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* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', [[HeroicComedicSociopath Wrex's]] first suggestion for solving any conflict or situation: "Eat them." In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' a quarian admiral fighting against a fellow admiral who's itching for war can say "Once you build the galaxy's biggest hammer, someone will always start looking for nails."
** Javik, your DLC Prothean squadmate in ''3'' and in many ways Wrex's successor, will suggest violence for any difficult negotiation, with ThrownOutTheAirlock as his standard solution to any personnel difficulties. In the ''Citadel'' DLC, you get Renegade interrupts in which you threaten to cut off the villains' heads and throw them out of an airlock, and Javik will say "Finally!"
** Another one out of Creator/BioWare ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic's'' HK-47 will usually suggest firearms or grenades.
*** HK, Wrex, ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'''s Minsc,[[note]]"You point, I punch."[[/note]] and ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire's'' Black Whirlwind -- don't let 'em near anything breakable...
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'', you can count problems that ''can't'' be solved with minions in one hand. Pretty much everything is fixed through creative use of minions or just swarming the problem with the minions until it goes away. The other problems, well, you take the one hand you're counting them on, wrap it around your preferred melee weapon and start swinging.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', pretty much any broken thing in your house can be fixed with a wrench.
* In the ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' community, it is commonly agreed upon that [[KillItWithFire magma]] can solve any problem. Invaders at your door? [[LavaPit Magma]]. Troublesome [[UpperClassTwit nobles]]? [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Magma]]. !!Dwarf!! ''on [[ManOnFire fire]]''? [[MurderIsTheBestSolution Not for long]] if you use enough magma.
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Got a problem? Use a gun. That didn't fix it? Use [[MoreDakka more gun]].

*** Played literally with the Pyro and his [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Homewrecker weapon of choice]] for enemy buildings (and the occasional enemy Spy). A troublesome Spy trying to ruin your little nest? Whack 'im. A sapper destroying your Engie's sentry? Whack it. An Engineer on the other team has a nicer dispenser than your Engie's? WHACK IT AND HIM!

* 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.]]

* ''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]].

* ''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.

* 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''.

** 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.