Baron Blade wins if he starts his turn with 15 cards in his trash on his front side, representing that his Terra-Lunar Impulsion Beam is fully charged and has pulled the moon into the Earth.Of course, each of them is a completely different mechanic to fit the theme of the fight. A couple villains (and two of the environments) in Sentinels of the Multiverse feature this as their main threat to the heroes.You have two minutes to read examples of this trope! See also: Collapsing Lair, No OSHA Compliance, Made of Explodium, Explosive Overclocking. While this trope usually serves the need to make the danger a bit more visible, it is not unreasonable for a Self-Destruct Mechanism to destabilize before it obliterates. If the bomb dooms the villain, a Catastrophic Countdown ties in naturally with a Collapsing Lair. It can also be seen as a justified variation on Outrun the Fireball - much more plausible to run away from a succession of small explosions than a single huge one. This combines for Rule of Drama two things that you'd logically expect to be mutually exclusive: the Exact Time to Failure of a carefully planned detonation people are intended to escape from, with the Stuff Blowing Up of an out-of-control chain reaction or random system failure. Even though that explosive hasn't gone off yet, it's causing the rest of the area to blow up as well. An area is exploding and falling apart, because a timed explosive has been set.

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