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* ''Literature/BattleGround2020'': The finale shows that the White Council of wizards didn't consider that in expelling [[TheProtagonist Harry]], they lose their only handle on him other than the threat of force -- and that as Winter Knight, an attack on him would be an attack on [[FaerieCourt Queen Mab]], ''the'' AppealToForce that MagicalSociety is founded on.
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* ''Literature/BattleGround2020'': The finale shows [[TheProtagonist Harry]] states that the White Council of wizards didn't consider that in expelling [[TheProtagonist Harry]], him, they lose their only handle on him other than the threat of force -- and that as Winter Knight, an attack on him would be an attack on [[FaerieCourt Queen Mab]], ''the'' AppealToForce that MagicalSociety is founded on.on. Though honestly, it's unclear if this is the case or if they just don't care, considering how many times he's pulled ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight and refused to communicate.
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*** Even beyond that, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were on the other side of the wall, having just dropped off the other kids. Had Harry and Ron waited 5 minutes, the Platform staff would have fixed the wall and the parents could resolve the matter for them.
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** Voldemort's whole plan with the Horcruxes is this. Yeah, he made 6 of them but he used 6 magical artifacts whose history can be easily tracked back to him instead of using random rocks and thrown them away into the bottom of a lake. Which is, literally, the first thing that Harry feared he did.
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** Again, in the same book, it's revealed through Flashbacks that Tom Riddle Jr. (a.k.a [[BigBad Voldemort]]) didn't actually think about the consequences of unleashing a giant monster and killing a muggle-born witch (Moaning Myrtle). He was very smug about about being a KarmaHoudini until learning that since the authorities couldn't find the person or being responsible for the death of Myrtle, they'll be shutting down Hogwarts for safety reasons, thus sending Tom back to the [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]] he hates oh so much. This is what led Tom to framing Aragog as Slytherin's Monster and Hagrid for being the one to release him.
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** Again, in the same book, it's revealed through Flashbacks flashbacks that Tom Riddle Jr. (a.k.a a. [[BigBad Voldemort]]) didn't actually think about the consequences of unleashing a giant monster and killing a muggle-born witch (Moaning Myrtle). He was very smug about about being a KarmaHoudini until learning that since the authorities couldn't find the person or being responsible for the death of Myrtle, they'll be shutting down Hogwarts for safety reasons, thus sending Tom back to the [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]] he hates oh so much. This is what led Tom to framing Aragog as Slytherin's Monster and Hagrid for being the one to release him.
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* Scarlett, of course, has this many times in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. She rushes into a marriage with Charles Hamilton to save face in front of those who (correctly) thought she was pining away for Ashley Wilkes. Reality hits her as early as their wedding night, as he approaches their bed and she suddenly realizes what's going to happen. She's only able to put him off by pleading timidity and fear. Then when he dies after only two months, she realizes that between her marriage, widowhood, and impending motherhood, that she's never going to have the fun she had as an unattached girl, being forced to wear mourning for years and shun all social events.
** Later, when she tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children (translation, they will now have a SexlessMarriage), he simply shrugs and nonchalantly declares that he'll seek sexual pleasure elsewhere. Only then does she realize what she's given up -- late night conversations, him comforting her after a nightmare, etc.
** Later, when she tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children (translation, they will now have a SexlessMarriage), he simply shrugs and nonchalantly declares that he'll seek sexual pleasure elsewhere. Only then does she realize what she's given up -- late night conversations, him comforting her after a nightmare, etc.
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* Scarlett, of course, has this many times in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. She rushes into a marriage with Charles Hamilton to save face in front of those who (correctly) thought she was pining away for Ashley Wilkes. Reality hits her as early as their wedding night, as he approaches their bed and she suddenly realizes what's going to happen. She's only able to put him off by pleading timidity and fear. Then when he dies after only two months, she realizes that between her marriage, widowhood, and impending motherhood, that she's never going to have the fun she had as an unattached girl, being forced to wear mourning for years and shun all social events.
** Later, when she tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children (translation, they will now have a SexlessMarriage), he simply shrugs and nonchalantly declares that he'll seek sexual pleasure elsewhere. Only then does she realize what she's given up -- late night conversations, him comforting her after a nightmare, etc.
** Later, when she tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children (translation, they will now have a SexlessMarriage), he simply shrugs and nonchalantly declares that he'll seek sexual pleasure elsewhere. Only then does she realize what she's given up -- late night conversations, him comforting her after a nightmare, etc.
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* In ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories in the anthology revolves around Jessica, a GoldDigger, who scams herself into becoming the third wife of an Indian billionaire, Gopal Balla, and then arranging to have the first and second wives killed off, one at a time, before she personally murders Gopal so that she can become the sole inheritor of Gopal's wealth. Unfortunately, Jessica didn't look through the facts: the rural New Delhi countryside that Gopal's native Indian household is located still believes in the act of [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/suttee Suttee]], or ritualistic burning, where ''the wife is cremated with the deceased husband''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally, her actions ends up biting - or in this case, burning - her in the ass on the day of the funeral]].
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* In ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories in the anthology revolves around Jessica, a GoldDigger, who scams herself into becoming the third wife of an Indian billionaire, Gopal Balla, and then arranging to have the first and second wives killed off, one at a time, before she personally murders Gopal so that she can become the sole inheritor of Gopal's wealth. Unfortunately, Jessica didn't look through the facts: the rural New Delhi countryside that Gopal's native Indian household is located still believes in the act of [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/suttee Suttee]], or ritualistic burning, where ''the wife is cremated with the deceased husband''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally, her actions ends up biting - -- or in this case, burning - -- her in the ass on the day of the funeral]].
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* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'': In ''Lieutenant Hornblower'', Acting-Captain Buckland is persuaded to follow the secret orders to attack a nest of Spanish privateers, so he just sails the ship up a channel between the fortifications, hoping to blast them apart with the ship's cannon. Turns out they can't get the right elevation; then the ship runs aground while the Spaniards happily pound away with heated shot. It's all they can do to escape intact--Bush reflects later that taking a wooden ship into a situation where red-hot cannonballs can be fired into her was pretty foolish. (The writers of the [[Series/HoratioHornblower television series]] apparently thought it was so bad, they had the mad Captain Sawyer do this as a DeathSeeker.)
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* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'': In ''Lieutenant Hornblower'', Acting-Captain Buckland is persuaded to follow the secret orders to attack a nest of Spanish privateers, so he just sails the ship up a channel between the fortifications, hoping to blast them apart with the ship's cannon. Turns out they can't get the right elevation; then the ship runs aground while the Spaniards happily pound away with heated shot. It's all they can do to escape intact--Bush intact -- Bush reflects later that taking a wooden ship into a situation where red-hot cannonballs can be fired into her was pretty foolish. (The writers of the [[Series/HoratioHornblower television series]] apparently thought it was so bad, they had the mad Captain Sawyer do this as a DeathSeeker.)
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* In ''Dictator'', the third book of the ''Literature/{{Imperium}}'' trilogy, Caesar's assassins show courage and cunning in planning and carrying out the assassination--but they make no plans whatsoever for the aftermath, simply assuming that the Republic will reassert itself and things will go back to normal with Caesar dead. Cicero repeatedly bemoans the failure of the conspirators to take out Antony as well as Caesar, or to take any other measures to restore republican government.
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* In ''Dictator'', the third book of the ''Literature/{{Imperium}}'' trilogy, Caesar's assassins show courage and cunning in planning and carrying out the assassination--but assassination -- but they make no plans whatsoever for the aftermath, simply assuming that the Republic will reassert itself and things will go back to normal with Caesar dead. Cicero repeatedly bemoans the failure of the conspirators to take out Antony as well as Caesar, or to take any other measures to restore republican government.
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* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake Thorburn binds Pauz, a minor demon, into a book, but fails to account for the small army of corrupted animals that Pauz had assembled--which promptly attempt to kill him, resulting in him nearly being gored by a deer. Later, he challenges [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Conquest]], Lord of Toronto, to a wargame in exchange for his freedom, but fails to account for Conquest's willingness to damage the city and its citizens, leading to a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
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* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake Thorburn binds Pauz, a minor demon, into a book, but fails to account for the small army of corrupted animals that Pauz had assembled--which assembled -- which promptly attempt to kill him, resulting in him nearly being gored by a deer. Later, he challenges [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Conquest]], Lord of Toronto, to a wargame in exchange for his freedom, but fails to account for Conquest's willingness to damage the city and its citizens, leading to a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''--being basically ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' with more tropes played straight, and a hell of a lot more magic wielding--has a number of examples as well, but one of the more entertaining involves [[TheTrickster Mat]] infiltrating [[BigFancyCastle the Stone of Tear]] to save his allies from the baddies. He shoves a bundle of fireworks into an arrowslit, then lights them to create a diversion so he can sneak in by another route. When he notices that the blast has made the arrowslit larger, he changes his plans and climbs through it instead...then realizes that half the garrison is headed his way. [[UnluckilyLucky Naturally]], he gets away with it.
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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''--being ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' -- being basically ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' with more tropes played straight, and a hell of a lot more magic wielding--has wielding -- has a number of examples as well, but one of the more entertaining involves [[TheTrickster Mat]] infiltrating [[BigFancyCastle the Stone of Tear]] to save his allies from the baddies. He shoves a bundle of fireworks into an arrowslit, then lights them to create a diversion so he can sneak in by another route. When he notices that the blast has made the arrowslit larger, he changes his plans and climbs through it instead...then realizes that half the garrison is headed his way. [[UnluckilyLucky Naturally]], he gets away with it.
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* ''Literature/AnxiousPeople'': The bank robber plans to steal exactly 6,500 kronor from the bank just to pay off one month's rent on an apartment. After, the robber fully intends to return all the money. ''How,'' though, is never figured out. The robber is just too desperate to think straight.
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* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': In ''Bloodline'', Seishen Daji somehow manages to lie under a [[CannotTellALie truth field]], and uses the opportunity to claim he never committed any crimes, he is just being framed by Lindon, who has a baseless grudge against him. Mercy (who is acting as judge) knows this is ridiculous, but pretends to believe him. Lindon takes his cue and challenges Daji to an honor duel. [[OhCrap At which point Daji realizes he just got into a grudge match with one of the most powerful men in the world]].
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* ''Literature/WatershipDown'': A precognitive rabbit has a vision that his warren will be destroyed, and with it every rabbit who lives there. He and his brother try to convince the leader to move the warren, but fail, so they gather up a group of everyone who believes them and leave in the hope of making a new warren somewhere safer. They travel a long way, survive various dangers, find a great new spot... and then realise that all of them are male and they didn't think to bring along any females, so they're going to need another plan if they want their new warren to last longer than a couple of years at best.
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* In the Franchise/SherlockHolmes novel ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', there are two noted flaws in the villain Stapelton's plan to kill off the other heirs to the Baskerville estate and then reveal himself as the previously-unknown heir;
** In the Epilogue, Watson points out that Stapleton's scheme had one major flaw -- '''how could he claim the Baskerville fortune without instantly raising suspicion on himself?''' Holmes says that Beryl told him that her husband planned to either a) go back to South America and claim the inheritance from there (ignoring the fact that he had fled from there to avoid prosecution for embezzling public money), b) create another disguise to claim it, c) engage some accomplice to claim it for him instead.
** Stapleton also doesn't appear to have fully considered the potential consequences of using his own wife as the bait in a HoneyTrap, and that it might not be very pleasant to have to watch another man seduce his own wife.
** In the Epilogue, Watson points out that Stapleton's scheme had one major flaw -- '''how could he claim the Baskerville fortune without instantly raising suspicion on himself?''' Holmes says that Beryl told him that her husband planned to either a) go back to South America and claim the inheritance from there (ignoring the fact that he had fled from there to avoid prosecution for embezzling public money), b) create another disguise to claim it, c) engage some accomplice to claim it for him instead.
** Stapleton also doesn't appear to have fully considered the potential consequences of using his own wife as the bait in a HoneyTrap, and that it might not be very pleasant to have to watch another man seduce his own wife.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/ShiraCalpurnia'' novel ''Legacy'', the local cathedral makes a play for the story's MacGuffin, a Rogue Trader charter signed and sealed by the Emperor Himself with a drop of His blood. This places it among the holiest of relics, but the church's legal strategy has one critical flaw: The Emperor's word is law. That signature marks every provision of the charter as a divine command, including the clauses about how it is to be passed down in the Phrax line. As Calpurnia's legal research team discovered, the matter had been litigated before, with a definitive ruling against the Ecclesiarchy.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/ShiraCalpurnia'' novel ''Legacy'', the local cathedral makes a play for the story's MacGuffin, a Rogue Trader charter signed and sealed by the Emperor Himself with a drop of His blood. This places it among the holiest of relics, but the church's legal strategy has one critical flaw: The Emperor's word is law.law, sacrosanct above all others. That signature marks every provision of the charter as a divine command, including the clauses about how it is to be passed down in the Phrax line. As Calpurnia's legal research team discovered, the matter had been litigated before, with a definitive ruling against the Ecclesiarchy.
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* In ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories in the anthology revolves around Jessica, a GoldDigger, who scams herself into becoming the third wife of an Indian billionaire, Gopal Balla, and then arranging to have the first and second wives killed off, one at a time, before she personally murders Gopal so that she can become the sole inheritor of Gopal's wealth. Unfortunately, Jessica didn't look through the facts: the rural New Delhi countryside that Gopal's household is located still believes in the act of [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/suttee Suttee]], or ritualistic burning, where ''the wife is cremated with the deceased husband''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally, her actions ends up biting - or in this case, burning - her in the ass on the day of the funeral]].
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* In ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories in the anthology revolves around Jessica, a GoldDigger, who scams herself into becoming the third wife of an Indian billionaire, Gopal Balla, and then arranging to have the first and second wives killed off, one at a time, before she personally murders Gopal so that she can become the sole inheritor of Gopal's wealth. Unfortunately, Jessica didn't look through the facts: the rural New Delhi countryside that Gopal's native Indian household is located still believes in the act of [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/suttee Suttee]], or ritualistic burning, where ''the wife is cremated with the deceased husband''. [[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally, her actions ends up biting - or in this case, burning - her in the ass on the day of the funeral]].
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* In ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories in the anthology revolves around Jessica, a GoldDigger, who scams herself into becoming the third wife of an Indian billionaire, Gopal Balla, and then arranging to have the first and second wives killed off, one at a time, before she personally murders Gopal so that she can become the sole inheritor of Gopal's wealth. Unfortunately, Jessica didn't look through the facts: the rural New Delhi countryside that Gopal's household is located still believes in the act of [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/suttee Suttee]], or ritualistic burning, where ''the wife is cremated with the deceased husband''. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Whoops]].
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* In ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories in the anthology revolves around Jessica, a GoldDigger, who scams herself into becoming the third wife of an Indian billionaire, Gopal Balla, and then arranging to have the first and second wives killed off, one at a time, before she personally murders Gopal so that she can become the sole inheritor of Gopal's wealth. Unfortunately, Jessica didn't look through the facts: the rural New Delhi countryside that Gopal's household is located still believes in the act of [[https://www.britannica.com/topic/suttee Suttee]], or ritualistic burning, where ''the wife is cremated with the deceased husband''. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Whoops]].[[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally, her actions ends up biting - or in this case, burning - her in the ass on the day of the funeral]].
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* In ''Literature/TheQueenAndI'', new Prime Minister Jack Barker is a Republican who's so fanatically anti-royalist that he dismisses the monarchy and makes outlandish plans for social reform that he can't actually pay for, to the extent that he has to sell off everything up to the Houses of Parliament trying to recoup the country's debts.
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--->''It was just at this moment that Bilbo suddenly discovered the weak point in his plan. [[LemonyNarrator Most likely, you saw it some time ago and have been laughing at him; but I don’t suppose you would have done half as well yourselves in his place]]. Of course, he was not in a barrel himself, nor was there anyone to pack him in, even if there had been a chance!''
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* ''Literature/TheMarvellousLandOfSnergs'': Joe escapes from seclusion and talks Sylvia into going to the Land of Snergs, assuring he knows how to find the way. So, they head into unknown woods even though they have no supplies or equipment, they do not know how to find food and water, and they have no idea of how far they are from their goal. Before long they are hungry, thirsty, cold and hopelessly lost.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/ShiraCalpurnia'' novel ''Legacy'', the local cathedral makes a play for the story's {{MacGuffin}}, a Rogue Trader charter signed and sealed by the Emperor Himself with a drop of His blood. This places it among the holiest of relics, but the church's legal strategy has one critical flaw: The Emperor's word is law. That signature marks every provision of the charter as a divine command, including the clauses about how it is to be passed down in the Phrax line. As Calpurnia's legal research team discovered, the matter had been litigated before, with a definitive ruling against the Ecclesiarchy.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/ShiraCalpurnia'' novel ''Legacy'', the local cathedral makes a play for the story's {{MacGuffin}}, MacGuffin, a Rogue Trader charter signed and sealed by the Emperor Himself with a drop of His blood. This places it among the holiest of relics, but the church's legal strategy has one critical flaw: The Emperor's word is law. That signature marks every provision of the charter as a divine command, including the clauses about how it is to be passed down in the Phrax line. As Calpurnia's legal research team discovered, the matter had been litigated before, with a definitive ruling against the Ecclesiarchy.
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Given the GambitPileup nature of the story, this is a FatalFlaw for a depressing number of characters, leading to many a PyrrhicVictory and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard petards a-hoisting]]. Most (if not all) viewpoint characters display some form of WrongGenreSavvy, StupidGood, StupidEvil, LawfulStupid, ChaoticStupid, SelfishGood and/or SelfishEvil tendencies leading to various brands of NotQuiteTheRightThing for the circumstance (or [[DoWrongRight Not Quite The Right]] [[CardCarryingVillain Wrong]] [[PragmaticVillainy Thing]], depending on the character), all of which come back to bite them in the end. Funny how [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that one little angle you hadn't stopped to think about]] suddenly has '''''very''''' big consequences [[UnfitForGreatness if you're a leader with insufficient reality checks on your power]] and [[XanatosSpeedChess you can't shift gears fast enough]]…
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Given the GambitPileup nature of the story, this is a FatalFlaw for a depressing number of characters, leading to many a PyrrhicVictory and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard petards a-hoisting]]. Most (if not all) viewpoint characters display some form of WrongGenreSavvy, StupidGood, StupidEvil, LawfulStupid, ChaoticStupid, SelfishGood LawfulStupid and/or SelfishEvil ChaoticStupid tendencies leading to various brands of NotQuiteTheRightThing for the circumstance (or [[DoWrongRight Not Quite The Right]] [[CardCarryingVillain Wrong]] [[PragmaticVillainy Thing]], depending on the character), all of which come back to bite them in the end. Funny how [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that one little angle you hadn't stopped to think about]] suddenly has '''''very''''' big consequences [[UnfitForGreatness if you're a leader with insufficient reality checks on your power]] and [[XanatosSpeedChess you can't shift gears fast enough]]…
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** Again, in the same book, it's revealed through Flashbacks that Tom Riddle Jr. (a.k.a [[BigBad Voldemort]]) didn't actually think about the consequences of unleashing a giant monster and killing a muggle-born witch (Moaning Myrtle). He was very smug about about being a KarmaHoudini until learning that since the authorities couldn't find the person or being responsible for the death of Myrtle, they'll be shutting down Hogwarts for safety reasons, thus sending Tom back to [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]] he hates oh so much. This is what led Tom to framing Aragog as Slytherin's Monster and Hagrid for being the one to release him.
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* In ''Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree'', a ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[Literature/LittleGoldenBooks Golden Book]], a witch who owns a cookie tree casts a spell on it so it would only give cookies to people who share them to keep Cookie Monster from eating them. This spell works, but a little too well, as now the tree won't give the witch any cookies, either. When Cookie finds out, he calls the witch out on this, and she can't help but agree with him. The two form an alliance and agree to share the cookies with each other, but Cookie soon gets carried away and eats all the cookies from the tree.
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* In ''Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree'', a ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[Literature/LittleGoldenBooks Golden Book]], a witch who owns a cookie tree casts a spell on it so it would only give cookies to people who share them to keep Cookie Monster from eating them. This spell works, but [[GoneHorriblyRight a little too well, well]], as now the tree won't give the witch any cookies, either. When Cookie finds out, he calls the witch out on this, and she can't help but agree with him. The two form an alliance and agree to share the cookies with each other, but Cookie soon gets carried away and eats all the cookies from the tree.
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* In the ''Literature/ShiraCalpunia'' novel ''Legacy'', the local cathedral makes a play for the story's {{MacGuffin}}, a Rogue Trader charter signed and sealed by the Emperor Himself with a drop of His blood. This places it among the holiest of relics, but the church's legal strategy has one critical flaw: The Emperor's word is law. That signature marks every provision of the charter as a divine command, including the clauses about how it is to be passed down in the Phrax line. As Calpurnia's legal research team discovered, the matter had been litigated before, with a definitive ruling against the Ecclesiarchy.
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* In the ''Literature/ShiraCalpunia'' novel ''Legacy'', the local cathedral makes a play for the story's {{MacGuffin}}, a Rogue Trader charter signed and sealed by the Emperor Himself with a drop of His blood. This places it among the holiest of relics, but the church's legal strategy has one critical flaw: The Emperor's word is law. That signature marks every provision of the charter as a divine command, including the clauses about how it is to be passed down in the Phrax line. As Calpurnia's legal research team discovered, the matter had been litigated before, with a definitive ruling against the Ecclesiarchy.
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* The ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''Frantastic Voyage'' has Franny receive a double dose of this trope.
** Her initial plan for deactivating the doomsday device her dog Igor ate by accident was to shrink and enter his body so she could unscrew the screw in the doomsday device and turn it off from there. The problem with this plan is that the screwdriver Franny brings with her is too small to unscrew the doomsday device's screw as a result of shrinking with her.
** Upon realizing that she needs a bigger screwdriver to unscrew the screw on the doomsday device, Franny tries to command Igor to swallow a regular size screwdriver. This doesn't work because Franny is so small that her voice is inaudible to Igor.
** Her initial plan for deactivating the doomsday device her dog Igor ate by accident was to shrink and enter his body so she could unscrew the screw in the doomsday device and turn it off from there. The problem with this plan is that the screwdriver Franny brings with her is too small to unscrew the doomsday device's screw as a result of shrinking with her.
** Upon realizing that she needs a bigger screwdriver to unscrew the screw on the doomsday device, Franny tries to command Igor to swallow a regular size screwdriver. This doesn't work because Franny is so small that her voice is inaudible to Igor.
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* In the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' book ''Solo Command'', Wedge concocts a plan that involves Chewbacca going along as his copilot. It's a pretty well thought out plan, but as Janson points out just as they're about to launch, he did forget one small detail...
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* ''Literature/BenAndMe'': When Amos and Ben first talk to each other, Ben defends the meager fueling on the fire with the maxim "waste not, want not." Amos points out that getting sick from exposure to the cold could result in wastes of time (in bed) and money (for doctors). Ben promptly builds up the fire.
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* In ''Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree'', a ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[Literature/LittleGoldenBooks Golden Book]], a witch who owns a cookie tree casts a spell on it to so it would only give cookies to people who share them to keep Cookie Monster from eating them. This spell works, but a little too well, as now the tree won't give the witch any cookies, either. When Cookie finds out, he calls the witch out on this, and she can't help but agree with him. The two form an alliance and agree to share the cookies with each other, but Cookie soon gets carried away and eats all the cookies from the tree.
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* In ''Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree'', a ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[Literature/LittleGoldenBooks Golden Book]], a witch who owns a cookie tree casts a spell on it to so it would only give cookies to people who share them to keep Cookie Monster from eating them. This spell works, but a little too well, as now the tree won't give the witch any cookies, either. When Cookie finds out, he calls the witch out on this, and she can't help but agree with him. The two form an alliance and agree to share the cookies with each other, but Cookie soon gets carried away and eats all the cookies from the tree.
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* Examples from ''Literature/AesopsFables'':
** Averted in one version of "The Frogs and the Well". Two frogs search for a new place to cool off after their marsh dries up and they find a well. One of the frogs suggest they jump down here as it's wet and would be good for them. However, the other frog prevents him from doing so, asking how they'd get out if the well dried up. An alternate version plays the trope straight when the other frog jumps into the well before he hears the other's argument.
** Played straight in "The Fox and the Goat". A fox trapped in a well tells a goat to come into the well for its excellent-tasting water. The goat does so and, finding itself trapped, asks how they'll get out. The fox asks to get a boost up from the goat's horns so he can climb out, saying that he'll pull the goat out after. The goat does this and is abandoned by the fox. When called out, the fox says to the goat that he should have thought before jumping in.
* In the ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'' book ''Hair Raising'', Rusty the full-time werewolf's secret weapon in a gang war between the full-timers and the transforms-at-the-full-moon werewolves are undomesticated cockatrices. Dan asks how Rusty is going to corral his beasts, as a cockatrice can anyone who looks at it into stone. Rusty realizes this...after he's unleashed the cockatrices.
* There exists in the ''Literature/FirekeeperSaga'' an entity called the Meddler. His trademark is, as his name suggests, to meddle in the affairs of mortal creatures, and many of the books' events are discovered to be a result of his trying to escape a prison he had been sealed in by getting key figures moving. However, he pays little heed to the consequences of his actions, best illustrated in a legend told of him in which he helps a pair of young lovers forbidden to see one another by the boy's father. However, the father reveals after they've run away that they're actually half-siblings and that the boy was aware of this...and the girl was not.
* In ''Literature/HaloGlasslands'' and ''Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar'', the Elites are in a civil war between a faction who still worship the Forerunners and a faction trying to create a new, more progressive society. Humanity's Office of Naval Intelligence thinks that it would be a good idea to support the zealots even though A.) most of them really hate humans and B.) the progressive faction are dedicated allies of humanity. As it turns out, most of the zealots end up joining a fervently anti-human Covenant remnant whose primary goal is to KillAllHumans.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': The Trio devises a plan to impersonate students from House Slytherin so that they can sneak into the Slytherins' dorm and hopefully uncover some information about the titular Chamber. They spend a month concocting an extremely advanced shapeshifting potion and make some thoughtful arrangements, like stealing appropriate robes and preparing drugged cupcakes to put said students out of commission for the duration of their foray. Finally, everything is ready, and they perform the transformation... whereupon they realize that they have no idea where the Slytherin dormitory is. Of course, said thoughtful preparations were thought of solely by [[OnlySaneMan Hermione]], so it's possible ''she'' knew where the dorm was, but her transformation went wrong preventing her from joining the boys and distracting her from telling them.
** In the same book, Harry and Ron miss the train to go to Hogwarts, and in order to get there, they steal Mr. Weasley's flying car. They promptly get seen by about seven Muggles across England. As [=McGonagall=] points out to them, they had an owl and perfectly legitimate reasons to be late, so they could have just sent a message to be picked up... but even that might not have worked, as [[FridgeBrilliance Dobby would have likely intercepted or destroyed the letters to keep Harry from returning to Hogwarts]], which kind of begs the question why Harry didn't tell any of the staff about Dobby.
** Again, in the same book, it's revealed through Flashbacks that Tom Riddle Jr. (a.k.a [[BigBad Voldemort]]) didn't actually think about the consequences of unleashing a giant monster and killing a muggle-born witch (Moaning Myrtle). He was very smug about about being a KarmaHoudini until learning that since the authorities couldn't find the person or being responsible for the death of Myrtle, they'll be shutting down Hogwarts for safety reasons, thus sending Tom back to [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]] he hates oh so much. This is what led Tom to framing Aragog as Slytherin's Monster and Hagrid for being the one to release him.
** There's also Viktor Krum's ill-fated transfiguration during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire.'' While his transfiguration (turning his head into that of a shark) allows him to swim underwater without problem, he's unable to change himself back and has to rely on other wizards to revert his head back to normal afterwards.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' Harry suffers from this twice with regards to Snape. [[spoiler: After having his vision of Sirius]] he forgets that Snape is also a member of the Order until he arrives in Umbridge's office. He also doesn't consider that Snape may have been pretending when he tried to give him a code. [[spoiler: Of course by the time both of these things occur Harry's thoughts are being influenced by Voldemort who does not want Harry to think things through]].
** Vincent Crabbe has a fatal dose of this in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', when, during a fight with the Trio, he produces Fiendfyre, a powerful curse that creates sentient flames. In a room full of ''very flammable things.'' Did we also mention he had no idea how to control the fire? After he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard burns to death,]] Ron speculates that he may not have been paying attention when he was taught how to stop the curse.
** In the "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump" section of ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard'', the king makes such a mistake by decreeing in the persecution of witches and wizards followed by requesting a wizard to teach him magic. Since the power to use magic is innate and no witch or wizard would dare to come forward to volunteer under the threat of persecution, only a charlatan obliges.
* ''Literature/TheHobbit'':
** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver. (Not that being packed into a barrel himself would have been an improvement. Getting out again wouldn't have been easy.)
--->''It was just at this moment that Bilbo suddenly discovered the weak point in his plan. [[LemonyNarrator Most likely, you saw it some time ago and have been laughing at him; but I don’t suppose you would have done half as well yourselves in his place]]. Of course, he was not in a barrel himself, nor was there anyone to pack him in, even if there had been a chance!''
** Not to mention ''the entire journey itself''. The one weak spot in the dwarves' scheme to get their gold is that Smaug is still sitting on it and a baker's dozen dwarves are no match for the dragon, which is why Gandalf insisted that they rely on burglary. However, Bilbo, seeing the size of the hoard he's supposed to steal, states that they should have brought an army of burglars, as there's only so much he can steal at once. Then Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Only a series of lucky breaks (for a given definition of [[BittersweetEnding luck]]) keeps the adventure from going to waste. [[Film/TheHobbit The movie]] works around this by planning to have Bilbo fetch the Arkenstone, which can be used to convince all the armies of the six other dwarven settlements to come to Thorin's aid.
* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'': In ''Lieutenant Hornblower'', Acting-Captain Buckland is persuaded to follow the secret orders to attack a nest of Spanish privateers, so he just sails the ship up a channel between the fortifications, hoping to blast them apart with the ship's cannon. Turns out they can't get the right elevation; then the ship runs aground while the Spaniards happily pound away with heated shot. It's all they can do to escape intact--Bush reflects later that taking a wooden ship into a situation where red-hot cannonballs can be fired into her was pretty foolish. (The writers of the [[Series/HoratioHornblower television series]] apparently thought it was so bad, they had the mad Captain Sawyer do this as a DeathSeeker.)
* In ''Dictator'', the third book of the ''Literature/{{Imperium}}'' trilogy, Caesar's assassins show courage and cunning in planning and carrying out the assassination--but they make no plans whatsoever for the aftermath, simply assuming that the Republic will reassert itself and things will go back to normal with Caesar dead. Cicero repeatedly bemoans the failure of the conspirators to take out Antony as well as Caesar, or to take any other measures to restore republican government.
* ''Literature/KittyNorville'': Twice in ''Kitty Goes to Washington''. Kitty had good reason to [[spoiler:banish Elijah Smith back where he came from]], but she didn't consider that this would mean [[spoiler:the collection of vampires and lycanthropes under his control would then be ''out'' of control. Cue chase scene, followed by calling in backup to deal with the fallout]]. Later, Kitty tries to distract the guards on the first floor of a building by throwing rocks at the upstairs windows, hoping they'll investigate the crash. She realizes belatedly that if they instead put two and two together and look out on the street, she'll get caught red-handed. (Luckily, they're [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy typical guards]].)
* In the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'', when told he must, in order to regain his legal rights, capture a murder suspect he released from jail and become his brother's steward, Michael sets out to bring the criminal to justice. Upon learning [[spoiler:she's innocent]], he decides to not even bother with bringing her to trial, opting to be tattooed as a horrible criminal instead. It's not until afterward that he realizes that this will make people hate him by default and take advantage of him due to his being unable to go to the law for help. [[TheLancer Fisk]] was not impressed. Bonus points for his father forcing the situation on him in the hopes that only his oldest son will hire Michael for a stable job if he's marked, as he apparently didn't notice that Michael spent the whole past year funding his adventures by stopping for the day in random towns and doing odd jobs for people who don't need to see the area on his arm where he gets marked.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'' story "The End Of The Whole Mess", this is [[TeenGenius Bobby Fornoy's]] FatalFlaw. His brother reminisces about when he was a child and developed a glider, not figuring out that the backwoods of his house were too dense to fly such a thing until he was high in the air and ended up crashing. The story itself showcases Bobby finding out a way to create world peace via a natural water-borne calming agent he discovered...and not detecting until it's too late that the agent triggers early-onset Alzheimer's. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Oops]].
* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake Thorburn binds Pauz, a minor demon, into a book, but fails to account for the small army of corrupted animals that Pauz had assembled--which promptly attempt to kill him, resulting in him nearly being gored by a deer. Later, he challenges [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Conquest]], Lord of Toronto, to a wargame in exchange for his freedom, but fails to account for Conquest's willingness to damage the city and its citizens, leading to a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
* The Walter Lantz adaptation of ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'' diverges in a few ways from the traditional plotline. Here, the Piper traps the rats in a cage instead of just drowning them. The townsfolk skimp on the Piper's bill, thinking there's nothing he can do about it. The Piper then opens the cage...
* One ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'' story has, in the climax, all of the heroes trapped at the top of a "parachute" carnival ride. Dark Flame suggests that they each get into a gondola and cut the cable, and then they'll be lowered safely to the ground by the parachutes. It isn't until ''after'' her cable is cut that she realizes that it's just a carnival ride, the gondolas were designed to be lowered by cables, and ''the parachutes were just decorative''.
* In ''Literature/ShamanBlues'', Witkacy's plan for luring a wraith into entrapment circle involves cutting himself with its focus object and let the blood bring it in. The gaping flaw in the plan is that he forgets about binding power of blood, and as a result is almost dragged into the afterlife along with the wraith.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Given the GambitPileup nature of the story, this is a FatalFlaw for a depressing number of characters, leading to many a PyrrhicVictory and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard petards a-hoisting]]. Most (if not all) viewpoint characters display some form of WrongGenreSavvy, StupidGood, StupidEvil, LawfulStupid, ChaoticStupid, SelfishGood and/or SelfishEvil tendencies leading to various brands of NotQuiteTheRightThing for the circumstance (or [[DoWrongRight Not Quite The Right]] [[CardCarryingVillain Wrong]] [[PragmaticVillainy Thing]], depending on the character), all of which come back to bite them in the end. Funny how [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that one little angle you hadn't stopped to think about]] suddenly has '''''very''''' big consequences [[UnfitForGreatness if you're a leader with insufficient reality checks on your power]] and [[XanatosSpeedChess you can't shift gears fast enough]]…
* ''[[Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born]]'': Young Jim diGriz gets himself imprisoned so he can [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook meet other criminals and learn from them]]. The problem is that the criminals he finds in prison are the ones who were ''dumb enough to get caught''.
* In the backstory to ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', Kyousuke summoned the White Queen, an all-powerful EldritchAbomination. The White Queen fell in love with him at first sight, and he decided to try and use her power to help fix the world. After the events of the Secret War, the White Queen turned evil and became the greatest threat to the world, and Kyousuke resolved to stop her at all costs. To achieve this, he creates and summons the Colorless Little Girl, a ''second'' all-powerful EldritchAbomination who's in love with him. [[SarcasmMode There's absolutely no way this could backfire]].
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''--being basically ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' with more tropes played straight, and a hell of a lot more magic wielding--has a number of examples as well, but one of the more entertaining involves [[TheTrickster Mat]] infiltrating [[BigFancyCastle the Stone of Tear]] to save his allies from the baddies. He shoves a bundle of fireworks into an arrowslit, then lights them to create a diversion so he can sneak in by another route. When he notices that the blast has made the arrowslit larger, he changes his plans and climbs through it instead...then realizes that half the garrison is headed his way. [[UnluckilyLucky Naturally]], he gets away with it.
* Scarlett, of course, has this many times in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. She rushes into a marriage with Charles Hamilton to save face in front of those who (correctly) thought she was pining away for Ashley Wilkes. Reality hits her as early as their wedding night, as he approaches their bed and she suddenly realizes what's going to happen. She's only able to put him off by pleading timidity and fear. Then when he dies after only two months, she realizes that between her marriage, widowhood, and impending motherhood, that she's never going to have the fun she had as an unattached girl, being forced to wear mourning for years and shun all social events.
** Later, when she tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children (translation, they will now have a SexlessMarriage), he simply shrugs and nonchalantly declares that he'll seek sexual pleasure elsewhere. Only then does she realize what she's given up--late night conversations, him comforting her after a nightmare, etc.
* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'': ''The Dark Secret'', Flame and Ochre (two of the replacement dragonets) are tasked by Morrowseer to try and kill Starflight. While he hides behind a [=NightWing=] guard, they go up to her and ask her where a [=NightWing=] dragonet was so they could kill him, hoping they would help. Instead, the guard roars at them for this, roaring an alarm that strange dragons have come to attack their dragonets, and Flame and Ochre get thrown into prison.
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* Examples from ''Literature/AesopsFables'':
** Averted in one version of "The Frogs and the Well". Two frogs search for a new place to cool off after their marsh dries up and they find a well. One of the frogs suggest they jump down here as it's wet and would be good for them. However, the other frog prevents him from doing so, asking how they'd get out if the well dried up. An alternate version plays the trope straight when the other frog jumps into the well before he hears the other's argument.
** Played straight in "The Fox and the Goat". A fox trapped in a well tells a goat to come into the well for its excellent-tasting water. The goat does so and, finding itself trapped, asks how they'll get out. The fox asks to get a boost up from the goat's horns so he can climb out, saying that he'll pull the goat out after. The goat does this and is abandoned by the fox. When called out, the fox says to the goat that he should have thought before jumping in.
* In the ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'' book ''Hair Raising'', Rusty the full-time werewolf's secret weapon in a gang war between the full-timers and the transforms-at-the-full-moon werewolves are undomesticated cockatrices. Dan asks how Rusty is going to corral his beasts, as a cockatrice can anyone who looks at it into stone. Rusty realizes this...after he's unleashed the cockatrices.
* There exists in the ''Literature/FirekeeperSaga'' an entity called the Meddler. His trademark is, as his name suggests, to meddle in the affairs of mortal creatures, and many of the books' events are discovered to be a result of his trying to escape a prison he had been sealed in by getting key figures moving. However, he pays little heed to the consequences of his actions, best illustrated in a legend told of him in which he helps a pair of young lovers forbidden to see one another by the boy's father. However, the father reveals after they've run away that they're actually half-siblings and that the boy was aware of this...and the girl was not.
* In ''Literature/HaloGlasslands'' and ''Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar'', the Elites are in a civil war between a faction who still worship the Forerunners and a faction trying to create a new, more progressive society. Humanity's Office of Naval Intelligence thinks that it would be a good idea to support the zealots even though A.) most of them really hate humans and B.) the progressive faction are dedicated allies of humanity. As it turns out, most of the zealots end up joining a fervently anti-human Covenant remnant whose primary goal is to KillAllHumans.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': The Trio devises a plan to impersonate students from House Slytherin so that they can sneak into the Slytherins' dorm and hopefully uncover some information about the titular Chamber. They spend a month concocting an extremely advanced shapeshifting potion and make some thoughtful arrangements, like stealing appropriate robes and preparing drugged cupcakes to put said students out of commission for the duration of their foray. Finally, everything is ready, and they perform the transformation... whereupon they realize that they have no idea where the Slytherin dormitory is. Of course, said thoughtful preparations were thought of solely by [[OnlySaneMan Hermione]], so it's possible ''she'' knew where the dorm was, but her transformation went wrong preventing her from joining the boys and distracting her from telling them.
** In the same book, Harry and Ron miss the train to go to Hogwarts, and in order to get there, they steal Mr. Weasley's flying car. They promptly get seen by about seven Muggles across England. As [=McGonagall=] points out to them, they had an owl and perfectly legitimate reasons to be late, so they could have just sent a message to be picked up... but even that might not have worked, as [[FridgeBrilliance Dobby would have likely intercepted or destroyed the letters to keep Harry from returning to Hogwarts]], which kind of begs the question why Harry didn't tell any of the staff about Dobby.
** Again, in the same book, it's revealed through Flashbacks that Tom Riddle Jr. (a.k.a [[BigBad Voldemort]]) didn't actually think about the consequences of unleashing a giant monster and killing a muggle-born witch (Moaning Myrtle). He was very smug about about being a KarmaHoudini until learning that since the authorities couldn't find the person or being responsible for the death of Myrtle, they'll be shutting down Hogwarts for safety reasons, thus sending Tom back to [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]] he hates oh so much. This is what led Tom to framing Aragog as Slytherin's Monster and Hagrid for being the one to release him.
** There's also Viktor Krum's ill-fated transfiguration during the second task of the Triwizard Tournament in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire.'' While his transfiguration (turning his head into that of a shark) allows him to swim underwater without problem, he's unable to change himself back and has to rely on other wizards to revert his head back to normal afterwards.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' Harry suffers from this twice with regards to Snape. [[spoiler: After having his vision of Sirius]] he forgets that Snape is also a member of the Order until he arrives in Umbridge's office. He also doesn't consider that Snape may have been pretending when he tried to give him a code. [[spoiler: Of course by the time both of these things occur Harry's thoughts are being influenced by Voldemort who does not want Harry to think things through]].
** Vincent Crabbe has a fatal dose of this in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', when, during a fight with the Trio, he produces Fiendfyre, a powerful curse that creates sentient flames. In a room full of ''very flammable things.'' Did we also mention he had no idea how to control the fire? After he [[HoistByHisOwnPetard burns to death,]] Ron speculates that he may not have been paying attention when he was taught how to stop the curse.
** In the "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump" section of ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard'', the king makes such a mistake by decreeing in the persecution of witches and wizards followed by requesting a wizard to teach him magic. Since the power to use magic is innate and no witch or wizard would dare to come forward to volunteer under the threat of persecution, only a charlatan obliges.
* ''Literature/TheHobbit'':
** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver. (Not that being packed into a barrel himself would have been an improvement. Getting out again wouldn't have been easy.)
--->''It was just at this moment that Bilbo suddenly discovered the weak point in his plan. [[LemonyNarrator Most likely, you saw it some time ago and have been laughing at him; but I don’t suppose you would have done half as well yourselves in his place]]. Of course, he was not in a barrel himself, nor was there anyone to pack him in, even if there had been a chance!''
** Not to mention ''the entire journey itself''. The one weak spot in the dwarves' scheme to get their gold is that Smaug is still sitting on it and a baker's dozen dwarves are no match for the dragon, which is why Gandalf insisted that they rely on burglary. However, Bilbo, seeing the size of the hoard he's supposed to steal, states that they should have brought an army of burglars, as there's only so much he can steal at once. Then Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Only a series of lucky breaks (for a given definition of [[BittersweetEnding luck]]) keeps the adventure from going to waste. [[Film/TheHobbit The movie]] works around this by planning to have Bilbo fetch the Arkenstone, which can be used to convince all the armies of the six other dwarven settlements to come to Thorin's aid.
* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'': In ''Lieutenant Hornblower'', Acting-Captain Buckland is persuaded to follow the secret orders to attack a nest of Spanish privateers, so he just sails the ship up a channel between the fortifications, hoping to blast them apart with the ship's cannon. Turns out they can't get the right elevation; then the ship runs aground while the Spaniards happily pound away with heated shot. It's all they can do to escape intact--Bush reflects later that taking a wooden ship into a situation where red-hot cannonballs can be fired into her was pretty foolish. (The writers of the [[Series/HoratioHornblower television series]] apparently thought it was so bad, they had the mad Captain Sawyer do this as a DeathSeeker.)
* In ''Dictator'', the third book of the ''Literature/{{Imperium}}'' trilogy, Caesar's assassins show courage and cunning in planning and carrying out the assassination--but they make no plans whatsoever for the aftermath, simply assuming that the Republic will reassert itself and things will go back to normal with Caesar dead. Cicero repeatedly bemoans the failure of the conspirators to take out Antony as well as Caesar, or to take any other measures to restore republican government.
* ''Literature/KittyNorville'': Twice in ''Kitty Goes to Washington''. Kitty had good reason to [[spoiler:banish Elijah Smith back where he came from]], but she didn't consider that this would mean [[spoiler:the collection of vampires and lycanthropes under his control would then be ''out'' of control. Cue chase scene, followed by calling in backup to deal with the fallout]]. Later, Kitty tries to distract the guards on the first floor of a building by throwing rocks at the upstairs windows, hoping they'll investigate the crash. She realizes belatedly that if they instead put two and two together and look out on the street, she'll get caught red-handed. (Luckily, they're [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy typical guards]].)
* In the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'', when told he must, in order to regain his legal rights, capture a murder suspect he released from jail and become his brother's steward, Michael sets out to bring the criminal to justice. Upon learning [[spoiler:she's innocent]], he decides to not even bother with bringing her to trial, opting to be tattooed as a horrible criminal instead. It's not until afterward that he realizes that this will make people hate him by default and take advantage of him due to his being unable to go to the law for help. [[TheLancer Fisk]] was not impressed. Bonus points for his father forcing the situation on him in the hopes that only his oldest son will hire Michael for a stable job if he's marked, as he apparently didn't notice that Michael spent the whole past year funding his adventures by stopping for the day in random towns and doing odd jobs for people who don't need to see the area on his arm where he gets marked.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'' story "The End Of The Whole Mess", this is [[TeenGenius Bobby Fornoy's]] FatalFlaw. His brother reminisces about when he was a child and developed a glider, not figuring out that the backwoods of his house were too dense to fly such a thing until he was high in the air and ended up crashing. The story itself showcases Bobby finding out a way to create world peace via a natural water-borne calming agent he discovered...and not detecting until it's too late that the agent triggers early-onset Alzheimer's. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Oops]].
* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', Blake Thorburn binds Pauz, a minor demon, into a book, but fails to account for the small army of corrupted animals that Pauz had assembled--which promptly attempt to kill him, resulting in him nearly being gored by a deer. Later, he challenges [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Conquest]], Lord of Toronto, to a wargame in exchange for his freedom, but fails to account for Conquest's willingness to damage the city and its citizens, leading to a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
* The Walter Lantz adaptation of ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'' diverges in a few ways from the traditional plotline. Here, the Piper traps the rats in a cage instead of just drowning them. The townsfolk skimp on the Piper's bill, thinking there's nothing he can do about it. The Piper then opens the cage...
* One ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'' story has, in the climax, all of the heroes trapped at the top of a "parachute" carnival ride. Dark Flame suggests that they each get into a gondola and cut the cable, and then they'll be lowered safely to the ground by the parachutes. It isn't until ''after'' her cable is cut that she realizes that it's just a carnival ride, the gondolas were designed to be lowered by cables, and ''the parachutes were just decorative''.
* In ''Literature/ShamanBlues'', Witkacy's plan for luring a wraith into entrapment circle involves cutting himself with its focus object and let the blood bring it in. The gaping flaw in the plan is that he forgets about binding power of blood, and as a result is almost dragged into the afterlife along with the wraith.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Given the GambitPileup nature of the story, this is a FatalFlaw for a depressing number of characters, leading to many a PyrrhicVictory and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard petards a-hoisting]]. Most (if not all) viewpoint characters display some form of WrongGenreSavvy, StupidGood, StupidEvil, LawfulStupid, ChaoticStupid, SelfishGood and/or SelfishEvil tendencies leading to various brands of NotQuiteTheRightThing for the circumstance (or [[DoWrongRight Not Quite The Right]] [[CardCarryingVillain Wrong]] [[PragmaticVillainy Thing]], depending on the character), all of which come back to bite them in the end. Funny how [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that one little angle you hadn't stopped to think about]] suddenly has '''''very''''' big consequences [[UnfitForGreatness if you're a leader with insufficient reality checks on your power]] and [[XanatosSpeedChess you can't shift gears fast enough]]…
* ''[[Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born]]'': Young Jim diGriz gets himself imprisoned so he can [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook meet other criminals and learn from them]]. The problem is that the criminals he finds in prison are the ones who were ''dumb enough to get caught''.
* In the backstory to ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', Kyousuke summoned the White Queen, an all-powerful EldritchAbomination. The White Queen fell in love with him at first sight, and he decided to try and use her power to help fix the world. After the events of the Secret War, the White Queen turned evil and became the greatest threat to the world, and Kyousuke resolved to stop her at all costs. To achieve this, he creates and summons the Colorless Little Girl, a ''second'' all-powerful EldritchAbomination who's in love with him. [[SarcasmMode There's absolutely no way this could backfire]].
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''--being basically ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' with more tropes played straight, and a hell of a lot more magic wielding--has a number of examples as well, but one of the more entertaining involves [[TheTrickster Mat]] infiltrating [[BigFancyCastle the Stone of Tear]] to save his allies from the baddies. He shoves a bundle of fireworks into an arrowslit, then lights them to create a diversion so he can sneak in by another route. When he notices that the blast has made the arrowslit larger, he changes his plans and climbs through it instead...then realizes that half the garrison is headed his way. [[UnluckilyLucky Naturally]], he gets away with it.
* Scarlett, of course, has this many times in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. She rushes into a marriage with Charles Hamilton to save face in front of those who (correctly) thought she was pining away for Ashley Wilkes. Reality hits her as early as their wedding night, as he approaches their bed and she suddenly realizes what's going to happen. She's only able to put him off by pleading timidity and fear. Then when he dies after only two months, she realizes that between her marriage, widowhood, and impending motherhood, that she's never going to have the fun she had as an unattached girl, being forced to wear mourning for years and shun all social events.
** Later, when she tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children (translation, they will now have a SexlessMarriage), he simply shrugs and nonchalantly declares that he'll seek sexual pleasure elsewhere. Only then does she realize what she's given up--late night conversations, him comforting her after a nightmare, etc.
* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'': ''The Dark Secret'', Flame and Ochre (two of the replacement dragonets) are tasked by Morrowseer to try and kill Starflight. While he hides behind a [=NightWing=] guard, they go up to her and ask her where a [=NightWing=] dragonet was so they could kill him, hoping they would help. Instead, the guard roars at them for this, roaring an alarm that strange dragons have come to attack their dragonets, and Flame and Ochre get thrown into prison.
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