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"Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox."

"Black was vicious. He didn't kill Pettigrew. He destroyed him! A finger. That's all that was left, a finger. Nothing else."

Dutch: Did you find Hawkins?
Poncho: I...I can't tell.

Trunks: Broly died that day!
Maloja: Oh, he died, all right. You meddlesome brats made sure there wasn't much left of him.

"They'll bury you in a lunchbox!"
"General" John Darian, Rise of the Triad

"You serious? You miss your ollie and we'll be sending you back to Jersey in a coffee can!"
Eric Sparrow, Tony Hawk's Underground

"What began as a birthday barbecue ended in a bizarre tragedy in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey today. It was this power mower that brought a quick end to the life of 21-year old, bride-to-be, Elizabeth Shelley. Like wood through a mulcher, the girthful fiance disappeared beneath the blades of the berserk mower that sent her personality raining down upon the birthday revelers. In a blaze of blood, bones, and body parts, the vivacious young girl was instantly reduced to a tossed human salad, a salad that police are still trying to gather up, a salad that was once named Elizabeth."
Newscaster, Frankenhooker

"You bring me someone with a head cold or a headache and I could do something, but you bring me just a head and you're taking the piss. Jesus, they could bury him in a shoe box."
Dr. Jim Gleeson, Grabbers

Homer: How many bodies?
Patrol Officer: Uh, two.
Homer: Ya need a tow truck?... Are we talking major medical and body bags?
Officer: Aw shit, Homer... We're talking a street sweeper and a doggie bag here.

"One year, they brought my husband's legs home to me... because they couldn't the find the rest of him."
Museum Curator, Kino's Journey

"You won't need a stretcher up there, you need a mop."

"It worked! Lesla-Lar was vaporized! She disintegrated into atomic mist!"

"We shall deposit her in the Disintegration Pit! Its radioactive Kryptonian fuel will complete the work begun by us! Supergirl shall be nothing more than a memory...and a handful of atomic ash."
General Zod, The Phantom Zone

They won't carry that guy off in a stretcher, they'll carry him off in a sponge.

Codename: Assassin: We've gone over the area six times, sir. We've found tiny bits of flesh and hair that match her DNA, but... Nothing substantial.
General Lane: Of course not. If Supergirl disrupted the field, the suit would've overcompensated. It would've practically vaporized her.

"His telekinetic "blast" went out of control when I struck him...and he was caught in his own explosion! It looks like he's been...disintegrated!"

Griff, needless to say, was very dead. After being shredded, incinerated and disintegrated all at once, what was left of his body could fit in a pencil case. Anyone planning to give him a burial would need a mop and a vacuum cleaner.
Alex Verus: Fated

"Instead, my Omega Beams reduced your cousin to ash. There will be even less of you to bury."

"Kryptonite is deadly to all Kryptonians! So— while the lead in the magma kept the K from affecting me...the concentration of it...in the lava...was enough to destroy Nam-Ek...disintegrating him utterly!"

"I have no idea what you hoped to accomplish with that ridiculous maneuver, Superman— and, regrettably, you're not going to be here long enough for me to find out! That first shot shrunk you to the size of a mosquito— But the blast you're about to receive will reduce you to absolute nothingness!"
Brainiac, Let My People Grow!

My wife is still pissed at me. She came to the market and said: "Where's our son?", And I say "Over there, over there, and up there." Kids' nowadays; they blow up so fast...
Achmed, The Dead Terrorist, Jeff Dunham

"Flambron, mightiest solar furnace in the universe, whose incandescent, neutronic flames match the searing heat of a thousand normal suns! In another second, I'll be a pinch of cosmic dust!"

"Then he turned super-swiftly flung the saucer into the path of its own ray...! Then it popped out of existence... reduced in size to nothingness!"

"But I tell you: a man walks in there alive in the evening, and in the morning the servants have to search the floor for the little bits of his bones."
The Tsar, "The Soldier And Death"

"They're going to bury what's left of you in a Soup Can!"

While this dirge the birdbrain kept up, oh, so silently I crept up,
Then I crouched and quickly lept up, pouncing on the feathered bore.
Soon he was a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore—
Only this and not much more.

"Considering how the past 24 hours went, I feel pretty comfortable saying if he looks at you sideways, we will not leave enough of him to be found."
Caduceus, to Caleb, Critical Role, "Unwanted Reunions"

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