Explosion research

these are just a few different types of explosions. I've looked into explosions because my final scene will be a cliff hanger which involves the main character and the villain getting caught up in a giant explosion too save the civilians.
another thing i looked at was the slomo guys too see what actually happens when something explodes, this helped me get my head around how too illustrate the explosion. an examples is the melon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMjL76obRLI