This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
From YKTTW Working Title: Deadly Fireworks Display
Madrugada: Is this simply The Same But More of Technicolor Death, though? I don't think so. That is specifically "the death causes the light show" and explicitly rules out lightshows that are not a direct part of the death. This includes lightshows that accompany but were not caused by the death. Most of the examples are of deaths where the lightshow accompanies a supernatural entity that causes the death. Where do we put those? If anything, this is the supertrope, not the subtrope. Don't cut.
Animeg- You have the point, but the name is terrible.
Paradoxic Title: I think we should cut this. It's redundant, badly written (avoid Example as a Thesis unless you're a masterful writer), only links to a few articles, and is far too specific. The description says:
- Subtrope of Technicolor Death, the key difference being that the death is always flashier than most Technicolor deaths really are. (For example, the Wicked Witch of the West would count as a Technicolor death, but it's not flashy enough to count as a deadly fireworks display.) For the version of this trope that shows a more pleasant end, see Disappears Into Light. //
- So the Final Battle is finally over. The Big Bad, a powerful personification from hell and/or an homicidal robot from the future, has been struck a lethal blow and is now done for. How does Hollywood celebrate this climactic moment? Easy, by having the defeated foe die in a spectacular fashion, with lots of special effects and unusual things happening to him, such as explosions, flashes, gradual disintegration, things melting, etc. Note that this is not just dying in a flashy way, this is when the flashiness comes from the death itself. For instance, a character dying by having a bomb inside him explode is not this trope, as the explosion comes from the bomb and not from the character's death.//
See? That renders this trope completely redundant.
Madrugada: No it doesn't. You just quoted the difference yourself. Technicolor Death specifies this:
"Note that this is not just dying in a flashy way, this is when the flashiness comes from the death itself. For instance, a character dying by having a bomb inside him explode is not this trope, as the explosion comes from the bomb and not from the character's death.".
This is a flashy display accompanying the death but not caused by it.
