History Main / ThrowDownTheBomblet

** ''VideoGame/Rockman7EP'': The 3-Point Burst is an upgraded version of Danger Wrap as it fires three Danger Wraps at the same time.

** Sonya Blade's [[StanceSystem "Demolition"]] variation in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatx'' focuses on using grenades.

** SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' can use bombs in much the same way Cyrax does.

* Doctrine Dark from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX'' is themed around using bombs in several ways. And [[RazorFloss wire. Lots of wire]]. He shares his weapon choice with fellow mercenary Rolento from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' and ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''. Rolento though adds a tonfa and uses a very fast, acrobatic style.

* In ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', bombs are a subweapon that can be used by anyone. Several bombs are thrown by default to take out multiple enemies, although they're by far the most inaccurate out of all the subweapons and can't be aimed reliably.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal expands on the Guild of Assassins and the training delivered to its members. [[AmoralAfrikaner Johanna Smith-Rhodes]] arrives in Ankh-Morpork, aged nineteen, and as a girl who has come to Guild attention for an exploit at Home in Howondaland. This involved deep penetration into the enemy country next door in order to deliver a rather large explosion to a warlord. After which she fights her way out and returns safely. Johanna becomes, after graduation, the Guild's go-to person for explosives, and pioneers the use of small, portable and easily thrown bomblets. In short, she makes her own hand grenades. Scroll forward by a quarter-century and her middle daughter is a Guild student. Johanna has mellowed. But her daughter [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke]] sees the possibilities when her big sister's boyfriend [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/42/Strandpiel teaches her how to bowl a cricket ball]].

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal expands on the Guild of Assassins and the training delivered to its members. [[AmoralAfrikaner Johanna Smith-Rhodes]] arrives in Ankh-Morpork, aged nineteen, and as a girl who has come to Guild attention for an exploit at Home in Howondaland. This involved deep penetration into the enemy country next door in order to deliver a rather large explosion to a warlord. After which she fights her way out and returns safely. Johanna becomes, after graduation, the Guild's go-to person for explosives, and pioneers the use of small, portable and easily thrown bomblets. In short, she makes her own hand grenades. Scroll forward by a quarter-century and her middle daughter is a Guild student. Johanna has mellowed. But her daughter [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke]] sees the possibilities when her big sister's boyfriend teaches her how to bowl a cricket ball.

* ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' when we finally meet the Crimson King, [[spoiler: he's a shrieking old man whose only remaining weapon is his score of [[ShoutOut sneetches.]]]]

This trope will usually only show up in settings which have sufficient technology for thrown explosives to exist, although [[SchizoTech this isn't always the case]].

* In the anime ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', "Minnie" May Hopkins has a ''slight'' tendency to use home-made concussion grenades in inappropriate situations. However, she's [[ImprobableAimingSkills every bit as skilled in their use as Rally is with handguns.]] A single one will just leave a couple of gang members stunned for a minute or so. She can use three to blow out a pursuing car's drive shaft. And when she's really pissed off, she'll set off '''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill a dozen of them at once]]''', causing extensive damage to whatever building she's in (typically shown with a DiscretionShot of the outside of the building with all the windows breaking and billowing out smoke).

* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' Gokudera is a bomber with the personality to match. Although for firey personality he displays good control over his projectiles.

* Two member's of the Akatsuki in ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' favored explosives. Deidara's body produced explosive clay (basically C-4) from mouths in the palms of both hands, and prior to joining the Akatsuki was a member of the "Explosion Corps". Konan was a little less focused, with her powers being centered around paper, but after Tobi [[BerserkButton stole Nagato's remains]] she deployed '''600 billion''' explosive paper bombs against him which took a full 10 minutes to all detonate.

* Minene Uryu from ''Manga/FutureDiary'', completely in sync with her reputation as terrorist.

* Franchise/SpiderMan's arch enemy, the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] and those who followed his designs all use pumpkin-shaped grenades as their weapon of choice. Though they will use explosives not shaped like pumpkins if necessary.

* In ''Film/TheTournament'', Petrov announces his arrival in the church by scattering a spray of grenades across the floor. Lai Lai shoots the first one away from her, and has to dodge the rest.

* ''VideoGame/XCom'' soldiers can specialize in grenades, but the game's limit on items that can be carried to the battlefield makes it rather impractical. Aliens make very powerful grenades, and sometimes carry no other weapons.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', Snake has a variety of explosives at his disposal. Due to realistic bullets being too small to see in regular gameplay, Nintendo opted to have Snake use explosive weapons (which are rarer) in ''Brawl''. He can use a mortar launcher, C4 packs, frag grenades, claymores, remote control missile launchers, a RPG and, for his [[LimitBreak Final Smash]], a grenade launcher.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'' series, bombs are usually among the selectable items to carry into a mission. They pack a very mean punch, but are usually not as effective due to the difficulty to handle and slight delay if it misses, not to mention the high risk of getting caught in the blast radius, which ''really'' hurts for poor Rikimaru/Ayame/etc. In terms of characters using bombs, ''Fatal Shadows'' has Hitoha, who uses incendiary bombs along his fire gauntlets.

* The Engineer profession in ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' can equip a backpack full of assorted types of grenades, throwing betweeen two and six with every use.

** Krieg the Psycho has a few skills of his own boost explosive damage, and tosses sticks of dynamite in Fight for Your Life if he has the Light the Fuse skill selected.

** John Henry's primary weapon, the Bear Grenade, has a large area of effect requires little precision.

* [[FatBastard Dong Zhuo]] has become one of these by the time of ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 7'' DLC, which carried over into ''Dynasty Warriors Next, VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi 3'' and ''Dynasty Warriors 8''. His standard moveset involves throwing a ''lot'' of bombs around, employing either an excessive amount of bomb spam, or setting up timed traps with them. It is possible to give this weapon to almost any character by the time of ''Dynasty Warriors 8'', so you can have an entire MadBomber cast if so desired.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' gives us Mad Stan. His catch phrase (and approximately half his spoken dialog) is "'''BLOW IT ALL UP!'''" Yes, the bold and caps [[NoIndoorVoice are necessary]].

* Jillas in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', a [Gunslinger] Fox with a penchant for using any sort of explosive means.

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* [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Man's]] arch enemy, the [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] and those who followed his designs all use pumpkin-shaped grenades as their weapon of choice. Though they will use explosives not shaped like pumpkins if necessary.

* In ''BattleBugs'' Ant, Bee, and Pill Bug throw bombs. Robber Fly can use a bomb too, but only after stealing it from enemy bugs.

* ''[[Webcomic/TowerOfGod Ja Wangnan]]'' and his trusty [[FanNickname PokéBombs]].

* Averted in the Grenadier regiments of 18th-century European Warfare. Grenadiers had to be the biggest, brawniest, and ''most disciplined'' of an army's troops. Usually tall farmboys, they had to have the strength and force of will to stay in a neat line and march, in-step, while carrying a a bomb and a lot of gunpowder and some form of fire to ignite it, to within twenty yards of the enemy (the effective range of a musket being 80 yards). The survivors would then throw ''very'' temperamental lumps of gunpowder and iron the size of their own fists (or bigger) at them, and fire their muskets before charging, screaming wildly to channel their fear, into the probably-mostly-dead-and-dying enemy with their bayonets fixed to try and stab them to death. On the plus side, the fact grenadier units tended to have a higher turnover (mortality) rate than other units meant that most armies could afford to pay their grenadiers more than their other soldiers (dead men don't get paid), in addition to giving them extra-fancy uniforms and [[NiceHat really nice hats]]. Please note that the above description applies to "real" grenadiers, that is those actually using bombs as weapons. The term evolved to include units of people chosen for size and strength even if they were not normally using grenades.

** From the ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' series there are several Robot Masters, like Bomb Man (''[[VideoGame/MegaMan1 1]]''), Crash Man (''[[VideoGame/MegaMan2 2]]''), Napalm Man (''[[VideoGame/MegaMan5 5]]''), Burst Man (''[[VideoGame/MegaMan7 7]]''), Grenade Man (''[[VideoGame/MegaMan8 8]]'') and Commando Man (''[[VideoGame/MegaMan10 10]]'').

* In ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'', players with the Bombardier skill (such as the Goblin Bombardier, and the star players Bomber Dribblesnot and Boomer Eziasson) are armed with bombs that they can throw in the same way as making a pass. Use such weapons will get them automatically sent off by the referee at the end of the drive.

A person who wields grenades as a weapon of choice will frequently be portrayed as having poor impulse control. They may feel about explosions the same way a PyroManiac feels about fire. As such, this trope frequently overlaps with MadBomber. They may also have a "fiery" or carefree personality. Oddly, there are a small number of grenadiers who are coldly logical and controlled in temperament, perhaps to contrast their fiery and out-of-control weapons. Usually, they favor GrenadeTag for the calculated subterfuge.

In reality, grenades and their ilk are dangerous, unpredictable weapons that are reserved for specific situations where they aren't likely to cause collateral damage. [[ConcussionFrags However, in fictionland they can frequently be thrown at any enemy, regardless of range or surroundings, without fear of injury to oneself or one's allies]].

* ''Franchise/MetalGear''

** ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' makes this more difficult to pull off, as you're initially limited to one grenade, though in the core game you can equip two (same or different, doesn't matter) on a Support with Deep Pockets, and a Heavy with Grenadier gives them two uses of an equipped grenade and makes them a bit more powerful (by 1 point). However, the ''Enemy Within'' ExpansionPack added the "Tactical Rigging" Foundry upgrade, that gives the base game's Deep Pockets to ''everyone'', and Deep Pockets was re-tooled to give items one extra use, which includes grenades. What's more, if you have the "Training Roulette" Second Wave option enabled, a soldier can get both Deep Pockets and Grenadier. That equals ''six'' grenades that, if Frag or Needle, can one-shot Thin Men in Classic difficulty or below, and if Alien, each hurt like a Heavy's regular launcher's rockets but don't need both action points to use and don't have a 10% chance to miss the targeted location.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', one can encounter the Powder Gangers, a gang of escaped convicts who favor dynamite and are not afraid to throw it around liberally and in large quantities. Then there's the Boomers, who go from merely favoring bombing everything that opposes them to building a sort of cult of explosives. And it is totally possible to create an explosives expert, throwing dynamite and grenades, then moving to grenade launchers and even a fat man (Portable miniature nuke launcher), with the added benefit of being able to plant/disarm mines more effectively.

* ''VideoGame/XCom'' soldiers can specialize in grenades, but the game's limit on items that can be carried to the battlefield makes it rather impractical. Aliens make very powerful grenades, and sometimes carry no other weapons. ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' makes this much more difficult to pull off, as you're limited to one grenade (two, for high level Support soldiers), and even Heavy soldiers can only carry, at most, three explosives (two rockets and a grenade). However, the ''Enemy Within'' expansion has an upgrade that can allow soldiers to carry two grenades each, and high level Support soldiers can carry up to ''six'', with appropriate devastational capability.