Last Resort

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The term Last Resort usually refers to an action that is used only when no other option remains.

An action of last resort can be:

• Using weapons of mass destruction.
• A collision course.
• Initiating self-destruct.
• Scuttling a ship.
• Final surrender or, conversely, launching a suicide attack.
• Going to war and, at the farthest extreme, initiating nuclear war (because it is internecine).

Other meanings:

• Last Resort is a film that was released in 2000 directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, starring Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov and Paddy Considine. Short description is "When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum." -Last Resort at the Internet Movie Database
• Last Resort - a shoot'em up released in 1992 for the Neo-Geo system. Extremely difficult (there's a walkthrough available for this game [1]), its gameplay was heavily inspired by R-Type and its system of pod attached to the player's ship. Its first level remained memorable for its homage to the futuristic Neo-Tokyo depicted in the anime Akira.
• Last Resort is the name of a song by Papa Roach.
• Last Resort' is also the name of a song by The Eagles about "how the west was lost".
• Last Resort is also the name of an English dub episode of Sonic X.
• The Last Resort is also a British Punk/Oi band.
• LastResort (with no space between the words) is the name of a fallback font used in computer systems to display Unicode text.
• Last Resort (Australian TV show) was a TV show produced between 1998 and 1999 about a run-down hotel and the people who live in it.