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{{trope}}
[[File:Misato grenade.JPG|thumb|350px|link=Nichijou|Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.]]
The tough guy takes out a grenade and pulls the pin with his teeth, then tosses it to kill a bunch of mooks. It's a common trope in action flicks and war films.
In reality, grenade pins are designed to be hard to pull so they won't be pulled accidentally. Attempting to pull them with your teeth will likely result in some painful dental damage. Of course, when done by a soldier in fiction, that makes it [[Semper Fi| a good way to show how tough they are.]]▼
▲The tough guy takes out a grenade and pulls the pin with his teeth, then tosses it to kill a bunch of mooks. It's a common trope in action flicks and war films.
Straightening the pin in advance to make it easier to pull is certainly possible but it greatly increases the risk of mass casualty [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]]
▲In reality, grenade pins are designed to be hard to pull so they won't be pulled accidentally. Attempting to pull them with your teeth will likely result in some painful dental damage.
▲Straightening the pin in advance to make it easier to pull is certainly possible but it greatly increases the risk of mass casualty [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]] - style accidents.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Italy from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' attempts this method of detonation but throws [[The Ditz|the pin]] while still holding the grenade in his mouth.
** His brother does the exact same thing in a later episode, and Germany Lampshades this. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity Ensues.]]
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* ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' ups the ante by having the grenade held by the pin as well. It was only a Flash, however.
* Combined with [[Did Not Do the Research]] in ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' when Dola pulls out a German "potato masher" style grenade and pulls the pin with her teeth. Potato masher grenades didn't have pins, they used a pull cord in the handle instead.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''. Batou does this a couple of times during the shootout in Kusanagi's mansion, though as a full-body cyborg his teeth might be a lot tougher than those of an ordinary person.
* Also happens with the cyborgs of ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' during a Killing House training exercise.
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]'' ''La Verite'' episode 7. While running away from a giant rolling ball, Ryuuka produces a grenade and pulls the pin with her teeth.
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* In ''[[Tokyo Crazy Paradise]]'', Ryuji does this on his way to rescuing Asago and Tsukasa in volume three. While driving and (unintentionally) blasting strangely appropriate enka.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Done beautifully for {{spoiler|Misato}}'s death scene in the manga. JSSDF soldiers approach her slumped and fatally-wounded body; she turns her head towards them, revealing a pin in the corner of her mouth. {{spoiler|Misato}} then [[Oh Crap|shows her executioners the hand grenade she's holding]].
* Misato Tachibana does this in an episode of ''[[Nichijou]]'', as shown in the page image.
* Spike does it while fighting Vicious's men in the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode 5 "Ballad of Fallen Angels."
** He does it again in the finale, {{spoiler|during his [[Storming the Castle|Storming the Castle moment.]] }}
* Done habitually by Clair Leonelli in ''[[Heat Guy J]]''
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' - When Kyoko grabs Homura to keep her from [[Flash Step
* Fujiko does this in ''[[The Castle of
== Comic Books ==
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* Elsa Bloodstone does in the second issue of ''[[Legion Of Monsters]]''.
* [[Nick Fury]] used to do this back in his [[Howling Commandos]] days. The page illo on the [[Howling Commandos]] page even shows a member of the squad doing it.
* COBRA operative Gristle does this in a [[Taking You with Me]] moment in ''[[G.I. Joe|Infestation 2:
== Fan
* Ash pulls the pins of some grenades he stole from Kaiza and then blows up a bridge to keep the Cloyster from attacking him and Dawn in ''[[Poke Wars]]: The Coalescence''.
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Wrath Of God]]'', one of the [[Boxed Crook|"heroes"]] is mortally wounded but grapples his
* Loki does this in ''[[Son of the Mask]]''... with a little tongue too. Justified since he has cartoon-style powers and is a literal god.
* Done by Leonard Smalls in ''[[Raising Arizona]]''.
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* [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|Ahnold]] does this in ''[[True Lies]]'', using a grenade as the opening shot of a huge firefight at the enemy's hideout after escaping from being captured. Guess he still had his ''[[Terminator]]'' teeth in place when he shot that film.
* Saito in ''[[Inception]]'', [[Justified Trope|as part of a dream sequence that invokes a bunch of action movie tropes]].
* In the 2005 version of ''[[The War of the Worlds (2005 film)||The War of the Worlds]]'', Ray spits out the pins of a couple of M67 grenades he uses to destroy a tripod.
* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''. Dizzy Flores does this, then throws the grenade down a Tanker Bug's throat to destroy it.
* Done during the half-track assault in the otherwise quite realistic 1945 film ''[[A Walk In The Sun]]''.
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== Literature ==
* Richard Marcinko addresses pulling the grenade pin with your teeth in ''Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue''.
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* Done during the climatic battle in the first ''[[Modesty Blaise (novel)|Modesty Blaise]]'' novel.
== Live Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* [[R. Lee Ermey]] addresses this in an episode of ''[[Mail Call]]'', pointing out how doing this is a good way to lose teeth.
* ''[[The Goodies]]'' references this trope when Graham bites the top off a pineapple which then [[Rule of Funny|explodes for no apparent reason]].
* Done in ''[[The Rat Patrol]]''. See the episode "Truce at Aburah Raid" for one example.
* Tested as a mini-myth on ''[[
* Ace's nitro-nine grenades in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' are made from scavenged aerosol cans, so they have caps instead of pins. In a possible allusion to this trope, the Doctor pops the cap off one grenade with his teeth in ''Remembrance of the Daleks''.
** One of Morgaine's knights does it in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26
* Michael Westen does this with a remote-detonator-on-a-deadman-switch (his words) in the season 1 finale of ''[[Burn Notice]]''.
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== Music ==
* "Detox" by Final Fight:
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''pulled pin in teeth
''explosions forever }}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', General Halftrack once tried to do this as a [[When I Was Your Age|"This is how we did it back in ''my'' day!"]] demonstration — but just ended up throwing the still-pinned grenade along with his dentures.
== Tabletop RPG ==
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Persona 3]]'': upon being defeated near the top of Tartarus, a wounded Jin stays behind and does this to blow up the Shadows climbing up from lower floors.
* Fong Ling does this at the beginning of ''[[Resident Evil
* Depicted on the cover of ''[[Ikari Warriors]]'', a 1986 game for the Amstrad.
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== Western Animation ==
* When [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote]] tries it, the grenade naturally stays in his teeth.
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "Cool Cat", [[Egomaniac Hunter]] Colonel Rimfire tries to pull the pin out of a grenade with his teeth, but ends up pulling out his dentures and hurling the unarmed grenade at Cool Cat.
* In the [[MGM]] [[Droopy]] cartoon "The Three Little Pups", the wolf did this, with comical results.
* In the Looney Tunes short ''[[The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]'', Duck Twacy ([[Daffy Duck]]) does this before throwing a grenade at the villain Pumpkin Head.
* Grampa Simpson is shown doing this in his flashback to [[World War Two]] in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"".
* In one episode of ''[[The Avengers: Earth's
** Justified because {{spoiler|she's a Skrull.}}
* Duke does this during the Russia infiltration mission in ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute]]''.
* ''[[Batman: The
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'': Hunter Kain does this when he drops a grenade to cover his escape in "Night Falls".
* ''[[Batman: The
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': In "I Got Yer Can", an [[Escalating War]] with Slappy Squirrel causes Candie Chipmunk to do this; terrifying a pair of nuns before blowing herself up.
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* The pin usually doesn't trigger a grenade. It is a safety device that prevents the grenade from being triggered accidentally. Not all grenades use pins and most modern grenades have three safety devices, usually the thumb clip, the pin, and the spoon.
* From the Medal of Honor citation for Jonah Edward Kelley:
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* Done by Leila Khaled, one of the hijackers in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, according to an interview she gave in 2000:
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* German "potato-masher" grenades are triggered with a pull string hanging from the base of the handle, and these could be pulled with your teeth.
* Bill Mauldin mentions two variations in his [[World War Two]] memoir ''Up Front'': The first was a soldier who straightened the pins to make them easy to pull, the second was a soldier who fastened grenades to his belt by their pins so he could just pluck them and throw them. Both are implied to be pathologically aggressive.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Military and Warfare Tropes]]
[[Category:Grenade Tropes]]
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[[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]]
[[Category:Teeth Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Pin Pulling Teeth]]
[[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]]
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