In Dragon Ball Z, the "collapse into lumpy goo" variant is how Imperfect Cell absorbs people.In Case Closed, due to the action of APTX, victims eventually melt - even for our survivors (to them APTX became a Fountain of Youth), they did feel their bones melting, and smoke came out from their bodies.This is what happens to all the witches in Brynhildr in the Darkness whenever their "eject" button is pressed or they run out of "death suppressant" pills.This is why he's absolutely terrified of the sea, since the salt water dissolves his body completely. Amayo Jingorou from Basilisk can turn his body into semi-liquid ooze by covering himself with salt.Truth in Television, of course, since that actually happened to those unfortunate to be caught in the blast radius during the atomic bombings. Usually the first part of them to melt is their eyes, which gruesomely drip out of their sockets. It's an absolutely horrific 3-and-a-half minute sequence of men, women, children and animals graphically melting from the atom bomb's extreme heat. An infamous example would be the anime adaptation of Barefoot Gen during the scene in which Hiroshima was bombed.When the character in question doesn't die and is played for laughs, it's Harmless Liquefaction.ĭue to the fact in fiction people often say this when they are melting (often as a Stock Shout-Out to The Wizard of Oz), this could be considered an example of Captain Obvious.Īs this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. It can also be played for comedic effect, with the victim restored to normal in the next scene. Note that this can be a subtrope of No Body Left Behind and Everything Fades, although it can lead to Empty Piles of Clothing in works where Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing. This is a common fate of enemies weak to water, sunlight, salt, certain poisons/acids, and of course, deconstructive nanobots. It's as if they skipped a step, steaming and sublimating from the ground up. In fact, often, the liquid isn't even seen. This is regarded as melting, but looks like it didn't just stop with turning the victim to a liquid. Another Nightmare Fuel method of melting someone. Cremated remains are mainly bits of bone - everything else evaporates. Truth in Television, since bones, especially human bones, are very difficult to completely destroy. One of the rarest types of meltdown, this is when everything but the skeleton is reduced to a puddle of Pepto-Bismol. Sometimes this will leave a nice clean puddle as if the resultant soda went flat, but other times, the subject may completely dissolve into a shrinking pile of fizz, or conveniently evaporate to leave nothing behind. Imagine an alka-seltzer sitting in a puddle of water, and you've got the idea here. Bubbles tend to actually rise off of the subject and pop in mid-air. In short, this one is very similar to From the ground up, except with the added effect of being very, VERY fizzy. This one was quite popular with Disney cartoons in the early to mid-'90s. See The Wizard of Oz or any of several Star Trek episodes.) Oddly, the victim will never be considered dead until their head has melted, which will be alive and speaking until the end despite their heart and lungs melting beforehand. (The easiest way to stage this effect in live-action settings is to do exactly that, lowering the actor on a hidden trap door, often with their clothing gathering on the ground for added effect. Of course, this means that, sequentially, every part of the body will touch the ground, often giving the illusion of sinking into a shallow puddle. The most classic example, in which only the part of the subject that touches the ground actually turns to liquid. This method was popularized by Raiders of the Lost Ark, and was cause for many a nightmare among kids at the time. It doesn't usually leave a viscous puddle either, so much as a pile of soggy dough. Probably one of the best and nastiest looking meltdowns one can find, it basically occurs when the subject slowly turns to goo all over, flesh falling and dripping from their body onto the floor. I'm Melting is when a character or other life form, for one reason or another, has a literal meltdown. Point is, you're about to learn how a snowman feels in the spring. Maybe you fell into lava or acid or something else that makes people melt. Or, maybe you opened the Ark of the Covenant. Maybe someone froze you and then heated you up really fast. Maybe you ran out of time to fix the killer poison. " You cursed brat! I'm melting! MELTING! Oh, what a world, what a world! Make sure to cancel my newspaper delivery.!"
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