History Main / ImMelting

** In "[[Recap/TheProudFamilyS2E10TweenTown Tween Town]]", Creator/AlRoker grants Penny's wish of making the adults disappear after she and her friends get caught sneaking out to his nightclub at the mall and get [[YouAreGrounded grounded]]. After all that fun, the kids soon decide they miss their parents and want them to come home and need Roker to reverse the wish. The only way to do that is with a game of Double Dutch, but Roker defeats Penny by one jump, and could likely have Bebe and Cece working for him. However, [[CoolUncle Uncle Bobby]] managed to avoid becoming a victim of the wish, being that he's [[ManChild a kid at heart]], and because he's the only adult who never fell victim to the wish, Penny's contract is declared null and void. The outcome for Roker: he melts!

** [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyMovie The movie]] has the family facing off with an evil clone of Dr. Carver. The real Dr. Carver invented a powerful Peanut Liquefication Gas to turn any bad experiments into peanut butter. When the Dr. Carver clone creates an army of Super Genomes to take over the world, plus, evil clones of the titular family, Penny takes the gas and risks her life to defeat the clone and stop the army. She succeeds.

** In "Tween Town", Creator/AlRoker grants Penny's wish of making the adults disappear after she and her friends get caught sneaking out to his nightclub at the mall and get [[YouAreGrounded grounded]]. After all that fun, the kids soon decide they miss their parents and want them to come home and need Roker to reverse the wish. The only way to do that is with a game of Double Dutch, but Roker wins, and could likely have Bebe and Cece working for him. However, [[CoolUncle Uncle Bobby]] managed to avoid becoming a victim of the wish, being that he's [[{{Manchild}} a kid at heart]], and because he's the only adult who never fell victim to the wish, Penny's contract is declared null and void. The outcome for Roker: he melts!

** In "Tween Town", Creator/AlRoker grants Penny's wish of making the adults disappear after she and her friends get caught sneaking out to his nightclub at the mall and get [[YouAreGrounded grounded]]. After all that fun, the kids soon decide they miss their parents and want them to come home and need Roker to reverse the wish. The only way to do that is with a game of Double Dutch, but Roker wins, and could likely have Bebe and Cece working for him. However, [[CoolUncle Uncle Bobby]], being a kid at heart, managed to avoid becoming a victim of the wish, making Penny's contract null and void of one adult never vanished. The outcome for Roker: he melts!

** In "Tween Town", Creator/AlRoker grants Penny's wish of making the adults disappear after she and her friends get caught sneaking out to his nightclub at the mall and get grounded. The kids soon decide they miss their parents and want them to come home and need Roker to reverse the wish. The only way to do that is with a game of Double Dutch, but Roker wins, and could likely have Bebe and Cece working for him. However, [[CoolUncle Uncle Bobby]], being a kid at heart, managed to avoid becoming a victim of the wish, making Penny's contract null and void of one adult never vanished. The outcome for Roker: he melts!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyMovie'' has the family facing off with an evil clone of Dr. Carver. The real Dr. Carver invented a powerful Peanut Liquefication Gas to turn any bad experiments into peanut butter. When the Dr. Carver clone creates an army of Super Genomes to take over the world, plus, evil clones of the titular family, Penny takes the gas and risks her life to defeat the clone and stop the army. She succeeds.

** In "Re-Hibernation Week", [=SpongeBob=] melts into yellow goo when Sandy takes him on one dangerous exercise regimen too many.

* In a much later episode, a frost giant swallows him while he's having extremely spicy food as last meal. The next moment, Johnny is drowning in a large puddle.

** "Day of the Snowmen": Kim and Ron held an army of zombie snowmen at bay by melting them with a flamethrower and packets of hot-sauce.

** "Super Duped": When Johnny accidentally hoses down Sweet Cheeks, he the candy-themed supervillain in a striped costume.
** In a much later episode, a frost giant swallows him while he's having extremely spicy food as last meal. The next moment, Johnny is drowning in a large puddle.

** "Day of the Snowmen": Kim and Ron held an army of zombie snowmen at bay by melting them with a flamethrower and packets of hot-sauce.

** When Johnny accidentally hoses down a candy-themed supervillain in a striped costume.

** When Drakken sent clones of Kim and Bonnie to attack Kim, Kim was able to melt the clones by spraying soda water at them.
** Kim and Ron held an army of zombie snowmen at bay by melting them with a flamethrower and packets of hot-sauce.
** [[spoiler:[[TheMole Eric]]]] met his defeat when Rufus bit him in the ankle, causing his syntho-gel to leak.

* Arthur himself on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', but it was only a DreamSequence of D.W.'s.

*** The real gut punch is that an experiment is eventually done to try to bring Robert back and by that time all that they can obtain of him is [[BodyHorror '''a mass of blood, vomit and rotten skin''']]. [[TearJerker His wife Anna, who hadn't seen anything of Robert for nearly six years, was present at the experiment]]. Even worse, most of Robert is still within 3001, leaving him to UncertainDoom.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]] ("Red Reality") is a PocketDimension with extremely low Hume levels. Foundation researcher Robert Scranton got trapped inside it thanks to a FreakLabAccident. As time passed by, his own Hume levels started to decrease, causing his body to disappear piece by piece. Even worse, [[AndIMustScream he remained alive and conscious through it all]].
** The real gut punch is that an experiment is eventually done to try to bring Robert back and by that time all that they can obtain of him is [[BodyHorror '''a mass of blood, vomit and rotten skin''']]. [[TearJerker His wife Anna, who hadn't seen anything of Robert for nearly six years, was present at the experiment]]. Even worse, most of Robert is still within 3001, leaving him to UncertainDoom.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2207 SCP-2207]] ("[[DimensionalCutter Dimensional Razor]]") is a plastic knife that can cut open portals to other universes, but
[[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds which also messes with the physical laws of those universes]] as a result, resulting in an "Yggdrasil-Severance Event" that disconnects each universe from the multiverse. One example happens in Exploration #46, where everything, including living beings, sags down and melts in less than 10 minutes.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2207 SCP-2207]] ("[[DimensionalCutter Dimensional Razor]]") is a plastic knife that can cut open portals to other universes, but it also messes with the physical laws of those universes as a result, resulting in an "Yggdrasil-Severance Event" that [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds disconnects]] each universe from the multiverse. One example happens in Exploration #46, where everything, including living beings, sags down and melts in less than 10 minutes.
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]] ("Red Reality") is a PocketDimension with extremely low Hume levels. Foundation researcher Robert Scranton got trapped inside it thanks to a FreakLabAccident. As time passed by, his own Hume levels started to decrease, causing his body to disappear piece by piece. Even worse, [[AndIMustScream he remained alive and conscious through it all]].
*** The real gut punch is that an experiment is eventually done to try to bring Robert back and by that time all that they can obtain of him is [[BodyHorror '''a mass of blood, vomit and rotten skin''']]. [[TearJerker His wife Anna, who hadn't seen anything of Robert for nearly six years, was present at the experiment]]. Even worse, most of Robert is still within 3001, leaving him to UncertainDoom.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2207 SCP-2207]] ("[[DimensionalCutter Dimensional Razor]]") is a plastic knife that can cut open portals to other universes, but
which also messes with the physical laws of those universes as a result, resulting in an "Yggdrasil-Severance Event" that (in a MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds way) disconnects each universe from the multiverse. One example happens in Exploration #46, where everything, including living beings, sags down and melts in less than 10 minutes.
* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]] ("Red Reality") is a PocketDimension with extremely low Hume levels. Foundation researcher Robert Scranton got trapped inside it thanks to a FreakLabAccident. As time passed by, his own Hume levels started to decrease, causing his body to disappear piece by piece. Even worse, [[AndIMustScream he remained alive and conscious through it all]].
** The real gut punch is that an experiment is eventually done to try to bring Robert back and by that time all that they can obtain of him is [[BodyHorror '''a mass of blood, vomit and rotten skin''']]. [[TearJerker His wife Anna, who hadn't seen anything of Robert for nearly six years, was present at the experiment]]. Even worse, most of Robert is still within 3001, leaving him to UncertainDoom.

which also [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds messes with the physical laws of those universes as a result]], resulting in an "Yggdrasil-Severance Event" that disconnects each universe from the multiverse. One example happens in Exploration #46, where everything, including living beings, sags down and melts in less than 10 minutes.

* The {{Tokusatsu}} show ''Film/MessageFromSpace: Galactic Battle'' (''Uchu kara no messeji: Ginga taisen'', better known as ''San Ku Kaï'' in Europe or ''Sankuokai'' in Latin America) features one villain of the week with water-based powers who melts into foam when killed, which then takes fire. (It stands out because most other villains [[DefeatEqualsExplosion would rather explode]].)

* This happens partially in ''[[Film/DaftPunksElectroma Electroma]]'', where two robots, wishing to be human, have [[UncannyValley masks that looked like human faces]]. Unfortunately [[GlamourFailure the masks melt in the sun.]]

* Many examples in ''WebOriginal/{{SheigalaVampireBusinessWomen}}'', one of the vampire henchwomen melts into bones when she's staked in the heart. And in the final episode, the main villainess Santrina melts into a puddle of gore after eating meat tainted with garlic.

* In ''Animation/MeCvimadMoval'', after FlyingOnACloud for a bit, the girl and the snowman land in a sunny area. The location proves to be a bit too sunny for the snowman, as he becomes exhausted from the heat and starts to melt. The girl tries to find some snow to help revive him, but by the time she comes back the snowman has melted completely. Thankfully, [[DisneyDeath the snowman later comes back to life]] in the form of raindrops, and he and the girl are soon happily playing together once more.

* The ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' movie, of all things. Koopa briefly mentions early in the film that all life started out as primeval slime, vaguely foreshadowing the film's climax, where Mario and Luigi turn the De-evolutionizing De-vo guns on him until he turns back into primeval slime himself. Interestingly, there was a deleted clip from early in the film in which the De-vo chamber operator himself was De-evolved into slime. If you watch the film closely, you'll notice a green puddle during the De-vo chamber fight.

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* A commercial for [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer batteries]] featured [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West herself]] attempting to destroy the Energizer Bunny by setting him on fire with her broom. She ends up setting off a sprinkler system that melts her.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** ''End of Evangelion'' has everyone getting hugged by a hallucination of their most loved person and then promptly collapsing into primordial soup. Anti-AT field: quick, painless and 100% effective.
** Episode 20 has a similar thing happening to Shinji: he immersed into his berserking Eva so much his body melted into LCL and they had to figure out how to rebuild it and bind his soul in it. Same thing happened to his mother [[TheWoobie while he was watching]], by the way.

* Amayo Jingorou from ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' can turn his body into semi-liquid ooze by covering himself with salt. This is why he's absolutely terrified of the sea, since the salt water dissolves his body completely. [[spoiler:This is exactly how he meets his end.]]
* This is what happens to all the witches in ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'' whenever their "eject" button is pressed or they run out of "death suppressant" pills.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Happens to the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon when Yugi fuses a Zombie to it.
* One of the manga based on ''Videogame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' briefly saw series antagonist Ganon return, only to rapidly melt away after being impaled with the Magical Sword.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', this happens to anyone hit with a lethal dose of the skin-corroding viruses of Fugo's Stand, Purple Haze. As their body starts succumbing to the illness, they will slowly, painfully melt to death. Just ask [[spoiler:Illuso]].

* An infamous example would be the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BarefootGen'' during the scene in which Hiroshima was bombed. It's an absolutely horrific [[NightmareFuel 3-and-a-half minute sequence of men, women, children and animals graphically melting from the atom bomb's extreme heat.]] [[EyeScream Usually the first part of them to melt is their eyes, which gruesomely drip out of their sockets.]] TruthInTelevision, of course, since that actually happened to those unfortunate to be caught in the blast radius during the atomic bombings.

* It would appear that this was the ultimate fate of Dr. Light. Although he was first turned into a [[KarmicDeath candle]] by ComicBook/TheSpectre.

* "The Man who Waxed and Waned", a story from issue 13 of DC's 70s anthology series ''Forbidden Tales Of Dark Mansion'' tells of a mobster who winds up in the care of an elderly witch. He soon discovers the witch is using Wax voodoo dolls to kill random people. The crook tries to get the old lady's secret but ends up killing her and setting her house ablaze before fleeing. Unsurprisingly, she's already made a wax doll of him that he left in the burning house. The man tries to book a plane and meets an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath especially awful version of this fate]] as his body begins heating up intensely [[BodyHorror before dissolving into a blob of molten flesh with what remained of his face still visible.]] All while a nearby family with a young daughter was watching. [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/4/12185-2549-13653-1-forbidden-tales-of-d.jpg The cover really gives it away.]]
* In a story from the Post-Crisis ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', Wonder Woman's clone, who was created by Ares' daughter to stir up mistrust and hatred among the people of the world invited to Themyscira for a goodwill feast, eventually melted into a pile of goo when she attempted to strangle Lois Lane.

* This happens to ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' once when he has hoped to merely thaw out of a block of ice.
* Also in [[http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Busch,+Wilhelm/Bildergeschichten/Bilderpossen/Der+Eispeter a strip]] by 19th century German artist Creator/WilhelmBusch. Boy Peter leaves the house on a very cold winter day [[AnAesop despite being told not to]] for ice skating, where he promptly freezes in the cold. Fortunately, the hunter finds him and brings him home; but in the oven heat, this trope happens, and all the dolorous parents can do is wipe up the liquid and store it in a jar, [[BlackComedy which they keep in the larder.]]

* In one early ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' story-line, Dilbert is sent to Accounting. In Dilbert's company, Accounting is a horrific nightmare realm whose employees are literal trolls and their superior is an evil witch (or wizard — gender doesn't really matter in Accounting). Dilbert transforms him into a troll just from breathing the air, and he is promptly put to work erasing budgets for various departments. Then he is given the budget of the Accounting department itself...
-->'''Head of Accounting:''' Help me! I'm melting! Aaaagh!

* After the demons stop possessing [[spoiler:Professor Peach's]] in ''Fanfic/RemnantInferisDOOM'', what's left of her body (her upper torso due to being cut in half) melts into a bloody puddle.

* Happens to Rasputin in Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' when the heroine smashes the artifact he gained his power from. It's been foreshadowed several times that [[OurLichesAreDifferent he's technically a zombie]], and [[SoulJar the relic is the only thing keeping him alive]], so it was pretty obvious this would happen.
* Glim in ''WesternAnimation/MuneGuardianOfTheMoon'' is a girl made of wax, so naturally, she's quite frightened of heat because she doesn't want to melt. [[spoiler:She later performs a HeroicSacrifice by keeping the fires of the Sun lit, saving the Sun but melting in the process. Luckily, [[DisneyDeath she gets resculpted and brought back.]]]]

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, for a scene where Dorothy accidentally splashes the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not react well to water.
* Subverted in ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', in that melting into goo was actually Ethan's ''[[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway power]]''.
* This happened partially in ''[[Film/DaftPunksElectroma Electroma]]'', where two robots, wishing to be human, have [[UncannyValley masks that looked like human faces]]. Unfortunately [[GlamourFailure the masks melted in the sun.]]
* ''Film/TheIncredibleMeltingMan'' tells the unfortunate tale of an astronaut who is slowly, painfully, experiencing this effect.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Seen in ''Film/XMen1'', with [[spoiler:Senator Kelly, whose body has turned very unstable by Magneto's mutation-inducing machine. It starts with the hand Storm was clutching, and then everything is broken down until becoming pure water!]]
** Iceman in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' by [[spoiler:''three'' Sentinels in the climax, as his "frozen body" form is torn down]].
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk:'' '''"DON'T LOOK, MARION! KEEP YOUR EYES SHUT!"''' This is what Indiana Jones tells Marion when Belloq, Dietrich, Toht and the Nazis open the Ark of the Covenant. Indy and Marion wisely keep their eyes closed, while the Nazis and Belloq suffer God's wrath. Those who look end up being killed gruesomely by the Ark, but ''Toht'' is the one whose death stands out, as his face literally melts off of his skull in liquid form. He is left gurgling on his own blood even after most of his skin has been graphically reduced to a fleshy puddle, implying that he's drowning in his own blood as his flesh liquefies.

* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', the title creatures melt into puddles of green goo (leaving only a skeleton behind) when exposed to sunlight. ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' shows that somehow, you get the same effect when you get them wet then electrocute them, too.
* ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah''[='=]s titular BigBad, the pollution monster Hedorah, is shown killing unfortunate people in numerous different ways as he seeks out new sources of pollution to feed on, this method being one of them. Hedorah is able to fire concentrated jets of sulphuric acid vapour from his body which reduce anyone unlucky enough to be caught by the jets to nothing but bones on the ground.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' didn't show it often, but did bring it to disturbing levels with the Dip. [[spoiler:When Judge Doom, the BigBad, is revealed to be a Toon, he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard meets his end by his own concoction]], and his death is very much a ShoutOut to the Wicked Witch's death in ''The Wizard of Oz''.]]
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': [[spoiler:The T-1000]] after he is shot in the gut with a grenade by the T-800. He falls into a vat of molten steel, where he shrieks [[spoiler:(and [[ShapeShifterSwanSong transforms into his victims]])]] as he melts away.
* In ''Film/SweetHome1989'', [[spoiler:Yamamura]] dies in a very graphic way as his flesh melts off of his body, leaving only a crumbling skeleton behind. The scene is present in [[VideoGame/SweetHome1989 the video game adaptation]] as well, and is no less grisly on the Famicom.
* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'': [[spoiler:Stan when he jumps into the lava to save the subway motorman, and in the process, has his entire body melted into the lava.]] [[{{Narm}} It probably wasn't meant to be as funny as it turned out.]]
* ComicBook/TheJoker subverts this trope (what else?) in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'', when Vicki Vale throws a pitcher of water at him in order to distract him. After impersonating [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch]] [[OhCrapFakeout and crying "I'm melting!" for a few seconds]], he then shouts "Boo!" at Vicki, just before Batman [[SuperWindowJump smashes through the skylight]] in probably the iconic BigDamnHeroes moment of the film.

* Happens to an unlucky guy in the ''Film/TheFlyII'' when the angry man-fly hybrid monster attacks him.
* In ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'', one of Clarence Boddicker's goons, Emil Antonowsky, gets soaked in industrial waste after running his van into a tank of the corrosive stuff. He starts slowly melting (while still alive!), while shambling around in pain. Clarence eventually hits Emil with his car, at which point he's so melted that his body literally explodes into goo on impact. Being Clarence, he seems more upset over the mild inconvenience Emil's goo had on driving than the death of his lackey, the jerk.
* In ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife'', the main villain gets thrown into a pit of black acid-like liquid. He spends a few dozen seconds thrashing around while his skin and muscle slowly melt off him.

* Happens to Franchise/{{Godzilla}} at the end of ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' as he's dying of a literal nuclear meltdown. His body temperature has reached the critical 12,000 degrees which causes the flesh to start melting off of his bones. One close-up shot even shows his own ''dorsal fins'' melting away.
* Several of the vampire deaths in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn2TexasBloodMoney'', as the staked vampires' partially-fleshed skeletons remain intact while a nasty black fluid flows out of them, forming a puddle on the ground.
* The eponymous {{Monster Clown}}s from ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' melt down a security guard by throwing acid pies at him.
-->'''Security guard:''' What are you gonna do with those pies, boys?
* ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'':
** In the film adaptation of ''Film/TheGuyver'', [[spoiler:after Sean has the unit literally pulled out from his head by Lisker]].
** Also in the more successful sequel, ''Film/GuyverDarkHero''. Once the villainous Guyver Zoanoid is mortally wounded in battle, [[spoiler:Sean pulls out the unit from his head.]] It melts down to a skeleton, which was only briefly seen before Guyver finished him off [[ChestBlaster in his signature style]].
* When Jason has to switch bodies in ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'', the former one graphically rots away.

* The final battle of ''Film/TheBattleWizard'', a fantasy kung-fu film, has its main villain dying from dissolving into a pool of white foam after being overloaded with too much ''chi''.
* This is what happens to anyone who is consumed and digested by ''Film/TheBlob1988'', shown in ''graphic'' detail. [[EyeScream Some of them have their eyes being liquefied into pools of blood]]. Others seem to no longer have skin or bones after being snared and entrapped in the terrible stuff. [[AnArmAndALeg Try to pull them out of the Blob, you'll probably only succeed in pulling an arm off]].

* In the "Overtoke" segment from ''Film/CampfireTales1991'', an oddly destructive weed causes its users to break apart and ultimately melt into a green puddle after prolonged use.
* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', [[spoiler:the spokesman vampire toward the end of the film has this fate, with his impaled body dripping off of his bones until he is a very emaciated corpse on the stake he was impaled with.]]
* When Zack in ''Film/TheCurse'' tries to get his mother out of their house that's collapsing due to the meteor's influence, he finds out that she has mutated to the point that her entire body breaks apart and melts into a puddle of black goo.
* In ''Film/StreetTrash'', a long-expired alcoholic drink called "Tenafly Viper" causes those who drink it to slowly and grotesquely melt into multicolored sludge. The most famous scene involves a hobo slowly melting into the toilet bowl he's sitting on, his arm breaking off at the wrist when he tries to grab the flush handle to pull himself out. He's quickly reduced to a groaning, half-melted head bobbing around in the bowl.
* The 1993 Aussie BodyHorror film ''Film/BodyMelt'' involves [[WeightLossHorror an experimental diet pill]] created to make the perfect human, but it [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], causing various horrifying mutations including growing tentacles, exploding body parts, and of course the titular melting bodies.
* Taken to CrossesTheLineTwice levels in ''Film/PlanetTerror'', when a would-be rapist's ''[[GroinAttack genitals]]'' melt off.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** Combined with shrinking in ''Film/AntMan1'', when Darren Cross uses an imperfect shrink ray to reduce an intransigent investor to a tiny glob of fleshy goo.
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The Grandmaster uses a weapon looking like a rod topped by a sphere to execute people who displeased him, as he demonstrates with his "cousin" next to Thor. This results in the victim melting into a blue goo, to Thor's horror. Then the Grandmaster complains that he got some on his shoes.
* In ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', General Kala is shot on a staircase and falls prone, after which a pool of black liquid flows down the steps from her collapsing costume.

* In the world of ''Literature/LoneWolf'', many an [[TheUndead Undead]] (above the standard skeletons or zombies) dissolves into foul-smelling goo upon destruction. Notably the case for [[MookLieutenant Vordaks]] or [[HumanShifting Helghasts]] among the servants of the [[EvilOverlord Darklords]], or for the [[DemonicSpiders mutated boss undead]] of [[OurLichesAreDifferent Deathlord Ixiataaga]] from Book 17.

* ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', the inspiration for the {{Trope Namer|s}}. After the Wicked Witch of the West steals one of the Silver Slippers from Dorothy, the girl becomes so enraged, she dumps a bucket of water all over the witch, who then melts before Dorothy's eyes. Note that it's not nearly instantaneous: the witch has enough time for a dialogue in which she asks the stupid question "did you not know water could destroy me?" Even ([[BlackAndWhiteMorality espec]][[AlwaysChaoticEvil ially]]) as a child, it's obvious to the reader that had she known, Dorothy would have done it weeks ago.
** Worth noting is that the book provides a surprisingly legitimate reason for this: The witch magically kept herself alive for so long that her body had essentially mummified and dried to a dust that, due to this same magic, held intact right where it all belonged "like brown sugar", until Dorothy introduced a solvent to it. In the film though, water simply causes her to evaporate into steam, presumably because "it's Oz".
* In Hans Christian Andersen's original version of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', mer-people dissolve into sea foam when they die. This is the fate that threatens the title character if she can't win the prince's love. [[spoiler:In the end it does happen, but [[DiedHappilyEverAfter her spirit lives on]].]]

* In the Creator/IsaacAsimov short story "Rain, Rain, Go Away", a family of nosy neighbors nonetheless makes friends with a new family that moved in. They noted that the new family seems to be deathly afraid of rain, but writes it off as everyone having their own special quirks. They invite the new family to a carnival, where everyone has a good time until they see storm clouds. The new family is desperate to get home, up to and including crying when they hear radio reports that the rain is going to strike soon. When they finally get home, they only make it halfway:
-->'''Mother:''' Honestly! You'd think they were... ''[rain suddenly starts at the family proceeds to melt]'' ... made of sugar and afraid they would melt?

* In Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/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.]]

* Not shown, but it's mentioned in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' that Unseen University's sports instructor, Evans the Striped, died by spontaneous evaporation. Ridcully's a bit put out that one of UU's wizards would die in such an unimpressive fashion.
* In Creator/PeterStraub's ''Floating Dragon'', the nerve agent DRG-16 is accidentally released from a Department of Defense chemical plant, and causes a number of people to meet this fate.
* In ''Literature/HallowMass'' [[spoiler:Chester Sawyer's]] body dissolves into slime upon his death.

* In Michael Reaves' ''The Burning Realm'', the Deathlings are human victims of a supernatural disease inflicted by a vengeful Cthon. They become more and more sensitive to sensations, and more vulnerable to injury, until they're incapacitated by their condition, go into convulsions, and literally ''disintegrate'' into melting flesh and cracked bone.
* In ''[[Literature/DanShambleZombiePI Death Warmed Over]]'', several zombies and other unfortunate Unnaturals get reduced to goo by an [[FantasticRacism anti-Unnatural]] racist's plot to annihilate their kind.
* The villains of Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Histories]]'' book ''Thomas'' have poisoned weapons that doom their victims to melting into piles of steaming sludge at the slightest prick.
* In the Franchise/{{Goosebumps}} book ''Attack of the Mutant'', [[spoiler: the protagonist defeats the titular supervillain by getting him to melt ''himself''. (The Masked Mutant is a shapeshifter who can turn into any solid at will and change back again. The protagonist tricks the Mutant into turning into a wave of sulfuric acid- [[ExactWords which is a liquid, meaning he can't change back.]])]]
* This is part of the drawback of Kent's power in ''Literature/HeroWorship''. Over the course of the day, he becomes more and more liquid until he's a puddle on the ground. When he sleeps, he reforms into whatever shape the liquid settles in. To look human, he sleeps in a mold.
* This is how HeroicRROD and VillainousRROD manifest in ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner''. If one spends too much time without [[HorrorHunger devouring anyone]], their bodies will start consuming themselves and soon will melt into a black, tar-like goo.
* ''Literature/RedDwarf'': [[spoiler:This is how Rimmer dies in ''Backwards'', being melted from the inside out until he's just a pile of human flesh containing his eyeballs, thanks to the Armageddon virus making it into his light bee. [[AndIMustScream He's aware of the whole process too]]]].

* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** An entire episode revolves around an assassin erasing clones from existence by using a powerful acid in his blood.
** Alien hybrids most often dissolve into green goo when killed.
* Vampires in ''Series/TrueBlood'' melt into horrible bloody goo when they get staked.

* In the ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' episode based on "Attack of the Mutant", said mutant's supervillain power was his ability to turn into anything, with one exception: If he turns into a liquid, he can't turn back. The KidHero defeats him by telling him he should try turning into acid. This is depicted as the villain evaporating away while his costume (and mask) crumple up flat, into a steamy pile of clothes.

* The {{Tokusatsu}} show ''Film/MessageFromSpace: Galactic Battle'' (''Uchu kara no messeji: Ginga taisen'', better known as ''San Ku Kaï'' in Europe or ''Sankuokai'' in Latin America) features one villain of the week with water-based powers who melts into foam when killed, which then takes fire. (It stands out because most other villains [[DefeatEqualsExplosion would rather explode]].)
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "The Dark Age", an old friend of Giles has been killed by a demon they used to summon up, who then inhabits his body. When things get rough for the demon he leaves the body, which promptly dissolves into a puddle of greenish goo.
* BigBad Commander Black turns into green foamy goo at the end of ''Series/UltramanLeo''.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Course: Oblivion", the crew of ''Voyager'' discover that they are biomimetic copies of themselves when The Doctor injects B'Elanna Torres's dead body with a dichromate catalyst, which instantly causes it to revert into a blob of "silver blood" from the earlier "Demon" episode. Later on, the biomimetic ''Voyager'' itself disintegrates into formless particles when force fields holding the dissolving ship together fail.

* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', this is the result of Radcliffe's failed Inhuman experiment.
* In an episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', The Hitcher takes a shower in the FountainOfYouth so that he can become younger and more powerful. Naboo flushes the nearby toilet to stop him, heating up the water in the shower and melting The Hitcher into a green milkshake-like slime.

* The Christmas song "Frosty the Snowman" mentions having fun before he melts away. In the animation based on the song, he melts in the greenhouse where he takes a little girl to keep her warm. TearJerker.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':

* In the stage adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula dies in this manner after Ariel destroys her nautilus shell.

-->'''Hectan''': YOU'VE '''KILLED''' ME! [''Dissolves away'']
-->'''Zelda''': "Good."
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' has several enemies and even allies that appear to be made of paint. Water, which is your main weapon in the game, will cause these paint beings to melt into a puddle of paint.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}: No Regret'' the LNR-81 "Liquefier" Catalytic Cartridge rifle fires projectiles with explosive warheads intended to disperse a catalytic chemical that breaks down molecular bonds especially in organic matter. Living things that get hit vaporize into a ghostly outline before collapsing to the ground into a puddle of base matter.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games, plasma weapons have a special effects death where the victim dissolves into a puddle of green slime. In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', this is accompanied by a wet, slurpy sort of sound -- lasers, which burn the target to ashes, have a crisp, crackling, burning sort of noise. The ''Fallout 3'' versions are considerably different from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', though plasma still reduces its victim to goo. Or rather, it melts the flesh off the bones, which promptly collapse into the resultant puddle for a stereotypical 'Bones' version. Lasers just cut victims in half (or thirds depending). Fallout 3's lasers actually act more like Fallout 2's pulse rifles in that regard, incidentally. This also happens to the player character upon activating Project Purity at the end of the game, unless the ''Broken Steel'' {{expansion pack}} is installed.
** Since there are too many of them to leave intact corpses without excessive performance drag, the Marked Men in the final battle of ''Lonesome Road'' all undergo plasma melting after death.
* Almost all the enemies in ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'' will do this upon death. The effect interestingly begins with the enemy's body glowing a bright green light before falling into a body-shaped stain on the floor.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
** In Sierra's ''Space Quest'' being hit by a drop of acid has it "sear its way to your feet" (through your head), but the VGA remake dissolves Roger the protagonist top-down, into a puddle of goo and a really stupid-looking head in a protective helmet. The VGA remake also features the trope name spoken in a sound clip when this happens.
** In ''Space Quest II'', Roger can fall into a death trap of green acid. [[HollywoodAcid Contrary to type]], it kills him gradually, complete with descriptive text!
** In ''Space Quest III'' (and an easter egg in ''Space Quest IV''), going unprotected on a volcanic world causes Roger to melt into a puddle. Roger can also (rather easily) fall into the lava, and the HaveANiceDeath picture was accompanied with a half-melted, mostly skeletal Roger trying to get out of the goo.
** In ''Space Quest IV'', being caught by a slime monster causes Roger to fall straight into it, with a suitable shot of his half-skeletal form trying to claw his way back out.
** Nobody melts in ''Space Quest V''. We thought we'd mention that for the novelty value. The Pukoids seem half-melted, though.
** In ''Space Quest VI'', Roger can fall into a pool of acid, with a suitable scene of flailing around and bobbing to the surface with his flesh melted off before a ground-up sizzling into oblivion.
* Some weapon mods like incendiary or toxic ammo in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' cause this on enemies when they're killed.
** In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 sequel]], this is the final fate of [[spoiler:those captured by the collectors, and not rescued in time; or a random colonist if you save everyone...well, everyone else, that is]].
* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem: Time to Kill'', enemies you kill melt into puddles of blood regardless of the method used to kill them.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''

* The Particle Beam in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' disintegrates enemies. Alma also does it to several FEAR and Delta soldiers.
* Memorably, [[BlackComedy hilariously/disturbingly]], and [[GoodBadBugs unintentionally]] occurred in the early releases of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' v.2010. Due to a mistake in the materials files, if a dwarf got wet in hot weather, all of their body fat would melt off and they'd bleed to death.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' have this fate happening to {{Man Eating Plant}}s, [[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]] and [[BlobMonster blobs]] once they're killed. Surprisingly enough, this ''doesn't'' happen to Wicked Witches, an enemy type which resembles the one from ''Wizard of Oz'', where witches upon defeat are turned into frogs.

* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': In one death scene in the cocoon chamber, a spray of acid hits Lance's face, resulting in his entire face and head melting (except for the eyeballs) along with his entire body, which melts away into nothingness at all.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', [[spoiler:when Demon Bride Elaine sprays GhostPirate Guybrush with root beer, he dissolves into a skeleton, before he thankfully rematerializes back into the Crossroads Center]].

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}}'' series, one of Bubsy's death animations has him melting into a puddle.
* This also happens to dead enemies in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Black/Sigma''.
* Supplemental material for the ''VideoGame/ArTonelico'' series indicates that this happens to Pureblooded Reyvateils when they die--their bodies are created from biofluid, and only retain that shape for as long as the Reyvateil lives. (This doesn't happen to Halfblooded Reyvateils because they're functionally humans with Reyvateil powers.)
* In ''VideoGame/{{Gruntz}}'', this is how Gruntz die (if not blown up, crushed falling into hazards, or exploded) - they turn into a pile of goo that can be later sucked up to reuse for creation of another grunt. Also said word for word as one of their death quotes.

* The death screen for the Scions in ''[[Videogame/BattleZone1998 Battlezone II: Combat Commander]]'' has a hand desperately trying to reach out from a pool of biometal as it melts. The ISDF on the other hand features LudicrousGibs as a soldier is ripped apart from weapons fire whilst simultaneously melting from said weapons fire. Presumably, the ESRB [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath saw neither judging]] by the [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids game's rating]].
* Parodied at the end of the first level of ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes'', when Sandman is hit with water, making him vulnerable for the exact opposite reason of this trope.
-->'''Sandman:''' I'm melting! MELTING! No wait, I mean, I'm solidifying! SOLIDIFYING! Oh, what a world...

* [[PoisonousPerson F.A.N.G.]]'s EstablishingCharacterMoment in the story mode of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' has him chase a female scientist and kill her this way. Her melting isn't shown onscreen as the scene cuts to black, but all that's left of her afterwards is a puddle of purple goo, with F.A.N.G. nastily licking some of it.
* In one of the ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' missions, Tomba the walking snowman melts when you have to melt the ice that another character is frozen in. You get awarded a bonus for making it cold again so that he freezes again.
* In ''VideoGame/StarControl Origins'', the Pinthi virus is stated to cause a wide variety of symptoms among different lifeforms, but almost all of them eventually end up liquefying in the end. The Pinthi themselves often use "liquefy" as a synonym for "kill".
-->'''Pinthi viral colony:''' If you were to look upon us directly with your eyes, we would appear to you as a pile of sludge. Your eyes would then also turn into sludge. Followed by the rest of you.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': When Molly's ''steam-powered'' robot snowman (unsurprisingly) melts, Jean quotes the Wicked Witch: "What a world! What a world!"
* Professor Corwin's Apsinthion Device does a this to coeds in ''Tales of Gnosis College''. They '''love''' it.

* This is the fate of the Ice Cream Man in ''WebAnimation/MokeysShow'' after [[ItMakesSenseInContext being slapped by the sun.]]
-->'''Ice Cream Man:''' ''[screaming]''\\
'''Mokey:''' MR ICE CREAM MAN, NO!\\
'''Ice Cream Man:''' I'M MELTING MOKEY! AAAAAA-- ''[disappears]''

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', when several of Poison Ivy's "children" (and seemingly herself) come in contact with weed killer.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** In "Headhunters", the wax figure of Abraham Lincoln is found melted under a sunny window. Grunkle Stan immediately suspects Wax John Wilkes Booth. [[spoiler: The living wax figures are later defeated in the same way, with Wax Sherlock Holmes melting onscreen.]]
** In "Double Dipper", the copier clones can be destroyed by liquids. Dipper triggers the fire sprinklers to kill most of them, while Tyrone accidentally kills himself by drinking soda.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'':
** When Johnny accidentally hoses down a candy-themed supervillain in a striped costume.
** In a much later episode, a frost giant swallows him while he's having extremely spicy food as last meal. The next moment, Johnny is drowning in a large puddle.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', when Goofy introduces a monster made of toxic waste to a whiff of fresh air. The monster's puddle actually swirls into nothing, with a hilarious toilet flushing sound effect.
* This is what happens when the Warners get really, really, '''really bored''' in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', at least twice. Once when a snowman removed the "anti-melting gene" from Eustace, and again when courage overcomes his personality issues in the last episode, which causes the anthropomorphic personification of his self depreciation (that looks like a SadistTeacher) to dissolve in a black puddle.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', when Inque comes in contact with water. And later, when her protégé tries to become like her. Oh, he survives. [[AndIMustScream Unfortunately]]. Worth noting is that Inque is not permanently incapacitated by water, it's just a major inconvenience. However, her form makes her dependent on mutagen, and when someone slips something nasty into it later on, she completely dissolves and evaporates. Although she is never seen again in the series after this, Batman ''still'' doesn't trust that she is gone for good.

--->'''Sarah:''' ''[yelling]'' Wait 'till i tell Mom what you did you Jimmy! ''[holds up pitcher]''\\

* Arthur himself on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', but it was only a DreamSequence of D.W.'s.
* This happens a lot on ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** When Drakken sent clones of Kim and Bonnie to attack Kim, Kim was able to melt the clones by spraying soda water at them.
** Kim and Ron held an army of zombie snowmen at bay by melting them with a flamethrower and packets of hot-sauce.
** [[spoiler:[[TheMole Eric]]]] met his defeat when Rufus bit him in the ankle, causing his syntho-gel to leak.
** Shortly after Kim and Ron got together, Ron had a recurring nightmare that, after their first dance, Kim turned into a syntho-drone and melted.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack: The Animated Series'', quick clones tend to melt after a while.
* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'':
** June once does this (using a magnifying glass against the sun) to both her and Henry in an episode.
** "And [[WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow Meltman]] with the power to... [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway uh..]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin melt."]]
* A ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' episode with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos vs. Naomi Campbell, in which Rebecca is sprayed with stomach acid, reducing her to a puddle of mush.
* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': When Richard P. Fungus destroyed the old camera that somehow allowed the ghost of his deceased Grandfather to exist, said ghost started disappearing and shouted that he was melting. Fungus (correctly) pointed out his Grandfather was shrinking instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Brother from the Same Planet" has Bart's infamous ImagineSpot of Homer's face graphically melting, arguably one of the most frightening moments of the series.
-->'''Homer:''' Now how 'bout a hug?

* An Abominable Snowman follows WesternAnimation/BugsBunny to Palm Springs -- he sits in a lounge chair, sweating heavily, occasionally muttering "Gosh, it's hot!" before melting completely into a puddle of water -- seems he really ''was'' a snowman.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "The Smurfs of the Round Table", Morgan le Fey steals Excalibur, uses it to turn King Arthur and his men to wax, and then casts a spell on the sun to make it burn hotter so that King Arthur and everything in Camelot will melt away. Fortunately, the melting process takes time, which gives the Smurfs enough time to get Excalibur back from the evil sorceress and to restore everyone in Camelot to normal.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Quagmire's Baby", Stewie creates less-than-intelligent clones of himself and Brian to act as assistants, only for them to become unstable when their bodies literally fall apart and collapse into fleshy gooey puddles.
* He was already basically made of acid, but Meltdown from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' collapses into a puddle when exposed to a malfunctioning "genetic modifier". The episode's last shot was of his face appearing in the liquid, but nothing came of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/PiratesOfDarkWater'' had one-off villainess, Cray. [[spoiler:She was a skilled alchemist obsessed with regaining her lost youth. After blackmailing Ren to obtain a sample of Darkwater, Cray creates a potion to restores her lost beauty. Towards the end of the episode, the nefarious liquid starts to consume her from the inside and she is reduced to an inky black puddle.]]
* Happens occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Re-Hibernation Week", [=SpongeBob=] melts into yellow goo when Sandy takes him on one dangerous exercise regimen too many.
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' This squirrel's trying to kill me! Any more of these stunts and I'll be reduced to a puddle.
** In "Chocolate with Nuts", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick melt when [[RunningGag the crazed fish that has been chasing them throughout the episode]] [[spoiler: asks to buy all their chocolate]].
** In "Moving Bubble Bass", this happens to [[{{Jerkass}} Bubble Bass]] when Patrick intimidates him for making [=SpongeBob=] move his junk, leaving his EyeGlasses floating in midair until they drop into the puddle.
* The ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short "Super Santa: South Pole Joe" had a giant gingerbread man scream that he was melting after a splash of milk turns him into gingerbread pudding.
* The ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'' episode "The Land of Odd" had Haggy Maggie melt after being dripped on by Clogged Duane. She even references the famous scene from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
-->'''Haggy Maggie:''' I'm melting! Who would've thought a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness! What a world!
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': In "Lullaby in Frogland", [[spoiler: Adelaide of the Pasture dissolves into smoke and blows away when Beatrice opens the window and exposes Adelaide to [[WeaksauceWeakness the night air]].]]

* Gastropods. Small, harmless creatures (on land anyways), some with shells. Most of their body is held together with water, so when a little salt is applied they simply burst.

* In ''Film/SweetHome'', [[spoiler:Yamamura]] dies in a very graphic way as his flesh melts off of his body, leaving only a crumbling skeleton behind. The scene is present in [[VideoGame/SweetHome the video game adaptation]] as well, and is no less grisly on the Famicom.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' the spell Turn To Goo does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and (because it affects flesh but not implants) is popular with those who like pawning slain opponents' secondhand cyberware.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' the spell Turn To Goo is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and (because it affects flesh but not implants) is popular with those who like pawning slain opponents' secondhand cyberware.