History TooDumbToLive / AnimeAndManga

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** As chaos breaks out in Marley and the assembled crows scramble to get to safety, Udo tries to get a piece of rubble off his fellow ChildSoldier, Zofia, not noticing that Zofia isn't just trapped under the rubble- it crushed everything above her waist. He promptly gets trampled and killed by the panicking crowd.

** Jun gets episode 1 going by encountering a strange woman (Asuka) stalking her. When Asuka comes to her door in the middle of the night, Jun, despite being afraid, unlocks her own door, willingly gets in a car with Asuka, lets Asuka drive her to a darkened area of the docks, and obediently walks into a deserted warehouse whereupon Asuka locks her in with a werewolf. Jun in general is prone to acting like this by obediantely doing whatever other people tell her unless she activates her SuperPowredEvilSide.

*** Never mind the fact that said guy, like most other Digimon in that world, [[YourSoulIsMine kills Digimon to absorb their data/strength]]--which Makuramon ''knew''-- and currently needed a boost to beat Megidramon. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Guess who]] [[WhatAnIdiot he picks]].

** Frieza has been sliced in half, near dead, and was given a sliver of Super Saiyan Goku's power to survive on as an act of mercy. And what does he do with it? He tries to use it to kill the Super Saiyan from behind, despite the fact that it most likely wouldn't have made a dent. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for the tyrant. He got better, only to get KilledOffForReal by Future Trunks. It's even worse when he comes back in both ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' and its ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' adaptation - after being resurrected, his men tell him to just leave Goku and just deal with his empire instead. Instead Frieza decides to train, get stronger and go try to kick Goku's ass again. Predictably he is beaten again and killed again. Even though Frieza was smart enough to acknowledge Goku's victory of Majin Buu and train enough to be even stronger than Goku, he neglected to train his stamina properly. Goku wore him out even faster than their first battle.

** While she at least has the excuse of WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity, the aforementioned Quess Paraya also richly qualifies. Despite being a 13-year old girl with no combat training she eagerly leaps into an armed fight between Amuro and Char, allows herself to be subjected to the same Cyber-Newtype enhancement procedures that have driven multiple characters before her into insanity (among them resident Neo-Zeon Cyber-Newtype Gyunei Guss, who experiences ''steep'' SanitySlippage the moment Quess enters his orbit), and most extremely, launches herself out of her Mobile Suit's cockpit during battle '''while not wearing a spacesuit'''. Even Char himself is flabbergasted!

** Carta Issue had already met Tekkaden in battle, where they proved that they don't believe TalkingIsAFreeAction and attacked her while she was in the midst of a speech and disrupted her men's AttackPatternAlpha mainly by ignoring it. She's sent to fight them again--and instead of simply destroying the train they're on, she stops them and tries to issue a formal challenge to a three-on-three duel of honor. To no one's surprise but her own, Mika attacks her before she's finished talking. When one of her men hangs around ''outside'' his cockpit yelling about the lack of honor, he's turned into a red smear in the snow as Mika proceeds to kill all three of them.

** Isuzu, for the most part, manages to make the right decisions to stay alive until episode eleven, wherein she sees the villain (whom we should add is [[AxCrazy highly unstable]] by this point in the story) walking through the forest. Instead of reporting it to the authorities, she decides it would be a better idea to follow them into the forest alone. While wearing bells tied to her wrist. This AxCrazy has ''a gun.''

** Cameron (Kotetsu), who appears in the second season of ''Best Wishes!'', [[UpToEleven somehow manages to be dumber than Ash]]. At least Ash is smart enough not to '''bring five Pokémon to a full six-on-six battle'''. Amazingly enough, Cameron ends up eliminating Ash from the Unova League- but only because he gets really, really lucky.

** Princess Amelia, and to a lesser extent, Naga the Serpent. The latter is boastful and arrogant to the point that she ignores the reality of the situation around her (leaving Lina to do away with whatever situation they're in), while the former's view of morality is so {{black and white|Morality}} that she winds up in dangerous situations; anything that turns {{gray|AndGreyMorality}} leaves her dumbfounded. While Naga's intelligence varies, Amelia's is more a case of {{flanderization}} that spread to other adaptations - she certainly ''wasn't'' this trope in the light novels that the series originated from, and in the anime, at least, she grows out of this trope over time.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan''

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan''
** One murder victim had a bet with his friend as to who would die first, with each man naming the other as a beneficiary in his life insurance policy. It clearly never occurred to the victim that this would be the perfect incentive for his "friend" to murder him in order to get a lot of money.

* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'':

** Naomi Misora, the fiancee of the above-mentioned, recently murdered F.B.I. agent figures out crucial information on the Kira case and then decides to trust [[AloneWithThePsycho Light]] with it after he's been acting creepy, following her around, and asking "HaveYouToldAnyoneElse" Incidentally, she decides to trust Light because he reminds her of L, lampshading that the two are NotSoDifferent.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** The {{Red Shirt}}s from the battle against Teppelin. Our leader has just obliterated himself against the mysterious shield surrounding our enemy's city? Quickly! More of us must ram into it so that his death will not be in vain!
*** To be fair: In TTGL this [[RuleOfCool actually could work]].
* ''Anime/TabooTattoo'':
** This happens to [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Touko]] in Episode 8. While being escorted to safety by Tom, she runs off, refusing to leave Seigi. After Seigi consumes BB, Touko is later devoured by Iltutmish the minute she finds Seigi.
* The series ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'' has the entire military of The Duchy of Dacia, who not only marched three divisions of infantry into a highly industrialized military super power with access to [[MilitaryMage flying magical troops]], using outdated military formation without ''any'' artillery, air support, or mages of their own to support their infantry, but also don't even try to hide their troop movements or radio transmissions. And just to add some more idiocy to the mix, not only left their ''capital'' poorly defended, but were already celebrating their "victory" before the '''first battle'''. It goes without saying, that they almost immediately receive a brutal CurbStompBattle, when Major Tanya Degurechaff's battalion of only forty eight mages route their army of '''fifty thousand infantry''', capture their commanding officer, and just for good measure, [[spoiler: stroll into their capital without any resistance and blow up their munitions plant, pretty much defeating the entire country in one night.]]

** Another good example in the franchise was [[AncientConspiracy Yliaster]] member [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Kodo Kinomiya]]. Assigned by Godwin to test whether or not Aki was a Signer or not during the Fortune Cup, he knew that Aki had powerful PsychicPowers, was able to literally [[RealityWarper warp reality during a duel]] and [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry had very little control over her powers when enraged]]. Yet, he ''deliberately'' tried to make her angry during the duel by insulting her repeatedly. In fact, the original version, as opposed to the dub, doesn't even make clear whether or not he survives Aki's final attack. (Well, maybe you could blame it more on his greed than his stupidity. He had initially [[OnlyInItForTheMoney demanded five times his usual salary]] for doing it; eventually, he realized that it wasn't worth losing his life over, and tried to end the duel quickly, but by then, it was too late.)
*** He also deliberately uses a strategy that relies on refilling his own Life Points after he takes damage. It's not that the strategy itself is bad (it actually keeps him in the duel for a very long time), but the fact he chose to deploy it against someone who makes all damage they inflict in the duel real is what makes it this trope. He basically ends up being tortured because while his ''Life Points'' were healing, his actual wounds weren't.

** Wyald, demonic Apostle and leader of the Black Dog Knights, had ''one'' thing he wasn't allowed to do: do not kill Griffith, the man destined to become a member of [[ThePowersThatBe the God Hand.]] Three guesses what he tries to do. When he defends his actions to Zodd, a much stronger Apostle in the process of impaling him, he claims that the main directive of Apostles is basically "you can do whatever you want to whoever you want," and therefore his actions were perfectly fine. Zodd takes these words to heart, and declares that what ''he'' wants to do right now is rip Wyald to pieces for his insolence and stupidity. He proceeds to follow through.

** Wyald, demonic Apostle and leader of the Black Dog Knights, had ''one'' thing he wasn't allowed to do: do not kill Griffith, the man destined to become a member of [[ThePowersThatBe the God Hand.]] Three guesses what he tries to do. When he defends his actions to Zodd, a much stronger Apostle in the process of impaling him, he claims that the main directive of Apostles is basically "you can do whatever you want to whoever you want." Zodd takes these words to heart, and declares that what ''he'' wants to do right now is rip Wyald to pieces for his insolence and stupidity. He proceeds to follow through.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** When Jeremiah goes after Lelouch in Turn 13, Suzaku tells Shirley to stay with the police for protection. Instead, Shirley runs away from the police, [[PoliceAreUseless who can't catch up with her]], and then runs into a deserted building with a gun. She ends up getting shot by Rolo when she reveals that her memories have returned.

* ''Anime/{{Kagewani}}'': Takeru, despite having his crew killed off mysteriously, decided to film a cryptid so that he can gain fame in being the first person in Japan to actually see it live. [[spoiler:He didn't live that long since the cryptid snuck up on him and killed him.]

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': When Jeremiah goes after Lelouch in Turn 13, Suzaku tells Shirley to stay with the police for protection. Instead, Shirley runs away from the police,[[PoliceAreUseless who can't catch up with her]], and then runs into a deserted building with a gun. [[spoiler: She ends up getting shot by Rolo when she reveals that her memories have returned]].

* ''Anime/MaiHime'':
** Joseph Greer fatally shoots Alyssa with Miyu nearby, but does not run away immediately afterward, instead announcing his reasons for doing so. Within moments, an enraged Miyu kills him.
** During her confrontation with Shizuru, Haruka not only [[BerserkButton unnecessarily insults Natsuki]], but continues to insult Shizuru ''even as her Element is drawn'' rather than stop provoking her or run away as Yukino suggests, thus forcing Yukino to try to defend her, leading to the destruction of Yukino's CHILD Diana, and Haruka's own death.
** When Nao first encounters Shizuru while attacking Natsuki, she is easily defeated. In response, she kidnaps Natsuki again, this time ''for the express intention of luring Shizuru out''. To make matters worse, by this time, [[LoveMakesYouEvil Shizuru has gone insane from Natsuki's rejection]], and not only destroys her CHILD Julia, but tries to finish off Nao before Natsuki intervenes.

* ''Anime/KageKaraMamoru'': The very premise of the series: a family has been secretly protected for ninjas for so long that they've lost the ability to survive normal life. The latest descendant, the female protagonist, therefore has a supernatural ability to walk blindly into trouble, and generally gets rescued before she even realizes what's happening.

*** In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'''s take on it, the plot of ''Dead Zone'' is a script Krillin is pitching to [[BreakoutCharacter Nappa]]. When pressed on the issue, Krillin [[LampshadeHanging admits that he wrote himself into a corner]]. Funny enough, this trope isn't so much in place, as Shenron responds to the wish by saying that he can't wait to see how Garlic Jr. manages to blow this.

** The scientists in ''Film/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. [[GenreBlindness They created the most powerful Pokémon the world had ever seen...and then proceeded to tell him that they were planning to use him as an experiment, then started talking amongst themselves about putting him in a cage.]]

* The series ''[[LightNovel/YoujoSenki Youjo Senki: Saga of Tanya The Evil]]'' has the entire military of The Duchy of Dacia, who not only marched three divisions of infantry into a highly industrialized military super power with access to [[MilitaryMage flying magical troops]], using outdated military formation without ''any'' artillery, air support, or mages of their own to support their infantry, but also don't even try to hide their troop movements or radio transmissions. And just to add some more idiocy to the mix, not only left their ''capital'' poorly defended, but were already celebrating their "victory" before the '''first battle'''. It goes without saying, that they almost immediately receive a brutal CurbStompBattle, when Major Tanya Degurechaff's battalion of only forty eight mages route their army of '''fifty thousand infantry''', capture their commanding officer, and just for good measure, [[spoiler: stroll into their capital without any resistance and blow up their munitions plant, pretty much defeating the entire country in one night.]]

** The Empire thought it was a good idea to attack the Ginza district of Japan full of unarmed, innocent civilians (with the exception of the local Police, but the regular Police wasn't enough to stave them off effectively), while they obviously had the advantage initially, that was abruptly brought to a cold stop once Japan properly countered by sending in the JSDF with their modern tech, smashing their medieval tech and swiftly ending their unjustified bloody invasion and securing the other side of the Gate to prevent another atrocity from happening again.

** The Emptire thought it was a good idea to attack the Ginza district of Japan full of innocent civilians, while they obviously had the advantage initially, that was abruptly brought to a cold stop once Japan properly countered by sending in the JSDF with their modern tech, smashing their medieval tech and swiftly ending their unjustified bloody invasion and securing the other side of the Gate to prevent another atrocity from happening again.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':

** During the Frieza Saga, one of Frieza's {{Mooks}} comes in while he's berating Zarbon and confirms Frieza's suspicions that Vegeta had attacked a Namekian village and made off with a Dragon Ball. Unfortunately, he makes the critical mistake of admitting to [[BadBoss Frieza]] that he killed the sole surviving Namekian without bothering to ask him ''where'' the Dragon Ball was, and [[YouHaveFailedMe gets vaporized for it]].

** The otherwise competent Oakley in ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'' after the [[LostSuperweapon DMA]] was deactivated, touches the damaged Soul Dew after it was just used as a battery for the DMA, gained a dangerous glow and became something no one would dare touch. This destroyed the Soul Dew and caused the water surrounding the island city of Alto Mare which was controlled by the Soul Dew to form a massive tidal wave that would've killed everyone in the town including her. The fact that this act directly led to Latios' HeroicSacrifice (the first Pokemon death in the series no less) is one of the reasons she's in Pantheon/TheFallen.

** Unlike the other members of the Zabi family, Kycilia Zabi knows Characters/CharAznable's true identity as the son of Zeon Deikun, a man believed by many to have been assassinated by her father Degwin. She also knows that Char was with her brother Garma when he died, yet never connects the dots that Char was ''responsible'' for Garma's death and reinstates his commission after her brother Dozle suspends him for incompetence in 'failing' to protect Garma. Predictably, inviting the viper that is Char to her breast ends with Kycilia getting her head blown off by a bazooka courtesy of everyone's favorite mask-wearing traitor.

** Jun gets episode 1 going by encountering a strange woman (Asuka) stalking her. When Asuka comes to her door in the middle of the night, Jun, despite being afraid, unlocks her own door, willingly gets in a car with Asuka, lets Asuka drive her to a darkened area of the docks, and obediently walks into a deserted warehouse whereupon Asuka locks her in with a werewolf.

** Frieza has been sliced in half, near dead, and was given a sliver of Super Saiyan Goku's power to survive on as an act of mercy. And what does he do with it? He tries to use it to kill the Super Saiyan from behind, despite the fact that it most likely wouldn't have made a dent. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for the tyrant. He got better, only to get KilledOffForReal by Future Trunks. It's even worse when he comes back in both ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' and its ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' adaptation - after being resurrected, his men tell him to just leave Goku and just deal with his empire instead. Instead Frieza decides to train, get stronger and go try to kick Goku's ass again. Predictably he is beaten again and killed again.

*** Also, he let Cell absorb Android 18. That was arrogant to the point of sheer stupidity... [[SubvertedTrope Except he was prepared for just this kind of thing happening and nearly killed Cell anyway]].
** Dr. Gero created Androids 17 and 18, who were already rebellious teenagers when they were converted into beings far stronger than he whom he had no reliable way of controlling. Then he converted himself into an android, only to base his own design on the weaker energy absorbing model. Not content with ''that'' level of suicidal behavior, he continues to berate and threaten them after waking them up as a desperate GodzillaThreshold measure despite the fact that they've already tried to kill him once before, and ''continues'' doing this even after they snatch the killswitch remote control from him and he loses all his control over them. His death came quickly after. For an evil "genius", he's not too bright, at least not when it comes to [[NoSocialSkills dealing with rebellious teenagers]].

*** Their plan to take on the New World involved using Luffy's [[TheDreaded reputation]] to recruit an army of powerful pirates, then sending them out to take out any danger that the aforementioned reputation didn't scare away first. This might seem like kind of a clever plan at a casual glance, but the New World is loaded with pirates who still consider Luffy a rookie, and couldn't honestly care less about his accomplishments up to that point; not to mention there are numerous obstacles and dangers that are far too much for any pirate that was available on Saobody at the time, or simply require knowledge or skill rather than muscle to navigate. Not only that, but they also attracted the attention of [[TheStarscream pirates who were only joining so they could kill Luffy unawares in order to boost their own reputation.]] Sentomaru, sent by the Marines to arrest them because their informants had mistaken them for the real deal, actually [[LampshadeHanging called them morons for impersonating the Straw Hats]] after mauling the fake Luffy. What added to their misfortune is that around the same time they started recruiting, ''the real ones'' were about to reunite and journey into the New World. Really, a combination of bad luck and stupidity ensured that the Fake Straw Hats were never going to make it out of Sabaody.

** Naomi Misora, the fiancee of the above-mentioned, recently murdered F.B.I. agent figures out crucial information on the Kira case and then decides to trust [[AloneWithThePsycho Light]] with it after he's been acting creepy, following her around, and asking "HaveYouToldAnyoneElse?" Incidentally, she decides to trust Light because he reminds her of L, lampshading that the two are NotSoDifferent.