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*** Also, the prophecy in a round about way said that only one could kill the other, so he most likely decided not to waste the manpower doing something he believed to be pointless anyway.
**** The prophecy is a valid objection, but the former one doesn't quite fly—Voldemort's most fanatically loyal Death Eater, the one who serves him because she genuinely worships him and not because of fear, is also his #1 killer. Asking Bellatrix to soften Harry up first and then putting in the kill shot himself would have worked for Voldemort ''far'' better than what he actually tried. To be fair, Bellatrix isn't out of Azkaban until book five, leaving Voldemort a good excuse for the first four books.
**** Ironically, the heroes suffer the same failure in
** In the first book, when Harry, Ron and Hermione discovered that Quirrell planned to steal the Philosopher's Stone, rather than trying to stop him themselves, why didn't they tell the school's teachers or staff about Quirrel's plans? Granted, they tried to inform Dumbledore about it and were told he wasn't at the school at that moment. But there were so many other teachers and members of the school's staff who were far more capable than three first-year students and would have handled the situation much better.
*** They did try to tell McGonagall, but she refused to listen and just insisted that the stone was protected well enough. Still, they might have tried harder or tried other teachers.
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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
*** 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.
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** Sometimes, Megatron does sum up the intellect to kill Starscream. He does so in [[The Movie]] after one nearly successful attempt, and in [[Transformers Animated|at least one reboot, Megatron]] [[Back From the Dead|practically makes it a habit.]]
*** Some other comics and whatnot have pointed out that Megatron doesn't get rid of Starscream because he's a talented scientist capable of truly remarkable feats of engineering. It's just that Starscream being a scientist was usually a case of an [[Informed Ability]] on the show. One of the only times he displayed his abilities was building an entire combiner team... ''after'' Megatron kicked him out of the Decepticons. Of course, his creation of Bruticus basically got him back in Megatron's good graces, so lather, rinse, repeat.
*** There's also that when you're in a situation where you cannot replace casualties, you cannot really afford to get rid of ''anyone''. If there were more Transformers lining up outside a recruiting office to become Decepticons then Megatron could afford to dispose of one of his more competent squad leaders and fighters. But there aren't, so its either 'rely on being able to keep Starscream in line' or 'Try to fight a war with a big hole in the TO&E'. A similar dynamic existed with Beast Wars Megatron and
* [[Nostalgia Filter|Anyone who grew up with]] ''[[Jem]]'' will most likely be astounded on revisiting the show and realizing that the rival band of Jem and the Holograms (The Misfits) would often indulge in felonies such as kidnapping, blackmail, sabotage and slander in order to boost their own sales and discredit their opponents. A simple phone call to the police would have seen them locked up for a very long time.
** Made worse by the fact that Jerrica ''owns Starlight Music'' and could probably do a lot more to ensure that Eric Raymond would stop causing trouble as a record executive than a pop idol.
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