Mundane Solution: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' had Gil attempting to catch Zeetha with a [[Telescoping Robot|cage clank]]. Said clank missed, and went on a rampage trying to catch ''something''. After everybody else failed to defeat it using various means, Krosp checks with Gil to be sure that the clank will not hurt whatever it catches, then tosses a little girl into the robot and lets it capture her. Having achieved its objective, the bot promptly settles down and simply sits there, with the little girl happily inside.

** Also, when everyone is trying to [[It Makes Sense in Context|kill/cure]] Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek, one of the machines goes haywire, and the [[Mad Scientist|Sparks]] start screaming about how everything is going to blow up, and "NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN STOP IT!" Then, the machine spontaneously stops. Cue everyone looking at Von Zinzer, [[Cut the Juice|holding the power plug.]]

*** Moloch Von Zinzer is [[Only Sane Man|very good]] [[Captain Obvious|at this]] [[Action Survivor|sort of thing]]. It tends to annoy Sparks, who don't like having their drama harshed by a Mundane Solution.

'''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 ''[[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...

* ''[[Xkcd]]'' [http://xkcd.com/538/ tells us how to beat cryptography in the kneecap.]

** Also known as [[wikipedia:Rubber-hose cryptanalysis|rubber-hose cryptanalysis]]. For obvious reasons, this method is unfit for gathering court-admissible evidence.

* In [[Journey Quest]] Perf demonstrates a terribly simple solution to an enemy mage. {{spoiler|He hits him in the head with a rock, causing a [[Critical Failure|spell backfire]] to roast the enemy.}}

* In [[Cracked]]'s ''After Hours'', they point out that that muggles had just known about [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]], we would have solved the problem by simply blowing him up.

'''Michael:''' Yeah, that he has to aim through a wand! We can fire a thousand missiles. From space. With iPhones. }}