History Main / TrickBomb

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Ja Wangnan uses a variety of bombs (which look like pokéballs), including [[AppliedPhlebotinum Shinsoo Bombs]], regular grenades and smoke-pepper bombs.

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** The 2nd edition bombs can now be used by anyone, however Bomber Alchemists are the best users of it since they can learn feats that augment bombs, not to mention their Perpetual Infusion ability allowing them to make free bombs on demand.

* The Alchemist class in ''{{TabletopGame/Pathfinder}}'' can eventually learn to use a whole bunch of these, including smoke bombs, stink bombs, poison gas bombs, frost bombs, two different varieties of incendiary bombs, and even [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail holy bombs]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' in general came to love this trope as the series progressed. The original series had remote bombs that were detonated manually instead of on a fuse, rubber bombs that bounced around when kicked or thrown, and spiked "piercing bombs" that blew right through every block in their blast range. Later games added elemental wind, water, electric, ice, and light bombs, turning normal bombs into fire-elemental ones. Still other games have included bait bombs, pile bombs, barrier bombs, salt bombs ([[CaptainObvious for killing slugs and nothing else]]), bombs which curved left, right, or towards enemies when thrown, poison bombs, radio-controlled bombs, speed bombs, power bombs, dangerous bombs (which act like small nukes), and many more.

* The ''SuperMarioBros.'' comic had a story called "Duh Stoopid Bomb!" The bomb would temporarily turn anyone in the blast radius into an idiot.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'''s expansion pack, Enemy Within, gives us [[BlindedByTheLight flashbang]], [[UniversalPoison gas]], and [[Invisibility ghost]] grenades. Its sequel, ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', adds [[SmokeOut smoke]], [[HollywoodAcid acid]], {{EMP}}, and [[KillItWithFire incendiary]] grenades to the armory.

** For higher-level parties willing to [[RulesLawyer abuse the rules]] [[{{Munchkin}} for fun and profit]], the ever-lovely [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Explosive Runes]] spell persists until it is set off due to being intended as a trap. It is also explicitly stated to go off if a dispel check is failed while attempting to erase or dispel it. As a corollary, you can also intentionally fail checks. Certain enterprising parties have been known to scribe hundreds of these spells over the course of arbitrarily-long periods of downtime and bundle them up into rather unconventional paper grenades. To use, simply lob a bundle or book of them at enemies, and set them off with a single intentionally-botched dispel spell to deliver [[GameBreaker the equivalent damage in pure concussive force damage of all of these runes going off all at once]]. Do not try to sucker your DM with this, however: equally-beleaguered [=DMs=] have been known to rule that [[ObviousRulePatch this will set off the first explosive rune so affected]], which then shreds the others [[WheresTheKaboom without setting off the expected chain reaction]].

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has a "gay bomb", in conformance to the [[ConspiracyTheory rumors]] about the real-life States working on one.

Some RealLife examples include [[BlindedByTheLight flashbangs]], stinger grenades, fireworks (explode into pretty), and the aforementioned smoke grenades. Then there are the infrared-emitting hot-smoke grenades used for targeting IR-sensitive missiles. Or baffling them, it all depends.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda Airborne Leaflet Propaganda]], often used during WorldWarII.

* ''TransformersWarForCybertron'' has [[HealingShiv grenades that heal]].

Those who ThrowDownTheBomblet may pack some of these in their arsenal. Crompare and Contrast with some {{Booby Trap}}s. See also GrenadeTag.

Compare and Contrast with some {{Booby Trap}}s. See also GrenadeTag.

* ''MatthewReilly'': flashers and tear gas grenades are fairly reasonable, but he also uses liquid nitrogen grenades and anti-firearm grenades. That's right, a bomb that takes out firearms by filling the air with sticky confetti that gets into the parts of a gun and stops it firing a second time.

** Likewise, most fears regarding nuclear terrorism aren't of terrorists acquiring a conventional nuclear device, so much as what is frequently called a "dirty bomb". Conventional explosives wired to a radioactive source, such as the plutonium core of a conventional nuclear explosive. The initial explosion is comparatively small, but the real danger lies in the highly radioactive material that gets spread around, like the fallout of a nuclear weapon without the city-destroying blast. It can affect miles of land and leave it radioactive for decades, depending on the yield. This concept of a 'dirty' bomb has been taken to the natural conclusion of the hypothetical ''Cobalt Bomb'', a nuclear weapon with a cobalt casing that is designed to scatter fragments of irradiated cobalt ''everywhere'' when initiated, deliberately irradiating the entire region where it was set off.

* Faun Reinaka of ''{{Tasakeru}}'' has a "boom belt" ''full'' of these. Some of the more unusual varieties include tar bombs, [[BoundAndGagged ribbon bombs]], [[LieToTheBeholder disguise bombs]], [[BrownNote sonic bombs]], [[{{Hammerspace}} compression bombs]]...

** Likewise, most fears regarding nuclear terrorism aren't of terrorists acquiring a conventional nuclear device, so much as what is frequently called a "dirty bomb". Conventional explosives wired to a radioactive source, such as the plutonium core of a conventional nuclear explosive. The initial explosion is comparatively small, but the real danger lies in the highly radioactive material that gets spread around, like the fallout of a nuclear weapon without the city-destroying blast. It can affect miles of land and leave it radioactive for decades, depending on the yield.