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* Spoofed in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' video "Marik's Council of Doom": when Bakura suggests bypassing the whole "challenging Yugi to a children's card game" shtick and just killing him, Marik replies that wouldn't work since [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] would simply [[Macekre|censor it]]. The abridged series just does this a ''lot''.

{{quote|'''Joey:''' What do you people want from me?

'''Bandit Keith:''' Shut the hell up! }}

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[Austin Powers]]'': Scott Evil expresses his impatience with the means his father, [[Card-Carrying Villain|Dr. Evil]], uses to attempt to dispose of Austin Powers:

'''[[Contractual Genre Blindness|Dr. Evil]]:''' Scott, you just don't ''get it'', do ya? You ''don't''. }}

* Used in the film ''[[Puma Man]]''; the [[Big Bad]] uses [[Mind Control]] to make the hero jump to his death, instead of going with his [[Mooks]] more practical suggestion of just having one of them shoot him, to make it look like death from natural causes. In all fairness, he had no way of knowing that [[The Obi-Wan]] stopped the suicide and taught the hero how to enter a death-like trance in order to deceive the villains. Which would have all been great had it not been for the fact that Vadhino tells us at one point that thanks to the mask, Kobras has total control over the police. So... why did it have to look like an accident again?

* In ''[[Star Wars]]: Attack of the Clones'', Count Dooku [[Gladiator Games|puts the heroes into an arena, to be killed by large monsters]]. This, of course, doesn't work, and Viceroy Gunray demands their execution by shooting. Dooku actually ''listens'', but [[The Cavalry]] arrives before anything can be done about it.

* In ''[[Ip Man]]'', Colonel Sato crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] for {{spoiler|shooting Master Liu after his three-on-one fight goes awry}} and afterward keeps asking to Just Shoot the title hero, but keeps getting prevented from doing so by the more honourable General Miura.

{{quote|"Why don't he just shoot him?"

"We haven't had bullets since '57!" }}

** Shego has often espoused her frustration with Drakken's [[Genre Blindness]] since the first season: After being ordered to tie Kim and Ron to lightning rods meant to eventually fry them by way of an oncoming electrical storm, Shego remarks: "I prefer the 'direct approach', but [[Harmless Villain|you know Drakken....]]"

* In several episodes of ''[[Sonic Sat AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' (as well as in some early issues of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Sonic comic]]), Robotnik has Sonic at his mercy, and Sniveley asks why Robotnik doesn't just roboticize him. Snively also has a habit of questioning Robotnik's more elaborate plots.

* ''[[South Park]]'': Knowing Cartman's [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|trapper keeper]] will take over the world...

{{quote|'''Bill Cosby (robot):''' ''(drawing a gun)'' Well, that does it!

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