Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch

Geek culture impact

• The Worms series of computer games features a weapon called the holy hand grenade, which looks rather like the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and is distinguished by the fact that it is equipped only with a three-second time fuse, unlike the other types of grenade in the game, which have variable-length fuses that can be controlled by the player. (Another difference, not obviously related to the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, is that the holy hand grenade will only explode once it has come to rest on the ground, even if this occurs after the fuse has expired.) It's notable that the weapon's explosion is accompanied by a chorus singing Hallelujah in the style of Handel's Messiah.
• Other computer games to include a Holy Hand Grenade include many MUDs as well as Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, Quenzar's Caverns, Fallout 2, Moraff's World, Dungeons of the Unforgiven, The Bard's Tale, Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna, and of course, the Monty Python and the Holy Grail computer game.
• The third edition of the roleplaying game Shadowrun renamed the generic grenade launcher from its two prior editions to the Ares Antioch Grenade Launcher. In the German 2nd-edition sourcebook on the German states, a comment on a location protected by the Westphalian Bishop's Guard quips that transgressors would be attacked with Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch. That comment is by a character using the handle Sir Galahad.
• The GURPS worldbook GURPS Camelot not only gives full statistics for the Holy Hand Grenade in GURPS terms but also notes its peculiar absence from any Arthurian source other than Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• Reverend Grenade Bee of Death was known as The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in the online game Planetarion. As a result, he became known as Gren in real life as well as online. As fewer and fewer people called him Martin, he decided to change his name to Grenade Bee of Death.
• Apple Computer's System 7 (Macintosh) uses a system file to track file sharing information with an icon of the above-mentioned Killer Rabbit. The "creator code" (used to indicate file type on HFS file systems) was "hhgg", purportedly in homage to the Holy Hand Grenade. However, this actually stands for The 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the G'alaxy. Since the system file was invisible to the normal user, this is classified as an Easter egg.
• The Rogue-like game Omega contains a holy hand grenade of Antioch as a one use relic.
• In an episode of The Powerpuff Girls, Mojo Jojo rants after one of the girls is hit on the head and thinks that she's him. In his rant, he states that "One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, and the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, shall be one!" And that "Three is right out!"

External links

• What's in a Name?—article about people who changed their names, including Grenade Bee of Death

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