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* In the anime ''Anime/{{Kite}}'', the protagonist, taking a page from Ghost In The Shell, uses bullets that explode five seconds after impact, typically causing the head to explode in bloody gore.
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** Yhwach does this to Ebern, an Arrancar who didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks at Ebern until his head pops like a water balloon.
** The final act of Shunsui's Bankai does this to Lille Barro during their fight. [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead It doesn't stick]].]]
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** Yhwach does this to Ebern, Luders, an Arrancar who [[DisproportionateRetribution didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Society]]. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks at Ebern Luders until his head pops like a water balloon.
balloon. Fellow Arrancar Ebern follows suit shortly after, [[BadBoss for no other reason that his job was done and Yhwach had no further need of him]].
** The final act of Shunsui'sBankai [[SuperMode Bankai]] does this to Lille Barro during their fight. [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead It doesn't stick]].]]
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** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used to be.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used tobe.]]be]].
*** This, combined with NeverTheSelvesShallMeet, is how [[spoiler:the alternative Diego Brando]] dies: he gets the head of his deceased counterpart thrown right at his face. We then cut to his Stand's head exploding.
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*** This, combined with NeverTheSelvesShallMeet, is how [[spoiler:the alternative Diego Brando]] dies: he gets the head of his deceased counterpart thrown right at his face. We then cut to his Stand's head exploding.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The leader of the Vandenreich does this to an Arrancar who didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks at the Arrancar until its head pops like a water balloon. Shunsui's Bankai does this to Lille Barro during their fight.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The leader of the Vandenreich ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Yhwach does this to Ebern, an Arrancar who didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks atthe Arrancar Ebern until its his head pops like a water balloon. balloon.
** The final act of Shunsui's Bankai does this to Lille Barro during theirfight.fight. [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead It doesn't stick]].]]
** Yhwach does this to Ebern, an Arrancar who didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks at
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* In ''Anime/DirtyPair'' Flight 005 Conspiracy, when Kei is drowning her sorrows at a bar believing Yuri was killed on an explosion, she asks the bartender, who unbeknownst to her is an assassin, to make her another drink, he spikes it with an unknown poison and hands it to her, her new partner Danny tells her that she's had enough and drinks it instead, he then convulses in pain and his head explodes, splattering his brain and skull fragments in her face.
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* In ''Anime/DirtyPair'' ''Literature/DirtyPair'' Flight 005 Conspiracy, when Kei is drowning her sorrows at a bar believing Yuri was killed on an explosion, she asks the bartender, who unbeknownst to her is an assassin, to make her another drink, he spikes it with an unknown poison and hands it to her, her new partner Danny tells her that she's had enough and drinks it instead, he then convulses in pain and his head explodes, splattering his brain and skull fragments in her face.
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** Kimblee in Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003, even though he tends to make a person's [[WhyAmITicking whole body explode]].
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* The 1980s ''Manga/Golgo13'' animated film ''The Professional'' features tycoon Leonard Dawson deciding to commit suicide by throwing himself from the window of a very tall skyscraper. Lands on the concrete below so hard that when his head hits, it gets pulverized. Golgo 13, always one to get the "last word" in, manages to put a bullet through his forehead before impact.
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* ''Anime/Golgo13: The 1980s ''Manga/Golgo13'' animated film ''The Professional'' features tycoon Leonard Dawson deciding to commit suicide by throwing himself from the window of a very tall skyscraper. Lands on the concrete below so hard that when his head hits, it gets pulverized. Golgo 13, always one to get the "last word" in, manages to put a bullet through his forehead before impact.
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* ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'': Nexa's head was said to be "blown to pieces".
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* This happens to Sakura several times in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' after getting hit by Dokuro's Excalibolg.
* In ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', the invading Mi-Go are defeated when Nyarko's [[ProductPlacement iPhone]] starts ringing and playing the pop song she had set as her ringtone. This is an explicit ShoutOut to ''Film/MarsAttacks'', as earlier in the episode Nyarko [[ConversationalTroping discussed]] aliens having [[WeaksauceWeakness unusual weaknesses]], including music (said as a silhouette of the Martians appears).
* At the end of Episode 5 of ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', [[spoiler: Joel picks up Mei's radio and in retaliation for Mei escaping from Bogan, Shane detonates a bomb inside the radio which causes his head to explode.]]
* At the end of Episode 5 of ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', [[spoiler: Joel picks up Mei's radio and in retaliation for Mei escaping from Bogan, Shane detonates a bomb inside the radio which causes his head to explode.]]
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* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', the invading Mi-Go are defeated when Nyarko's [[ProductPlacement iPhone]] starts ringing and playing the pop song she had set as her ringtone. This is an explicit ShoutOut to ''Film/MarsAttacks'', as earlier in the episode Nyarko [[ConversationalTroping discussed]] aliens having [[WeaksauceWeakness unusual weaknesses]], including music (said as a silhouette of the Martians appears).
* At the end of Episode 5 of ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', [[spoiler: Joel picks up Mei's radio and in retaliation for Mei escaping from Bogan, Shane detonates a bomb inside the radio which causes his head to explode.]]
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* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': There's Akira using an anti-tank rifle on the heads of cyborgs Yajima and Zelmo in flashy manuvers. And then Akira dodging Toralt's {{BFS}} strike before drop-kicking his head using the full strength of his PoweredArmor.
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* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': There's Akira using an anti-tank rifle on the heads of cyborgs Yajima and Zelmo in flashy manuvers. And then Akira dodging Toralt's {{BFS}} strike before drop-kicking his head using the full strength of his PoweredArmor.
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** Kimblee in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], even though he tends to make a person's [[WhyAmITicking whole body explode]].
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* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[spoiler:Dio Brando]] is killed in this manner when he faces Jotaro Kujo [[{{Pun}} head on]]. Questionable since it was really more his whole ''[[BloodierAndGorier body]]'' that exploded, but it appears to start from the head and work its way back down. The fact that originates from a punch to his ''leg'' of all places makes this incident particularly [[RuleOfCool noteworthy]].
** Araki is rather fond of that particularly [[{{Gorn}} exceptional]] variant: it happens to [[spoiler:Santana]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'' and [[spoiler:Jotaro himself]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', though both of them are still alive afterwards in [[ForScience some]] [[ResetButton fashion]].
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used to be.]]
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[spoiler:Dio Brando]] is killed in this manner when he faces Jotaro Kujo [[{{Pun}} head on]]. Questionable since it was really more his whole ''[[BloodierAndGorier body]]'' that exploded, but it appears to start from the head and work its way back down. The fact that originates from a punch to his ''leg'' of all places makes this incident particularly [[RuleOfCool noteworthy]].
** Araki is rather fond of that particularly [[{{Gorn}} exceptional]] variant: it happens to [[spoiler:Santana]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'' and [[spoiler:Jotaro himself]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', though both of them are still alive afterwards in [[ForScience some]] [[ResetButton fashion]].
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used to be.]]
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**In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'': Inverted with [[spoiler:Wammu]]. His death comes from his body exploding, leaving only his head before disintegrating.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders StardustCrusaders]]'', Crusaders]]'': [[spoiler:Dio Brando]] is killed in this manner when he faces Jotaro Kujo [[{{Pun}} head on]].obliterated his Stand. Questionable since it was really more his whole ''[[BloodierAndGorier body]]'' that exploded, but it appears to start from the head and work its way back down. The fact that originates from a punch to his ''leg'' of all places makes this incident particularly [[RuleOfCool [[AwesomenessIsAForce noteworthy]].
**Araki is rather fond of that particularly [[{{Gorn}} exceptional]] variant: it happens to [[spoiler:Santana]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'' and [[spoiler:Jotaro himself]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', though both Ocean]]'': [[spoiler:Enrico Pucci]]'s ultimate fate at the hands of them are still alive afterwards in [[ForScience some]] [[ResetButton fashion]].
[[spoiler:Emporio]], who uses [[spoiler:Weather Report]] to punch his head until it's completely crushed by oxygen poisoning, complete with his eyeball flying out.
**In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', Run]]'': [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used to be.]]]]
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Josuke punches Tamaki Damo's bloodied, crumbling head so hard that it shatters and reduces it to bits and blood splatter on the sidewalk and walls. Thankfully for Josuke, the gore instantly turns to stone as Damo is killed, allowing the incident to go unnoticed by bystanders.
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* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' Dragon Destiny has Koshaji. Her top gets destroyed and exposes her boobs, [[{{Fanservice}} which is par for the course with the source material]], but she then gets picked up by her head and gets slammed into a wall. [[HeadCrushing Her head basically gets crushed like a grape]] and explodes in a bloody mess.
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* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' ''Manga/IkkiTousen: Dragon Destiny Destiny'' has Koshaji. Her top gets destroyed and exposes her boobs, [[{{Fanservice}} which is par for the course with the source material]], but she then gets Koshaji getting picked up by her head and gets then slammed into a wall. wall where it [[HeadCrushing Her head basically gets crushed like a grape]] and explodes in before exploding into a bloody mess.
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[[YourHeadASplode Heads blowing up]] in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* In a DVD-exclusive episode[[note]]Well, not that DVD-exclusive: it was shown in Latin America. Explosion scene included.[[/note]] of ''Manga/ZeroZeroNineOne'', Mylene/Agent 009-1 is told by a guy she just slept with that he knows she's a spy and that he has placed a [[WhyAmITicking bomb inside her body]]. But it turns out that he actually put the bomb ''in his own head'', which explodes and splatters when he triggers the detonator. [[TheMourningAfter Mylene mourns him anyway]] since she ''did'' like him.
* Happens at times in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' thanks to psychic powers. The most iconic example is Yamagata, who gets offed like this by Tetsuo. More like LudicrousGibs considering what happened to his body.
* In ''Manga/{{Akumetsu}}'', this happens to the title character whenever he dies.
* In ''Anime/BaldrForceEXEResolution'', this tends to happen to those who meet a certain VirtualGhost.
* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'': Never has there been a head gone ka-goosh with more satisfaction than that of [[spoiler:Tenzen Yakushiji]], which happens when [[spoiler:Oboro regains the use of her {{Magical Eye}}s and turns their power upon him as he's reviving himself after he is killed by Gennosuke, rendering the evil ninja dead for good]].
* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' has this quite often, with guns, fists, melee weapons blunt objects or whatever strikes your fancy as the cause. The sequel series even does it to its own [[spoiler:BigBad]].
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': Extremely common in manga.[[note]]But not the anime which, despite the large amounts of blood, is fairly sanitized.[[/note]] In fact, clean decapitations are almost nonexistent; most of the time, when Guts hits above the shoulders, the victim's head shatters.
** During the Eclipse, [[spoiler:this is the fate of Gaston, the last member of the Band of the Hawk to die during the Eclipse, by way of a parasitic demon]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The leader of the Vandenreich does this to an Arrancar who didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks at the Arrancar until its head pops like a water balloon. Shunsui's Bankai does this to Lille Barro during their fight.
* In ''Anime/CoyoteRagtimeShow'', the only way to kill the [=SISTERs=] is to blow up their heads.
* The main characters of ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'' are fitted with [[ExplosiveLeash explosive collars]], with gory results if they try to remove it or fail to accomplish their mission in time.
* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' shows a rare example of someone surviving this: after she blows his and Tamayo's cover, Yushiro gets his head blown up when Susamaru sends a Temari ball flying in his direction. However, being a demon, he survives the deadly attack and heals. (Averted in the [[VideoGame/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTheHinokamiChronicles video game]] adaptation.)
* In ''Anime/DirtyPair'' Flight 005 Conspiracy, when Kei is drowning her sorrows at a bar believing Yuri was killed on an explosion, she asks the bartender, who unbeknownst to her is an assassin, to make her another drink, he spikes it with an unknown poison and hands it to her, her new partner Danny tells her that she's had enough and drinks it instead, he then convulses in pain and his head explodes, splattering his brain and skull fragments in her face.
* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Majin Buu saga, Babidi made the head of any {{Muggle|s}} that annoyed him explode without warning. It wasn't too gory, though. Ironically, he dies when Buu ''punches'' his head off. Of course, this was edited for the televised dub.
* In episode 95 of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' Frieza has become so powerful in his golden form that he can make his opponents' heads explode with a single poke to the forehead, which he demonstrates on four Assassins from Universe 9
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Performed with an interesting visual metaphor. [[spoiler:In the episode when Mello kills off most of the SPK,]] one guy kills himself by blowing his own brains out. Instead of showing his head asplode, they show an explosion of dice instead.
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', new character [[spoiler:Wisely]] seems to have the power to do this to people.
* This is the fate of [[spoiler:[=LeBlanc=]]] from ''Anime/DivergenceEve'' after [[spoiler: he downloads all of the information of the entire universe into his brain (so he can learn how to become immortal), which [[MySkullRunnethOver is too much for him to handle]], with explosive results]].
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' uses this one, but most of the time it's a simple decapitation that sends the head flying on a jet of high-pressure blood.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Pretty much the fate of any bad guy who messes with Kenshiro. [[YouAreAlreadyDead They are already dead.]] Also, [[FatBastard Mr. Heart's]] finisher. "HIDEBU!!!"
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', this is Scar's modus operandi for killing people, though he destroys their brain instead of their entire head.
** Done literally in an out-take of episode 28. The actual scene depicts Scar grabbing Father's face, growling as he unsuccessfully tries to blow it up. However, in the outtake, Scar's growling is removed and replaced by a battle cry of "YOUR FACE ASPLODE!"
** Later in the series, [[spoiler:Ed destroys Pride's body by [[HeadCrushing crushing his head]]. Yes, this is the same Pride that's an incorporeal mass of toothed shadows attached to a CreepyChild.]]
** Kimblee in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], even though he tends to make a person's [[WhyAmITicking whole body explode]].
** [[spoiler:Atlas]] is killed in this fashion in ''The Sacred Star of Milos'' by [[spoiler:Colonel Herschel aka Ashleigh Crichton.]]
* ''{{Manga/Gantz}}'': Done fairly frequently, thanks to special guns which cause whatever they target to explode and special bombs implanted in each Gantz player's head, which go off if they break one of the game's rules.
* The opening scene of ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'' involves Major Kusanagi taking out a diplomat who is trying to get a programmer out of the country by shooting him in the head with some delayed-fuse high-explosive rounds which make his head go boom several moments after hitting. The phrase "explosively anatomically accurate" seems apt. The animation crew seems to have a somewhat disturbing liking for these -- there's a head-a-splode scene in some form or fashion at the beginning of each movie and the first/last episodes of [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex both anime seasons]].
** The scene in question comes from the first scene in [[Manga/GhostInTheShell the manga]], which plays out much the same way, with the biggest difference being that the Major doesn't get naked in order to use her thermoptics.
* The 1980s ''Manga/Golgo13'' animated film ''The Professional'' features tycoon Leonard Dawson deciding to commit suicide by throwing himself from the window of a very tall skyscraper. Lands on the concrete below so hard that when his head hits, it gets pulverized. Golgo 13, always one to get the "last word" in, manages to put a bullet through his forehead before impact.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** Char delivers quite the coup de grace to Princess Kycilia. With a rocket launcher. He also took off the Gundam's head with the Zeong.
** Combined with the FacePalm in ''G Gundam'' as Domon Kasshu's primary means to achieving victory [[StrictlyFormula in pretty much every episode of Season 1]].
*** JustifiedTrope. By the rules of the Gundam Fight, destroying the head of the opponent's Gundam eliminates that fighter from the tournament. Whereas wrecking the entire Gundam but leaving the head intact would make it perfectly legal for the fight to have his Gundam repaired and continue competing.
*** When he [[MidSeasonUpgrade upgrades halfway through the series]] from the Shining Gundam to the God Gundam, Domon also upgrades his FinishingMove. This version becomes more like Your Whole Body Asplode. At least sometimes.
* ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'': Nexa's head was said to be "blown to pieces".
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', with its over-the-top violence and gore, is slowly reaching the point of self-parody.
* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' Dragon Destiny has Koshaji. Her top gets destroyed and exposes her boobs, [[{{Fanservice}} which is par for the course with the source material]], but she then gets picked up by her head and gets slammed into a wall. [[HeadCrushing Her head basically gets crushed like a grape]] and explodes in a bloody mess.
* Ochazuke Nori's story "Infection on Flight 999" involves a disease that makes adult's heads explode -- children just experience a high fever, pain, and blueness in the face.
* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[spoiler:Dio Brando]] is killed in this manner when he faces Jotaro Kujo [[{{Pun}} head on]]. Questionable since it was really more his whole ''[[BloodierAndGorier body]]'' that exploded, but it appears to start from the head and work its way back down. The fact that originates from a punch to his ''leg'' of all places makes this incident particularly [[RuleOfCool noteworthy]].
** Araki is rather fond of that particularly [[{{Gorn}} exceptional]] variant: it happens to [[spoiler:Santana]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'' and [[spoiler:Jotaro himself]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', though both of them are still alive afterwards in [[ForScience some]] [[ResetButton fashion]].
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used to be.]]
* In the anime ''Anime/{{Kite}}'', the protagonist, taking a page from Ghost In The Shell, uses bullets that explode five seconds after impact, typically causing the head to explode in bloody gore.
* This happens to Sakura several times in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' after getting hit by Dokuro's Excalibolg.
* In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', this is implied to have happened to some of the test subjects [[spoiler:[[TheVirus who were infected with the Eclipse]] and failed to [[ViralTransformation become a suitor for Lily]].]] How else would you explain the brain things lying on the floor with the rest of the corpses?
** On the same season, this also seems to be the way Veyron finished off [[spoiler:another Eclipse infected]] he was fighting on chapter 19. He grabbed his head with his [[PowerFist "Claw Grab"]] and then BOOM!
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' (post-time-skip), Deidara sends spiders made of explosive clay to attach themselves to the faces of three Sand Village guards. ''Boom.''
* The beginning of ''Anime/PsychoDiver'' has a diver whose head explodes graphically. As it turned out [[spoiler:the girl he was trying to help, Yuki, had a demon inside her soul and his head exploding was a result of the demon attacking him when he connected to her psychically]].
* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', the invading Mi-Go are defeated when Nyarko's [[ProductPlacement iPhone]] starts ringing and playing the pop song she had set as her ringtone. This is an explicit ShoutOut to ''Film/MarsAttacks'', as earlier in the episode Nyarko [[ConversationalTroping discussed]] aliens having [[WeaksauceWeakness unusual weaknesses]], including music (said as a silhouette of the Martians appears).
* At the end of Episode 5 of ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', [[spoiler: Joel picks up Mei's radio and in retaliation for Mei escaping from Bogan, Shane detonates a bomb inside the radio which causes his head to explode.]]
* In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', [[spoiler:Joushuu Kasei]] shoots [[spoiler:Choe Gu-Sung]] in the face with a dominator, causing his head to explode.
* In the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie, this happens to [[spoiler:Kaworu]] when [[spoiler:his ExplosiveLeash detonates]].
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': There's Akira using an anti-tank rifle on the heads of cyborgs Yajima and Zelmo in flashy manuvers. And then Akira dodging Toralt's {{BFS}} strike before drop-kicking his head using the full strength of his PoweredArmor.
* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', [[NeverMessWithGranny Setsuno]] can make her enemies' heads explode by [[BlowYouAway increasing the air pressure around them]] to basically act as a pressure cooker.
* In ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'', terrorists had explosives implanted in their molars that were activated by biting down on it. Unfortunately for everyone else, they could also be remotely activated...
* ''Literature/VampireHunterD'': Count Magnus Lee makes his henchman Rei's head explode after he betrays him and attempts to kill him for not making him an immortal.
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[[YourHeadASplode Heads blowing up]] in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* In a DVD-exclusive episode[[note]]Well, not that DVD-exclusive: it was shown in Latin America. Explosion scene included.[[/note]] of ''Manga/ZeroZeroNineOne'', Mylene/Agent 009-1 is told by a guy she just slept with that he knows she's a spy and that he has placed a [[WhyAmITicking bomb inside her body]]. But it turns out that he actually put the bomb ''in his own head'', which explodes and splatters when he triggers the detonator. [[TheMourningAfter Mylene mourns him anyway]] since she ''did'' like him.
* Happens at times in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' thanks to psychic powers. The most iconic example is Yamagata, who gets offed like this by Tetsuo. More like LudicrousGibs considering what happened to his body.
* In ''Manga/{{Akumetsu}}'', this happens to the title character whenever he dies.
* In ''Anime/BaldrForceEXEResolution'', this tends to happen to those who meet a certain VirtualGhost.
* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'': Never has there been a head gone ka-goosh with more satisfaction than that of [[spoiler:Tenzen Yakushiji]], which happens when [[spoiler:Oboro regains the use of her {{Magical Eye}}s and turns their power upon him as he's reviving himself after he is killed by Gennosuke, rendering the evil ninja dead for good]].
* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' has this quite often, with guns, fists, melee weapons blunt objects or whatever strikes your fancy as the cause. The sequel series even does it to its own [[spoiler:BigBad]].
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': Extremely common in manga.[[note]]But not the anime which, despite the large amounts of blood, is fairly sanitized.[[/note]] In fact, clean decapitations are almost nonexistent; most of the time, when Guts hits above the shoulders, the victim's head shatters.
** During the Eclipse, [[spoiler:this is the fate of Gaston, the last member of the Band of the Hawk to die during the Eclipse, by way of a parasitic demon]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The leader of the Vandenreich does this to an Arrancar who didn't give his exact message to Soul Society. Reminiscent of how Yamamoto and Aizen could incapacitate people by focusing on them, he looks at the Arrancar until its head pops like a water balloon. Shunsui's Bankai does this to Lille Barro during their fight.
* In ''Anime/CoyoteRagtimeShow'', the only way to kill the [=SISTERs=] is to blow up their heads.
* The main characters of ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'' are fitted with [[ExplosiveLeash explosive collars]], with gory results if they try to remove it or fail to accomplish their mission in time.
* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' shows a rare example of someone surviving this: after she blows his and Tamayo's cover, Yushiro gets his head blown up when Susamaru sends a Temari ball flying in his direction. However, being a demon, he survives the deadly attack and heals. (Averted in the [[VideoGame/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTheHinokamiChronicles video game]] adaptation.)
* In ''Anime/DirtyPair'' Flight 005 Conspiracy, when Kei is drowning her sorrows at a bar believing Yuri was killed on an explosion, she asks the bartender, who unbeknownst to her is an assassin, to make her another drink, he spikes it with an unknown poison and hands it to her, her new partner Danny tells her that she's had enough and drinks it instead, he then convulses in pain and his head explodes, splattering his brain and skull fragments in her face.
* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Majin Buu saga, Babidi made the head of any {{Muggle|s}} that annoyed him explode without warning. It wasn't too gory, though. Ironically, he dies when Buu ''punches'' his head off. Of course, this was edited for the televised dub.
* In episode 95 of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' Frieza has become so powerful in his golden form that he can make his opponents' heads explode with a single poke to the forehead, which he demonstrates on four Assassins from Universe 9
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Performed with an interesting visual metaphor. [[spoiler:In the episode when Mello kills off most of the SPK,]] one guy kills himself by blowing his own brains out. Instead of showing his head asplode, they show an explosion of dice instead.
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', new character [[spoiler:Wisely]] seems to have the power to do this to people.
* This is the fate of [[spoiler:[=LeBlanc=]]] from ''Anime/DivergenceEve'' after [[spoiler: he downloads all of the information of the entire universe into his brain (so he can learn how to become immortal), which [[MySkullRunnethOver is too much for him to handle]], with explosive results]].
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' uses this one, but most of the time it's a simple decapitation that sends the head flying on a jet of high-pressure blood.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Pretty much the fate of any bad guy who messes with Kenshiro. [[YouAreAlreadyDead They are already dead.]] Also, [[FatBastard Mr. Heart's]] finisher. "HIDEBU!!!"
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', this is Scar's modus operandi for killing people, though he destroys their brain instead of their entire head.
** Done literally in an out-take of episode 28. The actual scene depicts Scar grabbing Father's face, growling as he unsuccessfully tries to blow it up. However, in the outtake, Scar's growling is removed and replaced by a battle cry of "YOUR FACE ASPLODE!"
** Later in the series, [[spoiler:Ed destroys Pride's body by [[HeadCrushing crushing his head]]. Yes, this is the same Pride that's an incorporeal mass of toothed shadows attached to a CreepyChild.]]
** Kimblee in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], even though he tends to make a person's [[WhyAmITicking whole body explode]].
** [[spoiler:Atlas]] is killed in this fashion in ''The Sacred Star of Milos'' by [[spoiler:Colonel Herschel aka Ashleigh Crichton.]]
* ''{{Manga/Gantz}}'': Done fairly frequently, thanks to special guns which cause whatever they target to explode and special bombs implanted in each Gantz player's head, which go off if they break one of the game's rules.
* The opening scene of ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'' involves Major Kusanagi taking out a diplomat who is trying to get a programmer out of the country by shooting him in the head with some delayed-fuse high-explosive rounds which make his head go boom several moments after hitting. The phrase "explosively anatomically accurate" seems apt. The animation crew seems to have a somewhat disturbing liking for these -- there's a head-a-splode scene in some form or fashion at the beginning of each movie and the first/last episodes of [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex both anime seasons]].
** The scene in question comes from the first scene in [[Manga/GhostInTheShell the manga]], which plays out much the same way, with the biggest difference being that the Major doesn't get naked in order to use her thermoptics.
* The 1980s ''Manga/Golgo13'' animated film ''The Professional'' features tycoon Leonard Dawson deciding to commit suicide by throwing himself from the window of a very tall skyscraper. Lands on the concrete below so hard that when his head hits, it gets pulverized. Golgo 13, always one to get the "last word" in, manages to put a bullet through his forehead before impact.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** Char delivers quite the coup de grace to Princess Kycilia. With a rocket launcher. He also took off the Gundam's head with the Zeong.
** Combined with the FacePalm in ''G Gundam'' as Domon Kasshu's primary means to achieving victory [[StrictlyFormula in pretty much every episode of Season 1]].
*** JustifiedTrope. By the rules of the Gundam Fight, destroying the head of the opponent's Gundam eliminates that fighter from the tournament. Whereas wrecking the entire Gundam but leaving the head intact would make it perfectly legal for the fight to have his Gundam repaired and continue competing.
*** When he [[MidSeasonUpgrade upgrades halfway through the series]] from the Shining Gundam to the God Gundam, Domon also upgrades his FinishingMove. This version becomes more like Your Whole Body Asplode. At least sometimes.
* ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'': Nexa's head was said to be "blown to pieces".
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', with its over-the-top violence and gore, is slowly reaching the point of self-parody.
* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' Dragon Destiny has Koshaji. Her top gets destroyed and exposes her boobs, [[{{Fanservice}} which is par for the course with the source material]], but she then gets picked up by her head and gets slammed into a wall. [[HeadCrushing Her head basically gets crushed like a grape]] and explodes in a bloody mess.
* Ochazuke Nori's story "Infection on Flight 999" involves a disease that makes adult's heads explode -- children just experience a high fever, pain, and blueness in the face.
* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[spoiler:Dio Brando]] is killed in this manner when he faces Jotaro Kujo [[{{Pun}} head on]]. Questionable since it was really more his whole ''[[BloodierAndGorier body]]'' that exploded, but it appears to start from the head and work its way back down. The fact that originates from a punch to his ''leg'' of all places makes this incident particularly [[RuleOfCool noteworthy]].
** Araki is rather fond of that particularly [[{{Gorn}} exceptional]] variant: it happens to [[spoiler:Santana]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'' and [[spoiler:Jotaro himself]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', though both of them are still alive afterwards in [[ForScience some]] [[ResetButton fashion]].
** In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', [[spoiler:Mike O. decides it would be a good idea to keep using his Tubular Bells Stand even after Hot Pants made it so if he even tried to inflate anything, he would die. Predictably, he tries to make another metal balloon, and his neck and the top of his head explode violently, revealing his spinal cord where his esophagus used to be.]]
* In the anime ''Anime/{{Kite}}'', the protagonist, taking a page from Ghost In The Shell, uses bullets that explode five seconds after impact, typically causing the head to explode in bloody gore.
* This happens to Sakura several times in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' after getting hit by Dokuro's Excalibolg.
* In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', this is implied to have happened to some of the test subjects [[spoiler:[[TheVirus who were infected with the Eclipse]] and failed to [[ViralTransformation become a suitor for Lily]].]] How else would you explain the brain things lying on the floor with the rest of the corpses?
** On the same season, this also seems to be the way Veyron finished off [[spoiler:another Eclipse infected]] he was fighting on chapter 19. He grabbed his head with his [[PowerFist "Claw Grab"]] and then BOOM!
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' (post-time-skip), Deidara sends spiders made of explosive clay to attach themselves to the faces of three Sand Village guards. ''Boom.''
* The beginning of ''Anime/PsychoDiver'' has a diver whose head explodes graphically. As it turned out [[spoiler:the girl he was trying to help, Yuki, had a demon inside her soul and his head exploding was a result of the demon attacking him when he connected to her psychically]].
* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', the invading Mi-Go are defeated when Nyarko's [[ProductPlacement iPhone]] starts ringing and playing the pop song she had set as her ringtone. This is an explicit ShoutOut to ''Film/MarsAttacks'', as earlier in the episode Nyarko [[ConversationalTroping discussed]] aliens having [[WeaksauceWeakness unusual weaknesses]], including music (said as a silhouette of the Martians appears).
* At the end of Episode 5 of ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', [[spoiler: Joel picks up Mei's radio and in retaliation for Mei escaping from Bogan, Shane detonates a bomb inside the radio which causes his head to explode.]]
* In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', [[spoiler:Joushuu Kasei]] shoots [[spoiler:Choe Gu-Sung]] in the face with a dominator, causing his head to explode.
* In the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie, this happens to [[spoiler:Kaworu]] when [[spoiler:his ExplosiveLeash detonates]].
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': There's Akira using an anti-tank rifle on the heads of cyborgs Yajima and Zelmo in flashy manuvers. And then Akira dodging Toralt's {{BFS}} strike before drop-kicking his head using the full strength of his PoweredArmor.
* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', [[NeverMessWithGranny Setsuno]] can make her enemies' heads explode by [[BlowYouAway increasing the air pressure around them]] to basically act as a pressure cooker.
* In ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'', terrorists had explosives implanted in their molars that were activated by biting down on it. Unfortunately for everyone else, they could also be remotely activated...
* ''Literature/VampireHunterD'': Count Magnus Lee makes his henchman Rei's head explode after he betrays him and attempts to kill him for not making him an immortal.
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