Sweeping Ashes

Animated characters in Non-Fatal Explosions usually just get charred, but a really big boom (or really hot fire) will do more.

The entire victim's body turns to ash and crumbles into a dozen pieces, except the eyeballs, which bounce into the mess. Then another character will produce a broom and dustpan, and sweep up the ashes, eyeballs and all. Or a (relatively intact) arm reaches from the ash, produces a broom and dustpan, and the character sweeps himself up. Of course, all will be well a few seconds later.

Also see Ash Face, where the explosion leaves the victim with a blackened face.

""Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered, for just such an emergency.""
 * Happens to several of the Looney Tunes characters:
 * Wile E. Coyote swept up his own ashes in almost every Roadrunner cartoon.
 * Daffy Duck sometimes did this with his feathers. He also does the full-on ashes version during the disintegrator pistol duel in Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century.
 * Also, Foghorn Leghorn, when he gets his feathers blasted off for one reason or another.


 * It's happened to Tom of Tom and Jerry a few times too. Though moreso in the Chuck Jones shorts. This must have been a favorite trope of his.
 * The title character of Dave the Barbarian does this almost as frequently.
 * Groundskeeper Willie's ghost did it as part of his Freddy Krueger impression on one of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror specials.
 * Happens very often to Basile, the clumsy assistant to Leonard Le Genie.
 * Happens if you take a nasty enough fall in Marble Madness.
 * Happens in the novel Left Behind, after Hattie Durham gets incinerated by the Anti-Christ with a lightning bolt. Her friends sweep what's left of her into a jar to take back.
 * Bizarrely shown in many Paranoia illustrations. The "nothing left but a smoking pair of boots and a laser pistol" variation is so prominent a Running Gag that it's trademarked.
 * Done in a dream sequence in Joe Dirt.