History Main / StrappedToABomb

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "Rain of Iron", an evil scientist ties Lois Lane to a missile that he launches from his submarine in an attempt to detonate a volcano.

* In the climax of ''Film/WhatAboutBob'', Dr. Leo Marvin snaps and tries to kill Bob Wiley by tying him up in the woods and hanging 20 pounds of black powder around Bob's neck. Leo jokingly refers to this as "Death therapy, a guaranteed cure!"; Bob is ''completely'' oblivious to how much Leo hates him, so he immediately accepts that this really is some kind of therapy. Bob effortlessly unties himself, but assumes the still-ticking bomb is a prop and takes it with him back to Leo's house.

* In ''Film/{{Speed}}'', [[BigBad Howard Payne]] kidnaps Annie, puts her in a vest full of explosives and handcuffs her to a train pole, so this trope definitely applies.

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

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

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "Rain of Iron", an evil scientists ties Lois Lane to a missile that he launches from his submarine in an attempt to detonate a volcano.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Gary Takes a Bath", one of Spongebob's crazy plans to get Gary to bathe is to strap a bomb to his chest and tell Gary the only way to disarm it is to take a bath. [[ComedicSociopathy This fails to convince Gary.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/TheGoodies'', the Goodies fall foul of a mad scientist who ties them to a bomb (after they escape his first inescapable death trap, which involved rising water, an alligator, a candle burning through a rope, and an acid bath).

* In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' Wondy was strapped to a torpedo alongside another woman by some men trying to find treasure in a sunken ship.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', 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.]]

* Mayor Kroll gets tied to a chair with a bomb tied to him in ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom''. There's a time limit in which to save him, and if you take too long, you miss out on the bonus level.

* A few enemies in the Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog games do this, either attaching themselves to Sonic or immobilizing him, then exploding. One example is Grabber from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', who will come down from the ceiling when Sonic passes underneath, then grab Sonic, pull itself back to the ceiling, and explode after a short while. Mega Chopper in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] variant, latching on to Sonic to drain him of his Rings. ''VideoGame/KnucklesChaotix'' has a benevolent and literal version of this trope: The game chains you to another character at all times--one of the possible characters is Bomb, a walking explosive whom you can grab and throw at enemies, and as Bomb is unharmed after detonating and he'll bounce back via the chain, you can do this over and over. Just don't get caught in Bomb's own explosions.

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

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* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', [=MechaMew2=] puts Giovanni in a headlock as it counts down to self destruct.

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* ''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."

* The Penguin straps rocket bombs to hundreds of penguins and releases them into Gotham City in ''Film/BatmanReturns''.

* ''ComicBook/HuntersHellcats'': In ''Our Fighting Forces'' #120, the Hellcats have to rescue a group of captured Italian partisan whom the Nazis have chained to missile that is about to launch.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' "GARY, [[TitleDrop THERE'S A BOMB STRAPPED TO MY CHEST!!!]]"

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/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, up until he resurfaced as ComicBook/TheWinterSoldier.

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/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.

* In ''Film/{{Speed}}'' [[BigBad Howard Payne]] kidnaps Annie, puts her in a vest full of explosives and handcuffs her to a train pole, so this trope definitely applies.

* In ''Film/Speed'' [[BigBad Howard Payne]] kidnaps Annie, puts her in a vest full of explosives and handcuffs her to a train pole, so this trope definitely applies.

* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', this is the idea behind [[spoiler:Genthru's]] "Countdown" ability: He can generate time bombs to attach onto people, which count down based on the person's heartbeat and guarantees to kill the target once it explodes. Hence, someone whose heartbeat is accelerated, either from nervousness, exertion, or something else, will meet their end faster. The only way to defuse it is to physically touch him and say, "I caught the bomber," no small feat considering he'll do ''anything'' to not let them.

* A few enemies in the Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog games do this, either attaching themselves to Sonic or immobilizing him, then exploding. One example is Grabber from in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', who will come down from the ceiling when Sonic passes underneath, then grab Sonic, pull itself back to the ceiling, and explode after a short while. Mega Chopper in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3AndKnuckles'' is a [[DownplayedTrope variant]], latching on to Sonic to drain him of his Rings. ''VideoGame/KnucklesChaotix'' has a benevolent and literal version of this trope: The game chains you to another character at all times--one of the possible characters is Bomb, a walking explosive whom you can grab and throw at enemies, and as Bomb is unharmed after detonating and he'll bounce back via the chain, you can do this over and over. Just don't get caught in Bomb's own explosions.

* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Film/JamesBond 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 United States, thus causing gold prices to rise and increasing the value of Goldfinger's gold stockpile 10 times.

* At the climax of ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', [[BigBad Lane]] kidnapps [[spoiler: Benji]] and places him at a public place in London with a time-delay bomb strapped to him, to force Ethan to give Lane the disk.
* In ''Film/Speed'' the [[Big Bad Howard Payne]] kidnaps Annie,puts her in a vest full of explosives and handcuffs her to a train pole, so this troop definitely applies.

* At the climax of ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' [[BigBad Lane]] kidnapps [[spoiler: Benji]] and places him at a public place in London with a time-delay bomb strapped to him, to force Ethan to give Lane the disk.