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Plunger Detonator
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This detonator is usually a plain square box with a T-shaped plunger on top and wires attached. Although typically not seen anymore in Real Life, it is ubiquitous in classic Western Animation and is period-accurate in stories set between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. In the real world these are actually called "blasting machines" because the plunger spins a little magneto similar to an old-fashioned hand-crank phone to generate the electricity used to detonate the explosives. As often as not, a comedic character attempting to use it results in Where's the Kaboom? Alternatively, a comedic character may accidentally set it off early (or during the moment of relief after an explosive crisis has been averted) by absently sitting or leaning on the handle. Bonus points if the detonator actually explodes instead of the attached explosives. May be Played for Drama, as someone throws their body weight on the handle as a Last Breath Bullet. Modern blasting devices use either hand crank or a twist handle instead of plunger to rotate the magneto to create the electric charge needed to detonate the blasting cap. Compare Cartoon Bomb and Incredibly Obvious Bomb. Possibly related to Big Electric Switch, insofar as the obsolete look of the device is a deliberate choice of Rule of Cool over realism. Hair-Trigger Explosive doesn't need this to set it off.note But doesn't mean it can't be there. Even if it's never used. Weapon of choice for a Dastardly Whiplash. Notably, some satchel charges are actually triggered by detonators like these, at least when they aren't shot at or being triggered through a wick and trigger system. |
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In the Spirou & Fantasio short story "La peur au bout du fil" (Fear at the end of the wire), the "fear" in the title is caused by the discovery of the "wire", with such a detonator on one end... which means the other end must be a bomb. It's actually a bomb filled with the Count's metal-melting gas, and at the end of the story it's accidentally triggered by the marsupilami. | |
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The Crystal Maze had one game in the Aztec zone where the player had to fish plunger handles out of a river, then use them to detonate the entrance to a mine shaft. | |
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The Far Side has a strip in which a couple catch their dog trying to blow up their house with a plunger-type detonator. The caption implies that this is not the first time this situation has occurred. | |
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The cannons in Kirby Super Star sometimes have these hooked up to their fuses, allowing them to be triggered without a flame. Some of the said cannons are actually traps and will simply explode instead of firing if Kirby jumps into them, though, whereas the ones without detonators are never of this nature. | |
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Battlefield: The TNT, dynamite, and exppacks all use a plunger detonator. | |
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Batman (1966) episode "While Gotham City Burns". When the Dynamic Duo are trapped inside a giant steel book and about to be steamed to death, the Gotham City police use one to detonate some explosives and blow the book open. | |
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Death Race 2000. When the Resistance tries to blow up Frankenstein's car using mines, they explode the mines with a plunger detonator. | |
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The Bridge at Remagen has the Germans use a plunger detonator to try to demolish the eponymous bridge to prevent it from being captured, only to have it fail because the wires were damaged in the fighting. | |
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The Desert Rats: The raid on the German ammo dump nearly goes horribly wrong when the Aussie soldier charged with pushing the plunger detonator is shot dead before he gets the chance. Major MacRoberts has to leap out of the truck and do it himself. | |
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In the Achille Talon album La Traversée du Disert, a demolition worker uses one to set off charges in a stone quarry — where, unbeknownst to him, the protagonists have ended up. He is prevented in the nick of time from pressing the plunger, only to sit on it by accident the next minute. | |
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The Thing (1982). The remaining crew members set up dynamite charges to blow up the base, with a detonator to set them off. Unfortunately the title monster grabs it before they can use it, but The Hero improvises. | |
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A couple of these show up next to a rack of hand grenades in an early scene in The Ipcress File. Palmer pushes the handle of one down, presumably to see if it's connected to anything. | |
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Jonah Hex (2010): The Dragon uses one of these to blow up a train. | |
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On The Simpsons Sideshow Bob's brother Cecil uses one of these to try to blow up Springfield Dam. | |
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Spice World: The "explosives expert" Mel B uses one to blow up some buildings. | |
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Looney Tunes. A staple accessory of its characters. Bugs Bunny short "The Windblown Hare". When The Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and blows at The Three Little Pigs' house of bricks, the house explodes. The camera pans right and show Bugs standing next to a plunger detonator. Bugs used it to blow up the house while he was offscreen. Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner episode "Zipping Along". The Coyote puts a pile of explosives behind a wall with a door in it. He sets up a plunger detonator so it will detonate the explosives when the door is opened. A truck comes around a bend and forces him to open the door to escape, blowing himself up. The Coyote would try several other tricks involving hand-detonated explosives over his series, resulting in mishaps such as the detonator exploding while the dynamite remains intact (shouldn't be possible), or the plunger dropping due to gravity and setting off the explosives while they're still being planted (unlikely, but this is why the safe way to use explosives includes not attaching the wires to the detonator until the bomb is in place and you are a safe distance away). |
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In High Plains Invaders, the heroes use a plunger detonator to set of all the dynamite simultaneously when they attempt to kill all the Bugs at the same time. | |
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Used in the Half-Life demo, "Uplink", in the Half-Life: Blue Shift expansion, and used in the Half-Life: Opposing Force expansion to blow up an alien Gargantua. | |
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In Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls four of them are hidden, their purpose is to blow up the obstacles that block the entrance of the optional stages on the world map. | |
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A portable plunger detonator is how you explode your demolition charges in Unturned. The format makes it easy to recognize in the game's minimalistic art style. | |
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In use on a film set in Free and Easy. Elmer, who is The Ditz, puts his foot on it and blows the charge prematurely, ruining the shoot. | |
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These are used in Final Fantasy XIV to clear out piles of rubble in Copperbell Mines. | |
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The cave level (and some others at times) in The Smurfs (1994). | |
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The Binding of Isaac has this as an item that allows you to manually detonate your Cartoon Bombs. | |
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On The Muppet Show and in all other Muppet media, Crazy Harry sets off explosions by pushing down on a silver plunger. In "Chanson D'Amour", Harry brought his onto the stage and set off explosions with every line he sung (culminating in him setting of an array of explosions while cackling madly), and in "Wild About Harry", he revealed an instrument he calls the explodophone, which is a series of plungers he pushes in time with the song to trigger explosions. | |
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The Nobelisk Detonator in Satisfactory is one of these, despite the fact that the Nobelisks themselves are futuristic wireless explosives. The detonator has to be equipped to place the Nobelisks, and multiple can be placed to set off simultaneously by "reloading" the detonator. If the player hits detonate immediately after a reload, the Pioneer will mash down the detonator with the Nobelisk in her hand... good thing Nobelisks don't arm until thrown. | |
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Mother Goose and Grimm. In the strip for September 17th 2012,◊ Grimm uses an Acme detonator in an attempt to open the refrigerator door. | |
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Land of War - The Beginning sees you using one in the game's Downer Ending, to blow up yourself and the rest of the invading Germans. | |
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The minigame Bowser's Big Blast in Mario Party fits here. The minigame involves pressing down on a plunger detonator in hopes of picking one which doesn't blow up the Bowser head. | |
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Tomb Raider II features one near the end of Bartoli's Hideout, though Lara needs to find the key before she can use it. | |
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In Serious Sam series, it can be found in a few places. It's a trigger marker by default though. | |
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The Rock Riders use one to blow the canyon in Mad Max: Fury Road. Justified as the Scavenger World is full of pre-digital technology as it holds up better in the harsh conditions. It's also a distant shot, so as per The Coconut Effect the plunging motion is used to make it clear to the audience what is happening. | |
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Another Australian World War One movie Beneath Hill 60 has both plunger detonator and knife switch being used to set off the massive mines that have been planted beneath the German trenches. | |
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In Fallout 4, the icon for the endgame mission "The Nuclear Option" has Vault Boy pressing a plunger to set off an explosion at the ruins of CIT, and by extension the Institute. (The actual trigger and explosion are... significantly more complex.) | |
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Farscape sees plenty of these in a few of the episodes which take place in John's mind. In this case, the landscape is transformed into a Looney Tunes style desert, with John as the Roadrunner and Harvey as Wiley E. Coyote. Hilarity and explosions ensue. | |
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Shadow Guardian has one of these in the first level, Luxor, and you trigger it by stepping on the plunger. | |
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Guilty Gear. Faust uses one for his Instant Kill from X onward. The exact results vary from game to game (sometimes the explosion is delayed and gives both players a Funny Afro, sometimes it goes off like a nuke). | |
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Used a couple of times in Borderlands. Fitting, given the Space Western setting. | |
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Trail of the Pink Panther has a scene where a young Jacques Clouseau is using one while he was a member of the French underground during World War II. Typical of Clouseau, it doesn't work right. | |
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LEGO had a model that appeared in multiple sets, including 6775 Alpha Team Bomb Squad, 1352 Explosion Studio, and 7414 Elephant Caravan. Due to the way it was built, the plunger was non-functional and could not be pushed down. | |
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Dick Dastardly uses one in the Wacky Races debut episode "See-Saw To Arkansas." It fails to detonate the dynamite he employs to block a pass and stall the other racers, so he runs over to the dynamite to see what went wrong. Muttley sees what it is: the wire leading from the detonator to the dynamite was severed, so he reconnects it. The dynamite subsequently blows up in Dastardly's face. Cue Muttley snicker and Dastardly's Dope Slap. | |
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Likewise in A Bridge Too Far. The Coconut Effect may apply here — as the explosives don't actually go off, it needs to be clear to the audience that the Germans are trying to set off explosives, but fail, hence the use of a more familiar detonator. | |
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The Goodies. The Twist Ending of "Cecily" has the supposedly innocent niece who lives in the Haunted House using a plunger detonator to blow up the Goodies and her aunt and uncle in the summer house. She then uses a second detonator to blow up the house as well. | |
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Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner episode "Zipping Along". The Coyote puts a pile of explosives behind a wall with a door in it. He sets up a plunger detonator so it will detonate the explosives when the door is opened. A truck comes around a bend and forces him to open the door to escape, blowing himself up. The Coyote would try several other tricks involving hand-detonated explosives over his series, resulting in mishaps such as the detonator exploding while the dynamite remains intact (shouldn't be possible), or the plunger dropping due to gravity and setting off the explosives while they're still being planted (unlikely, but this is why the safe way to use explosives includes not attaching the wires to the detonator until the bomb is in place and you are a safe distance away). | |
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Simon uses an Acme detonator to set off a stick of cartoon dynamite in The Cartoon Man. | |
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Batman (1966). The Riddler uses a small one to detonate explosives and blow open a door into the United World building. | |
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Often used by our saboteur heroes on Hogan's Heroes when time bombs were not sufficient. In one case they even got their Nazi 'captor' to press the plunger himself, under the impression that he had loaded the tunnel with fake dynamite while pretending to be one of the Allies. | |
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Bugs Bunny short "The Windblown Hare". When The Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and blows at The Three Little Pigs' house of bricks, the house explodes. The camera pans right and show Bugs standing next to a plunger detonator. Bugs used it to blow up the house while he was offscreen. | |
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A Whammy on Press Your Luck uses this to wipe out contestants' scores. The detonator blows up in the Whammy's face. | |
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One is seen in Lawless, when the police blow up the Bondurants' bootleg still. | |
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In The Sheikh and the Dustbin, George MacDonald Fraser tells of a piece of outside-the-box thinking used by an eccentric brother officer to put down a riot in Libya circa 1947: He wired up a plunger to an (empty) crate and parked the crate on a bridge in full view of an angry mob that was about to cross it. As soon as the plunger was raised ready for "blasting", the crowd dispersed with extreme alacrity. | |
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Battle of the Bulge (1965). A group of German paratroopers disguised as US MPs pretend to rig a bridge behind American lines for demolition while actually holding for their own army. Part of their act includes two men ostentatiously hooking up a detonator while other men pretend to rig charges. Everyone is fooled until the leader of the squad of U.S. Army engineers actually assigned to blow the bridge arrives and immediately protests such a clear (and stupid) violation of basic safety procedures. He and his men get shot dead for their trouble. | |
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In Latchkey Kingdom, Ash's trap for the Titan is apparently triggered by having it step on a Plunger Detonator. We never get to see this, because Willa falls onto it first and nearly gets blown up. | |
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Afraid of Monsters: Getting through the sewers requires David to explore several rooms and hallways connected to them, eventually finding a plunger detonator on top of some shelving which sets off TNT in the main waterway, which punches a hole through the wall for David to swim through and continue on. | |
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Patton. During the Battle of the Bulge, a German soldier uses one to detonate some explosives and start an avalanche onto an American column. Combines Hollywood History with Hollywood Science because no such incident ever happened and real German detonators used a clockwork mechanism using a handle that turned. | |
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The protagonists use modern ones in Tremors 2: Aftershocks — explosives strapped to remote-control cars which they got the Graboids to eat before blowing them sky high. | |
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In the opening of The Party, Hrundi V. Bakshi rests his foot on the handle of one of these to tie his shoelace, causing the premature demolition of a film set. | |
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The Masque of the Red Death setting is an Alternate History version of 1890's Earth, so explosives are available. This device is one of the ways of detonating explosives mentioned in the rules. | |
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Tintin: In Destination Moon, a plunger detonator is used to remotely destroy the rocket X-FLR6 when its radio control is captured by spies. | |
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Dynomutt, Dog Wonder: Dynomutt sits on one in the intro. | |
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Two bad guys attempt to use this on a bridge that the title car is passing over in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Implausibly, the explosives don't explode, but the detonator itself does, resulting in Ash Face. | |
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In the Glitter Gulch Mine level of Banjo-Tooie, Banjo and Kazooie could transform into a detonator. Its explosions were self-damaging but not necessarily fatal. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "Hex Games", Vicky uses one to blow up a section of the skating ramp that Timmy is riding down. | |
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Silent Dragon: Occasionally in a few areas, you can find dynamite sticks strewn about, and a single plunger detonator in a corner. Pressing the attack button on the detonator will trigger the dynamites taking out multiple enemies all at once. | |
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In one level of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Nazis attempt to use one to blow up a bridge, and you must snipe them before they can reach it. In a later level, Powell uses one to blow open a reinforced door in order to move deeper into Fort Schmerzen. | |
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Winnie the Pooh's Gopher, as a miner, will often be seen with one of these and a whole lot of dynamite. On one occasion, Rabbit disguised it as a pogo stick in an attempt to stop Gopher from using it, and then somehow got tricked into using it himself. | |
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Lost in Space episode "Mutiny in Space". Dr. Smith uses one to set off the explosive chemicals in his rain-making machine. | |
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A non-explosive version occurs in the teaser of Live and Let Die. A British Secret Service agent stationed in the United Nations building is killed when someone unplugs his translator and replaces it with a plunger device that sends a deadly sound to his head. Incidentally the climax does involve Stuff Blowing Up, but activated by Time Bombs. | |
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Several episodes of the US version of Distraction featured the winning contestant having to push down a plunger that would randomly blow up one of his or her prizes for each question missed in the final round. | |
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The Monkees. The title characters occasionally tried to use one, by clipping two alligator cables to whatever they were trying to blow up, then pushing the plunger on a hand-sized box, at which point something else would blow up. | |
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Wild and Crazy Kids used these on occasion, most memorably to blow up sandcastles. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI", Sandy blows up the duo with one of these every time someone says the word "boom." | |
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Blazing Saddles. Sheriff Bart tries to use one to detonate the explosives in the fake Rock Ridge and blow up the villains, but it doesn't work. The Waco Kid has to set them off with a shot from his revolver. | |
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Hellfighters. Used a few times throughout the movie when the team detonates their nitro barrels to snuff out oil well fires. | |
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Street Fight: In this documentary, Newark Mayor Sharpe James and others push down a ceremonial Plunger Detonator, followed by the explosive demolition of a decrepit old public housing building. | |
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Doctor Who. A Regency-era villain uses a prochronistic Wimshurst machine with a plunger stuck on the top to set off explosives manually after the Doctor sabotages his Time Bomb. Used in "The Pirate Planet", though it's not mentioned why the Doctor would have one in the first place. |
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The Mythbusters use these occasionally, with an arming device for safety, but usually just go with a Big Red Button. Also used for the appropriately named Detonation Collection: the box is shaped like a plunger detonator, and the spine art of the DVD cases form red sticks of dynamite with a clock. | |
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Dudley Do-Right. When Snidely Whiplash's chief minion Homer goes to blow up Dudley's house, he brings one along but accidentally prematurely detonates the dynamite when he tucks the detonator under his arm. | |
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The third Exmortis game requires the player to rig up explosives with this as the detonator, in order to blow open a subway station before a nuke levels the city you're in. Granted, the player can try using their telekinetic powers first, but it won't help. | |
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In Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock", the villain (played by Mark Metcalf, aka Niedermeyer) is planning to blow up the band during a concert. As he's planting the dynamite by Dee Snider's feet, a butterfly lands on the plunger handle, pushing it down and setting it off. | |
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In The Wire, Mayor Royce makes a big publicity event out of demolishing a crime-ridden apartment complex. He pushes an old-fashioned plunger...which is then revealed to be a dummy mock-up while the explosives are actually set off from a nearby control panel. | |
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In Little House on the Prairie, many of the buildings in Walnut Grove were thus destroyed. | |
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One is a big part of a major scene in The Bridge on the River Kwai. In fact, what happens at the end with it is actually another Dead Horse Trope: The dying guy falling on the detonator and setting off the explosives. | |
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Jonny Quest TOS episode "The Quetong Missile Mystery". The guards use plunger detonators to detonate underwater mines to blow up intruding boats. At the end, the Big Bad, General Fong, suffers a Karmic Death when he shoots one of the guards, who falls on the detonator and explodes a mine under Fong's boat. | |
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In Medal of Honor: Airborne, you use one to destroy a FlaK Tower in the final level. Prior to that, you are tasked with destroying one such detonator that the Germans plan on using to blow up Nijmegen bridge as one of your objectives. | |
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Ocean's Eleven: When Reuben's old building is blown up. | |
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The title characters from Worms remove themselves from the battlefield with one of these. | |
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In Karate Bears: the hero rigs explosives and an election at the same time! | |
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Enemy Front have you using one such detonator in the cutscene where you blow up a bridge sending an armored train into a ravine. | |
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The Phantom (1943): The villains try to bury the heroes in an artificial landslide by setting off explosives on the mountainside above them, using one of these. | |
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In Trakka, one of the built-in games packaged with Repton Infinity, your assistant "Kevin" can be pushed next to sticks of dynamite, which are then triggered by the player using a detonator. | |
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In Red Dead Redemption 2, the Van der Linde gang uses these detonators at several different points in the story, and Arthur is tasked with hooking them up to the explosives each time. Notably, when the gang first tries to use one to blow up the tracks beneath a train they intend to rob, the explosives fail to go off altogether. | |
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Blood includes this on the "Thin Ice" secret level. | |
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Used in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Graduation Day" to set off the explosives that destroyed Sunnydale High. | |
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In the 4th Submachine game, The Lab, A used one shows up in one of the places you visit, surrounded by blood, soot, and bits of clothing. A note nearby explains that it was used in a vain attempt to blast open a locked hatch. | |
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Joe in Without Warning (1980) rigs an explosive trap inside the shack that the alien hunter uses to store its victims, which ends on a plunger detonator. For dramatic purposes, it fails on the first push because the wirings were off. | |
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An early Cattivik story from Bonvi had the titular character trying to blow up a shop with some dynamite and a plunger detonator, but accidentally mistakes the bomb's plunger with the one of an air pump for a nearby bike. When he finally realize the mistakes, he laughs over it... only to accidentally lean on the real detonator, blowing himself up. | |
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In Queen of All Oni, when Jade orders Left to break the Dog Talisman so that its power would go back to her dog Scruffy, the Shadowkhan tries several methods before eventually attempting to blast it with a load of dynamite attached to a cliche detonator. Jade had to stop him before brought the entire building. | |
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On Richard Hammonds Blast Lab, the losing team has to press down a plunger to blow up their prizes. | |
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While only described and never seen on screen, the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Frog's Legacy" explains that gentleman thief Freddie "the frog" Robdal died when he sat on his own detonator. Given this was 1960s England, one can assume it was this type of detonator. | |
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In Terraria version 1.3 onwards, all explosive block traps are connected to an incredibly obvious one that is triggered by landing on top of one or activating one yourself, much to the relief of players. (Before this, they were triggered by hard-to-see pressure plates) | |
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Medal of Honor: In one level of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Nazis attempt to use one to blow up a bridge, and you must snipe them before they can reach it. In a later level, Powell uses one to blow open a reinforced door in order to move deeper into Fort Schmerzen. In Medal of Honor: Airborne, you use one to destroy a FlaK Tower in the final level. Prior to that, you are tasked with destroying one such detonator that the Germans plan on using to blow up Nijmegen bridge as one of your objectives. |
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In A Fistful of Dynamite, the demolitions expert Mallory uses it a few times. | |
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Averted in The Lighthorsemen (1987) when a switchboard of Big Electric Switches is used by the Turkish/German force trying to blow up the wells at Beersheba before the Australians can capture them intact. This is to create suspense as the German officer throws one switch after another trying to get the crucial one. | |
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