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** In the episode where they go on a cruise ship to the Bermuda Triangle, Rocko gets run over and [[RunningGag flattened]] by the elderly wolves.

But maybe it doesn't look so bad. [[HopeSpot Maybe there's small hope that what has been broken could be salvaged]] or patched up...

Alice has [[MacGuffin something that is very important]] with her that she trusts Bob will keep safe. Bob, however, is [[TheKlutz a klutz]] or [[{{Jerkass}} just an asshole]], and the second Bob is handed Alice's MacGuffin, it winds up falling into the street where it is immediately run over by an oncoming car.

But maybe it doesn't look so bad. [[HopeSpot Maybe there's small hope that what has been broken could be salvaged]].

Just as Bob is about to suggest to Alice that it might not be so bad, ''another'' car comes by and runs over the MacGuffin ''again''... and another... and then ''a truck!'' By the time the steam rollers show up, [[OverlyLongGag you absolutely know for certain that Alice's item is completely wrecked]].

Next, a marching band heard in the distance comes by and tramples over the crushed mess as they pass... followed by parade floats, a row of elephants, and army tanks.

Finally, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking something considerably smaller compared to what came before]] (such as a man on a tricycle or an old lady with a cane) runs the MacGuffin over one last time just to sprinkle one last pinch of salt in the emotional wounds.

* This tatcic is weaponized by Ash's Tauros in ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast'' with a tactic called the Bull-Dozer. It involves Squirtle riding all five of them at once , and the Tauros running directly forward crushing everything underneath them. Anything that survives then gets attacked by whatever was behind the Bull-Dozer (read: Ash and his team).

'''Frank:''' ''(comforting Ed)'' I know, Ed...\\

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* An animated for the Android phone has a figure dropping his phone in the street where it gets run over several times, jackhammered by a road worker and eventually trampled upon by the rock group Music/{{KISS}}.

** The episode "Lisa's Sax" sees Lisa's prized saxophone sail out her bedroom window and into the street where it's run over by a car, a truck, stamped on by Nelson (who then points at it and mocks, "Ha ha"), and concludes with Hans Moleman [[Series/LaughIn on a tricycle who falls over to the side]] when his front tire hits what remains of the flattened saxophone.

** Sideshow Bob is run over by parade elephants in "Cape Feare" right after he said, "[[TemptingFate Surely there's no harm in laying the middle of a public street.]]"

When this happens to actual characters, this can be a more literal form of a HumiliationConga or a variant of RasputinianDeath.

--> '''Ed:''' Oh, Frank! It's horrible. It's so horrible!\\
'''Frank:''' ''(Comforting Ed)'' I know...\\

* An animated for the Android phone has a figure dropping his phone in the street where it gets run over several times, jackhammered by a road worker and eventually trampled upon by the rock group KISS.

--> '''Ed:''' Oh, Frank! It's horrible. It's so horrible!
--> '''Frank:''' ''(Comforting Ed)'' I know...
--> '''Ed:''' My father went the same way...

* In another Disney example, also happens to Alice in ''Disney/AliceInWonderland''.

* In one episode of WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne. Con Carne's brain ends up trapped outside his usual container, as it's crawling along the bugler announces mess call. Cue Con Carne realizing he's in between his troops training area and the mess hall! This trope follows as he ends up trampled by his entire evil army ending with an elderly soldier using a walker walking over him. It's all played for laughs of course.

** The episode "Lisa's Sax" sees Lisa's prized saxophone sail out her bedroom window and into the street where it's run over by a car, a truck, stamped on by Nelson (who then points at it and mocks, [[AnnoyingLaugh "Ha ha"]]), and concludes with Hans Moleman [[Series/LaughIn on a tricycle who falls over to the side]] when his front tire hits what remains of the flattened saxophone.

** The episode "Lisa's Sax" sees Lisa's prized saxophone sail out her bedroom window and into the street where it's run over by a car, a truck, stamped on by Nelson (who then points at it and mocks, [[AnnoyingLaugh "Ha ha"]]), and concludes with a [[Series/LaughIn man on a tricycle who falls over to the side]] when his front tire hits what remains of the flattened saxophone.

* In the title screen for ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}: Nightmare in Dreamland'', Kirby is run over by a pack of other kirbies. He hops back from being squished and follows them. For the title screen of ''Squeak Squad'', he's instead trampled by some of the enemy cast.

* The trash can that Gumball and Darwin chase in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Tag" ends up knocked around by a bunch of passing cars, squashed by [[OurGiantsAreDifferent Hector's foot]], struck by lightning, and has a satellite dropped on it. [[spoiler: Good thing Mr. Watterson and Mr. Robinson were in the other trash can!]]

* Creator/GeneKelly's movie-star character in ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'' gets trampled to death by his own GroupieBrigade.