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Molotov Truck
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One crude but effective way of attacking your enemy is to load up a vehicle with flammables, explosives, or anything else that would make a nice big boom, and send it on a collision course toward a target. Thus, the Molotov Cocktail levels up. Any vehicle will do, but large trucks, planes, and even boats are commonly used due to both their size and the speeds they can get up to. In a Period Piece, a wagon or carriage filled with oil-soaked hay may be rolled towards the target. In science fiction, the hero may set an anti-gravity barge or spaceship alight and steer it into an enemy target. The attack combines the force of the vehicle's impact, the possible detonation and/or cook-off of its fuel, and the added punch from the weight of its cargo into a massive strike. If the vehicle can be easily set on course for its target, the person using it might bail out well before it hits. If things are desperate and the vehicle needs to be steered towards its target, the person may do a Heroic Sacrifice and die with the explosion. There are multiple reasons why you might want a Molotov Truck: you're low on ammo, your small arms can't make a major dent in what you want to target, you're in La Résistance and don't have real weapons, you want to shock and awe the enemy, or maybe just Rule of Cool. For cars that are not intentionally weaponized but just happen to blow up upon receiving significant damage, see Every Car Is a Pinto. A large-scale form of Improvised Weapon. See also Car Fu, External Combustion (kind of an X Meets Y of the two), Action Bomb and Incendiary Exponent. Note that while MotorStorm has a manufacturer called Molotov and they do make trucks, this trope does not refer to that. Examples |
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Predator: There's a truck up on blocks so its engine can be used to power the guerilla camp. Dutch puts a Satchel Charge in the back, then uses his great strength to raise the truck so the blocks fall over and the truck goes careening downhill into the camp, whereupon he sets off the charge's radio detonator. | |
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Homura launches a gas tanker off a bridge and directly into the face of Walpurgis Night. And that's not all she does to it... though it still manages to stay alive after all of that. | |
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Company of Heroes have the Wehrmacht faction fielding the remote-controlled Goliaths that explode spectacularly upon destruction or prompt. Which are created from bunkers. The Panzer Elite Munitions Half-track also has this capability for more flexible deployment. | |
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A (probably unintentionally) hilarious example from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: An accused pedophile is exiting the courthouse and his wife arrives to pick him up and gets out of her car. Out of nowhere he leaps into the car and speeds off, driving directly under a tanker truck which almost seems to pause to think about it before deciding to blow up. | |
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In Huntress #5 (the 2012 mini-series), the Huntress sends a speedboat packed with explosives into a harbour as a distraction. | |
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Homefront has your rebel force using this against the KPA, or so it appears at first; the truck is actually a distraction; the KPA forces no sooner move in to examine the truck as white phosphorus rains down upon them. | |
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In The Salvation War, a former Hamas operative drives a truck bomb into one of the Beasts of the Apocalypse. | |
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In Master of Orion II ships that are self-destructed (or sometimes just killed) explode, damaging all targets around. Quantum Detonator device allows ships to explode for greater damage and more reliably. Making ships oriented on self-destruction usually isn't a good idea, but occasionally running into enemy and blowing up a doomed ship may help others. | |
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This is how The Question eventually destroyed Luthor's Science Spire from Lex Luthor: Man of Steel. (He did it to free the souls trapped in the building.) | |
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Age of Empires II gives every civilization (except the Koreans) Demolition Rafts and Ships, which are packed to the brim with explosives and whose only attack is to ram themselves into things and explode, causing massive damage. They're the fastest vessels in the game, so they're pretty hard to fend off, and are ideal if there's a heavily-loaded transport coming for your shores. | |
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Andor: In Reckoning", Cassian and Luthen manage to make their way to a garage containing two speeders — a larger model with an enclosed cockpit, and a smaller, faster bike-style craft. At Cassian's suggestion, Luthen loads his remaining explosives into the larger one, which they set off down the street. The Corpos disable it with blaster fire, and step towards it to inspect the crash, allowing Luthen to detonate the explosives and send them flying as he makes his escape with Cassian on the other vehicle. | |
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It's a common sight in Battlefield 3 of people covering jeeps in C4 and then drive them into what ever needs to be blown-up. In Battlefield 1942, jumping in a jeep and ramming a tank was a good way to make both explode. |
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Command & Conquer: Generals: The terrorist GLA have a Bomb Truck unit, which can carry explosives and upgrade with better explosives or anthrax, or even both (though that's quite expensive). It can also be disguised as any vehicle, so the enemy thinks it one of their resource gatherers, and won't react as it cheerfully runs over their infantry. The Expansion Pack Zero Hour adds 3 Generals per faction, two of the GLA Generals have their Bomb Trucks pre-upgraded with anthrax or high-explosive payload, respectively. | |
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Modesty Blaise: In "Fraser's Story", Willie delays pursuit by setting fire to a truck and driving it into the bad guys' motor pool. | |
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In a non-combat example, the fleet that carries the Kite to the Edge in The Last Hero use rafts loaded with inflammable materials and swamp dragons to blast a gap in the Circumfence and clear the way for the vessel's launch. | |
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MechWarrior 4 multiplayer featured a unique piece of equipment for Light 'Mechs called the "High Explosive Pack." This weapon would stuff any sufficiently sized missile slot with a really big bomb, with the idea being to stealthily approach (or just plain bum rush) enemy heavy or assault 'Mechs and light the fuses. This was immediately fatal to the Light 'Mech, but often resulted in damaged or destroyed opponents. Because multiplayer offered point bonuses for damaging or destroying larger opponents and many players sacrificed armor or speed for firepower, this ended up being a semi-reliable way for Light 'Mech pilots to rack up points. | |
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Battle of Chibi (Red Cliff) is decided in dramatic fashion by a fleet of fire ships... disguised as supply ships. | |
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My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: A unique variation in that the Slayer hurls an intact double-tanker full of gas towards the Sabers gathered at the I-Expo. While it didn't detonate automatically, when it did, it killed dozens of Sabers instantly or left the ones covered in gasoline burning alive as the flames spread. This is used to disorient them as he pulls a Bait-and-Switch. | |
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Ride to Hell: Retribution has the protagonist steal a tanker truck and blow up a power plant to disable an electric fence, rather than just plow through the fence with the truck. | |
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Ekaterina: In season 2, the Russian navy turns one of their ships into a brander (AKA a fire ship) and sends it into the Turkish harbor, where the enemy has fortified. This forces the enemy to scatter and allows the Russian fleet to come in and blast the Turks into splinters. | |
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One of the campaign missions of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag involves the player character teaming up with Charles Vane and Jack Rackham to use a fire ship to break a British blockade around Nassau after it comes under occupation by Woodes Rogers. | |
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A recommended strategy for some Grand Theft Auto missions. | |
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In Everworld, a boat is simply lit afire and rammed into a wooden dam on the Nile. | |
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In Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man does a much more literal version of this by accident. During the airport fight, he gives Cap a shrunken truck and tells him to throw it at a disc that will enlarge it after he throws the disc. Once the truck is enlarged it lands near War Machine and explodes as soon as it hits the ground. Ant-Man is shocked though because he thought it was a water truck, not a tanker truck. | |
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In Tomorrow: When the War Began, a petrol tanker is used to blow up the bridge into town. | |
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In The Dark Knight the Joker corrals Harvey Dent's police escort by blocking off the road with a flaming fire truck, leading to an epic Chase Scene. | |
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Resident Evil 4 has powder keg wagons, which start moving when shot, exploding on impact with the enemy. | |
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In G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2(IDW), some criminals in the 1930s are trying to use a Mode Locked and unconscious Optimus Prime to blow a hole in a bank. During a tense chase with some Joes, Cobras and Autobots trying to find Optimus and bring him back, The Baroness simply shoots the explosives and detonates them prematurely, realizing that even a truckload of explosives isn't going to hurt Optimus Prime. | |
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Absolutely required in the second level of Total Overdose. Recommended strategy in other levels, as the points for combination kills can be helpful to completion score. | |
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In Battlefield 1942, jumping in a jeep and ramming a tank was a good way to make both explode. | |
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In Forward, the crew straps some bombs to the mule from Serenity and drops it on Womack's gunship. | |
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Useable to great effect in Just Cause 2. Every Car Is a Pinto + speed + instant parachute = fun! This is the point of Crash Bomb side missions in Just Cause 3, where you have to supercharge a Bavarium bomb attached to your vehicle by reaching and staying above a certain speed, then drive it into the middle of a group of DRM vehicles and soldiers. |
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This is the point of Crash Bomb side missions in Just Cause 3, where you have to supercharge a Bavarium bomb attached to your vehicle by reaching and staying above a certain speed, then drive it into the middle of a group of DRM vehicles and soldiers. | |
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In The Granite Shield, eleven-year-old Flairalynne leads a fireship raid on the enemy fleet — and follows it up by setting her father on fire. | |
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During the "Day of Black Sun" episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the protagonists used large water trucks on the front lines so the waterbenders would have something to bend. Replace the water with explosives, and those same trucks can be used to breach fortifications. | |
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In District 9 the Nigerian gangsters trap Wikus, Christopher, and MNU mercenaries using a molotov truck. | |
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In Ernest Goes to Camp, the kids get the idea to take out the bulldozer threatening to destroy the camp by loading up the runaway maintenance cart with all the volatile stuff they can get their hands on and ramming it. Unfortunately, the kids realize they don't have enough material to make a suitable boom, until Ernest shows up with the local Lethal Chef's latest batch of Eggs Erroneous, "the most powerful substance known to man!" This being an Ernest movie, it works beautifully. | |
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Batman: The Joker (in collaboration with some Middle Eastern terrorists) once did this with an oil tanker in a Legends of the Dark Knight storyline. | |
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture: | |
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If you have the time and means to sacrifice a vehicle in Far Cry 2, it is entirely possible to slap a half-dozen improvised explosives onto a junker car you just found, drive it at high(ish) speeds into a checkpoint or secure zone, and bail out to let inertia and your remote detonator do the rest. | |
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Endling: Tobble destroys a Marsonian ship by crashing a flaming boat into it. | |
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The African Queen: In colonial WWI Africa, our hero and heroine convert the eponymous boat into a torpedo to try and blow up a German patrol ship. | |
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In The Giant Gila Monster, Chase loads his car with nitroglycerin and crashes it into the eponymous monster when it proves to be Immune to Bullets. Mystery Science Theater 3000 made fun of the fact that a car full of nitroglycerin driving across rough terrain would go off WAY easier than what's shown in the movie. | |
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Old Man Henderson pulled one of these quite effectively against an ungodly abomination of Hastur. It helps that he did it with a tanker truck, right next to the very same pump it was being filled with. | |
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Lackadaisy (pictured) has Rocky set a barn on fire by driving an ablazed car into it. | |
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Red Dead Redemption has you use an dynamite-laden wagon to crash the gates of El Presidio. | |
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The fifth season of Lost has this. Ben use a Molotov Truck as a diversion to get rid of the guards so he can break a certain guy out of jail. | |
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In The Scar, a whole swarm of Molotov boats turns the tide of battle when the New Crobuzon fleet attacks Armada. | |
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Demolition Trucks from the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series. They contain nukes. They tend to get blown up before getting near their targets, so a common strategy is to make them temporarily invincible with the Iron Curtain, allowing you to detonate them right where your opponent doesn't want you to. | |
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In the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen, there is a government conspiracy to crash a passenger plane into the middle of New York. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Tyrion Lannister devastates Stannis Baratheon's fleet by sending in ships filled with wildfire, a highly explosive alchemical substance like Greek Fire. | |
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Cortex Command allows you to load several dozen of grenades, bombs, and crab bodies into a rocket and steer it on top of a cluster of enemies. Not very efficient, but often hilarious to watch. | |
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An uncommon tactic in Command & Conquer: Renegade's multiplayer. Engineers may pile remote C4 onto a cheap vehicle and drive it into the enemy's harvester to cripple their income generation. It takes a lot of C4 to do this, however, but it's faster than trying to blow up the harvester in a more traditional fashion. The cheapest and fastest (and therefore most expendable) GDI ground vehicle is a Humm-Vee. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: In "Udûn", Bronwyn torches several hay wagons on fire and traps the Orcs between them to give the villagers a chance to launch a surprise attack on them. | |
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The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OVA replaces the iconic road roller with an oil tanker that Dio punches so hard it explodes. It likely inspired the steamroller exploding in the video games. | |
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In Days Gone the residents of the Lost Lake camp use one as a distraction, so as to gain entry to the Militia's island fortress after resident scumbag Skizzo joins up with the faction and informs its leader of the camp's existence with the intent of it being conquered and forcefully absorbed into the Militia, like every other camp it's run across. Oh, and Militia Colonel Garrett has Sarah as a hostage due to Skizzo showing up at the worst possible moment and recognizing Deacon, DURING his and Sarah's attempt to go AWOL. | |
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Spider-Man tried to stop The Juggernaut by driving a tanker full of gasoline directly into him. At first, Spidey was worried he had gone too far and killed him, but Juggernaut wasn't even slowed down. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Orks. While some might be content with filling mere trukks and planes with explosives (and given how Orks drive, that's pretty much what they do), Orks hollow out giant asteroids, fit them with equally oversized engines, life-support systems and warp drives, and hurl them into space on collision course with a planet. This leaves the Rok with one of two options: crash land on target, unleashing thousands of fight-happy Orks, fully equipped with weapons, vehicles, ammo and fuel; or airburst, causing a catastrophic explosion as the aforementioned ammo, fuel, and giant engines go boom. Both options are considered equally entertaining by the Orks. | |
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Agent Carter: In ''Hollywood Ending", the Zero Matter rift is closed by sending Howard Stark's hovercar into it with the gamma cannon's core inside, then blowing it up. They even blow up the car by sticking a rag into the gas tank and lighting it on fire, just like a Molotov cocktail. | |
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In Children of Men the heroes are ambushed after a flaming car blocks their path. | |
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Escape to Athena. Telly Savalas' character has an accidental version when he decides to assassinate a German officer by sabotaging the brakes of his kübelwagen, and it crashes into a German ammunition dump which subsequently explodes. | |
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Devastator in Dune II is a borderline example: it's a nuclear-powered heavy tank. Plowed into enemy base and got too damaged to get away? Move it a bit further and blow up. (It helpfully has a Destruct command.) | |
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Mad Max (2015) features cars packed with explosives. Enemies driving these try to get close to you and light the fuse, killing themselves in the process. If you can get rid of the driver without destroying the car, you can do the same thing... just remember to jump out before it blows. Additionally, one side mission involves Max intercepting explosive trucks heading towards an allied base. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: The Empire has the Yari Submarine, whose special ability is a suicide run at enemy ships (a plausible strategy since the units are cheap). They are based off the real-life kaiten (see Real Life section). The Honorable Discharge ability pre-loads every Imperial vehicle with explosives that detonate on death, hopefully dealing more damage to the enemy than nearby friendly units. It also boosts the power of units that are meant to explode, like the aforementioned Yari, but also the Sunburst Drones (remote-controlled miniplanes that crash onto a target, strafing everything on the way there) and Balloon Bombs (bombs with parachutes). |
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In The Power of Five, Matt's aunt is mind-controlled and attempts to kill Matt by driving one of these into his school. | |
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi: The militia employs many of these as improvised incendiaries during the embassy attack and notably the ambush on the DSS agent's car. | |
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In The Saboteur, Sean can booby-trap vehicles he's driving with explosives, which will detonate once the vehicle impacts something. Make sure to bail out beforehand. In addition, there's the Phoenix, a modified version of the Aurora packed with explosives that's used to assassinate a German general in one mission. | |
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The conclusion to the role-playing/strategy classic Star Control II 'The Ur-Quan Masters' requires employing this strategy to destroy the alien battleship and achieve final victory. | |
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Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, loaded a damaged truck with assorted flammables and sent it roaring into a swarm of Orks in Death of Glory to provide a distraction while he and Jurgen escaped. It made quite a satisfying fireball. | |
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In the Firefly episode "War Stories", the crew of Serenity load up their 4x4 with incendiaries and drive it into the guard post on Niska's space station. | |
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The Avatar in Fire Emblem: Awakening pulls this off with ships. They start with a fleet of ships with a skeleton crew, then load most of them with explosives and send them at the enemy ships, evacuating the rest of the crew to a smaller number of ships at maximum occupancy. | |
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Doctor Zero assists William Belluts with his plan to drive a truck bomb into a US government SDI facility, in revenge for the way they closed down the previous factory on the site and left some workers redundant and in poverty. | |
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A variation appears in Call of Duty: World at War, where your squad encounters a truck with fuel barrels in it, at the top of a hill, facing an enemy encampment. Rather than lighting the whole thing on fire, you puncture one of the barrels while a squadmate puts the truck in neutral and lets it careen downhill, and then ignites the fuel trail instead. | |
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In the Mission: Impossible episode "Nitro", the IMF has to stop a near-eastern ultra-nationalist group from blowing up a government building with truck full of nitrogylcerine. | |
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Age of Empires III with the Fire Junk of the Chinese. | |
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