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'''[[Oh Crap|You have ten seconds to read this entry]]. ''Start reading.'''''
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* The countdown to Graceland's destruction in ''[[Coyote Ragtime Show]]'' is not only displayed on the bomb itself, but publicly announced daily by the Galactic President.
* Constantly in ''[[Spiral]]''. Almost every other episode seems to be about some kind of time bomb.
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** {{spoiler|...and the bomb itself...}}
* ''[[Summer Wars]]'': {{spoiler|Love Machine eventually sets a two-hour countdown on OZ's worldwide clock. When it hit zero, it was supposed to crash a Japanese satellite, which it had recently taken over, to crash into a nuclear power plant. Once Love Machine is thwarted, and the timer stops, it starts up again, this time with the satellite aiming right at the house the main characters are sitting in.}}
* In one episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' one of the [[Eldritch Abomination
* The ''[[Digimon]]'' movie "Our War Game" had the clock stop with it fluctuating at .01 and .02 seconds. However, this was about five seconds before {{spoiler|the missile landed and destroyed Tokyo}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'', team enemy Gatecrasher devises an...unusual example: as Excalibur is making breakfast, one of the eggs jumps off the counter, breaks open, and reveals a cartoony bird who starts shouting at the team. As they stare at it in complete bogglement, it starts counting down...
== [[Film]] ==
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* Disney's ''[[Peter Pan]]''. The bomb Captain Hook leaves for the title character, which is set to go off at 6 o'clock.
* ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'': One of the most egregious [[Magic Countdown]] examples, as O'Neil says they have five minutes to activate the Stargate and leave. However, once he cues up the Digital Readout, it counts down at a rate of about two seconds per actual second.
* 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
* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]''. Hale jumps off the train pressing the cancel button on the remote trigger exactly at two seconds.
* In ''[[Armageddon]]'', this happens not once, but twice in a row. The first time, the timer on nuclear bomb is remotely canceled from Earth, only to be restarted after a direct order from the President. Back on board the asteroid, the bomb is stopped again manually, the timer freezing at 2.46 seconds.
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* Mater gets one strapped to his air filter during the climax of [[Cars|''Cars 2'']].
* The ''Nostromo'''s [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' counts, since it gives Ripley only ten minutes to leave the ship before it explodes. {{spoiler|She makes it out just in time, including stopping to pick up the cat.}}
* The terrorist time bomb in ''[[Black Butler (film)|Black Butler]]'' comes with a digital time display and a PIN reader for opening the outer suitcase shell. Shiori never actually defuses the bomb, only solves the PIN and detaches the chemical part from the explosive part, which she throws out to blow up harmlessly over the sea.
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* 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
* In ''[[24]]'', the
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', too many times to count
* The second season opening episode of ''[[War of the Worlds]]'', in which the base of the Blackwood Project was blown sky-high.
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** 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!"]]
* In an early episode of ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'', Sledge has to find and disarm a time bomb hidden in a clock store.
* ''[[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: The Original Series]]'' episodes "Obsession", "The Immunity Syndrome" and "The Doomsday Machine", the bomb was used by the ''Enterprise'' crew to destroy a [[Monster of the Week]]. In each case crew members or the ''Enterprise'' had to get out of the blast radius before the bomb detonated.
* Leoben claims to have planted one in the first season of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* 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 Never Kiss]], but the device turns out not to be a bomb}}. All three of those in the first nine episodes of the series. Also played straight in "Chuck Versus the Third Dimension"{{spoiler|, in which the device has to be taken away from the crowd.}}
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** 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''.
* ''[[Danger UXB]]'', being about a [[Bomb Disposal]] unit during [[World War Two]], is a more realistic portrayal of this trope. The Germans keep dropping bombs with timed detonators because they know they'll cause more disruption and panic. Naturally no-one knows when the bomb will go off. An exception is in "Seventeen Seconds to Glory" when a naval mine is being defused. Once the timer starts they explode in seventeen seconds regardless. The naval officer drops the tiny device used to deactivate the
* ''[[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]] ''[[Think Fast]]'' featured one in the first version of its "Locker Room" [[Bonus Round]]. While being given 30 seconds to match items or characters behind lockers, the first contestant had to open the locker containing the Time Bomb in 20 seconds; otherwise, the second contestant would only be given 20 seconds (instead of 30) to find the remaining matches.
* In episode 14 of the Korean series ''[[Strong Girl Bong-soon]]'', the [[Big Bad]] takes advantage of the heroine's [[De-Power]]ed state to abduct her and chain her to a pipe on a building roof with a time bomb duct-taped to her. She has to plead with the unknown powers that granted -- and took away -- her [[Super Strength]], not to save her own life, but that of her lover, who has found her there and refuses to leave.
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Wildcat: "Of course, my watch is a little slow..." }}
* 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|The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'', notably in "Escape from Questworld," and "Future Rage," in both of which cases Dr. Quest manages to stop the countdown with one second left.
* [[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.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4 Snape, Snape, Severus Snape.]
* Including it just because it was so epic: in one script for the now cancelled ''[[The Flash]]'' movie, Vandal Savage declared he'd done this. If the Flash, the "Fastest Man Alive" couldn't find it in time, it would kill his wife. Flash checks literally everywhere for it, but couldn't find it in time, and had to escape, saving himself and [[What an Idiot!|not carrying her away]]. A few decades later, Savage offhand mentions: "What bomb? I used a rocket to blow up Wifey-Poo".
* During the Blitz the Luftwaffe used to drop a few of these along with the conventional load over London, just to mess with people's heads a bit more.
* One inversion is a type of mine in fashion today with a long range timing device. The timer is not there to set them off where they can do damage so much as clear them when no one wants them to do damage anymore. Obviously this method requires careful bookkeeping so that everyone can be warned where they are and when they are supposed to go off.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Bomb Disposal]]
[[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]]
[[Category:Weapons and Wielding Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Time Bomb]]
[[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]]
[[Category:Tropes on a Deadline]]
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