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** A [[Truth in Television|real life tactic]] is for bombs to have delayed fuses. This either allows them to penetrate before exploding (most notably used to penetrate armor protection before detonating inside, or to create a bigger hole underground if you are destroying roads or runways.)
*** Additionally, it was actually accurate - the reason the Arizona went up as huge as it did was because the bomb hit the forward magazines. The explosion of the bomb would have caused the shells to explode after a very short delay.
**** In fact, sometimes a set of bombs used in an air raid will use fuses of varying lengths, upwards of several hours, in order to [[Humans Are
* Parodied in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]''. {{spoiler|The alien spacecraft's self-destruct countdown reaches zero, but waits until 5 seconds later to actually explode.}}
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' has a particularly macabre example of a Gag Delay. When the Joker pushes the button, a few minor explosions happen, but not nearly enough to take down the whole building. The Joker has time to abuse his detonator before the real blast occurs. This is because in real life the explosions were set in separate parts of the building intentionally so that it'd have a domino effect, [[Throw It In|but Heath Ledger didn't know that was supposed to happen.]]
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