Your Head A Splode / Webcomics

Heads blowing up in Webcomics.

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• Axel has the ability to make people's heads explode in Ansem Retort. So far, it's been seen used twice:
  • The first time was against a cowboy that coincidentally was in the replacement cast. Lulu said it was his just desserts for dissing The Godfather.
  • The second time was the entire population of Jericho, New York. Odds are, they probably deserved it.
• Bob and George: Ran's head explodes when he's hit with a technobabble overdose. In addition, using the time-freezing Flash power on Quick Man causes a loud pop and a large mess.
• From Charby the Vampirate Charby understood why he felt he had such a mind-blowing experience when he spotted a piece of his own brain stuck on a friend's suit. How fast Charby noticed it tends to be mind bl.. er, to show that he's still street smart even with a piece of brain missing. Charby also had punched Zeno with perfect accuracy on the face while still headless! What a badass!
  • And way back from the earlier comics, there was Charby and Zeno's attack on Rodericke's lair. Bang.
• The Oculots of Enemy Quest cause this when they use their telepathy on non-Oculots. They pay for it by getting feedback from the victim in the form of last thoughts, chunks of memories, and the sensation of death. Understandably, they don't like doing it.
• In Errant Story, Ian does this to an elven guard sneaking up behind him while talking to Meji. Without turning around. With sound effect.
• Exterminatus Now: The head of a psychic lab uses a hologram to contact the inquisition. The holo shows him covered in blood, calling for a mop, and he explains that an anomaly "took out" two of his psykers. He also suggests giving psykers helmets in the future... to catch the splatter.
• Freefall: Qwerty mentions that his fellow robots are concerned that this is a possible reaction to robots intentionally circumventing their safeguards, in this strip.
• This will happen to Frankie in Frankie and Stein if Stein takes her time-travelling, at least according to Shelly.
• According to Get Your War On, this can be caused by calling George W. Bush "brilliant".
• Girl Genius: In a desperate attempt to stop a gigantic, ascended Lucrezia, the gang rams their ship's jumping engine directly into her head, where it promptly explodes. If Lucrezia's resulting scream is any indication, she most certainly felt it.
• In one of the alternate universes in Goblins, Minmax is a powerful psion who does this to his party members.
• Hitmen for Destiny uses the legend where chickens are still alive after being decapitated. Death Rage Chickens become aggressive while decapitated.
• This happens in Haru-Sari when a rogue elf blows up Alberich's dad's head.
• This happened in the polyamorous comic Jake the Rake episode aptly entitled "Explode Assumptions".
• In Kevin & Kell this is apparently a consequence of sudden Squick. At higher levels of Squick, it can lead to a head implosion.
• Last Res0rt: Say hello to Sedja!
  • This also gets subverted the second time we see her: the Children of Gabriel expect the worst when she forces the one kid who tries to attack her with an Aerosol Flamethrower to inhale her, but she makes him vomit her back up instead, Squicking the rest of the crowd and forcing them to scatter.
• In Marsh Rocket. With a double-page NSFW spread. Ouchies. The character deserved it though.
• Amongst the contributors that make up the webcomic community The Middle Ground (www.mgcomics.com), the former author known as Maikeru is known in-comic for making peoples' heads explode.
• In one Nodwick story, this sort of curse is inflicted upon the title character twice. The first one will cause his head to explode if he reveals the secret that the Mooks tell him, while the second (inflicted by different Mooks) will turn his brain into spinach artichoke dip if he does so. After both curses are accidentally both triggered at the same time, the Big Bad remarks, "This is why I have to keep firing the help..." (Fortunately for Nodwick, Piffany is close by.)
• Wonderella did it to herself in this The Non-Adventures of Wonderella when she realized that, technically speaking, Jesus can be considered transgender.
• In Prickly City, Winslow object that they can't go away with the election in November. Carmen points out that it's next year. Winslow's reaction is the trope — and "When do we head off? — No pun intended."
• Happens to an alien in Romantically Apocalyptic. The cause? The Captain giving them a really angry Death Glare.
• When the comic protagonist Art in Sequential Art draws a picture that somehow manages to combine all known fetishes, his housemate Pip's head explodes upon looking at it. Don't worry, though — it was Only a Flesh Wound.
• Subverted in Schlock Mercenary, when it happens to Ebbirnoth. Ebby happens to be a Unioc, whose "head" is one big eyeball. It's messy and very painful when a sniper pops it, but Ebby is still all right because all of his vital organs (including his brain) are in his torso. Doesn't stop the sniper from thinking that he's dead, though.
• Sarilho: Jacinto gets headshot twice. Combined with Psychic Strangle in the case of Márcia.
• Sleepless Domain: When Cassidy attempts to violently interrogate Undine during their sparring match, Bud soon arrives and attempts to break up the fight via a laser blast through the head of one of Cassidy's clones, destroying it instantly.
• Sluggy Freelance: In "GOFOTRON Champion of the Cosmos", the invincible Lodoze faced off against the just badass Bun-bun. The fight ended quickly after Bun-bun shoved his gun entirely up Lodoze's nose and then hit him in the face with a bar stool, blowing up the back of his head. That slowed him down for a bit.
• This happened in Terinu when when Terinu's powers traumatically activated and blew off the head of his kidnapper.
• Trevor (2020): Private Young‘s grey matter goes flying from the sheer force of Trevor biting into his skull.
• Robots in Vexxarr actually win arguments this way. it generally goes like this:
  Drone: I will not do that/go there and you can't make me!
  Vexxarr: Oh, can't I??
  Drone: BAM!! Vexxarr: Okay, you win.
• In the Unsounded side story Vienne of Seferpine, Vienne has a magic weapon that can do this, kept for self-defense in case the government comes for her. It's more of a "your head disintegrates" than "your head explodes", though. She uses it later in the story, obviously.
  And then the stranger’s head was gone. The stump of his cleanly-truncated neck gouted poppy-red blood. Vienne flinched away. The rest of him spasmed like the chicken she’d strangled for Mathis’ uneaten dinner two nights earlier. Then the body slumped to the mud and Vienne remembered to breathe again.
• Mela in We Are The Wyrecats manages to simply shrug off her head being blown off in a fight. As it turns out, she saved her brain in a black box just in case of emergency and has been living in a man-made body for some time.

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