2/2/2024 0 Comments System shock 1 shodan sprite![]() ![]() At the climax of War of the Green Lanterns, all the colors of the rainbow shoot from Krona as Hal kills him.Lampshaded in Mirai Nikki by Yuno's reaction to the death of The 3rd.The Angels of Neon Genesis Evangelion virtually all do this, often with technicolor crosses of light.In the 3rd Sailor Moon movie (the Super S one), the main villain dies in this manner, where it shows her already blob-like face melting and swirling (she's merged with a "black hole" at this point so she looks like a glowing ball with a face on it) and then the whole thing explodes.The Anti-Spiral King in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann probably takes the cake, dying in seven sequential multicolored galaxy-spanning explosions.In Video Games, it can become a justification for Everything Fades for Mooks. See also Critical Existence Failure for when death is always a sudden thing, Ludicrous Gibs for gory existence failures. Quite common in video games, especially for bosses-a good death scene is part of the reward for bringing down such an imposing enemy, and frequently Stuff Blowing Up makes for a good death scene. Note that this is not just dying in a flashy way, this is when the flashiness comes from the death itself, so for instance a character dying by having a bomb inside him is not this trope, as the explosion comes from the bomb and not from the character's death. How does Hollywood celebrate this climactic moment? Easy, by having the defeated foe then die in a spectacular fashion, with lots of special effects and unusual things happening to him, such as explosions, flashes, gradual disintegration, things melting, etc. The Big Bad, a powerful personification from hell and/or an homicidal robot from the future, has been struck a lethal blow and is now done for. File:Icons-mini-icon extension.gif Playing With. ![]()
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