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Jumping on a Grenade
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Someone has just chucked a grenade into the room where The Squad is. One of the squad throws their body over the grenade and makes a Heroic Sacrifice. The Mythbusters examined this in 2007 and confirmed the myth; jumping on a grenade will significantly reduce the injuries to those around, but it's still a very good idea to get clear. Note that this confirmation only applies to soft, squishy things like a human body — placing a grenade in a harder object, like, say, a refrigerator, will actually increase the damage done, as the hard object turns to even more fragments that can kill. Human bodies are much more effective at absorbing the released energy and shrapnel without fragmenting. In reality, this is zig-zagged, like everything else in war. Officially, the proper course of action when a grenade lands near is to get as far away as possible before detonation, followed by jumping on it, then by grabbing it and throwing it away as a final resort. Fortified positions, from concrete bunkers to hand-dug foxholes, generally have depressions so that grenades that get thrown in can be kicked aside into the depressions and ignored while they detonate safely. On the other hand, the enemy may have cooked itnote held onto the grenade after the pin was pulled and the 3-5 second fuse started burning, to make a shorter time between toss and explosion. It should be noted that this is considered, almost without exception, as a Very Bad Idea and forbidden by most armed forces, as grenade fuses are not reliable, and you're just as likely to have it blow up in your hand as you are to successfully throw it before throwing it in the first place, giving anyone nearby little chance to react. Compare with Pineapple Surprise (for when a character is blown up by their own grenade), Rocket Jump (when a videogame character creates an explosion to jump higher), Taking the Bullet, and Tuck and Cover. See also Eat the Bomb for an even more extreme (and less realistic) approach to personally neutralizing an explosive. Contrast Explosive Stupidity, where the subject unintentionally blows themselves up. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Rocky from Jurassic Strike Force 5 hops on a grenade after Tyler throws it back at the Reptilians. Due to all his heavy armor, he doesn't get a scratch. | |
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Subverted in Ward fanfiction Warp when Antares spots a man leaving a backpack bomb in a restaurant. Her first instinct is flying off with the bomb and letting her force-field tank the explosion, but she's worried about the blast affecting everything else, so she resorts to evacuating the place in a rapid, orderly fashion. | |
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Star Trek Online, episode "From the Ashes", mission "Turning Point". While Klingon Ambassador Woldan is speechifying about how they can't trust D'Tan's nascent Romulan Republic, Colonel Hakeev of the Tal Shiar beams a bomb onto the podium directly behind him. D'Tan's second-in-command, Commander Temer, rushes forward and extends and inverts his personal Deflector Shield around the bomb, and is vaporized when it goes off. This astonishes the Klingons, proving once and for all that Romulans can be honorable, too, and paves the way for the Romulan Republic to get political recognition, and therefore military protection, from the Federation and Klingon Empire. | |
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The Serbian film No Man's Land had something similar occur - a person presumed dead was set up with a bouncing mine underneath them. Then they woke up and, well... | |
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In AXIS, Carnage is affected by a Mirror Morality Machine spell and after his Heel–Face Brainwashing used his own body to suppress a Doomsday Device that would've killed every non-mutant on Earth. He survives due to his From a Single Cell ability, but loses his legs in the process. | |
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Also happens in the German movie Before the Fall (about an elite boarding school run by the Nazis). A group of young students are learning how to properly use stick grenades; one student balks and drops the grenade, staring at it in horror. We see every other boy in that trench splattered with thick dripping gore, absolutely stunned. | |
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Occurs in Hobgoblins as part of a soldier's action-carnage-glory hallucination caused by the eponymous critters. Because of the movie's of MST3K quality, the frag grenade somehow sets him on fire and lets him stagger around for a bit before collapsing... and at the end he miraculously recovers with nothing but a few bandages and some crutches to show for his ordeal. | |
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The Whiteboard: Bandit manages to catch a paint grenade in mid-air and catch the paint. | |
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The Simpsons: Abe Simpson once saved the life of Mr. Burns during World War II by clamping his helmet over an artillery shell that had landed in their foxhole and not yet exploded. Since it's one of Grandpa's stories it's best to take it with a grain of salt. | |
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For the record, that grenade had a forty-five-second fuse. And this episode was used by MythBusters to bust the TV myth that a refrigerator can contain a grenade blast. | |
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A stick of dynamite was accidentally fetched by the family's dog in Monarch of the Glen. The family patriarch threw himself on it. | |
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Possible to do in Battlefield 4. You can dive on any explosive, not just a grenade and save your teammates from the explosion. | |
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Done in Fantasy Island (2020), by a cop who apparently felt a need to make up for an earlier failure to act that helped trigger the plot of the movie. | |
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In Welcome to Dongmakgol a South Korean officer does this after a Mexican Standoff ends with a North Korean soldier dropping his grenade. It doesn't explode. The officer then gets up and contemptuously chucks the dud grenade away—only for it to finally explode, wrecking a storehouse. | |
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My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Fatgum heroically pulls this off in chapter 35. He survives (obviously, since he's still alive by the time of the main series) thanks to his Shock Absorption quirk. | |
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In Combat Kelly and his Deadly Dozen #9, Donald Sample gives his life to blast open a building's doors, setting off a grenade and shielding the others from the blast with his own body. | |
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In Adventure Comics #424, Linda Danvers is having a date with an ex-crook she's trying to get information out of when a gangster suddenly tosses a grenade in the restaurant to silence his former partner. Linda instantly jumps on the grenade and takes the explosion. Good thing she's invulnerable. | |
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Played with in The Pulse; Spider-Man and Luke Cage have to get rid of some of the Green Goblin's pumpkin-bombs. Spidey webs his high into the air, but Luke manages to contain the blast in his hands with the only damage being to his clothing. | |
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Community: "For a Few Paintballs More" has a Paintball Episode variation. The remaining Greendale students are holed up in a classroom. In comes a robotic drone carrying a beeping paint bomb from the enemy. Magnitude heroically jumps on top of it and takes the hit when it explodes, eking out half his catchphrase before passing out. | |
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In The Rat Patrol episode "The Delilah Raid", a Nazi colonel does this to save his lover, a French collaborator. | |
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RWBY: During the Volume 8 finale with their options exhausted, Vine Zeki chooses to protect his friends at all costs. When he, the Ace-Ops, Qrow, and Robyn are trapped with a live bomb, he stays behind with the payload, using his Semblance to contain the blast so that the others are able to escape. | |
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Caprica: In the finale, the monotheists carry out a terrorist attack on the Caprica City stadium, but most of them are taken out by Cylon foot soldiers controlled by the Graystones. In the panic, one of the suicide bombers manages to slip away, forcing the Cylons to run up to him en masse and dogpile him to shield nearby humans from the blast. | |
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A one-shot Legion of Super-Heroes villain was created when a soldier threw himself on top of a high-tech grenade to save his unit. The Applied Phlebotinum grenade threw him centuries into the future and put him out of phase with the universe. | |
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Discussed by the title of the Fall Out Boy song "Grenade Jumper." The song itself doesn't describe actually jumping on a grenade, but a friendship great enough that one would jump on a grenade for the other. | |
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The Carol Burnett Show had a sketch where Tim Conway plays a soldier who saved his unit by swallowing a live hand grenade. He survived but now has no internal organs. | |
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The Secret Saturdays: In "Where Lies the Engulfer", Zak jumps on one of Doyle's grenades (presumably a stun grenade) and uses the resulting blast to propel himself through a skylight. | |
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A raid mechanic in World of Warcraft: During the Iron Juggernaut encounter of the Siege of Orgrimmar instance, the boss will periodically deploy Crawler Mines near itself. The DPS members of the group have to jump on them to prevent them from causing raid-wide damage. | |
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Happens near the end of the first battle in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder with a Bug designed to act as a grenade. | |
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In the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Plague of the Prototypes!", G.I. Robot saves Batman and Easy Company by jumping on top of a landmine while Storming the Beaches on D-Day. | |
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The film Top Secret! spoofs this (parodied, subverted and inverted): a character jumps on a grenade, and several characters near him explode instead. | |
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In The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus enjoys doing this in video games to save the fictional schoolchildren. In a more poetic sense, when Hazel doesn't want him to love her because she is a "grenade" and her death will hurt him, he does anyway. | |
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Done on a larger scale in Marvel's Shogun Warriors. A train full of explosives is about to detonate. Genji, piloting humanoid Humongous Mecha Combatra, throws the mecha over the blast. | |
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Unintentionally invoked in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The master level spells Firestorm and Mass Paralysis (basically large circular waves emanating from the caster) respect line of sight, so enemies standing behind other enemies are unaffected. The problem: it also considers you, the caster an obstacle, making it hard to hit enemies behind you, even though the spells are supposed to radiate out from you. Essentially you jump on your own grenade to protect your enemies. | |
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Ghosts of War: During an assault by Nazi soldiers on the chateau, a grenade is thrown into the house. Butchie throws himself on top of the grenade to smother the explosion. He survives, but all of his limbs are blown off. | |
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The last thing the Vato Bros. do before they are cleared of brainwashing in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice is deploy a Prinny bomb to kill the cast. Mao does this trope after some split-second calculation and survives. That's a 1.8 million EQ for ya. | |
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In Captain America: Civil War Cap does the more sensible thing of slamming his vibranium shield on top of a flash-bang (in fairness, he didn't have the shield during the similiar scene in the 1st film). Given vibranium is nigh-indestructible and known for absorbing energy it works. | |
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Schlock Mercenary Sergeant Schlock accidentally saves his entire team from a flying plasma grenade by eating it. He loses the majority of his body mass, but thanks to some judicious time travel, he gets better. However it's noted that this trope will not work using anti-matter grenades. In this case, the Action Girlfriend (who is wearing Powered Armor) throws her unprotected boyfriend far enough away that he's protected from the blast (her own armor protects her, though it's useless afterwards). |
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In Red Dwarf, Rimmer jumps on a polymorph that has turned into a grenade. He was Nigh-Invulnerable at that point (though he didn't quite know that), though, not to mention Not Himself — in one of the books, it's noted that Rimmer is normally the sort of person who would throw someone else onto the grenade in order to save himself. | |
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Mana Kirishima became a cyborg in Nobody Dies when she jumped on a grenade to shield her fellow soldiers. Kaji, who threw the grenade back in his anti-establishment days, became her guardian as penance. | |
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T'Challa does this at one point in Black Panther (2018). Due to his nigh-indestructible costume, it barely slows him down. | |
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Clockwork Century: In Dreadnought, Fenwick is killed when he jumps on a concussion bomb the Confederate raiders manage to throw onto the train. | |
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Hayato Kawajiri from Jojos Bizarre Adventure jumps on a Proverbial Grenade to take one of Kira's bombs to save Josuke and Okuyasu, only managing to survive because Josuke managed to act fast enough with Crazy Diamond to save him. | |
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Captain America: The First Avenger: Doubting Steve Rogers' suitability due to his poor health, Colonel Phillips throws a fake grenade into a soldier's training exercise. The point was to prove that Rogers didn't have the reflexes or instincts to dodge the grenade. All of the soldiers run for cover — except Rogers, who didn't know that the grenade was a fake and jumps on it while screaming for everyone else to get away. This only serves to reinforce Erskin's point that Steven has the ideal psychological profile for the Super-Soldier program. | |
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Near the end of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, we see Dark turn Night into a bomb to take out his remaining foes. Mello proceeds to jump onto the bomb, and take the blast, saving L and Hal. | |
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Done in Child's Play 3 where one of the nebbish cadets realizes that someone's replaced their training munitions with live ones and sacrifices himself to protect his squad, jumping on a grenade thrown by Chucky who was aiming for Andy. For a horror film death, this one was surprisingly un-gory. The character stays in one piece and all we see is a little blood and a broken pair of glasses. |
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In Smallville, Clark Kent has done this, but being Nigh-Invulnerable, the bomb doesn't even scratch him. | |
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Lampshaded and subverted in one of the short stories in The Things They Carried, entitled "How to Write a True War Story". The author first tells the straight version, and then a version in which everyone nearby dies from the blast anyway and the would-be hero dies with a pithy remark about this being typical of his life. Among other troperific examples of stories from combat, the author concludes that one need only ask whether it matters if the events really happened to know if a war story is "True". | |
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In one issue of The Simpsons, Krusty the Klown is taping a show at the family's house when Fat Tony's goons send a lit stick of dynamite in through the window. (No, no one douses the fuse) Homer tries to solve the problem by putting the stick under a vase, but Krusty screams that they have to put something heavy over it, so Homer sits on the vase. The resulting blast doesn't kill Homer, but it does send him through the ceiling. | |
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Played almost completely straight in A Prayer for Owen Meany as Owen's Heroic Sacrifice, although several others nearby are injured. | |
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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online: In the light novel version of the cabin battle, Pitohui throws an inactive grand grenade to bait out the team, and they fall for it, with one of their members instinctively jumping on the grenade and leaving himself wide open. | |
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In General Protection Fault, during a snowball fight, a man from India jumps on a snowball, thinking it could explode. | |
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In Gotham City Garage, Kara Gordon saves Jason Todd's life by throwing herself on top of a bomb. Her body bore the brunt of the blast, but since it was a solar-powered bomb she came out unscathed (not that a normal bomb would damage her either, but she didn't know about her invulnerability in the time). | |
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Done in an episode of M*A*S*H. Sgt. Rizzo has a dummy grenade that he is using to play practical jokes on people. He is astounded when Maj. Winchester throws himself on top of the grenade to save Rizzo's life. It turns out Winchester knew the grenade was a dummy and wanted to turn the tables on Rizzo. (Rizzo tried it on B.J., so B.J. obviously let Charles in on it.) | |
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Monk puts a grenade inside a refrigerator in the episode "Mr Monk and the Election", and of course opens the door again to put it in straight. For the record, that grenade had a forty-five-second fuse. And this episode was used by MythBusters to bust the TV myth that a refrigerator can contain a grenade blast. |
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Geiger does this Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #2, catching a grenade thrown by Crossbones and using her body to shield her teammates from the blast. Being super tough, she survives the experience, but it is enough to hospitalise her. | |
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In Mass Effect: End of Days, an AI-piloted robot does that during a slave rescue operation. The AI managed to upload into another body... something the quarian slaves present aren't too happy to hear. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 In the "War of the Colossal Beast" episode, Joel and the 'bots test the Between-Meal Mortar, only to have the Twinkie they launched ricochet back. Joel jumps onto it, but everything gets covered in filling anyway. Parodied in an episode where Professor Bobo throws not himself, but someone else (Observer/Brain Guy) on a grenade to protect Pearl. Fortunately for Brain Guy, his people have evolved beyond bodies, so he's not even hurt. |
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Elder Jang-Il Jeong from The Breaker: New Waves, shields the main character, Shi-Woon, from a bomb blast with his body. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle uses the 'grenade in the fridge' variant after the boys' grandfather gives Reece a live hand grenade and he immediately pulls the pin. | |
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The Punk Hazard arc in One Piece has a variation, in that it doesn't feature an actual grenade. In order to prevent the other giant children from eating more of the drugged candy that Caesar Clown has been feeding them, Mocha swallows the entire batch she was carrying at once; to Chopper's horror, as it is a very dangerous drug. This brings her to the brink of death but snaps the other kids back to their senses. Fortunately, Chopper was able to stabilize her condition and save her. | |
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Subverted in the Star Trek: New Frontier short story "Pain Management", Captain Shelby threw herself on a grenade to protect Soleta from Orion mercenaries. She then is annoyed when Soleta shoots her a pitying look, until she realizes that the grenade should have gone off by that point. Soleta deduced that the Orions had removed the detonator since they had stated they wanted both Starfleet officers alive. | |
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Bender covers a bomb with his body in Futurama episode to save the other soldiers, and as he is a robot he survives and is decorated for his actions. | |
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In the Chick Tract "The Chaplain", an evangelist soldier jumps onto a grenade and sacrifices himself to save his unit, prompting a previously violent soldier to convert. Notably, not only were his squadmates so close that they probably would have been killed anyway, the soldier survives long enough to deliver touching last words. | |
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In Tiberium Wars when Lieutenant Cristos, a Nod Commando, ambushes Colt's fireteam, she disables one of the soldiers while he's securing the front of a building, and shoots out his arms and legs and breaks his jaw, then leaves him on top of an explosive charge. When Colt finds him, he tries to pick the soldier up, only for the trooper to spasm and throw himself back on the explosive before it can go off. | |
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Horatio Hornblower novel Hornblower and the Hotspur has a variant when the ship is fired on by land-based howitzers. The shells detonate when their fuses burn down, similar to grenades. It strikes aloft and lands on the deck near Hornblower, and he instinctively jumps to extinguish the fuse only to realize with dismay that everyone is looking at him in awe. Despite his refusal to report the incident in terms beyond "a five-inch shell which fortunately failed to explode," word gets out anyway. And in the earlier-written book Commodore, Hornblower and one of his junior officers discuss the proper length for fuses to prevent brave enemy soldiers from extinguishing them. | |
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Reyna does this in the last book of The Heroes of Olympus, although she survives when Athena makes her cloak magic. | |
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Spoofed on Modern Family when a can of Luke's body spray breaks and can't stop spraying. Unable to throw it out the door, Phil jumps over it until it's empty. To further empathize the trope, the brand name of the spray was Sex Grenade. | |
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In Fury (2014), Gordo, the tank's driver, smothers his own grenade with his body after he drops it inside the tank after being shot. | |
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In The Thin Red Line, Sgt. Keck does it with his own grenade, which he had accidentally unlocked while it was still strapped to his vest. | |
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In the South Korean WWII film, My Way, Tatsuo's grandfather, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army dies when he jumps on a disguised package bomb (presumably sent by the Korean resistance), saving everyone attending his grandson's award celebration, but triggers Tatsuo's Start of Darkness. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000: A Space Marine jumped onto an emerging shell that had burrowed itself underground to save his squad. They lived, he didn't. Ogryn (Ogre IN SPACE) Nork Deddogg saved his commander in this fashion, by jumping on a live grenade (and the enemy grenadier holding it) before it went off. His bulk completely contained the explosion and being Made of Iron, he only gave passing curiosity to his wound (indeed, Deddogg is one of the few characters in the game to manage to die of old age). During a Dark Heresy campaign Seargent Darius Vale has performed this twice in order to protect squadmates too slow to avoid the blast fully (both resulted in receiving extra damage), but survives both times due to being Made of Iron. |
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Team Fortress 2 The Soldier claims he jumped on no less than 1,455 live grenades during his service in World War II. Since he was barred from actually serving in the military (he bought his own plane ticket to Europe and "fought" the war until someone found him in 1949 and told him it was over), it's unlikely that these were Heroic Sacrifices. Or that they happened at all, for that matter. One comic has the Soldier witnessing a missile crash near him. Even though it's several times his size, it's stuck inside a massive crater that provides plenty of cover, and there's nobody else even near it (though he seems to think the cardboard cutouts he's camping with are real enough), he jumps on it. Thankfully, it's a non-exploding spaceship full of guns. Play as the Demoman, and you will do this repeatedly, though not for reasons pertaining to sacrifice. A Pyro can do this if he's in proximity to grenades launched by a Demoman at him or his teammates. The pyro will render the grenades as his by "reflecting" them with his airblast. His teammates will not be harmed (unless the server breaks the game by having friendly fire on), but if he's too close when they finally detonate, the pyro will be harmed. |
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Some Call of Duty games allow for it as well, and with the use of a flak jacket (either a perk or equipment depending on game) you can even survive the blast (there's a challenge in a pair of levels of Call of Duty: Black Ops II requiring you to do just that). | |
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Inverted in The Darkness. A grenade is thrown into a mafia meeting and Jackie instantly pushes one of his mooks on top of it. | |
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In Act of Valor, Lt. Rorke does this to save his SEAL team, as the grenade is dropped from overhead into the middle of the team, and there's no cover for them to reach. | |
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Done by proxy (using an Islamist terrorist) in The Grid and probably understated the damage it would still cause — all that happens is the terrorist's internal organs get scrambled. | |
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In an episode of CSI, a bomb tech jumps on top of a bomb that is about to explode. The cops were trapped in a confined space and the bomb might have killed them all. He realized too late that the bomb was booby-trapped and he really did not have the time to get away. Through his Heroic Sacrifice, the bomb tech manages to save the other three people at the cost of his own life. | |
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How Firm a Foundation: An off-page Rakurai strike in Cheyrath Cathedral only kills three people — the three who jumped on the grenade-armed Rakurai and smothered the explosion with their bodies. | |
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Heavy Object: Havia throws a thug onto his own grenade to block the blast. He ends up splattered with the thug's remains but walks away unharmed. An unnamed member of the 37th jumps on a grenade he had covered with his dive suit, in the vain hope the suit's light armor could absorb the blast. The rest of his team made it out alive thanks to his sacrifice. |
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Battlestar Galactica "The Plan" has a different take on this. A Cylon Centurion has its legs blown off but its gun-arm is still working; a woman throws herself on the muzzle to protect her fellow resistance member. | |
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Karate Bears jump on grenades if they want to. | |
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In Kingsman: The Secret Service, this is how Eggsy's father performs his Heroic Sacrifice, saving his mentors and fellow recruit. | |
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: When Sam and Bucky meet John Walker, the state-appointed Captain America, they are clearly not impressed. Bucky asks "have you ever jumped on a grenade?" Walker says yes, he has, multiple times—his helmet is specially reinforced to help contain a blast. This of course misses the point that it's about being willing to sacrifice yourself; Bucky shakes his head in disgust. | |
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In an episode of Baywatch, after annoying everyone with his safety precautions due to an impending visit from the President, a Secret Service agent throws himself on top of what he thinks is a bomb. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a kid's toy. The agent is humiliated by his mistake and apparent incompetence until Mitch truthfully points out that he didn't know that it was merely a toy and his obvious willingness to sacrifice himself to ensure the President's safety proves how good an agent he really is. | |
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While not exactly "jumping" on the grenade, but with a similar principle, there's a secret in Quake (namely, in E4M4, "The Palace of Hate") where there is a sideways teleporter that cannot be reached by jumping, but there's a hole underneath. You are supposed to fire a grenade on that hole and then stand over it. The blast will propel you toward the teleporter and thus you can reach the secret. The game gently provides you with a Pentagram of Protection so you don't accidentally kill yourself while trying. | |
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In season 2 of Flashpoint, Sam jumped on a grenade to protect a customs agent. Luckily for him, it was just a flashbang. | |
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Princess Victoria does this in Tribes: Vengeance to save several tribeswomen and children, earning the Tribe's respect. However, since she is wearing armor at that moment, she gets better (too bad it's light armor: a heavy suit would have taken the whole blast without a scratch). Still, the next mission revolves around her love interest Daniel stealing an Imperial truck full of medical supplies to treat her against heavy odds. | |
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Parodied by 5 Second Films in Forgotten Hero. A soldier drops his grenade, and he jumps on it to save the rest of the squad... except he was the only person in the vicinity. | |
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Jumping on an explosive in GURPS causes maximum possible damage to the jumper but it will protect those around him a bit. | |
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At the end of the novel Supreme Commander by Nikolai Gudanets (inspired by X-COM), the task force has discovered the location of the alien base on Earth. An abandoned submarine pen in the Arctic, built by the Nazis. They are warned that some aliens are capable of mind-controlling humans, and their armor includes an additional indicator on the HUD, showing a mind control in progress nearby. A squad of four enters a pool area, where the main antagonist is swimming. He mind-controls one of the soldiers and has him throw a grenade in between his squad. Realizing this, one of the squad members (and a secondary character and possible Love Interest of the protagonist) falls on the grenade. Her own armor protects the squad from damage, but she dies instantly. The alien manages to escape by swimming through an underwater tunnel into the ocean, where he's promptly eaten by a shark. | |
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In a side story in the Republic Commando novels, clone commando Fi does this in order to save a few dozen unarmored cops. Unusually for this trope, Fi himself survived too, because Republic Commandos have very good armour. | |
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In Night and Day, Steph McKenzie heroically does this following a tense confessional with a suicidal Duncan Harper at the vicarage. The grenade doesn't go off. | |
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Subverted in Star Trek: Voyager. One episode had a holo soldier try to do this, but the grenade in question was designed to specifically destroy all holograms in a certain radius, so his jumping on it was completely pointless. | |
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Subverted in On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone. Aleema Syndulla actually jumps on her niece Hera rather than the grenade, but it has the same result: Aleema dies but her sacrifice saves Hera's life. | |
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In The Mask, the Mask sits on a bomb. When it explodes, his butt simply expands and that's the extent of the damage. He also saved the city from an atom bomb by swallowing it and letting it explode in his stomach. Being cartoonishly indestructible is handy. |
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In the fourth Artemis Fowl book, Holly Short arrived at the hotel Artemis and Butler were staying in during a heist, only to find out that the bio-bomb that she had been trying to stop has already detonated (Unknown to her, Butler had the sense to grab Artemis and fling them out the window before the bio-bomb hit) After briefly crossing the Despair Event Horizon, Holly notices another bio-bomb and a transmission from Big Bad Opal Koboi. After the transmission, Holly does this using her helmet, which understandably is destroyed but buys her enough time to start outflying the blue-rinse. | |
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In America's Army 3 you earn an achievement if you manage to pull this off and prevent a teammate from being injured by that grenade. | |
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Enemies sometimes jump on your grenades in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault at least, even if they are alone and in perfectly good cover. They do it in almost all of the games. Sometimes you get ones who are smart enough to kick it away. Don't do it near dogs though, unless you have high cover, because they'll bring it back. |
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During his tenure as new Captain America, Bucky Barnes dove in front of a rocket aimed at the presidential candidates' motorcades just as they were about to escape. | |
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