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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!"''
|'''[[Batman]]''', ''[[Batman: The Movie]]''}}
If you ask a person to draw a bomb, this is probably what you get. A spherical black object about the size of a bowling ball with a fuse sticking out of it. Sometimes it may have the word "Bomb" (or "Boom") written on it in bold letters. Very common in cartoons and comic books, and somewhat surprisingly in the relatively new medium of video games.
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This is a subtrope of [[Incredibly Obvious Bomb]], but that also includes more realistic but still blatantly obvious bombs like the classic digital timer (often ticking to make it even more incredibly obvious) attached to a bundle of explosives (which is fairly common in cartoons). Compare [[Plunger Detonator]], which is the standard cartoon way of setting off explosives from a distance.
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== Anime ==
* BomberNanimon from ''[[Digimon Savers]]''...provided you aren't watching the American dub. BomberNanimon also appeared in the card game and some of the video games, and in these media he avoided the [[Macekre]].
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== Literature ==
* ''
* Subverted in one of Duncan Ball's ''Selby'' books: A librarian is seen brandishing one of these bombs and threatening to blow it up. {{spoiler|It turns out to be made out of papier mâché.}}
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{{quote|'''J.D.''': [[Deadpan Snarker|I'm sure you'll get that]] [[Looney Tunes|roadrunner]] [[Deadpan Snarker|this time.]]}}
* The opening theme of ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' has Ethan Hunt walking on a high wire with a fuse burning it away behind him. Sure enough, at the end he reaches a bomb and jumps for safety as it blows up.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20101115021028/http://www.hulu.com/watch/116149/saturday-night-live-a-very-special-gilly-open Gilly's "Christmas Ornament".]
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* One of your units in ''Stratego'' is a Bomb, depicted as being of the cartoon variety. Defeats any enemy except the lowly 8th-rank Miner.
* ''[[Toon (game)|Toooooooooon]]!''
== Toys ==
* In the 1960s there was briefly a toy sold with which kids could play a "hot potato"-type game, shaped like a Cartoon Bomb.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''Mountain Time'' occasionally underscores bizarre Aesops (such as "Don't rush to conclusions when [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214024122/http://mountaincomics.com/2010/07/22/we-are-the-future-so-you-dont-have-to/ identifying bricks]" or "Never question a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213134659/http://mountaincomics.com/2011/09/01/mountain-time-292/ constricted cowboy]") with scenes depicting a cartoon bomb using various methods to kill a cartoon steak.
* When certain Danish cartoons were in the news for other reasons, ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'' complained that their choice of bomb was unrealistic.
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