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{{quote|''1606. If my fireballs always form a mushroom cloud, time to tone it down a bit.''|[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]}}
The shape of a mushroom cloud is indelibly associated in everyone's minds with nuclear explosions. This trope is for explosions where that isn't the case -- instead, the mushroom cloud is [[Played for Laughs]], or just to show how powerful the explosive is.
It's worth noting that the mushroom cloud effect is not actually exclusive to nuclear weapons, it's just that nuclear weapons are far beyond the heat and explosive force required to cause the effect, and so the two [[The Coconut Effect|became heavily associated with each other]]. In truth, it doesn't take very much explosive at all to form a mushroom cloud -- you can create one with a couple dozen pounds of gunpowder.▼
▲It's worth noting that the mushroom cloud effect is not actually exclusive to nuclear weapons, it's just that nuclear weapons are far beyond the heat and explosive force required to cause the effect, and so the two [[The Coconut Effect|became heavily associated with each other]].
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== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has Honey getting angry represented with a pink bunny mushroom cloud.
== Films -- Animated ==
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* Flint Lockwood gets a mushroom cloud in ''[[Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs]]'' early in the movie.
* In ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'', an explosion of gravy looks an awful lot like a mushroom cloud.
* During the opening sequence of ''[[Toy Story]] 3'', a bomb dropped by Hamm's spaceship creates a mushroom cloud. Made of Monkeys. To be fair, the whole sequence takes place in Andy's imagination.
* In ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (Film)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'', the impact of {{spoiler|The Green Death}} into the ground results in a large mushroom cloud, which {{spoiler|Hiccup and Toothless}} have to [[Outrun the Fireball|outrun]].
* In ''[[Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', the characters at one point throw [[Lethal Chef|Cookie's]] greasy food into their campfire. The result is a miniature, oily-looking mushroom cloud. In a non-comedic example, the Viking Prologue [[Deleted Scene]] features an unlucky longship targeted by [[Mechanical Monster|the Leviathan's]] [[Breath Weapon]], resulting in a huge mushroom cloud of vaporized seawater and a few wooden splinters.
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