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** The Teddy Bomber is eventually revealed as a subversion. Despite his fondness for teddy bears (which are there to help in [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|his similarity to Theodore Kaczynski]]) he has a politically motivated reason for blowing up buildings and hates causing unnecessary collateral damage (needless to say, the "unnecessary collateral damage" part happens a lot once [[Destructive Saviour|Spike and Andy]] get involved...)
* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' has "Histerrier", who is quite literally mad, and has no motive for planting the bombs other than being {{spoiler|a bored housewife}}. Although she may have been the first of the main villain's pawns to be unveiled.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Solf J. Kimblee (also known as the Crimson or Red Lotus Alchemist) is certainly crazy, but he's good at hiding it, doubling as [[The Philosopher]] and a [[Social Darwinist]] with a [[Faux Affably Evil]] demeanour, and [[Moral Sociopathy|a genuine respect for people who stick to their guns]]. Still a raging [[The Sociopath|psychopath]] though, and one who [[Just Following Orders|sees no difference]] between saving people as a doctor and [[Sociopathic Soldier|killing them as a soldier]]. The Bomber part comes in with his own brand of alchemy: he destabilizes the molecules in everything around him to create explosions, at times making the very ''air'' explode.
** In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|the 2003 anime version]], Kimblee is much worse at hiding his craziness. His powers are rather different from the manga version, and slightly less destructive. Instead of making the air explode, he transmutes things into bombs by rearranging their chemical components into explosives. His favourite targets are ''people'', [[Why Am I Ticking?|which he turns into delayed chemical explosives]] and laughs at while they [[You Are Already Dead|deal with being dead men walking]]. He can and will turn virtually anything, including his fellow soldiers, into organic bombs. In his first encounter with Scar, Kimblee went so far as to blow up separate limbs and the skin on Scar's forehead, creating the distinctive facial marking. After he blew up the wrong people (namely his commanding officers) and was arrested, he actually earned the new nickname "Madman Bomber". Tells you a lot about how stupid some of the people in the Amestrian government are that [[Genre Blind|they feel it's a good idea to bail him out of jail]], give him a [[Amplifier Artifact|Philosopher's Stone]], and ask him to be an assassin. Take a guess as to what happens.
* The [[Astro Boy (Animeanime)|2003 series of Astro Boy]] has Kato, who combines this trope with [[Mad Artist]]. He calls his acts of destructions his "masterpieces."
* Gokudera from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' keeps a near-endless supply of sticks of dynamite concealed on his person at all times. Like his [[Weapon of Choice]], he's quite a bit unstable, but he's not one of the villains of the story, as he was a test of Reborn's to start with and [[Defeat Means Friendship|converts to Tsuna's side]] after Tsuna defuses ''all'' of his bombs with his dying will in order to avoid dying, and becomes his [[Ho Yay|obsessively]] [[Bodyguard Crush|devoted]] self-described 'right-hand man.' Tsuna [[I Just Want to Be Normal|prefers to think of him as a friend]].
* ''[[Naruto]]'' had Deidara, member of Akatsuki who passionately believes his explosions [[Mad Artist|are a work of beautiful, fleeting moments of art]], and has frequent arguments with [[Marionette Master|Sasori]] over it. His sole motive as a missing-nin (a ninja, who betrays his village by defecting) is to blow up things; the fact that he can get paid for it by Akatsuki or terrorist organizations is just icing. He doesn't mind Sasori having differing opinions so much, but he can't stand his art being treated with indifference as by Itachi and Sasuke, the latter of whom finally beats him .{{spoiler|Ultimately, he decides to blow himself, trying to take Sasuke with him- not for defeating him, mind, but for the whole indifference thing.}}
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* Minene, the 9th Diary Holder of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'', who first introduces herself by blowing up a school. She does get a lot of [[Character Development]], though, and ends up being one of the most sympathetic characters in the series.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' presents to us Karasu, a demon specialized in channeling his energy to create explosives and one of the members of Team Toguro during the Dark Tournament Arc.
* The Playing Card Bomber from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' is a sadistic psychopath who stakes people's lives on a game of solitaire (the anime changed it to a guessing game involving balloons - probably to keep the number of card games down to one), by detonating bombs depending on the player's choices. Guess who [[Ryusei Nakao|did the voice]] for this guy.
* Nice Holystone from ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]'', a rare female and good example, carries a good supply of home-made explosives, and compulsively drops them. She even has fond memories of the one that blew up in her face, [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|badly scarring her]] and [[Eye Scream|taking out her eye]].
 
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* Cody, the special effects guy from ''[[Tropic Thunder]]''.
* The first year twins in the 2007 ''[[St Trinian's]]'' movie.
* Howard Payne, the [[Big Bad]] of the first ''[[Speed (Film)|Speed]]'' film.
* This trope is in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''!
* Wade "[[Cry-Baby (Film)|Cry-Baby]]" Walker's father was the "Alphabet Bomber", who bombed buildings in alphabetical order. He got the electric chair.
* The reason why Christian is in the mental institute of ''[[The Dead Pit (Film)|The Dead Pit]]'' is because he developed these tendencies in the army.
* Cary from ''[[Super 8 (Film)|Super 8]]''. As Joe's dad puts it: "I got nothing against your friends, I like your friends. Except for Cary, who can't seem to stop lighting things on fire."
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Trashcan Man from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]''. One of the best Mad Bombers in fiction.
* In several ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels Captain Federer, the head of the sappers attached to the Valhallian 597th, makes an appearance. Although not a villain, Federer is described as having "an unhealthy enthusiasm" for explosives and his eyes getting a "dreamy quality" at the thought of setting off an explosion that is measured in gigatonnes. When said explosion is set off, it winds up covering ''half a planet'' with the dust cloud.
** And before that he rigged the battlefield to blow up the advancing [[Our Orcs Are Different|Ork]] [[A Mech Byby Any Other Name|Gargant]] -- a [[Military Mashup Machine|cobbled-together behemoth of a war machine]] able to fight several Necron Monoliths at once and ''win''; and would've certainly blow ''it'' up if not for a changed tactical situation.
** It was openly stated in the books that he's a former Adeptus Mechanicus acolyte and was expelled from the seminary exactly for his unhealthy fascination with the [[Stuff Blowing Up]]. Praise the Emperor that the Guard gave him an outlet for his hobbies.
*** Some of the rumors go so far as to say he wasn't just expelled for blowing ''stuff'' up, he was expelled for blowing ''the seminary'' up.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Lance Corporal Jones from ''[[Dad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]]'' mentions in one episode (where the platoon have gone to a training camp for explosives) that he used to be called "The Mad Bomber" during the First World War. He said this to the officer running the camp, who was already on the verge of having a nervous breakdown because of all the other over-eager Home Guard platoons that had been through before the show's main characters.
* Inverted with Carter in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', who is actually very friendly, enthusiastic, and amiably [[The Ditz|clueless]] about most things. He just really likes his explosives, to the point of being depressed that he had to send several of his handmade bombs to be dropped on a Nazi facility without getting to go along and watch, comparing it to sending a child off into the world.
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'' there was Ace, perhaps the only heroic example of this trope. She carried around a backpack full of home made explosives which she was very quick to use, at least early on.
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* Prometheus from the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "The Prometheus Syndrome".
* Mac Taylor and his team pursue a mad bomber in the [[CSI New York]]'' episode "Charge of this Post".
* The ''[[Cold Case (TV)|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).
* ''[[Myth Busters]]''. They just blow up everything they can.
{{quote| "The only thing that separates us from a couple 14-year-old pyromaniacs is ballistic glass."}}
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* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' gives us Gem and Gemma, the [[Sixth Ranger|Sixth and Seventh Ranger]] [[Creepy Twins]] who are ''extremely'' happy to blow things up... with somewhat less than ideal regard for the collateral damage.
* Captain Gunpowder from ''[[Wild Boys (TV)|Wild Boys]]''.
* ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'' has Paxton Petty who was a combat engineer in the Korean War and felt that the government betrayed him after some Korean civilians are killed by his landmines and he is blamed. To get revenge he starts planting landmines in public places around San Francisco. He even tries to [[Complete Monster|put landmines in the playground of an elementary school]]. The thought of a bomb disposal expert being killed disarming one of his bombs feels him with joy. He even uses a landmine as a grenade when escaping the cops.
 
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Jammers of ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]'' absolutely love to...how shall we put this... "BLOW THINGS UP! BLOW THINGS UP!"
* Orks of [[Warhammer 40 K40000]] love [[More Dakka|dakka]] and things that go boom (accuracy fully optional).
* ''[[Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game)|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.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Fatman of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'' is a guy obsessed enough with bombs to codename himself after the Nagasaki bomb, and manages the impressive feat of going rogue from a military unit that had already gone rogue to make his mark on history by blowing things up. Vamp even lampshades it by calling Fatman a 'stereotypical mad bomber'.
* Grenade Man from ''[[Mega Man 8 (Video Game)|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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.]]
* Bob-Ombs of ''[[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]]'' and onward, of course. There's also that damn chicken in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' that drops egg bombs on you...
** Another Mario example: Punchinello from [[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|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 Byby His Own Petard]] as Punchinello's attempt of summoning the King Bomb ends up with the oversized explosive falling on top of him.
*** In fact Punchinello is a humanoid bomb, as all of Smithy's goons are anthropomorphized weapons. However since the Mario series already has semi-humanoid bombs in the form of the Bob-Ombs, Punchinello was taken even further, to the point of being almost unrecognizable as a bomb... it doesn't help that he himself doesn't explode, but rather uses Bob-Ombs as explosives.
** Mouser from [[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]] counts, as well.
* As quoted above, a certain [[Scary Black Man|Black]] [[Violent Glaswegian|Scottish]] [[Eyepatch of Power|Cyclops]] from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' fits this trope to a tee.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: Link's Awakening'' has a unique [[Elite Mook]] actually named the Mad Bomber.
** Heck, Link himself might be able to qualify for this trope--think about it. He has bags of bombs in every game, and even blows stuff up AS A CHILD.
* Never forget the Goblin Techies from that pervasive ''[[War CraftWarcraft]] III'' pastime: Defense of the Ancients (DOTA).
** This holds true for most Goblins in the Warcraft-universe.
* The Crazy Ivans deployed by the Soviets of [[Command and Conquer|Red Alert 2]] - they can wire anything, even your own troops, to explode with their endless supply of dynamite.
{{quote| '''Crazy Ivan''': "Here, hold this!}}
** To put it in perspective, the Crazy Ivan is the only unit in the game that has the [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|pretty descriptive]] AttackCursorOnFriendlies attribute in the game files.
** And it is possible to take this even further: getting hold of an Allied spy and infiltrating their Battle Lab gives a Soviet player the ability to build Chrono Ivans. Think a [[Mad Bomber]] is bad? Try a [[Mad Bomber]] '''with [[Teleport Spam]]'''.
** [[Game Breaker|Chrono Commandoes]] can do it even better.
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* Wendy Cheslock from ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' has all the hallmarks of one, be it her introduction ("Heheh. Ka-boom! Heheh."), her background and motivations for joining the militia (accidentally blew up her house, and joined so she could test out some of her creations.) or her epilogue ({{spoiler|becomes part of the Gallian military R&D division, where her pieces of work are described as 'potent' and 'very effective' but too unstable for use by any sane soldier.}})
* [[Rosenkreuzstilette|Zorne Sepperin]], who happens to have a bomb-making machine in her [[Power Fist]]. And is ''not afraid to use it!''
* The villain in the [[Atari Twenty Six Hundred|Atari 2600]] game ''[[Kaboom]]''! is named [[Mad Bomber|The Mad Bomber]]. He spends the game dropping bombs and it's your job to catch them in buckets of water before they hit the ground and explode.
* Dworkin Glavonak in the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' ''Awakening'' expansion is introduced luring a bunch of Darkspawn to one of his hidden explosives and laughing in glee as they go down in flames. During the "Bombs Away!" side quest you can provide him the raw materials he'll need to create new bombs. His brother certainly thinks he's nuts and mentions that Dworkin has lost at least three or four apprentices due to the risks of experimenting with explosive materials. If you ignore him and tell Dworkin to go nuts with the material, the bombs he makes will have the same effect as the Mage ''Inferno'' spell.
* Miniboss Roger Red Ant in ''[[Croc]] 2''.
* [[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]] is a rare heroic (and non-mad) serial bomb-planter, but even he can pick up a disease in multiplayer that causes him to drop bombs uncontrollably.
** The [[Ax Crazy]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Wg9i3UNOY Assault Bomber] in ''[[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman Generations]]'' manages to combine this trope with [[Trigger Happy]].
* ''[[The Suffering]]'' had a rather annoying inmate whose weapon was TNT. Needless to say, he would bomb anything and everything that came his way, you included until you caught up to him.
* [http://images.wikia.com/donkeykong/images/e/eb/DKCR_PR_21.jpg Stu] from ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' has only ''one'' attack that doesn't involve throwing various kinds of bombs from the pot he's in (swooping at you). The rest are all explosive-based, and to beat him, you have to throw his [[Cartoon Bomb|Cartoon Bombs]] [[Tennis Boss|back at him]]. The "mad" part comes from the fact that he's [[Brainwashed and Crazy]].
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* More [[Cloudcuckoolander]] than [[Ax Crazy]], but [[Badass Princess|Kotohime]] from the PC-98 exclusive ''[[Touhou Project]]: Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream'' is definitely touched in the head, and most of her spellcard-style attacks are actually bombs, so she otherwise qualifies.
* As if Kefka Palazzo wasn't insane or psychotic enough in his [[Final Fantasy VI|original game]], he was also given traits of this trope in the Dissidia subseries of [[Final Fantasy]]. During gameplay, Kefka uses a certain spell (Ultima) and, upon its detonation, he goes into a laughing fit. Story mode for the first game makes this worse, as he often utilizes the Ultima spells (or at least spell orbs that heavily resemble Ultima) during cutscenes and is cackling maniacally upon their exploding in three separate occasions: The first is when Terra first encounters him in order to get Terra to draw out her powers ("[[Sarcasm Mode|You're lying!]] Oh no. Look, here's another enemy for you!"). The second time is when he is actually fighting Terra, constantly bombarding her with spells [[Laughing Mad|while really losing it in laughter]]. The third time is during Shade Impulse shortly before fighting Terra, where he launches an Ultima at her, and yet again cackles insanely.
* The ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' DLC ''Gun Runners' Arsenal'' adds the Mad Bomber perk. The perk lets you make bombs out of tin cans, more efficient versions of mines you already have, and more destructive versions of time bombs. The kicker, however, is the Fat Mine: a mini nuke rigged with a proximity fuse. [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Overkill achieved.]]
** In-universe, there's the Boomers, a particularly trigger-happy faction who reside in Nellis Air Force Base and have an arsenal of explosives to themselves. They were originally from Vault 34, which had an overstocked armory and left the vault when they weren't allowed to use the really destructive stuff. They are fiercely territorial, with their response to anyone approaching them being mortar fire.
* ''[[Minecraft]]'':
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' crew got Shore "Pi" ("he's as irratiional as his namesake") Pibald -- educated, very creative, [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-06-26 complete nutjob] -- the sort of psycho who built an "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-07-03 ant farm]" that actually consists of nanobots making high explosives. For no better reason than "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-12-08 I try to blow up my lab. He tries to stop me. So far he's winning.]"
* ''[[MS Paint Masterpieces]]'' has this interpretation of Crash Man, [[Person of Mass Destruction|THE DESTROYER]].
* Crazy Rhid the Gnoll in ''[[The Mansion of E (Webcomic)|The Mansion of E]]''.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' has one of these -- [http://yafgc.net/?id=1131 Gummer Groundpounder], gnome survivalist.
* ''[[Weregeek (Webcomic)|Weregeek]]'' had a funny one -- Abbie's [[Shadowrun]] character, [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/04/ Twitch].
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Genre Savvy|Slappy the Squirrel]] of ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' has a tendency to solve problems with explosives.
* As with everything else, ''[[The Tick]]'' played this one for humor, and had a [[Split Personality]] completely [[Ax Crazy]] [[Talkative Loon]] bomber known as The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight (Yeah, baby!).
** The [http://www.warlordccg.de/blog/ Warlord CCG] created the card [http://www.temple-of-lore.com/spoiler/images/4E/Temb%27w%27bam.jpg Temb'w'bam] as an homage to that character.
* ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'' had one episode where an obsessed fan of fictional superhero the Gray Ghost blackmailed the city with bomb threats. He acted under the nickname of a Gray Ghost villain, known, you guessed it, as "The Mad Bomber". Although when confronted (in Batman. The [[Show Within a Show|Gray Ghost]] example wasn't shown to the point of the villain being revealed), the villain seemed far more enthusiastic about using his beloved {{spoiler|toys}} in his effort to get the money to keep his {{spoiler|toy}}-collecting hobby going than about actually blowing things up.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' had Mad Stan ("Mad" as in "Angry", not "Crazy"), voiced by [[Black Flag|Henry Rollins]], an anarchist bomber who mostly served as a recurring punching bag for Terry in the [[Batman Cold Open]]. In Mad Stan's defense, he had a cause (Anti-Establishment-Rebellion) and followed it logically, at one point trying to blow up an empty (Save Terry) library. The 2010 miniseries comic would have us believe that Stan controls the explosives trade in Gotham.
* A rare case of this character type not being a villain: Vincenzo 'Vinny' Santorini from the [[Disney Animated Canon]] movie ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire]]''. Vinny is a crewman who is often a little too eager to use find a way to use explosives to solve a problem. Of course they do mention they got him out of ''a Turkish prison''.
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' had an [[Enemy Mime]] who doubled as a [[Mad Bomber]] known as Bomb Voyage.
* A relatively minor case, but still dangerous: [[Magnificent Bastard|Chris]] from ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. During the rock climbing and blind toboggan challenges, [[Smug Snake|Chris]] sets up some explosives as distractions. The blind toboggan race didn't actually ''need'' the explosives, which is where [[Jerkass|Chris]] delivers the following quote...
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** Then there's Izzy who blew up her mess hall at her summer camp, she loves blowing stuff up so much at one point she insists that the others call her "Explosivio".
* In a [[Looney Tunes|Porky Pig]] cartoon called ''The Blow-Out'' (1936), the criminal "Bomber" strategically blows up buildings with time bombs. While not explicitly mad, he cackles like a wicked witch and seems to have no goal beyond destruction ("Now let's see, what building today?").
* In the 1994 [[Spider-Man: theThe Animated Series|Spider-Man cartoon]], Kletus Cassidy was depicted as one of these before he merged with the alien and became Carnage, since a [[Serial Killer]] was deemed too disturbing for a kid's show. He's every bit as mental as his comic book incarnation though, and in his introduction was willing to blow himself up alongside Spider-Man and the police.
* [[Cartoon Network]]'s ''[[What a Cartoon Show]]'' (which debuted ''[[Cow and Chicken (Animation)|Cow and Chicken]]'' and ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'') had a pair of shorts called ''Phish And Chip'', about a shark and cat that worked for Big City's Bomb Squad. In the first cartoon, they had to deal with a shadowy Mad Bomber, while the second pitted the luckless fools against Blammo the Clown.
* Lugnut from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is a mad ''bomber plane''. To wit, he is described in [[Word of God|the fluff]] as having nigh-infinite missile payloads, which we see in his first encounter with the Autobots. On top of that, there's the [[Rocket Punch|Punch Of Kill Everything]], which puts an explosive tip on the end of his ''fist'' that ''makes a crater when used.''
* Heroic? example with Rico in "[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]."
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** Also in real life: The Unabomber.
** 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 (Filmfilm)|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.
* [[Myth Busters|Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.]] Similar to Michael Bay above.
* 1930s [[Terrorists Without a Cause|Terrorist Without A Cause]] Szilveszter Matuska, who finally admitted that blowing up trains just turned him on.
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