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== Anime ==
* ''[[Excel Saga (
* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', Gren sets Vicious up the bomb in the form of {{spoiler|a music box.}}
* In ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'', Tylor gives a present to the enemy captain he has just surrendered to, not knowing that it was actually a bomb the space marines on board had given to him wrapped as a gift to get rid of him, making this a totally intentional instance of [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]].
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== Film ==
* The original ''[[Stargate (
** Even better, Ra's soldiers were using that bomb to do the same to Earth, and after killing them O'Neil sent it to Ra ''because he couldn't deactivate it''.
* ''[[
** ''[[Star Trek III:
** Alt-Captain Janeway (or maybe the original? It's a bit confusing) pulls the same trick in "Deadlock." The Vidiians, having overrun ''Voyager'', enter the bridge, where they are greeted by a pleasantly smiling Janeway and a silent autodestruct countdown.
{{quote| "Hello. I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway. Welcome to the bridge." ''BAH-WHAM''}}
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* This turns up a lot in the ''[[Pink Panther]]'' films from ''A Shot in the Dark'' onwards. More often than not, they result in [[Non-Fatal Explosions]].
{{quote| '''Clouseau''': Special delivery -- a bermb. Did you order one? A BERMB?!}}
* ''[[
* In ''[[
** Something very similar happened with a mook in the Tim Burton Batman movie.
* Samir Horn in ''[[
* In ''[[Law Abiding Citizen]]'', the villain/protagonist/whateverheis has a napalm bomb placed in City Hall, intending to kill the major and the city's emergency service officers. However, the attorney he's been up against the entire film shows up and lectures him, telling him that if he detonates, he'll have to live with his decision for the rest of his life. He decides to detonate, not realizing that the attorney has placed the bomb underneath his prison cot.
* In the [[Chuck Norris]] masterpiece ''Invasion U.S.A.'', a group of [[Dirty Communists|bad guys]] are trying to [[Kick the Dog|blow up a church]] while people inside are seeking shelter. They hit the detonator, and-- click. Cue Chuck showing up behind them: "Didn't work, huh?", dropping the bomb into their car, then connecting the wires he cut. [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"Now it will."]] Boom.
** Elsewhere in the same movie, a group of bad guys in a car attach a time bomb to the side of a [[Bus Full of Innocents|school bus full of children]]. Chuck drives up next to it, yanks the bomb off, [[Hoist
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* 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 ''[[
== Literature ==
* ''[[
** Twice.
** He also does it in the first book, luring Root to Holly's transponder.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The ending of the three part "Hot to Katrazi" arc on ''[[
* 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.}}
* Both the season one opener and closer of ''[[Leverage]]'' featured a bomb going off like this. The first was deployed by the villain, the second by the protagonists(though it wasn't meant to kill, only to destroy the evidence in their office)
* Favorite tactic early on in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', since it ensured that the nuke took out a Basestar.
* They did it to a Borg.. um.. rounded rectangular prism? in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** It was a photon torpedo.
*** Set to "overload" and beamed into the ship after Voyager had disabled their shields.
*** The Borg ship was the rectangular prism, not the photon torpedo.
* In ''Legend Of The Rangers'', one of the [[
* While we may not get to see it, one opening quote gives us:
{{quote| '''"Requested:'''<br />
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Surprise party for a foreign dignitary."<br />
[[Andromeda|Argosy Special Operations requisition form]], CY 9512 }}
* In ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': At the end of the third season, Lord Zedd sends Goldar and Rito into the tunnels under the Command Center to plant a bomb and blow the place up. It succeeds, quite chillingly, though Zordon had prepared for the possibility. And in the finale to ''[[Power Rangers
* In the [[Alternate Universe|alternate reality]] of the ''[[Stargate SG
** Honorable mention to the fireworks O'Neill used to booby-trap the [[MacGuffin]] in one of the training scenarios in "Proving Grounds". His trainees abort the "mission" rather than try to disarm them.
** According to "Summit", the System Lord Ba'al apparently had a reputation for doing this to his enemies. In the words of Daniel Jackson, gifts from Ba'al "have a habit of exploding."
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== Web Original ==
* [[Ruby Quest
* ''[[
** Bonus points for recreating the above-mentioned ''Enterprise'' self-destruct in ''[[Star Trek III:
* [[MS Paint Adventures|I WILL EXPLODE]] [[Oh Crap|IN YOUR FACE.]]
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* [[Order of the Stick]]: [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0659.html "Guess what spell I cast before giving this to the bird."]
** Scribing Explosive Runes on random items for various enemies to find, usually in the form of "[[Shmuck Bait|Guess what spell I prepared this morning]]" is one of Vaarsuvius's running gags.
* [[
{{quote| '''Man''': What was that?!<br />
'''Woman''': Remote mines under your car.<br />
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* In the old ''[[Dragonball Z]]: Budokai'' game, Mr. Satan (AKA Hercule) uses an exploding portable console (looks like an oversized GBA) to trick his enemies in his Super Attacks. Everyone falls for it, even Cell...
* Happens at the end of every level in the [[Third-Person Shooter]] subgame of ''[[Die Hard]] Trilogy''.
* In every last [[
* This is actually a cheat code in ''[[Starcraft]]'' that makes you instantly lose.
** 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.
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* 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.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]]: Dark Crusade'' has the player do this to the Necron stronghold. Especially with the Necron Pariah's reaction.
* In [[Team Fortress 2
* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', {{spoiler|Anders uses Hawke as an [[Unwitting Pawn]] to set up the Chantry the bomb.}}
* In the attact mode cinematic to ''Tekken 5'', someone delivers a bomb to Heihachi Mishima via Jack robot.
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* ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score'': "You've been scammed, sweetheart!"
* Happens in the ''[[
* 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.
** If it seems [[Die Hard
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