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Since Power Glows, everything emits light before it blows up, often in brilliant beams that work their way out of cracks in the surface of the doomed object. Often the object bulges like a balloon being squeezed before finally blowing to pieces.
May also cause a Pillar Of Light. A Sub Trope of Power Glows.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Virtually anything touched by Kei or Yuri in Dirty Pair.
- When Mr. Fujisawa is dogpiled by Bugrom in the first episode of El Hazard The Magnificent World, the pile emits a Pre Explosion Glow before he bursts out of it.
- Destroyed Strains in Soukou No Strain.
- It's been said no Slayers series or movie can truly begin before Lina's nearly disintegrated a building of some kind with her trademark Fireball spell(Actually, every series begins with her blowing something up with her trademark nuke-level Dragon Slave spell). And that's not including the countless times it'll happen after that.
- Heh, well, Slayers Revolution (4th season) is kicked off with someone ELSE blowing something up with the Dragon Slave, which seriously pisses Lina off and causes her to complain about it for an episode and a half.
- Dragonball Z has a number of these with almost all of the main characters.
- Wing Gundam, from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, emits these when it self destructs. If this one is remembering correctly, and he sincerely believes that he is, so does Gundam Sandrock before it also self destructs. Additionally, in the movie/three episode post-series OVA, all mobile suits self-destructed seem to exhibit this glow. Y'know what? I could've made this shorter by simply saying "In Gundam, if it self destructs, it glows like a Christmas tree."
- Voltorb and Electrode in the Pokemon anime have an almost evolution-like glow before using Self Destruct or Explosion.
- Justified in Starship Operators when the Amaterasu explodes, as the ship's armor converts heat to light.
- The destruction of closed space in Suzumiya Haruhi, as demonstrated to Kyon by Itsuki.
- The Saint's Cradle's crystalline engine in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha goes out in this manner. First came the cracks, then the brilliant beams of light, then the big boom.
Video Games
- A number of targets destroyed by the heroines of Sakura Taisen.
- Destroyed capital ships in the original Colony Wars game exhibited this, with pure white light spilling out of giant cracks in the hull right before the explosion blanks out the entire screen with white. Later games in the series toned this down a bit.
- At least one boss in Star Fox 64 goes bye-bye this way. The creature on Solar gets an especially spectacular version, culminating in a Pillar Of Light replacing its head before it explodes.
- Most bosses in Mega Man X 4 onwards, as well as the entire Mega Man Zero and ZX series.
- All the bosses explode like this in the Zero series. Every one. And ZX upped the bar by having the screen go dark except for the exploding robots.
- The Armos in the 3D The Legend Of Zelda titles. After being exploded/receiving an arrow in the back or being fed with bombs/hit enough in the back, they start hopping around madly and eventually explode, glowing in-between.
- Bowser's Galaxy Reactor goes out this way at the end of Super Mario Galaxy.
- Chzo Mythos, in 6 days a sacrifice when the bomb is going off in the underground complex, you first see strays of light breaking through the ground before the explosion erupts.
- Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
- And again in Corruption. That, and her planet too.
- Hitting certain enemy ships in R-Type Delta with a Charged Attack causes their midsection to glow for a moment before they are torn in half by the explosion.
Film
- Agent Smith goes out this way in The Matrix.
- The second Death Star in Return of the Jedi flashes lights, minor explosions and gouts of flame all over before it blows up.
Western Animation
Live Action TV
- Ted Sprague, the radioactive man from Heroes as well as Peter (illustrated atop the page) and Sylar after they both gain Ted's power.
Literature
- In The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde, this happens with radioactive cucumbers. The author says he was inspired by the description of a scientist attempting to extract sunlight from cucumbers in Gullivers Travels.
- Ctuchik of David Eddings' Belgariad series bites the dust this way when he tries and fails to will an object out of existence.
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