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Thank you both for the help. Anyway I'm deducing out Made of Explodium and "Pop!" Goes the Human; no inflation was involved. Maybe Ludicrous Gibs does it, but for now I'll go with Defeat Equals Explosion and leave the description of the death scene if it may help.
If the names of the characters seem familiar, that's probably because this is a story with a darker twist on Oliver Twist, called Oliver Twisted
by JD Sharpe.
Edit: went wiki walking a bit and found Dies Differently in Adaptation so I suppose that applies too.
Edited by BlackFaithStar No child should have to think of selling medication for food. Are you afraid?
Made of Explodium is about random objects easily exploding for no reason, so a character exposing because there was something inside them wouldn’t count as the trope, since there’s a clear reason for the explosion. "Pop!" Goes the Human wouldn’t fit either, since that’s about a character inflating like a balloon before exploding. Ludicrous Gibs seems most fitting here.
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Got it. So I'm going with Ludicrous Gibs, Dies Differently in Adaptation, and maybe Defeat Equals Explosion.
Thanks again everyone :)
No child should have to think of selling medication for food. Are you afraid?
Ludicrous Gibs is more about the chunky bits left behind than the explosion itself. Would definitely apply here, but the death itself seems most like Why Am I Ticking?, being made into a bomb against their will when they weren't before, as opposed Defeat Equals Explosion being about characters who were going to to explode upon death no matter what (robots, sometimes spirits or elementals, wizards holding onto too much power), or for no reason at all (like a lot of video game enemies).
Stuff Blowing Up is the big index of explosion tropes in case you need it again [tup]
Ah alright, I was looking at Why Am I Ticking? earlier but I wasn't sure it'd fit but I guess I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying Defeat Equals Explosion to me. 🙂
So I'm going with Ludicrous Gibs, Why Am I Ticking? and Dies Differently in Adaptation.
No child should have to think of selling medication for food. Are you afraid?
So in a book I'm in the process of making a work page for, one villain dies by exploding. No, not by a bomb. The ghost of his partner who he unjustly murdered haunted him with a vengeance briefly, before causing him to explode to bits in the climax. The nearby protagonist is described to have felt the flesh splatter on his face. The Death Trope index is rather extensive, which makes sense, but I currently lack the luxury of time to accurately find what I'm looking for so I would really appreciate the help.