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Compare with [[I Did What I Had to Do]], the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]'s accessory after the fact. Compare also the correlated trope [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]].
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* Particularly glaring in the second and third ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' movies. In the second, Jean Grey sacrifices herself, supposedly because it's the only way to save the team; there has been considerable debate among fans about the ''multiple'' other ways they could have survived, or ways she could have saved them that would not have involved her death.▼
* Eve in ''Face/Off'' believes that taking a blood sample from the man impersonating her husband is the only way to establish his identity. She could have simply taken DNA samples from him and her daughter (hair, fingerprints...) and run a comparison. Either way, additionally demanding a sample from the man with the face of the man who killed her son would have been a good idea.▼
* In the climax of ''Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny'', Jack Black challenges the Devil to a rock-off, and for the stakes declares the Devil can take (just) his partner Kyle Gass back to Hell as a sex slave if they lose. He then melodramatically urges the understandably upset Kyle that "it's the ''only'' way!".
** Although, when you really think about it, it actually IS the only way. What better motivation to rock ''really hard'' than threats of rape by Satan himself?
*** Also, he had the deal center on his ''partner'' being taken by Satan so that ''he'' {{spoiler|would be free to block the unholy lightning attack with his guitar and blow the Devil's horn off.}} Of course, how he expected ''that'' to work is another question entirely.
* Parodied (kind of) in the movie ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'', where the villain releases hundreds of venomous snakes onto a plane containing a single person he wishes to kill. When one of his lackeys wonders if there might have been a simpler plan with a higher chance of success, the villain snaps something to the effect of, "Do you think I didn't exhaust every other option?" ▼
* In the quoted example from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' above, it may in fact be justified as Roku's holding back the magma is the only thing that gives the rest of the village enough time to evacuate.
* Spoken by Gollum in ''[[Lord of the Rings|Return of the King]]''. However, the plan was not so much ridiculous as dangerous, Gollum was nervous to have Frodo do it, and Frodo had no idea what the plan was, because it involved Gollum feeding him to a giant spider. Still, the way Frodo intended to go was suicidal at best.
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'''Dex:''' "I meant throw something." }}
* There are better methodologies of discerning the superiority of one thing over another, but that doesn't mean that [[Harry Hill's TV Burp|Harry Hill]] doesn't have a personal favourite.
* ''[[Aliens]]'': "I say we take off and [[How to Invade An Alien Planet|nuke the entire site from orbit]]. It's the only way to be sure."▼
* [[The Event]] uses this trope like there's no tomorrow. Unless a character hasn't thought up "the only way" yet, in which case you can be sure they will insist "[[Indy Ploy|I'll find a way!!!]]" when pressed about the fact that they have no gameplan.
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'': {{spoiler|1=Spoken by Zombie Guybrush to a surprised Morgan near the end of Chapter 5, when he takes out [[Chekhov's Gun|his last shred of life]] and tosses it into the rip to close up the Crossroads, trapping the Pirate God LeChuck and allowing her and Elaine to use the [[Coup De Grace]] on him simultaneously.}}
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'''Jaime:''' No! No! There are other ways to "find out"! Like tests and experiments!
'''Danni:''' Oh, yeah. Sorry. }}
== Film ==
▲* Particularly glaring in the second and third ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' movies. In the second, Jean Grey sacrifices herself, supposedly because it's the only way to save the team; there has been considerable debate among fans about the ''multiple'' other ways they could have survived, or ways she could have saved them that would not have involved her death.
▲* Eve in ''Face/Off'' believes that taking a blood sample from the man impersonating her husband is the only way to establish his identity. She could have simply taken DNA samples from him and her daughter (hair, fingerprints...) and run a comparison. Either way, additionally demanding a sample from the man with the face of the man who killed her son would have been a good idea.
▲* Parodied (kind of) in the movie ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'', where the villain releases hundreds of venomous snakes onto a plane containing a single person he wishes to kill. When one of his lackeys wonders if there might have been a simpler plan with a higher chance of success, the villain snaps something to the effect of, "Do you think I didn't exhaust every other option?"
▲* ''[[Aliens]]'': "I say we take off and [[How to Invade An Alien Planet|nuke the entire site from orbit]]. It's the only way to be sure."
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