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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* Subverted on ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': Kenzan catches Saiou's [[Brainwashed]] minion after he has used a laptop to fire a missile from a [[Kill Sat]], so he figures the best way to fix things is to destroy the laptop. It's not until after he's done so that someone tells him he's in fact ''destroyed the Off Switch''. Did we mention Saiou is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]?
* Something similar happened at the end of the Virtual Nightmare arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' -- by destroying the console, Marik unintentionally destroyed the off switch.
* Used at the end of the ''[[To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (Manga)|To Aru Kagaku no Railgun]]'' anime, where {{spoiler|Ruiko Saten smashes the consoles controlling the Big Bad's psychic-power-limiting device, thus allowing her friends to use their powers and defeat the villain.}}
 
== Film ==
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** Played straight in ''The Phantom Menace'' where the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart.
*** The Droid Control Ship is given justification in the expanded universe: the droids stopped working because the Trade Federation was too cheap to outfit all the droids with processors, as well as being paranoid about them be used against them. The droids fell a part because they are held together magnetically. The stupidity of this was noted, and most of the droids used in the Clone Wars had central processors.
* Used in the [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] movies ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'' and ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]]''.
* Averted in [[The Incredibles]]; in fact, it's the ''Omnidroid itself'' seeking to destroy its remote control, so it cannot be controlled by anyone else, and it's up to the Incredibles to try keep it safe until they can figure out how to operate it.
 
== Live Action Television ==
 
* Happens many times on the various ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' series with force fields. Numerous episodes have characters shoot a control panel and a force field shuts off. Why even bother having access codes to unlock??
 
== Radio ==
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* Security cameras suffered badly from this trope in both ''[[System Shock]]'' games. Blowing them up ''reduced'' the security of a level, rather than set off the alarm.
** Same in [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'', but come on: the system were made in the Fifties. Electronics in Rapture appear to run off of an electrified gel that runs through tiny pipes instead of actual electricity going through wires. Basically, they're what Descartes thought our nervous system was.
* Averted in the [[First-Person Shooter]] series ''[[No One Lives Forever]]''. Shooting cameras sets off the alarm.
** Same with ''[[Alpha Protocol]]''.
* ''[[Dead Space (Franchiseseries)|Dead Space]]''
* In ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', a power failure {{spoiler|caused when the electric chair that was being set up to execute Detective Jowd malfunctioned and exploded}} opened the doors of all the cells in the prison, setting the prisoners free. This is Handwaved a few moments later, as you're told it's a security measure.
 
== Western Animation ==
 
* Averted in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', in which Raven and Terra are arguing whether to destroy a control panel in order to shut off a device that's going to destroy the tower if they don't stop it. It ends up getting destroyed... which makes the device go faster.
{{quote| '''Terra:''' Okay, maybe smashing the computer ''was'' a bad idea...}}
* Hilariously averted in ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]'' - Batgirl sabotages the doomsday device, the countdown stops...
{{quote| '''Villain:''' What happened? Did we lose power?<br />
'''Henchman:''' No, the countdown timer's disabled. The device is still operational. }}
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