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Delayed Explosion
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Stuff Blowing Up in Real Life tends to be sudden and brief. But "sudden and brief" makes for poor television and film, particularly when setting the scene up is something of a money sink. Thus, explosions are inexplicably delayed, slowed down or otherwise manipulated to get the desired effect. The defining characteristic is a delay between the cause of the explosion and the explosion itself. Hovering a finger over the detonator button doesn't qualify. This delay may be a fraction of a second or several minutes. Outrun the Fireball is one incarnation of this trope. There are several flavours of delayed explosion that the connoisseur can enjoy: Deja vu Delay, where the same explosion is seen several times. This may be from different angles, each segment slightly overlapping, to make it less obvious. Expository Delay, where the explosion is delayed just long enough for the audience to be shown the trigger that causes the explosion. Gag Delay, where the victim or victims have time to think the explosion has been averted before it actually goes off. See also the Rule of Funny. Unintended Delay, in which the perpetrator thinks the explosion has been thwarted and panics a bit before it happens, is usually a sub-type of the above. Polite Delay, where the explosion has the good manners to not erupt out of the top of the lift shaft/burst through the door/steam out of the tunnel until after the characters in the vicinity have leapt to safety. Realistic Delay, where the difference in speed between sound and light is observed and used for dramatic impact. Rare, unless it's a nuke. Shoe-Drop Delay, where the delay is purely so a character can react to the imminent explosion and be noticed doing so, generally while lit by the fires of that same explosion. Staggered Delay, where what should clearly be a number of explosions occurring simultaneously is broken down into stages, in order to give the hero a fighting chance of making to the end of the corridor before the last one goes off. Note that this is specific to situations where the explosives are set off by a single detonator, and not when one explosion triggers another. Contrast the Polite Delay, which is a single, slow-moving explosion, although both can be a form of Outrunning the Fireball. An inverted variant is the Linear Bomb: when the ground is traced by some Wave-Motion Gun, the explosion happens on the entire line simultaneously after a short delay, instead of following the ray. This does not help anyone to Outrun the Fireball (except in some video games), and is only for the Rule of Cool. See Sweeping Laser Explosion for specific examples. And of course: Egregious Delay, where there is no discernible reason other than the makers wanting it that way. See also Rule of Cool. |
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Similar to Invader Zim below, Sunless Skies has an extremely egregious delay in the form of a hugely slowed down explosion in the narrative, specifically when you decide to bomb the Hour refinery in Lustrum. Since Hours are raw time and you hid the bomb in a barrel full of them, the explosion takes a damned long time to happen, and even the people that were right next to the blast simply walk away, avoiding all casualties. But since no one can stop the explosion the refinery is completely ruined, and everyone in Lustrum who hates the Windward Company (which is almost everyone not working there) spends the afternoon watching the fireball sloooowly wreck everything. | |
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Jingle All the Way has the postal worker claim that there's a bomb in the package he's carrying in a desperate attempt to ward off police. After he flees the building (leaving said package behind), it actually goes off. | |
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A first season episode of Chuck has Chuck and Casey scrambling out of Casey's SUV when Chuck recognizes the ringing cellphone in the back seat as an NSA bomb. They have enough time to get clear and for Casey to glare at Chuck for making a mistake before the fireball engulfs the car. | |
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: the bomb explodes a few seconds after the timer runs out, during which it blinks white and makes a different kind of beep. Any defusal attempt in progress, even if the progress bar is within milliseconds of completion, fails. | |
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Gag Delay version in Welcome to Dongmakgol. The Mexican Standoff between North and South Korean soldiers ends when one of the NK soldiers accidentally drops his grenade. SK Lt. Pyo goes Jumping on a Grenade but it doesn't explode. Pyo gives his NK counterpart Lee a look of withering contempt and chucks the grenade aimlessly over his shoulder, into the storehouse—where it explodes, wrecking the storehouse. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, as mentioned, is replete with Egregious Delays but also has plenty of Expository Delays and Shoe-Drop Delays. There's also a couple of deja vu delays in episode 8. Bring your own Kleenex. | |
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Kiddy Grade has a number of Expository Delays, particularly in the spaceship combat scenes. | |
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Zone Fighter often has the monsters suffer this after the title hero shoots them with his Meteor Missile Might. | |
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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen has this happening after the night raid on the Japanese barracks. One of the resistance leaders asks another, where he hid his explosives, which his comrade replies, "Up there." The leader is about to ask what did he mean by "up there" when he's interrupted by five Japanese guard towers exploding, all at the same time, which takes out around half the enemy camp in a few seconds. | |
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In Pearl Harbor, we see at one point a bomb crash on a building. It doesn't immediately go off, and the guy who was in the building thinks it's a dud. In fact it does detonate a couple of seconds later. Gag Delay or Shoe-Drop Delay? You decide. Could even be a half-hearted attempt at Realistic Delay; detonators of that period could be somewhat persnickety. A similar bomb also hit the U.S.S. Arizona, though the sailors have even less time to react before the detonator triggers and breaks the battleship in half. |
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Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers: Gaia, from the Eden series Raids, has a unique "Spell in Waiting" effect to her magical attacks. She targets a victim, lets the magic loose... and then nothing happens. Then, as her opponent begins attacking again (whether it's the players in her Voidwalker battle or a random monster in Ahm Areng), the spell goes off, unleashing hell on the poor victim and anyone close enough to be in the Area of Effect | |
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While it isn't explosion-based, The Binding of Isaac has the Brimstone and Anti Gravity combination. | |
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: Wile E. Coyote often falls victim to this. If an explosion doesn't happen instantly, it'll delay just long enough to catch him instead of the Road Runner. | |
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Super Bomberman had "dud" bombs, where rarely bombs would fizzle out partway through their fuses and not explode when they were supposed to. If they weren't set off by something else, the bombs would eventually reset themselves with a longer fuse before finally exploding. | |
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When Gamora's pod gets blown up in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), we see the scene twice in short succession: first from Nebula's POV and then again in close-up. | |
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Elf: Buddy is sent to test toys, including a particularly annoying set of "Jack-in-the-Box"s. The last one takes a little extra to pop up, just long enough for Buddy to drop his guard. | |
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The Dark Knight has a particularly macabre example of a Gag Delay. When the Joker pushes the button, a few minor explosions happen, but not nearly enough to take down the whole building. The Joker has time to abuse his detonator before the real blast occurs. This is because in real life the explosions were set in separate parts of the building intentionally so that it'd have a domino effect, but Heath Ledger didn't know that was supposed to happen. Whacking the control during the Where's the Kaboom? moment was ad-libbed, and running like hell when the explosions began in earnest was the actor running for his life. | |
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In Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, there's Adell's final technique, Vulcan Blaze. After beating the crap out of his target at ridiculous speed, he takes the time to strike a dramatic pose before the person in question inexplicably explodes. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The delayed blast fireball spell. Although technically a time bomb, delayed blast fireball can equally well be used to generate a Shoe-Drop Delay. Its implementation in Baldur's Gate was such that it is most often used just as a regular fireball, but the "delayed" part turns it into an Expository Delay. Aside from having the ability to delay it, the spell is more powerful than a regular fireball, as it has a higher level cap and can potentially do twice as much damage. Orange dragons, an obscure breed from older editions, are sometimes known as "sodium dragons" due to their Breath Weapon — they spray a line of chemical goop covered in saliva, then two rounds later, that saliva evaporates and exposes the chemicals (i.e. sodium) to the air or water, resulting in an explosion. Since orange dragons are evil and sadistic creatures, this is mainly Shoe-Drop Delay, as they delight in ambushing passers-by, spraying them with their breath, and then retreating to watch their victims explode. |
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A Bridge Too Far. American paratroopers are running towards a seemingly undefended bridge when the Germans blow it up in their faces. Everyone dives for cover, but afterwards their officer advances cautiously to see if there's anything left. Two more charges go off, soaking him in river water. His response is an understandably bitter "Shit!" | |
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In Attack of the Clones, there's an example of the "Realistic" delay (light before sound). But it's not realistic anyway since there's no sound in space so it's a moot (or is it mute?) point... | |
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Parodied in Monsters vs. Aliens. The alien spacecraft's self-destruct countdown reaches zero, but waits until 5 seconds later to actually explode. | |
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Several times on Hogan's Heroes, Carter counts down an explosion, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" and nothing happens. Once, he will then say, "I said 'one'." BOOM! | |
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Gundam.: The entire franchise (and many Real Robot shows thereafter). Mobile suits are Made of Explodium, so you just know they're going to blow up when they're critically damaged, but very often there's a Shoe-Drop Delay so the victim can display an Oh, Crap! face before his mobile suit explodes. Of course, if the fatally damaged mecha contains a major character, there may well be a full on Egregious Delay to let the character give his dying speech. Quickly killing off a Mauve Shirt with barely an Oh, Crap! is a good way to show that War Is Hell. When Kycilia dies in the original Mobile Suit Gundam via rocket launcher direct hit, there's a bizarre form of Shoe-Drop Delay where the projectile managed to obliterate the target's head and keep sailing past them before exploding (whether from a timer or hitting a wall). |
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The explosion that destroys the Death Star in A New Hope happens a bit after Luke fires the critical shot at its weak point, giving the surviving heroes ample time to get out of range. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is one of the many JRPGs to feature cool delayed explosions. Lampshaded in this moment of Monday Morning Mooks | |
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks mixed the Polite Delay and the Gag Delay. A time bomb gets thrown into Burt's truck full of explosives but no one knows what the time delay is. Cue everyone taking cover as Burt runs past yelling that they have to get farther away. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, putting the last jewel in its statue causes it to glow. Link prepares for the inevitable explosion...and after several seconds of nothing he lets down his guard. THEN it explodes, blasting Link right into the rising Tower Of The Gods. | |
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Independence Day has several of these. | |
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The Matrix: Path of Neo has an expository delay with the Det. packs in the sewer, except you don't see Neo press the button unless the camera is in the right place. | |
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Your Name has one of the Realistic variety: when the comet fragment strikes Itomori, there is a brief delay before the sound of the impact is heard. | |
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Pick an Ultra Series, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider or any Toku show on the whole. This trope is in full force. Stuff Blowing Up is everywhere, and it all obeys only the Rule of Cool. | |
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Invader Zim has extremely egregious decay in an instance where the explosion is very atypical of most explosions by being really, really slow. It is also glowing green. When it goes off after Dib, who is under a similar time-slowing effect, is hurled into it, it's fairly normal though. | |
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Final Destination includes a single Realistic Delay amongst the generally unbelievable escapades. | |
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In the movie The Fury, Gillian — who has telekinesis — realizes Childers is the Big Bad, and when he tries to comfort her after her friend dies (because he had her friend killed), she tells him to "Go to Hell!" and we watch as she uses her telekinetic powers to blow his head off. We see him holding his head in pain as the pressure builds, until he gives a graphic demonstration of the Chunky Salsa Rule from eight different places in the room. | |
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Jackie Chan's New Police Story has an extreme example of a Staggered Delay. | |
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Attacking red frogs in Spelunky will trigger this in them. As such, due to both this and their unpredictable jumping patterns, they're among the more dangerous beasts to encounter in the game. | |
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Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Star Blazers), esp. the second season: the Argo/Yamato's main armament beams enter (or sometimes go completely through) the enemy ship at one or more points, then there is a brief interval before the entire ship is ripped apart by explosions. Since the space battles are essentially a metaphor for naval combat, this phenomenon reflects the destruction of the British battlecruisers at Jutland: a flurry of hits, followed by an annihilating explosion an instant later as the flash of the detonation reached the main-armament propellant magazines. |
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Vienna Blood: Gag Delay. At the end of "The Devil's Kiss", Max has thrown the terrorist's bomb into a stream. Nothing happens. The Austrian minister says "This is so embarrassing," then turns to his Russian counterpart and says "I do apologize—", and then the bomb explodes. | |
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AKIRA had a Brick Joke example near the beginning, where an extremist tries to set off a grenade in a police station only to have it fizzle out. As the main characters are walking away from the building minutes later, an explosion comes from said station. | |
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In Dino Attack RPG, loosely inspired by the above example from The Dark Knight, the explosives that the Brickster set up throughout the Dino Island Laboratory did not explode until a few seconds after he pushed the button on his detonator, causing him to panic and start mashing the detonator until they did explode. | |
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Hot Dogs for Gauguin: A gag delay. Adrian's bomb to blow up the head of the Statue of Liberty (its Played for Laughs and It Makes Sense in Context) is supposed to go off exactly at 12, so he can snap a picture. The Time Bomb strikes 12 and nothing happens. A puzzled Adrian is tweaking the wires on the time bomb when his friend Fletcher breaks through the door, Adrian accidentally knocks over the tripod, and the bomb goes off. Adrian doesn't get his picture. | |
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Black Mesa features a realistically delayed explosion during a setpiece where two Harrier jets perform a bombing run on a distant bunker. The explosion isn't audible until several seconds after it actually occurs. | |
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When Kycilia dies in the original Mobile Suit Gundam via rocket launcher direct hit, there's a bizarre form of Shoe-Drop Delay where the projectile managed to obliterate the target's head and keep sailing past them before exploding (whether from a timer or hitting a wall). | |
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Family Guy had a grueling Lampshade Hanging that seemed to last minutes where they showed a house exploding from several angles, repeating each shot several times (including one with Stewie and Brian diving out of the way over and over). | |
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The delayed blast fireball spell. Although technically a time bomb, delayed blast fireball can equally well be used to generate a Shoe-Drop Delay. Its implementation in Baldur's Gate was such that it is most often used just as a regular fireball, but the "delayed" part turns it into an Expository Delay. Aside from having the ability to delay it, the spell is more powerful than a regular fireball, as it has a higher level cap and can potentially do twice as much damage. | |
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Undercover vs. Undercover ends with the hero, Hsiao-wu, staring down the main villain and his legion of mooks. Hsiao-wu then reveals he had the detonator to a series of bombs attached to the ship where the climax is set, and triggers it. Nothing happens. Until five seconds later. | |
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Charmed: The first few times Piper tried to blow up demons, there was usually a small delay before it actually happened. As she got better at using it, it became almost instantaneous. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: When Midnight Sparkle begins her attack on the Canterlot High grounds by shooting a magic beam at the Wondercolt statue, said statue is covered in several flashes of light before finally exploding as a dimensional portal forms inside of it. | |
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Starcraft I: Brood War uses both the Deja Vu Delay and the Realistic Delay in the Protoss campaign's ending cutscene. The massive release of energy caused by the Uraj and Khalis crystals in the Xel'naga pyramid—the power of several nuclear explosions—is shown twice, first in a quick ground-level cut, then again in a more distant cut in midair. The shockwave of sound in the second cut is heard seconds after the bright light of the explosion is seen. | |
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In The Smurfs (1981) Animated Adaptation of "The Fake Smurf", Hogatha attempts to destroy the Smurfs by sabotaging the bridge with Jokey's "surprises", but instead of the "surprises" going off when she pulled the trigger at the moment the Smurfs were crossing the bridge, they ended up going off when Hogatha herself started crossing the bridge. | |
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The Goon Show and silent TNT: | |
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The Linear Bomb version is ubiquitous in anime, one of the most famous examples is God Warior firing in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. | |
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