History Main / ExplosiveCigar

* ''{{Disney}}'s'' ''Mars and Beyond'' has a segment where a secretary is kidnapped by Martians. She eventually changes into a superheroine and defeats the Martians by giving them exploding cigars. You can watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxQVaHbqvTI here, starting at 7:05]].

* In the ''{{Batman}}'' comics, TheJoker has been known to kill people with exploding cigars loaded with a lethal charge of explosives. {{Superman}}'s foe the Prankster sometimes uses them as well.

* On ''HowIMetYourMother'' Barney uses an exploding meatball sandwich as a means of getting back at Marshall. However, he spent months perfecting it since the early versions tended to blow the heads off the test dummies and Barney is not that evil.

->We three kings of Orient are
->Trying to smoke a rubber cigar.
->It was loaded, it exploded -
->Now we're on yonder star.

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* In the ''{{Batman}}'' comics, TheJoker has been known to kill people with exploding cigars loaded with a lethal charge of explosives. {{Superman}}'s foe the Prankster sometimes uses them as well.

* In ''{{Tintin}}'', it's done with the SpoiledBrat of the one Arab sheikh.

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* ''{{Freefall}}'' used them in a story arc starting [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fc01524.htm here]].

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* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "Ballot Box Bunny", Bugs, campaigning for mayor, is giving away cigars to the voters. Yosemite Sam commandeers them, whereupon Bugs substitutes a box of exploding cigars for them. HilarityEnsues.

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* In ''{{Road to Morocco}}'', Hope and Crosby escape from the Shiek by putting gunpowder into, not cigars, but cigaretts.

* In ''[[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/danmazur/palindramas/series.php?view=archive&chapter=26315 this]] ''{{Palindramas}}'' strip, it's PlayedForDrama. [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry Sort of.]]

* Used as murder weapon in ''[[NeroWolfe Murder Is No Joke / Frame Up For Murder]]''.

** Unsurprisingly there [[http://www.prankplace.com/product.aspx?d=Startling-Sounds.Exploding-Cigarette-Bangs&p=4444&c=48 still available]]

A form of NonFatalExplosions. Also see AshFace.

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* ''DayOfTheTentacle'', you have to give George Washington an explosive cigar so that you can swap out his dentures with a pair of chattering teeth (It makes sense in context).

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* An early chapter of the original LupinIII manga had the title character toss a cigarette at a villain, which then explodes. Also occurs to Jigen in ''Tokyo Crisis'' after he picks up the wrong cig.

In a comedic work, after the smoke clears, the sap will have [[AshFace a smoke-blackened face]], their eyes will be bugging out in alarm and the cigar will now be a stub with a star-shape of peeled-back cigar paper at the end. In more serious works, the results will typically end up being [[BoomHeadshot fatal]].

In a comedic work, after the smoke clears, the sap will have a smoke-blackened face, their eyes will be bugging out in alarm and the cigar will now be a stub with a star-shape of peeled-back cigar paper at the end. In more serious works, the results will typically end up being [[BoomHeadshot fatal]].

When the cigar explodes, there will be a big cloud of smoke. When it clears, the sap will have a smoke-blackened face, their eyes will be bugging out in alarm and the cigar will now be a stub with a star-shape of peeled-back cigar paper at the end.

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* Used as murder weapon in ''[[NeroWolfe Murder Is No Joke / Frame Up For Murder]]''

* In ''Bacall To Arms'', directed by TexAvery in his Warner Brothers days, the wolf steals a cigar, and HumphreyBogart shoots him dead and smokes it—and it explodes (naturally), turning Bogey into a blackface caricature who says in an Eddie Rochester voice, "My oh my! I can work for [[TheJackBennyShow Mr. Benny]] now!"
* Another Avery cartoon, "Wags to Riches" (remade in the 1950s as "Millionaire Droopy"), has Spike trying to kill Droopy by offering him a regular cigar while the gas line is open. Droopy can't get the lighter going, so Spike lights it for him and BOOM! (Droopy, of course, is gone by then.) Frustrated, Spike decides to smoke the cigar anyway. It explodes. [[OverlyLongGag And then the lighter explodes.]]

* In one TexAvery cartoon, the wolf steals a cigar, and HumphreyBogart shoots him dead and smokes it—and it explodes (naturally), turning Bogey into a blackface caricature who says in an Eddie Rochester voice, "My oh my! I can work for [[TheJackBennyShow Mr. Benny]] now!"

* In one TexAvery cartoon, the wolf steals a cigar, and HumphreyBogart shoots him dead and smokes it—and it explodes (naturally), turning Bogey into a racist cartoon who says, "Well, hush mah mouth!."

* ''YellowSubmarine'' - a big, pugilistic monster is thwarted when the sub fires a cigar into his mouth, then, converting to a lighter, obligingly lights it. A few peaceful bars of Bach, then, Ka-BOOM!
* In ''{{V for Vendetta}}'', Stephen Fry's sketch involved an exploding cigar being smoked by the tyrannical dictator of the UK.

* Occurs to Statler and Waldorf when discussing explosions.