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A crutch commonly used to [[Hand Wave|justify a foolish or ridiculous course of action]]. There is almost always a more sensible course of action available if the characters involved would just bother to think, but that might ruin the contrived plot and/or prevent a tragic situation. And the audience better not try to think of any alternate solutions either, because "It's the only way!"
To be fair, in many dramas, it is "the only way" in the messed-up mindset of the character saying
Compare with [[I Did What I Had to Do]], the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]'s accessory after the fact. Compare also the correlated trope [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]].
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