History Main / ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof

[[caption-width-right:349:“Another Tuesday, another brokenhearted kid.”]]

* ''VideoGame/FableI'': In the prologue, which has you play the Hero as a young boy and introduces the KarmaMeter, you get a girl's favourite teddy bear and either return it or give it to her BigBrotherBully for destruction.

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[[caption-width-right:321:"[[Film/ShaolinSoccer NO MORE SOCCER!]]"]]

* Wrestling/TedDiBiase pulled this in his "Million Dollar Man" gimmick, telling a young boy that if he could dribble a ball fifteen times in a row without messing up, he'd give him $500 - on the 14th bounce, [=DiBiase=] stuck his foot out to screw the kid over, telling him that "You've got to learn a hard, cruel fact of life: when you don't do the job right, you don't get paid."

-->''Nelson takes the remote and gives a more spectacular stunt. ... it finally ends its trip crashing on the roof of a mysterious old house.''

A SubTrope of KickTheDog. SisterTrope to ForTheEvulz and EvilIsPetty.

* ''TheSimpsons'': Bart & Nelson are with Millhouse in the park, watching him play with his remote control plane and are thoroughly bored.

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* In an early episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'', [[AlphaBitch Heather]] deliberately tanks her performance in a talent show challenge by foregoing her planned dance act in favor of reading [[{{Goth}} Gwen's]] diary on national television. Not only was this such a pointlessly nasty action that it [[EvenEvilHasStandards even shocked Chris]], but this led to her team losing the challenge, which they would have definitely won if she had put forth an actual performance due to the huge lead in points they had built up after the first two rounds. The only thing that kept Heather from being voted off that night was PlotArmor.

* During [=LuFisto=]'s reign as Wrestling/{{WSU}} World Champion, the new company owner DJ Hyde destroyed [[CompanionCube her manager]] Peegaboo.[[/folder]]

* In the Grand Magic Games arc of ''Manga/FairyTail'', after Raven Tail member Kurohebi defeats Lamia Scale member Toby in their match, Kurohebi points out that the lost sock that Toby's been looking for has been around Toby's neck the whole time. Toby starts to thank Kurohebi, but Kurohebi rips it to sheds in front of it, proudly declaring that he enjoys destroying things that are precious to people. This happens to be one of the ''least'' cruel things [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty Raven]] [[WouldHurtAChild Tail]] does in this arc.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ballerina'': [[TheRival Camille]] throws [[TheProtagonist Félicie’s]] music box, an heirloom from her all but stated to be ''dead'' mother, out of her window just because she could, apparently. [[BunglingInventor Victor]] fixes it later, but this act still cements her as a huge JerkAss like [[RichBitch her mother]] [[spoiler: until CharacterDevelopment sets in, anyway.]] She even tries to do it a second time after it’s fixed! Thankfully, Félicie’s on guard and privy to her TragicKeepsake destroying shenanigans and stops her the second time.

** "Sharpe's Enemy": Richard Sharpe gets heartbroken [[spoiler:because his spouse was killed by his mortal enemy]] and in utter frustration, he destroys a French spy's glasses. He came to demand that the British surrender. It might have been partly PercussiveTherapy, but the spy was a jerk ass and had it coming. Nothing to gain from it, except it was a good way of showing the FrenchJerk who the alpha dog is.
** In "Sharpe's Honour", the jerkass spy plans an elaborate revenge because Sharpe's chosen men and the British army defeated the French in a battle that he thought was an easy French victory. After series of misfortunes, Sharpe ends up caught by the French. The spy smashes Sharpe's telescope that he received from Wellington himself. Nice try doing your revenge and trying to break Sharpe, jerk spy, but it was a bad idea. [[spoiler:Sharpe used one broken piece as a weapon and it helped him to escape.]]

(''Biff throws the ball up onto a neighbor's roof, inaccessible to the kids'')\\

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* People who vandalize public bathrooms and wreck other stuff [[ForTheEvulz just to be assholes]].
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* People who vandalize public bathrooms and wreck other stuff [[ForTheEvulz just to be assholes]]

** Much later, VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas lets you rescue a little slave girl's teddy bear and hand it to her. Or tear it in half in front of her, because... ''because''.

* In an early episode of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]], [[AlphaBitch Heather]] deliberately tanks her performance in a talent show challenge by foregoing her planned dance act in favor of reading [[{{Goth}} Gwen's]] diary on national television. Not only was this such a pointlessly nasty action that it [[EvenEvilHasStandards even shocked Chris]], but this led to her team losing the challenge, which they would have definitely won if she had put forth an actual performance due to the huge lead in points they had built up after the first two rounds. The only thing that kept Heather from being voted off that night was PlotArmor.

* [[GenkiGirl Tomo]] from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' does this with Chiyo-chan's house keys, though more out of [[ForTheLulz amusement]] and [[ChaoticStupid just because she could]].

* ''Videogame/{{Fable}}'' the running point is choosing whether or not to act in situations throughout the game. You are given choices from the beginning ranging between destroying people's property to [[spoiler: killing your sister.]]

* ''Videogame/Fable'' the running point is choosing whether or not to act on situations throughout the game. You are given choices from the beginning ranging between destroying people's property to [[spoiler: killing your sister.]]

* The running point of ''Videogame/Fable'' is choosing whether or not to act on quests. You are given choices from the beginning ranging between destroying people's property to [[spoiler: killing your sister.]]

* The running point of ''VideoGame/Fable'' is choosing whether or not to act on quests. Even in the beginning you are given a choice, from destroying people's property to [[spoiler: killing your sister.]]