History Main / DemolitionsExpert

->''"What makes me a good demoman? If I were a '''bad''' demoman, I wouldn't be sittin' here, discussin' it with you, now would I?!"''
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->''"One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch... and '''KABLOOIE!!!'''"''

* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' ''Literature/XWingSeries'', Wraith Squadron member Kell Tainer is the teams explosive expert and is frequently called upon to disarm booby traps or create new explosives, which he sometimes refer to as "works of art".

-->'''Bellamy:''' That bridge has survived a nuclear war and 97 years of weather.
-->'''Raven:''' [[BadassBoast It won't survive me]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Seventhe Doctor's companion Ace was a self-taught one, with a couple bugs to work out, but if Seven needed some StuffBlowingUp, he could be reasonably sure Ace "[[BlatantLies wasn't carrying]]" a couple cans of her favored concoction.

* ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' has Michael "Mickey" Crespo, who rigs the bridge leading to the [=ONI=] building to blow up to prevent Covenant ground forces from crossing it, and later destroys the ONI building to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

* [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Havoc Squad]], the Republic Trooper's team in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', begins the game with a dedicated demolitions man nicknamed "[[MeaningfulName Fuze]]". [[spoiler: Like the other veteran Havocs, he defects to the Empire, who puts him to use designing bombs. However, he returns to Republic when he realizes that the Imperials are testing his creations on civilians.]] His replacement, Tanno Vik, is an ex-street gang member with such a broad criminal streak that he was actually dishonorably discharged, but was recommissioned because he's just that good. And it's not an unjust assessment -- on the mission he was tapped for, he plants a few pieces of heavy ordnance that destroy an entire Imperial cruiser (albeit from the inside) and the superweapon prototype it was carrying.
* The Demoman in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is either this or a MadBomber (it depends on whether he's on your team or not). His weapons of choice are a grenade launcher and a gun that shoots sticky mines. Then, if you want, you can even replace your melee weapon with a Stick Grenade unlock. However, it's not thrown; instead, it's meant to hit people, essentially turning Demoman into an ActionBomb.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} II: Tides of Darkness'', the dwarves (Alliance) and their EvilCounterpart the goblins (Horde) are specialized units that blow stuff up. Each unit is only good for a single explosion, killing the demolitions team in the blast of its own attack. They are, it would appear, so willing to die for the cause that they chose a specialty that makes every mission a suicide mission.
** ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: Reign of Chaos'', the dwarves, having suffered terrible losses among their sapper teams in the Second War, have been developing a method of delivering those explosives that do not require the demolition dwarves to themselves to get near the target. Hence, the dwarven mortar team replaces the old sapper units.

Often a member of TheSquad or a CaperCrew. Differs from a MadBomber in that he's (usually) more disciplined and focused. If he is wounded and unable to do the disposal of a bomb himself, he may guide another squad member through the process. A Demolitions Expert is often the TokenMinority of TheSquad or a CaperCrew.

* ''VideoGame/COD2SpanishCivilWarMod'': The engineer you escort as Marion to plant explosives under one of the towers in the Alcazar fortress.

* Referenced in Film/PulpFiction. Mia's ShowWithinAShow PilotEpisode "Fox Force Five" featured five foxy chicks. "The black girl was a demolition expert."

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* [[YouDirtyRat Rattrap]] from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is the main Maximal when it comes to explosives.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has Wheeljack on the Autobots, who much more of a combat engineer than his usual {{Gadgeteer Genius}} portrayal.

* In the Franchise/StarWarsLegends Literature/XWingSeries, Wraith Squadron member Kell Tainer is the teams explosive expert and is frequently called upon to disarm booby traps or create new explosives, which he sometimes refer to as "works of art".

* Captain Federer in the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' series is the 597th's chief [[TheEngineer sapper]], which means he has two jobs: build things on the battlefield, and blow things up on the battlefield. Guess which one he prefers. In one memorable instance in ''Caves of Ice'' he plants a bomb to take down an [[HumongousMecha ork Gargant]] using a truly colossal amount of ordnance. It doesn't get used to its original role, though -- instead it's repurposed to touch off ''an entire fuel depot'', creating a shockwave felt on an orbiting troop ship. Federer's reaction is elation. And then there's the persistent rumor that he was in training for the Adeptus Mechanicus, but was kicked out for [[MadBomber blowing up the school]]...
* ''Literature/WetDesertTrackingDownATerroristOnTheColoradoRiver'': They are called in to blow up the spillways at Hoover Dam so that water can be drained at lower water levels. And later to pre-emptively breach dams which can't be saved farther down the Colorado.
* The heartless troop in ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' has Cal. He's the group's scientist and technology guy, so he handles making things blow up when they fight monsters. [[spoiler:Riley takes over after he dies. She's not quite as refined or careful as Cal was, but what she lacks in precision, she makes up in passion.]]

* Angus [=MacGyver=] in ''[[Series/MacGyver1985 MacGyver]]''. He served in a bomb disposal unit in UsefulNotes/VietnamWar (or the Second Gulf War in [[Series/MacGyver2016 the remake]]).

* Edgar Montrose from ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is a parody of this, as his hearing loss and missing finger can attest.
* Malcolm Reed from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' loves blowing shit up. He once disables a Romulan drone ship with a single phase pistol set on overload.
* On ''Series/{{The 100}}'', Raven serves as an all-purpose engineer, but building bombs is acknowledged as being her specialty.
-->'''Bellamy:''' That bridge has survived a nuclear war and 97 years of weather.
-->'''Raven:''' [[BadassBoast It won't survive me]].
* In an episode of ''Barney Miller'' Detective Yemana is searching their records so they can track down a professional bomber. He rattles off a list of names, noting how many of them have the nickname "Boom Boom".
* [[Series/DoctorWho Seven's Companion]] Ace was a self-taught one, with a couple bugs to work out, but if Seven needed some StuffBlowingUp, he could be reasonably sure Ace "[[BlatantLies wasn't carrying]]" a couple cans of her favored concoction.
-->'''Ace''': ''Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?''
* In the ''Series/SherlockHolmes1954'' episode "The Case of the Careless Suffragette", the title character hires Boris Turgoff, proud anarchist who makes bombs big and small, to build a small bomb for her.
* ''Series/TheFBI'': In "The Problem of the Honorable Wife", Maury Maddock served as an army explosives technician in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, but defected to the North Koreans. He is employed by a ring of DortyCommunists to blow up an army warehouse. Erskine sums it up when he examines the remains of one of Maddock's bombs and comments that they looking for an 'an amateur, expert bomb maker'.

* In the ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' franchise, Samantha Byrne is Delta Squad's EOD member. Though her knowledge only comes into play once in ''Gears of War 3'', it is used more in the novels.
* ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' has Michael "Mickey" Crespo, who rigs the bridge leading to the [=ONI=] building to blow up to prevent Covenant ground forces from crossing it, and later destroys the ONI building to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

* The Demoman in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is either this or a MadBomber (it depends on whether he's on your team or not). His weapons of choice are a grenade launcher and a gun that shoots sticky mines. Then, if you want, you can even replace your melee weapon with a Stick Grenade unlock. However, it's not thrown; instead, it's meant to hit people, essentially turning Demoman into an ActionBomb.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Brink}}'' the Soldier class focuses on the StuffBlowingUp aspect of this trope, planting HE charges to complete objectives, and utilizing special grenades and satchel charges against enemies, whilst the Engineer class focuses on the BombDisposal aspect, disarming explosives planted by enemy players (though they can also plant land mines).
* The [[TheEngineer Objective Specialist]] Mercenaries of ''VideoGame/DirtyBomb'' can handle the bomb planting and disposal aspects of this trope twice as fast as any other Merc. Fletcher and Proxy in particular also have sticky bombs and trip mines, respectively. Lesser so is any Merc with access to the "Mechanic" Augment, which speeds them up in defusing and planting, though not to the same level as an Objective Specialist. Fragger and Thunder also qualify; they have frag grenades for blowing up deployables and groups of enemies, and flashbangs that double as EMP grenades, respectively.
* In the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series of video games, starting from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' onward, Bentley is the team's "Brains and Demolitions Expert" as the back of the game box says. He uses a wide variety of unique explosives to pull off amazing heists, as well as defend himself. In [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the third game]], the crew end up recruiting The Panda King (a villain from the [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus first game]]) as a dedicated demoman.

* The Mercenaries who specialize in explosives in the ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' series. Many of them them are [[MadBomber a bit more enthusiastic about their craft than is really healthy]], hence why they're in some BananaRepublic getting shot at instead of knocking down old factories or doing practical effects for action movies.
* Loid from ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' has some of the best weapons in the game, including bombs and bottle rockets.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} II: Tides of Darkness'', the dwarves (Alliance) and their EvilCounterpart the goblins (Horde) are specialized units that blow stuff up. Each unit is only good for a single explosion, killing the demolitions team in the blast of its own attack. They are, it would appear, so willing to die for the cause that they chose a specialty that makes every mission a suicide mission.
** ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: Reign of Chaos'', the dwarves, having suffered terrible losses among their sapper teams in the Second War, have been developing a method of delivering those explosives that do not require the demolition dwarves to themselves to get near the target. Hence, the dwarven mortar team replaces the old sapper units.
* [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Havoc Squad]], the Republic Trooper's team in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', begins the game with a dedicated demolitions man nicknamed "[[MeaningfulName Fuze]]". [[spoiler: Like the other veteran Havocs, he defects to the Empire, who puts him to use designing bombs. However, he returns to Republic when he realizes that the Imperials are testing his creations on civilians.]] His replacement, Tanno Vik, is an ex-street gang member with such a broad criminal streak that he was actually dishonorably discharged, but was recommissioned because he's just that good. And it's not an unjust assessment -- on the mission he was tapped for, he plants a few pieces of heavy ordnance that destroy an entire Imperial cruiser (albeit from the inside) and the superweapon prototype it was carrying.
* This is specifically the role that [[TheHero Alias]] plays for [[FiveManBand the squad]] in ''VideoGame/RedFactionII''.

* A late-game mission in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' involves Samus [[EscortMission protecting a group of demolition specialists]] as they make their way to a heavily reinforced door that cannot be opened any other way.
* ''Videogame/{{Battleborn}}'' has DLC character Ernest, a pudgy pink bird of the military-themed Peacekeeper faction who serves as the demoman of his faction. While he uses primarily explosives in his kit, he also has some support options with his Power Egg, which buffs allies around it.
* One of many special talents you can look for in a mercenary in the ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' series. Unfortunately, they frequently [[MadBomber enjoy their work a bit more than is healthy]], which comes with other less desirable quirks.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' has two examples:
** Aside from the rocket launcher, the Chinese Tank Hunter can plant a TNT charge on buildings and vehicles. The explosion is not particularly powerful, but they can place it instantly by getting close enough. It's not a good idea to run them over with a vehicle unless you consider it disposable.
** Colonel Burton, the USA's HeroUnit, can plant demo charges that'll one-shot anything short of a superweapon structure or command center. The main problem of it is that they take a very long time to plant and take up Burton's full attention to plant, so he'll be uncloaked the whole time and unable to retaliate; if you force him to do anything else before he's done, he'll have to start over from scratch. Jarmen Kell, the GLA's own HeroUnit, also has access to those same demo charges if you're playing as [[StuffBlowingUp General Rhodall "Demo" Juhziz]].
* ''Videogame/GrimDawn:'' The appropriately-named Demolitionist class uses various manners of potent explosives, amplified by a little extra magic, to take on their foes. Their official role before the collapse was to tackle both fortifications and massed enemies, scattering both; now, they blow up every abomination against nature that crawls the wilderness.

* Wille of ''{{Manga/Jormungand}}''. One of his favorite tactics is rewiring bombs then turning them against their planters; a habit that landed him on the FBI's Blacklist. The only other member of the team on that list? ''Koko''.

* This was Lightfoot's official role in ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'', although several other Joes sometimes acted as demolitions expert, including Tripwire, Tunnel Rat and Depth Charge.

* ''ComicBook/TinusTrotyl'', although usually more of a MadBomber, has occasionally shown his demolition skills by clearing a road blocked by a rock avalanche, defusing an old [=WW2=] bomb, and saving a mountain village from an avalanche. He does tend to have a little too much fun doing it though, and isn't shy of giving spectators heart-stopping scares while he's at it.
* In ''ComicBook/HuntersHellcats'', Juggler is a safecracker and the team's expert with explosives.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Tarot'' series, Guild of Assassins explosives expert Johanna Smith-Rhodes is most definitively not asked by Lord Vetinari if she can conceive of a way to remove the Tump Tower, an embarrassing hangover from corrupt financier Reacher Gilt, in such a way that there is the absolute minimum of loss of life, there is no collateral damage from its collapsing, potentially over a very high-rent area of Ankh, and the whole thing is completely deniable, and can be put down to the Tower being built too tall from shoddy materials to a bad design. johanna's proposal involves the right sort of explosive Devices placed in ''exactly'' the right amounts in ''exactly'' the right places on the night of a ''very'' bad thunderstorm. The contract to inhume an entire building appeals to her; at the time of writing she is yet to come up with a working plan.

* ''Film/OceansEleven'' has Basher, master of power-cutting and safe-blowing explosions.

* Corporal Miller from ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''.
* "Nitro" Jones in ''Film/OnceUponATexasTrain''.
* ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'' stars Creator/JamesCoburn as a 19th century IRA explosives fanatic who is for some reason running around Mexico during the Revolution with a steady supply of nitroglycerin, blowing things up just right.
* In ''Film/ExecutiveDecision'', the special forces team includes such an expert, who is badly injured when they first board the plane. The two civilian experts brought along on the mission work on figuring out how to defuse the bomb, until the expert wakes up and is able to talk them through it (not to mention stopping them from cutting the WrongWire).
* Firefly from ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''.

* Mei-lin of ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}''. She's introduced improvising a cherry bomb to blow up the prisoners' toilets for fun.
* Left Ear from ''Film/TheItalianJob2003''. Helps the CaperCrew with all of their explosive needs.

* In ''Film/TheHotRock'', Greenberg is the CaperCrew's demolitions expert. His main task during the first heist is blowing up a car outside the museum to distract the guards. He later creates the bombs the crew use when storming the police station.
* ''Film/TheDeserter'' has Chaplain Reynolds. Kaleb recruits him for the squad because he is the best dynamite man in the army. He instructs the squad on the correct use of explosives as a weapon.
* In ''Film/SkyBandits'', Barney is an expert dynamiter. However, his MadBomber tendencies mean that he always uses too much dynamite.

* ''Film/LoganLucky'' has [[DeepSouth redneck]] safe-breaker Joseph "Joe" [[MeaningfulName Bang]]. [[BunnyEarsLawyer He's quite wacky, but he knows his science about explosives]]. He can a bomb out of bleach, salt substitute and gummy bears, for instance.

* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' has the Italian demolition expert [[DeadpanSnarker Vinny]], who [[OralFixation chews a matchstick]] and treats explosives as office supplies.

* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Literature/XWingSeries, Wraith Squadron member Kell Tainer is the teams explosive expert and is frequently called upon to disarm booby traps or create new explosives, which he sometimes refer to as "works of art".

* In ''Film/TheHotRock'', Greenberg is the CaperCrew's demolitions expert. His main task during the first heist is blowing up a car outside the museum to distract the guards. he later creates the bombs the crew use when storming the police station.

* Left Ear from ''Film/{{The Italian Job}}''. Helps the CaperCrew with all of their explosive needs.

* In the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series of video games, starting from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' onward, Bentley is the team's "Brains and Demolitions Expert" as the back of the game box says. He uses a wide variety of unique explosives to pull off amazing heists, as well as defend himself. In [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the third game]], the crew end up recruiting The Panda King as a dedicated demoman.

* The Mercenaries who specialize in explosives in ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance''. And most of them are insane.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in ''Film/{{Munich}}'', where after the bombs used by the team continuously malfunction, the bomb expert admits that he was trained to ''dismantle'' bombs rather than to build them.