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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', probably as a [[Shout-Out]] to the Voyager/TNG example above, features former Ambassador Ch'vorthq. Ch'vorthq is a genetically engineered bomb, set to go off at a meeting between the Creethlings (for whom he is the nominal ambassador) and the Golbwerians, killing the Golbwerian diplomats and allowing the Creethlings to attack in force. He's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|disarmed]] before he can do any actual damage. Unusually, Ch'vorthq doesn't '''know''' he's a bomb; he thinks he's a legitimate diplomat, and is horrified to discover that his employers/designers didn't ''actually'' want him to make peace. However, the 'disarmament' only stoped him from being forcibly detonated - he could still blow himself up at will. Or, rather, (since he's ugly, not crazy), setting a part of his anatomy on a short fuse and throwing it. At this point, he's lost both his arms and one of his eyes this way, but since then has managed to remain sufficiently in the background that further [[Heroic Sacrifice]] hasn't been necessary.

* Agatha's Dingbots in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has the ability to do this, a rather uncomfortable fact that the Baron's army learned when they found themselves fighting several swarms of them.

* Ran in ''[[Bob and George]]'' is built of shoddy Soviet materials, and breaks so often (and is made so cheaply) that his creator simply set a machine to automatically download his memory and personality into a new body and teleport it back to the location of the previous one when he dies. Result, when the heroes are facing an army of Robot Masters? [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040910 Ran Bombs!]

* Nuclear Dan's entire strategy in ''[[Another Gaming Comic]]'' is to do this. Subverted in that he's normally immune to fire, but justified that any time he isn't, he still does it. It is surprisingly effective.