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* Played straight on ''[[JAG]]'', and then averted in the very next episode. Harm and Mac end up wrecking their Humvee amidst a minefield, and Harm ends up stepping on the Hollywood click-and-wait variety of mine. Mac takes cover on the other side of the Humvee while Harm prepares to drop a weight on the mine and leap away, barely escaping in the process (along with landing on Mac in quite the [[Ship Tease]] arrangement)
** In the next episode, {{spoiler|Lt. Bud Roberts}} steps on a mine, and this one goes off immediately, leaving {{spoiler|him}} severely wounded just before the credits roll.
* In an early episode of ''[[MASH|M* A* S* H]]'',
** A later one showed a farmer using his daughters to clear a minefield. It goes wrong, of course. Radar runs over to the stricken girl and carries her to safety, and then is reminded that he ran through an unmarked but recently verified minefield.
** A ''third'' episode featured a woman who, while thinking of the romance in her life, took a walk. Now to figure out [[Fridge Logic|who put a minefield next to a hospital]].
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* Seen twice in an episode of ''[[The Pretender]]''. In the Vietnam War, a US soldier is looking for a mole in the jungle when he and his guide hears a click. His guide, a young boy, had his foot on the mine and the soldier knew he wouldn't last long so she was able to switch his foot with the boy's by carefully shifting the boy's foot off and his on to keep constant pressure. It worked. {{spoiler|Then the mole shows up, knowing the soldier could stand there until people came looking shoots the guy from a distance and framed him as the mole. Jared, in his usual [[Laser-Guided Karma]] methods, punishes the mole, who is still evil but now helping drug lords, by getting him to step on a mine with the same click. It's a dud but the mole didn't know that.}}
* A Cylon variant of the S-Bomb ("Bouncing Betty") appears in [[Battlestar Galactica]]. Not only it is done realistically in terms of the "click" but it also results with the death of a prominent secondary character, Elosha.
* Played straight with the "dragon mines" in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', including using a rock to hold the weight of a person. Also, one of the [[Mook
* Like the [[MacGyver]] example above, ''[[Eureka]]'' has an episode where rescuing a girl from one mine lands Fargo right on top of another one.
* In ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]'', one of the team accidentally steps on a mine and cannot move. The rest of the team, especially his good friend Spike, does everything they could to get him out. {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First|He doesn't make it]].}}
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* There have been several cases where this trope has caused people to think that they've stepped on a landmine (obviously all cases involved completely unrelated bits of scrap metal or no longer functional mines).
* The Swedish ambassador once remonstrated the Finnish for using landmines. Whereupon the Finnish ambassador replied, [[Deadpan Snarker|"Finland is your land mine"]].
* Unexploded Ordnance (bombs and shells that never exploded) is often effectively a land mine. Worse, in a way, as unlike land mines, no one has any reason to want them
** The largest non-nuclear explosives in history were dropped all across Europe during [[WW 2]]. About 20 or so of them have not detonated. One was recently triggered by a cow who got struck with lightning (the electricity apparently setting off the fuse to the landmine).
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** ''Fallout 3'' offers four types of mines: basic frag mines, stronger plasma mines and anti-electronic pulse mines, The home-built bottlecap mines are technically [[wikipedia:Improvised explosive device|IEDs]] but they are massively powerful. As an amusing example of [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]], you can arm a mine and put it into your opponent's inventory for a quick and clean kill (clean, as in mines have more concentrated explosions than grenades so the chance of collateral damage is smaller; as for the target, it's very messy).
** Subverted by the "Hidden Mines" in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' which are only visible by discolourations on the floor, or if you put your mouse cursor over them, they do not beep and will explode instantly if stepped on, they are often found in dark areas so to make them even more difficult to spot.
** Mines in earlier ''Fallout'' titles are triggered by [[Pressure Plate
* Likewise, LAMs in ''[[Deus Ex]]'' beep before exploding, [[Rule of Fun|so the player has a chance to disarm them]]. They also blink bright red LED borders. When they start hiding the damn things behind your head as you reach the top of a ladder, this becomes more of an [[Oh Crap]] moment.
** They can also be hurled through the air and used as a grenade.
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