History Main / NotEnoughToBury

** And an unnamed female tribute who dropped her district token (a wooden ball) while waiting for the gong at the beginning of her Games. According to Katniss "they literally had to scrape bits of her off the ground."

* [[MorphWeapon Dominators]] in ''Anime/PsychoPass'', when in Eliminator (lethal) mode, pretty thoroughly destroys whatever they hit. A person hit in the body by one will pretty much be reduced to a puddle of blood with maybe one limb left intact. [[DisintegratorRay Decomposer mode]], which is design for use against machines, leaves even less.

* Decomposition Magic in LightNovel/MahoukaKoukouNoRettousei is capable of disintegrating everything on a molecular level. ''[[NightmareFuel Including humans.]]'' Naturally, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tatsuya Shiba]] has this.
** [[UpToEleven It can be scaled up depending on the targets,]] [[spoiler: [[SphereOfDestruction leading to Material Burst.]]]]

* Decomposition Magic in LightNovel/MahoukaKoukouNoRettousei disintegrates everything on a molecular level. ''[[NightmareFuel Including humans.]]'' Naturally, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tatsuya Shiba]] has this.

** [[UpToEleven It can be scaled up depending on the targets,]] [[spoiler: [[SphereOfDEstruction leading to Material Burst.]]]]

* This was used in a movie about a widow who was suing a government contractor after her husband, an Air Force test pilot, was killed flying a Starfighter. A lawyer tries to accuse her husband of taking drugs. She says there was no trace of drugs in his system. He points out that it was impossible to determine given the 'limited material' available for testing. She demands to know what he means, and is later shown saying in fury to a friend, "I buried his hands!" [[/folder]]

* Both enemy aliens and your own soldiers in ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'' can be "overkilled" if enough damage is done by the killing shot, totally destroying the body and any equipment it might have been carrying. Obviously, this is most noticeable when using explosives.

* In Creator/{{Alan Moore}}'s ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Jon Osterman gets vaporised in an "intrinsic field"[[note]]Picture a nuclear explosion without the BOOM [[/note]]. He later [[BackFromTheDead reassembles himself on an atomic level and becomes ''Dr. Manhattan''.]]

* In the 1966 film based on the Batman series starring Adam West, several goons are dehydrated into dust, to later be rehydrated by the Penguin inside the Batcave. They attack the Dynamic Duo, but the Penguin handled the procedure incorrectly, making them very unstable. When hit, they instantly vanish into antimatter.

* Referenced in Heinlein's ''To Sail Beyond the Sunset'': Maureen says of her own apparent death that when a person her size is hit by a semitruck, "they pick up the remains with blotting paper."

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

* One way of disposing of a body is reducing it to this.

* In DerekRobinson's black comedies of the Royal Air Force, after ''really'' bad crashes or flamers, it was often the case that entire bodies were not available for burial. A particularly egregious example happens in ''Literature/APieceOfCake'' where a grieving relative, innocent of the nature of his nephew's death (he burnt to death in a flamer from a mile up) wants to open the coffin to see poor Maurice's face one last time.... as only deep-fried fragments of the body were retrieved, the rest of the coffin was ballasted by sandbags, to approximate the weight of a full corpse. This is TruthInTelevision. Similar expedients were used for tank troopers killed in brew-ups or men killed in catastrophic explosions.This has been long-standing practice for a long time and may [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/SlippingBetweenWorlds still happen today]], although military authorities are naturally reticent.

* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}: Children of Earth'', the villains blow up Jack with a bomb inside his stomach. In the next episode, they only find small pieces of his body remaining, from which he [[FromASingleCell still manages to regenerate]].

* In TheCrimsonRivers, this is said of the young victim of a traffic accident. All that was left to identify her by was her index finger. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the finger actually came from another girl]]. She did get a grave, though.

** Invoked in the second book as well, where Snape comments that whoever faces [[ButtMonkey Neville Longbottom]] in a practice duel will likely be sent to the infirmary in a matchbox. (In the movie, it's Ron's malfunctioning wand that earns the quip.)

* This was used in a movie about a widow who was suing a government contractor after her husband, an Air Force test pilot, was killed testing a Starfighter. A lawyer tries to accuse her husband of taking drugs. She says there was no trace of drugs in his system. He points out that it was impossible to determine given the 'limited material' available for testing. She demands to know what he means, and is later shown saying in fury to a friend, "I buried his hands!" [[/folder]]

* This was used in a movie about a widow who was suing a government contractor after her husband, an Air Force test pilot, was killed testing a Starfighter. A lawyer tries to accuse her husband of taking drugs. She says there was no trace of drugs in his system. He points out that it was impossible to determine given the 'limited material' available for testing. She demands to know what he means by that statment, and is later shown saying in fury to a friend, "I buried his hands!" [[/folder]]

-->'''Robin: You mean... [[NeverSayDie they won't]] [[KilledOffForReal be coming back]]!?\\

[[/folder]]

* 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 (''Film/BartonFink'', ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', and ''Film/TheBigLebowski'') with fewer and fewer pieces of himself remaining each time.

* [[MorphWeapon Dominators]] in ''Anime/PsychoPass'', when in Eliminator (lethal) mode, pretty thoroughly destroys whatever they hit. A person hit in the body by one will pretty much be reduced to a puddle of blood with maybe one limb left intact.