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[[File:Super Mario RPG big bomb.png|link=Super Mario RPG|frame|[[Oh Crap]] doesn't even cover this.]]
{{quote|'''Burt:''' That's 2.5 tons of high explosives, Earl!
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* Buster Machine III, a.k.a. the Black Hole Bomb in ''[[Gunbuster]]''. Part of it's construction involved compressing the planet Jupiter into a shell roughly two-thirds the size of the Moon. {{spoiler|When detonated, it swallows the entire core of the Milky Way galaxy.}}
* Parodied by [[D.Gray-man]] where Komui attempts to launch a classic bomb on one of the scientists who was walking around town with Komui's younger sister Lenalee to go shopping. Komui assumed that the poor guy was hitting on Lenalee, so he sets out to do all he can to kill him, which explains the bomb. Luckily, Lavi defuses that bomb, only to find that Komui had an extra mini bomb in hand, which he uses to blow half a store.
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', part of
** And just so we're clear... that was ''part'' of the plan. [[Hope Spot|It was a very explosive laden plan]]. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it didn't work, but it was nice watching. Who knows ''[[Running Gag|how many times]]'' she has done this on Walpurgisnacht.}}
** Other parts included a [[Field of Blades|Field of]]''[[Field of Blades|Bazookas]]'', oil cistern and a pair of battleship-launced missiles.
* In [[Ranma ½]], Mousse chains Ranma to a giant bomb bigger than himself, complete with digital timer. It was supposedly hidden in his robe. Rules of [[Rule of Cool|Cool]], [[Rule of Funny|Funny]], and [[Rule of Drama|Drama]] were all arguably used.
== Comic Books ==
* [[The DCU|DC Comics]]' ''Cosmic Odyssey'' included some big bombs, like the splash-page bomb found by Green Lantern. {{spoiler|A ''yellow'' bomb.}}
== Film ==
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* In ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'', the goal is to jump-start the Sun by destroying or disrupting a [[All in The Manual|theoretical particle only barely understood by physics which has latched onto it and is slowing its fusion reaction, effectively causing it to fade and die]]. The means: an enormous f***ing bomb which required half of Earth's fissile resources to build. And it's one of ''two''.
* In ''[[James Camerons Avatar|Avatar]]'', the bad guys attempt to blow up the Tree of Souls with a ''huge'' pallet of mining explosives. {{spoiler|When the shuttle loses an engine, [[Hoist by His Own Petard|it rolls back and crushes the marine who was preparing to push it out]]}}.
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[Posleen War Series|Gust Front]]'', the Fredericksburg Executive Building in Fredricksburg, Virginia is filled with propane for the purpose of turning it into a giant fuel-air explosive that, when detonated, completely levels the town, as part of a deception to keep the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Posleen]] from locating the impromptu bomb shelter the townspeople are using to hide from the aliens.
* Various [[MythBusters
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* Various [[MythBusters|Mythbusters']] Mantras dictate there must be at least one explosion per episode. Most of the early Myths were small scale booms (I.E. an exploding cellphone, or blowing up a house using bug bombs). Then came the myth that cherry bombs could remove concrete after it solidifed in a mixer truck... after escalating to dynamite and only chipping the surface of the mess, the gang tried [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|several hundred pounds of ANFO]]. (Interestingly enough, the dynamite DID work to break the relatively thin layer of concrete left on the sides of the mixer quite well - it just didn't do much to the five-foot-thick chunk left at the bottom.)
** Just to be absolutely clear, it ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|vaporized]]'' the truck. Which they knew it would do - after all, if they had to track down an unused-for-the-day quarry for the blast, and shut down highways ''miles'' away, they darn well knew that that much explosive wouldn't just remove the concrete; they simply wanted to blow up the truck.
* [[Knightmare]] featured a room which contained nothing but an exit and an enormous bomb. The fuse would start shortly after the dungeoneer entered the room from a door on the left hand side of the screen. The dungeoneer's advisors, who were used to being able to describe the dungeoneer's surroundings for them, had no time to do anything but get the dungeoneer to a door in the far wall of the room. The room soon became known simply as [[Fan Nickname|the Bomb Room]], and it provided many an [[Oh Crap]] moment.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Free Space]]'' has the GTM N1 Harbinger Bomb, a huge space bomb with a [[Nuke'Em|fusion warhead with three salted-fission warheads]]. Only the Ursa heavy bomber can carry it, plus it can carry two per missile bank and takes thirty seconds to reload. Ditto its counterpart in Freespace 2, the Helios Torpedo, which is a massive Antimatter bomb.
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* ''[[Housepets]]'' plays with this trope in "The Great Water Balloon War" story arc<ref>full of parodies of various warfare tropes</ref> [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/06/29/the-bigger-one/ here].
== Western Animation ==
* ''Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour 2'', the second crossover between ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' and ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', reaches its climax when Professor Calamitous uses Jorgen's magic powers to create the "Big Bang Bomb," literally, an enormous bomb a thousand times bigger than your conventional explosives, set to destroy ''the whole universe'' when it goes off. Calamitous plans to shield himself from the blast under an equally large... [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|table.]]
== Real Life ==
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