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* ''[[Nodwick]]'': Yeagar [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2009-10-16 shows how he deals with] [[Only Smart People May Pass]] (and that is hardly the only time he does so).
** He has a similar reaction to cursed swords with the equivalent of [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]].
* Whenever [[Batman]] battles The Riddler, he'll often beat his riddles using either this Trope or [[Take a Third Option]], essentially bypassing various [[Xanatos Gambit
* The section of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' that shows [[Big Bad|Herr Starr's]] background and [[Start of Darkness|turn to villainy]] includes a bit where, as part of his training in [[wikipedia:GSG 9|GSG 9]], Starr is confronted a [[Sadist Teacher|sadistic unarmed combat instructor]] known for beating new recruits viciously. In front of the class, the instructor demands to know how Starr would defeat him in hand to hand combat as an obvious prelude to inflicting such a beating on Starr. Starr responds by [[Combat Pragmatist|shooting the instructor in the leg]] and saying that he never intends to be unarmed. GSG decided that it showed [[Crazy Awesome|innovation]], and it was one of the things that caught [[Ancient Conspiracy|The Grail's]] eye.
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* On ''[[All That]]'', this was pretty much the M.O. of Kel Mitchell's Repair Man (Man man man man man...), who would "fix" problematic objects by simply destroying them completely. No more object, no more problem.
* On ''[[Leverage]]'' Eliot disables a security camera by throwing a rock at it. Unusually, the [[Magical Security Cam]] doesn't apply in a show that likes its Hollywood security systems, and the guards come to find out why the camera went out.
* ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'' sees a pair of doors near the end, when Tony and Virginia are trying to sneak into the castle. The creature guarding the doors is a talking frog, and he presents a variation of the [[Knights and Knaves]] scenario where, of course, one door leads to a horrible death. Tony, by now fed up with the [[Insane Troll Logic|bizarre rules
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
** In the episode "Fear Itself", Anya asks Giles if he can make a door to rescue the trapped Scoobies in the haunted house. He says "I can", and instead of a mystical spell, whips out a chainsaw and starts cutting.
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* In [[Tabletop RPG
** A hilarious example is seen in [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=680 this] ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' strip, where the players come across the doors to the Mines of Moria, completely ignore the riddle and instead rattle off several increasingly ludicrous ways of
* In ''[[Ars Magica]]'', this is part of the theme of House Tytalus, and part of the background has an apprentice to a mage challenged, as his final exam, to open a box which his master has spent a long time enchanting. After gearing up, and throwing every spell at it that he had, the apprentice kneels in front of his master, acknowledging that he was not ready to be a full mage. His master then walks over to the box and pulls the lid open. He hadn't locked it.
* That door magically reinforced, locked, and likely to have a trap on it? No problem. Smash through the wall next to it.
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* [[Whateley Universe]] example: in "Boston Brawl 2", the Necromancer creates a horrific rip in time-space that the mages try to magically repair. Instead, Bladedancer just slices through it with Destiny's Wave.
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] shows how he deals with [[Soup Cans]] in his ''[[Silent Hill]]'' reviews:
** ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' alternate ending: His door is covered with unbreakable chains (as per ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'')? Yeah, well, the ''[[Myopic Architecture|wall]]'' [[Myopic Architecture|they're attached to is plasterboard]]
** ''Silent Hill: Dead/Alive'': There's a paper bag in front of his door that can't be moved without "something needlessly complex and crafted from several parts"? Screw that, he's just going to shoot it.
** By the point of ''Silent Hill: The Grinning Man'', the soup cans have gotten wise. Linkara finds boxes blocking his door and threatens to turn them to ashes if they don't
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