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== Anime and Manga ==
* If you've watched the second season of ''[[The Slayers]]'' and read even a little of the supplementary material, you're aware that
▲* If you've watched the second season of ''[[The Slayers]]'' and read even a little of the supplementary material, you're aware that {{spoiler|Xelloss is more powerful than any other underling Mazoku}}. It goes without saying that while Lina Inverse might be able to pull out the big guns and defeat him, nobody else stands a snowball's chance in Hell of bringing that guy to his knees. So when Lina's otherwise occupied and her teammates have no choice but to take the guy on by themselves, they pull out their own "big guns" and defeat him with {{spoiler|positive emotional energy, that is to say, they [[Care Bear Stare|think happy thoughts and proclaim their love of life]]. Xelloss}} sure wasn't expecting ''that''.
** A powerful, dangerous Mazoku has [[The Slayers|Lina]] trapped in a [[Pocket Dimension|closed space region]] from which a human would otherwise find impossible to escape. Lina prepares a magic spell and ... summons an absolutely normal bird. The summoned creature itself is useless in a fight but Lina is actually abusing summoning rules. That absolute normal bird ''broke through dimensions'' to get to her, giving her a way out of the closed space region.
* In one of the episodes of the anime ''[[Birdy the Mighty]]'', the space-babe informs the hero that the slime based shapeshifting horror can only be hurt by a chemical weapon, specifically a surfactant. The hero promptly runs home and grabs a bottle of ''dishsoap''.
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** Super geniuses Chao and Hakase spent two years perfecting an AI to run her Cassiopeia because it's so complicated. Negi spent five seconds summoning two very low level magic spirits (minor prediction and minor dexterity or something) to time predictions then operate the dial for him. {{spoiler|To be fair, if Chao uses magic it causes her intense agony, Hakase was pretty clearly reading from a script for the Forced Recognition and Negi bragged that this kind of thing was his true specialty.}}
** Not to mention Chao's "secret weapon," which she didn't use in first place because she was afraid of the damage it could cause—a copy of her family tree. {{spoiler|Against her ancestor's [[Unwanted Harem]].}}
* A powerful [[Playing with Fire|fire mage]] in ''[[
** Pretty much every fight in the series ends up like this considering the bad guy has some power on the lines of warping reality by willpower alone, the ability to change vectors (as in, the guy is immune to any attack and can turn any force in any direction he contacts, including light, or cause massive explosions and stuff) passively, actual [[Our Angels Are Different|angels]] or create giant rock monsters, and the hero... can cancel magic and stuff with his right hand, and that's it. So he punches them in the face. Hard enough to dent concrete, yes, but still.
* In Ash's first battle against Brock in ''[[Pokémon]]'', Pikachu goes up against a Onix, [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|which is immune to electrical attacks.]] He wins (sorta) by shooting lightning everywhere and accidentally starting a fire that sets off the sprinklers and douses Onix [[For Massive Damage]].
* This is a common plot device in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', where Kyon repeatedly saves the world by doing very mundane things, like {{spoiler|kissing Haruhi}}, {{spoiler|convincing her to put a disclaimer at the end of her movie saying that all of the characters and events are fictional}}, or {{spoiler|inviting the gang over to his house to do their summer homework}}.
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