History Main / LudicrousGibs

* Weapons like heavy machine guns, anti-material weapons, sniper rifles, medium and general-purpose machine guns, and some standard firearms can cause irreversible damage that one would never want to see close up. The Barrett .50 Caliber Anti-Material Sniper Rifles, DShK Heavy Machine Guns, M2 Browning Heavy Machine Guns, and standard Miniguns like the M134 Minigun won't leave much of you to recover, only to clean up.

* ''Aardman's Babylon'' (1986, 1/4 in the "Sweet Disaster" series) is a shockingly powerful short film which examines the fine line between war and peace, (particularly those profiting off war), climaxing to [[spoiler:an extremely gruesome shot of a wealthy businessman's stomach bursting open, with blood and guts flooding out]].

* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' - nearly all deaths, and even many non-fatal episodes... Which is saying something for an AnyoneCanDie series of nearly 400 chapters, with an in-panel body count in the thousands, literally (with multiple events in different arcs producing hundreds of mangled corpses in a matter of pages). With realistic 3D CG art, detailed anatomy, and common loss of limbs. Oh, and better yet, the author rarely splattered someone that "had it coming" - instead of cheering, the audience was more likely to be emotionally invested in or at least sympathizing with the newest crop of brutal deaths.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'' does this a few times. Most aggressively in "Phase-35: The Descending Sword" where people pop like balloons.

* Late in ''Manga/CorpsePrincess'', [[BigBad Hokuto]] punches someone so hard they turn into red mist and leave nothing but their kimono floating off in the wind. Noteworthy for being a case of "slapping into a red mist" not being hyperbole.

* Happens constantly in the manga adaptation of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', usually but not always by the fist of the titular character. The sheer power on display means that people and monsters die in absurd and excessive ways, often leaving body parts scattered across the page. One person is even turned inside out by a single punch [[TorsoWithAView that leaves a four-foot-wide hole in their chest]], and one BigBad even uses this when he literally {{heal|ingFactor}}s [[PullingThemselvesTogether completely]] from being reduced to a bloody stain and an eye after being subjected to this trope [[spoiler:though it ultimately does him little good]].
** Probably the crowner was the fate of Mosquito Girl. [[spoiler:After she defeats Genos, she goes in to finish him but before she can, Saitama steps in and slaps her so hard that she ends up splattered up the side of a tower block. "Mosquitoes suck" indeed.]]

* In ''Literature/RebuildWorld'', Akira is forced to expend a huge number of [[AbnormalAmmo CWH rounds]] to survive a swarm of [[BigCreepyCrawlies Yataka Socrpions]] rushing at him through tunnels. The result is that the scorpions are more or less splattered across the walls and turned into unrecognizable mush. Hunter HQ is unable to determine just how many he killed because of their bodies being mashed together by every OneHitPolykill, instead paying him based on approximation based on how long he was fighting.
** When Akira uses two assault rifles filled with armor-piercing rounds to ambush a fire team raiding Sheryl's relic shop, two of them end up like this and a third is BlownAcrossTheRoom, the leader Zelmo having used them as (not so bulletproof) human shields despite each having PoweredArmor.
** [[spoiler:When Akira ambushes part of TheRival Katsuya's BattleHarem, due to him using expensive rounds, that team gets reduced to this.]]
** Old World ArtificialIntelligence androids can reduce a soldier to this with a wave of their arm as a TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': The usual result when Tomura Shigaraki uses his [[TouchOfDeath Decay]] [[MakeThemRot Quirk]] on living beings is a few pieces on a pool of blood. [[spoiler:His dog, sister, parents and grandparents ended up being his first victims as a result of his TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening from [[AbusiveParents the abuse he endured due to his father]]]].
* The result of Suletta crushing an unfortunate terrorist to save Miorine and her father in the season finale of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'', complete with one of the man's arms flying right past Miorine.

* The deaths of [[spoiler:Lori]] and [[spoiler:Billy]] during the Prison Massacre in ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead''.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': "[[{{BFG}} Twelve-Point-Seven mm Dushka's just like our fifty cal.]] Really designed to be used on aircraft. You use it on people [at close range]-- [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtMPB-Qd9vs/VfnfZ4HhQBI/AAAAAAAADXI/6TvtLMyYZoA/s1600/punishermaxrussia7.jpg You turn them into]] '''''[[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BtMPB-Qd9vs/VfnfZ4HhQBI/AAAAAAAADXI/6TvtLMyYZoA/s1600/punishermaxrussia7.jpg paint]]'''''.

* In the ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' comics in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', the characters would sometimes explode without gore: just a big poof with their clothes flying everywhere. Once Peter Kuper took over the series in 1997, he generally tended to render the spies' wounds much more explicitly.

* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''. At one point, a human is dragged into a pit by a monster. For best results, bear in mind at this point that the human body contains about 5 litres of blood. Now watch as a ''geyser of blood'' blasts out of the pit.

-->'' So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.'' (2 Kings 9:32-33)
* The ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' novel ''Contact Harvest'' introduces the M99 Stanchion, a [[MagneticWeapons coilgun]] sniper rifle capable of inducing this trope on anyone it hits. Considering it fires a .21-cal round at 15 kilometers per second, the gory effects are realistic/expected.
* In the Creator/DaleBrown novels ''Fatal Terrain'' and ''Warrior Class'', an aircrewman is shredded by a fighter's cannon and a triple-A emplacement, both firing 23mm rounds, respectively. In ''Strike Force'', [[spoiler: Hal Briggs]], his MiniMecha already severely damaged by anti-tank missiles, is put down for good by 30mm cannon.
* In the last book of the third series of ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Hollyleaf falls in rage and shreds mouse to pieces, until all that remains of it is described as red pulp.
* In the Literature/PaladinOfShadows book ''Unto the Breach'', [[spoiler: Viktor Mahona]] takes a 12.7 round through his abdomen and much of his body simply disappears.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Mazrim Taim establishes the viability of male wizards, long shunned because [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity they're doomed to go insane]], with a single command: "''Asha'man'': kill." It's not described precisely what spell the ''Asha'man'' use, but when applied to the front rank of the attacking army, it causes its members to explode. And it can be applied to the succeeding ranks very, very quickly. The aftermath (described in the next book) goes on at some length about the burial of the victorious dead, in [[NotEnoughToBury clear contrast to the defeated]].
* Mack Maloney's ''Wingman'' series of pulp novels often included descriptions of what happens when the pilot of a plane (or an unfortunate soldier on the ground) is even ''clipped'' by a 20mm round from a Vulcan gun. Considering that [[AcePilot Hawk Hunter]] has [[MoreDakka six of them]] mounted on his F-16, they don't fare well.
* In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', the mysterious "Sorting Engine" in the basement turns out to be a device driven by a flywheel [[AlienGeometries with a pi equal to three]], thanks to the [[AchievementsInIgnorance incompetent genius]] of [[BunglingInventor "Bloody Stupid" Johnson]]. While letters can go through it unharmed, anything else that touches the wheel (like one unfortunate former Postmaster, and later on [[spoiler: an angry banshee assassin]]) is reduced to bloody chunks.
* In ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', death by steam engine turns people into red mist. Halfway plausible when applied to boiler explosions, a very real danger of the Steam Age, but not with a death that leaves the engine intact and might have involved a blast of live steam. (A horribly painful way to die, but not annihilating.)
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': During the Defense Against Dark Arts class, Snape shows what happens to victims of the Inferi and it's not pretty...unless you consider a bloody stain on the floor pretty. Notably, Inferi are just a type of aggressive magical zombie with broadly the same physical capabilities as a human being, meaning they don't accomplish this through strength, but through [[UnstoppableRage sheer enthusiasm]].
* When [[GodOfEvil Morgoth]] duels [[OurElvesAreDifferent King Fingolfin]] in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', he opens many "mighty pits" in the ground with [[CarryABigStick Grond]]. Later, he steps on the king's neck, and Fingolfin drives his sword through it, spraying blood everywhere and filling the pits. [[SatanicArchetype Morgoth]] was gigantic and survived this, but was permanently scarred. The amount of gore must have been enough to qualify for this trope, although Tolkien leaves it to the imagination. Whether they ever recovered any piece of Fingolfin, is unknown. While there was a funeral for him, they might just have buried his flag. This incident stands out in Tolkien's mythos because most character deaths are fairly clean. Swords and other medieval weaponry don't tend to cause giblets as often as modern weapons, and characters in Tolkien's stories don't tend to go for massive overkill.

* ''Literature/StarTrekFederation'': At one point the USS ''Enterprise''-D reroutes warp power to her structual integrity field, giving the hull a rigidity equivalent to the core of a neutron star, then proceeds to [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] the Romulan warbird that had been attacking her. While the ''Enterprise'' survives intact, the Romulan warbird is reduced to bits of debris no larger than a computer chip.
* ''Literature/AwakenOnline'' '''weaponizes''' this as one of the powers of the {{Necromancer}} class: the spell Corpse Explosion does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which causes a dead body to explode and damages players. [[VillainProtagonist Jason]] uses this to great effect [[DressingAsTheEnemy such as sending zombies into groups of enemies]] or [[AbnormalAmmo launching them into the air like hand grenades]].
* This is how the murder victim is found in ''Literature/MagicForLiars'': split vertically in two halves with all the blood in their body soaking the carpet. Similarly, medical operations are undertaken by expanding/disassembling the region, making edits, and then shrinking/reassembling all the parts; the text calls this process "exploding".
* ''Literature/{{Sunshine}}'': Rae's [[PowerOfTheSun affinity for sunlight]] effectively makes her a ManOfKryptonite to vampires as her magic reawakens, so much so that she makes a vampire burst in a shower of gore just by stabbing it with a table knife.

* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'' after [[spoiler:[[TheHero Bobby]] gets thrown off a building]].
--> '''Officer Lockstock:''' Shovel and a mop, Mr. Barrel. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday You know the drill]].

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''. Nearly every episode has one, if not several, extremely gory deaths. But that's the whole point of the show -- seeing the [[SubvertedKidsShow cute-looking cast]] of WoodlandCreatures get [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilariously and painfully]] [[BloodyHilarious slaught]][[KillTheCutie ered]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain again and again]] mercilessly.

** "Carnage vs. Lucy" has Lucy ripping Carnage to bloody shreds with her ''second'' move via her [[CombatTentacles Vectors]] (the first being to hold him in place when he first lunges at her). Thanks to Carnage's HealingFactor, he just laughs it off, even as she does it several more times throughout the fight. [[spoiler:Ultimately, she has to vaporize him with a [[StuffBlowingUp literally explosive]] punch to finish him and make sure there's nothing to regenerate ''from''.]]
** "Saitama vs. Popeye" has Saitama splatter Popeye with his first punch. Thanks to [[PowerupFood a nearby can of spinach]], Popeye walks it off [[spoiler: and eventually emerges victorious]].

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''s Belkar Bitterleaf turned his EvilCounterpart (well, [[SociopathicHero Good Counterpart]]) into a salsa dip ([[ChunkySalsaRule extra chunky]]) after getting a large number of adventurers to [[ZergRush gank him]]. Or at least, cut off his tail and stuck it into a jar of salsa. He also used said kobold's head as a chip bowl. The kobold in question is attempting to avenge his father, whose head ended up as Belkar's hat.
* [[spoiler:Rustallica]]'s decapitation-by-pineapple in ''Webcomic/SarahZero''.
* The Sacrifice comic on [=L4D.com=] features some incredibly over-the-top gibs.

--> '''Dewhurst:''' Well we must've been pointed right at the anomaly because right as we opened channel, the psyonic blowback took both of my espers out like ''that''.\\

'''Dewhurst:''' ''(yelling at somebody offscreen)'' Gavin! You're just spreading it around, you pillock! Did your mum never teach you how to use a mop?\\

* ''Webcomic/MetompsychosisUnion'': Killit's flashback to the last time they were freed includes memories of tearing through a bunch of scientistis, some of whom they made quite a bloody mess of.
* Webcomic/SchlockMercenary: Neeka, the Tough's newest surgeon. Adorable, very skilled, [[MeatgrinderSurgery very, very messy]]. [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-03-26 M'Conger gets a first-hand taste]], and then there's [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-03-28 her previous employers' references]]...
-->'''Tagon:''' Whaaa... she did that with knives? It looks like a bomb went off.\\
'''Chelle:''' Watch! She's going to reassemble all three of those guys, minus the fifty-seven bullets they had in them.
* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', a minor villain is shot in the shoulder; a few panels later, the projectile goes off, basically julienneing him [[GoryDiscretionShot off-panel]] and leaving Sydney drenched in blood and decorated with a chunk of his torso and an ear, among other things. Sydney compared it to blowing up a man-sized garbage bag filled with lasagna.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Knock destroys [[spoiler:Toby's]] reanimated body by slamming a lift door on top of it, flattening him and sending limbs and blood flying.

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* Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG: Rule 1867. Can't have a gun that reduces people to Rorschach tests.

* ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' actually manages to be ''worse'' than ''Film/TronLegacy'' in this regard, using the shattered voxels as a way of depicting scenes of brutality and murder that wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino flick in a ''Creator/{{Disney}}'' cartoon.

* In the season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod the Collector]] decides to take revenge on Belos for betraying them by flicking him into a wall with so much force that his BlobMonster form simply ''explodes'', reducing the BigBad of the past 2 seasons to a smear on the wall. Once the Collector starts having their fun with the isles, the kids have to ''run through Belos's splattered remains'' to reach the portal, and a glob of the stuff even drips onto Hunter's shoulder!]]
* Aardman's Babylon; (1986, 1/4 in the Sweet Disaster series) a shockingly powerful short film which examines the fine line between war and peace, (particularly those profiting off war) so in depth it climaxes to [[spoiler: an extremely gruesome shot of a wealthy businessman's stomach bursting open, with blood and guts flooding out.]]

** Luz is reduced to bloody chunks by her cousin Riley's Quirk in chapter 17 when she betrays her... luckily she uses her HealingFactor Quirks in a PullingThemselvesTogether move and becomes more angry than hurt. [[EvilMentor All For One]] recalls a NoodleIncident were something like this happened to him, which why he was the only one present that wasn't surprised that Luz survived.

''Fanfic/AllForLuz'':

* When [[GodOfEvil Morgoth]] duels [[OurElvesAreDifferent King Fingolfin]] in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', he opens many "mighty pits" in the ground with [[DropTheHammer Grond]]. Later, he steps on the king's neck, and Fingolfin drives his sword through it, spraying blood everywhere and filling the pits. [[SatanicArchetype Morgoth]] was gigantic and survived this, but was permanently scarred. The amount of gore must have been enough to qualify for this trope, although Tolkien leaves it to the imagination. Whether they ever recovered any piece of Fingolfin, is unknown. While there was a funeral for him, they might just have buried his flag. This incident stands out in Tolkien's mythos because most character deaths are fairly clean. Swords and other medieval weaponry don't tend to cause giblets as often as modern weapons, and characters in Tolkien's stories don't tend to go for massive overkill.

* During the infamous Byford Dolphin ExplosiveDecompression accident, the fourth diver practically exploded when the diving bell was opened accidentally. The pieces were then sucked out and ejected, with one piece landing atop the oil derrick some 30 feet above the accident site.

* Speaking of planes, when a passenger plane collides with terrain or water at a high rate of speed, its occupants will often be shredded by the impact forces. Take [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111 Swissair Flight 111]] for instance, which impacted the Atlantic Ocean at nearly 350 MPH. There were 229 people on the plane. Investigators recovered 15,000 separate body parts: 66 parts for every person on the plane. [[note]]Though it should be noted that not every body fragmented in the same way -- some were mostly intact except for a missing limb or head, while others were reduced to tiny chunks of flesh.[[/note]]

* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': Crawler can't be conventionally killed, so Atropos has to thoroughly blow him up.
--> When I poked my head up, my first impression was that there had been a whole lot of Crawler, and now he was ''everywhere''.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11373478/ Alea Iacta Est]]'': Purity's energy blasts can cut through buildings, so a point-blank full power blast to a human doesn't leave much behind.

* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', a minor villain is shot in the shoulder; a few panels later, the projectile goes off, basically julienneing him [[GoryDiscretionShot off-panel]] and leaving Sydney drenched in blood and decorated with a chunk of his torso and an ear, among other things. The reader comments note that the effect is reminiscent of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 a bolt round mixed with a Harlequin's Kiss.]]

* Being [[TurbineBlender sucked into a jet engine]]. Anyone who has survived it is because the jet engine was shut down before they hit the blades at full force. There are pictures easily searchable on the Internet depicting what happens when the blades are NOT stopped before a person is sucked into them. Search at your own risk, in synopsis, there is nothing left that is easily identifiable as belonging to a human. Even the clothes are covered in too much gore to recognize them from the rest.
** In particular, there was an incident where a mechanic examining one of the two engines of a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 suddenly got sucked into the engine when he ventured too close while the turbines began spooling up. The result was him being effectively ''liquified'' on contact with the engine (which also sustained severe damage) and spat out through the engine exhaust, leaving a [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank massive stain of what used to be the mechanic]] running for several metres down the tarmac behind the plane and caking the front of the engine (and presumably its internals as well) in a finely pulped mixture of blood and flesh, with lumps of yellow fat mixed in. Images of the incident are easily found online, though viewer discretion is advised.

* There's a [[ShockSite picture]] that can be found on the Internet if one searches the right places that has a man who was shot in the head with a powerful sniper rifle (The rifle in question was a Barret .50 Caliber one). [[SchmuckBait Search at your own risk.]]
* Speaking of guns, weapons like heavy machine guns, anti-material weapons, sniper rifles, medium and general-purpose machine guns, and some standard firearms can cause irreversible damage that one would never want to see close up. The Barrett .50 Caliber Anti-Material Sniper Rifles, DShK Heavy Machine Guns, M2 Browning Heavy Machine Guns, and standard Miniguns like the M134 Minigun won't leave much of you to recover, only to clean up. We sure feel bad for the unfortunate souls that have to clean up the mess that was made.
* Although not any less brutal, these images are getting more and more common. Since every rebel on the streets these days has a mobile phone with camera, you can now even see such things on [[{{Squick}} video]]. It's still not advised to look for it, although news agencies are also showing them more and more often on prime-time TV.

** Animals don't exactly fare much better; there's a video (Link [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbiPvP_t05g here]], but it is ''very'' gross, so watch at your own discretion) where a donkey gets hit by a speeding train in Pakistan, and what the train does to it can best be described as 'disassembles the animal into a collection of variously-sized pieces of meat in a fraction of a second', with the resultant pieces strewn everywhere. To the train, this collision doesn't even dent it, and it keeps on going unchallenged.
--->'''Commenter''': ''[[BlatantLies For those wondering, the donkey was taken to the hospital and made a full recovery.]]''

** The death of Russell Phillips is possibly one of the most gruesome NASCAR deaths in history. The roof of his car was ripped off at high speed during a crash, and Philips was essentially [[CruelAndUnusualDeath ground between the steel fence and his car's interior like a cheese grater]] and quite literally [[NauseaFuel splattering his body all over the track]]. It was so bad they had to ''hose down the stands'' (and [[BloodSplatteredInnocents the audience]]), which had been liberally showered with the mess. In the truest spirit of this trope, video footage of the accident shows an EMT rushing to his car, then stopping and just walking away upon realizing there was literally ''nothing to resuscitate.''

* Caught on video: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynQ_cw6oHMg A dead beached whale exploding when someone tried to open it up.]] ''Not Safe For Work. Watch at your own risk.''
* Despite the infamous resiliency of moose against passenger vehicles, a collision with a loaded, high-speed 18-wheeler simply results in this trope, as is occasionally caught on dashcam footage. Applies to any animal, really, but moose get attention because of their aforementioned reputation for durability.

* Industrial cardboard shredders/bailers that are often kept in the back/receiving area of retail stores can do this. These devices have power switches that are designed to be shut off and then physically locked with a padlock, before someone jumps into one to remove a jam. They are designed to shred and compress cardboard into manageable cubes, which end up so heavy they have to be moved with a forklift. They put out in excess of 2000 PSI to accomplish this. On several occasions, workers have [[TemptingFate jumped into one of these to clear a jam]], [[TooDumbToLive without locking it out first]], simply because the machine wasn't running at the time. The result tends to be nothing left that's recognizable as human, only small pieces.
* The predecessor of the above is the wood chipper and several similar pieces of farm machinery. Until safety devices were mandated in the 1980s for these, there were regular accidents involving [[WoodChipperOfDoom people being sucked into said chippers]]. All with the exact same outcome as displayed in The Coen Brother's Fargo movie. Deaths with these things numbered in the dozens just in the USA for decades, and still occur rarely due to malfunction or a complete idiot operator overriding the safety gear.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9n_5TXH9A0 A deer is vaporized on impact with the landing gear of a plane.]]
* This can happen to anyone in an armored vehicle if they are unfortunate enough to be leaning against an outside wall if the armor takes a direct blow that doesn't penetrate; if the vehicle is not adequately buffered on the inside, the resulting shockwave travelling through the armor and into the soldier can literally ''liquefy their body'' and spray what is left of them all over the inside of the vehicle.
* Industrial accidents will almost certainly invoke this [=and/or=] CruelAndUnusualDeath. The most notable is a ''very'' [=NSFW=] video of a worker who got caught in a lathe and reduced to little bits painting the room.