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The application of high voltages to animated flesh and bone renders the former translucent and the latter luminescent, allowing the skeleton to be seen in the style of a classic X-ray for as long as the current flows. Despite the impressive light show, the victim will usually then still be alive, if a bit singed and shocked.
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=== Live-Action TV ===
* Notoriously used in the [[Made for TV Movie]] ''[[The Day After]]'' to show those closest to Ground Zero being vaporized. Not only is this appropriate, it's actually [[Truth in Television|pretty close to accurate]]
** The effects themselves were realistic, but the special effects department's choice of photographs on which to create the effects made less sense. A few seconds earlier, Kansas City was a scene of panic and rioting; the people shown being vaporized are enjoying a day by the riverside, at weddings, in schools, in bars and coffee shops, etc. Some of the photos used in the vaporization scenes are actually stills from earlier in the movie.
* ''Super Nova'', the second ''[[Lexx]]'' TV movie, shows Giggerota's skeleton briefly, because the super nova's shockwave dissolved her flesh and clothing a fraction of a second before her bones. It probably wouldn't happen like that in real life, but [[Rule of Cool|it looked cool enough that it was used in every version of the show's opening credits]].
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