History Main / DelayedExplosion

* Pick an ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', ''Franchise/KamenRider'' or ''any'' {{Tokusatsu}} show on the whole. This trope is in full force. StuffBlowingUp is everywhere, and it all obeys only the RuleOfCool.

* The Linear Bomb example is ubiquitous in anime, one of the most famous examples is God Warior firing in ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' AnimatedAdaptation of "The Fake Smurf", Hogatha attempts to destroy the Smurfs by sabotaging the bridge with Jokey's "surprises", but instead of the "surprises" going off when she pulled the trigger at the moment the Smurfs were crossing the bridge, they ended up going off when Hogatha herself started crossing the bridge.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' is one of the many [[EasternRPG JRPGs]] to feature cool delayed explosions. Lampshaded in [[http://youtu.be/ZVtK9X9liXE?t=9m45s this moment]] of WebVideo/MondayMorningMooks

* While it isn't explosion-based, ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has the [[FrickinLaserBeams Brimstone]] and [[DelayedReaction Anti Gravity]] combination.

** An inverted variant is the Linear Bomb: when the ground is traced by some WaveMotionGun, the explosion happens on the entire line simultaneously after a short delay, insted of following the ray. This does not help anyone to OutrunTheFireball, and is only for the RuleOfCool.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', putting the last jewel in its statue causes it to glow. Link prepares for the inevitable explosion...and after several seconds of nothing he lets down his guard. ''THEN'' it explodes, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments blasting Link right into the rising Tower Of The Gods.]]

** An inverted variant is a Linear Bomb: when the ground is traced by some WaveMotionGun, the explosion happens on the entire line simultaneously after a short delay, insted of following the ray. This does not help anyone to OutrunTheFireball, and is only for the RuleOfCool.

** An inverted variant is a Linear Bomb: when the ground is traced by some WaveMotionGun, the explosion happens on the entire line simultaneously after a short delay, insted of following the ray.

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* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' has an episode where there's a bomb in a cabin. Everybody dashes out the door, jumps over the car and hunkers down behind it... and they wait there for what would seem to have been about half an hour or more before it finally blows. It was hilarious.

-->'''Neddie''': Can't anyone hear it go off?
-->'''Bluebottle''': Only idiots.
-->''(Pause)''
-->'''Neddie''': Perhaps it's gone off already. I'll go back and check.
-->''(Kaboom! followed by running feet)''
-->'''Eccles''': 'Ere, what was that big explosion?

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* The Delayed Blast Fireball spell in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Although technically a time bomb, Delayed Blast Fireball can equally well be used to generate a Shoe-Drop Delay. Its implementation in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' was such that it is most often used just as a regular fireball, but the 'delayed' part turns it into an Expository Delay.
** Aside from having the ability to delay it, DBF is also ''more powerful'' than regular Fireball, as it has a higher level {{cap}}. For a sufficiently high-level caster, DBF's maximum damage is twice as high as a regular Fireball.

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* Two former attractions at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Florida]] had an instance of this:

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* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' had ''extremely'' egregious decay in an instance where the explosion was very atypical of most explosions by being really, ''really'' slow. It was also glowing green. When it goes off after [[spoiler:Dib, who is under a similar time-slowing effect, is hurled into it,]] it's fairly normal though.

* [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] often falls victim to this. If an explosion doesn't happen instantly, it'll delay just long enough to catch ''him'' instead of the Road Runner.

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* While it isn't explosion-based, TheBindingOfIsaac has the [[FrickinLaserBeams Brimstone]] and [[DelayedReaction Anti Gravity]] combination.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The first few times Piper tried to blow up demons, there was usually a small delay before it actually happened. As she got better at using it, it became almost instantaneous.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', putting the last jewel in its statue causes it to glow. Link prepares for the inevitable explosion...and after several seconds of nothing he lets down his guard. ''THEN'' it explodes, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny blasting Link right into the rising Tower Of The Gods.]]

->'''Neddie''': Can't anyone hear it go off?
->'''Bluebottle''': Only idiots.
->''(Pause)''
->'''Neddie''': Perhaps it's gone off already. I'll go back and check.
->''(Kaboom! followed by running feet)''
->'''Eccles''': 'Ere, what was that big explosion?

* {{Egregious}} Delay, where there is no discernible reason other than the makers wanting it that way. See also RuleOfCool.

* ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' has the postal worker claim that there's a bomb in the package he's carrying in a desperate attempt to ward off police. After he flees the building (leaving said package behind), [[AccidentallyAccurate it actually goes off]].

[[caption-width-right:288:"WheresTheKaboom [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes There was supposed to be a castle-shattering ka—]]" *BOMB*]]

[[caption-width-right:288:"WheresTheKaboom [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes There was supposed to be a castle-shattering ka-"]] *BOMB*]]

* ''TheGoonShow'' and silent TNT:

* Franchise/{{Gundam}}. ''The entire franchise'' (and many RealRobot shows thereafter). [[HumongousMecha Mobile suits]] are MadeOfExplodium, so you just ''know'' they're going to blow up when they're critically damaged, but very often there's a Shoe-Drop Delay so the victim can display an OhCrap face before his mobile suit explodes. Of course, if the fatally damaged mecha contains a major character, there may well be a full on Egregious Delay to let the character give his dying speech.

* {{Manga/AKIRA}} had a BrickJoke example near the beginning, where an extremist tries to set off a grenade in a police station only to have it fizzle out. As the main characters are walking away from the building minutes later, an explosion comes from said station.