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* An early scene in ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' has BigBad Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw crash his car into a Website/{{Yahoo}} UsefulNotes/{{billboard}} (which includes a Kodak billboard on the other side). A "Yahoo!" jingle even plays during the scene.

* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', there are noteworthy colisions of trucks and cars provided by General Motors. At least the trucks [[BrandX had other names on them]].
** In fact, the gag on this film was that the two cars heavily featured in the freeway chase, the Cadillac CTS and Cadillac Escalade EXT, were the real stars of the film. The movie was credited to the success of the CTS itself, one of Cadillac's marquee cars. Ten different CTS vehicles were used, each one representing stages of damage throughout the chase sequence.

* ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' has a car being thrown by aliens in the streets of London, hitting a William Hill off-track betting shop.

* An early scene in ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' has BigBad Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw crash his car into a Website/{{Yahoo}} billboard (which includes a Kodak billboard on the other side). A "Yahoo!" jingle even plays during the scene.

* The flying car chase scene in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' has a police car crashing into a [=McDonald's=] truck, spilling its contents onto the officers.

* A deleted scene in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' would've shown a bunch of Gremlins attacking a McDonalds, [[ImAHumanitarian eating the customers down to their skeletons]], but [[TakeThat leaving the hamburgers untouched]]. Said scene was deleted out of fears that it would be too graphic for an already-graphic film (and because they were worried McDonalds would sue).

** [[Film/JurassicPark The first film]]:

* In ''Film/TheBatman'', Penguin's Maserati Quattroporte gets absolutely ''mauled'' when the Batmobile sends it rolling down a highway at high speeds.

* In the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' series, it's zigzagged with the licensed vehicle modes never getting destroyed (with the exception of Sideways in the [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen second movie]]), with the destruction/killing occurring only when they're in robot mode, and inverted, with the Allspark animating a Mountain Dew vending machine and an Xbox, both of which start attacking passersby.

[[caption-width-right:325:This is not how you install a drive-through.]]

* An early scene in ''Film/InspectorGadget'' has BigBad Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw crash his car into a Website/{{Yahoo}} billboard (which includes a Kodak billboard on the other side). A "Yahoo!" jingle even plays during the scene.

Compare/contrast ProductDisplacement, in which there's no destruction, but you certainly won't see the product itself. See also OurProductSucks, in case a print ad or a TV commercial does this sort of destruction. See also BitingTheHandHumor, for when the movie/show pokes fun at the company/network itself.

* The climax of ''Film/JurassicWorld'' features the main shopping/restaurant area of the park getting swarmed by pterosaurs, including one of the film's most horrifying scenes in [[spoiler:Zara's death]], before later serving as the site of the FinalBattle between the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' and the ''Indominus rex''. Most of the licensed stores there, most notably a Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurant (with Music/JimmyBuffett himself making a cameo appearance), get smashed to pieces.

'''Apple® Fanboy''': [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!]]

Sometimes the products will remain intact when advertisers don't want to see their expensive product shown being damaged, broken or destroyed in any way whatsoever for fear that people won't be interested in it. In that case, said products will be shown as being MadeOfIndestructium (see also the subverted examples).

** The Narrator's apartment is blown up in order to show him he doesn't need objects to survive. The furniture in said apartment came from IKEA (though in the movie the company where said furniture came from was called "Fürni").

* ''Film/TheLongGoodbye'' has the hero being interrupted by a gangster who is accompanied by his goons and his lovely mistress. Said mistress interrupts the gangster's rant, by informing him that she's thirsty and would like a Coke. One of his goons fetches an open bottle from the refrigerator. The gangster swigs from it, complains that it's flat, and then swings it into the mistress' face, causing it to break and leaving her in pain.

* An early scene in ''Film/InspectorGadget'' has BigBad Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw crash his car into a Website/{{Yahoo}} billboard. A "Yahoo!" jingle even plays during the scene.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', when [[spoiler:Ego]] initiates the expansion, the ensuing gloop ball overruns the [=Dairy Queen=] it was lying dormant behind.

** Inverted in ''Film/AntMan'', where the climactic battle takes place on a [[ItMakesSenseInContext toy train set]]. A model of WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends is running along the set, where a tiny TraintopBattle takes place. Several of the generic toy carts being pulled are thrown and vaporized, but Thomas, Annie and Clarabel are suspiciously left intact. The worst that happens is that Thomas runs over Yellowjacket, is then tossed onto a windowsill and is finally enlarged and crashes outside.