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* ''[[Kelly's Heroes]]'', a [[World War Two]] comedy film, features a dramatic sequence where the squad is marching through a freshly plowed field, which happens to be... you guessed it. When one guy gets blown to bits, the others are all forced to work their way out by probing for the mines with knives and sticks, prompting a hilarious exchange between [[The Scrounger|Crapgame]] and [[Sergeant Rock|Big Joe]].

{{quote|'''Crapgame:''' "Hey hey hey! I found one!"

'''Crapgame:''' "The kind that blows up! How the hell do I know what kind it is?" }}

* Near the end of ''[[The General's Daughter]]'', Paul Brenner partially depresses the trigger on a Bouncing Betty mine that the [[Big Bad]] has set, but apparently not enough to detonate it. Then the [[Big Bad]] sets off the mine in an attempt to take Paul and Sarah with him, but only succeeds in killing himself.

** Yet another one took place in a snowy cave in which all Mac had to do was dig the snow out from the side and shove a metal bar into conveniently sized holes to stop the "platform" from springing up.

* An episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' had the [[Victim of the Week]] blown up on a beach covered with mines. This trope played out when one of the cast stood on a mine by accident. Slightly more realistically it was removed by burning the explosive away with thermite (this would work as most explosives are designed to burn unless they are set off by a smaller explosion).

* ''[[The Professionals]]''. Bodie dials the first number of his phone and suddenly realises it's booby trapped. Fortunately he's got his radio to call Doyle for help, who disarms it with their [[Casual Danger Dialog|usual exchange of banter]] (though somewhat more terse).

* ''[[Due South]]'', episode "The Edge".

* ''[[Car Wars]]'' featured these in two main flavors, normal and 'Spear 1000', which primarily shot up rather than spread out. Both were primarily meant to take down the titular cars and similar; walking through a mine counter was perfectly safe. Splatbooks of course offered antipersonnel mines, as well as the minesweeper mentioned above that can get mounted on a convenient tank.

* These were given their own sidebar in ''Cyberpunk 2020'', referring to sneaky things you can do. Like wiring up one to an enemy's bed, or lining your escape route with claymore mines.

** They also love clearing them - by force marching Conscripts through them.

** You can plant the other types of grenades as well. [[Most Annoying Sound|They beep when they're about to detonate.]] [[Oh Crap|To the person on the receiving end, this means that they're]] [[Instant Death Radius|in an instant death radius and are almost certainly going to die.]]

* [[Resistance Fall of Man]] Whoever decided to place a land mine that behaves like a bouncing betty directly next to one that behaves in a traditional manner is a maniacal genius of tactical warfare.

* ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]: Enemy Territory'' has landmines hiss when you step on them, and detonate if you step off. An engineer can disarm them, or if they're spotted by covert ops, can be detonated by explosives.

* The Glukkons of [[Oddworld]] [[No OSHA Compliance|liberally seed their factories and industrial complexes with mines]] [[Stupid Evil|for no very good reason]]. As well as the surrounding countryside. And their transportation hubs. Indeed, [[Fridge Logic|it often seems]] like Abe would be better off finding out who is manufacturing them and shutting them down first, because whoever it is is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|making an absolute killing]]. The common type gives off a healthy red glow and beeps when it explodes. Another type blinks red and green in sequence, requiring you to tap it when it is green to deactivate it.

* In ''[[Dawn of War]]'', the Space Marines, Chaos, Orks, Eldar, and Imperial Guard all employ minefields that can only be detected by certain units, and do heavy damage to infantry, but only light damage to vehicles. The Sisters of Battle combine this with [[Kill It with Fire]] by deploying powerful incendiary mines.

** What makes them more destructive is that most detecting units default to close combat for attacking. [[Too Dumb to Live|And they don't make an exception for minefields.]]

* Strogg landmines in ''[[Quake 4]]'' are ridiculously conspicuous.

* Newly added in [[Mass Effect 3]], mines make a distinctive click and give the player enough time to dodge roll out of the way before they go off. Unless the evil, evil level designers put a [[Schmuck Bait|shiny new weapon]] right next to the mine, in which case the same button for "jump out of the way" instead performs the "pick up the weapon" command, resulting in the mine blowing Shepard up once you dismiss the resulting pick up menu.

* In ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', the dynamite tripwires have highly visible red lights, and even then the Ganados [[Too Dumb to Live|can't help walking into them]].

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