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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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== 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."▼
* 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.▼
* Spoofed in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''.▼
{{quote|'''Sky Captain:''' "Is it safe?"▼
'''Dex:''' "Well, there's only one way to find out."▼
''(Sky Captain and Polly step across the booby-trapped threshold and are relieved to be unharmed)''▼
'''Dex:''' "I meant throw something." }}▼
* [[Justified Trope|Weirdly justified]] in ''[[Transmorphers]]'': A nuclear bomb needs to be placed next to a reactor. They attempt to throw it in, which is (of course) unsuccessful. So, our hero decides to put it in himself, despite the requisite 100% chance of death. {{spoiler|Turns out he's actually an android, and therefore the only one capable of fooling the defense system, which is programmed to sense only organic material}}. It's no less melodramatic, though.▼
== Literature ==
* 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.
== Video Games ==▼
* ''[[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.}}▼
** Before that, De Cava says this in Chapter 3 when he says he's weaving the husks of Manatee Throat Grubs for an artificial cochlea, {{spoiler|unaware that the actual cochlea had been stolen by his own crew during the time they were in the manatee}}.▼
== Live Action Television ==
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'''Jaime:''' No! No! There are other ways to "find out"! Like tests and experiments!
'''Danni:''' Oh, yeah. Sorry. }}
▲== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[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.}}
▲** Before that, De Cava says this in Chapter 3 when he says he's weaving the husks of Manatee Throat Grubs for an artificial cochlea, {{spoiler|unaware that the actual cochlea had been stolen by his own crew during the time they were in the manatee}}.
== Western Animation ==
* 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.
* Played for laughs in [[A Day at the Bizarro]] episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. Why are alien tofu invading the Earth, kidnapping cows and running substitute-meat fast food chains with the intent to blow up the planet? "It is our WAY!"
▲== 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."
▲* 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.
▲* Spoofed in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''.
▲{{quote|'''Sky Captain:''' "Is it safe?"
▲'''Dex:''' "Well, there's only one way to find out."
▲''(Sky Captain and Polly step across the booby-trapped threshold and are relieved to be unharmed)''
▲'''Dex:''' "I meant throw something." }}
▲* [[Justified Trope|Weirdly justified]] in ''[[Transmorphers]]'': A nuclear bomb needs to be placed next to a reactor. They attempt to throw it in, which is (of course) unsuccessful. So, our hero decides to put it in himself, despite the requisite 100% chance of death. {{spoiler|Turns out he's actually an android, and therefore the only one capable of fooling the defense system, which is programmed to sense only organic material}}. It's no less melodramatic, though.
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