The power to self-explode. Opposite to Self-Implosion.
Also Called[]
- Atomic Explosion
- Human Bomb Effect
- Living Bomb
- Nitrokinesis
- Nuclear Explosion/Detonation
- Reiciokinesis
- Self-Destruction/Self-Explosion
- Self-Exploder/Detonator/Bomber
- Self-Nuclear Bomb
- Super/Superhuman Bomb
Fiction-Specific Terms[]
- Energy Explosion (Marvel Comics)
Capabilities[]
The user can cause themselves to explode with varying effects from simply blowing open a door to explosions with the magnitude of nuclear explosions and recover/reassemble. They may be able to control the strength of the explosion, blow up portions of their body, or severe parts of their bodies and let it explode at contact with the enemy.
Applications[]
- Body Blasts
- Explosive Body Parts
- Self-Explosion Inducement
- Self-Explosion Manipulation Skilled-Users could control how intense their explosion is.
- Death Inducement to anyone near the explosion.
- Self-Nuclear Explosion Inducement with nuclear energy.
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Alien Physiology
- Bionic Physiology
- Energy Absorption
- Energy Mimicry
- Evaporation
- Explosive Device Mimicry
- Extreme Temperature Resistance
- Fragoportation
- Nova Flame
- Reforming
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Suicidal Attack
- Superior Human Physiology
Limitations[]
- Generally unrefined and in-discriminating.
- May hurt or kill the user.
- May not be able to regenerate unless they use all body energy.
- May not be able to regenerate if part(s) of their body are separated post-explosion.
- May not be able to regenerate at all, making this a suicide attack only to be used once.
- May cause harms to everything near the user's sucidal attack, including friends and allies.
Known Users[]
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- White (Bleach)
- Gremmy Thoumeaux (Bleach); via Mentifery
- Akuma (D.Gray-Man)
- Deidara (Naruto)
- Tobirama Senju (Naruto)
- Delta (Boruto: Naruto Next Generation)
- Kami (Dragon Ball Z)
- Saibamen (Dragon Ball Z)
- Chiaotzu (Dragon Ball Z)
- Androids (Dragon Ball Z); due to an inbuilt bomb
- Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
- Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
- Super Buu (Dragon Ball Z)
- Goku (Dragon Ball GT)
- Fabrication No. 100 (Fabricant 100)
- Ichiro Inuyashiki (Inuyashiki)
- Hiro Shishigami (Inuyashiki)
- Kapellmeister (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Guardian ÄRM, Trick-Or-Treat (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Allu Majuu (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Number 6 (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes)
- Katsuki Bakugo (My Hero Academia); via nitroglycerin sweat
- Toya Todoroki/Dabi (My Hero Academia)
- Gensuru (Hunter X Hunter); can only detonate his hands
- Stone Monsters (Konosuba)
- Sachiel (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Gladius (One Piece)
- Mr. 5 (One Piece)
- Genos (One-Punch Man)
- Underdog Man (One-Punch Man); series of robots created by Child Emperor
- Metal Knight Units (One-Punch Man); remote-controlled robots created by Bofoi
- Fraudrin (Nanatsu no Taizai)
- Elie/Resha Valentine (Rave Master); via Utellion
- Misaka Mikoto (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun); via reaching Level 6
- Maris Stella (Trinity Seven)
- Metaroid (Sidekicks)
- Tanya von Degurechaff (Youjo Senki); via Power Jewel
- E-43 Falcon (Sonic X)
- Hikaru Kujou/Shiny Luminous (Futari wa Precure Max Heart); via the Heartiel Brooch
- Heartcatch Precures (Heartcatch Precure!); except Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight
Cartoons
- Mine Turtle (Asdfmovie)
- Penfold Transformer (Danger Mouse)
- Cocky Aliens (Hero 108)
- GIR (Invader Zim)
- Goddard (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius)
- Kablamus (The Mask: The Animated Series); via "balloon mimicry"
- Robot Jones (Whatever Happened to…Robot Jones?)
Comics
- Ecanic (Cool Toons Comics)
- Roy Lincoln/Human Bomb I (DC Comics)
- Bailey Hoskins (Marvel Comics)
- Robert Hunter/Nitro (Marvel Comics)
- Various Mutants (Marvel Comics)
- Bailey Hoskins/X-Ceptional
- Anthony/Bomb
- Esme Fernando/Breakdown
- Explosa
- Nathaniel Grey/X-Man
- Oswald
- Peter
- Santo Vaccarro/Rockslide
- Owen Reece/Molecule Man (Marvel Comics); formerly
- The Human Bomb (DC Comics)
- Mageddon (DC Comics)
- Parademons (DC Comics)
- Super Sonic (Sonic the Comic)
- Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman (DC Comics); via the Super Flare
Literature
- Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle)
Television/Movies
- Yautja (Predator Series)
- Terminators (Terminator Series)
- T-800s
- T-800/Uncle Bob
- T-RIP
- Pops/Guardian
- Carl
- T-800s
- Ellie Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead (X-Men Movies)
- Tucker Shockley (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
- Ted Sprague (Heroes); via Induced Radioactivity
- Naqib (The Boys)
- Soldier Boy (The Boys)
- Peter Petrelli (Heroes); via Induced Radioactivity
- Darryl Blake (Heroes)
- Sylar (Heroes); via Induced Radioactivity
- IG-11 (Star Wars)
- Deker (Power Rangers Samurai)
- Yuckles (Round the Twist)
- Gai Kurenai/Ultraman Orb (Ultraman series); via Burnmite
- Ultraman Mebius/Mirai Hibino (Ultraman series)
- Ultraman Orb Dark (Ultraman series); via the Orb Ring NEO
- Ultraman Taiga (Ultraman series); via Tri-Strium and additionally the Taiga Tri Blade
- Ultraman Taro (Ultraman series)
Video Games
- Kevin Cube (Fortnite)
- Autobombs (System Shock)
- K1-B0 (Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask); via the Bomb Mask
- Bob-Ombs (Super Mario)
- Bombette
- Bobbery
- Bomb (Final Fantasy)
- Kimahri Ronso (Final Fantasy X); via Power Replication
- Yuna (Final Fantasy X-2); as Black Knight
- Rikku (Final Fantasy X-2); as Black Knight
- Paine (Final Fantasy X-2); as Black Knight
- The Beast (inFamous 2)
- Various robots (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Lemmings (Lemmings)
- Dark Fawful (Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story)
- Creepers (Minecraft)
- Welders (New Blood Interactive's DUSK)
- Banelings (StarCraft)
- Tabuu (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
- Frozen Meat (Painkiller)
- Galleom (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
- Spawns/Tarbabies (Quake series)
- Spike Mines (Quake: Scourge of Armagon)
- Hell Spawns (Quake: Dissolution of Eternity)
- Wraths (Quake: Dissolution of Eternity)
- 'Splosion Man and Ms. 'Splosion Man (Splosion Man)
- Vault Dweller (Fallout)
- Cherry Bomb (Plants vs. Zombies)
- Doom-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies)
- Jalapeno (Plants vs. Zombies)
- Potato Mine (Plants vs. Zombies)
- Primal Potato Mine (Plants vs. Zombies)
- Pokémon that can learn "Self-Destruct" and "Explosion" (Pokémon)
- Players who have Ragevenge equipped (Punch Quest)
- Beheaded Kamikaze (Serious Sam)
- Boomers (Left 4 Dead)
- Countdown (Skylanders)
- Enfuego Chompies (Skylanders)
- Grinnade (Skylanders: Trap Team)
- Juju Junior (Skylanders)
- Eye-ras (Backyard Monsters)
- Octopods (Splatoon)
- Red Tinykin (Tinykin)
- Abominations (Mass Effect)
- Bomby (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Bomb (Angry Birds)
- Pyrogen (Mighty No.9)
- Conduits (Madness Combat)
- Sleepwalker Patients (Madness Combat); when the third resurrection is active
- Slayers (Madness Combat)
- Elf Gudgeons (Madness Combat)
- Hiveslugs (Madness Combat)
- Honk Zeds (Madness Combat)
- Soldier/Mister Jane Doe (Team Fortress 2); via Kamikaze Taunt
- Sentry Busters (Team Fortress 2)
- Bomb (Angry Birds)
- Fireguard (Shadow Fight)
- Zombie Shark (Hungry Shark World)
- Alpha Zombie Shark (Hungry Shark World)
- Cosmic Alan (Hungry Shark World)
- Mecha Sharkjira (Hungry Shark World)
Other
- Hank J. Wimbleton (Madness Combat)
- Ultraman Taro (Ultraman series)
- Ultraman Mebius/Mirai Hibino (Ultraman series); via Burning Brave
- Ultraman Taiga (Ultraman series); via Tri-Strium
- SCP-001-J - The Big Red Button (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-5556 - The Foundation Gets Gnomed (SCP Foundation)
- The Virus (SCP Foundation)
- Patrick VanDusen (Super Smash Stadium)
- The Entity (AT4W)
- Gamera (Gamera the Brave)
- Jaegers like Striker Eureka & Gipsy Danger (Pacific Rim); via nuclear payload
- Detonator form of Banjo (Banjo Tooie)
- Limon (Kofi); via impacmoco
Known Objects[]
- NEXTs (Armored Core 4 series); via Overed Boosters with Assault Armor properties
- Omnitrix (Ben 10)
- The Blow Itself Up-inator (Phineas and Ferb)
Gallery[]
Fabrication No. 100 (Fabricant 100) is able to make her body spontaneously burst into flames
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Delta (Boruto) blows her spare body up when Naruto defeated her.
Using the Super Flare, Superman (DC Comics) expels all of the solar energy in his body in the form of an explosion powerful enough to incinerate everything within a quarter mile radius.
Chiaotzu (Dragon Ball Z) self-destructs.
Semi-Perfect Cell (Dragon Ball Z) self-destructing.
Super Buu (Dragon Ball Z) preparing to self-destruct.
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Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) unleashing his Final Explosion.
Peter Petrelli (Heroes) about to explode.
Painting by precognitive Isaac Mendez (Heroes) of "The Exploding Man".
Robert Hunter/Nitro (Marvel Comics) in a populated center.
Mr. 5 (One Piece) detonating his body parts without any harm to himself.
Black Fog (Pokémon) using Explosion to detonate its own body, causing devastating damage at the cost of much of its health.
Black Fog (Pokémon) using Self-Destruct as its last resort, exploding and killing itself rather than being captured by a human.
Maris Stella (Trinity Seven) crushes her own Conceptual Mechanism which is her core...
...causing a massive explosion in the area in an attempt to defeat the goddess.
Using Chaos Blast, Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) unleashes a massive explosion of Chaos Energy.
Octopods (Splatoon) will self-destruct if Agent 3 draws too close.
Creepers (Minecraft) can self-detonate, destroying themselves and nearly anything within its blast radius.
In a last effort to defeat Team MÄR, Kapellmeister (Marchen Awakens Romance) overflows his entire body with magical power, causing him to explode.
Spawns/Tarbabies (Quake series) are known to self-explode once they are killed.
Once they begin to die, Wraths (Quake: Dissolution of Eternity) can automatically self-destruct, damaging anything that's within their vicinity.
Allu Majuu (Marchen Awakens Romance) will detonate itself when its user Phantom gives the order.
The Trick-Or-Treat (Marchen Awakens Romance) guardians will explode if their heads are touched.
Upon getting killed and defeated, a Welder's (New Blood Interactive's DUSK) canister that links to their fire ball-based gun, will happen to inevitably burst into flames and causing their clothes to ignite. In roughly a second, the canister will detonate, harming their nearby allies if they aren't careful.
Dabi (My Hero Academia) is able to internalize his heat that will make him explode, and in his attempt to kill his father, if Shoto hadn't arrived to stop him, the blast would have taken everything around him in a 5 kilometer radius.
Limon (Kofi)
Deker (Power Rangers Samurai)
'Splosion Man and Ms. 'Splosion man ('Splosion Man)
Negasonic Teenage Warhead (X-Men Movies)
Yautja (Predator Series) have a self-destruct device in their left gauntlet to use as a last resort.
Tucker Shockley (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) had the abilities to reconstructing his body into a living bomb.
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Android 16, 17 and 18 (Dragon Ball Z) were built with self-destruct devices as a last resort, before 16 died and Krillin used the dragon balls to remove the bombs from 17 and 18.
T-800s (Terminator Series) are powered by one or two nuclear power cells, which can last them for 120 years and if the fuel cell is damaged or unstable, the T-800 can use it to self-terminate if necessary/as a last resort.
Beats (Sonic the Hedgehog)
E-43 Falcon (Sonic X)
Red Tinykin (Tinykin)
The Soldier/Mister Jane Doe (Team Fortress 2), when equipped with the Equalizer or the Escape Plan, can perform the Kamikaze taunt which allows him to kill himself and any enemies nearby.
Sleepwalker Patients (Madness Project) will explode when the third resurrection is active, pretending them from becoming Abominations.
Ultraman Taro (Ultraman series) uses Ultra Dynamite.
Like his father Ultraman Taiga (Ultraman series) can also use Ultra Dynamite, however, he must be in the Tri-Strium form...
...He can also use his Taiga Tri Blade to ignite himself and self-destruct with the Taiga Blast Attack move.
Ultraman Mebius/Mirai Hibino (Ultraman series) using Mebium Dynamite in his normal form...
...Burning Mebium Dynamite as Mebius Burning Brave.
Gai Kurenai/Ultraman Orb Burnmite (Ultraman series) using Stobium Dynamite.
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Assault Armor (Armored Core 4 series) is an ability used by some NEXTs equipped with Overed Boosters with Assault Armor properties. It works by compressing Kojima Particles in a NEXT's Overed Booster and then releasing it to create a large scale Kojima explosion.
Hikari Kujou/Shiny Luminous (Futari wa Precure Max Heart) releasing an energy explosion with her Heartiel Brooch.
Tsubomi Hanasaki/Cure Blossom and Erika Kurumi/Cure Marine (Heartcatch Precure!) using Precure Giant Explosion.
Fireguard (Shadow Fight) using Countdown.
In defeat, Dark Fawful (Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story) blew himself up as a last-ditch attempt to rid himself of Mario and Luigi.
Videos[]
Predator 2 - Roof Fight (HD)-2
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