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Explosion Propulsion
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Stuff Blowing Up in movies and TV is cool and very common. When the hero isn't calmly walking away from an explosion, they're running away from it while still being caught by the blastwave and sent flying several meters onto conveniently located soft materials. Characters who become wise to this method of explosive propulsion will devise plans (improvised as often as not) where their escape or pursuit of the bad guys is accelerated by blowing stuff up behind them. Naturally, the only harm from having a powerful explosion detonate very near is mild singeing on their clothes. Occasionally, this is justified by the character in question being Nigh-Invulnerable or using a ship designed to be propelled this way. Sometimes this trope can be used to just move objects and not people attached to them. This is a bit more logical, since for obvious reasons this is not something you should try at home. This is similar to the videogame strategy or move called Rocket Jump, where players launch a rocket just below themselves as they jump to go up much higher. To avoid overlap gameplay examples should go there, but if it only appears in cinematics the examples should go here. A distinct subtrope is the Orion Drive, which uses nukes, because nothing says boom like a nuke. Compare Non-Fatal Explosions and Recoil Boost. Gas-Cylinder Rocket and Orion Drive are specialized subtropes. |
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In Hero, Justice's spaceship was launched to Earth from his exploding home planet this way. At the end of the book, he tries to destroy Earth to launch himself back there. | |
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In Ranma ½, Ranma and Akane are falling from hundreds of feet in the air thanks to the tornado created by the Hiryuu Shouten Ha. Intent on revenge, Happosai uses the force of his Happodaikarin (a highly-concentrated explosive) to boost himself up to their height; both he and Ranma use the updraft from the explosion (and Happosai's "flying squirrel" costume) to slow their descent. | |
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In Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE, BUILD DiVERS use this trick to get into space without Alus noticing them, using the Avalanche Rex Buster to perform laser propulsion to give the Nepteight Gundam power to launch the team into space. These are nice nods to past Gundam series, specifically Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE.73: Stargazer. | |
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Buck Rogers placed a "25th Century cherry bomb" under a conveniently abandoned helmet to launch himself up to a ledge. | |
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Used in the pilot of Chuck. Bryce Larkin blew up the Intersect and used the explosion both to bust out of the room it was in and as a weapon to knock down the guards waiting at the door. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, minecarts are propelled by detonating a bomb in the caged section of their rears. | |
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Toward the end of Tokyo Mater, Mater is forced to get to Tokyo Tower as part of a drift race before the villain does (because if he loses, then he will lose his modifications), and in the process, he is launched into the air by a construction site fire caused by Dragon McQueen. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes Get XTREME!, an exploding popcorn machine does this to Calvin. | |
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This is commonly used on SD Gundam Force, usually on mooks when Bloodless Carnage (to an extent) is in effect. In one instance, Zero, Bakunetsumaru and Genkimaru are trapped in a well in the ground when a bomb drops in and the force of the blast frees them. | |
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3000 Whys of Blue Cat: In "Will Earth Be Destroyed?", a huge explosion sends a piece of Earth's land flying into outer space. Blue Cat and Feifei are on the piece of land, and they get stuck out in space. | |
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In Half-Life 2 Episode 2 a side area gives Gordon infinite grenades to attempt this himself for a supply cache. Fortunately, there's a heavy iron hatch between him and the explosion so he gets some of the force and none of the shrapnel. | |
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In season 2 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the Ptolemaios II uses an enemy mobile suit's particle beams to accelerate into Earth's atmosphere for a crash landing after its propulsion systems run out of GN Particles. | |
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The Dresden Files: Question: What is the best plan when a wizard and a succubus are trapped in a cave that's rigged with explosives and is going to blow up any second? Answer: The wizard makes out with the succubus and uses the emotional energy generated to create a shield that basically turns them into a cannonball. | |
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In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Xu Wenwu (aka The Mandarin) has this trick among his other reworked superpowers made for the adaptation. His telekinetically-controlled Ten Rings are able to do a lot of stuff, and one move he uses frequently is to propel himself with a double quasi-Hand Blast, launching him massive distances. | |
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The Secret Saturdays: In "Where Lies the Engulfer," Zak uses the blast from one of Doyle's grenades to propel himself through a skylight. | |
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Shanks tried to do a rocket jump by using a rocket launcher to get to the top of the tower in Doomsday Arcade. He ended up getting his legs blown off. | |
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You can find a fire extinguisher in the "Data" level from Heavenly Bodies and activate it to blast you forward through the level until it is empty. This makes much sense than many examples of this trope because the extinguisher's blast is much more contained that a combustion and the force it gives off is more than enough to push someone through a zero-gravity vacuum. | |
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Subverted in the first Iron Man film: near the beginning, Tony Stark is near one of his own bombs when it blows up, sending him flying several yards. However, in spite of his bulletproof vest, he gets enough shrapnel in him to kill him if it's not removed ASAP. | |
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This happened in an episode of The Wild Wild West. James West stood on some improvised explosives (bullet gunpowder?). When they blew up, he was boosted up to where he needed to go. | |
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The end of Star Trek (2009) has them escape from the pull of a black hole by blowing up their warp reactors behind them, and then riding the explosion out. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Cloak of Darkness", while preparing to escape the Tranquility, Ventress uses an explosion to propel herself down an air vent. | |
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The game Dead to Rights, there's a cutscene after a mini-boss battle with a couple assassins where Jack tries to catch a plane and ends up using the explosion caused by shooting a pursuing foe's motorcycle to propel him into the plane's open cargo bay. It is just as epic, and ridiculous, as it sounds. | |
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Dandy in Space☆Dandy employs this tactic repeatedly during a race. Then at the end after Prince's mouse Squeak rigs Dandy's ship with dynamite and Meow drops food in the fuel tank, Dandy propels out of time into a realm faster than thought and reawakens five billion years later revered as a god. End of episode. | |
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In Turning Red, the explosive poof of smoke Mei creates when she transforms can be used to propel herself in any direction. | |
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The beginning of Tokyo Gore Police. The heroine uses a bazooka to hurl herself to the top of a building. | |
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In Soul Eater Death The Kid (after his usual, asymmetry induced Heroic BSoD) flies through a "minefield" of floating bombs. He does so quickly enough that they're behind him by the time they explode and thus make him move even faster. | |
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In the movie Treasure Planet, as the ship and its crew are trying to escape a star that has just collapsed to form a black hole. The new hole was explosively belching X-rays in waves after sucking in the supernova remains note as real black holes do. The ship absorbed the explosion's power via its 'solar sails' to in turn supercharge its engines and rocket launch back to safety. Do Not Try This at Home. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Beach", Aang creates a shield of air to protect himself from Combustion Man's blast and it pushes him high in the air. | |
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In Planet Terror, Cherry Darling uses her leg-mounted grenade launcher to rocket-propel herself over a wall and get a drop on the zombie soldiers. | |
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Some orbital strikes during sidequests in Star Wars: The Old Republic will fling the player a ways away if you're caught too close to them. | |
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In Stampy's Lovely World, the minigame 'Whale of a Time' exploited this mechanic, using TNT to launch players up into the air (while negating explosion damage using water), allowing them to land in various designated colourful hoops in the lake the minigame was built on. This became averted when an update nerfed the power an explosion propulsion could have, rendering the minigame non-functional and "broken". | |
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Your gunboots in Downwell slows down your descent as you fire shots underneath you. | |
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Bakugo from My Hero Academia does this, possessing a superpower that lets him create explosions from his hands that are powerful enough to launch him into the air. Soon after it inspires Midoriya to improvise a version of the trick himself to ride the explosions of several landmines. | |
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In Mulan, as Shan-Yu is carried by a huge rocket to the tower full of firework supplies, Mulan runs in the opposite direction repeating to herself "Get off the roof..." and still gets a bit caught by the blast as she slides down the wire. | |
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In the Case Closed film Detective Conan Film 05: Countdown To Heaven, in order to escape the bomb-loaded Twin Tower Building A, Conan must accelerate the prize sports car through the building's window at just the right time so that the bomb explosion will propel them to the swimming pool atop the adjacent building. | |
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Ultimate X-Men's version of Gambit once used one of his exploding cards under a manhole cover to blast himself onto a rooftop. | |
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A player in Kerbal Space Program detonated 700 decouplers simultaneously and reached the Mun in 13 seconds. | |
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In Wing Commander IV cutscenes, Seether does this utilizing mines deployed from his own fighter, in one instance using it to allow a bomber he was flying to go to escape. The player is unable to do it, but in the novelization of WC4 Blair uses the technique to allow his damaged fighter to catch up to Seether and destroy him. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: At the end of Part 2, Kars is defeated by Joseph throwing him into a volcano, which, due to his newfound Stone Mask powers, makes him react by turning himself to stone. The volcano then erupts, causing him to be propelled to space, unable to turn back. In Part 5, while on a boat, Narancia has to escape the effects of a Stand that spreads flesh-eating mold, but is incapacitated by it and can't move. Mista is standing on dry land and shoots the boat engine, blowing it up, and the force of the explosion sends Narancia flying to safety out of the Stand's reach. |
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Far less voluntary is the trajectory change forced on him by an explosion in the third movie, which launches him sideways. | |
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In the Fate/stay night fanfic Chaos Theory, Shirou uses Rho Aias to let an explosion propel him and Rin along their escape route. | |
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In Project Firestart, shooting the explosives in the armory is typically a poor idea. Stand near the doorway, though, and the blast shoves Jon out. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Kryptmann applied this method to an entire moon containing a dormant genestealer brood, sending it into the Warp so that it would emerge light-years later in the middle of the ork-infested Octarius system. This caused a Tyranid hive fleet to follow the genestealers' signal, but Kryptmann had every planet in the way Exterminatused to deny the 'nids the biomass they need to replensih their forces. Meaning that on arrival, the fleet wasn't strong enough to destroy the orks (who reproduce by being killed), and are now trapped in a Forever War, with the caveat that whoever wins the war will be entirely unstoppable. | |
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In Last Action Hero, Slater is propelled into the air while attempting to outrun a Time Bomb. | |
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Team Fortress 2's Soldier is one of a small handful of characters where rocket jumping is a canon ability of his rather than an exploit, with him showing it off in multiple trailers, the "Meet the Soldier" cinematic, and the comics, and having multiple unlocks designed specifically for rocket jumping. One piece of media claims that the rocket launcher was invented before the staircase, so for a few decades, the only way to get to the second floor of a building was to detonate explosives under your feet. | |
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Doctor Who: That was the plan of Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen in "Boom Town". She got herself elected Lord Mayor of Cardiff and sponsored the construction of a nuclear power plant in order to get it to overload and interact with the Cardiff Rift, resulting in a massive explosion. She would then ride the explosion with the tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator (basically, a high-tech surfboard that projects a shield around the "rider") to another planet. | |
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In the original Dragon Ball TV series, Goku launches himself sky-high at Piccolo by aiming an explosive kamehameha right at the ground below him. Goku is moving so fast after the propulsion that he literally flies through Piccolo, like a human bullet. In a later episode he does the same thing again by firing the kamehameha using his feet. |
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Tribes: Ascend features Impact Nitrons, low-damage grenades with high knockback intended for use with light armors to execute ridiculously long jumps. With considerable skill and a lot of extra hardware, heavy armors can use mortars to similar effect. | |
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Not voluntary example: In Mission: Impossible (1996), Ethan Hunt jumps off a helicopter in the climax just as he put explosive gum on it. The blast practically pins Ethan on the train he was jumping onto. | |
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GURPS: Spaceships has various nuclear pulse engines. In Gun Fu there is a perk that lets a cinematic character propel himself with the recoil of his gun. | |
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In the original Mobile Suit Gundam this is a Hand Wave applied to Char's famous "three times faster" Zaku II: the Zaku isn't actually capable of propelling itself that fast, but during the Battle of Loum, in which Char made himself a legend, he used the explosions of Federation battleships to accelerate to such speeds. That said, Char's Zaku is faster than normal, but only 33% faster under its own power. | |
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Ironhide does this in Transformers (2007), its angle pivoting over a random screaming civilian he launches himself over, and in gratuitous slow-mo! | |
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Discussed and played straight in The Librarians 2014, during season 2. The team uses grenades to explode themselves to the other side of a hole. Colonel Baird states that this is not how grenades work, but since the team is actually inside a video game, it works. | |
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In Rurouni Kenshin, Yahiko does a dynamite jump with the help of a tatami mat to catch a flying opponent. Said opponent also used dynamite as a way of keeping himself aloft and away from an enemy's attacks. |
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Mission: Impossible Film Series: Not voluntary example: In Mission: Impossible (1996), Ethan Hunt jumps off a helicopter in the climax just as he put explosive gum on it. The blast practically pins Ethan on the train he was jumping onto. Far less voluntary is the trajectory change forced on him by an explosion in the third movie, which launches him sideways. |
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The Metroid series features the Morph Ball Bombs, and this trope is arguably their primary function. Most of them that you'll ever use will be to send Samus airborne while she's in Morph Ball form. | |
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You can replicate the fundamental principle behind firearms in Garry's Mod by detonating explosives like Explosive Barrels inside a tubular object filled with any projectile of your choice, including chairs, teddy bears, ragdolls, etc. | |
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In Bulletstorm, Gray, Ishi, and Trishka escape from a crumbling building dangling above a cliff by jumping in an elevator car. When it isn't moving fast enough to make it out, Ishi points out a series of explosive containers and tells Gray to shoot them. | |
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In Lilo & Stitch, the nigh invulnerable Stitch propels himself to Gantu's ship by driving a gasoline truck into a volcano, sitting on the tank and ripping a hole on the side so that it blows up. | |
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