Is there a name for the oft-used scenario where the hero sets some kind of big explosion, say, fires a torpedo into the power core of a large space station, or sabotages the warp core of a starship, or just plants an explosive in an magazine containing several tons of high explosives, and then has to run like hell to make his escape in the ta-dah nick of time?
Well, that’s probably as good a name as I can think off for it. For what it’s worth, I’ve even seen this in the Horatio Hornblower books (and movies), though in the case of the books, the fuse was set to take a good 15 or 20 minutes to burn off, giving Hornblower and his men adequate time to make a fighting retreat back to the beach so they could get on their boats and return to the ship (when he goes on a similar mission in the movies, he has to not only run away, but jump off a cliff into the water.