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'''Captain Bill MacDonald''' (Texas Ranger): Well, there's only one riot, isn't there? }}
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This trope is basically when the government is [[Genre Savvy]] about a [[One-Man Army]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Remo Williams, the hero of the ''[[Destroyer]]'' series of action novels is a tongue-in-cheek [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|satire]] of the [[One-Man Army]] genre of adventure fiction, but he's also a perfect example of this trope. The authors even [[Hangs a Lampshade|lampshades]] it in the several of the novels of the long-running series by having everyone note how ridiculous it is to only send one man out to stop the latest menace.
** Although this may also be the result of Remo being so top-secret that only the President gets to know that he exists, or at least originally being so.
** It's actually explained in the first book of the series. The secret organization CURE is allowed to lie, cheat, and steal, but not to kill. This is because the President is worried about creating an agency that could be a threat to the country. CURE finally persuades the President to agree to one man. When one CURE member laments that one man is not enough, the head of CURE replies that's all they are going to get, so he better be a [[Badass]]. Luckily for CURE, he is.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Doctor Who
* ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' skirts this trope. Even though Jack Bauer is backed by the CTU and an entire brigade of government agents that ought to be out there backing him up, somehow he always ends up going it alone. Sometimes at the direction of his superiors.
** That's because he's goddamned [[Memetic Badass|Jack Bauer]], and if [[Memetic Mutation|anyone else listened to him, the show would be called "3"]].
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