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[[File:Bobomb.png|link=Super Mario Bros.|frame|Warning: [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Explosive temper]].]]

 

 

So, the [[Five-Man Band]] has been cornered by [[The Dragon]], and they seem locked in a fight which will kill them all. Unless they get a massive amount of fatal damage in soon, they're screwed—whoops, there goes Joe, blowing himself up right on the enemy and positively obliterating him. That crazy shmuck!

 

See also [[Having a Blast]], [[Mad Bomber]], [[Taking You with Me]] and [[Why Am I Ticking?]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Chaozu in ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z''. Vegeta and Goku also tried exploding to defeat their enemies at least once (resulting in a huge [[Tear Jerker]] for the former), and Cell actually killed Goku doing it.

 

== Film ==

* Russel Casse in ''[[Independence Day]]'': "Hello boys! I'm baaaaaaack!"

* {{spoiler|Robert Neville}} in the theatrical ending of ''[[I Am Legend]]''.

** There's even an item in some Dragon Quest games called a Kamikazee bracer that blows the user up when they die and kills all opposing enemies.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'', Link can use the "blast mask" to create an explosion right in front of his face. This can hurt, but the damage can be blocked by putting the shield in front of his face. There are also rat-like enemies who have bombs strapped to the ends of their tails, and explode upon touching Link. In-universe, this inspired an invention called a "bombchu" (also found in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' which is a sort of bomb modeled after these rats, which hovers over the ground like a heat-seeking missile.

* The Scarfy in the ''[[Kirby]]'' series. Attempting to Inhale him often caused the Scarfy to mutate, chase after you and explode! There's also the enemy, Bomber, who is almost always perched dangerously close to the edge of a platform and then falls off promptly after Kirby comes on-screen blowing up on impact with the ground and (sometimes conveniently) taking all other enemies on screen with him. Having Kirby Inhale him will grant you one of the more powerful Copy Abilities...

** Crash. Crash basically [[Smart Bomb|nukes the screen]] when used, annihilating anything that isn't a Boss (even most sub-bosses will kick the bucket when this ability is invoked, but if the boss doesn't die it will be close to death anyway).

* [[Armored Core]] for Answer has a unique version called Assault Armor. In the game, each [[Humongous Mecha|NEXT]] is equipped with a [[Deflector Shield]] called Primal Armor, powered by [[Toxic Phlebotinum|Kojima]] [[Minovsky Physics|Particles]]. In for Answer, these deflector shields can be weaponized and exploded outwards, hence the trope. While these will outright take out lesser enemies (such as your common tank, helis, MTs, and some weaker Normals), these won't do much to another NEXT, barring depleting ''their'' Primal Armor. The side effect of using this is that your own Primal Armor takes more time to recharge back and recharges slowly, while the opponent's can recharge back almost immediately.

** While it does take a chunk of [[Call a Hit Point a Smeerp|Armor Points]], and there are shoulder weapons that explicitly amplify Assault Armor usage (one of the opponent NEXTs you encounter uses exclusively Assault Armor), newer rebalanced Regulation has reduced it's usefulness to somewhere between [[Awesome but Impractical]] to [[Cool but Inefficient]]. This might seem like a raw deal, but in exclusively [[Player Versus Player]] match, Assault Armors are still used for anti-rushers, since besides all that, a less-advertised effect includes "blinding" your opponents, preventing them to lock on to you for a specific amount of time.

** If a thunderbolt manages to strike a Creeper, it ''[[It Got Worse|super charges them]]'', making their explosion attack even more deadly and the craters they leave behind are a lot bigger than a normal Creeper's explosion.

*** As of the final version, creepers are by far the deadliest mob in the game, capable of inflicting a [[One-Hit Kill]] on players without armor on hard difficulty from a long distance, and even capable of one hitting players on easy difficulty at point blank range.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', probably as a [[Shout-Out]] to the Voyager/TNG example above, features former Ambassador Ch'vorthq. Ch'vorthq is a genetically engineered bomb, set to go off at a meeting between the Creethlings (for whom he is the nominal ambassador) and the Golbwerians, killing the Golbwerian diplomats and allowing the Creethlings to attack in force. He's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|disarmed]] before he can do any actual damage. Unusually, Ch'vorthq doesn't '''know''' he's a bomb; he thinks he's a legitimate diplomat, and is horrified to discover that his employers/designers didn't ''actually'' want him to make peace. However, the 'disarmament' only stoped him from being forcibly detonated - he could still blow himself up at will. Or, rather, (since he's ugly, not crazy), setting a part of his anatomy on a short fuse and throwing it. At this point, he's lost both his arms and one of his eyes this way, but since then has managed to remain sufficiently in the background that further [[Heroic Sacrifice]] hasn't been necessary.

* Agatha's Dingbots in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has the ability to do this, a rather uncomfortable fact that the Baron's army learned when they found themselves fighting several swarms of them.

* Ran in ''[[Bob and George]]'' is built of shoddy Soviet materials, and breaks so often (and is made so cheaply) that his creator simply set a machine to automatically download his memory and personality into a new body and teleport it back to the location of the previous one when he dies. Result, when the heroes are facing an army of Robot Masters? [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040910 Ran Bombs!]

* Nuclear Dan's entire strategy in ''[[Another Gaming Comic]]'' is to do this. Subverted in that he's normally immune to fire, but justified that any time he isn't, he still does it. It is surprisingly effective.

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Orion's Arm]]'': The early modified humans [http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-view-article&egart_uid=4ac6247bd1611 Homo Jihadi] had a modified endocrine system, "naturally" producing explosives that accumulate in their bones and other calcium-containing tissues. They were modified at the zygote stage and have not been known to reproduce. It did not help the reputation of genetic engineering...

* In [[Girlchan in Paradise]] one character detonates himself using his most powerful (and only) technique. He then proceeds to be poorly edited in so that he isn't dead.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Making Fiends]]'' has the exploding pigeon fiends in "Mama Vendetta". [[Rule of Funny|Naturally]], they proceeded to follow Vendetta everywhere they went after they hatched, thinking that she's their mommy.

* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'' has the [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]], Tashy 497.

 

== Real Life ==

* By definition, any suicide bomber is one of these.

* Some real-life ants and termites actually do this. It's called [[wikipedia:Autothysis|Autothysis]].

 

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