Sticky Bomb: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|"You take a standard G.I. sock, cram it with as much Comp B as it can hold, rig up a simple fuse, then coat the whole thing with axle grease. Now when you throw it, it should stick. It's a bomb that sticks, a 'sticky bomb.'"|'''Capt. Miller''', ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''.}}

== Live Action TV ==

 

* In the first episode of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', Dillon fashions a makeshift sticky bomb by sticking a grenade to a wet lollipop. Unrealistic? Yeah. Awesome? [[Rule of Cool|Hell Yeah!]]

* In the season 1 finale of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Michael and Fiona build one by plastering tile adhesive over a mop wrapped around a C4-containing piece of Tupperware.

* Not explained very well, but ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]]'s'' thermal detonators, in contrast to the rather un-sticky one shown in Episode 6, can stick to enemy soldiers if thrown properly.

** ''Battlefront'' also has concussion grenades that are meant for taking on vehicles: they deal less damage to infantry than thermal detonators but stick to vehicles. ''Battlefront II'' removed them entirely and just made thermal detonators stick to vehicles.

** ''Call of Duty 2'' has [[Shout-Out|the same improvised sticky bombs]] as ''Saving Private Ryan'' above in the Russian campaign for anti-tank work.

** ''Modern Warfare'' and ''Black Ops'' also have blocks of C4, which can be stuck on walls and ceilings to ambush enemies.

* ''[[Red Faction]]'': for massive schadenfreude, toss a slap-charge onto an enemy's back and watch him run around screaming until you set it off.

* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'': all mines (timed, remote and proximity) can stick on anything except shield. Having one on you make a [[Dead Man Walking]], because there is no way to survive the explosion.

* Enemies in ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' behave similarly when the player uses demolition charges.

* ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' lets you buy an upgrade for Riflemen that allows them to throw sticky bombs. They are only to be used against vehicles, though.

** Snake can also do this with his Down-B, if timed right. Considering his are remote activated, that [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|makes the victim's frantic responses all the more delicious]].

* ''[[Spelunky]]'': As an upgrade gained from a shop or by killing a [[Giant Spider]]. They will stick to ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|anything]]'' except the Spelunker's hands.

* ''[[Shadow Warrior]]'' has these as a weapon. They look like small, metallic spheres with spikes. Can be stuck to the walls or to enemies, and explode if someone is in vicinity for a while.

{{quote| "Look, you have a new friend!" (after sticking a bomb to someone)}}

* ''[[Metro 2033]]'' has pipe bombs covered in nails as its version of this trope. The nails will stick to surfaces or enemies, which can lead to some considerable [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]].

* Bombs in ''[[Terraria]]'' can be combined with slime goo to make sticky bombs, which stop as soon as they hit the ground/wall/ceiling. [[Flavor Text|Tossing them may be difficult.]]

** A possible setting made the ground of the map sticky, making all kinda of thrown weapons not roll away unlike usual. That didn't make then stick to worms, though, while the actual sticky bomb could do so.

* ''[[Gears of War]]'' features four kinds of grenades that can attached to walls with a melee attack to act as proximity mines, or can be attached to ENEMIES to invoke this trope.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* On more than one occasion, [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote]] has had to deal with a lit stick of dynamite accidentally glued to his hand.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' had the nano-tick bomb. It eventually gets stuck on Kim, with classmates mistaking it for a zit.

 

== Real Life ==

{{quote| "It was while practicing that a [Home Guard] bomber got his stick bomb stuck to his trouser leg and couldn’t shift it. A quick thinking mate whipped the trousers off and got rid of them and the bomb. After the following explosion the trousers were in a bit of a mess [[Bring My Brown Pants|though I think they were a bit of a mess prior to the explosion]]."}}

** Not surprisingly, the Sticky Bombs were quickly replaced with more reliable Anti-Tank weapons, like the Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) Spigot Mortar. And given the major shortcomings of the PIAT (cocking the weapon required considerable strength, especially if done while prone to avoid detection; the projectile would fall out of the tube if it was aimed downwards!), that should tell you how bad the sticky bomb was.

* The very controversial "Operation Tailwind" story that got a bunch of people fired from CNN in the 1990s claimed the existence of a type of anti-personnel mine called "Pot Pie" that was supposed to be deployed using a styrofoam cooler. When it warmed up, it was supposed to extend tendrils that would wrap around whatever was nearby and hold it in place until detonation. Whether this actually existed is unclear; after the producers were fired for alleged shoddy journalism, they sued CNN for millions and got fat settlements, while the executives who fired them were fired as well, leaving the veracity of the entire story more or less permanently unresolvable. Thus are the perils of reporting on [[The Vietnam War]].

 

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