It is a well-known fact that Everything Is Better With Explosions and many authors would also agree that Bigger Is Better. After all, the bigger the explosion, the more powerful your devices and the bigger the Spectacle! Thus, logically, Everything is Even Better With Bigger Explosions, right?

Just one problem; the explosion you're now displaying is far too big to be caused by the explosive you say is causing it — or, in the case of fictional explosives, too big for any known real-world explosive of equivalent size and type; it's literally providing too much bang for its buck. To create the explosion from that small a package would require a ...