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"Pop!" Goes the Human
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This is when Inflating Body Gag or Balloon Belly is taken to its logical conclusion. Fill a living organism or some random body part with enough food, water, air, etc. and it will eventually burst. Of course, when this is applied to Death by Gluttony, it's usually Played for Laughs. There is little actual Truth in Television to this, as, while the skin can indeed rupture, it wouldn't do so drastically in most cases. Even barring that, the internal organs you are filling (stomach, lungs, nasal area) would rupture long before the skin itself. Yet in fiction, the rupture is simply measured by the body exploding. Can sometimes be Nausea Fuel, though in lighter works, the lack of blood and gore may counter this somewhat. Sometimes the body just pops and disappears, though sometimes, the exploding body will shoot the contents it was filled with everywhere, with the actual body parts not showing up. Sometimes the character's explosion is caused by an outside force such as a sharp object. In many cases, the character often regenerates shortly after exploding. Largely a Discredited Trope, as it was mostly born from an Urban Legend that eating too much would make a person explode, then evolved to other forms of humans popping from overfilling. However, it is still sometimes used in works that are not going for realism, and is a timeless favourite as a Scare 'Em Straight cautionary tale against Gluttony. Also favored in comedy, for the logical reason that it mixes Stuff Blowing Up with Vulgar Humor. See also The Last Straw, Explosive Decompression. Not to be confused with Action Bomb (although there are rare cases of overlap), where people pop more like firecrackers than balloons, and on purpose. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, after defeating Zant, Midna angrily uses the power of the Fused Shadows to impale him with several twilit tendrils that cause him to rapidly swell up and explode. Much to her own horror, especially since she was only using a fraction of their power. | |
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In one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a woman kills a man by stabbing him with a dive knife that can inject a blast of compressed gas through the blade. The results aren't pretty. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child has a combination of this and Auto Cannibalism. | |
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Viva Piñata has Dr. Quackberry blow up in "Party Parasite". The nature of everyone in the setting means he's just fine as only a head, though. | |
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Occurs in the Black Paradox chapter, The Strange Tale of the Pylorus by horror writer Junji Ito. In the story, a man named Piitan's stomach becomes a gateway to the afterlife (The Japanese word for Pylorus translates into "Spirit Door"), causing him to vomit up stones that are the souls of the deceased. He eventually ends up with more "Soul Stones" in his stomach than he can barf up, which causes him to swell up and then explode. It's definitely not played for laughs. | |
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Similarly, an episode of Mad TV spoofed on Oprah. In the sketch, she was depicted as hugely fat, but hid it with some magic cameras. When she discovered that she was being filmed with the wrong camera, she goes berserk and starts to swell, then explodes all over the audience. | |
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Wario Land II has a boss (The Bubble King) like this. | |
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James Bond examples: Dr. Kananga in Live and Let Die dies this way after Bond forces him to swallow a compressed-gas cartridge, meant for killing sharks. It is notably unrealistic in that he literally swells up like a balloon, rises to the occasion and pops, with no blood, guts, or even skin left over. Definitely a contender for the silliest death in the whole franchise. A considerably more realistic (and gory) version happens to Milton Krest in Licence to Kill when his furious boss induces Explosive Decompression on his body. |
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Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: The first execution ends with the blackened consuming drugs resulting in immediate body swelling, followed by violently exploding, the witnesses only being prevented from becoming Blood-Splattered Innocents by a glass barrier. | |
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MythBusters tested the "Little Mikey's stomach ruptured from a mixture of Pop Rocks and soda" myth. It failed. It turns out it's pretty much impossible for the digestive tract to overinflate thanks to the large orifices at either end specifically designed for releasing gas. When the ends were tightly sealed off, they actually did get their stomach model to pop, but doing that to a human would kill them from suffocation long before any explosion happened. | |
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Wario Land: Wario Land II has a boss (The Bubble King) like this. You have to defeat a certain boss in Wario Land 3 by pumping him full of air until he explodes. |
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77p egg: Eggwife have the first boss, the overweight Pissco CEO whose sole attack is vomiting projectiles all over the place. When finished off, his entire body bursts like a balloon filled with... disgusting stuff. | |
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In Totally Spies!, this was the plan for two villains, both of which involved addictive sweets. One was a cookie factory owner who made her cookies so addictive, they threatened to make anyone who eats too much explode. The other used protein bars that made the consumer's muscles grow until they explode. | |
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Kenshiro of Fist of the North Star is very capable of doing this to his enemies, particularly when he uses the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken. Say it with us now: "Omae wa mou shindeiru." | |
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Killing Floor 2: The Firebug's Microwave Gun, rather than lighting enemies on fire, instead causes them to inflate and then explode. | |
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Dragon Ball: Played for Drama in Dragon Ball Z. This is one of Super Buu's first and most brutal ways of killing someone; he liquefied himself and flowed into a man's mouth until he burst. This is also how Krillin dies at the hands of Frieza during the Namek saga. Again, it's Played for Drama, though Frieza primarily uses his power to do it, and Krillin doesn't last too long, only managing to get out Goku's name before exploding. |
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A TV commercial for the SNES game Yoshi's Island homaged the famous Mr. Creosote sketch by depicting a man gorging himself at a restaurant until messily bursting, splattering patrons with the contents of his stomach. It didn't take long for a shortened version to start airing that cut most of this out. | |
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Dusty Revenge has toad and frog-people as enemies, whose main attacks are by regurgitating bombs from their Stomach of Holding and spitting them at you. Time your hits right though and you'll trigger the bombs, causing those enemies to comically inflate before bursting. | |
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An animal example happens in Ralph Breaks the Internet when Ralph and Vanellope find their way into a mobile game called Pancake Milkshake in which the player feeds pancakes to a bunny and milkshakes to a kitten. When Vanellope fetches all the pancakes out of the back room and Ralph feeds them all to the bunny, this is the end result, much to the horrified surprise of the little girl playing the game on her tablet. | |
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In the music video for Bubble Butt the dancer who is suspended on aerial silks meets this fate. While she's dancing, her butt starts to swell and she suddenly explodes ass-first, raining down as confetti on the other dancers, who keep partying as if nothing is wrong. | |
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In the Metal Slug series from 2 onwards, player characters suffer this when killed while in Fat mode. | |
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Technically not a human (he's a halfling) but in Overlord, when you defeat Melvin Underbelly, he does just this at 2:25. | |
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One of the more inventive deaths in Leprechaun 3 has a woman's breasts, bottom and lips swell until she explodes. | |
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Jitsu Squad have the villain, Lord Origami, inflating and exploding a henchman by pumping his body up like a balloon before exploding the guy, in a move ripped from Mortal Kombat. The cutscene where he does this even announces "CARTOONALITY!" to enforce the reference! | |
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A villain in Space Adventure Cobra has the power to inflate people who have eaten weird fruits of his until they explode. After demonstrating on one of the young women in his harem, he attempts to do it to Cobra, but he manages to give him a taste of his medicine beforehand. | |
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At the end of Ready or Not (2019), the surviving members of the Le Domas family — kids included — all get turned into Ludicrous Gibs by Mr. Le Bail after they had failed to sacrifice Grace. Alex, Grace's new husband, is saved for last, just long enough for Grace to tell him that she wants a divorce before he explodes all over her. | |
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In the months leading up to the release of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, one of the popular joke theories circulated online was that Ant-Man would kill Thanos by shrinking to microscopic size, going through his anus, then expanding back to regular size.note The Watsonian explanation for why this didn't happen, according to the Russo brothers is that Thanos' physiology is super-durable, and Ant-Man would have been crushed if he'd tried it. The Doylist explanation should hopefully be obvious. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day: A quest has Conker getting rid of a mouse by feeding it cheese three times. After the third time, the mouse becomes so gassy he inflates and explodes. | |
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Entering a certain code incorrectly in the earlier Tomb Raider games would cause Lara to explode. | |
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In the 2013 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stage musical, unlike other adaptations, Violet doesn't make it to the juicing room in time and winds up exploding off-stage, showering purple glitter onto the balconies. | |
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Portrait In Crystal has more than one unfortunate human inflating and exploding after having their qi overcharged to excessive levels, with very bloody and graphic results. | |
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Mortal Kombat: Kitana's Kiss Of Death fatality has this effect on whoever it's used on. Kabal's Balloon Head fatality in Mortal Kombat 3. In Mortal Kombat: Deception, Bo Rai Cho commits Hara Kiri in this manner. Rain's first fatality from Mortal Kombat 9 does this by forcing the opponent to drink water until they explode. |
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Kabal's Balloon Head fatality in Mortal Kombat 3. | |
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Rain's first fatality from Mortal Kombat 9 does this by forcing the opponent to drink water until they explode. | |
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The secondary function of the Microwave Pulse Gun in Soldier of Fortune does this to enemies, and may have been inspired by Duke Nukem 3D's Expander. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: At the end of one episode's transmission, Stimpy blows himself up as if he were a balloon, and pops over Ren, partially covering Ren with his ruptured body. A downplayed example happens in the episode Son of Stimpy. In an attempt to prove that Stinky is real, Stimpy tries to fart for Ren. However, after the strain of trying to fart becomes too much, Stimpy's ass cheeks burst and deflate like a pair of balloons. |
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The Main Character from Tribal Hunter, Munch, suffers this when he either over inflates/feeds himself, or gets hit with a piercing attack when nearing max fullness. Diminished as Munch is a spirit inhabiting a doll, so all that's left is a busted doll as the spirit flies off to find a new one. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, after defeating Zant, Midna angrily uses the power of the Fused Shadows to impale him with several twilit tendrils that cause him to rapidly swell up and explode. Much to her own horror, especially since she was only using a fraction of their power. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: The second boss Fraaz has this happen to it upon its defeat having lost control of its self-inflation superpower. |
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Happened in the original version and the remake of Brazilian soap Saramandaia, which was a Fantasy Kitchen Sink (the author had one or more serious work censored by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985, so he deliberatedly wrote an all-fantastic soap as a veiled protest). Dona Redonda (literal translation: Ms. Round) was a well-known glutton woman. One day, she ate so much that she entered Balloon Belly mode and literally exploded. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED doles this out in horrifying fashion thanks to the Cyclops System superweapon, which emits a massive microwave field. The victims caught in its radius literally swell before bursting into bloody chunks... and Mobile Suits don't fare much better against it, malfunctioning until they explode. The GENESIS also is capable of doing this, and the results are just as frightening. | |
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Kaeloo: Happens to Mr. Cat in one episode when he swells up after having an allergic reaction. Happens to Stumpy in the Beach Episode. He incorrectly uses muscle-growth steroids, winds up getting inflated instead of getting muscular, and pops when trying to hit a volleyball. |
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In The Tin Woodman of Oz, the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow and Woot the Wanderer stumble upon a Wacky Wayside Tribe of balloon people called the Loons, who attempt to arrest the trio for trespassing on their town. They defeat the Loons by popping them with needles and leaving them as deflated bags of skin. | |
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Brenda (heeuurrrk) in Slither, after Grant turns her into a breeding factory for alien brain slugs. | |
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In Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe, Super Super Big Doctor's species of alien is shown to be prone to having this happen to the upper halves of their bodies if they get too excited (especially if they get free stuff), upon which they explode with a sound that sounds like someone shouting "CANDACE!!". Their missing upper halves regenerate good-as-new after a period of around 24 hours. | |
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A couple of these happened on 1000 Ways to Die: Happened to a carjacker in one segment when he tried to steal a truck. The boss of the driver shoved the jacker against the truck, and he accidentally wound up getting an air pump stuck in his ass. The pump blew him up like a balloon until he exploded. A female scuba diver who was recovering from the bends suffered this via explosive decompression when a clueless janitor opened the door to the pressurized chamber she was in order to clean it. |
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Bomberman, at least in most of its earlier installments, usually has the titular player character explode like a balloon popping as a recurring death animation. | |
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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky: This is the fate of victims shot by the corrupt warden's pellet gun. Exhibit A: The Hook-handed Assistant warden. | |
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In Angry Birds 2, the Pig Inflater spell will massively inflate several pigs in one stage. It doesn't pop them right away, but it can cause them to squeeze out of towers and platforms to fall and/or cause collapses. | |
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Kaiba. This is the fate of Parm after she copies her memories onto Kaiba's original body and uses it for sex. Towards the end, her body is shown drastically swelling as the pleasure overloads her body. She realizes too late what's about to happen before she explodes upon orgasm, splattering the walls with green blood. | |
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MatPat actually pondered this one on his Food Theory channel - at least as far as stomach goes, because as previously mentioned, you can't make a whole body explode just by filling it with food. He also listed several reasons why it's so uncommon for a stomach to burst even in the biggest gluttons. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, fairies can suffer what’s called “magical buildup� if they go too long without granting a wish for their godchild, which causes them to inflate until they explode into sentient piles of confetti and eyeballs. | |
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One of the weird ailments in Theme Hospital is "Bloaty Head", where the patient has a massive swollen head. The cure is to pop their head with a pin and re-inflate it. | |
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One of Bad Two Sentence Horror's most famous stories has Joel watching the Super Bowl, unaware he's about to explode into chunks of delicious meat in 3 minutes and 52 seconds. | |
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Sullivan's Sluggers: McKee is killed by George Malice when he's grabbed by one of Malice's tentacles. Malice then squeezes McKee until his body bursts. | |
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Paprika manages to wake the Chief up from his induced dream state by laying down on him, saying she's going to be "a little rough," sinking into his body and causing him to inflate to the size of a three story building until exploding with a blissful look on his face. | |
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Infinity Train: In the final episode of book 2, Agent Sieve meets his end by being zapped by Alan Dracula's Eye Beams, causing him to swell up and explode into a spray of chrome-colored goo. | |
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Any character or enemy in Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends inflate like balloons and pop when they die. It's as weird as it sounds. | |
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The inept 2003 horror film spoof Scream Bloody Murder has a girl killed by being tied to a chair and inflated to bursting with an airhose put down her throat. Her stupid friend, when finding her, can only goggle in horror instead of, you know, trying to remove the hose. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Just One Bite", SpongeBob warns Squidward not to eat so many Krabby Patties at one time. | |
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In one episode of In Living Color!, Oprah Winfrey eats so much during her show that she inflates, floats above the audience and explodes in a shower of food and confetti. | |
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Unsounded: The Silver soldier talking to Lemuel after Danila's death steps on a magical mine, which expands him before blowing him up. A couple of his teeth flying as shrapnel scar Lemuel's face. | |
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It's one of the methods of getting rid of enemies in Dig Dug, by inflating them with a pump until they pop. | |
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Happens to Captain K'nuckles in an episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, after he eats so much so he can fit into a pair of fancy pants. | |
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One CSI episode had a couple of guys who were out hunting. One gets the bright idea to try something with a device used to quickly detach skin from carcasses. He dies from blowing up and rupturing things inside. It’s a rare non-murder case for the crew. | |
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A kaiju-sized version of this trope; from the original Ultraman, the monster Skydon's fate have him being pumped full of helium, causing his body to inflate rapidly as it floats into the air. Ultraman then flies after the floating Skydon and tackles it, causing the monster to blow up. | |
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Aesop's Fables: In "The Frog and the Ox", the frog insists that he can be as big and awe-inspiring as the ox if he just tries hard enough. He inhales air to inflate himself larger and larger, until he explodes. | |
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In Episode 3 of What If…? (2021), this is how the Hulk dies. During his fight with the military at Culver University, he suddenly starts inflating to massive size before exploding in a giant green cloud. This leaves Betty Ross distraught, since she thought the Hulk couldn't die. Turns out this was caused by Hank Pym, the Yellowjacket, entering his bloodstream via his arm (which intially seemed to be a sniper shot from the military) and using a Pym Disk to make his heart grow exponentially, triggering the aforementioned explosion.note The resemblance to a less-vulgar version of the memetic Ant-Man/Thanos theory (found under Other below) may or may not be entirely coincidental | |
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Big Trouble in Little China. After David Lo Pan's death, Thunder inflates himself by inhaling and finally commits suicide by slicing himself open, causing a Ludicrous Gibs explosion of flesh. Body Horror indeed. | |
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Noita: Eating or drinking fills your stomach. At 100% fullness, you slow down. At 175% fullness, you take damage with further consumption. You explode and die at 200%. | |
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How you're supposed to beat the final boss in the Quake expansion pack Shrak. | |
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: One of the bosses is Mimmy, a strange little girl who Henry fights in a dream. After he defeats her, he stabs her in the back, which somehow causes her to inflate to enormous proportions until she explodes. It's bloodless, but as weird as it sounds. | |
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League of Legends: In the ARAM game mode, there are small, fluffy creatures called Poros meant to spice up the icy, bleak map—and instead of a vision trinket (like in the main game mode), the trinket item slot is reserved for Poro Snax that make a nearby Poro grow bigger and bigger when used. If you feed one of the Poros enough times, it explodes into a large number of smaller Poros. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: The second boss Fraaz has this happen to it upon its defeat having lost control of its self-inflation superpower. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: In the episode "Party Animal", Flaky becomes inflated like a balloon due to an allergic reaction to peanuts, unable to move. She eventually gets popped in the eye with a pin by the Mole, mistaking her for a donkey tail, causing her organs and quills to go flying, impaling the Mole. In “From Hero to Eternity�, Splendid performs mouth-to-mouth on Cuddles, but blows so much air into Cuddles that he explodes. |
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You have to defeat a certain boss in Wario Land 3 by pumping him full of air until he explodes. | |
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Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers: The eleventh issue has a flashback to Captain Victory's youth where he witnessed his grandfather Blackmass's minions execute King Zarid, the captured leader of a planet they conquered, by forcing him to ingest a compressed air pill, which causes him to inflate like a balloon and explode. | |
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In Metamorphic Force, enemies swell up and explode into goo when killed. | |
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Saints Row IV has a weapon called the Inflato Ray that can inflict this on any of the human or alien enemies. It doesn't affect machines though. | |
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Vanquish has this happen to several victims of the microwave beam attack during the intro. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow: In what was probably a Shout-Out to the Ant-Man/Thanos joke fan theory mentioned under "Other", The Atom took out Rasputin much the same way — although he went in through his mouth. As an "Encore", Rasputin was technically already dead and thus couldn't be killed, but he could be reduced to bloody gunk — which, while still conscious, couldn't actually do anything to harm anyone. | |
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Arcane beams in Magicka, much like Duke Nukem above. | |
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A non-lethal version of this trope is used as the core concept of Kablamus, a villain from The Mask. | |
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The 51st State has a spectacularly gory version; a brilliant chemist expected to need to kill someone at an upcoming drug deal, so he mixes a cocktail that is stable at room temperature but will explode at about 98.6 degrees. The guy who drinks it basically performs the Mr. Bean "dynamite painting" gag with his guts. | |
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In Mortal Kombat: Deception, Bo Rai Cho commits Hara Kiri in this manner. | |
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The Microwave Expander in Duke Nukem 3D turns the target into a bomb with the killing shot, damage and all. | |
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Marlena in Cloverfield dies this way after getting bitten by one of the "fleas" that came off the Clover monster. Her death plays out in silouette, as she's pulled behind a screen just before she pops, but even the obscured view is pretty horrifying. | |
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Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory anticipates this will happen to him as the result of gassy buildup from eating a burrito, and spends the episode settling his affairs. Ultimately subverted when he attempts to do the last thing on his list, telling his parents about his laboratory, and as he's about to tell them, he lets out such a huge fart, that he blows the tv through the wall. | |
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Pigs Is Pigs features the cute, tiny, but unrepentantly gluttonous young piglet named Piggy, and he dreams he's been captured by a mad scientist who force feeds him for an entire day. When it's all over, he can barely walk or even speak, and just as he's about to escape, he can't resist more food. Once he takes a big bite, he explodes into several bloodless chunks before waking up. | |
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