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** Particularly as she likewise discovers she has magic in the second series. Her neck is on the line just as much as his, as it doesn't seem like that Uther would have been merciful.

* In the fifth season of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', the main characters are desperately trying to come up with a way to stop Lucifer. After the Colt and Gabriel fail, all seems lost and they resort to sacrificing Sam to lock him away... despite being presented with several other options as the series goes on which they never even consider. The two that come to mind are the Antichrist (who can apparently "destroy the host of heaven with a thought" and seems a nice enough kid), and Deaths Scythe (which is apparently capable of killing even Death, but they never think to use it against Lucifer).

** Remember that shortly before obtaining Death's scythe they had already witnessed the failure of the 'stab Lucifer to death' plan with Gabriel's sword -- while Gabriel was wielding it. If an ''archangel'' can't survive long enough in close combat to even get within stabbing range of Lucifer, much less actually finish stabbing him, then what hope does Sam or Dean have?

*** In addition, ''the entire plot arc'' of season 5 is based on the problem that engaging Lucifer in mortal combat will, assuming you're powerful enough that he can't just crush you effortlessly, involve enough collateral damage to destroy the Earth. If getting Lucifer dead was the only problem they had then all they'd have needed to do was sit back and let Michael have his shot. It was getting rid of Lucifer ''without'' the apocalyptic battle was the tricky part.

* ''[[Mission Impossible (TV series)|Mission Impossible]]'' actually has this inverted. Whenever there seems to be an easier, alternate way to accomplish the goal for the episode, one of the characters will bring it up in the pre-mission briefing and then an explanation as to why that can't work is given. In fact, the standing reason why the Impossible Mission Force can't just assassinate targets (which is obviously much easier than the convoluted schemes on the show) is because of a "policy decision" on behalf of the higher-ups in the United States.

* ''[[Dennis the Menace (TV series)|Dennis the Menace]]''. Mr. Wilson's life would be much better if the Mitchells would move away. The worst part is that the man is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know this, and his warnings to the other characters are tragically ignored.