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In the decades since 1956sEarth vs.
Consider this a comprehensive catastrophic catalogue.
Your average American-monument-obliterating actioner is not a tale of Goliath laid low.
These are consistently, vehemently pro-America movies.
Sometimes hes a wisened and self-sacrificing statesman played by Morgan Freeman or Danny Glover.
Bad weather aside, who or what is responsible for toppling the monuments changes with the times.
replace extraterrestrials as the bad guys of the moment.
And make the president fight his way out?!
to the more generalized.
Nightcrawler does a bit of cosmetic damage to the Oval Office in the opening set piece ofX2.
(Neither the tennis court nor the basketball court survive.)
Good news for global order, bad news for the gardeners.
TheMars Attacks!aliens remake it in their own image using lasers, as does General Zod inSuperman II.
(Only Zod does indeed torpedo Lincoln, as there are four presidents but only three Krypton villains.)
