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10Land mines. Hundreds of thousands of them lie buried and forgotten around the world. One of the most dangerous and easy to deploy weapons of war, they can effectively deny an area from use for any purpose until they're cleared. They were considered so dangerous in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that the armies used special tanks equipped with massive rollers and [[EpicFlail chain whips]] to detonate them away from the tank's hull and clear a path through the field. Modern armies deploy everything from explosive counter-charges to remote-controlled robots to highly trained rats to deal with these nasty things.
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12Thus, it's no surprise that mines turn up a lot in fiction. With any luck, they will be announced. But there is a major difference.
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14In RealLife, landmines are designed to immediately detonate the moment when someone steps on them, and as such you probably won't know somebody stepped on a mine until they blow up.
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16In fiction, however, the squad will hear a tiny "click" as someone steps on the first mine, and we will have a tense moment while their friends try to figure out how to get the poor guy off of it without killing him. This usually involves [[WeightAndSwitch finding a nice big rock to hold the button down]] while everybody runs for cover.
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18Another variant is to have a {{redshirt}}, a [[{{Mooks}} mook]], or an otherwise expendable character step on one and have it detonate immediately, killing them. This is often followed by the survivors getting down on their hands and knees and carefully making their way out, probing the ground ahead with sticks and knives (especially in war stories). This is derived from {{Real Life}} military training on how to extract yourself from a minefield - except the part about using knives (or anything made of steel/iron): some of the larger (antitank) mines have magnetic-proximity triggers.
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20Very occasionally, you'll get both. It'll give an audible warning that it's been triggered, but that's no help to the victim -- [[FiveSecondForeshadowing all they have time for]] is an OhCrap reaction before he's pâté.
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22Many video games feature land mines with ''serious'' design problems, so it's quick and easy for a single main character to avoid or disarm them, unlike in real life. Such land mines might even feature flashing lights and beep a few seconds before they go off, which rather defeats the purpose.[[note]]Sort of. Part of a Minefield's purpose is area denial, so if seeing the land mines makes you stay away or find a different path, they're still doing their job.[[/note]]
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24In reality, most personnel mines will go off whether or not you release the button. Which makes sense, if you consider that a pressure-release trigger would be more complicated and more prone to failure. Also, the only benefit from a mine following this trope is that a group of soldiers are delayed trying to help their friend. If the landmine simply blows the poor guy's leg off, TheSquad still has to tend to him, only now the explosion has tipped off any nearby defenders to intruders. That said, if the mine is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_Betty Bouncing Betty,]] the most effective thing to do is dive and duck immediately to receive minimum damage from the shrapnel, as it mainly spreads horizontally (at roughly [[GroinAttack crotch-height]], so even if it doesn’t [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut you in half]], you may end up wishing it did. Yikes).
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26Another fun fact about landmines is that they don't necessarily kill you. Antipersonnel mines are designed to maim rather than outright kill, because wounded but still alive soldiers need to be evacuated from the battlefield as well as requiring considerable medical treatment and rehabilitation, which costs more time and resources. A lot of people survive landmines with missing feet or legs... In fact, you're almost twice as likely to survive a landmine as not. So... yay?
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28Also applies to all manner of similar explosive boobytraps involving pressure plates, trip wires and other triggering mechanisms.
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30A recent variation is a 'claymore' or directional mine. Rather than just blow up and hope someone's over it, these consist of a mounting plate, the explosive charge, and the soon-to-be shrapnel. The charge is set up so that the explosion fans shrapnel out in an arc in front of the mine, similar to a shotgun blast, rather than a general disorganized kaboom. It is important that the right side is facing the enemy, thus American versions have a large 'FRONT - TOWARD ENEMY' label embossed on them. These are usually set off by either a tripwire or a wired remote-trigger (which really does go 'click') in the hands of someone a safe distance away from the mine - so chances are, surviving the blast still leaves you in a gunfight with whoever just decided to try and blow you up...
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32Note that certain kind of land mines are now [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar prohibited by an international treaty]] signed by many countries, notably not including the USA (who'd have a ''lot'' of digging to do in Korea if they agreed to get rid of all their landmines), Russia, China or India.
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34There are many places that are no longer war zones where mines and other unexploded ordinance are a huge problem, particularly Vietnam. Residents of these locations know to call the government when they find them (if the government is both willing and able to help, which isn't always guaranteed) and to avoid the area otherwise. Unfortunately, this isn't always possible, because people need to hunt and farm and build roads and houses. Also, [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot children love]] [[WouldHurtAChild to explore]].
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36Subtrope of KineticClicking, related to DramaticGunCock. The non-{{Redshirt}} who hears the click under them will do whatever they can to invoke WheresTheKaboom. Almost never comes up when dealing with a SeaMine.
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42* Once upon a time, a boy named Kuro Hazama and his mother were walking on a beach. They found a mine, the boy approached it and his mom tried to stop him... then it went BOOM, seriously injuring both of them. Mrs. Hazama died in the hospital, her child survived and became the greatest surgeon in the world, ''Manga/BlackJack''.
43** In ''Black Jack'' 21, it is revealed [[spoiler: this was done [[PaterFamilicide intentionally by an evil organization his father was working with]]]].
44* In ''Manga/EdenItsAnEndlessWorld'' a military officer is clearing a newly mined road by forcing local villagers to walk through one by one. After a young girl steps on a mine and freezes, an officer comments that she's smart, as mines only blow up when you step off. Then he shoots her in the leg to make her fall.
45* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' has a prime example of this. In the HotSpringsEpisode, when Kurz and the guys are trying to get peeks of the naked girls, one of them steps on a landmine planted by Sousuke. Kurz immediately throws himself to the ground and unearths the mine, and picking up a big rock, tells the would-be victim to slowly shift his foot as he slides the rock on the mine. The procedure is almost finished... When our victim sneezes. Naturally, HilarityEnsues as everyone is sent flying.
46** Sousuke also answers a letter of challenge from [[UnknownRival Tsubaki]] by leaving a note pinned via combat knife to a tree explaining that he had a much more important mission to complete (i.e. stapling papers) and thus has left a "foot soldier" to battle in his place. The foot soldier in question? [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat Why, the anti-personnel mine Tsubaki just stepped on while reading the letter, of course!]] The letter then challenges Tsubaki to dismantle the mine with the provided combat knife. If he's successful, Tsubaki can consider himself the victor. He is not.
47* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' pulls this off in one episode. Due to a combination of corruption and ineffectual robbers, Chief Aramaki gets trapped in a hostage situation where the SWAT team would just as soon shoot everyone on sight. Capturing one of the would-be rescuers, he rigs a fake explosive device and props the unconscious guy on top of a "pressure sensor" to buy some time for escape; the mine is only noticed when they try to move the guy and the SWAT team pauses a while trying to disarm it. The strategy doesn't buy a lot of time but it does work.
48* Used humorously in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' - the Yorozuya and Shinsengumi team up to capture a panty-thief, bury landmines around the bait... and promptly forget where the mines are set. Explosive HilarityEnsues.
49* ''Literature/HeavyObject'':
50** Land mines are largely banned by international treaty but still make appearances. It's not uncommon for the protagonists to get sent out on mine sweeping duty.
51** The Capitalist Enterprise military sometimes deploys the EX-Wall, a wire barrier laden with explosives. This does nothing to enemy Objects but if the barrier is damaged without being detonated the explosives are scattered and become impromptu land mines. [[InsaneTrollLogic The Enterprise can then accuse their enemy of the war crime of seeding mines]].
52** Stalker Killer Unit was a black ops unit that specialized in transporting "paint", as in paint used to camouflage proximity mines. While extracting high value targets the Unit would seed the area with mines to delay pursuers.
53** An oasis controlled by the Capitalist Enterprise is surrounded by a smart minefield. Actual mines are interspersed with duds to confuse detection while some mines are actually layered one on top of the other; if the top one is defused, the bottom one detonates. When an area's mines are depleted a rocket system air drops a new batch which bury themselves.
54* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' plays this completely straight, with the Wild Geese surrounding Hellsing Manor with mines to [[spoiler: fend off the charging Nazi vampires.]]
55* In ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', this happened to [[spoiler: Friederich Brandel aka Jeudi's DisappearedDad. He's grievously injured yet lives enough to be taken to a friend's home for safety... but only for a few days. Enough time to re-meet his estranged daughter and then die in her arms]]
56** Also, a sidenote says that this is how [[spoiler: IntrepidReporter Robert]] dies [[spoiler: in the middle of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.]]
57* Played straight in the second episode of ''Anime/JapanSinks''. The family is walking through a village when they see a sign on a fence warning people that digging Japanese yams is prohibited. The father immediately hops over the fence to dig some while [[FailedASpotCheck not noticing the signs warning about the unexploded ordnance in the area]]. After he's dug a hole more than six feet deep, his daughter ''finally'' notices the warning sign, just in time for him to hit a mine with his shovel. He has time to utter "[[OhCrap No way!]]" and then he's LudicrousGibs.
58* ''Anime/MacrossZero'' demonstrates an odd if potentially realistic example. One character steps on a mine, only for career soldier Roy Fokker to notice just in time to tell her not to take another step. He then carefully digs away the dirt surrounding the mine and, over the course of several stressful minutes, disarms its detonator. He then proves himself to be a total jerk by pulling his companion into a kiss, to which she freaks out and demands how long the mine's been disarmed. "A while."
59* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel''. In the backstory of one of the younger characters, he stepped on a land mine, whose arming noise was represented by a black speech bubble containing a skull rather than a written click. He and [[spoiler:his friend who pulled a TuckAndCover to save his life]] reacted as expected to the sound.
60* Toyed with in ''Anime/WolfsRain''. At one point Toboe steps on a land mine, but he doesn't knw what it is, and it's so old and rusted that it doesn't detonate until he's well clear of it.
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64* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Death of Innocents: the Horror of Landmines'' was a "landmine awareness" and "humanitarian comic book" published by Creator/DCComics in 1996. The purpose of publishing this particular Batman comic book was to teach the people of the United States regarding the dangers and consequences of landmines worldwide, left active in countries that had been under war.
65* ''Combat Zone: True Tales of GI's in Iraq'', a ''Creator/MarvelComics'' book about a squad of 82nd Airborne soldiers in the Iraq invasion of 2003, subverts the trope for drama. One of the soldiers starts jumping up and down on what he thinks is a hub cap of some kind. His sergeant promptly informs him its an anti-tank mine and that the only reason he didn't blow up is that their designed to only go off when a vehicle passes over one.
66* ComicBook/ThePunisher seems to carry a few Claymore mines with him at all times. They come in handy.
67-->'''Woman:''' What does "Front Towards Enemy" mean?\
68[''massive explosion that kills most of the sewer-dwelling cannibals that were chasing them'']\
69''' Punisher:''' That's what it means.
70* In ''ComicBook/SgtRock: Between Hell and a Hard Place'', Ice Cream Soldier is patrolling with NewMeat Rin Tin Tin when Tinny realizes he's stepped on a landmine. Ice tries to keep him calm and dig it out from under him, but the ground is too muddy; he wants to try the WeightAndSwitch strategy and goes looking for a big enough rock, but Tinny deliberately triggers the explosion once he's clear, not wanting to risk both of their lives.
71* In the ''Literature/WildCards'' mini-series, Jay "Popinjay" Ackroyd sits down on his bed and hears a click. He realises that someone has planted a bomb under his bed and that he has just activated the pressure trigger: if he shifts his weight at all, the bomb will detonate. He is able to escape by using his Ace power to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport things]] to send the entire boxsprings out to sea.
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75* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'':
76** Wally deals with the issue of a landmine while in Afghanistan and later appears to deal with it again in Iraq until it is revealed to [[AllJustADream actually be a videogame]]. The videogame incident generated some [[http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/funky-winkerbean-depiction-of-ied-blowing-up-american-soldier-generates-angry-response/ controversy]] that later warranted an apology from the creator.
77** A second example in the comic has Wally step on a Bouncing Betty while trying to take a picture. While he initially yells at Khan to leave without him, Khan stays behind to try to disable the bomb but finds he can't because the fuse is on the bottom. He then tries another method, [[spoiler:using a plank as a baseball bat to WHACK AWAY THE BOMB.]] It's a significant event for the two considering their original meeting years prior had Khan trying to kill Wally.
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81* ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'' has a variation. Maisie wanders into the middle of a monster nest, the top of he eggs just peeking from under the ground. Jacob manages to sidestep the eggs as he makes his way to save Maisie, but on the way back he stumbles and ends up steppping on all the eggs. [[SmashedEggsHatching This causes the eggs to hatch]], and the hatchlings call for their mother, [[OhCrap which is Jacob and Maisie's cue to run for their lives]].
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85* ''Film/{{Assembly}}'' have one of the PRC lieutenants, Zhao Erdou, stepping on a landmine (according to another character, a "French anti-personnel mine") and unable to lift his foot for fear of getting blown apart. His best friend, Sergeant Gu, managed to rescue him by sticking a knife through the underside of Zhao's boot and apply pressure to prevent the mine from triggering, as Zhao unties his shoelaces and lose what he's wearing. The mine still goes off, without killing anyone though it still costs Gu [[EyeScream his left eye]].
86* In ''Film/BadBoysII'', the final showdown against the BigBad and TheDragon happen on a minefield outside Guantanamo Bay, but no one actually ''steps'' on a mine. [[spoiler: Syd throws her empty gun a mine right in front of the Dragon, causing it to leap into the air and kill him. Marcus shoots the Big Bad in the head, and his corpse then lands on a mine causing his head to explode spectacularly.]]
87* The movie ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'' has this happen to the colonel who along with a sniper was tasked to find the main character. The sniper notices it, steps past it, and doesn't warn the colonel (rivalry in a war zone is a bitch). The colonel steps on it and pleads for help, but the sniper takes a glance, then tells him to remain still and keeps walking. A few seconds later, we hear the boom from the main character's POV. It was actually the colonel's fault. They knew they were in a minefield, but only the sniper was actually paying attention to where he was walking.
88* In ''Film/BeyondBorders'', there's a minor character who lost his leg to a landmine. He discusses this trope, saying that there's really no way out, but he got lucky. Later, at the climax of the film [[spoiler: Angelina Jolie steps on a mine while being chased through the woods by bad guys. She stands there while the hero yells at her to keep running, tearfully gesturing to him that she has to stay where she is and he should keep going. When he starts running back for her, she steps off and is consumed by a fireball.]]
89* ''Film/BlownAway'':
90** A co-worker of the lead protagonist character, Anthony Franklin (Forrest Whitaker) hears the click of the trigger for an explosive trap planted by Ryan Gaerity (Creator/TommyLeeJones) as he sits down. Franklin survives, courtesy of a phone call made by using his foot to dial 911 on the telephone that was just beyond his reach.
91** There's also several other variations on this. In an early scene where the bomb disposal expert is teaching a class, Franklin is being overly cocky, so the instructor tells him to come up to the front of the class to demonstrate how to disarm a Bouncing Betty. As he's walking, he steps on one with a click, and the instructor tells him there's no way of disarming it when it's already active. [[spoiler: Franklin tries away, figures out the explosive payload is just paint, and sets it off by walking away.]] Later in the film, this becomes relevant when the protagonist, confronting Gaerity, is caught standing on a ''real'' Bouncing Betty land mine. [[spoiler: He steps off, using the explosion to help him take out Gaerity and getting injured himself.]]
92* The unimpressive early Vietnam war flick ''Film/TheBoysInCompanyC'' features a single fine sequence when a soldier on night patrol steps on a mine in a rice paddy. He then cuts through his boot sole and ties it tightly to the detonator (apparently this was SOP), and then skedaddles, to see the mine go off just after he reaches his own lines.
93* Happens to a character in ''Film/TheCondemned2''. He steps on a land mine, hears the click and stops in his track. His friend helps him out by carefully sliding a big rock onto the mine to replace the foot's weight.
94* ''Film/DoubleTeam'' features a coliseum filled with landmines that work this way. [[PantheraAwesome And a tiger]]. [[spoiler:Guess how the bad guy dies!]]
95* Averted in ''Film/ElAlameinTheLineOfFire'': NewMeat Serra steps on something in the dark. His Sergeant tells him he's lucky: it's an Anti-Tank mine that requires 300kg of pressure to go off.
96* Near the end of ''Film/TheGeneralsDaughter'', Paul Brenner partially depresses the trigger on a Bouncing Betty mine that the killer has set, but apparently not enough to detonate it. Then the killer sets off the mine in an attempt to take Paul and Sarah with him, but only succeeds in killing himself
97* ''Film/KellysHeroes'', a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII comedy film, features a dramatic sequence where the squad is marching through a freshly plowed field, which happens to be... you guessed it. When one guy gets blown to bits, the others are all forced to work their way out by probing for the mines with knives and sticks, prompting a hilarious exchange between [[TheScrounger Crapgame]] and [[SergeantRock Big Joe]].
98-->'''Crapgame:''' "Hey hey hey! I found one!"\
99'''Big Joe:''' [[DeadpanSnarker (calmly)]] "What kind is it?"\
100'''Crapgame:''' "The kind that blows up! How the hell do I know what kind it is?"
101* Averted in ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla''; the tear gas mines Little Godzilla accidentally steps on explode instantly when he walks over them, but the most they do is startle the adorable creature.
102* There is a 2015 film called ''Film/LandmineGoesClick'', where a man finds out his girlfriend cheated on him and tricks the guy into standing on a mine like this. [[spoiler: Eventually the man collapses and the mine is revealed to be fake, the other guy who took advantage of his situation to harass and rape the girlfriend reveals that he knew the mine wasn't real the whole time because real mines explode straight away]].
103* ''Film/LandOfMine'' is about a detail of German [=POW=]s in Denmark after WWII assigned to disarm mines along the coast. Several men (actually [[WouldHurtAChild teenage boys]]) are killed accidentally in the process. [[spoiler: Out of the fourteen, only four survive.]] While the film is loosely BasedOnATrueStory, it should be noted using prisoners to clear minefields, no matter how carefully trained they are, is actually banned by the Geneva Convention as a war crime, but neverless, it happened as a part of a very controversial agreement between the defeated Wehrmacht and the Danish and British governments.
104* ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' has one such moment, only it's not a land mine, but a toilet mine. Murtaugh sits on his toilet, only to find out the seat's been wired to a bomb that will blow if he gets up. Murtaugh and Riggs survive through the assistance of a BombproofAppliance (in this case, the bathtub).
105* ''Film/MedusasChild'' achieved a similar effect with its titular nuclear device: Once the female lead's pacemaker was detected in close proximity to the bomb, if would skip the rest of its countdown and detonate if she stepped too far from it. [[spoiler:At the climax they have to cut the pacemaker out of her and tape it to the bomb, putting her in need of urgent medical assistance.]]
106* The psychological thriller ''Film/{{Mine}}'' uses this as its premise: the protagonist has stepped on a mine and must survive until help arrives - in the desert, alone, while remaining motionless, and uncertain whether help is in fact coming.
107* While ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'' are searching a burnt Nazi art depository, [[NeverGiveTheCaptainAStraightAnswer one of them calls out for his commander]], who discovers he's stepped on a mine. His fellow soldiers stack bricks on it in the hope of making up his weight. [[spoiler:When he steps off [[CatScare the detonator goes off but not the explosive]]; the mine having been damaged by the earlier fire.]]
108* The 2001 film ''Film/NoMansLand'' had a particularly horrific example: a Serbian soldier moves the corpse of a Bosniak soldier on top of a landmine so that when the enemy collects the body, the mine will go off and the enemy killed or injured. It turns out that the enemy soldier is still alive, but unconscious. Eventually, UN forces are more or less browbeaten into coming to help, only to have the munitions expert learn what kind of explosive it is, and say that he ''can't'' disable it. The browbeating is done by the press, so when they see a person being rapidly stretchered away they are annoyed with the anticlimactic ending and leave, not bothering to take one last look at the site. We see the wounded soldier left alone on the bomb to either die of his wounds, starve to death, or get up off the bomb and die. This film was, incidentally, presented in part as a comedy. Bosnians don't mess around with jokes.
109* The 1979 Australian Vietnam war film ''Film/TheOddAngryShot'' uses this trope too. The unfortunate soldier who ends up on the mine [[spoiler:eventually can't take it any longer after about 8 hours or so, when several efforts and ideas to save him have failed, and he just steps off to his doom]].
110* ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' has a variation where Frank Castle forces John Saint to hold down the pressure plate of an anti-personnel mine one-handed. Even though John's a fit man, he can only do this for so long before his SoundOnlyDeath.
111* Averted in ''Film/RamboIV''. The mines never go click, they just explode.
112* ''Film/SharkWeek'': One of the obstacles the captives have to negotiate in Tiburon's DeathCourse is a minefield on the beach. Holt somehow manages to step on the only totally exposed mine, but Cal yanks him off it so it explodes behind him. Later, during her fight with Reagan, Elena steps on one and has just enough time to look down after hearing it go 'click' before she blows up.
113* ''Film/TropicThunder'' uses this trope in an unexpected and hilarious way. [[spoiler: The director, wanting to get his actors in the "real deep shit" to optimize their performance, takes them into the dense jungles of southeast Asia planning to leave them there while filming with hidden cameras. After giving a rousing speech about making the greatest war movie ever, he starts to walk off to prepare to film, steps on a landmine with an audible 'click', looks down and explodes into many pieces. Despite this, [[AllPartOfTheShow Tugg Speedman still thought it was an act.]]]]
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117* In his autobiography ''About Face'' David Hackworth tells of an incident in Korea when he accidentally triggered a mine attached to a tripwire, but didn't hear it due to his shell-damaged hearing. Everyone except Hackworth dove for cover, then looked up in amazement to see their commanding officer miraculously unharmed. Hackworth added to his badass reputation by growling at them for not clearing the minefield properly, then striding off to find a place where he could quietly go into shock.
118* ''Literature/AlexRider'': In ''Snakehead'', Alex steps on a land mine in an Australian SAS training area and hears it go click. A nearby soldier tells him that it is now armed and will go off if he moves his weight in any way. However, the mine also has a time delay fuse and will explode in 15 minutes even if he doesn't move. The soldier goes to get help. When he doesn't return, Alex eventually escapes by throwing himself down the slope of the hill away from the mine. [[spoiler:The whole thing was a SecretTestOfCharacter to see how Alex handled himself in stressful situations, and he was never in any real danger.]]
119* In both the book and documentary ''Blood from a Stone'', author/adventurer Yaron Svoray recounts stepping on a mine while trying to locate a foxhole with a packet of diamonds buried inside. As with virtually all other real life examples of this trope, the mine was a dud.
120* Averted in the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/BloodRites''. Harry, Murphy and Kincaid are breaking into the lair of a scourge of Black Court vampires, and when they discover a landmine blocking their way, Harry suggests that they disarm it with the classic "nice big rock to hold the button down" trick. Kincaid, who unlike Harry is a [[ProfessionalKiller professional weapons expert,]] comments that [[SarcasmMode that's an excellent idea,]] [[DeadpanSnarker assuming your enemies are using equipment from World War II.]]
121* In one of the ''Literature/TheExecutioner'' novels, Mack Bolan realises he's triggered a BoobyTrap when he hears the safety lever fly off a hand grenade attached to a tripwire. He throws himself flat with his boots toward the blast area, and survives.
122* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' - ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'': Generally averted with the burrowing detonators and sonic punchers (motion-activated grenades) used during the civil war on Anobis (as portrayed in ''Return to Ord Mantell''). Sometimes the soil the burrowing detonators are in can be seen moving moments before one goes off, but there's rarely any warning. Fortunately, Jedi can sense them wherever they're planted, and the Solo children and their friends make use of this to help clear out many fields and tunnels that have been seeded with these weapons. Flying low enough over a field with shields active also proves very effective for clearing out the burrowing detonators planted there.
123* In the Creator/SvenHassel novel ''Liquidate Paris'', TheSquad spends ten hours clearing a minefield, only to lose their officer who'd let his guard down after their job was done and suddenly realised he was standing over a mine they'd missed with several trip wires running from it. He tries jumping free, but still triggers it.
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127* The ''Series/{{Alcatraz}}'' episode "Paxton Petty" is all about this, as DemolitionsExpert cum MadBomber Petty uses land mines as his primary weapon. Hauser steps on a mine Petty planted on the beach, hears it go click, and has to stand there for several hours until Rebecca and Soto realise that he is missing.
128* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
129** In a flashback to the island of Lian Yu in "The Odyssey", Oliver Queen steps on a Japanese landmine left over from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which goes click. Oliver is forced to stand immobile while Slade Wilson kills a group of patrolling soldiers around him. Slade frees Oliver by pushing the body of one of the soldiers on to the mine to take his place. In "City of Heroes" in the present day this is called back to when Diggle and Felicity go to Lian Yu to bring Ollie out of his TenMinuteRetirement. This time it's Felicity who steps on a mine, but Ollie rescues her with a well-timed VineSwing.
130** In "The Candidate" Flashback!Oliver kills a mercenary and then tosses the body onto a landmine to disguise how the man died. In "Restoration" another mercenary is following Oliver so Oliver carefully walks around the edge of the minefield while the mercenary FailedASpotCheck, walked straight onto a mine and was killed. TheDragon of the group comments on how suspicious it is that after months of no problems they start losing people to land mines after Oliver shows up.
131** It happens ''[[RunningGag again]]'' in the Season 5 finale which also takes place on Lian Yu. [[spoiler:This time it's Oliver's half-sister Thea who steps on the mine, but her father Malcolm Merlyn steps on it also so she can step off, waits till their pursuers catch up with them, then takes his foot off...]]
132* A Cylon variant of the S-Bomb ("Bouncing Betty") appears in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. Not only it is done realistically in terms of the "click" but it also results with the death of a prominent secondary character, Elosha.
133* A sociopathic bomber rigs one up under the floor of his own hotel room in a ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode, and Kate Beckett steps on it. If she moves or even shifts her weight while standing the mine goes off. If she remains where she is, the mine, which is on a timer, blows up anyway. To help fight fatigue Castle helps keep Beckett's mind occupied in a series of flashbacks about their [[RelationshipUpgrade very complicated relationship]].
134* Similarly in ''Series/TheCommish'', a police officer turns up the volume on his phone recorder, only for the recorded message to say he's just activated a BoobyTrap that will explode if he takes his finger off the button. He gets help by throwing something through the window, activating the burglar alarm.
135* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Venus Pop" while investigating the spacecraft of a MadBomber, Jet steps on a pressure plate-activated BoobyTrap. When the bomber drops his remote detonator Jet has to do a DesperateObjectCatch while holding the plate down. Afterwards Spike puts his own foot on the plate while shoving Jet off in a FriendshipMoment, as Jet had been complaining about Spike's unreliability. Jet then leaves in the EscapePod to get help [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome rather than trying to defuse the device himself]].
136* An episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'' had the VictimOfTheWeek blown up on a beach covered with mines. This trope played out when one of the cast stood on a mine by accident. Slightly more realistically it was removed by burning the explosive away with thermite (this would work as most explosives are designed to burn unless they are set off by a smaller explosion).
137* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]", the Doctor steps on a partially-buried mine in the rubble of Skaro, and his companion Harry has to wedge rocks under the mine so that he can lift his foot off it without it going off.
138* ''Series/DueSouth'', episode "The Edge".
139* Used twice on ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', when a time-shift plunked two characters who were scanning for temporal disruptions in a present-day meadow into a 1940s-era security minefield. Like the ''Macgyver'' example below, it's rescuing a girl from the first mine that lands Fargo on top of the second one.
140* ''Series/TheFlash1990'' TV show used a similar device. A criminal had set up a pressure-sensitive plate as a trap; when Lt. Garfield stepped on it, a tape recording informed him he'd activated a bomb which would blow up in 60 seconds or when he stepped off, whichever came first. The Flash arrived just in time to take Garfield's place, then escape at super-speed once he was clear of the building.
141* In ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', one of the team accidentally steps on a mine and cannot move (with a LampshadeHanging on how few mines don't immediately go off). The rest of the team, especially his good friend Spike, does everything they could to get him out, but they're eventually confronted with the fact that the bomber that set the mine specifically sabotaged it to prevent any easy method of disarmament. [[spoiler: [[BlackDudeDiesFirst When the trapped character]] realizes Spike is more likely to blow himself up also than succeed in disarming the device, [[HeroicSacrifice he deliberately lifts his foot to set the thing off rather that let his friend die with him]].]]
142* Played with in ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In the Season 3 premiere, a MadBomber sends a box of chocolates to Captain Cohen, who realises JustInTime what he's opened. He has his hand on one of the chocolates and doesn't want to risk lifting it because no-one knows how the bomb is triggered (actually by a mobile phone signal). VampireDetective Nick Knight flies over there (literally) and puts his own finger on the package, then uses his JediMindTrick to persuade Cohen to let him take his place. When he hears a noise from the package, Nick does a SuperWindowJump before it explodes.
143* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': A Guardian is escorting Luke and June back to the Canada border when he steps on a mine. Shortly after, it deploys, blowing off his leg.
144* In the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' episode "Brothers in Arms", a flashback to Joe Dawson's service in Vietnam shows how he lost his legs: he stepped on a land mine, complete with "click" and his reaction of [[OhCrap pure horror]].
145* Played straight on ''Series/{{JAG}}'' in the episode "In Country", and then averted in the very next episode. While in Afghanistan, Harm and Mac end up wrecking their Humvee amidst a minefield, and Harm ends up stepping on the Hollywood click-and-wait variety of mine. Mac takes cover on the other side of the Humvee while Harm prepares to drop a weight on the mine and leap away, barely escaping in the process (along with landing on Mac in quite the ShipTease arrangement).
146** In the next episode, [[spoiler: Lieutenant Bud Roberts]] steps on a mine, and this one goes off immediately, leaving [[spoiler: him]] severely wounded just before the credits roll.
147* Played straight with the "dragon mines" in ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'', including using a rock to hold the weight of a person. Also, one of the {{Mook}}s chasing them steps on a mine and is immediately blown up.
148* ''Series/MacGyver1985'' once finds himself with a foot on a mine, and manages a daring escape, but, in jumping free, he's landed on ''another'' mine (which turns out to be a dud). There's also a slight variation in one episode where Mac finds himself having to prop up a rickety shelf that's holding several cases of unstable old dynamite. If he lets go, he'll go boom.
149** And there was another episode where Murdoc was first introduced: Though the device wasn't explicitly called a mine, it worked on the Bouncing Betty principle. Mac sat down on his bed and that armed the bomb planted in it. Pete told him that it would only detonate when he got off the bed but the blast would be directed mainly upwards so if he jumped away fast enough he'd be safe. This is one of those serious FridgeLogic moments. If the bomb only explodes upwards and detonates only when you get off the bed... how is that supposed to kill you again?
150** It would kill you because normally, your ass would still be lingering above the mattress for a brief second while you are standing up. The blast could very well incinerate your behind and leave you bleeding to death.
151** Yet another one took place in a snowy cave in which all Mac had to do was dig the snow out from the side and shove a metal bar into conveniently sized holes to stop the "platform" from springing up.
152* In one episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', Hardison and Eliot are investigating the mark's car, when Eliot realizes Hardison has set off a car bomb that will detonate as soon as he gets off the seat. Fortunately, Hardison is able to use his hacking skills and Eliot's military experience to delay the bomb long enough for them to get away (and bluff the gangsters who set the bomb in the first place).
153* In an early episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Trapper -- guided by shouted directions from map-reading Hawkeye, Radar and Henry -- has to inch his way through a minefield to rescue a child who has wandered innocently into it. Their flawed guidance unfortunately leaves him stranded holding the child with (untripped) mines six inches from him on all sides, requiring a helicopter to pick them up and lift them directly out of the field (even though in real life, this would be inadvisable, as the downward pressure from the helicopter may very well set off mines. The best way to get out of a minefield is the hard, slow way).
154** "And now you're in the middle of downtown Berlin!"
155** A later one showed a farmer using his daughters to clear a minefield. It goes wrong, of course. Radar runs over to the stricken girl and carries her to safety, and then is reminded that he ran through an unmarked but recently verified minefield.
156** A ''third'' episode featured a woman who, while thinking of the romance in her life, took a walk. Now to figure out [[FridgeLogic who put a minefield next to a hospital]].
157*** As mentioned now and again in the show, "M" stands for "Mobile." While there is only one set for the run of the series, it is moved several times. Now ask who put a hospital next to a minefield, or who [[TooDumbToLive goes for a midnight stroll in a war zone]].
158* In ''Series/NightMan'', the villain-of-the-week is capable of astral projection. For some reason, the projection is physical until he chooses to get back to his own body, at which point it disappears. He uses this trick to lure the titular hero to a rooftop where he has set up a pressure-sensitive mine. He gets Night Man to step on it, smiles, and fades away. Then Night Man fades away. Turns out he used one of his handy gadgets to create a hologram. It's not entirely clear how a hologram could have triggered a pressure sensor.
159* Seen twice in an episode of ''Series/ThePretender''. In the Vietnam War, a US soldier is looking for a mole in the jungle when he and his guide hears a click. His guide, a young boy, had his foot on the mine and the soldier knew he wouldn't last long so she was able to switch his foot with the boy's by carefully shifting the boy's foot off and his on to keep constant pressure. It worked. [[spoiler:Then the mole shows up, knowing the soldier could only stand there until people came looking shoots the guy from a distance and framed him as the mole. Jared, in his usual LaserGuidedKarma methods, punishes the mole, who is still evil but now helping drug lords, by getting him to step on a mine with the same click. It's a dud but the mole didn't know that.]]
160* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' has a whole ''minefield''. Unusually for this trope, they actually notice the minefield a while before using it to blow up a phorusrhacid.
161* ''Series/{{Prison Break}}'': In "The Legend", while looking for a way into the Company's headquarters, Sucre accidentally steps on a land mine which starts beeping. With Sucre unable to move for fear of detonating the mine, Lincoln reluctantly brings in Gretchen who attempts to disarm it. Michael and Mahone decode the blue prints for the defences around the Company HQ and learn the mine is also an alarm and disarming it would alert the Company, so they manage to override the mines, allowing Sucre to safely step off.
162* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. Bodie dials the first number of his phone and suddenly realises it's booby-trapped. Fortunately, he's got his radio to call Doyle for help, who disarms it with their [[CasualDangerDialogue usual exchange of banter]] (though somewhat terser).
163* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "Bomb Voyage", Rizzoli, Isles, and Korsak find themselves standing the middle of a field of improvised mines. While the bomb squad can extract Rizzoli and Isles relatively quickly, Korsak has trodden on the edge of a mine. Now he cannot move in case the mine shifts and goes off.
164* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', when [[spoiler: Dr. Frankland]] is running from Dewer's Hollow with the others hot on his heels, he ends up sprinting straight into the Grimpen minefield and steps on a landmine, which behind to beep ominously. [[spoiler: He decides to step off and get blown up rather than be caught by Sherlock and co.]]
165* An episode of ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' introduces alien mines nicknamed "buzz beams". When one of the protagonists steps on one, it does not go off immediately, giving the other members of the 58th time to figure out how to defeat the boobytrap.
166* In ''Series/{{Stag}}'', [[spoiler:Mex]] steps on the trigger of a land mine at the dam and gives a tearful, revelatory last speech before finally stepping off it. [[WheresTheKaboom Nothing happens.]] [[spoiler:Until he dances around in joy and sets off the ''other'' land mine, which kills him instantly.]]
167* A ''living'' minefield variant on ''[[Series/{{Tremors}} Tremors: The Series]]'' consisted of mutated plant roots that squirted acid when disturbed. No clicking, but it played this trope straight in that the swollen acid-sacs in the roots made icky squelching noises prior to cutting loose with their spray. The gag of someone obliviously walking right through the field without being harmed was also used.
168* The better part of an episode of the ''Series/TheUnit'' is spent in a minefield the characters and the diplomatic workers they were evacuating wander into.
169* ''Series/UnsereMutterUnsereVater'' zig-zags this trope. When a German soldier steps on a mine while on patrol, the rest of his unit has time to evacuate before it blows up. Immediately afterwards, however, when the surviving Germans force local civilians to walk in front of them through the minefield, any mines the peasants step on go off immediately.
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173* Mentioned on the lyrics of the song ''Marines'' of the German HeavyMetal band ''Sodom'':
174-->''You hear the mine clicking over your feet
175-->You know you have to go.''
176* Implied by the lyrics of "A Walk in the Light Green (I Was Only Nineteen)" by Redgum
177--> "And then someone yelled out "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore"
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181* ''TabletopGame/{{BattleTech}}'' offers (advanced) rules covering a variety of mines with differing triggers and effects; whether or not entering a hex that contains mines will set them off can depend on unit type, movement mode used, and of course the ever-popular whim of the dice. The example playing the trope the straightest are probably "vibrabombs", which can ''only'' be set off by [[HumongousMecha [=BattleMechs=]]] because their triggers are sensitive to the specific vibrations caused by their steps, and are even set to ignore 'Mechs lighter than a desired target weight, though this will cause 'Mechs that are heavier than the target weight to set them off prematurely, making their use highly situational.
182* ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' featured these in two main flavors, normal and 'Spear 1000', which primarily shot up rather than spread out. Both were primarily meant to take down the titular cars and similar; walking through a mine counter was perfectly safe. Splatbooks of course offered antipersonnel mines, as well as the minesweeper mentioned above that can get mounted on a convenient tank.
183* These were given their own sidebar in ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'', referring to sneaky things you can do. Like wiring up one to an enemy's bed, or lining your escape route with claymore mines.
184* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', mixing wards with other spells fill the magical role of "land mines". Since they DON'T actually go "click", a clever mage expecting more than one foe will set the condition for "when an enemy leaves the area" rather than "when an enemy enters the area" in order to try to peg the lot at once with the requisite magical nastiness. Since the people most capable of detecting those kinds of traps tend to not be the bruisers at the front of the battle-line, it's not uncommon for the technical mage to notice the ward only after it's been "primed", leading to the famous "hold down the button" situation.
185** Which, since the idea is usually "slow enemies down while you run away" in Mage, is actually a better result than the spell going off from the trap-layer's perspective. Every minute dedicated to figuring out your spell and unraveling it is a minute you can spend jumping out a window and dashing madly for the car.
186* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Imperial Guard loves using massive minefields, and various optional books allow most races to use minefields as defensive measures.
187** They also love clearing them - by force marching Conscripts through them.
188** The spin-off game ''TabletopGame/AeronauticaImperialis'' gives the Tau fields of aerial homing mines.
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192* In ''VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie'', landmines can be crafted out of air filters, candy tins and even hubcaps, for defensive purposes or offensive, depending on your creativity. The area surrounding a military camp and certain seedy buildings will most likely be stuffed with them. Not that it helped against the zombies, but [[ArtificialStupidity they're still dumb enough to walk into them]]. These mines do not beep, click, or hesitate before detonating, and hide well in even moderately tall grass; mercifully, they are not buried, can usually be survived if you have decent health and protection, and can be destroyed with weapons fire from a distance.
193* ''VideoGame/ActionDoom2UrbanBrawl'' has the forest level, which is filled with landmines (barely) visible as vague gray patches on the brown ground in the darkness of dusk. The first time you step on one, it's always a dud, but the game isn't as merciful the next time.
194* In ''VideoGame/Ashes2063'', the SecondaryFire of the pipebombs causes Scav to pull on a tripwire and set the bomb down on the ground. If an enemy touches it, the bomb detonates and sends the hapless mook (and often several of their cohorts) up in smoke. The only way to dispose of a planted pipebomb used to be by shooting it[[note]]though that was rarely necessary since Scav cannot trigger his own trapped bombs by accident[[/note]], but with the release of ''Ashes Afterglow'', they were changed to be defusable by pressing 'use' on them, whereupon they can be picked up. Handy when chapter 2 has pipebombs placed by other wasters to protect their stashes.
195* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' adds custom landmines to the game along with grenades, and they're the dangerous, indiscriminate, non-clicking type. Since their power and conspicuousness applies to AI too, placing a mine will most often lead to a guard spotting you planting something and running over to shove you, detonating the just-planted mine and severely injuring you both.
196* Very much averted in the multiplayer shootout modes in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie''. The landmines are a dark grey, rather small, don't make noise, don't give off any warnings or lights, and they can instantly kill you. Oh, and just like in real life, they're equal opportunity weapons; they'll explode for anybody who gets too close, so you'd better remember where you put all those mines!
197* The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series has Proximity Mines that can be launched from the GrenadeLauncher, with obvious pulsing red lights, and which also explode on contact like normal grenades, as well as [[StickyBomb sticking onto walls]].
198* ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'' has the traditional flashing and beeping mines.
199* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' has the Proximity Detonator, a TNT bundle wired to a sensor. It can be lobbed or dropped on the ground like any other TNT bomb, and once it stops moving it'll emit a beep after about one second; after this, if anything that gets close to it, it'll clack loudly and explode less than a second afterwards. They'll explode immediately if shot by a hitscan weapon or caught in an explosion. Sometimes already-armed ones are placed in levels as a trap. In the sequel, they overlap with StickyBomb.
200* ''VideoGame/BotLand'' has land mines as one of available weapon choices, and they indeed make a distinct sound when triggered. They find more use than you might expect, as both combat sides are player‑programmed robots, which rarely are smart enough to avoid a minefield.
201* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]'' claymores do go click when you arm them, and when someone triggers them. Unfortunately for non-sniping players, it explodes right after.
202** Earlier ''Call of Duty'' games enforced map boundaries with minefields; if you got a little too adventurous, you'd have less than a second after the "click" to jump back to safety. And not even that in ''2''.
203** Then there's the Bouncing Betty ambush in ''Modern Warfare 2''- the game actually enforces the "go low to avoid the shrapnel" rule.
204* These can end up being unfortunate surprises in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'', starting in ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red Alert]]''.
205** It's a subversion in ''Command & Conquer'', seeing as how your only warning is a ''SPROING!'' when the mine goes off (at which point, it is too late). Quite annoying, since the game has mine LAYERS, but not mine DETECTORS.
206** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'', the Chinese can equip every structure with hidden (for enemies) land mines and neutron mines (in ''Zero Hour''), which kill infantry, [[SnipingTheCockpit even in vehicles]], which you then can proceed to capture. They can also airdrop minefields. Likewise, GLA demo traps are hidden barrels with proximity sensors and an explosive payload powerful enough to take out a tank, that stay cloaked until they're interacted with; for an extra mean kick in multiplayer, the player can set it to manual mode and detonate it that way. They take a second to bleep a very unpleasant sound and then proceed to explode, taking out anything that isn't very fast and just cruising past it like a Technical or Combat Cycle. {{Worker Unit}}s can disable mines, and in ''Zero Hour'', Demo Traps as well; the latter can also be revealed like any cloaked unit and shot until it detonates, and they even yield experience to the unit that deals the last shot.
207** Nod in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' also has a mine drop but it's less useful than in Generals as most enemy that detects them will automatically shoot them dead, though it is a good tactic to envelop an onslaughting armour columns with it.
208* In the ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga,'' Kyle can both encounter and use land mines in the form of the I.M. mine from the first ''Dark Forces'', the sequencer charges in ''Jedi Knight'', and the laser trip mine from ''Jedi Outcast'' and ''Jedi Academy.'' The laser trip mines had blatantly obvious beams, and thus no audio cues. However, triggering a sequencer charge mine had the stereotypical short beeps, followed by a massive explosion. Most curious, however, was the I.M. mine from the first game, because those things actually had a [[SoundCodedForYourConvenience distinctive ringing chime when triggered that sounded like nothing else in the game]]. It was a handy way to know you had about a second to figure out which was the right direction to run if you wanted to take only a tenth of your health in damage versus being blown to Tatooine.
209* In ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', the Space Marines, Chaos, Orks, Eldar, and Imperial Guard all employ minefields that can only be detected by certain units, and do heavy damage to infantry, but only light damage to vehicles. The Sisters of Battle combine this with KillItWithFire by deploying powerful incendiary mines.
210** What makes them more destructive is that most detecting units default to close combat for attacking. [[TooDumbToLive And they don't make an exception for minefields.]]
211* [=LAMs=] in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' beep before exploding, [[RuleOfFun so the player has a chance to disarm them]]. They also blink bright red LED borders. When they start hiding the damn things behind your head as you reach the top of a ladder, this becomes more of an OhCrap moment.
212** They can also be hurled through the air and used as a grenade.
213** Mines also beep before exploding in ''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Human Revolution]]''; however, the beep is so short, its main purpose is to let you know you're about to die via mine. They still constantly flash a color appropriate the type of mine and beep faintly, though, and it's possible to get up close enough to disarm them and pick them up by moving '''''very''''' slowly (you have to crouch ''and'' switch to walking instead of running). Also, you can set off your own mines (which are made by sticking a grenade into a mine template), which are activated a couple seconds after being set.
214* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'''s Springrazors behave similar to Bouncing Betty mines, cutting their victim off at the knees.
215* Laser trip mines in ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' are flat bombs that look vaguely like calculators, with a red laser emitter in the center. When the laser is triggered, they blare an alarm and detonate a fraction of a second later, with the largest blast radius of all the game's explosives; the SplashDamage of an explosion instantly sets trip mines off. They're most often found as traps on maps, but Duke can pick up a few to use himself, though thanks to the limited enemy AI, they have limited use.
216* ''VideoGame/EnemyTerritoryQuakeWars'' has fairly subtle mines, no beeping or lights, but when activated they emit a very loud CLICK before exploding a second later. It's quite possible to trip them and escape their blast zone before they go off.
217* ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'''s Markov uses completely impractical arc mines that create a large red sphere denoting their detonation radius when armed. Justified as he's using them to ward off large creatures from an area and it wouldn't be any good for humans to accidentally blunder into the kill zone.
218* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''
219** Mines in earlier ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' titles are triggered by {{Pressure Plate}}s that look very similar to the surrounding floor, detonate immediately and require a Traps skill check to spot.
220** ''VideoGame/Fallout3''
221*** The mines "beep", instead of "click", giving the player just enough time to either try and disarm them or get the heck off. Disarming mines does make them go "click" though.
222*** The longest mission in the game ("The Wasteland Survival Guide") has a segment where you go to an entire ''town'' filled with landmines and [[EveryCarIsAPinto explosive cars]], and a man is shooting at you with a sniper rifle in an attempt to get you to kill yourself spectacularly on said mines. The entire area seems to be a meta-reference to Hideo Kojima games, coincidentally.
223*** ''Fallout 3'' offers four types of mines: basic frag mines, stronger plasma mines, anti-electronic pulse mines, and the very potent jerry-built bottlecap mines[[note]]technically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device IEDs]][[/note]]. As an amusing example of VideoGameCrueltyPotential, you can [[WhyAmITicking arm a mine and put it into your opponent's inventory]] for a quick kill with less collateral damage than doing the same with a grenade.
224** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
225*** Subverted by the "Hidden Mines", which are only visible by discolorations on the floor or putting your mouse cursor over them, do not beep, and will explode instantly if stepped on. They are often found in dark areas to make them even more difficult to spot.
226*** Also subverted by the Satchel Charge mines in the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC, which are hard to see, have short fuses that may prevent you from disarming them before they detonate, and are more lethal than the standard mines.
227** Both ''3'' and ''New Vegas'' play with this trope by having many of the standard frag mines placed in ways that hide the glowing light, such as stuffing them under traffic cones or placing them with the lit side down. There are also a few cases of mines being used as SchmuckBait, by placing one mine very prominently in the open with a second mine near enough to it that anyone trying to disarm the first mine will trigger the second one.
228* Unhidden things to avoid in ''VideoGame/FrontLine'', a shoot-em-up from Creator/{{Taito}} back in the early 1980s. Of course, if you can get the enemy to wander into them, all the more fun.
229* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' has the AT-S, a disc-shaped mine with an obvious {{color coded|ForYourConvenience}} flashing light on top (red for enemy-placed mines, green or blue for yours). You can't throw them very far and they barely bounce around when hitting the ground; after they land and are armed, they'll jump up like a bouncing betty when triggered by an enemy before exploding with a generous blast radius (larger than the frag grenade's, but not quite as wide as the remote bomb's). In the {{Compilation Rerelease}}s, you can pick your thrown mines back up.
230* Played straight in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'' and ''3''. You can punch surfaces with your grenades to set traps. This was a {{gamebreaker}} at the beginning of 2's multiplayer, because everyone spawned with one smoke grenade. This smoke grenade released smoke as a byproduct of what was apparently an omnidirectional [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic force]] [[Franchise/StarWars wave.]] This not only obscured the screen, but it also threw players up into the air, dropped them onto their backs, and then stunned them for several seconds before they could get back up and do anything. It also made people drop the meatflag, meatshields, and boomshields. Fortunately, this was nerfed so that all that happened was that you'd be stunned for a moment, drop the meatflag or a meatshield, or lose your boomshield if you weren't covering behind it.
231** You can plant the other types of grenades as well. They beep when they're about to detonate. [[OhCrap To the person on the receiving end, this means that they're]] [[InstantDeathRadius in an instant death radius and are almost certainly going to die.]]
232* In the ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'' series, mines are {{Magitek}} artificial life forms. Trap mines, which can be disarmed, will go click and have a short pause between triggering and detonation. Spore mines, on the other hand, will go off as soon as a target is close enough. There's also a scene in the fourth game in which a servile has stepped on a spore mine not targeted at serviles and irritated it enough that it's ready to go off anyway. The player can either help the poor guy and disable the mine or let him panic and trigger it.
233* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
234** ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' has two types.
235*** Laser-tripwire mines are found as a level obstacle, and Gordon can get a few for himself throughout the game. Once placed, the mine releases a warning whine for a few seconds then emit a faint blue laser (it's visible to the naked eye but only one type of NPC actually takes notice). If you break the laser, the mine will instantly explode without warning; even if you have full health and armor, if you're caught in the blast the mine WILL kill you. They cannot be defused, only prematurely detonated via gunfire or explosions; on the other hand, they stick to the wall hard enough to hold your weight so you can stand on top of them and use them as impromptu stairsteps. [[ThatOneLevel One particularly difficult level]] in the chapter "Surface Tension" is a missile warehouse ''littered'' with these mines, and needless to say, triggering even one mine, distance be damned, [[GameOver is a BAD IDEA]]. To worsen things, there are a few Headcrabs blissfully unaware of the danger of the place and will happily trigger a tripwire trying to jump at you.
236*** Some single player maps like the outside of the "Mine Maze" also sport invisible conventional landmines that could only be safely detonated by splash damage from your explosives; in ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' they were made visible and vulnerable to gunfire due to the decreased amount of explosives the player is likely to have.
237** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has the hopper mines, landmines with stake-like feet that stab the ground to keep the mine in place. Hoppers beep and flash if a hostile gets near them; when triggered, they disengage the stakes, [[MeaningfulName hop in the air]] with a quick "beep beep" and explode when hitting any solid surface. their main counter is the Gravity Gun: you can either rip the Hopper out of the floor or catch it as it hops, then either re-plant it on the ground (whereupon it'll be neutral to Gordon and Resistance members, and consider the Combine and non-Vortigaunt aliens as hostile) or just launch it like an {{explosive barrel|s}} at something you want to be destroyed.
238* ''VideoGame/Halo3'' - Trip mines beep loudly and glow, they are not hard to find at all. However, their explosive radius and damage are quite impressive, so if you hide them well or place them at opportune moments, they can be very deadly. It's also possible to actually walk over the mines without setting them off. You just have to crouch while walking by them. [[LuckBasedMission It doesn't work all the time though.]]
239** What results in the most mine kills is that the maps which feature vehicles and landmines often have a rather rough terrain, which means that it's quite possible to die because you never got a chance to correct your course.
240** There are also landmines which serve as BorderPatrol in "Sandtrap". They're like a bouncing betty that will go off no matter what you do. You can avoid them by either flying or by driving a vehicle so that you are outside of the damage radius by the time they go off.
241* ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning:'' The Temple of Aodh has magical land mines. If you get too close to those inconspicuous round areas on the floor, a glowing column pops up, giving you a couple of seconds to run away before it explodes. Try not to run over another one!
242* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' and the sequel feature mines with transparent red bubbles around them indicating their trigger radius once you spot them, which takes maybe one rank in the Awareness skill.
243* ''VideoGame/LethalCompany'' has large, white landmines that have a flashing red light to let you know it exists. The biggest threat, at this point, are the players themselves -- the landmines themselves are placed in random locations every game, so it's impossible to remember where it might be, players not paying attention might walk over one or they could unwittingly run over one when being chased by a monster. If you stand on the mine but don't move, you can still be saved if another player teleports you off it.
244* Newly added in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', mines make a distinctive click and give the player enough time to dodge roll out of the way before they go off. Unless the evil, evil level designers put a [[SchmuckBait shiny new weapon]] right next to the mine, in which case the same button for "jump out of the way" instead performs the "pick up the weapon" command, resulting in the mine blowing Shepard up once you dismiss the resulting pick up menu. There are also several PC controlled land mines, as well. Garrus and several Multiplayer characters have the Proximity Mine, a small explosive that sticks to the wall, floor, or ceiling and detonates when an enemy walks near it. The [[LethalJokeCharacter Volus Engineer]] adds the Recon Mine, which emits a wide scanning field that alerts you to enemies that are near it and only goes off when you issue a command for it (leaving a MushroomCloud), while the Talon Mercenary Engineer packs the brutal Cane Trip Mine, a massive bomb that uses a tripwire laser to detect an enemy's presence.
245* Averted in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor''. Land mines instantly kill you if you step beyond the signs. In one of ''Allied Assault'''s expansion packs, you have to probe your way through a minefield with a mine detector.
246* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' had Claymore mines, special mines using fiber optic technology that would render itself invisible. They would explode if the player stepped into its field of "vision." Claymores can show up on the radar as yellow dots and cones if the player has a mine detector, but using a thermal visor would let you physically see the mines. Crawling over a Claymore would let you pick it up and add it to your inventory. Of course, they can be shot out as well.
247* The first ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' game have it's third boss, a massive tank called the Tani-Oh ("Valley King") that attacks you from underneath a valley, by spamming landmines all over the area and trying to shoot you with it's dual gatling guns and a powerful WaveMotionGun. You'll spend a lot of said battle jumping all over landmines, or risk losing a life.
248* Across the whole ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' trilogy, there are tripwire traps with either a pipebomb or a jug full of liquid explosives; the "click!" bit is provided by the fuse lighting up and warning you to ''run''. If Artyon can get close, he can disarm or cut the tripwire safely and, in the case of a pipebomb trap, collect the pipebomb. Starting in ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'', there are also Metro-made Claymore mines that Artyom can deploy and pick up as needed; these operate on a short-ranged laser sensor and explode immediately after one quick beep when approached by an enemy.
249* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'': There are two different mines and both are in plain sight and easy to shoot from a distance if you don't rush into the room. One mine is a standard proximity mine that blows up if you get too close. The other mine type is similar, only if you get too close, the mine will jump up, fire a laser in 360 degrees, then explode.
250* ''Videogame/{{Minecraft}}'': TNT + pressure plate = landmine. And if you want to get complicated, you can even rig trees so that they set off TNT when cut down.
251* ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'' is a game based on avoiding land mines, which conveniently announce their presence by altering the numbers on adjacent tiles.
252* Travis Touchdown from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' encounters ''a lot'' of these during the beach mission. Since he perpetually carries the IdiotBall, this results in him stepping on several mines in-cutscene, resulting in the "click," then getting blown up. Luckily, [[MadeOfIron he's strangely unharmed.]] The last one makes fun of this, as he ''sees'' the mine, steps over it with a chuckle... and steps on a buried one. [[CurseCutShort "FUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"]] BOOM.
253* The Glukkons of ''VideoGame/OddWorld'' [[NoOSHACompliance liberally seed their factories and industrial complexes with mines]] [[StupidEvil for no very good reason]]. As well as the surrounding countryside. And their transportation hubs. Indeed, [[FridgeLogic it often seems]] like Abe would be better off finding out who is manufacturing them and shutting them down first because whoever it is is [[{{Pun}} making an absolute killing]]. The common type gives off a healthy red glow and beeps when it explodes. Another type blinks red and green in sequence, requiring you to tap it when it is green to deactivate it.
254* ''VideoGame/PlanetSide2'' features two types of mines; anti-infantry (unique for each faction) and anti-tank. [[MachineCult Vanu Sovereignty]] Proximity Mines have flashing blue lights on them and produce an audible noise as it charges up its capacitor to detonate. [[MegaCorp New Conglomerate]] Bouncing Betty mines have a flashing hexagon on their top, and loudly jump into the air when triggered. [[TheEmpire Terran Republic]] Claymores have a limited arc and are the tallest of the mines, but deal more damage and have no warning when detonating. Annoyingly, [[YouAreAlreadyDead you're generally doomed as soon as you hear a mine trigger]] - the only class (without flak armor upgrades) who can survive are the Heavy Assaults by triggering their overshield. The Nanite Systems Anti-Tank mines do not click and deal huge amounts of damage to vehicles, but only trigger from gunfire or vehicles passing over them, and are huge and easily seen.
255* ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' uses this as a trap in several characters' move-set, to help deny a ground approach, used by VideoGame/SlyCooper (Explosive Hat Technique), [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Sweet Tooth]] and [[Franchise/DeadSpace Isaac Clarke]].
256* Strogg landmines in ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'' are ridiculously conspicuous.
257* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', the dynamite tripwires have highly visible red lights, and even then the Ganados [[TooDumbToLive can't help walking into them]].
258* ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}'': Whoever decided to place a land mine that behaves like a bouncing betty directly next to one that behaves in a traditional manner is a maniacal genius of tactical warfare.
259* ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein: Enemy Territory'' has landmines hiss when you step on them, and detonate if you step off. An engineer can disarm them, or if they're spotted by covert ops, can be detonated by explosives.
260* In the Taiwanese video game franchise ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'', which is similar to ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'', one of the items (or cards) the characters can use, the Landmine, will place a landmine on the street, and anyone stopping at its spot will be injured and sent to the Hospital, which is similar to Jail.
261* ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain'' has lots of ways to lay them down, be it through items or through the engineer's abilities. Combining them all tends to turn a whole area into a deathtrap. For your enemies, as this ''is'' the future, and mines are smarter now. Still, you're advised to still keep out of the blast radius, as "the laws of physics don't pick sides". And don't worry about conventions being violated; you're fighting a bunch of crazed aliens [[spoiler:and the god who crashed your ship]], they don't ''have'' laws and customs of war.
262* ''VideoGame/SecretAgent'' has flashing, obvious landmines all over most of the levels. These kill you instantly as opposed to just knocking down your health and, infuriatingly, [[HitboxDissonance their hitboxes are a little bigger than their sprites]], meaning that it's very easy to blow yourself up on them. If they're on the stairs, then it's impossible to clear them without very skillful exploitation of JumpPhysics.
263* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheWoolBall'' has bright, orange land mines that let out an audible click as they're triggered, letting you know that you'd better get moving, fast.
264* And something to avoid in both ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' and ''VideoGame/TotalCarnage''.
265* ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''[='=] Flying Battery Zone has landmines as a stage hazard. They don't explode immediately when stepped on, instead exploding shortly after contact. They also have a blinking light once triggered to inform the player to get away or get hurt.
266* In the ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' series, as with ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', landmines are silent and can only be seen through the thermal goggles. Unlike ''MGS'', you can't disarm them. By contrast, wall mines have obvious flashing lights and can be disarmed provided you press the action button when the light is green, otherwise, it will blow up in your face.
267* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'': When an Ink Mine is stepped on or covered in enemy ink, the mine beeps and surrounding ink it's buried in briefly glows before it goes off.
268* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' - the Terran Vulture hovercycles can lay down Spider Mines. These not only give a loud "click" of a warning, they actively chase down their targets.
269* ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'': besides the fact that the keypad on the top has illuminated buttons, the land mines actually have a quite smart design... it's their users who are stupid beyond belief. The mines are "smart mines" that can distinguish between friend and foe, and the default "foe" setting is "anything taller than a Trandoshan"[[note]]save for one very specific set of mines that are programmed to explode for ''anything''[[/note]]. Now, a player character on his knees isn't taller than a Trandoshan, so you can just hold the crouch button and disarm them at your leisure.
270* Land mines in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'' have a convenient timer that becomes visible when you trigger them, letting you know you have 3 seconds to get the hell away before the boom.
271* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series has the Motion-Sensor Bomb (Proximity Mine in the PAL version). This trope is actually averted, in that the bomb does not click, but explodes instantaneously, dealing somewhere around 25% damage. However, the things are fairly easy to disarm. God help you though if there's a bomb that someone managed to stick to the side of the stage.
272* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' has landmines scattered throughout Citadel Station. They don't flash or beep but - since there aren't many places to bury them on a space station - they're still pretty obvious and are mostly a hazard to WrongGenreSavvy players who think they can be defused or picked up. Some are placed around helpful things like healing beds, so if you don't have the otherwise-worthless [[JokeWeapon Riot Gun]] to push them away you're stuck either [[ShmuckBait carefully tip-toeing around them every time you're low on health]] or blowing them up along with everything around them.
273** Explosives set each other off, so making stacks of bombs with a landmine as the trigger is a common tactic for killing the tougher enemies. This works both ways, and [[BoobyTrap landmines mixed in with explosive caches aren't always inert]], so look carefully before picking one up.
274* ''VideoGame/TimeShift'' mines have a very short delay before going off, thankfully you have time powers.
275* ''TNK III'' and its NES adaptation, ''Iron Tank'', feature blinking and beeping anti-tank mines. Instantly fatal to touch.
276* There is a certain location in ''VideoGame/{{Transarctica}}'', crucial to the main quest, which is accessible only through a labyrinth of booby-trapped tracks. Since triggering a mine will destroy your train immediately, the only way to pass through is to use [[spoiler: line inspection cars to detonate it. However, after doing this the player has to repair the damaged track in order to move farther.]]
277* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2'' has the Proximity Fragmentation Mine Layer. A mine has a flashing green light and when set off, it turns red, goes "beep" and jumps up, Bouncing Betty style, before exploding and cutting the enemy in half.
278* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' uses comic-book style onomatopoeia as part of its visual style, so the land mines not only click when you step on them but the ''word'' "click" appears. The good news: They don't actually explode until you move off them, so if you heal yourself or have another unit disarm it first you could easily survive.
279** Instantly making it vastly superior to Red Alert's method (see below), which is just step SPROING "Where the hell did my tanks/soldiers go?" At least VC has a counter, Red Alert requires Mine-Stompers (Which can get expensive to use $950 Heavy Tanks to clean out a Minefield).
280* These turn up as surprises in ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}'', a future RPG. You could avoid them with sufficient Perception skill from your leader.
281* ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'':
282** Land mines always make a beeping noise when activated, and from the second game and on, flash a light. The extra time[[note]]if they're not set to exploding instantly before a match[[/note]] does not help you get away from them, as the blast radius is larger than the detection radius, but a quick player may be able to position their worm so the explosion doesn't throw it into water.
283** In some games you can attack a mine and have it go flying, and some games even have achievements for offing an opponent like this. It's also practical since in most games you're given limited ammo, but you can prod or whack a mine with a finger or a baseball bat respectively, which are generally have unlimited uses.
284** Pre-placed mines can randomly be duds, and will only hiss and emit a puff of smoke instead of exploding when set off. If hit by a baseball bat or Fire Punch whack, a dud mine will be sent flying and detonate on impact.
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288* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie 5'' first shows off... Mine Turtle! He's so cute and adorable as he says 'hello'. And he has a button on his shell.
289* In ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'', Pyotr has just enough time to hear the click of a landmine and react with confusion before it blows his leg off. Turns out the protagonists rigged their entire lawn with army surplus mines to get the drop on him.
290* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': The early parts of [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy the Chorus Trilogy]] poke fun at the extremely visible landmines from the ''Halo'' games, as the rather confused Reds wonder what the point is to land mines that are easily noticed and avoided. [[spoiler:Donut ''does'' use them to kill Lopez Dos.0 (who's gone crazy and hijacked a giant robot), by using teleportation grenades to drop him directly onto the minefield.]]
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294* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan1995'': One character steps on a pressure mine. To escape, he unties his boot and does an unnecessarily impressive backflip as the mine goes off.
295* In ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "The", after Shake caused the house to get infested with rats, he resorts to using land mines scattered around to exterminate them. Though Meatwad sets most of them off and damages the house.
296* A member of Easy Company steps on a landmine and hears it go click in TheTeaser to the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "The Plague of the Prototypes". G.I. Robot saves him by JumpingOnAGrenade.
297* Gags involving minefields were very common on ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. Usually it involved one character setting up the mines for another character but ending up in the middle of the field and having to slowly make his way back to safety. Since the mines were easily detectable under conspicuous mounds of dirt, the character manages to escape without a scratch... until he unwittingly steps on that one mine he hid too well.
298** In a WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales & WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck episode. For some reason, Daffy lays a minefield with all the locations marked. Daffy loses the map, but Speedy winds up with it and offers to tell Daffy where the mines are. Daffy takes a step... <Boom!> "There's one!" <Boom> "There's another!" <Boom> "What do you mean you don't know where they are? You haven't missed one yet!"
299*** And if it's a Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon, Roadrunner runs through all the mines without setting them off, and when Coyote goes to check what's wrong, they all blow up in his face. He also has a habit of being tossed into ones unrelated to his current plan when his AcmeProducts inevitably backfire.
300* In a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skit with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Monchhichis}}'', once Moncho tries to save the others, they end up walking into a minefield despite Moncho's pleas to stand still, they still blow themselves up.
301* A example of this trope happens in the series ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'' where one of the main characters (the cameraman that supposedly is "documenting" the actions of the titular squad) runs into a minefield while trying to escape from the enemy. A ''big'' minefield. With accompanying Loud Click, and the reveal that lifting his foot would detonate not only the mine, but the entire minefield through the explosion of the first mine. The squad has a robotic member that they are in the process of field-testing - the robot makes a Heroic Sacrifice after running out of ammo. He runs in, replaces our main character's foot with his own, and literally throws him clear of the minefield. The robot then waits for the enemy to get real close to him (the enemy naturally not setting off any of the mines on their way), then lifts his foot. Afterward, the troopers deliver a Aesop while ruminating on the sacrifice.
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305* Almost completely averted - and backfired - in the RealLife. Land mines are by default designed to explode immediately on the impulse, such as stepping on the pressure plate. The only situation where you hear them going "click" is when they are '''duds'''.
306** Having said that, there are ''delayed fuses'' which detonate the mine with a delay. They are usually used to let the enemy advance to a choke point where the explosion will cause even more damage.
307* There have been several cases where this trope has caused people to think that they've stepped on a landmine (obviously all cases involved completely unrelated bits of scrap metal or no longer functional mines).
308* Pressure release triggers are known to be used in some mine designs, as an anti-handling device (booby-trap) to protect a bigger mine from being disarmed. The action of lifting this sort of mine up after it's set will trigger it - which doesn't help you if you've already stepped on it, though...
309** Related to the above, a common dirty trick is to pull the pin from a grenade, then set whatever mine you have handy on top of it to hold the spoon down. Moving the mine releases the spoon, which you might hear before it goes boom. Sometimes, the mine is even left exposed as SchmuckBait for EOD personnel.
310* Pressure release [=IEDs=] have been encountered in Iraq & Afghanistan - although they do not go 'click', and are usually pre-counterweighted, so that removing the counterweight, not stepping off the device, is what causes detonation...
311* The Swedish ambassador once remonstrated the Finnish for using landmines. Whereupon the Finnish ambassador replied, [[DeadpanSnarker "Finland is your land mine"]].
312** The Finnish anti-personnel land mine, ''Sakaramiina m/65'' (affectionally known as [[CuteAsABouncingBetty "Sakke"]] (boy's name)) was especially designed to maim, not kill, the enemy soldiers. Wounded soldiers bind more of the enemy's resources than dead.
313* Sometimes the land mines are not used against the enemy soldiers, [[ForTheEvulz but civilians]]. Especially in the Third World it is commonplace to deliberately plant anti-personnel mines into farmland. The rationale is to deny the civilians the use of farmland for crops and to cause poverty and famine. Naturally, this very much qualifies as crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
314** This also has the secondary effect of making the (presumably enemy) population move and initiating ethnic cleansing (they are gone) plus genocide (when people need to flee for longer periods of time first the old and the young die and then slowly the rest). In Third World conflicts which are often fought over years or even generations that can translate in substantial advantages down the line... or you people just did not care where they planted mines.
315* Unexploded Ordnance (bombs and shells that never exploded) is often effectively a land mine. Worse, in a way, as unlike land mines, no one has any reason to want them there-- they're often left over from a war that ended decades ago (as far back as UsefulNotes/WorldWarI), and are only there because no one ever got around to clearing them out.
316** The largest non-nuclear explosives in history were dropped all across Europe during [=WW2=]. About 20 or so of them have not detonated.
317** Especially common in Germany. A few undetonated bombs are found every year, normally during building construction.
318** France as well. For all intents and purposes it was the western front in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and thirty years later it got bombed, shelled and fought over [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII again]]. Unsurprisingly, they're still digging up unexploded ordnance almost a century after the first war and seventy years after the fighting stopped.
319*** A brief note on the scale of the problem in France. The French démineurs (UXO specialists) recover about 900 ''tons'' of munitions from the area around Verdun each year alone. Areas have been evacuated during clearing operations due to the high risk of badly corroded chemical munitions going off.
320** We can add [[http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/unexploded-bomb-hong-kong/2014/02/06/id/551329/ Hong Kong]] to that list as well.
321** Spain too. While much less frequently than on the countries above, unexploded ordnance from the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar is stil found either during building construction or in lonely places.
322** This one has to take the cake though: in 2015, unexploded ordnance was found in Washington state that [[http://warisboring.com/articles/america-still-has-a-problem-with-unexploded-civil-war-bombs/ dates back to]] ''[[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Civil War]]'', over '''150 years old.'''
323** Let's not forget Vietnam. Farmers still run into land mines and bombs on a regular basis and call the government to safely remove them.
324* World War era torpedoes that were set to contact-fuses often had a one second delay between impact and detonation, so anyone inside the vessel near the point of impact would hear a distinct click right before the explosion.
325* Chilean ambassdador and politician Luis Winter lost both legs in the Chilean-Peruvian border due to this.
326* Organizations such as [=APOPO=] have trained rats (specifically, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambian_pouched_rat Gambian pouched rat]]) to detect land mines in Africa for just this reason. The rats' noses are sensitive enough to detect explosives like dogs do, but rats are also small enough that they can walk directly over a mine without triggering it. Having proven themselves in their native land, mine-detecting rats are now exported to Southeast Asia as well.
327* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_gardens The Devil's Gardens]] is a German defensive line that was made in Egypt during the North Africa Campaign of World War II. Even after ''more than sixty years'' since the line was made, most of the '''3 million''' land mines that were buried there are STILL unaccounted for, creating a deadly and uninhabitable place that claims the unsuspecting human or grazing animal from time to time.
328* The infamous legacy of the Soviet–Afghan War was the contamination of ''more than 530 square kilometers'' of land with '''10 million''' land mines and unexploded ordnance which has caused serious long-term damage to the development of the country through the depopulation of large tracts of arable land, resulting in even more problems such as drastically smaller crop harvests. Even to this day, efforts to identify and render the contaminated areas safe enough for resettling through de-mining and ordnance disposal are still ongoing.
329* The mass scale UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} since early 2022:
330** Russians left mines behind upon retreating from their failed assault on Kyiv and the North of Ukraine.
331** Since the frontlines stabilized in mid/late 2022 leaving the South and East of Ukraine occupied by Russians, Russians have heavily (and we mean ''heavily'') mined pretty much all of these lines in anticipation of an Ukrainian offensive, several layers deep. It is now the [[https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/13/russian-mines-hinder-ukraines-counteroffensive-efforts-insider/ largest mine field in the world]]. In their attempts to clear it for their offensives, Ukrainian engineers have developed special [[https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a44737062/spider-boots-may-save-ukraine-from-russia-mine-warfare/ pod-tipped boots]] that help against some types of mines.
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