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[[File:schlock20080106c 7360.jpg|link=Schlock Mercenary|frame|Corporal Piebald doing what he does best.]]
{{quote|''"So he says to me: 'you gotta do something smart, baby! Something big!' He says 'You wanna be a supervillain, right?' And I go: 'Yeah, baby! Yeah yeah! What do I gotta do?' He says, 'You got bombs, blow up the Comet Club! It's packed with superheroes, you'll go down in supervillain history!' And I go 'Yeah, baby! ''''CAUSE I'M THE EVIL MIDNIGHT BOMBER, WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT! [[Evil Laugh|AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]!!!'''"''
|'''[[Shaped Like Itself|The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight]]''', ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'' }}
▲{{quote|''"So he says to me: 'you gotta do something smart, baby! Something big!' He says 'You wanna be a supervillain, right?' And I go: 'Yeah, baby! Yeah yeah! What do I gotta do?' He says, 'You got bombs, blow up the Comet Club! It's packed with superheroes, you'll go down in supervillain history!' And I go 'Yeah, baby! ''''CAUSE I'M THE EVIL MIDNIGHT BOMBER, WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT! [[Evil Laugh|AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]!!!'''"'' |'''[[Shaped Like Itself|The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight]]''', ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' }}
Sometimes you'll encounter someone who just seems to have the perfect personality to go along with their job, like a real life work related version of [[Personality Powers]]. For example, maybe an old time watchmaker would have a very careful, analytical mind that paid very close attention to detail. What could be better for someone who has to very carefully use, assemble and repair something made of hundreds of tiny springs and gears?
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See also [[Bomb-Throwing Anarchists]], [[Having a Blast]] and [[Why Am I Ticking?]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Greed Island arc of ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' features Gensuru, the "Bomb Devil" or "Demon Bomber", whose Nen abilities are based on explosions.
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* Grenade Man from ''[[Mega Man 8]]'' loved explosions so much he secretly wanted to get blown up himself because he's masochistic. He cries, "That felt good!" when he explodes and dies.
** Similarly, Bombman from the original ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' and ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]'', to the point that he accompanies every entrance by screaming "BOMBS!!". The best Dialogue in the game is between [[Ham-to-Ham Combat|the Pyromaniac Fire Man and Bomb Man.]]
** While he's only evil due to Wily's brainwashing, Blast Man from ''[[Mega Man 11]]'' is completely unhinged and is practically ''salivating'' at the thought of blowing Mega Man to bits. Chris Hackney's voice acting ''really'' sells it.
* Speedy Dave from ''[[MegaMan Battle Network 2]]'' is a member of Gospel, and a psychopathic eco-terrorist who tries to blow up a dam so he can kill countless people as well as destroy Den City, which is downstream of the dam. During his scenario, you have to defuse several bombs hidden in the surrounding campground, culminating in a showdown against him and his Navi QuickMan. When QuickMan dies, it's revealed that he himself is a living detonator, and Dave laughs like a maniac when he fully expects the bomb to go off... only to be gobsmacked when [[The Rival|Chaud and ProtoMan's]] timely intervention saves the day.
* Bob-Ombs of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' and onward, of course. There's also that damn chicken in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' that drops egg bombs on you...
** Another Mario example: Punchinello from [[Super Mario RPG]]. A crazed purple lunatic who takes residence in the Moleville mines, Punchinello is capable of [[Flunky Boss|summoning waves after waves of Bob-Ombs]] during the battle against Mario and Co. He also brings the quite literal example of [[Hoist by His Own Petard]] as Punchinello's attempt of summoning the King Bomb ends up with the oversized explosive falling on top of him.
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* ''[[Minecraft]]'':
** Creepers. Pretty much all they do is silently sneak up on you, hiss for a second and a half, and explode. If the explosion doesn't kill you, it'll do devastating damage to your health.
** Ghasts (found only in the Nether), which
** If you have Mad Bomber tendencies yourself, you can blow stuff up with TNT or Fire Charges. Incidentally, to make these explosives, you need to get gunpowder by killing Ghasts or Creepers, the other two Mad Bombers in the game.
* The very first bad guy you fight in the ''[[Spider-Man 3]]'' movie tie-in game is Luke Carlyle, who's an industrialist-turned-bomb planting terrorist as opposed to a Doc Ock wannabe like in the comics. His supervillain nickname also happens to be the name of this very trope!
* Speaking of bombers in Spider-Man games, several missions in ''[[Spider-Man (2018 video game)|Spider-Man PS4]]'' involve destroying bombs that various villains have planted, such as the Inner Demons, Taskmaster, Hammerhead's thugs, and Screwball. But Screwball embodies this trope in full thanks to how unhinged, destructive, and obnoxious she is, all in pursuit of views for her livestreams.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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