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* ''Film/HotFuzz'', except it's not underwater when we see it, it's ''lying around in some dude's garage''. Though initially appearing to be a dud, it quickly starts ticking once Angel and Danny find it. [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion; it doesn't go off, and it ends up stored in the evidence locker with Angel believing it's deactivated. It winds up [[ChekhovsGun going off]] in the penultimate scene]].

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* ''Film/HotFuzz'', except it's not underwater when we see it, it's ''lying around in some dude's garage''. Though initially appearing to be a dud, it quickly starts ticking once Angel and Danny find it. [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion; it doesn't go off, and it ends up stored in the evidence locker with Angel believing it's deactivated. It winds up [[ChekhovsGun going off]] in during the penultimate scene]].PostClimaxConfrontation with Tom Weaver]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': The sharks live in a sunken warship surrounded by "balloons". They become a ChekhovsGun [[spoiler:when a berserk Bruce accidentally sets off a torpedo while trying to kill Marlin and Dory, which sets off a chain reaction with the other mines, causing the sharks to flee.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': The sharks live in a sunken warship surrounded by "balloons". They become a ChekhovsGun [[spoiler:when a berserk Bruce accidentally sets one off with a torpedo while trying to kill Marlin and Dory, which sets off a chain reaction with the other mines, causing the sharks to flee.]]
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* ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne''. Shikishima takes on the well-paid but dangerous work of clearing the thousands of sea mines laid in Japanese waters during the war. Clearing involves two small boats made of wood (to avoid setting off magnetic mines) towing a cable between them to cut the mine's tether so it will float to the surface and be detonated with gunfire. When Godzilla makes an appearance, they are ordered to use some of these cleared mines to try and stop it. Naturally the crew think this is even more suicidal than their usual job.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' had these in [[UnderTheSea Quaria]]. They blow up if you touched them, of course.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Bug|1995}}'' had these in [[UnderTheSea Quaria]]. They blow up if you touched them, of course.
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* An aerial version occurs in ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay''. In order to reach the secret SkyPirate hideout of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Retribution Falls]], the crew of the Ketty Jay have to [[BlindDriving blind-fly]] their CoolAirship through mist-shrouded ravines using a map and a MagicCompass--and they have no idea what the latter does. Turns out the compass reveals the location of the surrounding field of floating magnetic mines.

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* An aerial version occurs in ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay''. In order to reach the secret SkyPirate hideout of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Retribution Falls]], the crew of the Ketty Jay have to [[BlindDriving blind-fly]] their CoolAirship through mist-shrouded ravines using a map and a MagicCompass--and they have no idea what the latter does. Turns out the compass reveals the location of the surrounding field of floating aerial magnetic mines.mines that protect Retribution Falls.
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* An aerial version occurs in ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay''. In order to reach the secret SkyPirate hideout of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Retribution Falls]], the crew of the Ketty Jay have to [[BlindDriving blind-fly]] their CoolAirship through mist-shrouded ravines using a map and a MagicCompass--and they have no idea what the latter does. Turns out the compass reveals the location of the surrounding field of floating magnetic mines.
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* The spiky protrusions on classic sea mines are so-called "Hertz horns". They are lead horns which contain a small glass ampulla full of electrolyte and two electrodes. When a ship runs into the mine, the soft lead of the horn will bend, breaking the ampulla and letting the electrolyte run in the horn. It will then close an electric circuit, which then in turn will detonate the fuse and the explosive charge in the mine itself.



* The spiky protrusions on the mine which Donald and the Ducklings have just angled on the cartoon featured are so-called Hertz horns. They are lead horns which contain a small glass ampulla full of electrolyte and two electrodes. When a ship runs into the mine, the soft lead of the horn will bend, breaking the ampulla and letting the electrolyte run in the horn. It will then close an electric circuit, which then in turn will detonate the fuse and the explosive charge on the mine itself.
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* ''{{VideoGame/Sipho}}'': Fittingly for a game that happen entirely within liquid environments, the poison bombs created by the Miner zooid are orbs with glowing protrusions that resemble a naval mine.
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* Done in the first series of ''Series/SeaPatrol'' (also an [[RecycledPremise Australian series about a patrol boat]]), when a mine washes up on a beach after a cyclone. While it is unstable, the only real danger comes from a pair of TooDumbToLive preteen boys who find the mine, don't report it straightaway. One even runs towards it when the bomb disposal unit are about to destroy it to save a tortoise.

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* Done in the first series of ''Series/SeaPatrol'' (also an [[RecycledPremise Australian series about a patrol boat]]), when a mine washes up on a beach after a cyclone. While it is unstable, the only real danger comes from a pair of TooDumbToLive preteen boys who find the mine, mine and don't report it straightaway. One even runs towards it to save a tortoise when the bomb disposal {{bomb disposal}} unit are about to destroy it to save a tortoise.it.



* The 1977 BBC series ''The Secret War'', the episode "The Deadly Waves" examines the LensmanArmsRace between the Allies and Nazis over the magnetic sea mine.

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* The In the 1977 BBC series ''The Secret War'', the episode "The Deadly Waves" examines the LensmanArmsRace between the Allies and Nazis over the magnetic sea mine.
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* ''Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea''. After the sonar is sabotaged, the submarine almost plows headfirst into a field of underwater mines, and a tense sequence starts when they have to send in a minisub to cut a mine cable they've gotten entangled with. When the cable is cut, the mine drifts up and sets off another mine, and the underwater blast sends the minisub into a third mine which destroys it. It's not clear what the minefield is doing there given that there isn't a war on; either it was planted recently to stop the ''Seaview'' or it's an uncleared minefield from a previous war.

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* The VideoGame/{{Pokemon}} Koffing's appearance is based on a floating naval mine. Since it learns [[TakingYouWithMe Self-Destruct and Explosion]], this is fitting.

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Koffing's appearance is based on a floating naval mine. Since it learns [[TakingYouWithMe Self-Destruct and Explosion]], this is fitting.fitting.
** Qwilfish (along with its Hisuian form and Overqwil) also resembles a navel mine and the fact that its part Water type sells its motif.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Taking place in war-torn UsefulNotes/FascistItaly, the ocean is full of sea mines, first introduced by a seagull accidentally setting one off by sitting on the trigger. Pinocchio later [[spoiler:uses a sea mine to blow up the inside of the Dogfish, freeing him and killing the beast, but blowing his father and friends in the process]].

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