Basic Trope: A monster who absorbs power is undone when it absorbs too much.
- Straight: Xyxlfr is an alien who gets stronger when he absorbs light. The heroes all shine their lasers at him at once, making him explode from his own power.
- Exaggerated: Xyxlfr is hurled into the sun, creating a massive explosion that becomes the new sun.
- Downplayed:
- Xyxlfr merely shrivels up and sheds the "excess of light" to avoid permanent damage. However, it is quite vulnerable while he does this.
- Xyxlfr is rendered dormant when overloaded but not dead.
- Justified: Biological systems can still suffer from too much of a good thing - while having some blood sugar is required to live hyperglycemia can still cause a diabetic coma.
- Inverted: The heroes manage to defeat Xyxlfr by depriving it of all light sources, therefore "starving" it to death.
- Subverted: Xyxlfr appears that he's about to explode, but instead, he unleashes an extremely devastating attack using his new power.
- Double Subverted: The attack uses all of Xyxlfr's energy. And he knows it.
- Parodied:
- Xyxlfr explodes when he encounters a barrage of the people's love and kindness.
- Xyxlfr bursts into confetti.
- Zig Zagged: After Xyxlfr's sacrificial energy attack, he is fine, for a while. It's then revealed that the event caused him to contract a fatal illness due to bizarre alien biology. Xyxlfr keeps the illness at bay for a while with medicine, but eventually it stops working and he finally dies.
- Xyxlfr explodes - but it turns out that is how it reproduces. Now there are hundreds of them out there and even dedicated exterminators would still miss three of them until they grew just as big and aggressive as the first one was.
- Averted: Xyxlfr absorbs the lasers like the rest of the light, continuing to grow stronger.
- Enforced: "You know what makes the best defeats? Explosions. How can we make him burst?"
- Lampshaded: "I've heard raw energy makes good food for aliens. And by good, I mean BOOM!"
- Invoked: Xyxlfr's race was created this way as a security measure, because their laser weapons would otherwise not be able to contain a rebellion.
- Exploited: The heroes are trapped in a room with Xyxlfr, and use the explosion to their advantage to punch a hole through the wall and escape.
- Defied: Xyxlfr dodges the lasers, knowing his special ability's drawback.
- Xyxlfr eventually stops absorbing lasers once it would be detrimental.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A canister is loaded into a ballistic weapon and shot at the alien, killing it. A rewatch bonus shows that the canister is based on a fuel cell.
- Deconstructed: After defeating Xyxlfr, the heroes do not have enough power left to power their ship for an escape.
- Reconstructed: They build a device that harvests energy from the explosion.
- Plotted A Good Waste: The cheesiness of the death is used to endear it to the audience.
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