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See also [[Critical Existence Failure]] for when death is always a sudden thing, [[Ludicrous Gibs]] for gory existence failures. In [[Video Games]], it can become a [[Justified Trope|justification]] for [[Everything Fades]] for [[Mook]]s. A supertrope of [[Disappears Into Light]].

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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*]]}}

 

* At the climax of ''War of the [[Green Lantern]]s'', {{spoiler|all the colors of the rainbow shoot from [[Big Bad|Krona]] as Hal kills him}}.

 

* ''[[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]] ==

** 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.

* 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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