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So the hero has defeated the [[Evil Overlord]]'s army. They've disarmed [[The Dragon]] using [[The Power of Friendship]]. The superweapon is destroyed. The hero is facing the [[Evil Overlord]] in the final showdown... and takes out a gun, [[Kill Him Already|shoots the Evil Overlord in the head]], and walks away.

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{{noreallife|That would just be [[Department of Redundancy Department|redundant]]. We all know that reality is not a work of fiction, [[Wild Mass Guessing]] notwithstanding. Reality already ensues all the time in [[Real Life]].}}

'''Warning: As this trope frequently occurs at the climax of a work, spoilers are likely to be unmarked. Caution advised.'''

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== Advertising ==

* Sprite did a series of commercials based around subverting [[Cereal-Induced Superpowers]] by invoking this trope. One features a kid spotting NBA player Grant Hill drinking Sprite, and thinking Sprite will make him a basketball player—which he quickly disproves by drinking Sprite and then attempting a slam dunk, failing, and falling on his ass.

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== [[Visual Novels]] ==

== Visual Novels ==

* Despite passionate pleas, Masayuki in ''[[A Profile]]'' is ultimately completely unable to make Miou's parents reconcile. As he says to Miou, it's not like a kid like him can do much to convince adults of anything serious like that. On the other hand, it's not completely without results in that it made her father approve of him, whereas until then he was judging Masayuki as the street punk he used to be.

== ~~Webcomics~~ ==

== Web Comics ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901192335/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=16&issue=9 This] page of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. Make sure to read the [[Alt Text]].

** Later on, Dan McNinja has to hunt down the last surviving member of the Belstein family, whose bloodline is the only thing that can defeat a powerful demon. It turns out that the {{spoiler|Belsteins had to engage in massive inbreeding to keep the bloodline "pure" so someone could fight the demon....and the last living Belstein is a crippled invalid thanks to that.}}

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* ''[[The Salvation War]]'' runs on this. One of the core themes is that Biblical depictions of the powers of angels and demons, quite simply, are not all that impressive compared to modern weapons. Sure, a demon may be nine feet tall, run thirty KPH without getting tired, regenerate from most injuries in a few hours or days, can rip through human beings like tissue paper, and throw lightning bolts, but all of that is terribly useless when the demon's most advanced weapon is a pitchfork and the humans are sitting twenty kilometers away launching missiles and firing artillery that rips through demonic flesh as easily as it does human.

* ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'': Near the beginning of Act II, Dr. Horrible gloats about his unstoppable plan to commit a heist using his Freeze Ray. Cue [[Gilligan Cut]] and a bruised Dr. Horrible explaining how he needs to be careful about what he says on his blog because both Captain Hammer and the LAPD watch it.

* Dark Simpsons takes certain segments of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and makes them realistic.. For example, in ''Flintstones Parody'', much like in Marge vs The Monorail, Homer decides to imitate the Simpsons. However, instead of being uninjured when he breaks through his car window, he ends up having to go to the hospital instead, and is faced with the possibility of being unable to walk again for the rest of his life.

* ''[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmtv4GfnEBSzxT5DNnOaEQ Dark Simpsons]'' takes certain segments of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' and makes them realistic. For example, in "Flintstones Parody", much like in "Marge vs The Monorail", Homer decides to imitate the Simpsons. However, instead of being uninjured when he breaks through his car window, he ends up having to go to the hospital instead, and is faced with the possibility of being unable to walk again for the rest of his life.

** In Homer Is Dumb as a Mule and Twice as Ugly, Homer decides to start a new life under the sea. There's just one small problem...he can't breathe underwater. Inevitably, he drowns.

** In "Homer Is Dumb as a Mule and Twice as Ugly", Homer decides to start a new life under the sea. There's just one small problem...he can't breathe underwater. Inevitably, he drowns.

** In Homes Goes To College, Homer cheats on a test so he could keep his job as a nuclear safety inspector. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't know what to do during a nuclear meltdown and he ends up blowing the entire town to smithereens when he presses the wrong button.

** In "Homes Goes To College", Homer cheats on a test so he could keep his job as a nuclear safety inspector. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't know what to do during a nuclear meltdown and he ends up blowing the entire town to smithereens when he presses the wrong button.

** In Seymour Butts, while it's fairly unlikely that he would shoot Bart with a shotgun simply for prank phone calling him, he immediately recognizes him as the person who keeps prank phone calling him by the sound of his voice.

** "In Seymour Butts", while it's fairly unlikely that he would shoot Bart with a shotgun simply for prank phone calling him, he immediately recognizes him as the person who keeps prank phone calling him by the sound of his voice.

== Western Animation ==