History Main / MAdBomber

** Grian is the cause of two of the three deadliest traps in the series thus far (his triple kill in ''3rd Life'' and quad kill in ''Limited Life''), both of which involve TNT minecarts and are followed by [[EvilLaugh positively unhinged laughter]]. In particular, TNT traps are his forte while under Scar's employ in ''3rd Life'', to the point where he even rigs the entire desert to explode in the Battle of the Red Desert. He's killed four people [[spoiler:(Scar with a creeper on Day 1 and Ren, Jimmy, and Skizz with a TNT minecart on Day 4)]] with explosions in that season alone.
** In ''Last Life'', after going down to his final life, Joel sets multiple explosive traps per day all over the map. Although the traps have only rarely succeeded, this cements Joel's reputation as a WildCard in the series, especially combined with the fact he has the highest KillTally out of everyone in the season. Two seasons later in ''Limited Life'', a vast majority of Joel's kills involve him [[DeathFromAbove dropping a TNT minecart on his victims]], which is still saying something since [[ExaggeratedTrope everyone else was using TNT minecarts by the dozen that season]].

* Ziggs from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a ranged magic user whose spells consist entirely of throwing various bombs at his opponents. And while his moral compass is more or less functional, his obsession with detonations is downright unhealthy, down to constant insane cackling. Even those he tries to commercialize he ends up overdoing to the point of uselessness (like the stuff he sold to a man that wanted to clean his chimney, which removed the filth, the chimney itself, and a chunk of the whole house).

* The villain in the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} game ''VideoGame/{{Kaboom}}'' is named The Mad Bomber. He spends the game dropping bombs and it's your job to catch them in buckets of water before they hit the ground and explode.

* In several ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels Captain Federer, the head of the sappers attached to the Valhallian 597th, makes an appearance. Although not a villain, Federer is described as having "an unhealthy enthusiasm" for explosives and his eyes getting a "dreamy quality" at the thought of setting off an explosion that is measured in gigatonnes. When said explosion is set off, it winds up covering ''half a planet'' with the dust cloud. And before that, he rigged the battlefield to blow up the advancing [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] [[AMechByAnyOtherName Gargant]] -- a [[MilitaryMashupMachine cobbled-together behemoth of a war machine]] able to fight several Necron Monoliths at once and ''win''; and would've certainly blow ''it'' up if not for a changed tactical situation. It was openly stated in the books that he's a former Adeptus Mechanicus acolyte and was expelled from the seminary exactly for his unhealthy fascination with the StuffBlowingUp (rumor goes on to add that he ''blew up the seminary''). Praise the Emperor that the Guard gave him an outlet for his hobbies.

* In several ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels Captain Federer, the head of the sappers attached to the Valhallian 597th, makes an appearance. Although not a villain, Federer is described as having "an unhealthy enthusiasm" for explosives and his eyes getting a "dreamy quality" at the thought of setting off an explosion that is measured in gigatonnes. When said explosion is set off, it winds up covering ''half a planet'' with the dust cloud. And before that, he rigged the battlefield to blow up the advancing [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] [[AMechByAnyOtherName Gargant]] -- a [[MilitaryMashupMachine cobbled-together behemoth of a war machine]] able to fight several Necron Monoliths at once and ''win''; and would've certainly blow ''it'' up if not for a changed tactical situation. It was openly stated in the books that he's a former Adeptus Mechanicus acolyte and was expelled from the seminary exactly for his unhealthy fascination with the StuffBlowingUp. Praise the Emperor that the Guard gave him an outlet for his hobbies.

* In the Forensics story in ''[[Videogame/TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]'', one of the killers is this.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' gives us [[PunnyName Ted Tonate]], a rather obsessed bomb disposal expert who spends his time marveling over the power and "beauty" of the explosives he handles. It's subverted to an extent since he's not actually responsible for the bombing that's central to the case he's in, but he's still an example of this trope. [[spoiler: The actual culprit counts too, though his madness is [[BecomingTheMask of a different sort]], and bombing seems to be just his preferred method for evidence disposal]].
--> '''Phoenix''': "(Mad bomber, party for one.)"

* Creator/MichaelBay. He hasn't killed anyone (for real), but he prides himself on the fact this his films are more practical effects than CGI (''Film/{{Transformers}}'' notwithstanding by necessity). That means, boys and girls, that 99% of the explosions you see in a Michael Bay film are '''real'''. Just because he does it ''legally'' doesn't mean the trope is any less applicable.

** In ''Last Life'', after going down to his final life, Joel sets multiple explosive traps per day all over the map. Although the traps have only rarely succeeded, this cements Joel's reputation as a WildCard in the series, especially combined with the fact he has the highest KillTally out of everyone in the season. Two seasons later in ''Limited Life'', a vast majority of Joel's kills involve him [[DeathFromAbove dropping a TNT minecart on his victims]], which is still saying something since everyone ''else'' was using TNT minecarts by the dozen that season.

** Grian is the cause of two of the three deadliest traps in the series thus far (his triple kill in ''3rd Life'' and quad kill in Limited Life), both of which involve TNT minecarts and are followed by [[EvilLaugh positively unhinged laughter]]. In particular, TNT traps are his forte while under Scar's employ in ''3rd Life'', to the point where he even rigs the entire desert to explode in the Battle of the Red Desert. He's killed four people [[spoiler:(Scar with a creeper on Day 1 and Ren, Jimmy, and Skizz with a TNT minecart on Day 4)]] with explosions in that season alone.
** In ''Last Life'', after going down to his last life, Joel sets multiple explosive traps per day all over the map. Although the traps have only rarely succeeded, this cements Joel's reputation as a WildCard in the series, especially combined with the fact he has the highest KillTally out of everyone in the season. Two seasons later in ''Limited Life'', a vast majority of Joel's kills involve him dropping a TNT minecart on his victims, which is still saying something since everyone else was using TNT minecarts by the dozen that season.