Aaronology
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I think we're just over-analyzing it. A number of his battles end with the opponent dead but not destroyed. The giant is a good example.Ah, okay, I haven't read it in so long. That's probably also a strange choice. But also it kinda works as a "she was sent flying so hard she was literally vaporized at the point of impact so that it didn't slow the rest of her body down".
Or something.
(Nevermind that physics dictates she probably would have been vaporized from the SLAP, but you know whatever!)
To anime only watchers expecting her to return:
She's dead, Jim.