Well that is one way to earn "they/them" pronouns, by being blasted into atoms...
At a Civil War reenactment years ago, a youngster asked a grizzled Confederate artilleryman who was swabbing the bore of a 12 pounder: "Sir, why did they call these cannons Napoleons?". To which the artilleryman replied with a grin: "Well, if ya' unfortunate enough to be caught in front of it, you'd be Blownapart!"