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->''"But here, cleverly disguised as a bomb, is a bomb."''

* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', Keeper tricks Fury into carrying an Energem case that actually contained an overloaded crystal. When Fury gives the case to Sledge, the crystal blows up the latter's ship and resulted in the extinction of dinosaurs.

* Major Bludd leaves a bomb for both sides of a business deal in an issue of the Devil's Due version of G.I.Joe.
* ''SuicideSquad'':

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In "War Cries", an old lady leaves a basket in front of the Embassy's front gate. A Marine sentry sees this and [[GenreSavvy immediately sounds the alarm]] just before the bomb explodes.

->''"But here, cleverly disguised as a bomb, [[ShapedLikeItself is a bomb.]]"''

** Sheridan...actually REALLY loves this, and related, tropes. [[Thirdspace, his destruction of the Black Star, and his destruction of Za-ha-dum ALL involved very, very big bombs.]]

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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}: Bender's Big Score'': "You've been scammed, sweetheart!"

* In the ''TransformersAnimated'' episode "Decepticon Air", Optimus loads a pile of explosive energon cubes onto the lift and then cuts the lift cable, dropping it right down to the Decepticons waiting for him at the bottom.

See IncrediblyObviousBomb, TimeBomb, PineappleSurprise. Often part of YouGotMurder or WhyAmITicking.

* This turns up a lot in the ''Franchise/PinkPanther'' films from ''Film/AShotInTheDark'' onwards. More often than not, they result in NonFatalExplosions.

* In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', the humans on the planet Reach allow the invading Covenant to come into possession of a NOVA bomb, which is a basically a Mega Nuke capable of destroying an entire planet. The [[BatmanGambit plan]] is for the Covenant to take it back to their capital for study and detonate it in the process. [[spoiler: It's revealed in ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx that they instead took it to one of their colony worlds that nonetheless has a large fleet orbiting it, and inadvertently set it off, [[EarthShatteringKaboom annihilating the fleet and a great deal of the planet]]. However, the fleet that was blown up was, while not exactly friendly to humanity, part of an EnemyCivilWar against the main Covenant.]]

* In ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'', the humans on the planet Reach allow the invading Covenant to come into possession of a NOVA bomb, which is a basically a Mega Nuke capable of destroying an entire planet. The [[BatmanGambit plan]] is for the Covenant to take it back to their capital for study and detonate it in the process. [[spoiler: They instead take it to one of their colony worlds that nonetheless has a large fleet orbiting it,and inadvertently set it off, [[EarthShatteringKaboom annihalating the fleet and a great deal of the planet.]] However, the fleet that blew up was, while not exactly friendly to humanity, part of an EnemyCivilWar against the main Covenant.]]

** In ''VideoGame/Halo4''[='s=] ''Spartan Ops'', Fireteam Crimson has to find and disable HAVOK nukes that the Covenant managed to sneak aboard the ''Infinity''.

* In the the Halo novel Ghosts of Onyx, the humans on the planet Reach allow the invading Covenant to come into possession of a NOVA bomb, which is a basically a Mega Nuke capable of destroying an entire planet. The [[BatmanGambit plan]] is for the Covenant to take it back to their capital for study and detonate it in the process. [[spoiler: They instead take it to one of their colony worlds that nonetheless has a large fleet orbiting it,and inadvertantly set it off, [[EarthShatteringKaboom annihalating the fleet and a great deal of the planet.]] However, the fleet that blew up was, while not exactly friendly to humanity, part of an EnemyCivilWar against the main Covenant.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'': After temporarily disarming the bomb the Covenant set up on Cairo Station, MC then [[RidingTheBomb rides the bomb]] back to its setter-uppers.

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** ''VideoGame/StarWarsRebellion'' As a similar case with a Rebel spy, but with a ''friggin' Death Star''!

* ''Film/DieHard'', when [=McClane=] ties plastic explosives and a computer monitor to a swivel chair, with electrical cord, and drops the chair down an elevator shaft onto two mooks who were shelling an armored police car.

See IncrediblyObviousBomb and TimeBomb. Often part of YouGotMurder or WhyAmITicking.

* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. Captain Picard is fiddling with the control panel for Soran's sun-killer missile. When Soran orders him away from it and goes to work on it himself, he discovers that Picard has sabotaged the missile. As the launch clock counts down to zero, the last we see of Soran is [[OhCrap the look of despair on his face]] as the missile explodes, killing him.

** Alt-Captain Janeway (or maybe the original? It's a bit confusing) pulls the same trick in "Deadlock." The Vidiians, having overrun ''Voyager'', enter the bridge, where they are greeted by a pleasantly smiling Janeway and a silent autodestruct countdown.
-->"Hello. I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway. Welcome to the bridge." ''BAH-WHAM''

** In StarTrekIntoDarkness, Spock allows the torpedoes that contained Khan's crew to be transported to his ship. But not before he'd armed them.

* This turns up a lot in the ''Film/PinkPanther'' films from ''A Shot in the Dark'' onwards. More often than not, they result in NonFatalExplosions.

** Something very similar happened with a mook in the Tim Burton Batman movie.

* 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 [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Meet the Demoman]] the RED Demoman does this to the entire BLU team.

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

* In ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', part of Le Chiffre's EvilPlan is to get his mook to blow up the newest Skyfleet plane with a key fob explosive attached to a fuel truck. Bond interferes. One unnecessarily long fight later, Bond's down and out, and the mook triumphantly hits the button on the trigger...[[OhCrap then sees that the bomb's been attached to his belt...]]

* In VideoGame/CallOfDuty4, [[spoiler: US Marines charge into a city in the Middle East in search of terrorist leader Al-Asad. Al-Asad isn't there, but a 500 kiloton nuclear warhead is...]]

* In every last VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} game, you set the bomb up.
* This is actually a cheat code in ''{{Starcraft}}'' that makes you instantly lose.