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* In ''Machinima/FreemansMind'', Freeman mentions this when facing some turret guns.
-->'''Freeman:''' I break alarm clocks, I can break you, too!

* In the first episode of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Ash smashes his Voltorb-shaped alarm clock against the wall while dreaming - so it doesn't wake him up at the right time, which directly leads him to get Pikachu as his first Pokémon.

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* ''Manga/FutariEcchi'' has a coworker of Makoto's wake up and throw her ringing alarm clock against the wall, then goes back to sleep. It's mentioned that this is a habit of hers and she's [[NotAMorningPerson not good with mornings]].

* More of a 'tick tick tick tick SMASH. CRUNCH.' and then probably stomping on the parts in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' when Shiki is getting some spillover from Roa/SHIKI and causing violent rage of which he's not really aware. He wanted to lie down and get rid of his headache so he could talk to Ciel without... getting... horrible destructive. Good luck, Shiki!

* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Saitama wakes up from an action-packed fight dream when his alarm clock starts ringing, to which of course he punches it to stop it. This sends it straight through the floor. Though granted it seemed it was done out of habit rather than annoyance.

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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Diet Doc", when the alarm clock rings the morning Fat Doc goes to exercise and get fit, he crushes the clock with his fist.
* The Hong Kong animated film ''Color Manhua/OldMasterQ'' features a hapless alarm clock attempting to wake the titular character. It gets bashed with a wrench for its troubles. In spite of being reduced to a clockwork pancake, it succeeds in waking Old Master Q with a little help from MurphysBed abruptly dumping Old Master Q on the floor and closing up so he can't get back on it.
* ''Animation/OyeGolu'': At the beginning of "Oye Chiku", Adi's alarm clock goes off and Golu hits it with a hammer.
* A few ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episodes, among them the series premiere "Sumo Momo", begin with Samosa being woken up by his alarm clock, which he then throws onto a wall, causing it to break and land in a box of broken alarm clocks.
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** In the new ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantastic Four|Worlds Greatest Heroes}}'' cartoon, Ben has passed the (ahem) torch of alarm clock abuse to Johnny Storm, who keeps melting his.
** In the old ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} once sliced up his alarm clock with his claws before he could actually think about it. When he woke up a little more, he said something to the effect of "Hate it when I do that."
** In an even older ''Comicbook/XMen'' comic, Kitty Pryde used her tendency to fry electrical equipment she "phases" through to the detriment of her clock radio.

* ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' had Katchoo go through a new alarm clock every day, often with a large-caliber bullet from a gun she kept under her pillow. She accumulated a large pile of ruined clocks before the RunningGag faded from the series. Interestingly, the story included a DreamSequence that explained, in heart-wrenching detail, ''exactly'' why Katchoo is so upset at being awakened.
* Implied in ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie''. While HeavySleeper Basile was never actually shown demolishing his alarm clock, some bedroom scenes show it smashed by a large hammer, or simply with an "out of order" sign on it. Unfortunately for him, his MeanBoss usually wakes him up by much less orthodox and more violent means...
* In ''ComicBook/ElectricGirl'', Virginia zaps her alarm clock with her electricity powers, and her parents have to warn her not to go through too many clocks.
* ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'': Achille once tries to get an annoying transistor radio to shut up by smashing it against a rock and feeding the pieces to his pet duck. Unfortunately, the radio keeps working from inside the duck's belly.
* A similar incident takes place in ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'': a miniaturized radio with the volume turned to the maximum is swallowed by the Franchise/{{Marsupilami}} and lodges itself in his nose, where it keeps working until the Marsupilami, exasperated, punches himself in the face.
* In ''ComicBook/ReidFlemingWorldsToughestMilkman'', Reid begins a Monday morning by hurling his alarm clock at the wall. When that fails to silence it, he leaps on it, cursing, throws it into the toilet, and then urinates on it.
* Done with a talking clock in one Mad Magazine short. The clock says "Time to Wake Up" repeatedly until the CRUNCH, after which it says, "Murderer... murderer... murderer..."
* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', we meet the Silver Adept, the premiere sorceress of the Astro City universe in this manner. Raitha, the Silver Adept's personal assistant, finds her sprawled on her bed after a long night partying, reminding her that it's after 8:30 am.
-->'''Silver Adept:''' I set the alarm, I swear I set the alarm!\\
'''Raitha:''' ''[noticing an alarm clock embedded in the wall above the door frame]'' I don't doubt it.
* In the NSFW comic ''The Big Bad Wolf Club'', the trope is played straight when a rabbit smashes his alarm clock with a huge hammer as it wakes him up at 7:00 AM. [[{{Bookends}} Near the end of the comic]], the alarm clock is waking him up at 7:00 ''PM'', [[SubvertedTrope and he calmly shuts it off]].

* ''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''.

* In ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'', the Colonel orders seven exploding alarm clocks a week.

* 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.
* 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.
* Hobbes does this with a doorbell in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.

* ''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]].
* 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.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' [[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 ''Fanfic/BeingDeadAintEasy'', to put it simply, Seto Kaiba is not a morning person.
-->When the alarm goes off at 5:30AM, I hafta duck 'cause instead of turnin' it off, the freak groans, grabs the clock, and chucks it across the room. The poor clock smashes against the wall and dies.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12594346/1/Time-Travel-Really Time Travel? Really!]]'' Rose smashes her alarm clock every morning after it goes off and then casts Reparo on it.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13461766/4/Christmas-Miracle Christmas Miracle]]'' a half-asleep Harry banishes his alarm clock at the wall after failing to reach the off button.
* ''Fanfic/{{Metro}}'': In [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/item/927-no-rest-for-the-wicked "Metro 1: Chewing Through The Straps (Part 3)"]], this is referenced, as possibly by implied SuperStrength, but avoided:
-->As much as Geneviève 'Spark' Etincelle enjoyed most of her classes, at least those on the designated 'tech' track, there was little to love about waking up on a Monday morning to get ready to attend them. She reached over to silence her alarm clock as quickly as an Exemplar could without smashing it.
* ''FanFic/GreenTeaRescue''; Ochako smashes her alarm clock after it interrupts a particularly steamy EroticDream about Izuku following the Sports Festival.
* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': When Penny's alarm clock awakens her in "The Insomniac," she silences it by slapping its top.
* [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2917924 A fan-art by Bobthedalek]] has Trixie in a hammock being woken up by a Twilight-Sparkle-shaped alarm clock screeching "WAKE UP, IT'S TWILIGHT TIME!" The clock is visibly battered, and Trixie is wielding a baseball bat by telekinesis to make it even more so.

* In the Soviet short ''Animation/HisWifeIsAHen'', the husband has this reaction to the alarm clock after waking from his nightmare.
* Carl Frederickson in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' pounds his alarm clock with a fist to stop its ringing. This gets a CallBack later when he's in the South American wilderness. A frog chirps and wakes him, and gets rewarded with the groggy [[AmusingInjuries thump of a fist]].

* Seen in ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', when sleeping in Woodstock's nest on their journey to see Lila in the hospital, Snoopy is startled awake by his very loud alarm clock and smashes it with his fist. Then Woodstock laughs at him, so Snoopy conks ''him'' on the head as well.
* The opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' features a wake-up montage. Peppermint Patty smashes her alarm clock with a hockey stick.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018'', an alarm clock meets this fate when it wakes the Grinch up with Christmas songs. He first hits it, then throws increasingly larger objects at it to get it to shut up.

* In TheMovie of ''Manga/CityHunter'' starring Creator/JackieChan, the movie opens with this, with Jackie expertly shooting the (hanging) alarm clocks set by his assistant. He doesn't even come close to waking up.

-->"Snooze!"
* Played with in movie ''Film/GetSmart''. Agent 23 does this to a colleague's phone in a meeting (the colleague was texting during the meeting). The guy sitting on the other side of 23 angrily takes the pieces and says "Next time, use your own damn phone."
* In ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', Bruce throws his pager out the window, where a car runs over it. It still works. [[AWizardDidIt God did it.]]

* Another variant occurs in ''Film/AnimalHouse'' when Bluto stops an annoying crooner's song by smashing his guitar against the wall.
* In ''Film/BrainDonors'', this is part of handyman Jacques' morning routine. He even has a dresser drawer full of broken alarm clock parts and a closet full of new clocks for this purpose.
* In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', this is the first sign that the newly empowered Peter Parker DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength. Not to mention it shows off his new reflexes, the clock only gets in about two rings before the crunching.
* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. A kid smashes one up with a hammer because living AfterTheEnd he's no idea what the ringing sound means.

* Ring Ring CRUNCH is the central theme of Creator/RayBradbury's short story, ''The Murderer''. The protagonist becomes fed up with the ubiquity and intrusiveness of radios, phones, and the like, so he begins to systematically destroy the intrusive devices in his life. [[spoiler:He pours ice cream into a speaker grille, stuffs another device in the garbage disposal (which, as a useful and non-intrusive technology, is the only thing he feels sorry about), and even uses an EMP on the bus and basks in the panic and subsequent civility as people are forced to * talk* to each other.]]

* This occurs in the ''Literature/{{Destroyer}}'' series because both Remo and Chuin smash phones all the time. They usually tear them out of the walls.
* In ''[[Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld Bitten]]'', Elena muses:
-->"The phone itself had lost the ability to ring four years ago, when Clay whipped it across the room after it dared disturb his sleep two nights in a row."
* ''[[Literature/TheTillermanFamilySeries Homecoming]]'' has a variation: elderly Abigail Tillerman is rumored to have chopped the cord of her phone and tossed it through the window of the phone company building, after [[spoiler:receiving the call that her youngest son had been killed in the Vietnam War]].

* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric is having a pleasant dream about how he has returned to Tariatla only to be woken up by his alarm clock, so he stabs it with his Tariatlan mage spear. Then he twists the crystal blade to make sure it's dead.

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

* Used regularly in the narrative intros and outros to ''Radio/BleakExpectations''. Anytime Elderly Pip gets frustrated with Mr. Sourquill's gadget of the week it's guaranteed to be broken in some manner or another. A notable example being the clock which gives various dings and chimes for every hour, minute, and second; it suffers a very quick ApplianceDefenestration.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' starts off with one of the most elaborate examples. The Black Sugar Gang sneaks into Wario's Castle in order to steal his treasure, and as part of the scheme, they place a living WaddlingHead alarm clock in the castle which proceeds to wake up Wario and distract him from their thievery. The first level is completed upon destroying the clock.
* ''VideoGame/SuikodenTierkreis'' has a weird variation on this trope. One character, Nomno, is a HeavySleeper, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration reflected in combat]] by a unique ability called "Waking" that causes him to start every battle [[StatusEffects asleep]], then gain the "[[UnstoppableRage Fury]]" status effect when he wakes up.

* ''{{VideoGame/Grow}} Cannon'' starts with a man breaking his alarm clock so he can keep sleeping, you need to wake him up.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN83DfmH9Tw ALARM]] By Mesai is a short film that is essentially built around this trope about a young man with apparent insomnia dealing with his CrazyPrepared system that wakes him up in the morning: involving a Sound System, his Cellphone, and multiple traditional alarm clocks to try and keep him awake. Eventually he gets sick of this system [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and decides to leave his apartment]]: screaming as another Alarm Clock rings at him as he is getting dressed which he promptly tosses and breaks against the wall before stepping out and heading for the elevator. [[spoiler: Only to see hear an Alarm Clock ringing and seeing himself wearing his pajamas reflected in the elevators wall that he finds out [[AllJustADream he was asleep the whole time and has slept through the entire day]]. Waking up at sunset to see that the Alarm Clock on his desk is still ringing, he [[TranquilFury pulls out his handgun and shoots the alarm clock to destroy it]].]]
* Killer Bean (from the aptly-named ''Killer Bean 2'') does this too, but with more violence.

* Part of the basis for the short animation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN83DfmH9Tw "ALARM"]]. The main character has several alarm clocks in his apartment. Three of them annoy him to this point. One on top of his TV has its battery ripped out, another is chucked out of a room and smashes into the fridge. The third is shot after he wakes up from the AllJustADream sequence.
* The online Toys/{{Furby}} cartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivsU1d3ndqw Furby Goes Back to School]] has a Furby managing to do this, smashing his alarm clock with a shoe (the clock and shoe are noticeably bigger than Furby!)
* In ''Machinima/FreemansMind'', Freeman mentions this when facing some turret guns.
-->'''Freeman:''' I break alarm clocks, I can break you, too!

* [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/342 Strip 342]] of ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}''.
* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-05-15 Implied]] to have happened to Kevyn's "antimatter alarm" in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', judging from the sledgehammer in his girlfriend's hand.

* Hunter of ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' on the other hand [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060430.html actually shoots]].
* Inverted (or played straight?) in ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'': Shadehawk is a deep sleeper, so his alarm clock is programmed to ''explode'' in order to wake him up. It's not enough. (Or maybe he shot it in his sleep? It's hard to tell because of the composition of the panels.)
* Happens in the first strip of ''Webcomic/{{SERGOM}}''.
* Done in ''Webcomic/{{Sorcery 101}}''. But, as the smasher was a vampire, it was an even worse offense.
* [[http://beckstrombuzz.blogspot.com/2009/12/just-five-more-minutes.html The origin of this trope?]]
* In [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/satisfying/ this]] strip of ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'', Shelly is specifically told not to shoot the alarm clock when she suggests it... so she simply [[ExactWords crushes it to tiny pieces with a clinched fist.]]
* Taken to an extreme in [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/030505.html this]] ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'' strip.
* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}:'' In [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/838 this]] "Shirt Guy Dom" strip, Dom [[StickFigureComic (or maybe just some guy)]] awakens in a drowsily angry stupor and ''eats'' his alarm clock.
* This is a RunningGag in ''Webcomic/TheSenkari''.
-->'''Freija:''' I warned you, time box.
* In ''Webcomics/TheGreenAvenger'', Abby [[SuperStrength accidentally smashes]] her alarm clock.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}'', apparently Gavin has done [[https://www.deviantart.com/jocelynsamara/art/RAIN-p-49-Morning-Routine-2-202857861 this]] before.

* Two video fragments from ''Serbu Firearms'': were you ever awakened by your neighbour's lawnmower? Then you surely craved to do something like [[http://www.serbu.com/legacy/lawnmwr.htm this]]. Admit it.

* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZLUpQiolA Gun O'Clock]]'' toy-clock-thing invokes the trope by having a pop-up target that must be "shot" with the included light gun to silence the alarm.

** Similarly, in ''Literature/{{Zodiac}}'', ST is forced to take the back off his wristwatch and screwdriver it into silence after an alarm to remind him to call his ex-girlfriend goes off while he's breaking into a chemical plant.

* ''{{VideoGame/Grow}} Cannon'' start with a man breaking his alarm clock so he can keep sleeping, you need to wake him up.

Subtrope of PercussiveShutdown. A common tactic if the cruncher is NotAMorningPerson. A typical reason for this reaction is IWasHavingSuchANiceDream. 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).

-->'''Silver Adept''': I set the alarm, I swear I set the alarm!\\

--> As much as Geneviève 'Spark' Etincelle enjoyed most of her classes, at least those on the designated 'tech' track, there was little to love about waking up on a Monday morning to get ready to attend them. She reached over to silence her alarm clock as quickly as an Exemplar could without smashing it.

** "Snooze!"

--> "The phone itself had lost the ability to ring four years ago, when Clay whipped it across the room after it dared disturb his sleep two nights in a row."

-->'''Freeman:''' I break alarm clocks, I can break you too!

* RingRingCRUNCH is the central theme of Creator/RayBradbury's short story, ''The Murderer''. The protagonist becomes fed up with the ubiquity and intrusiveness of radios, phones, and the like, so he begins to systematically destroy the intrusive devices in his life. [[spoiler:He pours ice cream into a speaker grille, stuffs another device in the garbage disposal (which, as a useful and non-intrusive technology, is the only thing he feels sorry about), and even uses an EMP on the bus and basks in the panic and subsequent civility as people are forced to * talk* to each other.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuikodenTierkreis'' has a weird variation on this trope. One character, Nomno, is a HeavySleeper, [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration reflected in combat]] by a unique ability called "Waking" that causes him to start every battle [[StandardStatusEffects asleep]], then gain the "[[UnstoppableRage Fury]]" status effect when he wakes up.

* * The Hong Kong animated film ''Color Manhua/OldMasterQ'' features a hapless alarm clock attempting to wake the titular character. It gets bashed with a wrench for its troubles. In spite of being reduced to a clockwork pancake, it succeeds in waking Old Master Q with a little help from MurphysBed abruptly dumping Old Master Q on the floor and closing up so he can't get back on it.

* The Hong Kong animated film ''Color Old Master Q'' features a hapless alarm clock attempting to wake the titular character. It gets bashed with a wrench for its troubles. In spite of being reduced to a clockwork pancake, it succeeds in waking Old Master Q with a little help from MurphysBed abruptly dumping Old Master Q on the floor and closing up so he can't get back on it.

[[quoteright:310:[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ring_crunch1_2.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:310:Wake him up early, will you?!]]

* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZLUpQiolA Gun O'Clock]]'' toy-clock-thing.

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb428.html Alarm clock rings.]] Doc's Paw comes out from under the covers with what looks like a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. [[ShuttingUpNow Clock promptly shuts up.]]

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.]] You may get hurt or [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope charged with a crime]]. On the other hand... [--WorthIt--].)

* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Saitama wakes up from an action-packed fight dream when his alarm clock starts ringing, to which of course he punches it to stop it. This sends it straight through the floor. Though granted it seemed it was done out of habit rather then annoyance.

* In the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comic book, Ben Grimm was forever forgetting his SuperStrength and smashing his alarm clock to bits when he went to turn it off. The next panel would usually show him tossing it onto a pile of similarly-smashed clocks.

** In an even older ''Comicbook/XMen'' comic, Kitty Pryde used her tendency to fry electrical equipment she "phases" through to the detriment of her clock-radio.

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

* Seen in ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', when sleeping in Woodstock's nest on their journey to see Lila in the hospital, Snoopy is startled awake by his very loud alarm clock, and smashes it with his fist. Then Woodstock laughs at him, so Snoopy conks ''him'' on the head as well.

* Another variant occurs in ''Film/AnimalHouse'' when Bluto stops an annoyning crooner's song by smashing his guitar against the wall.

* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. A kid smashes one up with a hammer, because living AfterTheEnd he's no idea what the ringing sound means.

* RingRingCRUNCH is the central theme of Creator/RayBradbury's short story, ''The Murderer''. The protagonist becomes fed up with the ubiquity and intrusiveness of radios, phones, and the like, so he begins to systematically destroy the intrusive devices in his life. [[spoiler:He pours ice cream into a speaker grille, stuffs another device in the garbage disposal (which, as a useful and nonintrusive technology, is the only thing he feels sorry about), and even uses an EMP on the bus and basks in the panic and subsequent civility as people are forced to * talk* to each other.]]

* Used regularly in the narrative intros and outros to ''Radio/BleakExpectations''. Anytime Elderly Pip gets frustrated with Mr. Sourquill's gadget of the week it's guaranteed to be broken in some manner or another. A notable example being the clock which gives various dings and chimes for every hour, minute and second; it suffers a very quick ApplianceDefenestration.

--> As much as Geneviève 'Spark' Etincelle enjoyed most of her classes, at least those on the designated 'tech' track, there was little to love about waking up on a Monday morning to get ready to attend them. She reached over to silence her alarm clock as quickly as an Exemplar could without smashing it

* In ''FanFic/BeingDeadAintEasy'', to put it simply, Seto Kaiba is not a morning person.

* In [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/satisfying/ this]] strip of ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'', Shelly is [[SubvertedTrope specifically told not to shoot the alarm clock when she suggests it]]... so she simply [[DoubleSubversion crushes it to tiny pieces with a clinched fist.]]

* In [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/838 this]] [[Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}} "Shirt Guy Dom"]] strip, Dom [[StickFigureComic (or maybe just some guy)]] awakens in a drowsily angry stupor and ''eats'' his alarm clock.

* In ''Webcomics/TheGreenAvenger'', [[SuperStrength Abby accidentally smashes]] her alarm clock.

* The ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Sumo Momo" begins with Samosa being woken up by his alarm clock, which he then throws onto a wall, causing it to break and land in a box of broken alarm clocks.