History Main / DemolitionsExpert

-->'''Ace''': ''Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?''

* In the 1967 ''Franchise/Dragnet'' episode "[[Recap/Dragnet1967S1E02TheBigExplosion The Big Explosion]]" a couple Neo-Nazis steal a cache of dynamite from a construction site. Two demolition experts are brought in to advise Detectives Friday and Gannon how to safely proceed, and to help remove the dynamite and blasting caps when found.

* 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).

** The explosives expert roster in each game includes one ConsummateProfessional, a couple who hit the {{Series/Mythbusters}} sweet spot of "professional and enthusiastic", and the rest are full-on MadBomber types who are by far the craziest characters in a series whose main selling point compared to {{VideoGame/XCOM}} is that you're commanding [[CloudCuckooLander quirky]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer individuals]] instead of faceless [[{{Mook}} mooks]]. At least one of them had a gameplay quirk of occasionally [[TooDumbToLive setting timers and fuses for far shorter than you told him]], and is noted in Jagged Alliance 2 to have died between games from [[RealityEnsues doing just that]].

** In addition to the aforementioned characters, the entire profession was recognised in Maxim 3: An Ordnance Technician at a dead run outranks '''''everybody'''''.

''"One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant'' twitch''... and '''KABLOOIE!!!'''"''

* ''Videogame/EarthBound'': Jeff, Loid's {{Expy}} in the sequel to MOTHER. However, it should be noted that in this game, anyone can use the bombs, unlike in the first only Loid can. However, Jeff is still the only one who can use the bottle rockets, of which the strongest kind deals so much damage that it is a GameBreaker.

* Edgar Montrose from ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is a parody of this, as his hearing loss and missing finger can attest.

Often TheSmartGuy 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 (usually a {{Asian|AndNerdy}} or {{Black|AndNerdy}}) of TheSquad or a CaperCrew.

->''"Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?"''
-->-- '''[[TheLadette Ace]]''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' currently has as the company demolition expert Lt. "Pi" Pibald, a MadBomber swinging between acute (if [[ProperlyParanoid not always unjustified]]) paranoia and lapses in self-preservation related to explosives. There were two previous demolition experts: Hob blew himself up ([[HeroicSacrifice heroically]]) and Pronto was [[DuctTapeForEverything too enthusiastic about duct tape]], but ended up simply shot in the chest.

->''"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!!!'''"''
-->-- '''The Demoman''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Ara Prosperous, one of ComicBook/{{Etta|Candy}}'s Holliday Girls, is quite handy at spotting and defusing bombs. She doesn't always have enough time to defuse them which once allows a criminal to blow up the building they're in the basement of.

* ''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/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.

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* ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaSeries'': Yuuji himself, as a jack of all trades, can handle explosives, under his tutelage Sachi becomes somewhat of an expert in both her after story in ''[[VisualNovel/TheLabyrinthOfGrisaia Labyrinth]]'', and in ''[[VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoRakuen Rakuen]]''.

* ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaSeries'': Yuuji himself, as a jack of all trades, can handle explosives, under his tutelage Sachi becomes somewhat of an expert in both her after story in ''[[VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoMeikyuu Meikyuu]]'', and in ''[[VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoRakuen Rakuen]]''.

* ''Franchise/GrisaiaSeries'': Yuuji himself, as a jack of all trades, can handle explosives, under his tutelage Sachi becomes somewhat of an expert in both her after story in ''[[VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoMeikyuu Meikyuu]]'', and in ''[[VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoRakuen Rakuen]]''.