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* Used in the first ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'': the [[Final Girl]] actually turns her back on Freddy Krueger just as he is about to stab her, and he promptly ceases to exist. At least, until the sequel. (Or just the [[Revised Ending]], at that.)
* ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'' had a local [[Government Conspiracy]] involving a massive cover up of everything Freddie Krueger had done, down to interring all the surviving kids in an asylum and medicating them so they can't have dreams, because Freddie gets his power from kids being afraid of him. Freddie averts this trope by setting lose ''another'' [[Friday the 13th (film)|serial killer]], causing the kids to hear about Freddie when the [[Revealing Coverup]] begins to unravel due to the adults wondering if Freddie is back.
* At the end of ''[[Sphere]]'', in order to get rid of the destructive abilities the namesake Sphere had given them, the protagonists agree to use their power to make themselves forget about the Sphere and all of their activities involving it. In the original novel, at least, this works because the Sphere, by its own admission, didn't ''grant'' them these
* ''[[Untraceable]]'''s plot revolves around a website with streaming video of murders. The more hits on the website, the faster the victim dies.
* ''[[Airplane!|Airplane II: The Sequel]]'': [[William Shatner|Captain Buck Murdock of Alpha Beta Base]] is debating with a junior officer whether they should do anything about the impending crash landing of the lunar shuttle.
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** A two part episode of uses a similar weapon: a device that can kill anyone with a single thought. However, being a Vulcan invention, it only works on the aggressive. It is rendered useless when the protagonists stop (conventionally) fighting and empty their minds of aggressive thoughts.
** Something similar was done in another episode involving a group of soldiers that had been genetically engineered and mentally programmed as perfect killing machines: but are not programmed to kill people who don't fight back. If you don't fight then, they can't/won't do anything. The episode ends with them forced in to a stalemate with the government that created them (and wasn't nice enough to UNprogram them afterward) leaving them with the option of "cooperate or everything stays screwed."
* ''[[Scrubs]]'': J.D. realized that the best thing he can do for the sick patient who was turfed to every department in the hospital (and for his fractured relationships) is to do nothing and let things heal themselves. Of course, by "realized," we mean he actually ''forgot'' about the patient entirely, and was told after the fact that his "treatment" was brilliant
For the curious, the patient was not actually suffering from any disease at all, but rather had a high fever that resulted from the rapidly increasing medications he was being given as he was moved from department to department, each department unable to find a problem and giving him generic medication in the hopes of fixing whatever was wrong with him. Since there was no disease, nobody could ''find'' a disease, and kept transferring him to a new department in the hopes that ''they'' could fix him, and he eventually ended up with JD, who cured him by ignoring him, which caused his fever to break when he stopped being stuffed with drugs. Apparently this happens in real life.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': At the end of "Twisted," with an incredibly powerful entity twisting and altering the ship, their ultimate solution is the decidedly odd, but logical ([[Straw Vulcan|Tuvok said it, so it must be!]]) "solution" of not doing anything.
* Inverted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Blink": the monsters for that episode are "quantum locked" meaning that they only exist when not being observed. If you look at them (or if they look at each other) they turn to stone. But if you look away (or blink), you're dead.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* In a ''[[FoxTrot]]'' storyline, [[Genre Savvy|expert video gamer Jason]] spends a long time struggling to defeat the "Red Orb Guardian," but when he finally puts the controller down his eternally clueless sister Paige gets past it in
** It gets a lampshade when Jason calls this counter-intuitive, and Paige points out that he still harasses her despite the fact that her response is always to pound the snot out of him.
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* Many minor diseases, most notably the common cold, are best treated with relaxation and time. The same goes for aches and pains. Some doctors, naturally, will suggest additional methods that have a placebo effect... It's where we get the saying, "If you get a cold and stay at home, you'll be sick for a week. If you get a cold and go to the doctor, you'll be sick for seven days."
* [[Troll
** This saying is very true, but is very hard to put into practice when the forum has a large community. Trolls know that the more active the forum community are and the more members there are, the easier it will be for the troll to bait someone into responding to their antics because there is always at least one person who can't ignore the troll. Small communities in forums or forums that are very closed off (or has a very active moderation team) usually will have less trolls because everyone knows what to do when they encounter one.
* "Wei wu wei," in Taoist belief, is often translated as "creative letting be."
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