History Main / ExplosionPropulsion

* In the end of Part 2 of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', [[spoiler:Cars]] is defeated by Joseph throwing him into a volcano, which, [[spoiler:due to his newfound [[MaskOfPower Stone Mask]] [[AdaptiveAbility powers]],]] makes him react by turning himself to stone. The volcano then erupts, causing him to be propelled to space, unable to turn back.

* The game ''DeadToRights'', there's a cutscene after a mini-boss battle with a couple assassins where Jack tries to catch a plane and ends up using the explosion caused by shooting a pursuing foe's motorcycle to propel him into the plane's open cargo bay. It is just as epic, and ridiculous, as it sounds.

* The ''{{Metroid}}'' series features the Morph Ball Bombs, and ExplosionPropulsion is arguably their primary function. Most of them that you'll ever use will be to send Samus airborne while she's in Morph Ball form.

* Creator/ElizabethBear's ''Dust'' ends with [[spoiler: the surviving characters using their hideously damaged spaceship to escape a supernova by riding the blast wave out of the star system]].

* ElizabethBear's ''Dust'' ends with [[spoiler: the surviving characters using their hideously damaged spaceship to escape a supernova by riding the blast wave out of the star system]].

* Toward the end of ''[[PixarShorts Tokyo Mater]]'', [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater]] is forced to get to TokyoTower as part of a drift race before the villain does (because if he loses, then he will lose his modifications), and in the process, he is launched into the air by a construction site fire caused by Dragon [=McQueen=].

* In ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme'', an exploding popcorn machine does this to Calvin.

StuffBlowingUp in movies and TV is cool and very common. When the hero isn't [[UnflinchingWalk calmly walking away]] from an explosion, they're running away from it while ''still'' being caught by the blastwave and sent flying several meters onto conveniently located soft materials. Characters who become wise to this method of ExplosivePropulsion will devise plans (improvised as often as not) where their escape or pursuit of the bad guys is accelerated by blowing stuff up behind them.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Inquisitor Kryptmann applied this method to an entire ''moon'' containing a dormant genestealer brood, sending it into the Warp so that it would emerge light-years later in the middle of the ork-infested Octarius system. This caused a Tyranid hive fleet to follow the genestealers' signal, but Kryptmann had every planet in the way Exterminatused to deny the 'nids the biomass they need to replensih their forces. Meaning that on arrival, the fleet wasn't strong enough to destroy the orks (who reproduce by being killed), and are now trapped in a ForeverWar, with the caveat that whoever wins the war will be entirely unstoppable.

* ''[[{{GURPS}} GURPS: Spaceships]]'' has various nuclear pulse engines. In ''GunFu'' there is a perk that lets a cinematic character propel himself with the recoil of his gun.

* [[BoringButPractical This trope is pretty much how a gun fires a bullet.]]
* And also how rockets go into space.
* Also how fragmentation grenades kill people.

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* In ''Film/PlanetTerror'', Cherry Darling uses her leg-mounted grenade launcher to rocket-propel herself over a wall and get a drop on the zombie soldiers.
* In ''Film/SinCity'', a grenade explodes under Miho but it just launches her undamaged into the air.

StuffBlowingUp in movies and TV is cool and very common. When the hero isn't [[UnflinchingWalk calmly walking away]] from an explosion, they're running away from it while ''still'' being caught by the blastwave and sent flying several meters onto conveniently located soft materials. Characters who become GenreSavvy to this method of ExplosivePropulsion will devise plans (improvised as often as not) where their escape or pursuit of the bad guys is accelerated by blowing stuff up behind them.

* In ''[[Film/{{Grindhouse}} Planet Terror]]'', Cherry Darling uses her leg-mounted grenade launcher to rocket-propel herself over a wall and get a drop on the zombie soldiers.

* And [[RuleOfThree also]] how fragmentation grenades kill people.

* ''[[UltimateXMen Ultimate X-Men]]'''s version of Gambit once used one of his exploding cards under a manhole cover to blast himself onto a rooftop.

* This is commonly used on ''SDGundamForce'', usually on mooks when BloodlessCarnage ([[MechaMooks to an extent]]) is in effect. In one instance, Zero, Bakunetsumaru and Genkimaru are trapped in a well in the ground when a bomb drops in and the force of the blast frees them.

* BuckRogers placed a "25th Century cherry bomb" under a conveniently abandoned helmet to launch himself up to a ledge.

* In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'', Ranma and Akane are falling from hundreds of feet in the air thanks to the [[BlowYouAway tornado]] created by the [[FinishingMove Hiryuu Shouten Ha]]. Intent on revenge, [[TricksterMentor Happosai]] uses the force of his Happodaikarin (a highly-concentrated explosive) to boost himself up to their height; both he and Ranma use the updraft from the explosion (and Happosai's "flying squirrel" costume) to slow their descent.

* {{NASA}}'s hyper-sonic rocket sled. The {{Mythbusters}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfYwdGSsQ are very fond of this one]]. [[AwesomeButImpractical Even if it doesn't tell them anything useful about the myth they're busting]].

* In season 2 of ''{{Gundam 00}}'', the Ptolemaios II [[spoiler:uses an enemy mobile suit's particle beams to accelerate into Earth's atmosphere for a crash landing after its propulsion systems run out of GN Particles]].

* Rocket sleds. The {{Mythbusters}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfYwdGSsQ are very fond of this one]]. [[AwesomeButImpractical Even if it doesn't tell them anything useful about the myth they're busting]].