When a character is facing an enemy with a large mouth and a penchant for eating said character, and tries throwing a bomb into its mouth. The enemy eats it, you hear a "boom", and then see the enemy die . It never occurs to them to just keep their mouth shut and tail sweep/eye beam/claw the character. See also Eat the Bomb when the bomb doesn't kill the Big Eater. Subtrope of Stuff Blowing Up. When the hero himself is Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth, see... that trope. Contrast Mooks Ate My Equipment (where it likes eating your stuff). Examples of Feed It a Bomb include: