Made of Explodium/Quotes

""Yar. Must be Exploding Tuesday.""

- Bikke the Pirate, 8-Bit Theater

""Bodies explode every day, Fighter. That's just science fact.""

- Thief, 8-Bit Theater

""Law of Inherent Combustability: Everything explodes. Everything.""

- The Anime Laws of Physics

""You know, you don't have to blow everything up. Especially if you don't have THE EXPLOSION !""

- Nostalgia Critic reviewing Mortal Kombat Annihilation

""How does he know that? Is it because he knows he's in a film, where everything which crashes into everything else automatically blows up?""

- Mike Jeavons of Shameful Sequels on Speed 2: Cruise Control

"Giriko: You were all happy about taking out that golem, huh? You thought you killed me, right? Right?! There's no way a human would explode like that, is there!? Maka: B...but... Arachne exploded when she died... Giriko: Eh?! Are you for real!!? Sweet!!"

- Soul Eater

""The secret to goblin engineering has nothing to do with keeping things from exploding. It has everything to do with directing the explosions exactly where you want them.""

- A very astute Goblin, World of Warcraft

""By the way, everything explodes. ! Bug-monster falls on building - ! Spear with bowling ball gets thrown - ! Monster uses drill - ! Pole gets thrown - ! ! !! ... I'd be afraid to live in this world where everything is ignitable. If you stub your toe, hit your head or trip and fall, you'll go BOOM! ... That makes no sense, but who cares? ! ! !! !! !!!...""

- James Rolfe on Inframan

""Why did that blow up? Did we wire this place to self-destruct or something?!""

- Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind

"It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water - with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals - steel, copper, aluminium, etc. - because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."

- John D Clark, Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

"Robo: Maybe, but my years with Mr. Tesla have taught me that there's one underlying principle common to all existence. Charles Fort: And that would be? Robo: Everything explodes."

- Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time

"Tater Hater asks, "Why does pretty much everything in the kitchen explode?" Orange: Aw, come on, Tater Hater. Not everything in the kitchen explodes. Just look at that carrot! He's hasn't blown up yet! Baby Carrot: (laughs) Yeah, guys. I haven't exploded! (Baby Carrot explodes all over the kitchen)"

- Annoying Orange

"Nitro groups, as even people who've never taken a chemistry class know, can lead to firey booms, and putting six of them on one molecule can only lead to such. And since there are six nitrogens and six nitro groups, the first assumption must be that these are all bonded to each other. I mean, come on, leaving the nitro groups attached to the carbons is for wimps. So that means that someone, somewhere, has perversely made a poly-N-nitro cage compound, as if they'd been dared to cram the most bond energy into the smallest space. That, as it happens, is exactly the case. Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, or CL-20, was developed as a highly energetic, compact, and efficient explosive. What makes it unusual is not that it blows up – go find me a small hexa-N-nitro compound that doesn’t – but that it doesn’t actually blow up immediately, early, and often. No, making things that go off when someone down the hall curses at the coffee machine, that’s no problem. Making something like this that can actually be handled and stored is a real accomplishment. Not that it’s what you’d call a perfect compound in that regard – despite a lot of effort, it’s still not quite ready to be hauled around in trucks. There’s a recent report of a method to make a more stable form of it, by mixing it with TNT. Yes, this is an example of something that becomes less explosive as a one-to-one cocrystal with TNT. Although, as the authors point out, if you heat those crystals up the two components separate out, and you’re left with crystals of pure CL-20 soaking in liquid TNT, a situation that will heighten your awareness of the fleeting nature of life. [...] You guys just go ahead and stuff as many energetic bonds as you can into the smallest tangles; I’ll be over here in the bunker cheering you on, and jumping a foot in the air every time someone sneezes. I’m not cut out for hexanitro anything."

- Derek Lowe, Things I Won't Work With: Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane

""Trixie did not expect the sandwhich to explode for no reason""

- Trixie, Insane Cafe 4