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* Subverted in the ''[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Judge Dredd]]'' comic book, where a 4-year-old amoral supergenius tries to hold Mega-City One hostage with several nuclear warheads placed in strategic locations. After bragging to the Judges that no one in the city but himself is smart enough to be able to defuse his intricate booby-trapped bomb triggers, Dredd solves the dilemma by simply handcuffing the villain to one of his own bombs.
* ''[[Animal Man]]'' has the titular hero completely stumped as to how to disarm a Thanagarian bomb. Luckily, resident Thanagarian Hawkman walks in at the last second and figures out where the off switch is.
* Played with in the [[Spider-Man]] [[Clone Saga]] story "Maximum Clonage", the Scarlet Spider's able to easily defuse a bomb's chemical payload the Jackal had set up to wipe out New York through his Spider-Sense, but he's forced to haul it out to the Hudson Bay when he can't disarm the actual explosive.{{verify|reason=It's over 1400 miles from New York City to Hudson Bay, going through Toronto and North Bay. Did Spidey possibly drop the bomb in the Hudson River, right next door to NYC, instead of going through Canada to Hudson Bay?}}
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Castle]]'': Mostly averted in episode "Countdown"; when faced with a bomb about to go off, with the expert a couple blocks away (New York traffic, seconds to go) and unable to make out the cell phone photo they sent him, Castle and Beckett hold hands, give each other sad looks, and then {{spoiler|Castle grabs a whole handful of wires as the timer counts down to the last second and yanks. Later he says "One of them had to be the right one."}}
* ''[[Family Matters]]'': Instead of having a timer, the bomb is on a treadmill, which has to have a rider on it non stop until it can be defused. When Murtaugh notes a red, blue, and yellow wire, Carl (who is running on it) tells Murtaugh that, "Red we're dead, blue we're through, yellow we're mellow." In truth, he made that up, but yellow is indeed the correct wire.
* ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'': One episode has the hero try to disarm a nuclear bomb, when told to 'cut the red wire' he replies that the wires are all black. Then a bomb tech yanks out all the wires disarming the bomb.
* Subverted in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''{{'}}s season one episode, "The Army-Navy Game". Of course, nobody in their right mind would even ''consider'' writing a manual this way:
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