Humanity's gotta take one to the gut, here! Knock some sense into the damn peaceniks! And showing them ol' Mount Fuji going boom ought to do the trick!

In Macross II, the main characters go for a date in a place called 'monument park,' a collection of world monuments almost identical to the Futurama example, below.

The Read or Die OVA has Gennai Hiraga blowing up the White House, with a so-not-George Bush lookalike being dragged out just in time.

However, no one noticed and they were evidently repaired. In a flashback to the depression era New York in Shakugan no Shana, both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building get blown up by Margery Daw.Hans burnt down London Bridge while singing 'London Bridge is Falling Down'.In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged the Major also orders this, but explicitly forbids destroying the Holocaust Museum as there will be no denying what they did.The Major orders the Millennium soldiers to destroy all the other landmarks, too.The very first missile shot by the Millennium assault force in Hellsing as they invade London soars through the sky.Incidentally or not, Fuji TV is the channel that broadcasts Digimon in Japan. Averted in Digimon Adventure, when the very climactic battle against Myotismon takes place on top of Fuji TV Headquarters (known for its unique design by the architect Kenzo Tange) but neither the building nor its massive metal ball is (seriously) harmed.

See also Weaponized Landmark when the monument shoots back. This trope could be Justified if Landmarking the Hidden Base is being utilized and the bad guy finds out. Tokyo Tower gets messed up so much it's also its own trope. Sometimes inverted: The monument - although battered- is the only thing left standing in the city After the End.Ĭompare Big Applesauce, Monumental Battle, Rushmore Refacement, The Tokyo Fireball, Tilting Tower of Pisa, and Washington D.C. When characters deliberately aim for monuments for symbolic value, this overlaps with Smash the Symbol. Occasionally inverted when an occupying power takes control of a landmark of some kind, forcing the defenders to destroy said landmark.Ī consequence of the Eiffel Tower Effect. On the flip side, Japan's Tokyo Tower gets this so often its joked by fans as 'Just another bad day for Tokyo Tower.' It's not unknown, but the Great Emancipator's statue takes significantly less damage than you might expect. A weird exception is that it's very, very rare for any monument-destroying force to harm the Lincoln Memorial.

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