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| 13 | ->''"So he says to me, 'You gotta do something smart, baby! Something big!' He says, 'You wanna be a supervillain, right?' And I go: 'Yeah, baby, yeah, yeah! What do I gotta do?' He says, 'You got bombs? Blow up the Comet Club! It's packed with superheroes, you'll go down in supervillain history!' And I go 'Yeah, baby!' ''''CAUSE I'M THE EVIL MIDNIGHT BOMBER WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT! AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'''"'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/TheEvilMidnightBomberWhatBombsAtMidnight''', ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' |
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| 16 | Sometimes you'll encounter someone who just seems to have the perfect personality to go along with their job, like a real-life work-related version of PersonalityPowers. For example, maybe an old-time watchmaker would have a very careful, analytical mind that paid very close attention to detail. What could be better for someone who has to very carefully use, assemble, and repair something made of hundreds of tiny springs and gears? |
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| 18 | Then sometimes people will take this too far. To use the example above, perhaps our watchmaker is a coldhearted person who [[HatesEveryoneEqually cannot stand other human beings]] and is incapable of basic human interaction because everyone else is too messy and emotional rather than clean, precise, and easily understandable like the clocks and watches he works with. Which makes him a jerk with issues, but no big deal, right? |
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| 20 | So what happens when you take that level of obsession and neurosis and give it to someone whose job is creating and using explosives? You wind up with a recipe for disaster. Take someone who [[LonersAreFreaks has no friends and cannot interact with others]], has some FreudianExcuse or a terrorist cause (or, more likely, [[TerroristsWithoutACause no cause at all]]) or is just plain old AxCrazy, give him a [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]] that kills people DeaderThanDead (and he usually seems to have no problem getting his hands on the ingredients for creating more bombs[[note]]As Series/{{CSI}}'s Grissom once said, "The dirty little secret about bombs is how easy they are to make.".[[/note]]), and you have a classic stock villain. (Although despite the status as a stock villain, they are often a chilling one, because of seemingly how easily this could be TruthInTelevision). |
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| 22 | See also BombThrowingAnarchists, HavingABlast, NukeEm, and WhyAmITicking Compare DemolitionsExpert, a (usually) less psycho and more professional kind of character who is also very good with bombs, charges, and detonators; and ThrowDownTheBomblet for grenades and other smaller explosives as a [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]]. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 29 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 30 | * The commercial for ''{{VideoGame/Wario}} Blast: Featuring {{VideoGame/Bomberman}}!'' depicts Wario as a cackling maniac who gleefully talks to a lit bomb about "the ''damage'' we can do!" before repeatedly kissing the bomb while telling it that he loves it. Even when this predictably results in the bomb blowing up in his face, Wario's mood isn't dampened one bit. |
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| 33 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 34 | * The 2003 series of ''Anime/AstroBoy'' has Kato, who combines this trope with MadArtist. He calls his acts of destruction his "masterpieces." |
| 35 | * Nice Holystone from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', a rare female and good example, carries a good supply of homemade explosives and compulsively drops them. She even has fond memories of the one that blew up in her face, [[GoodScarsEvilScars badly scarring her]] and [[EyeScream taking out her eye]]. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' brings us Bambietta Basterbine. With her designation as Sternritter E, "The Explode," and her AxCrazy personality, she has this trope in spades. Her powers allow her to turn anything into a bomb. |
| 37 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/CaseClosed''; the bomber in the first NonSerialMovie ''[[Anime/DetectiveConanFilm01TheTimeBombedSkyscraper The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]'' is [[spoiler:the architect who built all of the buildings he either blew up or nearly blew up. He did it because he was a NeatFreak who considered those buildings his OldShame... and also wanted to "punish" Conan (and Kogoro) for trapping him, via getting Ran (almost) fatally trapped in the last one]]. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has one-episode villain Teddy Bomber, who likes to hide his bombs in teddy bears that he leaves at his target site. He's quickly eclipsed by the "serious" rivalry between Spike and Andy during the episode in question, "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession22CowboyFunk Cowboy Funk]]". Despite his fondness for teddy bears (which are there to help in [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed his similarity to Theodore Kaczynski]]), he has [[BombThrowingAnarchists a politically motivated reason]] for blowing up buildings and hates causing unnecessary collateral damage. (Needless to say, the "unnecessary collateral damage" part happens a lot once [[DestructiveSaviour Spike and Andy]] get involved...) |
| 39 | * ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ / Detective Academy Q'' also featured one of these: Yoshinari Taiki, a delightfully insane "Jewelry Summoner" who was thoroughly convinced that he was acting on behalf of his "gods" by targeting places related to birthstones. [[spoiler: It turned out that the nutcase somehow arrived at the conclusion that ''[[AGodAmI he was his own god]]'' as he tried to control everything]]. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'' has Jackal, a member of the Nine Demon Gates of [[TheLegionsOfHell Tartarus]]. A cat-looking AxCrazy demon, he can use his curse to blow up anything he wants. Bonus points for having a landmine version of this ability as well. |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 42 | ** Solf J. Kimblee, also known as the Crimson or Red Lotus Alchemist is this in both of his incarnations: The [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist original manga]] and ''Brotherhood'' incarnation is certainly crazy, but he's good at hiding it, doubling as ThePhilosopher and a [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] with a FauxAffablyEvil demeanour, and [[MoralSociopathy a genuine respect for people who stick to their guns]]. Still a raging [[TheSociopath psychopath]] though, and one who [[JustFollowingOrders sees no difference]] between saving people as a doctor and [[SociopathicSoldier killing them as a soldier]]. The Bomber part comes in with his own brand of alchemy: he destabilizes the molecules in everything around him to create explosions, at times making the very ''air'' explode. |
| 43 | ** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Kimblee is much worse at hiding his craziness. His powers are rather different from the manga version and slightly less destructive. Instead of making the air explode, he transmutes things into bombs by rearranging their chemical components into explosives. His favourite targets are ''people'', [[WhyAmITicking which he turns into delayed chemical explosives]] and laughs at while they [[YouAreAlreadyDead deal with being dead men walking]]. He can and will turn virtually anything, including his fellow soldiers, into organic bombs. In his first encounter with Scar, Kimblee went so far as to blow up separate limbs and the skin on Scar's forehead, creating the distinctive facial marking. After he blew up the wrong people (namely his commanding officers) and was arrested, he actually earned the new nickname "Madman Bomber". Tells you a lot about how stupid some of the people in the Amestrian government are that [[GenreBlindness they feel it's a good idea to bail him out of jail]], give him a [[AmplifierArtifact Philosopher's Stone]], and ask him to be an assassin. Take a guess as to what happens. |
| 44 | * Minene, the 9th Diary Holder of ''Manga/FutureDiary'', who first introduces herself by blowing up a school. She does get a lot of CharacterDevelopment, though, and ends up being one of the most sympathetic characters in the series. |
| 45 | * 'Minnie' May Hoskins from ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' is a borderline example. The 18-year-old ex-prostitute has other interests; but in addition to her lighting up at the idea of anything explosive and keeping a fair bit of material on her person, blowing things up or smelling things associated with demolitions is the most reliable way of... well... bringing said other interests to the forefront of her mind. Her much older boyfriend Ken Takizawa also fits the bill, although he's much calmer about his obsession. Unlike May, he has also arranged actual terrorist bombings for a living. |
| 46 | * In ''Manga/TheHatingGirl'', one early chapter features a bomber who attacks schools. He shows up again near the end of the manga and is revealed to be [[spoiler:one of the students at the main characters' school]], who hates "normal" people because of the horn on his head. |
| 47 | * In ''Anime/HeatGuyJ,'' the dangerously-unhinged young mob boss Clair Leonelli ''really'' loves hand grenades and other explosives, which he refers to as "fireworks." Another one-time (but almost as unhinged) character is blowing up buildings...just so he can clear space for his photography projects, and distracting the citizens of Judoh with trading cards of [[DistractedByTheSexy pretty girls]] he's photographed candidly. |
| 48 | * The Greed Island arc of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' features Genthru, the "Bomb Devil" or "Demon Bomber", whose Nen abilities are based on explosions. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 50 | ** Kira Yoshikage may not have a love for blowing things up, but he still is a seriously disturbed SerialKiller, and all of his stand abilities involve blowing things up while removing all traces of his target, ironically making his stand perfect for keeping a low profile by destroying evidence. |
| 51 | ** Oyecomova in Part 7 of Jojo on the other hand very much exemplifies this trope as a Neapolitan terrorist whose skills with explosives manifest into a superpower to insert ethereal pins into objects to convert them into makeshift bombs. He's one of the very few enemies that ''aren't'' after the MacGuffin, instead he wants to kill Gyro simply for being a servant of the King of Naples, who he wants to assassinate after taking out Gyro. |
| 52 | * [[DemolitionsExpert Ultimate Pyrotechnician]] Ted Chikatilo from ''Manga/KillerKiller'', a member of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Ultimate Despair]] known as "[[RedBaron the Million Killer]]". An unrepentant {{pyromaniac}}, Ted's only calling in life is to turn people into "[[MadArtist beautiful fireworks]]". |
| 53 | * Megumin from ''Literature/KonoSuba'' is surprisingly one of the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girls]] of the main cast. However, she knows only one spell: Explosion, a massively destructive spell that she can only cast once before collapsing into a useless heap due to the sheer mana cost, but has a compulsive need to cast every single day even if she doesn't actually have any enemies to use it on, and her obsession with the spell even [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything borders on sexual at times.]] |
| 54 | * ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' has "Histerrier", who is quite literally mad, and has no motive for planting the bombs other than being [[spoiler:a bored housewife]]. Although she may have been the first of the main villain's pawns to be unveiled. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' had Deidara, member of Akatsuki who passionately believes his explosions [[MadArtist are a work of beautiful, fleeting moments of art]], and has frequent arguments with [[MarionetteMaster Sasori]] over it. His sole motive is to blow up things; the fact that he can get paid for it by Akatsuki is just extra. He doesn't mind Sasori having differing opinions so much, but he can't stand his art being treated with indifference by Itachi and Sasuke, the latter of whom finally beats him. [[spoiler:Ultimately, he decides to blow himself up, trying to take Sasuke with him- not for defeating him, mind you, but for the whole indifference thing. Sasuke has an OhCrap reaction, so... that was a small victory for Deidara... supposedly?]] |
| 56 | * Gokudera from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' keeps a near-endless supply of sticks of dynamite concealed on his person at all times. Like his [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]], he's quite a bit unstable, but he's not one of the villains of the story, as he was a test of Reborn's to start with and [[DefeatMeansFriendship converts to Tsuna's side]] after Tsuna defuses ''all'' of his bombs with his dying will in order to avoid dying, and becomes his [[HoYay obsessively]] [[BodyguardCrush devoted]] self-described 'right-hand man.' Tsuna [[IJustWantToBeNormal prefers to think of him as a friend]]. |
| 57 | * The Playing Card Bomber from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is a sadistic psychopath who stakes people's lives on a game of solitaire (the anime changed it to a guessing game involving balloons - probably to keep the number of card games down to one), by detonating bombs depending on the player's choices. Guess who [[Creator/RyuseiNakao did the voice]] for this guy. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' presents to us Karasu, a demon specialized in channeling his energy to create explosives and one of the members of Team Toguro during the Dark Tournament Arc. |
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| 61 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 62 | * 'Twitch', one of the CarnivalOfKillers, who pursues ComicBook/{{Batman}} in the ''Batman vs Franchise/{{Predator}} II'' mini-series. Comes closest of all the killers to actually offing Batman. |
| 63 | * One ''ComicBook/CaptainKlutz'' adventure has the eponymous superhero dealing with Mervin the Mad Bomber, who is blowing up buildings all over the city, and is also a MasterOfDisguise. |
| 64 | * ''Dynamite Joe''. [[http://www.superdickery.com/dynamite-joe-the-us-pulls-out-joe-remains-with-his-bow-and-arrow/ Observe]]. The answer, obviously, is "because he can't duct tape a dynamite stick to a bullet and mortars are no fun". |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/FirestormDCComics'': A rarity for this character type is the villainess Plastique in Franchise/TheDCU, one of the few times a mad bomber is female. Unlike most examples also, she was also fairly inept and had for a brief time [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]], but now she's back to bomb-throwing. |
| 66 | * In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #30, Indy is forced into an [[TeethClenchedTeamwork unwilling partnership]] with IRA agent Michael Cobb. Cobb's preferred weapon is dynamite, and he wears an overcoat lined with sticks of it. He even refers to explosions as his 'calling card'. |
| 67 | * ''Franchise/GIJoe'': |
| 68 | ** In the ''Reloaded'' continuity, Firefly is a [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist for hire]] who listens to energetic classical music (such as [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven's]] Fifth) while on the job and reacts to the thought of the train he's hitting not even having the person he's supposed to get with: |
| 69 | --->'''Firefly:''' If this is the wrong train after all this work...I am gonna laugh ''so freakin' hard''. |
| 70 | ** Before being revamped into a ninja, Snake-Eyes was a rather bomb-crazy commando with a penchant for using ten times the C4 he really should. In the ''GI Joe: Declassified'' mini-series, he even uses it to make coffee.[[note]]You ''can'' actually use C4 to make coffee as it can be burned without exploding. US soldiers in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar were known to do this. However, it does give off toxic fumes when burning so it's not recommended.[[/note]] |
| 71 | * The ''ComicBook/SinCity'' story "The Big Fat Kill" has Brian, a former IRA member turned mercenary who has a quote on the quotes page that is a pretty serious KickTheDog and potentially [[NightmareFuel/SinCity Nightmare Fuel]]. |
| 72 | -->''"Y'see, I'm not too fond of shootin'. It's my preference to blow things up. Once you blast the roof off a pub and see all the parts flying off people, a little bang-bang's never gonna match the sight of that."'' |
| 73 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 74 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn The Green Goblin]] and Hobgoblin of ComicBook/SpiderMan's RoguesGallery, whose main method of attack is throwing bombs disguised as pumpkins. |
| 75 | ** More notably is the supervillain Nitro, who can self-detonate and then reform himself. [[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 A chemically enhanced use of his power caused the destruction of Stamford, killing over 600 people and the]] ComicBook/NewWarriors, setting off a series of events that led fellow Mad Bomber [[ComicBook/DarkReign Norman Osborn into power]]. |
| 76 | * Surprisingly enough, [[LovableCoward Galeazzo Musolesi]] from ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' can't resist blowing up any train he sees... Following with [[BlatantLies blaming the enemy or saboteurs even if everyone saw him]]. |
| 77 | * In ''ComicBook/TinusTrotyl'', an old Dutch comic, the eponymous AntiHero protagonist is one of these. Whether it was a clogged drain or being kidnapped by terrorists, he solved the problem by [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]]. |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/TheWildStorm'': Kenesha is a long-lived alien in human guise with a savant streak, normally appearing calm and composed... until the subject of "explody" comes up, and she starts grinning like a loon (and, according to Cole Cash, giggling in a very creepy fashion). |
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| 81 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 82 | * '''Fanfic/DistortionsSymphogear''': Caprice Calcattera, a member of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad White Unit]] of the [[BigBad Four Horsemen]], is their explosives expert and most of the time it seems she only cares about creating more powerful explosives and creating chaos them. |
| 83 | * Bakuda of ''Fanfic/HowToDrillYourWayThroughYourProblems'' is in fine form, except now she has a [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann giant robot]]. She's also [[AdaptationalHeroism much nicer]] than in [[Literature/{{Worm}} canon.]] |
| 84 | * ''Fanfic/MegaManReawakened'' has Top Man and Crash Man. |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': Nyx, Zim's new minion introduced in Season 2, is literally a {{Bomb Throwing Anarchist|s}} who likes blowing stuff up in the name of revolution. |
| 86 | * The titular character of ''Fanfic/OldManHenderson'' is schizophrenic, has The Anarchist's Cookbook memorized, killed [[spoiler: Hastur the Great Old One]] with a ''HOCKEY RINK'' packed full of explosives, and at one point managed to avoid getting charged with arson by blowing up the rubble of the building he had torched so thoroughly there were no traces of his presence left. |
| 87 | * In ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', a ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfiction, Left, one of Queen Jade's two sentient Shadowkhan servants, has a habit of using dynamite as a weapon. When asked why, he says "I like the boom." |
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| 90 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 91 | * A rare case of this character type not being a villain: Vincenzo 'Vinny' Santorini from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon movie ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. Vinny is a crewman who is often a little too eager to find a way to use explosives to solve a problem. Of course, they do mention they got him out of ''a Turkish prison''. The tale of how he grew to find his love of explosions definitely paints him as a less insane, more functional variant of these. |
| 92 | -->'''Vinny:''' Anyway, I think there was this leak next door of gas, or whatever, ''BOOM!'' [[StuffBlowingUp No more Chinese laundry]]. Blew me right through the front window. It was like a sign from God, I ''found'' myself in that boom. |
| 93 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' has an EnemyMime who doubles as a Mad Bomber known as Bomb Voyage. |
| 94 | * The main villain of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', Lord Shen, was an evil peacock who was obsessed with explosives. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 98 | * One of these appears briefly in the horror-comedy ''Film/{{Alligator}}''; the policeman protagonist ends up [[spoiler:using the man's confiscated explosive device to destroy the eponymous reptile]]. |
| 99 | * ''Film/BlownAway'' has Ryan Gaerity (Creator/TommyLeeJones), an {{Irish|Explosives Expert}} terrorist who was imprisoned at the time of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles. He does not care about any cause but just loves to blow things up, and is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who's eager for {{revenge}} against a former comrade who instead used his DemolitionsExpert skills to become a BombDisposal unit cop in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}. |
| 100 | * ''Film/CasperASpiritedBeginning'': Bill Case, the professional bomber that Tim eventually hires to blow up Applegate Mansion, is very eager to finish the job. He won't even listen when Tim tries to call off the bombing when he learns Chris is locked in the house, and when Sheila manages to knock him out of the tree he's hiding in and take the detonator, he gleefully informs her that it makes no difference since there's a timer on the bomb itself as well. |
| 101 | * Wade "Film/CryBaby" Walker's father was the "Alphabet Bomber", who bombed buildings in alphabetical order. He got the electric chair. |
| 102 | * Washington in ''Film/DeadInTombstone''. When asked if he has enough dynamite, he replies "There is never enough dynamite". |
| 103 | ** Craven in ''Film/DeadAgainInTombstone'' is very fond of dynamite and gets a look of manic glee on his face when Boomer instructs him to blast the chest out of the stagecoach. |
| 104 | * The reason why Christian is in the mental institute of ''Film/TheDeadPit'' is because he developed these tendencies in the army. |
| 105 | * Firefly in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''. He even gets a brief speech on how much he likes blowing stuff up. |
| 106 | * Rocket, from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', although he likes just about any big weapon. "That's for if things get really hardcore. Or if you wanna blow up moons." |
| 107 | * The 1991 western film, ''Film/{{The Gunslinger|1991}}'' has an MB bank robber henchman known as ‘Crazy’ Stick Callahan. He blows open bank vaults and is always eager to use his dynamite. At an outlaw campsite: |
| 108 | --> '''Stick Callahan:''' You know Mcclure, one of these days I’m gonna take a stick of dynamite and put it right in your campfire.\ |
| 109 | '''Bank robber Dawson Mcclure:''' (Gun barrel on Callahan’s chin) That’ll be the last thing you’ll ever do boy.\ |
| 110 | '''Callahan:''' Okay. Okay. |
| 111 | * In ''Film/{{Justice|League2017}} [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]'', a group of self-described "reactionary" terrorists (the leader of which is played by Creator/MichaelMcElhatton) attacks the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court of England and Wales in London to bring humanity "back to the Dark Ages, to the safety of Holy Fear". They intend to blow it up, but Franchise/WonderWoman shows up just in time to ruin their plan. |
| 112 | * The villain in ''Film/{{Quick}}'' is setting off a series of explosions across the city. There is a definite method to his madness, however. |
| 113 | * ''Film/{{Rakka}}''. Nosh is a pyromaniac and bomb maker for LaResistance to an AlienInvasion--not that he has any problem with the latter as instead of being locked up as a dangerous maniac, he can now burn or blow up whatever he wants, whenever he wants. He knows the Resistance need him, and part of his payment involves providing him with TheBait to set bigger booby traps; people who are too sick to fight so can be expended in {{suicide attack}}s. |
| 114 | * The 1996 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''Literature/TheSecretAgent'' has an especially chilling example ([[PlayingAgainstType played by]] Creator/RobinWilliams), who seems to hate everyone, saying morality should be based on death instead of life. In the end, he [[SuicideAttack blows himself]] up in a crowded street simply due to his annoyance at the people around him by using a homemade bomb he's had strapped onto his body for the entire story beforehand. |
| 115 | * In ''Film/SerialKilling4Dummys'', Casey's best friend Amil has an unhealthy obsession with [=C4=], and keeps suggesting blowing stuff up as a solution. When he and Casey need to break into the school, he reveals that he carries a homemade-shaped charge with him at all times. [[WireDilemma But he has forgotten how he wired it...]] |
| 116 | * ''Film/SkyBandits'': Barney is a DemolitionsExpert, but he usually uses too much dynamite. When he and Luke are robbing banks, he usually winds up blowing up the bank rather than blowing the safe open. |
| 117 | * ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' has one: Nick Nitro of the Commando Elite. Demolition is his mission, and he can make explosives out of things like WD-40. |
| 118 | * Howard Payne, the BigBad of ''Film/{{Speed}}''. He is actually described as such during a news report, and he finds that very amusing. |
| 119 | * The first year twins in the 2007 ''Film/{{St Trinians|2007}}'' movie. |
| 120 | * Dennis Hopper played another villainous Mad Bomber in ''Film/{{Ticker}}'', seemingly an allusion to his ''Speed'' role. Being made by the infamous Albert Pyun, the film is made by stitching together various explosion clips from the cutting room floor throughout Pyun's career. |
| 121 | * Cary from ''Film/{{Super 8}}''. As Joe's dad puts it: "I got nothing against your friends, I like your friends. Except for Cary, who can't seem to stop lighting things on fire." |
| 122 | * Cody, the special effects guy from ''Film/TropicThunder''. |
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| 125 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 126 | * In several ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels Captain Federer, the head of the sappers attached to the Valhallian 597th, makes an appearance. Although not a villain, Federer is described as having "an unhealthy enthusiasm" for explosives and his eyes getting a "dreamy quality" at the thought of setting off an explosion that is measured in gigatonnes. When said explosion is set off, it winds up covering ''half a planet'' with the dust cloud. And before that, he rigged the battlefield to blow up the advancing [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] [[AMechByAnyOtherName Gargant]] -- a [[MilitaryMashupMachine cobbled-together behemoth of a war machine]] able to fight several Necron Monoliths at once and ''win''; and would've certainly blow ''it'' up if not for a changed tactical situation. It was openly stated in the books that he's a former Adeptus Mechanicus acolyte and was expelled from the seminary exactly for his unhealthy fascination with StuffBlowingUp. (Rumor goes on to add that he ''blew up the seminary''). Praise the Emperor that the Guard gave him a productive outlet for his hobbies. |
| 127 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Not his only method of killing by any means, but Kincaid has a somewhat disturbing tendency to jump to "high explosives" as the solution to all life's ills. Harry, [[PopCulturedBadass being Harry]], nicknames this the "[[Franchise/TheMuppets Bolshevik Muppet]] solution". |
| 128 | * In one of the books of ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' series, Geary wonders whether the engineers will be able to jury-rig several wrecked ships' power cores to turn the ships into a super-minefield. An engineering watchstander tells him, "that's the sort of challenge any good weapons engineer would do just for the love of it. Making something really big blow up in a new way? It doesn't get any better than that." They also wanted to blow open the cargo holds on some captured ships. Geary asked if the Engineers wanted help from the Marines. They were informed that "Engineers are better than Marines at blowing stuff up." His answer "We will hold a contest someday." |
| 129 | * Mr. Red from ''Demolition Angel'' by Robert Crais is a cross between this and PsychoForHire. |
| 130 | * Most of the sappers serving in the Malazan army in the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' have this to some degree. This is likely a pre-requisite for the job, however, as they're essentially rushing across a killing field carrying volatile explosives which they have to plant and then run away from before they explode. [[DemolitionsExpert Fiddler]] lampshades it occasionally, pointing out just how crazy and dangerous using Moranth munitions can be. This is most evident during one assault when one of the sappers runs back to the lines laughing hysterically. Everyone who sees this takes cover because a laughing sapper means they probably used ''all the munitions they had''. |
| 131 | * ''Literature/{{Renegades}}'': Ingrid Thompson, better known as The Detonator, has the ability to create explosives that she can blow up with her mind, and really, ''really'' loves to use them, preferably to ruin Renegades' day. |
| 132 | * ''Literature/TheSecretAgent'': The Professor is this, being a sociopath and keeping a bomb on him that could kill anyone near him. |
| 133 | * In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Aerys the Mad King had enormous caches of jars filled with "[[GreekFire wildfire]]" hidden throughout the capital city to make it explode and burn to prevent it from falling into the hands of LaResistance. |
| 134 | * Trashcan Man from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheStand'' is a pyromaniac tinkerer and one of the best Mad Bombers in fiction. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/TeenPowerInc'': In ''Danger in Rhyme'', the villain blows up places that rhyme with the lyrics in the song "This Old Man" [[spoiler:However, [[SubvertedTrope the bombings]] are only [[SerialKillingsSpecificTarget meant to cover up]] some InsuranceFraud.]] |
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| 138 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 139 | * ''Series/{{Alcatraz}}'' has Paxton Petty, who was a combat engineer in the Korean War and felt that the government betrayed him after some Korean civilians are killed by his landmines and he is blamed. To get revenge, he starts planting landmines in public places around San Francisco. He even tries to put landmines in the playground of an elementary school. The thought of a bomb disposal expert being killed disarming one of his bombs fills him with joy. He even uses a landmine as a grenade when escaping the cops. |
| 140 | * ''Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse'': Much of its crew enjoys blowing things up. |
| 141 | * ''Series/BurnNotice'': |
| 142 | ** This is the hat of Fiona Glennane. She's got a reputation for being AxCrazy, too, which she uses to great effect a number of times when interrogating bad guys. It's good she's on Michael's side. And yet, even ''she'' is [[EvenEvilHasStandards appalled]] by IRA freelancer Thomas O'Neill, who basically sets off bombs [[ForTheEvulz just for the thrill of blowing people up]], the more, the better. Innocent women and children? All the better! He even goes as far as to put ''rat poison'' in his bombs, because it contains an anticoagulant, and makes his victims bleed more.[[note]][[https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/mlk-parade-bomber Sadly]], this is TruthInTelevision.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Don't worry. Like any good [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]], he gets his by the end of the episode.]] |
| 143 | ** Lastly, there was a [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] who thought he was a VigilanteMan but was actually more like an unhinged KnightTemplar. Compounding the problem was the fact that the bomber had no problem with harming potential innocents, and that he used radio detonators that could be set off by other radios, such as a passing ambulance or cop car. |
| 144 | * The ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Sabotage" featured a perp (loosely based on the Unabomber) who would send his targets bombs inside beautiful hand-carved wooden boxes as a form of protest against modern society and the growing preference towards the disposable. His FreudianExcuse ''almost'' makes you feel sorry for him: he lost his job to outsourcing, lost his childhood home to land development by a software firm that went under shortly after it started, his daughter died due to losing his healthcare benefits which led to his divorce. That is, until you learn that one of his victims was a store employee who ''didn't refund a shower radio one day after the return date'' and he also tries to blow up his brother's wife and child for no apparent reason other than the fact that his brother ''works in a bank'' and stopped supporting him after an argument. (That bomb ended up maiming a totally innocent person when it went off.) |
| 145 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': |
| 146 | ** Adrian Bale, "The Boston Shrapnel Bomber". He was responsible for killing 6 FBI agents and a hostage after Jason Gideon's attempt to negotiate failed. This caused Gideon to take a medical leave until the events of the pilot of the series. |
| 147 | ** David Walker from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E3WontGetFooledAgain Won't Get Fooled Again]]". A Florida-based con artist [[JackTheRipoff turned copycat]] of Bale, his first victim was a woman who realized the antique he had sold to her was a forgery. Later, he began to [[YouGotMurder send bombs to random people]] to throw the police off. |
| 148 | * Music/JustinBieber had a guest role on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' as a serial killer and serial bomber. |
| 149 | * Mac Taylor and his team pursue a mad bomber in the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Charge of this Post." He was using bombs to prove how unprepared the city was to defend itself against such terrorism. |
| 150 | * Lance Corporal Jones from ''Series/DadsArmy'' mentions in one episode (where the platoon has gone to a training camp for explosives) that he used to be called "The Mad Bomber" during the First World War. He said this to the officer running the camp, who was already on the verge of having a nervous breakdown because of all the other over-eager Home Guard platoons that had been through before the show's main characters. |
| 151 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': Ace, perhaps the only heroic example of this trope. She carried around a backpack full of homemade explosives which she was very quick to use, at least early on. |
| 152 | ** The Doctor was also quite adamant about her not carrying those around. However, he did appreciate their usefulness... |
| 153 | --->'''The Doctor:''' You wouldn't [be doing] anything so insanely dangerous as to be carrying any Nitro 9 around with you, would you?\ |
| 154 | '''Ace:''' [[BlatantLies Of course not. I'm a good girl, I do what I'm told.]]\ |
| 155 | '''The Doctor:''' Excellent! [[HypocriticalHumor Blow up that vehicle.]] |
| 156 | ** ...and again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]]... |
| 157 | --->'''The Doctor:''' ''[pointing at Ace's backpack]'' You're not carrying any Nitro 9 explosives in there?\ |
| 158 | '''Ace:''' No.\ |
| 159 | ''[later, when a Dalek appears and starts shooting everything in sight...]''\ |
| 160 | '''The Doctor:''' Ace! Give me some of that Nitro 9 you're not carrying! |
| 161 | * The ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' series finale features Marcus Faber, who plants bombs at random locations around the city because he wants people to "realize" that no one is looking out for them, culminating in a plan to bomb the triage center where victims from earlier attacks are being treated. The SRU manage to stop some of his plans, including the triage center bombing, but four bombs still go off, to devastating effect. |
| 162 | %%** Also "One Wrong Move". Especially the older bomber. |
| 163 | * ''Series/TheFugitive2020'': The real culprit is revealed to be an angry demolitions expert who was injured and denied his deserved compensation from a wealthy businessman. After this, his life fell apart, losing his job, wife, and child. He bombs a train the businessman was riding, murdering him and about twenty bystanders. Later he bombs the courthouse for the courts ruling for the businessman. The last target is the insurance company which denied his claims, but that gets stopped. A viewer can sympathize about his grievances, but he deliberately targeted innocent people with no part in what happened to him, aiming for maximum casualties, which puts him beyond the pale. |
| 164 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Cersei outdoes the Mad King and actually manages to "burn them all" when she blows her King's Landing enemies in a wildfire plot. |
| 165 | * Inverted with Carter in ''Series/HogansHeroes'', who is actually very friendly, enthusiastic, and amiably [[TheDitz clueless]] about most things. He just really likes his explosives, to the point of being depressed that he had to send several of his handmade bombs to be dropped on a Nazi facility without getting to go along and watch, comparing it to sending a child off into the world. In one episode, he also complains about how his bombs were a minute late going off. Guy really loves explosives. Of course, this is played for comedy since Lebeau had to quickly snatch a file from the room. |
| 166 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': After his father is murdered on [[BigBad Luther Mahoney]]'s orders and both Mahoney and the hitman get off scot-free, Ben Roh starts using bombs to kill everyone he blames for his father's death and the trial's verdict. Ironically, he never goes after Luther; when Kellerman asks him why, Ben admit he was saving him for last. |
| 167 | * Prometheus from the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "The Prometheus Syndrome": a psychopathic arsonist leaving firebombs around the city seemingly at random. |
| 168 | * ''Series/MythBusters''. They just blow up everything they can. |
| 169 | -->"The only thing that separates us from a couple 14-year-old pyromaniacs is ballistic glass." |
| 170 | * Originally in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', [[BigBad Divatox]] specialized in "implosion devices" (used once in the previous series, where Billy claimed it was "like a bomb but nastier") and would often instruct the MonsterOfTheWeek to plant them. She abandoned this strategy about halfway through the series. |
| 171 | * ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' gives us Gem and Gemma, the [[SixthRanger Sixth and Seventh Ranger]] CreepyTwins who are ''extremely'' happy to blow things up... with somewhat less than ideal regard for the collateral damage. |
| 172 | * ''Series/ThePunisher2017'': Lewis Wilson is an ex-Army soldier who has crippling PTSD. It's so bad that he tries to get a job with Billy Russo's private military contractor firm Anvil to go back into combat situations. A series of bad experiences culminate in him building bombs and setting them off at several government installations in Manhattan. He then targets ''New York Bulletin'' reporter Karen Page for saying negative things about him. Frank rescues her, and Lewis subsequently kills himself with a suicide vest. |
| 173 | * A more comedic nice guy example: [[Creator/GrahamGreeneActor Edgar Montrose]] from ''Series/TheRedGreenShow''. While he's considered at times to be the local bomb squad, he once refuted the claim of being an expert; instead, he's more of an enthusiast. His catchphrase? KABOOM! |
| 174 | -->'''Edgar''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext These new tractors that they're buildin' these days, they're very brittle.]] |
| 175 | * Captain Gunpowder from ''Series/WildBoys''. He has the nickname for a reason. |
| 176 | * ''Series/VeronicaMars'': In season 4, Neptune is plagued by a series of bombings committed by a deranged serial killer who even starts playing CriminalMindGames with the authorities. [[spoiler:It turns out that there's actually ''two'' separate bombers: the first, Perry Walsh, was hired by "Big" Dick Casablancas to further a scam, the second, Penn Epner, is a copycat who started his own series of bombings based on what he mistakenly believed to be the original bomber's modus operandi.]] |
| 177 | * ''Series/YancyDerringer'': In "Nightmare on Bourbon Street", a mysterious mad bomber steals explosives and threatens to blow up the entire city of New Orleans. |
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| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 181 | * Music/DoctorSteel: |
| 182 | ** "Lament for a Toy Factory". |
| 183 | -->''All through the night, as I laughed I set off my explosives!\ |
| 184 | ''[screams]'' YAAAAA YA YA YAAAAA YA YA YAAAA YA YAAAAA YA YAAAA YAAAA!\ |
| 185 | But alas, I was detained, and they labeled me 'Criminally insane.''' |
| 186 | ** Also, "Drop da Bomb". |
| 187 | --->''Tick tick ticking time bomb on a chain in a padded room/Kaboom zoom and I'm out of here soon\ |
| 188 | Well gosh darn, and it feels so right/Setting off explosives on a Saturday night'' |
| 189 | * Music/TheMegas: Bomb Man's entire song is about how he intends to blow everything up. The Megas make some Robot Masters very sympathetic, and make you feel bad for them when Mega Man eventually kills them; Bomb Man is [[AxCrazy the other kind]]. |
| 190 | -->''You lit a fuse inside me, and now my instincts guide me through, to what I must do... (CUE EXPLOSION!)'' |
| 191 | * Music/TendonLevey's "A Boy and His Bomb". |
| 192 | * Keith Moon from Music/TheWho. He was said to have ordered hundreds of firecrackers when the band first toured America, proceeding to spend the next several years working his way through them. His love of pyrotechnics became part of the band's act, with his drum kit being rigged with explosives (as seen in a famous incident on ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)'', but he was particularly fond of dropping cherry bombs down toilets. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 196 | %%* The protagonist in the "Firestorm" table of ''VideoGame/BallsOfSteel''. |
| 197 | * ''Pinball/{{Heist}}'': Downplayed with "Leo" Myshkin. He's a professional demolitions expert who seems relatively mentally stable, but he tends to be eager to blow things up and sometimes laughs heartily when they do. |
| 198 | %%* One of the [[UnlockableContent "Supergame" modes]] in ''Pinball/JudgeDredd'' requires the player to stop a bomber in Mega-City One. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 202 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' boasts a more comedic example in Crazy Harry. He carries a detonator on his person at all times, and if, Earth forbid, [[SpeakOfTheDevil you should say an explosives-related word in his earshot]], he'll pop up, ask "Did somebody say '[insert word here]'?" and then push the plunger, cackling like the maniac he is. Sometimes, Harry uses his detonator for musical purposes; for example, his climactic duet with Jean Stapleton of "I'm Just Wild About Harry" with his explodaphone, or "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfFRiK36dZk Chanson D'Amour]]." |
| 203 | * The Creator/SandraBullock episode of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' had a parody of Howard Payne who was simply called "the Mad Bomber". [[ActorAllusion The bomb would explode if the ratings were under 50.]] He turned out to be [[spoiler: Sandra Bullock in disguise]]. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
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| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 208 | * ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' has the Goblin star player Bomber Dribblesnot, whose gimmick and sole focus in life is cheerfully blowing other players up with his big sack of cartoon-style bombs. |
| 209 | * The Jammers of ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' prefer destroying [[PlaceOfPower feng shui sites]] to capturing them, their reasoning being that no one deserves to be enslaved by the forces of Chi as the people of 2056 are, and that only by blowing up every feng shui site in existence will humanity truly be free. They love blowing up these sites so much that their BattleCry is "BLOW THINGS UP! BLOW THINGS UP!" In the second edition, all of that has changed. When the Jammers detonated the weapon known as the Chi Bomb to destroy every feng shui site in the Future juncture, not only did they wipe out the Buro and the Architects of the Flesh that they originally formed to fight, but also 97% of humanity in that juncture, as well as unleashing serious environmental devastation across the world with the eradication of the future world's Chi. The Jammers since changed their tune, seeking to capture enough sites to try to undo this devastation, preferably in a way that prevents the Buro and the Architects from ever rising again. |
| 210 | * ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has at least two such characters. Tinkersdam of Gond, the alchemist from novels is a MadScientist of many interests, but he ended up repeatedly exiled from just about everywhere for causing explosions and upon establishing his own lair/laboratory continued to make explosives, including directed-blast devices, for friends and regular clients... time fuses are his weak side, though. [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rp/20010725a Irilivar Celevessin]] is one of few elves who ''like'' smokepowder and spectacular destruction in general. He was eventually employed as an assassin with specialization in bomb-throwing and explosive booby-traps, supplied with smokepowder and given tasks that keep him away from the home. |
| 211 | * Durgen Madhammer, a PsychoForHire from the ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'', is this to such a degree that he rarely works for anyone twice because all but the most demented employers see the carnage he leaves behind and decides not to try that again. |
| 212 | * Papa Loco and Willie the Demolitionist of ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'' are both obsessed with explosives, lobbing sticks of dynamite as their primary attack. Willie has the excuse that it's his job, but his disregard for safety measures extends to pushing around a wheelbarrow full of dynamite. Papa Loco puts the emphasis on "mad," going about in an unstrapped straightjacket and frequently damaging himself and his allies as much as his enemies. |
| 213 | * The Alchemist class in ''{{TabletopGame/Pathfinder}}''. Tossing off various {{Trick Bomb}}s is one of their two main class features (the other being drinking PsychoSerum). Some archetypes (class modifications) drop this aspect, but on the other hand, others dial it up. The "mad" part comes from alchemists generally being "ForScience" types prone to drinking dangerous concoctions; thanks to their Mutagen even the sanest have an extremely pronounced JekyllAndHyde syndrome. And that's not counting the massive potential for self-experimentation. |
| 214 | * In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', [[MadScientist Baron Blade's]] alternate version is Mad Bomber Blade, who is planting explosives and traps around the environment. He dispenses with the normal minions and defensive systems his regular version employs. Instead, anytime his deck draws a minion or device with hit points, they instead go underneath his villain card and they increase the damage he inflicts every turn, representing the bombs he has planted. When he takes enough damage to flip to his other side, all the cards he's collected detonate, dealing even more damage to the players. |
| 215 | ** The Bomb Specialist from Sergeant Steel's deck is effectively [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 the Demoman]] as an attractive woman but with even less self-control. In the storyline, she actually ends up killing her entire team by building a bomb ''she can't turn off'' (as seen on the Incapacitated side of Sergeant Steel's character cards). |
| 216 | * Orks of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' love [[MoreDakka dakka]] and things that go boom (accuracy fully optional). Within Ork society, two sub-groups epitomise this trope - the Stikkbommas, who love blowing anything up with their trademark tin-can-of-explosives-on-a-stick grenades, and the Tankbustaz, who love blowing up enemy tanks and vehicles more than anything else. All Orks tend towards the obsessive and monomaniacal - these are just the ones whose mania happens to be bombs. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/BlueArchive'' has two. One of them, Millennium student Akane, views 'cleaning' to involve prominent use of explosives (with the costs to repair the damage often annoying Yuuka). The other, suspended student Wakamo, is a straight-up anarchist. |
| 221 | * ''VideoGame/BombClub'': Out of the 4 club members, Blake is the most eager to make things go boom. She even made the Bomberbot so that she doesn't have to deal with the tedious process of safety set-up, and can just blow things up after the robot does all the legwork. |
| 222 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' is a rare heroic (and non-mad) serial bomb-planter, but even he can pick up a disease in multiplayer that causes him to drop bombs uncontrollably. |
| 223 | * The AxCrazy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Wg9i3UNOY Assault Bomber]] in ''VideoGame/BombermanGeneration'' manages to combine this trope with TriggerHappy. |
| 224 | * ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'': |
| 225 | ** ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' has Brick the Berserker, whose whole play-style involves getting right into the face of the stupid bandit who shot him and blowing him into meaty chunks with a rocket launcher. He's not the nicest of guys when he's mad and he can blow you up ''with just his fists.'' |
| 226 | ** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': |
| 227 | *** Tiny Tina is 13 years old, lives on [[DeathWorld Pandora]], and is totally off her nut. She's also the most proficient bomb maker on the planet, personally recommended by Roland himself. She becomes friends with Brick as they share a mutual love of explosives. |
| 228 | *** One of the game's earliest boss fights is against Bandit explosive expert Boom and his midget shotgunner brother Bewm. Boom loves the word "boom" and shouts it madly throughout the fight. When killed, they both drop several grenade mods |
| 229 | *** BreakoutMookCharacter Krieg the Psycho has several skills related to explosives; most of them relate to improving his grenade abilities and encouraging him to use them more, but by far the most memorable is his skill "Light The Fuses." This changes his 'downed' state from crawling around slowly with a gun to ''running full pelt while carrying lit dynamite.'' He may elect to throw sticks of dynamite to score the necessary kill for revival, but most of the time the best solution is [[SuicideAttack to charge blindly at an enemy and self-detonate]] just like the suicide psychos. This actually counts as a revival kill and Krieg returns to life on the spot. |
| 230 | *** Torgue is an entire company dedicated to producing explosives and guns that blow shit up and is run by Mister Torgue [[spoiler: High-Five]] Flexington. Torgue guns use gyrojets in their ammo to have that extra explosion to every shot and grenades and class mods to blow more shit up. |
| 231 | *** Axton the Commando, who loves showboating and action, uses explosives heavily in his "Gunpowder" skill tree and has multiple class mods that boost his grenades and how many he can carry. |
| 232 | * General Rodall "Demo" Juhziz from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' certainly qualifies. Also, most explosive-oriented GLA units seem to have a manic streak in their personalities, when it comes to explosives. Terrorists who blow themselves up, Bomb trucks who do the same... And SCUD launchers who are not so self-destructive, but nonetheless love their explosives to bits. |
| 233 | * ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'': Ripper Roo. Any time you face him, you can expect plenty of TNT crates everywhere. Luckily they have a fuse, so you can blow him up with his own bombs safely. In [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996 the first game]], the explosive crates in Ripper Roo's stage are just an environmental hazard; but in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', Roo intentionally uses them to attack Crash, and also uses the more dangerous Nitro crates. |
| 234 | * Miniboss Roger Red Ant in ''VideoGame/{{Croc}} 2''. |
| 235 | * The Mad Dok unit in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' is capable of dropping a bomb that deals ridiculous amounts of damage and KnockBack, but requires him to get very close to the enemy in order to drop it. Good thing he has a skill that can make him invulnerable and another that lets him quickly regenerate. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/DemonHunterTheReturnOfTheWings'': Liam is known as the Bombing Demon, for his attitude and use of machines that could wipe out the entire Gehena is not deactivated. |
| 237 | * In ''VideoGame/Destiny2: Forsaken'', one of the Scorned Barons is Kaniks, whose title is "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Mad Bomber]]." He's a chortling PsychopathicManchild who chucks grenades and leaves mines everywhere. |
| 238 | * As if Kefka Palazzo wasn't insane or psychotic enough in his [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI original game]], he was also given traits of this trope in the ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' subseries. During gameplay, Kefka uses a certain spell (Ultima) and, upon its detonation, he goes into a laughing fit. Story mode for the first game makes this worse, as he often utilizes the Ultima spells (or at least spell orbs that heavily resemble Ultima) during cutscenes and is cackling maniacally upon their exploding on three separate occasions: The first is when Terra first encounters him in order to get Terra to draw out her powers ("[[SarcasmMode You're lying!]] Oh no. Look, here's another enemy for you!"). The second time is when he is actually fighting Terra, constantly bombarding her with spells [[LaughingMad while really losing it in laughter]]. The third time is during Shade Impulse shortly before fighting Terra, where he launches an Ultima at her, and yet again cackles insanely. |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'': |
| 240 | ** [[http://images.wikia.com/donkeykong/images/e/eb/DKCR_PR_21.jpg Stu]] has only ''one'' attack that doesn't involve throwing various kinds of bombs from the pot he's in (swooping at you). The rest are all explosive-based, and to beat him, you have to throw his {{Cartoon Bomb}}s [[TennisBoss back at him]]. The "mad" part comes from the fact that he's BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 241 | ** The Kowalees in [[spoiler:the Golden Temple level]] frequently toss bombs at the Kongs, who have to toss them back at them to defeat them. |
| 242 | * ''Videogame/{{DOTA 2}}'' has the Techies, originally based on the goblin sapper unit from ''Warcraft III'' when the game was still a mod. They're insanely eager to blow up both things and people. The backstory mentions they've wiped out at least three towns entirely. Naturally, they're more than happy to put their talents to work on the battlefield and will cackle with glee every time someone dies in their minefields. |
| 243 | * Dworkin Glavonak in the ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' expansion is introduced luring a bunch of Darkspawn to one of his hidden explosives and laughing in glee as they go down in flames. During the "Bombs Away!" side quest you can provide him the raw materials he'll need to create new bombs. His brother certainly thinks he's nuts and mentions that Dworkin has lost at least three or four apprentices due to the risks of experimenting with explosive materials. If you ignore him and tell Dworkin to go nuts with the material, the bombs he makes will have the same effect as the Mage ''Inferno'' spell. |
| 244 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': |
| 245 | ** The DLC ''Gun Runners' Arsenal'' adds the Mad Bomber perk. The perk lets you make bombs out of tin cans, more efficient versions of mines you already have, more destructive versions of time bombs, cheap grenades from laser gun batteries, and ''nasty'' radioactive tin can bombs that use Nuka-Cola as fissile material. The kicker, however, is the Fat Mine: a mini-nuke rigged with a proximity fuse. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Overkill achieved.]] |
| 246 | ** In-universe, there's the Boomers, a particularly trigger-happy faction who reside in Nellis Air Force Base and have an arsenal of explosives to themselves. They were originally from Vault 34, which had an overstocked armory and left the vault when they weren't allowed to use the really destructive stuff (though they at least ''tend'' to keep away from using nukes). They are fiercely territorial, with their response to anyone approaching them being mortar fire. By the end of their quest, you help them get the "Lady of the Lake". A [[{{UsefulNotesSuperiorFirepowerBombers}} B29 bomber sunk there back in the 50's.]] In fact, by the game's end, at [[spoiler: the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, they fly it towards the Dam to help you and bomb the faction of your choice. Afterwards, the bomber makes many would-be raiders of Nellis AFB [[GunboatDiplomacy think twice about attacking them]]. ]] |
| 247 | * Klee from ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' is an enthusiastic little girl who loves lobbing her homemade bombs around the environment without a care in the world. The other Knights of Favonius have to keep her in check so that she doesn't create too much damage. Even after being punished for her destructiveness many times, she never stops creating and using her explosives with gusto. |
| 248 | * Architect from ''VideoGame/GirlsFrontline''. While [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} spacier]], [[GenkiGirl livelier]] and less malicious than most examples, she loves blowing things up, whether it's with a Jupiter Cannon emplacement or her [[NukeEm mini-nuke launcher]]. |
| 249 | * One mission in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' involves fighting a legion of madmen high on [[FantasticDrug Spank]] with [[ActionBomb bombs strapped to their chests]]. |
| 250 | * In ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'': |
| 251 | ** There is a card called Mad Bomber. It is, of course, a goblin who throws out three explosives at random targets ([[RandomNumberGod friendly]] or otherwise) when he is played. Also, the ''Goblins vs. Gnomes'' expansion introduced the Madder Bomber (which is used as the image for this page), a bigger version of the Mad Bomber who throws out SIX random bombs on summon. ''The Deadmines'' added an [[SerialEscalation even bigger version]] called Maddest Bomber, who throws '''TWELVE''' bombs. |
| 252 | ** Goblins as a whole have a running theme of throwing bombs in the game. About two-thirds of all goblins involve explosives, usually with an element of randomness. This is carried over and exaggerated from their ''Warcraft'' depiction pre-Cataclysm. |
| 253 | ** ''Kobolds & Catacombs'' introduced a kobold named Pathmaker Hamm who's obsessed with explosives. He's a Dungeon Run boss and most of his fight involves throwing out bombs everywhere. |
| 254 | * ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance''. It's something of an occupational hazard when you're hiring mercenaries because all the ''sane'' {{Demolitions Expert}}s have the option of taking nice safe civilian jobs knocking down derelict buildings or doing visual effects for Hollywood movies instead of getting shot at in some BananaRepublic (there was a similar problem with finding competent medics). In the second game, after [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Association of International Mercenaries]] has become more legitimate and reputable and has a better list of recruits to choose from, they sack every single one of the Mad Bomber types from their roster... and ''still'' end up with at least two bomb-crazy psychos on the payroll. To wit: |
| 255 | ** Fidel Dahan is not only insubordinate, but also a potential TeamKiller (if working alongside Hurl Cutter), and expresses a wish to be reincarnated as a crow so he can eat the eyes of the dead. |
| 256 | ** Lesley "Smoke" Peterson is a compulsive prankster who is famous for repeatedly short-fusing explosives (more often than not endangering lives in doing so) to troll people. [[KarmicDeath This led to his absence from the second game]], as some easily-missed text on [-AIM-]'s in-game website indicates one of his short-fuse pranks got him quite literally HoistByHisOwnPetard. |
| 257 | ** Bruce "Skitz" Bonner takes his nickname from his failed attempts to spell his disorder and will leave the team in disgust if not allowed to kill enough enemies. Skitz is explicitly only kept in roster because the other explosives experts they could find were worse. |
| 258 | ** Marty "Kaboom" Moffat stood too close to one detonation too many, causing him serious brain damage, and is now basically on the mental level of a four-year-old with a savant-like ability with explosives. |
| 259 | ** Ernie "Red" Spragg is even described by the narration as a "mad, mumbling Scotsman". |
| 260 | ** Larry Roachburn is good with explosives but also uses his body as a testbed for every single psychoactive chemical known to mankind, and some he invented himself. |
| 261 | ** Russell Hunter defies the trope and even markets himself as "the sane explosives guy". |
| 262 | ** Barry Unger is mentioned to be a sane and well-adjusted young man, but he is also very young and comes from a new breed of explosives experts that learned the trade from books rather than hard-won experience. |
| 263 | ** Trevor Colby is another subversion, being sane, well-adjusted, and very good with things that go "boom!". |
| 264 | * The villain in the Platform/{{Atari 2600}} game ''VideoGame/{{Kaboom}}'' is named The Mad Bomber. He spends the game dropping bombs and it's your job to catch them in buckets of water before they hit the ground and explode. |
| 265 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series, the main representative for the Bomb Ability, Poppy Bros, is a PerpetualSmiler, giving this sort of vibe. |
| 266 | * Ziggs from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a ranged magic user whose spells consist entirely of throwing various bombs at his opponents. And while his moral compass is more or less functional, his obsession with detonations is downright unhealthy, down to constant insane cackling. Even those he tries to commercialize he ends up overdoing to the point of uselessness (like the stuff he sold to a man that wanted to clean his chimney, which removed the filth, the chimney itself, and a chunk of the whole house). ''VideoGame/HextechMayhem'' even reveals that he considers explosions a form of art, to the point of refusing to team up with [[TheProfessor Heimerdinger]], due to him considering them science. |
| 267 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 268 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': There's a unique {{Elite Mook|s}} actually named the Mad Bomber. It used to be part of Richard's loyal servants before going berserk. It hides within a network of holes, and throws bombs at Link from a distance; these bombs have a shorter fuse than Link's. |
| 269 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Some rats constantly throw bombs at Link. According to their figurine entry in the Nintendo Gallery, they're called Bombchus (and are retroactively the inspiration for the mouse-shaped bombs that appear in other games in the series, even borrowing the name). |
| 270 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures'': Dark Link is not only called the trope word for word by one NPC, but he spends a third of the stages magicking up and dropping bombs on you that are ''half the size of the screen''. |
| 271 | * ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'': [[LevelEditor Create Mode]] has [[StuffBlowingUp Impact Bombs]], [[TimeBomb Trigger Bombs]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre Missiles]] are your friends for blowing up stuff, and you can drop [[MoreDakka as many as you want]]. There are also enemies and bosses who drop bombs as well. |
| 272 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'': |
| 273 | ** Bomb Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp'', to the point that he accompanies every entrance by screaming "BOMBS!!". The best dialogue in the game is between [[HamToHamCombat the pyromaniac Fire Man and Bomb Man.]] |
| 274 | ** Grenade Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' loved explosions so much that he secretly wanted to get blown up himself because he's masochistic. He cries, "That felt good!" when he explodes and dies. |
| 275 | ** Blast Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'' is so fond of explosions, he even tends to say that [[MadArtist explosion is indeed art]]. Not to mention that his lines contain [[HurricaneOfPuns loads of bomb-related puns]]. |
| 276 | * Fatman of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' is a guy obsessed enough with bombs to codename himself after the Nagasaki bomb, and manages the impressive feat of going rogue from a military unit that had already gone rogue to make his mark on history by blowing things up. Vamp even lampshades it by calling Fatman a 'stereotypical mad bomber'. |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'': There are two bosses with this behavior: Bomb Guardian (which attacks Samus with her own Morph Ball Bombs) and Power Bomb Guardian (which attacks with Power Bombs). They received these powerups from the Ings that stole Samus's gear early in the game and love spamming them during battle. |
| 278 | * ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': |
| 279 | ** Creepers. All they do is silently sneak up on you, hiss for a second and a half, and explode. If the explosion doesn't kill you, it'll do devastating damage to your health. |
| 280 | ** Ghasts (found only in the Nether), which throw fireballs at you. |
| 281 | ** If you have Mad Bomber tendencies yourself, you can blow stuff up with TNT or Fire Charges. Incidentally, to make these explosives, you need to get gunpowder by killing Ghasts or Creepers, the other two Mad Bombers in the game |
| 282 | ** The Wither. This thing is a killing machine and is a really very big threat to all players and mobs in the game. They summon Wither Bombs at the players or every living mob it sees in the game. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': |
| 284 | ** Brachydios, a Brute Wyvern introduced in ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate]]'', attacks with a volatile slime produced in its mouth. This slime explodes a few seconds after it's been placed in the floor or the opponent's body, causing a ''lot'' of damage (the hunter has to either soak themselves in water, use a cleanser, or repeatedly roll with the dodge move to remove the slime until it's too late). ''4 Ultimate'' introduces a variant in G Rank, Raging Brachydios, which not only is even more explosion-happy but uses a slime that explodes at a much faster rate (this includes the slime that covers part of its body). |
| 285 | ** Berserk Tetsucabra, a subspecies of Tetsucabra introduced in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4 Ultimate''. Whereas the regular species unearths rocks (or snowballs, when fought in the Frozen Seaway) and throws them at the player or crushes them near them to inflict damage, the subspecies uses its body's drastically high internal temperature to ignite the rocks they're scooping from the ground. These rocks will explode after only a few seconds, and this is how Berserk Tetsucabra will attack during the whole hunting fight except when it's trying to GroundPound the hunter with either a large amphibian jump or a suplex-like side pound (these moves are borrowed from the main species). For extra difficulty, this is one of the ''first'' monsters introduced in the game's G Rank, when the player is still starting to play in this HarderThanHard phase. |
| 286 | * Kongōtō Bosatsu "Akari" from ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'' is a firework specialist, and while not insane or villainous, he has an unhealthy obsession with setting off fireworks and doesn't care where he's firing them, enough to make his setting them off ''indoors'' a RunningGag. |
| 287 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' character Junkrat is a criminally insane Australian whose preferred method of mayhem is with explosives. Three-fourths of his moveset as a playable character are related to explosives; a grenade launcher, a landmine, and a player-guided explosive built into a truck tire. (The fourth is a leg-hold trap that combos really well with the landmine). His ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' version kicks it up a notch, giving him a SuicideAttack you can optionally take instead of RIP-Tire. The ability involves him hopping aboard a custom rocket and crashing directly into the ground. |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'' has a red-jumpsuited crook who deposits a trail of {{Cartoon Bomb}}s. |
| 289 | * The Jack-in-the-Box zombie in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' wears a straightjacket, [[LaughingMad giggles like a loon]] and has a [[SlasherSmile crazed smile]] on his face while carrying a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin jack-in-the-box]] with [[ActionBomb an explosive surprise]]. |
| 290 | * Nuts Cracker, one of the antagonists from ''VideoGame/PopfulMail'' (in particular the Sega CD version), is quite fond of explosives. And if that weren't enough by itself... |
| 291 | -->"I'ma gonna make you '''squeal''' like that stupid elfa kid! BOOMBA, haha!" |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/RadiantArc'': Kagan is an evil jester working for the Morians in order to wipe out humanity, despite once being a human. Almost all of his attacks consist of throwing bombs, some of which can inflict the burn ailment on party members. |
| 293 | * ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Red Alert 2]]'': |
| 294 | ** The Crazy Ivans deployed by the Soviets - they can wire anything, even your own troops, to explode with their endless supply of dynamite. The Crazy Ivan is the only unit in the game that has the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty descriptive]] [=AttackCursorOnFriendlies=] attribute in the game files. |
| 295 | -->'''Crazy Ivan''': "Here, hold this! |
| 296 | ** Getting hold of an Allied spy and infiltrating their Battle Lab gives a Soviet player the ability to build Chrono Ivans. Think a Mad Bomber is bad? Try a Mad Bomber '''with TeleportSpam'''. |
| 297 | ** [[GameBreaker Chrono Commandos]] can do it even better: They're teleporting UsefulNotes/{{Navy SEALs}}, so they use classic short-fuse C4 instead of slow bombs. |
| 298 | ** The Libyan faction in skirmish and multiplayer has the Demolition Truck as its unique unit - essentially the same as the GLA's Bomb Truck in ''Generals'', but without the ability to disguise itself as another vehicle. |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'': Zorne Sepperin, who happens to have a bomb-making machine in her PowerFist. And is ''not afraid to use it!'' |
| 300 | * Nassir the Boom-Boom Man of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' is a comparatively benign example of this, in the sense that he's an [[ThePollyanna irrepressibly-optimistic]] supporter of the heroes... who just so happens to enjoy playing catch with live hand-grenades, dancing around with loaded armaments, and waxing rhapsodic over blowing up enemy installations and the "happy ending and musical number" that will ensue. |
| 301 | * ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' Has the "Beheaded Kamikaze" who are suicide bombers with 2 classic-looking bombs in their hands. The kicker? They still scream despite having no heads (let alone much of a neck) which would have mouths in order to facilitate screaming! |
| 302 | * Plague Knight, from ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight''. He shares this trait with his partner-in-crime [[spoiler:and love interest]] Mona. A GigglingVillain and Mad Bomber par excellence, he is clearly having an absolute blast as he hurls alchemical bombs everywhere. His playable campaign shows him invading the Armored Outpost [[ForTheEvulz basically just because he can]]. However, playing through both ''Plague of Shadows'' and ''Specter of Torment'' reveals that he actually ''isn't'' very crazy; he [[spoiler:was forced into joining the Order Of No Quarter, legitimately loves Mona, and was the one who actually blew up the Tower of Fate, not Shovel Knight]]. |
| 303 | * Peacock from ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' is a psychotic child whose body has been rebuilt to be a weapon of mass destruction. Lots of her attacks involve 40's cartoon throwbacks. but her favorites are the bombs that walk, fly planes, and drive cars! One of her super attacks is to produce a Giant bomb called Fat Man. |
| 304 | * Stalnik, the main antagonist in the story mode of ''Videogame/SpeedRunners'' has the player constantly defusing bombs set all over New Rush City, including bombs in his own lair! |
| 305 | * Luke Carlyle from the ''VideoGame/SpiderMan3'' game becomes this after his company is shut down, causing him to become obsessed with bombing New York City out of revenge. |
| 306 | * The Gremlins in ''VideoGame/SpiralKnights'' have levels called 'Deconstruction Zones'. Guess what they use to deconstruct the level. |
| 307 | ** The Gremlin Bombers are [[GoddamnedBats aggravating to fight:]] they drop bombs with a time-dependent fuse, drop bombs when hit (usually at Ironclaw and Darkfang levels), and just before they throw a HANDFUL of the damn things, they laugh at you and a speech bubble over their head says '' 'Catch!' ''. And the bombs have a chance of [[StatusEffects stunning you,]] restricting your movement speed so you have less chance to get out of the blast radius. |
| 308 | ** Even friendly Gremlins aren't immune to the urge to blow things up: |
| 309 | --> Punch and Vise wanted me to state for the record that they did not 'blow up' Vatel's recipe shop, but rather that it 'exploded while they were inside it.' |
| 310 | * ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'' had a rather annoying inmate whose weapon was TNT. Needless to say, he would bomb anything and everything that came his way, you included until you caught up to him. |
| 311 | * ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'' have the [[DualBoss Smith Brothers]], a pair of explosive-crazy psychopaths holding up a saloon and trying to blow up everyone who attempts entering. While one of the pair uses conventional bombs, the other uses {{Molotov Cocktail}}s that leaves behind a fire that causes additional damage, and is the more dangerous of the two. You fight them both at once and if you win, the last Smith bro. will blow up himself. |
| 312 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 313 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'': Mouser, the boss of Worlds 1 and 3[[note]]1 and 6 in the ''Advance'' remake, and also in World 5 in ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic''[[/note]], is a maniac rodent that wears CoolShades and throws bombs at Mario and his friends like there's no tomorrow. |
| 314 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': Hariet, one of the Broodals, attacks by throwing bombs, and has an ability where she flies around while dropping bombs, laughing crazily in the process. |
| 315 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': Punchinello is a crazed purple lunatic who takes residence in the Moleville mines, Punchinello is capable of [[FlunkyBoss summoning waves after waves of Bob-Ombs]] during the battle against Mario and Co. He also brings the quite literal example of HoistByHisOwnPetard as Punchinello's attempt of summoning the King Bomb ends up with the oversized explosive falling on top of him. In fact, Punchinello is a humanoid bomb, as all of Smithy's goons are anthropomorphized weapons. However since the Mario series already has semi-humanoid bombs in the form of the Bob-Ombs, Punchinello was taken even further, to the point of being almost unrecognizable as a bomb... it doesn't help that he himself doesn't explode, but rather uses Bob-Ombs as explosives. |
| 316 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioKart'': This is the main concept of the Bob-Omb Blast mode in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKart8 Deluxe''. The only item available for use is Bob-Ombs, so all characters throw them at each other during the whole round until only one remains (in the former) or time runs out (in the latter). |
| 317 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': In the minigame Bob-omb Barrage, three players have to throw bombs at the fourth player, who is riding a wooden boat in a wide moat. If the team of three manages to sink the solo player's ship in under 30 seconds, then they'll win. But if time runs out, then the solo player wins. |
| 318 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': In the minigame La Bomba, a player is performing {{Ground Pound}}s to open the crates that are being transported beneath them and unleash Bob-ombs onto the other three players, who are in the lower floor. The grey crates have only one Bob-omb, while the green ones have two and the red ones have four. The three rivals not only have to avoid the Bob-ombs' explosions but also the spiked cylinders placed close to them. If the solo player manages to get rid of the three rivals then they'll win; but if at least one rival survives after 30 seconds, then the trio wins. |
| 319 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty8'': The minigame Bob-ombs Away takes place within a Bob-omb factory and has three characters frequently toss Bob-ombs at the fourth character, who is in a lower ground. As the Bob-ombs fall, they're obstructed by bars reminiscent of those placed in pinball machines, so their falling trajectory isn't readily apparent. If the solo character manages to dodge all explosions during 30 characters, then they win. If not (namely, if they're caught by a Bob-omb's explosion), then the rival trio wins. |
| 320 | * In ''VideoGame/SpudsAdventure'', Gerrit Carrot is directly called this in the manual and it's noted his bomb-throwing techniques scare enemies. |
| 321 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': |
| 322 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': |
| 323 | *** [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]] doesn't have guns in this game due to FantasyGunControl, so he relies mostly on explosives. This also applies to his appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. |
| 324 | *** The enemy [[http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Bombed Bombed]] in Subspace Emissary. His head is a big cartoon bomb with a crazy smile on it, and to attack, he rips it off, throws it at the enemy, and runs off. |
| 325 | ** There are enough explosive items in the games to give every player the ability to be a Mad Bomber. |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': |
| 327 | ** A certain Black Scottish Cyclops who drinks while handling dangerous explosives. Note that this heavily depends on the playstyle - while spraying grenades around with reckless abandon certainly fits this trope, surgical planting of stickybombs in choke points leans more on the {{Demolitions Expert}} side. |
| 328 | ** Merasmus the magician has the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Bombinomicon]] and will use it to throw ridiculous amounts of bombs all over the map while cackling insanely. The book, however, is even worse, and will [[WhyAmITicking give players bomb heads]] so they can blow the wizard up when he isn't bombing everything. |
| 329 | * More CloudCuckooLander than AxCrazy, but Kotohime from the PC-98 exclusive ''VideoGame/TouhouYumejikuuPhantasmagoriaOfDimDream'' is definitely touched in the head, and most of her spellcard-style attacks are actually bombs, so she otherwise qualifies. |
| 330 | * ''VideoGame/TraumaCenterAtlus'': In the Forensics story in ''Trauma Team'', one of the killers is this. |
| 331 | * Wendy Cheslock from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' has all the hallmarks of one, be it her introduction ("Heheh. Ka-boom! Heheh."), her background and motivations for joining the militia (accidentally blew up her house, and joined so she could test out some of her creations.) or her epilogue ([[spoiler:becomes part of the Gallian military R&D division, where her pieces of work are described as 'potent' and 'very effective' but too unstable for use by any sane soldier.]]) |
| 332 | * In ''VideoGame/VerdictGuilty'', Yohan specializes in explosives, acid vials, and terrorism. |
| 333 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} II'', goblins were depicted as bomb-strapped anarchists who joined the Horde to spread chaos. Averted by future ''Warcraft'' games: As the world received a more fleshed-out backstory, goblins were retconned to a business-minded philosophy (although still employing suicide bombers among their more insane members). By ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', they became a [[ProudMerchantRace shady merchant race]] with only small nods to their previous depiction. |
| 334 | * As of the 3rd installment of ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'', [[FatBastard Dong Zhuo]] has become this, armed solely with an endless supply of pointy naval-mine-shaped bombs instead of a sword, club, or other similar weapon as a form of DivergentCharacterEvolution from his previous movesets, which were largely cloned from other warriors. It seems to have worked, as it also made him ''awesome to play''. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 338 | * ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' gives us [[PunnyName Ted Tonate]], a rather obsessed bomb disposal expert who spends his time marveling over the power and "beauty" of the explosives he handles. [[spoiler:It's subverted to an extent since [[NotMeThisTime he's not actually responsible for the bombing that's central to the case he's in]], but he's still an example of this trope. The actual culprit counts too, though his madness is [[BecomingTheMask of a different sort]], and bombing seems to be just his preferred method for evidence disposal]]. |
| 339 | --> '''Phoenix''': "(Mad bomber, party for one.)" |
| 340 | * [[spoiler: Yasu]] from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', who's perfectly willing to [[spoiler:blow up the entire island of Rokkenjima]]. |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 344 | * Cherri Bomb from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' has an endless supply of bombs, loves to blow things up, and participates in territorial wars. |
| 345 | * ''Tropers/{{Tellyzx}}'': |
| 346 | ** Beedrill and, to some extent, his girlfriend Durant from ''WebAnimation/StrandedOnPokeIsland''. |
| 347 | ** Vibrava from ''WebAnimation/AndyXChallenge'' also applies to this. |
| 348 | [[/folder]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 351 | * Carval from ''Webcomic/HeartCore'' fits this trope well along with his love for fire and explosive blood. |
| 352 | * Crazy Rhid the Gnoll in ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE''. |
| 353 | * ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': Rocky turns into this in stressful situations. In the animated pilot, he hijacks an excavator and stands on top hurling lit sticks of dynamite at the Savoys and Mordecai while delivering a poem in the most unhinged way he possibly could, interspersed with [[LaughingMad crazed laughter]]. |
| 354 | -->'''Rocky:''' "The sudden circus comes to town!" (giggles insanely) [BOOM] "The behemoth and the top-hat clown! Come gather, come gather all around!" [bullets ricochet off the excavator bucket] "See them RAIN THEIR FIRE DOWN!" [BOOM] "AHAHAHAHA!!!" |
| 355 | * ''Webcomic/MSPaintMasterpieces'' has this interpretation of Crash Man, [[PersonOfMassDestruction THE DESTROYER]]. |
| 356 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' crew got Shore "Pi" ("he's as irrational as his namesake") Pibald -- educated, very creative, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-06-26 complete nutjob]] -- the sort of psycho who built an [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-07-03 "ant farm"]] that actually consists of {{nanomachines}} making high explosives. For no better reason than [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-12-08 "I try to blow up my lab. [The ship's AI] tries to stop me. So far he's winning."]] |
| 357 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': '''RIFF.''' So very much. StuffBlowingUp is his ''philosophy''. |
| 358 | * ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Emil, who dropped out of academia to join a DemolitionsExpert unit of the army working with high-grade explosives, describes the latter as "his true passion". His idea of packing for the expedition was filling a suitcase with explosives (that got confiscated the second he entered civilian quarters) and he has a large grin on his face when he sees the explosives that were assigned to the expedition. |
| 359 | * ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' has one of these -- [[http://yafgc.net/comic/1131-battle-on-the-hill/ Gummer Groundpounder,]] gnome survivalist. |
| 360 | * ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'' had a funny one -- Abbie's TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} character, [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/04/ Twitch.]] |
| 361 | [[/folder]] |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 364 | * Played for laughs with Demoman and Firecracker in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG''. The former is a drunk Scotsmen who tried to escape being killed by TheMole via a ridiculously large number of explosives ([[spoiler: subverted in that in his drunken state he wired them wrong]]. Firecracker, on the other hand, is an AxCrazy psycho who walks around with a trenchcoat filled with dynamite and will blow up ''anything'' regardless of consequences, even casually detonating the ridiculous amount of explosives set up by Demoman despite the fact that it could have leveled the building they were in. |
| 365 | * Smiffy from LetsPlay/HatFilms is a variation in that he enjoys crafting ''nukes'', causing Trott to freak out during editing since Smiffy probably plans to use it. |
| 366 | * John Mallory in ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' is this, using any explosive he thinks is necessary to blow up Hitler, ranging from dynamite and liquid nitroglycerin to liquid "Antic Explosives" to dynamite-filled trains, all the way up to [[NukeEm nuclear]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill bombs]]! |
| 367 | * ''WebVideo/LifeSMP'': |
| 368 | ** Grian is the cause of two of the three deadliest traps in the series thus far (his triple kill in ''[[WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP 3rd Life]]'' and quad kill in ''WebVideo/{{Limited Life|SMP}}''), both of which involve TNT minecarts and are followed by [[EvilLaugh positively unhinged laughter]]. In particular, TNT traps are his forte while under Scar's employ in ''3rd Life'', to the point where he even rigs the entire desert to explode in the Battle of the Red Desert. He's killed four people [[spoiler:(Scar with a creeper on Day 1 and Ren, Jimmy, and Skizz with a TNT minecart on Day 4)]] with explosions in that season alone. |
| 369 | ** In ''WebVideo/{{Last Life|SMP}}'', after going down to his final life, Joel sets multiple explosive traps per day all over the map. Although the traps have only rarely succeeded, this cements Joel's reputation as a WildCard in the series, especially combined with the fact he has the highest KillTally out of everyone in the season. Two seasons later in ''Limited Life'', a vast majority of Joel's kills involve him [[DeathFromAbove dropping a TNT minecart on his victims]], which is still saying something since [[ExaggeratedTrope everyone else was using TNT minecarts by the dozen that season]]. |
| 370 | * Ivy from ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' may be one of the protagonists and a relatively nice person, but she definitely has a thing for blowing up enemies with bombs that she makes herself. |
| 371 | * Mike Channell from WebVideo/OutsideXbox has developed this reputation -- it tends to be exaggerated [[RuleOfFunny when there are jokes to be made]], but there ''is'' a basis for those jokes. |
| 372 | -->'''Mike''': ''(during a'' Hitman ''let's-play)'' Oh, man. Explosive golf ball? Can you imagine a world where I don't pick up the explosive golf ball? |
| 373 | * ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'' supervillain Kid Chaos is renowned for his use of explosives big and small. His every appearance features explosions and, in "Operation Cold Feet", the very first thing he does in the process of re-establishing himself in Toronto is to steal a cache of dynamite to get started with. |
| 374 | * When the guys from Creator/ShackTactical play the ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}'' mod known as [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne The]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Game]], if [[TheAce Dslyexci]] gets his hands on the remote control satchel bombs, you can count on him using them to devastating effect. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhqdOWeuBXU This clip]] is a highlight of some of his bombings, and in full game footage, a successful bombing may be accompanied by gleeful (and perhaps slightly psychotic) giggling and laughter. |
| 375 | * LetsPlay/SimonLane has a particular love for TNT in [[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries the Yogscast playthrough of]] ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', often causing problems for himself and LetsPlay/LewisBrindley. Other examples throughout include Creeper Boss who has blown himself up at least once and [[spoiler:the evil Honeydew clones]], who take after their father. |
| 376 | * ''WebVideo/TekkitLive'': While all three members of Sun Whale have a tendency towards explosive methods of negotiation, Noah takes this to an extreme, notably having once built a "pile of bombs". |
| 377 | * ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has Bakuda, a [[GadgeteerGenius tinker]] who specializes in bombs, and is a complete psychopath, which makes for a rather terrifying combination. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 381 | * Slappy Squirrel of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has a tendency to solve problems with explosives. |
| 382 | * Jinx from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'' has had a fascination with bombs since she was a child. This later turned her into somewhat of a bomb expert/maniac. |
| 383 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had one episode where an obsessed fan[[note]]who looked exactly like, and was voiced by Creator/BruceTimm[[/note]] of fictional superhero the Gray Ghost blackmailed the city with bomb threats. He acted under the nickname of a Gray Ghost villain, known, you guessed it, as "The Mad Bomber". Although when confronted (in Batman. The [[ShowWithinAShow Gray Ghost]] example wasn't shown to the point of the villain being revealed), the villain seemed far more enthusiastic about using his beloved [[spoiler: toys]] in his effort to get the money to keep his [[spoiler: toy]]-collecting hobby going than about actually blowing things up. |
| 384 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'', Wrecker, the big guy, loves destruction and blowing things up. He angrily rejects Tech's notion that his love of destruction is caused by his genetic mutations. |
| 385 | -->'''Tech:''' I am merely stating a scientific hypothesis based on factual data.\ |
| 386 | '''Wrecker:''' Oh, well, I got a fact for you. I like to blow things up because I LIKE TO BLOW THINGS UP! Got it? |
| 387 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had Mad Stan ("Mad" as in "Angry", not "Crazy"), voiced by [[Music/BlackFlag Henry Rollins]], an anarchist bomber who mostly served as a recurring punching bag for Terry in the BatmanColdOpen. In Mad Stan's defense, he had a cause (Anti-Establishment-Rebellion) and followed it logically, at one point trying to blow up an empty (Save Terry) library. The 2010 miniseries comic would have us believe that Stan controls the explosives trade in Gotham. |
| 388 | -->'''Mad Stan:''' ''BLOW IT ALL UP!'' |
| 389 | * Monkey Wrench, one of the Dreadnoks in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', specializes in explosive devices, and prefers ''loud'' explosions. |
| 390 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheInspector'' has a MadBomber called The Mad Bomber in the episode "Napoleon Blown-Apart." He broke out of prison and swore revenge on The Commissioner. |
| 391 | * Duff Killigan of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is the golfing version of this. |
| 392 | * The villain of the Creator/VanBeurenStudios ''WesternAnimation/LittleKing cartoon'' "The Fatal Note", who tries, and fails, to assassinate the King with a CartoonBomb. |
| 393 | * Heroic? example with Rico in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. |
| 394 | -->'''Rico:''' ''Kaboom kaboom kaboom?''\ |
| 395 | '''Skipper:''' ''Rico, '''enough''' with the dynamite already.'' |
| 396 | * In a ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig'' cartoon called ''WesternAnimation/TheBlowOut'' (1936), the criminal "Bomber" strategically blows up buildings with time bombs. While not explicitly mad, he cackles like a WickedWitch and seems to have no goal beyond destruction ("Now let's see, what building today?"). |
| 397 | * One of these can be seen in Episode 30 of ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'', "Three Ring Government", dressed in a green robe, holding a lit stick of dynamite, and [[BodyHorror looking particularly burnt and shriveled]]. He is meant to represent one of society's many crimes to be balanced out by the Judicial Branch's courts. |
| 398 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Kletus Cassidy is depicted as one of these before he merges with the alien and becomes Carnage since a SerialKiller was deemed too disturbing for a kid's show. He's [[AxCrazy every bit as mental as his comic book incarnation]], though, and in his introduction is willing to blow himself up alongside Spider-Man and the police. |
| 399 | * As with everything else, ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' played this one for humor, and had a SplitPersonality completely AxCrazy TalkativeLoon bomber known as The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight (Yeah, baby!). The [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080214173809/http://www.warlordccg.de/blog/ Warlord CCG]] created the card [[http://www.temple-of-lore.com/spoiler/images/4E/Temb%27w%27bam.jpg Temb'w'bam]] as an homage to that character. |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 401 | ** Chris: |
| 402 | *** During the rock climbing and blind toboggan challenges, Chris sets up some explosives as distractions. The blind toboggan race didn't actually ''need'' the explosives, which is where Chris delivers the following quote... |
| 403 | ---->'''Chris:''' ''[detonates explosive]'' We had some explosives left over, and ''I just hate to waste...'' |
| 404 | *** His love for the boom seems to have increased ''even more'' as of Revenge Of The Island. In the first episode alone, he blows up the boat the contestants arrive on, attaches them to totem poles, a boat full of meddling paparazzi, and ''Owen.'' |
| 405 | ** Then there's Izzy who blew up her mess hall at her summer camp, she loves blowing stuff up so much at one point she insists that the others call her "Explosivio". |
| 406 | * Lugnut from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' is a mad ''bomber plane''. To wit, he is described in [[WordOfGod the fluff]] as having nigh-infinite missile payloads, which we see in his first encounter with the Autobots. On top of that, there's the [[RocketPunch Punch Of Kill Everything]], which puts an explosive tip on the end of his ''fist'' that ''makes a crater when used.'' |
| 407 | * Dreadwing from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' is more of a cold and calculating bomber compared to Lugnut further up the list; he prefers precisely placed explosive charges, which can be triggered remotely, by proximity, or by timed fuses. He typically only enters a battle after mining [[CrazyPrepared basically the entire area]]; even when it seems like all of them have gone off, there's at least one more hidden one that he'll trigger to surprise his opponent. |
| 408 | * Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' (which debuted ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'') had a pair of shorts called ''Phish And Chip'', about a shark and cat that worked for Big City's Bomb Squad. In the first cartoon, they had to deal with a shadowy Mad Bomber, while the second pitted the luckless fools against Blammo the Clown. |
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| 411 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 412 | * [[TruthInTelevision Real-life example]] and {{Trope Namer|s}}: George Metesky, who planted 33 bombs (22 of which exploded) and injured a total of 15 people from 1940 to 1956. He was motivated by being denied compensation when he waited too long to file a claim after an industrial accident. See Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Metesky for details.]] |
| 413 | * Franz Fuchs, a xenophobic terrorist guy who used a total of 28 bombs, killing four people and injuring 15. LaserGuidedKarma ensued when he attempted suicide to avoid arrest, losing both his hands to one of his own pipe bombs. |
| 414 | * Luke Helder put pipe bombs in mailboxes [[MadArtist to draw a smiley face across the United States]]. Caught before he could finish, though. |
| 415 | * MadScientist and EcoTerrorist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski]], better known as the Unabomber. As a result of paranoid schizophrenia, he snapped and spearheaded an 18-year bombing campaign targeting academics and technologists (killing three and injuring dozens) before publishing his manifesto ''Literature/IndustrialSocietyAndItsFuture'', decrying industrialization and left-wing politics in order to prove LuddWasRight. |
| 416 | * John Birges was the owner of a family landscaping business who lost his fortune to a gambling addiction. As revenge, he masterminded [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombing the Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing]], creating what the FBI described as the most complex and defuse-proof bomb they have ever encountered. He was ultimately caught and sentenced for the bombing, but the engineering marvel born out of a mix of disproportionate pettiness and desperation is still used by the FBI in its bomb disposal training to this day. |
| 417 | * Creator/MichaelBay. He hasn't killed anyone (for real), but he prides himself on the fact this his films are more practical effects than CGI (''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' notwithstanding by necessity). That means, boys and girls, that 99% of the explosions you see in a Michael Bay film are '''real'''. Just because he does it ''legally'' doesn't mean the trope is any less applicable. |
| 418 | * Of ''Series/MythBusters'' fame, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. |
| 419 | -->'''Jamie:''' When in doubt, C4. |
| 420 | * 1930s [[TerroristsWithoutACause Terrorist Without a Cause]] Szilveszter Matuska, who finally admitted that blowing up trains [[ForTheEvulz just turned him on.]] |
| 421 | * Italian revolutionary [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Orsini Felice Orsini]] attempted to assassinate [[UsefulNotes/LetatCestMoi Napoleon III]] of France on 14 January 1858 at the moment when the emperor and his wife arrived at the Paris opera to attend a performance. Orsini's plan, which evidently paid no heed to "collateral damage", involved himself and three co-conspirators hurling bombs of Orsini's own design at the imperial coach. One of his cohorts was already sought by the police and was arrested before Napoleon's arrival, but the other three managed to throw their bombs. 12 persons (troopers of the escort and bystanders) were killed and another 156 were injured by the three blasts; Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie escaped unharmed because the walls of the coach were reinforced with steel plates. |
| 422 | * Danny Greene was an Irish mobster and founder of [[TheIrishMob The Celtic Club]] criminal syndicate in Cleveland. The Celtic Club came to blows with the [[TheMafia Licavoli crime family]] when Greene competed with them for control of the city during the '70s. In 1976 alone, 36 bombs exploded around the Cleveland area, which resulted in the place gaining the moniker "Bomb City, U.S.A". [[KarmicDeath Greene himself was finally killed by a car bomb in 1977]] [[PyrrhicVictory but by that time, he had permanently crippled Licavoli's influence in the city.]] |
| 423 | * Before founding the Symbionese Liberation Army and kidnapping Patty Hearst, Donald [=DeFreeze=] was arrested for explosives many times. |
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| 427 | ->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Statler]]:''' Did you see how Crazy Harry trashed the set?\ |
| 428 | '''[[ThoseTwoGuys Waldorf]]:''' Yes. Too bad he didn't trash the stage too.\ |
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