History Main / PineappleSurprise

* At the beginning of the final battle between Accelerator and Kihara in the second season of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', the former [[OneHitPolykill takes out three mooks with this trick]]. The only remaining one [[OhCrap promptly craps himself]] and [[TooDumbToLive tries using the]] DamselInDistress (Accelerator's MoralityPet Last Order) as a HumanShield. Accelerator [[PistolWhipping doesn't appreciate it]].

* Played for laughs in the ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'' manga. Military crazed cop Volvo Saigo who's armed to the teeth has accidentally released his pins when fastening his seatbelt and from swimming. Since this is a cartoon, he gets better.
* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Referenced. Kirito and Sinon are the last survivors of a tournament, but Kirito doesn't want to kill Sinon to advance. She points out that if they both die, it will be a tie and they'll both advance. Then she grins and asks him "do you know what a pineapple surprise is?" She drops one of her own grenades at her feet and hugs him before he can get away.

* In the remake of ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct132005'', one of the characters does this while about to be executed by the [[spoiler: CorruptCop]] bad guys. It was only a flash bang, but it still caused a significant injury and distracted the captors enough for an escape attempt.

* At the climax of ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'', [[spoiler:Cassandra is being held hostage by Black Mask with a knife to her throat. She apologizes to Harley and tells her that she stole something of hers: a ring. She then holds up her hand, showing a grenade pin dangling off her finger. Black Mask is confused, then realizes Cassandra has palmed one of her grenades into his pocket and pulled the pin. While he is searching for the grenade, Harley grabs Cassandra and knocks him off the pier. He explodes before he hits the water.]]

** Casper's attempt to arrest a suspect end with both of them struggling on the floor with each other, until said suspect, whom his pockets Casper is searching through, suddenly whips out a grenade. And [[OhCrap Casper happens to be holding its pin]].
** The grenade trick turns out to be a ChekhovsGun in the ending, [[spoiler: when Casper manage to arrest Boss Wong... by shoving a grenade between Wong's thighs, sans pin. And tells him to better stay in that position until the police arrives to arrest him, or simply let himself be blown up]].

** Sister Lan, after being intimidated by a group of thugs which she is sorely outnumbered, suddenly reveals she had a grenade whose pin is removed, and is threatening to throw if they do not back off. It works.
** [[spoiler: She did it again in the finale, during her personal confrontation with TheDragon, where she avenged Rocky's death by shoving a grenade into her opponent's coat without the pin. Cue LudicrousGibs]].
* In ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Furious 7]]'', Dom manages to pull a variant of this by hanging a bag of granades onto Jakande's chopper. It takes a shot by Hobbs from the gun to set them off tho.

* ''Film/TheHeat'' has Sarah and Shannon, two cops, slide over a duffel bag of stuff in a warehouse to a group of armed drug dealers before Shannon quips that the drug lord's enforcer and Sarah are now engaged. When the enforcer expresses confusion, Sarah shows the pulled grenade pin and gets a PreMortemOneLiner about being given a ring before the two of them duck for cover and all the enforcer can get out is an OhCrap before the grenades in the duffel bag explode.
* A variation is used by the title character in the climax of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''. When Hellboy sees that he is about to be eaten by the monster he grabs a grenade belt and yanks off all the pins. Possibly something of a subversion since Hellboy knew he would most likely survive the blast but he was going to be very sore tomorrow.

* Film/JamesBond:
** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'': [[EnemyMine During the joint American/British/Soviet submariner attack against Stromberg's men aboard the]] ''[[EnemyMine Liparus]]'', Talbot, the British submarine captain, is killed while getting ready to throw a grenade at some mooks. As Bond reaches him, the grenade pops out of his dead hands, leaving Bond seconds to throw it away.

* ''Film/TheThinRedLine'': [[spoiler:Woody Harrelson's character Sgt. Keck]], after tremendous build-up, dies accidentally a horribly short way into the film when [[spoiler:[[FinaglesLaw he pulls the pin instead of the grenade]]]].
--> "I blew my butt off!"

* Creator/TomCruise's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character pull the pins of at least one while he was being sucked into one of the tripods. Since he spit them out when his cagemates pulled him back, it seems implied that he [[PinPullingTeeth pulled them with his teeth]].

* The short story ''Once More from the Top'' by A. Scott Glancy shows what happened when [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth the marines were sent to clear out Innsmouth]]. A couple of soldiers have succeeded in driving back a shoggoth with flamethrowers only to be fired on by the townspeople. Realising the safety lever has been shot off a phosphorous grenade clipped to his webbing, and that when it goes off he'll also kill his friend as he's wearing a flamethrower tank full of jellied gasoline on his back, a soldier leaps into the river where the shoggoth has retreated to and [[TakingYouWithMe blows them both up]].

* ''Up Front'', by Creator/BillMauldin, features the "swamp hunter":

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': One unsub does this to ''himself'' in an attempt at TakingYouWithMe. When he's pulled over by authorities, he complies with the orders to put his hands out the window, but as the police approach, they realize there's a grenade pin dangling off his finger and retreat. The car blows up seconds later.
* In the ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' pilot "War Zone" the away team investigating a crashed Drakh ship gets pinned down by a squad from the enemy crew. Dureena sneaks around back and trips a grenade on one of the Drakh soldiers' belts, ending the fight very quickly.

* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': In the episode "The Girl Who Was Death", Number 6 rigs a couple of German grenades, moving the explosives into the handles. When the villains hurl them, the heads end up in our heroes escape boat, while the villains are left listening to the ominous hiss from the handles before exploding.
* ''Series/SASRogueHeroes''. David Stirling wants to borrow a pool table so he can lay out a large map. When the soldiers using said table refuse to interrupt their tournament, he pulls the pin on a grenade and throws it, with a visibly smoking fuse, onto the table, causing everyone to flee. The grenade doesn't explode, as it's had the explosive and detonator removed.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E16StarshipMine Starship Mine]]", after a scuffle with Picard, a thief makes off with a container of explosive trilithium resin. It turns out [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Picard removed a stabilizer from the container]] during the scuffle. She doesn't get far.
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': In "The Final Showdown Part 2", [[Creator/ChuckNorris Chuck Norris]] does this to [[BigBad Big Bad]]. After a long fight, Chuck and his adversary fall out of a window and land on top of a car. After they both roll off the roof, Chuck reveals that he pulled the baddies grenade pin. As he runs off, the grenade explodes.

* A variant in ''VideoGame/DoubleOhSevenFromRussiaWithLove''. One of the trick shots possible with the [[ImprobableAimingSkills Bond Focus mechanic]] is shooting a grenade off some poor schmuck's web gear, which causes it to explode.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

** A radio show in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' identifies this technique as "the old Shady Sands Shuffle." Performing it increments the "Pants Exploded" statistic and the first one earns the "Psychotic Prankster" achievement.
** One of the ways to complete "I Put A Spell On You" for the Legion in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is to [[spoiler: pull the pin on Davey Crenshaw's grenade and later cite his pranking nature to convince Colonel Hsu that he planted the bomb on the NCR monorail]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' introduces Super Mutant Suiciders, a version of the super mutant that rushes the player with a mini-nuke as a suicide bomber. The safest way to take them out is to snipe the bomb (preferably from long range and before they notice you), killing both them and anyone else in the vicinity, though if you kill them without the mini nuke going off, you can actually loot it.

* One fail in ''VideoGame/TheHenryStickminCollection'' has Henry chuck a grenade outside the closet where he's hiding, only for it to bounce back inside before he closes the door, which he doesn't realize until too late.
* One of the animations for capturing an enemy tank in ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}'' World In Flames has you pull a grenade just as one of the tank's crew pops out of the top hatch with a pistol. After a brief struggle, your character will pull back, at which point the tanker will try to shoot you [[OhCrap only to realize that you swapped his gun for your grenade]]. You then shoot him in the chest, causing him to drop the grenade into the tank.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Mousehunt}}'', using a Remote Detonator Base to catch a Bomb Squad category mouse in the iceberg will cause their bombs to prematurely explode and propel you forwards into the iceberg.

* In ''Videogame/Trepang2'', if you've got a hostage you can stick a live grenade on them before tossing them at enemies. If you shoot the enemy, you can even detonate them prematurely.

* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' "Nines" Rodriguez saves the PC from Sabbat goons by threatening them with a grenade. Given Nines is at a power level to curb stomp the 3 young Sabbat easily, '''you''' [[TheLoad seem to be the only reason]] he needs to use such a card.

* Possible in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' by hacking grenades that enemies are carrying to cause them to instantly detonate.

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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', at one point [[VillainProtagonist Skitter]] gets trapped in a burning building surrounded by soldiers armed with rifles and grenades. As part of her attempt to escape, she uses [[PestController the insects nearby]] to pull the pins from the grenades.
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* The title card for WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/{{Commando}}'' shows the critic holding four of Arnold's grenade pins, with him freaking out in the background.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Stewie does this to Lois in the climactic fight scene of "Lois Kills Stewie". She manages to pull the belt off and throw it away in time.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/GIJoeSigma6 GI Joe: Valor vs Venom]]'', Snake Eyes pulls the pins on every grenade on Storm Shadow's bandolier to escape him. Storm Shadow survives by tossing the belt before it's too late.
* The Question does this to a Cadmus mercenary in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "Fearful Symmetry", but he's nice enough to remove the grenade belt before pulling the pins so the guy has a chance to get clear of the blast.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Moe brings out an entire ''crate'' of grenades after a talk radio host asks listeners to break Sideshow Bob out of prison, claiming that he's a "political prisoner." After Barney says that the host intended them to use non-violent political action, Moe demands that everyone hands their grenades back to him. And one of them is ''missing a pin.''
** Cletus joins the army and [[TooDumbToLive fails to understand the most basic function]] of a grenade.
--->''"Hey, this avocado gave me a wedding ring!"''
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "Summit", Kid Flash pulls the pins on the smoke grenades being worn on the vests of three Light ninjas.

As for why it's called a Pineapple Surprise, British and American [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI World]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII War]] and Vietnam-era grenades were nicknamed "pineapples", due to their shape (note the trope image). Incidentally, [=WW2=] German grenades were called potato mashers (they had a handle which increased their throwing range). Most modern grenades are spherical.

'''Sarah:''' Well, 'cause... (''shows grenade pin'') you just gave me a ring, mothafucka!\\