History SchmuckBait / Comicbooks

--->'''Polar Boy:''' Amazing! The only two signs in the place in 20th-Century English, and he ''still'' fell for it!
--->'''Superman:''' Generally, Polar Boy, lunatics aren't your ''smartest'' criminals.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #259, ComicBook/{{Superboy}} finds a cage with a big sign that says "Luthor Trap to Catch Superboy" and one over the door that says "Enter here, please." Thinking nobody would build such an obvious trap, Superboy enters out of curiosiy, and finds out the bars are Kryptonite.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'': When Mr. Mxyzptlk declares he has won their bet and demands the prize money, Batmite writes a check and hands it over to Mxy, saying he has signed it with his real name. Puzzled, Mxyzptlk reads "Klt Pzy Xm"...and he realizes what he has been tricked into saying backwards right before being forcefully and automatically returned to his own dimension.

* In ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]]'', Silver, Jack the Metal and Larry the Lynx are going through a dungeon especially designed to be impassible to anybody who doesn't have Chaos Powers. They come across a long corridor with the walls, ceiling and floor covered in holes.

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'': When Mr. Mxyzptlk declares he has won their bet and demands the prize money, Batmite writes a check and hands it over to Mxy, saying he has signed it with his real name. Puzzled, Mxyzptlk reads "Klt Pzy Xm"...and he realizes he has been tricked into saying backwards right before being forcefully and automatically returned to his own dimension.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #259, ComicBook/{{Superboy}}finds a cage with a big sign that says "Luthor Trap to Catch Superboy" and one over the door that says "Enter here, please." Thinking nobody would build such an obvious trap, Superboy enters out of curiosiy, and finds out the bars are Kryptonite.
-->'''Superboy:''' Now I've seen everything! Nobody would deliberately put me on guard, by putting a sign like that on a real trap!\\

* One Superboy comic contains what could be the ultimate in Schmuck Bait. A cage with a big sign that says "Luthor Trap to Catch Superboy" and one over the door that says "Enter here, please." He does. The bars are Kryptonite. It's [[ItMakesSenseInContext too bad]] it was AllJustADream. Otherwise that would definitely be ComicBook/LexLuthor's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. It's such an obvious trap that ''[[LemonyNarrator even the narrator gives up on Superboy.]]''
-->'''Luthor:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I captured Superboy through his sheer dumbness!]]
* In ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', the bright yellow logo on Batman's chest is revealed to be Schmuck Bait, as he deliberately included this target in his costume to bait Mooks into shooting at his well-armored chest, not his head.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher has said the same thing. He wears the skull on his chest (over his body armor) so they don't shoot the one in his head.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The Batmobile has an unlabeled large bright shiny red button in easy reach of the driver's side. When pressed, it floods the car with sleeping gas, the driver's side first and foremost. Why? [[CrazyPrepared In case the Joker ever steals it]]. Because ComicBook/TheJoker would never be able to resist pushing an unlabeled large bright shiny red button just to see what happens.
** It gets used twice in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold.''

* In ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic Universe]]'', Silver, Jack the Metal and Larry the Lynx are going through a dungeon especially designed to be impassible to anybody who doesn't have Chaos Powers. They come across a long corridor with the walls, ceiling and floor covered in holes.

* One Superboy comic contains what could be the ultimate in Schmuck Bait. A cage with a big sign that says "Luthor Trap to Catch Superboy" and one over the door that says "Enter here, please." He does. The bars are Kryptonite. It's [[ItMakesSenseInContext too bad]] it was AllJustADream. Otherwise that would definitely be ComicBook/LexLuthor's CrowningMomentOfAwesome. It's such an obvious trap that ''[[LemonyNarrator even the narrator gives up on Superboy.]]''
-->'''Luthor:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I captured Superboy through his sheer dumbness!]]

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The Batmobile has an unlabeled large bright shiny red button in easy reach of the driver's side. When pressed, it floods the car with sleeping gas, the driver's side first and foremost. Why? [[CrazyPrepared In case the Joker ever steals it]]. Because SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker would never be able to resist pushing an unlabeled large bright shiny red button just to see what happens.

* An issue of ''Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan'' features Jean Grey accidentally setting up her own Schmuck Bait, and getting both Peter and herself caught in it when she congratulates him on not [[ForgotAboutTheMindReader mentally picturing her naked]]. If you didn't get it, she just said the word sequence "Picture me naked" to a teenage boy. [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead And she's one of the most powerful psychics in the universe.]] It then runs into an OverlyLongGag as Peter tries to stop thinking about Jean Gray naked.

* Employed in a ''ComicBook/FelixTheCat'' comic where he figures out that the person who just stole a set of jewelry is a compulsive reader. [[spoiler:So he has the police set up upside-down signs around the city and waits for someone to do a handstand to read the sign and have the jewelry fall out of their pockets]].

* One Superboy comic contains what could be the ultimate in Schmuck Bait. A cage with a big sign that says "Luthor Trap to Catch Superboy" and one over the door that says "Enter here, please." He does. The bars are Kryptonite. It's [[ItMakesSenseInContext too bad]] it was AllJustADream. Otherwise that would definitely be SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor's CrowningMomentOfAwesome. It's such an obvious trap that ''[[LemonyNarrator even the narrator gives up on Superboy.]]''

* In ''SonicUniverse,'' Silver, Jack the Metal and Larry the Lynx are going through a dungeon especially designed to be impassible to anybody who doesn't have Chaos Powers. They come across a long corridor with the walls, ceiling and floor covered in holes.

* ''[[ComicBook/TheMultiversity Ultra Comics #1]]''. Its cover has the eponymous Ultra warning the reader that only they can save the universe and themselves by ''not'' reading this comic. Earth-20's Atom didn't heed the warning in ''Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors from the Counter-World #1]]. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Will you?]]

* An issue of ''Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan'' features Jean Grey accidentally setting up her own Schmuck Bait, and getting both Peter and herself caught in it when she congratulates him on not [[OhGodDidSheJustHearThat mentally picturing her naked]]. If you didn't get it, she just said the word sequence "Picture me naked" to a teenage boy. [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead And she's one of the most powerful psychics in the universe.]] It then runs into an OverlyLongGag as Peter tries to stop thinking about Jean Gray naked.

* In ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'', the bright yellow logo on Batman's chest is revealed to be Schmuck Bait, as he deliberately included this target in his costume to bait Mooks into shooting at his well-armored chest, not his head.

* [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=793 This comic page]] contains what could be the ultimate in Schmuck Bait. It's [[ItMakesSenseInContext too bad]] it was AllJustADream. Otherwise that would definitely be SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor's CrowningMomentOfAwesome. It's such an obvious trap that ''[[LemonyNarrator even the narrator gives up on Superboy.]]'' For those who can't see the picture: it's a cage with a big sign that says "Luthor Trap to Catch Superboy" and one over the door that says "Enter here, please." He does. The bars are Kryptonite.