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* In ''{{Moonraker}}'' JamesBond and the first dragon of the film, Chang, are fighting in a Venice glass museum where they smash just about every shown in the exhibition.

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* In ''{{Moonraker}}'' JamesBond and the first dragon of the film, Chang, are fighting in a Venice glass museum where they smash just about every shown everything in the exhibition.
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* In TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker, Link can break some of these, but if he breaks too many, he has to pay 10 rupees each.

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* In TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker, ''TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker'', Link can break some of these, but if he breaks too many, he has to pay 10 rupees each.
* In the ''AceAttorney'' games, the Fey clan's greatest treasure is the Sacred Urn, said to house the soul of the clan's founder. It gets broken and put back together again at least three times over the course of ''Justice for All'' and ''Trials and Tribulations''.
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* A BobAndRay skit had Wally Ballou conducting an interview at a glass-fruit factory, and repeatedly dropping and breaking the expensive product.



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*TheBatman: When Bennett arrives at Wayne Manor and tells Bruce "I know you are the Batman," [[DropWhatYouAreDoing Alfred knocks over a vase]], then brushes it off with "It's only a Ming."
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* In ''Super Paper Mario'', you can't progress in the game until you have "accidently" broken a priceless vase on top of a question mark block. You then have to pay a million rubies to make up for it, which nobody actually expected you to get.

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* In ''Super Paper Mario'', PaperMario'', you can't progress in the game until you have "accidently" "accidentally" broken a priceless vase on top of a question mark block. You then have to pay a million rubies to make up for it, which nobody the villain who tricked you into breaking the vase never actually expected you to get.
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Chekhov\'s Ashes was renamed Ashes To Crashes.


See also WatchThePaintJob, DoomedNewClothes. Often overlaps with [[ChekhovsAshes Chekhov's Ashes]].

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See also WatchThePaintJob, DoomedNewClothes. Often overlaps with [[ChekhovsAshes Chekhov's Ashes]].
AshesToCrashes.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py805hYfopw Man builds Leaning Tower of Pisa with 12,000 Jenga blocks]]. [[ForegoneConclusion You know what's coming]].

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* One of the priceless artifacts stored at the Jade Palace in ''KungFuPanda'' is the Urn of Whispering Warriors, said to contain all the 5,000 souls of the Tenshu Army. Naturally, when Po arrives at the palace, he ends up breaking it. The end credits shows a palace goose [[CallBack gluing the urn back together, fragment by fragment]].




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* The Paul Jennings short story ''The Strap-Box Flyer'' featured a sweet old lady who has a priceless porcelain collection, including a little china dog that she was especially fond of. She decides to put them all up on a shelf she was able to make herself, using a few wood pieces and a tube of Griffin's Great Glue, which bonds ''any'' material unbreakably...Unfortunately, Griffin is a fraud who conveniently forgot to tell his customers about the "for a couple of hours" part. Hilarity does ''not'' ensue when she takes a nap after happily placing her collection on the shelf, only to be awakened by the crash a while later to find the collection smashed to pieces. Including the little dog.
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->'''Krusty''': Why, this rickety ladder in front of this door is the perfect place for this [[TropeNamer priceless Ming vase]]. Eh, eh.\\

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->'''Krusty''': Why, this rickety ladder in front of this door is the perfect place for this [[TropeNamer priceless Ming vase]]. Eh, eh.\\Eh? Eh?\\
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* An episode of ''PowerpuffGirls'' involved the girls protecting some priceless object from some crooks, only to drop it and watch it smash to a million pieces as soon as they saved it. Apparently, everyone was fine with it.

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* An episode of ''PowerpuffGirls'' involved the girls protecting some The Mayor's priceless object super-rare one-of-a-kind porcelain poodle from some crooks, only to drop it and watch it smash to a million pieces as soon as they saved it. Apparently, everyone was fine with it.
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* [[CaptainObvious Ming vases really are quite rare and expensive, you know. Many museums have them.]]
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->'''Krusty''': Why, this rickety ladder in front of this door is the perfect place for this priceless Ming vase. Eh, EH.\\

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->'''Krusty''': Why, this rickety ladder in front of this door is the perfect place for this [[TropeNamer priceless Ming vase. vase]]. Eh, EH.eh.\\
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* In ''TheNakedGun'' Vincent Ludwig shows Lt. Drebin the many rare and valuable items in his apartment, including a rare Japanese fish, a pen given to him by Emperor Hirohito, his collection of vases and Gainsborough's famous ''Blue Boy'' portrait. Naturally they all get destroyed.

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* ''TheGoldenGirls'' features an episode where the four have to deal with a recent break-in, and Rose goes out and buys a gun for protection. Late one night she hears someone at the front door -- the alarm goes off and a frightened Rose fires the gun... hitting Blanche's priceless vase.
--> '''Blanche''': You shot my vase!
--> '''Rose''': At least I didn't shoot Lester!
--> '''Blanche''': I'd rather you shot Lester!
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* One Ernest P. Worrell commercial from the '80s has Ernest practicing for ''ThePriceIsRight'' by pricing various items in his house, and picks up the vase... with predictable results.
--> '''Ernest''': Ming vase... a steal at two grand. ''[smash]''
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* Subverted on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'': Jimmy and Beezy accidently break one of Lucius' vases, causing them to freak out and fear his trademark DisproportionateRetribution. Turns out the vase is one of several that are worthless, Lucius breaks them whenever he gets mad.
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* In The Sandlot, a clueless boy decides to play baseball with his dad's autographed Babe Ruth baseball.

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* In The Sandlot, TheSandlot, a clueless boy decides to play baseball with his dad's autographed Babe Ruth baseball.
* Appears in ''HotShots Part Deux'', when Topper catches a falling expensive-looking vase during a firefight. In a rundown riverboat in the jungles of [[strike: Vietnam]] [[strike: Iraq]] [[{{Ruritania}} not-Iraq]].
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* In TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker, Link can break some of these, but if he breaks too many, he has to pay 10 rupees each.
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* Subverted in a Family Guy episode where Peter launches himself out of a cannon. Cut to a scene involving a room full of dominos, priceless crockery and the owner's "newborn haemophiliac baby", with a wide open window. Cue Peter speeding though the air towards the window only to land just outside. He even leans in to comment on the man's "really nice things".

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* Subverted in a Family Guy episode where Peter launches himself out of a cannon. Cut to a scene involving a room full of dominos, priceless crockery and the owner's "newborn haemophiliac baby", with a wide open window. Cue Peter speeding though the air towards the window only to land just outside.outside without harming a thing. He even leans in to comment on the man's "really nice things".
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* Subverted in a Family Guy episode where Peter launches himself out of a cannon. Cut to a scene involving a room full of dominos, priceless crockery and the owner's "newborn haemophiliac baby", with a wide open window. Cue Peter speeding though the air towards the window only to land just outside. He even leans in to comment on the man's "really nice things".
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* Played with in ''Totally Captivated'' when Ewon breaks a priceless vase given to Mookyul by the mafia boss. When the guys inform him that Mookyul will kill him over it, Ewon proposes gluing it back together since he is good at puzzles. Unsurprisingly the guys tell him to run and hide and never come back. Meanwhile, Mookyul doesn't notice the vase is missing but is rather upset that his favourite ButtMonkey has run away and forcibly brings Ewon back, while Ewon's terrified he intends to kill him. In the end, to emphasize how unnecessary the whole debacle was, Ewon eventually does glue the vase back together and it looks [[RuleOfFunny ''flawless'']].

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* Played with in ''Totally Captivated'' when Ewon breaks a priceless vase given to Mookyul by the mafia boss. When the guys inform him that Mookyul will kill him over it, Ewon proposes gluing it back together since he is good at puzzles. Unsurprisingly the guys tell him to run and hide and never come back. Meanwhile, Mookyul doesn't notice the vase is missing but is rather upset that his favourite ButtMonkey has run away and forcibly brings Ewon back, while Ewon's terrified he intends to kill him. In the end, to emphasize how unnecessary the whole debacle was, Ewon eventually does glue the vase back together and it looks [[RuleOfFunny ''flawless'']].
''[[RuleOfFunny flawless]]''.
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* Played with in ''Totally Captivated'' when Ewon breaks a priceless vase given to Mookyul by the mafia boss. When the guys inform him that Mookyul will kill him over it, Ewon proposes gluing it back together since he is good at puzzles. Unsurprisingly the guys tell him to run and hide and never come back. Meanwhile, Mookyul doesn't notice the vase is missing but is rather upset that his favourite ButtMonkey has run away and forcibly brings Ewon back, while Ewon's terrified he intends to kill him. In the end, to emphasize how unnecessary the whole debacle was, Ewon eventually does glue the vase back together and it looks [[RuleOfFunny ''flawless'']].
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* PlayedForDrama in ''A Single Shard'', by Linda Sue Park - though these are priceless ''celadon'' vases. Tree-Ear accidentally breaks a vase belonging to Min, the master potter, and must work for him to pay off the vase's value. [[spoiler: Later the two vases that were to determine Min's entire career, which Tree-Ear was carrying to Songdo, are broken by bandits out of cruelty.]]
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* ''{{Frasier}}'': A mask made of blind James Earl Jones' late wife, the only thing

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* ''{{Frasier}}'': A mask made of the late wife of a neighbour, a blind James Earl Jones' late wife, Jones', the only thingthing he has to remember her by. Cue increasingly desperate attempts to replace it without him noticing only for him to reveal at the end that he kept the mold because he's constantly breaking the mask himself due to being blind.
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* In ''Return of ThePinkPanther'', Clouseau smashes a piano.

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* In ''Return of ThePinkPanther'', ''ThePinkPanther Strikes Again'', Clouseau smashes a piano.



'''Clouseau''': Not any more.

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'''Clouseau''': Not any more.anymore.
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* In The Sandlot, a clueless boy decides to play baseball with his dad's autographed Babe Ruth baseball.
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** This is a OnceAnEpisode occurrence in JackieChan movies. Mocked by ''TheOnion'' headline "Jackie Chan attacked while carrying World's Most Expensive Wedding Cake."
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*Subverted in JackieChanAdventures, where Jackie often spends most of his time in Uncle's antique shop saving antiques from breaking after they fall from some place rather unsafe for a rare antique. [[RuleOfCool Not that he lets any hit the ground]], this ''is'' Jackie Chan...
*In TheBoondocks episode ''Stinkmeaner Strikes Back'', [[DeadpanSnarker Huey]] knocks out the [[DemonicPossession possessed Tom]] with [[DirtyOldMan Grandad]]'s ancient lamps and vases which have never been mentioned in either media prior to the moment Huey needed to knock Tom out cold.
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made DMFA into a pot link to Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures


* ''{{DMFA}}'': [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1045.php Kria has an odd way of showing that she cares for her daughter.]]

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* ''{{DMFA}}'': ''[[DanAndMabsFurryAdventures DMFA]]'': [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1045.php Kria has an odd way of showing that she cares for her daughter.]]

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