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To be fair, in many dramas, it is "the only way" in the messed-up mindset of the character saying it -- television characters are frequently [[Genre Blindness|less reasonable]] and more focused than real people. |
To be fair, in many dramas, it is "the only way" in the messed-up mindset of the character saying it -- television characters are frequently [[Genre Blindness|less reasonable]] and more focused than real people. |
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Compare with [[I Did What I Had to Do]], the [[Well |
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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* Particularly glaring in the second and third ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' movies. In the second, Jean Grey sacrifices herself, supposedly because it's the only way to save the team; there has been considerable debate among fans about the ''multiple'' other ways they could have survived, or ways she could have saved them that would not have involved her death. |
* Particularly glaring in the second and third ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' movies. In the second, Jean Grey sacrifices herself, supposedly because it's the only way to save the team; there has been considerable debate among fans about the ''multiple'' other ways they could have survived, or ways she could have saved them that would not have involved her death. |
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* Eve in ''Face/Off'' believes that taking a blood sample from the man impersonating her husband is the only way to establish his identity. She could have simply taken DNA samples from him and her daughter (hair, fingerprints...) and run a comparison. Either way, additionally demanding a sample from the man with the face of the man who killed her son would have been a good idea. |
* Eve in ''Face/Off'' believes that taking a blood sample from the man impersonating her husband is the only way to establish his identity. She could have simply taken DNA samples from him and her daughter (hair, fingerprints...) and run a comparison. Either way, additionally demanding a sample from the man with the face of the man who killed her son would have been a good idea. |
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