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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|Mooks]]. A supertrope of [[Disappears Into Light]].
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== Anime ==
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' ([[The Film of the Book|movie version]]). Although it's right in the prologue rather than the end of the movie, death for Sauron basically means becoming the exploding man.
** And of course there's the more understated, but no less satisfying, ''im''plosion of [[The Dragon|The Witch-King]] near the end of ''Return of the King''.
* The T-1000's death in ''[[Terminator 2]]'' is a notable example of a [[Shape ShifterShapeshifter Swan Song]], but it becomes even more spectacular when the T-1000 starts to do things like split into two heads, form into a mouth, and ''invert that mouth'' as it tries to save itself.
* It's not enough for sunlight to just kill [[Gremlins (Film)|Gremlins]]. It has to melt them alive.
* The Nightmare King from ''[[Little Nemo]]: Adventures in Slumberland'' had a very colorful death.
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* The Beast in ''[[Angel]]'' season 4 dies this way, with sunlight exploding out of him after Angelus punctures his rocky hide.
* Halfrek's fiery death in the ''[[Buffy]]'' episode "Selfless" is like this, too.
* Many [[The Nth Doctor|regeneration scenes]] in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' are like this, with the obvious difference that the character in question is in a sense dying but simultaneously getting better. They're also unusual in that it's the death of the hero, not the villain. No two regenerations have been shown to be quite alike; mostly it's been a case of how the special effects team wanted to show off at the time.
** [[David Tennant]] into [[Matt Smith]] looked pretty much like [[Christopher Eccleston]] into David Tennant... but Tennant-into-Smith caused explosions throughout the TARDIS interior and caused it to crash. Just why this is is the subject of much [[Fan Wank]], but the real answer is "the production team wanted to make some tweaks to the ship."
* ''[[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]]''.
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