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Pre-Explosion Glow

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Since Power Glows, everything emits light before it blows up, often in brilliant beams that work their way out of cracks in the surface of the doomed object. Often the object bulges like a balloon being squeezed before finally blowing to pieces.
In one distinctive variant it meets the Pillar of Light in a "lighthouse meltdown" effect. Series of beams or lines of light spring out from the object, either from obvious locations, such as the eyes/mouth/other orifices for a creature, or they can simply shine randomly through the surface before it all gives up, often appear one at a time in rapid succession. The actual explosion may take the form of a giant burst of light.
This is one way to depict exploding planets, usually by having lines of light crawl across the surface before the Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
May also cause a Pillar of Light. May occur before a Post-Defeat Explosion Chain. A Sub-Trope of Power Glows. Compare, contrast Disappears into Light.
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In The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, this happens with radioactive cucumbers. The author says he was inspired by the description of a scientist attempting to extract sunlight from cucumbers in Gulliver's Travels.
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Demon City Shinjuku. In the 1988 OVA, this happens to the Big Bad Levih Rah after Kyouya Izayoi cuts him in half with a Nempo energy strike and before he explodes.
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Wonder Woman (1987): Shortly after Circe diagnoses that the White Magician's new magic is going to kill him the White Magician starts glowing from his throat and innards and manages to shout NOO! before going up in an explosive but very localized bit of pyrotechnics and leaving only a scorch mark and pile of ashes behind.
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Star Fox 64: At least one boss goes bye-bye this way. The creature on Solar gets an especially spectacular version, culminating in a Pillar of Light replacing its head before it explodes.
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Samurai Jack episode 23. This happens to Demongo after Jack releases the spirits trapped inside him, leaving him a burned out husk.
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Disgaea: With the sheer amount of Stuff Blowing Up in the series, it's only natural that some of the explosions include this. Examples include Kurtis' Solidus Arm in Disgaea 3, and the God Scraper axe skill in Disgaea 4.
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Bleach
Anime episode 215. A trio of hollows is pursuing a young female Plus. One of them starts expanding, rays of light burst out of it and it explodes in a cloud of dust.
Anime episode 267. When Chad and Renji defeat the giant sand-based hollow, it emits beams of light before dying.
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Chzo Mythos, in 6 days a sacrifice when the bomb is going off in the underground complex, you first see rays of light breaking through the ground before the explosion erupts.
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: In "Molly vs. The Ghost World", this happens to the Chairman before he gets destroyed by Molly's joy-inducing touch.
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Agent Smith goes out this way twice, at the end of both The Matrix and The Matrix Revolutions.
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Ted Sprague, the radioactive man from Heroes as well as Peter (illustrated atop the page) and Sylar after they both gain Ted's power.
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When Mr. Fujisawa is dogpiled by Bugrom in the first episode of El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, the pile emits a Pre-Explosion Glow before he bursts out of it.
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Virtually anything touched by or in general proximity of Kei or Yuri in Dirty Pair.
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Beauty and the Beast: The Beast gets all kinds of Pre-Explosion Glow when turning back into a human.
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In an episode of Animaniacs entitled "Sir Yaksalot", when their fake comedy club explodes. It could be because TMS Entertainment animated this episode.
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Happens with some monsters in Power Rangers on occasion.
Examples from the Mighty Morphin era include Cyclopsis when it's destroyed the second time and Rito Revolto after getting his bony butt kicked by the Ninja Megafalconzord. He lived (although his Super Sentai counterpart did not).
Every monster in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder flashes green just before going kaboom for good.
MMPR season one monsters often got an epic lights show after getting hit by the Finishing Move but before going kaboom.
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Final Fantasy VII. Sephiroth undergoes a variation: After the unlosable final battle against him in Cloud's mind, Sephiroth emits a glow and then dissipates into the Life Stream.
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Examples from the Mighty Morphin era include Cyclopsis when it's destroyed the second time and Rito Revolto after getting his bony butt kicked by the Ninja Megafalconzord. He lived (although his Super Sentai counterpart did not).
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The second Death Star in Return of the Jedi flashes lights, minor explosions and gouts of flame all over before it blows up.
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Mazinger Z: When the titular Humongous Mecha hits an enemy with its Eye Beams, the Robeast uses to glow before exploding (although sometimes it disintegrates).
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It's been said no Slayers series or movie can truly begin before Lina's nearly disintegrated a building of some kind with her trademark Fireball spell (actually, every series begins with her blowing something up with her trademark nuke-level Dragon Slave spell). And that's not including the countless times it'll happen after that.
Heh, well, Slayers Revolution (4th season) is kicked off with someone ELSE blowing something up with the Dragon Slave, which seriously pisses Lina off and causes her to complain about it for an episode and a half.
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): This happens to Bunny near the end of "Twisted Sister" when she is about to explode due to her instability.
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Mortal Kombat: Shao Kahn gives off a bright glow before exploding when fought as the Final Boss in Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat 9.
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Smallville: When Bizarro explodes.
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This happens in Avatar: The Last Airbender and its Sequel Series The Legend of Korra whenever Combustionbending appears.
There are also specific instances where Sokka makes Combustion Man explode, and P´li blows up herself thanks to Suyin.
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The witches from Hocus Pocus after being touched by sunlight.
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The Legend of Zelda:
The Armos in the 3D titles. After being exploded/receiving an arrow in the back or being fed with bombs/hit enough in the back, they start hopping around madly and eventually explode, glowing in-between.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Played for laughs. Once Link uses all the goddess pearls, the three statues he placed them in give off a glow and explode, revealing the inner statues. Link sees the last statue as it begins glowing and runs away to avoid the imminent blast. Nothing happens. He gets back up to see what's going on... and the statue explodes, sending him flying.
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Bayonetta: Defeated enemies freeze in place, glow brilliantly and then explode into bloody chunks.
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In The Flash episode "Plastique", things touched by the eponymous metahuman glow before turning into explosives. This include Plastique herself when she is killed and her power goes awry. Flash has to relocate her at sea (by running on the water) and to get away fast, because the ensuing ka-boom is huge.
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Happens to Carrigan in Casper due to having loads of unfinished business.
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Super Mario Bros.:
Super Mario Galaxy: At the end of the game, Bowser's Galaxy Reactor emits beams before exploding.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Piranha Plants blocking the path on the map will glow, emitting rays when they're about to explode, opening up a path.
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The seismic charges in Attack of the Clones might count, although it's more of a pre-shockwave glow.
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Sonic Adventure: The E-Series robots that E-102 Gamma fights as bosses have Pillars of Light jutting from their bodies in the moments before they explode.
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Darker than Black has Maki's hand prints glowing a split second between the activation of his power and explosion. Which gives very fast people just enough of warning to take cover.
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Justified in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, as the explosive was slowed in a time-warping field.
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Stone-Like in Radiant Silvergun will glow, emitting rays every time it explodes. It survives every explosion.
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My Hero Academia: Bakugo's Quirk has a tell-tale in that his hands glow orange/yellow whenever he's charging up an explosion.
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Played for laughs. Once Link uses all the goddess pearls, the three statues he placed them in give off a glow and explode, revealing the inner statues. Link sees the last statue as it begins glowing and runs away to avoid the imminent blast. Nothing happens. He gets back up to see what's going on... and the statue explodes, sending him flying.
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The death of Tom Riddle's memory in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, though it's less "light escaping from cracks" and more "big glowy wounds before disappearing in a flash of light".
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In the '90s X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon, whatever object Cable shot would glow like this before it exploded. Probably to give anyone enough time to escape before it exploded. Naturally, no person ever took a direct hit from this weapon.
Gambit's cards, by the nature of his power, had the same deal- glow for a few seconds then blow up.
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Colony Wars: Destroyed capital ships in the original game exhibit this, with pure white light spilling out of giant cracks in the hull right before the explosion blanks out the entire screen with white. Later games in the series toned this down a bit.
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Every monster in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder flashes green just before going kaboom for good.
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Minecraft:
Creepers and TNT blocks both glow slightly when they prime themselves to explode.
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree:
The sprinkles that Pinkie Pie infuse with energy briefly glow pink before exploding.
In Twilight's mindscape, as she is getting the upper hand over Midnight Sparkle, the wings that have sprouted from her back begin to fissure, then light pours from between the cracks before they blow up.
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Doctor Who: Nearly all of the Doctor's regenerations involve him glowing, but a few in particular qualify for this:
"The End of Time": When the Tenth Doctor starts regenerating, possibly as a result of the radiation and holding it in for days, it destroys the console room.
"The Time of the Doctor": The Eleventh Doctor, upon getting a new regeneration cycle, ends up outright exploding with enough force to blow the top off the clock tower he was standing on, send a shockwave for kilometres in all directions, and completely obliterate a Dalek mothership.
"Twice Upon a Time": The Twelfth Doctor's regeneration looks like lightning that damages the console room. The damage doesn't seem too bad until Thirteen presses a button, upon which the entire console room explodes, and she ends up getting thrown out of the TARDIS.
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Super Mario Galaxy: At the end of the game, Bowser's Galaxy Reactor emits beams before exploding.
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In an episode of Yakitate!! Japan, Mokoyama tests one of his bread creations by forcing it down a subordinate's throat. Beams of light shoot out of his eyes and ears before the scene cuts to the exterior of the bakery as he shouts "DELICIOUS!"
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Gradius: Gradius V's stage bosses create a bright orange glow as most of them are peppered with smaller explosions until they blow up like the Butsutekkai from Treasure's previous Shoot-Em-Up, Ikaruga. Also like Ikaruga, the boss explosions not only slow down the game for dramatic effect, the bosses' outlines are visible until the animation ends. Still looks pretty awesome nonetheless.
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R-Type: Hitting certain enemy ships in R-Type Delta with a Charged Attack causes their midsection to glow for a moment before they are torn in half by the explosion.
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Spore: This happens when you delete a saved game, since each save is represented as a planet.
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Voltorb and Electrode in the Pokémon: The Series anime have an almost evolution-like glow before using Self Destruct or Explosion.
Also seen in Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon when Pikachu sets off a large amount of dynamite.
This, however, has nothing on when it wrecked the Viridian City Pokémon center in the second episode.
This actually occurs almost ANY time Team Rocket's Meowth balloon explodes, or if it's one of their other huge robots (like the ArboTank) or whenever any building blows up.
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In the end of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Freddy explodes in a swirling beam of light. Before he does, circles of light emanate from his skin. A cross of light even forms on his forehead.
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Spike in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series finale before he blows up Sunnydale with his soul.
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Piranha Plants blocking the path on the map will glow, emitting rays when they're about to explode, opening up a path.
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Guns of Icarus Online: The sides of your screen glow red when your ship is at severe risk of being destroyed. The eventual explosion is marked by the entire screen rapidly turning red, then white.
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Destroyed Strains in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry.
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Whenever a Gundam self-destructs in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (and it happens more than you'd expect), it lights up like a Christmas tree first.
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Amphibia: In "Froggy Little Christmas" when Anne destroys the giant Santa bot and the prototype drone controlling it with her family's float tree, its lasers are misfired upwards into the sky like Hollywood spotlights.
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Dragon Ball Z has a number of these with almost all of the main characters.
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Mega Man: Most bosses from Mega Man X4 onwards, as well every boss in the Mega Man Zero and ZX series. ZX ups the bar by having the screen go dark except for the exploding robots.
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Babylon 5: The destruction of Earth Force One.
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The hangar-sized bomb in Sunshine.
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The Little Mermaid (1989): As King Triton decimates Ariel's secret grotto with energy from his trident, this occurs when he fires at Prince Eric's statue as a finishing blow.
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