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* Or maybe the protagonist's state of mind has some connection to the situation, and cooler heads prevail.

 

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* ''[[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.<br /><br />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.

{{quote| '''The Doctor''': Don't blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And ''don't blink''. Good luck.}}

* In the 1998 Sam Neill miniseries ''[[Merlin (Film)|Merlin]]'', {{spoiler|Queen Mab is defeated using this method. When people stop believing in her and refuse to acknowledge that she is important anymore, she fades away.}}

'''Lord of Dorkness:''' HELLO? I'm eating your SOUL, here! }}

** This is [[Truth in Television|pretty much standard practice]] in chat and online game role playing, too.

 

== Western Animation ==

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