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{{trope}}
Sometimes, a villain's weakness is conveniently placed near him for no logical reason. For instance, you've tried shooting him. You've tried blowing him up. You've tried hitting him with a frying pan. You've tried everything short of throwing him into a boiling lake of lava, and he still won't die. But wait...an unlikely and specific series of events just happens to have landed you in close proximity to exactly what you
This is made all the more peculiar by the fact that the villain's lair is often built directly above lava, the one thing that can destroy him. [[Supervillain Lair
In [[Video Games
This is sort of a combination of [[Benevolent Architecture]] and [[Contrived Coincidence]].
Several [[Sub-Trope
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▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* In the Hueco Mundo arc of ''[[Bleach]]'', Las Noches has an artificial sun mounted on the ceiling, the only source of sunlight in Hueco Mundo. Like the real sun, it negates Aaroniero Arruruerie's shapeshifting powers. [[Lampshade Hanging|Aaroniero has no idea why his boss decided to do this,]] but at least he provided a nice, big room with ample shade.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' the Third Angel -- the first enemy NERV and Shinji face in the series -- has its core mounted right in its chest.
== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Terminator|Terminator 2]]: They threw the T-1000 through a wall, they shot him in the face with a shotgun, they blew up a huge truck with him in it, they froze him with liquid nitrogen and broke his frozen form to pieces. The latter method seems to have worked, but they just happened to be right next to a steel forgery/construction site with a boiling pool of "lava", which thaws the pieces, which reform. They eventually force him into the lava and it STILL takes him almost a minute to die.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
** She still needs to fight fires? This makes sense, considering her own [[Playing
** In the original book, the witch kept Dorothy as a drudge and servant, and it was a bucket of mop water Dorothy was using to clean the floors when she finally snapped.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'': Wesker has proven himself to be the most nonchalantly epic villain ever. Chris and Sheva have shot him, blown up a missile in his face, and injected him with his own poison. After all that, he mutates into a huge monster. method to kill him is forcing him into lava. But the plane they were on, which is unmanned at this point, coincidentally lands INSIDE a volcano, where the monster is forced into the lava. Even after that, he still survives for quite a while in the lava, and is only finally taken out by ballistic missiles.
* More than a few ''Zelda'' bosses are only harmable by something in their lair.
** One [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] boss in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
** An arguably-[[Justified Trope|justified]] time that it happens is with the Bomb Flowers in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* Any [[Bullfight Boss]] in which you have to make the boss charge into some damaging, natural feature of the arena. (Like a charged Tesla Coil when the boss is only vulnerable to being electrocuted.)
* Melchiah from [[Legacy of Kain|Soul Reaver]]. The only way to damage him is with three one-shot devices in the room. And the last of the three just happens to be a meat-and-bone-grinding death mechanism in the exact center of the room.
* ''[[
* In the Pokemon games the Pokemon needed to counter the gym in any given town are usually found outside. the most [[Egregious]] examples of this are in Black/White where the first two gyms have people standing outside who specifically tell you where to go to get the Pokemon you need to use.
* [[Metroid|Super Metroid]]: The Crocomire fight. It's invincible and hitting it with missiles only pushes it back, toward a lava pit which instantly kills it.
* The NES version of [[A Boy and His Blob]]. The evil king can't be harmed by anything except vitamins. Guess what he has a jar full of, sitting precariously on a ledge right above him?
* ''[[
** Then of course there's the great big button you have to hit to finish the fight, sitting there, plain as day. Just like {{spoiler|the fight with [[
* In ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Godfather (
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': In "Operation: I.S.C.R.E.A.M.", the Delightful Children used the equipment in an ice cream factory [[Bad Humor Truck| (ice cream men are mooks for the villains on this show)]] to create [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|a fifty-foot-tall monster made of ice cream that was nearly unstoppable.]] The heroes were saved when Numbuh Three turned on the factory's heater to maximum and it melted. Why did someone put a heater in an ice cream factory, of all places? In the villains' defense, even they didn't know.
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