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{{trope}}
[[Stock Super Powers|Superpowers]] that involve [[Stuff Blowing Up|creating explosions]]. Can overlap with [[Why Am I Ticking?]]. See also [[Action Bomb]]. Villainous and/or mentally insane users are considered [[Mad Bomber
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Azuma from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', who can blow up ships from a distance with his explosion magic.
* By the same author of the above manga, [[The Hero|Haru]] of [[Rave Master]] wields the Ten Powers, a sword that can take on ten different forms. Haru's favourite is Explosion the, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|explosion sword]].
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* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Solf J. Kimblee can use alchemy to destabilize the air, which causes large explosions.
** In the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime version]], he instead [[Why Am I Ticking?|changes people's chemical makeup to make them explosive]].
* That kid Maki from ''[[Darker
* Cinque's Inherent Skill in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' is the ability to transmute any metals into high-grade explosives on touch. Combine that with her ability to summon any number of steel daggers out of thin air, and you get a [[Game Breaker]] character who had to be [[Put on a Bus]] until the end of the season immediately after her introduction.
* Yoshikage Kira from ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' has this as his Stand power: anything that it touches can be made to explode at will. He also has a secondary ability to allows him to launch an autonomous heatseeking bomb from the Stand's main body.
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== Comic Books ==
* The Human Bomb, who made his original appearance in ''Police Comics #1'' in August
▲* The Human Bomb, who made his original appearance in ''Police Comics #1'' in August of 1941, is the original super-powered explosion maker. He literally could cause anything he touched to explode... the bigger the object, the bigger the explosion. When Quality comics went out of business, [[DC Comics]] purchased the rights to its entire stable of characters, and the Human Bomb became a member of the Freedom Fighters.
* The "Human Hand-Grenade" from ''[[The Authority|The Authority: Revolution]]'' had the power to explode, then reassemble himself.
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Marvel Mutant]] Tabitha "Boom-Boom" Smith has this as her superpower. She creates time-delay plasma balls which explode. They can be small or huge.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''. Tim the Enchanter can cause explosions (presumably using magic) hundreds of yards away.
== Live
* ''[[Charmed]]''. Piper can make things explode by [[Hand Wave|"speeding up molecules"]].
== Toys ==
* Rahkshi of Fragmentation do this in ''[[Bionicle]]'', as they cause objects to spontaneously burst into fragments.
== Video Games ==
* The titular characters of ''[[Splosion Man]]'' and ''[[Ms. 'Splosion Man]]''.
* ''[[Borderlands]]'' - The Explosive Artifact, for [[The Berserker|Brick]] and [[Feathered Fiend|Bloodwing]], who then can make explosions and detonate their enemies with their fists and beak (respectively).
* There is a magical item in ''[[Age of Wonders]] 2'' that turns the hero wielding it, picture this, into a reusable suicide bomber.
* In [[Touhou]], this is usually how the fandom portrays [[Ax Crazy|Flandre]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|Scarlet]]'s powers over destruction to work since they where never shown ingame.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'', there's a mask called the Bomber's Mask. It's pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. It doesn't have a whole lot of uses, but it does help out if you're low on bombs, or want to conserve. The only real problem is that when you use the mask, it [[Cast
** Unless you're using your [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|shield]] at the same time.
* ''[[Hyper Princess Pitch]]'''s mother, the [[Odd Job Gods|Goddess of Explosions]].
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* Hisahide of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' specializes in creating explosions via gunpowder with a simple snap of his fingers.
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* In ''[[Touhou Nekokayou]]'', [[Original Character|Masha Kinoko]]'s power (apart from [[Green Thumb|"manipulation of fungus"]]) is "creating explosions" due to the specific type of [[Magic Mushroom]] she was [[Mushroom Man|"born" from]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130915163707/http://heroeswiki.com/Amanda Amanda Strazzulla] of the ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]
== Web Original ==
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], it's done in more than one way. Breaker can create a blast centered around himself, with no harm to his body. Tennyo and Bomber can both hurl plasma that will explode on contact.
== Western Animation ==
* Combustion Man from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' causes explosions by heating the air.
* Eustice from [[Courage the Cowardly Dog]], one episode, took some hair growing tonic. The episode dealt with its most dangerous side effect: anything angered the user would violently explode. And it makes the already irritable Eustice that much more prone to anger.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Stock Super Powers]]
[[Category:Stuff Blowing Up]]
▲[[Category:Having a Blast]]
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