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{{quote|''"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!"''|'''[[Batman]]''', ''[[Batman: theThe Movie]]''}}
 
If you ask a person to draw a bomb, this is probably what you get. A spherical black object about the size of a bowling ball with a fuse sticking out of it. Sometimes it may have the word "Bomb" (or "Boom") written on it in bold letters. Very common in cartoons and comic books, and somewhat surprisingly in the relatively new medium of video games.
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== Anime ==
* BomberNanimon from ''[[Digimon Savers]]''...provided you aren't watching the American dub. BomberNanimon also appeared in the card game and some of the video games, and in these media he avoided the [[Macekre]].
* Nice Holystone from ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]'' actually uses bombs like this as weapons, although given their small size, they're more like giant [[wikipedia:Cherry bomb|cherry bombs]].
* ''[[To Love Ru (Manga)|To Love Ru]]'': Saki Tenjouin [http://www.onemanga.com/to-LOVE-ru/84/11/ uses one] in the sports festival.
* ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]'' filler episode "Lenalee's Love" features two of these: first a small one used by a (rather pathetic) akuma to attack Lenalee, and later a gigantic one by her overprotective brother Komui.
* ''[[Ranma Half]]'': [[Improbable Weapon User|Happo]] [[I Know Kung Faux|Fire]] [[Supernatural Martial Arts|Burst]]. Exaggeration and combination with [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] means Happosai is able to pull bombs ''bigger than himself'' from his shirt. All these tropes may be "[[Justified]]" with the idea that they're actually a [[Ki Attacks|Ki construct]].
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'': In ''The Broken Ear'', Corporal Diaz throws one through Alcazar's open window. Tintin picks it up and throws it right back, hitting Corporal Diaz on the head and knocking him into a fountain basin. Earlier, Tintin's suitcase is switched with one full of these in order to frame him as a terrorist.
 
 
== Film ==
* In ''Revenge of the [[Pink Panther]]'', members of the French Connection use one of these on Clouseau.
* ''[[Batman: theThe Movie]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoUpF7rvfnk a hilarious scene] revolving around trying to dispose of one of these. Oh, Batman. Because asking a nun to get out of your way [[What an Idiot!|is apparently more difficult than not]] running a bomb all around town when you have no idea when it's going off!
* A critical prop in Buster Keaton's ''Cops'' -- his horse-drawn cart gets in the middle of a police parade, an anarchist tosses such a bomb that lands on the seat next to him, he absently lights a cigarette with it and tosses it over...well, that's how these run-ins always start, don't they?
* In the second ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|Lord of the Rings]]'' movie, Saruman uses one of these to blow open Helm's Deep. This is somewhat justified as it's the first bomb ever in Middle Earth, or at least since the First Age. Worst. Olympics. Ever.
* One of these is used to try to kill Warbucks in the 1982 film version of ''[[Annie (Theatre)|Annie]]''.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Grenades shaped like this were used, which was likely a historically accurate depiction.
* ''[[Master and Commander]]'' also accurately depicts the use of these early hand grenades.
* ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (Film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1991): Played historically straight. The siege of Fort William Henry is ended by a French 18-inch mortar bombardment. The lighting of the separate fuses for both the huge iron ball, and the mortar that will then lob it over the walls, can clearly be seen.
* [[Harold Lloyd]] lost a finger and thumb to a prop bomb like this; later films had him wearing a specially designed glove to disguise the injury.
* A trailer for ''[[The Three Musketeers (2011 (Filmfilm)|The Three Musketeers 2011]]'' shows one flying out of a cannon... in slow motion, and 3D.
 
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* Season 3 of ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'' had a bomb that looked like this. It even worked like a cartoon bomb, exploding while a character is holding it but barely injuring him.
* The ''Classic [[Concentration]]'' rebus for "blond bombshell" (#103 in Steve Ryan's book) includes this type of bomb.
* ''[[I Spy]]'': Robert Culp lit one of these off his cigarette in the opening credits.
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV series)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'': One episode had the more realistic version; a hand-sized metal sphere with a fuse, used as a grenade.
* In episode 8 of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', the "It's" Man is handed one just before he says his word. It explodes over the closing credits.
* ''Ultimate Force'': Henno, having jumped out a transit stuffed with tertiary explosives, is on the cliff face when the van detonates, the yield supposedly capable of shifting an entire city block sideways, and Henno climbs up with no apparent ill effects from an overpressure that would normally have collapsed his lungs, throat and sinuses.
* The dungeoneers of ''[[Knightmare]]'' would run across a room-sized [[Cartoon Bomb]] from time to time, causing panic and hasty directions to head towards the nearest exit.
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'': A pair of vaudeville clowns kill off a number of folks -- one with such a bomb, complete with "BOMB" painted on it in big white letters.
* On ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'', one is used to try to kill the Bundy family in England. It gets pushed into an elevator with the D'arcys, where it explodes. The elevator opens to show Jefferson and Marcy with [[Ash Face|burnt clothes, wild hair and stunned expressions, but generally OK]], meaning the cartoon bomb actually behaved like it was in a cartoon!
* Used occasionally on ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. The Swedish Chef finds one in a coconut; a chicken being cooked by the chef lays one; one is used in Rowlf's version of "The Cat Came Back", and one is even used as a joke by [[Statler and Waldorf]].
* A ''[[Myth Busters]]'' [[Don't Try This At Home]] promo spot has Jamie holding one of these while wearing a bomb suit. After Adam spouts the line and [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|makes a break for it stage right]], {{spoiler|Jamie holds up a sign which says "Not a Real Bomb".}}
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* ''Cyberpunk 2020'': An icon of one brute-force cracking program is described as 'a cartoon bomb with a burning fuse'.
* One of your units in ''Stratego'' is a Bomb, depicted as being of the cartoon variety. Defeats any enemy except the lowly 8th-rank Miner.
* ''[[Toon (Tabletop Gamegame)|Toooooooooon]]!''
 
 
== Video Games ==
* The eponymous hero of ''[[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]]'' uses these.
* Bob-Ombs from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games are a [[Waddling Head|slightly]] [[Action Bomb|anthropomorphised]] version.
** ''[[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]]'' also has a different kind of bomb, which players can pull out of the ground and is thrown by Mouser, the boss of World 1.
** The Bob-Ombs in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Super Mario Sunshine]]'' looked like a diagonally bisected Bob-Omb with an LED counter in the centre. Players could use the Bob-Ombs by freezing them and then throwing.
* The bombs in ''[[Jump Ultimate Stars]]'' look like this, but purple.
* ''[[Serious Sam]]'': Sam's logo is a pissed-off face in the middle of these bombs. From ''Second Encounter'' onwards he can use that bomb to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|blow up everything in sight]].
* One of the modifications of ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' was the dart-shaped, ''[[Looney Tunes]]''-style bomb. And in the unmodified game, the Demoman's class emblem was a Cartoon Bomb (it's now changed to a stylized sticky bomb).
* ''Zelda''
** The bombs in ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' are pretty much like this, only due to NES colour restrictions and tradition, respectively, they're deep blue rather than black.
** Link uses smaller, hand-grenade sized bombs of a similar style in the [[Super Smash Bros]] series. Unlike the main Zelda games, they're small enough to be carried in one hand, though [[Hyperspace Arsenal|where he pulls them from]] remains a mystery.
** And where Mario has Bob-omb, Zelda has Bombchu: mouselike explosives. There are enemy versions called Real Bombchu (apparently what the regular bombchu are based on?) whose tails end in cartoon bombs. (They can walk up walls just like the bombchu item. You... basically want to ''not'' get their attention in close quarters.) And now, ''bombfish,'' which look like fish with cartoon bombs in their mouths. (The advantage is that they can be used underwater unlike normal bombs.)
** What's more, a common plant in the franchise is the "Bomb Flower", which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: it's a Cartoon Bomb-shaped flower that explodes. It's heavily implied in several games (and pretty explicit in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'') that the Cartoon Bombs Link uses are made from Bomb Flowers.
* Bomb Man's [[Weapon of Choice]] from ''[[Mega Man 1 (Video Game)|Mega Man 1]]'', as well as the player after defeating him.
** In ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]] 6: Cyberbeast Falazr'', these types of bombs show up during one of the linknavi's training sessions. During the event, you must use the navi Dustman to collect literal garbage that comes flying from the side of the screen, and the negative pickup are bombs that look like this. It's noted in game that the reason bombs are in the mix is because you are in the most dangerous part of the network, so other navis are likely to have such things on their person at all times.
* The bombs thrown by the Peek-a-boom enemies, used against Large Fry and found lying around in various levels in ''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]] Shake It'' are this kind, and look almost exactly like the page image.
* The [[Atari 2600]] game ''Kaboom''.
* Prinnies in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series use these bombs during various special moves.
* Many puzzles in ''[[Alundra 2: (VideoA Game)New Legend Begins|Alundra 2]]'' featured these. For some reason, they are also ''pink''.
* Bombs in ''[[Spelunky]]''
* [[Kirby]]'s recurring 'Bomb' copy ability, as well as most of the enemies that hold this ability (notably the Poppy Bros).
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has several mobs that are large cartoon bombs being carried by little robots with big goggles that run up and explode at you. Engineers can also make a pet version of it that follows them around and doesn't explode.
* They're one of your main weapons in ''CJ's Elephant Antics''.
* ''[[Muramasa: theThe Demon Blade]]'': Used frequently by enemy ninjas, especially on mountains or in caves.
* Zorne of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' uses these kinds of bombs, and the Zornesbombe weapon lets Spiritia use these as well. Not to mention, the bombs are references to [[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]] as well.
* ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Video Game)|Sonic The Hedgehog 3]]''
** Thrown by Knuckles into a building that Sonic is occupying at the time in Launch Base Zone.
** Also used by Bean the Dynamite, a green duck who appeared in ''Sonic the Fighters and Fighters Megamix'' but got [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]].
** Used by Tails in [[Tails Adventure|his Game Gear game]].
* In the arcade game ''Dynamite Dux'', one of the weapons used by the duck protagonists Bin and Pin ([[Palette Swap|blue and red respectively]]) is this. Bean was based off of these two, although such bombs are the only weapon he's been seen using, at least in the game-verse.
* One of the first, if not ''the'' first, video arcade game to use this imagery was the [[The Golden Age of Video Games|Golden Age]] arcade game ''[[wikipedia:Kick (arcade game)|Kick]]''. You had to catch falling balloons on your head, but you had to avoid the similar-looking falling bombs. (During development, the dropped-things-to-avoid were [[Anvil Onon Head|anvils]], but the game's designers didn't think the average player would recognize anvils.)
* Peacock in ''[[Skullgirls (Video Game)|Skullgirls]]'' uses many of these, decorated like billiards 8-balls. [[Action Bomb|They walk, drive cars and fly planes]], and one of her super moves involves a bomb large enough to blow both her and her opponent clear across the screen if they get caught in the blast.
* In ''[[Thief]] 2'', the Mechanists' steampunk robots and cannons fire this kind of bomb. What's strange is that in gameplay, the bombs tend to hit the player character with full force and then ''rebound off you'' in the other direction, and ''then'' explode a few seconds later. The initial impact tends to kill you before it even explodes. It's at once terrifying and hilarious.
* ''Beach Spikers'' for the Nintendo Gamecube had a mode called "Countdown" where the ball was replaced by a cartoon bomb. When the players hit the ball, it caused a "timer" to count down; whichever side had the ball/bomb when it exploded lost.
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* Very common in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons.
** The one Missing Lynx tries to plant on a bridge in ''Confusions of a Nutzy Spy'' had "Hallelujah, I'm a Bomb" on it.
* Seen in some ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoons.
* Pick a [[Tex Avery]] short, and chances are the one you pick will have a bomb of this type somewhere in it.
* The ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' short "A Matter of Loaf and Death" has one.
** Very reminiscent of the sequence in ''[[Batman: theThe Movie]]'', too. Probably deliberate.
* ''[[Danger Mouse (Animation)|Danger Mouse]]'' has at least five in the opening sequence alone. Not to mention the page image.
* Discussed in ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'', when the Monarch and his henchmen reminisce about the good old days. 24 happily refers to it as simply a "round bomb", while miming the shape with his hands.
* In the ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Game Over for Owlman!", in the big climactic fight scene, [[The Joker]] basically pulls out a big Cartoon Bomb and runs around, giggling like the maniac he is, for the entire fight.
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'': In the opening sequence, Gadget thinks he's arresting Dr. Claw, but then the chair spins around, it's a phony arm, and guess what's on the chair? Then the explosion forms the title, with the Inspector himself forming the "I".
* ''[[The Tick]]'': A favorite of The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight. For bigger jobs, though, he uses a more advanced, disc-shaped [[Incredibly Obvious Bomb]], complete with visible timer and beeping.
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