What a blast!

Explosions in fiction rarely kills. Instead, we are given a whumpee with a concussion, temporary blindness, trapped in rubbles, ringing ears, or the least whumpy of them all: some scratches and a sooty face.
Fortunately there's many possibilities and subtropes to all whump tastes.
== Animes ==
== TV Shows ==
Alex Rider
* 1x07: Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) is basically being beaten up by Eva inside the laboratory, and with all the fuss, a lot of chemicals and other things get mixed up, causing an explosion.
Andromeda
*1x16: The episode ends with a big explosion at the ship, and (the already badly hurt) Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) is left unconscious on the floor.
Bones
* 1x15: Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) is at Temperance's house, to look after her as she has a target on her back. They are having fun, dancing, laughing, until he opens the fridge and is caught by an explosion.
Grey's Anatomy
* 2x17: For two episodes there's a patient in urgent need of surgery and a bomb inside him. When the anti-bomb squad leader finally takes the explosive out of the OR, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) walks out after him... just in time to the explosion. She is thrown by the blast, and although without significant physical consequences, Izzie and Cristina has to clean her up.
The Flash
* 1x11: One of the meta prisioners uses their powers to blast open the cell, and Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) is caught on the shock wave, waking up later at the infirmary.
The Mentalist
*1x16: Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) finds a man tied up inside a van, next to a ticking bomb. Jane tries to find a way to save the man, but can't, and runs away at the last few seconds, the blast of the explosion throwing him in the air. He has temporary blindness throughout the rest of the episode.
World on Fire
* 1x03: The ship where Tom Bennett (Ewan Mitchell) is gets attacked, and he is caught on one of the explosions. He doesn't have any serious injury, but at the angst side...
Young Wallander
*1x06: There's no physical consequence to being close to a major explosion apparently, as Kurt Wallander (Adam Pålsson) just gets up with some blood on his face and dirt all over him. There's some angst though.
== Movies ==
== Dramas ==
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