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{{quote|'''Roku''': Shit! The volcano is erupting! Get everyone to safety while I hold it off!
'''Ta Min''': Um, honey? If we already know that I'll be able to get everyone in this considerably tiny village into boats, and we don't care all that much about our possessions, why do you need to put yourself in mortal danger?
'''Roku''': WOMAN, ARE YOU CONTRADICTING [[Hero Ball|HERO LOGIC]]?
'''Ta Min''': *sigh* |''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' [http://community.livejournal.com/avatar_fans/1926928.html Condensed Episode 47]}}
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== Western Animation ==
* In the quoted example from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' above, it may in fact be justified as Roku's holding back the magma is the only thing that gives the rest of the village enough time to evacuate.
* Played for laughs in [[A Day
== Film ==
* 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.
* 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.
* Parodied (kind of) in the movie ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'', where the villain releases hundreds of venomous snakes onto a plane containing a single person he wishes to kill. When one of his lackeys wonders if there might have been a simpler plan with a higher chance of success, the villain snaps something to the effect of, "Do you think I didn't exhaust every other option?"
* ''[[Aliens]]'': "I say we take off and [[How to Invade An Alien Planet|nuke the entire site from orbit]]. It's the only way to be sure."
* In the climax of ''Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny'', Jack Black challenges the Devil to a rock-off, and for the stakes declares the Devil can take (just) his partner Kyle Gass back to Hell as a sex slave if they lose. He then melodramatically urges the understandably upset Kyle that "it's the ''only'' way!".
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