History MadeOfExplodium / VideoGames

** '''Beds''' of all things explode if not used in the Overworld. It's because you can only sleep at night and there's no night in, say, The End.

* In any ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''' game, whenever a Mobile Suit or Mobile Armor has been shot enough, it blows up, even if you would normally only expect an arm to fall off or a leg to be severely damaged.

* Many things in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}} 2'' explode when you hit them with a knife or ''throw a person at them''

* In the shooting gallery level in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: World at War'', shooting at the bridge of enemy merchant vessels will cause them to blow up just as spectacularily as the fuel tanks on the deck. In the tank level, shooting through the firing slits of bunkers several will cause them to blow up, though there is no evidence of anything explosive stashed inside.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3'', if you break any of the glass parts of the Hydrocon machine with a stray bullet, it will go up in a Level-Shattering Kaboom, killing everything in the area, including you. Unless you are in GodMode, in which case you can [[GameBreaker obtain the BFG early]].

* Any enemy that explodes in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' sucks except the smiling orbs (but those are still pretty bad). They all hurt when you fight them, so you can either kill them last and have them hurt your party, or kill them first and suffer the explosion. The worst offender is the robots that heal HP. So now you really have to decide which one to kill first.

* All three ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' games feature [[ActionBomb exploding enemies]] -- mostly robots, but then you get to the trees. Yes, you read that correctly. ''Exploding trees.'' The worst offenders are the Territorial Oaks found in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'''s Peaceful Rest Valley, which appear remarkably similar to the other trees in the landscape (aside from the fact that they're, well, ''moving'').

** there are some specific units designed to detonate as a means of attack, most of them in the GLA. Also in Zero Hour General Jaziz of the GLA lives this trope as almost every one of his units and structures can be rigged to explode.

** If you throw a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Prinny]], they explode. Any prinnys caught in the explosion also explode.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]'':

* A gag in ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' has a wooden catapult exploding in a huge fireball when it goes over cliff.

** The 200-year-old decaying cars littering the landscape do not merely explode when hit by enough stray (or deliberate) fire. Oh no. They go up in a massive mushroom cloud that shakes the scenery, which not only destroys everything nearby but ''irradiates the area'' for a short while afterwords. [[{{Zeerust}} Presumably, cars just before the apocalyptic war were nuclear-powered]].
** Reading the game's back-story, you'll find that this is explained in the "alternate history" of the game world. Nuclear technology was much more common and advanced in the game world. Also, the Earth's petroleum resources were exhausted a decade before the Nuclear War. And finally, it can be assumed that sitting around for two centuries in an irradiated hellscape does no favors to the cars' safety measures.
** Try having a firefight in a crowded parking lot. Or not, because it'll last about 10 seconds until everyone is dead. One has to wonder what a car wreck on a crowded highway was like in Fallout world.

** You can do this to infantry too if the Grunt Birthday Party skull is active. In ''Halo 2'', EVERY enemy explodes with the force of a Plasma Grenade when killed with a headshot. From ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' onward, headshotting Grunts will cause an explosion of confetti to come out of their heads, accompanied by sound of children cheering YAY! In ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', you can even equip it to your multiplayer character (headshots are not needed however).

* In ''I of the Dragon'', if a town's main building is reduced to zero HP, the town explodes -- which won't harm you at all, but will slay any enemy nearby and even give you the EXP for their deaths! As a result, attacking the very towns you're supposed to protect can be one of the better ways to level up.

** Starting in the second game and in most titles thereafter, the BalefulPolymorph weapon can turn enemies into animals that explode once upgraded.

* In ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'''s first level, you encounter some technicals with machine guns. When you kill the gunner - not even touching the vehicle proper, thus disqualifying this from EveryCarIsAPinto - the vehicle promptly explodes for no reason.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Chapter 2 makes a RunningGag out of things associated with Queen exploding for no reason, always accompanied by the same explosion sound and a badly-compressed GIF of an explosion. These inclue an arcade game she plays with Kris, her "extra-dangerous" drinking glass, the keys to the doors in her palace, and her car (which she orders everyone out of right before it explodes for no reason, just because she was worried it hadn't exploded ''yet'').

** When guns manufactured by Tediore are reloaded, the user throws them forward dealing damage proportionate to how much ammo was left in the clip, after which the user has a new gun digistructed for them.

** In [[http://poke646.com/ Poke646,]] a ''Half-Life'' mod, some completely random things explode for absolutely no reason at all, not even being shot. Ladders, microwaves, and even masonry explode when you approach them. It kinda makes you wonder how stringent the building codes are in Nation City.

* A not-particularly-well-known game called ''[[VideoGame/BigMuthaTruckers]]'' includes a side mission where you must haul a tanker filled with a sensitive, volatile chemical from one location to another within a time limit, on threat of a massive explosion. The guy riding shotgun with you while you make the delivery literally calls the chemical "Explodium".

* A not-particularly-well-known game called ''Big Mutha Truckers'' includes a side mission where you must haul a tanker filled with a sensitive, volatile chemical from one location to another within a time limit, on threat of a massive explosion. The guy riding shotgun with you while you make the delivery literally calls the chemical "Explodium".

* ''VideoGame/DejaVu II'': Giving a lit match to a bum will ignite the alcohol in his bloodstream, causing a huge-ass explosion that shatters all windows within a ten-block radius and causes you, him, and your friend Gabby to die.

* ''Videogame/HardspaceShipbreaker:'' Admittedly, you ''are'' working with a strong heat gun designed to melt metallic beams when sustained, but it's still a little ridiculous how quickly a casual glancing brush against a fuel or coolant pipe can set the whole thing off, set you on fire, and more importantly turn a whole chunk of the ship into worthless scrap. A little more ridiculously, hydroponics cabinets, meaning machinery made to ''grow plants'', are also pretty damned explosive. Depressurization and oxygen is a dangerous mixture.

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* If you ask for a villager to hunt a bird in [[VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresI Age of Empires 1]] it will simply do an harmless explosion.