History Main / EatTheBomb

* In ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' Ultron decides he's had enough of his assailants and unleashes a galaxy destroying explosion, and is baffled when Strange Supreme reverses the explosion, condenses it so it fits in his hand, and pops into in his mouth like a sweet with no effect beyond a momentary flare of fiery eyes.

** In a CallBack, [[spoiler:Goose, the Flerken in ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' does this; later, she pukes it back onto Fury's desk.]]

In episode 3 of ''Animation/BoonieBears'', after his attempt to hurt the bears with apples laced with spicy sauce doesn't work, Logger Vick gives them more apples, this time laced with bombs. Some of the bombs explode inside Bramble's stomach before Briar realizes what's going on and triggers one of the bombs before eating the apple it's in, leaving both bears with ashes all over them.

* In the climax of Season 2 of ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'', when Alfred, Dave Boy and Gulliver Troy are running out of options to defuse the DeadlyGas bomb of the Raven Union that's about to decimate the population of London, Troy decides to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] and swallows the bomb in order to contain the gas within his body. He doesn't die of it, however, and even gets empowered by the gas, and becomes a SuperweaponSurprise for the English League against the Raven Union in their battle for the control of London.

* In the climax of Season 2 of ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'', when Alfred, Dave Boy and Gulliver Troy are running out of options to defuse the Deadlygas bomb of the Raven Union that's about to decimate the population of London, Troy decides to [[heroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] and swallows the bomb in order to contain the gas within his body. He doesn't die of it, however, and even gets empowered by the gas, and becomes a SuperweaponSurprise for the English League against the Raven Union in their battle for the control of London.

* Matter Eater Lad pulled this stunt, long ago, in the DCU's ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'' comic. The "bomb" was a potentially universe-destroying RealityWarper called the Miracle Machine, and the "slight indigestion" was being driven insane, but it still fits. Notably, Matter-Eater Lad eating more mundane weapons and explosives was very much in the "nothing at all" category, although he occasionally remarked on particularly exotic weapons as being spicy, and he did once knock out two attackers with the blast wave from a belch after he ate an entire silo full of grain.

* Majin Buu does this in ''Anime/DragonballGT'', neutralizing one of the Baby's attacks that threatened to destroy the city by swallowing it whole. Also doubles as HeroicSacrifice, since it ends up blasting him from inside.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', [[TheYoshi Yoshi]] can eat Bob-Ombs even mid-explosion without adverse consequences.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has Ziggs, [[MadBomber Hexplosives Expert]], whose joke emote has him eat his own bomb and burp out the explosion.
* Can be done in ''VideoGame/Postal2'', where pressing K and then clicking with the left mouse button makes the Dude put a live grenade in his mouth while saying "I regret nothing", followed by an explosion that kills him and anyone nearby.
* In the ''[[VideoGame/TazManiaSega Taz-Mania]]'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, if Taz gets too close to a bomb, he will eat it, which explodes inside him and [[PoisonMushroom takes away his health]]. He also does this in the sequel, ''VideoGame/TazInEscapeFromMars'', which not only has bombs, but also [[DynamiteCandle cakes with sticks of dynamite in place of candles]].
* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', Klump is sometimes seen eating orange grenades, which explode inside him. He is shown to be unaffected by them, as he merely belches afterwards.

* Happens in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', when Schlock eats a Plasma-Grenade. Being a Carboscilicate Amorph, he's incredibly tough, reforms if torn apart, and keeps his mind and memory distributed throughout his entire structure. Plasma, however, is one of the very few things that CAN hurt him, and the resulting explosion destroys 80% of his body, leaving him with a childlike mind and few remaining memories. He does, however, manage to save his two friends, who were in the same room as him, since his body absorbed most of the energy from the explosion. [[spoiler:Also, he gets better when he travels back in time and merges with his old, non-blown-up self.]]
* In ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'', Ben takes care of a grenade this way.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Squidward thinks he accidentally fed [=SpongeBob=] a bomb-shaped like a pie. He spends the rest of the day trying to make Spongebob's last day the best ever, only to find out Spongebob was saving the pie for later. He then drops it and it [[PieInTheFace explodes in his face.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': [[strike:Slag]] Snarl swallows a missile, which explodes within him to no effect.
* Rico from ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', and he's able to regurgitate it with fuse. The aptly named episode "All Choked Up" actually revolves around what happens when he ''can't'' spit up an activated bomb thanks to Alice's medicine.

* In the FiveEpisodePilot of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', the Beagle Boys are in prison, when they get [[JailBake a box of bombs from "El Capitan" disguised as chocolates.]] Burger, the BigEater of the group, thinks they ''are'' chocolates, and eats one, [[DinnerDeformation with rather unpleasant results.]]
-->'''Bigtime Beagle:''' Those aren't bon-bons, Burger, they're boom-booms!

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Stan get an invite which he is told he must memorize within the next ten seconds. He does so, then eats the paper. He is then informed that the paper will self-destruct. Everyone else's paper crumbles into ash, and Stan breathes a puff of smoke.
-->'''Stan:''' I'm pooping blood tonight.
* At the end of ''Donald Applecore'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck loads an agricultural helicopter with explosives to get rid of WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale, who has been eating all of his apples, but as he is gunning down the two chipmunks, one of the explosives lands inside a chicken coop and is eaten by one of the chickens, who then immediately lays an egg... ...a ''ticking'' egg that then explodes and destroys the entire apple orchard, leaving behind an extremely huge and extremely deep hole in its place, causing Donald to fall inside the hole and wind up in China upon falling out the other end.
* In ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes'', as a MythologyGag to the comics, Matter Eater Lad pulls out a ticking bomb in his Legion audition and proceeds to eat it, swallowing the timer last. He suffers no ill effects and, incidentally, gets the job.
* In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', Bonkers swallows a bomb and lets it explode inside him, doing no damage save for some slight indegestion.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Atomic Superman", Superman tests a new explosive by swallowing it. It has the side-effect of causing him to breathe atomic fire.
* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' one-ups the original film by having our hero swallow an entire ''nuclear missile'' right as it was about to land.

* ''[[Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket Lupin III]]'' has [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E17 an episode]] where Lupin is forced to swallow a pill-sized bomb by a man claiming to be a descendant of Lawrence of Arabia to prevent the thief and his gang from following him. Lupin, uh... "retrieves" the bomb intact after a night in the bathroom, and it ends up in Fujiko's hopefully well-washed hands. She then slips it into a drink she prepares for Lawrence III; after the rebel leader swigs the beverage down and drunkenly reveals himself as a fraud, his betrayed followers are all too happy to take the remote control to the bomb off of Fujiko's hands...

* In ''[[Anime/{{Macross7}} Macross Dynamite 7]]'', the poachers get their hands on a [[NukeEm Reaction Warhead]] and decide to use it to try to kill the White Whale. The Whale responds by eating it... and being completely unharmed by the detonation. That is the cue for the poachers to give up and surrender; when your intended prey can NoSell eating a nuke, there's really not much else you can do.

* Matter Eater Lad pulled this stunt, long ago, in the DCU's ''Comicbook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'' comic. The "bomb" was a potentially universe-destroying RealityWarper called the Miracle Machine, and the "slight indigestion" was being driven insane, but it still fits. Notably, Matter-Eater Lad eating more mundane weapons and explosives was very much in the "nothing at all" category, although he occasionally remarked on particularly exotic weapons as being spicy, and he did once knock out two attackers with the blast wave from a belch after he ate an entire silo full of grain.

* Kirby, King Dedede, and Wario can eat explosive items in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' onward, though that will hurt them (And in Wario's case, anyone who's standing too close to him). It doesn't cause any knockback to the devouring fighter, though, and the damage is usually less than being in the blast of the explosive itself.

* Can be done in the second installment ''Videogame/{{Postal}}'', where pressing K and then clicking with the left mouse button makes the Dude put a live grenade in his mouth while saying "I regret nothing", followed by an explosion that kills him and anyone nearby.

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* One issue of the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' has an involuntary, downplayed version, where the Surfer is tricked by a shapeshifting enemy taking the form of his current cosmic adventuring partner. When he rushes to aid his seemingly injured friend, the shapeshifter stuffs a grenade in his mouth. It's downplayed in that he can't swallow it, but he survives it going off in his mouth due to being NighInvulnerable. Still, as his thought bubbles reveal, he finds it quite humiliating.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward thinks he accidentally fed Spongebob a bomb shaped like a pie. He spends the rest of the day trying to make Spongebob's last day the best ever, only to find out Spongebob was saving the pie for later. He then drops it and it [[PieInTheFace explodes in his face.]]
* Upchuck in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''. He can eat anything, universe destroying explosives included.

** Happens often when a thrown grenade hits a wall and unexpectedly bounces back into (most of the time) Filemon's mouth. [[NonFatalExplosions An explosion ensues]], usually followed by some comment from Mortadelo in the lines of: "Boss, if you were ''that'' hungry, why didn't you have a sandwich instead?".

EatingTheEnemy has the same idea, except it's done to a sentient being. Subtrope of ArtisticLicenseExplosives, as JumpingOnAGrenade is generally a much more efficient way to make an HeroicSacrifice.

A character eats a bomb (or anything explosive), unknowingly or not, and the resulting explosion will either cause death, slight indigestion, [[FireBreathingDiner burping a fireball]], or nothing at all. May be intended as BombDisposal.

* ''Film/TheMask'' has both the "slight indigestion"([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCS9AJ0rEI expanding stomach]]) and "[[FireBreathingDiner burping fire]]" version, as seen in the above photo.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/TheSilverSurfer'' has an involuntary, downplayed version, where the Surfer is tricked by a shapeshifting enemy taking the form of his current cosmic adventuring partner. When he rushes to aid his seemingly injured friend, the shapeshifter stuffs a grenade in his mouth. It's downplayed in that he can't swallow it, but he survives it going off in his mouth due to being NighInvulnerable. Still, as his thought bubbles reveal, he finds it quite humiliating.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Squidward thinks he accidentally fed Spongebob a bomb shaped like a pie. He spends the rest of the day trying to make Spongebob's last day the best ever, only to find out Spongebob was saving the pie for later. He then drops it and it explodes in their faces.

** In a CallBack, [[spoiler:Goose, the Flerken in ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' does this; later, she pukes it back onto Fury's desk.]]

EatingTheEnemy has the same idea, except it's done to a sentient being.

* Film/{{Casper}} does this in his second live-action film to prevent his home from being blown up.