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* ''[[Strife]]'', being the last game using the Doom engine, makes use of this trope. In addition, it provided special, gib-like animations for enemies that were immolated by your flame weapons or disintegrated by your [[Disintegrator Ray]].
* An add-on for ''[[Garry's Mod|Garrys Mod]]'' combines this with [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]] to produce outstanding results. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHfNcleaOo A sample.]
* In ''[[E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy]]'', large-caliber weapons will cause enemies to explode into a fine red mist. The [[
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=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s ===
* Two quests in ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Wrath of the Lich King'' involve collecting meat. One requires throwing high explosives at mammoths, the other requires throwing them [[Feed It a Bomb|into]] giant worms.
** Even ''more'' ludicrously, Death Knights who specialize in the Unholy aspect of their class receive the gruesome attack "Corpse Explosion", which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what you'd expect.]] Not only does this result in ''weaponized ludicrous gibs'', you can enhance the ability so that if it kills an enemy it makes ''them explode'' in a chain reaction.
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== Non-video game examples ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Late in ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'', [[Big Bad|Hokuto]] punches someone so hard they turn into red mist and leave nothing but their kimono floating off in the wind. Noteworthy for being a case of "slapping into a red mist" not being hyperbole.
* Full-body explosion is the fate of more than a few of Kenshiro's enemies in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''. [[You Are Already Dead]], indeed.
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