History Main / StrappedToABomb

* One game in the ''{{Tekken}}'' series has an ending where three of the fighters are strapped to a rocket as it launches.

* It happens to ''SledgeHammer'', allowing him the chance to speak his catch phrase one last time before the series definitively ends...

* The ''{{Sherlock}}'' episode "The Great Game" is based around having this trope as the conflict.

* This happens to Swan in an episode of ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When the episode was adapted for ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', the same thing happened to Kat (Swan's counterpart), only now it was some sort of device that would [[{{Bowdlerise}} scramble her DNA]] or something.

* The hostages during the bank robbery in 'Film/{{Hancock}}'' have explosives wrapped around their torsos.

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tommy-Boy_5619.jpg]]

* Happens to the hero of ''Film/TommyBoy''.

* Happens to [=MacClane=] and Zeus in ''DieHardWithAVengeance''.

* ''RedDwarf'' episode ''Entangled'' has Lister attached to a machine that will blow up his groin if he does not pay the debt he owes a group of aliens after losing a poker game to them.

* In one episode of ''BlueBloods'', an ex-con Danny put away takes his partner, Jackie, hostage and ties her to a bomb in order to draw Danny out.

* This happened at least once to Franchise//WonderWoman. She wasn't just tied to the bomb, the bomb was dropped on a city. It was on the cover of a comic. [[http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/wonder-woman-da-bomb-bigger1.jpg This one, in fact]].

* Happns occasionally in the ''Film/{{Saw}}'' films. In particular ''Saw III'', where one character is strapped to a bomb and must rip himself free of the chains before it goes off to escape, and the "Shotgun Collar" forced onto a doctor kidnapped to treat Jigsaw himself.

* CaptainAmerica and BuckyBarnes were strapped to an experimental plane laden with explosives by Baron Zemo. They managed to untie themselves, but while trying to defuse it Cap fell off and landed in the Arctic Ocean where he was frozen solid. Bucky was presumed blown up for many many years.
* This happened at least once to ComicBook/WonderWoman. She wasn't just tied to the bomb, the bomb was dropped on a city. It was on the cover of a comic. [[http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/wonder-woman-da-bomb-bigger1.jpg This one, in fact]].
* The ComicBook/{{Batman}} story "And The Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels" has the villain going above and beyond by covering the victim in glue and sticking the bomb to their chest (and sticking the victim to the ceiling, too). By the time Batman finds them, there's not nearly enough time to do something about the bomb...

* The movie ''Film/ThirtyMinutesOrLess''. Plot being... well, being strapped to a bomb. And then being ordered to rob a bank or else be allowed to explode.

-->''We stop to have discussion, as custom is the type''
-->''Of a hero and the villain at the peak of a fight''
-->''He speaks of a pipe, adjacent to the gas main in mom's basement''
-->''His heart stop, start detonation''
-->''I said 'It's on!'''
-->''Bit the end from the movie ''Spawn''''
-->''Grabbed him by the hands, wrapped his arms around an atom bomb''

* This happens to Swan in an episode of ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When the episode was adapted for ''PowerRangersSPD'', the same thing happened to Kat (Swan's counterpart), only now it was some sort of device that would [[{{Bowdlerise}} scramble her DNA]] or something.

* In ''Cars2'', Mater's filter is replaced by a bomb as a contingency plan to kill Lightning [=McQueen=]. [[spoiler:He later uses it to coerce a confession from the BigBad.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', Mater's filter is replaced by a bomb as a contingency plan to kill Lightning [=McQueen=]. [[spoiler:He later uses it to coerce a confession from the BigBad.]]

* In ''Film/Cars2'', Mater's filter is replaced by a bomb as a contingency plan to kill Lightning [=McQueen=]. [[spoiler:He later uses it to coerce a confession from the BigBad.]]

* An episode of ''{{Alias}}'' had a captured spy tied to a bomb and forced to sing "Pop Goes the Weasel." It explodes when she gets to "pop!"

* One of the characters in the music video for the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" gets taped and tied to a bomb.

See also DeathTrap and BoundAndGagged, as this is a SubTrope of both, and ExplosiveLeash and WhyAmITicking, which are {{Sister Trope}}s. RidingTheBomb is also closely related.

Examples:

* The movie ''30MinutesOrLess''. Plot being... well, being strapped to a bomb. And then being ordered to rob a bank or else be allowed to explode.

A favorite execution method of DastardlyWhiplash types, this trope involves the villain [[BoundAndGagged tying a captured character]] [[StuffBlowingUp to an armed explosive device]]. Cue [[OhCrap frantic searches]] for the ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing and attempts to [[BombDisposal disarm the device]] while still tied up (for example, a memorable scene in a {{Scooby-Doo}} episode where Shaggy and Scooby attempt to put out a bomb fuse with their butts). Generally, though, disaster gets averted by the BigDamnHeroes showing up to get their pal out of dodge before [[DistressedDude he]]/[[DamselInDistress she]] gets [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 blasted to a pile of thin gruel]]. Bonus points if the rescue team cuts it ''so'' close that they and their rescuee wind up OutrunningTheFireball afterwards.

See also DeathTrap and BoundAndGagged, as this is a SubTrope of both, and ExplosiveLeash and WhyAmITicking, which are {{SisterTrope}}s. RidingTheBomb is also closely related.

* This happened at least once to WonderWoman. She wasn't just tied to the bomb, the bomb was dropped on a city. It was on the cover of a comic. [[http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/wonder-woman-da-bomb-bigger1.jpg This one, in fact]].

* ''ToyStory''. Sid duct tapes Buzz Lightyear to a model rocket and plans to launch him (the rocket will explode when it reaches its maximum height). Luckily, Woody saves him from this horrible fate, but later uses the rocket (with Buzz still attached to it) as part of a cunning plan.

* ''{{Film/Goldfinger}}''. James Bond is handcuffed to an atomic bomb and left inside Fort Knox. When the bomb detonates, it will destroy and/or radioactively contaminate the gold supply of the U.S., thus causing gold prices to rise and increasing the value of Goldfinger's gold stockpile by ten times.

* In ''NewPoliceStory'' JackieChan's girlfriend gets strapped to a bomb. In an attempted HeroicSacrifice, she removes the bomb to set it off while Jackie leaves the room to spare him... and nothing happens. [[spoiler: The real trigger was hidden and the bomb went off when she got up later.]]
* The movie ''30MinutesOrLess''. Plot being... well, being StrappedToABomb. And then being ordered to rob a bank or else be allowed to explode.

* In Anson's first appearance in ''BurnNotice'', he claims he is being forced to work with Larry because Larry has strapped a bomb to his wife. There is a woman with a bomb strapped to her, but exactly who she is becomes less clear as the episode goes on.

* This happens to Swan in an episode of ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When the episode was adapted for ''PowerRangersSPD'', the same thing happened to Kat (Swan's counterpart) only now it was some sort of device that would [[{{Bowdlerise}} scramble her DNA]] or something.
* In a classic episode of ''Series/DadsArmy'', the over-age Walmington platoon are tasked with guarding the captured crew of a U-Boat. The Germans try to escape and take Corporal Jones as a hostage, rigging a hand-grenade down his trousers that will explode if the Captain's wishes are not complied with. Fortunately, Sergeant Wilson has seen to it that there is no detonator in the grenade... but only he knows this...
* In one episode of ''BlueBloods'', an ex-con Danny put away takes his partner Jackie hostage and ties her to a bomb in order to draw Danny out.
* ''RedDwarf'' episode ''Entangled'' has Lister attached to a machine that will blow up his groin if he does not pay the debt he owes a group of aliens after losing a poker game to them.
* It happens to ''SledgeHammer'', allowing him the chance to speak his catch-phrase one last time before the series definitively ends...
--> 'Trust me. I know what I'm doing.''

-->''Bit the end from the movie Spawn''

* One game in the ''{{Tekken}}'' series has an ending where three of the fighters are strapped to a rocket at it launches.

* ''RolePlay/TheDoomyAdventuresOfIrkenDoominess'': a character named [[AliensAreBastards Melissa]] enjoys joking with HeroAntagonist Alyssa, by... strapping bombs onto her. In a world where NobodyCanDie, this is usually PlayedForLaughs, coupled with Melissa's CatchPhrase "Okay, fine, so I blew your human up.".

* As a reference to the CaptainAmerica example, TheSuperHeroSquadShow has an episode where the Scarlet Witch is sent back in time to WWII, caught by the Red Skull and then tied to a rocket, only to be saved by Captain America and the Invaders (Bucky, The Jim Hammond Human Torch, and Toro).

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' had the hero and J. Jonah Jameson strapped to the same bomb in a ChainedHeat fashion. However Alistair Smythe decided to use a countdown as a trigger for the detonation, and gave enough time for Spider-Man to remove the bomb, and then later use it to destroy Alistair's Spider Slayer robots.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "Zorak". The title villain ties Jan and Jace to the seats of his Flying Time Bomb (a spaceship with a TimeBomb inside) and sends it away. Space Ghost rescues them JustInTime.