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Throw the Pin
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A character pulls the pin off a grenade and proceeds to throw ... the pin, and keeps the grenade in hand. Very common in cartoons. This one often comes about due to a misinterpretation of the instruction "pull the pin and throw it." Can be considered a form of Explosive Stupidity, though examples need not involve the grenade detonating (especially in works that know the pin is a safety and the plunger lights the fuse). Likely to result in Boom in the Hand. Related to Hoist by His Own Petard. See also Pineapple Surprise. One should be careful not to combine this with Pin-Pulling Teeth, otherwise they may end up with an Ash Face at best or Your Head A-Splode at worse. |
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There's a variation in the obscure British sketch show The Steam Video Company, where a soldier pulls the pin on a grenade then opens a can of Coke, throws the can and puts the grenade to his mouth. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: This gif sums it nicely. | |
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Bones (Pauly Shore) does this during grenade training in In The Army Now. | |
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A variation: in Borderlands 2, an enemy Bandit might be confused by a Nomad's order to toss grenades. "Pull the pin, then throw, right?" | |
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Invoked in Dawn of War when Orks say "Hold on to the pin. Throw the other part." | |
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Paranoia occasionally has grenades where the pin is the part that explodes. Hell, it probably has some where they both do, because that would make them, from The Computer's point of view, foolproof. | |
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There's a short in Animaniacs where the Warners are being put through military training, and their sergeant is instructing them about grenades, with the above line. Wakko, naturally, throws the pin. | |
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In World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria expansion, one bit of hozen wisdom contains something akin to this trope: | |
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Alan Ford: One-shot villain Laszlo. In a last attempt to kill the hated nemesis Number One and his agents, he decides to use a grenade... but he accidentally holds the grenade in his mouth, removes and toss the pin and swallows the grenade with predictable results. | |
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Daffy Duck does it while hunting Speedy Gonzales in Speedy Ghost To Town. | |
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This occasionally happens to Wile E. Coyote in the Looney Tunes cartoons when he tries to use a grenade to blow up the Road Runner. One notable instance in "Zipping Along" combined this with another trope. Or sometimes, the pin explodes. In one, he correctly drops the grenade down a cliff, but it's bounced back at him. He then drops the pin... and another grenade is bounced back at him. |
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Schlock Mercenary: "Maxim 65: After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade". While it's mostly a lesson about initiative and striking first, it doubles as a handy warning not to do this. | |
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In the "Bloodsuckers Are Not Sexy" arc of Fafnir The Dragon, one of the vampires is an expert with grenades... only he wound up throwing the pins at Vlad the Impaler. It ends exactly how you'd expect. | |
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Subverted in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. Simon the Monster Hunter throws a pin at Bigfoot, has a brief Oh, Crap! moment, and then throws the gas grenade just in time. | |
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In one episode of M*A*S*H, Frank Burns, trying to prove himself "tough", pulls out the pin of a grenade with his teeth and spits it out. A moment later, he realizes, with no small amount of panic, what he just did. Thankfully, he fixes the problem before anyone is hurt. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers features both the Italy brothers doing this in quick succession. | |
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Seen from the outside in Robot Chicken; two GIs sitting in a foxhole with a bunker in the background. One is hit on the helmet with a pin, looks at it quizzically, someone in the bunker shouts "Oh, you idiot!", then the bunker explodes. | |
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Played for drama in The Thin Red Line when Sergeant Keck grabs a grenade hanging on his webbing, only to realise to his horror that he's only holding the pin. The grenade explodes before he has a chance to correct his mistake. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Ork Stikkbommaz are noted for being above average intelligence for Orks, as they know that stikkbommz are the bit you throw, not the pin... Then again, the ork will probably throw the pin too for the hell of it. |
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Zero from Beetle Bailey once did this, giving Sergeant Snorkel a major Oh, Crap! moment. | |
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In the music video for Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock", The Neidermeyer teacher tries to stop the band by throwing a grenade at them, but he ends up throwing the pin, and the grenade gets stuck on his hand, so he jumps into the school swimming pool to try defusing it, but ends up getting blasted upward, hitting his head on the diving board. | |
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Worms 2 demonstrates this trope quite clearly in one of the intro videos, where a worm is very puzzled to be hit in the head by a pin, but shrugs and moves on, while the worm who threw it chuckles evilly to itself until it realises (a moment too late) that it's holding the grenade. | |
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In the Ben 10: Omniverse episode "O Mother, Where Art Thou?", the Vreedle Brothers get blown up when Rhomboid does this, then they're later cloned with their memories intact. | |
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There's a variation in The Prisoner (1967) episode "The Girl Who Was Death" which turned out to be a children's bedtime story where Number Six tampers with the bad guys' old-timey WWI-era grenades (the ones with a baton-like handle used to hurl a can-shaped charge) so the explosives ended up in the handles. | |
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Bananas pulls this gag twice in the course of a montage. Woody Allen's character is training with the rebels, and he tries throwing a grenade. Predictably, he throws the pin, having just enough time to make an exasperated face before the grenade explodes in his hand. Later, he tries again, and successfully throws the grenade. The pin explodes in his hand. | |
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In one episode of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, Major Zydos attempts to make himself grow. The method of doing so this season was taking a bomb, pulling the pin and tossing the bomb on the ground (the explosion caused by the bomb would reverse, as if the being throwing it was absorbing the energy of the bomb to enlarge themselves). Zydos pulls the pin and throws it on the ground; he promptly realizes his mistake, tosses the bomb, and then grows. | |
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