History Main / LiterallyShatteredLives

* The infamous [[https://youtu.be/YJ04XI-VFwI?si=bb2djjsO1lF4sSPv "Muñeca"]] ad for calcium supplement Calcibon shows a sultry middle-aged woman walking by several men calling her "muñeca" (dolly), but then it takes a dark turn when she is distracted by the attention of a bunch of soccer players that she bumps headfirst into a pole and falls into shattered bits upon touching the ground. As the ad closes with the tagline, a street cleaner sweeps her remains off the ground.

** The funny thing is that it started in the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}} version, as in the {{bowdlerise}}d one.

* ''VideoGame/ArzetteTheJewelOfFaramore'': After Arzette overpowers Duke Nodelki, he starts turning to stone much to his horror before Arzette proceeds to smash him to millions after the petrification finishes.

'''Since this is often a DeathTrope, beware of spoilers.'''

* ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'': After beating Wildcard McVee at a card game, you have to shoot him before he shoots you. If you're not quick enough and get shot, your character will literally shatter like glass when struck by the bullet.

*** And it happened again in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel''. Thankfully, the Flash fixed him all up.

-->— "Winter Blast" plasmid advert, ''VideoGame/{{BioShock}}''

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', this is how you [[spoiler:kill the alien dog during the 10th Glow attack]] if you have enough skill in Organization. [[spoiler:You set up a freeze trap for the dog that crystallizes it, and Anemone kicks it to shatter it to pieces.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Just Ducky", as Tom is about to eat Quacker, Jerry throws a brick at Tom, causing him to shatter like glass and leaving his outline behind.

** [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Mr. Freeze]] and [[ComicBook/TheFlash Captain Cold]] like doing this. More recently, [[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy Prime]] killed [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Sun Boy]] by freezing his head and shattering it.

** In ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'', Thanos turns Thor (the Erik Masterson one) into glass and then shatters him. When Nova tries to save Thor, Thanos turns his body into Lego-like toy bricks and shatters him as well. Thor later appears alive and well with the few remaining heroes left even before the CosmicRetcon is used to bring back all of Thanos' victims in the first four issues, which seems like an UnexplainedRecovery for anyone who hasn't read the ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' [[AllThereInTheManual tie in that shows]] how Strange literally went through Hell and back to restore him to life.
** In the original appearance of the Absorbing Man in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', Thor [[AssimilationBackfire tricks him into absorbing the properties of a glass window]] and shatters him. He [[PullingThemselvesTogether pulls himself back together]], though.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In "Return of Sinister Six", Dr. Octopus does this to Sandman, using his heat ray to melt him and then shattering the resulting glass statue. This bites him badly later as Sandman returns later, very angry with his body now made of glass shards rather than sand.
** ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}:'' In issue #103, the team's fighting Quicksand. They freeze her solid, then shatter her, but since they were trying to capture her, not kill her, Songbird tells Blizzard they're now going to have to pick up all the pieces.
** The nigh-unbeatable ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' villain the Gorgon is killed like this, with Wolverine using his claws to reflect the Gorgon's own [[DeadlyGaze petrifying gaze]] back to him, then smashing him once he's turned to stone.

*** Iceman has been shattered and put back together a few times.
*** In ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}} is shot with a diamond bullet while in her diamond form. She shatters in a million pieces. She gets better.

** Campaign 3: [[spoiler:[[SchmuckBait Despite being warned that doing so would kill him]], Ashton tricks Bells Hells into letting him absorb the Shard of Rau'shan. Being an earth genasi and thus [[SiliconBasedLife made of stone]], the first sign that something is going horribly wrong is that a piece of Ashton's shoulder breaks off and shatters on the ground, followed by their ear, then their entire right arm as their body begins to crack and swell. When Ashton fails a single Constitution saving throw (out of the 10 they had to make), their form abruptly explodes and shatters into a thousand pieces. They only survive because of their Ring of Temporal Salvation, which can save someone from death exactly once before crumbling to dust.]]

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': After traveling to the Menagerie, a temple to the Wildmother, the Mighty Nein discover that [[spoiler:every creature who has traveled to the Menagerie over the past decade or so has been turned to stone by a gorgon -- including Caduceus's entire family. The Nein defeat the gorgon, but not before it manages to smash a few statues, Caduceus's aunt Corrin being one of them. A combination of Stone Shape spells and some ''extremely'' high Medicine rolls from Jester allows the Nein to piece Corrin back together and restore her to life, but she remains extremely stiff and will likely never regain her full mobility.]]

* In ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', this is how [[spoiler:Moltor]] dies. The viewer is set up for "just another DisneyDeath" with the character suffering some HarmlessFreezing, and then [[spoiler:Flurious]] actually ''finishes the job'' with a shattering blast that's almost [[JustForPun chilling]] to watch.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' features an unholy cross between this trope, NiceJobBreakingItHero ([[JustForPun pun fully intended]]), and VillainsNeverLie.

* In ''Film/Pacific Rim'' this happens to Otachi's prehensile tail, courtesy of Gypsy Danger venting coolant from its flank while Otachi has her tail coiled around one of its arms. Gypsy then flexes the arm, shattering the frozen appendage.

* Played for laughs with the [[strike:Nazi]] East German soldier in ''Film/TopSecret''.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': After traveling to the Menagerie, a temple to the Wildmother, the Mighty Nein discover that [[spoiler:every creature who has traveled to the Menagerie over the past decade or so has been turned to stone by a gorgon -- including Caduceus's entire family. The Nein defeat the gorgon, but not before it manages to smash a few statues of people, including Caduceus's aunt Corrin. A combination of Stone Shape spells and some ''extremely'' high Medicine rolls from Jester allows the Nein to piece Corrin back together and restore her to life, but she remains extremely stiff and will likely never regain her full mobility.]]