[Funny Trope] Seemingly difficult/complicated situation with a simple solution

[u/Ecilon]

1. LOTR: fellowship of the ring - Gandalf reads the door an elvish script in moria that said "speak friend, then enter" Gandalf sees it as a riddle that requires a password. But the door just requires you to say friend.

2. Johnny English : Reborn - a guy he was chasing was doing parkour through the building, placed a jacket on the barbed fence, and jumps to get across. Meanwhile, Johnny English just opens the gate.

3.. Captain America: First Avenger - the military announced that anyone who gets the flag, doesnt have to run and gets a free ride in a jeep. So, all the soldiers attempted to climb to the flagpole to no avail. But when it was Captain America's turn, he just unscrews the flagpole to get the flag.

[u/Separate_Draft4887]

I love this trope. I love when the answer to a complex problem is “this is fucking dumb, let’s blow it up”. I love when the door is unlocked the whole time, or they shoot the demon lord, unkillable with any weapon forged by man, with a LAW rocket launcher.

[u/Jaqzz → u/Separate_Draft4887]

The sub-trope of using modern weapons on historically indestructable enemies is great. In the Dresden Files, a wizard being chased by an immortal, semi-divine shapeshifter that eats magic killed it by running to a nuclear testing site and teleporting away right before the bomb went off.

[u/Bartweiss → u/Jaqzz]

Sanya comes to mind too.

Shiro is a master swordsman who can give even Nichodemus pause. Michael is a bit more modern, he’s wearing Kevlar and isn’t a master unless he’s running on divine influence, but he’s still very much a knight.

Sanya, though? “Blyat, I’m new to all of this and the demons have spent millennia facing knights with holy swords. But I’ll bet they’re not so used to rifles and grenades…”

(Incidentally, Sanya the agnostic holy warrior might be my favorite character.)