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** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': The Vegans managed to make huge technological breakthroughs by exploiting ores of the material radioactive known as Vegatron. However, it led to his planet becoming unstable, forcing them to find new worlds to colonize. The vegatron bombs they rained upon Fleed scorched the Fleedian army to ashes, but they also turned the planet they intended to colonize on a radioactive wasteland. And finally, Vegatron radiation destroyed their homeworld and rendered their Moon [[Space Base]] -their last safe haven- inhabitable.
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' kills off Medlock by having Ralph override her ship and order her own killer robots to tear her apart. The real [[Irony]] is that she had recently turned good, and the good guys assumed she got out safely like they did and didn't think anything of looking for her...
* Many ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' characters died this way (in fact, the protagonists themselves rarely kill anyone, except for [[Monster of the Week|monsters-of-the-week]]) -- at least when they were not offed by the [[Big Bad]] [[You Have Failed Me...|for their constant failures]], betrayed by their peers, or redeemed. Kunzite died of his own reflected attack (though Sailor Moon still qualifies for that kill by reflecting it); Mimete died when she used a machine built by Eudial, whom she killed; Tellu was eaten by the giant plant she summoned; Viluy had her [[Nanomachines]] turn against her and "erase" her; Cyprine and Ptilol (regarded as one person) were tricked into blasting each other, and Sailor Lead Crow was sucked into the black hole that she tried to use against Sailor Moon, though only because her black hole device was sabotaged by her sociopathic teammate, Tin Nyanko.
** This only happened in the anime; the Scouts regularly killed villains in the manga.
* In the second season of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', when Yugi dueled Marik's mind-slave <s>Steve the mime</s> Strings, the only way he was able to beat his invincible card setup was to use it to his own advantage so that his monster would be destroyed and regenerated an infinite number of times within a single turn, and due to one of the effects Marik had on the field, Strings was forced to keep drawing cards from his deck every time the monster regenerated, until he ran out of cards and lost the duel by default.
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* In the [[Bile Fascination]]-filled ''[[Queen's Blade|Queens Blade]]'', the assassin Melona's primary means of attack is to squirt some sort of acidic fluid... from her breasts. Reina defeats her by blocking off her nipples with her [[Breast Plate]], causing the acidic liquid to back up, swelling Melona's breasts to massive sizes.... and blowing them up.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' includes this on a few occasions, usually as a way for Ranma to beat opponents who, for whatever reason, outclass him. The best example is the Musk Dynasty story; Ranma's opponent Herb is far stronger and better trained at ki attacks then Ranma is, and knows how to disrupt the Hiryu Shoten Ha, which normally feeds off of the opponent's ki (which makes it a tentative example of this trope). Realizing that his opponent's attacks have left large quantities of ki floating loosely, he tricks his foe into apparently destabilizing the Hiryu Shoten Ha again- instead, Herb actually gives Ranma what he needs to gather all of the available ki, coalesce it into a single massive bolt, and drop it right on his head.
** In an earlier story, the Date Monster of Watermelon Island, Ranma is stuck in female form and defenseless against Tatewaki Kuno, who has lost his delusions and thus is capable of actually concentrating on defeating Ranma for once. Aware that his [[Training
** The Martial Arts Dining story might also count by a technicality; Ranma's winning move, the Parley du Foie Gras, not only takes advantage of a loophole in the rules, but also turns Piccolet Chardin's normally advantageous mutations into Ranma's key to victory. Piccolet's rubber-like face allows him to eat faster then Ranma can, but also makes it easy for Ranma to force his own food down Piccolet's throat.
*** Actually referred to by name in an anime-exclusive OAV; early into the Christmas Scramble OAV, Kodachi mockingly points out that Kuno's unidentified but huge present is far too big to even get through the door, never mind into Akane Tendo's stocking. Kuno, horrorstruck, points out that he's been hoisted with his own petard (probably not in the original Japanese, though, as Kuno's Shakespearean references are a [[Woolseyism]]). And is promptly squashed under Shampoo's bicycle.
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