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* In ''Manga/HighScoreGirl'', the protagonist Haruo is so obsessed with {{Fighting Game}}s that mental projections of characters like ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''[='s=] Guile give him life advice. However, ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''[='s=] Ryo Sakazaki only ever gives one piece of advice: "Use the Haoh Shokoken!", Ryo's [[KiManipulation Ki "fireball"]] supermove[[note]]Ryo awkwardly saying "I must use Haoh Shokoken" during ''AOF''[='s=] story became a meme among the FGC[[/note]], which obviously isn't very useful when dealing with things like schoolwork or a LoveTriangle. [[spoiler:It turns into a ChekhovsGag when Haruo faces off against Hidaka (another part of the Love Triangle) in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters '95'', and the Haoh Shokoken is ends up being quite useful when faced off against the game's hidden "Boss Team" of three overpowered characters.]]
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* In ''Manga/HighScoreGirl'', ''Manga/HiScoreGirl'', the protagonist Haruo is so obsessed with {{Fighting Game}}s that mental projections of characters like ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''[='s=] Guile give him life advice. However, ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''[='s=] Ryo Sakazaki only ever gives one piece of advice: "Use the Haoh Shokoken!", Ryo's [[KiManipulation Ki "fireball"]] supermove[[note]]Ryo awkwardly saying "I must use Haoh Shokoken" during ''AOF''[='s=] story became a meme among the FGC[[/note]], which obviously isn't very useful when dealing with things like schoolwork or a LoveTriangle. [[spoiler:It turns into a ChekhovsGag when Haruo faces off against Hidaka (another part of the Love Triangle) in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters '95'', and the Haoh Shokoken is ends up being quite useful when faced off against the game's hidden "Boss Team" of three overpowered characters.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheToolStreetGang'': Nutley seems to think that [[AnimateInanimateObject she's]] the All-Solving Wrench, and will suggest building plans accordingly.
-->'''Nutley''': You know, I think we should be putting that shed together with nuts and bolts.
-->'''Gripper''': You would. You'd put a sandwich together with nuts and bolts given half the chance.
-->'''Nutley''': [[InsultBackfire Good idea!]] It'd keep the ham from falling out.
-->'''Nutley''': You know, I think we should be putting that shed together with nuts and bolts.
-->'''Gripper''': You would. You'd put a sandwich together with nuts and bolts given half the chance.
-->'''Nutley''': [[InsultBackfire Good idea!]] It'd keep the ham from falling out.
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Indus is so devoted to his Barrier epithet that at one point he attempts to use one to cut the tape holding Molly to a chair, which doesn't work because his Barriers don't have sharp edges, and [[OnlySaneMan Molly]] has to point out that [[StatingTheSimpleSolution he could just use his hands like a normal person]].
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Indus is so devoted to his Barrier epithet that at one point he attempts to use one to cut the tape holding Molly to a chair, which doesn't work because his Barriers don't have sharp edges, and [[OnlySaneMan Molly]] has to point out that [[StatingTheSimpleSolution he could just use his hands like a normal person]].
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* In VideoGame/{{Psychopomp}}, whatever situation the player protagonist is faced with, the usual solution is to literally hit it with her hammer. Need to break into a government building in the dead of night to explore its labryinth? She uses her hammer. Need to convince some uncooperative [=NPCs=] into letting her use a plot-critical switch? She uses her hammer. Acquire a key for a door from an NPC? Hammer.
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* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': Prior to a big TimeSkip where he starts learning other disciplines, Kyros tends to solve every problem with a needlessly overpowered fireball, much to the frustration of the rest of the party and the GM. To make matters worse, [[https://irregularwebcomic.net/708.html the GM has a house rule that you can only use XP on skills you actually used during the adventure]], so Kyros ends up building an ''even more'' powerful fireball at the end of every session...
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Indus is so devoted to his Barrier epithet that at one point he attempts to use one to cut the tape holding Molly to a chair, which doesn't work because his Barriers don't have sharp edges, and [[OnlySaneMan Molly]] has to point out that [[StatingTheSimpleSolution he could just use his hands like a normal person]].
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* ''ComicBooks/TheIncredibleHulk'' has a simple mindset for solving problems. Big mean bad guy wants to hurt you? Smash him. Dumb mustache army man want to drag you back to their base and run experiments on you? Smash his tanks. Violent, incomprehensible alien monster attacks Earth? You're an idiot not to try smashing it. Arrogant God-like being threatens the world and has already beaten your puny friends? Your puny friends are counting on you to smash him. Smart villain with a big head has a convoluted scheme to conquer mankind a plan to keep from getting smashed? Shows what he knows; you find a way to smash him anyway. Random assholes want to bully Bruce Banner? Oh, you better believe Hulk Smash those puny idiots.
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* ''ComicBooks/TheIncredibleHulk'' ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' has a simple mindset for solving problems. Big mean bad guy wants to hurt you? Smash him. Dumb mustache army man want to drag you back to their base and run experiments on you? Smash his tanks. Violent, incomprehensible alien monster attacks Earth? You're an idiot not to try smashing it. Arrogant God-like being threatens the world and has already beaten your puny friends? Your puny friends are counting on you to smash him. Smart villain with a big head has a convoluted scheme to conquer mankind a plan to keep from getting smashed? Shows what he knows; you find a way to smash him anyway. Random assholes want to bully Bruce Banner? Oh, you better believe Hulk Smash those puny idiots.
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* ''ComicBooks/TheIncredibleHulk'' has a simple mindset for solving problems. Big mean bad guy wants to hurt you? Smash him. Dumb mustache army man want to drag you back to their base and run experiments on you? Smash his tanks. Violent, incomprehensible alien monster attacks Earth? You're an idiot not to try smashing it. Arrogant God-like being threatens the world and has already beaten your puny friends? Your puny friends are counting on you to smash him. Smart villain with a big head has a convoluted scheme to conquer mankind a plan to keep from getting smashed? Shows what he knows; you find a way to smash him anyway. Random assholes want to bully Bruce Banner? Oh, you better believe Hulk Smash those puny idiots.
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* ''ComicBooks/TheIncredibleHulk'' has a simple mindset for solving problems. Big mean bad guy wants to hurt you? Smash him. Dumb mustache army man want to drag you back to their base and run experiments on you? Smash his tanks. Violent, incomprehensible alien monster attacks Earth? You're an idiot not to try smashing it. Arrogant God-like being threatens the world and has already beaten your puny friends? Your puny friends are counting on you to smash him. Smart villain with a big head has a convoluted scheme to conquer mankind a plan to keep from getting smashed? Shows what he knows; you find a way to smash him anyway. Random assholes want to bully Bruce Banner? Oh, you better believe Hulk Smash those puny idiots.
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* ''Series/CanadasWorstHandyman'':
** Merle Auger, one of the Season 1 contestants, ''loves'' duct tape. Over the course of the season, he used it for everything from patching drywall, to fixing one of his fellow contestants' overalls, to holding split wood together, to bandaging wounds, to ''upholstering a chair''.
** Season 3 has Joe "The Bullet" Barbaro, who, in a fairly literal application of this trope, uses a hammer for ''everything''. Driving screws? Well, they look like nails so why not just hit them in! Cutting drywall? Just tap it and a little piece will break off! [[spoiler:He ends up being named the season's worst for this.]]
** Merle Auger, one of the Season 1 contestants, ''loves'' duct tape. Over the course of the season, he used it for everything from patching drywall, to fixing one of his fellow contestants' overalls, to holding split wood together, to bandaging wounds, to ''upholstering a chair''.
** Season 3 has Joe "The Bullet" Barbaro, who, in a fairly literal application of this trope, uses a hammer for ''everything''. Driving screws? Well, they look like nails so why not just hit them in! Cutting drywall? Just tap it and a little piece will break off! [[spoiler:He ends up being named the season's worst for this.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry Dresden's instinctive approach to problem-solving tends to revolve around the copious application of [[KillItWithFire fire magic]]. It often works, but it gets him into trouble when he tries that approach [[ElementalIgnorance on a Jotun of Muspelheim]] in ''Literature/BattleGround2020''.
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* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry Dresden's instinctive approach to problem-solving tends to revolve around the copious application of [[KillItWithFire fire magic]]. It often works, but it gets him into trouble when he tries that approach [[ElementalIgnorance on a Jotun of Muspelheim]] Muspelheim in ''Literature/BattleGround2020''.
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** Harry himself is noted in-universe for almost always going for the Disarming Charm in a fight and actively warned that it makes him predictable. It pretty much always works, being so BoringButPractical that he can punch far beyond his weight in a duel.
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** Harry himself is noted in-universe for almost always going for the Disarming Charm in a fight and actively warned that it makes him predictable. It pretty much always works, being so BoringButPractical that he can punch far beyond his weight in a duel. Careful reading shows that his usage of ''Expelliarmus'' is less heavy in the later books (fifth and onward), in favor of other spells like the Stunning or Full Body-Bind spells, and that the use of the Disarming Charm tends to be more situational in those books, but by this point his ''reputation'' of using this spell has preceded him in-universe. It doesn't help that the moments where he ''did'' use the Disarming Charm tended to be when a lot of attention was already focused on him.
