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When a character has to remove something from a container ''very'' carefully, or nasty things will happen. Typically speaking, simply touching the item against the side of the container is enough to set off the "nasty things", because it's either [[Made of Explodium]] or a [[Death Trap]].
 
Named for the board game "Operation", which greeted every failure with an earsplitting buzz. Most definitely not a case of [[Operation: Blank]]. Can overlap with [[Nitro Express]]. Should not be confused with [http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=512707&GSub=72987&GCat=5884 this].
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== [[Film]] ==
* There was an element of this in the ''[[Iron Man]]'' [[Iron Man (film)|movie]] (when Pepper had to help Tony change out his nuclear pacemaker), though it wasn't played ''completely'' straight.
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