History Main / ContainTheKaboom

* In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', Cacodemons can literally eat a grenade (from either the Combat Shotgun or Shoulder Gun) and keep going, although it does stun them.

* While not exactly an explosion, Nanoha and Fate accidentally activate a Jewel Seed while fighting over it. With her staff injured in the clash, Fate attempts to seal the artifact with her bare hands while it's outpouring an enormous amount of magical energy. While she is ultimately successful, she badly injures her hands in the process and passes out from exhaustion less than a minute later. In this case, it's less to show how powerful she is and more to show how insanely reckless her desperation for fulfilling her mission has made her.

* In ''Fanfic/InnocenceOnceLost'' spinoff ''After the War'', Princess Luna is forced to contain an Antimatter Bomb explosion to foil a terrorist attack. She gets maimed for life, and had she not been on the [[PlaceOfPower moon's surface]] and recieved medical aid quickly enough, she would have likely died from her injuries.

--->'''Flash:''' Did you hear what Wonder Woman said? Your supernova stunt is now on record as a "feat", hotshot.\\

--->'''Superman:''' ''[narrating]'' Now I was angry.

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* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': The newbie Green Lantern Kyle Rayner -- a rookie to the superhero field and only part of the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' for about a year -- has to hold in an exploding sun. It nearly rips apart his mind to do so, but he does. Afterwards, his fellow heroes are giving him kudos for such an extraordinary act:

** Superman often does this in comics with his bare hands when it comes to holding a bomb or explosive a villain happens to throw at him due to NighInvulnerability. A humorous example is in an issue of the [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries animated series]] tie-in ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'', where Superman grabs a grenade thrown by a criminal and puts it in his ''mouth''. The ensuing explosion only makes him cough a little.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': When Diana finds a bomb hidden at Etta's brother's wedding she doesn't have enough time to dispose of it and instead faces away from the other revelers, hugs it to her chest and curls around it as it goes off. It makes a mess of her dress and does enough structural damage to the building that they need to evacuate in a hurry but the only one harmed is Etta by a small piece of shrapnel Diana didn't manage to contain.

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* [[BigBad Sebastian Shaw]] does this with a grenade explosion to highlight his EnergyAbsorption powers in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', then gives the energy back to the guy who brought the grenade in the first place, incinerating him immediately.

* Subverted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. Wanda's failure to properly contain an explosion with her powers, resulting in the destruction of a building and the deaths of several people inside, is the catalyst for the Sokovia Accords.

* {{Exaggerated}} in ''Series/{{Andromeda}}''. Dylan Hunt launches a [[StarKilling nova bomb]] at the star at the center of the [[PlanetSpaceship Magog Worldship]], detonating it in an attempt to destroy the vessel before it can reach inhabited space. However, the Spirit of the Abyss that rules over the Magog is able to contain and reverse the star's explosion before the Worldship is completely destroyed.
* In ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' episode "The Elongated Knight Rises", Ralph deals with one of Trickster’s bombs by wrapping his torso around it, having his elastic body completely insulate the explosion from everyone else.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[PhysicalGod Sutekh]] has to contain an explosion sparked by a box of blasting gelignite which the Doctor had placed on a missile that was supposed to go to Mars. Despite his near-omnipotence, it puts an immense strain on his powers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask:'' The Mask one-ups what he did in the film by swallowing an entire ''nuclear missile'' and containing the explosion in him, even taking time to mock the one that launched it afterwards.
* In the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "Under the Counter Spy", Woody has taken a secret formula that gives him super strength. The villain throws a CartoonBomb at him and Woody pushes the explosion back with his bare hands, then tosses the bomb back, where it explodes on the villain's face.

* ''Manga/OnePiece:'' In a variant, Kin'emon is a skilled enough samurai to be able to ''cut through an explosion''; this happens in the Punk Hazard arc where he does it to protect himself and the heroes.

* In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal,'' Cacodemons can literally eat a grenade (from either the Combat Shotgun or Shoulder Gun) and keep going, although it does stun them.

* In the series finale of WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse, Ben does this to a ''big bang'' to prevent Maltruant from creating a universe in his image. The Omnitrix activates a emergency mechanism, shifting through every single alien form until it finds Feedback who is capable of handling that much energy.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ''War is the H-Word'', Bender does this with an exploding ball, the resulting explosion turning him into a Jiffy-Pop-like puffball.
* Superman does this in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' when he decides to hold his hands over one of the city-destroying bombs set off by Professor Zoom attached to one of his minion's belts. Heatwave, who is still ''wearing'' the belt, is not amused.
-->'''Superman:''' Waiting is the worst part.

* In Marvel's ''ComicBook/ClanDestine'', teenage hero Rory Destine (aka "The Crimson Crusader") uses his GravityMaster powers for a variant of this. It looks much the same, but the blast is actually being contained in a tightly-controlled gravity well. This also lets Rory use it in scenarios that wouldn’t work so well for the usual version - e.g removing an ExplosiveLeash from someone's neck.
* Superman often does this in comics with his bare hands when it comes to holding a bomb or explosive a villain happens to throw at him due to NighInvulnerability. A humorous example is in an issue of the [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries animated series]] tie-in ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'', where Superman grabs a grenade thrown by a criminal and puts it in his ''mouth''. The ensuing explosion only makes him cough a little.
-->'''Superman:''' ''[narrating]'' Now I was angry.
* During the ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' event, newbie Green Lantern Kyle Rayner — a rookie to the superhero field and only part of the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' for about a year — has to hold in an exploding sun. It nearly rips apart his mind to do so, but he does. Afterwards, his fellow heroes are giving him kudos for such an extraordinary act:
-->'''Flash:''' Did you hear what Wonder Woman said? Your supernova stunt is now on record as a "feat", hotshot.\\

* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': When Diana finds a bomb hidden at Etta's brother's wedding she doesn't have enough time to dispose of it and instead faces away from the other revelers, hugs it to her chest and curls around it as it goes off. It makes a mess of her dress and does enough structural damage to the building that they need to evacuate in a hurry but the only one harmed is Etta by a small piece of shrapnel Diana didn't manage to contain.

A SubTrope of BombDisposal and SuperTrope of EatTheBomb and JumpingOnAGrenade.

While a ''person'' doing this is highly implausible if the explosive is larger than a grenade, the basic premise is TruthInTelevision — the two easiest ways to neutralize a bomb are to either move it someplace where there is nothing to damage when it does go off, or surround it with material capable of containing the blast to minimize the damage when it explodes in place.

* During the ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' event, newbie Green Lantern Kyle Rayner — a rookie to the superhero field and only part of the ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA JLA]]'' for about a year — has to hold in an exploding sun. It nearly rips apart his mind to do so, but he does. Afterwards, his fellow heroes are giving him kudos for such an extraordinary act:

While a ''person'' doing this is highly implausible if the explosive is larger than a grenade, the basic premise is TruthInTelevision - the two easiest ways to neutralize a bomb are to either move it someplace where there is nothing to damage when it does go off, or surround it with material capable of containing the blast to minimize the damage when it explodes in place.

* During the ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' event, newbie Green Lantern Kyle Rayner- a rookie to the superhero field and only part of the ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA JLA]]'' for about a year -has to hold in an exploding sun. It nearly rips apart his mind to do so, but he does. Afterwards, his fellow heroes are giving him kudos for such an extraordinary act:

* In ''Fanfic/InnocenceOnceLost'' spinoff ''After the War'' Princess Luna is forced to contain an Antimatter Bomb explosion to foil a terrorist attack. She gets maimed for life and had she not been on the [[PlaceOfPower moons surface]] and recieved medical aid quickly enough she would have likely died from her injuries.

* In the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "Under the Counter Spy", Woody has taken a secret formula that gives him super strenght. The villain throws a CartoonBomb at him and Woody pushes the explosion back with his bare hands, then tosses the bomb back, where it explodes on the villain's face.