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May overlap with [[Not So Invincible After All]]. Contrast with [[Mundane Utility]], where something exotic is used to solve something mundane, and [[Weaksauce Weakness]], where a no less powerful individual gets strange weaknesses or power. A favored tool of the [[Combat Pragmatist]]. [[Cut the Juice]] is one particular example of this, as is [[Cutting the Knot]] (the weakness of string is a sharp blade!). [[Percussive Maintenance]] is a subtrope. See also [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]], when the weakness is weaponized. Related to [[Muggles Do It Better]].
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'''Sparks:''' No, you've already ruined the fun. }}
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' after the [[Space Pirates]] of Ipecac have gone to a great deal of trouble to steal some [[Unobtainium]] called borfomite on a distant planet, they realize they have to combine it with plain Earth ''caramel'' to make it power their BFG. This is ''far'' from the only example, as part of Bob's shtick is his knack for hitting upon simple solutions to bizarre problems.
* The ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' took a page out of [[Team Fortress 2|the Engineer's]] book and used a gun ([[Medieval Fantasy|or bow, rather]]) to solve the [[Knights and Knaves]] problem in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html this] strip.
* When the [[Hyperspace Mallet|clue hammers]] in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' were shut down, Susan was suddenly deprived of her habitual method of dealing with [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-16 inappropriate comments]. Enter [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-19 Catalina Bobcat] with a toy hammer...
{{quote|'''Nerd boys''': ''Ow! The plastic, it hurts!''}}
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