Mechanic · enemies & ai

Enemy explosion

An enemy's death sequence: an explosion or death animation, its removal from play, and often points and a dropped item.

stubAlso: enemy death, death animation, enemy destruction, defeat animation, kill explosionUpdated 2026-10-23

An enemy explosion is the sequence between an enemy’s defeat, often when its hit points run out, and its removal: an explosion or a death animation, the point it stops colliding, any points and dropped item, and the freeing of its slot.

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Mega Man 2 1988Mega Man 2's death explosion takes its twelve pieces' x and y speeds and facing flags from five 12-byte tables identical to Mega Man's explosion tables. The code around them is new: Mega Man's _create_explosion_object sets up one piece per call, and Mega Man 2's _create_explosion loops over all twelve.Code