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* Mac Taylor and his team pursue a mad bomber in the [[CSI New York]]'' episode "Charge of this Post".

* The ''[[Cold Case]]'' episode "Sabotage" featured a perp (loosely based on the Unabomber) who would send his targets bombs inside beautiful hand carved wooden boxes as a form of protest against modern society growing preference towards the disposable. His [[Freudian Excuse]] ''almost'' makes you feel sorry for him (he lost his job to outsourcing, lost his childhood home to a software firm that went under shortly after it started, his daughter died due to losing healthcare benefits which the led to his divorce)...until you learn that the first victim was a guy who ''didn't refund a shower radio one day after the return date'' and tries to blow up his brother's wife and child for no apparent reason other than the fact that his brother ''works in a bank'' (and stopped supporting him after an argument).

{{quote|"The only thing that separates us from a couple 14-year-old pyromaniacs is ballistic glass."}}

** ''[[Brainiac: Science Abuse]]'', being one of those shows meant to capitalize on the popularity of Mythbusters, also likes to blow shit up, but isn't quite as good at it.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The Jammers of ''[[Feng Shui]]'' absolutely love to...how shall we put this... "BLOW THINGS UP! BLOW THINGS UP!"

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has at least two such characters. Tinkersdam of Gond, the alchemist from novels is a [[Mad Scientist]] of many interests, but he ended up repeatedly exiled from just about everywhere for causing explosions and upon establishing his own lair/laboratory continued to make explosives, including directed-blast devices, for friends and regular clients... time fuses are his weak side, though. [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rp/20010725a Irilivar Celevessin] is one of few elves who ''like'' smokepowder and spectacular destruction in general. He was eventually employed as an assassin with specialization in bomb-throwing and explosive booby-traps, supplied with smokepowder and given tasks that keep him away from the home.

** Don't forget Luke Helder, he put pipe bombs in mailboxes to draw a smiley face across the United States. Caught before he could finish, though.

* [[Michael Bay]]. He hasn't killed anyone (for real), but he prides himself on the fact this his films are more practical effects than CGI (''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' notwithstanding by necessity). That means, boys and girls, that 99% of the explosions you see in a Michael bay film are '''real'''. Just because he does it ''legally'' doesn't mean the trope is any less applicable.

* 1930s [[Terrorists Without a Cause|Terrorist Without A Cause]] Szilveszter Matuska, who finally admitted that blowing up trains just turned him on.

* Richard Nixon wanted the North Vietnamese to think of himself as one of these.

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