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My Way or the Highway

149 statements
27 feature instances
22 referencing feature instances

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My Way or the Highway	comment	A character is offered an uncomfortable, non-negotiable choice that boils down to two options: Agree or conform with the other party's choice of action without question, or; Get tossed aside and abandoned while the other party continues their choice of action anyway. Unlike The Easy Way or the Hard Way, there is no threat of coercion or violence; it may instead carry an implication that the person being offered this choice is expendable, especially if the person giving the "choice" has the power to fire the other person or worse if their will is not complied with. The favored catchphrase of the Control Freak, but may also be used by an older character to teach discipline, such as from a parent to their child (i.e. "My House, My Rules") or from a drill sergeant to a fresh recruit. If a person decides to choose 'the highway', that's Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!.
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My Way or the Highway / int_18a02992	comment	A Gamer In South Blue: Jack's crusade in the South Blue draws a lot of Marine attention, and it turns more than a bit sour when he's forced to reveal that he can use the Six Powers. Someone capable of using those abilities being autonomous is not a desirable option, so they start giving him offers to join the Navy. He continues refusing, and it soon gets to the point where the Navy refuses to pay out his bounties unless he joins them.
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My Way or the Highway / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix: Switch says this to Neo. There is then a cutaway to the empty, rain soaked road outside the car. Subverted when Neo chooses the highway, and Trinity has to persuade him to stay.
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My Way or the Highway / int_30b255fb	comment	In the Supergirl storyline Who is Superwoman?, Alura In-Ze bluntly tells her chief of security Thara Ak-Var she'll do what Alura says or she will not be her chief of security for much longer.
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My Way or the Highway / int_3ab9fc21	comment	Subverted in Who Took the Super out of Superman?. Once again, Morgan tries to throw his weight around, but for once Clark isn't getting it:
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My Way or the Highway / int_4118c4f1	comment	Treasure Island: During an argument with his crew, Long John Silver angrily says them that they have two options: obeying his orders or a duel to the dead.
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My Way or the Highway / int_43a95b87	comment	A variation is used in The Bernie Mac Show; when Vanesa, Bernie's oldest niece, runs away from his home, he catches her in the bus headed from L.A. to Chicago and when he asks her why she's on the bus, she responds: "You're always telling us, 'It's my way or the highway.' So you know what? I'm choosing the highway."
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My Way or the Highway / int_542849ec	comment	In The Disaster Artist, this is Tommy Wiseau's overarching modus operandi, both on and off the job.
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My Way or the Highway / int_671d5c19	comment	Blossom and Buttercup use this on each other in The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Three Girls And A Monster," fighting over using brains or brawn to bring down a giant reptilian monster. Neither is effective...Bubbles uses polite asking to bring down her beast. Amazingly, it works.
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My Way or the Highway / int_6e884bf9	comment	Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: Dick Dastardly imposes this on Zilly when he tries to shirk out of a mission or on Muttley when he tries to weasel another medal for fetching Zilly.
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My Way or the Highway / int_6f7999c5	comment	In The Day After You Saved the Multiverse, Jerome and Naomi Kent want to know why his son has suddenly developed comic-book character's powers, and why he has been missing for one week. Before listening to his history, though, Jerome reassures Clark he will always be their son, with all it entails... including obeying his parents. If he does not like their rules, he can move out.
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My Way or the Highway / int_73a9c933	comment	In the third season of The Walking Dead, the normally mellow and friendly Rick passes the Despair Event Horizon after some... stuff and things and tells the rest of the group that their camp is not a democracy anymore and anyone that's not happy is free to leave.
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My Way or the Highway / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Several of Batman's various incarnations have been accused of having this attitude by their sidekicks and allies. The final break between Batman and Dick Grayson in Batman: The Animated Series, for example, is caused by Dick discovering that Batman knew Barbara was Batgirl and deliberately kept it from him. He ignores Batman's attempts to explain he didn't feel it was his place to say anything, as well as Barbara's protests she was the one who asked Bruce to keep quiet, since by that point he'd become sick of Batman's Control Freak tendencies. Even worse, in later comics it's revealed that during the time Dick was away reinventing himself as Nightwing, Bruce and Barbara had become intimate with Barb even becoming pregnant with Bruce's child. Barbara asks Bruce to let her handle telling Dick (who'd asked her to marry him), but Bruce ignores her request and calls Dick to Wayne Manor to inform him. Not only did Dick not take this revelation well, he was supposed to meet Barbara but since Bruce summoned him, he wasn't there when Barbara was injured while trying to prevent a mugging, her injuries causing her to lose her baby. This was the explanation as to why by the time of Batman Beyond neither of them want anything to do with him.
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My Way or the Highway / int_8a95e28c	comment	Used in Reservoir Dogs by Lawrence Tierny's character:
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My Way or the Highway / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible:
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My Way or the Highway / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: Whenever Lord Viren comes up with an idea or a solution, he'll hardly budge and think of alternative options to that. This is shown the most when he brings up the console of the four kingdoms, and at first is glad that the other rulers are taking his side to fight against the elves, but the moment Aanya points out the flaw in his plans, everyone starts to pull back out of the agreement and Viren labels them all as cowards.
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My Way or the Highway / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Crow T. Robot's "Let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" features the line, "It's my way or the highway this Christmas at my bar-har-haaaaar."
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My Way or the Highway / int_97aa6d90	comment	In Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls, Segami's motivation begins and ends with stopping the CPUs and Sega Hard Girls from fighting. However, due to her status as an Amnesiac Hero, she usually can't come up with a better explanation than "We have them stop from fighting because I say so", and she completely refuses to accept any other methods.
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My Way or the Highway / int_9db3a320	comment	In Kryptonite Nevermore, Morgan Edge makes clear that Clark Kent will do what his boss says if he wants to keep working for him.
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My Way or the Highway / int_afb7052	comment	A common accusation of Bruce Wayne's Batman by Dick Grayson of Batman & Robin: "It's your way or the highway!"
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My Way or the Highway / int_bc18062d	comment	In Anne of Green Gables, Marilla is very matter-of-fact in laying down the rules on taking Anne into Green Gables. After listening to Anne's explanation of why she is not in the habit of folding her clothes before going to bed, she plainly retorts: "You'll have to remember a little better if you stay here"; then, when Anne tells her she does not say her prayers before going to bed and gives a thorough explanation of why, Marilla tells her "You must say your prayers while you are under my roof, Anne," without further justification.
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My Way or the Highway / int_cf3e7a82	comment	In Superman comics: In Kryptonite Nevermore, Morgan Edge makes clear that Clark Kent will do what his boss says if he wants to keep working for him. Subverted in Who Took the Super out of Superman?. Once again, Morgan tries to throw his weight around, but for once Clark isn't getting it: In the Supergirl storyline Who is Superwoman?, Alura In-Ze bluntly tells her chief of security Thara Ak-Var she'll do what Alura says or she will not be her chief of security for much longer.
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My Way or the Highway / int_d0744832	comment	In a The Avengers Annual, Wonder Man, while shooting a film, actually can't remember this line, ruining a take.
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My Way or the Highway / int_db30cf92	comment	In the Warrior Cats book Veil of Shadows, a Control Freak impostor has taken over Bramblestar's body and has taken one rule of the warrior code to heart above all others, that "the word of the Clan leader is the warrior code". He finally gives an ultimatum in this book: that any cat who doesn't like it can leave the Clan.
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My Way or the Highway / int_dc217e32	comment	In PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines, Aurora thinks Belladonna is giving her this when she decides to kill Aurora's father Tokiomi for abandoning her. Aurora has serious Extreme Doormat issues and believes that speaking up when she doesn't want to do something is an act of betrayal to her loved ones. To her credit, Belladonna seems to be aware of this and always tries to make sure Aurora knows she does have a say in the matter, but unfortunately she doesn't pressure enough and Aurora tends to keep quiet out of fear of being left alone.
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My Way or the Highway / int_e33c6082	comment	In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, it's revealed that Jean's inventions fail not because he's a bad inventor (he's excellent otherwise, as it's impressive what he has accomplished on his own), but because he's sometimes staunchly against receiving feedback from people that can help him. He eventually realizes that this will get him nowhere and accepts Hanson's input.
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My Way or the Highway / int_e4b1ab1e	comment	In The Pacifier, Vin Diesel's line was "We do things my way. No highway option".
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My Way or the Highway / int_ee221a4e	comment	The Transformers (Marvel): This is part of what made Grimlock's leadership of the Autobots such a failure. He successfully got the Ark spaceworthy, but only by ignoring the protests of the other Autobots that they were allowing the Decepticons to run roughshod over Earth by focusing so much on restoring the Ark. Things get so bad that Blaster and Goldbug outright desert, and other Autobots seriously consider doing the same when Grimlock focuses on hunting the two "traitors" down over fighting the Decepticons.
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My Way or the Highway	processingCategory2	Sublime Rhyme
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Who is Superwoman? (Comic Book) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Who Took the Super out of Superman? (Comic Book) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Kryptonite Nevermore (Comic Book) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
A Gamer In South Blue (Fanfic) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
The Ultimate Evil (Fanfic) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Cosy Dens / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Eugénie Grandet / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Sick Little Monkeys / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
The Disaster Artist / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (Music) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
1883 / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Peacemaker (2022) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
The Bernie Mac Show / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Bye Bye Birdie (Theatre) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Fences (Theatre) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Mr. Plinkett Reviews (Web Video) / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway
Sing 2 / int_5c32249d	type	My Way or the Highway

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