History Main / PinPullingTeeth

* A standard in ''ComicBook/{{Commando}}'' and other books of that ilk.

* ''Film/WrongIsRight''. The CIA try to kill an ArmsDealer by pulling up alongside his car and opening fire with a submachine gun, but his car is bulletproof. He pulls ahead and winds down the window, takes a grenade out of a satchel full of them that's on the seat next to him, pulls the pin with his teeth, and throws it out the window, blowing up the CIA car.

* Trapper does this in ''King of the Commandos'', the first of the Literature/{{Gimlet}} novels by W.E. Johns (creator of ''Literature/{{Biggles}}'').

* Richard Marcinko addresses pulling the grenade pin with your teeth in ''Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue''.
--> Yeah yeah, I know you always see the hero pull the pin out with his teeth. Well, you try it sometime, if you want to send your dentist's kids to Yale. Because the only thing you're gonna get if you try and pull a fucking grenade pin out with your teeth is broken teeth.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Wolfram & Hart's black ops unit tries to kill Angel, but are wiped out by VampireHunter Holtz, [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou who ties Angel to a pillar to be tortured and murdered]]. Angel kicks a grenade (lying in the hand of a dead W&H mook) into the air so he can grab the pin with his teeth, then shakes his head violently to free the pin. Given that he's undead, he survives the blast and escapes.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Played with in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E10Ultraworld Ultraworld]]". Dayna has a microgrenade hidden in a tooth, which she primes by putting it back in her mouth and adjusting it with her teeth.

* Jenkins does this while fighting cyborgs in ''Comicbook/AtomicRobo'' #5.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' #12, ComicBook/{{Elektra}}'s brother Orestez Natchios does this at a Hollywood party. He pulls a grenade from his pocket and pulls the pin with his teeth before throwing it into the crowd, forcing ComicBook/ThePunisher to save the bystanders rather than chase Orestez.

* [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Ahnold]] does this in ''Film/TrueLies'', using a grenade as the opening shot of a huge firefight at the enemy's hideout after escaping from being captured. Guess he still had his ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' teeth in place when he shot that film.

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Blazing away with a squad machine gun in one hand the badass action hero throws grenades with the other, first pulling them with his teeth.

* One of the many party tricks of then Major Adrian Carton de Wiart, one-handed, one-eyed, one-man army of WW1.

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* ComicBook/NickFury used to do this during ''ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos''. The page illo on the Howling Commandos page even shows a member of the squad doing it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': Astrid does this with one of Hiccup's dragon gas grenades on board of Grimmel's ship.

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** In the short ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery'', Duck Twacy (WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck) pulls a grenade's pin with his beak before throwing the grenade at the villain Pumpkin Head.

** In the short ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery'', Duck Twacy (WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck) does this before throwing a grenade at the villain Pumpkin Head.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': When Kyoko grabs Homura to keep her from [[FlashStep Flash Stepping]], Homura pulls a flashbang grenade out of her BagOfHolding and pulls out the pin with her teeth, forcing Kyoko back.

* In the 2005 version of ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'', Ray spits out the pins of a couple of M67 grenades he uses to destroy a tripod.

Over the years, the pull needed to arm a grenade has ramped up considerably for safety reasons (American troops in Vietnam were paranoid of grenades snagging in the jungle and part of the initiation of newbies was the instruction to bend and tape the pins of their grenades to prevent this)

Partly because of this increase in strength, and partly because it is simply contrary to prescribed technique, teeth pulling is HIGHLY discouraged in training, and the myth has grown up that it is impossible, and a great many sources online claim this without citing any examples of attempted failures.

And while it is not true that teeth pulling is impossible, or that you will INEVITABLY injure yourself, there *are* very good reasons for discouraging it, ie - while it *is* possible, repeated sideways strain on the teeth is not advisable in the long term; someone with bad teeth very likely *will* injure themselves attempting a teeth pull; and while you are unlikely to pull your teeth out - biting down on a metal ring might well chip one or several teeth. One should remember not to ThrowThePin after doing this, otherwise they might end up with an explosion in their mouth.

* Yuki Kaizuka does this in ''Anime/AldnoahZero's'' final episode while StormingTheCastle.
* ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' in the episode "Eagle Hunting and Hunting Eagles" Revy starts off a grenade this way, killing two Neo Nazis in the process while on a submarine.
* [[ActionGirl Fujiko]] does this in ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' during an escape. Her other hand is busy wielding an automatic pistol.

** Spike does it while fighting Vicious's men in episode 5, "Ballad of Fallen Angels".
** He does it again in the finale, [[spoiler: during his StormingTheCastle moment]].
* ''Literature/DemonCityShinjuku''. In the 1988 OVA Chibi (AKA the Young Man) pulls a pin from a grenade with his teeth before throwing the grenade at a demon.
* ''Anime/DominionTankPolice''. Leona Ozaki yanks out a grenade pin with her teeth, then to maintain symmetry, shoves the grenade in the mouth of a drug dealer [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique who's proving reluctant to talk.]]

** Lan Fan as well during the assault against [[spoiler: Father]] near the end (more noticeable in ''Brotherhood'' episode 62).
* ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}''. In an anime episode, Duke Togo encounters another hitman, who teeth-pulls the pin from a grenade (presumably to show he's just as cool as Togo) and tosses it back into the room where he just [[KneeCapping kneecap]]-interrogated a man. Duke shows he's even cooler by calmly looking at his watch, whereupon [[TimeBomb half the buildings around them blow up]]. Realising they're both after the same target the two assassins team up, whereupon we get a SplitScreen shot of them both engaging in this trope as they toss grenades around.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Batou does this a couple of times during the shootout in Kusanagi's mansion, though as a full-body cyborg his teeth might be a lot tougher than those of an ordinary person.

* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam'' ''La Verite'' episode 7. While running away from a giant rolling ball, Ryuuka produces a grenade and pulls the pin with her teeth.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Done beautifully for [[spoiler:Misato]]'s death scene in the manga. JSSDF soldiers approach her slumped and fatally wounded body; she turns her head towards them, revealing a pin in the corner of her mouth, then [[OhCrap shows her executioners the hand grenade she's holding]].

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' - When Kyoko grabs Homura to keep her from [[FlashStep Flash Stepping]], Homura pulls a flashbang grenade out of her BagOfHolding and pulls out the pin with her teeth, forcing Kyoko back.

* One-shot ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villain, called the [=NKVDemon=] did this after Batman broke both of his arms in an attempted TakingYouWithMe. But then the Russian police intervened, and he [[JumpingOnAGrenade fell on the grenade in question]].

* ''Franchise/GIJoe''

* Raphael does this a few times in the ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' story arc "Body Count".
* In ''Comicbook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' #12, Comicbook/{{Elektra}}'s brother Orestez Natchios does this at a Hollywood party. He pulls a grenade from his pocket and pulls the pin with his teeth before throwing it into the crowd, forcing ComicBook/ThePunisher to save the bystanders rather than chase Orestez.
* ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} does this during a snowmobile chase in the first issue of the ''Widowmaker'' mini-series.

* In the Creator/{{M|etroGoldwynMayer}}GM WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} cartoon "The Three Little Pups", the wolf did this, with comical results.

And while it is not true that teeth pulling is impossible, or that you will INEVITABLY injure yourself, there *are* very good reasons for discouraging it, ie - while it *is* possible, repeated sideways strain on the teeth is not advisable in the long term; someone with bad teeth very likely *will* injure themselves attempting a teeth pull; and while you are unlikely to pull your teeth out - biting down on a metal ring might well chip one or several teeth. If one ThrowsThePin after doing this, they might end up with an explosion in their mouth.

And while it is not true that teeth pulling is impossible, or that you will INEVITABLY injure yourself, there *are* very good reasons for discouraging it, ie - while it *is* possible, repeated sideways strain on the teeth is not advisable in the long term; someone with bad teeth very likely *will* injure themselves attempting a teeth pull; and while you are unlikely to pull your teeth out - biting down on a metal ring might well chip one or several teeth.

* Italian pilot, Giulio Gavotti, dropped four 1.5 kg bombs on Ain Zara, pulling the pins with his teeth. It was the first recorded instance of ariel bombing.