History PoorCommunicationKills / LiveActionFilms

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, a species who is one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin [[IAmNotYourFather tells him this]], he reveals that the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him as a political tool to bring peace between the two realms, even though Odin actually let go of this plan a while ago. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] out of InternalizedCategorism and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, a species who is one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin [[IAmNotYourFather tells him this]], he reveals that the the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him as a political tool to bring peace between the two realms, even though Odin actually let go of this plan a while ago. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] out of InternalizedCategorism and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, a species who is one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin [[IAmNotYourFather tells him this]], he makes it sound as if the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him as a political tool to bring peace between the two realms, even though Odin actually let go of this plan a while ago. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] out of InternalizedCategorism and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, a species who is one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin [[IAmNotYourFather tells him this]], he makes it sound as if the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him as a political tool to bring peace between the two realms, even though Odin actually let go of this idea a while ago. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] out of InternalizedCategorism and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, a species who is one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin [[IAmNotYourFather tells him this]], he makes it sound as if the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him as a political tool to bring peace between the two realms, even though Odin actually let go of this idea a while ago. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] out of InternalizedRacism and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, a species who is one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin tells him this, he makes it sound as if the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him to bring peace between the two realms. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin tells him this, he makes it sound as if the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him to bring peace between the two realms. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.

*** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Odin reveals to Thor and Loki a minute before he dies that they have a [[CainAndAbelAndSeth murderous older sister]] that they never knew about. They and all of Asgard are completely unprepared for her return and the only way to stop her ends up being to destroy all of Asgard. Adding to all the above, Thor and Loki themselves have a tendency to avoid talking their problems out and instead quickly start to argue. Loki even lampshades this when Thor says that they should talk:

*** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Thor is hurt and angry when he meets Loki again for the first time after the events of ''Thor''. So when he actually starts to show affection to Loki (such as saying that he mourned him, reminding him that they are brothers after all) or asks him where he got the Chitauri army from, Loki rebuffs and never reveals Thanos or what [[MoreThanMindControl happened to him]] after his fall. It is implied that he also never got a real trial in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and is instead directly thrown into prison by Odin, and he remains silent about Thanos to his mother who is the only one who visits him. This leads to everyone being unprepared when Thanos eventually attacks in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.

*** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Thor is hurt and angry when he meets Loki again for the first time after the events of ''Thor''. So when he actually starts to show affection to Loki (such as saying that he mourned him, reminding him that they are brother after all) or asks him where he got the Chitauri army from, Loki rebuffs and never reveals Thanos or what [[MoreThanMindControl happened to him]] after his fall. It is implied that he also never got a real trial in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and is instead directly thrown into prison by Odin, and he remains silent about Thanos to his mother who is the only one who visits him. This leads to everyone being unprepared when Thanos eventually attacks in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.

*** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Thor is hurt and angry when he meets Loki again for the first time after the events of ''Thor''. So when he actually starts to show affection to Loki (such as saying that he mourned him, reminding him that they are brother after all) or asks him where he got the Chitauri army from, Loki rebuffs and never reveals Thanos or what [[MoreThanMindControl happened to him]] after his fall. It is implied that he also never got a real trial in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and is instead directly thrown into prison by Odin, and he remains silent to Thanos to his mother who is the only one who visits him. This leads to everyone being unprepared when Thanos eventually attacks in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': If you think about it, the vast majority of the big problems in this movie (i.e., the second half) could've been avoided if Steve had just opened his mouth.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': This is a common problem of the royal family of Asgard:
** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia that he is adopted and actually a Jotun, one of Asgard's enemies. As his adoptive father Odin tells him this, he makes it sound as if the main reason why he adopted Loki was that he wanted to use him to bring peace between the two realms. Odin also never made a point to teach his sons that the Jotuns are not monsters (such as him not reacting when Thor said as a child that he will slay all Jotuns once he is king). This all combined leads to Loki having a [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mental breakdown]] and [[BigBadSlippage becoming the Big Bad]] of the movie and the following ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Odin reveals to Thor and Loki a minute before he dies that they have a [[CainAndAbelAndSeth murderous older sister]] that they never knew about. They and all of Asgard are completely unprepared for her return and the only way to stop her ends up being to destroy all of Asgard. Adding to all the above, Thor and Loki themselves have a tendency to avoid talking their problems out and instead quickly start to argue. Loki even lampshades this when Thor says that they should talk:
--->'''Loki:''' I disagree. Open communication has never been our families forte.

--->'''Loki:''' Open communication has never been our families forte.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Faramir is benevolent enough to offer Frodo the chance to talk Gollum out of the Forbidden Pool before Faramir's troops shoot Gollum for violating the law, but instead of carefully explaining to Gollum that there are soldiers waiting above and that Gollum can either risk capture or be killed on the spot, Frodo doesn't bother to explain the situation beyond "you ''must'' come with Master." When Gollum obeys and is captured by Faramir's men, he confuses the "come with me" offer for a betrayal [[spoiler:and shortly begins plotting his revenge]].

* For some reason, Peter never managed to explain to Harry Osborn in ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' that Harry's father was killed by his own glider, and in the end of the trilogy it was revealed that Harry's ''butler'' had known this ''since Norman's death'' and never said a word about it.

* Discussed in ''Film/ThePerfectScore'' between Desmond and Roy. Roy points out that Desmond should just talk to his mom.

* ''Film/LoneSurvivor'': We all know the movie wouldn't have this title if the SEAL Team 10 was able to communicate its base in the start of the film.
* This can be called Star Wars Prequel Communication.
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Mace Windu and Yoda fail to tell the Council of the increase in the powers of the dark side. This has telling consequences for the future.
** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Master Yoda helps get the entire Jedi Order put to the sword because he couldn't get across to Anakin how important it was to be clear-headed when he tries to change what his visions show him. He just told Anakin what to do, expecting either that Anakin would simply do what he was told or that he would respect Yoda's wisdom. Yoda does this rather than take the time to explain that if he was so terrified of losing someone, he would be willing to do ''anything'' to save them, no matter how far-fetched, dangerous, or self-destructive. And that this is a bad mental state to make any kind of decision in.
** When Anakin tells Windu of the fact that Sidious is a Sith Lord, Windu fails to tell anybody outside of the four who leave with him (the novelisation states that Yoda is informed). So when it goes tits up, it really does look like the Jedi attempted a coup to everyone.
** Continues in the sequel trilogy, [[spoiler: where if Holdo had told Poe the plan or even that they ''had'' a plan in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', there wouldn't have been a mutiny.]]
*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a code-breaker to even have a smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships.
** Also, [[spoiler:if Luke had just talked with Ben Solo, maybe they could have talked it out, instead of Luke assuming the worst of a boy who literally had done nothing wrong. The same Luke that risked everything to redeem his child-murdering father. In Luke's version of events he got control of his panic and was planning to do that very thing... but Ben had already seen him there with blade drawn and came to the obvious conclusion.]]
* The Finnish film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378848/ Tali-Ihantala 1944]]'' has a scene that shows the tragic results of a language barrier between the Finnish troops and Swedish volunteers. One of the Finnish veterans is instructing the volunteer troops on using a ''panzerfaust'', stressing the fact that the weapon releases a lethal tail flame upon firing. However, he tells this in ''Finnish'', which the Swedish troops do not understand. Later, during an ambush against Soviet tanks, one of the volunteers gets killed by the tail flame. One of the Finnish soldiers tries to warn him not to hold the weapon against his shoulder while firing, but since the warning is again in Finnish, he does not understand it and fires anyway.
* For some reason, Peter never managed to explain to Harry Osborn in ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' that Harry's father was killed by his own glider, and in the end of the trilogy it was revealed that Harry's ''butler'' had known this ''since Norman's death'' and never said a word about it.
* In Creator/JohnCarpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', the movie begins with a man chasing after a dog with explosives and a rifle, trying to warn the others that the dog is a monster in disguise and must be destroyed. The man's warning is unheeded and he is shot and killed because he was speaking Norwegian while the main characters were American and couldn't understand.
** As mentioned in the ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' entry, it's hard to imagine the main characters reacting any different no matter what language the guy had been speaking.
* Subverted in ''Film/MarsAttacks!''. At first it appears that poor communication is the cause of the Martians' attacks on the humans. Later it's made clear that the Martians intended to invade and destroy humanity anyway. Apparently, they just really hate (or are afraid of) birds.
* In ''Film/TheOne'', the protagonist routinely tells other police officers about his sociopathic alternate-universe duplicate with the words "He is me," instead of "He looks exactly like me." While it's possible that the police might not have believed him, he never seems to make any effort to tell the mundane cops about his doppelganger, so he has to fend them off as well.

* This is what caused General Ashdown to kick John Connor out of LaResistance in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''. Of course, what Ashdown didn't know was that John Connor wanted to save someone vital to Tech-Com (his father, Kyle Reese, then a teenager), and even though Connor didn't give the full details to his own unit, the whole unit rebels against Ashdown by siding with Connor so he could save Reese. (Of course, Ashdown doesn't know about the rebellion until after he learns that the attack on Skynet wouldn't go forward until Connor gave the order, thereby deposing Ashdown mere minutes before he gets blown to smithereens.)
** of course, even if he had taken the time to explain, it's doubtful Ashdown would have received "I have to rescue my father because he hasn't met my mother in the past yet" as anything other than frothing-at-the-mouth insanity.
* In the film ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', the college kids' inherrent belief that Tucker and Dale are murderous backwards hillbillies leads them to believe that they kidnapped one of their friends, rather than helping her out of the lake as they had actually done. Then again later this mindset causes them to all start dying from their own stupidity. One of them took a risk and tried to simply talk to Tucker about their friend... only to run in fear from a chainsaw wielding Tucker (who had accidentally sawed open a bee hive and was running for his life). The poor sensible kid ended up running straight into a branch and impaling himself on it, leading the rest of the college kids' to believe Tucker did it and reinforcing their misconceptions.
** That being said, Tucker was guilty of it himself on at least that occasion, considering he runs in the same direction as the kid while waving the chainsaw around, which is an unbelievably stupid thing to do no matter the situation. Even as he looks over at the scared kid running away from him he doesn't put two and two together. He and Dale instead conclude (after an [[BloodyHilarious ill-fated]] attempt by the college kids to get Allison back) that they're all members of a SuicidePact who want to make sure Allison does so too.
* In ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', When Vinny's cousin and his friend are first arrested, they end up [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging themselves deeper]] as they answer the police's questions while simply assuming they were being arrested for shoplifting, and the police never even mention to the two why they were arrested until well into the process. Incidentally, this shows how poor communication can put innocent people in prison if they talk to police without legal counsel.
* Early in ''Film/TheStrangers'', the protagonist calls for his friend to give him a ride back home from his isolated cabin in the woods, right about the time that three masked lunatics decide to sabotage his only car and try to kill him. Later, when the friend arrives to find that someone's broken into the cabin (and a few minutes after someone throws a rock through ''his'' car's window), his first instinct is to silently tiptoe into the cabin...without thinking to phone the police or call out to the protagonist to let him know that he's arrived. [[spoiler:The protagonist, who's barricaded himself inside with a shotgun, thinks he's one of the masked assailants, and shoots him dead.]]
* Happens in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' several times. Lieutenant Gorman orders the marines not to use their firearms or explosives when going after the captives, but never explains ''why''. As a result, some use their firearms anyway, which later ruptures the cooling system and sets the station on a course towards nuclear meltdown. Later, Ripley finds out that Burke was responsible for the whole alien menace to begin with, but doesn't tell anyone. She just threatens him with arrest after they return back home and then [[IdiotBall lies down and takes a nap]].....
* In ''Film/TheTerror'', the loyal Stefan confronts the old woman living in the cabin on the Baron's lands. He knows she's a witch, has some sort of plan against the Baron, and threatens to burn her out if she doesn't leave. She tells him she's avenging Eric. What Stefan doesn't ask is who Eric is to her, thus setting up the rest of the movie.

* In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', this trope is literally employed with Hatchet Harry, Barry the Baptist, and the two [[OopNorth Scousers]]. The Scousers are a pair of StupidCrooks who are hired by Harry through his [[TheDragon Dragon]], Barry, to steal a gun collection, because Harry wants [[MacGuffin two antique guns]]. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Barry gives the two limited information, not telling them the identity of their employer nor indicating that the purpose of the job was to procure those two guns]]. This results in a situation in which the Scousers attack Harry to get the guns back to their employer (unbeknownst to them, Harry himself) and don't realize their mistake/see Barry in the room until everyone has been fatally wounded.
* In ''Film/TexasChainsaw3D'' a lawyer gives the main character a letter and tells her to read it as soon as possible. Despite acting quite reasonably and intelligently up to this point in the movie, and having several hours where nothing much happens afterwards, she never gets around to it until the very end of the movie, where it turns out the letter explains pretty much the entire movie. Had she actually read the letter, they could have easily avoided the deaths of several people which follow, including her friends and boyfriend.
* A major and recurring theme of ''Film/DrStrangelove''. Mandrake has problems reaching the president to recall the bombers, he finds a PayPhone but has not enough pocket change and a brief [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage issue with British vs American terms]]. Finally one of the bombers cannot be recalled via the OverrideCommand because its communication system has been destroyed. Armageddon ensues. And of course the Soviets didn't tell the world about their DoomsdayDevice because their premier "loves surprises." It's even enforced by BigBad General Ripper, whose first action in launching his nuclear attack on Russia is ordering his staff to destroy all their radios (so they won't know he's lying and that the Russians aren't actually attacking).
* In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', this is what leads to the fight between Gambit and Wolverine, who Gambit thinks is trying to take him back to Stryker's prison on Three Mile Island. After learning that he wants to stop Stryker, Gambit is more than happy to help.

* In [[Film/SiebenZwerge 7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug]], the entire plot of the movie is based on the dwarves trying to find out Rumpelstiltskin's name. However, one them already knew it the whole time but got interrupted whenever he was about to mention it. It doesn't help that he's the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': [[TearJerker Although Spock's death was extremely moving]], it would've helped if Spock said something like [[spoiler:"Jim, I've placed my katra, or soul, in Dr. [=McCoy=]'s mind. Please take him to Mount Seleya on Vulcan to have it returned..." before dying.]]
** In the novelization of "Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock", we get the likely answer for why Spock didn't tell Kirk about [[spoiler:the katra being in Dr. [=McCoy=]'s mind before dying:]] according to Sarek, Dr. [=McCoy=] suffered some kind of allergic reaction to Spock's katra being in his mind and thus didn't know that he had to go to Mount Seleya on Vulcan to have it returned. Had [=McCoy=] not had the allergic reaction, he would have probably told Kirk about the katra and the need to go to Mount Seleya.
* Two cases in ''Film/DarkStar'':
** The space ship's computer notifies the crew about the malfunction while they are sleeping. No one registers this important information and disaster takes its course.
** Also, Talby tries to inform Doolittle about the laser malfunction but the latter [[NotNowKiddo dismisses this as unimportant]] and cuts the communication line.

* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', Axe and Cross never bothers to mention to Kaulder that [[spoiler:they've had Witch Queen's heart for centuries, and now it's been stolen. Bad thing, because it can be used to bring her back to life.]] It literally kills them and almost leads to the end of the world.
* ''Film/KungFuKiller'': the hero lets the police know all eight of the serial killer's intended targets, but they don't know exactly which order the serial killer will go after them. Rather than notify all of the men and put them under police protection, the team spends a good portion of the film one step behind the killer trying to anticipate which one will be next. Consequently, several men on the list get killed.
* In ''Caught Up'', one of the film's villains, Billy is the victim of a double dose of this. After another villain threatens him to find the protagonist's location, he has a brief laugh before telling his captor that the protagonist is hiding in his closet (he is, actually). The other villain had just gotten through a motive monologue, so he believes Billy is mocking him and his story; so he decides the best thing to do is to torture Billy with acid. Unfortunately for him, his mook administering the acid misheard him saying "a proper drop" as "a couple drops", so he ends up burning a hole right through Billy's skull, killing him.

* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': Superman puts a token effort at the start of the fight into telling Batman that Lex Luthor has kidnapped his mother and is blackmailing him into fighting Bats, but is quickly interrupted. After that he doesn't bother trying again until the two have fought for about ten minutes and Batman is about to stab him with a Kryptonite spear. Even when he temporarily overcomes the Kryptonite and has Batman at his mercy, he goes off on a tangent about how he could kill Batman if he wanted to instead of just saying "Dude, Lex Luthor has my Mom." Batman, meanwhile, is just so convinced that [[KnightTemplar killing Supes is the right thing to do]] he never even considers trying to talk things out
* In ''Film/{{Lantana}}'', Nik picks up Valerie in his car and agrees to give her a lift home, but he doesn't think to tell her that he's taking her down a back road shortcut. She panics, jumps from the car and runs into the bush, eventually falling down a ravine to her death.
* ''Film/{{Arrival}}'': The crux of the film is the difficulty of communication with an alien species that has recently landed on Earth, and mankind collectively going crazy wondering if this is a hostile invasion or not. The world's militaries manage to keep a tight enough lid on things to prevent anyone from actually attacking the aliens... for the most part. When humanity finally manages to pose the question "What is your purpose?" to the aliens, their response complicates things. [[spoiler:The message they send back is interpreted as "Use weapon". This very nearly causes several militaries to attack the aliens, and in one case a small group of soldiers goes rogue and bomb an alien vessel as a pre-emptive strike, which winds up killing one of the aliens. Later it's learned that what the aliens ''meant'' to say was "Offer gift". Fortunately, the aliens seem to understand that the bombing was carried out by a rogue group and was not representative of all humans, and do not take the attack as a declaration of war.]]

* ''Theatre/MammaMia''
** The entire chain of misunderstandings running throughout the film is set up by Sophie inviting her three potential Dads to the wedding without telling anyone else, and insisting that they not tell anyone else that she invited them.
** The movie's background is set up by young Sam leaving to return to his fiancee [[spoiler:without telling Donna that he was only returning to call off the wedding and turn right around and come back to her. If he'd told her that before he left, presumably she'd have waited for him instead of shacking up with two other men on the rebound]].
* In ''Film/{{Andhadhun}}'', Akash calls Sophie after Simi has blinded him, attempting to explain the situation. Sophie refuses to listen, [[LiarRevealed having found out that he was faking his blindness]] and [[MistakenForCheating mistakenly believing that he was sleeping with Simi]]. This leaves Akash completely isolated with no one to trust or turn to.

** That being said, Tucker was guilty of it himself on at least that occasion, considering he runs in the same direction as the kid while waving the chainsaw around, which is an unbelievably stupid thing to do no matter the situation. Even as he looks over at the scared kid running away from him he doesn't put two and two together.

* ''MammaMia''

** Also, [[spoiler:if Luke had just talked with Ben Solo, maybe they could have talked it out, instead of Luke assuming the worst of a boy who literally had done nothing wrong. The same Luke that risked everything to redeem his child-murdering father.]]

** The environmentalists are also equally guilty. After seeing the scientist go into a panic at the idea of releasing the chimps, they never think to clarify what he's talking about, ask why he's panicking or even do enough research to know if the chimps are infected with any dangerous diseases. They also quite clearly hear him say "it's contagious; one bite is all it takes", which ''really'' should have made them hesitate at least long enough for a proper explanation. Although to be fair, a crazy, animal torturing scientist going on about how you need to kill your best friend within the next 10 seconds or they'll become a zombie [[RealityEnsues isn't likely to convince a person either way.]]

*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a code-breaker to even have a smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships. Of course, how DJ found out when it was never communicated to Finn & Rose (and thus him) is some weird version of this trope pulled inside out.

* Happens in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' several times. Lieutenant Gorman orders the marines not to use their firearms or explosives when going after the captives, but never explains ''why''. As a result, some use their firearms anyway, which later ruptures the cooling system and sets the station on a course towards nuclear meltdown. Later, Ripley finds out that Burke was responsible for the whole alien menace to begin with, but doesn't tell anyone. She just threatens him with arrest after they return back home and then lies down and takes a nap.....

*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a code-breaker to even have an smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships. Of course, how DJ found out when it was never communicated to Finn & Rose (and thus him) is some weird version of this trope pulled inside out.