He's actually blowing stuff up by simply pointing at it.
Being very familiar with Watchmen, I feel like maybe I should be disqualified from saying this, but I thought the picture's relationship to the trope is pretty obvious.
Then again, a Person of Mass Destruction is ideally a vastly-powerful destructive force in a human-sized guise.
Doc Manhattan may be an excellent example (hell, he changes the balance of the Cold War all by himself), but that image could be seen as somewhat misleading.
What's precedent ever done for us?What about the panel where he's melting a tank
◊ during his first televised public appearance? He's certainly "human-size" in that image.
Apart from stuff from Watchmen, I can think up a few other examples where characters actually start splitting apart atom by atom and going out with a nuclear bang (i.e. Heroes), although a lot of that would probably look more like a minor Spontaneous Combustion case.
(And why the hell isn't that a [Trope Name] or redirect for something?)
edited 29th Sep '10 11:45:53 AM by SeanMurrayI
An image of Ted Sprague might work better. I can probably get one.
edited 23rd Nov '10 3:16:02 PM by BulldozerBegins
The trope makes no mention of the Person being human sized. The line about being human is about psychological concerns, not physical ones.
The image is fine as it is; there's obvious destruction, it's definitely a person, and it gets the message across without using text (though the text is actually a bit distracting, if anything). If we're really looking for a new image, it should be more attentive to the trope from the third break onwards (You'd think their own side...).

On Person of Mass Destruction, it took me awhile to realize that Dr. Manhattan was blowing something up with his mind — up until that point I was ready to call Just A Face And A Caption.
Additionally, the text boxes in the panel are too small to read.
Does this need a better image or no?
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