"If you were standing in the path of the beam, you would obviously die pretty quickly. You wouldn't really die of anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics."
This disintegrator gun I invented can vaporize anything into nothingness, but it looks damaged!
— Kru-El, The Girl with the X-Ray Mind
Duck Dodgers: Ha-ha! Got the drop on you with my disintegrating pistol! And brother, when it disintegrates, it disintegrates!
(Dodgers pulls trigger, pistol crumbles into dust.)
Duck Dodgers: Heh, well, what do you know...it disintegrated.
(Dodgers pulls trigger, pistol crumbles into dust.)
Duck Dodgers: Heh, well, what do you know...it disintegrated.
Supergirl: That Projector is dissolving the "Zor-El" android into a shower of molecular particles! He sacrificed his life for me!
Allura Robot: I tried to warn you, Supergirl! That's exactly what would happened to you, if you had been struck by the vibrations of this gun!
Allura Robot: I tried to warn you, Supergirl! That's exactly what would happened to you, if you had been struck by the vibrations of this gun!
Fascinating. I cannot help but notice that the disintegrated remains of a dragon are indistinguishable from those of a human, or a halfling, or a dwarf.
— Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick
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— Weta Workshop
"Now, that quicksilver monster that your friend Twilight built has a whole pile a' witchy skills, just like she herself does. The particular hex you're about to get nailed with back in the real world with is somethin' called a 'disjunction beam'."
"'Disjunction'?" I said, consulting the new lexicon that had got wedged in my brain along with the science curse, which was chock-full of all sorts of shiny three-bit words like the word "lexicon". "'Disjunction' means taking things apart, right? What of mine is Trixie aimin' to take apart, exactly?"
"You," said Cortland, gesturing offhoofedly. "Every bit of you from every other bit of you."
"Oh," I said. "Right. A'course."
"Now, I ain't gonna lie to you," continued Cortland. "That magic bolt's gonna sting like the dickens when it hits. But you'll only feel it for about half a second."
"That ain't so bad," I said.
And then, "Wait. Do I only feel it for half a second because it stops? Or do I only feel it for half a second because there ain't gonna be a me to feel it after half a second?"
Pa sucked on his timothy. "Second one."
"'Disjunction'?" I said, consulting the new lexicon that had got wedged in my brain along with the science curse, which was chock-full of all sorts of shiny three-bit words like the word "lexicon". "'Disjunction' means taking things apart, right? What of mine is Trixie aimin' to take apart, exactly?"
"You," said Cortland, gesturing offhoofedly. "Every bit of you from every other bit of you."
"Oh," I said. "Right. A'course."
"Now, I ain't gonna lie to you," continued Cortland. "That magic bolt's gonna sting like the dickens when it hits. But you'll only feel it for about half a second."
"That ain't so bad," I said.
And then, "Wait. Do I only feel it for half a second because it stops? Or do I only feel it for half a second because there ain't gonna be a me to feel it after half a second?"
Pa sucked on his timothy. "Second one."
—Contraptionology!, Chapter 17 — "Delicious"
