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* Worth noting that a modern tank is much faster than it looks like it should be, some of them able to travel at or near highway speeds. On an open battlefield, good luck hopping on one of those. Of course, in an urban setting, the tank might have to slow down and would also have the risk of being blocked in somehow.

* In the very fist episode of ''{{Madlax}}'', the titular Action Girl takes on a light tank, tricks the driver by "disappearing", then when he opens the hatch to look for her, kills him and tosses a grenade down the now-open hatch. And that's just one of the impossibly awesome things she does during that battle sequence.

* Not quite a frag grenade, but in ''{{Prototype}}'', Alex Mercer jumps into the tank himself... followed by [[ImAHumanitarian gratuitous amounts of blood spraying out the hatch]]. None of this at all bothers him as he proceeds to drive the tank.

* In ''NthMan'', White Ninja John Doe manages to InsertGrenadeHere by throwing a grenade down the gunbarrel of a tank that is about to shoot him, timing it exactly to match the tank's gunner opening the breach. He manages this feat by a combination of good hearing, good timing and channelling his memories of learning to play baseball with his adopted father.

* ''SteelPanthersWorldAtWar'' has this as an option for dealing with tanks at close range. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you lose the entire infantry squad.

This is where a tank is on the battlefield and the main protagonists have either used up all their anti-tank weapons or never had any to begin with. Fact of the matter is that modern-day tanks can take repeated RPG hits and the crew inside will probably be fine- one Challenger 2 took as many as seventy in 2003 and the crew only suffered one broken wrist.

This is where a tank is on the battlefield and the main protagonists have either used up all their anti-tank weapons or never had any to begin with. Fact of the matter is that modern-day tanks can take repeated RPG hits and the crew inside will probably be fine- one Challenger 2 faced exactly this in 2003 and the crew only suffered one broken wrist.

* This was a favourite tactic of SergeantRock in the comics.

As TruthInTelevision, during the Battle of Kursk in WorldWarTwo, considered to be the largest tank battle of all time, the Germans lost a great number of tanks to soviet infantry when they advanced at full speed without waiting for their supporting troops. Not having equipped all their tanks with machine guns turned out to be a serious design flaw, as it was pretty easy to sneak up to them and destroy them with explosives.

As TruthInTelevision, during the Battle of Kursk in WorldWarTwo, considered to be the largest tank battle of all time, the Germans lost a great number of tanks to soviet infantry when they advanced at full speed without waiting for their supporting troops. Not having equiped all their tanks with machine guns turned out to be a serious design flaw as it was pretty easy to sneak up to them and destroy them with explosives.

* Snake's first battle against Vulcan Raven in ''MetalGearSolid'' was man against tank, so this trope was used to beat it, but without the jumping on the tank part. (one could soften the tank up first by careful Claymore and C4 placement, but that's not nearly as ''badass'').

** Yoda did it as well, and though he had a light saber, it worked even better.

[[spoiler:* kaboom* ]]

* In ''SavingPrivateRyan'', the Airborne soldiers trying to hold a bridge don't have much in the way of anti-tank weapons, but are faced with an armored convoy, so they come up with "sticky bombs." These are pitch-covered explosives designed to be slung onto tank treads from close range to disable them and block the road. Suffice to say, the results of the sticky bombs are... mixed.
** Yeah, that one happened. The real-life results of sticky bombs were rather worse.
*** For the record, there aren't any instructions on making a sticky bomb out of socks and engine grease in any field manual. However, mass-produced Sticky Bombs were used by the British, mainly in the North Africa Theater. They looked like a baby rattle: A ball on a stick. The ball had a metal casing, but once removed, the inner ball (a very sticky resin-coated glass sphere containing Nitro-Glycerin) was revealed. You then slapped the bomb on a tank, hoping to blow off the treads and immobile the tank. The problem came when British troops got the bomb stuck to their shirts, or pants, or skin, or any of the other dozen or so pieces of their equipment strapped to their bodies. Not surprisingly, the Sticky Bombs were quickly replaced with more reliable Anti-Tank weapons, like the Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) Spigot Mortar.

** Turns out Master Chief isn't the only one who can do this: [=ODSTs=] in the eponymous game can as well. They can't punch open tank covers, though, so they just pop them open and drop a grenade in. If you don't have any grenades? They ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome improvise]]''.
*** PleaseElaborate on that last one?

* In ''Nth Man'', White Ninja John Doe manages to InsertGrenadeHere by throwing a grenade down the gunbarrel of a tank that is about to shoot him, timing it exactly to match the tank's gunner opening the breach. He manages this feat by a combination of good hearing, good timing and channelling his memories of learning to play baseball with his adopted father.

* King Bradley in ''FullmetalAlchemist'' pulls this, but instead of pulling open the hatch he breaks a hole in the viewing window then shoves the grenade through there.

* In [[ResidentEvil Resident Evil 5]], while technically not a tank, Chris Redfield (or Sheva) after stunning the Bioweapon U-8, has the option of [[ForceFeeding shoving a frag down its throat]].

* In Bomberman 64, the Red Mountain boss is ''Hades the War Machine'', a giant robot you fight in the heart of a volcano. If you smack it in the head with a fully-pumped bomb, a panal on the front opens up for a few seconds and reveals the cockpit; tossing a bomb in there gives the player a Gold Card.

**It helped that the people running the tank were amateurs at it and impatient; leading one guy to open the hatch, get killed and get the hatch blown off. Making the whole process that much easier.