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* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}:'' On the first day of battle, Robert E. Lee tells General Ewell to take an important hill "if practicable" so that the Union can't mount a defense on it. "If practicable" was a standard courteous phrase of the era, which Lee's ''other'' generals understood as "do it." Ewell, who was implied to have become a ShellShockedVeteran after the loss of his leg, interpreted it literally and, over the protests of his subordinates, decided it was not practicable. The hill? Little Round Top, which becomes the extreme right flank of the Union position the next day and is successfully defended from repeated Confederate attacks by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine.
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* ''Film/ThePrincess'': The fat merc being too tired/lazy to give an appropriate sitrep when he finally reaches the Princess' chambers at the top of the tower, giving her some time to get further downstairs. This trope can also be taken literally, since this also allows her to chop up plenty of Julius' troops on the way.
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* 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).
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* A major and recurring theme of ''Film/DrStrangelove''. Mandrake has problems reaching the president to recall the bombers, he finds a PayPhone 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).
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* The entirety of ''Film/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty'' could have been avoided if [[spoiler:Sean O'Connell had been clearer in telling Walter that negative asset #25, which Walter searched throughout three countries for, [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong was in his wallet all along]]. If Sean had been more straightforward about it, Walter might've kept his job at LIFE Magazine.]]
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* ''Film/NoNameOnTheBullet'': Earl Stricker gets paranoid after seeing the infamous gunman John Gant having a drink at the bar while one of his mining partners, Ben Chaffee, is there. This leaves Stricker and his other partner, Pierce, convinced that Chaffee hired Gant to kill them. They then into the bar hoping to pay Gant into leaving (unsuccessfully). While they're sitting down with him, one of Chaffee's miners walks in, gets the wrong impression, and hurries out to tell Chaffee that Stricker and Pierce are acting all chummy with Gant and have probably hired Gant to kill ''him''.
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* ''Film/NoNameOnTheBullet'': Earl Stricker gets paranoid after seeing the infamous gunman John Gant having a drink at the bar while one of his mining partners, Ben Chaffee, is there. This leaves Stricker and his other partner, Pierce, convinced that Chaffee hired Gant to kill them. They then into the bar hoping to pay Gant into leaving (unsuccessfully). While they're sitting down with him, one of Chaffee's miners walks in, gets the wrong impression, and hurries out to tell Chaffee that Stricker and Pierce are acting all chummy with Gant and have probably hired Gant Cant to kill ''him''.''him''.
* ''Film/NurseBetty': Wesley scalps Del-and promptly freaks out over it-because he mistakes a story that Charlie recounts about how a man can survive being scalped to frighten Dale and rub in how insensitive Dale is toward Native Americans. Wesley interprets this as an order to scalp Dale and does so, leaving both hitmen horrified and forcing them to shoot Dale when he breaks loose due to the adrenaline.
* ''Film/NurseBetty': Wesley scalps Del-and promptly freaks out over it-because he mistakes a story that Charlie recounts about how a man can survive being scalped to frighten Dale and rub in how insensitive Dale is toward Native Americans. Wesley interprets this as an order to scalp Dale and does so, leaving both hitmen horrified and forcing them to shoot Dale when he breaks loose due to the adrenaline.
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* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'':
** Knuckles reveals that [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Echidnas]] forged the [[AmplifierArtifact Master Emerald]] out of the seven Chaos Emeralds in order to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands, and the war between them and the Owls started after the Owls attacked them on the grounds that NoManShouldHaveThisPower. In the end the two tribes ended up wiping each other out even though [[WeAreStrugglingTogether both sides wanted the exact same thing]]: to protect the Chaos Emeralds.
** While hunting for the Master Emerald in Siberia, Tails' UniversalTranslator mistakenly insults the waitress, causing an angry mob of [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong pissed-off Russians]] attempting to throw them into the fireplace before he manages to talk them down.
** Later on, while Sonic is attempting to bond with Knuckles Tails attacks him and makes him think it was all a trick, delaying his HeelFaceTurn.
** Almost immediately after ''that'', at Tom's sister-in-law's wedding [[spoiler:Tom manages to mix up the portal ring Sonic gave him with the wedding ring, and when Sonic [[KindaBusyHere calls him in the middle of the ceremony]] desperate for help he interrupts the ceremony ''again'' demanding the ring like a crazy person [[CannotSpitItOut without even attempting to explain there was a mix-up and exchanging them]], leading to him [[DisasterDominoes punching the groom and opening the portal into an avalanche]].]]
** Knuckles reveals that [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Echidnas]] forged the [[AmplifierArtifact Master Emerald]] out of the seven Chaos Emeralds in order to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands, and the war between them and the Owls started after the Owls attacked them on the grounds that NoManShouldHaveThisPower. In the end the two tribes ended up wiping each other out even though [[WeAreStrugglingTogether both sides wanted the exact same thing]]: to protect the Chaos Emeralds.
** While hunting for the Master Emerald in Siberia, Tails' UniversalTranslator mistakenly insults the waitress, causing an angry mob of [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong pissed-off Russians]] attempting to throw them into the fireplace before he manages to talk them down.
** Later on, while Sonic is attempting to bond with Knuckles Tails attacks him and makes him think it was all a trick, delaying his HeelFaceTurn.
** Almost immediately after ''that'', at Tom's sister-in-law's wedding [[spoiler:Tom manages to mix up the portal ring Sonic gave him with the wedding ring, and when Sonic [[KindaBusyHere calls him in the middle of the ceremony]] desperate for help he interrupts the ceremony ''again'' demanding the ring like a crazy person [[CannotSpitItOut without even attempting to explain there was a mix-up and exchanging them]], leading to him [[DisasterDominoes punching the groom and opening the portal into an avalanche]].]]
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* This can be called ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequel Communication.
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* ''Film/ReapTheWildWind'': Steve successfully argues for Jack to be made the captain of the ''Southern Cross'', but Commodore Devereaux orders him not to tell Jack about this decision until his guilt or innocence is established. When Jack finds out, he accuses Steve of deliberately stopping his promotion and Steve goes along with the deception (presumably to avoid turning Jack against his boss, Captain Devereaux). As a result of this misunderstanding, [[spoiler:when Devereaux dies, Jack thinks that Steve will fire him and makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* ''Film/ReapTheWildWind'': Steve successfully argues for Jack to be made the captain of the ''Southern Cross'', but Commodore Devereaux orders him not to tell Jack about this decision until his guilt or innocence in the wreck of the ''Jubilee'' is established. When Jack finds out, he accuses Steve of deliberately stopping his promotion and Steve goes along with the deception (presumably to avoid turning Jack against his boss, Captain Devereaux). As a result of this misunderstanding, [[spoiler:when Devereaux dies, Jack thinks that Steve will fire him and makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* ''Film/ReapTheWildWind'': Steve successfully argues for Jack to be made the captain of the ''Southern Cross'', but Commodore Devereaux orders him not to tell Jack about this decision until his guilt or innocence is established. When Jack finds out, he accuses Steve of deliberately stopping his promotion and Steve goes along with the deception (presumably to avoid turning Jack against his boss, Captain Devereaux). As a result of this misunderstanding, [[spoiler:when Devereaux dies, Jack thinks that Steve will fire him and makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]
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But again, would anyone believe it if that's what it did say? Is it Will Caster or an AI impersonating him? Is the impersonation deliberate or just using what models of human communication were to hand? Does it have an ulterior agenda? Does it have any agenda or is it just blindly going through the motions? ...
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* In ''Film/{{Transcendence}}'', a big part about the ending relies on this, because [[spoiler: everyone thinks Will Caster the human-turned-super-AI is trying to conquer the world because he never explains to anyone that all the stuff he's doing is to save it. Even the very fact that he's being so proactive about ''anything'' makes them think he's literally not himself. It's really because he's trying to fulfill his wife's wishes, as she always did want to change the world -- but he doesn't tell even her. And then he starts spreading nanites everywhere without explaining that their purpose is to remove pollution. All the while, of course, appearing generally creepy and inhuman.]]
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---->'''Loki:''' I disagree. Open communication has never been our families forte.
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* ''Film/{{Ajnabee}}'': When Raj beats up Vicky over his "[[BedTrick wife swapping]]" suggestion, he refuses to tell Priya the reason for the fight, thinking is "too scandalous" to repeat. This bites him in the ass later, since without knowing his reason for getting violent with Vicky, it makes it harder for her to believe he's [[FrameUp being framed]] for Vicky's wife's death. When he eventually tells her the reason, she admonishes him for how stupid it was of him to keep it a secret.
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* 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.
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* In ''Caught Up'', ''Film/CaughtUp'', 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.him.
* ''Film/CoronerCreek'': If Chris had told Leach that he suspected Miles planning to start a fire at the box canyon, rather than just telling him to 'keep watch', they could have avoided the AnimalStampede that killed most of Della's herd.
* ''Film/CoronerCreek'': If Chris had told Leach that he suspected Miles planning to start a fire at the box canyon, rather than just telling him to 'keep watch', they could have avoided the AnimalStampede that killed most of Della's herd.
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*** 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, saying that "these plans no longer matter". 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}}''.
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*** In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', Loki accidentally finds out after over a millennia millennium 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, saying that "these plans no longer matter". 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}}''.
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Cross-wicking and fixing indentation.
* Discussed in ''Film/ThePerfectScore'' between Desmond and Roy. Roy points out that Desmond should just talk to his mom.
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* Discussed Several problems in ''Film/ThePerfectScore'' between Desmond ''Film/ShortCuts'' are exacerbated by poor communication.
** Ann Finnigan orders an expensive custom birthday cake from Andy Bitkower's bakery for her son Casey's birthday. When Casey is hit by a car andRoy. Roy points goes into a coma, Ann stays with him at the hospital while her husband Howard makes a quick trip back home to retrieve some of their belongings. While he is there, Bitkower calls to iron out some details in Ann's design; Howard, who wasn't present when the cake was ordered and can't answer Bitkower's questions anyway, hangs up to keep the line free for possible news from Ann about Casey. Bitkower immediately calls back to say he doesn't appreciate being hung up on; Howard hangs up again. Bitkower calls back a third time, and Howard swears at him before hanging up again. Knowing nothing about what has happened to Casey, Bitkower simply interprets this as unnecessary rudeness and fights back by leaving abusive messages on their answering machine, worsening the Finnigans' grief when [[spoiler:Casey dies from his injuries]].
** In a lesser example, when Stuart and Claire Kane join Ralph and Marian Wyman for dinner, Stuart brings a trout he caught on his fishing weekend as the main dish and tells Ralph it needs to be grilled for ten minutes per inch. Unfortunately, he means inch of ''thickness'', but Ralph thinks he means inch of ''length'', and he leaves the trout on the grill for so long thatDesmond should just talk it is burned to his mom.ashes.
** Ann Finnigan orders an expensive custom birthday cake from Andy Bitkower's bakery for her son Casey's birthday. When Casey is hit by a car and
** In a lesser example, when Stuart and Claire Kane join Ralph and Marian Wyman for dinner, Stuart brings a trout he caught on his fishing weekend as the main dish and tells Ralph it needs to be grilled for ten minutes per inch. Unfortunately, he means inch of ''thickness'', but Ralph thinks he means inch of ''length'', and he leaves the trout on the grill for so long that
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** 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.
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** Continues in the sequel trilogy, where [[spoiler:if Admiral Holdo had told Poe the plan or even that they ''had'' a plan]] in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:there wouldn't have been a mutiny. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a codebreaker to even have a smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, [[spoiler:the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships.]]
*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a codebreaker to even have a smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, [[spoiler:the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships.]]
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** Continues in the sequel trilogy, where [[spoiler:if Admiral Holdo had told Poe the plan or even that they ''had'' a plan]] in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:there wouldn't have been a mutiny. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
*** It's worse than that.]] Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a codebreaker to even have a smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, [[spoiler:the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships.]]
*** It's worse than that.
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* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'':
** What caused Godzilla to go on a rampage is [[spoiler: him detecting that Ghidorah is still on the planet ''somewhere''. The trouble is, every time he gets a clear reading of Ghidorah's presence, it happens to be at a populated area, leading humanity to believe he has turned on them.]]
** Godzilla and Kong's species have a blood feud dating eons ago. Godzilla is old enough to be alive during that time, thus sees Kong as a threat. Kong however was born in modern times and doesn't have a clue why Godzilla is so intent on attacking him.
** Kong has no interest in any Alpha fight for dominance and just wants to find a new place to call home. But he doesn't realize he was being used to [[spoiler: find an energy source for Mechagodzilla]]. But when he does, this provokes Godzilla to attack the Hollow Earth and consequently [[spoiler: destroy Kong's ancestral home]], sending Kong into a rage and giving him a personal reason to fight Godzilla. By doing this, this significantly [[spoiler: delays Godzilla long enough for Ghidorah to hijack Mechagodzilla and the fight itself tires Godzilla enough for Mechagodzilla to have an easy victory.]]
** In general, Godzilla's entire rampage is to [[spoiler: stop Ghidorah/Mechagodzilla]] but because he sent all the other Titans, including longtime ally Mothra, underground, there is no one to help clarify his actions.
** What caused Godzilla to go on a rampage is [[spoiler: him detecting that Ghidorah is still on the planet ''somewhere''. The trouble is, every time he gets a clear reading of Ghidorah's presence, it happens to be at a populated area, leading humanity to believe he has turned on them.]]
** Godzilla and Kong's species have a blood feud dating eons ago. Godzilla is old enough to be alive during that time, thus sees Kong as a threat. Kong however was born in modern times and doesn't have a clue why Godzilla is so intent on attacking him.
** Kong has no interest in any Alpha fight for dominance and just wants to find a new place to call home. But he doesn't realize he was being used to [[spoiler: find an energy source for Mechagodzilla]]. But when he does, this provokes Godzilla to attack the Hollow Earth and consequently [[spoiler: destroy Kong's ancestral home]], sending Kong into a rage and giving him a personal reason to fight Godzilla. By doing this, this significantly [[spoiler: delays Godzilla long enough for Ghidorah to hijack Mechagodzilla and the fight itself tires Godzilla enough for Mechagodzilla to have an easy victory.]]
** In general, Godzilla's entire rampage is to [[spoiler: stop Ghidorah/Mechagodzilla]] but because he sent all the other Titans, including longtime ally Mothra, underground, there is no one to help clarify his actions.
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* A double-layered one in ''Film/{{Brick}}''. Dode sees Brenden hide Emily's body in a tunnel and jumps to the obvious (but wrong) conclusion that Brenden killed her, fleeing before Brenden can explain the truth (he's trying to solve her murder and only hid her as part of [[BatmanGambit a larger plan]] to bring the guilty party to justice). Dode proceeds to meet with [[BigBadDuumvirate the Pin and Tugg]] to sell this information to them... [[DramaticIrony not knowing]] that [[spoiler:''Tugg'']] is the one who really killed Emily and that by smugly offering to name Emily's murderer, he's basically [[BullyingADragon threatening said murderer straight to his face]]. Cue [[spoiler:Tugg losing his shit and shooting Dode to death in a panicked rage, kickstarting a gang war that ends with just about everyone on both sides dead or in jail]].
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** 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. Granted 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]], but the equally true statement of "if you let it out the infection will kill all of us in seconds" would probably make someone halt in their tracks.
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* ''Film/OnceUponATime2017'': Most of the plot, especially Bai Qian's misery as Su Su, would never have happened if she and Ye Hua had just talked to each other and if Ye Hua had explained he was acting coldly towards her because he was trying to protect her.
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* In the film ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', the college kids' inherent belief that Tucker and Dale are [[HillbillyHorrors murderous backwards hillbillies]] leads them to believe that they kidnapped Alison, rather than helping her out of the lake after she'd fallen and hit her head. Repeated later, as 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 [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] Tucker (who had accidentally struck a beehive 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.
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* In the film ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', the college kids' inherent belief that Tucker and Dale are [[HillbillyHorrors murderous backwards hillbillies]] leads them to believe that they kidnapped Alison, Allison, rather than helping her out of the lake after she'd fallen and hit her head. Repeated later, as 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 [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] Tucker (who had accidentally struck a beehive 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.
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* 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.
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* In the film ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', the college kids' inherrent inherent belief that Tucker and Dale are [[HillbillyHorrors murderous backwards hillbillies hillbillies]] leads them to believe that they kidnapped one of their friends, Alison, rather than helping her out of the lake after she'd fallen and hit her head. Repeated later, 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 [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] Tucker (who had accidentally sawed open struck a bee hive beehive 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.
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** Also a problem for Tony Stark. Open communication is ''not'' his forte, mixed with a large supply of issues relating to his dad and upbringing. Case in point, ''Film/IronMan2'' has him dying of palladium poisoning, courtesy of the arc reactor in his chest, and he starts acting even stranger than usual. He just doesn't bother telling anyone, so his closest friends think he's just gone on a massive ego trip.
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* The cheesy, melodramatic 80s kung fu-romance flick, ''Journey of the Doomed'', has a ThirdActMisunderstanding that happens between the protagonist Lin and his lover Shui-erh, because Shui-erh mistakens Lin having an affair with their common friend, a mute girl, when in actuality Lin was trying to help the mute girl after she was bitten by a poisonous snake. Never mind that they have a lengthy FallingInLoveMontage several scenes ago, and that they've proclaimed their love ''one'' scene before the misunderstanding: somehow it ''never'' occurs to Lin to explain, their mutual friend was injured and he's only trying to help. It gets really egregious when the ''mute'' girl attempts to communicate between the two arguing lovers to no avail (because she's... mute?) while the two lovers only knows how to scowl and raise voices at each other for no apparent reason.
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** Continues in the sequel trilogy, [[spoiler:where if Holdo had told Poe the plan or even that they ''had'' a plan]] in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:there wouldn't have been a mutiny. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
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** Continues in the sequel trilogy, [[spoiler:where if where [[spoiler:if Admiral Holdo had told Poe the plan or even that they ''had'' a plan]] in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:there wouldn't have been a mutiny. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
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** 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. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
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** Continues in the sequel trilogy, [[spoiler:where if Holdo had told Poe the plan or even that they ''had'' a plan plan]] in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', there [[spoiler:there wouldn't have been a mutiny. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
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* This can be called ''Star Wars'' Prequel Communication.
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* This can be called ''Star Wars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequel Communication.
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** 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.
*** 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.
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** Continues in the sequel trilogy, [[spoiler: where [[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.mutiny. Though Poe, Finn, and Rose share some of the blame for not telling Holdo about the tracker the First Order was using to follow them, instead implementing a dangerous plan behind her back to sneak aboard Snoke's ship and deactivate it.]]
*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding acode-breaker codebreaker to even have a smidgen of a chance of escaping. Without trying to find the code-breaker, the [[spoiler:the Empire would never find out from DJ the code-breaker that the Resistance is planning on leaving on cloaked transport ships.]]
*** It's worse than that. Finn and Rose wouldn't have tried the Hail Mary quest of finding a
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* ''Film/{{Blastfighter}}'': Honestly, Connie! Was it really necessary to wait a day and a half before telling Tiger that he was your father? Did you not think that bombshell was something you might have opened with?
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* 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}}.
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* In [[Film/SiebenZwerge ''[[Film/SiebenZwerge 7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug]], 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}}.
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* In ''Film/CurseOfTheTheUndead'', all of the plot could have been avoided if the priest had bothered to tell Drago's father that only a wooden stake driven through the heart of a vampire will kill it.
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* In ''Film/CurseOfTheTheUndead'', ''Film/CurseOfTheUndead'', all of the plot (and countless deaths) could have been avoided if the priest had bothered to tell Drago's father that only a wooden stake driven through the heart of a vampire will kill it.
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* In ''Film/CurseOfTheTheUndead'', all of the plot could have been avoided if the priest had bothered to tell Drago's father that only a wooden stake driven through the heart of a vampire will kill it.
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* 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.
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* Subverted in ''Film/MarsAttacks!''.''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.
