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* ''VideoGame/InsurgencySandstorm'': Both sides' remote explosives (C4 for Security, IEDs for the Insurgency) will detonate when shot. Whilst the IED is crudely made from artillery shells and probably ''would'' detonate from a gunshot, the C4 firmly falls into this trope (likely for balance purposes).
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* ''VideoGame/InsurgencySandstorm'': Both sides' remote explosives (C4 for Security, IEDs [=IEDs=] for the Insurgency) will detonate when shot. Whilst the IED is crudely made from artillery shells and probably ''would'' detonate from a gunshot, the C4 firmly falls into this trope (likely for balance purposes).
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* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Doc [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3935.html rips the door]] from a room containing about [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3936.html six tons of century old, leaky dynamite]].
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', when Prince Uncouthma challenges Aladdin to a duel for the hand of his fiancee (ItsALongStory), the EvilChanceller responsible for the mess substitutes the mallets used in the battle with hammer heads made of an extremely volatile cheese compound, ending to eliminate both Aladdin and Uncouthma. He advises his right hand yak to be careful as the slightest impact could set the mallets off. This poses a problem when the vizer and his yak get transported the traditional Odiferian way: by being tossed into the air.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', when Prince Uncouthma challenges Aladdin to a duel for the hand of his fiancee (ItsALongStory), the EvilChanceller EvilChancellr responsible for the mess substitutes the mallets used in the battle with hammer heads made of an extremely volatile cheese compound, ending to eliminate both Aladdin and Uncouthma. He advises his right hand yak to be careful as the slightest impact could set the mallets off. This poses a problem when the vizer and his yak get transported the traditional Odiferian way: by being tossed into the air.
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* The mines that you and your opponent can lay in a match of the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} game ''VideoGame/ArmorBattle'' can destroy both your tanks and your opponent's.
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* The two ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} have the item "Magical Nitro" which is used in conjunction with "Mandragora" to make an explosive that destroys cracked walls. However, the game cautions that the Nitro is extremely volatile; the player must avoid jumping or being hit by enemy attacks or else the Nitro explodes and instantly kills the character.
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* The two ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games on the UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo Platform/{{Nintendo 64}} have the item "Magical Nitro" which is used in conjunction with "Mandragora" to make an explosive that destroys cracked walls. However, the game cautions that the Nitro is extremely volatile; the player must avoid jumping or being hit by enemy attacks or else the Nitro explodes and instantly kills the character.
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* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' has Nitro boxes that go off at the slightest touch. They also bounce randomly as an indication of how volatile they are. TNT is less sensitive than Nitro, as you can touch the side without dying. Hitting the top triggers a 3-second timer, but you can still get killed if you're nearby when it explodes... or if you try to spin it.
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* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' has Nitro boxes that go off at the slightest touch. They also bounce randomly as an indication of how volatile they are. TNT is less sensitive than Nitro, as you can touch the side without dying. Hitting the top triggers a 3-second timer, but you can still get killed if you're nearby when it explodes... or if you try to spin it. In [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime the fourth game]], Kupuna-wa's time slow lets you safely ''touch'' Nitro crates, but you better hustle away from them because they ''will'' explode anyway.
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** The chemist primarily responsible for creating Dynamite, in an effort to curb the sensitivity of Nitroglycerin, was Alfred Nobel, who hoped that the safer-to-handle explosives he created to ''stop'' people dying in mining and chemical factory accidents would also render warfare obsolete. That obviously didn't happen, and when [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated his obituary was prematurely published]] after his brother died (of a heart attack, due to a heart condition [[{{Irony}} for which he took Nitroglycerin]]) he was so horrified at being labelled "The Merchant Of Death" that he created the Nobel Peace Prize to try and change his legacy.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Overture'', Philip LaFresque has to create Armstrong's Mixture to blow down a cave-in that [[MissionControl Red]] is trapped behind. In order to do so, he has to carry a flask of the compound across several platforms and planks, and dropping it creates an instant explosion. Thankfully, Phillip automatically puts it safely in place at the actual cave-in.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Overture'', Philip LaFresque [=LaFresque=] has to create Armstrong's Mixture to blow down a cave-in that [[MissionControl Red]] is trapped behind. In order to do so, he has to carry a flask of the compound across several platforms and planks, and dropping it creates an instant explosion. Thankfully, Phillip automatically puts it safely in place at the actual cave-in.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Overture'', Philip LaFresque has to create Armstrong's Mixture to blow down a cave-in that [[MissionControl Red]] is trapped behind. In order to do so, he has to carry a flask of the compound across several platforms and planks, and dropping it creates an instant explosion. Thankfully, Phillip automatically puts it safely in place at the actual cave-in.
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* Acetone Peroxide compounds, most commonly Triacetone Triperoxide or [=TATP=], were the explosives of choice among terrorist groups for quite a while, since they are basically the only remotely practical high explosives that do not involve nitrogen in any way, shape or form, and thus ([[TechnologyMarchesOn until about 2015, at least]]) would not be detected by explosive-sniffing dogs or their technological equivalents. They are also ''notoriously'' touchy, earning themselves the nickname [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Mother of Satan"]], and "can explode powerfully if subjected to heat, friction, static electricity, concentrated sulfuric acid, strong UV radiation or shock" according to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide the other wiki]]. In the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings in London, a writer at The Register remarked that one of the really remarkable things about the attack was that the small group of people involved had somehow managed to make and transport that much [=TATP=] ''without blowing themselves up in the process'' - and that since they had all now died in their attack, [[GallowsHumor their surprising degree of chemical competence was not available to anyone planning future atrocities]].
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** During the NV DLC ''Lonesome Road'', you can detonate the nuclear warheads you come across in The Divide with a special warhead detonator - which function as a laser pistol that makes the warheads glow until they burst. It's a little-known fact that nuclear weapons need to be triggered in an incredibly specific way in order to detonate; do it incorrectly and you just ruin the trigger mechanism. Though, given that the warheads don't obliterate everything in a five-mile radius (including the player character) might suggest that this is actually what happens.
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Some RealLife explosives really have a hair trigger, some...don't (A good part of RL explosives development goes to making sure that the stuff blows up when it's supposed to and not before - a bomb that destroys the bomb handler before it can be placed on the thing intended to be blown up is worse than useless - but that doesn't mean that older, less reliable explosives can't still be made or obtained). Note that most explosives in fiction are not depicted this way. Usually in fiction, a plunger or a similar device (e.g. with a blasting cap, fuse, PlungerDetonator, etc.) is used to safely blow up explosives. But also in fiction, [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry they get the volatility of explosives wrong, especially TNT and dynamite.]]
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* ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'': All explosives have a "stability" rating, and if it gets too low, it has a chance to randomly explode. This is ''usually'' more complex than just being "stronger explosives are less safe," though. Goblin dynamite is liable to explode if you so much as look at it wrong, but it's significantly weaker than the mostly stable hobgoblin dynamite, because goblins don't understand chemistry very much. When Carl starts creating custom explosives, how stable they are generally depends on how much time he was able to spend building them. A true prepared mine is very stable even before literal magic comes into play, but oftentimes Carl will just use an IED that's little more than a bunch of sticks of goblin dynamite taped together, because he doesn't need them to last more than a few seconds. It helps that he has an [[HyperspaceArsenal inventory system]] which doesn't affect stability.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', when Prince Uncouthma challenges Aladdin to a duel for the hand of his fiancee (ItsALongStory), the EvilAdviser responsible for the mess substitutes the mallets used in the battle with hammer heads made of an extremely volatile cheese compound, ending to eliminate Aladdin and Uncouthma at once. He advises his right hand yak to be careful as the slightest impact could set the mallets off. This poses a problem when the adviser and his yak get transported the traditional Odiferian way: by being tossed into the air.
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* In ''Film/GrandSlam'', Gregg [[{{Safecracking}} opens the safe]] with specific nitroglycerine charges. Later, when being chased by the police, Weiss takes Gregg's flask of nitroglycerine and hurls at the police cars behind him, where it explodes in a fireball as soon as it hits the road.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': If a character is carrying grenades or plastic explosives and takes damage from a fire or lightning spell or effect, they must immediately make resistance checks for all the explosives they're carrying or have them explode. The character's armor rating doesn't apply to this check (making it nearly impossible to succeed under normal circumstances) unless they're specifically carrying the explosives under their armor. Though if they're doing that, [[ChunkySalsaRule failure becomes a bit more exciting]]. 'Runners who regularly carry explosives are prone to buying armored briefcases that are specially treated to resist fire and electricity.
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* ''Series/FoylesWar'': One episode involves a munitions plant, where a young woman dies when she drops an incomplete shell and it explodes. Later, nitroglycerin is discussed as being impossible to steal not because of security but because it can't be moved without first rendering it inert--it's far too dangerous. [[spoiler:When the culprit shakes a vial of it in front of Foyle at the end, it alerts Foyle that it's no longer explosive because it would have gone off just from that.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', specifically the remake, you need to get an empty fuel cell, fill it, and put it into a machine to provide power to the secret lab under the mansion. However, the fuel cell can only be filled in one specific area, and has to be transported to another area, and it is ''extremely'' susceptible to shock: you cannot fire a gun, get hit, or ''run'' without risking an explosion. Considering the fact that several of the enemies in the area are ImmuneToBullets and fast as hell to boot, it's an extremely tense moment, even if you only have to go through three rooms.
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* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', specifically the remake, you need to get an empty fuel cell, fill it, and put it into a machine to provide power to the secret lab under the mansion. However, the fuel cell can only be filled in one specific area, and has to be transported to another area, and it is ''extremely'' susceptible to shock: you cannot fire a gun, get hit, or ''run'' without risking an explosion. Considering the fact that several of the enemies in the area are ImmuneToBullets and fast as hell to boot, it's an extremely tense moment, even if you only have to go through three rooms.
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* ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'': Mentioned in passing after a... lively incident involving some improperly stored Chlorine Trifluoride, which is a real life example of this trope and MadeOfExplodium: The [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram Kerbin Space Agency]] very briefly experimented with using it as rocket fuel[[note]]or oxidiser, technically[[/note]] before giving it up as a bad job, because while it would have been ''incredibly'' powerful it was too unstable to be safely used.
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* ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'': Mentioned in passing after a... lively incident involving some improperly stored Chlorine Trifluoride, which is a real life example of this trope and MadeOfExplodium: The [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram Kerbin Space Agency]] very briefly experimented with using it as rocket fuel[[note]]or oxidiser, technically[[/note]] before giving it up as a bad job, because while it would have been ''incredibly'' powerful it was too unstable to be safely used.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]], the Doctor and Sarah happen across a poacher's cache of old, unstable gelignite. Sarah casually tosses it to the Doctor, nearly giving him a hearts-attack, before he warns her of the danger. Because they can't find any fuses, Sarah has to shoot it with a rifle to detonate the explosive. This example is especially inaccurate, as gelignite does not "sweat" or become unstable with age the way dynamite does, and in fact was developed to have exactly such a feature.
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* The series premiere of ''Series/GeminiMan'' had the hero transporting a sample of triplodine, a chemical that is allegedly a fuel additive that triples its efficiency, but quickly degrades an explosive three times as powerful (and unstable) as nitroglycerine.
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* 1-Diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole isn't even the most sensitive known explosive. One that is even more sensitive is nitrogen triiodide. Even the tiniest disturbance will cause it to detonate. It is also the only known explosive that can be triggered using only alpha radiation.
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* 1-Diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole isn't even the most sensitive known explosive. One that is even more sensitive is nitrogen triiodide. It can be set off by exposing it to alpha radiation or dropping a feather on it, causing it to instantly turn into a cloud of purple gas.
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* Some of the [[https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-work-with "Things I Won't Work With"]] category on Derek Lowe's ''[[http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ In the Pipeline]]'' are included for this reason. One of the near-definite winners must be [[http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/01/09/things_i_wont_work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less a yet unnamed compound]] (although Lowe's nickname of Azidoazide Azide seems to have caught on) synthesized from N-amino azidotetrazole (which on its own already qualifies), which exploded on every single attempt to move it elsewhere for testing, and whenever they tried to get an infrared spectrum on it. Shining an ''infrared light'' on it set it off. The guy in charge of these tests, Thomas M. Klapötke (who is practically the ''king'' of dealing with these kinds of ultra-sensitive compounds) had to give up on it, because he quite simply couldn't get any meaningful measurement out of it, other than the fact it exploded with ridiculous ease.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Claw}}'': Gunpowder barrels, if [[ThrowABarrelAtIt picked up and tossed]] by the PlayerCharacter, will explode when they touch the ground, no matter what their final velocity is. Zig-zagged in that they bounce harmlessly off the walls and ceiling.
