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* ''Fanfic/TheGameOfTheGods'': Anjara tries to travel to Middle-Earth using a TelevisionPortal that only exists in her imagination. The inevitable happens as she smashes into the TV with enough force to give her a fatal head injury.
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': Two Girl Scouts fight each other in a bar, and one throws the other girl to [[BarSlide slide across the bar top]] and land head-first into a jukebox, which starts playing "[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]".
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': Two Girl Scouts fight each other in a bar, and one throws the other girl to [[BarSlide slide across the bar top]] and land lands head-first into a jukebox, which starts playing "[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]".
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* ''Film/RoboCop2'': When Murphy and Lewis bust the arcade where part of Caine's gang is hiding in, Murphy grabs [[DirtyCop officer Duffy]] and interrogates him as to where Caine's hideout is by, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique among other things, smashing Duffy's face onto the screen of an arcade machine]] and grinding him into the glass.
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* ''Film/RoboCop2'': When Murphy and Lewis bust the arcade where part of Caine's gang is hiding in, hiding, Murphy grabs [[DirtyCop officer Duffy]] and interrogates him as to where Caine's hideout is by, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique among other things, smashing Duffy's face onto the screen of an arcade machine]] and grinding him into the glass.
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* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In the pilot, Shirley makes a light threat that involved grabbing someone's head and pushing it through a jukebox. In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E12HeroicOrigins Heroic Origins]]", it's revealed that she smashed a stripper's face, namely Misty, into a jukebox as retribution for sleeping with Andre.
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* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In the pilot, Shirley makes a light threat that involved involves grabbing someone's head and pushing it through a jukebox. In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E12HeroicOrigins Heroic Origins]]", it's revealed that she smashed a stripper's face, namely Misty, into a jukebox as retribution for sleeping with Andre.
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* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': Self-Inflicted in "[[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/239-sonicwatchestv/ Sonic Watches TV]]". Seeing an ad for Ringley's Rings, Sonic sees it looks exactly like a ring container. After trying not to give into the desire to break it open, Sonic snaps and throws himself at the [=TV=], screaming.
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* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': Self-Inflicted in "[[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/239-sonicwatchestv/ Sonic Watches TV]]". Seeing an ad for Ringley's Rings, Sonic sees it looks exactly like a ring container. After trying not to give into in to the desire to break it open, Sonic snaps and throws himself at the [=TV=], screaming.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': During "Masquerade", Husker throws a LoanShark head first into a jukebox.
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* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "None But The Lonely Heart," the VillainProtagonist uses a video dating service to scam rich old ladies, murdering them for their money. When he suspects the dating service manager is blackmailing him, he responds by violently ramming the poor bastard's skull through the service's big-screen video player. In a wonderful bit of BlackComedy, the TV keeps sparking (and the corpse keeps spasming) until the killer clicks it off with the remote control.
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One especially interesting way to dispatch a character (or otherwise really mess them up) is to have them smash head-first or face-first into a television. It makes a nice smashing noise, often emits some sparks and smoke, and may leave the unfortunate character jiggling uncontrollably as the [[HighVoltageDeath electricity fries their insides]]. Often the unfortunate victim of such a move will end up with his or her head sunk entirely within the electronic box, as though it is hollow. The recent [[TechnologyMarchesOn predominance of flatscreens over the old tube televisions]] doesn't seem to have made this trope vanish, possibly because it's a [[RuleOfCool really cool way to kill off a character or end a fight]].
The reason the term "screen" is used for this trope instead of "television" is that it could refer to a situation in which someone's head is thrust into ''any'' similar device, such as a computer monitor or a microwave oven. An older variation of this involves a jukebox display, sometimes as the result of a BarBrawl. The general disappearance of the jukebox from the public consciousness has made this a [[ForgottenTrope fairly rare, if not extinct, variation of this trope]].
This is about as close to TruthInTelevision as SoftGlass, of which this is a sub-trope. The screen on an old-fashioned tube television is the front of an enormous ''vacuum tube'', which has to be made out of extra-thick glass to withstand the pressure. Flat-panel [=TVs=] don't have that problem, but their screens are still made at least as strong as a window of the same size. Skulls are tough too, so we're not sure what would end up worse off if you did this in RealLife, but we're betting the screen would be cracked at worst.
This could be the unfortunate result of someone believing too much in a TelevisionPortal, or said portal [[PortalSlam disappearing shortly before impact]].
'''As this trope often results in death, beware of unmarked spoilers.'''
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': In the Cyber City arc, Giga, the arc's BigBad, reveals himself in front of Bobobo and Softon via big screen. When one of Giga's cronies tried to attack Bobobo, the latter smashes his face on the big screen and declares that he's coming to kick his ass.
* In the ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' episode "Brittle Bullet", Naota and his grandfather are watching TV when Naota's father flies through a wall and ends up headfirst in the TV set. It turns out Haruko had punched him with an [[ExtendoBoxingGlove extendable boxing glove]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In the 1998 maxi-series ''JLA: Year One'', [[spoiler:Simon Carr, Snapper Carr's uncle]], shoves Snapper Carr's head against his monitor screen, to keep him from perusing some secret files. This destroys the monitor, while Snapper Carr sustains visible injuries to his face.
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[[folder:Films - Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': Two Girl Scouts fight each other in a bar, and one throws the other girl to [[BarSlide slide across the bar top]] and land head-first into a jukebox, which starts playing "[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]".
* During a BarBrawl in the {{blaxploitation}} film ''Film/FoxyBrown'', one of the fight participants gets thrown head-first into a jukebox.
* ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'': [[spoiler:Grocer]] gets dispatched by a TV set to the face that's thrown above a kitchen counter. Electricity is heard and the body twitches before it stops moving.
* One of the victims in ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'' meets his fate when Henry and Otis crash a TV screen on his head.
* ''Film/{{Hooper}}'': During a bar scene, a drunken Hooper is told by an angry rival to stop the song Hooper selected. Hooper puts on a helmet and smashes his head through the front of the jukebox, demolishing it. He even gives the quarter the jukebox coughes out to the rival. And then he begins a BarBrawl.
* ''Film/MothersDay'': One of the main antagonists gets a TV set crashed on his head through the base, his screaming head visible through its screen as he staggers around. Once he finally throws it off, he collapses, smoke leaving the lips of his fried face.
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': Jennifer is killed when her head is smashed into a wall-mounted television set -- ''by the television itself'' (as possessed by Freddy Krueger himself, of course).
* One unlucky inmate on ''Series/{{Oz}}'' was thrown into a TV screen during a fight, killing him instantly.
* ''Film/RoboCop2'': When Murphy and Lewis bust the arcade where part of Caine's gang is hiding in, Murphy grabs [[DirtyCop officer Duffy]] and interrogates him as to where Caine's hideout is by, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique among other things, smashing Duffy's face onto the screen of an arcade machine]] and grinding him into the glass.
* In ''Film/Scream1996'', [[spoiler:Stu Macher]] has a big-screen television dropped on his face by [[spoiler:Sidney]], shooting sparks and electrocuting him to death.
* In ''Film/Scream6'', [[spoiler: Kirby]] finishes off [[spoiler:the third killer, Ethan]] by dropping a television on [[spoiler:his]] head in a CallBack to the first movie. It gets lampshaded, too.
-->[[spoiler:'''Kirby''']]: Saw that in a scary movie once.
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': The zombified landlord of the Winchester pub is sent head-first into a jukebox, consequently "killing the Music/{{Queen}}."
* ''Film/{{Skyscraper}}'': Will Sawyer faces his EvilFormerFriend, Ben, and in the ensuing struggle Ben kicks Will head-first into Will's widescreen television. Will shrugs off the attack and kills Ben in a GunStruggle a couple seconds later.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'', Knuckles introduces himself to Sonic by punching him through the wall and the flatscreen TV hanging on it.
* ''Film/TheSpyNextDoor'': Farren calls out to Larry as she drops a TV set from upstairs, making him look up as the glass crashes into his face, knocking him down with his head in the set.
* ''Film/UnderSiege'': The movie's final battle between Casey Ryback and BigBad Strannix ends with Ryback stabbing Strannix in the scalp, before shoving Strannix head-first into the USS Missouri's radar monitor screen (which shatters and fizzles, of course) for good measure.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* A self-inflicted version in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie''. One of the victims is an anger management attendees who drunkenly dives headfirst into a large screen TV, killing him from a combination of a broken neck, electrocution, and bleeding.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In the pilot, Shirley makes a light threat that involved grabbing someone's head and pushing it through a jukebox. In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E12HeroicOrigins Heroic Origins]]", it's revealed that she smashed a stripper's face, namely Misty, into a jukebox as retribution for sleeping with Andre.
* Lorena, one of the nastier vampires of ''Series/TrueBlood'', was bashed over the head with a flatscreen television in one episode, allowing Bill, her vampire captive, to escape. As she's a vampire, this doesn't kill her, but it does really piss her off.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "None But The Lonely Heart," the VillainProtagonist uses a video dating service to scam rich old ladies, murdering them for their money. When he suspects the dating service manager is blackmailing him, he responds by violently ramming the poor bastard's skull through the service's big-screen video player. In a wonderful bit of BlackComedy, the TV keeps sparking (and the corpse keeps spasming) until the killer clicks it off with the remote control.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* On the July 1, 2019 edition of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'', the Falls Count Anywhere match between Wrestling/BobbyLashley and Wrestling/BraunStrowman ended with the two of them crashing head-first through the LED Wall, leading to a no-contest.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII'': A Viewer falls through the ceiling from an upper floor and runs off to the other room, a loud crash following shortly after. Walk into the next room to find him planted head-first into a TV, presumably dead. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment It serves to foreshadow how obsessed the Viewers are with the Transmission and the screens that carry it]].
* In the 2005 game ''VideoGame/{{The Punisher|THQ}}'', the boss fight against the Russian has Frank smash his opponent's head through three different computer monitors and a television screen inside his apartment.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Incineroar defeats Ken by sending him flying into a jumbotron screen in the former's trailer.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': Self-Inflicted in "[[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/239-sonicwatchestv/ Sonic Watches TV]]". Seeing an ad for Ringley's Rings, Sonic sees it looks exactly like a ring container. After trying not to give into the desire to break it open, Sonic snaps and throws himself at the [=TV=], screaming.
* The first strip of ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' has [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] working in a computer store and giving a customer an up-close look of a computer screen's resolution... [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer by repeatedly slamming the customer's head into it.]] The QuickTimeEvent reads "Press Circle to show off the better features of this product".
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Nicole is brought to her breaking point in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E30TheLimit The Limit]]" and chases her family around the store. Richard stands in front of a video camera that broadcasts his face on the surrounding TV sets and he screams in terror as Nicole charges towards him... but it turns out that she's running into another TV displaying Richard, causing her face to flatten against the screen, cracking it and pulling several other TV screens to fall off the shelves and onto her. Her RaisedHandOfSurvival amongst the broken metal and glass shows that it barely hinders her UnstoppableRage.
* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': During "Masquerade", Husker throws a LoanShark head first into a jukebox.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Gamer in China smashes head ''through'' screen for losing a "League of Legends" campaign. [[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamer-frustrated-team-smashes-head-100254879.html Yes, "through".]]
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[[caption-width-right:551:"Welcome to prime time, bitch!"]]
One especially interesting way to dispatch a character (or otherwise really mess them up) is to have them smash head-first or face-first into a television. It makes a nice smashing noise, often emits some sparks and smoke, and may leave the unfortunate character jiggling uncontrollably as the [[HighVoltageDeath electricity fries their insides]]. Often the unfortunate victim of such a move will end up with his or her head sunk entirely within the electronic box, as though it is hollow. The recent [[TechnologyMarchesOn predominance of flatscreens over the old tube televisions]] doesn't seem to have made this trope vanish, possibly because it's a [[RuleOfCool really cool way to kill off a character or end a fight]].
The reason the term "screen" is used for this trope instead of "television" is that it could refer to a situation in which someone's head is thrust into ''any'' similar device, such as a computer monitor or a microwave oven. An older variation of this involves a jukebox display, sometimes as the result of a BarBrawl. The general disappearance of the jukebox from the public consciousness has made this a [[ForgottenTrope fairly rare, if not extinct, variation of this trope]].
This is about as close to TruthInTelevision as SoftGlass, of which this is a sub-trope. The screen on an old-fashioned tube television is the front of an enormous ''vacuum tube'', which has to be made out of extra-thick glass to withstand the pressure. Flat-panel [=TVs=] don't have that problem, but their screens are still made at least as strong as a window of the same size. Skulls are tough too, so we're not sure what would end up worse off if you did this in RealLife, but we're betting the screen would be cracked at worst.
This could be the unfortunate result of someone believing too much in a TelevisionPortal, or said portal [[PortalSlam disappearing shortly before impact]].
'''As this trope often results in death, beware of unmarked spoilers.'''
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!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': In the Cyber City arc, Giga, the arc's BigBad, reveals himself in front of Bobobo and Softon via big screen. When one of Giga's cronies tried to attack Bobobo, the latter smashes his face on the big screen and declares that he's coming to kick his ass.
* In the ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' episode "Brittle Bullet", Naota and his grandfather are watching TV when Naota's father flies through a wall and ends up headfirst in the TV set. It turns out Haruko had punched him with an [[ExtendoBoxingGlove extendable boxing glove]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In the 1998 maxi-series ''JLA: Year One'', [[spoiler:Simon Carr, Snapper Carr's uncle]], shoves Snapper Carr's head against his monitor screen, to keep him from perusing some secret files. This destroys the monitor, while Snapper Carr sustains visible injuries to his face.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films - Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': Two Girl Scouts fight each other in a bar, and one throws the other girl to [[BarSlide slide across the bar top]] and land head-first into a jukebox, which starts playing "[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]".
* During a BarBrawl in the {{blaxploitation}} film ''Film/FoxyBrown'', one of the fight participants gets thrown head-first into a jukebox.
* ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'': [[spoiler:Grocer]] gets dispatched by a TV set to the face that's thrown above a kitchen counter. Electricity is heard and the body twitches before it stops moving.
* One of the victims in ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'' meets his fate when Henry and Otis crash a TV screen on his head.
* ''Film/{{Hooper}}'': During a bar scene, a drunken Hooper is told by an angry rival to stop the song Hooper selected. Hooper puts on a helmet and smashes his head through the front of the jukebox, demolishing it. He even gives the quarter the jukebox coughes out to the rival. And then he begins a BarBrawl.
* ''Film/MothersDay'': One of the main antagonists gets a TV set crashed on his head through the base, his screaming head visible through its screen as he staggers around. Once he finally throws it off, he collapses, smoke leaving the lips of his fried face.
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'': Jennifer is killed when her head is smashed into a wall-mounted television set -- ''by the television itself'' (as possessed by Freddy Krueger himself, of course).
* One unlucky inmate on ''Series/{{Oz}}'' was thrown into a TV screen during a fight, killing him instantly.
* ''Film/RoboCop2'': When Murphy and Lewis bust the arcade where part of Caine's gang is hiding in, Murphy grabs [[DirtyCop officer Duffy]] and interrogates him as to where Caine's hideout is by, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique among other things, smashing Duffy's face onto the screen of an arcade machine]] and grinding him into the glass.
* In ''Film/Scream1996'', [[spoiler:Stu Macher]] has a big-screen television dropped on his face by [[spoiler:Sidney]], shooting sparks and electrocuting him to death.
* In ''Film/Scream6'', [[spoiler: Kirby]] finishes off [[spoiler:the third killer, Ethan]] by dropping a television on [[spoiler:his]] head in a CallBack to the first movie. It gets lampshaded, too.
-->[[spoiler:'''Kirby''']]: Saw that in a scary movie once.
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': The zombified landlord of the Winchester pub is sent head-first into a jukebox, consequently "killing the Music/{{Queen}}."
* ''Film/{{Skyscraper}}'': Will Sawyer faces his EvilFormerFriend, Ben, and in the ensuing struggle Ben kicks Will head-first into Will's widescreen television. Will shrugs off the attack and kills Ben in a GunStruggle a couple seconds later.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'', Knuckles introduces himself to Sonic by punching him through the wall and the flatscreen TV hanging on it.
* ''Film/TheSpyNextDoor'': Farren calls out to Larry as she drops a TV set from upstairs, making him look up as the glass crashes into his face, knocking him down with his head in the set.
* ''Film/UnderSiege'': The movie's final battle between Casey Ryback and BigBad Strannix ends with Ryback stabbing Strannix in the scalp, before shoving Strannix head-first into the USS Missouri's radar monitor screen (which shatters and fizzles, of course) for good measure.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* A self-inflicted version in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie''. One of the victims is an anger management attendees who drunkenly dives headfirst into a large screen TV, killing him from a combination of a broken neck, electrocution, and bleeding.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In the pilot, Shirley makes a light threat that involved grabbing someone's head and pushing it through a jukebox. In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E12HeroicOrigins Heroic Origins]]", it's revealed that she smashed a stripper's face, namely Misty, into a jukebox as retribution for sleeping with Andre.
* Lorena, one of the nastier vampires of ''Series/TrueBlood'', was bashed over the head with a flatscreen television in one episode, allowing Bill, her vampire captive, to escape. As she's a vampire, this doesn't kill her, but it does really piss her off.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "None But The Lonely Heart," the VillainProtagonist uses a video dating service to scam rich old ladies, murdering them for their money. When he suspects the dating service manager is blackmailing him, he responds by violently ramming the poor bastard's skull through the service's big-screen video player. In a wonderful bit of BlackComedy, the TV keeps sparking (and the corpse keeps spasming) until the killer clicks it off with the remote control.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* On the July 1, 2019 edition of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'', the Falls Count Anywhere match between Wrestling/BobbyLashley and Wrestling/BraunStrowman ended with the two of them crashing head-first through the LED Wall, leading to a no-contest.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII'': A Viewer falls through the ceiling from an upper floor and runs off to the other room, a loud crash following shortly after. Walk into the next room to find him planted head-first into a TV, presumably dead. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment It serves to foreshadow how obsessed the Viewers are with the Transmission and the screens that carry it]].
* In the 2005 game ''VideoGame/{{The Punisher|THQ}}'', the boss fight against the Russian has Frank smash his opponent's head through three different computer monitors and a television screen inside his apartment.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Incineroar defeats Ken by sending him flying into a jumbotron screen in the former's trailer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': Self-Inflicted in "[[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/239-sonicwatchestv/ Sonic Watches TV]]". Seeing an ad for Ringley's Rings, Sonic sees it looks exactly like a ring container. After trying not to give into the desire to break it open, Sonic snaps and throws himself at the [=TV=], screaming.
* The first strip of ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' has [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] working in a computer store and giving a customer an up-close look of a computer screen's resolution... [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer by repeatedly slamming the customer's head into it.]] The QuickTimeEvent reads "Press Circle to show off the better features of this product".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Nicole is brought to her breaking point in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E30TheLimit The Limit]]" and chases her family around the store. Richard stands in front of a video camera that broadcasts his face on the surrounding TV sets and he screams in terror as Nicole charges towards him... but it turns out that she's running into another TV displaying Richard, causing her face to flatten against the screen, cracking it and pulling several other TV screens to fall off the shelves and onto her. Her RaisedHandOfSurvival amongst the broken metal and glass shows that it barely hinders her UnstoppableRage.
* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': During "Masquerade", Husker throws a LoanShark head first into a jukebox.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* Gamer in China smashes head ''through'' screen for losing a "League of Legends" campaign. [[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamer-frustrated-team-smashes-head-100254879.html Yes, "through".]]
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