Stuff Blowing Up/Playing With

Basic Trope: Stuff blowing up, even when it logically shouldn't.

Straight: Exploding cars, Exploding Barrels, exploding heads, you get the idea.
Exaggerated: Every single thing is Made of Explodium.
Justified: The work in question is about bomb defusal technicans waging War On Terror. What did you expect?
- Michael Bay is ~~directing~~ involved in some way.
Inverted: In a Saturday Morning Cartoon, a missile procures a spring-loaded red boxing glove upon reaching it's target.
Subverted: Only bombs can blow up, despite Explodium abound.
Double Subverted: But enough effort can make walls spontaneously explode anyway.
Parodied: Running From Explosions 2 depicts exclusively explosive weapons, stars Action Bomb as a protagonist, ends with a massive nuclear strike, and is advertised as "the best movie about explosions you'll ever see".
Deconstructed: All explosions are portrayed realistically - with powerful shockwaves, scorching-hot flames, and bursts of shrapnel in all directions. Over the course of the story, everybody dies.
Reconstructed: Characters firmly know just how dangerous all those explosions are - and so ones take cover when appropriate, while others are never seen without Flak Jackets.
Zig Zagged: Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
Averted: Despite film being an action movie, nothing ever goes up in flames.
Enforced: The movie is filmed by a certain director in love with explosions.
Lampshaded: *snaps fingers* *KABOOM*
Invoked: Emperor Evulz makes all his stuff explosive on purpose, as to inconvinience heroes with constant shrapnel threat.
Defied: There is nothing that could possibly explode, not even when it would make sense for it to do so.
Discussed: "Every single time bullets start flying, something inevitably blows up. Not that i'm against it, but the question remains: WHY."
Conversed: "Fuel tanks do not work this way. Supercomputers do not either!" "It's just a show. You really should relax."

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