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Are These Wires Important?

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Are These Wires Important?	comment	There are many ways to stop a rampaging robot, a spider-tank, or even a huge mecha. Missiles, More Dakka, or perhaps even another rampaging robot, spider-tank, or mecha! But the method that is most enjoyable, from a heroic perspective, is tearing a hole in the machine's armor, reaching an arm in, and simply yanking wires and components out until it stops moving. The destructive opposite of Percussive Maintenance. For one wire in particular, see Cut the Juice. For wires that need to be dealt with in a particular order, see Wire Dilemma. Contrast What Does This Button Do?, where the character is poking at the works out of curiosity rather than destructive intent.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_2c1809f5	comment	In Totally Spies! ep "Spies in Space". When the Spies used various tools (including space vehicles) to attack Ziggy's giant robot without any effect, Sam had to jumped on the robotâ€™s back and opened the hatch. After Sam reinstalled its wiring, the robot madly picked up all the instruments then played quickly, which caused the robot to overheat and eventually explode.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Flash and Substance", the Flash does this to the giant, rocket-powered boomerang Captain Boomerang catches Flash with.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_3d8baf12	comment	In RoboCop 2, Robocop puts a stop to the rampaging Robocop Mk. II by yanking out the jar Cain's brain is housed in and smashing it on the ground.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_3ef1def5	comment	He pulled this stunt during the Reign of the Supermen event, tearing into a robot that tried to kill Superman (again) and ripping out a few random parts.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_40e44a7a	comment	Judge Dredd: Fergee (Dredd's Comic Relief Sidekick) disables Rico's robot by yanking out some of the wires behind its head.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_4b790c79	comment	Iron Man: During the final fight with Iron Monger, Tony Stark quips "This looks important!" and rips the targeting sensor out of his armor. This is an especially justified example of the trope, as the Iron Monger is based on Tony's own design, so he would obviously know exactly where to grab and yank.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_5283bd72	comment	The second two books of the Protector of the Small quartet have a truncated variant with the killing devices, which are Powered by a Forsaken Child. Kel and her squad figure out that the way to stop them is to punch a hole in the machine's iron "head," which lets the spirit escape.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_53a0bd32	comment	In the classic The Twilight Zone episode, "Terror At 20,000 Feet", a gremlin is doing this to an airplane until stopped by an acrophobic William Shatner. Before his intervention, the thing was yanking wires and pieces out of the airplane's engines.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_53dc3731	comment	Atomic Robo is fond of this tried-and-true technique. Bash in and start yanking.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_56cb92c3	comment	In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Drax kills Korath by ripping out the mechanisms sprouting from his head.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_5908ee91	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim you can pickpocket the Briar Heart out of a Briarheart Warrior, causing him to fall over dead.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_5b344855	comment	In an issue of Wolverine, a rampaging Red Ronin returns and while Japanese superhero Sunfire attacks from the outside, Wolverine gets inside and begins destroying components until Red Ronin returns to rest. It helps that the susceptible components are labeled with the Japanese word for "heart," which clues Wolverine to their importance.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_5c3b1859	comment	Ant-Man does it again in Captain America: Civil War, this time to Iron Man. Unfortunately for him, the suit's fire suppression system kicks in before he can do too much damage.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_5d4da196	comment	In the first Spider-Man film, Spidey's first encounter with the Green Goblin ends when he reaches up and rips some wires out of the Goblin's glider, leading to it careening away.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_62894fec	comment	In the 1960s Justice League of America episode "Target Earth", the Atom shrinks down to get inside the villains' "Magno-Ray". Once inside, he goes on a mini-rampage (pardon the pun...), yanking out wires, smashing vacuum tubes (!) and generally busting up the innards of the thing. Eventually, it blows up, or at least explosively wilts.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe Iron Man: During the final fight with Iron Monger, Tony Stark quips "This looks important!" and rips the targeting sensor out of his armor. This is an especially justified example of the trope, as the Iron Monger is based on Tony's own design, so he would obviously know exactly where to grab and yank. In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Drax kills Korath by ripping out the mechanisms sprouting from his head. In Ant-Man, the title character resorts to this after getting into a fight with the Falcon, shrinking down to disable his wingsuit from within before fleeing. Ant-Man does it again in Captain America: Civil War, this time to Iron Man. Unfortunately for him, the suit's fire suppression system kicks in before he can do too much damage.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: Hiro defeats a rampaging golem-robot by using his Super-Strength to yank off a panel and remove its crystal power source. He quips "This looks important" as he does it, in reference to Iron Man.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In the premiere of Farscape, the protagonists are desperately trying to free Moya from the control collar that holds the Living Ship in servitude, all while under attack from Peacekeeper Prowlers. D'Argo starts ripping things out of the bridge control panels even though Pilot points out that they're not wired to the control collar. D'Argo retorts that he'll continue to rip things out until he finds the ones that are, when suddenly his efforts deactivate the 'coding wall' and the collar comes apart on its own. Unfortunately tearing loose all those synapses caused Moya to leak most of her iriscentent fluid, drastically slowing their speed and forcing them to stop at a commerce planet to buy more fluid, where their pursuers catch up with them.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_7291539d	comment	In Batman: Arkham City, Batman destroys Penguin's radio jammers by punching through the screens and ripping pieces out. Particularly egregious as he usually has Explosive Gel for situations like that.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_7378e633	comment	In Rise of Legends, Giacomo rips some wires out of the Doge's laser cannon, causing it to blow up in his face.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_7668653b	comment	At several points in Mass Effect 3, Commander Shepard must assign one squad member to activate or disable some sort of electronic system while Shepard and the other squad member fend off the enemy. There's almost always a tech specialist in the party during these moments, but there's nothing stopping the player from giving the job to The Big Guy James Vega instead... to which James replies that it's not really his specialty, but he'll "pull a few wires, see what comes out." He walks up to the panel, stares at it in bewilderment...and then starts kicking it. And it works.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_7fc1aff4	comment	In Stray, to unlock three consoles in the Control Room the Cat must find a nearby wiring panel and claw at the wires until the security protocol goes offline.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_81692f99	comment	In the Star Trek: In general, Borg drones can be disabled by yanking out the wires attached to their heads. Given they're super-strong cyborgs, however, this is generally considered a last resort. Star Trek: Voyager: In "Night", Tom Paris ropes in a bored Seven of Nine to play the Damsel in Distress in the holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton. On being menaced by a Tin-Can Robot, Seven deactivates it by quickly opening an access hatch and ripping out a handful of wires and electronic components. "The robot is destroyed. May I go now?"
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Are These Wires Important? / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In Transformers: Prime, Bumblebee does this to Skyquake while clinging to the exterior of his jet mode in midair; once he yanks enough stuff out, the Seeker goes into a nosedive and fatally crashes into the ground. Long before that in Beast Wars, during a deliberately slapsticky fight near the end of the first season one of the Maximals yanks a wire out of Inferno while they're in midair. His jet booster sputters for a bit, he hangs there for a beat, then he plummets to the ground.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_86c3beca	comment	Happens all the time in Girl Genius. Bash and pull to break the rampaging metal monstrosity (or make the thing behave) tends to be necessary with Sparky inventions, since a Spark in the zone invents first and thinks of safety precautions later (maybe).
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Are These Wires Important? / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003): Badass Normal Robin did this to a squid-shaped robot in an early episode. As Teen Titans The Abridged Series points out, he was somehow able to punch through the robot's armor despite Starfire's laser blasts having absolutely no effect. A more realistic example had Beast Boy turn into a mouse, crawl into the giant robot, and start biting all the wires he could see, although one must wonder how he avoided being shocked to death.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_8933e614	comment	In Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars, Jerry whistles for Spike before throwing a bone into an access hatch on the Invince-a-tron. Spike's rather enthusiastic pursuit of the bone throughout the robot's interior does quite a bit of damage.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_8df52a8d	comment	Superboy: He pulled this stunt during the Reign of the Supermen event, tearing into a robot that tried to kill Superman (again) and ripping out a few random parts. He pulled this a few times in his own book as well, disabling parts of a villain's lair and disarming a cyborg opponent by dismantling parts of their machinery. His telekinesis means that dismantling objects with a touch is one of his favorite ways of dealing with threats.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: Wash's contribution to the crash of the Hand of Merope is to do this.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_909ca4b1	comment	Enzo in ReBoot does this while trapped in Megabyte's fortress in one of the earlier episodes.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_90a3a7f4	comment	In one Kim Possible episode, Dr. Drakken launches a "Hypertronic Devastator Drone" while Shego keeps Kim too busy to interfere. Then Ron shows him the gizmo that broke off while he was climbing up the side of the drone and asks "Is this important?" It turns out to be a gyroscopic control unit, without which the drone will fly straight up and then fall straight down.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_90e2f673	comment	In BattleTech, this is a favored attack method of battle armor with a battle claw and jumpjets. That is to say, they jump up to a Battlemech, grab hold and generally start shooting holes in delicate looking things. It's not a battle armour specialty, either; there's Anti-'Mech Infantry who do exactly the same thing with nothing but their bare hands, climbing gear, a combat rifle and satchel charges. They tend to take tremendous casualties in the process, given that they're chasing after a multi-story war machine's feet trying to climb up, normally while it's moving. Suicidal, but for underequipped units that can't take on a 'mech in direct combat it's better to take a chance of having half the army smeared over the landscape than to just allow the things to do whatever they want. Especially against the Clans, who don't mind sending 'Freebirths', and anyone above 40 to their honorable deaths.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_986e857e	comment	Ben has used this technique a couple of times in Ben 10.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: Inverted in The Shooting Star: Captain Haddock is wondering why the radio isn't working, when the scientist next to him holds up two wires and asks if they're supposed to be plugged into something. The captain had accidentally yanked them out due to his Large Ham tendencies.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Parasites Lost", Fry does this to his own brain.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_a3ef164b	comment	In one Ultimate X-Men, Kitty Pryde phases inside of a rampaging physical manifestation of the Danger Room and attempts to stop it this way. Becomes a bit of a Mexican Standoff, as she needs to turn solid to damage it, and it threatens to kill her as soon as she does.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_b0544c4d	comment	Super Robot Wars Z: Ripping out wires is just one of the many parts of Rand's best attack after the Gunleon's Sphere is activated.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_b4996199	comment	In an issue of Spectacular Spider-Man, Spidey lands on the Vulture's back mid-flight and begins ripping things out of the Vulture's wing-pack. The flight ends pretty quickly.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_ba3d2748	comment	In The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible pulls the CPU out twice from Syndrome's battle droids. Both times, he gets the battle droid to do it to itself.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, using the "Steal" command against a mechanical mook results in an instant kill (and the player gaining a grenade). Presumably, this represents your thief reaching into the machine and pulling out some vital (but explosive) component.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_c7d427b7	comment	In Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Lara pulls out a few wires from her practice robot to try and stop it; oddly, it then responds to a stop command.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_cb6a6d5b	comment	The Avengers (1998). Steed rips the guts out of one of Sir August's robot insects after it crashes into Mrs. Peel's car.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_cf69b21e	comment	Long before that in Beast Wars, during a deliberately slapsticky fight near the end of the first season one of the Maximals yanks a wire out of Inferno while they're in midair. His jet booster sputters for a bit, he hangs there for a beat, then he plummets to the ground.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_d0744832	comment	In a late '70s issue of The Avengers, the team is trying to stop a giant robot called Red Ronin — designed, incidentally, to fight Godzilla — from reaching New York and presumably destroying it. Thor's not around, and the rest of the team — Iron Man, Wonder Man, Vision, Captain America, and a few others — are fighting Ronin from outside, along with the Shield Helicarrier. But not Beast. He makes his way inside the mecha, finds the control room, sits down, and susses out how it's controlled, then yanks the one plug that will cause the thing to shut down. It's a Moment of Awesome.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_d38fe19f	comment	In one episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars, Mace Windu cuts a hole in a droid fighter with his lightsaber, yanks at some wires... and starts using them as reins. Implausible as all get out, but it looks cool.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_d461f757	comment	In the Battlestar Galactica (2003) episode "You Can't Go Home again," Starbuck is trying to get a dead Cylon Raider to fly. As she is examining the interior, she looks at what appears to be a large mass of tissue and says "This must be your brain. You won't need it," and yanks it out. "Lucky I brought one of my own."
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Are These Wires Important? / int_d8c2cfe4	comment	In Ant-Man, the title character resorts to this after getting into a fight with the Falcon, shrinking down to disable his wingsuit from within before fleeing.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_d8cdb77	comment	The boss of Mega Man Zero 4's intro stage is the core of a sand-submarine with a set of wires running underneath it. These wires provide power for its more powerful attack (a giant Slow Laser that Zero only has just enough room to dash under), which means you can power down or even remove its ability to use the attack completely by rushing in and tearing out those wires with the Z-Knuckle.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_dc30219c	comment	In Lancer, a particularly brave, suicidal and/or desperate pilot can do this while jockeying (climbing on) an enemy mech, dealing Heat.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_ddad77ae	comment	In the Astro City story "Old Times", Supersonic is no longer able to think of clever schemes to defeat a rampaging robot due to his age. Instead, he resorts to simply pounding it repeatedly until he can reach and tear out some vital components.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! — Bob got the chance to do this to the same spaceship on two separate occasions. In both cases it meant smashing random control panels with his shoe.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_e293455a	comment	That's the way the cyborg Adam is defeated in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy managed to put her hand inside him and tear out his power source. She even did the "Kung-Fu Badass" thing where she showed it to him before he died.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_e2bf2db1	comment	This is probably Squirrel Girl's favorite trick. She's used her ability to Talk To Squirrels to defeat both MODOK and Doctor Doom.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_e32a3f50	comment	He pulled this a few times in his own book as well, disabling parts of a villain's lair and disarming a cyborg opponent by dismantling parts of their machinery. His telekinesis means that dismantling objects with a touch is one of his favorite ways of dealing with threats.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_e5d94391	comment	One of the funnier cutscenes in MDK2 is Max trying to stop a doomsday missile aimed at the Earth. Because he isn't known for finesse, he just opens a panel and starts rapidly ripping every component out he can get his hands on. Unfortunately, he can't stop it, however he does apparently disable the navigation and the warhead, causing it to harmlessly crash into the palace where Kurt is. Max tries to play it off that he arrived to save him.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_e92b62ba	comment	Parodied in a Rat-Man issue where, to stop a conspiracy of evil geologists (don't ask), the hero infiltrates their base, finds a control room and smashes every piece of machinery he can put his hands on. This has the effect of shorting out the conspiracy's vending machine.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_ebf385d8	comment	In Twice Upon a Time, Flora Fauna ends up doing this to Botch's TV-headed Giant Mook Ibor.
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Are These Wires Important? / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: In "Night", Tom Paris ropes in a bored Seven of Nine to play the Damsel in Distress in the holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton. On being menaced by a Tin-Can Robot, Seven deactivates it by quickly opening an access hatch and ripping out a handful of wires and electronic components. "The robot is destroyed. May I go now?"
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