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* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow'', [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Lord Shen]]]] avoids being crushed beneath a cannon because the [[spoiler:deck of his destroyed ship]] under him collapses, resulting in him falling into the [[spoiler:waters]] below.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow'', [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Lord Shen]]]] avoids being crushed beneath a cannon because the [[spoiler:deck of his destroyed ship]] under him collapses, resulting in him falling into the [[spoiler:waters]] below.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow'', [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Lord Shen]]]] avoids being crushed beneath a cannon because the [[spoiler:deck of his destroyed ship]] under him collapses, resulting in him falling into the [[spoiler:waters]] below.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow'', [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Lord Shen]]]] avoids being crushed beneath a cannon because the [[spoiler:deck of his destroyed ship]] under him collapses, resulting in him falling into the [[spoiler:waters]] below.
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* Happens to Po on ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' as he tries to sneak down a hallway late at night.

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* Happens to Po on ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' as he tries to sneak down a hallway late at night.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': Ella crashes through the floor at one point in “Tempo Trouble”.
-->'''Ella''': It sure wasn’t build for tap-dancing pianos.
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* Due to its ObviousBeta status, this accidentally happens sometimes in ''VideoGame/Superman64'', usually at complete random. Still, it can give some truly spectacular graphical glitches, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirnxPT8ogA#t=16m here]]

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* Due to its ObviousBeta status, this This accidentally happens sometimes in ''VideoGame/Superman64'', usually at complete random. Still, it can give some truly spectacular graphical glitches, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirnxPT8ogA#t=16m here]]
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* ''Film/Batman1989'': In the final showdown atop the cathedral, [[TheBrute Lawrence]] jumps down from a raised platform behind Batman...and ''immediately'' breaks through the floorboards falling to his death, with Batman only noticing when the guy screams as he falls.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{NIMONA|2023}}'': After Nimona transforms into a whale to ram down a door she slides out onto a conference room floor and remarks that the floor is surprisingly stable, [[InstantlyProvenWrong right before]] crashing through multiple floors.
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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel:'' When the Classic Pretenders are exploring an abandoned science facility, Jazz suddenly falls through the floor, and yells that "it's" got him, before sheepishly realizing it's just the floor giving way, and asking Bumblebee and Grimlock to pick him up. The real creature attacks from the ceiling.

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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. Holmes races to follow Irene Adler after she leaves [=221B=] Baker Street by putting on a false nose and stealing Watson's coat as a disguise, then jumping out the window doing a silly shriek--cue OffscreenCrash. He shouts for Watson who looks out of the window to see that Holmes has fallen through the roof of the coal shed. [[SeenItAll Watson proceeds to roll his eyes]], shut the window, and walk away. Even funnier is that the soot stains Holmes gains from this accident benefit his disguise.



* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': After the top part of the Jotunheim tower crumble, Bloodsport manages to break his fall with his GrapplingHookPistol and then lands on his feet a few meters down, unharmed. Expect the weakened floor give way around him, sending him down on the level below where another piece of floor cracks underneath and send him down another level, and again, and again, until he reaches the bottom of the tower.

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* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': After the top part of the Jotunheim tower crumble, Bloodsport manages to break his fall with his GrapplingHookPistol and then lands on his feet a few meters down, unharmed. Expect Except the weakened floor give gives way around him, sending him down on onto the level below where another piece of floor cracks underneath and send him down another level, and again, and again, until he reaches the bottom of the tower.
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* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': When Yuuko, Mio, and Mai take shelter from a storm in a shrine, a Suzui bell falls and bounces around, smashing Yuuko and Mio through the shrine's floorboards.
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* ''Film/TheBigCountry'': [=McCay=] goes to explore Big Muddy, and not seeing the owner Julie, decides to look around the dilapidated manor on the grounds by himself. Julie eventually sees him and mistakes him for a bandit; when she tells him at gunpoint to hold up his hands, [=McCay=] suddenly falls through the boards of the manor's stoop -- and then obligingly holds up his hands.
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* ''VideoGame/ThanksKillingDay'': In one cutscene, [[PlayerCharacter the kid]] finds [[spoiler:his mother hiding in the toolshed, calling the police. When she notices him]], the floor gives out under [[spoiler:her]], causing [[spoiler:her]] to fall in a deep hole.
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* ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' had this happening in several episodes. One in particular involves a woman who's trying to convince her landlord to pay for the repairs of her house that's falling apart, and the characters constantly falling through the floors all over the place. When the landlord himself ends up falling through one, he finally relents and agrees to pay for the repairs.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "To Live and Die in Dixie" has several. In "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", Peter makes Meg's slumber party worse by having the stairs give out beneath him and needing everyone to grease him up to free him.
** Another episode had the family out into witness protection in the DeepSouth where they had to live in a dilapidated old shack. A RunningGag had Peter falling up to his shoulders through the floorboards, where he would casually point out something that ended up beneath the furniture nearby.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "To Live and Die in Dixie" has several. In "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", Shame" Peter makes Meg's slumber party worse by having the stairs give out beneath him and needing everyone to grease him up to free him.
** Another episode had "To Live and Die in Dixie" has several when the family out into in witness protection in the DeepSouth where they had to live in a dilapidated old shack. A RunningGag had Peter falling up to his shoulders through the floorboards, where he would casually point out something that ended up beneath the furniture nearby.
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* ''VideoGame/Wick2020'':[[HopeSpot Just as you seem to be nearing the end]], part of the ceiling caves in because of the storm and the falling debris causes the floor to collapse beneath you, [[spoiler:resulting in Wick falling into the crypts]].
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* ''VideoGame/AnnieLastHope'' have collapsing floors in the last few stages, over suspended walkways and platforms, that kills you instantly. Though you can trick zombies into walking over them.
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* ''VideoGame/ThePhantomMenace'' have one right in the first stage, as the player (as Obi-Wan) tries finding an exit through the Trade Federation's ship via AirVentPassageway, only for the bottom to break and dropping Obi-Wan to a lower section filled with maintenance droids.


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* ''VideoGame/SARSearchAndRescue'' have several of these in the space station's corridors, which tends to give way the moment you try crossing on them, though luckily you can execute your AirDashing move to leap to a nearby platform. Getting caught leads to a fatal drop that costs you a life, though enemy mooks (save for the hovering robot drones since they could, well, fly) can suffer the same fate as well.
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* ''Manga/KindaichiCaseFiles: The Vampire Special Case'' takes place in an old hotel. One of its hallway floors is so rickety than one must not exceed 50 kg to pass. A careless Kindaichi fell through but thankfully landed on a pile of mattresses.

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* ''Manga/KindaichiCaseFiles: ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles: The Vampire Special Case'' takes place in an old hotel. One of its hallway floors is so rickety than one must not exceed 50 kg to pass. A careless Kindaichi fell through but thankfully landed on a pile of mattresses.
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* In ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'', [[TheLancer Ishida]] pulls this on [[TheBrute Yammy]] using an anti-Arrancar landmine. As Yammy plunges to the floor beneath, Ishida reveals he [[CrazyPrepared took the time to weaken the rest of the floors]], all the way to the bottom of the tower they're located in, to ensure Yammy would take a ''very'' long fall.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'': The B route of the Mage's Tower has the player(s) confront a massive ClassicalChimera, big enough to take up the whole screen. Like the other B-route bosses, this is a TimedMission to claim one of the Talismans -- your timer being the floors of the tower giving way under the monster's weight. You'll know you're running out of time when the Chimera starts cracking apart the stone floor at the very bottom. Take too long, and the Chimera breaks through the floor and [[AMoltenDateWithDeath into the lava caves]] featured in the A-route, denying the player(s) the Talisman.
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* Another Creator/TomHanks movie, ''Film/TheBurbs'', also uses this -- although it is the creepy neighbor's porch in this case.

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* Another The Creator/TomHanks movie, ''Film/TheBurbs'', also uses this -- although it is the creepy neighbor's porch in this case.



* ''Film/{{Gooby}}: PlayedForDrama: While Willy and Gooby are exploring [[spoiler:the now-abandoned childhood home of Willy’s dad]], the dilapidated floorboards give way, leaving Willy hanging from a steel bar. [[spoiler:It turns out, this was a plan by Gooby to bring him and his dad together]].

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* ''Film/{{Gooby}}: ''Film/{{Gooby}}'': PlayedForDrama: While Willy and Gooby are exploring [[spoiler:the now-abandoned childhood home of Willy’s dad]], the dilapidated floorboards give way, leaving Willy hanging from a steel bar. [[spoiler:It turns out, this was a plan by Gooby to bring him and his dad together]].
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* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and [[MindYourStep starts down the stairs]], only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.

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* In ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' the old tatami floors at Eikichi and Ryuji's new HorribleHousing gives way as soon as they step on it. Eikichi claims he feels something slithering around his foot.



* In ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' the old tatami floors at Eikichi and Ryuji's new HorribleHousing gives way as soon as they step on it. Eikichi claims he feels something slithering around his foot.



* Exaggerated for drama in a story ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' from when it was a story anthology. In it, a 90 pound weakling drinks a strength potion from a LittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, but refuses the much more expensive antidote to it. After a day of reaping the benefits of being a bulky Charles Atlas type, he wakes up in the middle of the night to find himself heavy enough to crash through floorboards of his apartment floor. He keeps going through all the floors, not even stopping when he hits the ground. He realizes with horror that his body's every increasing weight will drive him all the way into the Earth's core.



* Happens somewhat frequently to [[ComicBook/XMen the Blob]], given how heavy he is and his status as something of a ButtMonkey. Since he weighs several tons he has trouble even with reinforced floors.
* During ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga, this happened to Wolverine as a result of a GravityMaster hitting him with his powers. As Wolverine was busy leaping on him at the time, this resulted in Wolverine and his opponent both plunging through the floor, with a suddenly-much-heavier Wolverine on top. The villain was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard crushed by his own power]].

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Happens somewhat frequently to [[ComicBook/XMen the Blob]], Blob, given how heavy he is and his status as something of a ButtMonkey. Since he weighs several tons he has trouble even with reinforced floors.
* ** During ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga, ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', this happened to Wolverine as a result of a GravityMaster hitting him with his powers. As Wolverine was busy leaping on him at the time, this resulted in Wolverine and his opponent both plunging through the floor, with a suddenly-much-heavier Wolverine on top. The villain was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard crushed by his own power]].



* Exaggerated for drama in a story ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' from when it was a story anthology. In it, a 90 pound weakling drinks a strength potion from a LittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, but refuses the much more expensive antidote to it. After a day of reaping the benefits of being a bulky Charles Atlas type, he wakes up in the middle of the night to find himself heavy enough to crash through floorboards of his apartment floor. He keeps going through all the floors, not even stopping when he hits the ground. He realizes with horror that his body's every increasing weight will drive him all the way into the Earth's core.



* Justified in ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'', since the stone floor of the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Cradle of Sulevin]] has slowly collapsed over several ages and it's dangerous to walk, never mind battle revenants. [[spoiler:As a result, the Lady Inquisitor takes a ''nasty'' fall.]]



* Justified in ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'', since the stone floor of the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Cradle of Sulevin]] has slowly collapsed over several ages and it's dangerous to walk, never mind battle revenants. [[spoiler:As a result, the Lady Inquisitor takes a ''nasty'' fall.]]



* Happens to Po on ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' as he tries to sneak down a hallway late at night.



* Happens to Po on ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' as he tries to sneak down a hallway late at night.



* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': When the bombs set to blow up the Jotunheim tower go off too soon, the piece of floor Bloodsport is standing on collapses only to be stopped by the floor below. Bloodsport's incredulous reaction is cut short when ''that'' floor collapses, then [[OverlyLongGag the one after it and so on]] until he lands on the ground floor at [[BigDamnHeroes just the right time to save Ratcatcher's life.]]



* During a ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' book the protagonists, taking cover in a shack, notice that the ceiling is starting to creak and bow as the weight on the roof gets heavier and heavier...
* Happens a few times throughout the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series - Hogwarts, for reasons unknown, has one or more [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin disappearing steps]]. Although this is usually PlayedForLaughs, with a mention of new students - or [[ButtMonkey Neville]] - forgetting or not knowing to watch out for them, it is PlayedForDrama exactly once in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''. Harry, sneaking around after-hours underneath his invisibility cloak, accidentally falls prey to one of the disappearing steps and drops a [[ItMakesSenseInContext large metal egg]], which attracts the attention of the caretaker and two professors, and is forced to stay there in silent agony until the adults leave the area.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', the wizards and Mrs Whitlow are on a [[LivingShip ship-fruit]] which is breaking up once within sight of land in order to shed its seeds. The Senior Wrangler heroically attempts to save Mrs Whitlow by lifting her up, thereby transferring her weight to his feet, with predictable results.



* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}},'' Vera Barracuda is a thief who uses [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]] and stuff she orders from the internet. In her first appearance, she's confronted on a rooftop by Dark Flame and Zephyra. She uses a powerful flashlight to temporarily blind the two heroes and lead them to a part of the roof which is under construction. They fall through.



* During a ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' book the protagonists, taking cover in a shack, notice that the ceiling is starting to creak and bow as the weight on the roof gets heavier and heavier...
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', the wizards and Mrs Whitlow are on a [[LivingShip ship-fruit]] which is breaking up once within sight of land in order to shed its seeds. The Senior Wrangler heroically attempts to save Mrs Whitlow by lifting her up, thereby transferring her weight to his feet, with predictable results.



* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}},'' Vera Barracuda is a thief who uses [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]] and stuff she orders from the internet. In her first appearance, she's confronted on a rooftop by Dark Flame and Zephyra. She uses a powerful flashlight to temporarily blind the two heroes and lead them to a part of the roof which is under construction. They fall through.
* Happens a few times throughout the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series - Hogwarts, for reasons unknown, has one or more [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin disappearing steps]]. Although this is usually PlayedForLaughs, with a mention of new students - or [[ButtMonkey Neville]] - forgetting or not knowing to watch out for them, it is PlayedForDrama exactly once in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''. Harry, sneaking around after-hours underneath his invisibility cloak, accidentally falls prey to one of the disappearing steps and drops a [[ItMakesSenseInContext large metal egg]], which attracts the attention of the caretaker and two professors, and is forced to stay there in silent agony until the adults leave the area.



* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Happens when Walt and Jesse try DisposingOfABody by dissolving it in [[HollywoodAcid hydrofluoric acid]] in the upstairs bathroom. Jesse buys the wrong container to hold the acid bath, which they realize when the whole indescribable gore-slurry comes gushing down through the ground-floor ceiling.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** Falling through the floorboards in a house they've collapsed with their DestructoNookie [[CoitusUninterruptus doesn't stop Buffy and Spike from having sex]].
** Sunnydale has more than a few buried secrets and underground lairs, so a couple of times the MonsterOfTheWeek gets found by a Scoobie falling through the ground because they're actually walking across a boarded-over cavern.



* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' this happens to the building inspector checking out Ted's house.

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* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' this happens ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Aeryn and John Crichton discuss their {{UST}}. Aeryn suggests they resolve it, but John is hesitant (they're picking their way through a badly damaged space station trying to get to a group of survivors, so getting into Aeryn's uniform isn't his first priority at the building inspector checking moment). Aeryn, annoyed, turns to face him and unzips her top, demanding to know what he's afraid of. Cue the floor giving out Ted's house.beneath her and dropping Aeryn into another part of the station.



* In the final episode of the series, Dr. Series/{{House}} goes through the floor of a burning building.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** Falling through the floorboards in a house they've collapsed with their DestructoNookie [[CoitusUninterruptus doesn't stop Buffy and Spike from having sex]].
** Sunnydale has more than a few buried secrets and underground lairs, so a couple of times the MonsterOfTheWeek gets found by a Scoobie falling through the ground because they're actually walking across a boarded-over cavern.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Aeryn and John Crichton discuss their {{UST}}. Aeryn suggests they resolve it, but John is hesitant (they're picking their way through a badly damaged space station trying to get to a group of survivors, so getting into Aeryn's uniform isn't his first priority at the moment). Aeryn, annoyed, turns to face him and unzips her top, demanding to know what he's afraid of. Cue the floor giving out beneath her and dropping Aeryn into another part of the station.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Happens when Walt and Jesse try DisposingOfABody by dissolving it in [[HollywoodAcid hydrofluoric acid]] in the upstairs bathroom. Jesse buys the wrong container to hold the acid bath, which they realize when the whole indescribable gore-slurry comes gushing down through the ground-floor ceiling.

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* In the final episode of the series, ''Series/{{House}}'', Dr. Series/{{House}} Gregory House goes through the floor of a burning building.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** Falling through
In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' this happens to the floorboards in a house they've collapsed with their DestructoNookie [[CoitusUninterruptus doesn't stop Buffy and Spike from having sex]].
** Sunnydale has more than a few buried secrets and underground lairs, so a couple of times the MonsterOfTheWeek gets found by a Scoobie falling through the ground because they're actually walking across a boarded-over cavern.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Aeryn and John Crichton discuss their {{UST}}. Aeryn suggests they resolve it, but John is hesitant (they're picking their way through a badly damaged space station trying to get to a group of survivors, so getting into Aeryn's uniform isn't his first priority at the moment). Aeryn, annoyed, turns to face him and unzips her top, demanding to know what he's afraid of. Cue the floor giving
building inspector checking out beneath her and dropping Aeryn into another part of the station.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Happens when Walt and Jesse try DisposingOfABody by dissolving it in [[HollywoodAcid hydrofluoric acid]] in the upstairs bathroom. Jesse buys the wrong container to hold the acid bath, which they realize when the whole indescribable gore-slurry comes gushing down through the ground-floor ceiling.
Ted's house.



* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', the Porcelino Bros form a human pyramid. But because they're pigs, their pyramid causes the stage to collapse beneath them.
* In ''Series/MuppetsTonight'', both Martin Short and Clifford, after eating too much of Mama Fiama's pasta sauce, cause this.
-->'''Martin Short:''' Uh oh... creaking floor... not good...



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* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', the Porcelino Bros form a human pyramid. But because they're pigs, their pyramid causes the stage to collapse beneath them.
* In ''Series/MuppetsTonight'', both Martin Short and Clifford, after eating too much of Mama Fiama's pasta sauce, cause this.
-->'''Martin Short:''' Uh oh... creaking floor... not good...
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* Subverted in ''VideoGame/AlanWake''. On the way to meet the kidnapper, the roof of an abandoned building caves in, dropping Alan into a roomful of enemies. However, after defeating the enemies, Alan can climb back up to the roof and take another route across.
* The original ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark1992'' contains an immediately fatal example in the upstairs hallway, requiring you to cut through the bedrooms to avoid it.
* In ''VideoGame/BarrowHill'', entering the barn's loft for the first time causes the floor to collapse, trapping you in the lower part of the building until you find the means to escape.
* In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', Subject Delta is shot at, nearly set on fire, and falls through several floors into water.



* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Kokichi is found on the ground bloodied and FakingTheDead. Turns out he went thru the floorboard, showing evidence that [[spoiler: the killer of that chapter's class trial rigged each of the possible rooms of the seance to murder.]]
* While it doesn't happen to the player, one of the in-game notes in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' both describes and implies an example. A "Scrawled Note" found in Bloodskal Barrow in the Dragonborn expansion is written from one bandit to another, and reads, "Look Meryn I'm not arguing that these towers are falling to pieces, but I think you are exaggerating about the planks falling ou--------"



* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' has this when the player character moves too fast in a burning building.

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* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' ''VideoGame/GhostHunter'' has this happen when [[spoiler: playing as the player character moves too fast in a burning building.giant mech]]. When no other way forward can be found, it falls through the floor to advance.



* In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', Subject Delta is shot at, nearly set on fire, and falls through several floors into water.
* In ''VideoGame/BarrowHill'', entering the barn's loft for the first time causes the floor to collapse, trapping you in the lower part of the building until you find the means to escape.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', Subject Delta is shot at, nearly set on fire, and falls the ''[[VideoGame/HomeAloneSega Home Alone]]'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the floors in the Old House break if Kevin, Harry, or Marv walk across them too much. Kevin can use this to his advantage, as he can hit Harry or Marv with one of his weapons as they try to jump across one of the holes, causing them to fall through several floors into water.
* In ''VideoGame/BarrowHill'', entering
it and increasing the barn's loft for the first time causes the floor to collapse, trapping you pain in the lower part of the building until you find the means to escape.their Pain meter.



* The second floor of the library in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' has a floorboard that collapses when you walk over it, sending you into a hidden alcove behind a wall. You have to fall down there to access a puzzle. The weak floorboard remains in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'', but it serves more of a "gotcha" moment when the player tries to reach the nearby door.
* This happens in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. [[spoiler:Claire and Steve cause a walkway to collapse, leaving Claire's ankle trapped just long enough for Steve to have to kill his undead father.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' game the player must fall through the floor to advance at [[spoiler: the Alternate Shopping Mall upstairs court. It's also a PointOfNoReturn and drops the player into a boss fight with the giant digging centipede]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}: Wanpaku Graffiti'', after you beat the haunted kitchen, the house quakes and five floors collapse underneath you, leading you to "be garbage of cesspool."
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' has this when the player character moves too fast in a burning building.
* Due to its ObviousBeta status, this accidentally happens sometimes in ''VideoGame/Superman64'', usually at complete random. Still, it can give some truly spectacular graphical glitches, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirnxPT8ogA#t=16m here]]
* Collapsing floor tiles are a staple in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series.
* In ''VideoGame/TwoDark'',Nearly every level has some broken floorboards on it. Smith will instantly fall through and die if he steps on these.
** Sometimes, this can be turned against Smith's enemies too. One of the female psychos in the final level, Adelaide, will regularly check on her painting, and monologue about her kills in front of it. This painting can be moved right in front of the crack on the floor; she won't notice, step there, and die.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Among many other feats of MalevolentArchitecture engineered by the [[HauntedHouse Ocean House Hotel]]'s resident ghosts, the main staircase collapses underneath the player character as they walk in, forcing them to find a way out of the CreepyBasement.



* A popular trope in SurvivalHorror games, to advance the player, and usually provide a PointOfNoReturn.
** ''VideoGame/GhostHunter'' has this happen when [[spoiler: playing as the giant mech]]. When no other way forward can be found, it falls through the floor to advance.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' game has the player fall through the floor to advance, [[spoiler: upstairs by the shelves in the library]].
** This happens in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. [[spoiler:Claire and Steve cause a walkway to collapse, leaving Claire's ankle trapped just long enough for Steve to have to kill his undead father.]]
** In ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' game the player must fall through the floor to advance at [[spoiler: the Alternate Shopping Mall upstairs court. It's also a PointOfNoReturn and drops the player into a boss fight with the giant digging centipede]].
** The original ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark1992'' contains an immediately fatal example in the upstairs hallway, requiring you to cut through the bedrooms to avoid it.
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/AlanWake''. On the way to meet the kidnapper, the roof of an abandoned building caves in, dropping Alan into a roomful of enemies. However, after defeating the enemies, Alan can climb back up to the roof and take another route across.
* Collapsing floor tiles are a staple in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series.
* Due to its ObviousBeta status, this accidentally happens sometimes in ''VideoGame/Superman64'', usually at complete random. Still, it can give some truly spectacular graphical glitches, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirnxPT8ogA#t=16m here]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}: Wanpaku Graffiti'', after you beat the haunted kitchen, the house quakes and five floors collapse underneath you, leading you to "be garbage of cesspool."
* In the ''[[VideoGame/HomeAloneSega Home Alone]]'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the floors in the Old House break if Kevin, Harry, or Marv walk across them too much. Kevin can use this to his advantage, as he can hit Harry or Marv with one of his weapons as they try to jump across one of the holes, causing them to fall through it and increasing the pain in their Pain meter.
* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Kokichi is found on the ground bloodied and FakingTheDead. Turns out he went thru the floorboard, showing evidence that [[spoiler: the killer of that chapter's class trial rigged each of the possible rooms of the seance to murder.]]
* The second floor of the library in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' has a floorboard that collapses when you walk over it, sending you into a hidden alcove behind a wall. You have to fall down there to access a puzzle. The weak floorboard remains in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'', but it serves more of a "gotcha" moment when the player tries to reach the nearby door.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Among many other feats of MalevolentArchitecture engineered by the [[HauntedHouse Ocean House Hotel]]'s resident ghosts, the main staircase collapses underneath the player character as they walk in, forcing them to find a way out of the CreepyBasement.
* While it doesn't happen to the player, one of the in-game notes in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' both describes and implies an example. A "Scrawled Note" found in Bloodskal Barrow in the Dragonborn expansion is written from one bandit to another, and reads, "Look Meryn I'm not arguing that these towers are falling to pieces, but I think you are exaggerating about the planks falling ou--------"
* in ''VideoGame/TwoDark'',Nearly every level has some broken floorboards on it. Smith will instantly fall through and die if he steps on these.
** Sometimes, this can be turned against Smith's enemies too. One of the female psychos in the final level, Adelaide, will regularly check on her painting, and monologue about her kills in front of it. This painting can be moved right in front of the crack on the floor; she won't notice, step there, and die.



* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' averts it by [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=725 bypassing the rickety floorboards altogether]]



* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' averts it by [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=725 bypassing the rickety floorboards altogether]]



* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In the Franchise/JamesBond spoof "Tearjerker", Stan and Francine's characters fall through the floorboards of the titular villain (Roger)'s lair when they try to escape. This was [[RunningGag another blunder of the contractor who built the place]] as Roger comments "Never [[HiredForTheirLooks hire a contractor just because he's gorgeous]]." Later in the episode, when Roger sends his minions from his blimp to the lair, the floorboards break just as they land. All Roger can say is a deadpan "Really?"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' episode "From Chunk to Hunk", Jay tries to hop into his chair, misses, and ends up crashing through several floors before ending up stuck in a hole with his rear sticking up. When Duke comes to berate Jay for his weight, Jay brings up that maybe Duke's floors are just shoddy, but Duke points out that Rush Limbaugh hasn't had any problems- up until Rush comes crashing down on top of Jay.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "To Live and Die in Dixie" has several. In "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", Peter makes Meg's slumber party worse by having the stairs give out beneath him and needing everyone to grease him up to free him.
** Another episode had the family out into witness protection in the DeepSouth where they had to live in a dilapidated old shack. A RunningGag had Peter falling up to his shoulders through the floorboards, where he would casually point out something that ended up beneath the furniture nearby.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Hank falls through his kitchen floor to find a SecretUndergroundPassage built by Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short "WesternAnimation/BlooperBunny" has Bugs discovering a loose floorboard during shooting. He leads the camera away from it but sure enough, a few scenes later [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] has the board slam into his face and through his bill. Another blooper immediately follows where Daffy somehow forgets to remove the board from his face.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Last Roundup", the disaster-prone Derpy manages to break a hole in the town hall's floor simply by ''sitting down''.
* Happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', where Piglet's floor collapsed, leading Tigger to joke about how he has a basement now.



* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "To Live and Die in Dixie" has several. In "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", Peter makes Meg's slumber party worse by having the stairs give out beneath him and needing everyone to grease him up to free him.
** Another episode had the family out into witness protection in the DeepSouth where they had to live in a dilapidated old shack. A RunningGag had Peter falling up to his shoulders through the floorboards, where he would casually point out something that ended up beneath the furniture nearby.
* Happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', where Piglet's floor collapsed, leading Tigger to joke about how he has a basement now.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Hank falls through his kitchen floor to find a SecretUndergroundPassage built by Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Last Roundup", the disaster-prone Derpy manages to break a hole in the town hall's floor simply by ''sitting down''.



* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In the Franchise/JamesBond spoof "Tearjerker", Stan and Francine's characters fall through the floorboards of the titular villain (Roger)'s lair when they try to escape. This was [[RunningGag another blunder of the contractor who built the place]] as Roger comments "Never [[HiredForTheirLooks hire a contractor just because he's gorgeous]]." Later in the episode, when Roger sends his minions from his blimp to the lair, the floorboards break just as they land. All Roger can say is a deadpan "Really?"
* The WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short "WesternAnimation/BlooperBunny" has Bugs discovering a loose floorboard during shooting. He leads the camera away from it but sure enough, a few scenes later [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] has the board slam into his face and through his bill. Another blooper immediately follows where Daffy somehow forgets to remove the board from his face.



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' episode "From Chunk to Hunk", Jay tries to hop into his chair, misses, and ends up crashing through several floors before ending up stuck in a hole with his rear sticking up. When Duke comes to berate Jay for his weight, Jay brings up that maybe Duke's floors are just shoddy, but Duke points out that Rush Limbaugh hasn't had any problems- up until Rush comes crashing down on top of Jay.

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