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== Films -- Live Action ==
* In ''[[The Lady Killers]]'' from 1955, Alec Guinness' character explains to a fellow bad guy that "No one is indispensable, and certainly not you, Louis. Only the plan is essential, the plan, ''my'' plan." ▼
== Literature ==
* An episode of ''A Touch of Frost'' sees [[Da Chief]] of Inspector Frost, who is recently retired, attempt to persuade him to come back to solve a case that has the entire force stumped (partly as a consequence of Frost's poor skills regarding paperwork). After a tense meeting, the chief makes the mistake of yelling "You're not indispensible!"... and Frost's reaction is merely to quietly stand up and make for the door, prompting his chief to hastily backtrack and admit that, alright, he ''is'' indispensible after all.
* At the end of book 2 of [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], [[Big Bad Duumvirate|Thrawn and C'baoth]] start arguing over this, each claiming that he is the only indispensable element of [[The Empire]] and that the other, specifically, is merely a pawn. It's hard to say who's right {{spoiler|because they die within a few minutes of each other, and the Empire promptly goes to pot}}.▼
== Real Life ==
* It's a famous phrase by Joseph Stalin: "There are no indispensable people".
▲* In ''[[The Lady Killers]]'' from 1955, Alec Guinness' character explains to a fellow bad guy that "No one is indispensable, and certainly not you, Louis. Only the plan is essential, the plan, ''my'' plan."
* There's a old saying: "Graveyards are filled with indispensable men."
▲* At the end of book 2 of [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], [[Big Bad Duumvirate|Thrawn and C'baoth]] start arguing over this, each claiming that he is the only indispensable element of [[The Empire]] and that the other, specifically, is merely a pawn. It's hard to say who's right {{spoiler|because they die within a few minutes of each other, and the Empire promptly goes to pot}}.
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