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'''Smartboy Gimzod:''' Oh yeah, he's been deployed too!
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** The 'secret weapon' in this case wasn't a bomb to ride on so much as a full bay of particularly vicious new breed of [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|squigs]]. They already ate bommbadeer boyz and "[[Extreme
* In the [[Dark Avengers]] Ares miniseries, Ares rides a missile into ground zero, for no other reason then [[Rule of Cool]].
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* A scene in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'' has a log bridge being blown up to allow the heroes to escape from frenzied mummified pygmies at Am-Shere. The pygmies that were on the log at the time plummet to their eventual doom; one of the pygmies, seeing the utter futility of it all, rides a large piece of the broken log.
* One of the many tall tales about Baron von Münchausen claimed he once rode a cannonball. The Josef von Baky, [[Terry Gilliam]] and [[So Bad It's Good|animated]] movies based on the Baron had him perform this feat as well.
* In the movie version of ''[[Harry Potter and
* A [[Three Stooges]] short has them inducted in the army - at films' end, they've broken into enemy headquarters and are getting bombarded by their own side. After a laughing gas bomb puts them in laughing fits, a large shell blows through, scooping them up. They ride it, laughing, into a gorgeous sunset. Just a typical day for them.
* Played literally and subverted in ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]''. Johann Schmidt's ultimate HYDRA weapon, a massive Tesseract bomber known as "Valkyrie", contained various plane bombs that were presumably going to use to attack the targets specified on the hull and are pilotable, making it the most literal use of the trope. The subversion comes in where Captain America manages to dispose a mook by opening up the cargo doors and releasing the latch before the HYDRA mook could get himself secured into the plane bomb.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Halo]] 2'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616092431/http://www.gamespy.com/articles/771/771937p2.html Master Chief Rides the Bomb].
** An even older computer game example appears in the intro scene to the <s>original</s> computerized adaptation of ''[[Nuclear War]]''.
* Dante ''surfs on a missile'' in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3''.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' at one point has a crude chalkboard-style stick-figure sketch of what [[Kill Sat|Exterminatus]] actually does (complete with a sketch of [[H.P. Lovecraft|Cthulhu]] labelled "[[Captain Obvious|A Bad Thing]]"). The warhead plummeting from space onto the planet? It has a stick-figure cowboy wavin' his hat.
* Used for comedy in ''[[Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth]].'' In [https://web.archive.org/web/20100702143529/http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlockes-guide-to-azeroth/the-final-episode/755387p1.html this strip] of the first comic's run, the script-kiddy-run gnome Lowping apparently ended up riding the [[Cartoon Bomb|Ultimate Goblin Engineered Weapon]] "like a pony," complete with cowboy hat, moments before it was dropped out of a hijacked Goblin dirigible, and him along with it.
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had Petey evacuating DoytHaban and Ennesby with a teraport-equipped [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-07-27 missile].
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* ''[[Rusty and Co.]]'' once [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-5-31/ had] Presti riding a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|magic missile]].
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