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8	->''"Must not valiantly push officers onto hand grenades to save the squad."''
9	-->-- Item #201 on ''Literature/SkippysList''
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11	Someone has just chucked a grenade into the room where TheSquad is. One of the squad throws their body over the grenade and makes a HeroicSacrifice.
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13	The ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' examined this in 2007 and confirmed the myth; jumping on a grenade will significantly reduce the injuries to those around, but it's still a very good idea to get clear. Note that this confirmation only applies to soft, squishy things like a human body -- [[BombproofAppliance placing a grenade in a harder object, like, say, a refrigerator]], will actually ''increase'' the damage done, as the hard object turns to even more fragments that can kill. Human bodies are much more effective at absorbing the released energy and shrapnel without fragmenting.
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15	In reality, this is zig-zagged, like everything else in war. Officially, the ''proper'' course of action when a grenade lands near is to get as far away as possible before detonation, followed by jumping on it, then by grabbing it and throwing it away as a final resort. Fortified positions, from concrete bunkers to hand-dug foxholes, generally have depressions so that grenades that get thrown in can be kicked aside into the depressions and ignored while they detonate safely. On the other hand, the enemy may have cooked it[[note]]held onto the grenade after the pin was pulled and the 3-5 second fuse started burning, to make a shorter time between toss and explosion. It should be noted that this is considered, almost without exception, as a Very Bad Idea and forbidden by most armed forces, as grenade fuses are not reliable, and you're just as likely to have it [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blow up in your hand]] as you are to successfully throw it[[/note]] before throwing it in the first place, giving anyone nearby little chance to react.
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17	Compare with PineappleSurprise (for when a character is blown up by their own grenade), RocketJump (when a videogame character creates an explosion to jump higher), TakingTheBullet, and TuckAndCover. See also EatTheBomb for an even more extreme (and less realistic) approach to personally neutralizing an explosive. Contrast ExplosiveStupidity, where the subject unintentionally blows themselves up. Subtrope of ContainTheKaboom (which covers explosives of all sizes rather than just grenades).
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19	!!As this is a {{Death Trope\|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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21	!!Examples:
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26	* Hayato Kawajiri from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' jumps on a Proverbial Grenade to take one of Kira's bombs to save Josuke and Okuyasu, only managing to survive because Josuke managed to act fast enough with Crazy Diamond to save him.
27	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'': Fatgum heroically pulls this off in chapter 35. He survives (obviously, since he's still alive by the time of the main series) thanks to his Shock Absorption quirk.
28	* The Punk Hazard arc in ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a variation, in that it doesn't feature an actual grenade. [[spoiler:In order to prevent the other giant children from eating more of the drugged candy that [[MadScientist Caesar Clown]] has been feeding them, Mocha swallows the entire batch she was carrying at once; to Chopper's horror, as it is a very dangerous drug. This brings her to the brink of death but snaps the other kids back to their senses. Fortunately, Chopper was able to stabilize her condition and save her.]]
29	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'': In the light novel version of the cabin battle, Pitohui throws an inactive grand grenade to bait out the team, and they fall for it, with one of their members instinctively jumping on the grenade and leaving himself wide open.
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33	* In ''Adventure Comics #424'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda Danvers]] is having a date with an ex-crook she's trying to get information out of when a gangster suddenly tosses a grenade in the restaurant to silence his former partner. Linda instantly jumps on the grenade and takes the explosion. Good thing she's invulnerable.
34	-->'''Bartender 1:''' She... She jumped on the grenade! She's not breathing!\
35	'''Bartender 2:''' ...S-Saved us by taking the explosion herself!
36	* In ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', Carnage is affected by a MirrorMoralityMachine spell and after his HeelFaceBrainwashing used his own body to suppress a DoomsdayDevice that would've [[FinalSolution killed every non-mutant on Earth]]. He survives due to his FromASingleCell ability, [[AnArmAndALeg but loses his legs in the process]].
37	* During his tenure as new ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', ComicBook/BuckyBarnes dove in front of a rocket aimed at the presidential candidates' motorcades just as they were about to escape.
38	* In the ComicBook/{{Chick Tract\|s}} "The Chaplain", an evangelist soldier jumps onto a grenade and sacrifices himself to save his unit, prompting a previously violent soldier to convert. Notably, not only were his squadmates so close that they probably would have been killed anyway, the soldier survives long enough to deliver touching last words.
39	* In ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'' #9, Donald Sample gives his life to blast open a building's doors, setting off a grenade and shielding the others from the blast with his own body.
40	* Inverted in ''ComicBook/TheDarkness''. A grenade is thrown into a mafia meeting and Jackie instantly pushes one of his mooks on top of it.
41	* Geiger does this ''ComicBook/FearItself: Youth In Revolt'' #2, catching a grenade thrown by Crossbones and using her body to shield her teammates from the blast. Being super tough, she survives the experience, but it is enough to hospitalise her.
42	* In issue 28 of Creator/MarvelComics ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' series, Tripwire attempts to save the lives of other Joes by throwing himself on top of a makeshift bomb. Roadblock safely disposes of the bomb and lectures Tripwire on unneeded heroism.
43	** One issue of the ''Special Missions'' series has a homeless veteran team up with the Joes while they investigate a Cobra operation. Near the end, a Cobra agent throws a grenade at them. The veteran throws himself on the grenade to protect the Joes. The grenade turns out to be a dud, but the vet dies of a heart attack anyway.
44	* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] saves Jason Todd's life by throwing herself on top of a bomb. Her body bore the brunt of the blast, but since it was a ''solar-powered'' bomb she came out unscathed (not that a normal bomb would damage her either, but she didn't know about her invulnerability in the time).
45	* Rocky from ''ComicBook/JurassicStrikeForceFive'' hops on a grenade after Tyler throws it back at the Reptilians. Due to all his heavy armor, [[MadeOfIron he doesn't get a scratch]].
46	* A one-shot Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes villain was created when a soldier threw himself on top of a high-tech grenade to save his unit. The AppliedPhlebotinum grenade threw him centuries into the future and put him out of phase with the universe.
47	* The final fate of Captain Storm, the leader of the UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo incarnation of ''ComicBook/TheLosers'' in Franchise/TheDCU.
48	* Played with in ''ComicBook/ThePulse''; Spider-Man and ComicBook/LukeCage have to get rid of some of the Green Goblin's pumpkin-bombs. Spidey webs his high into the air, but Luke manages to contain the blast in his hands with the only damage being to his clothing.
49	* Done on a larger scale in Marvel's ''ComicBook/ShogunWarriors''. A train full of explosives is about to detonate. Genji, piloting humanoid HumongousMecha Combatra, throws the mecha over the blast.
50	* In one issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'', Krusty the Klown is taping a show at the family's house when Fat Tony's goons send a lit stick of dynamite in through the window. (No, no one douses the fuse) Homer tries to solve the problem by putting the stick under a vase, but Krusty screams that they have to put something heavy over it, so Homer sits on the vase. The resulting blast doesn't kill Homer, but it ''does'' send him through the ceiling.
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54	* Near the end of ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'', we see Dark turn Night into a bomb to take out his remaining foes. Mello proceeds to jump onto the bomb, and take the blast, saving L and Hal.
55	* In ''Fanfic/MassEffectEndOfDays'', an AI-piloted robot does that during a slave rescue operation. The AI managed to upload into another body... something the quarian slaves present aren't too happy to hear.
56	* Mana Kirishima became a cyborg in ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' when she jumped on a grenade to shield her fellow soldiers. Kaji, who threw the grenade back in his anti-establishment days, became her guardian as penance.
57	* Subverted in ''Fanfic/OnTheEdgeOfTheDevilsBackbone''. Aleema Syndulla actually jumps on her niece Hera rather than the grenade, but it has the same result: Aleema dies but her sacrifice saves Hera's life.
58	* In ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'' when Lieutenant Cristos, a Nod Commando, ambushes Colt's fireteam, she disables one of the soldiers while he's securing the front of a building, and shoots out his arms and legs and breaks his jaw, then leaves him on top of an explosive charge. When Colt finds him, he tries to pick the soldier up, only for the trooper to spasm and throw himself back on the explosive before it can go off.
59	* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Warp}}'' when Antares spots a man leaving a backpack bomb in a restaurant. Her first instinct is flying off with the bomb and letting her force-field tank the explosion, but she's worried about the blast affecting everything else, so she resorts to evacuating the place in a rapid, orderly fashion.
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63	* In ''Film/ActOfValor'', Lt. Rorke does this to save his SEAL team, as the grenade is dropped from overhead into the middle of the team, and there's no cover for them to reach.
64	* During the ActionPrologue of ''Film/AhBoysToMen'', a dying OPFOR soldier [[TakingYouWithMe releases a grenade in a room full of cowering civilians]]. A nearby [[UsefulNotes/SingaporeansWithStealthFrigates Singaporean infantryman]] heroically dives over it, getting killed in the process..... [[spoiler:only said soldier was actually the player character of a video game simulation.]]
65	* Also happens in the German movie ''Film/BeforeTheFall'' (about an elite boarding school run by the Nazis). A group of young students are learning how to properly use stick grenades; one student balks and [[DespairEventHorizon drops the grenade, staring at it in horror.]] We see every other boy in that trench [[BloodSplatteredInnocents splattered with thick dripping gore, absolutely stunned.]]
66	* T'Challa does this at one point in ''Film/BlackPanther2018''. Due to his nigh-indestructible costume, it barely slows him down.
67	* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Doubting Steve Rogers' suitability due to his poor health, Colonel Phillips [[SecretTestOfCharacter throws a fake grenade]] into a soldier's training exercise. The point was to prove that Rogers didn't have the reflexes or instincts to dodge the grenade. All of the soldiers run for cover -- except Rogers, [[ChronicHeroSyndrome who didn't know that the grenade was a fake]] and jumps on it while screaming for everyone else to get away. This only serves to reinforce Erskin's point that Steven has the ideal psychological profile for the SuperSoldier program.
68	-->'''Col. Phillips''': [[SourSupporter He's still skinny]].
69	* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' Cap does the more sensible thing of slamming his [[{{Unobtainium}} vibranium]] shield on top of a flash-bang (in fairness, he didn't have the shield during the similiar scene in the 1st film). Given vibranium is nigh-indestructible and known for absorbing energy it works.
70	* Done in ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' where one of the nebbish cadets realizes that someone's replaced their training munitions with live ones and sacrifices himself to protect his squad, jumping on a grenade thrown by Chucky who was aiming for Andy.
71	** For a horror film death, this one was surprisingly un-gory. The character stays in one piece and all we see is a little blood and a broken pair of glasses.
72	* The BigBad of ''Film/{{Crank}}'' [[HumanShield uses his bodyguard to do this]]. The bodyguard didn't notice the grenade and thanks his boss before he dies because he assumed the boss knocked him down to save him from being shot.
73	* Done in ''Film/FantasyIsland2020'', by a cop who apparently felt a need to make up for an earlier failure to act that helped trigger the plot of the movie.
74	* In ''Film/Fury2014'', Gordo, the tank's driver, smothers his own grenade with his body after he drops it inside the tank after being shot.
75	* ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': During an assault by Nazi soldiers on the chateau, a grenade is thrown into the house. Butchie throws himself on top of the grenade to smother the explosion. He survives, but all of his limbs are blown off.
76	* Occurs in ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'' as part of a soldier's action-carnage-glory hallucination caused by the eponymous critters. Because of the movie's of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' quality, the frag grenade somehow sets him on fire and lets him stagger around for a bit before collapsing... and at the end he [[UnexplainedRecovery miraculously recovers]] with nothing but a few bandages and some crutches to show for his ordeal.
77	* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', this is how Eggsy's father performs his HeroicSacrifice, saving his mentors and fellow recruit.
78	* In the South Korean WWII film, ''Film/MyWay'', Tatsuo's grandfather, an officer in the [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Army]] dies when he jumps on a disguised package bomb (presumably sent by the Korean resistance), saving everyone attending his grandson's award celebration, but triggers Tatsuo's StartOfDarkness.
79	* The Serbian film ''Film/NoMansLand'' had something similar occur - a person presumed dead was set up with a bouncing mine underneath them. Then they woke up and, well...
80	* Parodied in Creator/MelBrooks ''Film/SilentMovie'', with a very shaken-up soda can instead of a grenade. It didn't do much damage to the man beside the can bursting and just hurting, not killing him, but it was treated like he had died.
81	** Even worse ... the brave man was ''ordered'' to jump on the can.
82	* Happens near the end of the first battle in ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' with a Bug designed to act as a grenade.
83	* In ''Film/TheThinRedLine'', Sgt. Keck does it with his own grenade, which he had accidentally unlocked while it was still strapped to his vest.
84	* The film ''Film/TopSecret'' spoofs this ({{parodied}}, {{subverted}} and {{inverted}}): a character jumps on a grenade, and several characters near him explode instead.
85	* In ''Film/WelcomeToDongmakgol'' a South Korean officer does this after a MexicanStandoff ends with a North Korean soldier dropping his grenade. It doesn't explode. The officer then gets up and contemptuously chucks the dud grenade away--only for it to [[DelayedExplosion finally explode]], wrecking a storehouse.
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89	* In one of the ''Literature/AbleTeam'' books, a raid on an outlaw biker gang goes wrong when the bikers turn out to have MoreDakka. The last thing Carl Lyons sees before an explosion is a police colleague hugging a grenade to his chest so the blast will be absorbed by his ribcage rather than the soft flesh of the abdomen.
90	* In the fourth ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' book, Holly Short arrived at the hotel Artemis and [[BattleButler Butler]] were staying in during a heist, only to find out that the bio-bomb that she had been trying to stop has already detonated (Unknown to her, Butler had the sense to grab Artemis and fling them out the window before the bio-bomb hit) After briefly crossing the DespairEventHorizon, Holly notices another bio-bomb and a transmission from BigBad [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Opal Koboi]]. After the transmission, Holly does this using her helmet, which understandably is destroyed but buys her enough time to start [[OutrunTheFireball outflying the blue-rinse]].
91	* ''Literature/ClockworkCentury'': In ''Dreadnought'', Fenwick is killed when he jumps on a concussion bomb the Confederate raiders manage to throw onto the train.
92	* In ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', Augustus enjoys doing this in video games to save the fictional schoolchildren. In a more poetic sense, [[spoiler:when Hazel doesn't want him to love her because she is a "grenade" and her death will hurt him, he does anyway]].
93	* ''Literature/HeavyObject'':
94	** Havia throws a thug onto his own grenade to block the blast. He ends up splattered with the thug's remains but walks away unharmed.
95	** [[RedShirt An unnamed member of the 37th]] jumps on a grenade he had covered with his dive suit, in the vain hope the suit's light armor could absorb the blast. The rest of his team made it out alive thanks to his sacrifice.
96	* Francis Cassavant does this in Creator/RobertCormier's ''Heroes'', leading to his horrific disfigurement. [[spoiler: Though it's later revealed that he was trying to kill himself out of guilt.]]
97	* [[spoiler: Reyna]] does this in the last book of ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', although [[spoiler: she survives when Athena makes her cloak magic]].
98	* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' novel ''Hornblower and the Hotspur'' has a variant when the ship is fired on by land-based howitzers. The shells detonate when their fuses burn down, similar to grenades. It strikes aloft and lands on the deck near Hornblower, and he instinctively jumps to extinguish the fuse only to realize with dismay that everyone is looking at him in awe. Despite his refusal to report the incident in terms beyond "a five-inch shell which fortunately failed to explode," word gets out anyway. And in the earlier-written book ''Commodore'', Hornblower and one of his junior officers discuss the proper length for fuses to prevent brave enemy soldiers from extinguishing them.
99	* ''[[Literature/{{Safehold}} How Firm a Foundation]]'': An off-page [[SuicideAttack Rakurai]] strike in Cheyrath Cathedral only kills three people -- the three who jumped on the grenade-armed Rakurai and smothered the explosion with their bodies.
100	* Played almost completely straight in ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'' as [[spoiler:Owen's HeroicSacrifice]], although several others nearby are injured.
101	* In a side story in the ''Literature/{{Republic Commando\|Series}}'' novels, clone commando Fi does this in order to save a few dozen unarmored cops. Unusually for this trope, Fi himself survived too, because Republic Commandos have ''very'' good armour.
102	* Subverted in the ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'' short story "Pain Management", Captain Shelby threw herself on a grenade to protect Soleta from Orion mercenaries. She then is annoyed when Soleta shoots her a pitying look, until she realizes that the grenade should have gone off by that point. Soleta deduced that the Orions had removed the detonator since they had stated they wanted both Starfleet officers alive.
103	* At the end of the novel ''Supreme Commander'' by Nikolai Gudanets (inspired by ''[[{{VideoGame/XCOM}} X-COM]]''), the task force has discovered the location of the alien base on Earth. An abandoned submarine pen in the Arctic, built by the Nazis. They are warned that some aliens are capable of mind-controlling humans, and their armor includes an additional indicator on the HUD, showing a mind control in progress nearby. A squad of four enters a pool area, where the [[BigBad main antagonist]] is swimming. He mind-controls one of the soldiers and has him throw a grenade in between his squad. Realizing this, one of the squad members (and a secondary character and possible LoveInterest of the protagonist) falls on the grenade. Her own armor protects the squad from damage, but she dies instantly. The alien manages to escape by swimming through an underwater tunnel into the ocean, where he's promptly eaten by a shark.
104	* Lampshaded and subverted in one of the short stories in ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried'', entitled "How to Write a True War Story". The author first tells the straight version, and then a version in which everyone nearby dies from the blast anyway and the would-be hero dies with a pithy remark about this being typical of his life. Among other troperific examples of stories from combat, the author concludes that one need only ask whether it matters if the events really happened to know if a war story is "True".
105	* In one of Leo Kessler (Charles Grayling)'s pot-boilers about Waffen-SS Assault Battalion ''Wotan'', the brutal nature of SS combat training is lampshaded when the mandatory crazy Nazi officer leads a lesson in grenade skills. The fanatical Nazi conversationally explains to his men that the fact the top of the German helmet is flat, as is also the base of the standard potato-masher grenade, fortuitously allows for a training exercise that will separate the men from the boys. He pulls the fuse on a hand grenade then balances it on the top of his helmet and steels himself. He staggers a little from the resultant explosion but is unharmed.
106	-->Now. We will all space ourselves out at ten-yard intervals. We will each take a grenade. Including ''you'', sergeant-Major Metzger...
107	** Apparently this was known in the German armed forces - not just the SS - but was officially considered too wasteful of recruits to be standard practice and was frowned upon. Perhaps with good reason!
108	* ''The Dead Can Wait'' by Robert Ryan. A German FemmeFataleSpy leaves a man she's tortured to death pinned to a dinner table with a knife through his hands. When a British intelligence officer and a nurse remove the knife, a Mills bomb without the pin rolls out from under his body. The intelligence officer throws himself onto the grenade, and the nurse wonders afterwards if he did it purely to save her or because he knew his career was over for having missed a German spy right under his nose and it was the only way to redeem his failure.
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113	* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'' "The Plan" has a different take on this. A Cylon Centurion has its legs blown off but its gun-arm is still working; a woman throws herself on the muzzle to protect her fellow resistance member.
114	* In an episode of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'', after annoying everyone with his safety precautions due to an impending visit from the President, a Secret Service agent throws himself on top of what he thinks is a bomb. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a kid's toy. The agent is humiliated by his mistake and apparent incompetence until Mitch truthfully points out that he didn't ''know'' that it was merely a toy and his obvious willingness to sacrifice himself to ensure the President's safety proves how good an agent he really is.
115	* ''Series/{{Caprica}}'': In the finale, the monotheists carry out a terrorist attack on the Caprica City stadium, but most of them are taken out by Cylon foot soldiers controlled by the Graystones. In the panic, one of the suicide bombers manages to slip away, forcing the Cylons to run up to him en masse and dogpile him to shield nearby humans from the blast.
116	* ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'' had a sketch where Tim Conway plays a soldier who saved his unit by swallowing a live hand grenade. He survived but now has no internal organs.
117	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': "For a Few Paintballs More" has a PaintballEpisode variation. The remaining Greendale students are holed up in a classroom. In comes a robotic drone carrying a beeping paint bomb from the enemy. Magnitude heroically jumps on top of it and takes the hit when it explodes, eking out half his catchphrase before passing out.
118	* In an episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a bomb tech jumps on top of a bomb that is about to explode. The cops were trapped in a confined space and the bomb might have killed them all. He realized too late that the bomb was booby-trapped and he really did not have the time to get away. Through his HeroicSacrifice, the bomb tech manages to save the other three people at the cost of his own life.
119	* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': When Sam and Bucky meet John Walker, the state-appointed Captain America, they are clearly not impressed. Bucky asks "have you ever jumped on a grenade?" Walker says yes, he has, multiple times--his helmet is specially reinforced to help contain a blast. This of course [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint misses the point]] that it's about being willing to sacrifice yourself; Bucky shakes his head in disgust.
120	* In season 2 of ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', Sam jumped on a grenade to protect a customs agent. Luckily for him, it was just a flashbang.
121	* Done by proxy (using an Islamist terrorist) in ''Series/TheGrid'' and probably understated the damage it would still cause -- all that happens is the terrorist's internal organs get scrambled.
122	* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' uses the 'grenade in the fridge' variant after the boys' grandfather gives Reece a live hand grenade and he immediately pulls the pin.
123	* Done in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}''. Sgt. Rizzo has a dummy grenade that he is using to play practical jokes on people. He is astounded when Maj. Winchester throws himself on top of the grenade to save Rizzo's life. It turns out Winchester knew the grenade was a dummy and wanted to turn the tables on Rizzo. (Rizzo tried it on B.J., so B.J. obviously let Charles in on it.)
124	* Spoofed on ''Series/ModernFamily'' when a can of Luke's body spray breaks and can't stop spraying. Unable to throw it out the door, Phil jumps over it until it's empty. To further empathize the trope, the brand name of the spray was Sex Grenade.
125	* A stick of dynamite was accidentally fetched by the family's dog in ''Series/MonarchOfTheGlen''. The family patriarch threw himself on it.
126	* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' puts a grenade inside a refrigerator in the episode "Mr Monk and the Election", and of course opens the door again to put it in straight.
127	** For the record, that grenade had a ''forty-five-second fuse''. And this episode was used by Series/MythBusters to bust the TV myth that a refrigerator can contain a grenade blast.
128	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
129	** In the "War of the Colossal Beast" episode, Joel and the 'bots test the Between-Meal Mortar, only to have the Twinkie they launched ricochet back. Joel jumps onto it, but everything gets [[CoveredInGunge covered in filling anyway]].
130	--->'''Crow:''' Ugh, they say you never hear the snack that gets ya.
131	** Parodied in an episode where Professor Bobo throws not himself, but someone else (Observer[=/=]Brain Guy) on a grenade to protect Pearl. Fortunately for Brain Guy, his people have evolved beyond bodies, so he's not even hurt.
132	* In ''Series/NightAndDay'', Steph [=McKenzie=] heroically does this following a tense confessional with a suicidal Duncan Harper at the vicarage. The grenade doesn't go off.
133	* In ''Series/TheRatPatrol'' episode "The Delilah Raid", a Nazi colonel does this to save his lover, a French collaborator.
134	* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer jumps on a polymorph that has turned into a grenade. He was NighInvulnerable [[HardLight at that point]] (though he didn't quite know that), though, not to mention NotHimself -- in one of the books, it's noted that Rimmer is normally the [[DirtyCoward sort of person]] who would throw someone else onto the grenade in order to save himself.
135	* This trope is [[DiscussedTrope directly slammed]] in episode 3 of ''Series/SEALTeam''. When [[NewMeat Clay Spenser]] performs a hostage rescue training exercise, the (acting) terrorist throws a grenade at the rescue team and his first instinct is to jump on it. The commander overseeing the exercise promptly proceeds to chew him out in ''epic'' fashion in front of the whole team, talking about what a stupid and grand-standing move that was, and pointedly reminding Spenser that training someone of his caliber to reach Tier-1 status is being paid for by the American public's taxes: they are '''not''' paying for dead heroes.
136	* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] has done this, but being NighInvulnerable, the bomb doesn't even scratch him.
137	* Subverted in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. One episode had a holo soldier try to do this, but the grenade in question was designed to specifically destroy all holograms in a certain radius, so his jumping on it was completely pointless.
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141	* Elder Jang-Il Jeong from ''Manhwa/TheBreaker: New Waves'', shields the main character, Shi-Woon, from a bomb blast with his body.
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145	* What Music/BrunoMars meant in the title line of his hit "Grenade".
146	* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by the title of the Music/FallOutBoy song "Grenade Jumper." The song itself doesn't describe actually jumping on a grenade, but a friendship great enough that one ''would'' jump on a grenade for the other.
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150	* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Pro Wrestling [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcjq4siu7A once saw a match]] in which Wrestling/ChuckTaylor threw a "grenade" at Wrestling/{{The Colony\|Wrestling}} (three masked wrestlers who had an ant colony theme). Soldier Ant shoves his teammates Fire Ant and Worker Ant out of the ring and dives on the "grenade", taking the "explosion" and saving his teammates. As you can imagine, the spot was played totally for laughs (the grenade throw to the explosion is done in Slow Motion, for Andre's sake!)[[note]]CHIKARA does not do {{Overcrank}} for its Slow Motion spots. The wrestlers ''actually'' start moving in slow motion, with the announcers and the fans playing into it as well.[[/note]]. [[OnlyAFleshWound Soldier Ant still managed to kick out at two]].
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154	* Jumping on an explosive in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' causes maximum possible damage to the jumper but it will protect those around him a bit.
155	* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
156	** A Space Marine jumped onto an emerging shell that had ''burrowed itself underground'' to save his squad. They lived, he didn't.
157	** Ogryn (Ogre IN SPACE) Nork Deddogg saved his commander in this fashion, by jumping on a live grenade (and the enemy grenadier holding it) before it went off. His bulk completely contained the explosion and being MadeOfIron, he only gave passing curiosity to his wound (indeed, Deddogg is one of the few characters in the game to manage to die of ''old age'').
158	** During a Dark Heresy campaign Seargent Darius Vale has performed this twice in order to protect squadmates too slow to avoid the blast fully (both resulted in receiving extra damage), but survives both times due to being MadeOfIron.
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162	* In ''VideoGame/AmericasArmy 3'' you earn an [[CosmeticAward achievement]] if you manage to pull this off and prevent a teammate from being injured by that grenade.
163	* Possible to do in ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 4}}''. You can dive on any explosive, not just a grenade and save your teammates from the explosion.
164	* Some ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games allow for it as well, and with the use of a flak jacket (either a perk or equipment depending on game) you can even survive the blast (there's a challenge in a pair of levels of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' requiring you to do just that).
165	* The last thing the Vato Bros. do before they are cleared of brainwashing in ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' is deploy a Prinny bomb to kill the cast. Mao does this trope after some split-second calculation and survives. That's a 1.8 million EQ for ya.
166	* Unintentionally invoked in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. The master level spells Firestorm and Mass Paralysis (basically large [[PlanarShockwave circular waves emanating from the caster]]) respect line of sight, so enemies standing behind other enemies are unaffected. The problem: it also considers ''you, the caster'' an obstacle, making it hard to hit enemies behind you, even though the spells are supposed to radiate out from you. Essentially you jump on your own grenade to protect your enemies.
167	* This and, occasionally, [[FeedItABomb eating a grenade]], are frequently solutions in the puzzles of ''VideoGame/McPixel.'' Only about 50% of the time are they ''successful'' solutions. A specific example would be a level in a foxhole. You steal a soldier's helmet then yell at him until he grabs the bomb and runs away with it.
168	* Enemies sometimes jump on your grenades in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Allied Assault'' at least, even if [[ArtificialStupidity they are alone and in perfectly good cover]].
169	** They do it in almost all of the games. Sometimes you get ones who are smart enough to kick it away. Don't do it near dogs though, unless you have high cover, because they'll [[GoFetch bring it back]].
170	* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', episode "From the Ashes", mission "Turning Point". While Klingon Ambassador Woldan is speechifying about how they can't trust D'Tan's nascent Romulan Republic, [[BigBad Colonel Hakeev]] of the [[StateSec Tal Shiar]] beams a bomb onto the podium directly behind him. D'Tan's second-in-command, Commander Temer, rushes forward and extends and inverts his personal DeflectorShield around the bomb, and is vaporized when it goes off. This astonishes the Klingons, proving once and for all that Romulans can be honorable, too, and paves the way for the Romulan Republic to get political recognition, and therefore military protection, from the Federation and Klingon Empire.
171	--> '''Temer:''' [[FaceDeathWithDignity Remember this!]]
172	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
173	** The Soldier claims he jumped on no less than 1,455 live grenades during his service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Since he was barred from actually serving in the military (he bought his own plane ticket to Europe and "fought" the war until someone found him in 1949 and told him it was over), it's unlikely that these were {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s. Or that they happened at all, for that matter.
174	*** One comic has the Soldier witnessing a missile crash near him. Even though it's several times his size, it's stuck inside a massive crater that provides plenty of cover, and ''there's nobody else even near it'' (though he seems to think the cardboard cutouts he's camping with are real enough), he jumps on it. Thankfully, it's a non-exploding spaceship full of guns.
175	---->'''Soldier''': It's a missile! Quickly, men! One of us should jump on top of it!
176	** Play as the Demoman, and you will do this repeatedly, though [[RocketJump not for reasons pertaining to sacrifice.]]
177	** A Pyro can do this if he's in proximity to grenades launched by a Demoman at him or his teammates. The pyro will render the grenades as his by "reflecting" them with his airblast. His teammates will not be harmed (unless the server breaks the game by having friendly fire on), but if he's too close when they finally detonate, the pyro will be harmed.
178	* Princess Victoria does this in ''[[{{VideoGame/Tribes}} Tribes: Vengeance]]'' to save several tribeswomen and children, earning the Tribe's respect. However, since she is wearing armor at that moment, she gets better (too bad it's light armor: a heavy suit would have taken the whole blast without a scratch). Still, the next mission revolves around her love interest Daniel stealing an Imperial truck full of medical supplies to treat her against heavy odds.
179	* A raid mechanic in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': During the Iron Juggernaut encounter of the Siege of Orgrimmar instance, the boss will periodically deploy [[ActionBomb Crawler Mines]] near itself. The DPS members of the group have to jump on them to prevent them from causing raid-wide damage.
180	* While not exactly "jumping" on the grenade, but with a similar principle, there's a secret in ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' (namely, in [=E4M4=], "The Palace of Hate") where there is a sideways teleporter that cannot be reached by jumping, but there's a hole underneath. You are supposed to fire a grenade on that hole and then stand over it. The blast will propel you toward the teleporter and thus you can reach the secret. The game gently provides you with [[NighInvulnerability a Pentagram of Protection]] so you don't accidentally kill yourself while trying.
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184	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': During the Volume 8 finale with their options exhausted, Vine Zeki chooses to protect his friends at all costs. [[spoiler:When he, the Ace-Ops, Qrow, and Robyn are trapped with a live bomb, he stays behind with the payload, using his Semblance to contain the blast so that the others are able to escape.]]
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188	* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', during a snowball fight, a man from India jumps on a snowball, thinking it could explode.
189	* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/09/grenades.html jump on grenades]] if they want to.
190	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
191	** Sergeant Schlock accidentally saves his entire team from a flying plasma grenade by ''eating'' it. He loses the majority of his body mass, but thanks to some judicious time travel, he gets better.
192	** However [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-02-07 it's noted that this trope will not work]] using anti-matter grenades. In this case, the ActionGirlfriend (who is wearing PoweredArmor) throws her unprotected boyfriend far enough away that he's protected from the blast (her own armor protects her, though it's useless afterwards).
193	* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Bandit manages to catch [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2061.html a paint grenade]] in mid-air and catch the paint.
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197	* Parodied by ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms'' in [[http://5secondfilms.com/watch/forgotten_hero Forgotten Hero]]. A soldier drops his grenade, and he jumps on it to save the rest of the squad... except [[StupidSacrifice he was the only person in the vicinity]].
198	-->'''Soldier 2:''' Who did he save!?\
199	'''Soldier 3:''' ...Nobody.
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203	* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Plague of the Prototypes!", G.I. Robot saves Batman and Easy Company by jumping on top of a landmine while StormingTheBeaches on D-Day.
204	* Bender covers a bomb with his body in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode to save the other soldiers, and as he is a robot he survives and is decorated for his actions.
205	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'', the Mask sits on a bomb. When it explodes, his butt simply expands and that's the extent of the damage.
206	** He also saved the city from an atom bomb by swallowing it and letting it explode in his stomach. Being cartoonishly indestructible is handy.
207	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'': In "Where Lies the Engulfer", Zak jumps on one of Doyle's grenades (presumably a stun grenade) and uses the resulting blast to propel himself through a skylight.
208	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Abe Simpson once saved the life of Mr. Burns during World War II by clamping his helmet over an artillery shell that had landed in their foxhole and not yet exploded. Since it's one of Grandpa's stories it's best to take it with a grain of salt.
209	* [[AllThereInTheManual Secondary material]] tells us that this is how Rodimus Prime impressed his drill sergeant in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' - the grenade itself was a dud, but neither he nor the sergeant was aware of that.
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213	* TruthInTelevision, as a number of soldiers have been documented sacrificing themselves in this manner in various conflicts. A few of them have actually survived it.
214	** Navy SEAL, Master-at-Arms Second Class Michael A Monsoor; received the Medal of Honor [[note]]the highest award for valor that any member of the United States Armed Forces can receive[[/note]] posthumously for doing this in Iraq in 2006 to save the lives of 3 fellow [=SEALs=] and 3 Iraqi soldiers.
215	--->"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Automatic Weapons Gunner for Naval Special Warfare Task Group Arabian Peninsula, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 29 September 2006. As a member of a combined SEAL and Iraqi Army sniper overwatch element, tasked with providing early warning and stand-off protection from a rooftop in an insurgent-held sector of Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Petty Officer Monsoor distinguished himself by his exceptional bravery in the face of grave danger. In the early morning, insurgents prepared to execute a coordinated attack by reconnoitering the area around the element's position. Element snipers thwarted the enemy's initial attempt by eliminating two insurgents. The enemy continued to assault the element, engaging them with a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire. As enemy activity increased, Petty Officer Monsoor took position with his machine gun between two teammates on an outcropping of the roof. While the [=SEALs=] vigilantly watched for enemy activity, an insurgent threw a hand grenade from an unseen location, which bounced off Petty Officer Monsoor's chest and landed in front of him. Although only he could have escaped the blast, Petty Officer Monsoor chose instead to protect his teammates. Instantly and without regard for his own safety, he threw himself onto the grenade to absorb the force of the explosion with his body, saving the lives of his two teammates. By his undaunted courage, fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of certain death, Petty Officer Monsoor gallantly gave his life for his country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
216	*** In addition to the Medal of Honor, his heroism is also being commemorated by the second (of three) destroyer of the Zumwalt class being commissioned, DDG-1001, the ''USS Micheal Monsoor''.
217	** Company Sergeant Major John Robert Osborn did this during the Battle of Hong Kong and was awarded the VC. His fate was later immortalized in a Canadian Heritage Minute.
218	** A [[HeroicDog canine]] example of this trope. Gander was a Newfoundland dog who was the mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada who were sent to defend Hong Kong during WWII. During a Japanese attack, Gander picked up a thrown Japanese hand grenade and rushed with it toward the enemy, dying in the ensuing explosion, but saving the lives of several wounded Canadian soldiers. Gander was posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal (basically the non-human equivalent of the Victoria Cross), the citation of which reads;
219	--->"For saving the lives of Canadian infantrymen during the Battle of Lye Mun on Hong Kong Island in December 1941. On three documented occasions, Gander, the Newfoundland mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada, engaged the enemy as his regiment joined the Winnipeg Grenadiers, members of Battalion Headquarters "C" Force, and other Commonwealth troops in their courageous defense of the island. Twice Gander's attacks halted the enemy's advance and protected groups of wounded soldiers. In a final act of bravery, the war dog was killed in action gathering a grenade. Without Gander's intervention, many more lives would have been lost in the assault."
220	** [[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3648975.ece A British soldier who did this]] in Afghanistan received the George Cross, the VC's equivalent for acts of valour performed while not in contact with the enemy. Like the VC, it's an award that most people receive posthumously. His only injury? [[OnlyAFleshWound A nosebleed.]] The Royal Marine [[NegateYourOwnSacrifice had the time to throw a rucksack over the grenade first]], and ''then'' his own body.
221	** During the Battle for Iwo Jima in WWII, six Marines received the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade to save one or more comrades. Only one of the six survived: Pfc Jacklyn Lucas, age seventeen, who lied about his age to get into the Marine Corps. Even more amazing is that Lucas smothered ''two'' Japanese grenades ''at the same time''. MadeOfIron indeed!
222	** Among his many, many other selfless acts of valor, Desmond Doss, a BadassPacifist medic who declined to carry a weapon into battle for religious reasons, stamped down a grenade that had been thrown into his foxhole and resolutely stood on it to make sure it would not hurt any of the others next to him. The grenade exploded and riddled both his legs with shrapnel, but in doing so Doss saved the other members of his unit taking cover in the same hole. [[MadeOfIron Doss survived, gave himself emergency medical care, then returned to his duties to tend to the other wounded]].
223	* When Muslim Brotherhood assassins threw two grenades at Hafez al-Assad, he kicked one out of the way, but his bodyguard was forced to jump on the other.
224	* Lieutenant Colonel Anthony B. Herbert in his autobiography ''Soldier'', stated that he felt anyone who jumped on a grenade was an idiot, as they should instead either kick it aside, drop to the ground away from it, or if necessary, pick it up and throw it away. Jumping on a grenade was an unnecessary sacrifice most of the time. He especially lambasted the stories and movies and awarding medals for it as it being heroic as very bad examples that numerous people followed to their deaths.
225	** Nevertheless, some real-life examples of this trope are justified as the person jumping on the grenade is often experienced enough to evaluate the situation and consciously exclude other courses of action.
226	* In David Hackworth's autobiography ''About Face'' he mentions a technique used to test candidates for a raiding company in the Korean War. One of his officers would be fiddling with a grenade (with the explosive removed) during the interview and would 'accidentally' drop it. If the man froze, they didn't want him. If he jumped on the grenade he was crazy or suicidal and the same applied. But if he had the presence of mind to toss the grenade outside or high-tail it out of there, then he was Raider material.
227	* A CIA agent demonstrating the use of thermite bombs for the impending Bay of Pigs invasion had one explode prematurely. He grabbed the bomb and carried it away from the other explosives, inflicting fatal burns on himself.
228	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunham Corporal Dunham]].
229	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McFadzean Private McFadzean]].
230	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Elbaz Nathan Elbaz]]. The guy has a few streets named after him now.
231	* There was a story circulated in an Army magazine about a Drill Instructor who was demonstrating a grenade to his recruits. He pulled the pin, counted to three, and tossed it into the middle of the group, who panicked and dove for cover. The grenade was a dummy, of course, and the DI berated the recruits because none of them were willing to give their life for another's. A few minutes later he did the same thing, and almost every recruit tried to dive onto it, resulting in a dogpile on the dummy grenade. One single recruit had taken cover, and when the DI asked him why he hadn't dived onto the grenade, the recruit answered, "Sir, someone had to live to tell the story."
232	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roi_Kline Roi Klein]], an IDF major did this in the 2006 Lebanon War to save his fellow soldiers and died. He was totally aware of what he was doing and its consequences as he recited the "Shema Israel" (a Jewish prayer that reaffirms one's belief in God) while launching himself on the grenade.
233	* With recent advancements in body armor it is becoming more probable to survive jumping on a grenade.
234	* An utterly cinematic example: Russian police staked out a known dangerous criminal in his apartment for two days and ended up chasing him to a bus stop. The guy took his own girlfriend (and the mother of his child) hostage and entered the crowd holding a live grenade in one hand and a pistol in the other. Three-man SOBR (SWAT) team almost apprehended him (one of them would clutch the grenade's spade to stop it from priming), but the guy opened fire and was cut down instantly with four hits. SOBR captain Okhrimenko, a 28 y.o. Chechen war veteran, heard the primer click and just plunged onto the damn thing, shielding around 50 civilians from the blast. Even the girlfriend survived. Another Russian officer, an infantry major and battalion commander Solntzev (nicknamed Sun), shielded his troops from the explosion when a rookie's grenade hit the trench parapet during training exercise, shoving the thrower out of the way and jumping towards the grenade.
235	* [[BlackComedy Hilariously inverted]] in the case of the attempted assassin Abdullah Asieri, who packed his own rectum with an estimated one pound of explosives in an attempt to kill Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef. The "smothering" effect that this trope employs was present and correct; the Prince was only slightly injured, while the assassin died. The Prince was quoted as saying [[http://www.haaretz.com/news/saudi-prince-wounded-by-suicide-bomber-vows-to-fight-al-qaida-1.282875 "he surprised me by blowing himself up"]], which is surely something of an understatement. Much humour has of course been derived from the fact that you can't say assassin without saying [[http://nypost.com/2009/09/30/qaeda-assassin/ ass]].
236	* In one incident during the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, a group of [=GIs=] were in a foxhole when a German grenade landed inside. One quick-thinking soldier jumped on the grenade, but rather than trying to smother it with his body he instead pressed his rolled-up sleeping bag onto it. The end result was that he took some shrapnel in his hand, but he and everyone else in the foxhole survived.
237	* A subversion occurred to former Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland when he was serving as a company commander in the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. One of his soldiers had loosely fastened a grenade to his belt, and when it fell off, Captain Cleland bent down to pick it up. Unfortunately, the grenade’s pin was pulled while it fell off, making it live. The resulting explosion left Cleland a wheelchair-bound triple amputee.
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