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* Invoked {{In Name Only}} in {{Marvel vs Capcom 3}} by {{Deadpool}} as one of his special attacks. He tosses the grenade as he jumps away from the target yelling the trope name.
* A possible tactic in VelvetAssassin, although it's a StealthBasedGame so it might be more trouble than it's worth.

The pin is pulled from a grenade on a grenade belt, causing the wearer and anyone in the immediate vicinity to explode. It can be used to elaborately kill a tooled-up enemy or as a makeshift suicide belt. Expect it to be used on a nearly triumphant enemy leading to a cathartic OhCrap moment for the villain before he explodes. A subtrope of WhyAmITicking

* TomCruise's ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character pull the pins of at least while he was being sucked into one of the tripods. Since he spit them out when his cagemates pulled him back, it seems implied that he pulled them with his teeth.

The pin is pulled from a grenade on a grenade belt, causing the wearer and anyone in the immediate vicinity to explode. It can be used to elaborately kill a tooled-up enemy or as a makeshift suicide belt. Expect it to be used on a nearly triumphant enemy leading to a cathartic OhCrap moment for the villain before he explodes. A case of DidNotDoTheResearch as grenades don't work that way. A subtrope of WhyAmITicking

* Invoked {{In Name Only}} in {{Marvel vs Capcom 3}} by Deadpool as one of his special attacks. He tosses the grenade as he jumps away from the target yelling the trope name.

* Invoked ''In Name Only'' in ''Marvel vs Capcom 3'' by Deadpool as one of his special attacks. He tosses the grenade as he jumps away from the target yelling the trope name.

* Invoked [[ In Name Only ]] in [[ Marvel vs Capcom 3 ]] by Deadpool as one of his special attacks. He tosses the grenade as he jumps away from the target yelling the trope name.

* Invoked [In Name Only] in [Marvel vs Capcom 3] by Deadpool as one of his special attacks. He tosses the grenade as he jumps away from the target yelling the trope name.

* Invoked [[In Name Only]] in [[Marvel vs Capcom 3]] by Deadpool as one of his special attacks. He tosses the grenade as he jumps away from the target yelling the trope name.

* ''CallOfDutyBlackOps'': During [[ThatOneLevel "S.O.G."]], an NVA soldier pounces on Alex Mason. After the player struggles for a bit, Mason pulls the pin on one of Charlie's grenades and scoots out of the blast radius.
** This foreshadows a moment at the end of "Payback": [[spoiler:after Frank Woods stabs [[TheDragon Lev Kravchenko]], Krav pulls the pins on all of the grenades in his bandolier at once. Woods [[HeroicSacrifice hauls him out the window and they explode off-camera]].]]

* ''CallOfDutyBlackOps'': The protagonist is almost killed by an enemy pulling a suicidal version of this trope until the villain is tackled out of a window by a self-sacrificing friend.

* U.S. senator Max Cleland ended up being a real life case of this when a grenade whose pin had fallen out shredded both his legs and one of his arms during the Vietnam War. It turned out that the grenade came from a squad mate who had straightened all of the pins on his grenades (a dangerous but common enough practice during the war), but had failed to secure them with duct tape.

* TomCruise's ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character somehow managing to pull the pins out of no less then fifteen grenades while he was being sucked into one of the tripods.

* TomCruise's ''Fim/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character somehow managing to pull the pins out of no less then fifteen grenades while he was being sucked into one of the tripods.

* TomCruise's ''Fim/WarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character somehow managing to pull the pins out of no less then fifteen grenades while he was being sucked into one of the tripods.

* TomCruise's ''WarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character somehow managing to pull the pins out of no less then fifteen grenades while he was being sucked into one of the tripods.

* IAmNumberFour: Number Four kills the leader of the Magadorians by using his telekinesis to set off all of the leader's futuristic bullets while they're still strapped to his chest.

* ''RaisingArizona'': Hi steals the pin of one of the BadassBiker's grenades in the MostTriumphantExample of this trope

* In ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' "Nines" Rodriguez saves the PC by threatening the Sabbat goons attacking the PC by threatening them with a grenade. Given Nines is at a power level to curb stomp the 3 young Sabbat easily, '''you''' [[TheLoad seem to be the only reason]] he needs to use such a card.

* ''CallofDuty:BlackOps'': The protagonist is almost killed by an enemy pulling a suicidal version of this trope until the villain is tackled out of a window by a self-sacrificing friend.

* ''TankGirl'': The title character does this to the Water and Power mook who captured her, blowing him to bits.
* ''CallofDuty:BlackOps'': The protagonist is almost killed by an enemy pulling a suicidal version of this trope until the villain is tackled out of a window by a self-sacrificing friend.

* In ''VampireTheMasquradeBloodlines'' "Nines" Rodriguez saves the PC by threatening the Sabbat goons attacking the PC by threatening them with a grenade. Given Nines is at a power level to curb stomp the 3 young Sabbat easily, '''you''' [[TheLoad seem to be the only reason]] he needs to use such a card.

* TomCruise's ''WarOfTheWorlds'' has the main character somehow managing to pull the pins out of no less then fifteen grenades while he was being sucked into one of the tripods.

Examples:

* ''[[Film/XMen X2: X-Men United]]'': Magneto pulls the pins from a squad of soldiers all at once using his powers.

* {{Leon}}: Leon defeats the main villain using the suicide version of this
* RaisingArizona: Hi steals the pin of one of the BadassBiker's grenades in the MostTriumphantExample of this trope
* TheDarkKnight: The Joker threatens to do this to escape a room full of mob bosses.
* TankGirl: The title character does this to the Water and Power mook who captured her, blowing him to bits.
* CallofDuty:BlackOps: The protagonist is almost killed by an enemy pulling a suicidal version of this trope until the villain is tackled out of a window by a self-sacrificing friend.
* XMen2: Magneto pulls the pins from a squad of soldiers all at once using his powers.