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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* The ''[[
* ''[[Beverly Hills Ninja]]'', ''[[Cloak and Dagger]]'', and ''[[
** ''Speed'' has fun with the fact it's not a time bomb, but a speed bomb, so the speedometer acts as a readout meter. When the bus encounters a problem, director Jan De Bont likes to show the speedometer getting ''ohsoclose'' to the 50-mph point.
* ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''. Homer actually causes the timer to advance when he kicks the bomb dejectedly. In another scene, a bomb defusal robot {{spoiler|shoots itself with Chief Wiggum's gun, in a scene similar to one from [[Full Metal Jacket]].}}
* Subverted in ''[[Lethal Weapon 3]]'': a foolhardy attempt by Riggs to defuse the bomb speeds up the counter. The only thing left to do is run, and let the building be destroyed. On a related note: why do the heroes never, ever just pull the detonators out of the plastic explosives?
* The nuclear bomb in the [[James Bond (
** Subverted (somewhat) in ''[[
** And more appropriately, subverted again in ''[[
** In ''[[
* The bundle of explosives in ''[[The Mask (
* The nuclear [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] in ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' (1971), which is disarmed with 8 seconds to spare.
** In the novel, it was 34 seconds, to which Dr Hall says "Plenty of time. Hardly even exciting." But not to the people still stuck on Level V; {{spoiler|"... to improve the subterranean detonation characteristics of the atomic device, all air is evacuated from Level V, beginning 30 seconds before detonation." Hall's response: "Oh."}}
* In the ''[[The Shadow]]'' movie starring one of the Baldwin brothers there is a nuclear device (in a Pre-[[World War II]] 1930's setting America) which was going to blow up in 13 hours or something similar, but of course tampering with it trying to shut it off lead to ... 0.1 seconds left on the timer. Hooray!
* Disney's ''[[Peter Pan]]''. The bomb Captain Hook leaves for the title character, which is set to go off at 6 o'clock.
* ''[[Stargate (
* 1986 movie ''[[The Manhattan Project]]''. The radiation from the home-made nuclear weapon causes its own electronic timer to count down with increasing speed. It is finally stopped, reading 7:16:45, which refers to the date, July 16th, 1945, of the first atomic bomb test detonation.
* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996
* In ''[[
* ''Face/Off''. Castor Troy (as Sean Archer) casually disarms his own bomb with 2 seconds left on the clock.
* In the British disaster film ''Juggernaut'' (aka ''Terror on the Britannic''), an extortionist puts 6 identical , booby-trapped bombs on a cruise ship, promising the plans to defuse them if a ransom is paid by dawn tomorrow. Cue Richard Harris para-drops in to try to defuse them.
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* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' has one in the hotel room. Somewhat subverted, in that the heroes take a moment to decide whether or not they can disarm it, then decide to just run away from the thing. The villain who set it up does disarm it with five seconds on the timer. Then one of the aliens he pissed off earlier arms his own - ''starting'' with a five second timer. Presumably just so that anyone who saw it when it was activated would have time to soil themselves before they died.
* In ''[[Detective Conan]]: The Private Eye's Requiem'', Conan must deactivate the wristband bombs attached to Ran and the kids which will set off at the clock's hour or if they exit the amusement park's boundaries. He needs to input the correct computer password, accomplishing it, and successfully resets the timer with 9/10 of a second to spare.
* In [[Team America: World Police]], Kim Jong Il invokes the ticking [[Japanese Ranguage|crock]].
* In the ''[[Saw]]'' franchise almost every trap has the classic timer attached. Subverted in that the the victim is usually about 3 seconds ''away'' from defusing it when it goes off. Justified in the sense that the series would have very little following if people actually got out and the devices never went off while being close increases tension and their attempts to get out typically provides the torture portion of the "torture porn".
* Mater gets one strapped to his air filter during the climax of [[Cars|''Cars 2'']].
* The ''Nostromo'''s [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] in ''[[Alien (
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
* A throwaway bit in [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein's]] ''[[Starship Troopers (
* ''[[El Filibusterismo]]'' has a 19th-century version in the form of {{spoiler|a gas lamp.}}
* Boba Fett uses one to pull a [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]] on Bossk in ''[[Bounty Hunter Wars|The Mandalorian Armor]]'' so he can steal Bossk's ship (long story). As Fett gets away in the ''Hound's Tooth'', Bossk hears a voice aboard ''Slave I'' counting down. The timer reaches zero and ... nothing happens. {{spoiler|Fett was planning to come back to retrieve ''Slave I'' after he got the price on his own head lifted. [[Captain Obvious|That's kinda hard to do if it's free hydrogen.]]}}
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', too many times to count
* The second season opening episode of ''[[War of the
* An episode of ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
** Subverted again in a different episode when Gibbs finds a bomb under a bed in the house they are investigating. The team races out of the house and dives to hide behind a car. Over an hour later the bomb goes off just as the ME arrives to ask what they're all doing sitting there.
* ''[[
** Honorable mention to the fireworks O'Neill threatens his SGC recruits with during a training exercise in "Proving Ground". The recruits can't figure out how to disarm the "bomb" before the timer goes off, so the team leader aborts the exercise.
** Then, there's the episode "Fail Safe". In an attempt to destroy/divert an asteroid headed towards Earth, SG-1 places a bomb on it. Unfortunately, Carter then discovers that the asteroid itself is a huge bomb, and their bomb will trigger an explosion large enough to destroy Earth. With only a few minutes to go before the timer reaches zero, the team climbs back out to their bomb, only to discover that the control mechanism has been damaged by a falling rock. To make matters worse, instead of the classic red-wire, blue-wire, it turns out that all of the control wires are the same color; as O'Neill puts it, [[Lampshade Hanging|"This is a very poorly designed bomb!"]]
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* ''[[MacGyver]]'' featured ridiculously large numbers of time bombs, especially in earlier episodes. Pretty much the first [[MacGyvering]] we see is done to keep a time-delayed missile from exploding. There was even a time bomb in the ''opening credits,'' and an entire early episode focused on defusing some bombs on a cruise liner. Handily, Mac [[Expansion Pack Past|happens to have served in Vietnam as an expert in bomb defusing]].
** The "MacGruber" skits from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', which are themselves a parody of ''MacGyver'', always take place in a locked room with some sort of time bomb. One of his allies (Maya Rudolph, [[The Other Darrin|later Kristen Wiig]]) is always on hand, counting down the time on her watch. {{spoiler|However, the bomb always ends up exploding.}}
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* Leoben claims to have planted one in the first season of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', {{spoiler|but he's a perpetual liar who loves to Mind Frak people.}}
* A common plot device in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', although in this case it's usually the heroes who set the bomb. Much drama comes of having to escape the area before it goes off and much comedy comes of Carter's bombs going off a few seconds later than his eager countdown.
* Played straight more than once in ''[[Chuck]]'' ("Chuck Versus the Intersect", "Chuck Versus the Sandworm") but also subverted, as Chuck and Sarah {{spoiler|encounter a large device with a countdown timer that they believe to be a bomb. After an unsuccessful attempt to defuse the bomb, as the timer nears zero, they share a [[Now or
* ''[[
** And then ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had the Reality Bomb in "Journey's End", built by {{spoiler|Davros and his new army of Daleks.}}. When detonated, it would turn all forms of matter into dust, the dust into atoms and the atoms into nothing, effectively cleaning out the entire universe and all parralel dimensions. {{spoiler|Thank you, [[Doctor Donna]], for stopping it.}}
** Also in the First Doctor adventure "The Daleks"- the Daleks attempted to detonate a neutron bomb on Skaro in order to increase radiation levels on the planet and allow them to survive outside their city (wiping out the other native race, the Thals, in the process). The countdown is stopped with just a few seconds remaining.
* [[Truth in Television]] subversion: On ''Build It Bigger'', the host accompanies an excavation-crew in Peru as they set up explosives to expand a tunnel in the Andes. After lighting the fuse and retreating to a safe distance, their foreman shows him the 8-minute countdown that's running on his cell phone, which indicates there are about four minutes left before the blast. The explosives go off prematurely ''while they're filming this scene''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Castle]]'': "Countdown" has a dirty bomb with a timer set to go off in New York. Castle and Beckett find the bomb with less than 2 minutes. They send a picture of the bomb to an expert, but he can't see any way to disarm it in time. Castle and Beckett brace for the explosion, only for Castle to yank all the wires with the timer reaching 0. No boom, averting the [[Wire Dilemma]] trope.
* The [[Nickelodeon]] [[Game Show]] ''[[
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*** They pulled that same trick in ''Metroid: Fusion'' where you think that after beating the SA-X silly, you set off the bomb ''yourself'' that you're homefree. Nuhuh. One little old Metroid escaped and... has grown into an Omega.
* The Game Over screen in ''[[Final Fight]]'' features one.
* [[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door
* ''[[Splinter Cell]]: Pandora Tomorrow'' had an interesting example. A bomb set to release GM smallpox into the ventilation in Los Angeles Airport has only a few minutes left on the timer, not enough to defuse it or get it anywhere containable. Sam's solution? Carry it into the main terminal building and just leave it lying on the floor. The bomb squad gets called in and they contain the blast [[Just in Time]].
* In Illusion of Gaia you fight [[That One Boss]], the vampire couple, with one of your best friends strapped to one!
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* In ''[[Syphon Filter]]'', the first level of the first game has you racing to disarm one at the bottom of a subway station. {{spoiler|The second level of the game has you trying to get out of the same subway station after you fail to stop the bomb.}}
* In ''[[Police Quest]] II'', Sonny had to diffuse the bomb in the bathroom of an airplane that the hijackers took control. With the bomb instructions, you have to cut and connect the wires in reverse.
* In ''[[The Godfather (
* The central premise of the Intellivision game ''Bomb Squad''.
* Played with during the limited-time world event in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' to recapture Gnomeregan. As a last-ditch effort to halt the counter-attack, the villain activated a time bomb with a lengthy timer. The lead NPC cheerfully noted it was more than enough time to deactivate the bomb... until the villain, griping about factory settings, reset the timer to a few seconds.
* The characters who participate in the Nonary Game in ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]]'' have a small explosive inside their digestive tract. The detonator starts counting down from 81 seconds after going through a numbered door, and the people who walked through the door must deactivate it within the time limit, else the bomb explodes. The Ninth Man learned it the hard way by going through the numbered door solitarily.
* The Flash games ''Four Second Fury'', ''Four Second Frenzy'', and ''Four Second Firestorm'' are all a bunch of microgames in which you have [[Exactly What It Says
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[SF Debris]] noted that a time bomb used by Janeway would've neatly solved the final moral conflict<ref>Blow up the space station so the Kazon can't use it on the Ocampa, or use it to get home and leave the Ocampa to their fate?</ref> of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'s'' series premiere. Of course if Janeway had thought of it, they wouldn't have had a series.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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*** The Joker manually detonates one and nearly kills Green Lantern.
*** The other one, the final one, is grabbed by the Flash and moved to the desert ''while it's going off''.
* A ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
* Played for laughs in an episode of ''[[
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* Multiple times on [[Totally Spies]]. Including one time when the [[Big Red Button]] to stop the bomb was easily accessible, but Clover, Sam, and Britney [[Time Stands Still|had their bodies slowed down to the point that they would never make it to the bomb in time.]] {{spoiler|They are saved by Alex.}}
* Used several times in ''[[Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures
* [[Filmation]] ''[[The New Adventures of Superman]]'' episode "APE Strikes Again". Lex Luthor tries to use a bomb in an alarm clock to blow up a generator.
* The [[Mega Man (
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