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* [[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]] subverts this beautifully with a bomb made by the Laughing Fist, Diego Carlo. Miu disarms it, and a little video of Diego pops up, telling her that he wouldn't make disarming the bomb that easy, and starts the timer. Then she disarms it again...and another video pops up, with Diego mocking her for attempting to disarm the bomb again, and takes another minute off the timer as a penalty. Then {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes|Miu's grandfather shows up]], picks up the bomb, and throws it far enough away that it doesn't do any damage.}}
* In the third season of [[Koihime Musou]], Rin-rin must choose between red or blue {{spoiler|tail of an enraged elephant that's been imbued with the forces of the metaphysical.}}
* In ''[[City Hunter]] The Motion Picture'', Kaori must choose between six different colored wires. Ryo tells her to cut the {{spoiler|blue}} wire - he made the decision by {{spoiler|[[Bat Deduction|lifting his client's skirt and noting the color of her panties, which were blue.]]}} It turns out {{spoiler|to be the right choice.}}
{{quote|'''Ryo:''' {{spoiler|What are you so mad about? It WORKED, didn't it?}}}}
* Shows up in episode 3 of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''. Barnaby is doing fine cutting the wires to a bomb until he gets to the final two: both the same color, but sticking out from the top and bottom ends of the detonator. He is stuck on which to cut, but in the end [[Take a Third Option|chooses the "upper" one]]—as in he and his [[Charles Atlas Superpower|super-powered]] partner break the ceiling and throw the bomb into the air a second before it goes off, thus [[Relocating the Explosion]].
* Subverted(maybe more downright averted) in episode 13 of ''[[
* ''[[Rail Wars!]]'': Sakurai shows off her [[Cowboy Cop]] tendencies by disarming a bomb the slow way - after having been ordered not to try. {{spoiler|She succeeds, but only by thinking outside the box}}.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[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 ''[[
{{quote|'''Henry:''' (reading instructions) And carefully cut the wires leading to the clockwork fuse at the head.
''Trapper cuts the wires''
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* [[Played for Laughs]] in the [[Hidden Object Game]] ''Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle''. One minigame requires you to disarm a bomb by cutting colored wires in the correct order. If you cut the wrong wire, you get a short cutscene of the island exploding, a snarky comment on the lines of "try again", and the minigame resets.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]:[[Vice City]]'' has an amusing example in the mission Publicity Tour. The band Love Fist's car has been rigged with a bomb that will explode if their limo slows down. The drunken stupor of Love Fist's efforts to cut the wires combined with Tommy's annoyance? Priceless.
* In the Uldum storyline of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', this dilemma comes up when the player and [[Adventure Archaeologist| Brann Bronzebeard]] find the [[Doomsday Device]] left behind by the Titans. With a one-minute countdown due to Brann's sloppy approach, he decides to simply cut the color associated with the player's faction (blue if Alliance, red for Horde) and lucks out. Unfortunately, the player can't help him here, even though he or she has done pretty much everything else in the dungeon.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* During the Second World War, some bombs dropped over Britain by the Luftwaffe intentionally featured such designs, on the logic that simply blowing up a building causes trouble, but calling out the bomb squad could drive an entire town to a standstill.
**In those days the tech always had a walkie-talkie to an enlisted man out of range of potential explosion. When ever he made a move he would say,"Unscrewing this fastener, cutting this wire, etc. If the next sound heard out of the radio is, "BOOM", then this is recorded and the bomb squad has information about what not to do.
* At least one novelty alarm clock (like [[:image:Colored wires bomb cutter 3268.jpg|the one in the photo]]) has been marketed to play directly on this trope... by appearing to be a fake bomb, on which cutting one randomly-selected wire either stops the count or (alternately) causes the remaining time to "detonation" to suddenly become zero.
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