History Main / AgitatedItemStomping

* The girls of WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} have a variation: since they're livestreaming, instead of stomping they'll slap their desks to show annoyance. This is usually accompanied by the chatroom declaring "Desk-kun -10 HitPoints" or something else along those lines, to the point where this has become one of hololive's countless memes. Towa Tokoyami in particular has figured out that she can "summon" her [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff overseas fanbase]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQenmKMsvYE by doing so]].

* After WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has his way with Elmer Fudd in "Wabbit Twouble," Elmer stomps on the Jellostone Park sign ("A westful retweet. Bawoney!!")...with a park ranger nearby.

* Slappy Squirrel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' does this with a newspaper that called her a former star. "Aunt Slappy gets just a ''liiiiiiiiitle'' bitter."

* WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries: At [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE64ReadMyLips "Read My Lips"]], after Scarface produces the IncrediblyObviousBug that Batman has planted on the Ventriloquist's suit, he throws it on the ground and start jumping on it. Justified and subverted because Scarface is a Ventriloquist's dummy and this is one of the obvious ways to show emotions, like angry, but the Ventriloquist has to kneed to the ground to help Scarface.

Compare: ShootTheTelevision, ThatSatisfyingCrunch, RingRingCrunch, and ApplianceDefenestration.

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!!'''Examples'''

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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''WebComic/MegaTokyo'', early in its run, featured a random comic of Piro and Largo's avatar counterparts in an [=FPS=]-type game. Largo corners Piroko and boasts about killing her, only to freeze in place (and allow Piroko a free headshot). The last panel has Piro mocking Largo and his use of a battery-munching wireless keyboard while Largo is stomping on the keyboard (complete with keys flying around while the device itself is unseen) while shouting, "[=DIE=]! [=DIE=]! [=DIE=]!"
* In ''WebComic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', a kit stomps all over his hat. He's agitated because [[JustifiedTrope his hat is on fire]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]

!'''Examples'''

* Amos Slade throws his hat to the ground and starts stomping on it in ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound''.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' for the Sega Genesis, Robotnik is shown stomping on the words "The End".[[note]]But only if you get all the Chaos Emeralds. Otherwise, he tosses around the ones you missed, and it says "Try again" instead.[[/note]]

* At the end of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' for the Sega Genesis, Robotnik is shown stomping on the words "The End".[[note]]But only if you get all the Chaos Emeralds. Otherwise, he tosses around the ones you missed, and it says "Try again" instead.[[/note]]

* One of the adverts in the advertising campaign ''Never Say No To Panda'', the panda, angry that a potential customer has refused to buy Panda Cheese, pushes over the customer's full shopping trolley, kicks and then jumps on the items.

* In one episode of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime, Tubby does this with a bouquet of flowers that Lulu gave him earlier, once the others discovered the bouquet.
* Played for either angst and tragedy in ''Anime/TekkamanBlade''. Blade just defeated Evil and [[spoiler: it is revealed that Evil(and by extension the other Radam Tekkamen) was being infected by a Radam parasite all along to make him murderous and evil. Evil died as himself afterwards, and in extreme frustration that the bug was the cause of all this madness, Blade angrily stomps on the bug dead.]]

* De Mesmaeker once did it to a phone in a burst of rage after unsuccessfully trying to call the Dupuis office for hours, due to ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'' blocking the line with his antics.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Rocket resorts to this when Groot and Drax guilt-trip him into fetching Peter and Gamora to stand up to Ronan one more time. At that point, [[RageQuit he was ready to give up and]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run to the other end of the universe]].

* ''Series/HotatioHornblower'': When Hornblower and his men are in Spanish prison, the Duchess of Wharfedale brings them some fresh fruit from Don Massaredo's garden. Styles tries to take one, but Midshipman Hunter gets furious, and scurvy or no scurvy, he says he prefers British beef and British beer, and he crushes the basket underfoot and throws the battered fruit into an oubliette.

[[folder:Video Games]]

* In the first ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'', Diddy would do this to his hat if he failed a bonus game or if the platform in Tanked Up Trouble ran out of gas: amusingly enough, if you move him close enough to the edge of a platform before it happens, he throws it down a pit and jumps after it. He also did this at least once in the TV series.
* In the versus mode of ''VideoGame/StarFox Assault'': If Wolf O'Donnell loses, he will angrily throw his [[RayGun blaster]] onto the ground, grind it with his foot, and look the other way.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', wherein stomping on the bodies of the necromorphs is often one of the best ways to dismember them, but you can keep on stomping at the chunks, and stomping, and Isaac will start cursing a blue streak, implying that the continued violence is more catharsis than practicality.
* The Japanese UsefulNotes/MegaDrive game ''VideoGame/BattleMania'' has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgVz8dDHzzk hidden intro]] involving a character jumping up and down on a UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom.
* Most of the way through Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/Mother3'', [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys the dancer monkey Salsa]] crushes the remote that his corrupt master had been priorly using to shock him.
* In VideoGame/TheSims4, an angry Sim has the option to kick over a trash can and stomp on the spilled trash.

* ''WebComic/MegaTokyo'', early in its run, featured a random comic of Piro and Largo's avatar counterparts in an [=FPS=]-type game. Largo corners Piroko and boasts about killing her, only to freeze in place (and allow Piroko a free headshot). The last panel has Piro mocking Largo and his use of a battery-munching wireless keyboard while Largo is stomping on the keyboard (complete with keys flying around while the device itself is unseen) while shouting, "[=DIE=]! [=DIE=]! [=DIE=]!"

* [[WebVideo/PurePwnage FPS Doug]] does this towards the end of the BoomHeadshot video after [[spoiler:getting headshotted himself]].
* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool:'' In Episode 77, Mackenzie does this to Justin's hat when [[spoiler:said hat gets them disqualified from the men's swimsuit competition.]] Luckily for him, he always carries a spare one around with him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Employee of the Month", Squidward gets so angry at [=SpongeBob=] that he snatches his Krusty Krab hat and stomps on it. Turns out [=SpongeBob=] is CrazyPrepared and always carries a lead brick under his hat for just such an occasion.
** Invoked in "Squid on Strike", where Squidward tells [=SpongeBob=] to stomp on his hat in defiance to the Krusty Krab. [=SpongeBob=] tries to do it, but the hat seems to be stuck to his hand. Squidward does it and is promptly ticketed by a policeman for littering.
** "YOU DON'T DESERVE TO WEAR THOSE ''FEZZES!''"

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' epsiode "Happy Unhappiness Day To You", Gargamel gets fed up with his happiness detector leading him everywhere but to the Smurfs, who were having a day of happiness fasting, that he stomps the crap out of it and tosses it into his muck pond by the story's end.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' episode "Racing Slicks", Edward stomps on his first place trophy when he finds out that the other trophies are much larger than his.

* In the animated version of ''ComicStrip/ThePerishers'', Wellington had two really epic examples, once of the "dog cart" he had built for Boot to pull only for boot to "misunderstand" repeatedly, and once of an axle and single wheel that Marlon brought round wit "I had an accident with my buggy, can you fix it?" Both times Wellington's response was "AAAAAAGH! I've had enough of you and this thing...thing... ''thing''...THING!" (stomp stomp stomp).
* Coop from ''WesternAnimation/{{MegasXLR}}'' doesn't like the {{D|rivingTest}}MV. He ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill really]]'' [[MoreDakka doesn't]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGjab76TJ3c like it.]]
* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] does this sometimes either because he was trying to get one of his gadgets to work, or because said gadgets failed on him...
* Slappy Squirrel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' does this with a newspaper that called her a former star. "Aunt Slappy gets just a ''liiiiiiiiitle'' bitter."
* Dexter in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' in the episode "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools" does this to one of the transportation remote controls that Dee Dee got a hand on after using it to enter Dexter's lab. When he uses the spare one to transport back to his lab, he stomps on that one as well.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'', Diddy Kong has done the hat stomp he does in the games. In "Buried Treasure", Klump calls K.Rool by phone. After their conversation is finished, K.Rool tells Krusha to "Take care of that". The scene ends with a shadowed shot of Krusha stomping down on the phone.
* A bumper for ''WesternAnimation/CBBears'' has this happen with a bag of arrows (all of which hit the tree that doesn't have the bull's-eye on it).
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', when the villainous Human Ton attempts to eat the Tick's head, his puppet companion Handy starts to brag to the viewers about how he's still able to talk. This ends abruptly when Arthur yanks him off Human Ton's hand. Human Ton then stops to look for Handy and is horrified to see Arthur viciously stomping him on the ground.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** In Episode 82, when Pretty gets fed up with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, she throws her smartphone on the ground and stomps on it repeatedly. Somehow, it doesn't break.
** In Episode 113, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] loses a video game. He throws his console on the floor and stomps on it as though it was the console's fault he lost.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy gets stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, gets annoyed by Giles' GlassesPull CharacterTic, and stomps his glasses underfoot.

* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': When Hornblower and his men are in the Spanish prison, the Duchess of Wharfedale brings them some fresh fruit from Don Massaredo's garden. Styles tries to take one, but Midshipman Hunter gets furious, and scurvy or no scurvy, he says he prefers British beef and British beer, and he stomps on the basket and crushes the fruit underfoot. Then he throws the battered fruit into an oubliette for good measure.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', when the villainous Human Ton attempts to eat the Tick's head, his puppet companion Handy starts to brag to the viewers about how he's still able to talk. This ends abruptly when Arthur yanks him off Human Ton's hand. Human Ton then stops to look for Handy and it horrified to see Arthur viciously stomping him on the ground.

Compare: ShootTheTelevision, RingRingCrunch, and ApplianceDefenestration.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]], although she's hardly agitated, the Doctor destroys the villain's vortex manipulator by ripping it off his wrist and stomping on it.

* In Literature/FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe, Buddy Jr. stomps his Erector set flat. Granted, an Erector set is a really sucky gift for a kid with ''only one arm''.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy gets stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, gets annoyed by Giles' GlassesPull CharacterTic, and stomps his glasses underfoot.
* In an episode of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', when Mr. Grainger thought he was about to be fired, he wrote everything he wanted to say about the staff in his letter of resignation. On learning it ''wasn't'' the case, he read out the paper anyway, to their general amusement... but decided he was far too harsh towards Mr. Humphries. Mr. Humphries grabbed the letter, read it silently, and then tore it to shreds and jumped on the shreds, crying profusely.
* In ''Series/That70sShow'', due to the raging hormones brought on by her menopause, Kitty takes this tactic to handling an uncooperative television clicker.