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** ''[[End of Evangelion]]'' opened to the image of Tokyo-3 after all of the battles had come to an end. With funding drying up, Tokyo-3 hasn't seen any repairs recently and most of the civilian population has fled.
*** It's not even a question of funding. The destruction of Eva-00 was a bigger explosion than any of the previous battles. We know Shinji's friends fled, but it's also a case of [[Inferred Holocaust]], even with the population in shelters.
* Justified in ''[[Durarara!!]]'': It turns out that someone actually ''does'' pay for all that property damage [[Person of Mass Destruction|Shizuo]] causes: his manager (not Tom, but another guy above both of them), who docks it from Shizuo's salary in return. Shizuo's honestly surprised that he still gets paid at all ([[Ultimate Job Security|or that he even still has a job]]).
* Both [[Played for Laughs]] and somewhat [[Deconstructed]] in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', depending on the chapter/episode. Sister Rosette is a [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Destructive Savior]], so she's quite often shown crashing her car into the sides of buildings, destroying buildings--heck, the very first storyline shows her crashing a ship ''into the Statue of Liberty''. However, it's shown that her supervisor in the Order of Magdalene ''constantly'' chews her out for it (even saying they could write a book based on her damage reports), and it's explicitly mentioned that the Order has to help pay for the damages as well as bribing the local media not to mention their involvement with the damage. Also, when civilians are shown badly injured in the aftermath of one of her battles, she's shown being shocked and upset.
* [[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking]] must have this in spades considering how destructive their fights with the Ghosts are. Then again, everyone in this universe appears to be [[Made of Iron]].
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** Also somewhat unique in that the Authority often acknowledges that what they're doing will cause property damage and probably cost civilian lives. The characters justify it with the excuse that the bad guys would have done much worse if nobody had stopped them, but the fact that they ''openly acknowledge'' the cost of what they do is unique in itself.
* There was an amateur comic in ''Svenska Serier'' where villain and a [[Designated Hero]], both musclebound bricks, bust out against each other at a high-class party, tearing the place up in the process. The destruction soon turns to ludicrous levels until suddenly calling it off and donning their civilian disguises. The manager of the party at the introduction, now the only apparent survivor who is sobbing on his knees in the midst of the destruction, is then approached by two surprisingly muscular suits who inform him that the insurance policy they provide would be excellent should something like this happen again.
* This trope is either [[Deconstructed Trope|horribly deconstructed]] or hilariously parodied in the Marvel [[Alternate Continuity|What If....]] story "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe]]". In short, Frank Castle's family is killed in the crossfire of a superhuman battle and he, with the financial support of a group of people who've been similar victims of "collateral damage", goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] on the [[Kill'Em All|entire superhuman community]].
* Subverted with [[Batman]] as, being rich, he actually ''can'' afford to pay for damage. Was mentioned in the video game of ''[[Batman Begins]]'', in which Batman damages a large section of water mains to chase away some corrupt cops from a scene. As he makes his plan, Alfred notes that Wayne Enterprises will likely be making a donation to the water board the next day.
* In the after-effects of the ''[[Green Lantern]] Sinestro Corps War'', the dozens of alien lanterns who ended up on Earth decide to stick around for a bit and clean up their messes. John Stewart, a long standing Earth based GL, cleans up the skyscraper damage in Coast City all by himself.
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