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When a character is facing an enemy with a large mouth and a penchant for [[Swallowed Whole|eating said character]], and tries throwing a bomb into its mouth. The enemy eats it, you hear a "boom", and then see the enemy die [[hottip:*:and if your rating allows it, [[Ludicrous Gibs|turn into bloody kebab filling]]. It [[Tactical Suicide Boss|never occurs to them to just keep their mouth shut]] and tail sweep/eye beam/claw the character.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'' Sasuke defeats {{spoiler|Danzo's}} [[Summon Magic|summon]], which sucks everything in a large area into its mouth, by shooting a huge fireball down its throat.

* Asuka and Shinji do this using a battleship set to explode against a giant fish Angel in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

* In one episode of ''[[Sonic X]]'', Sonic and friends defeat a giant robot by dropping a bomb into its mouth. In the Japanese version, Sonic even exclaims, in [[Gratuitous English]], "IT'S LUNCH TIME!". It's better than it sounds, particularly because the show's opening theme, "Sonic Drive", [[Theme Music Power-Up|plays during the sequence]].

* Shuda in ''[[Rave Master]]'' can create explosions just about anyplace he wishes. However, when faced with an enemy who causes it to rain on their battlefield (dampening the power of those explosions) Shuda responds by creating one in his enemy's throat.

== Comic Books ==

* Averted by [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Matter Eater Lad/Tenzil Kem]], who, being from the planet [[Just for Pun|Bismoll]], can eat anything, including the raw materials for a bomb, with no ill effects. Unless it's magic.

 

 

* Near the end of ''[[Tremors]]'', one of the Graboids is killed by tricking it into swallowing a homemade pipe-bomb with a lit fuse, blowing it to bits.

** In the sequel, this has become the "standard" solution for killing Graboids: send out a toy remote-controlled car with some dynamite strapped to it ([[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|"2 pounds of C4 may be a little... excessive"]]). When a Graboid snags the car, trigger the detonator remotely from a safe distance. This works quite well, until {{spoiler|the Graboids all start hatching out Shriekers.}}

* In a b-movie called ''Spiders'', the mightiest of the [[Giant Spider|Giant Spiders]] is heavily armored, able to resist bullets and explosives. It is finally beaten when a bazooka is fired into its mouth.

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** Busted, unfortunately, by the [[Myth Busters]]. While you ''can'' puncture an air tank, and the jet of air rushing out will make mincemeat out of a shark who has one wedged in its mouth, it's not going to explode unless you have a pyrotechnics team to rig it with remote-detonated C4 beforehand.

 

 

== Folklore ==

* There's a similiar Polish folktale about a hero named Krak who builds a rudimentary explosive and feeds it to a dragon that's been terrorizing the land. The Polish people are so grateful they name the city of Krakow after him.

** In another version it was Dratewka the shoemaker who killed the dragon, while Krak was already the ruler.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** You encounter another in [[Star Trek Online]]. The only way to defeat it is by shooting special torpedoes into its mouth - right after it blasts at you.

* One [[The Ed Sullivan Show|Ed Sullivan]] skit (based on an old IBM training video) was about a [[Sesame Street|Cookie Monster]]-lookalike taking a machine apart piece-by-piece and eating it. The skit ends with the machine warning the monster that destroying all of the components of said machine will cause it to perform its primary function as the most powerful explosive weapon known to man, as a result the monster combusts.

* Done once figuratively in [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] (against Pudgy Pig) and once literally in [[Power Rangers Turbo]] (against Goldgoyle).

 

== Video Games ==

** Before the Lakebed Temple, there are carnivorous plants in the Forest Temple which can only be killed by lobbing Bomblings into them. Similarly, there's a miniboss that's a cross between one of the above plants with a Deku Baba. The plant can only be bombed once the Baba is killed.

* Several enemies and bosses in the ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' series require you to morph into a ball, get swallowed, and lay bombs inside the enemy's stomach to damage them. These include the Stone Toad from the very first ''Prime'' game and Amorbis from ''Metroid Prime 2''.

** A variant occurs in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''. One boss is a huge mining machine with two settings, cutting laser and vacuum. The only way to harm it is to blast some [[Mook]] enemies while it's in vacuum mode, so their bodies get sucked inside to jam the laser.

** Another variant, also from Prime 3. In one of the deep pits you have to jump into on Phaaze, there's a creature that grabs Samus while she's in Morph Ball form; you have to use the Hyper Ball to kill it (if you don't move to the side to keep it from grabbing you). Weird creature dislikes radioactive lightning.

* A boss from ''Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!'' runs this way. You have to "feed" it three times, then get out of the way before ''it'' gives off an explosion, and only then can you actually deliver a blow that will actually hurt it.

* The rancor in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. Although you actually sneak it into its food, rather than tossing it into its mouth.

** Check Calo Nord's journal in Davik's mansion. Calo played it straight, chucking grenades into a rancor's mouth [[Crowning Moment of Awesome Video Games|WHILE RIDING ON ITS SHOULDERS]]. Also, the defeat of the Krayt Dragon on Tatooine parallels this trope, even if it's not QUITE a matter of eating mines.

* The Chaos 6 boss from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure]]'' tries to suck you into its mouth. You defeat it by getting it to suck in the freeze bombs (Chaos is a sentient, shapeshifting water creature) [[Tactical Suicide Boss|that Robotnik keeps chucking at you]] and then smashing it when it freezes; rinse, repeat.

* Weldar, the visually impaired welding torch from ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]'' is defeated by using grenade eggs when he tries to suck the player up. You can also use Fire Eggs, cause hey, he's full of gas.

** Except in the original, SNES game, where it does...nothing. But since there's no enemies after this point, might as well use your bombs for something visually appealing.

** The Piranha plants in this game also need to be sprayed in the mouth with water. They always open their mouth for no reason.

* Not quite an explosive, but when Sigma opens his mouth to fire his huge mouth laser in ''[[Mega Man X]] 6'', [[Attack Its Weak Point|feed him a giant rock]] For Massive Damage.

* This is an extremely easy way of farming gavial meat in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3''. Cock a grenade and wait until the gavial yawns. Another ''very'', shall we say, "unique" example in MGS3, where one boss looks for food when he runs low on stamina. By leaving rotten or poisoned food lying around, you can make him ''[[Nightmare Fuel|vomit to death]]'', for which you are rewarded.

* Early on in ''[[The Neverhood]]'', you have to feed a statue of yourself made of TNT to a [[Giant Enemy Crab]], which then explodes violently in a cutscene. Your cousin then begins eating its now-cooked remains, something that's a good bit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMMks3_PDLI funnier than it sounds].

* In [[Gears of War]] 2, you fight a giant fish who likes to chomp down on your boat. He's defeated by moving into his mouth and chucking grenades into his throat.

* Like the ''Jaws'' example above, ''[[Space Quest]] IV'' features Roger in a battle with a giant Sea Slug, which he won in the nick of time with an oxygen tank, his clever thinking, and his, uh... cleverness.

** Done first in ''[[Space Quest]] I'', by getting a monster to eat some [[Instant Mass, Just Add Water|dehydrated water]].

** This is actually a common occurrence in any rail-driven gun game, if it has a part that opens, its generally a good idea to shoot at it. Featured most prominently in alien shumps in days of arcade yore, though most players never bother, prefering to just shoot the projectiles and then plug the monster full of lead. For a mechanized version of the trope, the boss of Russia in SNES Super Scope game Battle Clash is nearly invulnerable except on tiny missile pods until he opens his crab-mech's giant 'eyes' which have huge pulse cannons inside. Generally speaking, shooting them in an opening mouth or eye will at the very least stun them for a few frames, or even do additional damage.

* U8 in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' is especially weak to this. Once its limbs are hit enough, its head falls on to the platform after which an input-action to throw a grenade into its mouth (with obligatory cheesy action movie one-liner to boot) and leap out of the way appears. Definitely the easiest way to defeat it.

* The [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|huge]] Leviathan boss in ''[[Resistance]] 2'' can be harmed by firing rockets into its mouth.

* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 3'' has Belcha, the first boss. He is defeated by throwing beetles when his "mouth" is open.

* In ''[[Blinx]]'', the best way to kill Keroppers (frog monsters who swallow anything fired at them from the front whole) is to shoot bombs at them.

* In ''[[Nie R]]'', the most effective way to deal with the final form of the Junk Heap boss is to toss bombs into its mouth when it [[Breath Weapon|fires its laser]].

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20100912.html here.]

* In ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'', a bloompod monster attacks a Cascadian soldier, eating his [[Making a Splash|water-lance]] and the fish inside it. The fish then turns itself into fire, explodes the monster, and returns to his owner unharmed.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In a non-video game example, [[Deadpool]] tries this move on the Hulk in ''[[Hulk Vs|Hulk vs Wolverine]]''. It does not end well for Deadpool.

* In ''War Planets: [[Shadow Raiders]]'', the [[Planet Eater|Beast Planet]] is pursuing the heroes. They come across Planet Jungle, [[Single Biome Planet|inhabited solely by vegetation]], and get permission from the sentient jungle to rig it as a [[Earthshattering Kaboom|booby trap]] for the Beast. They overload Planet Jungle's World Engines, allow the Beast to devour it, and it explodes... and [[Implacable Man|the Beast]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|doesn't even slow down]].

* [[Double Subversion|Double-subverted]] in the Michel Lah-directed [[Tex Avery MGM Cartoons|Droopy]] cartoon "Blackboard Jumble": the Droopies give the protagonist an apple with a burning wick, so he simply pulls the wick out and takes a bite. A second later, the bite explodes, leaving smoke from his ears. He looks dumbfounded at the wick... which explodes too, [[Ash Face|ashfacing]] him. Then the apple explodes.

 

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