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The visceral joy one gets from ruthlessly smashing or otherwise destroying some inanimate object, especially if said object (or whatever it represents) has caused you a great deal of annoyance. Implements favored for this kind of catharsis include, but are not limited to: [[Batter Up|Baseball Bats]], [[Drop the Hammer|Sledgehammers]], [[Chainsaw Good|Chainsaws]], Woodchippers, Heavy Construction Equipment, and in some cases High Explosives. As a general rule, [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|the more over the top the means of destruction, the greater the satisfaction.]] [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]] is a subtrope of this. [[Die, Chair, Die!]] may also be related to this, depending on the game.

* In [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''[[CallahansCallahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' series, all drinks at Callahan's bar are fifty cents, and Callahan only accepts one dollar bills. You get the fifty cents back unless you want to step up to the line and make a toast by tossing your empty glass into the bar's fireplace hard enough to shatter it. It is an exceptionally cathartic action, as it turns out.