Living Explosive Individual
It’s has been stated that the most dangerous weapon that anyone is the person themselves as they tend to be unpredictable. This makes sense in battle, yet who's going to sign up? This can pose a problem, even with a fail-safe system in place.
In the case of this trope, the user would explode, for real. It’s possible that one part of the body can be the explosive. In some instances, this could be a straight suicide mission or have a way to resembled after such use. This can also be the result of by nature, and the being could have a way to regenerate their bodies as much fail-safe. In any matter, if this fellow shows up, it’s set not to set them off.
Supertrope to Why Am I Ticking? (where the person doesn't want to blow up) and Action Bomb (where the person blows up intentionally).
As a Death Trope, Spoilers ahead may be unmarked. Beware.
No real life examples, please; thanks to the nature of this trope. This is mainly due to cases of people and even animals being used as living bombs, mostly in Suicide Attacks, as it's highly controversial.
Comic Books
- DC Comics has a superhero called "Human Bomb" who can go off like a bomb.
- Bailey Hoskins in Marvel Comics, X-Men, learns this is his superpower, which would result in Killed Off for Real.
- Everyone given superpowers with the Morituri Process in Strikeforce: Morituri dies spectacularly within a year. No small number of them do so by exploding violently.
Fan Works
- Final Stand of Death gives Melanie of Liverpool this ability as order by Nemesis during the automation process. Many of the other fallen celebrities goes into the details of this ability, along with the fail-safe.
Film
- Invoked (inaccurately) in the title of the 1987 film Nice Girls Don't Explode, in which a young lady by the name of April Flowers has a problem where whenever she gets close to passionate with a guy, things around her burst into flame. Not only doesn't she explode, the incidents of spontaneous combustion are actually arranged by her overprotective mother, who doesn't want her to grow up and leave home.
- The smart bombs of Dark Star, one of which must be repeatedly convinced not to explode itself after it becomes stuck in the titular ship's launching mechanism.
Live-Action TV
- Heroes has Ted Sprague, Peter Petrelli, and Sylar as living nuclear bomb thanks to their radioactive ability.
Video Games
- Bob-ombs are well-known with this ability in the Mario series.
- In Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, Joe Musashi has the ability to make himself explode but it does costs a life.