Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch - Cultural References

Cultural References

Most editions of the Worms video game series contain a weapon called Holy Hand Grenade. Visually, it resembles the one in the film, and has a three-second timer that can't be changed that plays a chorus singing 'Haleluiah' when thrown. The open-source video game Hedgewars, spoofs this reference with the "Hellish Hand Grenade".

Several Holy Hand Grenades are available in Duke Nukem: Time to Kill in the medieval levels.

The post-apocalyptic role-playing video game Fallout 2 and its sequel Fallout: New Vegas also feature a throwing weapon called the Holy Frag Grenade, bearing the same shape as the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. In the sequel the number five is crossed out and replaced by the number three, referring to the repeated joke about Arthur's miscounting.

Holy Hand Grenades are found in some versions of the original Bard's Tale role playing games.

The Black Templars in Warhammer 40,000 have an item called the Holy Orb of Antioch, which is a very powerful hand grenade carried by Black Templar commanders. Unlike most items, there is no limit on the number of Holy Orbs you may include in an army.

In Sonny 2, there is a monster called the killer rabbit which will occasionally use an attack that produces the "holy hand grenade" effect.

In AdventureQuest Worlds, the Holy Hand Grenade may be purchased from the Good Reputation Shop once your good reputation has reached level 10.

In the video game Postal 2 if you enter the church in the siege a priest is throwing holy hand grenades behind a table

In the 1980s PC game Moraff's World, the Holy Hand Grenade is a usable item that can be found in the dungeon stages.

In the episode "End of Days" of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike refers to a scythe as the Holy Hand Grenade

In Dan Neils 22 May 2010 review of the Aston Martin Rapide in the Wall Street Journal "The Aston's stitched leather interior is simply magnificent, like they rolled the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch into a stockyard."

For Team Fortress 2, players who bought Worms: Reloaded before 2 September 2010 were rewarded with a custom in-game skin (hat) for the Soldier featuring Holy Hand Grenades on his chest instead of normal grenades. When the Soldier has the hat equipped and taunts with the Equalizer (a mining pick), a Hallelujah chorus sounds while he pulls a grenade off his chest and blows himself up.

In Mafia Wars, there is a weapon called a Holy Hand Grenade. It is gained by completing jobs in the Città del Vaticano (Vatican City) level of the game.

In the Powerpuff Girls episode "Los Dos Mojos", the counting instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade are referenced. In this episode, Bubbles believes she is villain Mojo Jojo after receiving a blow to the head. Once Mojo Jojo hits her again to knock her out and return her to normal, he begins a rambling speech in which he proclaims "One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, and the number of Mojo Jojos in the world shall be one! Two Mojo Jojos is too many, and three is right out!"

In the online game Allods Online, there are several quests in Asee-tepp depicted around "holy" weapons, such as swords that can kill instantly and cloaks that can take any damage, one such quest requires the retrieval of Cloaks, Weapons and "Holy" Hand grenades.

In Borderlands 2, the Converge skill of the siren character, Maya, contains the flavor text "gather thine enemies together that thou mayest blow them to tiny bits." When activated, Maya's Phaselock action skill gains the behavior of pulling in enemies near to the enemy targeted by the Phaselock.

Junya Ota's (a.k.a. ZUN's) manga book "Touhou Bougetsushou - Inaba of The Moon and Inaba of The Earth" makes a reference in chapter 10, when Hieda no Akyu asks Reisen Udongein Inaba, who is a rabbit youkai, if she had a weakness to holy hand grenades.