Dash is just so athletic that her entire body has the consistency of steel.
In My Life As A Teenage Robot, we have a scene where Jenny is preparing for a school dance by downloading a dance software into her programming. However, her dancing ends up going haywire and she goes crashing through a few walls, making perfectly Jenny shaped holes in them.
