History Main / NotEnoughToBury

->"''They're going to bury what's left of ya in a soup can!"''
-->'''The Demoman''' from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

* ''TheFifthElement'': all that was left of the Supreme Being after her starship crashed was her right hand. [[BackFromTheDead She got better]].
* This is the RunningGag when it comes to [[spoiler: SteveBuscemi]] roles in Creator/TheCoenBrothers movies. He has died in nearly every movie he has been in (''BartonFink'', ''{{Fargo}}'', and ''TheBigLebowski'') with fewer and fewer pieces of himself remaining each time.

->"''They're going to bury what's left of ya in a soup can!"''

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* Discussed in-universe in this [[http://wondermark.com/624/ Wondermark]] strip.

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** A background joke continues this theme with one half of a phone conversation:
-->'''Farnsworth:''' Oh, how awful. Did he at least die painlessly? ''*beat*'' To shreds, you say, tsk tsk tsk. Well, how's his wife holding up? ''*beat*'' To shreds, you say...

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The inevitable result of TurbineBlender, frequent result of LudicrousGibs. Note that this doesn't preclude what's left of the person being buried.

* Happens to the unlucky FBI agent who gets [[spoiler: thrown in a ore-grinder]] in ''DarkCornersOfTheEarth''.

* When Charles Stephens went over Niagra Falls in a barrel, he strapped himself into the barrel, and strapped a anvil to his feet to stabilize himself. When the barrel finally floated to shore, the only sign anyone had been in it was a right arm. That was what was placed in the grave, as the rest of Mr. Stephens was never found.

* When Charles Stephens went over Niagra Falls in a barrel, he strapped himself into the barrel, and strapped a anvil to his feet to stabilize himself. When the barrel finally floated to shore, the only sign anyone had been in it was a left arm. The rest of Mr. Stephens was never found.

* This is the RunningGag when it comes to [[spoiler: SteveBuscemi]] roles in CoenBrothers movies. He has died in nearly every movie he has been in (''BartonFink'', ''{{Fargo}}'', and ''TheBigLebowski'') with fewer and fewer pieces of himself remaining each time.

* This is the RunningGag when it comes to [[spoiler: SteveBuscemi]] roles in CoenBrothers movies. He has died in nearly every movie he has been in (''BartonFink, ''{{Fargo}}'', and ''TheBigLebowski'') with fewer and fewer pieces of himself remaining each time.

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* In ''{{Discworld}}'', it is said that if someone is affected by the blowfish poison, you don't need to make a funeral - just repaint the walls.
** Also from ''{{Discworld}}'' some of the learning opportunities in the Unseen University have led to unfortunates being returned to the grieving parents as gloop in a bucket, with a note saying "we did ''warn'' him".

* In TheBible, Jezebel's body is devoured by a pack of feral dogs after she is defenestrated, leaving only her head and her two hands (as predicted by Elijah.)

* This was sometimes what happened to [[PosthumousCharacter Manfredi and Johnson]], {{those two guys}} often mentioned on ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' (although they never die the same way twice). On one ocassion they were eaten by flying piranha and what was left was buried with a teaspoon. In another, their remains fit on a manila envelope.

** Subverted in ''[[HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'': Barty Crouch Jr. murders Barty Crouch Sr. and transfigures him into a small bone...before burying the bone in the Forbidden Forest.
* In ''TheGrimnoirChronicles'', the protagonist GravityMaster is seen altering gravity in order to smash people a few times, and it's implied many more times.

* On ''{{NCIS}}'' three American soldiers in Afghanistan were blown up by a bomb and only pieces of their bodies were recovered. As they were shipped back to the States to be officially identified, the plane that was carrying them crashed, damaging the remains to the point where most ways of identifying them would be useless. [[spoiler: The remains turn out to be those of only two of the soldiers since the third was instead captured by terrorists and held captive]]

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* ''HappyTreeFriends''--very often, and PlayedForLaughs

->"''They're going to bury what's left of ya in a ''soup can''!"

->"''They're going to have to glue you back together...IN HELL!''"

* In ''BeastWars'', when Dinobot makes his stand against the Predacons and calls for Maximal backup, Rattrap half-jokes: "Dinobot versus six Preds ... there won't be enough of him left to make a ''toaster!''" They do actually find Dinobot in one piece, though the damage he took is still fatal.
* In the pilot of ''{{Futurama}}'', Professor Farnsworth hires the protagonists as his new delivery crew and gives them their career chips, which he pours from an envelope labeled "Contents of Space Wasp Stomach".

* Many of the Sept 11th victims were found in only small fragments. some still haven't been ID'd.

-->'''The Demoman''' from ''TeamFortress2''

* When someone is attacked by a predator, very often, there's not a lot left.

* This is the RunningGsg when it comes to [[spoiler: SteveBuscemi]] roles in CoenBrothers movies. He has died in nearly every movie he has been in (''BartonFink, ''{{Fargo}}'', and ''TheBigLebowski'') with fewer and fewer pieces of himself remaining each time.

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* TheFifthElement: all that was left of the Supreme Being after her starship crashed was her right hand. [[BackFromTheDead She got better]].

* All that's left of [[PerilousOldFool Bluddbeak]] from the {{Redwall}} novel ''Triss'' is scattered feathers.

* In Discworld, it is said that if someone is affected by the blowfish poison, you don't need to make a funeral - just repaint the walls.
** Also from {{Discworld}} some of the learning opportunities in the Unseen University have led to unfortunates being returned to the grieving parents as gloop in a bucket, with a note saying "we did ''warn'' him".

** Subverted in [[HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]: Barty Crouch Jr. murders Barty Crouch Sr. and transfigures him into a small bone...before burying the bone in the Forbidden Forest.

* In TheGrimnoirChronicles, the protagonist GravityMaster is seen altering gravity in order to smash people a few times, and it's implied many more times.

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* TheCatCameBack states that "20 pieces of the man was all they ever found."

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* CodeNameHunter has an investigator look over a cursed set of drums. The next morning, all that's left is a pile of ash.

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* HappyTreeFriends--very often, and PlayedForLaughs

* In BeastWars, when Dinobot makes his stand against the Predacons and calls for Maximal backup, Rattrap half-jokes: "Dinobot versus six Preds ... there won't be enough of him left to make a ''toaster!''" They do actually find Dinobot in one piece, though the damage he took is still fatal.

* In the pilot of {{Futurama}}, Professor Farnsworth hires the protagonists as his new delivery crew and gives them their career chips, which he pours from an envelope labeled "Contents of Space Wasp Stomach".

* Many of the Sept 11th victims were found in only small fragments. some still haven't been ID'd.

* All that's left of Bluddbeak from the {{Redwall}} novel ''Triss'' is scattered feathers.