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10[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Film/TheWizardOfOz You cursed brat! I'm melting! MELTING! Oh, what a world, what a world!]] [[LastRequest Make sure]] to [[SkewedPriorities cancel my newspaper delivery...!]]"'']]
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12Maybe you ran out of time to fix the killer poison. [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Maybe you're made of paint or something]]. Maybe someone froze you and then heated you up really fast. Or, maybe you opened [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the Ark of the Covenant]]. Maybe you fell into [[LethalLavaLand lava]] or [[HollywoodAcid acid]] or something else that makes people melt. Point is, you're about to learn how a snowman feels in the spring.
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14I'm Melting is when a character or other life form, for one reason or another, has a literal meltdown. It might look like:
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16* '''Collapsing into lumpy goo:'''. Probably one of the best and nastiest looking meltdowns one can find, it basically occurs when the subject slowly turns to goo all over, flesh falling and dripping from their body onto the floor. It doesn't usually leave a viscous puddle either, so much as a pile of soggy dough. This method was popularized by ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', and was cause for [[NightmareFuel many a nightmare among kids at the time]].
17* '''From the ground up'''. The most classic example, in which only the part of the subject that touches the ground actually turns to liquid. Of course, this means that, sequentially, every part of the body will touch the ground, often giving the illusion of sinking into a shallow puddle. (The easiest way to stage this effect in live-action settings is to do exactly that, lowering the actor on a hidden trap door, often with their clothing gathering on the ground for added effect. See ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' or any of several ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episodes.) Oddly, the victim will never be considered dead until their head has melted, which will be alive and speaking until the end despite their heart and lungs melting beforehand.
18* '''Soda pop'''. This one was quite popular with Disney cartoons in the early to mid-'90s. In short, this one is very similar to ''From the ground up'', except with the added effect of being very, VERY fizzy. Bubbles tend to actually rise off of the subject and pop in mid-air. Imagine an alka-seltzer sitting in a puddle of water, and you've got the idea here. Sometimes this will leave a nice clean puddle as if the resultant soda went flat, but other times, the subject may completely dissolve into a shrinking pile of fizz, or conveniently evaporate to leave nothing behind.
19* '''Bones'''. One of the rarest types of meltdown, this is when [[StrippedToTheBone everything but the skeleton]] is reduced to a puddle of Pepto-Bismol. TruthInTelevision, since bones, especially human bones, are very difficult to completely destroy. Cremated remains are mainly bits of bone -- everything else evaporates. Another NightmareFuel method of melting someone.
20* '''Vaporization'''. This is regarded as melting, but looks like it didn't just stop with turning the victim to a liquid. In fact, often, the liquid isn't even seen. It's as if they skipped a step, steaming and sublimating from the ground up.
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22This is a common fate of enemies weak to [[KillItWithWater water]], [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight]], salt, certain poisons/acids, and of course, [[GreyGoo deconstructive nanobots]].
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24Note that this can be a subtrope of NoBodyLeftBehind and EverythingFades, although it can lead to EmptyPilesOfClothing in works where ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing. It can also be played for comedic effect, with the victim restored to normal in the next scene. A subtrope of this is LustfulMelt. When the character in question doesn't die and is played for laughs, it's HarmlessLiquefaction.
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26Due to the fact in fiction people often say this when they are melting (often as a StockShoutOut to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''), this could be considered an example of CaptainObvious.
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28!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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35* A commercial for [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer batteries]] featured [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West herself]] attempting to destroy the Energizer Bunny by setting him on fire with her broom. She ends up setting off a sprinkler system that melts her.
36* ''Advertising/MAndMs'': One commercial features an anthropomorphic chocolate bar who joins Red and Yellow at the pool on a hot summer day with a woman. While Red and Yellow remain unharmed by the heat thanks to their shells, Chocolate Bar melts into a puddle of chocolate goo.
37* Several football players begin to suffer a meltdown thanks to the heat, until Boomer Esasion passes them all bottles of Pepsi. As they chug, the melting is not just stopped, but ''reversed''. Hm... Does that mean that [[FridgeBrilliance Pepsi really does bring your ancestors]] [[BiteTheWaxTadpole back from the dead?]]
38* The same principle was used in a Sierra Mist commercial with a man whose legs fuse to the ground as he walks toward a vending machine, getting shorter and shorter as he leaves a denim-textured trail of goo behind him. He gets his drink in time to chug himself back to normal only moments before he would have been unable to reach the machine, then he just has to pour out a single drop to restore his poor puddle of a dog.
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42* In ''Animation/IllReturnAsTheRain'', after FlyingOnACloud for a bit, Guda-Guda the snowman and a girl land in a sunny area. The location proves to be a bit too sunny for the snowman, as he becomes exhausted from the heat and starts to melt. The girl tries to find some snow to help revive him, but by the time she comes back Guda-Guda has melted completely. Thankfully, [[DisneyDeath Guda-Guda later comes back to life]] in the form of raindrops, and he and the girl are soon happily playing together once more.
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46* An infamous example would be the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BarefootGen'' during the scene in which Hiroshima was bombed. It's an absolutely horrific [[NightmareFuel 3-and-a-half minute sequence of men, women, children and animals graphically melting from the atom bomb's extreme heat.]] [[EyeScream Usually the first part of them to melt is their eyes, which gruesomely drip out of their sockets.]] TruthInTelevision, of course, since that actually happened to those unfortunate to be caught in the blast radius during the atomic bombings.
47* Amayo Jingorou from ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' can turn his body into semi-liquid ooze by covering himself with salt. This is why he's absolutely terrified of the sea, since the salt water dissolves his body completely. [[spoiler:This is exactly how he meets his end.]]
48* This is what happens to all the witches in ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'' whenever their "eject" button is pressed or they run out of "death suppressant" pills.
49* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', due to the action of [[PerfectPoison APTX]], victims eventually melt -- even for our survivors (to them APTX became a FountainOfYouth), they did feel their bones melting, and ''smoke'' came out from their bodies.
50* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', the "collapse into lumpy goo" variant is how [[ImAHumanitarian Imperfect Cell absorbs people]]. When Piccolo first confronts Cell, the latter stabs a man with his tail and kills him this way. Unlike most of the lumpy goo types, it's ''doesn't'' [[{{Gorn}} show it in a bloody fashion]], surprisingly for ''Dragon Ball Z'', as their skin actually remains mostly intact (albeit turning gray and rotting). He's unable to use this on the Androids, so he has to eat them whole.
51* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has a particularly gruesome case in the last chapter. [[spoiler:Lucy's psychic powers slowly damage her body on a molecular level and during the finale she uses them to such a great extent that parts of her slowly start to liquefy. In her [[RedemptionEqualsDeath moment of redemption]], she uses all the power she has to save Kouta and his friends which literally causes her skin and flesh to melt.]] First, the arms and legs fall off and during the death scene she is only a melting skull and torso and asks to be covered by a jacket so the others (and the readers) don't have to see her like that during her final minutes. To add to the heartbreak, [[spoiler:she uses her one vector to give a gun to Kouta as she begs him to [[MercyKill end her suffering]].]]
52* Happens twice in ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'': the first time to [[spoiler:Lisker when Guyver II's damaged control medal is smashed,]] and again later in the series when [[spoiler:Sho as Guyver I has his control medal torn out by Enzyme.]] Temporarily subverted in that the second occurrence doesn't immediately result in melting, but [[spoiler:Guyot psychically causing Enzyme's body to burst apart when the berserking Guyver I tackled him behind reduce both Enzyme and Sho to a rapidly-disintegrating mound of bioflesh and bones.]]
53* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
54** In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', this happens to anyone hit with a lethal dose of the skin-corroding viruses of Fugo's Stand, Purple Haze. As their body starts succumbing to the illness, they will slowly, painfully melt to death. Just ask [[spoiler:Illuso]].
55** The effects of Vitamin C in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'' causes its targets to soften and melt into a liquid-like state while still alive.
56* ''Anime/{{Little Witch Academia|2013}}'': A monster hit with poison melts into a puddle of goo, which promptly eats a clean circular hole through the floor.
57* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
58** ''End of Evangelion'' has everyone getting hugged by a hallucination of their most loved person and then promptly collapsing into primordial soup. Anti-AT field: quick, painless and 100% effective.
59** Episode 20 has a similar thing happening to Shinji: he immersed into his berserking Eva so much his body melted into LCL and they had to figure out how to rebuild it and bind his soul in it. Same thing happened to his mother [[TheWoobie while he was watching]], by the way.
60* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Happens to the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon when Yugi fuses a Zombie to it.
61* One of the manga based on ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' briefly saw series antagonist Ganon return, only to rapidly melt away after being impaled with the Magical Sword.
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65* Would you believe that wholesome ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' published not one, but ''two'' stories featuring this trope?
66** The original ''Life with Archie'' series (1958-1991) featured longer, more "adventure" oriented stories than the typical Archie titles, including one with [[http://the-isb.blogspot.com/2006/01/life-in-riverdale-surprisingly.html a mysterious Satanic box that melts people's faces off]].
67** From 1972 to 1974, Archie published a ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' spinoff, ''Chilling Adventures in Sorcery as Told by Sabrina''. It had the odd combination of [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics284.html straight-up horror stories]] with art in the familiar Archie house style and Sabrina acting as HorrorHost. One story, in particular, stands out, featuring a boy who teases a stutterer at school. The kindly teacher happens to be a witch, and gives him an enchanted book that ''melts his face off'', and possibly kills him!
68* "The Man who Waxed and Waned", a story from issue 13 of DC's 70s anthology series ''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion'' tells of a mobster who winds up in the care of an elderly witch. He soon discovers the witch is using Wax voodoo dolls to kill random people. The crook tries to get the old lady's secret but ends up killing her and setting her house ablaze before fleeing. Unsurprisingly, she's already made a wax doll of him that he left in the burning house. The man tries to book a plane and meets an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath especially awful version of this fate]] as his body begins heating up intensely [[BodyHorror before dissolving into a blob of molten flesh with what remained of his face still visible.]] All while a nearby family with a young daughter was watching. [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/4/12185-2549-13653-1-forbidden-tales-of-d.jpg The cover really gives it away.]]
69* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In "The Pit" arc, corrupt SJS chief Herman Roth tries to flee the sector after Dredd exposes him, only to be killed by his mob contacts by getting dunked in a barrel full of bio-acid. His flesh has been melted off his bones when the Judges find what's left of him.
70* It would appear that this was the ultimate fate of Dr. Light. Although he was first turned into a [[KarmicDeath candle]] by ComicBook/TheSpectre.
71* This is one of the ways heroes can die from the Morituri Effect in ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri''.
72* In a story from the Post-Crisis ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', Wonder Woman's clone, who was created by Ares' daughter to stir up mistrust and hatred among the people of the world invited to Themyscira for a goodwill feast, eventually melted into a pile of goo when she attempts to strangle Lois Lane.
73* The unfortunate result of one college student's [[PowerIncontinence unstable mutation]] in ''ComicBook/XMen''. Already holding anti-mutant prejudice, added to activating in front of all his peers, he's horrified enough by his body suddenly melting that he commits suicide before Hope Summers can get to him and stabilize his powers.
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77* The classic Wicked Witch melting is parodied in ''Brevity''.
78-->'''Wicked Witch of the West:''' I'm melting! MELTING!!! And on the good rug too...
79* In [[http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Busch,+Wilhelm/Bildergeschichten/Bilderpossen/Der+Eispeter a strip]] by 19th century German artist Creator/WilhelmBusch. Boy Peter leaves the house on a very cold winter day [[AnAesop despite being told not to]] for ice skating, where he promptly freezes in the cold. Fortunately, the hunter finds him and brings him home; but in the oven heat, this trope happens, and all the dolorous parents can do is wipe up the liquid and store it in a jar, [[BlackComedy which they keep in the larder.]]
80* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
81** One of Calvin's {{Imagine Spot}}s involves it being so hot outside that he melts, leaving only his clothes behind. His melted remains then evaporate and then rain, restoring him to solid form, and a now naked Calvin runs off. The strip ends with Calvin's mother picking up his clothes off the sidewalk while muttering [[OhNoNotAgain "Not again!"]]
82** In another ImagineSpot, Calvin imagines drinking one glass of water too many, so that his body becomes 90% water and melts.
83* In one early ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' story-line, Dilbert is sent to Accounting. In Dilbert's company, Accounting is a horrific nightmare realm whose employees are literal trolls and their superior is an evil witch (or wizard — gender doesn't really matter in Accounting). Dilbert transforms him into a troll just from breathing the air, and he is promptly put to work erasing budgets for various departments. Then he is given the budget of the Accounting department itself...
84-->'''Head of Accounting:''' Help me! I'm melting! Aaaagh!
85* This happens to ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' once when he has hoped to merely thaw out of a block of ice.
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89* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' adaptation of Smurfette's origin, Papa Smurf causes Smurfette's physical form to melt back into a lump of clay before he casts the spell that reshapes her into her current real Smurf form. In the story "Days Of Future Smurfed", Empath in one of his jumps into the future sees Smurfette melting back into a lump of clay after Papa Smurf's spell that turns her into a real Smurf eventually fails.
90* When [[TheHeartless the Entity]] enters Twilight Sparkle's body in the beginning of ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'', her transformation into [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Dimmed Star]] begins by the melting of her flesh, which is followed by the melting of her skeleton. She's too busy [[LaughingMad laughing madly]] about the revenge she intends to exact upon Queen Chrysalis to notice this. Her heart remains intact in the buddle that forms, and her new body forms around the heart from said buddle.
91* After the demons stop possessing [[spoiler:Professor Peach's]] in ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'', what's left of her body (her upper torso due to being cut in half) melts into a bloody puddle.
92* ''Fanfic/TheTooniverseEmissary'': Instead of turning into trophies as in the fanfiction's source material ''VideoGame/TheSubspaceEmissary'', cartoon characters are melted into puddles of lifeless paints, which are then scooped up into vials to prevent anybody from reviving them.
93* ''Fanfic/TheUndying'': As per ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' canon, Undyne starts melting due to the sheer amount of determination she's mustered up to stop the human being incompatible with her physiology as a monster. However, Alphys is able to stop her from melting by augmenting her body with a new kind of armor that can handle her excess determination.
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97* Happens to Rasputin in Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' when the heroine smashes the artifact he gained his power from. It's been foreshadowed several times that [[OurLichesAreDifferent he's technically a zombie]], and [[SoulJar the relic is the only thing keeping him alive]], so it was pretty obvious this would happen.
98* Glim in ''WesternAnimation/MuneGuardianOfTheMoon'' is a girl made of wax, so naturally, she's quite frightened of heat because she doesn't want to melt. [[spoiler:She later performs a HeroicSacrifice by keeping the fires of the Sun lit, saving the Sun but melting in the process. Luckily, [[DisneyDeath she gets resculpted and brought back.]]]]
99* Thrax's fate in ''Film/OsmosisJones'' when he falls into a jar of rubbing alcohol, which, due to him being a microscopic virus, has the same effect on him as concentrated acid would to a human.
100* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
101** Late in the animated movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', Freddy, Daphne, and Velma are tied up, as wax voodoo dolls of themselves are tossed dangerously close to a fire (Oh, and btw, the supernatural stuff is for real this time.) The actual character's faces visually start to melt before Scooby runs in and pulls the voodoo dolls away from the fire.
102** In the sequel to the above, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' Shaggy runs into a real witch, or the ghost of her, and tries this. [[AvertedTrope She just glared at Shaggy.]]
103* In a scene near the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', a number of [[NominalImportance anonymous]] Cybertronian robots are shown dissolving in a pit of molten metal inside Unicron's "belly", in order to set up a BigDamnHeroes moment when Daniel and the Autobots come to rescue the ones [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality we actually care about]]. Their demise is accompanied by the usual splashing, struggling, then turning cherry red and sinking out of sight.
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107* The Joker subverts this trope (what else?) in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'', when Vicki Vale throws a pitcher of water at him in order to distract him. After impersonating [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch]] [[OhCrapFakeout and crying "I'm melting!" for a few seconds]], he then shouts "Boo!" at Vicki, just before Batman [[SuperWindowJump smashes through the skylight]] in probably the iconic BigDamnHeroes moment of the film. This also reveals that the Joker's iconic chalky-white skin really ''is'' his skin now in this version, not makeup like we've been led to believe, and that the normal skin tone he had before in this scene is the makeup instead.
108* The final battle of ''Film/TheBattleWizard'', a fantasy kung-fu film, has its main villain dying from dissolving into a pool of white foam after being overloaded with too much ''chi''.
109* This is what happens to anyone who is consumed and digested by ''Film/{{The Blob|1988}}'', shown in ''graphic'' detail. [[EyeScream Some of them have their eyes being liquefied into pools of blood]]. Others seem to no longer have skin or bones after being snared and entrapped in the terrible stuff. [[AnArmAndALeg Try to pull them out of the Blob, you'll probably only succeed in pulling an arm off]].
110* The 1993 Aussie BodyHorror film ''Film/BodyMelt'' involves [[WeightLossHorror an experimental diet pill]] created to make the perfect human, but it [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], causing various horrifying mutations including growing tentacles, exploding body parts, and of course the titular melting bodies.
111* In the "Overtoke" segment from ''Film/{{Campfire Tales|1991}}'', an oddly destructive weed causes its users to break apart and ultimately melt into a green puddle after prolonged use.
112* The ghostly trio of ''Film/{{Casper}}'' are melted away when exposed to sunlight. [[spoiler:This is merely a ruse.]]
113* ''Film/CubeZero'': A particularly disgusting example happens when a character who appears in the opening minutes gets completely sprayed with some sort of odorless tissue-eating acid. He initially thinks that it's water, thirstily gulping it down before noticing that his skin turns waxy and starts to flake off.
114* When Zack in ''Film/TheCurse'' tries to get his mother out of their house that's collapsing due to the meteor's influence, he finds out that she has mutated to the point that her entire body breaks apart and melts into a puddle of black goo.
115* The climax of ''Film/TheDevilsRain'' shows the satanic cult melting due to the eponymous occurrence.
116* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', [[spoiler:the spokesman vampire toward the end of the film has this fate, with his impaled body dripping off of his bones until he is a very emaciated corpse on the stake he was impaled with.]]
117* This happens partially in ''[[Film/DaftPunksElectroma Electroma]]'', where two robots, wishing to be human, have masks that looked like human faces. Unfortunately [[GlamourFailure the masks melt in the sun.]]
118* In ''Film/FlashGordon1980'', General Kala is shot on a staircase and falls prone, after which a pool of black liquid flows down the steps from her collapsing costume.
119* Happens to an unlucky guy in the ''Film/TheFlyII'' when the angry man-fly hybrid monster attacks him.
120* In ''Film/FoodOfTheGods2'', "evil" scientist Edmond Delhurst suffers a meltdown death after he accidentally infects himself with a mixture of dog cancer cells and the titular growth hormone. He promptly turns into a gloppy puddle of cancerous goo.
121-->'''Neil Hamilton:''' Edmond? God, you look awful!
122* Several of the vampire deaths in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn2TexasBloodMoney'', as the staked vampires' partially fleshed skeletons remain intact while a nasty black fluid flows out of them, forming a puddle on the ground.
123* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
124** Happens to Godzilla at the end of ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' as he's dying of a literal nuclear meltdown. His body temperature has reached the critical 12,000 degrees which causes the flesh to start melting off of his bones. One close-up shot even shows his own ''dorsal fins'' melting away.
125** ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah''[='=]s titular BigBad, the pollution monster Hedorah, is shown killing unfortunate people in numerous different ways as he seeks out new sources of pollution to feed on, this method being one of them. Hedorah is able to fire concentrated jets of sulphuric acid vapour from his body which reduce anyone unlucky enough to be caught by the jets to nothing but bones on the ground.
126* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', the title creatures melt into puddles of green goo (leaving only a skeleton behind) when exposed to sunlight. ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' shows that somehow, you get the same effect when you get them wet then electrocute them, too.
127* ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'':
128** In the film adaptation of ''Film/TheGuyver'', [[spoiler:after Sean has the unit literally pulled out from his head by Lisker]].
129** Also in the more successful sequel, ''Film/GuyverDarkHero''. Once the villainous Guyver Zoanoid is mortally wounded in battle, [[spoiler:Sean pulls out the unit from his head.]] It melts down to a skeleton, which was only briefly seen before Guyver finished him off [[ChestBlaster in his signature style]].
130* ''Film/TheIncredibleMeltingMan'' tells the unfortunate tale of an astronaut who is slowly, painfully, experiencing this effect.
131* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'': ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. '''"DON'T LOOK, MARION! KEEP YOUR EYES SHUT!"''' This is what Indiana Jones tells Marion when Belloq, Dietrich, Toht and the Nazis open the Ark of the Covenant. Indy and Marion wisely keep their eyes closed, while the Nazis and Belloq suffer God's wrath. Those who look end up being killed gruesomely by the Ark, but ''Toht'' is the one whose death stands out, as his face literally melts off of his skull in liquid form. He is left gurgling on his own blood even after most of his skin has been graphically reduced to a fleshy puddle, implying that he's drowning in his own blood as his flesh liquefies.
132* When Jason has to switch bodies in ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'', the former one graphically rots away.
133* The eponymous {{Monster Clown}}s from ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' melt down a security guard by throwing acid pies at him.
134-->'''Security guard:''' What are you gonna do with those pies, boys?
135* In ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife'', the main villain gets thrown into a pit of black acid-like liquid. He spends a few dozen seconds thrashing around while his skin and muscle slowly melt off him.
136* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
137** Combined with shrinking in ''Film/AntMan1'', when Darren Cross uses an imperfect shrink ray to reduce an intransigent investor to a tiny glob of fleshy goo.
138** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The Grandmaster uses a weapon looking like a rod topped by a sphere to execute people who displeased him, as he demonstrates with his "cousin" next to Thor. This results in the victim melting into a blue goo, to Thor's horror. Then the Grandmaster complains that he got some on his shoes. In a later scene, he refers to it as "the melt stick".
139* Taken to CrossesTheLineTwice levels in ''Film/PlanetTerror'', when a would-be rapist's ''[[GroinAttack genitals]]'' melt off.
140* In ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'', one of Clarence Boddicker's goons, Emil Antonowsky, gets soaked in industrial waste after running his van into a tank of the corrosive stuff. He starts slowly melting (while still alive!), while shambling around in pain. Clarence eventually hits Emil with his car, at which point he's so melted that his body literally explodes into goo on impact. Being Clarence, he seems more upset over the mild inconvenience Emil's goo had on driving than the death of his lackey, the jerk.
141* Subverted in ''Film/{{Sky High|2005}}'', in that melting into goo is actually Ethan's ''[[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway power]]''.
142* In ''Film/StreetTrash'', a long-expired alcoholic drink called "Tenafly Viper" causes those who drink it to slowly and grotesquely melt into multicolored sludge. The most famous scene involves a hobo slowly melting into the toilet bowl he's sitting on, his arm breaking off at the wrist when he tries to grab the flush handle to pull himself out. He's quickly reduced to a groaning, half-melted head bobbing around in the bowl.
143* The ''[[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 Super Mario Bros.]]'' has Koopa mention early in the film that all life started out as primeval slime, foreshadowing the film's climax, where Mario and Luigi turn the De-evolutionizing De-vo guns on him until he turns back into primeval slime himself. Interestingly, there was a deleted clip from early in the film in which the De-vo chamber operator himself was De-evolved into slime. If you watch the film closely, you'll notice a green puddle during the De-vo chamber fight.
144* In ''Film/{{Sweet Home|1989}}'', [[spoiler:Yamamura]] dies in a very graphic way as his flesh melts off of his body, leaving only a crumbling skeleton behind. The scene is present in [[VideoGame/SweetHome1989 the video game adaptation]] as well, and is no less grisly on the Famicom.
145* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': [[spoiler:The T-1000]] after he is shot in the gut with a grenade by the T-800. He falls into a vat of molten steel, where he shrieks [[spoiler:(and [[ShapeShifterSwanSong transforms into his victims]])]] as he melts away.
146* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'': [[spoiler:Stan when he jumps into the lava to save the subway motorman, and in the process, has his entire body melted into the lava.]] [[{{Narm}} It probably wasn't meant to be as funny as it turned out.]]
147* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, for a scene where Dorothy accidentally splashes the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not react well to water.
148* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' didn't show it often, but did bring it to disturbing levels with the Dip. [[spoiler:When Judge Doom, the BigBad, is revealed to be a Toon, he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard meets his end by his own concoction]], and his death is very much a ShoutOut to the Wicked Witch's death in ''The Wizard of Oz''.]]
149* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
150** Seen in ''Film/XMen1'', with [[spoiler:Senator Kelly, whose body has turned very unstable by Magneto's mutation-inducing machine. It starts with the hand Storm was clutching, and then everything is broken down until becoming pure water!]]
151** Iceman in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' by [[spoiler:''three'' Sentinels in the climax, as his "frozen body" form is torn down]].
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155* In the world of ''Literature/LoneWolf'', many an [[TheUndead Undead]] (above the standard skeletons or zombies) dissolves into foul-smelling goo upon destruction. Notably the case for [[MookLieutenant Vordaks]] or [[HumanShifting Helghast]] among the servants of the [[EvilOverlord Darklords]], or for the [[DemonicSpiders mutated boss undead]] of [[OurLichesAreDifferent Deathlord Ixiataaga]] from Book 17.
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159* In ''Literature/AttackOfTheMutant'', [[spoiler:the protagonist defeats the titular supervillain by getting him to melt ''himself''. (The Masked Mutant is a shapeshifter who can turn into any solid at will and change back again. The protagonist [[TrickingTheShapeshifter tricks the Mutant into turning into a wave of sulfuric acid]] -- [[ExactWords which is a liquid, meaning he can't change back]].)]]
160* In Michael Reaves' ''The Burning Realm'', the Deathlings are human victims of a supernatural disease inflicted by a vengeful Cthon. They become more and more sensitive to sensations, and more vulnerable to injury, until they're incapacitated by their condition, go into convulsions, and literally ''disintegrate'' into melting flesh and cracked bone.
161* ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'': In ''Death Warmed Over'', several zombies and other unfortunate Unnaturals get reduced to goo by an [[FantasticRacism anti-Unnatural]] racist's plot to annihilate their kind.
162* The villains of Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Histories]]'' book ''Thomas'' have poisoned weapons that doom their victims to melting into piles of steaming sludge at the slightest prick.
163* In ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'', [[spoiler:Wilbur Whateley's non-human heritage is revealed when his furry, scaly, tentacled, nine-foot corpse dissolves into paste, leaving nothing behind but some discoloration to the floor]].
164* ''Literature/TheElenium'': In ''The Tamuli'', people are terrified of the Shining Ones for their ability to inflict an extremely nasty fate with a touch: their victims' flesh sloughs off their bones as they ''rot alive''. The Shining Ones are [[BlessedWithSuck equally horrified]] by it.
165* ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'':
166** Wizards react the same way to soapy water with a little lemon juice in it. Why this occurs is never explained; it seems to have something to do with their magic, and probably also with the fact their appearance is repeatedly described as "greasy". They [[UnexplainedRecovery recover somehow]], but it does put them out of commission for awhile. The lemon juice ''is'' a critical component, as well.
167** Later on, Telemain develops a spell that replicates the effect. It's more portable than buckets and can be used multiple times in rapid succession without having to reload (again unlike a bucket), but it doesn't last quite as long as an actual bucketful of soapy lemon water (possibly because the puddle is pure wizard, without the melting agent mixed in).
168** Averted by a friendly witch who was splashed at the same time as the wizards in one book. The princess who soaked them figured the witch would be safe (if wet) because she kept a very tidy and clean home, and there's no way someone that good at house-cleaning would have any problems with soap and water.
169* In Creator/PeterStraub's ''Floating Dragon'', the nerve agent DRG-16 is accidentally released from a Department of Defense chemical plant, and causes a number of people to meet this fate.
170* In ''Literature/HallowMass'' [[spoiler:Chester Sawyer]]'s body dissolves into slime upon his death.
171* This is part of the drawback of Kent's power in ''Literature/HeroWorship''. Over the course of the day, he becomes more and more liquid until he's a puddle on the ground. When he sleeps, he reforms into whatever shape the liquid settles in. To look human, he sleeps in a mold.
172* ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': This happens to one of a villain's underlings in ''Mid-Flinx'' when he falls prey to some jungle animals' drug-laced and flesh-liquefying stingers. Thanks to the former, he doesn't even realize it's happening until too late.
173* In Hans Christian Andersen's original version of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', mer-people dissolve into sea foam when they die. This is the fate that threatens the title character if she can't win the prince's love. [[spoiler:In the end it does happen, but [[DiedHappilyEverAfter her spirit lives on]].]]
174* A messy version happens to [[spoiler:Messalla]] when he is [[spoiler:caught in a pod with a laser of golden light]] in ''Literature/{{Mockingjay}}''.
175* In ''Literature/NakedLunch'', one of the parties of [[WretchedHive Interzone]] are the Liquefactionists, a group devoted to liquidating and absorbing their rivals. Inevitably, they always turn on each other. Eventually, there will only be one Liquefactionist left, and that person will have won. Most readers interpret them as a caricature of the cutthroat nature of capitalism.
176* This is how HeroicRROD and VillainousRROD manifest in ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner''. If one spends too much time without [[HorrorHunger devouring anyone]], their bodies will start consuming themselves and soon will melt into a black, tar-like goo.
177* In the Creator/IsaacAsimov short story "Rain, Rain, Go Away", a family of nosy neighbors nonetheless makes friends with a new family that moved in. They noted that the new family seems to be deathly afraid of rain, but writes it off as everyone having their own special quirks. They invite the new family to a carnival, where everyone has a good time until they see storm clouds. The new family is desperate to get home, up to and including crying when they hear radio reports that the rain is going to strike soon. When they finally get home, they only make it halfway:
178-->'''Mother:''' Honestly! You'd think they were... ''[rain suddenly starts at the family proceeds to melt]'' ... made of sugar and afraid they would melt?
179* ''Literature/RedDwarf'': [[spoiler:This is how Rimmer dies in ''Backwards'', being melted from the inside out until he's just a pile of human flesh containing his eyeballs, thanks to the Armageddon virus making it into his light bee. [[AndIMustScream He's aware of the whole process, too]].]]
180* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': This is how [=DomDaniel=] ends in the climax of ''Flyte'', by melting down in a puddle of slime.
181* ''Literature/ToyAcademy'': In the climax of Book 1, [[spoiler:Bootleg]] attempts to melt Commander Hedgehog to death by putting him in a Margie Bake Oven. Justified because Commander Hedgehog is made of plastic. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Grumbolt unplugs the oven and lets Commander Hedgehog out before any real harm is done to him]].
182* ''Literature/TranslationState'': [[HumanOutsideAlienInside Presger Translators]] need to "match" with someone in a {{Permafusion}} at the end of their maturation; if they don't, their biology gets so unstable that they literally fall apart. A Translator who [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil tries to force a match]] is publicly executed by being sealed in an observation room alone.
183* Not shown, but it's mentioned in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' that Unseen University's sports instructor, Evans the Striped, died by spontaneous evaporation. Ridcully's a bit put out that one of UU's wizards would die in such an unimpressive fashion.
184* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': In ''Diplomatic Immunity'', we find that the Star Creche has a bioweapon that melts people.
185* ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', the inspiration for the {{Trope Namer|s}}. After the Wicked Witch of the West steals one of the Silver Slippers from Dorothy, the girl becomes so enraged, she dumps a bucket of water all over the witch, who then melts before Dorothy's eyes. Note that it's not nearly instantaneous: the witch has enough time for a dialogue in which she asks the stupid question "did you not know water could destroy me?" Even (especially) as a child, it's obvious to the reader that had she known, Dorothy would have done it weeks ago. Worth noting is that the book provides a surprisingly legitimate reason for this: The witch magically kept herself alive for so long that her body had essentially mummified and dried to a dust that, due to this same magic, held intact right where it all belonged "like brown sugar", until Dorothy introduced a solvent to it. In the film though, water simply causes her to evaporate into steam, presumably because "it's Oz".
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189* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', this is the result of Radcliffe's failed Inhuman experiment.
190* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E8TheDarkAge The Dark Age]]", an old friend of Giles has been killed by a demon they used to summon up, who then inhabits his body. When things get rough for the demon he leaves the body, which promptly dissolves into a puddle of greenish goo.
191* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]" has the villain Kane, a [[AnIcePerson low-temperature lifeform]], commit suicide by exposing himself to strong sunlight, causing him to melt. Probably one of the most gruesome sequences in the history of the show (you see his face drip off his skull), and astonishing when you think it got broadcast in an early-evening family show.
192* In the ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' episode "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S2E2E3AttackOfTheMutant Attack of the Mutant]]", said mutant's supervillain power was his ability to turn into anything, with one exception: If he turns into a liquid, he can't turn back. The KidHero defeats him by telling him he should try turning into acid. This is depicted as the villain evaporating away while his costume (and mask) crumple up flat, into a steamy pile of clothes.
193* The {{Toku}}satsu show ''Film/MessageFromSpace: Galactic Battle'' (''Uchu kara no messeji: Ginga taisen'', better known as ''San Ku Kaï'' in Europe or ''Sankuokai'' in Latin America) features one villain of the week with water-based powers who melts into foam when killed, which then takes fire. (It stands out because most other villains [[DefeatEqualsExplosion would rather explode]].)
194* In an episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', The Hitcher takes a shower in the FountainOfYouth so that he can become younger and more powerful. Naboo flushes the nearby toilet to stop him, heating up the water in the shower and melting The Hitcher into a green milkshake-like slime.
195* This is what {{Wi|ckedWitch}}tchblade in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' says after being destroyed by the Shogun Megazord, except this trope is averted, as instead of melting, she topples over and explodes while saying:
196-->'''Witchblade:''' Oh no, I'm falling... falling... what a world...!
197* In the Halloween special of ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'', the evil cyborg Debbie melted into black goo after overheating when the students disobeyed her orders.
198* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion Course: Oblivion]]", the crew of ''Voyager'' discover that they are biomimetic copies of themselves when the Doctor injects B'Elanna Torres's dead body with a dichromate catalyst, which instantly causes it to revert into a blob of "silver blood" from the earlier "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E22Demon Demon]]" episode. Later on, the biomimetic ''Voyager'' itself disintegrates into formless particles when force fields holding the dissolving ship together fail.
199* In the [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot pilot episode]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the [[EtherealWhiteDress Woman in White]] and her children dissolve into a puddle of water before bursting into flame.
200* Vampires in ''Series/TrueBlood'' melt into horrible bloody goo when they get staked.
201* The various ''Franchise/UltraSeries''' have their monsters killed off in this manner:
202** In ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', Banila is killed by Aboras's Acidic Foam spraying him.
203** ''Series/UltraSeven'':
204*** Gabura melts into Yellow Slim after the Alien Shadow's Ship is destroyed.
205*** Dally is reduced into Bubbles by a one-time only attack from Ultra Seven.
206*** Dancan dies in the "Soda Pop" style after Seven hits him with the Emerium Ray.
207** ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'':
208*** Alien Nackle goes out like this when he dies after being dropped on his head by Jack.
209*** Sasahiller is reduced into foam by Jack's Specium Ray.
210** BigBad Commander Black turns into green foamy goo at the end of ''Series/UltramanLeo''.
211* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
212** An entire episode revolves around an assassin erasing clones from existence by using a powerful acid in his blood.
213** Alien hybrids most often dissolve into green goo when killed.
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217* The Christmas song "Frosty the Snowman" mentions having fun before he melts away. In the animation based on the song, he melts in the greenhouse where he takes a little girl to keep her warm. TearJerker.
218* The album ''Death Valley High'' by Music/ZombinaAndTheSkeletones is a concept album that tells the story of a troubled young girl who slaughters her classmates in the song "Janie's Got a Dissolvo Ray".
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222* Occurs in Creator/JerseyJackPinball's ''Pinball/TheWizardOfOz'' with the Wicked Witch, of course.
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226* In ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' episode "The Childe Harold Rewarde," Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty reduce Seagoon to liquid in a steam-bath and trap him in a bottle. They then threaten to ''drink'' him as part of an extortion scheme. Because this is ''The Goon Show,'' Seagoon begged the audience for help from within his bottle.
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230* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'':
231** The spell ''infallible servant'' from the book ''Exemplar of Evil'' can turn a creature into a foul sludge if slain or captured after casting, making it impossible to interrogate or resurrect. Note that this spell is mostly cast on ''willing subjects''.
232** The Keepers, an Outsider race described in the ''Fiend Folio'', have this as a racial trait. If they are captured or pinned down for more than 10 rounds, they dissolve into a puddle of poison.
233* ''TabletopGame/RedDwarf'': Wax droids risk this if put into too high a temperature setting. Having a wax droid and an iguana in the same party can cause major headaches due to iguanas becoming unresponsive in low temperature settings.
234* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': The spell Turn To Goo does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and (because it affects flesh but not implants) is popular with those who like pawning slain opponents' secondhand cyberware.
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238* In the stage adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula dies in this manner after Ariel destroys her nautilus shell.
239* In ''Theatre/TheSnowMaiden'' [[spoiler:that's how the title character meets her end.]]
240* Subverted in ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', in which [[spoiler:Elphaba is indeed splashed with water by Dorothy, only to be revealed to have faked her own death using a trapdoor in order for her and Fiyero (who Elphaba cast a spell on so he wouldn't be executed, turning him into The Scarecrow) to leave Oz together. A heartbroken Glinda, though, still thinks her best friend is dead.]]
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244* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', it is implied that Zaktan may have done something like this to a Toa of Plasma, since the only sign of him left was an orange puddle, although it's still ambiguous as to what actually happened in that room. [[spoiler:Tahu also partly melts Nektann using his heat powers in self-defense, but manages to avoid killing him.]]
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248* Characters in the ''VideoGame/ArmyMen'' games who are attacked with a flamethrower will flatten out into a puddle and fade away. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because all the characters are plastic toy soldiers, which will melt in high temperatures.
249* The death screen for the Scions in ''[[VideoGame/Battlezone1998 Battlezone II: Combat Commander]]'' has a hand desperately trying to reach out from a pool of biometal as it melts. The ISDF on the other hand features LudicrousGibs as a soldier is ripped apart from weapons fire whilst simultaneously melting from said weapons fire. Presumably, the ESRB [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath saw neither judging]] by the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids game's rating]].
250* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': In one death scene in the cocoon chamber, a spray of acid hits Lance's face, resulting in his entire face and head melting (except for the eyeballs) along with his entire body, which melts away into nothingness at all.
251* In the ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}'' series, one of Bubsy's death animations has him melting into a puddle.
252* A variant occurs in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', when Conker defeats the Great Mighty Poo via flushing him down the toilet. Also doubles as a nice ShoutOut to the ''Wizard of Oz'' example.
253-->'''Great Mighty Poo:''' Arrgh, you cursed squirrel! Look what you have done! I'm flushing, I'm flushing! Oh what a world, what a world. Who would've thought a good little squirrel like you could destroy my beautiful clagginess?
254* In ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}: No Regret'' the LNR-81 "Liquefier" Catalytic Cartridge rifle fires projectiles with explosive warheads intended to disperse a catalytic chemical that breaks down molecular bonds especially in organic matter. Living things that get hit vaporize into a ghostly outline before collapsing to the ground into a puddle of base matter.
255* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem: Time to Kill'', enemies you kill melt into puddles of blood regardless of the method used to kill them.
256* Memorably, [[BlackComedy hilariously/disturbingly]], and [[GoodBadBugs unintentionally]] occurred in the early releases of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' v.2010. Due to a mistake in the materials files, if a dwarf got wet in hot weather, all of their body fat would melt off and they'd bleed to death.
257* Supplemental material for the ''VideoGame/ExaPico'' series indicates that this happens to Pureblooded Reyvateils when they die -- their bodies are created from biofluid, and only retain that shape for as long as the Reyvateil lives. (This doesn't happen to Halfblooded Reyvateils because they're functionally humans with Reyvateil powers.)
258* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games, [[PlasmaCannon plasma weapons]] have a special effects death wherein the victim dissolves into a puddle of green slime. In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', this is accompanied by a wet, slurpy sort of sound -- lasers, which burn the target to ashes, have a crisp, crackling, burning sort of noise. The ''Fallout 3'' versions are considerably different from ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', though plasma still reduces its victim to goo. Or rather, it melts the flesh off the bones, which promptly collapse into the resultant puddle for a stereotypical 'Bones' version. Lasers just cut victims in half (or thirds depending). Fallout 3's lasers actually act more like Fallout 2's pulse rifles in that regard, incidentally. This also happens to the player character upon activating Project Purity at the end of the game, unless the ''Broken Steel'' {{expansion pack}} is installed. Since there are too many of them to leave intact corpses without excessive performance drag, the Marked Men in the final battle of ''Lonesome Road'' all undergo plasma melting after death.
259* The Particle Beam in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' disintegrates enemies. Alma also does it to several FEAR and Delta soldiers.
260* Almost all the enemies in ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'' will do this upon death. The effect interestingly begins with the enemy's body glowing a bright green light before falling into a body-shaped stain on the floor.
261* In ''VideoGame/{{Gruntz}}'', this is how Gruntz die (if not blown up, crushed falling into hazards, or exploded) - they turn into a pile of goo that can be later sucked up to reuse for creation of another grunt. Also said word for word as one of their death quotes.
262* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'': The BigBad, [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo]], is forced to be contained in the "[[TailorMadePrison Eternal Capsule]]" [[spoiler:after being split apart from [[GoodCounterpart Elfilin]], the side of them that's good at showing compassion and friendliness]], making them a DarkLordOnLifeSupport who can barely stay alive in the outside world. And should they get out, they will go unstable and start heavily melting.
263* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
264** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Like-likes will slowly melt into a puddle before burning away.
265** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' features an enemy made of ice completely resistant to everything but fire magic, which reduces it to a shrinking puddle.
266** In some older 2.5 betas of ''VideoGame/ZeldaClassic'', there is some unused sprites of Wizzrobes, depicting them as melting into a pile of clothes, and reappearing elsewhere. Since there is no way to place these sprites in a Wizzrobe's animation (they just flicker with their normal sprites), this never took off.
267** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda: Wand of Gamelon]]'', Hectan undergoes the effervescent variety when Zelda defeats him, leaving behind a [[BeatStillMyHeart (suspiciously beating)]] Heart Container.
268--->'''Hectan:''' YOU'VE '''KILLED''' ME! ''[dissolves away]''\
269'''Zelda:''' Good.
270* Parodied at the end of the first level of ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes'', when Sandman is hit with water, making him vulnerable for the exact opposite reason of this trope.
271-->'''Sandman:''' I'm melting! MELTING! No wait, I mean, I'm solidifying! SOLIDIFYING! Oh, what a world...
272* [[YetAnotherStupidDeath This can happen]] to Larry Laffer in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'' if he doesn't bother to remove his leisure suit before either jumping into the mud bath or entering the sauna at La Costa Lotta.
273* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
274** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': Some weapon mods like incendiary or toxic ammo cause this on enemies when they're killed.
275** In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 sequel]], this is the final fate of [[spoiler:those captured by the collectors, and not rescued in time; or a random colonist if you save everyone...well, everyone else, that is]].
276* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
277** Shoot tinbots with the plasma beam in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', and they will sink into bright puddles.
278** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'': A particularly brutal and graphic example occurs when the mini-boss Crocomire is pushed into a pit of acid. After bobbing up and down a bit trying to get out, it screams at a very high pitch and flesh starts peeling off in gooey streaks until only the skeleton remains.
279* In Website/FunOrb's ''Miner Disturbance'', the trope name can be your epitaph in case of death by lava.
280* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' have this fate happening to {{Man Eating Plant}}s, [[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]] and [[BlobMonster blobs]] once they're killed. Surprisingly enough, this ''doesn't'' happen to Wicked Witches, an enemy type which resembles the one from ''Wizard of Oz'', where witches upon defeat are turned into frogs.
281* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
282** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'', one of Shang Tsung's {{F|inishingMove}}atalties causes his opponent's flesh to melt off of their skin as he takes their soul. There's also knocking an opponent into the Deadpool.
283** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', one of Smoke's Fatalities has him fill his opponent's body with corrosive smoke, causing their flesh to melt off of their bones.
284** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', one of Reptile's Fatalities has him spit a puddle of acid at the opponent's feet, causing their body to slowly dissolve until only an arm is left.
285** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' with one of Erron Black's fatalities, wherein he throws a jar of acid on the ground, kneecaps his opponent, then pushes their head into the acid puddle, melting half of their head before stomping on the remaining half.
286* In one of the ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' missions, Tomba the walking snowman melts when you have to melt the ice that another character is frozen in. You get awarded a bonus for making it cold again so that he freezes again.
287* This also happens to dead enemies in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Black/Sigma''.
288* There exist a couple of Franchise/{{Pokemon}} (especially [[BlobMonster blobby or water-based ones]]) that can learn a move called Acid Armor, which is sort of invoking this trope. Contrary to the trope's outcome, though, it doesn't kill the Pokémon, it just raises its defense a lot.
289* Enemies in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' melt after death. The Novistador's acid attacks inflict grisly melting on Leon's [[FacialHorror face]].
290* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
291** In Sierra's ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter'', being hit by a drop of acid has it "sear its way to your feet" (through your head), but the VGA remake dissolves Roger the protagonist top-down, into a puddle of goo and a really stupid-looking head in a protective helmet. The VGA remake also features the trope name spoken in a sound clip when this happens.
292** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge'', Roger can fall into a death trap of green acid. [[HollywoodAcid Contrary to type]], it kills him gradually, complete with descriptive text!
293** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon'' (and an easter egg in ''Space Quest IV''), going unprotected on a volcanic world causes Roger to melt into a puddle. Roger can also (rather easily) fall into the lava, and the HaveANiceDeath picture was accompanied with a half-melted, mostly skeletal Roger trying to get out of the goo.
294** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers'', being caught by a slime monster causes Roger to fall straight into it, with a suitable shot of his half-skeletal form trying to claw his way back out.
295** Nobody melts in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation''. We thought we'd mention that for the novelty value. The Pukoids seem half-melted, though.
296** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVIRogerWilcoInTheSpinalFrontier'', Roger can fall into a pool of acid, with a suitable scene of flailing around and bobbing to the surface with his flesh melted off before a ground-up sizzling into oblivion.
297* In ''VideoGame/StarControl Origins'', the Pinthi virus is stated to cause a wide variety of symptoms among different lifeforms, but almost all of them eventually end up liquefying in the end. The Pinthi themselves often use "liquefy" as a synonym for "kill".
298-->'''Pinthi viral colony:''' If you were to look upon us directly with your eyes, we would appear to you as a pile of sludge. Your eyes would then also turn into sludge. Followed by the rest of you.
299* [[PoisonousPerson F.A.N.G.]]'s EstablishingCharacterMoment in the story mode of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' has him chase a female scientist and kill her this way. Her melting isn't shown onscreen as the scene cuts to black, but all that's left of her afterwards is a puddle of purple goo, with F.A.N.G. nastily licking some of it.
300* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' has several enemies and even allies that appear to be made of paint. Water, which is your main weapon in the game, will cause these paint beings to melt into a puddle of paint.
301* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', [[spoiler:when Demon Bride Elaine sprays GhostPirate Guybrush with root beer, he dissolves into a skeleton, before he thankfully rematerializes back into the Crossroads Center]].
302* ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' has this as a representation of a Mii responding to their absolute least favorite food ever.
303* Is present in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' in a most nightmarish way possible. Killing [[spoiler:Undyne]] causes her to melt. In Neutral Route, [[spoiler:[[https://youtu.be/tpR_mvYUI8U?t=5m31s her sprite wavers while piano version of "Ruins" plays in the background]], and then she melts while screaming that she can't die yet]]. In Genocide [[spoiler:attempting to kill Monster Kid causes her to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice herself]]. Than her sprite begins wavering again, but now she decides that she cannot die yet and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome becomes one of two Genocide bosses]] [[ThatOneBoss that actually can do something to stop you]]. In the end, she melts, but this time she's smiling, because she is sure that someone will stop you]]. This is explained on a Pacifist Route in [[spoiler:the True Lab]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:monsters can't handle large amounts of Determination like humans can; too much of it causes them to melt. While the Amalgamates were injected with Determination that was taken from human souls, it's implied that Undyne had some of her own, although it's unknown if it's possible with other monsters or not]].
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307* ''The Patient S Remedy'': The premise involves the terminal disease known as "Candle Syndrome", in which the body seems to almost melt like a candle due to cellular degeneration.
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311* ''WebAnimation/GenericPurpleProtogen'': In "A Protogen Goes Outside (during summer)", the purple protogen melts into a puddle of purple liquid as a consequence of going outside in Texas during the summer.
312* This is the fate of the Ice Cream Man in ''WebAnimation/MokeysShow'' after [[ItMakesSenseInContext being slapped by the sun.]]
313-->'''Ice Cream Man:''' ''[screaming]''\
314'''Mokey:''' MR ICE CREAM MAN, NO!\
315'''Ice Cream Man:''' I'M MELTING MOKEY! AAAAAA-- ''[disappears]''
316* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': In the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' segment in "[[Recap/SMG4WeirdMarioGamesBeLike Weird Mario Games Be Like...]]", Yoshi melt Baby Mario using ''Nap Time''.
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320* In ''Webcomic/CheshireCrossing'', '''all''' witches are vulnerable to this in Oz. This not only explains why the Wicked Witch of the West had buckets of water all over the place (in case the Good Witches came calling), but also allows her to ambush and incapacitate an invading [[spoiler:Mary Poppins]].
321* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': One of the [[DeathMontage many deaths]] of Count Beausoleil is depicted as one of his remote bodies liquefying and dripping with the {{unsound effect}} [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170616 melt.]]
322* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', K'seliss the "[[LizardFolk lizard-ogre]]" gets [[{{Squick}} dissolved bit by bit]] by a horrifying undead abomination. And ''still'' manages to [[TakingYouWithMe take the damn thing down with him]] with [[DyingMomentOfAwesome all four limbs and his tail gone]].
323* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': When Molly's ''steam-powered'' robot snowman (unsurprisingly) melts, Jean quotes the Wicked Witch: "What a world! What a world!"
324* In ''Webcomic/JupiterMen'', Quintin panics when he first gets his powers as his arms are stumps melting into green slime. He shuts his eyes and has a RapidFireNo as he wishes it to stop. [[SubvertedTrope He's relieved when he opens his eyes and his hands are back.]]
325* ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'' subverts this. Bill thinks Ilene's {{Snowlem}} character will melt in the summer, but instead snow creatures in this game just lose lots of defense points.
326* Seen in ''Webcomic/MetroidThirdDerivative'' when a Pirate challenged Samus. Unfortunately, he was standing in a high concentration of phazon at the time. Samus delivered a spin on the Trope name, in response to this.
327* In ''Webcomic/TheNoob'', the {{ZERG|Rush}} team encounters a [[KillerRabbit "cute little squirrel"]] in a high level forest. [[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/148/ It doesn't end well]].
328* Professor Corwin's Apsinthion Device does a this to coeds in ''Tales of Gnosis College''. They '''love''' it.
329* ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'': [[spoiler:Direct contact with The Tar]] causes this effect in anything made from it. [[spoiler:This includes most non-human life in the setting, including those capable of breeding descendants on their own, and even humans who have pieces of non-humans in them, like Hazel.]]
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333* In ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'', the creature [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/waxwork.htm Waxwork]] can do this [[BodyHorror to your skin]] and then absorb the melted flesh into itself.
334* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Mixed with KillItWithWater, when it's revealed in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content-menu/stories/312 Call the Thunder: Chapter 5 - Idiots 'R Us]], that:
335-->[Hijacker] was "The big Meanie" who had once chased [the Three Little Witches] with a bucket of water wanting to see who'd melt.
336* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
337** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2207 SCP-2207]] ("[[DimensionalCutter Dimensional Razor]]") is a plastic knife that can cut open portals to other universes, but it also [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds messes with the physical laws]] of those universes as a result, resulting in an "Yggdrasil-Severance Event" that disconnects each universe from the multiverse. One example happens in Exploration #46, where everything, including living beings, sags down and melts in less than 10 minutes.
338** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]] ("Red Reality") is a PocketDimension with extremely low Hume levels. Foundation researcher Robert Scranton got trapped inside it thanks to a FreakLabAccident. As time passed by, his own Hume levels started to decrease, causing his body to disappear piece by piece. Even worse, [[AndIMustScream he remained alive and conscious through it all]].
339* Many examples in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYLUMYZrK4&list=PLMlsxJWSPj4h3zoGa2xavmO3FcF29nCf6 Sheigala: Vampire Business Women]] one of the vampire henchwomen melts into bones when she's staked in the heart. And in the final episode, the main villainess Santrina melts into a puddle of gore after eating meat tainted with garlic.
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343* This is what happens when the Warners get really, really, '''really bored''' in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
344* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' himself in "[[Recap/ArthurS2E19DWsNameGameFindersKeypers D.W.'s Name Game]]" during D.W.'s DreamSequence, being that the episode is a WholePlotReference to ''Franchise/TheWizardOfOz''. D.W. obtains the word needed to fight Arthur, and when she whispers it to him, he melts!
345-->'''DW:''' Nobody told me you'd melt! Arthur! ''[scoops up Arthur with her Mary Moo Cow cup before his melted body goes down the storm drain]''\
346'''Arthur:''' Calling people names can be dangerous to their health!
347* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
348** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', when several of Poison Ivy's "children" (and seemingly herself) come in contact with weed killer.
349** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', when Inque comes in contact with water. And later, when her protégé tries to become like her. Oh, he survives. [[AndIMustScream Unfortunately]]. Worth noting is that Inque is not permanently incapacitated by water, it's just a major inconvenience. However, her form makes her dependent on mutagen, and when someone slips something nasty into it later on, she completely dissolves and evaporates. Although she is never seen again in the series after this, Batman ''still'' doesn't trust that she is gone for good.
350* A ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' episode with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos vs. Naomi Campbell, in which Rebecca is sprayed with stomach acid, reducing her to a puddle of mush.
351* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
352** "[[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS1E2AOperationISCREAM Operation: I.-S.C.R.E.A.M.]]" had Sector V at the mercy of a giant ice cream monster. Fortunately, Numbah 3 had cranked the heater to maximum, making the monster melt. ("[[InventionalWisdom Who puts a heater in an ice cream factory?!]]")
353** In "[[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS4E7AOperationCHOCOLATE Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.]]", when Heinrich Von Marzipan is fighting Numbuh Five in a spacecraft, she has it en route for the sun. Getting the spacecraft close enough, it's enough for Heinrich's chocolaty body to melt (this is due to Heinrich having fallen in the chocolate volcano in "[[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS4E1AOperationRABBIT Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T.]]", causing him to mutate into a chocolate monster).
354* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', at least twice.
355** Once when a snowman removes the "anti-melting gene" from Eustace.
356** Again when courage overcomes his personality issues in the last episode, which causes the anthropomorphic personification of his self-depreciation (that looks like a SadistTeacher) to dissolve in a black puddle.
357* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has a lot of fun with this:
358** Bud Flood yells this word-for-word after falling into a vat of contaminated water. Darkwing thinks he's being a baby as he tries to pull him out...[[NotHyperbole until he sees that the pole he was trying to grab him with had dissolved]]. This is a unique instance of this trope as not only [[NotQuiteDead did Bud survive]], [[CameBackStrong he actually benefited from it and became]] [[MakingASplash the Liquidator. A water-based being with the power to control all water]].
359** Honker dispatches a pair of giant slugs with the salt packet from his french fries.
360** In "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E55SlimeOkayYoureOkay Slime Okay, You're Okay]]", one of Bushroot's failed experiments in creating companionship for himself results in "Intelligence, Indigestion, Insanity, and In a Puddle" -- and almost kills Gosalyn when she gets exposed to it. (She still hates the cure: plain soap and water.)
361** Splatter Phoenix, a villainess who could turn any painting into a PortalPicture, attempts to kill the heroes in this manner by dousing the picture they were trapped in with turpentine. Too bad for her that that particular picture was ''penciled'' as well as painted. However, '''she herself''' was just painted, making her demise a case of DeathByIrony.
362* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' sees Dodgers and the Cadet do this to a vampire after getting him to eat garlic.
363* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
364** In "Pop Goes the Ed", when the boys try to cool off in a freezer. Sarah kicks them out as one large block of ice, which quickly melts in the sun... taking the boys with it.
365** "One + One = Ed" had Jimmy melt down into a puddle because Eddy removed his "outer lines" (in other words, he pulled off of the ink outlines like they were wires and left the colored part to melt away). The episode later has Sarah confront Ed about it, holding Jimmy in a lemonade pitcher. [[spoiler:Turns out it was just their imagination and never happened...or did it?]]
366--->'''Sarah:''' ''[yelling]'' Wait 'till I tell Mom what you did you Jimmy! ''[holds up pitcher]''\
367'''Jimmy:''' Don't spill me!
368* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E6QuagmiresBaby Quagmire's Baby]]", Stewie creates less-than-intelligent clones of himself and Brian to act as assistants, only for them to become unstable when their bodies literally fall apart and collapse into fleshy gooey puddles.
369* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
370** This happens to Roberto when he eats a piece of Hermes' skin, thanks to years of [=LaBarbara=]'s extremely spicy cooking.
371** The Horrible Gelatinous Blob and his son Brett melt into green gooey puddles whenever they come into contact with salt. Luckily for them, this is only temporary and they re-solidify after a while.
372* The ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'' episode "The Land of Odd" had Haggy Maggie melt after being dripped on by Clogged Duane. She even references the famous scene from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
373-->'''Haggy Maggie:''' I'm melting! Who would've thought a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness! What a world!
374* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', when Goofy introduces a monster made of toxic waste to a whiff of fresh air. The monster's puddle actually swirls into nothing, with a hilarious toilet flushing sound effect.
375* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
376** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters Headhunters]]", the wax figure of Abraham Lincoln is found melted under a sunny window. Grunkle Stan immediately suspects Wax John Wilkes Booth. [[spoiler:The living wax figures are later defeated in the same way, with Wax Sherlock Holmes melting onscreen.]]
377** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E7DoubleDipper Double Dipper]]", the copier clones can be destroyed by liquids. Dipper triggers the fire sprinklers to kill most of them, while Tyrone accidentally kills himself by drinking soda.
378* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Ecto Cooler", Billy recites a poem claiming that looking at Sperg's mother would cause your face to melt. Surely enough, Principal Goodvibes looks at her and his face promptly melts.
379-->'''Goodvibes:''' Could someone get me a tissue?
380* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In the season 3 finale, [[spoiler: a Ghom [[KarmicDeath catches Simon just after he tries to "wheel" Grace]] and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath sucks out his life force, causing the flesh to melt from his bones and ultimately reducing him to nothing but a pile of ash]].]]
381* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'':
382** "Super Duped": When Sweet Cheeks, the candy-themed supervillain in a striped costume, captures Little Suzy and tries to turn her into a large chocolate bunny, Johnny accidentally hoses him down and defeats him while trying to wash mud off his favorite shirt.
383** In a much later episode, a frost giant swallows him while he's having extremely spicy food as last meal. The next moment, Johnny is drowning in a large puddle.
384* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'':
385** June once does this (using a magnifying glass against the sun) to both her and Henry in an episode.
386** "And [[WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow Meltman]] with the power to... [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway uh..]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin melt."]]
387* This happens a lot on ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
388** "Kimitation Nation": When Drakken sent clones of Kim and Bonnie, as well as Ron and Rufus, to attack Kim, Kim was able to melt the clones by spraying soda water at them.
389** "Day of the Snowmen": Kim and Ron held an army of zombie snowmen at bay by melting them with a flamethrower and packets of hot-sauce.
390** "So the Drama": [[spoiler:[[TheMole Eric]]]] met his defeat when Rufus bit him in the ankle, causing his syntho-gel to leak.
391** Shortly after Kim and Ron got together, Ron had a recurring nightmare that, after their first dance, Kim turned into a syntho-drone and melted.
392* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': An Abominable Snowman follows WesternAnimation/BugsBunny to Palm Springs -- he sits in a lounge chair, sweating heavily, occasionally muttering "Gosh, it's hot!" before melting completely into a puddle of water -- seems he really ''was'' a snowman.
393* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', quick clones tend to melt after a while.
394* The ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short "Super Santa: South Pole Joe" had a giant gingerbread man scream that he was melting after a splash of milk turns him into gingerbread pudding.
395* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': In "Lullaby in Frogland", [[spoiler: Adelaide of the Pasture dissolves into smoke and blows away when Beatrice opens the window and exposes Adelaide to [[WeaksauceWeakness the night air]].]]
396* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In the GrandFinale [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E3WatchingAndDreaming "Watching And Dreaming"]], [[spoiler: [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] is subjected to boiling rain, which liquifies his skin and flesh and [[StrippedToTheBone reduces him to a rotten pile of bones]] until even that melts away. Only his skull remains once all is said and done, which [[FinishingStomp Eda, King and Raine promptly stomp into the ground.]]]]
397* ''WesternAnimation/PiratesOfDarkWater'' had one-off villainess, Cray. [[spoiler:She was a skilled alchemist obsessed with regaining her lost youth. After blackmailing Ren to obtain a sample of Darkwater, Cray creates a potion to restores her lost beauty. Towards the end of the episode, the nefarious liquid starts to consume her from the inside and she is reduced to an inky black puddle.]]
398* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'':
399** In "[[Recap/TheProudFamilyS2E10TweenTown Tween Town]]", Creator/AlRoker grants Penny's wish of making the adults disappear after she and her friends get caught sneaking out to his nightclub at the mall and get [[YouAreGrounded grounded]]. After all that fun, the kids soon decide they miss their parents and want them to come home and need Roker to reverse the wish. The only way to do that is with a game of Double Dutch, but Roker defeats Penny by one jump, and could likely have [[WouldHurtAChild Bebe and Cece]] [[MadeASlave working for him along with the other adults making his one-size-fits-all Roker wear]]. However, [[CoolUncle Uncle Bobby]] managed to avoid becoming a victim of the wish, being that he's [[ManChild a kid at heart]], and because he's the only adult who never fell victim to the wish, Penny's contract is declared null and void. The outcome for Roker: he melts!
400** [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyMovie The movie]] has the family facing off with the mad scientist Dr. Carver. [[spoiler:The real Dr. Carver invented a powerful Peanut Liquefication Gas to turn any bad experiments into peanut butter. When the Dr. Carver clone creates an army of Super Genomes to take over the world, plus, evil clones of the titular family, Penny takes the gas and risks her life to defeat the clone and stop the army. She succeeds, and the clone picks up the smell of the gas and destabilizes into a little peanut when he is mere moments away from hitting the water after falling off the blimp.]]
401* A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch features [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Witch of the West herself]] taking a shower. As the water begins to melt her, the Witch says "[[DidntThinkThisThrough I'm such an idiot!]]".
402* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother from the Same Planet]]" has Bart's infamous ImagineSpot of Homer's face graphically melting, arguably one of the most frightening moments of the series.
403-->'''Homer:''' Now how 'bout a hug?
404* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Smurfs|1981}}'' episode "The Smurfs of the Round Table", Morgan le Fey steals Excalibur, uses it to turn King Arthur and his men to wax, and then casts a spell on the sun to make it burn hotter so that King Arthur and everything in Camelot will melt away. Fortunately, the melting process takes time, which gives the Smurfs enough time to get Excalibur back from the evil sorceress and to restore everyone in Camelot to normal.
405* Happens occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
406** In "Pre-Hibernation Week", [=SpongeBob=] melts into yellow goo when Sandy takes him on one dangerous exercise regimen too many.
407--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' This squirrel's trying to kill me! Any more of these stunts and I'll be reduced to a puddle.
408** In "Chocolate with Nuts", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick melt when [[RunningGag the crazed fish that has been chasing them throughout the episode]] [[spoiler: asks to buy all their chocolate]].
409** In "Moving Bubble Bass", this happens to [[{{Jerkass}} Bubble Bass]] when Patrick intimidates him for making [=SpongeBob=] move his junk, leaving his EyeGlasses floating in midair until they drop into the puddle.
410* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': When Richard P. Fungus destroyed the old camera that somehow allowed the ghost of his deceased Grandfather to exist, said ghost started disappearing and shouted that he was melting. Fungus (correctly) pointed out his Grandfather was shrinking instead.
411* He was already basically made of acid, but Meltdown from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' collapses into a puddle when exposed to a malfunctioning "genetic modifier". The episode's last shot was of his face appearing in the liquid, but nothing came of it.
412* [[PlayedForLaughs Played For Laughs]] in the episode "Perfect Moment" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'', where after finally confessing his feelings for Dr. Fox and being accepted by her, Hawkodile states that he feels like "his heart is melting", then Dr. Fox says that she is melting too, but it quickly becomes clear that ''she is literally melting'', horrifying Hawkodile. Then it is revealed that such Dr. Fox was a clone and that for some unknown reason, her clones tend to melt off.
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416* Gastropods. Small, harmless creatures (on land anyways), some with shells. Most of their body is held together with water, so when a little salt is applied, they simply burst.
417* [[http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v8/n2/full/4400821a.html Baculoviruses]] cause their insect victims to gradually melt into a slimy goo. Ironically, they're actually potentially beneficial to humans.
418* Inverted by slime molds, which transform from a stream of amoeboid "goo" to a cohesive, stalked sporing body as a part of their life cycle.
419* The only working rocket-powered fighter in history, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, was quite infamous for this. The fuel it used was extremely corrosive, and the storage compartment was located right next to the cockpit. This means that one good hit or an unfortunate crash could see the content of the storage tank leaking into the cockpit, reducing the unfortunate pilot inside to human jelly.
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421----
422->''What a world, what a world...''

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