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* In ''Videogame/Trepang2'', if you've got a hostage you can stick a live grenade on them before tossing them at enemies. If you shoot the enemy, you can even detonate them prematurely.
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->''"Hey, this avocado gave me a wedding ring!"''

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->''"Hey, --->''"Hey, this avocado gave me a wedding ring!"''
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* At the beginning of the final battle between Accelerator and Kihara in the second season of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', the former [[OneHitPolykill takes out three mooks with this trick]]. The only remaining one [[OhCrap promptly craps himself]] and [[TooDumbToLive tries using the]] DamselInDistress (Accelerator's MoralityPet Last Order) as a HumanShield. Accelerator [[PistolWhipping doesn't appreciate it]].

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* At the beginning of the final battle between Accelerator and Kihara in the second season of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', the former [[OneHitPolykill takes out three mooks with this trick]]. The only remaining one [[OhCrap promptly craps himself]] and [[TooDumbToLive tries using the]] DamselInDistress (Accelerator's MoralityPet Last Order) as a HumanShield. Accelerator [[PistolWhipping doesn't appreciate it]].



* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Referenced. Kirito and Sinon are the last survivors of a tournament, but Kirito doesn't want to kill Sinon to advance. She points out that if they both die, it will be a tie and they'll both advance. Then she grins and asks him "do you know what a pineapple surprise is?" She drops one of her own grenades at her feet and hugs him before he can get away.

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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Referenced. Kirito and Sinon are the last survivors of a tournament, but Kirito doesn't want to kill Sinon to advance. She points out that if they both die, it will be a tie and they'll both advance. Then she grins and asks him "do you know what a pineapple surprise is?" She drops one of her own grenades at her feet and hugs him before he can get away.
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* ''Series/SASRogueHeroes''. David Stirling wants to borrow a pool table so he can lay out a large map. When the soldiers using said table refuse to interrupt their tournament, he pulls the pin on a grenade and throws it, with a visibly smoking fuse, onto the table, causing everyone to flee. The grenade doesn't explode, as it's had the explosive and detonator removed.
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* In ''Series/AlmostHuman'', this is how [[Creator/KarlUrban Kennex]] finally brings down a RoboticPsychopath.

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* In ''Series/AlmostHuman'', this is how [[Creator/KarlUrban Kennex]] Kennex finally brings down a RoboticPsychopath.



* ''Series/TheGifted'': One of Esme's kills in "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited [=exploited=]]]" has her forcing an officer to unpin his grenade, then hop back in his car with his buddy, killing both.

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* ''Series/TheGifted'': ''Series/TheGifted2017'': One of Esme's kills in "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited [=exploited=]]]" eXploited]]" has her forcing an officer to unpin his grenade, then hop back in his car with his buddy, killing both.



* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Starship Mine", after a scuffle with Picard, a thief makes off with a container of explosive trilithium resin. It turns out [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Picard removed a stabilizer from the container]] during the scuffle. She doesn't get far.

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Starship Mine", "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E16StarshipMine Starship Mine]]", after a scuffle with Picard, a thief makes off with a container of explosive trilithium resin. It turns out [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Picard removed a stabilizer from the container]] during the scuffle. She doesn't get far.
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* One fail in ''VideoGame/TheHenryStickminCollection'' has Henry chuck a grenade outside the closet where he's hiding, only for it to bounce back inside before he closes the door, which he doesn't realize until too late.
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* ''Film/TheHeat'' has Sarah and Shannon, two cops, slide over a duffel bag of stuff in a warehouse to a group of armed drug dealers before Shannon quips that the male druglord and Sarah are now engaged. When the drug lord expresses confusion, Sarah shows the pulled grenade pin and gets a PreMortemOneLiner about being given a ring before the two of them duck for cover and all the druglord can get out is an OhCrap before the grenades in the duffel bag explode.

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* ''Film/TheHeat'' has Sarah and Shannon, two cops, slide over a duffel bag of stuff in a warehouse to a group of armed drug dealers before Shannon quips that the male druglord drug lord's enforcer and Sarah are now engaged. When the drug lord enforcer expresses confusion, Sarah shows the pulled grenade pin and gets a PreMortemOneLiner about being given a ring before the two of them duck for cover and all the druglord enforcer can get out is an OhCrap before the grenades in the duffel bag explode.

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** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' introduces Super Mutant Suiciders, a version of the super mutant that rushes the player with a mini-nuke as a suicide bomber. The safest way to take them out is to snipe the bomb (preferably from long range and before they notice you), killing both them and anyone else in the vicinity.
*** If you kill them without the mini nuke going off, you can actually loot it.

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** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' introduces Super Mutant Suiciders, a version of the super mutant that rushes the player with a mini-nuke as a suicide bomber. The safest way to take them out is to snipe the bomb (preferably from long range and before they notice you), killing both them and anyone else in the vicinity.
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vicinity, though if you kill them without the mini nuke going off, you can actually loot it.


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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2022'': An unlockable Takedown ability is called Pineapple Express, where you shove a grenade into the target's pants before kicking them away (hopefully into a group of their friends).

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Cletus joins the army and [[TooDumbToLive fails to understand the most basic function]] of a grenade.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Moe brings out an entire ''crate'' of grenades after a talk radio host asks listeners to break Sideshow Bob out of prison, claiming that he's a "political prisoner." After Barney says that the host intended them to use non-violent political action, Moe demands that everyone hands their grenades back to him. And one of them is ''missing a pin.''
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Cletus joins the army and [[TooDumbToLive fails to understand the most basic function]] of a grenade.



** Moe brings out an entire ''crate'' of grenades after a talk radio host asks listeners to break Sideshow Bob out of prison, claiming that he's a "political prisoner." After Barney says that the host intended them to use non-violent political action, Moe demands that everyone hands their grenades back to him. And one of them is ''missing a pin.''
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Cletus joins the army and [[TooDumbToLive fails to understand the most basic function]] of a grenade.
->''"Hey, this avocado gave me a wedding ring!"''
** Moe brings out an entire ''crate'' of grenades after a talk radio host asks listeners to break Sideshow Bob out of prison, claiming that he's a "political prisoner." After Barney says that the host intended them to use non-violent political action, Moe demands that everyone hands their grenades back to him. And one of them is ''missing a pin.''
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* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Magneto pulls the pins from a squad of soldiers all at once using his powers.

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* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Magneto pulls uses his powers to pull the pins from a the grenades carried by an entire squad of soldiers all at once using his powers.soldiers.
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Since Joseph brought those bombs instead of Straizo, that is an example of Grenade Tag.


* Done famously in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' by Joseph Joestar against [[spoiler:Straizo]]. The latter being a superhuman vampire, along with knowing how to use the Ripple, Joseph had no chance at a plain brawl. So as he runs away, he reveals that he had somehow snuck not one, but '''several''' grenades, strung together, onto his opponent's clothes, and his running away made him unpin all the grenades at once.
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* In ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'', grenades carried by Combine Grunts can be armed by shooting them, causing their owner to panic and try and pull them off to no avail.
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---> '''Jacoby:''' No fair.

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* A variant in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'': Will takes out Jacoby, the grenade-throwing undead pirate, by shoving one of his own lit grenades into his ribcage while he's in [[DemBones the moonlight]] and then shoving him back out...leaving the burning grenade inside his torso.
---> '''Jacoby:''' No fair.
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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Referenced. Kirito and Sinon are the last survivors of a tournament, but Kirito doesn't want to kill Sinon to advance. She points out that if they both die, it will be a tie and they'll both advance. Then she grins and asks him "do you know what a pineapple surprise is?" She drops one of her own grenades at her feet and hugs him before he can get away.
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* In ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'' #9, Sable pulls a HighSpeedHijack by leaping from a motorbike on to a truck carrying a stolen nuclear bomb. One of the militia members in the truck sees him and climbs out to fight him. Sable manages to pull the pin one one of the grenades on his bandolier and then bails off: leaving the mook to blow up and cause the truck to crask off the road and into a lake.
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* In ''Film/MonsterHunter'', Steeler does the 'makeshift suicide belt' version: yanking the pin from one the grenades on his belt as he is swallowed by the Diablos.

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* In ''Film/MonsterHunter'', ''Film/MonsterHunter2020'', Steeler does the 'makeshift suicide belt' version: yanking the pin from one the grenades on his belt as he is swallowed by the Diablos.
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* Done deliberately in ''Film/DemonKnight'' when [[spoiler:Ireene and Deputy Bob]] pull Wally's suicide belt of grenades in a TakingYouWithMeMoment as they blow up the demons to stop them reaching the attic.

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* Done deliberately in ''Film/DemonKnight'' when [[spoiler:Ireene and Deputy Bob]] pull the pins on Wally's suicide belt of grenades while [[spoiler:Irene]] is wearing it in a TakingYouWithMeMoment TakingYouWithMe moment as they blow up the demons to stop them reaching the attic.
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* Done deliberately in ''Film/DemonKnight'' when [[spoiler:Ireene and Deputy Bob]] pull Wally's suicide belt of grenades in a TakingYouWithMeMoment as they blow up the demons to stop them reaching the attic.
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* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': One unsub does this to ''himself'' in an attempt at TakingYouWithMe. When he's pulled over by authorities, he complies with the orders to put his hands out the window, but as the police approach, they realize there's a grenade pin dangling off his finger and retreat. The car blows up seconds later.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Starship Mine", after a scuffle with Picard, a thief makes off with a container of explosive trilithium resin. It turns out Picard removed a stabilizer from the container during the scuffle. She doesn't get far.

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Starship Mine", after a scuffle with Picard, a thief makes off with a container of explosive trilithium resin. It turns out [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Picard removed a stabilizer from the container container]] during the scuffle. She doesn't get far.
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Not related to TomatoSurprise, [[{{Pun}} though it can be related to]] [[ChunkySalsaRule chunky salsa.]]

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Compare ExplosiveStupidity for when someone TooDumbToLive manages to do this to themselves. May be averted if someone decides to make a HeroicSacrifice by JumpingOnAGrenade.

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Compare ExplosiveStupidity ThrowThePin for when someone TooDumbToLive manages to do this to themselves. May be averted if someone decides to make a HeroicSacrifice by JumpingOnAGrenade.
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* In one episode of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'', Friday and Gannon discover that a disturbed teen with a hand grenade has gate-crashed a party. They get it away from him, but then have to wrestle the pin back in, as it had come out in the struggle.


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* In ''VideoGame/{{Mousehunt}}'', using a Remote Detonator Base to catch a Bomb Squad category mouse in the iceberg will cause their bombs to prematurely explode and propel you forwards into the iceberg.


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* In ''VideoGame/SniperElite4'', you can shoot an enemy's grenade while he's still wearing it, earning XP points for a grenade shot and potentially taking out a few additional baddies in the explosion.
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* In ''Literature/StormOfSteel'', the heavily-armed Eisen keeps multitudes of grenades strapped to his body "just in case," and at one point while attempting to pull something else off of his utility belt, he accidentally pulls the pin on one of them. Fortunately for him, the grenade turns out to be a dud.


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* ''Series/TheGifted'': One of Esme's kills in "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited [=exploited=]]]" has her forcing an officer to unpin his grenade, then hop back in his car with his buddy, killing both.

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* ''Film/DreaingTheReality'':
** Sister Lan, after being intimidated by a group of thugs which she is sorely outnumbered, suddenly reveals she had a grenade whose pin is removed, and is threatening to throw if they do not back off. It works.
** [[spoiler: She did it again in the finale, during her personal confrontation with TheDragon, where she avenged Rocky’s death by shoving a grenade into her opponent’s coat without the pin. Cue LudicrousGibs]].


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* ''Film/FinalRun'': Subverted with the grenade used by Sergeant Kau. [[spoiler:It's a plastic dud.]]


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* ''Film/HongKong1941'': When the boat of refugees gets detained by a Japanese patrol-boat in the middle of the South China Sea, with the Japanese soldiers ready to massacre everyone on board, Kim-fay tells the Japanese he's a defector and wished to speak to the Japanese captain... before [[spoiler: revealing he had a potato masher grenade, obtained during his stint as a Japanese collaborator, hidden in his shirt the moment he's on the Japanese boat, its pin already removed]]. The subsequent explosion [[spoiler: with Kim-fay right in its middle]] destroys the Japanese patrol boat allowing the refugees to escape.


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* ''Film/TheLastSentinel'':
** While fighting a red drone, Tallis managed to remove the pin from one of the drone's grenade before shoving the drone into water. BOOM.
** Later on, [[spoiler: after digging out his own eyeball to remove the tracking implant]], Tallis uses said implant together with a few grenades, sans pins, to set up an explosive trap for three red drones.
* ''Film/MillionairesExpress'': While attempting to escape from the soldiers in the opening scene, Ching (dressed in drag) pretends to seduce one of them (who had grenades strapped to his belt), then suddenly pulls the pin off the grenades and leaps out a nearby window before the soldiers can react. Cue explosion destroying the entire small cabin the soldiers are gathered.


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* ''Film/UniversalSoldierDayOfReckoning'': During his rampage through the Unisol Compound, John pulls the pin from the grenade mounted on the vest of one of the attacking Unisols, before shoving him back into the room he came out of. There were additional grenades on his tactical vest, and since they all went off, the chances of said Unisol surviving are pretty much non-existent.
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* ''Film/ColourOfTruth'':
** Casper’s attempt to arrest a suspect end with both of them struggling on the floor with each other, until said suspect, whom his pockets Casper is searching through, suddenly whips out a grenade. And [[OhCrap Casper happens to be holding its pin]].
** The grenade trick turns out to be a ChekhovsGun in the ending, [[spoiler: when Casper manage to arrest Boss Wong… by shoving a grenade between Wong’s thighs, sans pin. And tells him to better stay in that position until the police arrives to arrest him, or simply let himself be blown up]].
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* In ''Film/ABetterTomorrow III'', Mark struggles a bit with an enemy soldier before getting knocked aside, but also managed to remove a pin on the grenade clipped on said soldier's belt. BOOM.

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