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11	[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames "Bombs? You want 'em? They're his, my friend."]]]]
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14	->''"What makes me a good demoman? If I were a '''bad''' demoman, I wouldn't be sittin' here, discussin' it with you, now would I?!"''\
15	[...]\
16	''"One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one '''errant twitch'''... and '''KABLOOIE!'''"''
17	-->-- '''The Demoman''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
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19	When a group needs to stop StuffBlowingUp (or cause it), the Demolitions Expert is the guy they will turn to. He's an expert at [[BombDisposal defusing]] or planting explosives, and will often get creative about ways to design or use them.
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21	Often TheSmartGuy of TheSquad or a CaperCrew. Differs from a MadBomber in that he's (usually) more disciplined and focused. If he is wounded and unable to do the disposal of a bomb himself, he may guide another squad member through the process. A Demolitions Expert is often the TokenMinority (usually {{Asian\|AndNerdy}} or {{Black\|AndNerdy}}) of TheSquad or a CaperCrew; another popular option is to make him an IrishExplosivesExpert.
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23	Depending on the setting, he may also be TheEngineer.
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26	!!Examples:
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31	* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Nice Holystone serves this function in the delinquent gang during the 1932 arc. With gusto.
32	* ''Manga/DesertRose'' has Jessica Clearkin and Colleen Anderson, counterterrorist mercenaries whose specialty within their division is bomb defusal. Colleen acts as Jessica's back up, but both had their own story arc focusing on their skills at BombDisposal.
33	* Wille of ''{{Manga/Jormungand}}''. One of his favorite tactics is rewiring bombs then turning them against their planters; a habit that landed him on the FBI's Blacklist. The only other member of the team on that list? ''Koko''.
34	* Deidara from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. He uses explosive clay in the form of creatures he makes with the mouths on his hands.
35	* Jun the Swan on ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman''. She's wired a number of enemy machines (including a nuclear reactor) to explode, and has a yo-yo bomb containing ''fusion cylinders.''
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39	* This is Robina Arthur's very particular set of skills in ''ComicBook/DesolationJones''.
40	* In the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, Donald Duck took this job and became so good he could blow up a building without blowing down a house of cards in a nearby house, or spreading more than two tiny pebbles outside the perimeter of the building.
41	* This is Lightfoot's official role in ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'', although several other Joes sometimes acted as demolitions expert, including Tripwire, Tunnel Rat and Depth Charge.
42	* In ''ComicBook/HuntersHellcats'', Juggler is a safecracker and the team's expert with explosives.
43	* ''ComicBook/TinusTrotyl'', although usually more of a MadBomber, has occasionally shown his demolition skills by clearing a road blocked by a rock avalanche, defusing an old [=WW2=] bomb, and saving a mountain village from an avalanche. He does tend to have a little too much fun doing it though, and isn't shy of giving spectators heart-stopping scares while he's at it.
44	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Arda Prosperous, one of ComicBook/{{Etta\|Candy}}'s Holliday Girls, is quite handy at spotting and defusing bombs. She doesn't always have enough time to defuse them which once allows a criminal to blow up the building they're in the basement of.
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48	* ''FanFic/BetweenMinds'', a VideoGame/{{HalfLife}}/{{Videogame/Portal}} fic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3336431/3theCaptain 3theCaptain]] has [[DistaffCounterpart Sam]], a short, Asian teammate who seems to [[MadBomber take glee in blowing as many things up as she can]].
49	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Tarot'' series, Guild of Assassins explosives expert Johanna Smith-Rhodes is most definitively not asked by Lord Vetinari if she can conceive of a way to remove the Tump Tower, an embarrassing hangover from corrupt financier Reacher Gilt, in such a way that there is the absolute minimum of loss of life, there is no collateral damage from its collapsing, potentially over a very high-rent area of Ankh, and the whole thing is completely deniable, and can be put down to the Tower being built too tall from shoddy materials to a bad design. Johanna's proposal involves the right sort of explosive Devices placed in ''exactly'' the right amounts in ''exactly'' the right places on the night of a ''very'' bad thunderstorm. The contract to inhume an entire building appeals to her; at the time of writing she is yet to come up with a working plan.
50	* Shikako, the [[SelfInsertFic self-insert]] of ''Fanfic/DreamingOfSunshine'', learned how to seal by starting with explosive tags. By the finals of her [[spoiler:first]] Chuunin Exams, she's got the explosive seals down to a ''touch.'' She's of the opinion that if explosives can't solve your problems, you're not using enough of them.
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54	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' has the Italian demolition expert [[DeadpanSnarker Vinny]], who [[OralFixation chews a matchstick]] and treats explosives as office supplies.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' has the unforgettable Bomb Voyage, a French one-man heist crew who gets by with [[BadassNormal nothing but his talent in explosives]].
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59	* The two main characters of ''Film/BlownAway'', Jimmy Dove (real name Liam [=McGivney=]) and Ryan Gaerity, are both {{Irish Explosives Expert}}s who were most active at the time of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles. Gaerity ended up in prison, escaped and sought revenge against [=McGivney=] who, meanwhile, used his knowledge and skills in explosives to become a BombDisposal police officer in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}.
60	* ''Film/TheDeserter'' has Chaplain Reynolds. Kaleb recruits him for the squad because he is the best dynamite man in the army. He instructs the squad on the correct use of explosives as a weapon.
61	* ''Film/DisturbingThePeace'': Pyro is the biker gang's demolition expert. He is the one who blows open the doors on the armoured car, and rigs up the fire bomb on the church to kill all the occupants.
62	* In ''Film/ExecutiveDecision'', the special forces team includes such an expert, who is badly injured when they first board the plane. The two civilian experts brought along on the mission work on figuring out how to defuse the bomb, until the expert wakes up and is able to talk them through it (not to mention stopping them from cutting the wrong wire).
63	* ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' stars Creator/JamesCoburn as a 19th century IRA explosives fanatic who is for some reason running around Mexico during the Revolution with a steady supply of nitroglycerin, blowing things up just right.
64	* Firefly from ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''.
65	-->''Making more things go boom by 9:00 a.m. than most people do all day.''
66	* Sergeant Muldoon from ''Film/TheGreenBerets'', who got his start when his father gave him a chemistry set as a kid and, in his words, "It got bigger than the both of us."
67	* Corporal Miller from ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''.
68	* In ''Film/TheHotRock'', Greenberg is the CaperCrew's demolitions expert. His main task during the first heist is blowing up a car outside the museum to distract the guards. He later creates the bombs the crew use when storming the police station.
69	* The members of the EOD team in ''Film/TheHurtLocker'', James in particular.
70	* Left Ear from ''Film/TheItalianJob2003''. Helps the CaperCrew with all of their explosive needs.
71	* ''Film/LoganLucky'' has [[DeepSouth redneck]] safe-breaker Joseph "Joe" [[MeaningfulName Bang]]. [[BunnyEarsLawyer He's quite wacky, but he knows his science about explosives]]. He can build a bomb out of bleach, salt substitute and gummy bears, for instance.
72	* Mei-lin of ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}''. She's introduced improvising a cherry bomb to blow up the prisoners' toilets for fun.
73	* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in ''Film/{{Munich}}'', where after the bombs used by the team continuously malfunction, the bomb expert admits that he was trained to ''dismantle'' bombs rather than to build them. [[spoiler:He ends up blowing himself up while building one.]]
74	* ''Film/OceansEleven'' has Basher, master of power-cutting and safe-blowing explosions.
75	* "Nitro" Jones in ''Film/OnceUponATexasTrain''. Of course, his eyes and his hands aren't what they once were...
76	* Bill Dolworth in ''Film/TheProfessionals'' is hired specifically because the teams needs an explosives expert.
77	* Referenced in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Mia's ShowWithinAShow PilotEpisode "Fox Force Five" featured five foxy chicks. "The black girl was a demolition expert."
78	* In ''Film/SkyBandits'', Barney is an expert dynamiter. However, his MadBomber tendencies mean that he always uses too much dynamite.
79	* ''Film/TheWarWagon'': Billy is recruited for the crew because of his expertise with explosives: being as good with explosives as Lomax is with a gun. The blase way in which he handles nitroglycerine tends to unnerve everyone else.
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83	* Captain Federer in the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' series is the 597th's chief [[TheEngineer sapper]], which means he has two jobs: build things on the battlefield, and blow things up on the battlefield. Guess which one he prefers. In one memorable instance in ''Caves of Ice'' he plants a bomb to take down an [[HumongousMecha ork Gargant]] using a truly colossal amount of ordnance. It doesn't get used to its original role, though -- instead it's repurposed to touch off ''an entire fuel depot'', creating a shockwave felt on an orbiting troop ship. Federer's reaction is elation. And then there's the persistent rumor that he was in training for the Adeptus Mechanicus, but was kicked out for [[MadBomber blowing up the school]]...
84	* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
85	** In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', Grace-093 is the Spartan-[=IIs'=] best demolitions expert, described as being able to "shape a charge to cut through a single steel bolt with only a whisper sound, or rig a hundred thousand liters of kerosene to blow into a firestorm from hell".
86	** In ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'', Spartan-[=III=] Dante is described as being almost magical with finding, disposing, and setting bombs, and serves as Team Saber's explosives expert.
87	** In the ''Literature/HaloEvolutions'' short story ''Headhunters'', Roland is the explosives expert of the duo. [[spoiler:His partner Jonah is also trained for demolitions duty, in case Roland bites it.]]
88	* The heartless troop in ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' has Cal. He's the group's scientist and technology guy, so he handles making things blow up when they fight monsters. [[spoiler:Riley takes over after he dies. She's not quite as refined or careful as Cal was, but what she lacks in precision, she makes up in passion.]]
89	* Ben in ''Literature/TheLeonardRegime''.
90	* In ''Literature/RiverOfTeeth'', Hero Shackleby is hired by Houndstooth based on their reputation as both a demolitions expert and a MasterPoisoner. Mainly it's Hero's job in the gang to devise a plan on how to scare the hippos out of the Harriet by using explosives ''without'' demolishing the already cracked dam. Not only does Hero manage that, they also [[CrazyPrepared have a back-up plan on hand]] in case that is not enough fire power. Hero is also black, though not the only [[TokenMinority minority]] in the crew.
91	* Wylan of ''Literature/SixOfCrows '' is handpicked by Kaz for the heist on the Ice Court due to his intimate knowledge of demolitions and chemistry [[spoiler:as well as his being the son of Jan van Eck, Kaz’s employer]]. Despite his area of expertise, [[SkilledButNaive he is painfully shy and considerate, and is newer to crime than any of the other main characters.]]
92	* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends Literature/XWingSeries'', Wraith Squadron member Kell Tainer is the team's explosive expert and is frequently called upon to disarm booby traps or create new explosives, which he sometimes refers to as "works of art".
93	* ''Literature/WetDesertTrackingDownATerroristOnTheColoradoRiver'': They are called in to blow up the spillways at Hoover Dam so that water can be drained at lower water levels. And later to pre-emptively breach dams which can't be saved farther down the Colorado.
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97	* On ''Series/{{The 100}}'', Raven serves as an all-purpose engineer, but building bombs is acknowledged as being her specialty.
98	-->'''Bellamy:''' That bridge has survived a nuclear war and 97 years of weather.\
99	'''Raven:''' [[BadassBoast It won't survive me]].
100	* In an episode of ''Series/BarneyMiller'' Detective Yemana is searching their records so they can track down a professional bomber. He rattles off a list of names, noting how many of them have the nickname "Boom Boom".
101	* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Ex-terrorist Fiona doubles as this, in addition to being the resident GunNut. Whenever the team needs something to blow up, Michael can just turn his head and say, "Fi...".
102	* Creator/FredDibnah, a steeplejack from OopNorth, became a TV star because of his engaging personality, dry wit, and his talent for bringing down tall structures in a visually spectacular way.
103	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Seventh Doctor's companion Ace was a self-taught one, with a couple bugs to work out, but if Seven needed some StuffBlowingUp, he could be reasonably sure Ace "[[BlatantLies wasn't carrying]]" a couple cans of her favored concoction.
104	-->'''Ace''': ''Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?''
105	* In the 1967 ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' episode "[[Recap/Dragnet1967S1E02TheBigExplosion The Big Explosion]]" a couple Neo-Nazis steal a cache of dynamite from a construction site. Two demolition experts are brought in to advise Detectives Friday and Gannon how to safely proceed, and to help remove the dynamite and blasting caps when found.
106	* ''Series/TheFBI'': In "The Problem of the Honorable Wife", Maury Maddock served as an army explosives technician in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, but defected to the North Koreans. He is employed by a ring of DirtyCommunists to blow up an army warehouse. Erskine sums it up when he examines the remains of one of Maddock's bombs and comments that they looking for an 'an amateur, expert bomb maker'.
107	* Spike on ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}''
108	* ''Series/HogansHeroes'': Sgt. Carter has a real genius for - and very much enjoys - blowing stuff up. He's also the team CloudCuckoolander, all of which might be slightly worrying if he wasn't such a nice guy.
109	* ''Series/LAsFinest'': Nancy was an EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal) expert in the Navy. This comes in handy when she and Syd are forced to deal with a bomb.
110	* Angus [=MacGyver=] in ''[[Series/MacGyver1985 MacGyver]]''. He served in a bomb disposal unit in UsefulNotes/VietnamWar (or the Second Gulf War in [[Series/MacGyver2016 the remake]]).
111	* Edgar K.B. Montrose from ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is a parody of this, as his hearing loss and missing finger can attest. And he's ready and willing to solve any problem...as long as it involves explosives.
112	->'''Edgar''': Oh, I'm all ears, Red!
113	->'''Red''': Of course you are. Just no ''eardrums.''
114	* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': [[Creator/DaniellaAlonso Nora Clayton]]. She seems to specialize in trip wires and can even make a little gun to hide up a sleeve. You can see it in action in [[Recap/RevolutionS1E5SoulTrain episode 5]] and the [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower first season finale]].
115	* In the ''Series/SherlockHolmes1954'' episode "The Case of the Careless Suffragette", the title character hires Boris Turgoff, proud anarchist who makes bombs big and small, to build a small bomb for her.
116	* Malcolm Reed from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' loves blowing shit up. He once disables a Romulan drone ship with a single phase pistol set on overload.
117	-->''(to [[TheEngineer "Trip" Tucker]])'' "You're good at building things; I'm good at blowing them up."
118	* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'': Artemus Gordon. Usually he falls into the "creatively blowing things up" category, but on at least one occasion he's called upon instead to defuse a situation.
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122	* Downplayed by the local village hoodlums in ''Podcast/WoodenOvercoats''. When trying to figure out what Jerry's planning, already certain he's up to no good, Antigone goes to them for help, revealing the suspicious purchases Jerry's made in the last day or so to see if they have any idea what it could be used for. The hoodlums immediately realize he's purchased most of the ingredients necessary to make a homemade cherry bomb, and also assure her that it won't work unless he can also get ahold of some gunpowder. How or ''why'' they know this is unclear, especially given that they're teenagers, but there's nothing to indicate they've ever built a bomb themselves, or have any desire to do so. (They do display an interest in [[BombThrowingAnarchist anarchy from a political standpoint]], but none of their demonstrations hurt or even bother anybody.)
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126	* ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'' has at least two major explosives expert, both rather crazy. Demoman is a drunk but Firecracker (an {{expy}} of the WebVideo/HitlerRants version of John Mallory) is a psycho who joined the team solely so that he could blow stuff up (he even got fired ''from a demolition company'' because of how much he loves dynamite).
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130	* ''TabletopGame/{{Stratego}}'' has the Miner, the only unit that can knock out bombs.
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134	* ''Videogame/{{Battleborn}}'' has DLC character Ernest, a pudgy pink bird of the military-themed Peacekeeper faction who serves as the demoman of his faction. While he uses primarily explosives in his kit, he also has some support options with his Power Egg, which buffs allies around it.
135	* ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany'': one of the four core protagonists, Haggard, has a terrible case of pyromania, which was what threw him into B-Company to begin with.
136	* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' gives us a number of examples, all of whom are as skilled with explosives as they are [[MadBomber bonkers]].
137	** Tiny Tina, the deadliest 13-year-old on Pandora and the game's signature CuteAndPsycho {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. She's the main supplier for the Crimson Raiders on the matters of bombs, boomers, kablooies and such, and according to Roland, she's one of the best at her trade ''on the entire planet''.
138	** The second boss in the game is Boom-Bewm, the SiblingTeam of Bandit explosives experts Boom and Bewm. Light the fuses, bitches!
139	** The second DLC introduces Mr. Torgue, founder of Torgue Corporation. Despite being a screaming maniac, he personally designed all of Torgue's weaponry (all of which are of the Explosion element).
140	* In ''VideoGame/{{Brink}}'' the Soldier class focuses on the StuffBlowingUp aspect of this trope, planting HE charges to complete objectives, and utilizing special grenades and satchel charges against enemies, whilst the Engineer class focuses on the BombDisposal aspect, disarming explosives planted by enemy players (though they can also plant land mines).
141	* ''VideoGame/COD2SpanishCivilWarMod'': The engineer you escort as Marion to plant explosives under one of the towers in the Alcazar fortress.
142	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' has two examples:
143	** Aside from the rocket launcher, the Chinese Tank Hunter can plant a TNT charge on buildings and vehicles. The explosion is not particularly powerful, but they can place it instantly by getting close enough. It's not a good idea to run them over with a vehicle unless you consider it disposable.
144	** Colonel Burton, the USA's HeroUnit, can plant demo charges that'll one-shot anything short of a superweapon structure or command center. The main problem of it is that they take a very long time to plant and take up Burton's full attention to plant, so he'll be uncloaked the whole time and unable to retaliate; if you force him to do anything else before he's done, he'll have to start over from scratch. Jarmen Kell, the GLA's own HeroUnit, also has access to those same demo charges if you're playing as [[StuffBlowingUp General Rhodall "Demo" Juhziz]].
145	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has the Crazy Ivan unit, a TimeBomb specialist who can put bombs on ''anything'' and destroy them with a single well timed blast. This includes your own forces, encouraging the creative use of {{Suicide\|Attack}} [[ActionBomb Bombers]] among your tactics. Though a talented bombsmith, Ivan is every bit the MadBomber his CallSign implies him to be, and will gladly answer your summons by cackling madly into the microphone.
146	* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' has Thomas "Inferno" Hancock, the Sapper. Polite, cheerful, and rather enthusiastic about his work, his specialties include planting time bombs and wire bombs, as well as defusing enemy land mines and stealing them for his own use. He eventually equips a flamethrower and becomes the deadliest member of your squad by a wide margin.
147	* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'' makes the Driller into the team's excavation and demolitions expert by virtue of giving him the C4 remote bomb as an equipment choice. He can toss this item on walls or floors (or the occasional low ceiling) or place it precisely in a desired location, allowing the Driller to quickly and effortlessly remove terrain, carve out his own bunkers, and generally turn the caves into his playground. Unfortunately for both the indigenous wildlife of Hoxxes and the other Dwarves, the Driller is also a BloodKnight [[MemeticPsychopath with a reputation for attracting particularly psycho players]], and it's not uncommon for Drillers to C4 their enemies, their teammates, and often themselves, either by [[FriendOrFoe accident]] or [[{{Griefer}} design]].
148	* The [[TheEngineer Objective Specialist]] Mercenaries of ''VideoGame/DirtyBomb'' can handle the bomb planting and disposal aspects of this trope twice as fast as any other Merc. Fletcher and Proxy in particular also have sticky bombs and trip mines, respectively. Lesser so is any Merc with access to the "Mechanic" Augment, which speeds them up in defusing and planting, though not to the same level as an Objective Specialist. Fragger and Thunder also qualify; they have frag grenades for blowing up deployables and groups of enemies, and flashbangs that double as EMP grenades, respectively.
149	* In the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' franchise, Samantha Byrne is Delta Squad's EOD member. Though her knowledge only comes into play once in ''Gears of War 3'', it is used more in the novels.
150	* Klee from ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' is very skilled at crafting magical explosives ranging from ordinary bombs to explosive teddy bears and loves to toss her explosive weaponry at anything, such as the surrounding environment and fish in water. She get very reckless with her bombing habits due to her high energy and young age, so the other members of the Knights of Favonius have to keep a close eye on her to prevent her from causing further trouble.
151	* ''Videogame/GrimDawn:'' The appropriately-named Demolitionist class uses various manners of potent explosives, amplified by a little extra magic, to take on their foes. Their official role before the collapse was to tackle both fortifications and massed enemies, scattering both; now, they blow up every abomination against nature that crawls the wilderness.
152	* ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' has Michael "Mickey" Crespo, who rigs the bridge leading to the ONI building to blow up and prevent Covenant ground forces from crossing it, and later destroys the ONI building itself to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
153	* The Mercenaries who specialize in explosives in the ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' series. Many of them them are [[MadBomber a bit more enthusiastic about their craft than is really healthy]], hence why they're in some BananaRepublic getting shot at instead of knocking down old factories or doing practical effects for action movies.
154	** The explosives expert roster in each game includes one ConsummateProfessional, a couple who hit the {{Series/Mythbusters}} sweet spot of "professional and enthusiastic", and the rest are full-on MadBomber types who are by far the craziest characters in a series whose main selling point compared to {{VideoGame/XCOM}} is that you're commanding [[CloudCuckooLander quirky]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer individuals]] instead of faceless [[{{Mook}} mooks]]. At least one of them had a gameplay quirk of occasionally [[TooDumbToLive setting timers and fuses for far shorter than you told him]], and is noted in Jagged Alliance 2 to have died between games from doing just that.
155	* A late-game mission in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' involves Samus [[EscortMission protecting a group of demolition specialists]] as they make their way to a heavily reinforced door that cannot be opened any other way.
156	* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': Magnus of the Order of the Stone. His demolition skill is why Axel suggests enlisting his help to fight [[spoiler:the Wither Storm]].
157	* ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'':
158	** Loid from ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' has some of the best weapons in the game, including bombs and bottle rockets.
159	** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': Jeff is Loid's {{Expy}} in the sequel. However, it should be noted that in this game, anyone can use the bombs, unlike in the first only Loid can. However, Jeff is still the only one who can use the bottle rockets, of which the strongest kind deals so much damage that it is a GameBreaker.
160	* This is specifically the role that [[TheHero Alias]] plays for [[FiveManBand the squad]] in ''VideoGame/RedFactionII''.
161	* In the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series of video games, starting from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' onward, Bentley is the team's "Brains and Demolitions Expert" as the back of the game box says. He uses a wide variety of unique explosives to pull off amazing heists, as well as defend himself. In [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the third game]], the crew end up recruiting The Panda King (a villain from the [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus first game]] who combines fireworks with martial arts) as a dedicated demoman.
162	* Delta-62, aka "Scorch", from ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' is noted to be the team's expert at setting up and detonating explosives. Technically, all four members of TheSquad, player character included, are equally competent at anything you can have them do, but they each have their own specialty and will comment if someone else ends up performing an action that falls under it; for instance, if ColdSniper "Sev" ends up planting a demolition charge, Scorch may interject by asking if you're sure you want the guy with the death wish arming an explosive device.
163	* [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Havoc Squad]], the Republic Trooper's team in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', begins the game with a dedicated demolitions man nicknamed "[[MeaningfulName Fuze]]". [[spoiler: Like the other veteran Havocs, he defects to the Empire, who puts him to use designing bombs. However, he returns to the Republic when he realizes that the Imperials are testing his creations on civilians.]] His replacement, Tanno Vik, is an ex-street gang member with such a broad criminal streak that he was actually dishonorably discharged, but was recommissioned because he's just that good. And it's not an exaggeration -- on the mission he was tapped for, he plants a few pieces of heavy ordnance that destroy an entire Imperial cruiser (albeit from the inside) and the superweapon prototype it was carrying.
164	* The Demoman in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is either this or a MadBomber (it depends on whether he's on your team or not). His weapons of choice are a grenade launcher and a gun that shoots sticky mines. Then, if you want, you can even replace your melee weapon with a WWII German stick grenade. However, it's not thrown; instead, it's meant to hit people, exploding when you do and essentially turning the Demoman into an ActionBomb.
165	* In ''VideoGame/WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness'', the dwarves (Alliance) and their EvilCounterpart the goblins (Horde) are specialized units that blow stuff up. Each unit is only good for a single explosion, killing the demolitions team in the blast of its own attack. They are, it would appear, so willing to die for the cause that they chose a specialty that makes every mission a suicide mission.
166	** In ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', the dwarves, having suffered terrible losses among their sapper teams in the Second War, have been developing a method of delivering those explosives that do not require the demolition dwarves to themselves to get near the target. Hence, the dwarven mortar team replaces the old sapper units.
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170	* ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaSeries'': Yuuji himself, as a jack of all trades, can handle explosives, under his tutelage Sachi becomes somewhat of an expert in both her after story in ''[[VisualNovel/TheLabyrinthOfGrisaia Labyrinth]]'', and in ''[[VisualNovel/TheEdenOfGrisaia Eden]]''.
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174	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' currently has as the company demolition expert Lt. "Pi" Pibald, a MadBomber swinging between acute (if [[ProperlyParanoid not always unjustified]]) paranoia and lapses in self-preservation related to explosives. He's also good enough to casually manufacture high explosives in an ant farm in his cabin, and implies he could make explosive french fries (apparently the yield drops just a little if they need to be edible). There were two previous demolition experts: Hob blew himself up ([[HeroicSacrifice heroically]]) and Pronto was [[DuctTapeForEverything too enthusiastic about duct tape]], but ended up simply shot in the chest.
175	** In addition to the aforementioned characters, the entire profession was recognised in Maxim 3: An Ordnance Technician [[DontAskJustRun at a dead run]] outranks '''''everybody'''''.
176	* In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', one of the main army jobs is Cleanser, which includes burning down and blowing up buildings in which PlagueZombie monsters could be dwelling.
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180	* Door in ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'' frequently mentions his 'old mining days', implying that he is familiar with dynamite. [[spoiler:He's not a former miner, he's a former EOD technician for the US Military. The [[ExactWords mines]] he worked with are ''land''mines]]. It's implied that he set up [[spoiler:the minefield in Kitten's front yard]].
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184	* [[YouDirtyRat Rattrap]] from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is the main Maximal when it comes to explosives.
185	* Rico from ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', to the point where "Kaboom!" is one of the few intelligible words you can get out of him.
186	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has Wheeljack on the Autobots, who much more of a combat engineer than his usual {{Gadgeteer Genius}} portrayal.
187	* [[TheBigGuy Wrecker]] from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' is the team member who's in charge of destroying things, either with his own physical strength or with StuffBlowingUp. In their PoorlyDisguisedPilot on ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', he literally sheds TearsOfJoy when Anakin gives him the remote that blows up a Separatist cruiser.
188	-->''(tearing up)'' "This is the happiest day of my life!"
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