History Main / TrickBomb

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has a "gay bomb", in conformance to the [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories rumors]] about the real-life States working on one.

* ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': The Southern Scadrians have a secret method to make grenades that an Allomancer can charge with their own powers. This helps Marasi [[TookALevelInBadass Take a Level in Badass]] in ''Literature/TheLostMetal'' -- her power to create [[TimeStandsStill bubbles of slowed time]] is [[BlessedWithSuck badly limited]] when it's centered on her, but the grenades can deploy it at range.

* ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': The Southern Scadrians have a secret method to make grenades that an Allomancer can charge with their own powers. This helps Marasi [[TookALevelInBadass Take a Level in Badass]] in ''Literature/TheLostMetal'' -- her power to create [[TimeStandsStill bubbles of slowed time]] is [[BlessedWithSuck badly limited]] when it's centered on her, but the grenades let her deploy it at range.

* Faun Reinaka of ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'' has a "boom belt" ''full'' of these. Some of the more unusual varieties include tar bombs, [[BoundAndGagged ribbon bombs]],, [[BrownNote sonic bombs]], [[{{Hammerspace}} compression bombs]]...

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has a "gay bomb", in conformance to the [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories rumors]] about the real-life States working on one.

* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': The WeaponOfChoice.

* The Bowser Bomb in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2'' explodes... and turns the tiny Baby Bowser into a full-sized Bowser.

* In the 1988-89 Creator/DCComics ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' crossover, a member of the alien Dominator species develops and detonates a "gene bomb" which targets those with the "metahuman" gene (responsible for the emergence of Earthling superheroes) and causes them to lose control of their powers. While it was supposed to eventually prove lethal, [[CListFodder the only death directly due to the bomb was a C-list member of a C-list team:]] Scott Fischer of the ComicBook/DoomPatrol.

** This concept of a 'dirty' bomb has been taken to the natural conclusion of the hypothetical ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb Cobalt Bomb]]'', a nuclear weapon salted with cobalt that is designed to scatter tiny fragments of irradiated cobalt-60 ''everywhere'' when initiated, deliberately irradiating the entire region (and, it was feared, ''the rest of the planet'') where it was set off.

* Stinger Grenades, which scatter dozens of little rubber balls upon detonation to stun and possibly incapacitate anyone caught in it's range.

* Glitter bombs--which, as the name implies, are packed full of sparkling glitter--have been used to both protest anti-LGBTQIA+ individuals and as tools to escape from would-be rapists and sexual assaulters, who are further humiliated by having their attempted crime literally covering their body (as any art teacher will tell you, glitter gets ''everywhere'').

* The StarWars ExpandedUniverse mentions grenades such as [=CryoBan=] ([[KillItWithIce freezes stuff]]), "goop" ([[StickySituation fast-setting glue, used to entangle rioters]]) Bothan stun spores (causes disorientation and nausea) and thermal detonators (create [[SphereOfDestruction Spheres Of Destruction]]).

* In ''VideoGame/HogsOfWar'', pigs promoted into the Medic class-line gain access to a Medicine Ball, which functions exactly like a grenade but releases pink healing gas instead of fiery explosive death. Espionage pigs also get a [[StandardStatusEffects 'poison gas' grenade]], which is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* ''VideoGame/SpiralKnights'' uses bombs as an entire class of weapon, giving us bombs that deploy a field of any of the StandardStatusEffects in the game, "vortex" bombs that collapse into a miniature black hole before exploding, a bomb that pretty much acts as a deployment point for a ring of damaging orbs, and shard bombs that act like a cluster bomb.

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%%* ''{{Manga/Btooom}}''

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* In ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', Johnny Rico uses a device that shouts ''"I'm a thirty second bomb! I'm a thirty second bomb! Twenty-nine! Twenty-eight! ..."'' in the Skinny language to clear out one of their command bunkers.
** The vocal countdown is designed to create mayhem, but this also counts as a subversion, because the bomb is an actual explosive, blowing up when it reaches the end of the countdown.

* Faun Reinaka of ''{{Literature/Tasakeru}}'' has a "boom belt" ''full'' of these. Some of the more unusual varieties include tar bombs, [[BoundAndGagged ribbon bombs]],, [[BrownNote sonic bombs]], [[{{Hammerspace}} compression bombs]]...

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-->''Give yourselves up. You can't win. ''
-->--UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur.

--> "This is the worst one."
--> "What does it do?"
--> "It blows their heads off."

* The closest thing ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has to a standard grenade is [[GreekFire alchemist's fire, a liquid stored in throwable bottles that ignites on exposure to oxygen]]. From there things get a little weird. Bottles of holy water can be thrown to do damage to undead, acid flasks ... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin do acid damage]], tanglefoot bags release an adhesive to slow opponents down, choking powder makes it hard to breathe, and thunderstones deafen the subject. The catchall term for these is "grenadelike weapons". Alchemist's fire and acid flasks are particularly useful in low-level parties for finishing off trolls, which will [[HealingFactor eventually regenerate]] from wounds inflicted by any other type of damage.
** For higher-level parties willing to [[RulesLawyer abuse the rules]] [[{{Munchkin}} for fun and profit]], the ever-lovely [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Explosive Runes]] spell persists until it is set off due to being intended as a trap. It is also explicitly stated to go off if a dispel check is failed while attempting to erase or dispel it. As a corollary, you can also intentionally fail checks. Certain enterprising parties have been known to scribe hundreds of these spells over the course of arbitrarily-long periods of downtime and bundle them up into rather unconventional paper grenades. To use, simply lob a bundle or [[ThrowTheBookAtThem book]] of them at enemies, and set them off with a single intentionally-botched dispel spell to deliver [[GameBreaker the equivalent damage in pure concussive force damage of all of these runes going off all at once]]. Do not try to sucker your DM with this, however: equally-beleaguered [=DMs=] have been known to rule that [[ObviousRulePatch this will set off the first explosive rune so affected]], which then shreds the others [[WheresTheKaboom without setting off the expected chain reaction]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has a number of special grenade types available to different species. These run from relatively "normal" grenades such as smoke and stun grenades right the way up really exotic things such as Stasis Grenades (which stop time in a small area) and Warp Grenades (which tear a hole in the fabric of reality and suck anything nearby into [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Warp]]).
* ''{{TabletopGame/Pathfinder}}''

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* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' has [[ItemCrafting craftable]] grenades to deliver all kinds of damage types and StatusEffects in an AreaOfEffect. They range from simple water balloons to [[CharmPerson Love]] and [[SupernaturalFearInducer Terror]] grenades, [[HealingShiv healing grenades]], [[HolyWater blessed ice]] grenades, ''earthquake'' grenades...

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* ''{{Manga/Btooom}}''

* Any shooter with smoke/flash/stun grenades counts.

Those who ThrowDownTheBomblet may pack some of these in their arsenal. Compare and contrast with some {{Booby Trap}}s. See also GrenadeTag.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Vauban's combat style revolves around trick grenades.

* ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man}}'' has copied such weapons before. These have included the Crash Bomber, Drill Bomb, Napalm Bomb, Ballade Cracker, Bubble Bomb, Danger Wrap, Flash Bomb, Remote Mine, Black Hole Bomb, Commando Bomb, and the Mine Sweeper. His little brother, ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man X}}'', has likewise wielded trick bombs like the Magnet Mine, Parasitic Bomb, Bomb Bee, and the Squeeze Bomb.

* Early fire extinguishers were more or less glass orbs shaped like grenades, filled with a fire-suppressing liquid. Since they were first produced in the pre-electric days, the most likely source of a fire was a stove or a fireplace, which they were intended to be thrown into like a grenade. By all accounts, they were quite unreliable, and started to get replaced with compressed water and later compressed foam or gas fire extinguishers at around the end of the 19th century.

** Similarly, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker occasionally uses bombs that harmlessly distribute scraps of paper with "BOOM!" written on them. They are externally indistinguishable from his bombs that actually kill people.

* Faun Reinaka of ''{{Literature/Tasakeru}}'' has a "boom belt" ''full'' of these. Some of the more unusual varieties include tar bombs, [[BoundAndGagged ribbon bombs]],, [[BrownNote sonic bombs]], [[{{Hammerspace}} compression bombs]]...

* Honey Lemon from ''Disney/BigHero6'' is equipped with a miniature chemical lab in her purse that lets her create a variety of these including glue bombs, smoke bombs, and even more conventional explosives.