History Main / ImMelting

* There exist a couple of {{Pokemon}} (especially blobby or water-based ones) that can learn a move called Acid Armor, which is sort of invoking this trope. Contrary to the trope's outcome, though, it doesn't kill the pokemon, it just raises its defense a lot.

* There exist a couple of {{Pokemon}} that can learn a move called Acid Armor, which is sort of invoking this trope. Contrary to the trope's outcome, though, it doesn't kill the pokemon, it just raises its defense a lot.

* ''EnchantedForestChronicles'' had wizards that reacted the same way to soapy water with a little lemon juice in it. (They [[IGotBetter get better]], but it does put them out of commission for awhile.)

* This happened partially in ''[[DaftPunk Electroma]]'', where two robots, wishing to be human, had [[UncannyValley masks that looked like human face]]. Unfortunately [[BodyHorror the masks melted in the sun.]]

* Happens to {{Godzilla}} at the end of ''Godzilla VS Destroyah'' as he's dying of a literal nuclear meltdown. His body tempurature has reached the critical 12,000 degrees which causes the flesh to start melting off of his bones.

* '''Type B: From the ground up'''. The most classic example, in which only the part of the subject that touches the ground actually turns to liquid. Of course, this means that, sequentially, every part of the body will touch the ground, often giving the illusion of sinking into a shallow puddle (conversely, the easiest way to stage this effect in live-action settings is to do exactly that, lowering the actor on a hidden trap door. See ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' or any of several ''StarTrek'' episodes.)

-> '''[[HeroicSociopath Zelda:]]''' ''[[PsychoticSmirk Good!]]''

* ''ElfenLied'' has a particularly gruesome case of Type A in the last chapter. [[spoiler:Lucys psychic powers slowly damage her body on a molecular level and during the finale she uses them to such a great extent that parts of her slowly start to liquefy. In her [[RedemptionMeansDeath moment of redemption]], she uses all the power she has to save Kouta and his friends which literally causes her skin and flesh to melt.]] First the arms and legs fall off and during the death scene she is only a melting skull and torso and asks to be covered by a jacket so the others (and the readers) don't have to see her like that during her final minutes.

* ''ElfenLied'' has a particularly gruesome case of Type A in the last chapter. [[spoiler:Lucys psychic powers slowly damage her body on a molecular level and during the finale she uses them to such a great extend that parts of her slowly start to liquefy. In her [[RedemptionMeansDeath moment of redemption]], she uses all the power she has to save Kouta and his friends which literarily causes her skin and flesh to melt.]] First the arms and legs fall off and during the death scene she is only a melting skull and torso and asks to be covered by a jacket so the others (and the readers) don't have to see her like that during her final minutes.

* ''ElfenLied'' has a particularly gruesome case of Type A in the last chapter. [[spoiler:Lucys psychic powers slowly damage her body on a molecular level and during the finale she uses them to such a great extend that parts of her slowly start to liquify. In her [[RedemptionMeansDeath moment of redemption]], she uses all the power she has to save Kouta and his friends which literarily causes her skin and flesh to melt.]] First the arms and legs fall off and during the death scene she is only a melting skull and torso and asks to be covered by a jacket so the others (and the readers) don't have to see her like that during her final minutes.

* ''ElfenLied'' has a particularly gruesome case of Type A in the last chapter. [[spoiler:Lucys psychic powers slowly damage her body on a molecular level and during the finale she uses them to such a great extend that parts of her slowly start to liquify. In her [[RedeptionMeansDeath]] moment of redemption, she uses all the power she has to save Kouta and his friends which literarily causes her skin and flesh to melt.]] First the arms and legs fall off and during the death scene she is only a melting skull and torso and asks to be covered by a jacket so the others (and the readers) don't have to see her like that during her final minutes.

* '''Type D: Bones'''. One of the rarest types of meltdown, this is when [[StrippedToTheBone everything but the skeleton]] is reduced to puddle of Pepto-Bismol. TruthInTelevision, since bones, especially human bones, are very difficult to completely destroy. Even cremated remains tend to have some bits of bone mixed in.

-->--''[[TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda, The Wand of Gamelon]]''

* A Type C in ''TheLegendOfZeldaWandOfGamelon'', quoted above.

* Professor Corwin's Apsinthion Device does a Type B version of this to coeds in ''TalesOfGnosisCollege''. They '''love''' it.[[/folder]]

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* In HPLovecraft's "TheDunwichHorror," [[spoiler: Wilbur Whateley's non-human heritage is revealed when his furry, scaly, tentacled, nine-foot corpse dissolves into paste, leaving nothing behind but some discoloration to the floor.]]

-> [[HeroicSociopath '''Zelda:''' ''Good!'']]

-> '''Zelda:''' ''Good!''

* The album ''Death Valley High'' by ZombinaAndTheSkeletones is a concept album that tells the story of a troubled young girl who slaughters her classmates in the song "Janie's Got a Dissolvo Ray".

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire}} "Dragonfire"]] had the villain Kane, a [[AnIcePerson low-temperature lifeform]], commit suicide by exposing himself to strong sunlight, causing him to melt. Probably one of the most gruesome sequences in the history of the show (you see his face drip off his skull), and astonishing when you think it got broadcast in an early-evening family show.

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