"Curse you, random explosions!"
- Frequently happens to Bungling Inventors Sherman and Dr. Brainstorm in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series.
- Child of the Storm:
- Gambit, as per canon, has the power of charging up objects and making them explode, turning a pack of cards into a pack of grenades.
- Harry Potter, like his namesake, has got a knack for Playing with Fire and his default strategy in combat tends to be "blow everything up, then blow up the rubble to make sure". It gets to the point where Carol, one of his best friends and as of chapter 46 of the sequel, his girlfriend, notes that him and explosions go together "like peanut butter and jelly" and if they aren't, something is very wrong with the universe.
- A Peaceful Afterlife (Hazin Hotel & JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable): Kira is the main protagonist after all. The fact that his bombs can kill demons by completely destroying them makes him one of the most dangerous beings in hell.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): There's Viv and San's escape attempt, during which Alan Jonah's mercenaries use anti-tank weaponry against them; there's fights involving Rodan, and the Final Battle against Keizer Ghidorah features a ton of manmade and Titan-made explosions and destruction all over the place.
- My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic:
- To the point that every time something blows up, the author uses onomatopoeia like Kabloom and Bang.
- Dyno and Mite like causing this.
- Sunset's combat strategy in The Witch of the Everfree tends to be pretty heavy on explosions. Special credit goes to her fight with Nightmare Moon, which ends up leveling the upper half of Ponyville's town hall.
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- All Guardsmen Party: This is the usual stock in trade of Twitch, the squad's demo specialist. The Guardsmen are very fond of this as a means of solving problems, including up to the occasional orbital strike.While the nerds babbled about how this was the greatest scientific advancement in centuries Twitch and Nubby went to find a place to plant the Nuke and blow it all up. There's probably something deep and philosophical you could say about that, but we were guardsmen. We had a really big bomb, and damned if we weren't going to use it.
- A New Dawn Short Story has Robin Garrett, a serial killer teen whose power involves touching things and alchemically creating bombs. He mostly uses this to take revenge on bullies, right wing politicians, and many others.
- The Guild of Assassins on the Discworld teaches a module in Applied Exothermic Alchemy. Unlike the Guild of Alchemists, whose explosions are usually random, unexpected and uncontrolled, the Assassins know a little more about crucial components like fuses and reliable chemical reactions. The modern guild even does bomb disposal and controlled detonations. Go to the Discworld tales of A.A. Pessimal for more.
- In Dreaming of Sunshine it's a running gag that Shikako is extremely fond of explosives.I nodded to myself and finished the tag I was drawing. Then stared at the huge pile that had materialised while I had been thinking."Got a little carried away?" Shikamaru asked dryly."Don't be silly," I said airily. "There's no such thing as too much explosives." Granted, explosive tags were usually fairly expensive and most ninja never used more than one or two per fight. But since I made my own, that didn't matter to me."Just what are you planning to blow up?" he asked. "Because I need to know when to make sure I have an alibi."
- Some characters caught up in The Infinite Loops will express their distaste with canon events... rather dramatically.
- The Looping version of Trixie Lulamoon, on the other hand, just plain has a an ongoing love affair with explosives, and has crashed many Loops by messing around with massive amounts of explosives.
- The Next Frontier, being a Kerbal Space Program fanfic, naturally has several.
- In Point of Succession, when Light and Matt invade Beyond Birthday's villain lair. As expected, it's booby trapped... with explosives. A lot of explosives.
- Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Rule 457 bans pranking newcomers with blocks of cesium disguised as things likely to come into contact with water, as cesium reacts violently and explosively with the stuff.
- In one of the host segments for the MST treatment of Tom Swift and His War Tank, Crow destroys Tom's airfield as revenge for ditching him in a biplane over the no-fly zone in southern Iraq.
