Self-destructing enemies iceberg

Self-destructing enemies iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "Self-Destructing Enemy Iceberg", was posted by u/MontyMoleLoreMaster on 22 August 2026 and had about 1 upvotes when it was collected. A text version, "Self-Destructing Enemy Iceberg" by MontyMoleLoreMaster, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 759 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "This is an iceberg for self-destructing enemies that appear throughout a wide plethora of video games. Self-destructing enemies count as enemies that either kill themselves whenever you either get too close or after a certain period of time, or when they grab the player as a last ditch effort to take both them and the player out (like Grabbers from Sonic the Hedgehog 2). Despite the fact that…"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"Self-Destructing Enemy Iceberg" by u/MontyMoleLoreMaster (22 August 2026)

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• Any Pokémon with a self-fainting move – Pokémon franchise (While Self-Destruct and Explosion are the most well known of these types of moves, there are also several other moves that faint the Pokémon using them such as Memento, Misty…
• Asteron – Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Banzai Bill – Super Mario World (Like regular Bullet Bills, Banzai Bills are primarily self-destructive in the 3D games and in the Super Mario 3D World style from Super Mario Maker 2).
• Bob-omb – Doki Doki Panic/Super Mario Bros. 2 (In most games, Bob-ombs only self-destruct when either jumped on by the player, coming into contact with any fire, or when already being in their self-destructive…
• Bomb (Sonic the Hedgehog) – Sonic the Hedgehog
• Bomber – Kirby's Adventure
• Boomer – Left 4 Dead
• Bullet Bill – Super Mario Bros. (While Bullet Bills are typically not self-destructive, they do self-destruct in all of their appearances in the 3D titles and in the Super Mario 3D World style from Super Mario…
• Chomp – Mario Kart 64 (Chomps are only self-destructive in the Super Mario Galaxy games, where they will explode when either coming into contact with a physical object in their way, or reach the end of their…
• Creeper – Minecraft
• Grabber – Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Tier 2

• Arf Dawg – SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
• Banshee – From the recent DOOM expansion Legacy of RUST. This enemy wad originally unused in the original Doom. He appears every now and then, the Banshee has little heath but when it gets next to you, it will…
• Blastcrawler – Zenless Zone Zero
• Bomb Boo – Super Mario Galaxy
• Bomb-Bot – SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
• Cat Banzai Bill – Super Mario 3D World
• Cat Bullet Bill – Super Mario 3D World
• Charged Creeper – Minecraft
• Fishbones – Super Mario World (While initially not a self-destructing enemy in their debut, they became one starting from New Super Mario Bros. Wii onwards, due to their updated attack pattern where they will…
• Flame Chomp – Super Mario Bros. 3
• Fuzzy (Yoshi's Island) – Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
• Golden Chomp – Super Mario Galaxy (They are only self-destructive in Super Mario Galaxy 2 (for the same reasons as the normal Chomps), as in the original game they can only die from being directly killed by a…
• Iwamodoki – Sonic & Knuckles (They do not self-destruct in Sonic Rumble Party by the way)
• Jack-in-the-Box Zombie – Plants vs. Zombies
• Killer Bomb – Mega Man
• Lesser Sting – Honkai: Star Rail (They only self-destruct upon their next action if in the Charging state as of their preceding action)
• Missile Bill – Super Mario Bros. 3 (Missile Bills are only self-destructive in Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros. U/New Super Luigi U, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and Yoshi's Woolly World)
• Octopod – Splatoon
• Scarfy – Kirby's Dream Land
• Suicide Psycho – Borderlands 2 (They only self-destruct if they're able to get close to a Vault Hunter)

Tier 3

• Amy Doll – Sonic Mania
• Anton – Sonic the Hedgehog CD (The Antons are only self-destructive in the Wii U/PC version of Sonic Lost World, where they grab the player and explode themselves if the player either runs into them or…
• Banger – R.E.P.O.
• Beat – Sonic Adventure
• Beheaded Kamikaze – Serious Sam
• Belfly – Hollow Knight
• Bigbom – Sonic the Hedgehog CD
• Bloomp – Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• Bonefin – Super Mario Galaxy
• Bookend – Super Mario 64
• Boom Box – Banjo-Kazooie
• Bumblebore – Sonic Robo Blast 2
• Burning Putrid Corpse – Elden Ring
• Crashfish – Subnatica
• Deton – Sonic Robo Blast 2
• Exploding Imp – Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
• Foley – Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
• ICBM – Nullscape (Roblox)
• Jellygnite – Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2013)
• Kab-omb – New Super Mario Bros. (Outside of player interface, Kab-ombs only self-destruct themselves when coming into contact with meteors)
• Land Squirt – Elden Ring (They self-destruct when afflicted with Poison)
• Marsh Hopper – Serious Sam
• Matryoshka-Bom – Sonic Mania
• Mulliboom – The Binding of Isaac
• Obake Block – New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Okosutobon – Mega Man 9
• Penguin Bomber – Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble
• Pernicious Proliferating Organism – Genshin Impact
• Pipis – Deltarune: Chapter 2
• Rhinoliner – Sonic Heroes
• Rush Mecha – Sonic Superstars
• Slicer – Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Despite typically being a normal enemy, the Slicers were made into self-destructive Badniks exclusively in Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I and Episode Metal, where they will…
• Suicidal Lunatic – Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
• Super Mutant Suicider – Fallout 4
• Super-Fan Imp – Plants vs. Zombies 2
• Swoopin' Stu – Super Mario Sunshine
• Tail Bob-omb – Super Mario 3D Land
• Tail Bullet Bill – Super Mario 3D Land
• Targeting Ted – New Super Mario Bros. U/New Super Luigi U
• Territorial Oak – EarthBound
• The Test – Baldi's Basics Plus
• Torpedo Ted – Super Mario World (They are only self-destructive in Super Mario Galaxy for similar reasons as the Bullet Bills (and their other variants) are in their various 3D Mario appearances)
• Urban Stingby – Super Mario Odyssey
• Yellow Pokey/Needlenose (Yoshi's Island) – Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Only the yellow ones are self-destructive, not the green ones)

Tier 4

• Alarm Bob-omb – Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
• Bloated Corpse – Total War: Warhammer II
• Bob-omb (Bob-omb Relay) – Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park
• Bomb Battler – Battle Bricks (Roblox)
• Bomblin – Sonic Chaos
• Bubbler – Cut from the 16-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Burboom – Knuckles' Chaotix
• Buzz Bomber (Death Queen) – Sonic Forces (Only some of the Buzz Bombers in the Zavok/Death Queen fight are self-destructive, as the regular Buzz Bombers seen throughout the rest of the game (and in the series as a whole) are…
• Chair – Super Mario 64
• Chattering Teeth Bomb – Terraria
• Chomp Pup – Super Mario Galaxy
• Cross Bob-omb – Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park
• Egg Burst – Sonic Unleashed
• Elder Flame Doron – Battle Cats
• Exploding Zombie – Plants vs Zombies 2 (Chinese version)
• Explosive Squig/Soopa-Squig! – Total War: Warhammer ||
• Fly Bomb – Mario Paint
• Fuse Boomie/Excite Boomie – Klonoa 2: Lunateas' Veil
• Grinnade – Skylanders: Trap Team
• Headless Fat Molded – Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Not a Hero DLC
• Kamikaze Battler – Battle Bricks (Roblox)
• Kobold – Terraria
• Kobold Glider – Terraria
• Martian Drone – Terraria
• Obake Stand – New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Ooma – Hollow Knight (When the player attacks it, it ejects its core, which flies at the player and explodes)
• Pattan – Super Mario Galaxy 2 (also no, I am not using the Mario Portal name since it is an unreliable source that shouldn’t be trusted (and it plagiarized a fanon conjectural name just like what the English…
• Sandworm (Sonic & Knuckles) – Sonic & Knuckles (Sandworms are only self-destructive in the Wii U/PC version of Sonic Lost World, where they will dismember themselves and die after reaching their maximum distance before then…
• Searches – Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Snot Bubble – OMORI
• Spike (Sonic Unleashed) – Sonic Unleashed (Wii/PS2 version)
• The Minute Bomb – Kingdom Hearts 2
• Time Bob-omb – Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
• Wonder Fishbones – Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park

Tier 5

• Antlion (Sonic Lost World) – Sonic Lost World (Despite appearing in both versions of Sonic Lost World, the Antlions are only self-destructive in the Nintendo 3DS version of the game, where they will chase Sonic during sections…
• Blue Podoboo – Super Princess Peach (They are not self-destructive in Super Mario 3D World by the way, only in Super Princess Peach)
• Bomb Balls – Twin Shot 2
• Bomy – Level Maker by Vorun Kreal (I'm not sure if Bomy is the official name of it, and the reason its rare is because ever since Level Maker 2 shut down, LM1 is the only game with Bomy)
• Burrobot (Sonic SMS Remake) – Sonic SMS Remake (Unlike in the original 8-bit Sonic the Hedgehog, Burrobots will die after colliding with a wall (though they do not release an Animal or give points unlike the Roller))
• Cactus – Cut from the 16-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Despite being an unused Badnik, the Cactus would appear as a proper enemy in the horror Sonic fangame SONIC PLUS)
• Cling Mecha – Sonic Superstars
• Coconut-Bot – Sonic Chaos
• Detonut – Yoshi and the Mysterious Book
• Exploding Batbrain – Sonic Before the Sequel
• Haneruton – Tails' Skypatrol
• Jaws – Sonic the Hedgehog (Jaws are only self-destructive in the Nintendo 3DS version of Sonic Lost World, where they are either found in groups on their own or are spawned in by Blowfish Transporters. In…
• Ladybug/Mosquito Badnik – Sonic and the Fallen Star
• Missile Badnik – Sonic and the Moon Facility
• Needlenose (Sonic XG Classic) – Sonic XG Classic (Unlike in the official games, Needlenose explodes when divebombing into the ground)
• Parrot Badnik – Sonic and the Fallen Star
• Platform Badnik – Sonic XG Classic
• Poh-Bee/Grabber Hybrid – Sonic XG Classic
• Robo Kukku – Tails Adventure
• Roller (Sonic SMS Remake) – Sonic SMS Remake (Unlike in the official games, the Rollers will die and count as a player kill if they either collide with an object or go offscreen while they are rolling)
• Sasori (Sonic XG Classic) – Sonic XG Classic (Despite not being self-destructive in the official games, the Sasori's attack pattern in Sonic XG Classic has it ram into a wall and kill itself after shooting shi- I mean mud at…
• Snowman (Sonic 3D in 2D) – Sonic 3D in 2D (Unlike in Sonic 3D Blast, the Snowman Badniks are basically reskinned buffed Iwamodokis despite the Snowmen not being self-destructive in the original game)
• Soccer ball-like Bomb variant – Sonic Rumble Party
• Spiked Ball (Wario Land) – Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
• Spiked Ball Badnik – Sonic Frenzy Adventure
• Swarmer – Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
• Swordfish Badnik – Sonic Galactic
• TemperBot – SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (GBA version)
• Unnamed Robot Bird – Tails Adventure

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts
• Fictional robot villains iceberg

Sources

• Featured Reddit chart: u/MontyMoleLoreMaster. Self-Destructing Enemy Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 22 August 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
• IcebergThreads version: MontyMoleLoreMaster. Self-Destructing Enemy Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 19 August 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.