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== Anime and Manga ==
* Aban from ''[[Dai no Daibouken]]'' developed [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Grand Cross]] as a [[Godzilla Threshold]] skill. He specifically states that it's only intended to be used when everything else has been tried, which warns the viewer this [[Chekhov's Gun|skill]] will only be used at a story climax.
* ''[[Slayers]]'' offers another example with the Giga Slave. In order to keep it from being Lina's answer to every problem, a [[Godzilla Threshold]] aspect was introduced. Lina learns that the spell could cause the world to turn to chaos, and vows to never use it again; naturally, she's forced to do so at the end of Slayers Next.
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* The Door to Nowhere and Nowhen serves this function in ''[[The Redemption of Althalus]]''.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
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*** An unusual example, in that this was a ending-the-universe danger, but never actually crossed the [[Godzilla Threshold]] before it was destroyed.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' (at least the second one), after spending the last two series trying to prevent Lord Foul from obtaining Covenant's [[Cosmic Keystone|white gold ring]] in the final confrontation {{spoiler|Covenant just hands him the ring. It turns out to be a massive [[Batman Gambit]], as Covenant had finally come to understand how the white gold worked, and was able to trick Foul into destroying himself with the power.}}
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* The Manhattan Project. Scientists did experiments seeing how close they could get radioactive cores to going critical without ''actually'' making them go critical. They called this [[Tempting Fate|"Tickling The Dragon's Tail"]], and considered it a necessary but insanely dangerous thing to do. One core did accidentally go critical (very briefly) on two separate occasions, resulting in the deaths of two researchers and less severe cases of radiation poisoning for several others. They dubbed this one the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Demon Core]].
** And I'm sure we all can see when they would feel it appropriate to [[Nuke'Em|let the cores go critical]], but such circumstances are very rare and very controversial.
* The Higgs Boson A.K.A The God particle.
** Or cause the vacuum of space to drop to a more "stable" state, [[The End of the World as We Know It|destroying the universe as we know it]].
** [[Conspiracy Theorist|That's according to weirdos and pseudoscientists]].
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