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6	[[caption-width-right:349:"[[ThirdPersonPerson Buu really... really... HATE YOOOOOOOOU!!!!]]"]]
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8	->''"Daddy sent me to school, but things got weird\
9	When the kids made fun of my long red beard\
10	And OOOOOOOOOH! I blew my stack!"''
11	-->-- '''WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''
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13	A character releases bottled, superhuman rage and literally ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction blows up]]''.
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15	The building they were in, as well as any buildings in a mile's radius, are leveled. Many die. But strangely, the originator of the explosion is usually unharmed.
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17	Very rarely can be a SuicideAttack, if it is done on purpose and kills the user. Might also rarely be WhyAmITicking, if the detonation trigger is specifically tied to the character's rage. Compare BurningWithAnger, which is seldom destructive past a few charred bits of furniture.
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19	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] EmotionBomb, which induces emotion as an attack. Any character using this probably has EmotionalPowers, especially when [[PentUpPowerPeril they build up as the emotion does]].
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21	See also RageBreakingPoint, a merely ''metaphorical'' explosion of rage, and HighPressureEmotion for a less destructive, yet just as showy demonstration.
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23	!!Examples:
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28	* In Episode 17 of ''Anime/AceAttorney2016'', [[spoiler:Mimi Miney does this after being revealed in court]].
29	%%* Almost the whole plot of ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
30	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' chapter 554, when [[HavingABlast Bambietta Basterbine]] discovers she's been talking to herself for the past few pages because her friends ran off somewhere when she wasn't looking, she becomes furious and releases a massive explosion around herself that takes out sizable a chunk of the surrounding area.
31	* ''Manga/CrimsonSpell'': When [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Vald]] thinks he's killed [[OfficialCouple Havi]], he unleashes a HowlOfSorrow that levels a castle.
32	* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
33	** Closer to the end of the Android Saga, Cell was so furious after Gohan made him vomit out Android 18, causing him to revert back to a weaker form, that he inflated himself to a massive size planning to take everyone on the planet with him as he detonated. It took some quick thinking and a HeroicSacrifice from Goku to stop him. There were still casualties from this, but much less than there could have been.
34	** [[BewareTheSillyOnes Majin Buu]] even does this. When we first see him, he's an {{Omnicidal\|Maniac}} but misguided pink blob, thanks to Babidi's cruel teachings. With luck, he meets Mr. Satan and befriends him, causing him to give up killing and [[TookALevelInKindness become kind-hearted]]. He gives a blind child sight for the first time, and even heals and adopts a wounded puppy. So... what went wrong, you ask? One completely ordinary guy with a gun [[KickTheDog shot his puppy and Mr. Satan]], and set Buu off so horrifically, he expelled his own evil and it soon [[SuperpoweredEvilSide overtook him]]. Things got so bad [[ApocalypseHow everybody died]] and [[EarthShatteringKaboom the world went kaboom]]. BUT... he got better. Let's just say pissing Buu off means you need a spare set of Dragon Balls and a planet-wide Spirit Bomb on hand to fix the damage he does.
35	* ''Anime/HeroicAge'': Yuti La/Cervius flies into one of these when [[spoiler:she believes Karkinos has died]]. In her rage she creates a black hole the size of an entire ''solar system'', which comes extremely close to killing all remaining Nodos in existence.
36	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
37	** The title character himself, due to him being a Jinchūriki and having Kurama inside him. - when he snaps, the explosion of power is only the first of the list of problems...
38	** All of the Jinchuriki have this problem; losing control means letting their Tailed Beast out, who sees the people that [[SealedEvilInACan stuffed it in the Jinchuriki in the first place]]. It doesn't help that the Tailed Beasts are equal parts EldritchAbomination and [[PowerOfHate seething hatred]] for their mistreatment. However, unlike Kurama (at first), they don't normally hate their host.
39	** Deidara [[spoiler:kills himself by exploding to try to kill Sasuke. It fails because Sasuke summons Manda and hides inside him. Manda does die from the injuries he suffered, but Sasuke survived]].
40	** [[spoiler: The WarArc {{Exaggerate\|dTrope}}s when Madara/Tobi sets off ''six'' Angst Nukes within a close proximity of each other. The result was 6 jinchuuriki, all in their V2 state]].
41	** [[spoiler: Obito]] did this when he saw [[spoiler: Rin]] die. The result looked like something out of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''.
42	* Kuromi in ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'' once had to live with My Melody, whom Kuromi has made her archnemesis because of how much she ruins her life [[TheDitz on accident alone]]. On the second day, she absolutely snaps and craters her own house in a explosion that had CrossPoppingVeins and was bright enough for much of Mariland to see.
43	%%* Mewtwo in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''.
44	* For the world of ''Anime/{{Promare}}'', this is how the Burnish first awakened their powers, bursting uncontrollably into purple flames in a situation of intense anger. Shown inciting incidents include domestic abuse, major traffic jams, and your average online discussion.
45	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler: Sayaka's [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie witch transformation]]]] may count. While it doesn't kill anyone, it sends Kyoko and objects around her flying, [[spoiler: including Sayaka's own corpse]].
46	* The Shishi Hokodan technique from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is a KiManipulation technique inspired by some Japanese linguistic puns that converts the user's misery into blasts of crushing force; the standard version is a simple KamehameHadoken, whilst the "Perfected" version launches a sphere of heavy ki upwards and then lets it drop down like a literal giant weight, crushing anything underneath -- including the user, if they aren't in the properly "empty" mindset. Naturally, it's a move tailormade for [[TheEeyore Ryoga Hibiki]], and it becomes one of his signature techniques -- ironically, the confidence powered counterpart that Ranma invented, the Moko Takabisha, only appears ''once'' outside of its debut, and Ranma is more likely to use the [[BlowYouAway Hiryu Shoten Ha]] as his signature final attack.
47	* Lucille from ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' combines this with MacrossMissileMassacre whenever she gets upset. Big Cheese also blows up every time he gets really angry.
48	* How Meliodas from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' became the Sin of Wrath. After Meliodas' love interest was killed before his eyes, his [[spoiler: demon blood]] ran out of control and created a gigantic explosion that wiped the kingdom of Danafor off the map alongside with the person responsible.
49	* In ''Literature/ShinSakuraTaisenTheNovelHizakuraNoKoro'', [[spoiler:Édouard Snowflake gets fatally wounded in his battle with the demon onboard the train in Luxembourg. His younger sister Claris's powers build up as despair sets in, until she sorrowfully screams into the sky at which her energy unleashes in the form of libromancy magic, big enough to destroy the tunnel she's in]].
50	* In ''Manga/TowardTheTerra'', Carina has a prolonged and destructive psychic freakout when she thinks Tony is dead. Later in the series, Matsuka does the same when he thinks Keith is dead.
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54	* ''ComicBook/BoBoiBoyGalaxyXLawakKampusSuperior'': Yaya's BerserkButton is pressed when Froggy says he's the top of his class, causing her to charge up in anger and yell, releasing a gravitational blast from herself that sends all the enemies flying. [[MoodWhiplash Her mood is quickly turned around when Froggy reminds her that they attend different schools.]]
55	* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In a variation, the Red Hulk's body is always releasing an unnatural amount of heat. His body temperature rises with rage, so much so that he can cook vast stretches of land, but spending too much time in this state will weaken him.
56	* In ''ComicBook/TheNewUniverse'', the ComicBook/StarBrand wielder has this as one of their powers.
57	* In ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' there's Xadhoom: according to what she says, if she ever lost control of her powers she would ''GO NOVA'', and then she would become a black hole and swallow the entire solar system she's in. Fortunately enough, she approached that level of fury only three times and every time she calmed herself.
58	* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}:'' When her partner Angar the Screamer was hit and killed by a stray bullet, Screaming Mimi spent forty-three minutes screaming her head off in anguish. Which with her superpowers ended with a massive smoking crater filled with liquefied stone and vaporized trees, and her vocal chords burnt out.
59	* In ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'', when Praxton has his DyingMomentOfAwesome, he literally explodes with power with a roar of rage.
60	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
61	** This is how [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] first discovered his powers; his first daughter, Anya, was killed in a fire while he was prevented from rescuing her by villagers with a grudge. While the comic that shows it [[SmashToBlack cuts to a black panel]], his wife Magda's horrified reaction, and the smoking corpses when we next see him, heavily implies that he electrocuted the entire village, except for her, in one fell swoop.
62	** When Jubilee thought Wolverine had been killed by some of the Mandarin's goons, her powers go off with enough force to level the Mandarin's big fancy castle.
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66	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
67	** This is a perennial risk with Harry until he gets control of his PsychicPowers - after ComicBook/JeanGrey and [[spoiler: her SeparatedAtBirth [[CompositeCharacter twin]] Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]], he's the third most powerful psychic of all time and his powers cut in very suddenly.
68	** It also happens when he taps into his [[spoiler: Phoenix]] derived protection when emotionally unstable, since it both fuels emotions and feeds on them. The results have previously ''vaporised'' a fully powered Bizarro clone of Jor-El, obliterated Lake Ladoga (which is only about 10% smaller than Israel), and effortlessly destroyed a group of Omega Class cloned {{Human Weapon}}s, all in what was essentially the warm-up tantrum stage.
69	* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'', when Celestia absorbs [[ShellShockedVeteran Marcus']] memories, she's so horrified by the war crimes she sees an evil alternate version of herself doing that she flies to "[[TheTunguskaEvent Ponguska, Sibearia]]" and has a cross-dimensional [[BadassBoast chat with her evil alter]] which culminated in an outstanding explosion of raw fury.
70	* ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'': Ranma and Ryoga have access to the Moko Takabisha and Shishi Hokodan techniques respectively. The latter is the original move, converting misery in a concussive force beam. The former was Ranma's reinterpretation of the technique, and draws from his confidence instead.
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74	* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Scarlet Witch senses [[spoiler:her twin brother Quicksilver die]] through telepathy, and a telekinetic blast wave issues from her that handily obliterates [[spoiler:all the Ultron mooks swarming her position]].
75	* In ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'', Lo Pan's Storm bodyguard Thunder balloons himself in pure rage after his master is killed, then pops himself with his knife explosively to try and [[TakingYouWithMe take out Jack and Wang in the process]].
76	* In the [[Film/{{Carrie 2013}} 2013 adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', the title character's opening shot in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge is one of these, sending a furious psychic shockwave through the HighSchoolDance that bowls over everybody and everything inside. It's powerful enough to throw Heather face-first into the door to the gym, leaving a big, blood-stained crack in the window just in time for Sue to show up and witness it.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Multiple:
78	** Hades incinerates a forest in a flash fire after learning that Hercules is still alive.
79	** He also does [[EverythingMakesAMushroom a more literal form]] of this after Hercules is an established hero in Thebes as he easily vanquished every monster Hades threw at him, and realizing that his two minions Pain and Panic are wearing Hercules merchandise. To a lesser degree, the flames on Hades' body flare up and turn red and yellow when he's angrier [[ArtisticLicensePhysics (which, of course, means they are getting colder)]].
80	* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', after Sonic wins a game of baseball he played with himself and realizes that no one is there to cheer for him, the feelings of loneliness he has been harboring for the past 10 years reached its peak as he runs around the bases so much and so fast that he digs a trench around the diamond. But the real explosion happens when his electric powers start to go crazy as his face slowly morphs from tear-stricken sadness to frustration and then into rage as he jumps up and lets out an anguished scream that unleashes all of the electricity his body generated, which knocks out all the electricity not only in Green Hills, but across the entire Pacific Northwest coast, including a satellite in orbit.
81	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the first time Mei transforms at school, the resulting pink smoke explosion sends everything in the classroom flying.
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85	* Happens several times in ''Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm'', particularly to Kassandra in ''The Painter Knight''. She does severe damage to her entire ''kingdom''. Since she's [[KingIncognito incognito]] at the time, this poses a problem for her party since it's very obvious where the destruction radiated from.
86	* Very common in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''.
87	** Every channeler can "overload" which results in a significantly more powerful action then they're normally capable of, but the price is that they either die or their abilities are burned out which can be just as bad.
88	** The shining example of this is definitely the death of Lews Therin Telamon, The Dragon. After discovering that he slaughtered everyone he loved in his insanity, he Travels to the middle of nowhere and starts drawing ''massive'' amounts of ''saidin'',[[note]]i.e., magic energy[[/note]] drawing more and more until it killed him and erupted all at once. This eruption is described as a pillar of light from the earth to the sky, so bright that anyone who even glimpsed was permanently blinded. After the light vanished, an enormous erupting volcano spewed forth from the ground where he died.
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92	* In a flashback in ''Series/AlteredCarbon'' episode "[[Recap/AlteredCarbonS01E04ForceOfEvil Force of Evil]]", Falconer relates the story of Iphigenia Deme, a freedom fighter on the planet Adoracion, who had herself implanted with explosives triggered by rage. She eventually was captured by CTAC and put into virtual torture. She finally told her interrogators that she would only confess to the bosses in the real world. When she got the top 17 CTAC officers in the room with her, she let her rage at them trying to make her betray her friends overwhelm her and blew them all to hell.
93	* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
94	** This is one of the signs of the Hellmouth regaining power in the last season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It acts as a LiteralGenie to the kids in the high school built on top of it, so one of them says they're so stressed they think they might explode, one can imagine what happens shortly after...
95	** Deliberately induced to an unstable telekinetic girl in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[{{Recap/AngelS02E04Untouched}} Untouched]]".
96	* Ted Sprague in ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Also, [[spoiler: Sylar in the future when his son dies]].
97	* On ''Series/IAmNotOkayWithThis'', when Sydney gets angry or stressed-out, she has to find a way to calm down or get out of there lest she unleash a telekinetic shockwave powerful enough to knock trees over [[spoiler:or [[YourHeadASplode explode a man's head]]]]. She even tries to become a StepfordSmiler, choosing only to think happy thoughts so that she doesn't hurt anyone. It's also implied that [[spoiler:her father had similar powers and that, while serving in [[SemperFi the Marines]], he lost his cool during a battle and killed both his own squad and the enemy force with one of these, and that this is [[ShellShockedVeteran why he killed himself]]]].
98	* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'': Max sets off one in the first season that takes out electricity for the city.
99	* Dr. Cox in at least one of JD's {{Imagine Spot}}s in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. And JD himself in another Imagine Spot.
100	* In season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', [[spoiler:this is revealed to be the cause of [[ApocalypseHow the Burn]]. A Kelpien named Su'Kal was born after his mother was marooned on a planetoid made up of [[{{Unobtainium}} dilithium]], and his physiology became attuned to it due to being exposed to its radiation from such a young age. Unfortunately, his mother, being already an adult, wasn't able to adapt to the radiation and eventually died as a result. When Su'Kal discovered her body, he had a breakdown which, due to his unique physiology, caused all the dilithium in the galaxy to become momentarily inert. Since dilithium is [[MinovskyPhysics used to regulate]] the matter-antimatter reaction that powers [[FasterThanLightTravel warp drive]], this led to [[StuffBlowingUp very unfortunate consequences]] for every vessel with an active warp core i.e. most of them. The resulting destruction, deaths, and reduction of interstellar travel due to lack of ships and fear of using warp in case of another Burn led to massive disruption of galactic society and the [[VestigialEmpire near-collapse]] of TheFederation.]]
101	* ''Series/WandaVision:'' This is revealed to be how the Hex was created. [[spoiler: After Wanda has a very terrible day of watching the body of her lover be cut apart for experiments and Tyler Hayward refuses her the right to bury him, she finally loses it when she sees the plot of land Vision bought for the two of them to build a house on in Westview. Her magic explodes out of her uncontrollably, transforming the town and creating a new Vision.]]
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105	* In ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'' bursts of intense negative emotions can cause espers to “overload” (lose control of their powers in a way that’s spectacularly dangerous). Depending on their strongest talent, this will result in heads exploding, a massive fire, or everything around them being torn to shreds.
106	* Skarbrand from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is a creature of pure rage. When released in a mighty roar, this rage can destroy buildings, blood boil and cause the heads of those nearby to explode in bloody fountains of gore.
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110	* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', [[PersonOfMassDestruction Asura]], who already draws power from rage, [[SuperpowerMeltdown absolutely loses it]] and undergoes one of these when [[spoiler: the little girl and the village he's been trying to protect are destroyed by Olga]]. The result is Asura literally [[BurningWithAnger burning with anger]] as he [[OneManArmy massacres an entire space fleet with it]].
111	%% zero context example* The backstory of the {{Superboss}} in ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' is that he caused one of these [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil while being tortured]].
112	* ''VideoGame/FairyBloom1'': The "怒", which is usually translated as "Anger", meter fills up when the plant takes damage, and the fairy can do a SmartBomb-type LimitBreak, using it all up.
113	* Giegue in ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother: Cognitive Dissonance]]'' unleashes one on himself during his VillainousBreakdown when he learns [[spoiler:his [[EnemyWithout Hero Without]] Niiue is still alive.]] Giegue completely snaps in anger and fear which caused his PsychicPowers to stretch and rip him apart and [[spoiler:merge him with the fabric of [[MentalWorld Magicant]]]], leading to the birth of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas]].
114	* In ''Videogame/{{Nier}}'', [[spoiler:Popola]] ends up causing a SphereOfDestruction after [[spoiler:her sister]] is killed and she's left a screaming delirious mess. The only reason the heroes end up surviving is because [[spoiler:Emil performs a HeroicSacrifice]].
115	* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': This comes into play [[spoiler:at the first final boss, Eve; who throughout the entire battle]] is letting these off left right and center as he completely loses it over [[spoiler:his brother/clone's death]]. It could be said that the final stages of this fight takes place ''inside'' an Angst Nuke.
116	* A mild example in ''VideoGame/Portal2'', after [[spoiler: ''SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS'' is stuffed into a potato battery. Since she's running off a measly ''1.6 volts'' while attached to your Portal Gun, she temporarily shorts out when stressed]].
117	* ''VideoGame/{{The Punisher\|THQ}}'' has a downplayed version of this. Frank has a [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Rage of Sparta]]-like mechanic that can be activated to increase his speed, melee attacks and regenerate his health. What makes it an Angst Nuke is that the in-game justification for the mechanic is that Frank is being empowered by the memories of traumatic war incidents and the deaths of his family (evidenced by echo-y cries heard in the background and flashes of comic book panels depicting such while the mode is active), and the fact that if any fragile object is nearby when it's activated, it'll break as a result. One can break glass bottles simply because they were around while Frank entered "PTSD Mode". Keep in mind that [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Frank is not supposed to have superpowers]].
118	* A vulnerability for human brain scans in ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'', as negative emotions or excessive stress cause those scans to shut down. One example in-game involves Brandon Wan, whom you, Simon Jarret must manually restart if he freaks out when active, and at the end of the game, [[spoiler:Catherine Chun shuts down for good when she becomes sufficiently angry at you during an argument]]. Then again, Carl Semken and Simon himself both can become extremely distressed and continue to function, so it may be a question as to the quality of the hardware the A.I. mind is hooked up to.
119	* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed 2'' (Wii version), Starkiller unleashes an enormous explosion of the Force on the bridge of a cruiser about to hit Kamino's planetary shield generator, essentially blowing up the entire cruiser and shield generator, along with a good portion of the city and cloning facilities. Starkiller soon afterwards travels through the remains of the cruiser to find Vader, fighting off waves of imperial troops while navigating the maze of debris.
120	* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', Fei lets off one of these in the beginning of the game, under severe stress.
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124	* Elliot's 'Tamashii Gekido' from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is a small-scale example - a localized, omnidirectional wave of force that can throw an enemy clear across the room, and apparently draws on his suppressed anger and pent-up frustrations. It's somewhat of a 'legacy' example, too, since Dan Shive originally had plans for Elliot having a whole powerset built around drawing on the power of his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inner darkness]], which he normally suppressed in order to maintain his 'boy-scout' persona - but wound up changing his mind and moving away from it, leaving Elliot to really ''be'' just as good-natured as he appears.
125	* ''Webcomic/NeoKosmos'': Seven has a panic attack and lashes out with their powers when Tye and Z leave range of their ability to sense them, leaving them utterly alone. They appear to shatter their containment unit from the inside out with a huge outburst caused by their anger and fear, and reduce most of their (solid stone) room to rubble with the side effect of blasting it open and allowing them access to the rest of the facility.
126	* Ch'vorthq from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' is, by design, a [[ActionBomb living bomb]] - not that he ''knew'' about this. He believed he had been genetically engineered to be a ''diplomat'', when actually he was supposed to annihilate the enemy's diplomatic team during negotiations. When he finds out about this, his anger nearly causes him to detonate early, but the Toughs manage to get him stabilized with some {{Nanomachines}}, and he becomes their ship cook... until the ''Broken Wind'' arc, where an emotional revelation (namely, that the Toughs never liked his cooking but just stayed quiet about it to spare his feelings) causes him to explode with anger... literally. (They manage to save his brain, though, and put him in a new, non-explosive body.)
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130	* Like with many other things, ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}} 2: Deleted Scenes'' parodies it with an example in that the motivator is pretty innocuous:
131	-->'''Guy 1:''' Who parked their car... on my sandwich?!\
132	'''Guy 2:''' ''(proudly) I'' did!\
133	''(the first guy growls in anger, followed by nuke explosion blowing the other one and the car away)''
134	* [[BreathWeapon Weaponized]] by Lily in ''Roleplay/DorfQuest''.
135	* Over at Blog/DasSporking, Ket Makura does this so frequently over the ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' sporkings that she has an icon that says "Gehayi [her co-sporker] has to sweep me up in a dust pan". Mervin also occasionally explodes, which she represents with videos or pictures of atomic explosions.
136	* The final sketch in ''WebAnimation/TheGModIdiotBox'' episode 9. [[spoiler:After Derrick knocks Alex's candy out of his hand, Alex literally explodes with rage, and then proceeds to scream so loud he destroys the entire Earth. Both he and Derrick survive.]]
137	** In ''The Gmod Idiot Box'' episode 1, [[spoiler:a man who has been arrested tries so hard to escape his cuffs he devastates the surrounding area.]]
138	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic does not like plot holes, which, is kinda funny/harsh when you realize what happened at the end of WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee.
139	--> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Just! Ex! Plain!]] boom
140	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/decomm:scp-531-d SCP-531-D]], a since-then "[[KilledOffForReal decommissioned]]" RealityWarper, [[GodModeSue released waves of darkness that vaporized everything organic within a radius of half a mile around himself when he felt his mother die]].
141	* ''WebOriginal/WhatColorAreYou'':
142	** The imp becomes so upset at you disturbing it and causing it to waste 10 precious seconds of its relaxing time that it explodes into a ball of fire, which burns down the gate it was perched on top of.
143	** When the player not only refuses to follow the angel and return to God's path for them but tells the angel that they don't ''want'' the destiny God has planned for them, the angel becomes so enraged that it explodes in a burst of divine light.
144	* [[spoiler:Scion]] of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' will use an attack that erases everything surrounding him if sufficiently aggravated by his attackers. The final instance of this attack wiped out everything within ''ten miles''.
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148	* This was the entire shtick of Katie Ka-Boom in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': every skit was her suffering a trivial inconvenience, then getting so angry that she turned into a giant rage monster that would literally explode and destroy the area, at which point she calmed down and went about her business, having completely forgotten the problem and oblivious of the destruction she'd just caused.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
150	** During one episode, protagonist and resident PersonOfMassDestruction Aang loses his temper from the frustration of being unable to find his animal companion, Appa. The resulting explosion can be seen for miles in every direction and bears a striking resemblance to UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons. Luckily, he was in the middle of a desert on his own at the time so no bystanders were hurt, but Katara could still feel the backlash from miles away. Ironically, [[spoiler: Appa himself saw the explosion, but was tied down by a group of merchants and was stuck while he was desperately trying to get to Aang]].
151	** A smaller example, but whenever Zuko gets frustrated or upset, he accidentally firebends. Most notably during "The Beach", when he snaps and causes their small campfire to explode into a huge column of fire.
152	* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E13TerrysFriendDatesARobot Terry's Friend Dates a Robot]]" has Cynthia, the [[{{Sexbot}} robot girlfriend]], being programmed to be "100% devoted" to Howard (the friend). Problem is she's so possessive that [[{{Yandere}} she'll attempt to murder anyone who gets in her way]], and when Howard tries to break things off with her, particularly when he says "LetsJustBeFriends", she gets so pissed off that she explodes, causing the entire house to go with her.
153	* The plot of one ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode involved a hair tonic which caused its users to [[HairTriggerTemper get angry over minor things]], become red with rage, and cause an explosion (which they somehow survive unscathed, but the surroundings don't).
154	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie "WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers", when Vicky calls and tells Timmy's parents that he watched TV against their orders (and lied about other bad things she actually did like writing "My parents stink!" and "[[SitcomArchNemesis Dinkleberg]] rules!" on the walls), the scene then cuts to a DistantReactionShot where they explode into a mushroom cloud, whose smoke forms into the shape of their faces and yell "TIMMY!!!".
155	* Yosemite Sam on ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYiIYBzrsc an entire musical number]] about this.
156	-->''Now they sent me to school but things got weird''\
157	''When the kids made fun of my long red beard''\
158	''And OOOOOOOOOH! I blew my stack!''
159	* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', in a BadFuture, Hawk Moth manages to find out Chat Noir's identity, Akumatize him, and [[SadisticChoice make him choose between Ladybug and his mother]]. His inability to decide who to aim his Cataclysm at eventually results in him detonating it ''everywhere''- destroying France and a good chunk of the moon.
160	* PlayedForLaughs in the season 3 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. When [[TheHero Twilight Sparkle]] was freaking out over taking a mysterious test being given by her mentor [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], Spike tries to calm her down by saying it's just a test. Given this is [[ObsessivelyOrganized Twilight Sparkle]], he should have known better.
161	-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': JUST A TEST?! Princess Celestia wants to give me some kind of exam, and you're trying to tell me to calm down because... ''IT'S JUST A '''TEST?!'''''\
162	'''Spike''': (dons a suit of pillows and an army helmet) Uh... yes?\
163	''(Twilight growls angrily as her horn begins to glow)''\
164	'''Applejack:''' I'd say she's handling things pretty well, considering...\
165	''(Cue DistantReactionShot of the tree-house library getting blown into the air and crashing down again)''
166	* ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome'': Noam spent one episode wearing a device to remove his negative emotions (The "Blues Smoother"). The others, wanting the old Noam back, desecrate his favorite shirt, making him so angry that the Blues Smoother overloads and explodes (The resulting explosion being seen from space).
167	* Benson on ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has this happen in "Think Positive", when he unleashes an episode's worth of pent-up rage at Mordecai and Rigby all at once, resulting in them being bathed in flames as he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells them off]].
168	%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "Day...'''''OOOOOOOOOOFFFFFF?!?!?'''''"
169	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In the original series' GrandFinale [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind "Change Your Mind"]], we get a WhamLine courtesy of this trope powerful enough to crack concrete and shake the otherwise unflappable BigBad.
170	-->[[spoiler:'''White Diamond:''']] What is this? Where is [[spoiler:Pink]]?\
171	[[spoiler:'''[[LiteralSplitPersonality Pink Steven]]:''']] She's gone.\
172	[[spoiler:'''White Diamond:''']] What did you say? Answer me!\
173	[[spoiler:'''Pink Steven:''']] She's '''''[[SuddenlyShouting GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE]]!!!'''''
174	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans\|2003}}'':
175	** Red Star. A science experiment by MadScientist Dr. Chang to make him the perfect super soldier turned him into a living nuke, who once blew up and devastated a village. He had to keep draining the excess buildup of power as to not overload and do it again (which got so bad it leaked out and took a [[EldritchAbomination life of its own]]). Finally it became too much for him and he had to fly into deep space to wait for a massive explosion to go off from the inside out as to not charbroil the Earth. He appeared to die in that episode, but he later returned minus the PowerIncontinence for the GrandFinale battle: the final explosion stabilized his powers and gave him a chance to be normal again.
176	** Raven spends much of her time meditating and intentionally being TheStoic in order to ''prevent'' this from happening: her powers are influenced by her emotions, so the more stressed out/angry she gets the more devastating they can be. PlayedForLaughs when Cyborg quit in the first episode, and mentioning his name in a deadpan manner while [[BlatantLies saying she doesn't care that he's not there]] causes her hair to swirl and a giant monitor behind her to almost shatter. Decidedly ''not'' played for laughs in the episode where [[spoiler:the group watches a campy horror movie. She's so unable to cope with the FACT that she's afraid that her powers don't explode, they turn into a [[EldritchAbomination massive horde of demonic, red-eyed shadow-creatures that snatch away the team one by one]] until she comes to grips with it]].
177	[[/folder]]

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