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"Ha ha! Got the drop on you with MY disintegrating pistol! And brother, when it disintegrates, it disintegrates."
[pulls trigger, causing gun to disintegrate]
"Heh. Well, what do you know; it... disintegrated."
― Duck Dodgers (Looney Tunes)
"A shaft of energy shot out from the eye, bathing him in its glow. The next instant, Carapar shattered into fragments as if he had been made of crystal. Then there was nothing left of him but a pile of glittering dust on the stone floor."
― Narrator (Bionicle - Federation of Fear)
"My mouth is a portal into a dark dimension. Even I ignore where it leads. I sent your friend in here… and you are next."
― Vanilla Ice to Jean Pierre Polnareff (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)
"It's a light grenade. Pull the pin, set it down - anyone who picks it up... pfffft! Grenade remains. Person... disappears!"
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Who'd pick it up?"
"Look."
(reads the Grenade) "Pick. Me Up."
"Diabolical, isn't it?"
― Sirk and Dick Nelson (Mom and Dad Save the World)

The power to collapse a target into dust, disassembling or destabilizing them on a microscopic level. Sub-power of Entropy Manipulation and Transmutation. Destruction version of Matter Manipulation. Not to be confused with Dust Transmutation, Granulation or Ash Transmutation.

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Fiction-Specific Terms

Capabilities

The user can cause targets (whether organic or inorganic material) to lose cohesion by various means. Some can make matter fall apart into dust, wipe away their target on a molecular/subatomic level, or even revert matter into pure energy. Regardless of the means, the target is reduced to either molecular/subatomic dust or energy but not absolutely annihilated.

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Variations

Associations

Limitations

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Cartoons

Comics

Literature

  • Chris Gordon (Demon Accords); via Angel Fire
  • Users of Deadly Sight (Star Wars Legends)
  • Limelight (Steelheart)
  • Dustbringers (Stormlight Archive)
  • Jonathan Phaedrus (The Reckoners series)
  • Vogan (The Young Guardians)

Live-Action TV

  • Clive Yorkin (Arrowverse)
  • Piper Halliwell (Charmed); via Molecular Manipulation
  • Gideon (Charmed)
  • The Crone (Charmed)
  • Charity Callahan (Charmed 2018)
  • Leona Kingscholar (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via King's Roar
  • Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
  • Daleks (Doctor Who)
  • Eknodines (Doctor Who)
  • Tom Miller (Heroes)
  • Sylar/Gabriel Gray (Heroes)
  • Felicia Brooks (Heroes)
  • Reed Strucker (The Gifted)
  • Lindsey Harrison (Smallville)
  • Tyler Randall (Smallville)
  • The Darkness/Amara (Supernatural)
  • Archangels (Supernatural)
  • Angels (Supernatural)
  • Castiel (Supernatural)
  • Dagon (Supernatural)
  • White-eyed Demons (Supernatural)
  • Rowena MacLeod (Supernatural)
  • Regina Mills (Once Upon a Time)
  • Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time)
  • Zelena (Once Upon a Time)
  • Jafar (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
  • Eleven/Jane Hopper (Stranger Things)

Movies

Music

Video Games

Web Animation/Comics/Series/Original/Other

Known Objects

  • Beacon (Angel)
  • Telecephaloscope (Blake and Mortimer)
  • Boneduster (Bulletstorm); via Charged shot
  • Purifier (The Citadel); when aiming down sights
  • Cosmic Diving Rod (DC Comics)
  • Little Doctor (Ender's Game)
  • Laser Weapons (Fallout series)
  • Alien Disintegrator (Fallout 3)
  • Type-7 Particle Cannon (F.E.A.R. series)
  • Flechette Gun (Garry's Mod)
  • Combine ball fields (Half-Life)
  • Confiscation Fields (Half-Life)
  • Energy Balls (Half-Life)
  • Gluon Gun (Half-Life)
  • Suppression Devices (Half-Life)
  • Chain Sword (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
  • Trident (The Irregular at Magic High School)
  • Disintegrators (Larry Niven: Known Space)
  • Gungnir (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
  • Infinity Stones (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
  • Victor Von Doom's Armor (Marvel Comics)
  • Quantum Bands (Marvel Comics)
  • Disintegration Beam Ring (Marvel Comics)
  • Light Grenade (Mom and Dad save the World)
  • Disintegrator (Saints Row IV)
  • Abronath (Star Trek)
  • Disruptors (Star Wars)
  • Tenloss DXR-6 Disruptor Rifle (Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast)
  • Dark Matter (Super Mario Galaxy)
  • Batsaber (Team Fortress 2)
  • Cow Mangler 5000 (Team Fortress 2)
  • Pomson 6000 (Team Fortress 2)
  • Righteous Bison (Team Fortress 2)
  • Arc Tools (Titanfall); limited to humans
  • Leichenfaust 44 (Wolfenstein: 2009)
  • Kuzusu Atom (Xiaolin Showdown)

Known Powers

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Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Cartoons/Comics

Live Action TV/Movies

Video Games

Web Animation

Videos