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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': In one commemorative story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artifacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner who explains that he got stranded on the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artifacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus a popsicle he liked]]). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': In one commemorative story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artifacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner who explains that he got stranded on the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artifacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus (plus a popsicle he liked]]).liked). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
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* There were plans for the ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''ComicBook/{{Fatal Attractions|MarvelComics}}'' to include a major battle between Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]. Creator/PeterDavid jokingly commented, "Adamantium's metal, right? If I were Magneto, I'd just rip Wolverine's skeleton out and be done with him" - which the writers and editors promptly decided to have him do. David later said that offhand comment was the biggest influence he'd ever had on the X-Men.
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* There were plans for the ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''ComicBook/{{Fatal Attractions|MarvelComics}}'' to include a major battle between Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]. Creator/PeterDavid jokingly commented, "Adamantium's metal, right? If I were Magneto, I'd just rip Wolverine's skeleton out and be done with him" - which the writers and editors promptly decided to have him do. David later said that offhand comment was the biggest influence he'd ever had on the X-Men.
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&&* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': This happens in the ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' storyline "Widowmaker". As seen in the earlier storyline ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Welcome Back, Frank]]'', actually shooting the Punisher sometimes just makes him even angrier.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': While searching the Steins' property for evidence that they're supervillains, the teens find a locked shed. While Alex, Nico, Karolina, and Gert puzzle over how to lockpick or break it (even debating over whether Karolina should use her newly-discovered light powers to blast it open), Chase [[ShovelStrike grabs a shovel]], smashes it, and admonishes them for thinking too much.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': One story has Archie attempting all sorts of wacky tactics to study, like rewarding himself with a snack for each page read and blasting music while studying, and none of it works since it keeps simply distracting him. Eventually he goes to Dilton for advice who tells him, ever so gently, to [[SuddenlyShouting JUST STUDY]]. It works and he earns a B on a particularly difficult test.
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Avengers}}'', SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom pisses off Morgana Le Fay. She uses her magic to travel back in time and murder Doom when he's a child, but at the last moment decides that killing a helpless boy in his sleep doesn't prove anything, and instead she should defeat Doom when he's at the height of his power to make the point that she's better than him. So she returns to the present and launches a full-scale assault on Latveria castle instead.
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Avengers}}'', SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom pisses off Morgana Le Fay. She uses her magic to travel back in time and murder Doom when he's a child, but at the last moment decides that killing a helpless boy in his sleep doesn't prove anything, and instead she should defeat Doom when he's at the height of his power to make the point that she's better than him. So she returns to the present and launches a full-scale assault on Latveria castle instead.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': One story has Archie attempting all sorts of wacky tactics to study, like rewarding himself with a snack for each page read and blasting music while studying, and none of it works since it keeps simply distracting him. Eventually Eventually, he goes to Dilton for advice who tells him, ever so gently, to [[SuddenlyShouting JUST STUDY]]. It works and he earns a B on a particularly difficult test.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Inan issue of ''ComicBook/{{Avengers}}'', SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' #2, ComicBook/DoctorDoom pisses off Morgana Morgan Le Fay. She uses her magic to travel back in time and murder Doom when he's he was a child, but at the last moment decides that killing a helpless boy in his sleep doesn't prove anything, and instead instead, she should defeat Doom when he's at the height of his power to make the point that she's better than him. So she returns to the present and launches a full-scale assault on Latveria castle instead.
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* ''WesternAnimation/COPS1988'': In the final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation, the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
* In ''Franchise/TheDCU'', the third ComicBook/BlueBeetle has a race of evil aliens called the Reach as villains, led by the Negotiator. The first thing said by the Negotiator's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is "Why don't we just kill him?" to which the Negotiator replies, "No. Not without study." (The Beetle is ''meant'' to be a Reach Infiltrator, and the Negotiator's position is that they need to know why he isn't in case it happens again.)
* [[Characters/SuicideSquadOperatives Deadshot]]'s proposed solution to pretty much every ComicBook/SuicideSquad mission. Even when it [[ShootTheHostage isn't an assassination.]] The Wall usually relegates it to "plan B".
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's foe Dormammu could obliterate Strange without breaking a sweat, but he inevitably stalls and prolongs the moment (or lets [[GuileHero Strange]] manipulate him into fighting 'fair'). Dormammu's wiser sister Umar is usually the one to point out that this strategy isn't the best.
* Subverted in the [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] story ''New Year's Evil'': Prometheus has rendered ComicBook/GreenLantern helpless and muses that he could just shoot him if he chose to--then proceeds to do just that. (GL survives.)
* In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', the Dalton brothers capture Luke more than once and, despite Jack and William suggesting just to kill him, Joe has always a "crueler" form of revenge that would let Luke finally escape from one way.
* In the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'', the main character briefly considers using the fact that her husband, whom she was framed for murdering, is, in fact, alive against him to secure her exoneration and ensure he gets his just deserts, but instead is talked into doing what she did in the movie -- killing him under the belief that she can't be tried for his murder again.
* In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: Super Heroes'' #17, the scientist Diablo attempts to steal the Voynich Manuscript, believing it to be an alchemical text that will help him defeat the creature that has been causing chaos with his abilities. ComicBook/TheVision points out that the entirety of the manuscript is available online, and thus there was no need to steal it. Diablo stammers in shock at this revelation.
* In ''Franchise/TheDCU'', the third ComicBook/BlueBeetle has a race of evil aliens called the Reach as villains, led by the Negotiator. The first thing said by the Negotiator's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is "Why don't we just kill him?" to which the Negotiator replies, "No. Not without study." (The Beetle is ''meant'' to be a Reach Infiltrator, and the Negotiator's position is that they need to know why he isn't in case it happens again.)
* [[Characters/SuicideSquadOperatives Deadshot]]'s proposed solution to pretty much every ComicBook/SuicideSquad mission. Even when it [[ShootTheHostage isn't an assassination.]] The Wall usually relegates it to "plan B".
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's foe Dormammu could obliterate Strange without breaking a sweat, but he inevitably stalls and prolongs the moment (or lets [[GuileHero Strange]] manipulate him into fighting 'fair'). Dormammu's wiser sister Umar is usually the one to point out that this strategy isn't the best.
* Subverted in the [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] story ''New Year's Evil'': Prometheus has rendered ComicBook/GreenLantern helpless and muses that he could just shoot him if he chose to--then proceeds to do just that. (GL survives.)
* In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', the Dalton brothers capture Luke more than once and, despite Jack and William suggesting just to kill him, Joe has always a "crueler" form of revenge that would let Luke finally escape from one way.
* In the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'', the main character briefly considers using the fact that her husband, whom she was framed for murdering, is, in fact, alive against him to secure her exoneration and ensure he gets his just deserts, but instead is talked into doing what she did in the movie -- killing him under the belief that she can't be tried for his murder again.
* In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: Super Heroes'' #17, the scientist Diablo attempts to steal the Voynich Manuscript, believing it to be an alchemical text that will help him defeat the creature that has been causing chaos with his abilities. ComicBook/TheVision points out that the entirety of the manuscript is available online, and thus there was no need to steal it. Diablo stammers in shock at this revelation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/COPS1988'': In the final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation, the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but they do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
*In ''Franchise/TheDCU'', the ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': The third ComicBook/BlueBeetle has a race of evil aliens called the Reach as villains, led by the Negotiator. The first thing said by the Negotiator's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is "Why don't we just kill him?" to which the Negotiator replies, "No. Not without study." (The Beetle is ''meant'' to be a Reach Infiltrator, and the Negotiator's position is that they need to know why he isn't in case it happens again.)
*[[Characters/SuicideSquadOperatives Deadshot]]'s proposed solution to pretty much every ComicBook/SuicideSquad mission. Even when it [[ShootTheHostage isn't an assassination.]] The Wall usually relegates it to "plan B".
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's foe''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': Dormammu could obliterate Strange without breaking a sweat, but he inevitably stalls and prolongs the moment (or lets [[GuileHero Strange]] manipulate him into fighting 'fair'). Dormammu's wiser sister Umar is usually the one to point out that this strategy isn't the best.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Subverted in the[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] story ''New Year's Evil'': Prometheus has rendered ComicBook/GreenLantern helpless and muses that he could just shoot him if he chose to--then proceeds to do just that. (GL survives.)
*In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': The Dalton brothers capture Luke more than once and, despite Jack and William suggesting just to kill him, Joe has always a "crueler" form of revenge that would let Luke finally escape from one way.
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': In the''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'', the main character briefly considers using the fact that her husband, whom she was framed for murdering, is, in fact, alive against him to secure her exoneration pardon and ensure he gets his just deserts, but instead is talked into doing what she did in the movie -- killing him under the belief that she can't be tried for his murder again.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'': In''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: ''Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes'' #17, the scientist Diablo attempts to steal the Voynich Manuscript, believing it to be an alchemical text that will help him defeat the creature that has been causing chaos with his abilities. ComicBook/TheVision points out that the entirety of the manuscript is available online, and thus there was no need to steal it. Diablo stammers in shock at this revelation.
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* In the ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' story ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Outwits the Phantom Blot'', Mickey is frequently captured by a masked villain named The Phantom Blot. The Phantom Blot tries to dispose of him with various complicated death traps, which Mickey always manages to escape from. When the Phantom Blot is finally captured, Mickey asks him why the Phantom Blot didn't just kill him instead of using the death traps. The Phantom Blot then reveals he cannot stand to watch somebody die, and therefore used the death traps so he wouldn't be around when Mickey died.
* In a commemorative ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artefacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner that explains that he got stranded in the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artefacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus a popsicle he liked]]). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
* In a commemorative ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artefacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner that explains that he got stranded in the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artefacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus a popsicle he liked]]). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
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* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': In the ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' story ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Outwits the Phantom Blot'', Mickey is frequently captured by a masked villain named The Phantom Blot. The Phantom Blot tries to dispose of him with various complicated death traps, which Mickey always manages to escape from. When the Phantom Blot is finally captured, Mickey asks him why the Phantom Blot didn't just kill him instead of using the death traps. The Phantom Blot then reveals he cannot stand to watch somebody die, and therefore used the death traps so he wouldn't be around when Mickey died.
* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': Ina one commemorative ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artefacts artifacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner that who explains that he got stranded in on the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artefacts artifacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus a popsicle he liked]]). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
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* Used in a ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' story where Richie's friend, kid comedian Jackie Jokers, has realised that the "president" of the United States is a fake, but then he and Richie are kidnapped before they can expose the fake. It's all part of a plot to blow up Washington DC with a stolen atomic bomb, then blame the attack on an obvious CaptainErsatz of the Soviet Union and have both countries destroy each other, leaving the plotters' country as the most powerful in the world. But instead of simply shooting the boys once the plotters have them helpless, they leave them tied up right next to the ticking atomic bomb and of course, the boys escape and manage to find a way to stop the bomb.
* An early story of ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' reverses this trope: After Rom is captured alive by some Dire Wraith scientists, they try to use the hero as a test subject. The BigBad who commands them will have none of this and orders Rom killed as he is way too dangerous to keep alive. The scientists argue the point, but they ultimately comply. Fortunately, they are still so reluctant to do so that they take too long to get that task done that Rom still escapes in time.
* An early story of ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' reverses this trope: After Rom is captured alive by some Dire Wraith scientists, they try to use the hero as a test subject. The BigBad who commands them will have none of this and orders Rom killed as he is way too dangerous to keep alive. The scientists argue the point, but they ultimately comply. Fortunately, they are still so reluctant to do so that they take too long to get that task done that Rom still escapes in time.
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* ''ComicBook/RichieRich'': Used in a ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' one story where Richie's friend, kid comedian Jackie Jokers, has realised that the "president" of the United States is a fake, but then he and Richie are kidnapped before they can expose the fake. It's all part of a plot to blow up Washington DC with a stolen atomic bomb, then blame the attack on an obvious CaptainErsatz of the Soviet Union and have both countries destroy each other, leaving the plotters' country as the most powerful in the world. But instead of simply shooting the boys once the plotters have them helpless, they leave them tied up right next to the ticking atomic bomb and of course, the boys escape and manage to find a way to stop the bomb.
* ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'': An early storyof ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' reverses this trope: After Rom is captured alive by some Dire Wraith scientists, they try to use the hero as a test subject. The BigBad who commands them will have none of this and orders Rom killed as he is way too dangerous to keep alive. The scientists argue the point, but they ultimately comply. Fortunately, they are still so reluctant to do so that they take too long to get that task done that Rom still escapes in time.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018 The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to locate the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018 The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to locate the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.app.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to locate the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018 The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to locate the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'': Fry finally convinces Bart that the latter is a comic book character by showing him the ''Simpsons'' comic they're both in. Fry then asks Bart to help him find his friends, leading to:
-->'''Bart:''' Why don't you just look in the comic and see where they are?\\
'''Fry:''' ''[[[{{Facepalm}} slapping his own face]]]'' [[BorrowedCatchphrase D'oh!]]
-->'''Bart:''' Why don't you just look in the comic and see where they are?\\
'''Fry:''' ''[[[{{Facepalm}} slapping his own face]]]'' [[BorrowedCatchphrase D'oh!]]
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* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Avengers}}'', SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom pisses off Morgana Le Fay. She uses her magic to travel back in time and murder Doom when he's a child, but at the last moment decides that killing a helpless boy in his sleep doesn't prove anything, and instead she should defeat Doom when he's at the height of his power to make the point that she's better than him. So she returns to the present and launches a full-scale assault on Latveria castle instead.
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* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', mad doctor Pharma tries to get out of a deal with [[TortureTechnician the Decepticon Justice Division]] by engineering and spreading a plague at a medical facility he's working at, in the hopes it would force high command to shut it down. Ratchet, "appalled... by [Pharma's] stupidity," suggests that he should have had his accomplices infect the DJD from the start. Pharma retorts that they weren't willing to try.
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* One story of an ''ComicBook/{{Archie Comic|s}}'' has Archie attempting all sorts of wacky tactics to study, like rewarding himself with a snack for each page read and blasting music while studying, and none of it works since it keeps simply distracting him. Eventually he goes to Dilton for advice who tells him, ever so gently, to [[SuddenlyShouting JUST STUDY]]. It works and he earns a B on a particularly difficult test.
* During the overly {{Anvilicious}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun,'' [[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]] is incredibly annoyed to learn that the high school he's infiltrated, where supposedly over 95% of the school population brings a gun to school, only turns on the metal detectors at the doors on Wednesday mornings. Despite the fact that figuring out what's wrong with the school board and having the metal detectors actually used would have solved most of the plot, this is never brought up again.
* In the final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation for ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'', the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
* During the overly {{Anvilicious}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun,'' [[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]] is incredibly annoyed to learn that the high school he's infiltrated, where supposedly over 95% of the school population brings a gun to school, only turns on the metal detectors at the doors on Wednesday mornings. Despite the fact that figuring out what's wrong with the school board and having the metal detectors actually used would have solved most of the plot, this is never brought up again.
* In the final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation for ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'', the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': One story of an ''ComicBook/{{Archie Comic|s}}'' has Archie attempting all sorts of wacky tactics to study, like rewarding himself with a snack for each page read and blasting music while studying, and none of it works since it keeps simply distracting him. Eventually he goes to Dilton for advice who tells him, ever so gently, to [[SuddenlyShouting JUST STUDY]]. It works and he earns a B on a particularly difficult test.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Duringthe overly {{Anvilicious}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun,'' [[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]] is incredibly annoyed to learn that the high school he's infiltrated, where supposedly over 95% of the school population brings a gun to school, only turns on the metal detectors at the doors on Wednesday mornings. Despite the fact that figuring out what's wrong with the school board and having the metal detectors actually used would have solved most of the plot, this is never brought up again.
* ''WesternAnimation/COPS1988'': In the final issue of theComicBookAdaptation for ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'', ComicBookAdaptation, the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to retrieve the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to retrieve locate the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer ''[[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to retrieve the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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* In one issue of ''Sensational ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Spidey has been captured by the Looter, who explains how he’s going to sell all the priceless things he’s stolen in order to buy a special meteorite with the profits. Spidey then asks why the Looter, a master thief, didn’t just steal the meteorite itself. After a pause, the Looter admits that the thought just never occurred to him.
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** In one issue of ''Sensational ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Spidey has been captured by the Looter, who explains how he’s going to sell all the priceless things he’s stolen in order to buy a special meteorite with the profits. Spidey then asks why the Looter, a master thief, didn’t just steal the meteorite itself. After a pause, the Looter admits that the thought just never occurred to him.
** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to retrieve the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
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** In one issue of ''Sensational ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Spidey has been captured by the Looter, who explains how he’s going to sell all the priceless things he’s stolen in order to buy a special meteorite with the profits. Spidey then asks why the Looter, a master thief, didn’t just steal the meteorite itself. After a pause, the Looter admits that the thought just never occurred to him.
** In an arc from Nick Spencer's run on ''[[TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the Thieves' Guild used a magic artifact to steal various hero's weapons and devices, including Spider-Man's web-shooters (while he was swinging through the city no less), ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield, ComicBook/IronMan's armors, ComicBook/ThePunisher's arsenal and ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Eye of Aggamoto. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] and Tony Stark formed a highly detailed plan to retrieve the stolen items, when [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] announced that the Thieves' Guild also stole her cellphone. And that she just got a ping from her tablet's "Find My Phone" ap.
--->'''Tony Stark''': Well, this is embarrassing.
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* ''ComicBook/MarvelWesterns'': In "The Man Called Hurricane", a gathering of bandits has the titular gunslinger dead to rights and decide to give him a [[ShotAtDawn death by firing squad]], only to succumb to BondVillainStupidity by allowing him to use his guns to attempt to retaliate, ignoring their OnlySaneMan teammate who insists that they should NOT allow him to draw because "[[LampshadeHanging this is where everyone messes up]]". After all, they have a hundred men and he's only one guy - no way he could live through that... [[TemptingFate right?]] [[spoiler: Hurricane then uses his supernatural powers to shoot every single one of them dead.]]
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* One story of an ''ComicBook/{{Archie Comic|s}}'' has Archie attempting all sorts of wacky tactics to study, like rewarding himself with a snack for each page read and blasting music while studying, and none of it works since it keeps simply distracting him. Eventually he goes to Dilton for advice who tells him, ever so gently, to [[SuddenlyShouting JUST STUDY]]. It works and he earns a B on a particularly difficult test.
* During the overly {{Anvilicious}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun,'' [[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]] is incredibly annoyed to learn that the high school he's infiltrated, where supposedly over 95% of the school population brings a gun to school, only turns on the metal detectors at the doors on Wednesday mornings. Despite the fact that figuring out what's wrong with the school board and having the metal detectors actually used would have solved most of the plot, this is never brought up again.
* In the final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation for ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'', the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
* In ''Franchise/TheDCU'', the third ComicBook/BlueBeetle has a race of evil aliens called the Reach as villains, led by the Negotiator. The first thing said by the Negotiator's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is "Why don't we just kill him?" to which the Negotiator replies, "No. Not without study." (The Beetle is ''meant'' to be a Reach Infiltrator, and the Negotiator's position is that they need to know why he isn't in case it happens again.)
* [[Characters/SuicideSquadOperatives Deadshot]]'s proposed solution to pretty much every ComicBook/SuicideSquad mission. Even when it [[ShootTheHostage isn't an assassination.]] The Wall usually relegates it to "plan B".
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's foe Dormammu could obliterate Strange without breaking a sweat, but he inevitably stalls and prolongs the moment (or lets [[GuileHero Strange]] manipulate him into fighting 'fair'). Dormammu's wiser sister Umar is usually the one to point out that this strategy isn't the best.
* Subverted in the [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] story ''New Year's Evil'': Prometheus has rendered ComicBook/GreenLantern helpless and muses that he could just shoot him if he chose to--then proceeds to do just that. (GL survives.)
* In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', the Dalton brothers capture Luke more than once and, despite Jack and William suggesting just to kill him, Joe has always a "crueler" form of revenge that would let Luke finally escape from one way.
* In the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'', the main character briefly considers using the fact that her husband, whom she was framed for murdering, is, in fact, alive against him to secure her exoneration and ensure he gets his just deserts, but instead is talked into doing what she did in the movie -- killing him under the belief that she can't be tried for his murder again.
* In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: Super Heroes'' #17, the scientist Diablo attempts to steal the Voynich Manuscript, believing it to be an alchemical text that will help him defeat the creature that has been causing chaos with his abilities. ComicBook/TheVision points out that the entirety of the manuscript is available online, and thus there was no need to steal it. Diablo stammers in shock at this revelation.
* In the ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' story ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Outwits the Phantom Blot'', Mickey is frequently captured by a masked villain named The Phantom Blot. The Phantom Blot tries to dispose of him with various complicated death traps, which Mickey always manages to escape from. When the Phantom Blot is finally captured, Mickey asks him why the Phantom Blot didn't just kill him instead of using the death traps. The Phantom Blot then reveals he cannot stand to watch somebody die, and therefore used the death traps so he wouldn't be around when Mickey died.
* In a commemorative ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artefacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner that explains that he got stranded in the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artefacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus a popsicle he liked]]). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015:'' An instance of someone doing this to ''themselves'', when the Plunderer boasts about how his Plunder-Bots are totally worth the rental fee, before stopping and asking why he and his minion, who are criminals, didn't just steal them (since the implication is Kevin's latest rampage is to recoup the costs of the rental fee).
* Happens in the ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' storyline "Widowmaker". As seen in the earlier storyline ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Welcome Back, Frank]]'', actually shooting the Punisher sometimes just makes him even angrier.
* ''ComicBook/TheQuestion'': Charlie's final epiphany about how to deal with the insurmountable WretchedHive that is Hub City: [[spoiler:[[KnowWhenToFoldEm Give up on it and leave]]]].
* Used in a ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' story where Richie's friend, kid comedian Jackie Jokers, has realised that the "president" of the United States is a fake, but then he and Richie are kidnapped before they can expose the fake. It's all part of a plot to blow up Washington DC with a stolen atomic bomb, then blame the attack on an obvious CaptainErsatz of the Soviet Union and have both countries destroy each other, leaving the plotters' country as the most powerful in the world. But instead of simply shooting the boys once the plotters have them helpless, they leave them tied up right next to the ticking atomic bomb and of course, the boys escape and manage to find a way to stop the bomb.
* An early story of ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' reverses this trope: After Rom is captured alive by some Dire Wraith scientists, they try to use the hero as a test subject. The BigBad who commands them will have none of this and orders Rom killed as he is way too dangerous to keep alive. The scientists argue the point, but they ultimately comply. Fortunately, they are still so reluctant to do so that they take too long to get that task done that Rom still escapes in time.
* In one issue of ''Sensational ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Spidey has been captured by the Looter, who explains how he’s going to sell all the priceless things he’s stolen in order to buy a special meteorite with the profits. Spidey then asks why the Looter, a master thief, didn’t just steal the meteorite itself. After a pause, the Looter admits that the thought just never occurred to him.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/LastSon'': Superman, after asking [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] for help, puts himself in such a perfect position to be killed that he asks Luthor why he hasn't done it yet. Luthor responds that he doesn't want to make a martyr of him right now and would like to prove that Superman is a danger to humanity first.
** ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'': When the Omega Men are storming into the Citadel, Harry Hokum plans to let them "find" and "rescue" several clones posing as their captive comrades. Then he will let them flee back to their base, and when they are feeling safe, he will activate his moles, and while the Omega Men are busy fighting them, he will send out an army of Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} clones to destroy the rebels and their base. One of his minions suggests that, since they are on board a starship loaded with nukes and the rebels are all gathered in one extremely vulnerable spot, they could just... nuke them? Nonetheless, Hokum retorts they will follow through with his perfect plan.
--->'''Minion:''' Most revered leader Hokum, we have a rare opportunity at hand. With the rebel leadership and the Kryptonian in our sights, is it out of bounds for me to suggest an option? A nuclear option perhaps?\\
'''Harry Hokum:''' It is a tempting thought, isn't it? But this is a chess game. And I am four moves ahead.
* From ''ComicBook/TankVixens'', when Üdda muses about her need for combat from her heavily-armed, orbital battle cruiser:
-->'''Mook''': Herr General--V'y not ch'ust [[OrbitalBombardment nuke der liddle foxies out from orbit]]? You know, a liddle missile here, a liddle napalm dere? V'e cook 'em up real good for ya!\\
'''Üdda''': ...V'ell how are ve gonna haff der [[BloodKnight nifty tank battles und bloodshed]] if you chust ''bomb'' everyt'ink!?!
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the following exchange from one of ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks'' from ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', written by Creator/AlanMoore, about a school that teaches its students how to be a proper villain.
-->'''Mr. Dreadspawn:''' Now you have the hero in your power at last. What do you do, Doctor Devastation?\\
'''Doctor Devastation:''' Uhh... Shoot him?\\
'''Mr. Dreadspawn:''' Give me the strength! How's he going to escape and defeat you if you shoot him?
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', mad doctor Pharma tries to get out of a deal with [[TortureTechnician the Decepticon Justice Division]] by engineering and spreading a plague at a medical facility he's working at, in the hopes it would force high command to shut it down. Ratchet, "appalled... by [Pharma's] stupidity," suggests that he should have had his accomplices infect the DJD from the start. Pharma retorts that they weren't willing to try.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: During their brief allegiance, Torcha gets more and more frustrated with Inventa's ComplexityAddiction, repeatedly asking why they don't just kill Wonder Woman and the other Amazons while they have them at their mercy. In the end, Torcha turns on Inventa, but by then it's too late and Wonder Woman knocks her out almost instantly.
* There were plans for the ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''ComicBook/{{Fatal Attractions|MarvelComics}}'' to include a major battle between Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]. Creator/PeterDavid jokingly commented, "Adamantium's metal, right? If I were Magneto, I'd just rip Wolverine's skeleton out and be done with him" - which the writers and editors promptly decided to have him do. David later said that offhand comment was the biggest influence he'd ever had on the X-Men.
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* One story of an ''ComicBook/{{Archie Comic|s}}'' has Archie attempting all sorts of wacky tactics to study, like rewarding himself with a snack for each page read and blasting music while studying, and none of it works since it keeps simply distracting him. Eventually he goes to Dilton for advice who tells him, ever so gently, to [[SuddenlyShouting JUST STUDY]]. It works and he earns a B on a particularly difficult test.
* During the overly {{Anvilicious}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} story ''The Seduction of the Gun,'' [[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]] is incredibly annoyed to learn that the high school he's infiltrated, where supposedly over 95% of the school population brings a gun to school, only turns on the metal detectors at the doors on Wednesday mornings. Despite the fact that figuring out what's wrong with the school board and having the metal detectors actually used would have solved most of the plot, this is never brought up again.
* In the final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation for ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'', the C.O.P.S. have no hard evidence of Big Boss' criminal activities but do have a large stack of unpaid parking tickets from his gang. So they come up with a BatmanGambit in which the whole team shows up at his office to take him to task for the tickets in the hopes that Big Boss will do something blatantly criminal to stop them so they can arrest him. When the crooks see the police arrive, they discuss what they should do about them. Big Boss' idiot nephew Berserko suggests they ''pay the tickets'' and ask the police to leave since they no longer have any reason to be there. He is glared into silence by the rest of the gang, which then tries to drive the C.O.P.S. off with brute force, which results in the police grounds to arrest them for owning illegal weaponry and attacking the police.
* In ''Franchise/TheDCU'', the third ComicBook/BlueBeetle has a race of evil aliens called the Reach as villains, led by the Negotiator. The first thing said by the Negotiator's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is "Why don't we just kill him?" to which the Negotiator replies, "No. Not without study." (The Beetle is ''meant'' to be a Reach Infiltrator, and the Negotiator's position is that they need to know why he isn't in case it happens again.)
* [[Characters/SuicideSquadOperatives Deadshot]]'s proposed solution to pretty much every ComicBook/SuicideSquad mission. Even when it [[ShootTheHostage isn't an assassination.]] The Wall usually relegates it to "plan B".
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's foe Dormammu could obliterate Strange without breaking a sweat, but he inevitably stalls and prolongs the moment (or lets [[GuileHero Strange]] manipulate him into fighting 'fair'). Dormammu's wiser sister Umar is usually the one to point out that this strategy isn't the best.
* Subverted in the [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] story ''New Year's Evil'': Prometheus has rendered ComicBook/GreenLantern helpless and muses that he could just shoot him if he chose to--then proceeds to do just that. (GL survives.)
* In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'', the Dalton brothers capture Luke more than once and, despite Jack and William suggesting just to kill him, Joe has always a "crueler" form of revenge that would let Luke finally escape from one way.
* In the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'', the main character briefly considers using the fact that her husband, whom she was framed for murdering, is, in fact, alive against him to secure her exoneration and ensure he gets his just deserts, but instead is talked into doing what she did in the movie -- killing him under the belief that she can't be tried for his murder again.
* In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: Super Heroes'' #17, the scientist Diablo attempts to steal the Voynich Manuscript, believing it to be an alchemical text that will help him defeat the creature that has been causing chaos with his abilities. ComicBook/TheVision points out that the entirety of the manuscript is available online, and thus there was no need to steal it. Diablo stammers in shock at this revelation.
* In the ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' story ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Outwits the Phantom Blot'', Mickey is frequently captured by a masked villain named The Phantom Blot. The Phantom Blot tries to dispose of him with various complicated death traps, which Mickey always manages to escape from. When the Phantom Blot is finally captured, Mickey asks him why the Phantom Blot didn't just kill him instead of using the death traps. The Phantom Blot then reveals he cannot stand to watch somebody die, and therefore used the death traps so he wouldn't be around when Mickey died.
* In a commemorative ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' story, Monica and Jimmy Five go to an island where, according to an Internet legend, they would have access to tons of comic books if they handed over three artefacts found in the sea. When they complete the tasks and arrive there, however, they meet a bookstore owner that explains that he got stranded in the island and used his computer to create that legend, with the three required artefacts actually being pieces he needed to make a ship so he could escape ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus a popsicle he liked]]). When Monica and Jimmy Five point out that, since the bookstore owner had a working computer and access to the Internet, he could have simply called the competent authorities and asked for a rescue instead, he yells at them to stop pointing out flaws in his plan.
* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015:'' An instance of someone doing this to ''themselves'', when the Plunderer boasts about how his Plunder-Bots are totally worth the rental fee, before stopping and asking why he and his minion, who are criminals, didn't just steal them (since the implication is Kevin's latest rampage is to recoup the costs of the rental fee).
* Happens in the ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' storyline "Widowmaker". As seen in the earlier storyline ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Welcome Back, Frank]]'', actually shooting the Punisher sometimes just makes him even angrier.
* ''ComicBook/TheQuestion'': Charlie's final epiphany about how to deal with the insurmountable WretchedHive that is Hub City: [[spoiler:[[KnowWhenToFoldEm Give up on it and leave]]]].
* Used in a ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' story where Richie's friend, kid comedian Jackie Jokers, has realised that the "president" of the United States is a fake, but then he and Richie are kidnapped before they can expose the fake. It's all part of a plot to blow up Washington DC with a stolen atomic bomb, then blame the attack on an obvious CaptainErsatz of the Soviet Union and have both countries destroy each other, leaving the plotters' country as the most powerful in the world. But instead of simply shooting the boys once the plotters have them helpless, they leave them tied up right next to the ticking atomic bomb and of course, the boys escape and manage to find a way to stop the bomb.
* An early story of ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' reverses this trope: After Rom is captured alive by some Dire Wraith scientists, they try to use the hero as a test subject. The BigBad who commands them will have none of this and orders Rom killed as he is way too dangerous to keep alive. The scientists argue the point, but they ultimately comply. Fortunately, they are still so reluctant to do so that they take too long to get that task done that Rom still escapes in time.
* In one issue of ''Sensational ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Spidey has been captured by the Looter, who explains how he’s going to sell all the priceless things he’s stolen in order to buy a special meteorite with the profits. Spidey then asks why the Looter, a master thief, didn’t just steal the meteorite itself. After a pause, the Looter admits that the thought just never occurred to him.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/LastSon'': Superman, after asking [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] for help, puts himself in such a perfect position to be killed that he asks Luthor why he hasn't done it yet. Luthor responds that he doesn't want to make a martyr of him right now and would like to prove that Superman is a danger to humanity first.
** ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'': When the Omega Men are storming into the Citadel, Harry Hokum plans to let them "find" and "rescue" several clones posing as their captive comrades. Then he will let them flee back to their base, and when they are feeling safe, he will activate his moles, and while the Omega Men are busy fighting them, he will send out an army of Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} clones to destroy the rebels and their base. One of his minions suggests that, since they are on board a starship loaded with nukes and the rebels are all gathered in one extremely vulnerable spot, they could just... nuke them? Nonetheless, Hokum retorts they will follow through with his perfect plan.
--->'''Minion:''' Most revered leader Hokum, we have a rare opportunity at hand. With the rebel leadership and the Kryptonian in our sights, is it out of bounds for me to suggest an option? A nuclear option perhaps?\\
'''Harry Hokum:''' It is a tempting thought, isn't it? But this is a chess game. And I am four moves ahead.
* From ''ComicBook/TankVixens'', when Üdda muses about her need for combat from her heavily-armed, orbital battle cruiser:
-->'''Mook''': Herr General--V'y not ch'ust [[OrbitalBombardment nuke der liddle foxies out from orbit]]? You know, a liddle missile here, a liddle napalm dere? V'e cook 'em up real good for ya!\\
'''Üdda''': ...V'ell how are ve gonna haff der [[BloodKnight nifty tank battles und bloodshed]] if you chust ''bomb'' everyt'ink!?!
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the following exchange from one of ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks'' from ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', written by Creator/AlanMoore, about a school that teaches its students how to be a proper villain.
-->'''Mr. Dreadspawn:''' Now you have the hero in your power at last. What do you do, Doctor Devastation?\\
'''Doctor Devastation:''' Uhh... Shoot him?\\
'''Mr. Dreadspawn:''' Give me the strength! How's he going to escape and defeat you if you shoot him?
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', mad doctor Pharma tries to get out of a deal with [[TortureTechnician the Decepticon Justice Division]] by engineering and spreading a plague at a medical facility he's working at, in the hopes it would force high command to shut it down. Ratchet, "appalled... by [Pharma's] stupidity," suggests that he should have had his accomplices infect the DJD from the start. Pharma retorts that they weren't willing to try.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: During their brief allegiance, Torcha gets more and more frustrated with Inventa's ComplexityAddiction, repeatedly asking why they don't just kill Wonder Woman and the other Amazons while they have them at their mercy. In the end, Torcha turns on Inventa, but by then it's too late and Wonder Woman knocks her out almost instantly.
* There were plans for the ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''ComicBook/{{Fatal Attractions|MarvelComics}}'' to include a major battle between Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]. Creator/PeterDavid jokingly commented, "Adamantium's metal, right? If I were Magneto, I'd just rip Wolverine's skeleton out and be done with him" - which the writers and editors promptly decided to have him do. David later said that offhand comment was the biggest influence he'd ever had on the X-Men.
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