Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: Difference between revisions

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== Anime ==

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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.}}

* In ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'', Tylor gives a present to the enemy captain he has just surrendered to, not knowing that it was actually a bomb the space marines on board had given to him wrapped as a gift to get rid of him, making this a totally intentional instance of [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]].

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== Film ==

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

* 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''.

* ''[[~~Star Trek Generations (Film)|~~Star Trek Generations]]''. Captain Picard is fiddling with the control panel for Soren's sun-killer missile. When Soren orders him away from it and goes to work on it himself, he discovers that Picard has sabotaged the missile. As the launch clock counts down to zero, the last we see of Soren is [[Oh Crap|the look of despair on his face]] as the missile explodes, killing him.

* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]''. Captain Picard is fiddling with the control panel for Soren's sun-killer missile. When Soren orders him away from it and goes to work on it himself, he discovers that Picard has sabotaged the missile. As the launch clock counts down to zero, the last we see of Soren is [[Oh Crap|the look of despair on his face]] as the missile explodes, killing him.

** ''[[Star Trek III ~~the~~ Search For Spock ~~(Film)~~|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''. After some Klingons beam over to the Enterprise in order to capture it, they hear the computer counting down the last few seconds before the ship's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] activates. Their leader, Kruge, is listening in and tells them to get out, but it's too late.

** ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''. After some Klingons beam over to the Enterprise in order to capture it, they hear the computer counting down the last few seconds before the ship's [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] activates. Their leader, Kruge, is listening in and tells them to get out, but it's too late.

** Alt-Captain Janeway (or maybe the original? It's a bit confusing) pulls the same trick in "Deadlock." The Vidiians, having overrun ''Voyager'', enter the bridge, where they are greeted by a pleasantly smiling Janeway and a silent autodestruct countdown.

{{quote| "Hello. I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway. Welcome to the bridge." ''BAH-WHAM''}}

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* This turns up a lot in the ''[[Pink Panther]]'' films from ''A Shot in the Dark'' onwards. More often than not, they result in [[Non-Fatal Explosions]].

{{quote| '''Clouseau''': Special delivery -- a bermb. Did you order one? A BERMB?!}}

* ''[[~~Die Hard (Film)|~~Die Hard]]'', when McClane ties plastic explosives and a computer monitor to a swivel chair, with electrical cord, and drops the chair down an elevator shaft onto two mooks who were shelling an armored police car.

* ''[[Die Hard]]'', when McClane ties plastic explosives and a computer monitor to a swivel chair, with electrical cord, and drops the chair down an elevator shaft onto two mooks who were shelling an armored police car.

* In ''[[~~Casino Royale (Film)|~~Casino Royale]]'', part of Le Chiffre's [[Evil Plan]] is to get his mook to blow up the newest Skyfleet plane with a key fob explosive attached to a fuel truck. Bond interferes. One unnecessarily long fight later, Bond's down and out, and the mook triumphantly hits the button on the trigger...[[Oh Crap|then sees that the bomb's been attached to his belt...]]

* In ''[[Casino Royale]]'', part of Le Chiffre's [[Evil Plan]] is to get his mook to blow up the newest Skyfleet plane with a key fob explosive attached to a fuel truck. Bond interferes. One unnecessarily long fight later, Bond's down and out, and the mook triumphantly hits the button on the trigger...[[Oh Crap|then sees that the bomb's been attached to his belt...]]

** Something very similar happened with a mook in the Tim Burton Batman movie.

* Samir Horn in ''[[~~Traitor (Film)|~~Traitor]]'' is an American operative deep undercover in a radical Islamic terrorist organization. Their plan is to blow up fifty passenger buses across the United States simultaneously, and Horn is tasked with instructing the terrorists on which buses to board. He puts them all on ''the same bus.''

* Samir Horn in ''[[Traitor]]'' is an American operative deep undercover in a radical Islamic terrorist organization. Their plan is to blow up fifty passenger buses across the United States simultaneously, and Horn is tasked with instructing the terrorists on which buses to board. He puts them all on ''the same bus.''

* In ''[[Law Abiding Citizen]]'', the villain/protagonist/whateverheis has a napalm bomb placed in City Hall, intending to kill the major and the city's emergency service officers. However, the attorney he's been up against the entire film shows up and lectures him, telling him that if he detonates, he'll have to live with his decision for the rest of his life. He decides to detonate, not realizing that the attorney has placed the bomb underneath his prison cot.

* In the [[Chuck Norris]] masterpiece ''Invasion U.S.A.'', a group of [[Dirty Communists|bad guys]] are trying to [[Kick the Dog|blow up a church]] while people inside are seeking shelter. They hit the detonator, and-- click. Cue Chuck showing up behind them: "Didn't work, huh?", dropping the bomb into their car, then connecting the wires he cut. [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"Now it will."]] Boom.

** Elsewhere in the same movie, a group of bad guys in a car attach a time bomb to the side of a [[Bus Full of Innocents|school bus full of children]]. Chuck drives up next to it, yanks the bomb off, [[Hoist By His Own Petard|then attaches it to the bad guys' car.]]

** Elsewhere in the same movie, a group of bad guys in a car attach a time bomb to the side of a [[Bus Full of Innocents|school bus full of children]]. Chuck drives up next to it, yanks the bomb off, [[Hoist by His Own Petard|then attaches it to the bad guys' car.]]

* ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''. Johnny manages to strap the neck bomb on Terl's arm, then convinces him to detonate it - Terl thinks it'll [[Your Head Asplode|blow up Johnny's girlfriend's head]].

* ''[[~~Van Helsing (Film)|~~Van Helsing]]'': When the carriage Van Helsing is driving plummets into a ravine, Dracula's Bride Vernona breaks the door off the carriage, thinking Frankenstein's monster is inside... instead she finds a nitroglycerin bomb rigged to fire a salvo of stakes when it goes off...

* ''[[Van Helsing]]'': When the carriage Van Helsing is driving plummets into a ravine, Dracula's Bride Vernona breaks the door off the carriage, thinking Frankenstein's monster is inside... instead she finds a nitroglycerin bomb rigged to fire a salvo of stakes when it goes off...

* In ''[[~~Resident Evil Afterlife (Film)|~~Resident Evil Afterlife]]'', Wesker flees from the Umbrella ship in a jet, then smugly activates the ship's self-destruct countdown - only to realize that Alice had already moved the device onto the very plane he's flying.

* In ''[[Resident Evil Afterlife]]'', Wesker flees from the Umbrella ship in a jet, then smugly activates the ship's self-destruct countdown - only to realize that Alice had already moved the device onto the very plane he's flying.

* In ''[[Magnum Force]]'' ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' disarms the bomb that the villain planted in his mailbox and takes it with him. When he confronts the villain, he reactivates it and tosses it into the villain's car, who drives off, unaware.

* In ''[[~~Speed (Film)|~~Speed]]'', the movie does this with Harry.

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

== Literature ==

* ''[[~~Artemis Fowl (Literature)|~~Artemis Fowl]]'', {{spoiler|The Opal Deception}}

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

** Twice.

** He also does it in the first book, luring Root to Holly's transponder.

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== Live Action TV ==

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

* 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.}}

* Both the season one opener and closer of ''[[Leverage]]'' featured a bomb going off like this. The first was deployed by the villain, the second by the protagonists(though it wasn't meant to kill, only to destroy the evidence in their office)

* Favorite tactic early on in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', since it ensured that the nuke took out a Basestar.

* They did it to a Borg.. um.. rounded rectangular prism? in ''[[Star Trek Voyager ~~(TV)~~|Star Trek Voyager]]''.

* They did it to a Borg.. um.. rounded rectangular prism? in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]''.

** It was a photon torpedo.

*** Set to "overload" and beamed into the ship after Voyager had disabled their shields.

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

* In ''Legend Of The Rangers'', one of the [[~~Babylon Five|~~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.

* 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.

* While we may not get to see it, one opening quote gives us:

{{quote| '''"Requested:'''<br />

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Surprise party for a foreign dignitary."<br />

[[Andromeda|Argosy Special Operations requisition form]], CY 9512 }}

* 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 ''[[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 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..."

** Honorable mention to the fireworks O'Neill used to booby-trap the [[MacGuffin]] in one of the training scenarios in "Proving Grounds". His trainees abort the "mission" rather than try to disarm them.

** According to "Summit", the System Lord Ba'al apparently had a reputation for doing this to his enemies. In the words of Daniel Jackson, gifts from Ba'al "have a habit of exploding."

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== Web Original ==

* [[Ruby Quest ~~(Roleplay)~~|TRY AND CATCH ME NOW.]]

* [[Ruby Quest|TRY AND CATCH ME NOW.]]

* ''[[~~The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|~~The Spoony Experiment]]'' does this in the Final Fantasy VIII finale. {{spoiler|Spoony's robot, Burton, is a cleverly designed bomb that acts when Spoony is mortally wounded by Squall Leonheart.}}

* ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'' does this in the Final Fantasy VIII finale. {{spoiler|Spoony's robot, Burton, is a cleverly designed bomb that acts when Spoony is mortally wounded by Squall Leonheart.}}

** Bonus points for recreating the above-mentioned ''Enterprise'' self-destruct in ''[[Star Trek III ~~the~~ Search For Spock ~~(Film)~~|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''.

** Bonus points for recreating the above-mentioned ''Enterprise'' self-destruct in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''.

* [[MS Paint Adventures|I WILL EXPLODE]] [[Oh Crap|IN YOUR FACE.]]

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* [[Order of the Stick]]: [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0659.html "Guess what spell I cast before giving this to the bird."]

** Scribing Explosive Runes on random items for various enemies to find, usually in the form of "[[Shmuck Bait|Guess what spell I prepared this morning]]" is one of Vaarsuvius's running gags.

* [[~~Xkcd (Webcomic)|~~Xkcd]]: Parodied in the [http://xkcd.com/433/ fifth installment of the "Journal" series]: the man goes to the woman's house and greets her. She presses a button and there is an explosion outside of the frame.

* [[Xkcd]]: Parodied in the [http://xkcd.com/433/ fifth installment of the "Journal" series]: the man goes to the woman's house and greets her. She presses a button and there is an explosion outside of the frame.

{{quote| '''Man''': What was that?!<br />

'''Woman''': Remote mines under your car.<br />

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* 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''.

* In every last [[~~Bomberman (Video Game)|~~Bomberman]] game, [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|YOU set up THEM the bomb.]]

* In every last [[Bomberman]] game, [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|YOU set up THEM the bomb.]]

* 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.

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* 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 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]]: Dark Crusade'' has the player do this to the Necron stronghold. Especially with the Necron Pariah's reaction.

* In [[Team Fortress 2 ~~(Video Game)~~|Meet the Demoman]] the RED Demoman does this to the entire BLU team.

* In [[Team Fortress 2|Meet the Demoman]] the RED Demoman does this to the entire BLU team.

* 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.

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* ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score'': "You've been scammed, sweetheart!"

* Happens in the ''[[~~Beast Wars (Animation)|~~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.

* 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.

** If it seems [[Die Hard ~~(Film)~~|familiar]], that's because the entire episode is [[Die Hard On an X|Die Hard with Transformers.]]

** If it seems [[Die Hard|familiar]], that's because the entire episode is [[Die Hard on an X|Die Hard with Transformers.]]