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== [[Literature]] ==
* In one of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels written by William Shatner, two independent groups are trying to rescue hostages from a base in low orbit around a planet. Saving them requires destroying either the main power generator or the backup power
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]] [[Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures|Cold Fusion]]'' the Doctor does this to himself. There are some galaxy shattering grenades that can be disarmed by [[Reverse the Polarity|reversing the polarity of the neutron flow]], which he does so he can fake out the villain by pretending that they've won when they send the duds to the target. Then [[Timey-Wimey Ball|his past self]] finds the grenades and re-reverses the polarity thinking ''he's the one'' disarming them. Which means the bombs are live when sent to their target.
* One of [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''Paradoxes of Mr Pond'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120309181856/http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/The_Paradoxes_of_Mr._Pond/Chapter_I The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse]", concerns a field marshal whose soldiers were too eager to obey his orders, with the result that the orders were not carried out. If only one man had been that loyal it would have worked, but with two soldiers determined to fulfill his orders to execute a poet, the man ends up released.
* The Russian fable about Yeruslan Lazarevich includes him battling a king who can only be killed by a particular sword. The sword lies under the head of a giant who already tried to fight him. Fortunately for Yeruslan, the head is still alive, and warns him of the catch - strike the king only once. A second strike will heal him.
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