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The advent of cell phones has also instituted the expansion of the trope to violence directed toward devices owned by people other than yourself. It's not all that easy to justify whacking someone else's alarm clock (unless it's that pesky rooster owned by the neighboring farmer), but grabbing and smashing the cell phone of an inconsiderate owner -- say, someone talking loudly and obnoxiously in a public place, or someone who forgot to turn the phone's ringer off before entering a movie theater -- is not only simple, but may be considered a form of public service. ([[DontTryThisAtHome We do not support doing this in real life.]] The owner may be larger than you and you could get hurt. On the other hand, it may be [[WorthIt worth doing]]. On the third hand, walking up to someone and ripping their phone out of their hand might be considered illegal, so they might be able to press charges.)

-->-- '''Lightning''', ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]''

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->''"There I was, on the one-yard line ready to score a touchdown to win the Superbowl! When the new guy's alarm clock went off! If he wakes me up one more time like that, he's gonna get struck by Lightning!"''
-->-- '''Lightning''', [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]

-->-- '''Lightning''', [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]

A common tactic if the cruncher is NotAMorningPerson. See also CuttingTheElectronicLeash, a cellphone-specific and generally less violent related trope, AgitatedItemStomping, ShootTheTelevision. May go hand in hand with ThatSatisfyingCrunch (for which this is a SubTrope).

* The cheaper alternative, of course, is to just put the clock across the room, where you can't reach it from the bed.

The oldest examples of this trope are all alarm clocks (or occasionally the even older non-digital form of the annoying wake-up, [[CockADoodleDawn the rooster]]). Only relatively recently, with the arrival of the ubiquitous cell phone, has this trope wandered out of the bedroom and into public places.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3875254/1/Hero-High-Earth-style Hero High Earth Style]], Gwen gets Ben an alarm clock for his birthday specifically because it can't be crunched as it is locked in a clear case which requires one to be awake enough to unlock it before it can be shut off.

* In the [(UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]] version of ''VideoGame/ClockWerx'', the protagonist's destruction of his alarm clock somehow sends him to a ClockPunk dimension which he spends the game trying to escape.

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* In the Soviet short ''Animation/HisWifeIsAHen'', the husband has this reaction to the alarm clock after awaking from his nightmare.

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* In Fanfic/{{Progress}}, Princess Luna is startled awake by Sundance's alarm clock and blasts it through a door and an outside wall. To be fair, it was her first time ever using one.

* Fanfic/SummerDaysAndEveningFlames: Gilda's first morning with an alarm clock, since she is now a Royal Guard cadet, she needs to wake up on schedule. Unlike most examples, Gilda comes to regret the event, since it leaves her talons aching for a few days, she needs to spend precious money to buy a new one, and the only one she could afford [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking is a cuckoo clock with a pop-out bunny]].

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' does this regularly to his alarm clock. Other times, he has done it to anything that made a ringing noise, including a telephone (at least twice) and an ''ice cream truck''.
* Alice from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' once did this during a meeting where she was explaining the benefits of titanium rods like the one that happened to be in her possession at that time. A cell phone goes off and she shows just one of the reasons ''why'' they are so useful. She hands the offending co-worker the titanium rod with what's left of the cell phone stuck to it with a simple "It's for you."
* Peter does it in a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' Sunday strip when the alarm clock interrupts a dream about making out with swimsuit models.

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* This is one justification for robotic alarm clocks like "Clocky" that actually run away and hide after you hit the snooze button once. Then you have to get up and look for the clock when it rings again.
** The cheaper alternative, of course, is to just put the clock across the room, where you can't reach it from the bed.
* The ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZLUpQiolA Gun O'Clock]]'' toy-clock-thing.

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* In the SuperFamicom version of ''VideoGame/ClockWerx'', the protagonist's destruction of his alarm clock somehow sends him to a ClockPunk dimension which he spends the game trying to escape.

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Our lives are increasingly filled with small electronic devices that make [[MostAnnoyingSound annoying]] shrill noises at us, usually when we least want them to. This often results in sudden, shocking violence toward such devices. Thus, makers of alarm clocks will never go out of business.

A common tactic if the cruncher is NotAMorningPerson. See also CuttingTheElectronicLeash, a cellphone-specific and generally less violent related trope, AgitatedItemStomping, ShootTheTelevision. May go hand in hand with ThatSatisfyingCrunch.

Our lives are increasingly filled with small electronic devices that make [[MostAnnoyingSound annoying]] shrill noises at us, usually when we least want them to. This often results in sudden, shocking violence toward such devices. Thus, makers of alarm clocks will never go out of business.

A common tactic if the cruncher is NotAMorningPerson. See also CuttingTheElectronicLeash, a cellphone-specific and generally less violent related trope, AgitatedItemStomping, ShootTheTelevision.

-->--'''Lightning''', [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]

* The cellphone variant was used in "The Frequent Flyer"; a very funny parody of "The Ancient Mariner" by Sebastian Faulks on TheBBC Radio 4 literary PanelGame ''The Write Stuff''.

* In the Soviet short ''HisWifeIsAHen'', the husband has this reaction to the alarm clock after awaking from his nightmare.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand II'', in which your first goal in the game is to kill an alarm clock at the end of the level.

* RingRingCRUNCH/{{Live-Action TV}}

* In the song "The Mission," off Queensryche's concept album Operation: Mindcrime, Nikki is watching television, with a televangelist saying "I'm asking for hands to be uplifted in just a moment. God the Holy Ghost is calling out to embrace you. I want you to reach deep into your hearts and your pocketbooks and take his hand." We here a pistol being loaded, and Nikki says "Bless me father for I have sinned," and shoots the television.
* The song "Another Brick in the Wall part Three," off Pink Floyd's album The Wall, begins with the protagonist, Pink, smashing a television to death

The advent of cell phones has also instituted the expansion of the trope to violence directed toward devices owned by people other than yourself. It's not all that easy to justify whacking someone else's alarm clock (unless it's that pesky rooster owned by the neighboring farmer), but grabbing and smashing the cell phone of an inconsiderate owner -- say, someone talking loudly and obnoxiously in a public place, or someone who forgot to turn the phone's ringer off before entering a movie theater -- is not only simple, but may be considered a form of public service. ([[DontTryThisAtHome We do not support doing this in real life.]] The owner may be larger than you and you could get hurt. On the other hand, it may be [[WorthIt worth doing]].)

* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/TheBestNightEver'' (a WholePlotReference to ''Film/GroundhogDay'' below), Prince Blueblood whales the springs out of the alarm clock for playing "Equestria Girls" every bucking iteration of the loop. And remember, this is a pony doing the RingRingCrunch; a hooved mammal.

The oldest examples of this trope are all alarm clocks (or occasionally the even older non-digital form of the annoying wake-up, the rooster). Only relatively recently, with the arrival of the ubiquitous cell phone, has this trope wandered out of the bedroom and into public places.

* This is probably the justification for the little alarm clocks that actually run away and hide after you hit the snooze button once.

* In the fanfic FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony, Twilight Pulls an interesting take on this. The alarm goes off, so she throws it out the window hard enough for it to fly for hundreds of yards. It hits one of her bodyguards.

* In the fanfic [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/9135/a-slice-of-life A Slice of Life]], Celestia does this to her alarm clock. It's vaguely ironic that the Sun Princess, responsible for bringing the dawn at the beginning of each day, is [[NotAMorningPerson not a morning pony.]]

* The song ''Alarm Clock'' by The Rumble Strips deals with exactly this: ''Well I don't like doing things/That other folks tell me to do/So I hit him with a hammer/And now he's quite subdued.''

* The song ''Cellphone Vigilante'' by The Arrogant Worms has the protagonist doing this to people's cellphones going off in appropriate situations.

* ''{{Garfield}}'' does this regularly to his alarm clock. Other times, he has done it to anything that made a ringing noise, including a telephone (at least twice) and an ''ice cream truck''.

* Peter does it in a ''FoxTrot'' Sunday strip when the alarm clock interupts a dream about making out with swimsuit models.

* The cellphone variant was used in "The Frequent Flyer"; a very funny parody of "The Ancient Mariner" by Sebastian Faulks on TheBBC Radio 4 literary PanelGame ''TheWriteStuff''.

* Killer Bean (from the aptly-named ''KillerBean 2'') does this too, but with more violence.

* In the Fanfic {{http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony}}, Twilight Pulls an interesting take on this. The alarm goes off, so she throws it out the window hard enough for it to fly for hundreds of yards. It hits one of her bodyguards.