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* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. Weaponized when the rebels turn a Dalek so its death spray...err, DeathRay blows up the instrument panel and the Dalek with it.
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* Subverted in the Franchise/BerniceSummerfield novella ''Jason and the Bandits'', in which an UnreliableNarrator bemoans a pirate spaceship's lack of a Pointlessly Exploding Console, which ordinarily provides immediate tactile feedback that a ship operating under infradrive, rather than in normal time and space, has suffered damage. The pirate captain retorts that "The Pointlessly Exploding Consoles kill more people than they ever save."
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* Subverted in the Franchise/BerniceSummerfield ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'' novella ''Jason "Jason and the Bandits'', Bandits", in which an UnreliableNarrator bemoans a pirate spaceship's lack of a Pointlessly Exploding Console, which ordinarily provides immediate tactile feedback that a ship operating under infradrive, rather than in normal time and space, has suffered damage. The pirate captain retorts that "The Pointlessly Exploding Consoles kill more people than they ever save."
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Long considered an unrealistic but effective way of showing battle damage when you don't have the budget to mess up a miniature or — in modern works — create damaged versions of CGI models. Realistically the console would be separated from the destructive effects of high power circuits through various means of protection and would not harm its operator under any scenario. Worst case scenario the controls should simply stop working, or the screen should just turn off.
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Long considered an unrealistic but effective way of showing battle damage when you don't have the budget to mess up a miniature or — -- in modern works — -- create damaged versions of CGI models. Realistically the console would be separated from the destructive effects of high power high-power circuits through various means of protection and would not harm its operator under any scenario. Worst case scenario the controls should simply stop working, or the screen should just turn off.
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Compare NoWaterProofingInTheFuture, HolographicTerminal (which doesn't explode — just get spammed with pop ups). Often the result of TimTaylorTechnology. Should require NoOSHACompliance, although that point is rarely touched. If someone is actually causing the technology to explode involuntarily, that's WalkingTechbane. Squat all to do with [[XylophoneGag musical instruments going kaboom]], or the [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky 1812 Overture]]. Thus, this trope has nothing to do with OrchestralBombing.
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Compare NoWaterProofingInTheFuture, HolographicTerminal (which doesn't explode — -- just get spammed with pop ups). Often the result of TimTaylorTechnology. Should require NoOSHACompliance, although that point is rarely touched. If someone is actually causing the technology to explode involuntarily, that's WalkingTechbane. Squat all to do with [[XylophoneGag musical instruments going kaboom]], or the [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky 1812 Overture]]. Thus, this trope has nothing to do with OrchestralBombing.
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* In FanFic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan, right after [[spoiler:Kallen]] starts developing superpowers, a DNA scanner explodes when trying to identify her identity. Justified later on, when Lightning explains that [[MagicVersusScience some kinds of magic react violently when examined too closely by science.]]
* In ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', Mister Torgue's [[StuffBlowingUp hacking works this way]]. He refers to it as "'splode-hacking" and says its extremely effective, because the enemy's IT department can't stop your hacking when you blow up their faces.
* ''Fanfic/GuiltySparks'': When Zek and Varvok [[spoiler:stage their mutiny against the Covenant armada]] and their ship ''The Fallen Serpent'' takes a pounding that causes all manner of damage inside the bridge due to firepower they're taking. The lights are out and emergency lighting is on, the bridge's glass viewport has been shielded over by the shutters and they're flying blind outside of their remaining sensors, coolant vents are bursting open from the heavy hits and power cables are exploding from feedback and leaving holes in the walls. The only things still working, ironically, are the monitors themselves and only ''because'' they put the upgraded safeties in that cause them to turn off rather than explode dramatically, which both Zek and first mate Retz have a GallowsHumor LampshadeHanging about.
* A realistic version in ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. The fire in Sickbay that kills Voyager's medical staff is caused when an instrument panel that has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort battleshorted]] overheats and starts a fire.
* In ''[[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42931 Night Terrors]]'', after a minor, insignificant explosion of something-or-other in the TARDIS console, Rory [[LampshadeHanging wonders]] just how the Time Lords managed all their JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit if they never came up with the idea of a circuit breaker.
* ''Fanfic/FledglingsOrEverythingsBetterWithPenguins'': The Character Analysis Devices used by Agent Tawaki and his partners tend to explode at the slightest provocation, to the point of being a RunningGag. During the sporking of Tawaki's missions, Anis comments that the narrative is exaggerating the combustibility of the [=CAD=]s because they typically only explode if exposed to ''really'' obnoxious Suvian presences.
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* In FanFic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan, right after [[spoiler:Kallen]] starts developing superpowers, a DNA scanner explodes when trying to identify her identity. Justified later on, when Lightning explains that [[MagicVersusScience some kinds of magic react violently when examined too closely by science.]]
* In ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', Mister Torgue's [[StuffBlowingUp hacking works this way]]. He refers to it as "'splode-hacking" and says its extremely effective, because the enemy's IT department can't stop your hacking when you blow up their faces.
* ''Fanfic/GuiltySparks'': When Zek and Varvok [[spoiler:stage their mutiny against the Covenant armada]] and their ship ''The Fallen Serpent'' takes a pounding that causes all manner of damage inside the bridge due to firepower they're taking. The lights are out and emergency lighting is on, the bridge's glass viewport has been shielded over by the shutters and they're flying blind outside of their remaining sensors, coolant vents are bursting open from the heavy hits and power cables are exploding from feedback and leaving holes in the walls. The only things still working, ironically, are the monitors themselves and only ''because'' they put the upgraded safeties in that cause them to turn off rather than explode dramatically, which both Zek and first mate Retz have a GallowsHumor LampshadeHanging about.
* A realistic version in ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. The fire in Sickbay that kills Voyager's medical staff is caused when an instrument panel that has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort battleshorted]] overheats and starts a fire.
* In ''[[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42931 Night Terrors]]'', after a minor, insignificant explosion of something-or-other in the TARDIS console, Rory [[LampshadeHanging wonders]] just how the Time Lords managed all their JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit if they never came up with the idea of a circuit breaker.
* ''Fanfic/FledglingsOrEverythingsBetterWithPenguins'': The Character Analysis Devices used by Agent Tawaki and his partners tend to explode at the slightest provocation, to the point of being a RunningGag. During the sporking of Tawaki's missions, Anis comments that the narrative is exaggerating the combustibility of the [=CAD=]s because they typically only explode if exposed to ''really'' obnoxious Suvian presences.
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* ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': Occurs frequently, due to the crew's frequency of running into hostile alien lifeforms and phenomena.
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* ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': Occurs frequently, frequently in ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'', due to the crew's frequency of running into hostile alien lifeforms and phenomena.
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* In ''Fanfic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan'', right after [[spoiler:Kallen]] starts developing superpowers, a DNA scanner explodes when trying to identify her identity. Justified later on, when Lightning explains that [[MagicVersusScience some kinds of magic react violently when examined too closely by science.]]
* In ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', Mister Torgue's [[StuffBlowingUp hacking works this way]]. He refers to it as "'splode-hacking" and says its extremely effective, because the enemy's IT department can't stop your hacking when you blow up their faces.
* ''Fanfic/GuiltySparks'': When Zek and Varvok [[spoiler:stage their mutiny against the Covenant armada]] and their ship ''The Fallen Serpent'' takes a pounding that causes all manner of damage inside the bridge due to firepower they're taking. The lights are out and emergency lighting is on, the bridge's glass viewport has been shielded over by the shutters and they're flying blind outside of their remaining sensors, coolant vents are bursting open from the heavy hits and power cables are exploding from feedback and leaving holes in the walls. The only things still working, ironically, are the monitors themselves and only ''because'' they put the upgraded safeties in that cause them to turn off rather than explode dramatically, which both Zek and first mate Retz have a GallowsHumor LampshadeHanging about.
* A realistic version in ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. The fire in Sickbay that kills Voyager's medical staff is caused when an instrument panel that has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort battleshorted]] overheats and starts a fire.
* In ''[[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42931 Night Terrors]]'', after a minor, insignificant explosion of something-or-other in the TARDIS console, Rory [[LampshadeHanging wonders]] just how the Time Lords managed all their JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit if they never came up with the idea of a circuit breaker.
* ''Fanfic/FledglingsOrEverythingsBetterWithPenguins'': The Character Analysis Devices used by Agent Tawaki and his partners tend to explode at the slightest provocation, to the point of being a RunningGag. During the sporking of Tawaki's missions, Anis comments that the narrative is exaggerating the combustibility of the [=CAD=]s because they typically only explode if exposed to ''really'' obnoxious Suvian presences.
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* In ''Fanfic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan'', right after [[spoiler:Kallen]] starts developing superpowers, a DNA scanner explodes when trying to identify her identity. Justified later on, when Lightning explains that [[MagicVersusScience some kinds of magic react violently when examined too closely by science.]]
* In ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', Mister Torgue's [[StuffBlowingUp hacking works this way]]. He refers to it as "'splode-hacking" and says its extremely effective, because the enemy's IT department can't stop your hacking when you blow up their faces.
* ''Fanfic/GuiltySparks'': When Zek and Varvok [[spoiler:stage their mutiny against the Covenant armada]] and their ship ''The Fallen Serpent'' takes a pounding that causes all manner of damage inside the bridge due to firepower they're taking. The lights are out and emergency lighting is on, the bridge's glass viewport has been shielded over by the shutters and they're flying blind outside of their remaining sensors, coolant vents are bursting open from the heavy hits and power cables are exploding from feedback and leaving holes in the walls. The only things still working, ironically, are the monitors themselves and only ''because'' they put the upgraded safeties in that cause them to turn off rather than explode dramatically, which both Zek and first mate Retz have a GallowsHumor LampshadeHanging about.
* A realistic version in ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. The fire in Sickbay that kills Voyager's medical staff is caused when an instrument panel that has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort battleshorted]] overheats and starts a fire.
* In ''[[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42931 Night Terrors]]'', after a minor, insignificant explosion of something-or-other in the TARDIS console, Rory [[LampshadeHanging wonders]] just how the Time Lords managed all their JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit if they never came up with the idea of a circuit breaker.
* ''Fanfic/FledglingsOrEverythingsBetterWithPenguins'': The Character Analysis Devices used by Agent Tawaki and his partners tend to explode at the slightest provocation, to the point of being a RunningGag. During the sporking of Tawaki's missions, Anis comments that the narrative is exaggerating the combustibility of the [=CAD=]s because they typically only explode if exposed to ''really'' obnoxious Suvian presences.
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** Happened in the [[spoiler:destruction of the Droid Control Ship by Anakin Skywalker]] in ''Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''. This resulted in the deaths of all ship staff inside, including the Captain of the ship, who along with his fellow crew members were ''right in front of the computer'' when it malfunctioned and exploded as a result of the ship's destruction.
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** Happened Happens in the [[spoiler:destruction of the Droid Control Ship by Anakin Skywalker]] in ''Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''. This resulted results in the deaths of all ship staff inside, including the Captain of the ship, who along with his fellow crew members were are ''right in front of the computer'' when it malfunctioned malfunctions and exploded explodes as a result of the ship's destruction.
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* Occasionally occurred in ''Series/BabylonFive'', especially in the prequel ''In the Beginning'', where an Earth Alliance ship and a Minbari ship both suffer from things exploding and metal beams falling from the ceiling during the botched First Contact space battle.
** To be fair, both ships were deliberately trying to do as much damage to the other as possible; besides, the Minbari were completely unprepared for the human attack, and the humans were completely unprepared for the power of Minbari weaponry.
** Sparks would sometimes erupt out of consoles during space battles, i.e. "Endgame", "And Now for a Word", "Matters of Honor", but they are rarely deadly. When Starfury weapons fire and debris struck the blast doors of C & C in "Severed Dreams", it generated a strong enough impact that a screen/console near Sheridan did explode and erupt in flames and Sheridan is hurt, but it was caused more by the impact of the weapons and the debris rather than the exploding screen.
** To be fair, both ships were deliberately trying to do as much damage to the other as possible; besides, the Minbari were completely unprepared for the human attack, and the humans were completely unprepared for the power of Minbari weaponry.
** Sparks would sometimes erupt out of consoles during space battles, i.e. "Endgame", "And Now for a Word", "Matters of Honor", but they are rarely deadly. When Starfury weapons fire and debris struck the blast doors of C & C in "Severed Dreams", it generated a strong enough impact that a screen/console near Sheridan did explode and erupt in flames and Sheridan is hurt, but it was caused more by the impact of the weapons and the debris rather than the exploding screen.
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* Occasionally occurred in ''Series/BabylonFive'', especially in the prequel ''In the Beginning'', where an Earth Alliance ship and a Minbari ship both suffer from things exploding and metal beams falling from the ceiling during the botched First Contact space battle.
** To be fair, both ships were deliberately trying to do as much damage to the other as possible; besides, the Minbari were completely unprepared for the human attack, and the humans were completely unprepared for the power of Minbari weaponry.
**battle. Sparks would sometimes erupt out of consoles during space battles, i.e. "Endgame", "And Now for a Word", "Matters of Honor", but they are rarely deadly. When Starfury weapons fire and debris struck the blast doors of C & C in "Severed Dreams", it generated a strong enough impact that a screen/console near Sheridan did explode and erupt in flames and Sheridan is hurt, but it was caused more by the impact of the weapons and the debris rather than the exploding screen.
** To be fair, both ships were deliberately trying to do as much damage to the other as possible; besides, the Minbari were completely unprepared for the human attack, and the humans were completely unprepared for the power of Minbari weaponry.
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** Federation starships are said to be powered by "EPS conduits" - the electro-plasma system draws plasma off from the engines and distributes it around the ship as a power supply. Why have boring old electrical wiring when you can have pipes filled with ''actual lightning'', or even ''freakin' antimatter''?!
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** Federation starships are said to be powered by "EPS conduits" - the electro-plasma system draws plasma off from the engines and distributes it around the ship as a power supply. Why have boring old electrical wiring when you can have pipes filled with ''actual lightning'', or even ''antimatter'', or ''freakin' antimatter''?!antimatter lightning''?!
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** Played for laughs in ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'', where the time-travelling [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Boimler]] gushes over Doctor M'Benga's tricorder, noting that they never improved on the design [[VerbalBackspace although]] they did get smaller, more powerful, and "arguably less likely to explode," to M'Benga's consternation.
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* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', computers, panels, and various other mechanisms throughout Black Mesa have a tendency to explode whenever the player is in close proximity. One computer manages to explode even ''before'' the [[ApocalypseHow resonance cascade]]. Another computer's keyboard shorts out violently after being tampered with in ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift''. Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' where Gordon both complains about it and blames the explosions on going with Cyrex processors, the lowest bidder.
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* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', computers, panels, and various other mechanisms throughout Black Mesa have a tendency to explode whenever the player is in close proximity. One computer manages to explode even ''before'' the [[ApocalypseHow resonance cascade]]. Another computer's keyboard shorts out violently after being tampered with in ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift''. Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' where Gordon both complains about it and blames the explosions on going with Cyrex Cyrix processors, the lowest bidder.
