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== Anime ==
* Aban from ''[[Dai no Daibouken]]'' developed [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Grand Cross]] as a [[Godzilla Threshold]] skill. He specifically states that it's only intended to be used when everything else has been tried, which warns the viewer this [[Chekhov's Gun|skill]] will only be used at a story climax.
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* In the [[Asterix]] comic series, Getafix does not allow Obelix to drink the magic potion, as he fell into the cauldron as a boy, and an extra helping could have bad effects on him. But in one story, ''Asterix and Cleopatra'' (both the comic book and the animated version), Getafix gives him just a drop of potion to give him extra strength in a difficult situation.
** Also overlaps with [[Godzilla Threshold]].
* Fone Bone, Gran'ma Ben, and one of the Dreaming Masters were the only people who didn't want to do it, but near the end of ''[[Bone]]'', the Crown of Horns seems to be the only way out, even though it's been said that if Thorn even touches it, all of existence would be in jeopardy, and the trip there would be dangerous anyway with all the dragons that guard the Crown of Horns and intend to kill anyone who's anywhere near it.
== Film ==
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** In the back-story of ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', an automatic letter-sorting device with extradimensional components (it accesses a dimension where pi is exactly equal to 3) goes out of control, filling the Ankh-Morpork Post Office with letters. Wizards called in to inspect the device warn that shutting it down is likely to destroy the universe. Fed up with the machine, a veteran mail-carrier starts smacking the device with a crowbar until it shuts down. When the mail-carrier started hitting the device, the wizards ran away. As the doer of the deed testified; unless they had some other universe to run to, they weren't really sure about the danger. The wizards insist that the universe ''really was'' destroyed, but was instantaneously replaced by a complete, identical universe. {{spoiler|Of course, that exact thing has actually happened before in that series. Twice, depending on how you count.}}
*** An unusual example, in that this was a ending-the-universe danger, but never actually crossed the [[Godzilla Threshold]] before it was destroyed.
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* [[Thursday Next]] has something to break in event of "unprecedented emergency"—with the explicit note that your death is not an unprecedented emergency.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': The "Bonehead Maneuver" as mentioned in the Season 3 premiere. Basically, you have two ways of going in and out of hyperspace. If your ship is powerful enough, you can open your own jump point, or, if your ship isn't that powerful, you have a Jump Gate open one for you. You never want to open a jump point inside a jump gate, because this causes one massive explosion of a [[Negative Space Wedgie]]. Aside from the loss of a very
== Radio ==
* In ''[[
** If we knew why the bowl of petunias thought "Not again!" while falling, we would probably understand a lot more about the universe. {{spoiler|Of course, later in the series, we find out
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Theme Parks ==
* In the ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]: Alien Attack'' ride at Universal Studios, a [[Big Red Button]] like the one mentioned in the above example appears in every ride car. Like in the film, you are told never to press it. However, by the end of the ride you face a giant alien that's immune to your weapons. Guess what you have to do?
** A cheesy instruction video seen while in line on the ride explains exactly
== Video Games ==
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* In the first ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' game, all characters have a Sanity stat during battle. If this reaches zero, the character goes berserk, attacks their allies, and will not gain experience if you win the battle. The strategy in many difficult battles involves keeping this stat up while various effects suck it away. How does one unleash the final, most powerful transformations of the main character? By leveling the transformations up to max and then going insane while fighting in them. Something of a [[Guide Dang It]].
* In the ''[[Ultima]]'' series, the Armageddon spell (which kills everything and destroys the entire world when cast) has always just been used as a [[Red Herring]] to give the player a [[Nonstandard Game Over]], but by sealing oneself inside the separate universe made by a Barrier of Life spell with the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Ultima]] IX: Ascension'', the player is able to destroy just the universe he's in right now, along with his opponent and himself.
* The entire ''[[Halo]]'' trilogy had you attempting to prevent the
** That one was completely justified: the Halos are meant to kill all life in the galaxy. {{spoiler|The one in the third game is outside the galaxy as noted in the first level on the Ark. One marine points out that the Milky Way is visible in the sky, meaning you're not in it.}}
* In ''[[Breath of Fire]]: Dragon Quarter'', Ryu must unleash D-Breath against {{spoiler|Chetyre in the true final battle}} until the D-Counter hits 100% to trigger the final scene - an action that earns a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] everywhere else.
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*** {{spoiler|Less of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] than [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Turns out that the glyph consumes ''a'' soul, not necessarily ''the user's''. It just so happens that Albus was forced to hang around after his defeat and was able to take Shanoa's place. Mind you, this is in the Good End. The Bad End has Shanoa die after using the glyph.}}
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. Specifically, using Excalibur, the first [[Deus Sex Machina]] (maybe), Shirou's arm, taking on Caster/Kuzuki directly on their turf (not a dangerous ''technique'' but the strategy is essentially suicide) and projection in general. Maybe it would have been best to simply leave this with no details considering how prominent this is?
* ''[[Tsukihime
* In ''[[Pokémon]]'' - [[Taking You with Me|Perish Song.]] Especially if you're in a double battle.
* ''[[Magicka]]'' allows you to do this quite literally with the Arcane element and other elements to alter the beam's qualities, resulting in a combined, powerful beam. But if beams of opposing elements cross, a huge explosion occurs that will likely kill anyone nearby. Players may exploit this when fighting goblin shamans and other enemies that use beam attacks, intentionally or accidentally.
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== Real Life ==
* The Manhattan Project. Scientists did experiments seeing how close they could get radioactive cores to going critical without ''actually'' making them go critical. They called this [[Tempting Fate|"Tickling The Dragon's Tail"]], and considered it a necessary but insanely dangerous thing to do. One core did accidentally go critical (very briefly) on two separate occasions, resulting in the deaths of two researchers and less severe cases of radiation poisoning for several others. They dubbed this one the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Demon Core]].
** And I'm sure we all can see when they would feel it appropriate to [[Nuke'Em|let the cores go critical]], but such circumstances are very rare and very controversial.
* The Higgs Boson A.K.A The God particle. The way to discover it ''could'' turn Earth into a black hole.
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