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[[File:Pepper&carrot superpower meltdown.jpg|thumb|430px|link=Pepper&Carrot|Here's a lesson for everyone: if someone is a witch, or has superpowers, please do ''not'' laugh at them under any circumstances.]]
{{quote|''"Remember, with great power comes great current squared times resistance.<ref>More generally, with great power comes great dEnergy/dt</ref>"''
|'''[[xkcd]]''' [http://xkcd.com/643/ #643]}}
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A common occurrence is for a hero going into meltdown to be [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|coaxed back]] from the brink using [[Heroic Willpower]], or forced to do a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and fly away to save those nearby. If a [[Love Interest]] is nearby, a [[Cooldown Hug]] can reliably stop the meltdown. Occasionally, a hero or villain might ''purposefully'' trigger it to try and kill their rival, since the [[Sphere of Destruction]] such a meltdown generates tends to be pretty devastating. Whether this works on not depends on if [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|they're the lead.]]
Compare [[Spontaneous Human Combustion]], [[Load-Bearing Boss]], [[Unstoppable Rage]], [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], [[Action Bomb]], [[Power Incontinence]], and [[Taking You with Me]]. See also [[Power Degeneration]], [[Clone Degeneration]] and [[Flawed Prototype]]. Compare [[Too Much for Man to Handle]]
Contrast [[Heroic RROD]], where the meltdown is mostly contained within the hero.
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** The trope itself is averted, however, in that the ''real'' reason for the explosion is either an android replica of the hero specifically made to explode by the [[Evil Overlord]], or (according to the canonically-dubious [[Strategy Guide]]) a major villain disguising himself as a small-time crook to lure the hero into the area, before detonating a specially-made bomb and using the hero as a scapegoat.
** Of course, with the recently added Cyborg Booster Pack, players can now have access to a Self Destruct power, causing them to explode violently after a ten second countdown, doing immense damage to anything unlucky enough to be in range. It will usually wipe out anything below boss level. The down side? You just died. And it takes an hour to recharge.
** In the game's backstory, Overbrook (now called "Faultline") was {{spoiler|supposedly}} leveled by the earthquake machines of an archvillain known as Faultine. {{spoiler|In truth, though, Faultline was a mutant hero who wouldn't have needed them; a villain named
** A game signature hero and [[Author Avatar]] of the current head of design, Positron, like Man-Bot wears a power suit to keep his powers from doing this. Eventually he was cured, and can now finally remove his helmet.
* In the ''[[Soul Calibur]] III'' start-up trailer, Nightmare seems to have one of these because he consumed the souls of a whole army, ''all at once''. It didn't seem to hurt him though.
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* At the end of Heavens Feel route in [[Fate/stay night]] {{spoiler|Sakura}} loses the ability to control the Grail's energy, resulting in a potentially world destroying... thingy... requiring first the use of Rule Breaker to separate {{spoiler|Sakura}} from the Grail and then {{spoiler|either Shirou or Ilya's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to keep from getting worse.}}
* A plot point in ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption''. After getting infected with Phazon, Samus has the ability to go into Hyper Mode and use Phazon powered attacks, which is powerful, but causes the Corruption to spread, and if the PED Suit malfunctions, the process can be irreversible, leading to devastating consequences to those around them, {{spoiler|as seen with other hunters like Ghor, whose own corruption devastated Elysia}}.
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