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Someone gets frozen or Taken For Granite, and is then smashed into itty-bitty pieces. A great way to make sure that someone is Deader Than Dead and to make Harmless Freezing Not So Harmless. In gaming, this falls under the Chunky Salsa Rule and guarantees instant death.
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Anime and Manga
- Genai Hiraga from Read Or Die
- The Taken For Granite variant happens in Mahou Sensei Negima in a nightmare sequence. Literal Nightmare Fuel.
- In the same series, Evangeline's "Cosmic Catastrophe" / "End of the World" spell, which she used to flash-freeze a massive Demon God in absolute zero temperatures before shattering it with a snap of her fingers.
- Statue version: Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z. He got better.
- Variation: The Heart Breaker/Soul Breaker combination Finishing Move in Godannar uses a chemical to turn a Mimetic Beast's body brittle, then the Soul Breaker smashes it into dust.
- Darker Than Black: guys frozen by November 11
- Witchblade: Cloneblade wielders upon final Phlebotinum Breakdown don't freeze, but they crystallize and fall to pieces.
- Hayate's Misteltein spell in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha does the "petrify then shatter" version, though since her target can come back From A Single Cell, it didn't slow it down much.
- Most foes that fall to Hyoga's Diamond Dust or Aurora Execution in Saint Seiya, especially if they're just Mooks. He doesn't even have to strike them afterwards —they shatter instants after being frozen solid.
- Additionally, the Gold Saint Camus once imprisoned Hyoga in an 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.
- The Medusa-like villain of the Violinist Of Hameln movie does this to Raiel after she's fed up with Hamel using his own petrified teammates as ammo. When she's defeated, and her victims start turning back to normal, Hamel and Flute scramble in a panic to reassemble Raiel.
- In Fullmetal Alchemist anime remake FMA: Brotherhood, the first episode features Freezing Alchemist Isaac Mc Dougal, a Well Intentioned Extremist from the Ishvalan Extermination (who isn't?) doing this to a prison guard.
- The final enemy of Ranma 1/2, the Phoenix King Saffron, was hit head-on by a revised and augmented version of the Hiryuu Shouten Ha that froze him solid and shattered him to bits. Although he came back, the damage was so extensive he was forced to regenerate as an egg.
- In One Piece, Admiral Aokiji almost shattered Nico Robin after freezing her, but was stopped in time by the rest of the Straw Hats.
- Repeated when Boa Hancock orders the petrified Amazon Lilies to be shattered.
- In Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Xanxus' box weapon does this in its powered up "liger" form.
- Luxus threatened to do this to the members of Fairy Tail Evergreen had Taken For Granite.
- Also, Deliora, after being released from an ice prison. Turns out he was long dead from the freezing.
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Comic Books
- "The woman they dipped in liquid nitrogen, then shattered like a wineglass," from Elementals.
- DC Comics villains Mr. Freeze and Captain Cold like doing this. More recently, Superboy Prime killed Sun Boy by freezing his head and shattering it.
- There's an example in Planetary; see here
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- If the image doesn't make sense, what happened is Elijah Snow freezes Dracula, then kicks him in the crotch, shattering it. Sherlock Holmes mentions that it'll grow back anyway. (Yeah, Planetary's weird like that.)
- Plastic Man was done this way in the Justice League comic book, courtesy of Crazy Prepared goddamn Batman making a plan for how to take down every Leaguer. He got better and Took A Level In Badass due to floating along the ocean floor for millions of years with nothing to do but think.
- You're mixing two stories up. The Tower of Babel is where Batman's plans get used against Plastic Man— He gets frozen. In the Obsidian League a superhuman petrifies Plastic Man and shatters him in pre-sunk Atlantis.
- Nigh-unbeatable Wolverine villain the Gorgon was killed like this, with Wolverine using his claws to reflect the Gorgon's own petrifying gaze back to him, then smashing him once he's turned to stone.
Film
- Simon Phoenix, the villain in Demolition Man
- The T-1000 near the end of Terminator 2, but he got better.
- Dr. Doom tries to do this to Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four movie.
- In Hot Shots Part Deux, "Saddam Hussein" and his little dog both undergo Smashed Human Popsicle. They not only get better, but end up melting and reforming together ala the T-1000, leaving Saddam with canine features and a little pink bow in his hair.
- The opening scene of Star Trek Nemesis has the thalaron weapon turning the entire Romulan senate into stone, which then shatters.
- There was also a TV movie called Fatal Error starring Janine Turner and Antonio Sabato, 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.
- Jason X had Jason put a woman's face into liquid nitrogen, freeze it, and then smash her face onto the table.
- An early draft for The Day After Tomorrow 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.
- Alien: Resurrection. Happens to a redshirt when an escaped alien figures out the connection between the blasts of liquid nitrogen that were used to control it earlier, and the Big Red Button in front of its slime-dripping jaws.
- At the end of Godzilla vs Destroyah, Destroyah is killed by being frozen alive, causing him to crash to the ground and shatter into a billion tiny pieces.
- 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.
- Mindhunters (2004). In the first trap set by the Serial Killer, Christian Slater's feet get blasted with liquid nitrogen; his ankles then shatter and he falls to the ground and crumbles.
Literature
- A Star Trek tie-in novel called Final Frontier has a scene where a character runs down a corridor and ducks into a shuttlecraft bay, 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.
- This happens in the novel Court Duel by Sherwood Smith. The Big Bad is trying to make a point to the protagonists, so he turns everyone at court into statues and smashes someone we haven't really heard from so far, just to up the dramatic tension. Might be more along the lines of Taken For Granite, but it still fits with the shatter-y theme.
Live Action TV
- In Season 3 of Heroes, this happened to an over-intrusive reporter.
- Yet another Heroes season 3 example: At the end, Tracy died herself this way, although the preview of season 4 makes it clear she's Not Quite Dead, making her a rare example of surviving this.
- Happened in the Smallville episode 'Forever'. The Freak Of The Week attempted to turn Clark to wax, and in the process, reversed his powers on himself. Moments later, he fell from a stairway.
- A variation on Pushing Daisies: 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."
- On Life Crewes accidentally shattered a murder victim who had been frozen.
- It happened in, of all places, the Adam West Batman, 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.
- Similar thingy: in an Angel episode, a guy gets infected with a parasite that sucks all the moisture out of him. End result: shattered guy.
- Recent Bones episode "The Science in the Physicist".
- In the X-Files episode "Roland", a scientist is murdered when his head is immersed in liquid nitrogen and then dropped on the floor.
- The "Eegah!" episode of MST3K 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.
- Happens to Brandon on Blood Ties. Vicki herself is quite broken up (huh huh huh) about this.
- A not quite fatal variant appears in the old show V - 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 Robert Englund, as the friendly alien, showed THEY could easily survive temperatures at the level of liquid nitrogen unharmed.
- This is how the Screeling, an otherwise-Nigh Invulnerable creature from the underworld, is killed in the second season premiere of Legend Of The Seeker.
Video Games
- Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero, in keeping with the violent nature of the series, has several fatalities that have him doing this to an opponent.
- Also, the film has Sub-Zero demonstrate this on a mook to show the heroes the serousness of the situation. The mook tries a flying kick only for Sub-Zero to freeze hm in mid-air and he smashes on landing. To quote Kano: "so then he freezes this guy, right? and then he explodes! I could see his guts and everything! Almost lost my lunch"
- The funny thing is that it started in the SNES version, as in the bowdlerized one.
- One more from Mortal Kombat: at 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.
- Duke Nukem: The Freeze-Ray
- In Bio Shock, the player can use the freeze 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).
- In Star Ocean, being frozen would lock you in place and if you were lightly stricken, you'd die instantly.
- Ice Beam followed by a missile does this in Metroid Prime games. 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 Echoes, 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 Rezbits that much easier, and even works on Dark Pirate Commandoes.
- In Corruption, 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 enough.
- The Baldurs Gate series applies this to victims of more traditional petrification.
- Breath Of Fire 2 has Deathevan do this to your entire party, but then Ryu's Eleventh Hour Superpower turns the situation into a Battle Royale With Cheese.
- In Raidou Kuzunoha Vs The Soulless Army, 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 still only makes him "faint from his injuries", albeit not for long.
- In Diablo II, this is one of the standard methods of dealing with monsters that tend to come back from the dead. (The other being killing whoever resurrects them)
- In some Final Fantasy titles, being turned to stone and then struck will cause the character to shatter and they cannot be revived until after the battle.
- Also, in Final Fantasy IX, being frozen and struck causes instant death, but the character doesn't shatter and can be revived in-battle.
- In Final Fantasy X, if you're turned to stone 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.
- In Yoshis Island Yoshi can do this to enemies he's frozen with an Ice Melon.
- Sonic The Hedgehog does this at the end of the battle vs. Chaos 6 in Sonic Adventure. It Gets Better.
- Cirno in Touhou likes freezing frogs. Some of them survive, but others shatter.
- Happens in Red Alert 3, with the Allies' freezing weapons.
- The "Glass" status in Wild ARMs 3 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.
- Another Taken For Granite Example: In God Of War, Kratos can be shattered if he's attacked before he can break out.
- The Frost Shards weapon from Hexen allows a Mage to do this to an enemy.
- The Legend Of Zelda: In A Link To The Past, frozen enemies were already dead, but shattering them often yielded a Mana Meter recharge. In The Wind Waker, freezing was temporary and enemies could be finished by breaking them.
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Western Animation
- On The Critic, Jay once accidentally shattered someone in a cryogenics lab.
- In an episode of Gargoyles, Demona turns all of New York to stone, and then goes around and smashes the people to bits. This sort of thing has happened to Gargoyles when they turn to stone, to the same effect.
- In Teen Titans, Robin tried this on Madame Rouge. It, uh, barely slowed her down.
- Another variation: When Rex Shard turns the corrupt prison warden to crystal in SWAT Kats, he falls over and shatters.
- A variation on this happens in the cartoon Transformers movie. Galvatron fires a single shot at Starscream, who then seems to crystallise and then collapses into millions of itty bitty pieces. Needless to say, it freaked the hell out of a boy who up to that point had only watched the old Gen 1 cartoons.
- In the first episode of the Ruby-Spears Mega Man show, Dr. Wily threatens Dr. Light that he would use Ice Man to freeze Dr. Light, then have Cut Man slice up his frozen body. They demonstrated with a chemistry table.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) this is the final fate of Drako. While it also occurs to his partner, in his case it turns out to be a lot less lethal.
- Occurs to Mystique in the X-Men: Evolution episode "Impact".
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