History Main / ExplosiveStupidity

* A thankfully non-lethal example occurs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tCyAHc8bk this]] video showing a flub by Norwegian armed forces. They fail at performing a breach-and-clear, but succeed in finding a way to flashbang ''themselves'' with a stun grenade. There's even a moment where the door briefly pushes open from the blast pressure with a flash of detonation behind it--the whole effect comes across somewhere between ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes.''

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'': The second Sheriff, Crazy Denzel, is a MadBomber MoleMan who throws around lots of dynamite. Upon losing all his health, his death animation has him drop a pair of lit dynamite at his feet. Cue Denzel looking down at his feet with an EyePop before they blow him up into nothingness.

* In ''Film/TheLadykillers2004'' remake, Garth is trying to calm his coconspirators down about the stability of C4. "You could light this stuff on fire, hit it with a ham-" [[spoiler: Actually no, you can't hit it with a hammer. Nobody dies but Garth loses a finger.]][[note]]TruthInTelevision: You can do either of them separately, but C4 becomes far more shock-sensitive when hot.[[/note]]

* In ''Film/TheLadykillers2004'' remake, Garth is trying to calm his coconspirators down about the stability of C4. "You could light this stuff on fire, hit it with a ham-" [[spoiler: Actually no, you can't hit it with a hammer. Nobody dies but Garth loses a finger.]]

* ''VideoGame/Noita'' has this in spades, for both the player and enemies. There are wands that shoot explosive spells that could easily blow up their users (especially if said spell is a Nuke), as well as various objects throughout the caves that explode when either lit on fire and/or after taking enough damage that are equally dangerous.

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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' In the Juliet Prowse episode, during the Cowboy Sketch, Kid Fozzie attempts to hold up a saloon with... an apple.

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': ''Escaping the Prison'' has Henry attempt to fend off guards with a grenade, which bounces back into the room he's hiding in and explodes.

** A Russian bomber died when his remote controlled bomb went off while he was transporting it to the Moscow airport. He had rigged a cell phone detonator and a [[LaserGuidedKarma telemarketer called him during transit.]]

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "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]].

* This is a fairly common gag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and other cartoons from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. Though you can expect the characters to live most of the time.
** This gets DoubleSubverted in the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit". Bugs hands Wile E. Coyote a lit stick of dynamite instead of a pen to sign his will. Wile E. catches on quickly and douses the fuse, but is too busy bragging about how smart he is to notice the lit fuse on the ''other end'' until it's too late.

* ''Series/{{Westside}}'': In "Dire Combustion", explosives expert Dougal blows off half his hide while attempting to blow open the doors of an armoured car follwing an ArmedBlag.

* An episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'' had some WesternTerrorists planning to [[spoiler: set off a dirty bomb in a helicopter using a bomb attached to an altimeter]]. In the cold opening a nervous looking man walks into an illegal rave and tells them to keep it down. Then explosions happen. It turns out he was [[spoiler: experimenting in then next room when the impromptu party began and the vibration from the speakers in the next room set off a mercury switch (basically a very sensitive tilt switch) he'd [[TooDumbToLive attached to some explosives]].]]

* In ''Film/AngryVideoGameNerdTheMovie'', [[spoiler:a non-lethal example occurs; General Dark Onward loses his right arm by fumbling his own grenade during his first encounter with the Nerd]].

* In an early episode of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Germany tried to teach [[TooDumbToLive Italy]] how to use a grenade, only to find the latter throw the grenade pin and leave the explosive hanging in his mouth. Germany stopped him before anything bad could happen, though.

->''"Yah, zis is an example of smartness here. I have said that zis is ze quick fuse. Huh? And zis ''is'' ze quick fuse." (DoubleTake) ''"[[ExplainExplainOhCrap Ze quick fuse]]???" (''The building blows up.'')

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Quotes/SchlockMercenary MAXIM 61]]''': ''Don't bring big grenades into small rooms.'']]

[[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/explosive_stupidity.png]]'''[[Quotes/SchlockMercenary MAXIM 61]]''': ''Don't bring big grenades into small rooms.'']]

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

-->'''Caboose''': Not my fault. Someone put a wall in my way.

-->'''Tucker''': Does anyone have a fucking grenade?\\

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