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Alternatively, some heroes will realize there are [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard|several resources they can use to escape]] and will ask the villain to bring the crucial ingredient closer.

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* The protagonists of ''[[Barbarella]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'' wander into walk-in suicide booths, which offer world-weary beings a choice of ways to terminate their unendurable existence. In the latter, "I'd like to make a collect call" is heard by the booth as "slow and horrible".

'''Grogan''': I'll kill you, goddammit, if it's the Fourth of July! }}

** Near the end of the movie proper, the villain Zolo echoes the previous scene, much less humorously: "How will you die, Joan Wilder? Slow, like... a snail? Or fast, like a shooting star?"

*** For the crime of [[Hypocritical Humour|implanting chauvinistic material into a motion picture]].

* Used in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'' when Andy is playing. "How shall she die? Eaten by sharks, or death by monkeys?"

* In ''[[Abbott and Costello]] Meet The Killer'', an evil hypnotist attempts to make Lou Costello commit suicide but fails repeatedly. Reasoning that Lou is resisting him, he asks Lou the trope question. Lou's reply: "Old Age."

'''Freeza:''' No, don't mind me. By all means...'''give me some ideas.''' }}

* Although unaware of it at the time, the five vacationers from ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]'' do this when {{spoiler|Dana is the first to make use of a piece of [[Schmuck Bait]] from the cellar}}.

 

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