History Main / SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb

* Transformers is apparently really big on this trope. ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' uses this to dispose of Makeshift in "Con Job": he's thrown through the [=GroundBridge=] with a bomb strapped to him, [[WhyAmITicking which takes him a little while to notice]]. Another episode has Ratchet and Raphael hide a bomb inside Soundwave's drone, Laserbeak, which is KansasCityShuffle to distract the Decepticons from a spyware program they use to copy some secret files from the Cons' ship database.

* Transformers is apparently really big on this trope. ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' uses this to dispose of Makeshift in "Con Job": he's thrown through the [=GroundBridge=] with a bomb strapped to him, [[WhyAmITicking which takes him a little while to notice]].

* The opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' end with Gadget handcuffing himself to Dr. Claw's wrist only to discover that it is a fake arm attached to the chair and the chair has an IncrediblyObviousBomb sitting on it.

* Major Bludd leaves a bomb for both sides of a business deal in an issue of the Devil's Due version of ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue G.I. Joe]]''.

* In the old ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai'' game, Mr. Satan (AKA Hercule) uses an exploding portable console (looks like an oversized GBA) to trick his enemies in his Super Attacks. Everyone falls for it, even Cell...
* ''VideoGame/Fallout2'': John Bishop, head of the Bishop crime syndicate in New Reno, has a safe that's booby-trapped with explosives. One possible method of assassinating him is to change the combination on his safe so that the next time he tries to open it he'll be blown up by his own bomb.
* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', an optional sidequest (absent from the Japanese version, for ''some'' inscrutable reason) has you set up and detonate the nuclear bomb in the middle of Megaton. Doing this will put your KarmaMeter [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment into the red]], however.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', after going to [[spoiler:Sur'Kesh to get the fertile krogan female]] and coming under attack by [[spoiler:Cerberus operatives]], you go to the elevator to try to get topside, only to find a bomb in the elevator. Garrus says it best.

* When Big Boss rescues [[spoiler:Paz]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'', he [[spoiler:discovers a bomb in her stomach. His crew manages to remove it, but they end up missing a second bomb deeper in her body, which subsequently detonates and brings down their helicopter.]]

* In the attact mode cinematic to ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 5'', someone delivers a bomb to Heihachi Mishima via Jack robot.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': There's a running gag of Team Rocket getting stuck with some really undesirable mon-related situation, such as being surrounded by Gyarados. Sometimes, this is a Voltorb that proceeds to, you guessed it, self-destruct.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'': After temporarily disarming the bomb the Covenant set up on Cairo Station, the Master Chief then [[RidingTheBomb rides the bomb]] back to its setter-uppers.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'''s second mission, you set the Covenant up the bomb in [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs one of your base that is belong to them]].

-->'''Garrus:''' OhCrap!

* Quite a few of the MultipleEndings of ''[[VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]]''.

** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', Keeper tricks Fury into carrying an Energem case that actually contained Keeper's crystal bomb. When Fury gives the case to Sledge, the crystal blows up the latter's ship and resulted in the extinction of dinosaurs. It is done again in the GrandFinale as a Bookends [[spoiler:when Tyler did the same after the Rangers traveled back in time, this time destroying Fury]].

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* In ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'', the Mars Colony's atmospheric energy shield generator has been rigged to explode by one of Elliott Sinclair's {{Killer Robot}}s, and you have to solve a Mastermind puzzle to defuse it. At the end of the remake, Sinclair himself sets you up a nuke to disarm after you knock him out.

** In "The Tomb", SG1 is about to flee using a ring teleporter when the Goa'uld of the week arrives (having survived their last attempt to kill him). As he's ranting about how he'll hunt them down, O'Neill points to something behind him, which turns out to be about five pounds of C4 and a timer with ten seconds left on it.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'''s ActionPrologue in Nicaragua ends with the DecoyProtagonist and the rest of his squad getting blown up by a dirty bomb. In the fourth mission of the main campaign, set in Pakistan, the Ghosts capture what appears to be the arms dealer's vehicle, only to find that it's a booby trap, and narrowly escape the explosion.

* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' is the TropeNamer, via its infamous {{Engrish}}-y opening.

* In ''Film/HighHeelsAndLowLifes'', Mason and Barry containing the blackmail paymet out of the train window into the field where Frances is waiting. Frances takes the case and stows it in her car. However, the case actually contains a bomb which Mason detonates remotely.

-->'''Harley Quinn:''' Uh, fellas? Our boy is a blow-up doll. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And]] ''not'' [[CrossesTheLineTwice the fun kind]].

* ''Literature/Timeline191'': Clarence Potter uses stolen US military uniforms and vehicles to smuggle the Confederacy's first (and only) nuclear bomb into Philadelphia (which is serving as the US capital). He sets ''two'' timers, just to be sure it goes off, and ends up [[NukeEm destroying half the city]].

* In Issue 9 of ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'', [[spoiler:Bram reprograms an igniter component to self-destruct]]. This isn't revealed until ''after'' [[TheReptilians the Venn]] plug the [[spoiler:igniter]] into the weapon they're trying to use to destroy ''Fate''. It promptly blows up in their faces.

* The opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' end with Gadget handcuffing himself to Dr. Claw's wrist only to discover that it is a fake arm attached to the chair and the chair has an IncrediblyObviousbomb sitting on it.

** In "The Tomb", SG1 is about to flee using a ring teleporter when the Goa'uld of the week arrives (having survived their last attempt to kill him. As he's ranting about how he'll hunt them down, O'Neill points to something behind him, which turns out to be about five pounds of C4 and a timer with ten seconds left on it.

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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'', enemy Forts have large signal fires that they will light to summon reinforcements if you're seen attacking one. However, if you sneak over to the signal fire itself, you can "sabotage" it (presumably via adding saltpeter and sulfur). After that, if an enemy tries to light it in response to spotting you, it explodes in their face and kills them.

* The ''WebAnimation/BestFiends'' short "The Immortal Cockroach" has this as Hank and Roger's scheme to defeat Lapoleon, who the Slugs have mistaken as the Fiends' true leader. [[spoiler:Being an immortal cockroach, Lapoleon's more irritated at how "cliche" the trick is, rather than the fact that he was just delivered a bomb, and simply shakes off the explosion in the end.]]

* Creator/LEModesitt's ''Archform: Beauty'' [[spoiler: climaxes when the main villain dies in a bomb blast -- despite the fact that said villain has been narrating all his own chapters, in the past tense, up to that point.]]