Would this count as explosion manip?

[Nicetoderp]

Well, if a character kick someone and they explode would that count as explosion manip?

 

[Whycantinamemyself]

It depends on whether they caused the explosion, and it came from themself and not some device.

 

[Nicetoderp]

It depends on whether they caused the explosion, and it came from themself and not some device.

Well, they used a finisher. They kick real good with their leg filled with energy and monster explode. Or they slash at them real hard and they also explode.

 

[Antoniofer]

Without a reasonable explosion why the kicked character exploded, this sounds like a gag, a character simply doesn't explode by being punched (I'm of course talking about a conventional explosion).

 

[Nicetoderp]

Without a reasonable explosion why the kicked character exploded, this sounds like a gag, a character simply doesn't explode by being punched

Well, it isn’t really a gag. The entire franchise kinda have been using this “trope” for years now. Basically, if the character use a finishing move (kick, slash, punch whatever) and the enemy are about to die, they explode. As in, vaporized.

 

[Antoniofer]

Power Rangers I believe; if any, I would attribute it to the monsters dying as a secondary effect, but I ultimately deem it as aesthetic.

 

[Nicetoderp]

Well, it isn’t just the monster either. Name character can instant get vape if they aren’t careful.

 

[Antoniofer]

Characters simply don't explode seconds after being defeated without some power (like Killer Queen for example); if the attacks are heat based, or have a subliminal effect, they vaporize you the moment it connect, not seconds later, and yet that is not exploding.

 

[Nicetoderp]

And well, it happened again and again. It has been consistently shown to just be a thing that happened.