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* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'': Eudora vastly overpowers every one of the heroines regardless of which franchise they are from or whether they are original characters. Any attempt to beat her, either idiotically solo or in a group, would end in a humiliating defeat. Exemplified by Altalune [[spoiler: when she decided to stay in the past for a chance of beating Eudora in exchange for her own continued existence (pesky self-correcting timelines)]] -- she promptly gets curb-stomped so badly she would have died if not for [[spoiler: Daphne and Galadwen's intervention]]. This trope is made even more glaring when it's revealed not even Bloom, the bearer of the magic that created the Magix dimension, ever had a possibility against Eudora. Later, is revealed [[spoiler: Marion]] could defeat Eudora, but has been gathering power to fight an even more powerful evil.

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* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'': Eudora vastly overpowers every one of the heroines regardless of which franchise they are from or whether they are original characters. Any attempt to beat her, either idiotically solo or in a group, would end in a humiliating defeat. Exemplified by Altalune [[spoiler: when she decided to stay in the past for a chance of beating Eudora in exchange for her own continued existence (pesky self-correcting timelines)]] -- she promptly gets curb-stomped so badly she would have died if not for [[spoiler: [[spoiler:Queen Daphne and Galadwen's intervention]].[[TwistingTheProphecy intervention]]]]. This trope is made even more glaring when it's revealed not even Bloom, the bearer of the magic that created the Magix dimension, ever had a possibility against Eudora. Later, is revealed [[spoiler: Marion]] could defeat Eudora, but has been gathering power to fight an even more powerful evil.
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* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': While some characters do escape the traps, that's only the minority that are important enough to make it to the end of the film. The rest are sweet out of luck. Not only will they fail to escape whatever trap they are in, but they will experience the maximum amount of pain possible in trying to do so.

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* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': While some characters do escape the traps, that's only the minority that who are important enough to make it to the end of the film. The rest are sweet out of luck. Not only will they fail to escape whatever trap they are in, but they will experience the maximum amount of pain possible in trying to do so.
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* MortonsFork (two choices lead to the same bad outcome)

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* MortonsFork (two or more choices lead to the same bad outcome)
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* MortonsFork

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YouCantThwartStageOne (any attempt to stop a villain's evil plan before its final stages is doomed to failure)
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* ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'': From 2020's "Carry the Nine" to 2024's "A Better World", a recurring plotline involved the radical plans of Accounts Judge Maitland, who had almost by accident discovered that moving money from putting Judges on the streets to educating citizens would actually reduce crime. But even though the story is clearly on her side, if her proposed reforms were actually adopted throughout Mega-City One, the strip would stop being ''Judge Dredd''. [[spoiler: She ends up assassinated, possibly with the collusion of Head of Street Judge Hernandez, and her project is discredited, ''definitely'' with the collusion of Hernandez]].
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* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' is a FallenAngel named Aztar who repented shortly after Lucifer's Rebellion. Recognizing that his heart was in the right place but his mind wasn't, God promised that Aztar would be let back into Heaven once he had punished every mortal sinner who escaped justice at mortal hands. Given human numbers, speed of reproduction, and rate of KarmaHoudini, Aztar is still at it.

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* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'': The Spectre is a FallenAngel named Aztar who repented shortly after Lucifer's Rebellion. Recognizing that his heart was in the right place but his mind wasn't, God promised that Aztar would be let back into Heaven once he had punished every mortal sinner who escaped justice at mortal hands. Given human numbers, speed of reproduction, and rate of KarmaHoudini, Aztar is still at it.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the 4*Town concert and the red moon ritual involving Mei's family that she is obligated to undergo are on the same night meaning there was never a possibility to go to the concert without her family's knowledge even if she had enough money to buy tickets for herself and her friends.

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