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* This is expressly ''not'' the philosophy of the ''[[James Bond]]'' creators.

** Good example: ''[[Goldeneye]]'' has a [[Chase Scene]] with a tank. The director of [[Tomorrow Never Dies|the following movie]] thought topping it would be hard due to a bigger vehicle being impossible, and put a chase involving a smaller one (a motorcycle) instead.

** Counter-example: In ''[[Die Another Day]]'', he uses the parachute from a rocket-powered ice-sled, plus a piece of the sled itself, to parasail and ride a giant wave caused by a collapsing ice shelf to safety. It's even ''more'' ridiculous than it sounds.

* [[Solomon Kane]]: The hero uncrucifies ''himself'', and then repairs the damage with some [[Hand Wave|strange pagan magic]]. Not only is this medicially impossible, the film's metaphysics state that Christian ideas of God and demons and damnation etc are real, I.E., no pagan magical stuff.

* In the first ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' film, the villain Rasputin offers Hellboy the choice of bringing about the Apocalypse to gain enough power to save his desouled girl Liz, or to save the world and lose her forever. Hellboy initially sees this as no choice at all, and begins the procedure of summoning the Ogdru Jahad and end the world, before [[Naive Newcomer]] Myers throws Hellboy his [[Memento MacGuffin|father's cross]]. The cross burns into his flesh, reminding him that this ''is his choice''. Save the world, or save Liz, and his father always did say that a man is made by his choices. He then chooses the world, tears off his newly regrown horns, and stabs Rasputin to death with one of them. [[Bittersweet Ending]] right? Nope. He manages to save the girl ''anyway'' by sheer ''[[Badass|Badassery]]''. A newly awoken and somewhat confused Liz asks him how he saved her. His answer?

* Discussed to make a point by [[Kill Bill|Hattori Hanzo]] on his latest sword, "I can say with no ego that this is the finest sword I have ever built. Should you encounter [[God]] on your quest, ''[[Blasphemous Boast|God will be cut".]]''

* Played straight in ''Man of the House''. A Texas Ranger guarding five or so cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. One cheerleader at one point asks [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|"couldn't you just shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hand?"]] to which the man explains that it doesn't work. {{spoiler|Near the end of the movie, it ''does''. As he did not intend to do that, the Ranger was probably more impressed than anybody else who saw it.}}