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So what happens when you take that level of obsession and neurosis and give it to someone whose job is creating and using explosives? You wind up with a recipe for disaster. Take someone who [[Loners Are Freaks|has no friends and cannot interact with others]], has some [[Freudian Excuse]] or a terrorist cause (or, more likely, [[Terrorists Without a Cause|no cause at all]]) or is just plain old [[Ax Crazy]], give him a [[Weapon of Choice]] that kills people [[Deader Than Dead]] (and he usually seems to have no problem getting his hands on the ingredients for creating more bombs<ref>As [[CSI]]'s Grissom once said, "The dirty little secret about bombs is how easy they are to make.".</ref>), and you have a classic stock villain. (Although despite the status as a stock villain, they are often a chilling one, because of seemingly how easily this could be [[Truth in Television]]).
See also [[Bomb
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* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' has "Histerrier", who is quite literally mad, and has no motive for planting the bombs other than being {{spoiler|a bored housewife}}. Although she may have been the first of the main villain's pawns to be unveiled.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Solf J. Kimblee (also known as the Crimson or Red Lotus Alchemist) is certainly crazy, but he's good at hiding it, doubling as [[The Philosopher]] and a [[Social Darwinist]] with a [[Faux Affably Evil]] demeanour, and [[Moral Sociopathy|a genuine respect for people who stick to their guns]]. Still a raging [[The Sociopath|psychopath]] though, and one who [[Just Following Orders|sees no difference]] between saving people as a doctor and [[Sociopathic Soldier|killing them as a soldier]]. The Bomber part comes in with his own brand of alchemy: he destabilizes the molecules in everything around him to create explosions, at times making the very ''air'' explode.
** In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|the 2003 anime version]], Kimblee is much worse at hiding his craziness. His powers are rather different from the manga version, and slightly less destructive. Instead of making the air explode, he transmutes things into bombs by rearranging their chemical components into explosives. His favourite targets are ''people'', [[Why Am I Ticking?|which he turns into delayed chemical explosives]] and laughs at while they [[You Are Already Dead|deal with being dead men walking]]. He can and will turn virtually anything, including his fellow soldiers, into organic bombs. In his first encounter with Scar, Kimblee went so far as to blow up separate limbs and the skin on Scar's forehead, creating the distinctive facial marking. After he blew up the wrong people (namely his commanding officers) and was arrested, he actually earned the new nickname "Madman Bomber". Tells you a lot about how stupid some of the people in the Amestrian government are that [[Genre Blind|they feel it's a good idea to bail him out of jail]], give him a [[Amplifier Artifact|Philosopher's Stone]], and ask him to be an assassin. Take a guess as to what happens.
* The [[Astro Boy (Anime)|2003 series of Astro Boy]] has Kato, who combines this trope with [[Mad Artist]]. He calls his acts of destructions his "masterpieces."
* Gokudera from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' keeps a near-endless supply of sticks of dynamite concealed on his person at all times. Like his [[Weapon of Choice]], he's quite a bit unstable, but he's not one of the villains of the story, as he was a test of Reborn's to start with and [[Defeat Means Friendship|converts to Tsuna's side]] after Tsuna defuses ''all'' of his bombs with his dying will in order to avoid dying, and becomes his [[Ho Yay|obsessively]] [[Bodyguard Crush|devoted]] self-described 'right-hand man.' Tsuna [[I Just Want to Be Normal|prefers to think of him as a friend]].
* ''[[Naruto]]'' had Deidara, member of Akatsuki who passionately believes his explosions [[Mad Artist|are a work of beautiful, fleeting moments of art]], and has frequent arguments with [[Marionette Master|Sasori]] over it. His sole motive as a missing-nin (a ninja, who betrays his village by defecting) is to blow up things; the fact that he can get paid for it by Akatsuki or terrorist organizations is just icing. He doesn't mind Sasori having differing opinions so much, but he can't stand his art being treated with indifference as by Itachi and Sasuke, the latter of whom finally beats him .{{spoiler|Ultimately, he decides to blow himself, trying to take Sasuke with him- not for defeating him, mind, but for the whole indifference thing.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Detective Conan]]''; the bomber in the first [[Non
* 'Minnie' May Hoskins from ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' is a borderline example. The 18 year old ex-prostitute has other interests; but in addition to her lighting up at the idea of anything explosive and keeping a fair bit of materiel on her person, blowing things up or smelling things associated with demolitions is the most reliable way of... well... bringing said other interests to the forefront of her mind.
** Her much older boyfriend Ken Takizawa also fits the bill, although he's much calmer about his obsession. Unlike May, he has also arranged actual terrorist bombings for living.
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** Shortly before that they wanted to blow open the cargo holds on some captured ships. Geary asked if the Engineers wanted help from the Marines. The was informed that "Engineers are better than Marines at blowing stuff up." His answer "We will hold a contest someday."
* Mr. Red from ''Demolition Angel'' by Robert Crais is a cross between this and [[Psycho for Hire]]
* ''[[Dresden Files]]'': Not his only method of killing by any means, but Kincaid has a somewhat disturbing tendency to jump to "high explosives" as the solution to all life's ills. Harry, [[Pop
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Lance Corporal Jones from ''[[
* Inverted with Carter in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', who is actually very friendly, enthusiastic, and amiably [[The Ditz|clueless]] about most things. He just really likes his explosives, to the point of being depressed that he had to send several of his handmade bombs to be dropped on a Nazi facility without getting to go along and watch, comparing it to sending a child off into the world.
* In ''[[
** The Doctor was also quite adamant about her not carrying those around. However, he did appreciate it's usefulness...
{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' You wouldn't [be doing] anything so insanely dangerous as to be carrying any Nitro 9 around with you, would you? <br />
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television|Real life example]]: George Metesky, who planted 33 bombs (22 of which exploded) and injured a total of 15 people from 1940 to 1956. He was motivated by being denied compensation when he waited too long to file a claim after an industrial accident. See [[The Other Wiki]] [
* Franz Fuchs, a racist terrorist guy who used a total of 28 bombs,killing four people and injuring 15. [[Laser-Guided Karma]] ensued when he attempted suicide to avoid arrest, losing both his hands to one of his own pipe bombs.
** Also in real life: The Unabomber.
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