Riding the Bomb: Difference between revisions

'''Master Chief:''' ''[[Bond One-Liner|To give the Covenant back their bomb]].''|''[[Halo 2]]''}}

* In a ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' story guest starring [[Ronald Reagan]], Reagan had a dream where he rode a giant bomb into Moscow dressed as a [[Cowboy]] and killed everyone.

* In the [[Warhammer 40000]] ''Deff Skwadron'' comic ''Da Sekret Weapon'', [[Cyborg|Killboy]] has to open the bomb bay manually:

'''Killboy:''' Yeeehaaa! }}

** The 'secret weapon' in this case wasn't a bomb to ride on so much as a carpet-bombing of specially bred flesh-eating [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|squigs]]. Killboy, not having much meat left on him, was mostly ignored and only had to contend with the ground.

* The [[Isaac Asimov]] short story ''The Feeling of Power'' takes place in a society where computers can make more computers, and those computers can do all the calculations people need, so even basic mathematics has been lost. One fellow reinvents addition and subtraction, and discovers to his horror that this allows for the "manned missile," since people can now guide the missiles based on a coordinate system and [[We Have Reserves|a human life is much less valuable than a computer guidance system]].

* [[Older Than They Think|Even]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight|older]] than ''Dr. Strangelove'' is this quote from Holden from ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]]'':

* [[The Munchausen|Baron Münchausen's]] [[Older Than Radio|cannonball ride]].

* ''[[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 [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.