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The shape of a mushroom cloud is indelibly associated in everyone's minds with nuclear explosions. This trope is for explosions where that isn't the case -- instead, the mushroom cloud is PlayedForLaughs, or just to show how powerful the explosive is.

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The shape of a mushroom cloud is indelibly associated in everyone's minds with [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons nuclear explosions.explosions]]. This trope is for explosions where that isn't the case -- instead, the mushroom cloud is PlayedForLaughs, or just to show how powerful the explosive is.






* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixTheMansionsOfTheGods'': When Obelix jumps in the BigBallOfViolence caused by his fellow Gauls' daily brawl, the dust cloud becomes a mushroom.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheMansionsOfTheGods'': When Obelix jumps in the BigBallOfViolence caused by his fellow Gauls' daily brawl, the dust cloud becomes a mushroom.
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* Particularly violent volcanic eruptions have been known to create mushroom-shaped ash clouds. The one surviving first-hand account of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD#Pliny_the_Younger AD 79 Vesuvius eruption]] describes the cloud it formed as being shaped like a pine tree -- ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_pine Pinus pinea]], the species native to the region, is notable for having a long, thin trunk which branches and spreads as it grows to form a very broad canopy, similar to a mushroom's cap.

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* Particularly violent volcanic eruptions have been known to create mushroom-shaped ash clouds. The one surviving first-hand account of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD#Pliny_the_Younger AD 79 Vesuvius eruption]] describes the cloud it formed as being shaped like a pine tree -- ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_pine Pinus pinea]], the pinea]]'', a species native of pine common to the region, is notable for having a long, thin trunk which branches and spreads as it grows to form a very broad canopy, similar to a mushroom's cap.
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* Particularly violent volcanic eruptions have been known to create mushroom-shaped ash clouds.

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* Particularly violent volcanic eruptions have been known to create mushroom-shaped ash clouds. The one surviving first-hand account of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD#Pliny_the_Younger AD 79 Vesuvius eruption]] describes the cloud it formed as being shaped like a pine tree -- ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_pine Pinus pinea]], the species native to the region, is notable for having a long, thin trunk which branches and spreads as it grows to form a very broad canopy, similar to a mushroom's cap.

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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': Mario vs. Sonic 2019 ([[MilestoneCelebration the 100th episode]]) ends when [[spoiler:Mario pitches Sonic into the ocean]], with a detonation of this sort as [[spoiler:Mario]] lands. Because the fight takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the mushroom cloud has eyes]].
* ''WebAnimation/FlipnoteWarrior'': Anti-Sakuga's GroundPunch creates a mushroom cloud where Mome was.



* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': Mario vs. Sonic 2019 ([[MilestoneCelebration the 100th episode]]) ends when [[spoiler:Mario pitches Sonic into the ocean]], with a detonation of this sort as [[spoiler:Mario]] lands. Because the fight takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the mushroom cloud has eyes]].
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-->To the girl’s horror, the screen flickered a couple of times and turned a solid color. “Moooom! What does it mean when the screen turns blue and has just a big frowny face and a bunch of numbers?” She frenetically pounded keys and clicked the mouse. “And… and -- aaugh! Now the screen’s gone black and there’s a mushroom cloud of smoke coming up outta the computer! Moooom!”

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-->To the girl’s girl's horror, the screen flickered a couple of times and turned a solid color. “Moooom! "Moooom! What does it mean when the screen turns blue and has just a big frowny face and a bunch of numbers?” numbers?" She frenetically pounded keys and clicked the mouse. “And… "And… and -- aaugh! Now the screen’s screen's gone black and there’s there's a mushroom cloud of smoke coming up outta the computer! Moooom!”Moooom!"
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', Tim and the Boss Baby have an ElderlyFutureFantasy in which they imagine facing each other down on scooters on a barren plain, then colliding in a mushroom cloud.
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E18SoItsComeToThisASimpsonsClipShow So Its Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show]], Homer is sent to the hospital due to Bart's April Fools prank. He took [[SodaCanShakeup a can of Duff beer and stuck it in a paint mixer at the hardware store]], then tricks Homer into opening it. The resulting mushroom cloud of beer ends up blowing the roof off the house, and can be seen by Chief Wiggum from a few blocks away. He initially pays no mind to it until Lou points out that it's beer.

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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E18SoItsComeToThisASimpsonsClipShow So Its Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show]], Show]]", Homer is sent to the hospital due to Bart's April Fools prank. He took [[SodaCanShakeup a can of Duff beer and stuck it in a paint mixer at the hardware store]], then tricks Homer into opening it. The resulting mushroom cloud of beer ends up blowing the roof off the house, and can be seen by Chief Wiggum from a few blocks away. He initially pays no mind to it until Lou points out that it's beer.

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