One way of demonstrating
Implausible Fencing Powers (or even
Improbable Aiming Skills) is combining it with
Bomb Disposal: cutting (or shooting) the fuses.
See also
Wire Dilemma and
Wrong Wire.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film
- The Soviet action movie The Crown of the Russian Empire or The Elusives Again had this in the intro. One of the Elusives shoots the fuse to thwart a bomb on the rails before a moving train.
Literature
- In one Animorphs book, Ax stops an explosion by cutting the trail of black powder before the fire could reach the barrels of explosives. Unfortunately, when he cut the trail, his blade made a spark...
Live-Action TV
- Reality show Top Shot had one round where the contestants tried to shoot through a bomb's fuse to stop it from going off. It was one of the most difficult challenges on the show.
Newspaper Comics
- In a Terry and the Pirates strip, the Dragon Lady shoots through the fuse of an explosive that has been stuffed in Connie's mouth!
Video Games
- One of the challenges in the Mad Dog Mc Cree arcade game involved shooting the fuse off some dynamite to save the prospector.
- On the Game Over screen of the original Final Fight, you're tied up with a bomb next to you. Continuing means a knife drops in to cut the fuse.
