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Gas-Cylinder Rocket
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Whether accidentally or as an Improvised Weapon, the nozzle of a pressurized gas cylinder is easily broken off in fiction. When this happens, the canister will go shooting away like a rocket, blasting itself into the air and smashing through any thing (or anyone) unfortunate enough to be in its way. Sometimes this serves as an attack or a battering ram; occasionally, a reckless character will actually ride the thing. Less credible, but still common, is a gas cylinder being ruptured by a gunshot and possibly shooting off like a missile. Whether this results in a Gas Cylinder Rocket or merely Stuff Blowing Up generally depends on whether the target it's being used against is right next to it or somewhere up ahead. Both variations are partially Truth in Television. The valve is the most fragile component of a pressurized gas cylinder, and the gas inside does store more than enough energy to hurl the cylinder around the room. For just this reason, gas cylinders are supposed to have a protective cap screwed over the valve at all times when not actually in use. However, breaking the valve isn't exactly easy, and punching a hole in the cylinder itself is much, much harder. A gunshot may not even make a dent (depending, of course, on the tank, the gun, and the round). Sister Trope to Aerosol Flamethrower. Sub-Trope of Improvised Weapon and Explosive Propulsion. Compare Recoil Boost, which uses More Dakka for propulsion instead of compressed gas. See also Exploding Barrels, for when the "rocket" part is absent. |
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In Chapter 40-2 of We're Alive, Victor shoots a scuba tank that a Little One had become entangled with, sending the tank and Little One skidding across the street at high velocity. | |
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In the Syfy Channel Original Movie Dam Sharks, the heroes launch a couple of gas cylinders into the shark-built corpse dam by chopping off their nozzles with axes. The cylinders blast off and streak through the air to lodge themselves in the dam, yet somehow still have enough pressure left to explode and destroy it. | |
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On Scorpion, a slow-leaking gas canister (along with a rip in its butt) propels the Super Fun Guy parade balloon that carries a nuclear hazard out over the ocean and safely away from Los Angeles. | |
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In the CGI animated series Mighty Mike, Mike the Pug uses a pink gas canister of helium to launch himself into the air, to rescue a kitten which a pesky raccoon had inflated with the helium and sent skyward as a distraction. | |
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In Transporter 2, Frank pushes a hospital cart with a gas cylinder on it into Lola's path, then throws a chemical carboy into the light fixture above it. The collapse of the fixture knocks the nozzle off the cylinder and sets its gas on fire, causing it to shoot down the hallway and blow up right next to Lola. | |
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Likewise in Gravity. A fire breaks out on the International Space Station, and when Ryan Stone tries to extinguish it the thrust of the extinguisher slams her against the bulkhead, knocking her unconscious for a moment. This becomes a Chekhov's Gun when she later uses the extinguisher to maneuver herself to another space station. | |
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At one point in Half-Life: Blue Shift, Calhoun must shoot the ends of some compressed-oxygen cylinders, propelling them into a locked freight-yard door until they break a hole through it. | |
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In the The Simpsons episode Mountain of Madness, a propane tank attached to a cabin gets its end knocked off and propels the structure downhill: | |
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In Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard in the US), John throws a fire extinguisher down a hallway towards a baddie and then shoots it, blowing said baddie out a window. | |
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MythBusters: The group tested this one, and confirmed that a large gas cylinder under sufficient pressure could smash its way through a concrete wall (!), although it slid across the floor rather than taking off and flying. They also got this effect accidentally when they simulated the ending to Jaws. Rupturing the gas cylinder didn't cause it to explode, but it did blow backwards with sufficient force to tear their foam-latex shark head to pieces and deform the shipping container they were using as a bunker. Subverted when they tested an Urban Legend about a propane tank that blasted off like a rocket, as every attempt to rupture or ignite one either failed or blew it to pieces. They did, however, succeed it turning a water heater into rocket that literally blasted off and smashed through a roof that was built to Californian construction codes. |
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There is a literal variation in SpaceCamp that is definitely not Played for Laughs. After Andie is successful in supplying the space shuttle Atlantis with an extra supply of oxygen, she forgets to turn off the oxygen tank when she takes the hose off, which results in the oxygen tank rocketing backwards with her holding on to it, until she gets knocked unconscious from running into the side of the ship. | |
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In the Vivendi expansions of First Encounter Assault Recon, there are green gas cylinders that will fly about uncontrollably in unpredictable physics-oriented patterns when shot at or hit by an explosion... except they're completely harmless. All they really do is distract you with their antics (aside from the crazy flying, they make one hell of a lot of noise both before and during their explosion) and you alone, since the AI doesn't bat an eye at them. | |
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Used by Domino from Deadpool 2, to knock Cable out the back of the DMC transport vehicle with a gunshot-ruptured gas canister. | |
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Done with a fire extinguisher in the Gigi Hadid episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?. The extinguisher's stream of foam sends it careening around a fashion-show gallery, along with the Monster of the Week gargoyle Velma launched it at. | |
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In Incredibles 2, Helen shoots the oxygen tanks Evelyn has on her back with a Flare Gun, causing them to blast off like a jet pack. | |
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The Flash (2023): Flash has to do a mid-air save of some babies falling out of a collapsing hospital wing, including one who's about to fall into the flame spurting from a damaged oxygen bottle. As part of a Rube-Goldberg sequence of acts to fix the problem, Flash shoves the baby into a (disconnected) microwave to shield it from the flame, then turns up the valve to shoot the cylinder off in the opposite direction so it will strike something else he needs moved. | |
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In a variation, the Trandoshan enemies in Star Wars: Republic Commando have jetpacks which send them shooting off into space when hit. | |
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In a variant, Wyldstyle in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part jetted between two space vehicles by popping the cork on a bottle of champagne. | |
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In Broforce, this is the only reliable way to deal damage to the Megacockter, by shooting the gas cylinders scattered around the rooftops causing them to fly up and explode on it. | |
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In Max Payne, gas cylinders typically behave like that when someone shoots them. It's entirely possible to ride on them for the fun factor by standing on them before shooting at them, although there are only a few short, room-size "routes" possible. | |
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In The Finals, explosive carriables take the form of red gas cylinders. Upon being thrown or damaged, they'll be propelled forward and explode shortly after. | |
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In Rio, Blu attaches Nigel's leg to a fire extinguisher, then sets it off. The evil cockatoo is dragged from the plane by the rocketing canister. | |
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In Meddling Kids (2017), Kerri uses a large oxygen tank to propel a mine cart, allowing the gang of young investigators to escape the collapsing tunnels. | |
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You can do this in Just Cause 2; it's even possible to ride the canister. | |
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In Halo, you can place these in Forge mode in games from Halo 3 onward (like Halo: Reach). | |
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Turned up a few times in London's Burning, usually played somewhat more realistically in that the source of the explosion was the building or vehicle the cylinders were stored in being on fire, which is easily the most reliable way of getting this effect in real life. Episodes 11 and 12 of series 7 are a particularly memorable example when a fire breaks out in a builder's yard behind a row of terraced houses, with a large amount of them shooting off like bottle rockets and crashing down all around whilst Blue Watch try frantically to evacuate the local residents and get the fire under control. Being 1994, there's no CGI. It's all practical and a real feat of filmmaking to have stunt cylinders on fire crashing down around the actors. Jaffa is badly burned when a cylinder hits the fire engine he was in. We later find out that the fire took three days and fifteen crews to bring under control. | |
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In the similarly-stupid Atomic Shark, the two heroes use SCUBA gas cylinders to propel their boat safely out of range of the mini-nuclear blast that's set off when the title creature finally dies. | |
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Machete Kills: When Machete and Mendez are at the chop shop, the wheelchair bound mechanic pulls a pistol on Machete. Machete snatches it off him and shoots the oxygen tank on the back of the wheelchair, which propels the chair (and its occupant) out into the courtyard, and into a fusillade of gunfire from the cartel assassins. | |
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The title character of Gaston Lagaffe once converts his Alleged Car to run on gas, with gas cylinders strapped to the roof as fuel. As per usual, Gaston has made a slight error in his design. When trying to start the car, the cylinders blast off... into a passing police van. | |
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In Robots, Rodney is magnetically attached to a gas cylinder as several other metal objects (including a dumpster) also chase after him. When the valve breaks, he flies into the air, with an inanimate metallic mob flying after him. | |
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An episode of Sliders ("The Exodus", part 2) had Quinn and company locked in a room as the evil Rickman was sliding without them. They used an oxygen tank attached to a rolling metal hospital tray as a rocket to bust the door open. | |
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In 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, the boys try to dispose of a time bomb by strapping it to three oxygen tanks and then breaking the nozzles off with a hammer. However, they turn out to not be strong enough to break them. Fortunately, Dave Dragon shows up and is strong enough to break them. For bonus points, the bomb gets propelled to the escaping bad guys' boat just as the timer hits zero. | |
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In Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy launches a series of scuba tanks at Jason when they're battling at the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake. | |
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Due South: In 'Mountie on the Bounty', Fraser and Ray K use ruptured air tanks as rocket packs to escape the sinking ship. | |
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Instead of a gas canister, a malfunctioning surgical laser goes ballistic in the Roger Rabbit Short "Tummy Trouble". | |
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A variation in Backdraft when Exploding Barrels are shown shooting into the air as their contents ignite during a fire in a warehouse full of volatile materials. | |
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They also got this effect accidentally when they simulated the ending to Jaws. Rupturing the gas cylinder didn't cause it to explode, but it did blow backwards with sufficient force to tear their foam-latex shark head to pieces and deform the shipping container they were using as a bunker. | |
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Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_b5761a42 | comment |
An unlucky victim in Final Destination 4 is struck by one of these and slammed into a chain-link fence with enough force to turn his back into chunks. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_bfa9513b | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_bfa9513b | comment |
Bronson in Street Trash is killed when a gas cylinder is send flying his way, and it removes his head. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_c07374f4 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_c07374f4 | comment |
In Jumanji, Peter creates a rocket sled in a sporting goods store by strapping two scuba tanks to a canoe, and then breaking the ends off by dropping a barbell on them. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_cac1f772 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_cac1f772 | comment |
On CSI, a canister of nitrous is ruptured by a stray bullet during a shooting at a rave. The canister lifts off, trailing sparks, and flies erratically back and forth before slamming down among the party-goers, injuring several who were too high to get out of the way. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_d1b8c896 | comment |
Black Mesa: Blue Shift changes the original Blue Shift's setpiece of using gas cylinders on a door to instead involve a TOW launcher, but also introduces similar cylinders as a recurring environmental hazard in other parts of the game. | |
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Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_dae48d5a | comment |
On Z Nation, Doc mercies two zombie asylum inmates by knocking the hose off a wheelchair-bound zombie's oxygen tank, then sticking the hose's end into a broken light fixture. The electrical shock from the light travels to the canister, setting the zombie on fire. The fire then ruptures a second tank containing fuel for the wheelchair, causing a jet of flaming fuel that propels the wheelchair, its occupant, and another zombie standing behind it several yards down the hallway before both tanks explode. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_e4732abc | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_e4732abc | comment |
In an episode of Stargate Atlantis Ronon tried to use an oxygen tank rocket to break down a sealed door, having gotten the idea from watching Jaws. It didn't work. | |
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Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_e4b1e91e | comment |
One Henry Stickmin game, Infiltrating the Airship, has Henry try and ride on a propane tank to escape from the titular airship. It... doesn't quite work out for him. Cue fail. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_ec24be81 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_ec24be81 | comment |
In Bolt, a gas canister at the animal shelter is damaged and goes shooting into the parking lot, where it knocks down an illuminated sign that topples onto a car, resulting in a huge explosion. | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_ec24be81 | featureApplicability |
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Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_ec24be81 | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_eca84d14 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_eca84d14 | comment |
In Over the Hedge, a broken propane tank sends a grill skyward, even flying over an airplane. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f15f622e | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f15f622e | comment |
MacGyver (1985): In "To Be a Man", Mac uses a butane tank as torpedo to knock down a bad guy. In "The Odd Triple", Mac is locked up in the cellar of a winery. Needing to escape, he attaches several oxygen tanks to a large wheeled wine cask. Knocking the heads off the cylinders, he turns them into juryrigged rockets that propel the cask through the wall like a Battering Ram. |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f4efded0 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f4efded0 | comment |
In Chain Reaction, Eddie chops the valve off a tank of hydrogen gas to shove open a safety door so he and Dr. Sinclair can escape. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f57c42c3 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f57c42c3 | comment |
Not actually a gas cylinder, but a similar effect occurs in The Croods when Gran, attempting to beat the fire that's burning the end of her staff to death against the ground, sets some giant corncob-like plants alight. The flames heat up their oversized kernels until they pop, sending the cobs streaking in all directions; the "rocket" analogy is taken even further when the ones that fly upwards explode into colorful sparks, like fireworks. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f651fac4 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_f651fac4 | comment |
In Titan A.E., Korso uses a fire extinguisher to propel himself and Cale to the Valkyrie after their stolen ship's cabin windows crack. | |
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| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_fc83a067 | type |
Gas-Cylinder Rocket | |
| Gas-Cylinder Rocket / int_fc83a067 | comment |
In Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby uses a fire extinguisher to freeze a monster and then ride it around on the frozen monster like a snowboard. He then kicks off the end of the extinguisher and rides it briefly like a rocket. | |
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