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Note that this is not just dying in a flashy way, this is when the flashiness comes from the death itself, so for instance a character dying by having a bomb inside him is not this trope, as the explosion comes from the bomb and not from the character's death.

 

 

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* The Anti-Spiral King in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' probably takes the cake, dying in seven sequential multicolored galaxy-spanning explosions.

* In the 3rd ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' movie (the Super S one), the main villain dies in this manner, where it shows her already blob-like face melting and swirling (she's merged with a "black hole" at this point so she looks like a glowing ball with a face on it) and then the whole thing explodes.

{{quote|"Tch, That's it?" [[Casual Danger Dialogue|*stretches*]]}}

 

 

* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'': "I'M MELTING!! I'M MELTING!! OH WHAT A WORLD!! WHAT A WORLD!!"

* The explosive death/destruction of Agent Smith in ''[[The Matrix]]'' and all of the Agent Smiths (Agents Smith?) in The Matrix Revolutions.

* ''[[War of the Colossal Beast]]'' is a literal example. The entire film was shot in black and white EXCEPT for the title character's climactic death.

 

* In ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' the Wicked Witch of the West melts after being thrown a bucket of water, her weakness.

* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], the Emperor's explosion upon death in [[Return of the Jedi]] is applied to a lot of dark Jedi, such as Joruus C'Baoth in [[The Thrawn Trilogy]].

 

* When ''[[Power Rangers]]'' villains die, they go out with a bang. Sometimes it's such that you'd think the monster's destruction would do more to the city than the monster would have if left alone. ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' in particular went the distance, with all sorts of flashy and colorful effects as the monster staggered around, leading up to the final kaboom (which could consist of two or three explosions.) They haven't looked like ''that'' in a while, even for main villains.

* The Beast in ''[[Angel]]'' season 4 dies this way, with sunlight exploding out of him after Angelus punctures his rocky hide.

* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' generally uses explosions for its monster deaths, like ''[[Power Rangers]]'', above. Some, however, decide to get fancy, such as the "burst into blue flames, then collapse into dust while a Greek letter hovers over your body" effects from ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]''.

* When demons die in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' they explode with red flashing lights. Angels take this to the next level where not only does white light explode from their body, but covers the entire room of wherever they're at.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' this is integrated into the plot: Monsters are formed by unsent souls, when they're killed these firefly-like souls emanate from their remains.

*** Even then, you get some pretty cool death animations. A notable one that comes to mind is the jellyfish Sinspawn on the trip from Besaid to Kilika. It shudders, gets compressed into an oily black sphere, ''then'' explodes into a cloud of fireflies.

**** The most over-the-top and spectacular example in the series yet has to be [[Final Fantasy VIII|Ultimecia's]] final defeat. First she shudders, then her body releases explosions, then she fires a large laser into the sky from her (lack of a) face and then countless beams of light erupt out of her body until almost the entire screen has gone white. THEN she explodes. And it's still not over, since Ultimecia's distorting body then gets a slightly disturbing close up in negative colors and proceeds to disintegrate in a shower of bright light. {{spoiler|'''''AND SHE SURVIVES IT.'''''}}

***** Challenging that is the needlessly over-the-top and long death animation of {{spoiler|Yu Yevon}}. Imagine the Ultimecia example above, but with sheer out-and-out disintigration coming from such a small target. It needs to be seen to be believed.

* Though the [[Final Boss]] doesn't do this, all the bosses (and standard enemies) in ''[[The Legend of Zelda|Twilight Princess]]'' explode upon dying into little Twilight fragments.

** All bosses except the final one in ''Legend of Zelda: [[Phantom Hourglass]]'' turn into gold, disintigrated partially, explode into a column of sand, and then the sand freezes in midair.

** And of course, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'', with standard enemies dissapearing into puffs of smoke.

** Most of the bosses in the remake flash shake, and disintigrate, piece-by-piece.

* Defeated bosses in the ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' series are usually engulfed in a spherical blast that emits beams of light after being defeated. The explosion may be [[Justified]] due to them being robots; since Zero's trademark weapon is a sword, it may have compromised their power systems. The radiating beams of light part? Not so much. Also, the attack that depletes their health meter causes much more damage than any other attack (blowing a chunk out of them if it's a charged beam shot, [[Diagonal Cut]] if it's with the sword), but that's probably another trope.

* Ansem {{spoiler|really, Xehanort's Heartless}} from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' died in a very awesome, spectacular explosion- subverted in that he's, strangely, fine in the next cutscene. ("fine" in the sense that he's still alive) Then, he dies ''again'', in a shower of light beams... although it is unclear if all of those beams came from Kingdom Hearts, or if some of them were actually caused by his death, as this trope demands.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TznkwCWiwq4 Marluxia] from ''Chain of Memories'' had an epic disintegration into [[Cherry Blossoms]] and swirly darkness amidst a background that resembles a darkened sky

* Monsters in ''[[Okami]]'' tend to dissolve into flowers. Boss monsters can be more spectacular; for instance, the Spider Queen turns into a giant lotus flower in the cutscene following her death. Devil Gates also cause the landscape to bloom when they're destroyed.

* The way SHODAN "died" in ''[[System Shock|System Shock 2]]''.

* GLaDOS' death in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' causes her chamber to explode/implode, blasting everything in there (including Chell) outside.

* Bosses in the original [[Yoshi's Island]] would go out with multiple brightly colored, sparkly explosions.

* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' has {{spoiler|Medusa disintegrating into nothing from head to toe after freezing in place,}} and {{spoiler|Hades also disintegrating as the beam from the Final Strike pummels him.}}

 

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