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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Featured in old "Canonical [[Famous Last Words]] List" (the character's background precluded him from knowing to which of two parts "throw it" should refer).
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'': Ork Stikkbommaz are noted for being above average intelligence for Orks, as they know that stikkbommz are the bit you throw, not the pin...
** [[Fridge Logic|Then again]] since the ork throwing the pin [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|believes that the pin will explode]] [[Fridge Logic|it probably will.]]
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' occasionally has grenades where the pin ''is'' the part that explodes. Hell, it probably has some where they both do, because then they're [[From a Certain Point of View|foolproof]].
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the "Bloodsuckers Are Not Sexy" arc of ''[[Fafnir the Dragon]]'', one of the vampires is an expert with grenades... only he wound up throwing the ''pins'' at [[Dracula|Vlad the Impaler]]. It ends exactly how you'd expect.
* Maxim 65 of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'''s "Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries" is "After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade."
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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