History Main / ExplosiveStupidity

** Pi manages it again during the "Massively Parallel" arc by setting a mine that, thanks to a bit of poor planning, would go off when their employer -- a robotic king built from a damaged tank -- approaches.[[note]] Specifically, they had already assembled the bomb, and the trigger was set to "proximity: Large Objects of a military nature." The safety that, by implication, would spare their employer, was left as a sub-project. And ''last''.[[/note]] While everyone concerned survive, the incident gives us the phrase "[[AccidentalMurder negligent regicide]]".

* Narrowly averted in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''. Saruman is filling up a bomb with explosive powder, while Grima Wormtongue approaches while holding a lit candle. Saruman sees this just in time and pulls the torch away while giving Grima a look. In his defense, Grima clearly has no idea what it is.

This ''is'' a DeathTrope, so spoilers ARE to be expected.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Did you accidentally scroll-wheel to the flint and steel while running along the expanse of TNT you set up for blasting terrain or for demolition? And did you accidentally click the mouse? Hope you have backup tools, foodstuffs, materials, and weapons in various wooden chests; everything you had on you got blown to bits along with your body.

* ''Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' gave us the DLC Sky Rocket grenade, a firework-style explosive with an unpredictable travel path, massive blast radius, and equally insane damage. It's probably the #1 cause of stupid grenade-related accidental suicides in the game, which is impressive considering some of the ''other'' ridiculous grenades you can get.

Video games tend to arbitrarily exempt explosive weapons from FriendlyFireproof, seemingly just to enable this trope.

* Invoked in a viral [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I62bOXfZXek video]] for Volkwagens. Some found it tasteless, most found it funny.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom "The Jeopardy Room"]], the bad guys are killed in the end when a mook [[TooDumbToLive absentmindedly answers a phone that his boss turned into a bomb]].

* Subverted in the ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'' Red Circus arc: When Anya is fitted with an ExplosiveLeash, she shocks the other hostages with her reckless by smacking it as a joke. In fact, Anya is messing around because she read the hostage-taker's mind and knows the collar doesn't have any explosives in it.

* Due to their fondness for StuffBlowingUp, Franchise/TheMuppets have done this a few times.
** ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
*** In the Juliet Prowse episode, Fozzie plays a cowboy who fights with [[ThisBananaIsArmed weaponized produce.]] At the end, he whips out an apple-bomb with a burning stem. It explodes in his face.
*** In the Dudley Moore episode, Gonzo's act has him defusing a bomb while reciting poetry. To help his concentration, Kermit requests total silence. Naturally, Dudley's Music And Mood Management Apparatus scoots up behind Gonzo to deliver a musical sting...
-->'''Statler:''' So they blew up half the theater.\\
'''Waldorf:''' At least they blew up the right half.\\
'''Both:''' Theirs!

** The ''demolitions expert'' [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-08 lives up to his namesake.]] In his defense, somebody really ''did'' mess with his detonator ''and'' his eyes so that he would mess up the red button and the green one in an attempt to kill him while making it look like this trope.
** A group of thugs try tossing an anti-matter grenade at Schlock only for it to bounce off a wall and explode at their feet. Or as Schlock prefers to put it, "They committed suicide when they saw me coming."
** Pibald manages it again during the "Massively Parallel" arc by setting a mine that, thanks to a bit of poor planning, would go off when their employer -- a robotic king built from a damaged tank -- approaches.[[note]] Specifically, they had already assembled the bomb, and the trigger was set to "proximity: Large Objects of a military nature." The safety that, by implication, would spare their employer, was left as a sub-project. And ''last''.[[/note]] While everyone concerned survive, the incident gives us the phrase "[[AccidentalMurder negligent regicide]]".

--->'''Maxim 26:''' Fire-and-Forget is fine, so long as you never ''actually'' forget.\\

** ''Series/theMuppetShow'':

* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skit had a couple of soldiers firing at a shed. They then have a [[ThrowThePin pin thrown at them]]. We briefly hear "oh, you idio-" before the shack explodes.