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* In the ''Literature/FernHollow'' story ''Brock The Balloonist'', Brock Gruffy finds a hot air balloon and decides to try it out--he, however, has never taken any lessons, has no idea how to control the thing, and ends up causing a ''lot'' of damage.
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** In ''Brock The Balloonist'', Brock Gruffy finds a hot air balloon and decides to try it out--he, however, has never taken any lessons, has no idea how to control the thing, and ends up causing a ''lot'' ofdamage.damage.
** In ''Muddles At The Manor,'' Lord Trundle hires two kids to fill in for his injured gardener. First they try to use a motorized mower they can't control and end up ruining a flowerbed and the mower itself. Then they are asked to burn some trash from the garden. Instead of making small bonfires away from any structures, they build a great big one right next to a potting shed, which burns to the ground. You really can't blame Lord Trundle for firing them after that, but he's also partially at fault for not supervising two completely inexperienced "gardeners", as he may have been able to warn them away from these debacles.
** In ''Brock The Balloonist'', Brock Gruffy finds a hot air balloon and decides to try it out--he, however, has never taken any lessons, has no idea how to control the thing, and ends up causing a ''lot'' of
** In ''Muddles At The Manor,'' Lord Trundle hires two kids to fill in for his injured gardener. First they try to use a motorized mower they can't control and end up ruining a flowerbed and the mower itself. Then they are asked to burn some trash from the garden. Instead of making small bonfires away from any structures, they build a great big one right next to a potting shed, which burns to the ground. You really can't blame Lord Trundle for firing them after that, but he's also partially at fault for not supervising two completely inexperienced "gardeners", as he may have been able to warn them away from these debacles.
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** When Jondalar is teaching Ayla how to speak while recovering from his injuries in ''The Valley of Horses'', he unthinkingly teaches her his native Zelandonii language, not the language of the Mamutoi, the people who live nearest her cave. They're both dismayed when they realize this; although Ayla can talk to Jondalar just fine, knowing Zelandonii will be useless if she wants to talk to the locals (and the Zelandonii live on the other side of the continent). Luckily, Ayla decides to leave with Jondalar and he can translate for her/give her a crash course in Mamutoi, and she quickly picks up the basics due to her highly-developed memory.
** In ''The Plains of Passage, Ayla points out that Attaroa's plan to [[{{Gendercide}} wipe out the men in her camp]] has one major flaw...if there are no men, then there will be no new children, male or female. In Attaroa's defense, most people in the series [[{{Missconception}} don't realize]] just how important men are to conception...Attaroa is [[IRejectYourReality also so crazy she doesn't care]] (even though she's started to notice fewer children have been born after she separated the men and women and forbade intimacy between them).
** Marona's prank on Ayla in ''The Shelters of Stome'', involving giving her inappropriate clothing to wear for a feast. Though it may have been very embarrassing for Ayla at the time, it means Marona is going to be associated with it as well. As a result, everyone’s going to remember her as 'the asshole who thinks it's funny to humiliate newcomers and make our tribe look bad'. She realizes this later when people start to shun her and is pretty pissed off her prank had unintended consequences for her.
** Peridal persuaded Janida to have sex with him despite her not having had her First Rites yet (in their culture, a girl is considered a woman after she's deflowered in a special ritual, though Janida had to wait a long time between menarche and the ritual date). Consequently, she became pregnant (even though Peridal isn't aware he directly contributed to the pregnancy, he does know of his people's widely-held belief that girls can only conceive after First Rites) and he's now having to [[ShotgunWedding take responsibility]] for the fall-out.
** When Jondalar is teaching Ayla how to speak while recovering from his injuries in ''The Valley of Horses'', he unthinkingly teaches her his native Zelandonii language, not the language of the Mamutoi, the people who live nearest her cave. They're both dismayed when they realize this; although Ayla can talk to Jondalar just fine, knowing Zelandonii will be useless if she wants to talk to the locals (and the Zelandonii live on the other side of the continent). Luckily, Ayla decides to leave with Jondalar and he can translate for her/give her a crash course in Mamutoi, and she quickly picks up the basics due to her highly-developed memory.
** In ''The Plains of Passage, Ayla points out that Attaroa's plan to [[{{Gendercide}} wipe out the men in her camp]] has one major flaw...if there are no men, then there will be no new children, male or female. In Attaroa's defense, most people in the series [[{{Missconception}} don't realize]] just how important men are to conception...Attaroa is [[IRejectYourReality also so crazy she doesn't care]] (even though she's started to notice fewer children have been born after she separated the men and women and forbade intimacy between them).
** Marona's prank on Ayla in ''The Shelters of Stome'', involving giving her inappropriate clothing to wear for a feast. Though it may have been very embarrassing for Ayla at the time, it means Marona is going to be associated with it as well. As a result, everyone’s going to remember her as 'the asshole who thinks it's funny to humiliate newcomers and make our tribe look bad'. She realizes this later when people start to shun her and is pretty pissed off her prank had unintended consequences for her.
** Peridal persuaded Janida to have sex with him despite her not having had her First Rites yet (in their culture, a girl is considered a woman after she's deflowered in a special ritual, though Janida had to wait a long time between menarche and the ritual date). Consequently, she became pregnant (even though Peridal isn't aware he directly contributed to the pregnancy, he does know of his people's widely-held belief that girls can only conceive after First Rites) and he's now having to [[ShotgunWedding take responsibility]] for the fall-out.
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* ''Literature/TheHobbit'':
** ''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 it would take five hundred years to steal it all by himself, even without Smaug. [[Film/TheHobbit The movie]] works around this by having the Dwarves' plan be to have Bilbo fetch just the Arkenstone, which they believe can then be used to convince all the armies of the six other dwarven settlements to come to Thorin's aid.
** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver.
--->''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!''
* ''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 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;
** ''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 it would take five hundred years to steal it all by himself, even without Smaug. [[Film/TheHobbit The movie]] works around this by having the Dwarves' plan be to have Bilbo fetch just the Arkenstone, which they believe can then be used to convince all the armies of the six other dwarven settlements to come to Thorin's aid.
** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver.
--->''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!''
* ''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 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;
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** ''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 it would take five hundred years to steal it all by himself, even without Smaug. [[Film/TheHobbit The movie]] works around this by having the Dwarves' plan be to have Bilbo fetch just the Arkenstone, which they believe can then be used to convince all the armies of the six other dwarven settlements to come to Thorin's aid.
** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver.
--->''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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* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
** ''Literature/TheHobbit'':
*** 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 it would take five hundred years to steal it all by himself, even without Smaug.
*** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
*** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver.
---->''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!''
*** ''Literature/TheFallOfNumenor'':
**** Sick of Aldarion breaking his promises to return soon from his sea journeys, Erendis decides she will not show him affection or even regard again until her husband makes atonement for his offenses; at the same time, she starts poisoning her daughter Ancalimë's mind against her father and males in general. It did not occur to Erendis that Aldarion would take her outward lack of love as a sign that she has fallen out of love with him, hence she should be left alone. Or Ancalimë would eventually come to regard her mother as pathetic for being hung on one man and would abandon Erendis too.
**** Sauron tricks the corrupted Númenoreans into invading the Undying Lands to steal the Elves' immortality, knowing that they will be punished by Eru. It is not until the island of Númenor starts coming apart beneath his feet that Sauron realizes Eru's punishment would include him for corrupting and instigating the Númenoreans in the first place.
** ''Literature/TheHobbit'':
*** 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 it would take five hundred years to steal it all by himself, even without Smaug.
*** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
*** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver.
---->''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!''
*** ''Literature/TheFallOfNumenor'':
**** Sick of Aldarion breaking his promises to return soon from his sea journeys, Erendis decides she will not show him affection or even regard again until her husband makes atonement for his offenses; at the same time, she starts poisoning her daughter Ancalimë's mind against her father and males in general. It did not occur to Erendis that Aldarion would take her outward lack of love as a sign that she has fallen out of love with him, hence she should be left alone. Or Ancalimë would eventually come to regard her mother as pathetic for being hung on one man and would abandon Erendis too.
**** Sauron tricks the corrupted Númenoreans into invading the Undying Lands to steal the Elves' immortality, knowing that they will be punished by Eru. It is not until the island of Númenor starts coming apart beneath his feet that Sauron realizes Eru's punishment would include him for corrupting and instigating the Númenoreans in the first place.
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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 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 ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': One example 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]], Naturally, he gets away with it.
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** For an example that isn't any of the present characters, King Maegor The Cruel had all the builders responsible for making the Red Keep killed so only he would know all its secrets. When he tries to make other building projects later, he has an extremely hard time finding competent builders because not only did he kill most of them, but the rest wised up and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere would flee the city]] when he tried to hire them. He ended up having to build the Dragonpit with prisoners and foreign contractors.
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* Arnie in ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', stranded on a DesertedIsland with the other two survivors of the crash, dedicates a lot of time and resources to building a raft that he claims he only wants to use to cross the bay, but clearly actually wants to take onto the open ocean. None of the castaways see any other nearby land or any passing boats that might pick him up, and they point out that the raft he's making is not up to rough water - actually, the one time he tests it in the bay it flips over - but he says he'd rather die than spend his life [[{{Robinsonade}} on that beach]]. When he and the raft vanish while the others are exploring the jungle, they assume he went out to sea and died. [[spoiler: He actually found the CaveBehindTheWaterfall and was picked up by a MadScientist, who had his goons retrieve and smash the raft so the others wouldn't get suspicious.]]
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* ''Literature/PrincessAcademy'': When negotiating with their tutor Olana for better treatment, one of the things the academy students ask for is the dismissal of the Aslandian soldiers, since they only seem to be there to intimidate the students into behaving. Olana asks what will happen if bandits come to the mountain village, Katar points out that even if they do come, there is nothing valuable in the village except linder blocks too heavy to steal, and the mountain men are strong enough to fend them off. However, they don't realize that bandits could still attack the academy ''itself'', which is a good distance from the village--and they do, when they hear that one of the students will be chosen as the future princess of Danland. They break into the academy unhindered and capture all the girls, intending to find the one chosen as princess and hold her for ransom.
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* ''Literature/PrincessAcademy'': When negotiating with their tutor Olana for better treatment, one of the things the academy students ask for is the dismissal of the Aslandian soldiers, since they only seem to be there to intimidate the students into behaving. Olana asks what will happen if bandits come to the mountain village, so Katar points out that even if they do come, there is nothing valuable in the village except linder blocks too heavy to steal, and the mountain men are strong enough to fend them off. However, they don't none of them realize that bandits could still attack the academy ''itself'', which is a good distance from the village--and they do, when they hear that one of the students will be chosen as the future princess of Danland. They break into the academy unhindered and capture all the girls, intending to find the one chosen as princess and hold her for ransom.
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* ''Literature/PrincessAcademy'': When negotiating with their tutor Olana for better treatment, one of the things the academy students ask for is the dismissal of the Aslandian soldiers, since they only seem to be there to intimidate the students into behaving. Olana asks what will happen if bandits come to the mountain village, Katar points out that even if they do come, there is nothing valuable in the village except linder blocks too heavy to steal, and the mountain men are strong enough to fend them off. However, they don't realize that bandits could still attack the academy ''itself'', which is a good distance from the village--and they do, when they hear that one of the students will be chosen as the future princess of Danland. They break into the academy unhindered and capture all the girls, intending to find the one chosen as princess and hold her for ransom.
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* ''Literature/TheSuperteacherProject'': The principal and teachers are initially honored that their school is being chosen to test the superteacher project (and that Mr. Aidact is doing all of the work they don't want to) before eventually realizing that the success of one robot teacher could get all of them replaced eventually.
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* The protagonist of light novel ''FFF-Rank Trashero'' can chalk up a great many of his personal failures to this. Despite considering himself a very rational individual, he has far too many instances where his [[ItsAllAboutMe egocentricism and narcissism]] prevent him from looking any farther than the immediate benefit to himself. Of course, he keeps [[NeverMyFault blaming others]] and [[IgnoredEpiphany not properly learning from his mistakes]], so this keeps happening.
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* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Feyre happily accepted Tamlin's marriage proposal and it only starts to occur to her two months later that being married to a High Lord involves sometimes having to put aside what you want for the good of the Court, having all your actions scrutinised, being expected to follow certain rules and traditions etc. Lucien lampshades this when Feyre says she just wants to marry Tamlin specifically rather than a High Lord, with Lucien stating they're "one and the same".
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** ''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 it would take five hundred years to steal it all by himself, even without Smaug. [[Film/TheHobbit The movie]] works around this by having the Dwarves' plan be to have Bilbo fetch just the Arkenstone, which they believe can then be used to convince all the armies of the six other dwarven settlements to come to Thorin's aid.
** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
** 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.)
** During their dialogue, Smaug smugly asks Bilbo how he's supposed to get his share back home. Bilbo realizes he had been so focused on getting to the mountain that he never thought of this. When he asks the Dwarves about this problem they admit they hadn't thought of it either.
** To enable the dwarves to escape from the Wood Elves, Bilbo secures them inside barrels so they can float away downriver.
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** 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.
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* In ''Literature/TheEnormousCrocodile'', the titular crocodile schemes to [[ImAHumanitarian eat human children]]. However, instead of keeping his intentions a secret, he [[SmugSnake can't resist the opportunity to brag]] about what he intends to do in front of the other animals in the jungle, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain which lets them foil his plans]].
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** Harry's ejection is the long term result of him not considering the consequence of his actions. Harry spent years associating with monsters, openly opposing the Senior Council, and avoiding the wizarding community at large, so very few people actully know him as a person, but by his less then stellar reputation. Even after the events of Literature/SummerKnight Harry never took the idea that it would reach a point where he be more trouble then he's worth, and the council would simply get rid of him.
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* In ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'', [[HotBlooded Kirara]] challenges Minako to a two-on-one volleyball game, with her and Misaki against Minako, who's stated to be good enough at the sport to compete internationally, in an effort to get her to sign a sponsorship deal with Kagura. Predictably, two complete non-athletes against someone who's that good results in a very one sided and actually dangerous match. After nearly breaking Kirara's arms with a few serves, Minako calls it off because she doesn't want to hurt the duo.
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* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', the king of Elkia holds a gambling tournament to determine his successor, since the world is one in which ''everything'' is decided by playing games. Unfortunately, Imanity cannot use or perceive magic (the reason why they're by far the weakest race and smallest nation), so anyone with an accomplice from another race could cheat their way to victory in the tournament and become a PuppetKing for the other nation, like Kurami had planned on doing. Upon thinking about this, Sora, the protagonist and an outsider, realizes that it's one more reason why the king deserves his reputation as an incompetent fool. Subverted later on, when Sora, learning that the king [[spoiler:bet land that was worthless to the Imanity against the Warbeasts so he could gather information on their game and pass it on to his successor after his death]], surmises that the previous king must have foreseen this, and did it so that someone who could overcome a magically-assisted opponent would succeed him.
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* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'', the king of Elkia holds a gambling tournament to determine his successor, since the world is one in which ''everything'' is decided by playing games. Unfortunately, Imanity cannot use or perceive magic (the reason why they're by far the weakest race and smallest nation), so anyone with an accomplice from another race could cheat their way to victory in the tournament and become a PuppetKing for the other nation, like Kurami had planned on doing. Upon thinking about this, Sora, the protagonist and an outsider, realizes that it's one more reason why the king deserves his reputation as an incompetent fool. Subverted later on, when Sora, learning that the king [[spoiler:bet land that was worthless to the Imanity against the Warbeasts so he could gather information on their game and pass it on to his successor after his death]], surmises that the previous king must have foreseen this, and did it so that someone who could overcome a magically-assisted opponent would succeed him.
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* 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]].
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* In the backstory to ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', ''Literature/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]].
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** 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.
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** 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 for the same reason he had to use code to tell Snape may have been pretending when he tried what happened without letting Umbridge know, Snape would be unable to give him a code.admit to receiving the message.
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* ''Literature/LegendsAndLattes'': Viv makes and carries out careful plans to get her city's first coffee shop up and running, but has no idea how to promote and advertise, assuming that people will just come--even though no one in Thune has ever heard of coffee or has any notion why they would want to buy it. Fortunately, Viv's new assistant Tandri has the business savvy and artistic talent to get things running.
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* Many of Floralinda's problems in ''Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower'' are caused by a lack of foresight on the part of the witch who imprisoned her. The witch designed Floralinda's accommodations on the seeming assumption that Floralinda would be rescued quickly, but designed the rest of the tower to be as lethal as possible. Needless to say, Floralinda is ''not'' rescued quickly. Or at all. After twenty-four princes die trying to save her, nobody else shows up, so she's stuck in a room with one dress and no running water for months. There's at least endlessly renewable food, but Floralinda nearly freezes to death because her room is uninsulated and doesn't even have a working fireplace.
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* In ''The Bestseller'' by Olivia Goldsmith, married couple Judith and Daniel Gross collaborate on a book where Judith will write it, and Daniel will edit and sell it (under the pen name Jude Daniel). However, the fame goes to Daniel's head and he decides to [[StealingTheCredit claim that ''he'' wrote the book himself]] and divorce his now-pregnant wife (he's also [[YourCheatingHeart having an affair with his editor]]), even going to the trouble of making up notes claiming ''he'' wrote it, thinking the novel will be a success and he'll be rich off the royalties, which (of course) he won't share with his wife. What he fails to consider is what will happen if the book is a flop--which winds up biting him in the ass. ''Big time.''
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* In ''The Bestseller'' by Olivia Goldsmith, married couple Judith and Daniel Gross collaborate on a book where Judith will write it, and Daniel will edit and sell it (under the pen name Jude Daniel). However, the fame goes to Daniel's head and he decides to [[StealingTheCredit claim that ''he'' wrote the book himself]] and divorce his now-pregnant wife (he's also [[YourCheatingHeart having an affair with his editor]]), editor), even going to the trouble of making up notes claiming ''he'' wrote it, thinking the novel will be a success and he'll be rich off the royalties, which (of course) he won't share with his wife. What he fails to consider is what will happen if the book is a flop--which winds up biting him in the ass. ''Big time.''
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* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Literature/TheGhostNextDoor'', the mysterious shadow stalking Hannah turns out to be quite the SmugSnake; their overconfidence causes them to not think of the possibility that [[spoiler:Hannah, as a ghost, can just ''walk right through them'' to save Danny from the fire they want him to die in]]. [[TooDumbToLive This mistake causes their own death]] [[spoiler:because they needed Danny to die in order to be incarnated]].
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* Angie from ''Literature/TwoLittleGirlsInBlue'' practically lives and breathes this trope. She's pretty good at coming up with solutions and schemes on the fly to get herself out of immediate trouble or achieve her immediate goals, but she rarely plans ahead for the long-term and her ideas tend to make things worse for her and accomplices down the road. A major example is her decision to kill Lucas and set it up like a suicide to keep Lucas' share of the $1 million and Kathy (a girl she helped kidnap for ransom money) for herself. She then finds herself having to find a way to lie low with $1 million in cash on her person that she reasonably shouldn't have and a frightened little girl whose face has been shown all over the country. She later whines to Clint that she didn't think her actions would cause all this extra trouble: she just wanted more money and a kid.
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* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'':
** In the first book, Greg protects Rowley's reputation by saying he threw the Cheese away. He doesn't realize until it's too late that, in order to toss the Cheese in the trash, he would have had to touch it, ergo giving himself the Cheese Touch.
** In ''The Deep End'', Susan paid for a fundraiser and gave Greg a planet named after him. However, she forgot to include his last name, so Greg thinks that anyone with his first name can go to "Planet Greg" and claim it as their own.
** In a flashback, Greg explains that one of the reasons why soccer was better when he was little was being able to have slushees at the snack bar. But then Susan and the other parents had the stand changed to sell only produce and granola bars as snacks, resulting in sales dropping, the field becoming overgrown (because selling the slushees paid for upkeep), and the season ending early because kids were getting ticks from playing in the uncut grass.
** In the first book, Greg protects Rowley's reputation by saying he threw the Cheese away. He doesn't realize until it's too late that, in order to toss the Cheese in the trash, he would have had to touch it, ergo giving himself the Cheese Touch.
** In ''The Deep End'', Susan paid for a fundraiser and gave Greg a planet named after him. However, she forgot to include his last name, so Greg thinks that anyone with his first name can go to "Planet Greg" and claim it as their own.
** In a flashback, Greg explains that one of the reasons why soccer was better when he was little was being able to have slushees at the snack bar. But then Susan and the other parents had the stand changed to sell only produce and granola bars as snacks, resulting in sales dropping, the field becoming overgrown (because selling the slushees paid for upkeep), and the season ending early because kids were getting ticks from playing in the uncut grass.
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* In ''The Bestseller'' by Olivia Goldsmith, married couple Judith and Daniel Gross collaborate on a book where Judith will write it, and Daniel will edit and sell it (under the pen name Jude Daniel). However, the fame goes to Daniel's head and he decides to [[StealingTheCredit claim that ''he'' wrote the book himself]] and divorce his now-pregnant wife (he's also [[YourCheatingHeart having an affair with his editor]]), even going to the trouble of making up notes claiming ''he'' wrote it, thinking the novel will be a success. What he fails to take into account is what happens if the book is a flop--which winds up biting him in the ass. ''Big time.''
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* In ''The Bestseller'' by Olivia Goldsmith, married couple Judith and Daniel Gross collaborate on a book where Judith will write it, and Daniel will edit and sell it (under the pen name Jude Daniel). However, the fame goes to Daniel's head and he decides to [[StealingTheCredit claim that ''he'' wrote the book himself]] and divorce his now-pregnant wife (he's also [[YourCheatingHeart having an affair with his editor]]), even going to the trouble of making up notes claiming ''he'' wrote it, thinking the novel will be a success. success and he'll be rich off the royalties, which (of course) he won't share with his wife. What he fails to take into account consider is what happens will happen if the book is a flop--which winds up biting him in the ass. ''Big time.''
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* In ''The Bestseller'' by Olivia Goldsmith, married couple Judith and Daniel Gross collaborate on a book where Judith will write it, and Daniel will edit and sell it (under the pen name Jude Daniel). However, the fame goes to Daniel's head and he decides to [[StealingTheCredit claim that ''he'' wrote the book himself]] and divorce his now-pregnant wife (he's also [[YourCheatingHeart having an affair with his editor]]), even going to the trouble of making up notes claiming ''he'' wrote it, thinking the novel will be a success. What he fails to take into account is what happens if the book is a flop--which winds up biting him in the ass. ''Big time.''
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* ''Literature/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'': The Bandanna Thief decides it would be a great idea to steal the bandit chief's bandana from Michio's reward and swap it with a common cloth. It never occurred to him that "Thief" would appear on his intelligence card the next time he was inspected for any reason.
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* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': Subverted - Prince Geoffrey ''relies'' on appearing like he never plans for most things, in order to [[ObfuscatingStupidity appear as an idiot to the public]], when in reality ''everything'' he does is well-thought and planned out.
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* In ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', the king of Elkia holds a gambling tournament to determine his successor, since the world is one in which ''everything'' is decided by playing games. Unfortunately, Imanity cannot use or perceive magic (the reason why they're by far the weakest race and smallest nation), so anyone with an accomplice from another race could cheat their way to victory in the tournament and become a PuppetKing for the other nation, like Kurami had planned on doing. Upon thinking about this, Sora, the protagonist and an outsider, realizes that it's one more reason why the king deserves his reputation as an incompetent fool. Subverted later on, when Sora, learning that the king [[spoiler:bet land that was worthless to the Imanity against the Warbeasts so he could gather information on their game and pass it on to his successor after his death]], surmises that the previous king must have foreseen this, and did it so that someone who could overcome a magically-assisted opponent would succeed him.
* ''Literature/OurLastCrusadeOrTheRiseOfANewWorld'': Alice and Rin kidnap Iska and hold him in a hotel room. Alice shackles them together and gloats that he can't escape. He asks her how they are supposed to go to the toilet or bathe. Alice, [[PottyEmergency who suddenly needs to pee]], frantically asks Rin for the key, but Rin had left, forcing Alice to wait for her to come back.
* ''Literature/OurLastCrusadeOrTheRiseOfANewWorld'': Alice and Rin kidnap Iska and hold him in a hotel room. Alice shackles them together and gloats that he can't escape. He asks her how they are supposed to go to the toilet or bathe. Alice, [[PottyEmergency who suddenly needs to pee]], frantically asks Rin for the key, but Rin had left, forcing Alice to wait for her to come back.
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* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'':
** Akira tries to explore the famous and highly dangerous Kusuzuraha Ruins with nothing but a handgun against monsters he knows nothing about on his first day of being a hunter. Alpha is quick to point out the folly in Akira's actions, which leaves him embarrassed and ashamed.
** After Akira leaves from an argument he was having with Katsuya as Elena and Sara were arriving to stop them, that leads to both only hearing Katsuya’s side and then showing that the next time they meet Akira, which makes Akira lose a significant amount of trust in the two. When Elena and Sara realize this, they think MyGodWhatHaveIDone, and that it’s weird they didn’t wait to hear Akira’s side before judging. [[spoiler:This was the result of Katsuya’s unconscious MoreThanMindControl effecting them.]]
* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsThePiggyDukeThisTimeImGonnaTellHerHowIFeel'': The original Slowe's plan was to be a {{Jerkass}} who is HatedByAll in a LongGame plan to lower his standing to be able to marry his servant Charlotte without causing a scandal. He didn't realize by the time he did she would fall in love with someone else since he never told her.
** Akira tries to explore the famous and highly dangerous Kusuzuraha Ruins with nothing but a handgun against monsters he knows nothing about on his first day of being a hunter. Alpha is quick to point out the folly in Akira's actions, which leaves him embarrassed and ashamed.
** After Akira leaves from an argument he was having with Katsuya as Elena and Sara were arriving to stop them, that leads to both only hearing Katsuya’s side and then showing that the next time they meet Akira, which makes Akira lose a significant amount of trust in the two. When Elena and Sara realize this, they think MyGodWhatHaveIDone, and that it’s weird they didn’t wait to hear Akira’s side before judging. [[spoiler:This was the result of Katsuya’s unconscious MoreThanMindControl effecting them.]]
* ''Literature/ReincarnatedAsThePiggyDukeThisTimeImGonnaTellHerHowIFeel'': The original Slowe's plan was to be a {{Jerkass}} who is HatedByAll in a LongGame plan to lower his standing to be able to marry his servant Charlotte without causing a scandal. He didn't realize by the time he did she would fall in love with someone else since he never told her.
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* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'':
** This is Angelica's FatalFlaw. She has a HairTriggerTemper and has bad habit of acting before thinking. In the original game, she challenges Olivia to a duel without thinking who would accept on her behalf, which turns out to be all of the capture targets. After her defeat, she is disgraced and banished. Marie takes advantage of this in the story proper and manipulates her into doing the same thing, only for Leon to step in Angelica's stead.
** Applies to Marie as well. Her biggest flaw is she never fully considers her actions and only thinks in short term. Her actions almost [[spoiler:destroy the Kingdom, forcing Leon to save the day despite the fact she technically knows more about the setting due to knowing about the various sequels to the game]]. Albeit, this only happened because she was LockedOutOfTheLoop.
** This is Angelica's FatalFlaw. She has a HairTriggerTemper and has bad habit of acting before thinking. In the original game, she challenges Olivia to a duel without thinking who would accept on her behalf, which turns out to be all of the capture targets. After her defeat, she is disgraced and banished. Marie takes advantage of this in the story proper and manipulates her into doing the same thing, only for Leon to step in Angelica's stead.
** Applies to Marie as well. Her biggest flaw is she never fully considers her actions and only thinks in short term. Her actions almost [[spoiler:destroy the Kingdom, forcing Leon to save the day despite the fact she technically knows more about the setting due to knowing about the various sequels to the game]]. Albeit, this only happened because she was LockedOutOfTheLoop.
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* ''Literature/TheGreatBrain'':
** The most common is JD as every time he tries to beat con artist older brother Tom at his own game, it backfires on him. More than once, JD has tried to blackmail Tom only for it to be flipped around and JD ends up paying even more than he originally did while grousing on "my little brain."
** However, Tom's own schemes can fail this way too. For all his smarts, Tom is still a kid and thus won't fully grasp his scheme's long-range consequences or nuances and is tripped up by a SpannerInTheWorks even he couldn't foresee. It's indicated this is why his attempts at legitimate ventures fail, as Tom is terrific with a con game but fails to grasp the complexities of an honest business.
** Tom smugly thinks he can get a reward from a train company for improving things by suggesting a long pipe from the smokestack to the rear of the train so the passengers won't be bothered by cinders, smoke and ash. The train conductor deflates Tom by revealing that very idea has been suggested before and vetoed because all that material would get clogged in the pipe and overheat the engine. Tom has to stew in embarrassment at missing that obvious point.
** The most common is JD as every time he tries to beat con artist older brother Tom at his own game, it backfires on him. More than once, JD has tried to blackmail Tom only for it to be flipped around and JD ends up paying even more than he originally did while grousing on "my little brain."
** However, Tom's own schemes can fail this way too. For all his smarts, Tom is still a kid and thus won't fully grasp his scheme's long-range consequences or nuances and is tripped up by a SpannerInTheWorks even he couldn't foresee. It's indicated this is why his attempts at legitimate ventures fail, as Tom is terrific with a con game but fails to grasp the complexities of an honest business.
** Tom smugly thinks he can get a reward from a train company for improving things by suggesting a long pipe from the smokestack to the rear of the train so the passengers won't be bothered by cinders, smoke and ash. The train conductor deflates Tom by revealing that very idea has been suggested before and vetoed because all that material would get clogged in the pipe and overheat the engine. Tom has to stew in embarrassment at missing that obvious point.
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* ''Literature/BattleGround2020'': [[TheProtagonist Harry]] states that the White Council of wizards didn't consider that in expelling 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. 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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* ''Literature/IJedi'': Corran's plan for confronting Exar Kun hinges on Kun's seeming inability to interact with the physical world, and need to act through other agents. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Corran forgot that Kun had managed to short out Vodo-Siosk Baas's holocron by himself, and he proceeds to do the same with the bombs that Corran brings with him to demolish Kun's temple]].
-->'''Corran:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Ooops.]]
-->'''Corran:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Ooops.]]
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* In the ''Literature/FernHollow'' story ''Brock The Balloonist'', Brock Gruffy finds a hot air balloon and decides to try it out--he, however, has never taken any lessons, has no idea how to control the thing, and ends up causing a ''lot'' of damage.
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** 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]].
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** 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]].
