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[[File:IndependenceDayWhiteHouse.jpg|link=Independence Day|frame]]
{{quote|''"Give us McNeal or we will lay waste to your cities with our anti-monument laser."''
|'''Lrrr''', ''[[Futurama]]'', "When Aliens Attack"}}
So you're a marauding monster, invading alien, or anything that has a tendency to cause massive collateral damage. But you not going to destroy ''any'' random building, are you? No, where is the fun in that? You're going to behead the Statue of Liberty, or blow up the White House, or anything recognizable enough that by destroying it, you can show the world that you mean business.
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* ''Squadron Supreme'' has Hyperion and his evil doppelganger from another universe fighting it out at Mount Rushmore (named President's Mountain in this reality), destroying it. It's later mentioned that it's being rebuilt.
* DC Comics [[Powered Armor|Steel]] and [[Dork Age|Non-Green-Lantern-Guy-Gardner-But-Rather-Warrior]] fought Rampage (DC villain that is somewhat [[X-Men|Juggernaut-lite]] and couldn't put him down, until the Washington Monument fell on his head.
* The ''Tranformers World's Worst'' fanfics have turned the destruction of the Lincoln Memorial into a [[Running Gag]]. Two words: [http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/index.php?viewCat=5 Abebird Files.]▼
* In the [[Mirror Universe]] ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass]]'' story "Eye in the Sky", Rodimus hijacks the USA's [[Kill Sat]] and uses it to hold the world hostage to his demands. To show his threat is serious, he uses his control of the satellite to destroy the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Statue_of_Liberty_SG.gif sword-holding Statue of Liberty].▼
== Film ==
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* Parodied in ''[[UHF]]'', which includes a spoof of ''[[Rambo]]'', where "Rambo" (played by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]) starts blowing up famous monuments (including the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum) for no reason at all.
* The last shot of ''[[The Great Race]]'' is the accidental destruction of the Eiffel Tower.
▲== Fan Fic ==
▲* The ''Tranformers World's Worst'' fanfics have turned the destruction of the Lincoln Memorial into a [[Running Gag]]. Two words: [http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/index.php?viewCat=5 Abebird Files.]
▲* In the [[Mirror Universe]] ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass]]'' story "Eye in the Sky", Rodimus hijacks the USA's [[Kill Sat]] and uses it to hold the world hostage to his demands. To show his threat is serious, he uses his control of the satellite to destroy the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Statue_of_Liberty_SG.gif sword-holding Statue of Liberty].
== Literature ==
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