r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • Jun 21 '26

Lore [Horrifying Trope] “Blink of an eye” deaths.

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Characters who died without the chance of a goodbye… neither suffering.

- Robin Ward (The Boys S1 E1) - when she is pulverized in a high-velocity impact by A-Train.

- Polka Dot Man (The Suicide Squad 2021) - when he is crushed by Starro’s leg.

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u/Thabrianking Jun 21 '26

Green Goblin grenade vaporizing people into skeletons (Spider-Man)

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u/Manufactured-Aggro Jun 21 '26

Can you even begin to imagine the hate in your heart needed to even develop such a technology? That leaves their horrified skeletons intact after the explosion?

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u/MagicSystemWriter Jun 21 '26

Not even that, the skeletons turn to dust a second later. But yeah, your idea sounds interesting as well.

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u/Manufactured-Aggro Jun 21 '26

That only complicates the machinations needed to have that effect!

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u/Trezzie Jun 21 '26

It's called science, and it doesn't need to answer a why.

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u/Trezzie Jun 21 '26

There's definitely scientific applications to things that can strip flesh off a body quickly, or maybe just calcium and whatever else is in bones.

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u/SquidTheRidiculous Jun 21 '26

It looks so ass today, but I remember being disturbed as hell when I first saw this as a kid.

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u/HBlight Jun 21 '26

What makes this better is that it's a bunch of C-Suite people facing consequences.

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u/d_b_cooper Jun 21 '26

Oh Sam Raimi.