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** More accurately, the only way to reach the planetkiller bomb in high orbit is use a [[Space Shuttle]] stripped of ''everything'' nonessential, including its wings and protective tiles. She gets out of it by {{spoiler|disarming the bomb and piloting its reentry vehicle back to Earth.}}
* Played with in ''[[Harry Potter]] And The [[Chamber of Secrets]]''. The titular Chamber is accessed via {{spoiler|a sewage pipe}}, and the characters debate how to reverse the trip. {{spoiler|Luckily for them, Dumbledore's Phoenix is strong enough to carry them all out. And when they revisit the place in ''[[Deathly Hallows]]'', they just bring brooms}}. Similarly, in the first book, the end-of-book mission required the trio to drop down a hole with no idea whether there'd be a way back (there was).
* In the book ''[[Angels & Demons]]'', when the camerlengo boards the helicopter with the antimatter bomb, Langdon follows him aboard, expecting him to drop the bomb where it can explode safely (such as in a quarry, or far out to sea). Unfortunately, it turns out that the camerlengo is going nowhere except straight
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', the central mission involves going through a mass relay that no one's ever gone through and come back from. Everyone on the team goes into it knowing there may be no coming back, although several of them believe you can pull off a miracle. After the jump, [[Anyone Can Die]], and the
** If you make the right choices, [[Subverted Trope|they're right.]]
* About halfway through ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', Tidus finds out this is the case for {{spoiler|every High Summoner and at least one Guardian for each of them.}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Occasionally comes up as a strategy in warfare, either due to limited range of vehicles, or because the scale of destruction means that there won't be a safe haven for them to return to once they launch their attack:
** The [[Airstrike Impossible|Doolittle Raid]] in [[World War II]] wasn't ''strictly'' supposed to be this, with the plan being for very stripped-down US Army B-25 Mitchell medium bombers carrying extra fuel to launch from Navy aircraft carriers, bomb targets in Japan, and then land at friendly airfields in China. The Navy task force was discovered a day before they planned to launch, forcing the Army bombers to launch several hundred miles farther away from Japan than they intended, and most of their intended airfields in China were captured by the Japanese. Several bombers ended up crash landing in the sea or in China, and one managed to make it to the neutral Soviet Union,<ref>
** Due to the likely results of a full-scale nuclear exchange, most nuclear strike-related missions, both by the bombers and their escorts and support aircraft, are predicted to likely be this, either because some earlier bombers wouldn't have the range to hit targets in Russia and make it safely to friendly territory, or simply because there would be few to no intact airfields they could land at after the nukes were launched by both sides. Nevermind if you got caught by the enemy's substantial defenses on the way.
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