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* In ''[[Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle|Phi Brain Kami no Puzzle]]'', [[The Protagonist|Daimon Kaito]] is trapped in a [[Death Trap|Fool's Puzzle]] in the form of a burning tower. Ideally, he would use a maze of elevators to reach the top where the goal is, but the flames have risen high enough to block the route. His solution is to break off the door of one of the elevators so that he can jump off when it passes a floor that ''will'' let him take the route to the goal.
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* The first arc of ''[[The Losers]]'' has team tech Jensen having to copy the secure hard drives of Goliath, an oil company. When security finds out about the operation and exchange fire with his friends, he hacks the outer casing with an axe and pries the thing out whole.
* ''[[Watchmen]]'' features the Gordian Knot Lock Company (one of many companies owned by Ozymandias, who fancies himself a new Alexander the Great). Rorschach breaks the door down. [[Running Gag|Several times.]] {{spoiler|This is actually a clue as to Ozymandias' endgame: the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear war, and have been at each other's throats for so long that it has become impossible to untangle them from their conflict. So he plans to cut the knot by introducing a third side for them to unite themselves against--an genetically engineered monster that he teleports to New York, killing half the city. What's frightening is that--at least initially--it ''works''.}}
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** 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]]s by winning in ways his enemy didn't expect.
* The section of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' 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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