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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.}}
* 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
* There's a running gag of [[Pokémon|Team Rocket]] getting stuck with some really undesirable mon-related situation, such as being surrounded by Gyarados. Sometimes, this is a Voltorb that proceeds to, you guessed it, self-destruct.
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* 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,
** 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]].
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