History WhyDontYouJustShootHim / HowItShouldHaveEnded

* ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': Maxwell Lord gets his driver to wish that Wonder Woman would vanish, promptly {{Retgone}}ing her before she punches through the windscreen.

* In ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', instead of getting a chosen one to do the task, [[GeniusLoci the ocean]] decides to take Te Fiti's heart and restore the goddess itself. It succeeds, though this has the side effect of leaving Moana and Maui stuck on their islands, complaining about how bored they are.

* ''Film/SuicideSquad'':

* Film/IronMan uses a tank missile against Obadiah Stane.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'', Stoick ops to just throw his ax and kill [[BigBad Drago]] as soon as he arrives at the battle.
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Iron Man, Thor, and Vision shot Ultron until he explodes, instead of shooting him and pausing.

* In ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', the Indoraptor locks onto its victim once a laser sight from a rifle is placed over the target. One of the people at the auction points out that if someone already has a gun pointed at a person, it's way more practical to just shoot them instead of having a dinosaur go through the effort of hunting them down.

** Thor pins Thanos down with Mjolnir (declaring that the latter's "Not worthy!"), leading to him, Steve, and Tony beating the Mad Titan up before finally [[OffWithHisHead decapitating him]].
** Wong simply traps Thanos’s army in the mirror dimension before decapitating the latter with a sling-ring portal.

* In ''Film/Godzilla2014'' the general responds to Serizawa stating that Godzilla must be what defeats the monsters with why don't we just nuke them. Serizawa shoots him down and the general gets that Serizawa just wants to see a monster fight. Mind they are trying to nuke them at that point in the film and they took the nuke to the middle of the city.

* In ''How Film/RevengeOfTheSith Should Have Ended'', after Obi-Wan takes out Grievous's bodyguards, he has his battle droids surrounding Obi-Wan to simply overwhelm him and shoot him to death.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' has Yondu's OneManArmy scene end with him simply getting shot by a Ravager, who originally gave away his position by yelling "DOWN HERE!" Then said Ravager and another guy gets shot by Rocket because they kept talking about this trope.

** Thor simply pins down Thanos with Mjolnir (declaring that the latter's "Not worthy!"), leading to him, Steve, and Tony beating the Mad Titan up before finally [[OffWithHisHead decapitating him]].

* In ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', the Indoraptor locks onto its victim once a laser sight from a rifle is placed over the target. The people at the auction point out that if someone already has a gun pointed at a person, it's way more practical to just shoot them then to have a dinosaur go through the effort of hunting them down.

** Thanos orders more bombs on the Avengers headquarters, leading to all the surviving Avengers to be killed.
** Thor simply pins down Thanos with Mjolnir, leading to him, Steve, and Tony to beat him up before finally decapitating him.
** Wong simply teleports Thanos’s army to the mirror dimension before decapitating the latter.

** In the second scenario, Jefferson shoots Kingpin in the head just as he’s about to kill Miles.

* For ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', they regularly point out how with the Flash's superspeed, he could easily kill Steppenwolf a million times over by just driving sharp objects into his neck. Earlier from this, the Amazons just shoot Steppenwolf instead of letting him monologue about getting the Mother Boxes.

** A non-gun variant in the first scenario of this. Kingpin simply bludgeons Miles to death before the latter can get up.
** In the second scenario, Jefferson shoots Kingpin just as he’s about to kill Miles.

* ''WesternAnimation/IntoTheSpiderVerse'':

* In ''Film/DoctorStrange'', when preparing to defend the Sanctuary, Wong once again tells the defenders to choose their weapons wisely. As soon as Kaecilius arrives, Wong reveals that he chose a ''gun'' when he simply shoots Kaecilius dead.

* Almost the entirety of ''Film/{{Beowulf|2007}}'' is this, i.e. Beowulf gets instantly incinerated by the dragon.

* Almost the entirety of ''Film/{{Beowulf}}'' is this, i.e. Beowulf gets instantly incinerated by the dragon.

* In ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', [[GeniusLoci the ocean]] decides to take Te Fiti's heart and restore the goddess itself. It succeeds, though this has the side effect of leaving Moana and Maui stuck on their islands, complaining about how bored they are.