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* Combustion Man from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' causes explosions by heating the air.

* The ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'' moves Explosion and Selfdestruct. Unless you're a ghost-type. They're powerful moves but always faint the user in exchange. Can get a bit squicky when you imagine a Pokemon the size of Snorlax or Wailord using Selfdestruct.
** Those moves made it in [[Videogame/SuperSmashBros Smash 4]] as one of Greninja's custom special attacks. Unusually for the trope, Greninja himself is immune to the blast and can do it whenever he wants.

* Genthru the Bomb Devil from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' has two abilities of this sort: He can create a small explosion with a touch or a bigger explosion (involving bombs conjured from thin air) if he sets things up right beforehand.

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->''"With these mutants, they don’t plant the bombs. They are the bombs."''

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* [[FanFic/DreamingOfSunshine Dreaming Of Sunshine]] gives Shikako this as her preffered method of combat. Though the reader never finds out exactly how it began, [[NoodleIncident or how she earned her reputation as a]] MadBomber.

* Enjin from ''FanFic/TheBridge'' can create energy spheres that explode on contact. It can either grab onto and punch the attack into someone for a direct hit, or throw them as a rapidly expanding explosion.

* Katsuki Bakugo of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' can create explosions from the sweat from his palms. This sounds slightly ridiculous, but his palms sweat ''nitroglycerin'', and he can apparently sweat at will, meaning he can conjure up explosions all the time. And his intelligence allows him to find new, novel, and useful methods for his power, such as utilizing the knockback to propel himself. His superhero suit incorporates oversized cuffs to collect his sweat for later use, allowing him to create building-leveling blasts.

* In ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', Titus can combine Fire and Power to create the spell "Destruction", a tiny bullet which explodes in a massive blast, leaving craters in the ground. According to the onlookers, it's similar to a volcanic eruption, but is also considered an abherrant magic.

* The Colossal Titan from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has this ability to devastating effect. As a [[spoiler: Titan shifter,]] the user of this Titan has the ability to create a massive explosion when transforming into Titan form, or none at all. The user will choose the former when trying to kill large amounts of enemies at once, just like how [[spoiler:Bertholdt did at Shinganshina and Armin did at Liberio, four years after he ate Bertholdt and got his Colossal power]].

** Azuma can blow up ships from a distance with his [[GreenThumb Great Tree Arc]] magic. According to him, it's done by absorbing the raw energy from the bowels of the earth through its plants, store it into seeds and detonate them.

* By the same author of the above manga, [[TheHero Haru]] of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' wields the Ten Powers, a sword that can take on ten different forms. Haru's favorite is Explosion the, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin explosion sword]]. Also Shuda, one of the Oracion Six, wields the Dark Bring "Ballet Flare", which allows him to encapsulate his target inside a spherical shell which he then explodes. Another member of Oracion Six, Jegan, can also use the same trick as Azuma above (summoning plants to shoot explosive seeds).

** Mr. 5 from has a Devil Fruit power, allowing him to make any part of his body explode at will (without harming himself). Because of how One Piece [[SwissArmySuperpower treats its powers]], this means he can even breathe into an empty gun chamber to make explosive bullets. His preferred method of attack is flicking his boogers at people.
** Subverted by [[InvisibleMan Absalom]], who appeared to be able to cause explosions by pointing his empty palms at his target, [[PowerMisidentification but was actually]] just using {{Arm Cannon}}s that he rendered invisible.

** [[spoiler:Later on, we meet Gari, another member of the Explosion Corps with the "Explosion Release" [[SuperPowerfulGenetics Kekkai Genkai]], who explodes people by simply punching them]].

*** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime version]], he instead [[WhyAmITicking changes people's chemical makeup to make them explosive]].
** Roy Mustang mixes this with PlayingWithFire; his own alchemy allows him to transmute air and water into an explosive mix of hydrogen and oxygen, which he then ignites with a spark from his special gloves, creating explosive firebombs with little more than a BadassFingerSnap.

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* In ''Manga/MagiTheLabyrinthOfMagic'', Titus can combine Fire and Power to create the spell "Destruction", a tiny bullet which explodes in a massive blast, leaving craters in the ground. According to the onlookers, it's similar to a volcanic eruption, but is also considered an abherrant magic.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the powerful Upper Rank 3 demon, Akaza, has many barrages of punches and kicks with an added visual effect akin to that of fireworks, made more clear in the official digital color edition where varied colors are used for his different attacks. [[spoiler:It is another reference to his happy days as a human being, the event in which he could finally take his fiancé Koyuki to watch a fireworks festival]].

* ''X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever'' is about a mutant who recently discovers that he has the power to explode, but ''without'' any RequiredSecondaryPowers that would let him survive this, meaning that his powers is [[BlessedWithSuck functionally just suicide-bombing]].

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the powerful Upper Rank 3 demon, Akaza’s many barrages or punches and kicks have an added visual effect akin to that of fireworks, made more clear in the official digital color edition where varied colors are used for his different attacks. [[spoiler:It is another reference to his happy days as a human being, the event in which he could finally take his fiancé Koyuki to watch a fireworks festival]].

** Azuma can blow up ships from a distance with his [[GreenThumb Great Tree Arc]] magic.

* By the same author of the above manga, [[TheHero Haru]] of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' wields the Ten Powers, a sword that can take on ten different forms. Haru's favorite is Explosion the, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin explosion sword]].

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* Fantasy Games Unlimited's ''Psi World''. The psionic ability Blast caused explosions.

* The Colossal Titan from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has this ability to devastating effect. As a [[spoiler: Titan shifter,]] the user of this Titan has the ability to create a massive explosion when transforming into Titan form, or none at all. The user will choose the former when trying to kill large amounts of enemies at once, just like how [[spoiler:Bertholdt did at Shinganshina and Armin did at Liberio, four years after he ate Bertholdt and got his Colossal power.]]
* Azuma from ''Manga/FairyTail'', who can blow up ships from a distance with his [[GreenThumb Great Tree Arc]] magic.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' villain Deidara, a former member of the Hidden Stone's Explosion Corps, uses Exploding Clay, which combines this trope with DishingOutDirt and ArtInitiatesLife.
** [[spoiler: Later on, we meet Gari, another member of the Explosion Corps with the "Explosion Release" [[SuperPowerfulGenetics Kekkai Genkai]], who explodes people by simply punching them.]]

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Solf J. Kimblee can use alchemy to destabilize the air, which causes large explosions.
** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime version]], he instead [[WhyAmITicking changes people's chemical makeup to make them explosive]].

* The Colossal Titan from ''Manga/AttackonTitan'' has this ability to devastating effect. As a [[spoiler: Titan shifter,]] the user of this Titan has the ability to create a massive explosion when transforming into Titan form, or none at all. The user will choose the former when trying to kill large amounts of enemies at once, just like how [[spoiler:Bertholdt did at Shinganshina and Armin did at Liberio, four years after he ate Bertholdt and got his Colossal power.]]

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': Anything that Yoshikage Kira's Stand Killer Queen touches can be made to explode at will (or just [[DisintegratorRay disintegrate]] without an explosion). He also has a secondary ability to allows him to launch an autonomous heatseeking bomb from the Stand's main body. It makes interacting with him kind of rough.