Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: Difference between revisions

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

* 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.}}

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

** It was a photon torpedo.

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

== Video Games ==

 

* 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.

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

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

** 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.

** The Terran campaign of ''Brood War'' has {{spoiler|Duran}} setting up the bomb to the UED [[Non-Entity General]] by luring him into the Psi Distruptor and setting the reactor on overload.

* 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.

* 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.}}

== Western Animation ==

 

* 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.

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