X-Ray Sparks: Difference between revisions

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=== Video Games ===

* Happens in ''[[Little Big Adventure]]'' whenever someone is electrocuted.

* This was a feature of Pikachu's electrical attacks in the original (and ONLY in the original) ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' [[~~Earthbound~~|Ness]], [[Metroid|Samus]], and several items did the same thing in the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', but like Pikachu, they could only do so in the first game. This even provides something of a visual gag if Samus gets shocked, because instead of showing us her skeleton, we just see the human figure ''inside'' her power suit.

* This was a feature of Pikachu's electrical attacks in the original (and ONLY in the original) ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' [[EarthBound|Ness]], [[Metroid|Samus]], and several items did the same thing in the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', but like Pikachu, they could only do so in the first game. This even provides something of a visual gag if Samus gets shocked, because instead of showing us her skeleton, we just see the human figure ''inside'' her power suit.

** On the other hand, when [[Kirby]] and [[Pokémon|Jigglypuff]] get hit by electric attacks, only their eyes are visible, implying (sensibly) that they have no skeleton.

* ''[[Touch Detective]]'' Nintendo DS game. One of the characters in Episode 2 can suffer from X Ray Sparks by fooling around with an electrical socket.

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** Predating this, sprites found from a prototype of ''Sonic CD'' revealed that Sonic was originally going to get this effect when shocked by the electric wires of Wacky Workbench, but this was scrapped due to policies regarding the image of the [[Sega|company's]] mascot (which must've been pretty strict, since in the original Mega Drive/Genesis title, sprites of Sonic being comically stretched while going down the high-speed elevators of Scrap Brian were removed from the final game).

* The title characters in some ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' arcade game show this effect when they are zapped by beams from roving robots on wheels.

* Touch any electrified material in ''[[~~Little Big Planet~~]]'', and you get the same result. Sackboy lights up, twitches violently for a few seconds, and then ''explodes''. (Don't worry, he comes back normal from the previous Checkpoint after his [[Critical Existence Failure]].) [[Hilarity Ensues]] if the electrified object was moving, as Sackboy is stuck in midair during electrocution, and the object may even ''go right through him''. Some people on [[YouTube]] have found a way to save the Electrified Sackboy as a costume they can put on whenever they want, making for a very cool, glowing Halloween effect.

* Touch any electrified material in ''[[LittleBigPlanet]]'', and you get the same result. Sackboy lights up, twitches violently for a few seconds, and then ''explodes''. (Don't worry, he comes back normal from the previous Checkpoint after his [[Critical Existence Failure]].) [[Hilarity Ensues]] if the electrified object was moving, as Sackboy is stuck in midair during electrocution, and the object may even ''go right through him''. Some people on [[YouTube]] have found a way to save the Electrified Sackboy as a costume they can put on whenever they want, making for a very cool, glowing Halloween effect.

* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''

** In ''Mortal Kombat 3'' (and only there), Nightwolf's lightning and Stryker's taser fatality will make the foe flash blue, and a skeleton can be seen throughout the lightshow. This was removed in ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'' (an update of the same game).

* Somewhat subverted in ''Mortal Kombat 9''. Stryker's X-ray attack has a part where he uses taser and the foe's entire skeleton can be seen, shaking.

* ''[[~~Blaz Blue~~]]''

* ''[[BlazBlue]]''

** Any victim of Rachel's electric attacks. It's especially visible on the long-duration attack from the electric frog, [[Killer Rabbit|George XIII]].

** Also invoked with Iron Tager's Gadget Finger attack.

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=== Web Comics ===

* [[Exploited Trope|Exploited]] in [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1802/ one strip of] ''[[Cyanide ~~and~~ Happiness]]'' in order to take an ''actual'' X-ray.

* [[Exploited Trope|Exploited]] in [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1802/ one strip of] ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' in order to take an ''actual'' X-ray.

* Spoofed in ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'': who would have guessed that [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-4-16/ Mimic has a jawbone]?

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* In one episode of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', the title character was repeatedly shocked by a robot.

* In ''[[Home Movies]]'', Duane and McGuirk both show their skeletons in electrocutions, unusual for a show that's otherwise low-key and absent of exaggerated cartoony action.

* Played straight in ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]''; in the process, also shows Wanda with a BONE inside her hair swirl.

* Played straight in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''; in the process, also shows Wanda with a BONE inside her hair swirl.

* Asajj Ventress, when hit by Dooku's force lightning in ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''.

* Happens from time to time in ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''. Pretty much any episode with the [[Shock and Awe|lightning-wielding]] Megavolt.

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=== Films -- Live-Action ===

* In the 1953 adaptation of ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' a soldier is hit by the Martians' [[Disintegrator Ray]]. There's a closeup shot of him as his body glows a bright green, with the skeleton showing through the glow, before the whole thing fades away and the unlucky victim vanishes into nothingness.

* In the 1953 adaptation of ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' a soldier is hit by the Martians' [[Disintegrator Ray]]. There's a closeup shot of him as his body glows a bright green, with the skeleton showing through the glow, before the whole thing fades away and the unlucky victim vanishes into nothingness.

* During a battle in ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', Crash and the Boys catch the business end of a [[Kill It with Fire|fireball]] launched by [[Bollywood|Matthew Patel]] and his backup singing Demon Hipster Chicks as he sings "[[Villain Song|Slick]]".

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=== Western Animation ===

* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Baxter Stockman was was placed in a disintegration chamber by Krang [[You Have Failed Me|after one failure too many.]] A fly entered the chamber with him, and after a brief X-Ray spark Stockman was transformed into a giant mutant fly. This instance provided plenty of Nightmare Fuel; Baxter Stockman was pleading frantically for his life before and after being thrown in, and his screaming skeleton during the X-Ray spark was truly horrifying.

* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Baxter Stockman was was placed in a disintegration chamber by Krang [[You Have Failed Me...|after one failure too many.]] A fly entered the chamber with him, and after a brief X-Ray spark Stockman was transformed into a giant mutant fly. This instance provided plenty of Nightmare Fuel; Baxter Stockman was pleading frantically for his life before and after being thrown in, and his screaming skeleton during the X-Ray spark was truly horrifying.

* [[The Simpsons (animation)|"Extremely high voltage? Well, I don't need safety gloves 'cause I'm Homer Simp-"]] [[Killed Mid-Sentence|(he touches the wires and is electrocuted)]]