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The reasoning behind an [[Overclocking Attack]]
This of course makes little sense when you think about it. Try switching your radio on, then pulling off the tuning knob. All you end up with is your radio stuck on whatever station you tuned it into. Every system should remain stuck like this after the control console is destroyed, but it never is.
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* Subverted on ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': Kenzan catches Saiou's [[Brainwashed]] minion after he has used a laptop to fire a missile from a [[Kill Sat]], so he figures the best way to fix things is to destroy the laptop. It's not until after he's done so that someone tells him he's in fact ''destroyed the Off Switch''. Did we mention Saiou is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]?
* Something similar happened at the end of the Virtual Nightmare arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
* Used at the end of the ''[[To Aru Kagaku no Railgun]]'' anime, where {{spoiler|Ruiko Saten smashes the consoles controlling the Big Bad's psychic-power-limiting device, thus allowing her friends to use their powers and defeat the villain.}}
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== Radio ==
* Used as a last resort at the end of the Novacom arc of ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'': Novacom blocked all methods to stop the uplink of their [[Mind Control]] radio waves. Although Whit and Tom find the machine, they can't turn it off; fortunately, the uplink is connected to a machine Novacom stole from Whit, and he stops it by making it self destruct. In this case, they were at least racing against a countdown and knew they had to destroy the machine ''before'' it sent its
== Video Games ==
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