History Main / CartoonBomb

* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'': Happo Fire Burst. Exaggeration and combination with HyperspaceArsenal mean Happosai is able to pull bombs ''bigger than himself'' from his shirt.

* Music/{{Garbage}}'s video for "Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough" ended with the band performing in front of a giant metal globe with a lit fuse sticking out. However, that was just a stage prop; the real bomb was the robot clone of Shirley Manson, who had [[KissOfDeath killed]] and replaced the original.

** Another episode has Hemlock Homes pulling one of these out of a cannon through the fuse slot.

* The UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh used the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(symbol) bomb symbol]] in its "Sorry, a system error occurred" alert box (before OS X).
** To show UsefulNotes/MacOS X's new memory system, during one demo Apple showed an application built specifically to crash — which now didn't lock up the entire OS. The application was called "Bomb.app", and featured the fuse on a cartoon bomb burning until the bomb went off.

* The UsefulNotes/AtariST used the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_of_bombs row of bombs]] to indicate system crashes.
* In some UsefulNotes/{{Linux}} distributions (for example SUSE 10), the default wallpaper for "root" user is the bomb on red background. To emphasize how dangerous it is to work as a superuser.

** The Tykinlaukaus has an American counterpart, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_bomb cherry bomb]], which looks similar (but usually isn't black). Commonly associated with practical jokes and teenage hooliganism.

* Seen in some ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoons, to the point that they're almost the only type of weapon used in at least one case. Amusingly, there's an episode when Jerry tries to attack Tom with a microscopic bomb; the latter thinks it's harmless, but its power is as big as that of a regular-sized bomb, as he learns the hard way.

* The 1965 "Time Bomb" game/toy by Milton Bradley looked like this, a black ball with a fuse. The game was basically like the old-fashioned "hot potato" game, as people would toss the toy bomb to each other, and whoever was holding the bomb when the timer ran out was the loser.

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* [=BomberNanimon=] from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''...provided you aren't watching the American dub. [=BomberNanimon=] also appeared in the card game and some of the video games, and in these media, he avoided the {{Macekre}}.

* A bomb is a character in ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity''. It got DemotedToExtra in season 2.
* Similarly, in the show II was inspired by, ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', there is also a bomb character, [[ADogNamedDog Bomby.]] Unlike Bomb from II though, he joined in season 2 and is still a contestant.

* CartoonBomb/LiveActionTV

* CartoonBomb/WesternAnimation

-->-- '''Franchise/{{Batman}}''', ''Film/BatmanTheMovie''

* Nice Holystone from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' actually uses bombs like this as weapons, although given their small size, they're more like giant [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_bomb cherry bombs.]]

* The opening of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove Second Season'' has a blue bomb with a pink heart get passed around between the main cast members; when it finally explodes (while Nyarko is offering it to Mahiro), it just sprays streamers everywhere.

* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Broken Ear'', Corporal Diaz throws one through Alcazar's open window. Tintin picks it up and throws it right back, hitting Corporal Diaz on the head and knocking him into a fountain basin. Earlier, Tintin's suitcase is switched with one full of these in order to frame him as a terrorist.

As Cartoon Bombs generally tend to appear in cartoons and comics, they usually tend to not do any serious damage -- at least to characters. They may cause damage to their inanimate surroundings, but usually, the worst a victim within the blast range suffers is ClothingDamage and AshFace, both of which are usually healed by the next scene. As a result, when a Cartoon Bomb is seen in a work, it tends to be more of a slapstick prop as opposed to a deadly weapon. Despite these bombs being very old-fashioned, they're prominently used in many video games, since the black-ball with sparky fuse is very iconic and quickly recognized by players, and presumably because it is an easy item to model, especially in older games.

This actually has a basis in history: before the mid-19th century, contact or proximity fuses for detonating explosive payloads had yet to be developed. The only means by which an explosive shell or bomb could be feasibly detonated from a distance was by a slow-burning match cord. In Western militaries, these weapons often took the shape of an iron sphere with a match cord sticking out of one end, and the cartoon bomb ''is'' actually [[AluminumChristmasTrees a realistic representation of such ammunition]]. The resemblance to cannonballs is not coincidence; they were often designed to be fired out of cannons, or rather carronades, mortars or howitzers. (The "bombs bursting in air" from the traditional US song "[[NationalAnthem The Star-Spangled Banner]]" were of this variety.) A skilled bombardier could estimate how long it would take for the bomb to fly to the assumed target and cut the fuse to appropriate length so that the bomb would explode exactly at the desired moment.