History Main / SoWhatDoWeDoNow

** From the American perspective, the lack of Communist rivals (China had already reformed its economy) meant that the only threats they could go up against were rogue states like Saddam's Iraq or Yugoslavia, but it was harder to unite people on these smaller threats. The War on Terror at least gave direction as does Russia and China's rise as rival powers once more in TheNewTens, but the sense of urgency and the feeling of an impending great power war is gone.

* Lanfeust des Étoiles (''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'' of Troy's "second season") opens with just this trope. Lanfeust, having gained ultimate power and saved the world, is quite bored and is travelling the wilderness in search of some quest to do that could match his skills – ultimate power is rather hard to challenge though. So this was a rather good moment to [[RecycledInSpace send him to space]].

* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': The primary phase ends with Arthur and Ford discovering that the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, The Universe and Everything (42) was "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?," and consigned that there is something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': Said by Ms. Tarantula in the mid-credits scene when the gang gets out of jail, only to find themselves in a desert outside the city with no transportation.

* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', Lt. Dan has a solo version in Vietnam. While he and Forrest are in the hospital after their unit is ambushed, Dan gestures to his missing legs and quite dejectedly asks Forrest, "What am I gonna do now?" He spends a good bit of time drowning his sorrows in booze before subverting the trope by joining Forrest in his shrimp boat venture, and ends up managing the outfit... and Gump's finances.

* This is the unfortunate consequence of many a revolution headed by the lower class. Without someone who has the slightest idea how to run a country, they have feuds whenever a stable government is trying to be established.

* In ''[[Webcomic/{{Sins}} Sins Venials]''], after the Sins tell Alicia that her job as host is done and it's time for her to go home, she decides that [[http://www.sincomics.com/index.php?463 if she has to live a normal, boring life, then the Sins do too]].