Laser Guided Tykebomb: Difference between revisions

Enter the [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]], a [[Evil Minions|henchman]] with one purpose in life and one purpose only: to take down the good guys. The LGT may be a specially constructed robot, a human raised from birth to carry out the deed or normal minion promoted from the ranks to fill the role. This nemesis will often have powers designed to counter or match its targets, or be equipped to exploit his [[Kryptonite Factor]].

Can often overlap with [[Hero-Killer]].

*** Being purely robotic (17 and 18 are Cyborgs, made by upgrading a pair of human siblings), 16 was unable to overcome his core programming. However, he absolutely refused to engage in any violence against anyone or anything ''other'' than his designated target {{spoiler|until the threat of Cell presented itself}}.

** Goku himself is an example. The Saiyans sent their infants out to conquer less powerful planets. [[Dumb Is Good|Goku just took a knock on the head when he was young and lost his Saiyan hostility]].

* In [[Bleach]] {{spoiler|Wonderwice's Resurección}} turned out to be specifically designed by {{spoiler|Aizen}} to block {{spoiler|Genryūsai's flame zanpakuto's powers.}}

* Schrodinger from ''[[Hellsing]]'', {{spoiler|who was created for the sole purpose of poisoning Alucard.}}

* Marvel also has Drax the Destroyer, created for the sole purpose of killing [[Omnicidal Maniac|Thanos]]. {{spoiler|He succeeds. Thanos doesn't seem to mind.}}

* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' had the hero being followed by a young kid with no head. The hero (and the future) is so off the wall nobody is too surprised by the lack of head. The hero throws the kid out a window, wherein he explodes. Turns out it was literally a laser guided tyke bomb, created by one of his many, many enemies.

* A very unusual kind of LGT was used in ''Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal''. The first issue had the Hutt travel to a meeting with another crime lord, Gaar Suppoon, to trade valuable resources. After a small ceremony in honor of Jabba, the negotiations started off with Suppoon insulting the Hutt for deigning to threaten him with a bomb. Just in case the threat had been real, he had the Empire send one of their best explosives experts, Kosh Kurp, to search the place, and he turned up nothing. The bartering then began in earnest, with each gangster double-crossing and cheating the other, until Suppoon, having been outmaneuvered by Jabba, lost his temper and attempted to have the Hutt killed. Jabba warned him that if he did not regain his temper, he would detonate his bomb. Suppoon, unimpressed, told Jabba to do so, at which point the Hutt called him "Sonopo Bomoor". After a [[Beat Panel|beat]], Kosh Kurp turned to Suppoon and asked if he really was ''the'' Sonopo Bomoor, the one who [[Doomed Hometown|razed the city of Bonaka Nueno on Intuci]], [[You Killed My Father|and encouraged his blood crazed minions to slaughter Kurp's family]] [[Forced to Watch|as he, a mere child, watched]]. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|The whole situation does not end well for Suppoon.]]

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Arguably]], the [[Star Wars|Skywalker twins]] were set up as a pair of these to take down [[The Empire]] and the pair of Sith in charge, with Obi-Wan and Yoda using a combination of [[Jedi Truth]] and [[Batman Gambit|BatmanGambits]] to set Luke against his father, even dismissing the notion of trying to redeem Vader / Anakin.

** The novelization of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' defies this trope. Obi-Wan and Yoda ultimately decide not to train the two to fight the Sith (seeing how their training failed against the Sith's conspiracy) and left the twins' fate to the will of the Force.

== [[Literature]] ==

* The strategists from ''[[Ender's Game]]'' were trained to take down the formics -- Ender was the unlucky one who was the best at it.

* In ''[[The Princess 99]]'' the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] group Birds of Prey purposely send their assasin to Edgewood Academy {{spoiler|in order to kill Princess Aurore, a.k.a. Prof. Colette, who is currently teaching there, in the most public manner possible}}

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', they have all but said outright that John isn't being trained to be a great leader or a hero or a soldier, but a weapon aimed at Skynet.

** Don't forget John's other love interest from the future.

== Music ==

* Set Abominae, [[The Antichrist|the self-proclaimed Antichrist]], in the [[Something Wicked Saga]], created by the Setians as a [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]] to kill ''the entire human species''.

== [[Myth and Legend]] ==

== [[Video Games]] ==

** In the sequel, {{spoiler|Eleanor, ''literally'' - you can use the Summon Eleanor plasmid to drop a Tykebomb on any unruly foes.}}

* {{spoiler|''The Player Character''}} in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' is the Laser-Guided Tykebomb against the [[Big Bad]]. Of course, you can blame [[The Man Behind the Man]] for that one...apparently good guys cannot create a LGT.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Doomsday in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', as the page quote explains, was designed for the sole purpose of killing Superman. This is likely a subtle [[Mythology Gag]] to the fact that Doomsday was written into the [[DCU]] for the sole purpose of making a "Superman's Death!" storyline.

== [[Web Original]] ==