Re: removal of Zeus:
- Zeus ate his lover Metis, knowing her child would be a threat to him. Unfortunately she was already pregnant. The child grew to term inside Zeus' head, giving Zeus terrible headaches. The blacksmith to the Gods, Hephaestus, evntually had to shatter Zeus' head with his sledgehammer to allow the child to be born - Athena (goddess of wisdom) eventually was born from the temporarily shattered skull, emerging full-grown and clad in armour wielding a spear.
"Work X is like work Y" is poor form: we don't get the details for the different works. Please write these as individual examples with more info about who-what-why-head-go-pop. Or maybe it's just better to let the sister trope Explosive Leash cover them — that trope is more to the point for these works.
- A similar collar appears in Ratchet: Deadlocked, a video game possibly inspired by Battle Royale.
- Survival Of The Fittest, a Web Original that takes its primary inspiration from Battle Royale.
- They pull this schtick in The Running Man as well.
What about "Young Justice" in the episode "Schooled"? When Amazo choose the wrong time to become solid again (by trading his phantasm power from Martian Manhunter for Superman's strength/near-invulnerability), Superboy's arm is where Amazo's head reforms. Cue Amazo's head A-sploding or more simply "going BOOM." Or was that Tele-fragging? I don't know...
There shouldn't be an apostrophe in the title. "Your Head A Splode" is exactly how it appears in the Trope Namer.
https://angelskingsandweirdos.com ''Where imagination takes wing... and then gets sucked into a jet turbine."
someone should include the film "wild zero" for it;s many a sploding. there is actually a drinking game build into the DVD where you take a shot every time there is a head a splode amongst other things
I *really* don't like the use of Real Life examples, as it needlessly adds detail of real gore to an already kind of gross subject. I'm in favour of removing it.