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Prayer Is a Last Resort

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Prayer Is a Last Resort	comment	Nothing seems to be going right. The character is continuously failing to make any progress, despite constantly trying. Eventually, they reach a point where they've exhausted all avenues for success and there are no other options. Now is a good time to pray. Praying in this context is a sign that the character is giving up and acknowledging that they have no control, and so for a character to pray as a first response is a sign of weakness. As such, works will typically portray prayer as a last resort or an act of desperation after the character has tried and failed to resolve the conflict on their own. Sub-Trope of Godzilla Threshold because it is a sign of a desperation and a willingness to try anything. Overlaps with O.O.C. Is Serious Business if the person praying is an atheist. Truth in Television, if the person doesn't regularly pray, and feels they have exhausted all other options. There are other cases such as people who pray regularly. These people usually do so as a first response, and then try to resolve the issue if that doesn't work or just praying for their attempts to succeed — and this is seen as normal among such people. Then there are the people whose first response is to pray for the strength to solve their problem themselves. Such people would include the Good Shepherd, the Religious Bruiser, The Paladin, other manly and religious men etc. If the character issues the prayer as an ultimatum that will determine their belief in God, they're playing Religious Russian Roulette. If the character checks "All of the above" for the recipient of their prayer, then it's Emergency Multifaith Prayer. If the prayer is answered and the Man Upstairs saves the day, it's Divine Intervention and probably a Deus ex Machina, though to be fair it may not be out of character if God is the ultimate Big Good. Related to Turn to Religion, where the character makes a more lasting conversion to faith after the current crisis is over. See also Crisis of Faith, In Mysterious Ways, and God Is Good. Compare and contrast with Have You Seen My God? and Evil Stole My Faith. Supertrope to Say Your Prayers (where the character is actually about to die). An alternative with no religious connotations is "Good Luck" Gesture.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_1331990c	comment	From Puella Magi Madoka Magica's resident Anti Heroic Preacher's Kid, Kyoko as she is forced to take Oktavia (Sayaka's Witch forme) with her:
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_16fc4335	comment	Shows up a few times in the Heralds of Valdemar books. Justified at least once with the comment that a Herald's first instinct is to try and fix a problem, so they won't pray for help unless nothing is working.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_18e1d600	comment	In Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Sam resorts to his old Catholic prayers as the gang's jeep hangs over the edge of a cliff by its winch.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_1e9c0623	comment	RuneQuest also features divine intervention as a low-chance (for most characters at least) last-ditch option. To make it even more of a difficult choice, a successful divine intervention also extracts a hefty price: the petitioner loses some points from his permanent POW attribute.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_227431b6	comment	In the Runaways tie-in to Secret Invasion (2008), the team is captured by Skrulls led by Xavin's old mentor, who has most of the team incapacitated, except for Klara, the least combat-experienced member. Unable to fight back against a fully-trained Super-Skrull, god-fearing Klara prays for someone to save her and her friends... at which point a tree bursts out of the ground, creating enough of a distraction for the other Runaways to escape their bonds and fight back.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Happened to Bart in "Bart Gets an F" and "Bart Sells His Soul". The page quote is taken from the former episode, as Lisa paraphrases the Samuel Johnson statement "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Parodied in "Lost Our Lisa", when Homer says "I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!" In "Missionary: Impossible", Homer ends up signing on to do missionary work in the South Pacific to get out of paying a huge sum to PBS, and objects that "I don't even believe in Jebus!" As the plane flies off he runs to the window and calls "Save me, Jebus!" Marge is already fairly religious (and probably the only reason the family goes to church), but doesn't really incorporate religion into her daily life, except on three occasions when she succumbed to this trope. In "Hurricane Neddy" when Springfield was hit by a tornado, which ironically destroyed the Flanders house but spared everyone else, when Homer abandoned organized religion in "Homer the Heretic", and when she was on trial for attempted murder. Unfortunately, in that last case, the judges thought God was her imaginary friend and had her committed.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_2b113e02	comment	The Mummy (1999): Benny resorts to desperately running through prayers and religious icons when faced with the resurrected Imhotep. He gets nothing out of the cross, the representation of the Buddha or the Muslim crescent. But he's saved when he breaks out the Star of David and mumbles in Hebrew — Imhotep recognizes "the language of the slaves."
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Quite a few Looney Tunes characters pray in hopeless situations, such as falling from great heights or while restrained and awaiting execution.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_2dc12aeb	comment	NetHack has this for all characters. If you haven't bothered your god too much lately, and you're in big trouble of some sort, there's a pretty good chance they will help you out.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_2f9afae7	comment	The Fifth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons features this with Divine Intervention for Clerics. The Cleric prays to their god to get involved on their behalf; if it works, the Cleric can ask their god for basically anything, from healing the party to instantly smiting an enemy. The chances of it succeeding are very low — it only has anywhere from a 10-20% chance of working (depending on Cleric level). If this Divine Intervention roll fails, it can't be used again until the character has taken a long rest, so that's a wasted turn. But if Divine Intervention succeeds, it can't be used for a week in-universe, which might mean several more sessions before a Cleric can try it again. But if things are looking really bad, a Cleric praying to their god might be the one thing that prevents a Total Party Kill.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_30b255fb	comment	In Supergirl story Hellsister Trilogy, John Constantine is worried that the Girl of Steel won't survive the next battle, so he resorts to pray — something he seldom does, even though he's quite aware of the existence of gods in the setting. As it turns out, his prayer is answered.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_31ca9925	comment	The Dukes of Hazzard: In the Season 5 episode "Witness: Jesse Duke," Uncle Jesse, a witness to a bank robbery, has suffered a concussion and lost his eyesight (temporarily, as it turns out). When all available treatments are showing no signs of restoring his eyesight, Daisy breaks down in tears and recites a prayer to God to restore her beloved uncle's eyesight. Unlike many TV episodes, where this trope is used by a scoundrel to worm his way out of a situation he caused, prayer as a last resort is portrayed positively here: a family that, when the chips are down and all else has failed, turns to God and trusts in Him for things to be made right.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_34dd9ae4	comment	Twilight Of The Red Tsar: Right before being put to death, Vyacheslav Molotov, an outspoken atheist before, becomes so terrfied with the prospect of imminent death that he asks the executioner to say a prayer. This request is denied When Stalin heards the story, he bursts into laughter and mockingly imitates Molotov saying the Lord's Prayer).
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_365e9759	comment	A Wolf in the Soul has a mixed example. Greg begins to question his disbelief in God surprisingly quickly, but his prayers are at first half-hearted because of his uncertainty. Even when he starts to believe and pray out of desperation, he does so merely because Holmes said it would help, and his prayers are still fairly rote and dispassionate. It is only when he sincerely thanks God for the existence of his best friend that he takes a major step towards being cured.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in one of Roseanne's final episodes. The family is gathered together with pizza after going through several recent cataclysms, most notably the premature birth and miraculous survival of Darlene's baby. Roseanne notes that they should say prayers before eating, rather than always waiting until something bad happens before turning to God.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_3f3abe9	comment	Parodied in Rick and Morty: Rick prays to God for help when he thinks he's about to die, than immediately starts hurling verbal abuse and mockery at Him upon miraculously escaping, as if he somehow gamed the system. A later episode has them at the mercy of Story Lord, a villain who wishes to exploit them for their story potential. Rick and Morty start praying to Jesus, which sabotages the Story Lord's machine since they're doing something wildly out of character as well as narratively unsatisfying. Through this they manage to literally invoke a Deus ex Machina as Jesus himself comes to save them. Morty's a bit conflicted since he's not sure whether or not this counts as a cheap shot towards religion.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_3f445492	comment	In the board game Tales of the Arabian Nights some seemingly unwinnable situations can be salvaged or even turned to your advantage by selecting the reaction "Pray." It rarely hurts you and sometimes can pull out near-miraculous results like the evil Bedouin horde being chased off by a swarm of angry bees before they can attack you. Or the Evil Vizier who threw you in the dungeon mysteriously dying before he can order your execution.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_418dc21	comment	In The Nightmare House, Lily can't go up the stairs fast enough to escape the monster in her nightmares, so all she does is sit down and pray it doesn't find her.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Referenced by Dean Winchester in Season 5. As the Apocalypse begins, the heroes conclude that the only party powerful enough to stop both the forces of Hell and Heaven from destroying Earth is the long-absent God, so they go looking for him. Later in the season when Dean starts to hit rock bottom, he wanders outside and looks up at the sky, then tearfully says he needs some help. Dean also attempts prayer once in Season 4 when he starts to crack under the pressure. Castiel encourages him, saying it's a sign of faith. Mocked by the Yellow-Eyed Demon as he's about to slaughter a room full of nuns in 4.22 Lucifer Rising. Dean prays again at the start of Season 9, when Sam is dying, specifically to Castiel, whom he's prayed to multiple times over the course of series just because it's the easiest way to get a hold of him. However, his reasons for praying are desperate and the last time he saw Castiel he was furious with him, so turning to him now is more desperate than usual. Then when he gets no response, (because Castiel was human at the time), he prays to any angel who can hear him, about 98% of whom probably want to kill him, because he needs help that badly. Sam takes a turn doing this in Season 11. The latest big bad has unleashed a rage plague onto a rural hospital, and Sam is infected. While trying to invent a cure before succumbing, he visits the hospital chapel to ask for guidance. In the Season 13 premiere, Dean prays to God / Chuck — who he's never cared for, and by this point knows is the cosmic equivalent of an airport novelist — because Castiel is dead and his mother is trapped in another universe, and he has no one else to turn to. Being Dean, he calls Chuck a son of a bitch while he's at it.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_43d3dff6	comment	Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Duo: In chapter 7, Nikora prays to Aqua Regina for advice, asking what she should do to protect Lucia and the other princesses, or if she can. In chapter 15, Caren prays to Aqua Regina as well, wondering whether or not she should embrace her feelings for Subaru or block them out. In chapter 20, Meru, out of loneliness, prays to Aqua Regina to help her find love like Lucia and the others have. Her prayers are answered almost immediately; she meets Kaito's cousin Makoto, and it's Love at First Sight.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_43d5d8e7	comment	In Pippin, when Theo's duck Otto gets very sick, Pippin can do no more for it than kneel down together with Theo and pray all day. Then the duck dies.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_44e0cf22	comment	In Legend of Legaia, after defeating Songi at Noaru Valley, the Great Genesis Tree appears to be on the verge of death, and is too weak to be revived. With the life of the Seru-kai and their own lives about to perish along with it, Gala suggests they turn to their faith as their last bastion of hope and pray for a miracle.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld Played with in Going Postal. Once when Moist von Lipwig, con artist turned postmaster, is in dire need of money to repair his post office which has just been burned down, he pretends to a) pray for divine guidance and b) get it before "discovering" his stash of loot from his conman days. Later, when he is in dire straits again, another character semi-sarcastically suggests he should go up to the roof of the Post Office and pray, which he eventually does — which is the cue some potential allies take that he's serious about wanting to help. In Making Money, Moist does resort to praying to Anoia, Goddess of Lost Causes and Things Stuck in Drawers. When a very strange coincidence saves him from his ex-partner in crime Cribbins when the dentures Cribbins stole from a dead man years ago break and explode in the man's mouth, Moist resolves to make a thanksgiving offering of a really big ladle, just to be on the safe side.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_47c7e5f7	comment	Subverted in Steve Earle's "Tom Ames' Prayer", about a bank robber who finds himself "trapped in an alley in Abilene with all but four shells spent" and turns to God for the first time in his life... only to wind up bragging at length about that time he saved himself from hanging and concluding:
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: Bridgette holds her palms together when she reveals her vote for Eva in the confessional in "No Pain, No Game". Eva's been gunning for her ever since she came back that morning, so Bridgette needs to be rid of her as soon as possible. Bridgette's sentiment is a common one, so Eva does get voted off that evening. While the Total Drama Jumbo Jet is seemingly at risk of crashing in "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better", Bridgette holds her palms together for that not to happen. It takes some time, but eventually Leshawna realizes her team has given up on rescuing her in "Ocean's Eight - Or Nine". She knows she's got her own deceit to blame for that and begins monologuing half to the camera and half to her teammates. As she places her palms together, she proposes forgiveness for her misdeed. The contestants are about to go over the Niagara Falls in their paddle boats in "Niagara Brawls" and there's nothing they can do against the strong current. Courtney is the first to resort to praying, promising one entity or another that she'll tutor anyone who asks, even a numbskull like Duncan, if she and the others survive. Duncan adds that if they get to live, he'll forget what Courtney just said. Cody one-ups the both of them by promising he'll let Sierra kiss him if they live, but admits he only makes the promise because they won't survive anyway. Sierra has other ideas and, with a kiss in mind, pulls off superhuman feats to save everyone. Lightning falls a long way down from the zeppelin in "Up, Up, and Away in My Pitiful Balloon" and with nothing better to do with his time, he resorts to praying for a soft landing. He gets both that and, by landing on Jo, a vengeful landing.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_483991ad	comment	In Birthday Breakfast, the twins are fighting. Lincoln tries shouting their names but they don't pay attention, he considers pulling them apart but is afraid of hurting them, so he just prays that they'd either get tired or grow bored of it.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_4b1bcf96	comment	Played ham-fistedly straight in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, where Holly convinces Lola Beck to pray with her because they have nothing left to lose. Holly then proceeds to pray for God to send them an army of Angels to save them... as behind Holly Rico's Marauders can be seen dropping from orbit, and forming a Background Halo on her.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_4c90a0f7	comment	In United 93, a Tear Jerking and Real Life example is given when Todd Beamer recites the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm with GTE airphone supervisor Lisa Jefferson before they storm the cockpit. A few other passengers join in, too.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_4e5b6428	comment	In Making Money, Moist does resort to praying to Anoia, Goddess of Lost Causes and Things Stuck in Drawers. When a very strange coincidence saves him from his ex-partner in crime Cribbins when the dentures Cribbins stole from a dead man years ago break and explode in the man's mouth, Moist resolves to make a thanksgiving offering of a really big ladle, just to be on the safe side.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound (1994) has this in its final battle. The final boss is defeated by praying to everyone the protagonists have met on their journey, and the player.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_51c47bd9	comment	Hey Arnold! The Movie: During the bus chase, Gerald starts reciting a Hebrew prayer.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_5c1d9db0	comment	One episode of House, M.D. has the husband of the patient-of-the-week, who has already moved heaven and earth to get her the best care, praying for her recovery. He admits that he doesn't think it will work, but he promised to do everything he could think of to help her, and praying is a thing he can think of.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, its noted that for the general populace praying to the Unconquered Sun is done only once the situation is past the Godzilla Threshold, because asking for his help would imply that giving Creation the light and warmth necessary for humanity's survival isn't enough. To quote Glories: "It is said that the Unconquered Sun's blessings come with a hard touch of disaster that leaves his subjects amidst the curse and ruin of his apocalyptic miracles. Because of this, prayers to the Most High often come in the form of thanks for rented light and another day's lease on life — for any day when the Unconquered Sun didn't act directly on their behalf is another day where his wrath was stayed."
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_5f2ce64d	comment	In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, the Golden Paladin Roland de Ronceval pulls out a crucifix and starts praying to the archangels as a last resort when he is defeated by Dracula. This fails because Dracula aka Gabriel Belmont is still God's chosen champion.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_60381be1	comment	O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Everett near the end, about to be killed by the Warden, asks God to save him. After being saved, he goes right back to being an atheist, denying that God had any hand in it.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_6234f5b3	comment	In Father Brown, Inspector Valentine gives prayer a try when faced with four disappearances, including Father Brownâ€™s, and no clues. His attempt sounds more like heâ€™s asking a disliked colleague for help with the case.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_62cafa4	comment	From Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_63c7721b	comment	In Godzilla: New Era has one in the finale by widower, Dr. Yuji Shinoda; who was traumatized by the lose of his wife and couldn't prior. In the final battle at Kyoto there are no possible options to stop the Millennian, which will unleash a nuclear doomsday if it isn't stopped. But most important to Yuji, the alien, now the berserk Body Horror Orga, is trying to get to his daughter and assimilate her. With no other options and remembering what Yuki taught him, he puts his faith in the one being left still attacking and capable of destroying Orga: Godzilla.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_691be369	comment	In the The X-Files Season 7 first episode, all Scully can do for a dying Mulder is to pray. It helps (this particular season-finale/season-opener trilogy was huge on hinting that Mulder is Jesus in purgatory, suffering for humanity, whose sacrifice might save us).
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_6eaf4277	comment	In the trailer for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, the Imperium just got its ass kicked and a new rift to the Realms of Chaos has opened. The Imperial commander featured in the trailer can only sound the retreat for his fleet and pray to the Emperor for deliverance.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Bajorans are a religious people (it doesn't hurt that their gods turn out to actually exist), though exactly how this plays out varies based on the individual. Kira is usually an Action Girl, not necessarily given to faith as the first answer for everything, but she'll turn to prayer when all else fails. The most notable example is in "Starship Down", after Sisko is gravely injured and she fears that he may be dying.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_74365738	comment	Played with in Going Postal. Once when Moist von Lipwig, con artist turned postmaster, is in dire need of money to repair his post office which has just been burned down, he pretends to a) pray for divine guidance and b) get it before "discovering" his stash of loot from his conman days. Later, when he is in dire straits again, another character semi-sarcastically suggests he should go up to the roof of the Post Office and pray, which he eventually does — which is the cue some potential allies take that he's serious about wanting to help.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_7ab1b252	comment	In the final book for Dr. Greta Helsing, the apocalypse is happening — angels and devils are slaughtered by an army of angels from another reality and humanity has nuked itself almost to extinction. The vampyre Varney is broken and feeling helpless, that all he can do is pray and beseech God for help. It works.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_7dbde88b	comment	The Drake & Josh episode "Helicopter" sees the two step-brothers trapped on a helicopter with no fuel and no parachutes. In his panic, the paranoid Josh can see nothing else to do but get on his knees and pray very, very loudly about the most absurdly minor sins.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_7e32d9ae	comment	In Dirty Sympathy when Klavier and Apollo flee the country after Phoenix questions Apollo with the Magatama, Klavier prays to God to keep Apollo safe.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_80eee49c	comment	In Deception Point, when the cast are about to freeze to death (having been trapped on an ice sheet by a group of Delta force soldiers) the female lead comments it probably looks like she's doing this in her internal monologue, but she's actually attempting to tap out an SOS message in the hope a secret array of microphones might pick it up. It doesn't, but luckily a submarine was passing nearby).
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House fanfiction: In Birthday Breakfast, the twins are fighting. Lincoln tries shouting their names but they don't pay attention, he considers pulling them apart but is afraid of hurting them, so he just prays that they'd either get tired or grow bored of it. In The Nightmare House, Lily can't go up the stairs fast enough to escape the monster in her nightmares, so all she does is sit down and pray it doesn't find her.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_937d01ca	comment	Patton: During the Battle of the Bulge the situation is desperate. The Germans are winning and Allied air support is grounded because of the bad weather. Patton calls in an Army chaplain and orders him to write a prayer to ask for good weather so Allied planes can smash the German forces.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_98a9de96	comment	In the (in)famous DC comics miniseries JLA: Act of God, when all the magic/mythical power based heroes lost their powers, we see Diana (Wonder Woman) praying in a Catholic Church... did we mention Diana is more related to the Greek pantheon (and was in fact literally made by them) than to the Judeo-Christian one, or that she lives on a World where supernatural creatures and Gods are known to be real and commonly seen around with other heroes in a regular basis?
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015). Discussed but averted by Wilson Fisk when Vanessa is poisoned and Fisk with all his wealth and power feels helpless to save her. He thinks it would be meaningless without the belief to back it up, so instead promises her that he will take vengeance on whoever it was who did this to her.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_99beaff4	comment	In Demo Reel, Donnie comes to this conclusion after he's been left in the woods to die, and has a rough few days with no food, shelter, or clean water.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_99c003af	comment	In one episode of The Boondocks animated series, Huey exhibits this trope. After all his plans to save an innocent black man from execution have apparently failed, at the last minute, he breaks down and prays; saying that he's never prayed before, and isn't sure who he's praying to, but that he knows the world isn't supposed to be like this. Moments later, as they're about to flip the switch for the electric chair, lightning strikes Reverend Ruckus (just as he dares God to strike him with lightning if any of his racist preaching doesn't come from God himself). Then the governor calls off the execution as one of Huey's plans (threatening to expose the governor's gay affair, not knowing about one but figuring there was about a 5% chance that one existed) comes to fruition.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_99e32a93	comment	Grimma's prayer while leading a search-and-rescue mission on a snowy night in the Nomes Trilogy is a thing of beauty:
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_9ab0076a	comment	In Dragon's Crown, if the players take a long time trying to defeat the Arch Demon boss, Rannie, who is described as not being very religious, starts praying for aid. After a minute or two, beams of light will rain from heaven, damaging the Arch Demon heavily.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_9dc5d7c8	comment	In the Attack of the Show! skit "Bustice and Power Girl Save The Nuclear Power Planet", said plant is about to go into meltdown, despite everything a pair of badly-acting white-coated technicians can do to stop it.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, during the Skypiea arc, when Eneru's Kingdom Come attack is about to hit Upper Yard, the residents of Skypiea collectively pray for a miracle to save them. At the same moment Luffy disperses Kingdom Come by conducting all of the electricity in the storm cloud through the gold sphere on his arm into his rubber body.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_a63b23da	comment	The titular character of Bruce Almighty refuses to refer to God for help with his newfound omnipotence, even in the face of global disasters, mass rioting, and a seemingly unending backlog of unanswered prayers. There's only one thing that makes Bruce completely break down, get on his knees, and beg God to take back His duties: Bruce hears his ex-girlfriend praying not to love him anymore.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_a78cc92f	comment	In the Chick Tract "War Zone", Principal Ward, confronted with parents of Westmont students who are angry about the state of the failing school, says he's tried everything, only for things to keep getting worse, and that, "The only thing I can think of is to... uh, pray for a miracle". He gets booed off the stands, but this being a Chick tract, prayer and converting students to Christianity is what miraculously gets Westmont back on track.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_a92c264a	comment	In Exterminatus Now, Flat-Earth Atheist Eastwood begs the god of law Tyrus for help when he is cornered by a gigantic spider demoness who has insinuated that she is going to rape and eat him (Eastwood is especially terrified due to his severe arachnophobia). Prayer really is the last resort here since he tried shooting himself first — it failed since he was already out of bullets. He is immediately struck with inspiration (which he initially mistakes for a fatal stroke — which he still thinks is better than being on a horny giant spider demon's menu) and saves the day.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_acb92fd0	comment	In Father Ted the title character is only ever seen praying when he wants something, usually to avoid getting into trouble. It rarely works.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_ad7edd1f	comment	One of the Kaamelott comics has this. Father Blaise is brought along with the expedition, but since he's no good at fighting, they tell him to pray. Despite telling them it doesn't work that way, he keeps at it, and at the climax his holy symbol unloads a Turn Undead against the monsters. When asked how the hell he pulled that off, he reminds them that he's been praying for the past twenty hours.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_b0fba5f1	comment	In Kitchen Nightmares, in moments where the situation with the restaurant seems especially dire Gordon Ramsay will occasionally pray to the heavens to avoid food poisoning.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_b637553	comment	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Even after Kovu proves himself a good friend to Kiara, Simba still has doubts about him for being an Outlander, so he decides to speak to the stars, hoping that the spirit of his father could give him the answer as to how he could possibly accept Scar's heir. Fortunately, Nala shows up to help.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_b67b702b	comment	Baki the Grappler: In the Pickle arc, Jack begins his fight against Pickle cocky and sure of himself... then he gradually finds out he's in way over his head, and ends up silently begging God to grant him victory, moments before Pickle gives him one hell of a beating and knocks him out.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_b7296d31	comment	My-HiME: "Cake Wars" has Sister Yukariko trying to assist the team of Natsuki, Nao, and Mikoto in baking a cake. Natsuki and Nao both prove incapable of even cracking an egg correctly, and nearly come to blows. Mikoto, however, cracks eggs quite handily...into every available dish. Upon seeing this, Sister Yukariko suggests to Natsuki and Nao that they pray. The two of them take her up on the suggestion. Until Natsuki has to put Mikoto in a restraining hold to keep her from cracking any more eggs, that is.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_b777d9c2	comment	In Aquaman (1991), Vulko doesn't believe in any of Atlantis' four religions, but prays to Poseidon for Aquaman's aid in a time of crisis.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_b99a414f	comment	End of Days: Jericho Cane prays toward the end of the movie; and since he's fighting off Demonic Possession from Satan himself, it's appropriate.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Nanase pleads God to help her when she experiences death repeatedly through her fairy doll avatars while battling Abraham.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_beaf93b0	comment	The Priest, the Scientist, and the Meteor has the priest praying to God to save Earth from the dinosaur-ghost ridden meteor. It works.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_c007a111	comment	At the very end of Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Elder One Corypheus desperately prays to the Old Gods for help when he realizes he is about to die. It doesn't help. In his first appearance it was his first resort, being a priest and all. His shock and despair over not getting a response (because his God Is Dead) fuels his entire character arc.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_ca677a95	comment	Little House on the Prairie: A common trope seen in many episodes, underscoring the deep Christian faith of the main characters. Mind you, the outcomes were not always positive — for instance, in "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away," Charles and Caroline desperately pray for a miracle to save Mary's sight, but Mary goes blind anyway. Hence, the message was that even though things don't always turn out positively, God has a plan, often different than what the protagonists were hoping, and it is them that must decide how to deal with the conflict. The above is lampshaded somewhat in the course of the two-parter, as it ends with Mary not only coming to grips with her blindness, but becoming a teacher for blind children. The Reverend Alden states during his sermon that "this must have been God's plan".
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_cd377a5	comment	"Soon You'll Get Better" by Taylor Swift, which is about her mother's battles with cancer.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_ce1f7b52	comment	In The Dresden Files RPG, one of the faith-based supernatural powers allows you to do this. When your party's in dire straits, if you have the power, you can pray to basically have the god of your choice smite your enemies and save your ass.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_d461f757	comment	In the premiere miniseries for Battlestar Galactica (2003), Doc Cottle, a man of no particular or obvious faith, further hammers home Laura Roslin's prognosis to the audience.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_d5e733b0	comment	A genuine option in Pathfinder, high level clerics have tiny chance (a matter of 3% or so) to turn the tide massively in their favour when all seems lost by praying to their god(s).
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_d5fcae4e	comment	In the Ted Lasso episode "Beard After Dark", after being put through the wringer for most of the episode, Coach Beard finds himself in a church and ends up praying to God for a way to get back with Jane. He even lampshades the fact that he's a "long-time listener, first-time caller". The prayer works - the rain stops, allowing him to hear the rave music coming from the basement, where he finds Jane.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_d7c4626a	comment	One issue of The Sandman (1989) has obscure superhero Element Girl Driven to Suicide because her powers make her look less than human. Since her powers prevent her from killing herself in any of the conventional ways, she finally appeals to the god Ra, who gave her the powers in the first place, to take them back. Ra agrees.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_d8040caa	comment	In Space Jam, while all the NBA players who lost their talents are trying to figure out what happened to them and how to reverse it, Charles Barkley gets himself to church.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel fic Bring Me to Life, Willow, having been cornered by Warren and Amy and being drained of her magic by Warren's Ray Gun, gives a desperate prayer to The Powers That Be to save her. Her prayer is answered; Whistler shows up and drives Amy and Warren off.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_e365af07	comment	This idea was alluded to in several background characters in Dino Attack RPG. In the alternate ending December 21, 2010 there are several people mentioned in passing to be praying to various beings — even those who had never even believed in a deity — and background characters were spotted doing this in the Final Battle. It was finally brought into the forefront with the introduction of Dr. Shaw, who, while a capable surgeon, is mentally unstable and greatly broken by the war to the point where she desperately clings to some form of faith in an attempt at comfort. Of course just which deity is another matter entirely — Greek Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, Norse Mythology, PeabodySam, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Kjield Kirk Christiansen, the First Builders, Creator, Builder, and even Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all brought into the mix as possible sources of faith and prayer.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_e556181c	comment	In Skin Game, Harry Dresden doesn't pray precisely to God, but does take an action in full Faith that God's Mysterious Ways will save the day and revive the shattered broken Sword of Faith. Harry hopes and has faith that Charity Carpenter, wife of Knight of the Cross Michael Carpenter, and her faith in God's Goodness and Greatness can mend the broken blade, saving her from the two hosts of Fallen Angels and cult of humans aiming to kill her, another man named Waldo Butters, and everyone in the Carpenter house. So, Harry lobs the hilt of the broken blade at Charity and she fumbles it, causing it to fall into the hands of Waldo Butters, who is more Geek than Jewish, but his deep Faith in Right overcoming Wrong, of Good triumphing, of the Sacrifice of One for the sake of others (which he ran into the fray expecting to die but at least stay the assault long enough for help to arrive) does revive the broken blade into the form best representing his ideal for those attributes: A blade of angelic light with a soft thrumm as it is formed. In short, a lightsaber. As Archangel Uriel notes later to Harry, it was a culmination of many prayers and acts of Faith that yielded that unexpected but beneficial outcome.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_e944602	comment	Goblin Slayer: After watching everyone in her party get wiped out in truly horrendous fashion by goblins and the goblins turn to her, Priestess, well beyond the Despair Event Horizon at this point, prays to the Earth Mother as they close in. Fortunately for her, that's about the time when Goblin Slayer shows up.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_ea4f62db	comment	In an episode of Family Guy, Brian, a notoriously outspoken atheist, prays to god when he thinks the world is ending (Channel 5 had been reporting that a black hole was about to consume Earth, which turned out to just be a mean-spirited prank by the news team). When it turns out that the whole thing was a hoax he stalks off to the soup kitchen, mumbling that he made a promise to Someone. Peter in "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", resorts to praying for a Jew to help him with the family finances. Granted, he "wishes on a star", but he kneels and clasps his hands in prayer. It's apparently granted, as soon as the song is over, a man named Max Weinstein knocks on the door and asks for help with his broken car.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: While most Starfleet members have Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions, Chakotay is an exception, so this trope comes up a couple of times (in "Cathexis" and "Twisted"). Subverted in "Scorpion (Part 1)". Captain Janeway has Two Roads Before You; give up on their quest to go home, or enter a battlefield between two vastly powerful alien species and face death or assimilation. To seek inspiration, she goes to the Leonardo di Vinci holodeck program. Leonardo suggests that Janeway accompany him to a church and they pray for guidance. Janeway politely turns down the offer, but then has a "Eureka!" Moment — what if she made a deal with the Devil instead?
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_f57525ab	comment	George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. It's downplayed in that his Guardian Angel Clarence has been looking out for him all along.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_fca0567c	comment	Conan the Barbarian (1982):
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_fda9c8b	comment	In Downton Abbey, Lady Mary prays for Matthew's safety in the war. She opens with "I know I don't have much credit with You. I'm not even sure if You're there", and her sister Edith is incredulous when she catches her at it, which shows just how out of character it is for her.
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Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: As he dies in the Grand Finale, Bill Cipher desperately shouts out a backwards prayer to the Axolotl, begging for it let him return to life. It doesn't work. Or does it? The "last resort" aspect is especially pronounced here because supplemental material indicates that the Axolotl is actually an enemy of Bill's, and he will have to pay a steep price for its intervention...
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