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* The DVD commentary for ''[[Dark Blue World]]'' (2001) mentions that the SFX man asked the director if he wanted a realistic look or huge fireballs for the scene where the airfield is bombed at night. He decided to go for the unrealistic visual effect.
* At the end of ''[[I Am Legend]]'', Robert Neville destroys the monster horde in the laboratory with a hand grenade which produces a large fireball.
* In the 6th [[Kara noKarano Kyoukai]] film, The climax of [[Playing Withwith Fire|Azaka's]] fight against Ouji consists of {{spoiler|the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|inexplicable giant flower monster that was controlling Ouji]]}} detonating very colourfully. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLpWm76Re1g See here, at approximately 4:08.]
* Casualties of War. {{spoiler|Corporal Clark attempts to frag PFC Eriksson to stop him from fingering the rest of the squad for the rape and murder of a Vietnamese girl. He does this by setting off a grenade in the latrines. Eriksson sees this, runs and is blown away by the explosion. Not only is he unarmed, but the lavatory explodes like someone set off TNT in it. Eriksson does more damage to Clark with a ''shovel'' then Clark does to Eriksson with a hand grenade!}}
 
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] 64'' was great at this. Best examples include: Either ending of Katina (Bill comments on the fireworks if you destroy the Saucerer, but seeing it vaporize the Katina base is probably even cooler looking), Macbeth (where you get to blow up an enemy weapons facility by smashing a supply train into it), Bolse (the entire Bolse ''satellite'' blows up, and since it's described in the Guide as being planet-sized, this may also qualify for [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]), Area 6 (everything explodes in Area 6. Especially at the very end) and of course, Venom, where {{spoiler|Andross makes his entire base explode when he's defeated in an attempt to kill you off and you have to follow [[Dead Person Conversation|your dead father]] out of the exploding ruins.}}
** Also, the underwater level, in which it is proven that giant clams are made of nitroglycerine.
* ''[[Crysis (Video Gameseries)|Crysis]]'' is actually the ultimate king of [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]]. Any object that can explode will explode with incredible graphics effects. The pinnacle being {{spoiler|A NUCLEAR GRENADE LAUNCHER.}}
* Surprisingly, the video game ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' subverts this trope, as the grenades and rockets the player acquires behave like normal, boring, Real-Life explosions.
** Er, that is, until you pick up 'Grenade M.O.D.s', which add features like [[Incendiary Exponent|Incendiary]], [[Shock and Awe|Shock]], and [[Hollywood Acid|Corrosive]] damage to your otherwise normal frag grenades. Which causes them to explode in Spectacular Fireballs, Static Discharges, and Chemical Plumes, respectively.
* [[Ether Vapor (Video Game)|Ether Vapor]] posesses some incredible explosions and the like. And what's makes that more impressive is that it is a [[Doujin Game]].
 
 
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