building/location.
(Loved trope) Yeah, you know that really iconic location you've gotten used to for years? Now watch it get completely obliterated
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The destruction of the Upside Down (Stranger Things)
The Simpsons' house getting destroyed by the sinkhole (The Simpsons Movie)
I watched this episode while coming up on acid, not realizing I was watching the finale and shit was about to get serious. I was expecting light episodic fun to compliment the trip, instead I beheld the end of things. Hell of a trip.
On the other: what could possibly shock you about a school for teenagers with extreme mutant powers that is also a major superhero headquarters, the direct enemy of all forces of evil in time and space, especially Magneto.
So again, this house, a training ground for extreme mutant powers, in open warfare with flying robots, enemy mutants, and time travelling cyborgs with super weapons: would this seem like a mild insurance risk compared to a regular mansion?
I think this might be the absolute dumbest moment in Walking Dead for me. Like, they're so desperate to just fuck everything up again they pull a tank out of nowhere.
A small cali town with disturbingly cheap housing costs, sits on top of a Hellmouth that draws vampires, demons, and other dark forces
By the series finale, the final battle in death causes the entire city to collapse into a crater. Every citizen basically did an exodus out a few episodes before just feeling something was off
Man Destiny and Destiny 2 are so fucking stupid. Literally not letting new players experience the whole story because it straight up can't be played anymore.
I’m always confused by this since I played Destiny 2 back when it released. Does that mean the game doesn’t even start with the attack on the tower/city anymore? Do you just get dropped into the farm at game start or something?
Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Sure, it could get people on with FOMO, but what about after that? That just absolutely kills how long a game is relevant because why would I play a game that I technically can't even play anymore?
If i remember correctly, It's not so much about FOMO as it is that D2's engine was such an example of a house of popsicle sticks on a foundation of ice cream (in Texas, in the summer) that it made Helldivers 2's engine look stable, combined with the game managing to somehow have even more tech debt than the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, that caused them to have to take that stuff out to prevent the game from getting too big.
Not too big for our hard drives, even, but literally to big for the game to function.
Wait... so the first Destiny's code was so wildly poorly optimized that a bunch of stories were written about it and how miserable the team was when it came to having to push out updates and Destiny 2 just kept up with the same thing? Shit. I've loved what I've played of both, but never got into the Destiny 2 community so much as I just played around where I could. I always just assumed there would be some way for me to get back to the story, I just wasn't doing things right. How many hours did I waste on that game?
I have over 700 hours in Warframe and spent $120 dollars in it only because I thought it was unfair that I had played so much without ever spending a single cent
Shocked this hasn’t been mentioned but the Mystery Shack in Gravity Falls gets trashed by Bill in the series finale, granted it also gets rebuilt in the end so I don’t know if it counts
The Mandalorian's Razor Crest that had been so well-developed that I almost cried when it got destroyed. But then they gave him an N1 and I'm happy again.
It’s not like there was anything special about it, it’s name was literally just the make of the ship. Plus the N-1 is far too small for him, he needs a proper ship again not a starfighter.
Yea the N1 never made sense to me, he’s a bounty hunter, how’s he gonna haul his bounty back after freezing them? Unless he plans on killing them every time, which is doubtful
I was holding my baby niece at the time, didn't expect my all time favorite star wars ship to get done so dirty like that. I legitimately shouted in despair, and my poor little niece gave me the saddest look before bursting into tears. Now I'm consoling a baby while trying not to cry myself lol
Honestly Bad Batch was fantastic. Ending was a bit lack luster but also not the worst.
Dr. Hemlock is a fantastically menacing character plus I love how foreboding they made Project Necromancer.
Like… thanks to Rise of Skywalker (or rather Fortnight) we all know WHAT it was but seeing Dr Hemlock walk into a room, tell everyone what he wants and then tell the he was going to get it because his project was even more important than the DEATHSTAR?!
Yeah, I rewatched it recently and TBB was surprisingly well done. All the villains and antagonists are genuinely threatening and I'm really happy that they didn't walk back Tech's death (Honestly one of my favourite examples of character deaths in media).
I actually liked the ending enough, the only thing I have a real issue with is Scorch being done so incredibly dirty.
That sequence is just beautiful. The music is absolutely haunting. It's not just Tipoca that's being destroyed, it's the end of an era. The clones are on their way to being forgotten.
I guess not exactly within the scope of this trope as it’s written here, but: Carl watching his and Ellie’s house float away.
His refusal to give up the house and his wish to fulfill the promise he made to his late wife Ellie that they would go to Paradise Falls kickstarted this whole adventure. But after saving Russel, Doug and Kevin from Carl Muntz, he watches his house float away into the clouds, having lost too many balloons during their fight to be able to fly anymore.
Carl letting go of the house also symbolizes him letting go of Ellie, and he goes on to embrace his new life and adventures with Russel, with joy that he never had before.
We find out in the end that the house actually wasn’t destroyed, but it landed near Paradise Falls, still fulfilling his promise to Ellie
Not to mention the whole mountain is destroyed, Gruntilda’s lair is mostly buried in rubble, and the normally bouncy, jovial, and upbeat theme music is in a much more somber and slower tempo.
There have been many times One Piece brought me to actual tears outta my eye. The Merry saving the Straw Hats and her subsequent funeral was the very first. Her Lego set currently sits as the centerpiece of my collection.
I can't believe no one's said this, but Hyrule Castle in Zelda: Ocarina of Time!
After being told that you've been sleeping for seven years and that Ganondorf has ravaged the land you then go outside and actually see it. Dark clouds blacken the sky, the smoke ring around Doom Mountain is a furious red. The buildings are crumbling and ruined and the marketplace is filled with zombies.
The cinematography in Search for Spock is underrated. Nimoy & company made the most out of sunset on the Genesis planet happening whenever the story needed dramatic lighting.
….for me. This first time this happened was with the Normandy in ME2. I loved that ship in 1 and when I say my ship being gutted both sadden me and drove me to destroy the collectors
It needed to be done but god damn did it hurt especially since the destruction of their imo "best" albums location to have an even better one rise from it's ashes is just amazing
Power Rangers has a history of destroying many of the home bases of the teams during the finales, which manages to work every time because you get attached to the new one. Also, they don’t always do it, so the keep you guessing if they will this time
All those memories of meeting Bulma for the first time, training under Master Roshi, navigating Pilaf's castle, finding the divine water, defeating the Red Ribbon Army, finding a way to extinguish a mountain of fire, marrying Chi Chi, killing a city-busting demon king, saving Gohan from a powerful alien brother, reconnecting with world-ending distant ancestral race, becoming frenemies with one of them, Krillin finding love, and many, many more...all obliterated by an evil, powerful, magical pink kid who got mad for a moment.
In Diablo I, it was the only safe haven for our character, and we would not know its fate by the end because the ending cinematic in Diablo 1 shows our hero becoming the next vessel.
In Diablo II, it was confirmed that all of the heroes had fallen and become corrupted, and the village was overrun by demons, with the only survivor being Deckard Cain.
Not a "location" but literally ALL the old DC animated shows (Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Superfriends, Batman the animated series, etc.) were destroyed in the Crisis on Infinite Earths animated adaptation movies, one of the main locations shown being the Titans tower from Teen Titans and the watchtower from Unlimited
You spend a majority of the 2nd game building up from scraps, putting thousands of florins into restoring it only for it to get complete destroyed during a siege in the opening hour of the next game. Its a super effective way to reset Ezio back to nothing and really motivate the player into wanting to kill Cesare.
David Tennant's TARDIS set being destroyed as he regenerates. The falling column (which was actually never there - it's a 3/4 set) makes me oddly emotional.
The final battle when Spinel launches the attack and Beach City starts to get destroyed. After 100-something episodes where even the smallest side character gets some sort of development, this city feels completely lived in. Like they're our own neighbors.
So watching it get destroyed and watching all the people in Steven's circle going around saving as many of the townies as possible was really emotional 😭
Titans Tower in Season 4 of Teen Titans (2003) after Trigon arrives on Earth. Yeah, it got fixed immediately after they defeated him, but seeing the planet fully covered in lava, seeing the Tower used as a mere throne, with Raven gone for good, and knowing that there would be no help for them because they are basically the only 4 people still alive, really sold me the stakes the whole team was against. I knew they would win somehow, but I even thought even if for just a fraction that ‘it’s truly over, isn’t it?’
Critical Role/Legend of Vox Machina. The city Taldo'rei, home base for the protagonists, is obliterated by a group of dragons, the Chroma Conclave, led by Thordak the Cinder King, who happens to be the same dragon that destroyed the home village of Vax and Vex when they were children, killing their mother in the process. The cast comments out of character about the destruction. It's such a great episode.
Final Fantasy IX, the city of Alexandria is destroyed by...also a dragon, Bahamut, who was stolen from the mind of Princess Garnet and summoned by Kuja against the city. In the same game, we also lose the city of Lindblum to Atmos but imo the first example hits harder. It's the city you start the game in, Garnet's home city. Poeticly tragic in such a beautiful way.
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The RV getting destroyed (Breaking Bad)