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** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'': Knowing his time is up, [[OldMaster Master Oogway]] gives one last instruction to his protégé Master Shifu -- to train the Dragon Warrior. Then he disappears in a shower of cherry petals.

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' with a ButNowIMustGo moment, though said character disappeared into flower petals instead.

** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Knowing his time is up, [[OldMaster Master Oogway]] gives one last instruction to his protégé Master Shifu -- to train the Dragon Warrior. Then he disappears in a shower of cherry petals.

* ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'': Arthur Spiderwick makes a similar departure in the film version, although it's dandelion-seed fluff that he's swept away as, and he's being carried off to a fairy realm rather than dying.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', this happens to Draco's body.
* All programs in ''Film/{{Tron}}'' will light up or disappear into TronLines on the ground when they derez.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', this happens to [[Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew Sir Aaron, his Lucario,]] [[Anime/PokemonHeroes the Alto Mare Latios,]] [[Anime/PokemonIChooseYou an alternate timeline version of]] [[TheHeroDies Ash,]] [[Anime/MewtwoStrikesBack the failed clones from New Island,]] [[Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife Ash's Pikachu,]] [[Anime/PokemonTheMastermindOfMiragePokemon a computer-generated Mew and Mewtwo]], and several dozen Minior. Whew.

* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', in which the HumongousMecha uses the [[DropTheHammer Goldion Hammer]] to reduce the MonsterOfTheWeek into wisps of light with a cry of "'''HIKARI NI NARE!'''" The trope's name is just one of many possible translations. In kind of an odd subversion of the trope, however, the use of the Goldion Hammer is almost always ''non-lethal'': the "Hammer Hell and Heaven" maneuver that starts the attack rips the core containing the human host of the monster (or the cockpit containing the pilot of the enemy mecha, as the first episode of ''[[Anime/GaoGaiGarFINAL FINAL]]'' showed) out of its body so that they can be returned to normal safely (or arrested [[spoiler: or rather, shot in the face with a bazooka]]). It should be noted that the hammer strike itself (the part that does the disappearing) is most certainly lethal. If Guy doesn't care to remove you from the {{Robeast}} first, that's your ass.

* The TropeNamer is ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', where the SuperRobot uses the [[DropTheHammer Goldion Hammer]] to reduce the MonsterOfTheWeek into wisps of light with a cry of "'''HIKARI NI NARE!!!'''" The trope's name is just one of many possible translations.
** In kind of an odd subversion of the trope, however, the use of the Goldion Hammer is almost always ''non-lethal'': the "Hammer Hell and Heaven" maneuver that starts the attack rips the core containing the human host of the monster (or the cockpit containing the pilot of the enemy mecha, as the first episode of ''[[Anime/GaoGaiGarFINAL FINAL]]'' showed) out of its body so that they can be returned to normal safely (or arrested [[spoiler: or rather, shot in the face with a bazooka]]). It should be noted that the hammer strike itself (the part that does the disappearing) is most certainly lethal. If Guy doesn't care to remove you from the {{Robeast}} first, that's your ass.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Happens to [[FillerVillain the Bounts]] when they die, Plus spirits when they're purified and sent to Soul Society, and Nozomi and Kagerosa in episode 341 of the Gotei 13 Invading Army anime season.

* In the first episode of the third season in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:When Hunter is on the verge of dying, Flapjack uses the last of its power to sacrifice itself to save him. Flapjack, as it sacrificed itself, disintergrated into tiny yellow orbs.]]
** [[spoiler:Later, in the final episode of season three, this happens to Luz when she shields the Collector from a large blast from Belos that would have killed the Collector.]]

** [[spoiler:Later, this happens to Luz when she shields the Collector from a large blast from Belos that would have killed the Collector.]]

* The climax of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSteelTroops'' has the RobotGirl, post HeelFaceTurn, sacrificing herself to prevent a RobotWar from destroying Earth in the future while subjecting herself to a RetGone, where she dissolves [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Shizuka's arms]] while expressing her hopes to return in an alternate timeline and become friends with Shizuka eventually. While at the present, the robot army nearly wipes out Doraemon and the rest of the gang, but Riruru's changing of the past causes the entire robot army to vanish into golden light particles as well. Riruru's sacrifice isn't in vain, however; the final scene sees an AlternateSelf of Riruru from a timeline where the robot invasion never occured visiting Nobita.

* [[CloningBlues Replicas]], including [[spoiler:Ion]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss.'' [[spoiler:Nearly happens to Luke at one point, too, except for Asch's intervention.]] Justified in that they're entirely made from Seventh Fonons, rather than a normal human's mixture of fonons and matter (or something like that - the game makes an effort at describing the world's physics, but it's a little fuzzy in places), and so when they die those fonons dissipate.

* In the first episode of the third season in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[spoiler:When Hunter is on the verge of dying, Flapjack uses the last of its power to sacrifice itself to save him.]]

** Spinoff title ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' uses this as a visual plot point; namely, when certain enemy Servants ''don't'' do this post-battle, it's a quick indicator that you will be fighting them again.

* At the end of the bonus game in ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles: 13th Skull'', [[spoiler:Captain Crown's crew reanimates their skeletons to attack their ghostly captain (it's OK, he murdered all of them), everything goes bright, and then the Master Detective regains consciousness in the swamp.]]
** The bonus game in ''Fate's Carnival'' wraps up with [[spoiler:Madame Fate and her cat Isis, free at last, dissipating into a moonbeam]].

* ''VideoGame/{{PAGUI}}'' have exorcised ghosts vanishing into light particles, either if they're defeated or [[QUietingTheUnquietDead put to rest]]. Your grandma, revealed to be a spirit herself, notably vanish into light [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in your arms]].

* [[spoiler:Sydney and Hardin]] in ''VideoGame/VagrantStory''. On the other hand, anyone else unlucky enough to die within [[GeniusLoci Lea Monde's]] walls tends to Dissapear Into ''Darkness'', their souls consumed and enslaved by the eldritch power of the city.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', this happens to Akinari at the conclusion of the [[TarotMotifs Sun Arcana]] [[RelationshipValues Social]] [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Link]].

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Anything that dies (human or animal) releases large amounts of red ether motes; however, they also leave behind an ashen husk. It's not until an off-seer plays a song for them that they finish dissipating completely. On the other hand, if Agnians or Kevesi reach the [[YourDaysAreNumbered end of their tenth term]], they will dissipate into golden motes with no need for an off-seer. While Moebius and City humans don't have the time limit, they also disappear completely when they die. In [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed Future Redeemed]], which takes place long before the main game, off-seeing hasn't been invented yet, so it's just taken as understood that Agnians and Kevesi always leave behind a husk.