History Main / PinPullingTeeth

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'': upon being defeated near the top of Tartarus, a wounded Jin stays behind and does this to blow up the Shadows climbing up from lower floors.

** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. A ninja carries an explosive device in his mouth as he uses his hands and legs to crawl along the girders beneath the large sliding door to Blofeld's VolcanoLair. He then plants the bomb without any visible signs of him priming it, implying this trope.

The (relatively modern) American M67 grenade needs approximately 3-5kg of force to pull.
(for comparison a gallon of milk weights 4.5kg)
The Russian F1 grenade takes the considerably higher 8kg of force.

* ''Film/ThePredator''. [[HotScientist Casey Bracket]] has to do this because [[WithMyHandsTied one hand is handcuffed to a chair]]. The movie is something of a homage to TheEighties action movies that spawned the ''Predator'' franchise, so some RuleOfCool is indulged.

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

* Italian pilot, Giulio Gavotti, dropped four 1.5 kg bombs on Ain Zara, pulling the pins with his teeth.

* Done by Leila Khaled, one of the hijackers in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, according to an interview she gave in 2000:
-->"So half an hour (after take off) we had to move. We stood up. I had my two hand grenades and I showed everybody I was taking the pins out with my teeth."

The tough guy takes out a grenade and pulls the pin with his teeth, then tosses it to kill a bunch of mooks. It's a common trope in action flicks and war films.

In reality, grenade pins are designed to be hard to pull so they won't be pulled accidentally. Attempting to pull them with your teeth will likely result in some [[TheToothHurts painful dental damage]].

Straightening the pin in advance to make it easier to pull is certainly possible (and easily accomplished one-handed) but it greatly increases the risk of mass casualty IJustShotMarvinInTheFace-style accidents so it isn't recommended.

* Elsa Bloodstone does in the second issue of ''ComicBook/LegionOfMonsters''.
* ComicBook/NickFury used to do this back in his ComicBook/HowlingCommandos days. The page illo on the Howling Commandos page even shows a member of the squad doing it.

* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': In "The Thomas Thorne Affair", Kitty is narrating what happened during Thomas' duel. In the flashback, Thomas suddenly pulls a grenade and does this (as well as his single-shot dueling pistol firing multiple times without reloading). The scene then cuts back to the house to the reveal that the Captain has hijacked the narration and is saying what he would have handled that situation.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': A S.W.A.T. cop does this with a tear gas grenade in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE1OnLeatherWings On Leather Wings]]"; the very first episode.

** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. A SPECTRE mook does this while dropping grenades on Bond from a helicopter. Another mook is flying the aircraft, but for some reason, he needs to have a grenade in each hand.

Straightening the pin in advance to make it easier to pull is certainly possible (and easily accomplished one-handed) but it greatly increases the risk of mass casualty IJustShotMarvinInTheFace-style accidents so it isn't recommended outside of a dire emergency.

* ''WesternAnimation/Loone

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''

*** "Beep Beep". When Wile E. tries to pull the pin from a grenade, the ''grenade'' stays in his teeth.
*** "Hip Hip Hurry!" Wile E. Coyote pulls the pin of a grenade with his teeth and drops the grenade on the Roadrunner from a great height. It bounces off power lines and back up to him. He tries to re-insert the pin, but the grenade blows up before he can.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** When [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] tries it, the grenade naturally stays in his teeth.

** Olivier Armstrong does this when she takes a grenade from a fallen soldier to attack Sloth, although in this case it's a masher-style grenade with a pull string.

* ''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/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]].

** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. A SPECTRE mook does this while dropping grenades on Bond from a helicopter. Another mook is flying the aircraft, but for some reason he needs to have a grenade in each hand.

* ''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.

* Done during the climatic battle in the first ''Literature/ModestyBlaise'' novel.

--> 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/{{Ghosts}}'': In "The Thomas Thorne Affair", Kitty is narrating what happened during Thomas' duel. In the flashback, Thomas suddenly pulls a grenade and does this (as well as his single shot dueling pistol firing multiple times without reloading). The scene then cuts back to the house to the reveal that the Captain has hijacked the narration and is saying what he would have handled that situation.

* Player characters in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar'' throws frag grenades this way.

* In the award winning short ''WesternAnimation/BirthdayBoy'', Manuk imagines that a rock is a hand grenade, pulls the pin with his teeth and hurls it at his imaginary enemies.

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Parodied in "The Kitty", where Grizzly throws a ball of yarn like a grenade in the hopes of distracting some cougars that broke into the Bears' cave, and bites a bit off the end before throwing it.
* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'': Yuck bites off the pin of a coconut shaped grenade and throws it at Yin and Yang in "Voyage To The Center of Yo".

* German "potato-masher" grenades used a friction igniter triggered with a pull string stored in the handle and protected by a screw on cap. These could be pulled with your teeth, assuming you'd already uncapped it first.

* Despite depictions in many US WWII propaganda films Japanese grenades required a good rap on a solid object (usually the soldier' helmet) to compress a spring and initiate the impact igniter. The pins were there to lock the mechanism and prevent the spring being compressed accidentally.

* ''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 [[NotSoDifferent both engaging in this trope]] as they toss grenades around.

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* ''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. [[spoiler:Misato]] then [[OhCrap shows her executioners the hand grenade she's holding]].

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[[caption-width-right:191:I hope Sgt Life has a good dental plan![[note]][[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons (Lisa needs braces!)]][[/note]]]]

* Lampshaded and Defied in the Creator/PeterWeller / Creator/RobertHays film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty/Fifty_(1992_film) Fifty/Fifty]]''. The pair are getting ready to go up against a large group of soldiers that have them pinned down, and plan to begin their counter-assault with a barrage of grenades. Jake (Weller) takes a grenade in each hand and pulls the pins with his fingers. Sam (Hays) had earlier been shot in the shoulder and held a grenade in his one good hand, attempting this trope. It doesn't work.