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-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-cant-tell-if-movies-are-being-serious-anymore/ reviews the trailer]] for ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast And Furious 5]]''

->''"Whenever there seems to be a dull, quiet or otherwise non-car-filled moment, [the Director of this film] likes to believe that filming a bunch of cars exploding will distract the audience long enough to forget that these movies are objectively terrible.\\\

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* [[StuffBlowingUp/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]

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* YourHeadAsplode

-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-cant-tell-if-movies-are-being-serious-anymore/ reviews the trailer]] for ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast And Furious 5]]''.

* The ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' titles end with a spectacular set of explosions to tell you that it's made with {{Supermarionation}}. Most Gerry Anderson shows seem to have something exploding in their titles, but ''Thunderbirds'' is definitely the most spectacular. Most episodes of Gerry Anderson shows usually involve large amounts of pyrotechnics at some point as well.

* [[StuffBlowingUp/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' loves this trope, mostly for the effects animators to show off (such as the RunawayTrain violently exploding in a large, stereotypical Hollywood explosion with sparks flying upward!)
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the big robot apparently self-destructs so completely it's reduced to something finer than powder. But wait, there's more. On the "special features" DVD, there is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdqjkJ7ooo an easter-egg self-parody video]] that makes homage to the amount of times that things explode in the movie, as well as the buttons that are pressed and the doors that are opened and shut, by stringing them all together to the tune of "The Anvil Chorus" from Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. The sequence ends with this quote: "The Incredibles -- no sequence unexploded."

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** He also, in what has to be one of his [[CrowningMomentOfFunny best-ever articles]], popularized the [[http://www.theexplodingwhale.com exploding whale incident]] in Oregon. This took place in 1970, long before Barry wrote about it, but it's through his article that most people know about it.

->''Whenever there seems to be a dull, quiet or otherwise non-car-filled moment, [the Director of this film] likes to believe that filming a bunch of cars exploding will distract the audience long enough to forget that these movies are objectively terrible.\\\
I sort of hate that he's right.''

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* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': There are plenty, some of them described quite impressively. From the death star to tanks to whatever the godmodder feels like blowing up.
** The UOSS did this... and took out half the battlefield in the process. The fireworks were so impressive none of the entities did anything that round.
* ''Roleplay/RockPaperAnything'': Explosives are used frequently, from dynamites to TNT to [[NukeEm a Tsar Bomba.]]
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* OlderThanTheyThink example: {{Tchaikovsky}}'s ''1812 Overture'', a bombastic orchestral piece celebrating [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Russia's victory against Napoleon]] in the titular year. Authentic performances are known to use actual cannons firing.