Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' has Excel and Hyatt repeatedly try to do this. It doesn't work right. Even when they disguise the bomb as a giant panda.

* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', Gren sets Vicious up the bomb in the form of {{spoiler|a music box.}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The {{spoiler|New Pride}} leaves a bomb for the [[Runaways]] in a red herring trap.

* Major Bludd leaves a bomb for both sides of a business deal in an issue of the Devil's Due version of G.I.Joe.

{{quote|'''Harley Quinn''': "Uh, fellas? Our boy is a blow-up doll. [[Crosses the Line Twice|And]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|not]]'' [[Crosses the Line Twice|the fun kind]]."}}

 

* The original ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' movie had O'Neil sending a nuclear warhead up to Ra's spaceship.

** Even better, Ra's soldiers were using that bomb to do the same to Earth, and after killing them O'Neil sent it to Ra ''because he couldn't deactivate it''.

* In ''[[Speed]]'', the movie does this with Harry.

 

* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'', {{spoiler|The Opal Deception}}

** Twice.

* Happens in the [[Storm Thief]] when {{spoiler|Finch reverse pickpockets the explosive armband Bane attached to him while he the detonator for the armband.}} The future victim of the explosion notices that the detonator was stolen from him but is still cocky since the bomb should still be attached to it's intended target. He gets just enough time to realize the bomb is in his pocket.

 

* The ending of the three part "Hot to Katrazi" arc on ''[[Farscape]]'' had John dropping a mini-nuke into the Scarran's gardens.

* A [[Xanatos Gambit]] variant in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "Silver Nemesis". {{spoiler|The Doctor sees to it that his enemies gain control of a Gallifreyan superweapon, which ends up 'sploding the bad guys in space. Either way they can't use it and the Doctoe says the device returns home, but blowing them up was a nice bonus.}}

*** The Borg ship was the rectangular prism, not the photon torpedo.

* In ''Legend Of The Rangers'', one of the [[Babylon 5]] TV movies, the Rangers did this to the same villains on two separate occasions. After all, who'd be stupid enough to use the same trick ''twice''? To clarify, the enemy did use precautions the second time, but the protagonists anticipated and nullified them.

{{quote|'''"Requested:'''

One Mark V ECM unit, 1000 km of

'''Purpose:'''

Surprise party for a foreign dignitary."

* In ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': At the end of the third season, Lord Zedd sends Goldar and Rito into the tunnels under the Command Center to plant a bomb and blow the place up. It succeeds, quite chillingly, though Zordon had prepared for the possibility. And in the finale to ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'', Rita and Zedd blow up the Royal House of Gadgetry with a package bomb. They get rebuilt by the beginning of ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]''.

* In the [[Alternate Universe|alternate reality]] of the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "There But For the Grace of God", the Jaffa invading the alternate SGC arrive at the gate room and control room just as the base self-destruct reaches zero. They can be seen milling about going [[Oh Crap]] as the P.A. system counts down, "Five, four, three, two, one..."

* In ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', {{spoiler|Walter White}} finally kills {{spoiler|Gus Fring}} this way at the conclusion of season 4.

 

* [[Zero Wing|Guess.]]

* At the end of ''[[Resistance]] 2'', {{spoiler|Hale destroys the Chimeran fleet by setting them up with a <s>nuke</s> fission bomb}}

* ''[[Halo]] 2'': After temporarily disarming the bomb the Covenant set up on Cairo Station, MC then [[Riding the Bomb|rides the bomb]] back to its setter-uppers.

** In ''Halo 3'''s second mission, you set the Covenant up the bomb in [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|one of your base that is belong to them]].

* ''[[Syphon Filter]]'': "This one's different from the others'', :turns over bomb to reveal [[Oh Crap|timer at 4 seconds]], BOOM. Also occurs several more times throughout the series, with at least one involving a [[Dead-Man Switch]].

* Happens just as you're leaving the hospital in ''[[Resident Evil]] 3''. Luckily, it's a [[Magic Countdown]], the bomb doesn't go off until a couple seconds after the timer reaches zero.

* In the old ''[[Dragonball Z]]: Budokai'' game, Mr. Satan (AKA Hercule) uses an exploding portable console (looks like an oversized GBA) to trick his enemies in his Super Attacks. Everyone falls for it, even Cell...

* Happens at the end of every level in the [[Third-Person Shooter]] subgame of ''[[Die Hard]] Trilogy''.

* This is actually a cheat code in ''[[StarCraft]]'' that makes you instantly lose.

** In the middle of the Zerg campaign, Kerrigan boards a science vessel to get the data she requires to break her psychic [[Restraining Bolt]]. A Terran demolition team boards the ship as well to destroy it and get ambushed. Seeing no way out, they detonate the nuke they brought with them to vaporize all the Zerg on the station... but Kerrigan's no longer onboard.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the very first quest a new goblin player gets is to deliver a "present" from your executive assistant to a mining foreman who hasn't met quotas. You can guess what the present is.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]: Dark Crusade'' has the player do this to the Necron stronghold. Especially with the Necron Pariah's reaction.

* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', {{spoiler|Anders uses Hawke as an [[Unwitting Pawn]] to set up the Chantry the bomb.}}

* In the attact mode cinematic to ''Tekken 5'', someone delivers a bomb to Heihachi Mishima via Jack robot.

{{quote|'''Garrus''': [[Oh Crap]]!}}

 

 

* Happens in the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' episode "Equal Measures." An energon vein that runs underneath both bases means that one can travel from one to another instantaneously but an explosion on one end will mean explosion on the other. Cheetor, in the Predacon base, sends this information to the Maximals via a data disk through this instantaneous connection... only for the bomb he was warning them not to use to suddenly appear in the base.

* In the ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' episode "Decepticon Air", Optimus loads a pile of explosive energon cubes onto the lift and then cuts the lift cable, dropping it right down to the Decepticons waiting for him at the bottom.