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Riding the Bomb
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At the end of Stanley Kubrick's Cold War dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, B-52 pilot Maj. "King" Kong — a straight-shootin' Texan played by cowboy character actor Slim Pickens — goes to the bomb bay to manually release the stuck bay doors on his damaged aircraft, thus enabling him to complete his nuclear attack run on a Soviet target. He succeeds, but just as he celebrates his accomplishment with a bit of hootin' and hollerin', the bomb on which he was seated is dropped. He rides the device all the way in to the target, wildly whipping his Stetson hat around as he plummets to a thermonuclear death and a blaze of glory*unaware this will set of a chain reaction that will cause The End of the World as We Know It. So naturally, it inspired quite a few to copy his act, riding a bomb as it plummets down upon a target, often to their own death. The image is much more famous than the film, at this point. It symbolically associates zealotry, jingoism, nuclear war, and cowboy diplomacy, not to mention the phallic imagery. Mostly, it just gets used whenever air-dropped weapons appear in comedy, which is surprisingly frequent. Especially common in Editorial Comics. See Also: Action Bomb, Rocket Ride, Jettison Jetpack Attack. |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: In a scene of "The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel" Skipper hallucinates riding the bomb, in a direct parody of the original. | |
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The climax of the third season The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Super-Colossal Affair" found Illya Kuryakin riding and defusing a 10 ton stink bomb which was part of a crime syndicate plot to render Las Vegas uninhabitable. | |
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In the final episode of Jreg's Centricide, Posadist rides a nuclear bomb into the Accelerationist, delivering the final blow, killing Radical Centrist and Jreg, and concluding the Centricide. | |
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Rayman 2: The Great Escape combines this with Action Bomb by having missiles with legs in some levels, which can be mounted once they've tuckered out and stopped chasing you. They're needed to traverse harmful terrain you normally wouldn't be able to cross, but doing so requires some precision, due to the obvious result of colliding with something. | |
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The Simpsons: When Homer becomes leader of a group of vigilantes, he goes to the local army surplus store to stock up on implements of destruction. One of the things the proprietor shows him is a miniature nuke that was designed to be used against Beatniks in The '60s. Cut to an Imagine Spot of Homer, with cowboy hat, trying to drop the bomb, and ending up riding it down. (Inexplicably enough, however, the cityscape he's dropping onto is clearly San Diego, CA.) Cut back, he's straddling the device, and the shopkeeper points out a nearby sign reading "Do not ride the bomb". The imagery was also used as a Couch Gag in another episode.◊ | |
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Daffy Duck pulls this in the Looney Tunes short Conrad The Sailor. Wile E. Coyote has done this at least once accidentally. | |
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Mischief Makers has Marina riding missiles quite a few times. As well as riding on a cat that is itself riding on a missile. | |
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Used for an escape from an airplane in The Survivor. Justified in that the bomb was rigged for an airburst, so it has a functional parachute. | |
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A similar sequence is also present in one of the endings to Contra: Hard Corps. The Alien Cell hijacked by the Big Bad, in this particular ending, ends up as a warhead for his doomsday missile. You have to chase said missile while jumping on smaller ones, climb up, and then destroy the cell which by now seems to have evolved into a full fledged final boss. | |
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On Jack of All Trades, the legendary Pirate Blackbeard rides a missile down from a hot air balloon to destroy a submarine captained by the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Leonardo da Vinci before it can sink a ship carrying most of America's Founding Fathers on a "Founding Father-Son Cruise." It Makes Sense in Context... kinda. | |
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The final scene of Resident Evil: Gun Survivor have Ark, Lily and Lott boarding a helicopter once Ark defeated the Hypnos T-Tyrant. However, the Tyrant reveals itself to still be alive by latching on a stray missile underneath the copter, so Ark fires the missile, carrying the monster into a distance where it explodes to bits. | |
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Rush's video for "Distant Early Warning" features a kid riding a missile. | |
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Tales from the Borderlands has Scooter getting his hand stuck in a faulty booster rocket that will explode and destroy the ship that the protagonists are on if he can't detach it. He knows that he can't get his hand out in time, so he decides to Face Death with Dignity and make a Heroic Sacrifice instead, detaching the damaged booster from the ship. His last moments with Fiona are a poignant, heartfelt exchange before he pushes himself and the booster away from the ship and rides it into Pandora's atmosphere before it explodes, bellowing his catchphrase all the while. He still thinks that it's an awesome way to go. | |
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Blossom does it in one episode of The Powerpuff Girls. | |
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There's a couple of quests in World of Warcraft where the player has to ride on a Goblin-made rocket. It's also possible to get a similar rocket as a mount via a code that can be gotten from a pack of Warcraft TCG cards. A re-skin of said mount is available as a very rare drop on Valentine's Day. It's bright pink, sports zebra pimpmobile decorations and is naturally called "Big Love Rocket." And now, a TWO-SEATER model is gifted to people who have subscribed a friend through a referral program. Lucky owners tend to get constantly poked by low level characters looking for a quick taxi. Then there is also one which after you defeat the Vry'kul air raid and destroying some of their building using their own ballista, you return to your encampment by riding on one of the said flaming ballista bolt. |
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In Halkegenia Online, the Fae don't have devices or magic to guide their projectiles. So they drop them, steer left and right with their wings, and pull up at the last moment- after all they need to steer more bombs to rescue their allies. | |
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966). In an obvious parody of Dr. Strangelove, the Idiot Heroes Franco and Ciccio successfully defuse the 'superbomb' the title villain intends to drop on the Soviet Union, but the bomb bay doors open accidentally and they're dropped onto Siberia, riding it like a horse. They survive. | |
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In Metal Slug, on Mission Six of Metal Slug X (a remake of 2), you can ride the missiles while crossing the bridge. Unfortunately, they're going the wrong way and when you go too close to the missiles' nose, you die. | |
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A variant cover for Uncanny X-Men #522 (the issue where Magneto rescued Kitty Pryde from the giant bullet she was stuck on at the end of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run) features Kitty riding a missile. | |
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In the SWAT Kats episode "The Wrath of Dark Kat", Razor rides a bomb while trying to disarm it, leading to a Wire Dilemma. | |
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Dante surfs on a missile in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. | |
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Heroes of the Storm: One of Junkrat's heroic abilities has him hop on a missile and ride it into the ground, dying on impact. He then respawns after a few seconds at the base, still riding the rocket for a massive speed boost. | |
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Dark Avengers: Ares: In the miniseries, Ares rides a missile into ground zero, for no other reason then Rule of Cool. | |
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Also used in MST3K: The Movie (spoofing This Island Earth) when Exeter's burning spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere at the ending. | |
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Used in The Lost Fleet in the Beyond the Frontier sequels by a race of homicidal herbivores who attack anything that isn't theirs. They launch a barrage of piloted rockets. | |
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Played literally when Captain America: The First Avenger. Johann Schmidt's ultimate HYDRA weapon, a massive Tesseract bomber known as "Valkyrie", contained various plane bombs that were presumably going to use to attack the targets specified on their hulls and are pilotable, making it the most literal use of the trope.Subverted comes in where Captain America manages to dispose a mook by opening up the cargo doors and releasing the latch before the HYDRA mook could get himself secured into the plane bomb. | |
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An old computer game example appears in the intro scene to the computerized adaptation of Nuclear War. | |
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Subverted by the Farscape mini-series. Over the course of the television series, the protagonist, Crichton, had an AI construct implanted in his mind. Causing a vivid hallucination, this "Harvey" finally dies off at the end as his purpose is fullfilled. Crichton has been dropping sci-fi and pop-culture references throughout the series, and Harvey with him. As such, he shows himself dying in lieu of the (rather obscure) ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but concedes he found Riding the Bomb an attractive way to go as well. | |
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Weird Science: In the ending shot of an episode involving some flying basketball shoes Lisa created and a close call with FBI agents "Scolder" and "Molly", the gang is almost shot down by an Air Force surface-to-air missile. In the closing shot, all are seen barebacking on the device, complete with cowboy hats. | |
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Rise of the Minisukas: Matarael rides a meteorite to try to take the Evangelions out. | |
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Not to be outdone by Dante, at the end of Just Cause 2, Rico Rodriguez surfs on FOUR NUCLEAR MISSILES, exchanging gunfire with the midget president of a corrupt nation and disarming said missiles as he goes, before eventually jamming said president into one of the missiles. In the sequel Just Cause 3, Rico does this at the end of the first act by grappling to a bavarium missile that just launched. Since he can't defuse it and he's not gonna drop it into the ocean so Sheldon and the Agency can get their hands on it, he redirects the missile back to the base it came from to destroy it. |
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In the sequel Just Cause 3, Rico does this at the end of the first act by grappling to a bavarium missile that just launched. Since he can't defuse it and he's not gonna drop it into the ocean so Sheldon and the Agency can get their hands on it, he redirects the missile back to the base it came from to destroy it. | |
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G.I. Zombie: Jared manages to get up on a missile just as Duke launches it. He proceeds to damage the missile guidance system and shoot out one of the fins so it doesn't land in its intended target, Washington D.C. | |
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Bayonetta: Bayonetta rides a missile, fights on it using hand-to-hand, and shoots other missiles and flying enemies. | |
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At the end of The Amazing Bulk, the Bulk is seemingly killed by a nuclear bomb ridden by what appears to be a communist commissar. No, it doesn't make any more sense in context. | |
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In Machete Kills, Machete hitches a ride on Voz's missile as it launches, and disarms it while it is in the air. | |
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In the movie Armageddon (1998), when they're trying to lower the bomb into the core of the asteroid, Steve "Rockhound" Buscemi duplicates this scene, and everyone yells at him. Although he claims that he was actually getting the idea from The Lone Ranger. | |
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Superman: In The Death of Superman, Superman, Steel and Superboy find a massive missile preparing to launch at Metropolis. As it launches, Steel and the still-powerless Superman escape the exhaust by leaping into the nearest room, but Superboy leaps onto the rocket itself, riding it all the way to Metropolis while trying to disable it. | |
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In Space Cowboys, the astronaut played by Tommy Lee Jones straps himself to the end of a satellite loaded with nuclear missiles and rides it to the Moon—a rare instance of this trope being combined with Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Parodied in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Moon Zero Two. The bad guys have been left stranded on a meteor which is karmically racing towards the moon's surface. As they're about to hit, Joel and the bots start whooping it up cowboy-style like Slim Pickens. Also used in MST3K: The Movie (spoofing This Island Earth) when Exeter's burning spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere at the ending. |
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Mulan: Mushu, with a skyrocket. Due to his small size, the rocket is the same size as nuclear bomb would be to a human, and will have approximately the same effect if it detonates while he's on it. | |
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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: For his most powerful special move, Laharl rides a meteor. Laughing maniacally the whole way. | |
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Gloryhammer: The music video for "Rise of the Chaos Wizards" off their second album Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ends with the asteroid on which the re-formed Heroes of Dundee are fighting the forces of Zargothrax crashing into Southeast Asia. | |
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One Piece: Kizaru rides one of the cannonballs that signals his arrival on Sabaody Archipelago. | |
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Burrito Bison has rockets you can ride. The pilots you replace are wearing cowboy hats, that your player character holds in one hand while riding. | |
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Exterminatus Now at one point has a crude chalkboard-style stick-figure sketch of what Exterminatus actually does (complete with a sketch of Cthulhu labelled "A Bad Thing"). The warhead plummeting from space onto the planet? It has a stick-figure cowboy wavin' his hat. | |
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In the movie version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when the pixies are destroying the classroom, one of the pixies steals a wand and makes a huge dragon skeleton drop to the floor. A few pixies are then seen riding it to the ground like the bomb in Dr. Strangelove complete with cries of yee-hah. | |
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A sketch on Saturday Night Live featured an interview with then-Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney, who was riding a missile at the time. And eating a Lunchables snack-pack. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000 the orks have grot-guided bombs. A gretchin (small orkoid subspecie, similar to goblins in the fantasy setting) will steer to bomb to its target, increasing its accuracy. Of course the mekboys tend to forget to tell the pilot that it's a one-way flight (although anything more intelligent would work that out on their own). Plus their answer to other factions' high mobility troops (such as those with jetpacks) are are called Storm Boyz. They're full-sized Orkz whose jump-packs are literally just makeshift rockets strapped to their back. Calling them unsafe is an understatment, (whether the rocket explodes or just flies off in a random direction on a failure depends on the edition being played), but they do help the boyz get where they're going in a hurry. Warhammer Fantasy has a similar concept, although in their case, the "catapult" (a giant slingshot) doesn't fire any actual amunition, the "bomb" is just a goblin in a wingsuit who (hopefully) guides themself into the target at high speed, killing both on impact. Not only that, but the goblins used this way volunteer for the chance to briefly fly and possibly kill something, plus becoming Abnormal Ammo is probably a better death than whatever their own side would otherwise give them. |
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Harley Quinn: A fantasy sequence in #0 with Harley riffing off the title of her other comic Suicide Squad, includes a panel of her riding a bomb. (Notably, this replaced an initially-scripted image of her naked in a bathtub and about to drop a huge number of radios into it, which when the script was publicly-released for an art competition was denounced as tasteless sexualisation of suicide.) | |
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Warhammer Fantasy has a similar concept, although in their case, the "catapult" (a giant slingshot) doesn't fire any actual amunition, the "bomb" is just a goblin in a wingsuit who (hopefully) guides themself into the target at high speed, killing both on impact. Not only that, but the goblins used this way volunteer for the chance to briefly fly and possibly kill something, plus becoming Abnormal Ammo is probably a better death than whatever their own side would otherwise give them. | |
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Sonic X has this with Knuckles riding a missile in an episode and is shown in the title sequence as well. | |
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The episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic "Amending Fences" has Pinkie Pie riding backwards on Twilight Sparkle as they plummet towards the library tower, closely resembling the famous bomb-riding shot. | |
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Doctor Who: Used with rather different symbolism, as Captain Jack teleports himself on top of a Nazi bomb he's immobilized with a tractor beam to shout a goodbye to the Doctor and Rose, in "The Doctor Dances". The Eagleland associations are relevant, though, since Jack is pretty much the series' token American. | |
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Sealab 2021: In "Red Dawn", when Quinn learns Debbie slept with the President, he bombs Washington, DC in a fit of jealousy, shouting "Nobody shucks my corn but meeeeeee!" as he rides the bomb. | |
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Contra games regularly involve heroes hanging from and steering missiles as a mode of transportation. Contra III: The Alien Wars's fourth stage ends with you hopping from missile to missile, trying to destroy the shields of an alien mothership. In Contra: Shattered Soldier's second mission, you encounter mooks riding missiles. Played completely straight in Contra 4, during the harbour stage you have to cling onto a warhead. While shooting missiles down, avoiding Weaponized Exhaust, and even fighting a Mini-Boss on it! A similar sequence is also present in one of the endings to Contra: Hard Corps. The Alien Cell hijacked by the Big Bad, in this particular ending, ends up as a warhead for his doomsday missile. You have to chase said missile while jumping on smaller ones, climb up, and then destroy the cell which by now seems to have evolved into a full fledged final boss. |
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Project A-Ko: Variant. A-Ko uses missiles as stepping stones to fight alien invaders. | |
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Used for comedy in Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth. In this strip of the first comic's run, the script-kiddy-run gnome Lowping apparently ended up riding the Ultimate Goblin Engineered Weapon "like a pony," complete with cowboy hat, moments before it was dropped out of a hijacked Goblin dirigible, and him along with it. | |
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True Lies: The Big Bad is offed when his vest catches on an anti-air missile just before Ahnold's character fires it at a helicopter full of mooks. | |
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This quote from Holden from The Catcher in the Rye: | |
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One of the crocs in Pearls Before Swine is seen doing this. He survives, and even comes back with a second face growing out of his head. | |
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Beast Wars has Rattrap Riding the Bomb attached to former Decepticon Ravage's stealth ship after forcing it to crash. The twist: the bomb remained unexploded until after the crash, and Rattrap was blown clear into the arms of his comrades, nice and safe. The Season 1 Finale for Beast Wars had Optimus Primal unwittingly riding the bomb into the Planet Buster, thanks to Megatron making additional modifications that essentially sealed Optimus inside. |
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Contra III: The Alien Wars's fourth stage ends with you hopping from missile to missile, trying to destroy the shields of an alien mothership. | |
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In Halo 2, Master Chief rides a Covenant bomb through space and uses it to blow up their own ship. | |
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In Spore, in the civilization stage, a military nation gets access to their final super-power, the ICBM (although the naming is off). Upon launch, cheesy music plays and it is implied that some of the creatures are riding the missiles, due to all the yehawwing going on during the sequence. Of course, using this will indeed capture the cities quickly so you can advance to the space stage, but there's going to be piles of nuclear rubble you won't be able to build up on... At least, that's the way it should be. In fact, the nukes just instantly capture the cities and no actual damage is done. Neutron Bomb, perhaps? |
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Jinx of League of Legends gets her Establishing Character Moment by riding on the lead of a rainstorm of missiles into Piltover in her introductory music video "Get Jinxed". | |
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Dr. Strangelove is the Trope Maker. In it, Major Kong (Slim Pickens) orders the bomb dropped, and then wonders why it didn't release. He goes down to the bomb bay and starts hotwiring the drop system to get the bomb to drop, while sitting on it. He then rides the bomb to a thermonuclear death. Probably worth mentioning for those who have only seen the "falling" scene: Kong isn't intentionally riding the bomb. He climbs atop it in the plane to reach the jammed mechanism over it. It releases before he has time to get clear, and he apparently decides "I'm going to die anyway, might as well enjoy the ride while it lasts." |
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One half of a stage in Mega Man Zero 3 takes place inside the biggest missile ever as Zero tries to prevent it from reaching its target of a human residential area. He fails. Even better, the missile in question contained Omega, so the trope applies to Omega more since he outright survives the explosion and indeed was counted on doing so in order to retrieve the Dark Elf from the ruins of the area. | |
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In Green Eggs and Ham (2019) both Sam I Am and Pam I Am ride two separate missile aimed at two connecting countries. | |
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A The Three Stooges short, "Boobs In Arms", has the guys inducted in the army - at films' end, they've broken into enemy headquarters and are getting bombarded by their own side by their own cannons right after they had finished taking down the enemy troops in their own outpost.Moments before, their own laughing gas bomb puts them in laughing fits, leading them to being captured by the enemy troops. After a couple of smaller shells streak by, a large shell blows through, scooping them up. They ride it, loudly laughing away, into a gorgeous sunset. It's just a typical day for them. |
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A mission in Jak 3 has Daxter ride a missile. He hijacks three much bigger ones in Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier. He'll even wisecrack about wanting a "missile hat an' spurs" at the end. | |
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A scene in The Mummy Returns has a log bridge being blown up to allow the heroes to escape from frenzied mummified pygmies at Am-Shere. The pygmies that were on the log at the time plummet to their eventual doom; one of the pygmies, seeing the utter futility of it all, rides a large piece of the broken log. | |
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In the first mission of Saints Row IV, the Boss rides a nuke to disable it before it hits Washington, D.C. He/she jumps off before it's too late, though... and crashes through the roof of the White House, landing comfortably in the President's chair in the Oval Office. He/she is immediately elected President after this display of badassery. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie did this too with Sonic being onboard instead. | |
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Babylon 5: Honorable Mention to John Sheridan in "Z'Ha'Dum". (Purists might object that there was a White Star around the nukes. And that Sheridan technically jumped ahead of them; he didn't ride them himself.) | |
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Played straight and horribly in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines (where entire cities are put on giant tracks and try to eat each other - this is not played for comedy, by the way). The extremist Green Storm faction regularly use "Tumblers", a low-tech version of guided bombs. They're bombs with pilots on them that guide their fall and ensure they land on target. | |
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The custom Strangelove mutator for the Unreal Tournament series (which is obviously a giant Shout-Out to Dr. Strangelove as its name implies) is a superweapon similiar in functionality to the Redeemer (A nuclear warhead launcher) except for its secondary fire, which allows you to... take a wild guess. | |
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In the first Gungrave game, one type of enemy during the train level is two guys with machine guns riding a missile. | |
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has a different take on this - after chasing the Space Pirates away from the Spire Pod and commencing the engines' shutdown sequence, Samus has five minutes to repair the Escape Pod and blast off in it before she literally rides the bomb into the Leviathan. If this happens, or the Space Pirates successfully shoot down the Spire Pod, you get a scene of the pod falling before Game Over-induced sudden blackout - if the fall and storms don't kill Samus, the bomb certainly will. | |
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