If You Want Something Done Right, Do it Yourself: Difference between revisions

The hero, anti-hero, or sidekick wasmight aboutdiscover toher dayteammate whenin he finds out that his fellowthe [[Five-Man Band]] dropped the [[Villain-Beating Artifact|holy gem]] needed to defeat the god villain, gottenwas killed off, or simply missed the plane. SighingThe villain, anti-villain, or last remaining [[Only Sane Man|sane mook]] might notice that the other mooks didn't kill the hero. Either way, this person gathers the team's weapons, spells, and doomsday devices, and mutters '''"If you want something done right, do it yourself."'''

* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'': Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg mutters "If you want something done, do it yourself" as he marches up the stairs, holding a ray gun and a crate.

* ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'': After so many monsters failed to defeat the Rangers, King Mondo decided to destroy them by himself. There was a reason the episode where he did it was titled "Mondo's Last Stand", namely {{spoiler|[[Lying Creator|a lying writer]].}}

* In ''[[Overwatch]]'', one of Torbjörn's kill quips in gameplay was this. It made sense, since he sees himself as responsible if his inventions fell into the wrong hands, like(such as Talon's).

* [[George of the Jungle|Baron Otto Matic]] twisted the trope in a [[George of the Jungle|''Tom Slick'']] episode where he entered his lackey Clutcher in a blimp race. As the Baron explained, if you want something right to go wrong, do it yourself.

** ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episodeEpisode "The Pizza Patrol" featured a pizza parlor that featured the [[Thirty Minutes or It's Free]] policy. After Garfield trickedtricks the delivery boys into missing the deadline every time one of them hadhas to deliver a pizza, the pizza parlor's owner triedtries to deliver it by himself.

** In another episode, local mailman [[Meaningful Name|Herman Post]] wasis fired and his former boss, not able to find a mailman willing to take over the turf out of fear of Garfield, decideddecides to deliver the mail himself. After enduring Garfield, he beggedbegs Herman to take the job back.

* In ''[[Steven Universe]]'', Holly Blue Agate uttered this line aswhile she draws outdrawing her whip and attackedattacking Steven and company.

* In the ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode "Jack vs Aku", after the robot assassins that Aku sends after Jack fail even worse than they usually do, he slumps in his throne and mutters, "Guess it's true what they say, if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself..." Then [[Eureka Moment|he gets an idea]] on a way he can do just that, leading to [[Title Drop| the conflict in the title.]]

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