That's gonna be a pain in the ass to clean up.
"EXPLOSION NOISE!"
—Mister Torgue, Borderlands 2
An index of tropes that involve stuff exploding.
A subindex of This Index Is on Fire. See also Heliotropes and Radioactive Tropes.
Tropes that go BOOM! include:
- Action Bomb
- Angst Nuke
- Awesomeness Is Volatile
- Baa-Bomb
- Baby Boomers
- Big, Bulky Bomb
- Bombproof Appliance
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists
- Bomb Whistle
- Boom in the Hand
- Cartoon Bomb
- Cigar-Fuse Lighting
- Contain the Kaboom
- Cut the Fuse
- Deadly Remote Control Toy (bombs are the most common form)
- Defeat Equals Explosion
- Delayed Explosion
- Demolitions Expert
- Deus ex Nukina
- Dive Under the Explosion
- Dunking the Bomb
- Dynamite Candle
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom
- Eat the Bomb
- Education Through Pyrotechnics
- Every Car Is a Pinto
- Everything Explodes Ending
- Everything Makes a Mushroom
- Exploding Barrels
- Explosion Propulsion
- Explosions in Space
- Explosive Cigar
- Explosive Decompression
- Explosive Leash
- Explosive Stupidity
- External Combustion
- Fantastic Fireworks
- Fantastic Nuke
- Fatal Fireworks
- Feed It a Bomb
- Fiery Cover-Up
- Fireworks of Love
- Flamethrower Backfire
- Gas-Cylinder Rocket
- Gas Leak Cover-Up
- Going Critical
- Grilling Pyrotechnics
- Hair-Trigger Explosive
- Having a Blast
- Incredibly Obvious Bomb
- Irish Explosives Expert
- Jettison Jetpack Attack
- Land Mine Goes "Click!"
- Mad Bomber
- Made of Explodium
- Magic Countdown
- Match in a Bomb Shack
- Matchlight Danger Revelation
- Molotov Cocktail
- Molotov Truck
- Nitro Express
- Non-Fatal Explosions
- Nuke 'em
- Outrun the Fireball
- Pineapple Surprise
- Planar Shockwave
- Plunger Detonator
- Post-Defeat Explosion Chain
- Powder Trail
- Pre-Explosion Glow
- Relocating the Explosion
- Ridiculously Potent Explosive
- Riding the Bomb
- Rocket Jump
- Satchel Charge
- Sea Mine
- Self-Destruct Mechanism
- Shoot the Fuel Tank
- Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
- Space Mines
- Splash Damage
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- Star Killing (most of the time)
- Strapped to a Bomb
- Strapped to a Rocket
- Sticky Bomb
- Suicide Attack (often involves bombs)
- Time Bomb
- Throw Down the Bomblet
- The Tokyo Fireball
- Unflinching Walk
- Vapor Trail
- Where's the Kaboom?
- Why Am I Ticking?
- Wire Dilemma
- Your Head A-Splode
