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* In the ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'' series, leveling fences, objects, and walls (or entire buildings) can be an important tactic since it [[TakeCover denies cover to the enemy]] and often raises a smokescreen, which admittedly can also benefit the enemy. Entire farms and orchards (or a suburban neighbourhood) can be destroyed with impunity. The main use of High Explosive packs is to kill or injure a weak alien on the other side of a wall.
** It doesn't work quite as well in ''VideoGame/UFOAfterBlank'', where most things are resistant to being blown to shrapnel... however, it is sometimes possible to get through walls with carefully positioned Super Striker grenades, or to reduce a wrecked bus to shrapnel.
** ''VIdeoGame/XComApocalypse'' counts property damage. You can reduce to rubble half of a building in a fight, but it means you owe a lot to its owner. Unless it was something that belongs to aliens or Cult of Sirius who will hate you anyway.

* ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' has you smashing crates as a primary objective of the games. Aside from containing several goodies such as Wumpa Fruits and Extra Lives, breaking all of them in a level will get you a gem.

* ''Franchise/JakAndDaxter'' though mostly in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' and ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' where you can basically kick the crap out of cars and zoomers until they explode. However this is inadvisable as being near enough to a zoomer to kick or punch it will probably result in you getting hurt by the eventual explosion and because destroying one of the wastelander cars by any means will result in you failing whatever mission you might or might not have been on.

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* In ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Frontline'' and ''Allied Assault'', in addition to [[ExplodingBarrels exploding barrels and crates]], certain destructible setpieces, [[ExplosiveInstrumentation such as radios]], will [[MadeOfExplodium explode]] and take out nearby {{mook}}s.

* ''RedFaction Guerrilla'' takes this and makes it (more or less) the point of the whole game. Additionally, every object seems to be made from concrete, but is destructible as though it's made from Styrofoam.
* In VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce2017, entire buildings will collapse if something so much as a firecracker explodes on them. With some of the later guns allowing you to carpet bomb entire blocks, turning cities into smoldering piles of rubble can become a game in itself.
** This is continued in VideoGame/EarthDefenseForceInsectArmageddon and VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce2025.

* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' litters its game world with mostly-identical wooden boxes that can, besides being pushed around, only be shot, blown or broken apart. Not particularly {{egregious}} in and of itself, but this even holds true for the boxes in Greenvale's Police Department's records room. Apparently the local deputies don't mind the sound of sub-machine gun fire and shattering wood around the office.

* ''[[{{Gobliiins}} Goblins 3]]'', Blount turns into a slightly more violent WolfMan at one point and starts using a hammer to break the house of a JerkAss shopkeeper, who kidnapped his bird, stole his coin, and refused to cooperate him with anything.

* What's better than beating up your rival's car? [[GearsOfWar Tearing apart an upperclassmen's sofa with a CHAINSAW, followed by the Man-Locust that was hiding behind it.]]

* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' has the infamous scene where Kylo Ren destroys his own computer in a fit of anger. Later, he has another fit and destroys a torture/interrogation chair, making it a literal example of Die, Chair! Die!

* GodHand, in Reference to FinalFight itself, has bonus stages where your objective is to destroy a car belonging to the enemy with nothing but the power of your fists. The regular stages themselves also of course contain various crates and barrels that hold all sorts of powerups and goodies.

* ''SaintsRow'' has plenty of destructible scenery. But alas the accursed telephone pole will not come down. Several missions (such as Mayhem) are entirely based around destroying as much stuff as possible in a time limit. In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' there's even a Car Bowling XP bonus, which is acquired in general play by jumping out of a car in motion; you score points based on how much stuff it destroys, and in the right circumstances it can get to several hundred percent of the target value (such as a turbo-boosted flatbed truck smashing through several smaller cars and a petrol station).

* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLAstAirbender'' is the destruction of a cabbage merchant's wares ("My cabbages!"). His descendant suffers a similar fate in ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'', on a larger scale ("My Cabbage Corp!").

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* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Used for drama when in one scene, Shiki (the player character) suddenly and inexplicably becomes irrationally angry at a chair and tears it apart, a sign that he's becoming very mentally unhinged. The narration for this scene is nothing more than the words [[http://www.lurkmore.com/w/images/9/9e/Thischair.jpg "This chair,"]] [[MadnessMantra repeated over and over again.]]
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* The ''SpyroTheDragon'' games tend to have some destructible scenery, mostly plants. Burning the shrubbery to a crisp doesn't get you any points, but it ''is'' somewhat therapeutic.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Used for drama when in one scene, Shiki (the player character) suddenly and inexplicably becomes irrationally angry at a chair and tears it apart, a sign that he's becoming very mentally unhinged. The narration for this scene is nothing more than the words [[http://i35.tinypic.com/210ejyv.jpg "This chair,"]] [[MadnessMantra repeated over and over again.]]

--> '''[[AC: Phineas:]]''' Let's just follow the carnage.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', the [[ShiftingSandLand Chozo]] [[TempleOfDoom Ruins]] feature birds flying in the distance. They're pretty. They're majestic. They're docile. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential They can be shot at]]. Doing so causes them to explode in a flurry of feathers. The Prime games also occasionally feature random bits of destructible scenery.

* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' has the infamous scene where Kylo Ren destroys his own computer in a fit of anger. Later, he has another fit and destroys a torture/interrogation chair, making it a literal example of Die, Chair, Die!

* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' has the infamous scene where Kylo Ren destroys his own computer in a fit of anger. Later he destroys a torture/interrogation chair, making it a literal example of Die, Chair, Die!

* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' has the infamous scene where Kylo Ren destroys his own computer in a fit of anger.

* ''Film/Star WarsTheForceAwakens'' has the infamous scene where Kylo Ren destroys his own computer in a fit of anger.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' explains how the [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Street Fighter tournament works]]. Ryu meticulously organized the whole tournament, giving each fighter a very detailed schedule of who to fight, when, and where. Problems pop up immediately when fighters start calling in about the scheduling, like Guile being uncomfortable fighting E.Honda in a men's bathhouse, where all their [[UnusualEuphamism sushi rolls are on display.]] Ken calls up, saying his guide says he's supposed to fight E. Honda, but Ryu corrects him, saying he's fighting ''A'' Honda. Ken dismisses the idea of fighting a car, and half-heartedly takes a couple punches at the side mirror. He then starts getting into it and has fun.

* ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' has the infamous scene where Kylo Ren destroys his own computer in a fit of anger.

And no, the title of this article is ''not'' the Welsh, nor [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons German]] for "The chair, the".[[note]]Those would be ''Y gadair, y'' and ''Der Stuhl, der!'', respectively.[[/note]] The trope also has nothing to do with PeopleSitOnChairs.