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** In "The Truce Hurts", Tom, Jerry, and Spike (or Butch) are fed up of fighting and that they should get along instead, so they write up a peace treaty where they agree to coexist in peace and become friends. Unfortunately, when they get their hands on a steak, they can't decide how to divide it between them, and they lose it in a storm drain. This causes them to get so upset at one another that Spike tears up the treaty in anger, and the short ends as it began: with them fighting.
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** In "The Truce Hurts", Tom, Jerry, Jerry and Spike (or Butch) Butch, as he is known as here) are fed up of fighting and fighting, that they should get along instead, and so they write up a peace treaty where they agree to coexist in peace and become friends. Unfortunately, when they get their hands on a steak, they can't decide how to divide it between them, and they lose it in a storm drain. This causes them to get so upset at one another that Spike tears up the treaty in anger, and the short ends as it began: with them fighting.
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** In "The Truce Hurts", Tom, Jerry, and Spike (or Butch) are fed up of fighting and that they should get along instead, so they write up a peace treaty where they agree to coexist in peace and become friends. Unfortunately, when they get their hands on a steak, they can't decide how to divide it between them, and they lose it in a storm drain. This causes them to get so upset at one another that Spike tears up the treaty in anger, and the short ends as it began: with them fighting.
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When we get angry, furious, seething, exasperated, enraged, infuriated,... it feels ''so'' good to destroy something. Best if it is something that angered us in the first place. A character who gets angry with someone or because of something can furiously tear a piece of paper into little pieces, or crumple the paper out of anger to vent the frustration. The paper ball can be thrown away, the pieces can be tossed on the ground, or tossed into fire and burned for good.
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When we get angry, furious, seething, exasperated, enraged, infuriated,... it feels ''so'' good to destroy something. Best if it is something that angered us in the first place. A character who gets angry with someone or because of something can furiously tear a piece of paper into little pieces, or crumple the paper out of anger to vent the frustration. The paper ball can be thrown away, the pieces can be tossed on the ground, or [[BurnBabyBurn tossed into fire and burned for good.
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** Before King Robert dies, he dictates his will to his Hand, Lord Neddard Stark. Widowed queen Cersei rips it in pieces in front of the whole court and tosses it on the ground. She then orders to have Ned arrested because Ned found out that Cersei's son Joffrey is not Robert's true heir.
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** Before King Robert dies, he dictates his will to his Hand, Lord Neddard Eddard Stark. Widowed queen Cersei rips it in pieces in front of the whole court and tosses it on the ground. She then orders to have Ned arrested because Ned found out that Cersei's son Joffrey is not Robert's true heir.
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** In "Burns, Baby Burns", Chief Wiggum crumples a piece of paper with a tracked phone number which Eddie hands him and then throws it into fire. He thinks it's fake because it starts with FiveFiveFive.
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** In "The Old Man and the Lisa", Lisa coldly tears the check from Mr. Burns in half because the money was made immorally and destroyed a chunk of sea life.
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The trope can come about in various scenarios. Writers suffering from the WritersBlock are likely to destroy their good-for-nothing drafts and vain attempts. Students obsessed with their marks may wreck their test marked [[TheBGrade A minus]]. Someone who got dumped or cheated on might destroy photos or letters from their (soon-to-be) ex. Characters working a SoulCrushingDeskJob might crumple annoying reports and start playing WastebasketBall. Or the character can rip up an unfair contract, hoping to make it null and void. If the character is freakishly strong and absolutely furious, they might tear a whole book in half.
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The trope can come about in various scenarios. Writers suffering from the WritersBlock are likely to destroy their good-for-nothing drafts and vain attempts. Students obsessed with their marks may wreck their test marked [[TheBGrade A minus]]. Someone who's reading a bad news (for them) in a newspaper might tear it up afterward. Someone who got dumped or cheated on might destroy photos or letters from their (soon-to-be) ex. Characters working a SoulCrushingDeskJob might crumple annoying reports and start playing WastebasketBall. Or the character can rip up an unfair contract, hoping to make it null and void. If the character is freakishly strong and absolutely furious, they might tear a whole book in half.
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* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': After Roger declines makes it clear to sell her the Cruella that he and Anita are not selling their puppies, Cruella [=DeVil=] takes angrily tears up the check she was writing, tears it to pieces, had written and tosses them at Roger's face.throws the pieces over Roger.
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* ''Series/{{ER}}''. Carol starts to write up a nurse for an error that she made (icing a patient's ''football'' instead of his severed ''foot'', leaving surgeons unable to reattach it) when the woman grabs the paper and rips it half, throwing the pieces in the air, declaring, "I quit!"
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In the promo material/DVD extra set between seasons 2 and 3, Marshall and Lily spend their honeymoon in Scotland. Lily is excited to be there and enjoy her time, but Marshall only wants to sit by Loch Ness and search for Nessie. Lily bears with him and says she's happy as long as she knows they are going to see ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' in Edinburgh on Thursday... Later she angrily tears the tickets in pieces because Marshall refuses to leave his spot.
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* In one of the game paths of ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'', [[Creator/ChristopherWalken Vincent Magnotta]] shows you a photo accusing Joey Falconetti of being the titular killer. When you scan it to prove it's fake, Magnotta tears up the picture in rage while begrudgingly releasing Falconetti.
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* ''Series/{{Girls}}'': In "Female Author", Jessa relieves herself between two parked cars on a New York street when she can't find a bathroom. A police officer in a passing car spots her and gives her a ticket for public urination which she rips up, resulting in more serious charges against her and Adam.
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* ''Series/{{Girls}}'': In "Female Author", Jessa [[NatureTinkling relieves herself between two parked cars on a New York street when she can't find a bathroom.bathroom]]. A police officer in a passing car spots her and gives her a ticket for public urination which she rips up, resulting in more serious charges against her and Adam.
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* ''Series/{{Girls}}'': In "Female Author", Jessa relieves herself between two parked cars on a New York street when she can't find a bathroom. A police officer in a passing car spots her and gives her a ticket for public urination which she rips up, resulting in more serious charges against her and Adam.
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** Balon Greyjoy coldly throws a letter from Robb Stark, delivered by his son Theon, into fire. Balon has no desire to be Robb Stark's ally against Lannisters. Instead, he means to raid the coast of the North controlled by Starks.
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* ''Literature/LittleWomen'': Amy burns Jo's manuscript in anger to punish her for not wanting to take her to see a play with Meg and Laurie. Jo worked on her stories for ''years'', she copied them and destroyed the old drafts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4LuckOfTheFryish Luck of the Fryish]]": Fry angrily tears his ticket when his horse doesn't win the race and he loses the money he bet.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Bad Blood": Agent Mulder tries to write a report, but he ends up crinkling up the piece of paper. He throws it across the room and tries to hit the trash can. He misses. He proceeds to kick the can as if he was trying to destroy it. He's on edge because he stabbed a teenager with a wooden stake but he was drugged and convinced that the teen was a vampire.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'', [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood "Bad Blood": Blood"]]: Agent Mulder tries to write a report, but he ends up crinkling up the piece of paper. He throws it across the room and tries to hit the trash can. He misses. He proceeds to kick the can as if he was trying to destroy it. He's on edge because he stabbed a teenager with a wooden stake but he was drugged and convinced that the teen was a vampire.
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* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', Mr. Banks drafts an advertisement for a nanny to put in the newspaper. His kids also draft an advertisement for a nanny. When Mr. Banks finds out that the kids' ideas of what traits the nanny should have are completely opposite to the traits he thinks the nanny should have, he tears up the kids' draft in disdain.
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* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', Mr. Banks drafts an advertisement for a nanny to put in the newspaper. His kids also draft an advertisement for a nanny. When Mr. Banks finds out that the kids' ideas of what traits the nanny should have are completely opposite to the traits he thinks the nanny should have, he tears up the kids' draft in disdain.disdain and tosses the bits into the (extinct) chimney.
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** In "Millionaire Tom", after Tom inherits millions of dollars, Jerry keeps showing him the telegram that points out that he will lose everything if he harms another living thing, "even a mouse" in order to do whatever he wants. Eventually, Tom has enough of the mouse's antics and tears up the telegram, then stuffs the portion that reads "EVEN A MOUSE" down Jerry's throat.
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** In "Millionaire Tom", "The Million Dollar Cat", after Tom inherits millions of dollars, Jerry keeps showing him the telegram that points out that he will lose everything if he harms another living thing, "even a mouse" in order to do whatever he wants. Eventually, Tom has enough of the mouse's antics and tears up the telegram, then stuffs the portion that reads "EVEN A MOUSE" down Jerry's throat.
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** Before King Robert dies, he dictates his will to his Hand, Lord Neddard Stark. Widowed queen Cercei rips it in pieces in front of the whole court and tosses it on the ground. She then orders to have Ned arrested because Ned found out that Cercei's son Joffrey is not Robert's true heir.
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** Before King Robert dies, he dictates his will to his Hand, Lord Neddard Stark. Widowed queen Cercei Cersei rips it in pieces in front of the whole court and tosses it on the ground. She then orders to have Ned arrested because Ned found out that Cercei's Cersei's son Joffrey is not Robert's true heir.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' animated short "Mouse Trouble", after all of Tom's attempts to catch Jerry per the book's instructions ended in failure culminating in him accidentally swallowing a toy mouse, Tom goes insane and tears down the whole book in anger before planting loads of explosives into the hole just to kill the mouse.
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** In the''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' animated short "Mouse Trouble", "WesternAnimation/MouseTrouble", after all of Tom's attempts to catch Jerry per the book's instructions ended in failure culminating in him accidentally swallowing a toy mouse, Tom goes insane and tears down the whole book in anger before planting loads of explosives into the hole just to kill the mouse.mouse.
** In "Millionaire Tom", after Tom inherits millions of dollars, Jerry keeps showing him the telegram that points out that he will lose everything if he harms another living thing, "even a mouse" in order to do whatever he wants. Eventually, Tom has enough of the mouse's antics and tears up the telegram, then stuffs the portion that reads "EVEN A MOUSE" down Jerry's throat.
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* During the "Merry [[YouMeanXMas Twistmas]]" song in ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'', Santa is asking the characters what they want for Twistmas (their equivalent of Christmas) and they respond in [[SpeakingSimlish their language]]. For some reason, Katsuma looks a bit ticked off and he's ripping a piece of paper, but it's never revealed why.
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* In ''Series/{{Billions}}'' episode "The Deal", Chuck wants to [[BuyThemOff buy Axe off]] with a big cheque, but the latter crumples it up and throws it at Chuck. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/MfC54kLXNQg?t=207 here]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Selma's Choice": The family stops at a diner on their way to Aunt Gladys' funeral. Homer keeps failing to solve a maze on a placemat, so he keeps crumpling them in anger and tossing them on the floor.
** In "Lisa on Ice," Lisa receives an academic alert that's she's failing gym. She angrily crumples up the alert and hurls it at a trash can, but airballs it by several feet.
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** In "Selma'sChoice": Choice", The family stops at a diner on their way to Aunt Gladys' funeral. Homer keeps failing to solve a maze on a placemat, so he keeps crumpling them in anger and tossing them on the floor.
** In "Lisa onIce," Ice", Lisa receives an academic alert that's she's failing gym. She angrily crumples up the alert and hurls it at a trash can, but airballs it by several feet.
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* In ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', when the team returns to the Sedgewick Hotel, Egon does this to the order left by [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Peck]]/[=PCOC=] when he learns that it refers to them by name.
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* In ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', when the team returns to the Sedgewick Hotel, Egon does this to shreds the order left by [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Peck]]/[=PCOC=] when he learns that it refers to them by name.
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* ''Film/CosyDens'': Mr Sebek tears his son Michal's poster of Mick Jagger into small pieces, crumples it and then throws the crumbled pieces on the ground. He hates everything Western and hippie-like. Michal made his sister to put it on their father's noticeboard on purpose to tick him off. Mr Sebek was already in a bad mood because he's hungover, but the poster got under his skin real bad.
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This trope describes a situation when a character destroys a piece of paper in either hot or cold anger.
When we get angry, furious, seething, exasperated, enraged, infuriated,... it feels ''so'' good to destroy something. Best if it is something that angered us in the first place. A character who gets angry with someone or because of something can furiously tear a piece of paper into little pieces, or crumple the paper out of anger to vent the frustration. The paper ball can be thrown away, the pieces can be tossed on the ground, or tossed into fire and burned for good.
However, characters can also destroy a piece of paper in 'cold anger', which means their action is calculated and well-thought out, and the person is actually in complete control of their emotions. For example, they might do so to show off their superiority and that they are on top of things, or to emphasise that the document is not worth any attention and can be disregarded.
The trope can come about in various scenarios. Writers suffering from the WritersBlock are likely to destroy their good-for-nothing drafts and vain attempts. Students obsessed with their marks may wreck their test marked [[TheBGrade A minus]]. Someone who got dumped or cheated on might destroy photos or letters from their (soon-to-be) ex. Characters working a SoulCrushingDeskJob might crumple annoying reports and start playing WastebasketBall. Or the character can rip up an unfair contract, hoping to make it null and void. If the character is freakishly strong and absolutely furious, they might tear a whole book in half.
It can be a part of AngerMontage and it can be combined with its sister tropes like AgitatedItemStomping, DeskSweepOfRage, FlippingTheTable, TantrumThrowing and others. PercussiveTherapy is the Supertrope of this (dealing with anger by hitting, kicking or destroying things). BreakUpBonfire is a related trope when a character who recently broke up burns pictures and letters from their ex (or gifts and other mementos of the relationship).
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* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': After Roger declines to sell her the puppies, Cruella [=DeVil=] takes the check she was writing, tears it to pieces, and tosses them at Roger's face.
* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'': Clayton wants Tarzan to take him to the gorillas, pointing at a picture of one. Tarzan is more interested in wooing Jane, so Clayton tears up the picture in a fit of rage.
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* In the film ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', Juror #3 rips up a photo of the defendant during his breakdown and then he finally votes not guilty. He was voting "guilty" simply because of the bad relationship he has with his estranged son, not because of the facts.
* Jane Austen in ''Film/BecomingJane'' tears two pages of her writing in frustration, and then she throws the pieces into fire after Tom Lefroy slighted her art after she was reading for her family and friends.
* ''Film/CosyDens'': Mr Sebek tears his son Michal's poster of Mick Jagger into small pieces, crumples it and then throws the crumbled pieces on the ground. He hates everything Western and hippie-like. Michal made his sister to put it on their father's noticeboard on purpose to tick him off. Mr Sebek was already in a bad mood because he's hungover, but the poster got under his skin real bad.
* ''Film/LemonadeJoe'': Hogo Fogo tears a piece of paper (advertisement for Kolaloka) with his signature in small pieces with gusto and tosses them on the ground. He's angry he had to sign it and beyond happy he could destroy it. Joe made him sign the advertisement when he defeated him and held him at gunpoint. To sign advertisement for a soft drink beverage is an insult to Hogo Fogo who had to compromise his honour of a CardCarryingVillain, and his brother's honour whose business relies on Trigger Whisky.
* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', Mr. Banks drafts an advertisement for a nanny to put in the newspaper. His kids also draft an advertisement for a nanny. When Mr. Banks finds out that the kids' ideas of what traits the nanny should have are completely opposite to the traits he thinks the nanny should have, he tears up the kids' draft in disdain.
* ''Film/ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore'':
** Lara Jean and Peter have a contract for their FakeRelationship. She tears the contract in small pieces and crumbles it when she's angry with him.
** Lara Jean's best friend Christine tears down and crumples a printed screen grab of Jean and Peter' sex video that someone put on Lara Jean's locker. (They did not actually had sex, they just made out in a hot tub.)
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', "Skyfire Cycle": At the end of the episode, Terry tears a {{Doorstopper}} of a book in half because he gets exasperated by its author whom he idolised almost his whole life but who turns out to be a jerk.
* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'', "The Campaign": Myra decides to quit Hank's saloon, so she rips her contract with Hank in half when he refuses to let her go.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Before King Robert dies, he dictates his will to his Hand, Lord Neddard Stark. Widowed queen Cercei rips it in pieces in front of the whole court and tosses it on the ground. She then orders to have Ned arrested because Ned found out that Cercei's son Joffrey is not Robert's true heir.
** At a small council meeting, Cersei reads aloud Robb Stark's peace terms and then she tears the document up. Her brother Tyrion, acting Hand of the King, sarcastically compliments her that she perfected the art of tearing up papers.
** As his wedding present to his nephew and king, Tyrion gives Joffrey a copy of the illuminated ''Lives of Four Kings'', a book that is incredibly rare and priceless. Tywin Lannister gives his grandson a Valyrian steel sword; Joffrey, being the little shit that he is, loses it and immediately uses the blade to destroy the precious book and smashes it to shreds. One of the reasons is Joffrey's hatred for Tyrion.
* ''Series/{{Vikings}}'': Rollo (of Viking origin) has a lesson of Old French at court in Paris. The lesson doesn't go well at all. Rollo gets increasingly fluent in {{Angrish}} resembling Old French, and then it just escalates to tearing a book page in tiny pieces and crumpling it, flipping his own table, grabbing his teacher by the collar, flinging said teacher across the room, knocking down a chair and storming out of the room.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Bad Blood": Agent Mulder tries to write a report, but he ends up crinkling up the piece of paper. He throws it across the room and tries to hit the trash can. He misses. He proceeds to kick the can as if he was trying to destroy it. He's on edge because he stabbed a teenager with a wooden stake but he was drugged and convinced that the teen was a vampire.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': When Ron receives a letter from his pompous brother Percy, congratulating him on becoming a prefect and advising him to stay away from Harry, whom Percy's bosses at the Ministry of Magic are currently trying to discredit, Ron furiously tears the letter in half three times while insulting Percy in a manner similar to PunctuatedPounding.
-->"He is --" Ron said jerkily, tearing Percy's letter in half, "the world's" -- he tore it into quarters -- "biggest" -- he tore it into eighths -- ''"git."'' He threw the pieces into the fire.
* ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'': Humbert Humbert destroys his wife Charlotte's letter which she wrote shortly after she found out about his obsession with her teenage daughter. He's in a state of shock and strange relief because Charlotte just died in a freak car accident but angered that she ''wrote'' the letter and wanted to leave him/report him, which means he would be separated from Lolita and in huge trouble. Later he tries to put the pieces together because he wants to know what was in the letter.
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* During the "Merry [[YouMeanXMas Twistmas]]" song in ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'', Santa is asking the characters what they want for Twistmas (their equivalent of Christmas) and they respond in [[SpeakingSimlish their language]]. For some reason, Katsuma looks a bit ticked off and he's ripping a piece of paper, but it's never revealed why.
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* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny from ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', jittery from the effects of caffeine, accuses his physician, Doctor Weisberg, of not being a real doctor. Pulling the doctor's diploma off the wall, Bugs reads it, and cries: "Syracuse? That's a basketball school!" Bugs breaks the frame open, then halves the diploma. Doctor Weisberg calmly explains his diagnosis, at which Bugs cools down, and hands the wrecked diploma to his doctor. "You can probably tape this."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Selma's Choice": The family stops at a diner on their way to Aunt Gladys' funeral. Homer keeps failing to solve a maze on a placemat, so he keeps crumpling them in anger and tossing them on the floor.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Smoking Peanut", [=SpongeBob=] tries to confess to Sandy that he's the one who made the giant clam Clamu cry, but Sandy is so angry about it she tears a ''phone book'' in half while taking about finding the culprit, so [=SpongeBob=] decides to drop it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' animated short "Mouse Trouble", after all of Tom's attempts to catch Jerry per the book's instructions ended in failure culminating in him accidentally swallowing a toy mouse, Tom goes insane and tears down the whole book in anger before planting loads of explosives into the hole just to kill the mouse.
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When we get angry, furious, seething, exasperated, enraged, infuriated,... it feels ''so'' good to destroy something. Best if it is something that angered us in the first place. A character who gets angry with someone or because of something can furiously tear a piece of paper into little pieces, or crumple the paper out of anger to vent the frustration. The paper ball can be thrown away, the pieces can be tossed on the ground, or tossed into fire and burned for good.
However, characters can also destroy a piece of paper in 'cold anger', which means their action is calculated and well-thought out, and the person is actually in complete control of their emotions. For example, they might do so to show off their superiority and that they are on top of things, or to emphasise that the document is not worth any attention and can be disregarded.
The trope can come about in various scenarios. Writers suffering from the WritersBlock are likely to destroy their good-for-nothing drafts and vain attempts. Students obsessed with their marks may wreck their test marked [[TheBGrade A minus]]. Someone who got dumped or cheated on might destroy photos or letters from their (soon-to-be) ex. Characters working a SoulCrushingDeskJob might crumple annoying reports and start playing WastebasketBall. Or the character can rip up an unfair contract, hoping to make it null and void. If the character is freakishly strong and absolutely furious, they might tear a whole book in half.
It can be a part of AngerMontage and it can be combined with its sister tropes like AgitatedItemStomping, DeskSweepOfRage, FlippingTheTable, TantrumThrowing and others. PercussiveTherapy is the Supertrope of this (dealing with anger by hitting, kicking or destroying things). BreakUpBonfire is a related trope when a character who recently broke up burns pictures and letters from their ex (or gifts and other mementos of the relationship).
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!!Indexes:
* AngerTropes
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!!Examples:
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* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': After Roger declines to sell her the puppies, Cruella [=DeVil=] takes the check she was writing, tears it to pieces, and tosses them at Roger's face.
* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'': Clayton wants Tarzan to take him to the gorillas, pointing at a picture of one. Tarzan is more interested in wooing Jane, so Clayton tears up the picture in a fit of rage.
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* In the film ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', Juror #3 rips up a photo of the defendant during his breakdown and then he finally votes not guilty. He was voting "guilty" simply because of the bad relationship he has with his estranged son, not because of the facts.
* Jane Austen in ''Film/BecomingJane'' tears two pages of her writing in frustration, and then she throws the pieces into fire after Tom Lefroy slighted her art after she was reading for her family and friends.
* ''Film/CosyDens'': Mr Sebek tears his son Michal's poster of Mick Jagger into small pieces, crumples it and then throws the crumbled pieces on the ground. He hates everything Western and hippie-like. Michal made his sister to put it on their father's noticeboard on purpose to tick him off. Mr Sebek was already in a bad mood because he's hungover, but the poster got under his skin real bad.
* ''Film/LemonadeJoe'': Hogo Fogo tears a piece of paper (advertisement for Kolaloka) with his signature in small pieces with gusto and tosses them on the ground. He's angry he had to sign it and beyond happy he could destroy it. Joe made him sign the advertisement when he defeated him and held him at gunpoint. To sign advertisement for a soft drink beverage is an insult to Hogo Fogo who had to compromise his honour of a CardCarryingVillain, and his brother's honour whose business relies on Trigger Whisky.
* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', Mr. Banks drafts an advertisement for a nanny to put in the newspaper. His kids also draft an advertisement for a nanny. When Mr. Banks finds out that the kids' ideas of what traits the nanny should have are completely opposite to the traits he thinks the nanny should have, he tears up the kids' draft in disdain.
* ''Film/ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore'':
** Lara Jean and Peter have a contract for their FakeRelationship. She tears the contract in small pieces and crumbles it when she's angry with him.
** Lara Jean's best friend Christine tears down and crumples a printed screen grab of Jean and Peter' sex video that someone put on Lara Jean's locker. (They did not actually had sex, they just made out in a hot tub.)
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', "Skyfire Cycle": At the end of the episode, Terry tears a {{Doorstopper}} of a book in half because he gets exasperated by its author whom he idolised almost his whole life but who turns out to be a jerk.
* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'', "The Campaign": Myra decides to quit Hank's saloon, so she rips her contract with Hank in half when he refuses to let her go.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Before King Robert dies, he dictates his will to his Hand, Lord Neddard Stark. Widowed queen Cercei rips it in pieces in front of the whole court and tosses it on the ground. She then orders to have Ned arrested because Ned found out that Cercei's son Joffrey is not Robert's true heir.
** At a small council meeting, Cersei reads aloud Robb Stark's peace terms and then she tears the document up. Her brother Tyrion, acting Hand of the King, sarcastically compliments her that she perfected the art of tearing up papers.
** As his wedding present to his nephew and king, Tyrion gives Joffrey a copy of the illuminated ''Lives of Four Kings'', a book that is incredibly rare and priceless. Tywin Lannister gives his grandson a Valyrian steel sword; Joffrey, being the little shit that he is, loses it and immediately uses the blade to destroy the precious book and smashes it to shreds. One of the reasons is Joffrey's hatred for Tyrion.
* ''Series/{{Vikings}}'': Rollo (of Viking origin) has a lesson of Old French at court in Paris. The lesson doesn't go well at all. Rollo gets increasingly fluent in {{Angrish}} resembling Old French, and then it just escalates to tearing a book page in tiny pieces and crumpling it, flipping his own table, grabbing his teacher by the collar, flinging said teacher across the room, knocking down a chair and storming out of the room.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Bad Blood": Agent Mulder tries to write a report, but he ends up crinkling up the piece of paper. He throws it across the room and tries to hit the trash can. He misses. He proceeds to kick the can as if he was trying to destroy it. He's on edge because he stabbed a teenager with a wooden stake but he was drugged and convinced that the teen was a vampire.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': When Ron receives a letter from his pompous brother Percy, congratulating him on becoming a prefect and advising him to stay away from Harry, whom Percy's bosses at the Ministry of Magic are currently trying to discredit, Ron furiously tears the letter in half three times while insulting Percy in a manner similar to PunctuatedPounding.
-->"He is --" Ron said jerkily, tearing Percy's letter in half, "the world's" -- he tore it into quarters -- "biggest" -- he tore it into eighths -- ''"git."'' He threw the pieces into the fire.
* ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'': Humbert Humbert destroys his wife Charlotte's letter which she wrote shortly after she found out about his obsession with her teenage daughter. He's in a state of shock and strange relief because Charlotte just died in a freak car accident but angered that she ''wrote'' the letter and wanted to leave him/report him, which means he would be separated from Lolita and in huge trouble. Later he tries to put the pieces together because he wants to know what was in the letter.
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* During the "Merry [[YouMeanXMas Twistmas]]" song in ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'', Santa is asking the characters what they want for Twistmas (their equivalent of Christmas) and they respond in [[SpeakingSimlish their language]]. For some reason, Katsuma looks a bit ticked off and he's ripping a piece of paper, but it's never revealed why.
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* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny from ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', jittery from the effects of caffeine, accuses his physician, Doctor Weisberg, of not being a real doctor. Pulling the doctor's diploma off the wall, Bugs reads it, and cries: "Syracuse? That's a basketball school!" Bugs breaks the frame open, then halves the diploma. Doctor Weisberg calmly explains his diagnosis, at which Bugs cools down, and hands the wrecked diploma to his doctor. "You can probably tape this."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Selma's Choice": The family stops at a diner on their way to Aunt Gladys' funeral. Homer keeps failing to solve a maze on a placemat, so he keeps crumpling them in anger and tossing them on the floor.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Smoking Peanut", [=SpongeBob=] tries to confess to Sandy that he's the one who made the giant clam Clamu cry, but Sandy is so angry about it she tears a ''phone book'' in half while taking about finding the culprit, so [=SpongeBob=] decides to drop it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' animated short "Mouse Trouble", after all of Tom's attempts to catch Jerry per the book's instructions ended in failure culminating in him accidentally swallowing a toy mouse, Tom goes insane and tears down the whole book in anger before planting loads of explosives into the hole just to kill the mouse.
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