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* The "Chain Reaction" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThunderbirdsAreGo'' episode has villain Fuse use his "power-punch" on the control panel of a reactor door. Once destroyed, the door dutifully unlocks, bolt by bolt, and then slides open.
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* The "Chain Reaction" episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThunderbirdsAreGo'' episode has villain Fuse use his "power-punch" on the control panel of a reactor door. Once destroyed, the door dutifully unlocks, bolt by bolt, and then slides open.
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** Played straight in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' where the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart. Anciliary material explains the droids are built on the cheap and don't even have individual processing units, thus can't properly function without the ship feeding them orders.
** Zig-zagged in ''Film/ANewHope''. When Luke and Leia are being pursued by Stormtroopers on the Death Star, Luke shuts a blast door and destroys the console ''specifically'' to make it harder for them to open the door again. Unfortunately, the controls for the bridge they need to extend across a bottomless gap were on the same panel.
** Zig-zagged in ''Film/ANewHope''. When Luke and Leia are being pursued by Stormtroopers on the Death Star, Luke shuts a blast door and destroys the console ''specifically'' to make it harder for them to open the door again. Unfortunately, the controls for the bridge they need to extend across a bottomless gap were on the same panel.
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** Played straight in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' where ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'': Happens when the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart. Anciliary material explains the droids are built on the cheap and don't even have individual processing units, thus can't properly function without the ship feeding them orders.
**Zig-zagged in ''Film/ANewHope''.''Film/ANewHope'': Zig-zagged. When Luke and Leia are being pursued by Stormtroopers on the Death Star, Luke shuts a blast door and destroys the console ''specifically'' to make it harder for them to open the door again. Unfortunately, the controls for the bridge they need to extend across a bottomless gap were on the same panel.
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* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'': If a building has a computer inside it, every locked door, safe, and booby trap in the same building can be instantly disabled by smashing the computer. It will also alert everyone inside the building, so watch out.
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* Two examples from the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series:
** At the beginning of ''Gray Lensman,'' Kinnison kills Helmuth in the central dome of Helmuth's grand base, and then blasts the control panel to lower the dome's shield. This signals Grand Fleet, which had been firing on the rest of the base, that Kinnison has won.
** In ''Second Stage Lensmen,'' Kinnison (who was now MoleInCharge of the Boskonian fleet) blasts the control panels for the Boskonian flagship's Bergenholm, disabling the Berg and thus stopping the flagship's FTL flight. This takes the flagship out of the forthcoming grand battle while Kinnison mentally duels Prime Minister Fossen.
** At the beginning of ''Gray Lensman,'' Kinnison kills Helmuth in the central dome of Helmuth's grand base, and then blasts the control panel to lower the dome's shield. This signals Grand Fleet, which had been firing on the rest of the base, that Kinnison has won.
** In ''Second Stage Lensmen,'' Kinnison (who was now MoleInCharge of the Boskonian fleet) blasts the control panels for the Boskonian flagship's Bergenholm, disabling the Berg and thus stopping the flagship's FTL flight. This takes the flagship out of the forthcoming grand battle while Kinnison mentally duels Prime Minister Fossen.
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* Predictably subverted in the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' fanfic "Big Bang" by Ryan Mathews. Kei, Yuri and an interdimensional agent named Daved have to stop a cult from trying to create an artificial black hole on a planet. Daved goes after the cult leader, and asks Kei to shut down the machine that is about to generate the black hole. He ''assumes'' she understands that it needs to be shut down in a careful, controlled manner in order to reverse the already active processes and avoid letting loose unimaginable forces that will tear the planet apart. ...did I mention that this is ''Dirty Pair''?
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* Predictably subverted in the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' ''Literature/DirtyPair'' fanfic "Big Bang" by Ryan Mathews. Kei, Yuri and an interdimensional agent named Daved have to stop a cult from trying to create an artificial black hole on a planet. Daved goes after the cult leader, and asks Kei to shut down the machine that is about to generate the black hole. He ''assumes'' she understands that it needs to be shut down in a careful, controlled manner in order to reverse the already active processes and avoid letting loose unimaginable forces that will tear the planet apart. ...did I mention that this is ''Dirty Pair''?
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''; in fact, it's the ''Omnidroid itself'' seeking to destroy its remote control, so it cannot be controlled by anyone else, and it's up to the Incredibles to try keep it safe until they can figure out how to operate it.
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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''; ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''; in fact, it's the ''Omnidroid itself'' seeking to destroy its remote control, so it cannot be controlled by anyone else, and it's up to the Incredibles to try keep it safe until they can figure out how to operate it.
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* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy:'' While dealing with the ''Drydock'' spacestation, the controlling AI of which has gone completely insane, Charlie-27 makes his way to the central control room. He notes that if Martinex was there, he'd know how to turn it off, but Charlie doesn't, so he goes for smashing the console with his SuperStrength, which works just as good.
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* ''Series/Halo2022''. In "Contact", Master Chief instructs Kwan to disable a certain component on their spacecraft while he disables another in a different panel. Unable to actually pull the indicated wire free, Kwan shoots up the panel, achieving the same effect.
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** Played straight in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' where the destruction of the droid control ship causes the entire army of battle droids to shut off, and even fall apart.
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* Inverted in ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'', where they bust up the controls of an elevator to get it to ''start''.
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* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020''. When Harley Quinn breaks into the police lockup to free Cassandra, she tries pressing buttons to open the cells to no avail, quickly loses her temper and starts banging the console with her grenade launcher until it fuses out. This causes a fire sprinkler malfunction, drenching everything in water. This somehow causes a malfunction in the cellblock doors, leading to a BattleInTheRain with all the inmates.
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* In bomb disposal, projected water disruptors disarm a bomb by blasting it apart with pressure faster than the electrical components can detonate the explosive charge. In short, breaking it to stop it from exploding.
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* Averted in ''Film/WarGames'': when [[AIIsACrapshoot Joshua]] is trying to determine the codes to launch America's nuclear missiles by itself, General Beringer asks why they don't just unplug the computer. [=McKittrick=] explains to him, and the audience, that the system would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD, and would carry out the last instructions, i.e., launch.
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* Averted in ''Film/WarGames'': when [[AIIsACrapshoot Joshua]] is trying to determine the codes to launch America's nuclear missiles by itself, General Beringer asks why they don't just unplug the computer. [=McKittrick=] explains to him, and the audience, that [[DeadMansSwitch the system would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD, NORAD]], [[DecapitationStrike and would carry out the last instructions, i.e., launch.launch all missiles at the Soviet Union]].
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* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. Averted in "Prior Criminal History". When Alice attacks a pro-Batwoman rally with a swarm of infected bats, Batwoman finds the signal generator used to attract them and Luke Fox tells her to smash it. She points out that doing so will simply cause the bats to disperse across the city, spreading the infection as they go.
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** The Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima disasters are all fine examples of this - at Chernobyl, the containment was blown open by a steam explosion, leading to a massive release of radiation. At Fukushima, the earthquake itself damaged portions of the containment and the reactors, and it and the tsunami led to destruction of the cooling systems - which then led to corium overheating and melting through its containments. In Three Mile Island, that the containment was ''not'' completely destroyed in the accident was what prevented it from becoming a disaster on the level of Chernobyl or Fukushima. Another example, involving a radiation therapy device, is the Goiana incident, where salvage workers opened a containment on a radiation therapy device, leading to far more and far worse exposures than had the device been ''left alone.''
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** The Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima disasters are all fine examples of this - at Chernobyl, the containment was blown open by a steam explosion, leading to a massive release of radiation. At Fukushima, the earthquake itself damaged portions of the containment and the reactors, and it and the tsunami led to destruction of the cooling systems - which then led to corium overheating and melting through its containments. In Three Mile Island, that the containment was ''not'' completely destroyed in the accident was what prevented it from becoming a disaster on the level of Chernobyl or Fukushima. Another example, involving a radiation therapy device, is the Goiana Goiânia incident, where salvage workers opened a containment on a radiation therapy device, leading to far more and far worse exposures than had the device been ''left alone.''
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* Used in the Film/JamesBond movies ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
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* Justified in ''Thunder and Roses'' by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon. The protagonist finds a BigElectricSwitch that will activate a radio trigger to launch all the remaining nuclear missiles in the United States, destroying all life on Earth. He proceeds to systematically dismantle and demolish the trigger and its redundant power supplies.
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* One of the main plot points in the climax of ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. A genie's soul is bound to the lamp that it lives inside, so when Iago kicks Jafar's lamp into boiling lava, he explodes into a cloud of ash.
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* One of the main plot points in the climax of ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''.''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. A genie's soul is bound to the lamp that it lives inside, so when Iago kicks Jafar's lamp into boiling lava, he explodes into a cloud of ash.
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* ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'': In the climax, Little Rock and Wichita are in the drop tower of the Pacific Playland amusement park, with a large horde of zombies below them. Just before their seats will drop down again, Little Rock shoots the control panel, shutting down the ride.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Grimlock and Strongarm are trapped in a carnival ride in the episode "Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!", which is resolved by Strongarm shooting the ride's control panel. The ride doesn't just stop, it goes through its full leveling off, slowing down cycle.
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* Surprisingly averted in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', a show ostensibly for younger viewers. In the episode "A Brush with Danger," a triggered fire-suppression mechanism, which removes the oxygen from a room of rare books to protect them, does not unlock and open the doors when Heatwave smashes the control panel; Boulder even says "and now it will never unlock."
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* One of the main plot points in the climax of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. A genie's soul is bound to the lamp that it lives inside, so when Iago kicks Jafar's lamp into boiling lava, he explodes into a cloud of ash.
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* One of the main plot points in the climax of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''.''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. A genie's soul is bound to the lamp that it lives inside, so when Iago kicks Jafar's lamp into boiling lava, he explodes into a cloud of ash.
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** Similarly, some nuclear devices (for experimentation, enrichment etc.) are design such that any [[GoingCritical emergency situation that could potentially cause a nuclear explosion]] will cause a conventional one before it has a chance to.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Dr. Buttocks makes a device that attracts a comet that'll destroy Pacworld while leaving the Netherworld unharmed. Upon noticing a miscalculation, Buttocks finds out the Netherworld will be destroyed as well and his boss tries to stop this by destroying the device only to be told that Betrayus just destroyed their only way to repel the comet.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Dr. Buttocks makes a device that attracts a comet ghosteroid that'll destroy Pacworld while leaving the Netherworld unharmed. Upon noticing a miscalculation, Buttocks finds out the Netherworld will be destroyed as well and his boss tries to stop this by destroying the device only to be told that Betrayus just destroyed their only way to repel the comet.ghosteroid.
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* ''Series/LoisAndClark'': In "Lois and Clarks", Tempus plans to destroy the world by launching a nuclear missile attack and tells the alternate universe Superman it cannot be stopped without the deactivation codes. [=Alt!Superman=] simply smashes the device that controls the missiles and it does work.
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