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| 11 | [[quoteright:315:[[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/negima_shatter_3355.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:315: Anybody have some glue handy?]] |
| 13 | ->''Freeze your enemies! Shatter them into a thousand pieces!'' |
| 14 | -->-- "Winter Blast" plasmid advert, ''VideoGame/{{BioShock}}'' |
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| 16 | Someone [[KillItWithIce gets frozen]] or [[TakenForGranite petrified]], and is then smashed into itty-bitty pieces. A great way to make sure that someone is DeaderThanDead and to make HarmlessFreezing dangerous. In gaming, this generally falls under the ChunkySalsaRule and guarantees [[OneHitKill instant death]], although this could [[DisadvantageousDisintegration destroy their equipment as well.]] |
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| 18 | However, it can occasionally be counteracted by the victim PullingThemselvesTogether or restoring themselves FromASingleCell. Alternately, depending on how [[OurSoulsAreDifferent souls]], [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]], and {{immortality}} in general work, there may be nothing preventing them from [[BornAgainImmortality taking control of]] [[{{Reincarnation}} another body]] [[DemonicPossession somehow]]. |
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| 20 | In real life, this wouldn't happen (at least with freezing). Fleshy creatures are held together by fibrous connective tissues and are pretty darn dense. When frozen solid, we don't break easily and definitely don't shatter. Drop a frozen corpse and it may crack, but it will definitely stay together--if it doesn't just bounce. This trope is only possible in RealLife with fruits, which tend to be much less fibrous than other living things. This is a serious case of RuleOfCool. |
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| 22 | '''Since this is often a {{Death Trope|s}}, beware of spoilers.''' |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 29 | * The UK's Health and Safety Executive ran a PublicServiceAnnouncement campaign called "Shattered Lives" in which workplace accidents which cause serious injury in real life instead cause the victim to shatter like they're made of porcelain. Two ads were made, one for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72EQEhZETsg&pp=ygUTc2hhdHRlcmVkIGxpdmVzIGhzZQ%3D%3D kitchen safety]] and the other for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2gyKAPAxM&pp=ygUTc2hhdHRlcmVkIGxpdmVzIGhzZQ%3D%3D construction site safety]]. |
| 30 | * This ridiculous Print Ad that encourages children to drink more milk, because "[[https://awellfedworld.org/wp-content/uploads/Mexican-Association-milk-ad.jpg children who don't drink milk are more frail]]" and can be shattered to bits after getting hit by a soccer ball. |
| 31 | * The commercial for ''VideoGame/Wizard101'''s Zafaria expansion features [[BigBad Morganthe]] nonchalantly freezing a lion just before he runs her through with a spear. [[BreakingTheFourthWall She taunts the viewer]] as she turns her new statue into shaved ice. |
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| 34 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 35 | * Magsarion does this to the archdemon Frederica in ''Literature/AvestaOfBlackAndWhite'' as she is being turned into a gemstone statue by the rival archdemon Kaikhosru. Though this is one of those times where doing so is not a good thing for the breakee, as shattering her causes her HealingFactor to kick in, restoring her to pristine condition. |
| 36 | * Jokingly referenced in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': While Suzu is trying to {{save|the villain}} [[spoiler:Sosuke]], Shirogane holds a grudges and pettily goes behind her back to tell [[AnIcePerson Rochka]] to freeze him solid and smash him to pieces. |
| 37 | %%* This is the fate of anyone hit by the Ryunka in ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty Decode''. If that wasn't enough, their remains proceed to melt as well. |
| 38 | * Early in ''Manga/BlackParadox'' when Marisou is attacked by Robo-Pitan and Reflection-Barachi (oblivious that they're duplicates and under the impression they're the real deal), Marisou instinctively grabs a rock and hurls it at the latter. She scores a hit that shatters Reflection-Barachi into shards in an instant. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 40 | ** If Rukia manages to freeze an enemy solid with her zanpakutō, she can then shatter both the enemy and the ice encasing them into bits. Her first use of the technique in the story is against D-Roy after she regains her powers, while her most impressive is in the Thousand Year Blood War arc against [[spoiler:Äs Nodt after achieving her Bankai]]. |
| 41 | ** Tōshirō Hitsugaya can also freeze and shatter enemies, which he does to Shawlong during the same battle where Rukia shatters D-Roy. |
| 42 | * The fate of Chiropterans in ''Anime/BloodPlus'' after being [[TakenForGranite exposed to the rival queens blood]]. Parts of the shattered remnants of [[spoiler:George]] and [[spoiler:Riku]] are carried by Saya and Kai respectively. |
| 43 | * In ''Anime/CrystalBlaze'', women affected by the humanoid weapons turn into glass statues, which then fade away into lots of tiny particles. Failed humanoid weapons who lose control of their powers also turn into glass statues, but don't fade away and just shatter instead. |
| 44 | %%* Tome is supposedly killed in this manner in ''Manga/TheDaughterOfTwentyFaces''. [[spoiler:It later turns out she was actually just BoundAndGagged inside the statue and was rescued after it shattered]]. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': {{Defied|Trope}} when Marcille begins to petrify from a [[BasiliskAndCockatrice cockatrice bite]] -- Laios calmly reassures her that it's treatable and she should start by curling up with her head and arms tucked in... [[BaitAndSwitch so she'll be in a sturdy position]] while they prepare the antidote. Instead, she's flailing in panic when she petrifies, making Laios fret that they'll have to be careful not to let anything break off. |
| 46 | * Blizarga, an [[ElementalEmbodiment Ice Elemental]] monster and the main villain of of ''Anime/DoraemonGreatAdventureInTheAntarcticKachiKochi'', shatters into blocks of ice upon defeat. What's even better is that it ''accidentally'' froze itself when Doraemon uses the Obtaining Bag to drench Blizarga in freezing cold water from the Antarctic sea, holding it in place long enough for Nobita and Carla to destroy it's forehead core, essentially [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killing Blizarga with it's own freezing powers]]. |
| 47 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 48 | ** When Goku fights the Red Ribbon at Muscle Tower in ''Manga/DragonBall'', he fights a huge monster called Buyon. The monster is very rubbery and impervious to Goku's hits until he manages to smash a wall and have him be frozen by the outside cold. At that point, one hit is enough to shatter it. |
| 49 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', after Piccolo is turned into a statue by Dabura's spit, Trunks accidentally knocked over and shattered him. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Luckily, he was able to regenerate.]] |
| 50 | ** Later in that same arc, Vegeta turns into a "statue" that crumbles to dust, but he was already dead before he shattered. He wasn't so much petrified as reduced to a brittle husk via [[HeroicSacrifice self-induced]] SuperpowerMeltdown. |
| 51 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Dr. Myuu drops a statue of Trunks on the ground which (despite being made of ''metal'') shatters upon impact. Turns out that [[spoiler:It was a fake set up by Giru and the real Trunks.]] |
| 52 | ** Also happens in ''GT'', when Goku faces Frieza and Cell in Hell. He freezes the two of them using ice made of rotten souls. After palling around with them, he accidentally knocks over the both of them, shattering them on impact. Goku promptly apologizes. |
| 53 | ** Also happens in a roundabout way in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' with Old Kai. In Future Trunks' battle with Dabura, the Z Sword containing the Kai is turned to stone by Dabura's spit, and when Trunks drops it in surprise, it shatters. The Kai's ghost appears later, complaining about his fate, not being able to have kept his body in death like his main timeline counterpart. |
| 54 | * Subverted in ''Manga/DrStone'' when [[ArcVillain Tsukasa]] starts breaking the [[TakenForGranite statues of petrified humans]] out of spite. Fortunately, [[ScienceHero Senku]] figures out that putting the statues back together before reviving them can heal them. |
| 55 | * In ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'', [[TakenForGranite this is what happens to individuals assimilated by the Festum, as their bodies crystallize and then shatter.]] In the Right of Left OVA, [[spoiler:this is also what happens to those who pilot the Fafner Titan Model for over the time limit.]] |
| 56 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 57 | %%** Evergreen threatens to do this remotely to the guild members she had TakenForGranite in an attempt to get Erza to back down and surrender, though it's not entirely made clear if she actually ''could'' or it was just a bluff. Either way, Erza calls her bluff by the pointy end of a bunch of swords and a punch to the face, and Evergreen instead releases them. |
| 58 | ** Also, [[spoiler:Deliora]], after being released from an ice prison. Notably, this happened even though the ice was ''melted'', as it turns out he was long dead from the freezing. |
| 59 | %%* In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'', the first episode features Freezing Alchemist Isaac [=McDougal=], a WellIntentionedExtremist from the Ishvalan Extermination (who isn't?) doing this to a prison guard. |
| 60 | * Variation: The Heart Breaker/Soul Breaker combination FinishingMove in ''Anime/{{Godannar}}'' uses a chemical to turn a Mimetic Beast's body brittle, then the Soul Breaker smashes it into dust. |
| 61 | * In ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'', the [[TheVirus Apocalypse Virus]] causes a person's body to slowly [[TakenForGranite crystallize]]. It progresses in stages, like a cancer, and the further along a person is the more of their body is crystallized. When they reach the final stages their whole body eventually crystallizes and shatters. Also, [[spoiler:if a person's Void is destroyed their body instantly succumbs to the Virus and disintegrates.]] |
| 62 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 63 | ** The fate of Dire from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' after attempting his Thunder Cross Split Attack on [[BigBad Dio]]. Dio saps Dire's body heat, turning him to ice, and shatters him. |
| 64 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': Normally, in the Ghost Alley, turning around before walking 20 feet results in the victim getting dragged to the afterlife by a hundred ghost hands. [[spoiler:The BigBad of Part 4, Kira Yoshikage, ends up being ''shattered'' by them when he tries to have his Stand attack the hands to escape, only for them to tear Killer Queen apart in retaliation and {{synchronization}} kicking in. Though being a spirit himself by this point, it didn't actually kill him as much as he might have wanted it to.]] |
| 65 | * At the last page of chapter 9 of ''Manga/KamiSen'', the heroine Konoha's body got petrified and shattered itself. She got better in the following chapter. |
| 66 | %%* In ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'', Planetman from the Six Devil Knights attempts to do this to a frozen Suguru, though he breaks free at the last moment and strikes him away. |
| 67 | * Hayate's Misteltein spell in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' does the "[[TakenForGranite petrify]] then shatter" version, though since her target can come back FromASingleCell, it didn't slow it down much. |
| 68 | %%* In the [[Anime/NarutoTheMovieGuardiansOfTheCrescentMoonKingdom third movie]] of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', the BigBad tended to do this to most of the enemies he petrified, possibly because the petrification was temporary otherwise. |
| 69 | * This trope happens disturbingly often in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', as you can tell. |
| 70 | ** Pictured above: The TakenForGranite variant happens in a nightmare sequence. |
| 71 | ** In the same series, Evangeline's "Cosmic Catastrophe" / "End of the World" spell, which she used to flash-freeze a massive [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Demon God]] in absolute zero temperatures before shattering it with a snap of her fingers. Though subverted in that this actually wasn't fatal for the demon, and it still had to be sealed. |
| 72 | ** This happens to [[AnArmAndALeg someone's LEGS]] in a flashback, [[spoiler:more exactly, to Negi's cousin and CoolBigSis Nekane]]. Subverted in that the person themselves survived, due to a slow-moving [[TakenForGranite petrification spell]], [[spoiler:but it's not clear if her legs were fully healed/restored or she is using prosthetic as replacement.]] |
| 73 | ** This comes up again in the sequel ''Manga/UQHolder'' as Evangeline freezes [[spoiler:Cutlass and shatters her into a thousand pieces. Unlike the previous series examples, this turns out to be [[CharacterDeath fatal]]]]. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 75 | ** [[AnIcePerson Admiral Aokiji]] almost shattered Nico Robin after freezing her, but was stopped in time by the rest of the [[TrueCompanions Straw Hats]]. Aokiji, incidentally, gets inflicted with this trope on a regular basis, since his body is made of ice. He can always reform, though. |
| 76 | ** Repeated when Boa Hancock orders the petrified Kuja Amazons who saved Luffy's life to be shattered; [[spoiler:Luffy barely manages to avert the impending tragedy with instinctive use of high-level Haki]]. |
| 77 | ** This also happens to Jozu's arm after Aokiji froze him during the Whitebeard War. |
| 78 | ** Subverted and PlayedForLaughs with Kin'emon in the Punk Hazard arc. He is petrified by the Shinokuni gas, and then accidentally knocked down by Brook, who [[OhCrap appropriately reacts]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone with horror]]. The cracked parts crumble, revealing it was just a shell as Kin'emon instantly [[DisneyDeath regains consciousness]] and freaks out over his son. |
| 79 | * A non-human example occurs in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' during [[BigBad Giovanni's]] first appearance. After he and Red are attacked by two Magmar, Red incapacitates them but refuses to finish them off afterwards because he believes there's no honor in attacking a defenseless opponent. After he leaves, the Magmar free themselves and try to attack Giovanni, but he sends out his Cloyster, which freezes them solid. He then orders Cloyster to finish them off, and they [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/pokemon_adventures/v02/c023/13.html shatter into pieces]] displaying how ruthless Giovanni truly is. |
| 80 | * In ''Anime/{{Pygmalio}}'', people petrified by [[BigBad Medusa]] shatter immediately. |
| 81 | * The final enemy of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', the Phoenix King Saffron, was hit head-on by a revised and augmented version of the [[FinishingMove Hiryuu Shouten Ha]] that froze him solid and shattered him to bits. Although [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he came back]], the damage was so extensive he was forced to regenerate as an egg. |
| 82 | %%* Genai Hiraga from ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' |
| 83 | %%* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'', Xanxus' box weapon does this in its powered up "liger" form. |
| 84 | * In ''Literature/ReZero'', this happens to [[GroundhogDayLoop Subaru]] no less than ''three times'', each time after being frozen by [[spoiler:Puck's true form]]. The third is the truest to the trope, as he gradually breaks into several pieces, and combined with the circumstances, it causes his biggest HeroicBSOD[=/=]FreakOut of the entire series. |
| 85 | * How ''Anime/SailorMoon'' disposes of the MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Sailor Moon Super S''. Her finishing move, Moon Gorgeous Meditation, shows the monster shattering to pieces. |
| 86 | ** Also, in Rei's visions about a BadFuture in the ''S'' season, she would see the Senshi TakenForGranite. Then, their petrified bodies would be torn apart by a tornado. |
| 87 | ** This happened to be how one of the monsters in the first season, Derella, died after being hit by Moon Tiara Action. |
| 88 | * Most foes that fall to [[AnIcePerson Hyoga's]] ''Diamond Dust'' or ''Aurora Execution'' in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', especially if they're just {{Mooks}}. He doesn't even have to strike them afterwards --they shatter instants after being frozen solid. Once, the enemy's feet ''shattered'' when he was trying to move. |
| 89 | ** Additionally, in the anime the Gold Saint [[AnIcePerson Camus]] once imprisoned Hyoga in an [[HumanPopsicle indestructible block of ice]] that would never melt, preserving his student forever. When the other Bronze Saints arrived and discovered that the sword of the Libra Cloth could release him, they fretted over the huge probability of accidentally breaking Hyoga at the same time as the ice. It's averted, though, since Shiryu chose a golden sword and managed to slash the block exactly in the way needed without harming Hyoga. |
| 90 | * If anybody so much as touches [[EldritchAbomination The Noise]] in ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' and does not have their own Symphogear, the person disintegrates into carbon dust. At the same time, this is the fate of any Noise that is destroyed. |
| 91 | * In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', the TakenForGranite version is also implied to what happens to [[spoiler:Kurogane's father]]. |
| 92 | * In ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'', Terry the Kid defeats Rex King by freezing him (his actual weakness), then shattering his T-Rex-shaped arm (which also housed his brain) with his trademark technique "Calf Branding". |
| 93 | * The Medusa-like villain of the ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' movie does this to Raiel after she's fed up with Hamel [[{{Jerkass}} using his own]] [[TakenForGranite petrified teammates]] [[FastballSpecial as ammo]]. When she's defeated, [[NoOntologicalInertia and her victims start turning back to normal]], Hamel and Flute scramble in a panic to reassemble Raiel. |
| 94 | * ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'': Cloneblade wielders upon final PhlebotinumBreakdown don't freeze, but they crystallize and fall to pieces. |
| 95 | * On ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', this is how [[AnIcePerson Seiryuu]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills]] Byakko. |
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| 98 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 99 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': |
| 100 | ** This is implied to be the fate of the poor creatures that get [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=121228 Frozen Solid]]: the creature is immobilized, and any additional damage will cause it to shatter. |
| 101 | ** Same goes for [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=179621 Crystallization.]] |
| 102 | ** In the novels, the villain Lord Konda was dispatched this way. Since he was immortal, he was [[AndIMustScream still alive despite being in pieces]]. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
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| 105 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 106 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 107 | ** [[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]] and [[ComicBook/TheFlash Captain Cold]] like doing this. More recently, [[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]] killed [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Sun Boy]] by freezing his head and shattering it. |
| 108 | %%*** In the first issue of ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', detective Charlie Fields gets frozen by Mr. Freeze, gets knocked over, and this happens. |
| 109 | ** Linda Park accidentally does this in ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' while investigating a crime with a future Flash. She sees the villainess Golden Glider out of the corner of her eye while inside a dark building and instinctively throws a desk lamp at her before realizing that GG's been frozen. |
| 110 | *** Mirror Master uses a non-cryonic method, where his [[AWizardDidIt ill-defined physics-warping weapons]] turn people into 2-dimensional glass that bleeds when you shatter it. |
| 111 | ** In one story of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', the villain turns Colossal Boy's parents to glass. The process is reversible, but as he demonstrates on an incompetent underling, glass is fragile. |
| 112 | ** A similar case happens in ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' when the hero Firestorm accidentally turns a crowd of Russian civilians into glass. With Superman's help he figures out how to reverse it, but thanks to PoorCommunicationKills the Russian military ends up killing several of them trying to bring him to justice while ignoring Superman's insistence that they weren't dead. |
| 113 | ** ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': |
| 114 | *** Done to him in the ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|of America}}'' comic book, courtesy of a superhuman who petrified him and shattered him to pieces in pre-sunk Atlantis (which, subsequently, sank). On his return he'd [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]] due to floating along the ocean floor for [[TheSlowPath thousands of years]] with [[AndIMustScream nothing to do but think]]. |
| 115 | *** And it happened again in ''ComicBook/JLATowerOfBabel''. Thankfully, the Flash fixed him all up. |
| 116 | *** Done again in a more humorous way in Kyle Baker's run. Plastic Man is frozen and shattered to pieces, but once unfrozen every piece turns into its own tiny Plastic Man. He pulls himself together by eating each one of his copies one by one. |
| 117 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Veronica Cale has her security staff broken down and ground into dust after they're petrified by Medusa's gaze in order to hide the evidence of the gorgons' presence at her company since she's teamed up with them. |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 119 | ** The Grey Gargoyle is a B-list bad guy, but his powers are definitely A-list: he can [[TakenForGranite turn anything he touches to stone]], including his own body (which he can still move normally afterwards, making him [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] -- oh, and he can fly). The effects wear off in an hour, but that's not much good to you if he ''breaks'' you first. If the Gargoyle were a bit smarter, he'd be a major threat, and as it is he still has his moments -- in one classic {{cliffhanger}}, he petrifies ComicBook/IronMan and tosses him from a building. [[spoiler:Jasper Sitwell shows up just in time with a truck full of sand, which had been duly {{foreshadow|ing}}ed the previous issue... but ''man'', that was close.]] |
| 120 | *** It gets worse in ''ComicBook/FearItself''. [[spoiler:After becoming one of the Serpent's Worthy and becoming near-godlike in power, he uses his ability on ''almost all of Paris''. And then he spends the rest of the issue flinging Iron Man through all of the statues, ending with a shot of Iron Man lying in a giant pile of statue pieces.]] |
| 121 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] turns Thor (the Erik Masterson one) into glass and then shatters him. When Nova tries to save Thor, Thanos turns his body into Lego-like toy bricks and shatters him as well. Thor later appears alive and well with the few remaining heroes left even before the CosmicRetcon is used to bring back all of Thanos' victims in the first four issues, which seems like an UnexplainedRecovery for anyone who hasn't read the ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' [[AllThereInTheManual tie in that shows]] how Strange literally went through Hell and back to restore him to life. |
| 122 | ** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': In the original appearance of the Absorbing Man, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]] [[AssimilationBackfire tricks him into absorbing the properties of a glass window]] and shatters him. He [[PullingThemselvesTogether pulls himself back together]], though. |
| 123 | ** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In "Return of Sinister Six", [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] does this to Sandman, using his heat ray to melt him and then shattering the resulting glass statue. This bites him badly later as Sandman returns later, very angry with his body now made of glass shards rather than sand. |
| 124 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': In issue #103, the team's fighting Quicksand. They freeze her solid, then shatter her, but since they were trying to capture her, not kill her, Songbird tells Blizzard they're now going to have to pick up all the pieces. |
| 125 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': The nigh-unbeatable villain the Gorgon is killed like this, with Wolverine using his claws to reflect the Gorgon's own [[DeadlyGaze petrifying gaze]] back to him, then smashing him once he's turned to stone. |
| 126 | ** ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 127 | *** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] did this to Jack Frost, the criminal with a diamond form who took him in and abused him, prior to his arrival at the school, when he tried to make him kill a security guard. |
| 128 | *** [[Characters/MarvelComicsIceman Iceman]] has been shattered and put back together a few times. |
| 129 | *** In ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] is shot with a diamond bullet while in her diamond form. She shatters in a million pieces. She gets better. |
| 130 | *** In the ''ComicBook/MutantMassacre'' storyline, a mutant made of glass or crystal meets his end when he comes across the vicious Marauders. |
| 131 | *** It also happens to Prism, one of said Marauders, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain quite a few times]] (the first being the ''Mutant Massacre'' itself). |
| 132 | * "The woman they dipped in liquid nitrogen, then shattered like a wineglass," from ''ComicBook/{{Elementals}}''. |
| 133 | * {{Averted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/TheHerderWitch'' when Padora the witch restrains an attacking bear in ice. The villagers are ready to smash it to pieces, but she explains that doing so will just cause the bear to break free again. |
| 134 | * In ''L'Homme qui vendait du froid'', a French comic book by Michel Greg (of ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'' fame), the villain is handed a freezing-ray gun, with which he threatens the heroes. Since he was mostly a LaughablyEvil villain before being given the gun, the heroes laugh at him and call his gun a "toy". In a surprisingly dark KickTheDog moment, the villain freezes a pig[[note]]ItMakesSenseInContext since they're in the countryside.[[/note]] and then kicks it, and it shatters to pieces when it lands. The villain soon gets HoistByHisOwnPetard, but luckily for him [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim the heroes take much care of not letting him fall while they take him to a safe place]]. |
| 135 | * ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'': Junk Man ends up suffering this fate with a [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics spiny hedgehog]] tearing right through his body in the ''Worlds Collide'' crossover. |
| 136 | * The first issue of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'' reveals that King Sombra did this after his FaceHeelTurn. He [[RedemptionRejection ignored Princess Amore's plea that he could still do the right thing]] [[TakenForGranite by turning her into crystal]] and breaking her body apart. |
| 137 | * In ''ComicBook/OzCaliber'' #0, it was revealed that General Jinjur's husband was turned into a jewel by Ruggedo and crushed in his hand. |
| 138 | * Elijah Snow makes a [[GroinAttack localised]] application of this trope to {{Dracula}} in ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' (see [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/10854986@N08/1798588082/ here]]); Sherlock Holmes mentions that in this particular case it'll grow back. This is Elijah Snow's standard attack when he wants someone to go bye-bye. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 142 | * ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': After a long, ''long'' rules debate over who got turned to stone by a gorgon, B.A. decides it's Brian. The gorgon has a morning star. Piece it together. Also, it got worse when all of the flesh-to-stone transformations were reversed. |
| 143 | -->'''Sara:''' Eew. I think we need a wet-vac. |
| 144 | * [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display.php?id=511&full=1 This installment]] of ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo In Slumberland'' where Nemo, Flip, and Impie eat too much ice cream and then freeze. Impie is the first victim, who falls off his stool and shatters. Flip is next; when as someone tries to carry his frozen, paralyzed body away with a pair of ice tongs, he slips out and shatters into pieces. Then the frozen Nemo is brought back home, where he's placed in front of an oven to thaw him out, only his entire body begins to melt away as he screams for help. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
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| 147 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 148 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry use this in the sequel, [[PlayingWithFire ripping the thermal energy]] out of thirteen ghouls, freezing them, before using the gathered energy to shatter them into fragments. [[NaiveNewcomer Clark]] almost immediately [[StressVomit throws up]]. |
| 149 | * ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': [[spoiler:Noriko's execution in Chapter 5 ends with her being frozen and subsequently shattered with a whip by Monokuma, complete with what's left of her melting into the ground]]. |
| 150 | * ''Fanfic/HonokasBizarreAdventure'': In her final fight against [[StarterVillain Yoshikawa Fuhai]], Honoka decides to kill him with her Stand [[{{Vibroweapon}} [All Star] ]]to shatter him to pieces [[PaperPeople while he is flatten against a brick wall]] so her family will never be targetted by him again. However, [[DramaticIrony Honoka is unaware that Fuhai survived the attack]], [[AndIMustScream but unable to bring himself back together or even die peacefully]]. |
| 151 | * In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', this theoretically ''can'' be done to Discord while he's [[TakenForGranite imprisoned in his statue]], but the story explains why it can't be ''safely'' done. Namely, [[TopGod Havoc]], Discord's father, gave his children a 'failsafe' so that if anyone except another member of their family kills them, they can persist in the mortal world in spirit form rather than go back to the spirit world. So while shattering Discord would be fatal, it would ultimately just set him free and allow him to [[DemonicPossession possess someone else]]. [[spoiler:This happened when Galaxia, unknowing of this, killed Discord by shattering after the Paradise Ponies managed to defeat him, allowing him to possess Wind Whistler, whose body he's currently using.]] Thus the only way to safely shatter Discord would be if someone of his family did it, and the only available option would be his [[SemiDivine daughter Fluttercruel]]. [[spoiler:This becomes mute as Diamond Tiara, as part of her DealWithTheDevil with him shattered him and they're now SharingABody. Also, following the Rumors Arc, [[OutOfContinues the Draconequi Elders take away the failsafe]] meaning if it happens to Discord again, he ''will'' die.]] |
| 152 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Raindancer}}'', Izuku uses this non-lethally when he freezes a bat that was being swung at him and shatters it to pieces with his Quirk, spraying jagged shrapnel everywhere. |
| 153 | * In "How Things Smurf" from Raven Child's ''Fanfic/TheSmurfetteVillage'' series, Gloria's descendant Amber puts a permanent end to the demon Asmoday by smashing him into pieces after turning him to stone with the Scepter of Faith. |
| 154 | * A major plot point in ''Fanfic/TheSweetieChroniclesFragments'' is that Twilight Sparkle was shattered and thrown across TheMultiverse. [[AndIMustScream While still conscious]]. |
| 155 | * In ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', Ranma defeats Gasparde, a [[ElementalShapeshifter Logia]] with the [[BizarroElements Candy-Candy Fruit]], by using an icy KamehameHadoken technique to freeze him solid. The flashfrozen candy being brittle, and the battle taking place on the sharply uptilted deck of a sinking ship, Gasparde's own weight and lingering momentum causes his crystalized body to shatter into chunks that then fall into the sea, where his SuperDrowningSkills finish him off. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 159 | * In the final battle in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar petrifies Carpet when he and Aladdin try to reach Jafar's lamp. They subsequently crash, and Carpet is shattered into a hundred pieces, getting restored later only due to the [[NoOntologicalInertia rules of ontological inertia]]. |
| 160 | * Happens to [[spoiler:Commander Rourke]] at the end of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' as a result of him being stabbed by a sharpened fragment of the Atlantean Crystal, causing him to crystallize and be smashed to pieces after being sliced by his blimp's propellers. |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'': Killer Frost sneaks into Arkham Asylum in a body bag. When an unfortunate morgue attendant unzips it, she sits up and plants a kiss on him... that freezes him from the neck up. When she drops him his entire head shatters on the floor. |
| 162 | * Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''. [[spoiler:When Anna turns to solid ice as she is stepping between Elsa and Hans as Hans goes to kill Elsa, the intense cold Anna's body gives off flash-freezes ''the sword'', and the super-cooled metal is shattered instead.]] |
| 163 | * Happens to Tybalt (a lawn ornament) in ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' after being accidentally thrown against a wall by Gnomeo. He is eventually repaired at the end of the film, however. |
| 164 | * ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' has this happen constantly to Dainty China Country due to the evil Jester. However, they are easily mended, if left unconscious for a while afterwards. |
| 165 | * Happens at the end of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017''. [[spoiler:The Storm King attempts to throw a petrification grenade at the heroes, only for a redeemed Tempest Shadow to jump in the way and get them both TakenForGranite. Twilight pulls Tempest to safety before she can fall off a balcony, but the Storm King rests in pieces.]] |
| 166 | * A variation of this happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'': Galvatron fires a single shot at [[TheStarscream Starscream]], who is reduced to a blackened statue of himself that then ''dissolves in a cascade of nondescript fragments and ashy dust''. Nothing even close to this ever happened in its regular series at the time. |
| 167 | * ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'': Medusa shatters several of her victims after turning them to stone, which means that even though the petrification is reversable in this adaptation these victims cannot be saved. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 171 | * ''Film/AlienResurrection''. Happens to a redshirt when an escaped alien [[ItCanThink figures out the connection]] between the blasts of liquid nitrogen that were used to control it earlier, and the BigRedButton in front of its slime-dripping jaws. |
| 172 | * In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Drax is turned into a statue that breaks into pieces when Thanos uses the Reality Stone on him. He recovers after Thanos leaves with Gamora. |
| 173 | * Towards the ending of ''Film/TheBlob1988'', the titular abomination is finally "killed" after a snow truck blows up near it, causing the Blob to shatter into numerous crystallized pieces. |
| 174 | %%* Medusa does this to her victims in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}''. |
| 175 | * Trymon, the villain in ''Film/TheColourOfMagic'', is turned to stone when his spell backfires and is later moved by workers who accidentally drop him, shattering him to pieces which are made into a rockery. Possibly averted in that he is implied to already be dead from the petrification itself due to the spells he took being returned to the book at that point (it is said that this will happen in the event of the death of the one carrying the spells), and the spell was intended for Rincewind, whom Trymon declared his intent to kill. |
| 176 | * ''[[Film/{{Critters}} Critters 4]]'' has a scene where Ethan freezes a Crite solid by exposing it to liquid nitrogen and then kills it by breaking the frozen Crite into pieces. |
| 177 | * Gets the requisite nod in ''Film/{{Cube}}'' when someone tests a booby-trapped room by throwing their boot inside and it ends up frozen and shattered from a nitrogen gas spray. There are all different manner of traps, so there's no particular reason to use this trope other than the fiendish inventiveness of the designers, [[OntologicalMystery whoever they are]]. |
| 178 | * An early draft for ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' involved the pilot who is frozen in the Scotland scene to walk out of the helicopter for a few feet, freeze and be chopped into pieces by the helicopter blades. |
| 179 | * Simon Phoenix, the villain in ''Film/DemolitionMan''. He gets frozen with liquid nitrogen, then his head kicked off by the hero, shattering on the second bounce for good measure. |
| 180 | * In ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}: A New Beginning'', [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Drake]] kills Griffin by breathing ice on him instead of fire. Griffin falls to the ground and shatters. Unfortunately, one of the pieces [[spoiler:impales Geoff.]] |
| 181 | * ''Film/TheEmptyMirror'': When Hitler finally gets fed up with Freud's analysis of his character, he attacks him with a sledgehammer. This causes Freud to break into a dozen pieces as if he were simply a mirror. |
| 182 | %%* Dr. Doom tries to do this to Mr. Fantastic in the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie after freezing him. |
| 183 | * There was also a TV movie called ''Film/FatalError'' starring Creator/JanineTurner and Creator/AntonioSabatoJr, the plot of which was a computer virus which became a biological virus and infected people through their cable boxes, causing them to petrify and shatter. |
| 184 | * At the end of ''Film/GameraVsViras'', Gamera flies Viras up so high into the atmosphere that [[KillItWithIce he freezes over]], then he drops him back down into the ocean before, where it reveals that Viras fell apart. |
| 185 | * At the end of ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'', Destoroyah is killed by [[KillItWithIce being frozen alive]], causing him to crash to the ground and shatter into a billion tiny pieces. |
| 186 | * This happens in the underrated 1954 science fiction movie ''Film/{{Gog|1954}}''. A compromised computer AI locks two scientists in a giant freezer room that freezes them solid within minutes. They shatter upon falling over. (Although the shattering occurs off-camera, it's still a pretty gruesome death for a movie made in this era.) |
| 187 | * ''Film/HarryPotter'': |
| 188 | ** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' [[spoiler:Harry kills Quirrell by grabbing his arm and face; because Quirrell cannot tolerate Harry's touch due to Voldemort inside him]], he crumbles to dust. |
| 189 | ** [[spoiler:Bellatrix and Voldemort]] in [[TheFilmOftheBook the film version]] of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. Particularly notable in that [[spoiler:the latter still had a body to bury in the source material, his tomb isolated from that of the other victims of the Battle of Hogwarts]]. |
| 190 | * In ''Film/TheHazing'', the villain turns one of the characters into a mannequin. When her friends stumble into her on a dark stairway landing, they push her out of the way and down the stairs, shattering her into pieces. |
| 191 | * In ''Film/HellraiserInferno'', Joseph arrives home to find his wife and child strung up and frozen to death in his living room. He grabs his daughter's hand, only for it to break off and eventually shatter their entire bodies. |
| 192 | * In ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', "Saddam Hussein" and his little dog both undergo Smashed HumanPopsicle. They not only get better but end up melting and reforming together a la the T-1000, leaving Saddam with canine features and a little pink bow in his hair. |
| 193 | * The third ''Film/JakaSembung'' film features the muscular, ImplacableMan of a villain, Demang Asmara, whose weak spot are a series of pulse points Jaka Sembung needs to penetrate. Jaka Sembung managed to weaken him, at which point Demang went from invincible to extremely fragile - Jaka Sembung landing a kick on him leads to Demang breaking into multiple pieces as if he's made of clay. |
| 194 | * Done infamously in ''Film/JasonX''. While one of the doctor's assistants is about to dissect Jason, the dormant wraith then comes back to life, and forces her face into a sink of liquid nitrogen, following up with a smash on the counter. It was so gruesome, that when the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' tested it, they weren't allowed to show the footage, instead of going for a cartoon reenactment. |
| 195 | * ''Film/TheLastLeprechaun'': After Simpson overestimates his power and tries to control Laura, she freezes him and shatters him. |
| 196 | * In the newer [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] film of ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', the White Witch can turn opponents to stone with her crystal staff, and starts to use it as a weapon during the battle against Aslan's army; there is one case where she turns a gryphon to stone ''in midair'', whereupon it falls to the ground and shatters. On-screen. In a family film. |
| 197 | * ''Film/{{Mindhunters}}'' (2004). In the first trap set by the SerialKiller, Christian Slater's feet get blasted with liquid nitrogen; his ankles then shatter and he falls to the ground and crumbles. |
| 198 | * In ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', Oz comes across a version of "China Town," where people are ''made'' of China. The Wicked Witch of the East had sent her flying baboons and most of the inhabitants were shattered. Oz uses his "magic liquid" (glue) to fix China Girl's legs and let her walk again. |
| 199 | * In ''Film/PacificRim'', this happens to Otachi's prehensile tail, courtesy of Gypsy Danger venting coolant from its flank while Otachi has her tail coiled around one of its arms. Gypsy then flexes the arm, shattering the frozen appendage. |
| 200 | * Implied to happen to Andrew in ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}''. [[spoiler:He has his arm frozen solid and we see somebody swing a hammer before cutting away to screaming.]] |
| 201 | * In the 1987 Cannon Movie Tales version of ''Literature/SnowWhite'', this is the evil queen's ultimate fate. Responding to news that a prince's bride is fairer than she is, she throws a heavy bauble at her magic mirror, which responds to the attack by beginning to crack. She doesn't realize that with each crack, [[RapidAging she ages a little bit]], and by the time she reaches the wedding -- and discovers her stepdaughter is alive once more -- she is a hideously withered old crone. As she hobbles out in disgrace, the mirror's destruction comes to an end as the whole thing explodes into dust...and so does she. |
| 202 | * The opening scene of ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' has the thalaron weapon turning the entire Romulan senate into stone, which then shatters. |
| 203 | * In the opening sequence of ''Film/{{Tale of the Mummy}}'', Creator/ChristopherLee and some associates succumb to an AncientTomb's curse, their flesh becoming crumbly and cracking like porcelain. Particularly harsh for Lee, whose head and chest remain flesh until well after he's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe snapped in half at the waist]], and the poor fellow who was ''climbing a wall'' at a time: one by one, his limbs shatter under the strain of struggling in vain not to fall. |
| 204 | * Near the end of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-1000 walks through a pool of liguid nitrogen. First, its legs break off, then its arm. The T-800 is able to shatter it with one round from its handgun. However, the heat from a nearby furnace [[PullingThemselvesTogether melted the pieces and allowed it to reform]]. |
| 205 | * The Frost Giants from the ''Film/{{Thor}}'' live action film. |
| 206 | * ''Film/{{Timecop}}'': One of the mooks gets blasted with liquid nitro, whereupon Claude Van Damme kicks and shatters his arm to pieces, and he falls off a ledge to his death. |
| 207 | * Played for laughs with the [[strike:Nazi]] East German soldier in ''Film/TopSecret'', who falls and shatters like glass upon hitting the ground. |
| 208 | * In ''Film/TheTrollHunter'', Hans is under orders to smash apart the petrified remains of trolls he's turned to stone with his UV lights the better to keep trolls' existence a secret. [[spoiler:In the case of the Kaiju-sized troll encountered at the film's end, its sheer weight once transformed is sufficient to make it collapse.]] |
| 209 | * In ''Film/TronLegacy'' the programs who are derezzed break into glass-like fragments, which then turn into sand. |
| 210 | * ''Film/WarlockIIITheEndOfInnocence'': The Warlock turns Robin's body into glass, and shatters her by hitting the result with a candlestick. While it leaves almost no trace of the murder, Kris still realizes something is very wrong when she finds a human finger made of glass. |
| 211 | -->'''Warlock:''' Be still, young witch. |
| 212 | * In the first ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'', the Djinn fuses [[Creator/KaneHodder a security guard]] to a glass door, then shatters it. |
| 213 | * Iceman at the hands of a sentinel during the first battle of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. [[spoiler:Two {{Cosmic Retcon}}s later, he's back alive.]] |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 217 | * This happens in the novel ''[[Literature/CrownDuel Court Duel]]'' by Sherwood Smith. The BigBad is trying to make a point to the protagonists, so he turns everyone at court into statues and smashes [[RedShirt someone we haven't really heard from so far]], just to up the dramatic tension. Might be more along the lines of TakenForGranite, but it still fits with the shatter-y theme. |
| 218 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': |
| 219 | %%** Harry Dresden does this to [[TheFairFolk an ogre and a Sidhe Noble]] in ''Literature/ColdDays'', [[LoopholeAbuse since he's not allowed to spill blood]] in [[DecadentCourt the Winter Court]] |
| 220 | ** ''Literature/SummerKnight'' has a much earlier example, where Maeve uses her magic to freeze a Sidhe warrior of Summer solid, and then has her ''horse'' kick him. It's probably where he got the idea from. |
| 221 | * In ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'', [[{{Kaiju}} the City Killer]] seems to take pleasure in smashing people after freezing them with its [[BreathWeapon ice breath]]. |
| 222 | * Happens to one of the Unseen University's senior wizards at the end of ''Literature/TheLightFantastic''. |
| 223 | -->'''Twoflower:''' Will they be able to be turned back?\ |
| 224 | '''Rincewind:''' No, probably not. I'm afraid they dropped poor old Wert, anyway. Five hundred feet onto cobbles.\ |
| 225 | '''Twoflower:''' Will you be able to do anything about that?\ |
| 226 | '''Rincewind:''' Make a nice rockery. |
| 227 | * ''Literature/OliverAndTheSeawigs'': This is how [[spoiler:the Thurlstone]] dies. [[spoiler:Upon being tickled on the inside, he laughs so hard that his body crumbles.]] |
| 228 | * Invoked as a threat in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' when Medusa says something like, "You see why I cannot spare Annabeth. She is my enemy's daughter. I will crush her statue to dust." |
| 229 | * An effect of the [[WeirdWeather Psychlone]] in the horror novel of that name by Creator/GregBear. |
| 230 | * In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, Rachel was once frozen in mid-air, and Kirsty worried that if she hit the ground she'd shatter into icy pieces. |
| 231 | * In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' novel ''Scholar of Decay'', the protagonist fears this will happen to [[spoiler:the tiny figurine his wife was accidentally turned into]], so protects it with numerous wards and traps. These protections [[spoiler:are not enough, although the book's end suggests he's kept the pieces in hope of restoring her somehow, even so]]. |
| 232 | * In ''[[Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles The Spook's Secret]]'' by Joseph Delaney, the [[spoiler:book's antagonist is killed when a [[GodOfEvil malicious winter deity]] freezes him solid. Afterwards, his frozen corpse falls over and shatters to million pieces.]] |
| 233 | * A ''Franchise/StarTrek'' tie-in novel called ''Final Frontier'' has a scene where [[TheMole a character]] runs down a corridor and ducks into a shuttlecraft bay, [[spoiler:but the life support systems and artificial gravity in the bay are not activated. He ends up flash-frozen and floating. His pursuers find him and turn the gravity back on to get him down -- and he shatters into a million pieces.]] |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 237 | %%* In the ''Series/AgentCarter'' episode [[Recap/AgentCarterS2E1TheLadyInTheLake "The Lady in the Lake"]], this happens both the coroner and Detective Henry after being frozen solid due to Zero Matter infection. |
| 238 | * In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E3MakingFriendsAndInfluencingPeople "Making Friends and Influencing People"]], [[AnIcePerson Donnie Gill]] freezes a guy who sold him out to HYDRA. As he leaves, Donnie shoves the frozen guy over, shattering him. |
| 239 | * Similar thingy: in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode, "[[Recap/AngelS03E19ThePrice The Price]]", a guy gets infected with a parasite that sucks all the moisture out of him. End result: shattered guy. |
| 240 | * It happened in, of all places, the Adam West ''Series/Batman1966'', naturally, by way of Mister Freeze. One of Alfred's fellow butlers went down. One of a bare handful of examples of death on that show. |
| 241 | * In an episode of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' Samantha's Father turns Darren into a statue and smashes him. Reluctantly he later puts him back together. |
| 242 | * In a ''Series/BloodTies2007'' episode, [[AllMythsAreTrue Medusa]] seduces and petrifies young men. When Vicki takes the statue of her latest victim, she sends a {{Mook}} to destroy the evidence, which he does by smashing the poor kid into pieces. After Medusa is dead, her victims get better, except for the smashed one. |
| 243 | * The 2009 ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Science in the Physicist" is notable for deconstructing this a bit; the corpse was flash frozen in liquid nitrogen but shattered by [[spoiler:vibrating it in an earthquake simulator]]. The actual results of simply dropping it are demonstrated when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Angela is hit in the head by a bouncing turkey.]] |
| 244 | * ''Series/Charmed1998'': In "Bride and Gloom", Piper is temporarily turned evil and her usual TimeStandsStill power becomes literally freezing people into ice instead. When Leo tries to talk sense into her she uses her new power to freeze him and then Phoebe hits him so hard he shatters into a pile of chunks. Luckily, Leo's a Whitelighter who can just [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap reform out of white light]] once the sisters have safely been turned good again. |
| 245 | * Bizarrely discussed in ''Series/TheDailyShow'', when a correspondent mentions the weather being so cold that [[{{Squick}} his genitals are frozen and can easily be snapped off "like a graham cracker".]] |
| 246 | * ''Series/DarkHole'': The tentacle monster gets frozen by nitrogen and shatters when Hwa-sun shoots it. |
| 247 | * In an episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', a scientist is found flash-frozen in a spa. Someone accidentally touches him, and he falls to the ground with predictable results. |
| 248 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': |
| 249 | ** In "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E13LookAtThePrincessTheMalteseCrichton The Maltese Crichton]]", after being [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]], John is decapitated by an assassin, who then dumps his head into an AcidPool. Fortunately, the statue was meant to survive 80 cycles of airborne corrosion -- someone fishes out the head before there's any lasting damage, reassembles John and de-petrifies him. |
| 250 | ** In the cliffhanger ending to [[Recap/FarscapeS04E22BadTiming the series finale]], John Crichton and Aeryn Sun get hit by a weapon which crystallizes them, then shatters them into thousands of tiny balls. They got better in [[Recap/FarscapeS05E01ThePeacekeeperWarsPart1 the follow-up movie]]. [[spoiler:Though, as it turned out when they were reconstructed, Aeryn's baby wasn't inside her. It was still inside Rigel, who had collected the balls that fell into the ocean.]] |
| 251 | * In the ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' episode "[[Recap/GothamS2E12MrFreeze Mr. Freeze]]", the eponymous supervillain leaves a frozen victim in the middle of the street. Gordon and Bullock accidentally hit the victim with their car, shattering him. In another episode, he kills someone by freezing her and then shattering her immediately after. |
| 252 | * Averted (then modified) in ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' when Dr. Lecter murders [[spoiler:Beverly Katz]]. He freezes her solid, but her corpse holds together as he runs her through a table saw a few times, eventually leaving the slices preserved between glass panes. |
| 253 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 254 | ** In Season 3, this happens to an over-intrusive reporter, as well as [[spoiler:Knox]]. |
| 255 | ** Yet another season 3 example: At the end, Tracy [[spoiler:dies herself this way, although the preview of season 4 makes it clear that she's NotQuiteDead, making her a rare example of surviving this]]. |
| 256 | * The BBC adaptation of ''Series/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' at one point features a character who is magically turned into a porcelain statue, which is then smashed to pieces. |
| 257 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 258 | ** In ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', people who have had their LifeEnergy drained by [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fangire]] become translucent and fragile like glass, though we only ever see one person actually shatter. The same result also applies to Fangire themselves when they are killed. |
| 259 | ** Also happens (in an extremely similar fashion) to Ryu Terui's family in ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' thanks to DeathByOriginStory, though they were frozen instead. |
| 260 | * This is how the Screeling, an otherwise-NighInvulnerable creature from the underworld, is killed in the second season premiere of ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker''. |
| 261 | * In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow,'' Captain Cold has been retrieved from a point before his HeelFaceTurn or even NobleDemon days, bringing back his murderous day-one self. When Amaya is about to reverse the VillainWorld reality has been warped into, Captain Cold freezes her, and then gives us a BondOneLiner: |
| 262 | -->''"I am sorry about your friend, Mick. I know you loved her to pieces."'' [shatters her] |
| 263 | * In ''Series/Life2007'', Crewes accidentally shatters a murder victim who had been frozen. |
| 264 | * The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E06Eegah Eegah!]]" begins with Tom Servo trying to freeze Crow to absolute zero. When Joel tries to get Crow out of the freezing chamber, he accidentally shatters Crow. |
| 265 | * Busted by Series/MythBusters; flesh and blood don't shatter like that. |
| 266 | * ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': In one episode a NewAgeRetroHippie criminal locked in a cryo-prison is accidentally unfrozen in the present day. His arch-enemy, a hard-ass older agent, convinces him to go back into hibernation since neither of them understands the world as it is today. Then he punches the hippie's frozen head, shattering it into hundreds of pieces and collecting some of it so he can use it for his next drink. |
| 267 | * In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', [[spoiler:Rumplestiltskin kills Zelena by stabbing her, turning her into porcelain and then shattering her into pieces]]. Also, when Ingrid [[spoiler:is shown to have accidentally used her ice magic to turn her sister into an ice statue which quickly shatters into pieces]]. |
| 268 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E14TheHeist The Heist]]", an alien (which may have acted as the A/C for a crashed alien spacecraft) attempts to eliminate all heat sources in its vicinity. We get to see it freeze a female soldier so that she looks like an ice sculpture, and then a drop of water from an overhanging icicle is enough to get the "sculpture" to fall to pieces. |
| 269 | * In ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', this is how [[spoiler:Moltor]] dies. The viewer is set up for "just another DisneyDeath" with the character suffering some HarmlessFreezing, and then [[spoiler:Flurious]] actually ''finishes the job'' with a shattering blast that's almost [[{{Pun}} chilling]] to watch. |
| 270 | * A variation on ''Series/PushingDaisies'': the titular bodies in the episode "Corpsicle" are all already quite dead, but Ned briefly alive-agains (alives-again?) a few of them. When one of the bodies falls off its gurney and shatters into several large chunks on the pavement, Ned says "I'm not touching that." |
| 271 | * The ''Series/RoboCopTheSeries'' episode "When justice fails" has its baddie frozen solid by taking a blast of sub-zero fluid from a ruptured pipe. He cracks and shatters a few seconds later without further "help". |
| 272 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 273 | ** A version of this trope is hinted at in the first season episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS01E05Cool Cool]]". The MonsterOfTheWeek is a high school jock who has been turned into a sort of heat vampire by meteorite fragments. He sucks the heat away from a girl and we are shown her freezing. He then lets her body fall to the floor, out of frame, and we hear a sound like shattering glass. |
| 274 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E21Forever Forever]]", the MonsterOfTheWeek attempts to turn Clark to wax, and in the process, reverses his powers on himself. Moments later, he falls from a stairway. |
| 275 | * ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': |
| 276 | ** Silik kills Daniels with two shots from a futuristic phaser. The first shot slows Daniels down, and the second one shatters him. He gets better, though. |
| 277 | ** In the MirrorUniverse episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly]]", Doctor Phlox tortures and then kills a Tholian prisoner by dropping the temperature in its cell until its exoskeleton shatters. |
| 278 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E22ByAnyOtherName By Any Other Name]]", the enemy aliens turn two crew members into styrofoam dodecahedrons and then crush one to show their power. |
| 279 | * In ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', in Epic 23, Alata and Agri defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek after Hyde freezes him solid, then smash him to pieces. |
| 280 | * A not quite fatal variant appears in ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' -- a plant releases liquid nitrogen, and as the workers are rushing to escape, one worker (whose hand had been frozen) stumbles and shatters it against a railing. This was when Creator/RobertEnglund, as the friendly alien, showed ''they'' could easily survive temperatures at the level of liquid nitrogen unharmed. |
| 281 | * In season 2 of ''Series/Warehouse13'', a woman is stabbed with a knife that turns its victims to glass. The murderer pushes her over and she shatters. |
| 282 | * In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' [[spoiler:Alex uses a spell to freeze Stevie while she is touching the power-transfer orb and then transfers her magical powers to Stevie's brother. Afterwards, Max accidentally knocks Stevie over, causing her to shatter upon hitting the floor.]] |
| 283 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E23Roland Roland]]", a scientist is murdered when his head is immersed in liquid nitrogen and then dropped on the floor. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 287 | * ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' have this as a RunningGag, where the titular character can shatter to bits after a nasty fall or trying to karate chop a brick... only for himself to break instead. Like all moments of death from the comic it's PlayedForLaughs (and doesn't stick because of NegativeContinuity). |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 291 | * ''Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts'': [[spoiler:Maestro smashes himself into the ground as though he was made of stone.]] |
| 292 | * Leftfield: In the Creator/ChrisCunningham-directed "Afrika Shox" music video, the homeless black guy (played by Caspert Hunte) gets gradually broken apart by a bystander, himself, by a breakdancer, and with a car. |
| 293 | * Music/KimPetras: In the "Heart To Break" music video, one moment has Kim turning into glass and them exploding into dust, as a literal metaphor for her heart breaking. |
| 294 | * Music/VanHalen: Near the end of "Without You", set in a ''very'' cold place, a lady (non-graphically) breaks the end of her finger off--Then a whole arm--Then she breaks apart completely. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 298 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 299 | ** If a fire troll is brought to zero hit points by cold-based damage, it will stiffen and fall over to the ground. Normally it will simply thaw in a few rounds and start regenerating, but dealing sufficient damage to it while it's frozen stiff will cause it to shatter and kill it for good. |
| 300 | ** Stone trolls have a similar problem. Their craggy hards give them amazing defense, and they take only half damage from fire or cold attacks, and can regenerate from it normally... but if a stone troll takes fire ''and'' cold damage in the same round of combat, they have to make a saving throw or shatter to pieces from the temperature shock. |
| 301 | ** At least one medusa in a 3.5 adventure has a habit of [[AndIMustScream decapitating her petrified victims, then setting their heads back in place]] so that anyone casting ''stone to flesh'' would get a nasty surprise. |
| 302 | *** Ironically that doesn't actually work according to 3.5 rules for petrification, 'If a petrified character cracks or breaks, but the broken pieces are joined with the body as he returns to flesh, he is unharmed' but most any D&D player can tell you it often feels like the people who write adventure paths don't actually know the rules. |
| 303 | ** Another medusa from the 2E ''Complete Book of Villains'' petrified a thief for breaking into her "art studio", then broke off one of his hands and gave it to his accomplice, promising to sell him the rest of the statue if he brings back a sufficient ransom. |
| 304 | ** This is also the standard operating procedure for the rare male medusas (maedars); they shatter their medusa partner's statues with their powerful punch, then use their innate ''stone to flesh'' ability on the remains, providing the couple with [[ImAHumanitarian meat]]. |
| 305 | ** A beholder in ''Lords of Madness'' had a habit of petrifying people with one eye beam, then doing a little... ''[[MadArtist redesign]]'' work with the Disintegrate beam. |
| 306 | ** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has rare ''[Duhlark's] glasstrike'' spell, which turns someone or something into glass. While mundane materials (like a victim's equipment) [[DisadvantageousDisintegration suffer the same fate]], magical items are untouched. For extra "fun", transmuter has an option to leave the victim [[AndIMustScream aware of what's going on]]. While shattering is implied as the target's fate (otherwise more widespread [[TakenForGranite petrification]] would do) it isn't necessary, the statue may be even turned into solid ''[[ReinforceField glassteel]]''. |
| 307 | ** In the ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' RPG supplement ''Ultimate Powers Book,'' there is a power that allows for this. The notes on the power state that if a living thing is transformed and shattered, the change becomes permanent. The author states directly that this choice was made to avoid dealing with the hamburger that would otherwise result. |
| 308 | * Naturally ''TableTopGame/RoleMaster'' with its penchant for LudicrousGibs criticals gets in on this: |
| 309 | -->''Foe freezes solid and shatters into a thousand pieces. Most land within 20 feet from where he was standing.'' |
| 310 | ** Its cut-down spinoff ''TabletopGame/MiddleEarthRolePlaying'' also gets a similar version: |
| 311 | --->''Frozen solid, then shatters into thousands of pieces after being slammed into the ground.'' |
| 312 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 313 | ** The [[EvilCounterpart Dark]] [[SpaceElves Eldar]] have a vehicle-launched missile that, when triggered, uses two stages like a fuel-air bomb: the first freezes a small area, [[KillItWithIce and everybody in it]]; the second is a traditional explosive blast [[IceBreaker to shatter them to bits]]. This is one of the few examples from the setting that doesn't crank the trope to eleven, although it is an [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon unusual weapon]], even for a sci-fi setting, and it does demonstrate the Dark Eldar's penchant for exotic and spitefully cruel technology. |
| 314 | ** The Dark Eldar also have access to a piece of arcane wargear called the Shattershard, a piece of a destroyed transdimensional portal that has been turned into a deadly weapon. The user caught the target's reflection on the mirrored surface of the Shard, then breaks it, causing the target's body to shatter in a similar manner. In game terms it [[OneHitKill immediately removes from play]] any target that fails a toughness test with no saves of any kind allowed, even if they would be immune to normal instant kill weapons. |
| 315 | ** In the lore, this is supposedly what happened to the Eldar WarGod Khaine at the hands of Khorne. His fragments reside in the hearts of the Eldar Craftworlds which were made into statues of Khaine. In times of great need, a Craftworld's Exarch can sacrifice himself or herself to summon an Avatar of Khaine from the statue. |
| 316 | ** The C'tan were shattered by the Necrons in the backstory after their infighting and cannibalism weakened them to the point that the Necrons were able to free themselves. Much like the Eldar and the Avatar of Khaine, the Necrons have found a way to exploit the shards in battle by trapping the strongest of them in Tesseract Vaults which allow the Necrons to deploy them on the battlefield without allowing the C'tan shard to turn against them. Unlike the Avatar of Khaine, the C'tan shard is ''not'' doing this willingly and is constantly trying to break free. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 320 | * Happens to [[spoiler:Ahkmou]] in an alternate universe ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' story after he is frozen solid by Kopaka and smashed by Onua. The Rahkshi Panrahk's power can also be used to do this, even without the "freezing" step. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 324 | * In ''VideoGame/ThreeDDotGameHeroes'', enemies that get hit with your sword after being frozen by the Freeze spell are killed instantly. |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}'': If you're touched by a [[BlobMonster gloople]] when frozen by a Frostie's explosion, you shatter and die. Fortunately, you can do the same to glooples that get frozen. |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/ArzetteTheJewelOfFaramore'': |
| 327 | ** When Arzette defeats Apatu, the latter gets frozen and falls over, shattering. |
| 328 | ** After Arzette overpowers Duke Nodelki, he starts turning to stone much to his horror before Arzette proceeds to smash him to millions after the petrification finishes. |
| 329 | * In ''VideoGame/AwesomePossumKicksDrMachinosButt'', one of Awesome's death animations is him shattering apart and a tombstone popping up among his remains. |
| 330 | * Being that ''VideoGame/BayonettaOriginsCerezaAndTheLostDemon'' is LighterAndSofter than the main series, instead of [[LudicrousGibs splattering into bloody chunks]] when defeated, the enemies instead turn into green crystal and shatter. |
| 331 | * The ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series applies this to victims of more traditional [[TakenForGranite petrification]]. And if you kill someone with a cold-based spell like Cone of Cold, there's a chance that you will change the target into a solid statue made of frost, which will shatter after a few seconds. |
| 332 | * In ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac: Repentance'', enemies killed by freezing attacks can be frozen, which causes them to shatter into 10 ice shards upon being broken. |
| 333 | * In ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', the player can use the Winter Blast plasmid on a splicer, making it freeze in place If the player attacks the splicer enough before it thaws, it shatters into a million pieces. Easy way to dispatch enemies, but if the player does this, he doesn't get any phat loot from the splicer's corpse (since there isn't one). The same rule applies in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'''s multiplayer, as with a shattered body, you can't photograph the missing corpse for research bonus. |
| 334 | * ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': |
| 335 | ** In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', Arakune's gag reels feature him being hardened and shattered to pieces when Rachel uses the "Sword of Morning Glory" on him. Since it happened on a gag reel, this isn't considered as a canon event. |
| 336 | ** Jin Kisaragi's [[FinishingMove Astral Heat]] involves freezing the opponent in a block of ice and then shattering it. |
| 337 | * This occurs in both ''Bloodstained'' games: |
| 338 | ** In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedCurseOfTheMoon'', Alfred's ice spell will instantly freeze any enemy, and any non-stage-boss enemy will be shattered with the next hit (stage bosses still take heavy damage). Which is very handy when you happen upon a miniboss with a OneHitKill attack. |
| 339 | ** In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', most bosses die by slowly turning to crystal and then falling to pieces. |
| 340 | * In ''VideoGame/BloodyBattle'', you can do this by freezing someone then immediately attacking them using a hammer, sledgehammer or whatever else that works, shattering them into pieces of blood and ice. |
| 341 | * ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' has cryogenic weaponry: bullets and laser beams that have a chance to freeze enemies solid. Any damage dealt to enemies after they're frozen is amplified based on the type of damage dealt -- with cryogenic damage getting less of a boost, but still a decent one. Lethal damage while frozen will cause the enemy to shatter. Enemies with cryogenic weapons or environmental hazards that cause cryogenic damage will slow down your Vault Hunter, but not freeze them solid. |
| 342 | * ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense'' series has Ice Shards upgrade for the Ice Monkey, which causes bloons that are frozen by this tower to release ice shards when popped, damaging other bloons. |
| 343 | %%* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' has [[spoiler:[[BigBad Deathevan]] do this to your entire party]], but then Ryu's EleventhHourSuperpower turns the situation into a ClimacticBattleResurrection. |
| 344 | * In ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Bubble Symphony]]'', one of [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the many ways to die]] is getting hit by an enemy snowman's snowball, causing [[InstantIceJustAddCold an ice block to form around the character]] and quickly shatter, and then he/she dies. |
| 345 | * One of ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}'''s [[TheManyDeathsOfYou death animations]] has him literally fall to pieces. |
| 346 | * This is the fate of the penultimate boss of ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'', even screaming how he's shattered before fading away. |
| 347 | * In contrast with Medusa turning people to stone, ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' has the opposite: after defeating Medusa, she shrieks and slowly [[IronicDeath turns to stone herself]]. In order to complete the stage, she must be damaged in stone form. One someone hits her or otherwise, she shatters, revealing a sword. |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'': Just use Sypha's ice attack on an enemy, then give them a good smack. The red skeletons can actually be killed with this. |
| 349 | * Happens in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', with the Allies' freezing weapons. A frozen unit or structure essentially has HPTo1, and the Cryo Legionnaire happens to have a jump-pack ability that bowls over infantry but instakills anything frozen. |
| 350 | %%* Though it doesn't happen in-game, the MonsterCompendium description for the Ratcicle in ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' claims that it can do this to its enemies (and that on the bright side, you won't feel a thing). |
| 351 | * In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', players who are cursed while playing online leave behind their petrified statues in other players' worlds. You can also smash these. It's a lot of fun. |
| 352 | * ''Franchise/DeadRising'': |
| 353 | ** The fire extinguisher in the original ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' freezes zombies and shatters upon touching or attacking them. |
| 354 | ** This also happens to [[spoiler:Evan]] in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2OffTheRecord'' after being frozen by his own nitrogen bombs and being pushed over by Frank. |
| 355 | * ''Videogame/DeepRockGalactic'': Anything that's frozen solid takes triple damage, and so any team with a [[FreezeRay Cryo Cannon-packing]] Driller will be shattering a lot of icy alien statues indeed. Quite useful against Exploders, seeing they don't detonate this way. This is also especially useful against Macteras and any other flying menace, because you don't even need to shatter them yourself; just falling out of the skies while frozen is enough. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/DiabloII'': Frozen creatures shatter when killed by any means, not just blunt force. This is one of the more effective ways of dealing with things that are liable to be resurrected or used somehow by something nearby, though it's an inconvenience for the {{Necromancer}} CharacterClass, who loses out on potential minions. |
| 357 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 358 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if a frozen or petrified enemy takes a critical hit, they shatter and instantly die. |
| 359 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' took the fun out of that by requiring team coordination that would be better focused on simply killing them, though you could set up party AIs to automatically perform such actions, making it a lot easier. Unlike the previous game, Shatter effects only did a large amount of damage to the target instead of automatically killing it. |
| 360 | * In the Don Bluth animated games ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'', ''Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp'' and ''VideoGame/SpaceAce'', each game has one death scene where either Dirk or Ace's whole body or face shatters. |
| 361 | * ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'': The [[FreezeRay Freezethrower]] shoots a stream of projectiles that deal damage as normal. If the target is an organic {{mook|s}}, it freezes solid at 1 HP (mechanical foes are destroyed and bosses die normally). Any sort of damage causes them to shatter, and Duke automatically kicks them when he gets close. However, leaving them alone causes them to unfreeze after a few seconds, though still at 1 HP. The exact same mechanics apply to Duke in case he freezes himself with [[HyperDestructiveBouncingBall stray bouncy projectiles]]. |
| 362 | * Usable in ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' with Earth magic. Petrify turns targeted enemies to stone and makes them susceptible to Lee's Rapid Deconstruction, which explosively fragments rigid materials. |
| 363 | * Enemies that have been frozen in ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' can be dodge-rolled into to kill them. There's an achievement for doing it too. |
| 364 | * In ''VideoGame/ExitFate'', the Freeze magic turns the victim into a OneHitpointWonder; if they take any damage at all, they're immediately knocked out. |
| 365 | * In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', the Cryolator will normally just freeze enemies, but upgrading its ammo to Ice Grenades will ''also'' blow them up into ice chunks if you finish them off with it. The frozen bits will then melt, leaving behind unrecognizable blobs of gore. |
| 366 | * In some ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' titles, being turned to stone and then struck will cause the character to shatter and they cannot be revived until after the battle. |
| 367 | ** Also, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', being frozen and struck causes instant death, but the character doesn't shatter and can be revived in-battle. |
| 368 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', if you're turned to stone, you can be shattered by certain attacks. Furthermore, underwater, you shatter instantly. On a side note, if a character is shattered, you can't switch in new party members in that spot and must do the remainder of the fight shorthanded. |
| 369 | *** Characters equipped with petrification weaponry will not just instantly shatter enemies they petrify but will do the same number on any allies they hit... even out of water. Lesson here: don't equip characters with petrification weapons if you know you'll be fighting an enemy with confusion spells. |
| 370 | *** Flying enemies also shatter instantly if petrified, by virtue of physics. |
| 371 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', there are the legendary Crystal Warriors -- literally, warriors made of crystal. One mission requires your party to defeat all five of them in turn to progress, after which you see a short cutscene in which they each shatter into shards. There's also an alternate quest that allows a larger alliance to take on all five of them at once. There is an extra reward for this quest: your choice of one of five earrings. Close inspection of the icon for these items reveals that you are actually wearing a shard (an ear, in fact) of one of the Crystal Warriors as jewelry! An even later quest allows you to gain a matching earring (or at least another earring with the same icon) by defeating a pair of previously defeated bosses in a rematch. |
| 372 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the [[PowerCopying Blue Mage]] spell Ultravibration works this way; it's an Area-of-Effect spell that's only effective on enemies currently affected by one of the class's [[InstantIceJustAddCold freezing]] or [[TakenForGranite petrifying]] spells, but any such enemy that's not also [[ContractualBossImmunity immune to Instant Death]] will be immediately destroyed. |
| 373 | * ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 3'' featured a post-mortem variant of this: those that were in the cities hit by the [[KillSat Hammer of Dawn]] were reduced to ash statues. When walking through the ruins of these cities, merely brushing against the statues will cause them to crumble. |
| 374 | * In ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', enemies frozen by combining the effects of Hydro and Cryo will generally shatter if they're defeated in this state. A similar effect happens if they're defeated after being [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] by Zhongli's [[LimitBreak Elemental Burst]]. |
| 375 | * ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'': The Stasis Beam in the Realistic version allows players to pull this off with smaller corporeal enemies such as fiends and constructs. Ghosts and larger golems endure HarmlessFreezing. |
| 376 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': |
| 377 | ** If Kratos is petrified by a gorgon, he can be shattered if he's attacked before he can break out. If he gets petrified while in the air, the moment he touches the ground, he shatters and dies. |
| 378 | ** Kratos himself can petrify enemies and then shatter them once he gets the head of the boss gorgon ''du jour''. If he petrifies a flying enemy, it'll fall and shatter on its own. Both of these kills give experience bonuses. |
| 379 | * ''VideoGame/GrandiaIII'': The power of Xorn turns anything it touches into glass. If he ''really'' wants someone dead, he will shatter them as well, even though these glass statues seemingly can't be revived by any means. During the game [[spoiler: Violetta and Grau]] suffer this fate for [[spoiler: attempting to control Xorn]], and [[spoiler:Alfina]] is seen turning into glass and shattering in a vision. |
| 380 | * There's a ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' mod dubbed ''Surprise'' which greatly boosts and expands the weapons' abilities. The revolver and hand grenade get a freezing attack. Hit any player frozen this way and they shatter like a glass sheet. |
| 381 | * ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'': Shatter is a Mage spell card that kills any frozen minion. At 2 Mana, it was heavily overshadowed by the myriad of other removal spells Mages had at their disposal. To show how underpowered this card is, it got ''double'' [[PowerCreep Power Creeped]] by [[https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Snap_Freeze Cold Snap]], and that card ''still'' didn't see play. |
| 382 | * ''[[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Heroes of Might and Magic III]]'': Happens to an unnamed Archmage in the intro cinematic after being turned into stone by a Medusa. |
| 383 | * The Frost Shards weapon from ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'' allows a Mage to do this to an enemy. ''Hexen II'' gives this power to the Crusader in the form of the Ice Staff. In both cases the enemy shatters on its own if left alone, though any attack other than the ice magics, even hopping on them in ''II'', will destroy the ice statue as well. |
| 384 | * In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', this is how you [[spoiler:kill the alien dog during the 10th Glow attack]] if your highest skill is a mental one. [[spoiler:You set up a freeze trap for the dog that crystallizes it, and Anemone kicks it to shatter it to pieces.]] |
| 385 | * ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': |
| 386 | ** The Spirit Monk can learn to do this with Ice Shard technique. |
| 387 | ** The first time you meet the Forest Shadow, she turns the odd messenger from the Pilgrim's Rest Inn whom you were just talking to into a statue and shatters him. She then jumps on the player character and turns them to stone too, but the PC somehow breaks free and she runs away. [[spoiler:Of course, later she says that the attack was a ploy to get you to investigate the inn.]] |
| 388 | * ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit 2'': |
| 389 | ** There is an obligatory ice weapon that turns enemies into the predictable block of ice. You can then shatter them by butt-stomping them, hitting them with Spaz's slide-kick, or shooting them with one of your other weapons. |
| 390 | ** Hitting Devon Shell's [[OneWingedAngel final boss form]] with a single ice shot drops his HP to 0. Subverted because instead of being shattered while frozen as per the trope, Devon just thaws out after a couple of seconds, reverts back to his regular form, and falls on his ass. |
| 391 | * In ''VideoGame/KickleCubicle'', some enemies can be destroyed by kicking them after freezing them. |
| 392 | * ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'': Dark Meta Knight and [[spoiler:Dark Mind]] literally shatter into pieces upon being defeated. Although Dark Meta Knight only shatters upon his second defeat while [[spoiler:Dark Mind gets shattered three times before the fourth phase, where he transforms into his true form instead.]] |
| 393 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky - Second Chapter'', [[spoiler:Weissman]]'s fate, he's shot by [[spoiler:Kevin Graham]] with a Salt Bolt, a dangerous material that turns people into granite the moment contact is made. Campanella shows up not long afterwards, and completely shatters the body to make sure he stays dead. |
| 394 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 395 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Frozen enemies are already dead, but shattering them often yields a ManaPotion. |
| 396 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Freezing is temporary, and enemies return to normal after it wears off, but frozen targets can be finished by breaking them. |
| 397 | * Since they're BuiltWithLEGO, almost all characters in the [[VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame LEGO Adaptation Games]], ''VideoGame/LEGOCityUndercover'', ''VideoGame/LEGOWorlds'', and ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'' fall to pieces upon dying. So far the only character to avert this is Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog in ''Dimensions'', who instead gets [[DeathThrows thrown off-screen]] like in his classic games. |
| 398 | * In ''VideoGame/LittleInferno'', using any ice-related objects on another will turn it to ice instantly, and could be crushed/smashed into pieces. |
| 399 | * ''VideoGame/LoveYouToBits'' does this word from word with Nova getting blasted to bits, and the game revolving [[WalkingTheEarth traversing the universe in search of them.]] |
| 400 | * Shadow Frost spells in ''VideoGame/LuminousArc2'' have a small chance to freeze their target, at which point a single standard attack will always hit and always deal exactly enough damage to kill them, implying this trope in an SRPG without the graphics for it. |
| 401 | * The Puyo can potentially do this in the Windows ''VideoGame/MadouMonogatari'' games. If they're defeated while frozen, they'll break into ice pieces as opposed to popping in their usual fashion. |
| 402 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 403 | ** Cryo ammunition freezes your enemies. You have the option to melee them, causing them to shatter into hundreds of pieces. |
| 404 | ** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin has the Cryo Blast skill, which is basically the same thing with fewer bullets. Additionally, using Throw or Pull (or other similar biotics) will instantly shatter a frozen enemy... or you could explode them the old-fashioned way: shooting them. |
| 405 | ** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' continues to follow this proud tradition. |
| 406 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'': |
| 407 | ** Frozen enemies in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series, as well as its successor ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'', will take double damage from any attack that has the [[UnblockableAttack "breaking"]] property attached to it. |
| 408 | ** The golem viruses in the [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork6CybeastGregarAndCybeastFalzar sixth]] ''Battle Network'' game take one damage from everything except attacks with the aforementioned property, which will OneHitKill them, as opposed to simply dealing more damage. |
| 409 | * ''VideoGame/MegaTwins'': After Riepotmahn gets petrified, he breaks apart to reveal the item he had on him. Which in the English version is the other Dragon Eye. |
| 410 | * In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden defeats Mistral by splitting open a container of liquid nitrogen and then slicing her up when she freezes. |
| 411 | * ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': |
| 412 | ** In the 2D games, the only way to kill Metroids is to freeze them with the Ice Beam, then fire several missiles at them. In turn, the Metroids' victims are also subject to this trope, disintegrating into ash as soon as something touches their body. Anyone sucked by a Metroid to that extent is already dead. |
| 413 | ** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'': Using the Ice Beam followed by a Missile will shatter anything capable of being frozen, with the exception of Ice Troopers in the Wii version. |
| 414 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'', the Dark Beam ensnares its victim in dark matter, which serves the same purpose as freezing them - one missile and that's that. It makes wiping [[GoddamnedBats Rezbits]] that much easier and even works on [[DemonicSpiders Dark Pirate Commandoes]]. |
| 415 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', you get Ice Missiles instead. Freeze something with those first, and a potent energy weapon should wipe them out. These include, but are not limited to, the Plasma and Nova Beams when fully charged as well as Reptilicus chakrams. You need to wholly freeze the target for this to work, though - chilling isn't adequate. |
| 416 | ** ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'', on top of keeping the "freeze and then shoot with missiles" technique of previous games, also lets you hit frozen enemies with a Melee Counter for a OneHitKill (though it's [[DifficultButAwesome hard to pull off]]). |
| 417 | * ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': Equipping the Ice Storm -> Shattering Blow skill in the Wraith Tree causes the finishing blow of a combo on a frozen enemy to shatter, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere which freaks the other orcs out]]. |
| 418 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': |
| 419 | ** Sub-Zero has several [[FinishingMove fatalities]] that have him freezing then gorily shattering an opponent. |
| 420 | ** Also, the film has Sub-Zero demonstrate this on a mook to show the heroes the seriousness of the situation. The mook tries a flying kick, only for Sub-Zero to freeze him in mid-air, causing him to smash on landing. |
| 421 | --->'''Kano:''' So then he freezes this guy, right? And then he explodes! I could see his guts and everything! Almost lost my lunch. |
| 422 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception Deception]]'' included the Hara Kiri, where the losing fighter could commit suicide in order to deny the victorious opponent the glory of performing a Fatality. Naturally, Sub-Zero's Hara Kiri had him perform his classic freeze and shatter Fatality on himself. |
| 423 | ** The funny thing is that it started in the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} version, as in the {{bowdlerise}}d one. |
| 424 | ** One more from ''Mortal Kombat'': in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon Armageddon]]'', there is a point in the Konquest mode in which you grab a weapon that you use to freeze several Mooks, and then crush them. |
| 425 | ** In the [=PS3=] version of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', for one of his Fatalities, Kratos flashes the Head of Medusa at the opponent, [[TakenForGranite turning them to stone]] and punches them into pieces. |
| 426 | ** In the good and best endings of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', this is how [[spoiler:Fire God Liu Kang]] defeats BigBad Kronika. He blasts her with a stream of fire that turns her to glass, [[AnArmAndALeg chops her arms off]], [[OffWithHisHead kicks her head off]] and ''then'' [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill pushes the rest of the body to shatter it.]] |
| 427 | * If you manage to lose all your [[CallAHitpointASmeerp solar energy]] in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' and have no full astral pouches to save yourself with, Amaterasu dies in this fashion. |
| 428 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'', the shotgun's SecondaryFire allows you to freeze enemies, upon which you can shatter them. Some of the GoddamnedBats are best dealt with this way. |
| 429 | * ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'': |
| 430 | ** Terminus was a mighty stone warrior who served as TheBigGuy for the Paladins until his death during the first uprising against the Magistrate, where he took a fatal blow and was shattered to pieces. The Magistrate later collected his broken body and used dark magic to piece him back together as an undead, obedient minion. This translates into gameplay as Terminus falls apart when killed, but his ultimate ability resurrects him on the spot, PullingHimselfTogether. |
| 431 | ** The Shattermaw and Shatterstar weapons for Androxus and Jenos are crystal guns that kill enemies by turning them into crystal statues that then shatter. |
| 432 | * The freeze spell in ''VideoGame/Pandemonium1996'' allows you to jump on a frozen enemy, shattering them. |
| 433 | * After you defeat the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarNova'', you can find the petrified body of the BigBad, Reven, stuck to the top of the creature. Hitting him once transitions to a cutscene where he shatters into energy. |
| 434 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 435 | ** Done to [[spoiler:[[DarkIsNotEvil Hydreigon]]]] by [[NoNonsenseNemesis Kyurem]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity''. It turns out to be {{subverted|Trope}}: as the [[GaiasVengeance Voice of Life]], [[spoiler:Hydreigon]]'s existence is tied to the world. As long as it exists, so will he. It just takes a while to regenerate his form. |
| 436 | ** The ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' Pokédex entry for [[AnIcePerson Vanillish]] states that this goofy and rather harmless-looking Pokémon tends to make very good use of this trope on its enemies. |
| 437 | * In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', attacking with the Dagger of Time allows the Prince to trade one unit of sand for freezing the victim in place so he can shatter them with his sword, instead of having to knock it down and collect its sands. |
| 438 | * Downplayed in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney''. When [[spoiler:Professor Layton]] is turned to gold, only his arm breaks off and mysteriously disappears from the crime scene. [[spoiler:Turns out Emeer, one of the witnesses, took the arm and sold it to a pawnbroker after mistaking it for a valuable statue]]. |
| 439 | * ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'': |
| 440 | ** The Liquid Nitrogen Gun in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' freezes enemies that shatter if their HP reaches 0 while they're still frozen. |
| 441 | ** ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' lets you do this with any weapon that has Omega Freeze Mod equipped. |
| 442 | ** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'', enemies killed with the Winterizer will be turned into snowmen that can then be shattered by Ratchet or will eventually do so on their own. In the case of flying enemies, they'll fall out of the sky and shatter on impact. |
| 443 | * In ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'', when you defeat Reflux for the last time, his body is encased in crystal and shatters. |
| 444 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': |
| 445 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', using an RPG on the Verdugo while it's frozen does this, for a OneHitKill. |
| 446 | ** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'', those that have been infected by the mutamycete, also known as the "Mold", have a rather peculiar side effect to their biology: if they are killed in a genuinely permanent fashion, mainly by overtaxing their HealingFactor and SuperToughness with tons of damage until they stop working, their bodies end up [[TakenForGranite calcifying]] into an incredibly brittle rock-like substance, and a few seconds later the weight of their bodies causes them to collapse into piles of dust. |
| 447 | * Happens twice in the fifth ''VideoGame/RiddleSchool'' game, both times involving Zack, Phil's perpetually-shivering classmate. |
| 448 | ** First, Phil has to free Zack from a LotusEaterMachine by going inside Zack's dream and killing him inside it. He does this by blowing a whistle so hard that Zack freezes solid, then pushing Zack over, shattering him |
| 449 | ** Second, the BigBad uses Zack as a LivingBattery to power a freeze ray, but Phil manages to redirect the freeze ray towards the big bad's ship, causing it to freeze solid and get smashed by a meteorite. |
| 450 | * In ''VideoGame/RunSaber'', the main weapon of female playable character Sheena is the Ice Saber, and its death animation shows enemies freezing and instantly shattering into nothing. |
| 451 | * In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', you can freeze enemies with the Blast and Buff superpowers, after which they can usually be shattered by any form of damage. You can get a similar result in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'' with [[TakenForGranite Stone Blast]] and Coldflame Aura. |
| 452 | * In ''VideoGame/SCPSecretLaboratory'', SCP-173 is reduced to rubble upon being terminated. |
| 453 | * ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': |
| 454 | ** In most games that feature a Force element, spells of this element have the ability to always shatter petrified enemies. |
| 455 | ** Implied in some games where frozen (or shocked) characters are guaranteed to take a critical hit when attacked. |
| 456 | ** In ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'', the petrification status means that, while damage is reduced numerically, every physical blow against a petrified target means they have a chance (based on their Luck stat) of being shattered. Somehow, for Raidou, this [[NonLethalKO still only makes him "faint from his injuries"]], albeit [[ItsAWonderfulFailure not for long]]. |
| 457 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' uses the same [[TakenForGranite petrification]] system except instead of having its own chance it's based on if the attack is a CriticalHit and they're also ''guaranteed'' an instant-KO from Force-damage. Always a 'fun' problem to deal with... |
| 458 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' also keeps this, but adds in some deaths from toppling over as ice sculptures, and one variation with a flash-fried character blowing away as ash (thankfully, these only happen in cutscenes). |
| 459 | ** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' features an unholy cross between this trope, NiceJobBreakingItHero ({{pun}} fully intended), and VillainsNeverLie. |
| 460 | ** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', if a demon dies by an Ice spell, it will be frozen completely and then shatter to pieces. Bosses also perish by being covered with glowing cracks and exploding into shards of stained glass. |
| 461 | * In ''VideoGame/SidAndAlIncredibleToons'', getting hit with an AnvilOnHead will cause Al (but not Sid) to fracture and crumble to nothing, with the sound of glass shattering. |
| 462 | %%* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog does this at the end of the battle against Chaos 6 in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''. [[StayingAlive It doesn't last, though]]. |
| 463 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'': |
| 464 | ** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation'', Roger has to freeze his love interest Beatrice to keep her from becoming a mutant. Other than CryonicsFailure, attempting to pick up her frozen body results in her breaking into hundreds of ice cubes and a NonstandardGameOver. |
| 465 | ** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVIRogerWilcoInTheSpinalFrontier'', this is the way to defeat the endodroid and bring him back to the [[Film/BladeRunner endodroid runner]]. The endodroid then defrosts à la [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]] and destroys the club. If Roger lingers before handing in the endodroid cubes, it will thaw in Roger's pants and kill him. |
| 466 | --->'''Roger Wilco:''' Frosta la keister, baby! |
| 467 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' remake features a FreezeRay that encases targets in blocks of ice that will either melt {{harmless|Freezing}}ly or instantly kill the victim if damaged. |
| 468 | * After the boss battle against it in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}} 3'', [[spoiler:the Terror Mask]] breaks apart, though on a bad ending not before it gives an AsLongAsThereIsEvil speech. |
| 469 | * ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'': |
| 470 | ** Ice Breath doesn't kill enemies; any enemy immobilized by Ice Breath has to be charged into it to shatter and kill it. |
| 471 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroTheEternalNight'': Dark Spyro kills Gaul by turning him to stone and shattering him. |
| 472 | * In ''VideoGame/StarOcean'', being frozen locks you in place, and if [[CherryTapping you are lightly stricken]], you die instantly. |
| 473 | * Since all of the characters of ''VideoGame/SuperHot'' are some kind of crystalline mannequins, anyone who dies shatters into pieces, be it fom a gunshot, sword slash, or elbow to the face. |
| 474 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 475 | ** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'': This is averted, where you can freeze enemies in ice blocks and then smash them, but only the ice actually shatters. The enemy stays intact and just falls offscreen in the usual fashion. |
| 476 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'': Dry Bones falls to pieces after getting beaten in his boss battle in Story Mode. |
| 477 | * ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'': A enemy that is frozen at the time of death breaks into ice chunks instead of executing its normal death animation. |
| 478 | * In ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'', Lara must defeat the Twin Centaurs by turning them to stone with their own attacks, and then shoot them in their petrified state to shatter them to pieces. |
| 479 | * Cirno in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' likes freezing frogs and watching them thaw out. Some of them survive, but one out of three shatters. This is chiefly due to Cirno being a klutz with the ice. |
| 480 | * ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'': After beating Wildcard [=McVee=] at a card game, you have to shoot him before he shoots you. If you're not quick enough and get shot, your character will literally shatter like glass when struck by the bullet. |
| 481 | * ''VideoGame/AnUntitledStory'' features an ability to {{charge|dAttack}} up iceballs that turn most enemies into stepping stones that will shatter when struck with a fireball, pounded or simply left intact for a few seconds. |
| 482 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', [[AnIcePerson Frost]] can flash freeze his foes and shatter them at his leisure with his abilities. [[GlassWeapon Gara]] can accomplish similar feats by turning her foes to glass with her ultimate ability, ''Mass Vitrify''. |
| 483 | * The "Glass" status in ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' is another of those status effects that makes a character susceptible to death on the next attack. As the name implies, the shatterable material they're turned to is glass. |
| 484 | * A gimmick of frost mages in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': the critical strike chance of all their spells is drastically increased when attacking a target which has been frozen in place. |
| 485 | ** A [[BlobMonster sludge boss]] from Ahn'Qiraj requires to be frozen via frost spells and shattered to be defeated. He shatters into smaller sludges that must be killed. |
| 486 | ** Another boss in Ulduar summons invulnerable golems that must be lured over fire until they melt, then taken into water where they become brittle. They still don't take normal damage, but a single hit of sufficient strength will shatter them. |
| 487 | ** Gruul the Dragonkiller, a raid boss from ''The Burning Crusade'', had a twofer attack: Petrify and Shatter. At the end of the Petrify cast timer all the players would freeze in place as if turned to stone, and then Shatter... well, you get the idea. |
| 488 | *** Krystallus reprised this ability in Halls of Stone in ''Wrath of the Lich King'', and then Ozruk gave it another go in the Stonecore in ''Cataclysm''. |
| 489 | * Presumably, this is what happens when you use Earthquake near a petrified enemy in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion''. |
| 490 | %%* In ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', Yoshi can do this to enemies he's frozen with an Ice Melon. |
| 491 | [[/folder]] |
| 492 | |
| 493 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 494 | * In the bad ending to the first episode of the ''VisualNovel/NineSeries'', Miyako Kujo has figured out the identity of the Evil Eye User—a SerialKiller who murders people by turning them to stone—and goes to confront them alone. By the time protagonist Kakeru Niimi finds Miyako, she has been petrified and shattered. |
| 495 | %%* This happens [[TearJerker rather heartbreakingly]] to [[spoiler:Frederone]] in ''VisualNovel/WinterShard'''s True ending. |
| 496 | [[/folder]] |
| 497 | |
| 498 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 499 | * ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' |
| 500 | ** The Fire Fiend Kary proves too powerful for regular ice magic, so Red Mage trapped her in an alternate Universe (in the form of a Bag of Holding) and cast [[ShoutOut Ice 9]], a spell powerful enough to ''freeze'' an entire Universe. His plan was to keep her there until the Light Warriors were strong enough to defeat her, but White Mage smashed the bag with her hammer [[spoiler:to get revenge for Kary killing Black Belt.]] |
| 501 | ** The copy of Black Belt [[AchievementsInIgnorance created by]] [[NoSenseOfDirection getting lost in a straight hall]] was petrified by Black Mage, and due to unknown factors was missing half of his head when discovered later. When White Mage tried to restore him [[spoiler:because the original Black Belt died]], he rapidly, [[HighPressureBlood graphically]] bled to death. |
| 502 | * ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' demonstrates the consequences of being [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=041414 frozen in mid-air.]] |
| 503 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Crossworlds}}'', when Lilly has been captured by slavers, Karl sees her about to smash one Kalif has [[HarmlessFreezing frozen]], and [[ShootTheDog does it himself before she can]]. |
| 504 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When [[spoiler:Colette]] killed all of Beausoleil's bodies in Paris one of their deaths is depicted as them [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170616 shattering in an explosion of little shards.]] |
| 505 | * The goblin-eating gargoyles in ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow''. |
| 506 | * [[http://www.tektoonics.com/rangtoon1/rangtoon1032.html Slightly cheesy example,]] which practically calls out the trope name, in ''[[VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft Hearthstone]]'''s first Annal. The current villain inadvertently triggers an ice mage's reflexes, and one of the other heroes takes that opportunity to take him down for good. |
| 507 | %%* This happens to [[spoiler:the title character]] in ''Webcomic/{{minus}}''. Even though she wasn't frozen or otherwise solidified. |
| 508 | * ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': |
| 509 | ** In an early chapter, the baddie [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=revenge-of-ishtarru-31 petrifies Anne's friends]] and threatens them. |
| 510 | ** Many chapters later, Ms West's [[{{Familiar}} pet]] [[ThePhoenix phoenix]] Arizona [[http://www.thewotch.com/?comic=enter-the-wotch-2-29 is found petrified and shattered.]] But Anne did her homework after the previous incident, and this time she knows all the spells necessary to heal it. |
| 511 | [[/folder]] |
| 512 | |
| 513 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 514 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': The best way to defeat [[MegaMicrobes Cell]] is to freeze him, then shatter him! |
| 515 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "[[Recap/HTFBlastFromThePast Blast From the Past]]", when Cuddles is launched into space, [[SpaceIsCold he freezes to death]] before being shattered by a passing satellite. The same thing happens to Sniffles in one of his dreams in "[[Recap/HTFDreamJob Dream Job]]", only with a fast-moving rock. |
| 516 | [[/folder]] |
| 517 | |
| 518 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 519 | * In WebVideo/CorridorDigital's [[https://youtu.be/Gmyyvme7Fu8 "Magic LEGO Powers!"]] Sam is given a Midas-like power to turn anything he touches into LEGO. At the end of the video, Sam high fives Niko without thinking, causing him to turn into LEGO, falling to the ground and shattering into his constituent bricks. [[BlackComedy Which Sam then disposes of by selling them on eBay]]. |
| 520 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': |
| 521 | ** Campaign 2: After traveling to the Menagerie, a temple to the Wildmother, the Mighty Nein discover that [[spoiler:every creature who has traveled to the Menagerie over the past decade or so has been turned to stone by a gorgon -- including Caduceus's entire family. The Nein defeat the gorgon, but not before it manages to smash a few statues, Caduceus's aunt Corrin being one of them. A combination of Stone Shape spells and some ''extremely'' high Medicine rolls from Jester allows the Nein to piece Corrin back together and restore her to life, but she remains extremely stiff and will likely never regain her full mobility.]] |
| 522 | ** Campaign 3: [[spoiler:[[SchmuckBait Despite being warned that doing so would kill him]], Ashton tricks Bells Hells into letting him absorb the Shard of Rau'shan. Being an [[ElementalEmbodiment earth genasi]] and thus [[RockMonster made of stone]], the first sign that something is going horribly wrong is that a piece of Ashton's shoulder breaks off and shatters on the ground, followed by their ear, then their entire right arm as their body begins to crack and swell. When Ashton fails a single Constitution saving throw (out of the 10 they had to make), their form abruptly explodes and shatters into a thousand pieces. They only survive because of their Ring of Temporal Salvation, which can save someone from death exactly once before crumbling to dust.]] |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 526 | * In a rare example of not being frozen or turned to stone, the characters from ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' are plastic toys who frequently end up in pieces after being run over by a car, falling into a blender, or having [[AnvilOnHead heavy objects fall on them]]. One notable instance is a flashback scene in "Grief for the Chief", where The Chief was power-sanded down to just a fine powder. |
| 527 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', this is Bubblegum's fate at the end of season 2. Once again, she survives it, but is not quite the same afterward. |
| 528 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "[[MilestoneCelebration 300]]", after Roger's [[ArtifactOfDeath Golden Turd]] is [[AssShove shoved back up his ass]], he shatters into 300 pieces that are then scattered around the world. |
| 529 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': |
| 530 | ** In the intro to "Dumber Dolls", Dr. Weird announces his latest invention, but suddenly freezes mid-sentence. When Steve tips him over, he shatters into 3D shards a second later and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Steve bails]]. |
| 531 | ** In "The Clowning", Carl suffers from a ViralTransformation into a clown, so Frylock freezes him until he can find a cure. Flash forward to 67 years in the future, where Carl is still frozen and [[HumanDoorstop being used as a coat rack]] before falling over and shattering. |
| 532 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': FridgeLogic (no pun intended) implies this is the reason Mister Freeze's FreezeRay gun has a conventional gun barrel built into it. |
| 533 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': During her introductory episode, Inque is defeated when Terry blasts her with Mister Freeze's ice gun. Because she was frozen mid-leap, she's smashed into a thousand pieces once she hits the ground, but since her body is composed of a mutagenic liquid, this doesn't actually kill her, and the police have to keep the pieces frozen to ensure she can't escape. |
| 534 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'', villainous robot Number Five gets frozen solid when a tank at a cryogenic tank farm ruptures. Rusty then proceeds to shatter him. |
| 535 | * ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': When the cyclops dies, its curse is lifted, restoring everyone who were turned to stone back to normal. Unfortunately, this includes bodies broken before and after its fight with Trevor. One of the victims lose a head before he was made flesh again. |
| 536 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay once accidentally shattered someone in a cryogenics lab. |
| 537 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', the evil wizard Viren is attacked by several soldiers at the end of the second season. He kills two of them in this way. He turns one into ice and the other into stone. |
| 538 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Ed... Pass it On...", Nazz's yodeling [[GlassShatteringSound shatters several objects in Kevin's house]]... and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ed]], for no reason other than [[RuleOfFunny it being funny]]. |
| 539 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 540 | ** A lesser example shows up in the episode "Emission Impossible" when Stewie imagines what life would be like with his then-unborn brother Bertram. He sees them bonding over their mutual hatred of Lois by tripping her, running her over, and burying her in concrete with only the top of her head and her arm visible before Bertram freezes her arm with liquid nitrogen and Stewie breaks it with a hammer. |
| 541 | ** Played straight in "The Courtship of Stewie's Father" during a CutawayGag of Creator/KimCattrall about to have sex with a guy. Being old and brittle, she shatters to pieces when he jumps on her. |
| 542 | ** In "Meg & Quagmire", in order to make Meg get over Quagmire, Peter and Lois try to enforce NoYay on her. During this, Peter shows Meg a picture of an ugly celebrity and blames it on Quagmire; Chris then walks in and [[TakenForGranite turns to stone a là Medusa]], followed by him collapsing into small pieces. [[UnexplainedRecovery He turns back next time he's seen, though.]] |
| 543 | ** A cutaway in "Saturated Fat Guy" shows Chris going skeet shooting; specifically, he ended up as one of the targets when he apparently got in the wrong line and gets shattered to pieces by a shooter. |
| 544 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', when the titular creatures turn to stone by day, they can be killed by anyone so inclined to destroy a motionless stone statue. During the "City of Stone" arc, Demona cast a spell on Manhattan that turns people to stone by night, specifically so that she can go out and enjoy shattering ''them'' to pieces. While this is definitely fatal, the show avoids showing if the pieces eventually change back to flesh. |
| 545 | * In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Bill Cipher]] shatters into pieces when he dies inside [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Stan's mindscape.]]]] |
| 546 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' cartoon, "All Broken Up", Goo ends up falling to pieces due to a prank the Blockheads play on her. Luckily for her, Gumby is able to restore her with a device he's been working on, and [[LaserGuidedKarma give the Blockheads a dose of their own medicine before they can do it again]]. Unfortunately, [[HereWeGoAgain he accidentally shattered Goo again in the process.]] |
| 547 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'', the Snakemen take Snake Mountain from Skeletor and his minions are turned to stone by Snakeface. Merman is even shattered. The Snakemen are later defeated and Skeletor retakes Snake Mountain, using magic to restore his minions. As he passes over poor Merman, he reassembles and unpetrifies him with a wave of his hand. |
| 548 | * Happens to [[BigBad Shendu]] at the end of Season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' as a result of him being blown up after being turned back into a statue by the heroes. The next two seasons, however, are actually about him trying to be resurrected by the villains for this reason. |
| 549 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestVersusTheCyberInsects'', Dr. Zin freezes one of his henchmen, whereupon he collapses and shatters offscreen. |
| 550 | * A benign variation appears in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Flash and Substance". When Mirror Master escapes into one of his mirrors, Batman quickly shatters it with a Batarang, leaving the villain unharmed but trapped in that mirror (presumably until it is repaired in such a way that he reemerges in prison). |
| 551 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'': |
| 552 | ** In the first episode, Dr. Wily threatens Dr. Light that he would use Ice Man to freeze him, then have Cut Man slice up his frozen body. They demonstrated with a chemistry table. |
| 553 | ** In a later episode, Ice Man freezes Rush in a block of ice and kicks him into a wall, breaking him to pieces. Fortunately, Rush is a robot, so it isn't fatal. |
| 554 | * This is the plot of the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS5E17GoneToPieces Gone to Pieces]]", where Mickey and Donald accidentally break Goofy into pieces and attempt to put him back together. At the end, Goofy is reassembled [[HereWeGoAgain but accidentally breaks them]]. |
| 555 | * At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' episode "Bee Afraid", a traumatized Portia suddenly shatters into fractals, [[BlackComedy which are then eaten by forest animals]]. |
| 556 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' episode "Babes in Troyland" had Gonzo use his camera to deflect the petrifying gaze of Medusa, turning the gorgon into stone. Shortly afterwards, Medusa tumbles over and shatters into pieces. |
| 557 | * ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': |
| 558 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE54TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies4 The Quest for the Princess Ponies – Part 4]]", Lavan, the villain, is shattered to pieces upon being hit by his own magic beam reflected by the Princess Ponies. |
| 559 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 560 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 The Crystal Empire – Part 2]]": [[EvilOverlord King Sombra]] meets his end this way when the Crystal Heart is activated, turning him to crystal and shattering him to bits. |
| 561 | *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E10SpikeAtYourService Spike at Your Service]]": Timberwolves, being made of random conglomerations of dead wood, easily fall to pieces when tripped or hit with force. Unlike Sombra, [[PullingThemselvesTogether they can recover]]. |
| 562 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyPonyLife'': A running gag for the show is Twilight shatters like glass whenever she gets stressed out. |
| 563 | * In ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', this happens to Jack after getting covered in cement. Oggy has to put him back together, and then it's just a matter of Jack "shaking off" the cement layer. |
| 564 | * ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': |
| 565 | ** In the first episode, a bully gets frozen by Rick and later gets tipped over and is smashed to pieces. |
| 566 | ** Ned Flanders meets a similar fate when Rick and Morty feature in a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' CouchGag. |
| 567 | * Crystar [[http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Crystar_the_Crystal_Meth_Warrior met his end this way]] on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. |
| 568 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', one of Kenny's many deaths is caused by this. |
| 569 | * Another variation: When Rex Shard turns Warden Meece to crystal in the ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' episode "Chaos in Crystal", Dr. Greenbox inadvertently knocks him over and subsequently shatters. |
| 570 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', this is the final fate of [[spoiler:Drako]]. While it also occurs to his partner, in his case [[spoiler:it turns out to be a lot less lethal.]] |
| 571 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', [[PlantPerson Snakeweed]] is defeated this way when Leonardo throws a canister of liquid nitrogen into his mouth and Raphael destroys it, then shatters him. Like the last time he was defeated, his heart survives, setting up his return in the third season. |
| 572 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', Robin tries this on [[RubberMan Madame Rouge]]. [[NoSell It barely slows her down]]. |
| 573 | %%* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Oregon Trail", Starfire freezes to death while the Titans' wagon is going up a mountain, then this happens to her. |
| 574 | * Happens to Hamton in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' in "The Just-us League of Supertoons" after getting turned to stone by Fifi's stink and falling over. |
| 575 | * In the ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' short "Just Ducky", as Tom is about to eat Quacker, Jerry throws a brick at Tom, causing him to shatter like glass and leaving his outline behind. |
| 576 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': Glass gas, used most prominently as a weapon by Autobot Cliffjumper, turns whatever metal it's exposed to, [[MechanicalLifeforms living]] or non-living, into a glass-like substance that's easily shattered. |
| 577 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has Ogron, Anagan, and Gantlos get frozen in a beam struggle by the Winx, Roxy, and Nebula, and then they fall into a crevice. Slightly subverted in that we don't SEE them hit the bottom and shatter to pieces (giving many the impression that they are still alive, but [[AndIMustScream frozen forever]]), but in Season 3 we a snake in the Omega Dimension freeze a bird, which falls and shatters to pieces, so there is little reason to doubt the wizards suffered the same fate. |
| 578 | * ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'': The ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Emma Frost, as a result of the Phoenix dying in her body while she was in her diamond form]]. |
| 579 | * Occurs to [[spoiler:Mystique]] in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' episode "Impact". [[spoiler:She was later revived by Apocalypse, though exactly how is unclear.]] |
| 580 | %%* Inverted in a way in one fairly old stop-motion short about an ogre/troll that turns anyone who rejects his advances into stone. The first part of the film has him catching a pet chicken belonging to the heroine (whose sister also gets turned into stone later), and turning it to stone. When the monster catches the heroine, she pretends to find him attractive and persuades him into turning her chicken back to normal. When the ogre brings out the petrified bird, he accidentally breaks off its head (much to the girl's horror). Sheepishly, he reattaches the head and revives the bird anyway. |
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| 582 | |
| 583 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 584 | * A proposed method of human corpse disposal is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession "promession,"]] where the corpse would be frozen with liquid nitrogen and subjected to strong vibrations until the body disintegrated. However, the company who came up with the idea went under without ever proving the concept in 2015. |
| 585 | * A [[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2921/could-you-be-frozen-solid-then-broken-into-a-million-pieces Straight Dope column]] discussing the question (including a mention of the above mentioned Promessa process) concludes that, as noted above, (formerly) living tissue has too much fibrous structural integrity to shatter no matter how solidly it is frozen. |
| 586 | * Invoked with real-life cryonic experiments. Deep-frozen tissue is referred to as "meat-glass" due to how fragile it becomes. (But only in thin slices.) |
| 587 | [[/folder]] |
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