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* ''WesternAnimation/Sing'': In the LogoJoke, A minion does a [[HollywoodToneDeaf loud off-key yell]] that causes some of the letters in the ''Creator/IlluminationEntertinment'' logo to burn out.

* In the LogoJoke for ''WesternAnimation/Sing'', A minion does a [[HollywoodToneDeaf loud off-key yell]] that causes some of the letters in the ''Creator/Illumination'' logo to burn out.

* ''Advertising/{{Skittles}}'': In "Rock the Rainbow", [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]] has his portrait made out of skittles. Said portrait is alive and to prove itself to its owner it keeps singing higher and higher until it falls apart. Only its mouth stays in one piece and continues to sing.[[note]]In a funny turn of events, when this commercial was shown on a segment on ''Series/ThisMorning'' in the UK [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG6WqvHtQks the commercial broke the autocue]].[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* Taken UpToEleven in the ParodyFic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9913691 B'Elannarella]]'', when the Doctor starts pounding away on his Excessor Organ.

*** This is cranked UpToEleven with ShownTheirWork if you use the "Singing Mandrakes" cheat. This makes the Mandrake's [[BrownNote screeches]] into [[RuleOfFunny beautiful singing]] while still shattering the glass.

As a result, shattering glass has become a fictional shorthand for indicating that a sound (often someone singing) is particularly loud or high-pitched, or otherwise to indicate that they're a [[HollywoodToneDeaf terrible singer]] (an acoustic analogue to MirrorCrackingUgly)... or alternatively, a really ''good'' singer, confusingly enough. (The last one is probably the closest to reality, as the singer would have to match the exact frequency of the tone that the glass makes when struck and create destructive resonance by holding the note long enough. Not a feat many people can pull off. As ''Series/{{Mythbusters}} demonstrated, it also requires being extremely close to the glass, so DontTryThisAtHome.)

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "Lover Come Hack To Me", Peggy's [[ImmodestOrgasm orgasmic scream]] shatters the glass face of the grandfather clock: stopping the hands at midnight.

* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'', where Music/MariahCarey's ultrasonic voice shattered the arena's lights, made nearby dogs suffer and caused Creator/JimCarrey's [[YourHeadAsplode head to explode]].

** In ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'', [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] can break glass by belching after drinking Buzz Cola.
** In ''VideoGame/LEGOTheIncredibles'', Kari [=McKeen=] and Tony Rydinger can break glass by screaming. In the same game, [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Sulley]] can break glass with his roar.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', Harmony's playing the triangle at a pitch that makes Brainy's glasses crack in "Smurphony In 'C'", and Denisa's scream that makes the vials in Gargamel's hovel shatter in "Denisa's Greedy Doll".

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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest''. The villains have Fievel imprisoned inside a glass bottle, but fortunately his sister Tanya takes the stage at that point, and her song breaks the bottle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' Prince Charming shatters the audience members' wine glasses, opera glasses and even [[SerialEscalation pearl necklaces]] with his girly high-pitched singing during his play.

-->--'''Sunken Scroll 1'''[[note]]The singer in question being a young [[MakeMeWannaShout Pearl]][[/note]], ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'': The villain hires opera diva Bianca Castafiore, knowing her voice will shatter the bulletproof glass cabinet displaying a model ship he is planning on stealing.

* Discussed in ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles The Vampire Lestat]]'', when, as part of a larger discussion on subtlety, Marius points out that "a singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note, but the easiest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor."

* The key to the murderer's plan in "The Face of Helen", from the collection ''Literature/TheMysteriousMrQuin'' by Creator/AgathaChristie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', Harmony's playing the triangle at a pitch that makes Brainy's glasses crack in "Smurphony In 'C'", and Denisa's scream that makes the vials in Gargamel's hovel shatter in "Denisa's Greedy Doll".

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' "Thomas, Percy, and the Squeak" an opera singer named Alicia Botti sees a mouse in one of the coaches and her scream shatters windows around the dockyard.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny makes opera singer Gionvanni Jones ("Long Haired Hare") hold a note so long it literally brings down the Hollywood Bowl.

** In ''The Calculus Affair'', the objects randomly breaking in Marlinspike Castle turn out to be the results of prof. Calculus's ultrasound experiments. This gets him kidnapped by Bordurians who want to him to develop weapons of mass destruction for them (and Syldavs too try to steal him from the Bordurians for the same end).

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': In the episode ''Her Story II'', Carla is insulted about not being as hot as another Latino nurse. JD imagines Carla releasing her rage by screaming so loud that every nearby piece of glass shatters into pieces.