History TooDumbToLive / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'':
** Adolf Junkers. First, he [[LookBothWays runs straight into traffic,]] then he sees a security guard fall down dead, leaves his room, and runs into an unlit area at night. ''When he knows someone really nasty is trying to kill him.'' Is anyone surprised when Junkers is found and shot to death?
** Richard Braun, who's investigating a string of serial murders, more or less deduces that Johan's behind them all. Yet he doesn't think he should tell anyone when Johan ''shows up at his apartment and invites him out''. Shortly after this, he follows Johan up to an abandoned rooftop (in the middle of the night) while shouting, "[[TemptingFate I know what you're up to, kid!"]] To no one's surprise but his own, it ends badly.

* ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'': Team Try Fighters are going up against Team Angelfish, a group of Gunpla Fighters who do an aquatic theme as they're also part of the swim club. As the battle starts, Team Angelfish make note that all they had to do in their terrain, Tundra, is break through the ice, dive in, and give Team Try Fighters trouble. However, as the ice is frozen solid, they panic and decide to self-destruct instead of allowing a CurbStompBattle. What makes it this trope is the fact that they ''gave up so easily''. Their suits were a Z'Gok, Gogg and Zock, which were designed for aquatic ''landing'', meaning they were good for both water and land. All three of them also had dangerous weaponry, especially the Zock, who had beam-type weaponry in front, behind and on top. They essentially took CripplingOverspecialization to a new art form.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'': Unlike the other members of the Zabi family, Kycilia Zabi knows Char Aznable'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.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'':
** Jamitov Hymen, the leader of the Titans, is for much of this series one of the most powerful men in the Earth Sphere. And yet, for all that political weight and savvy, he seems pathologically incapable of selecting even '''one''' loyal officer to surround himself with. He selects Bask Ohm, a psychotic GeneralRipper, to be his [[TheDragon Dragon]] chooses habitual screw-up Jerid Messa to be his disciple, and recruits self-styled DarkMessiah Paptimus Scirocco from the Jupiter Energy Fleet to bolster the fighting power of the Titans. Not only do none of these three men have any loyalty to Jamitov (with the very thin exception of Jerid who defends him from assassination but still plans to succeed him one day), all of them are in fact conspiring ''against'' Jamitov, and the ''Zeta'' movies reveal that even if Scirocco hadn't killed Jamitov that Bask would have done the dirty deed.
** Jamitov's treatment of Haman Karn is similarly hilariously suicidal. Haman is a highly dangerous and unpredictable warlord leading TheRemnant of the group his organization was created in part to stop. When she seemingly stabs the Titans in the back during a major battle, he decides to meet with her to work things out. Minutes into the meeting, she announces that her side is on a mission to destroy his main base and then throws a poison gas capsule into the room that nearly kills him--said mission is successful. Astoundingly, after all this, Jamitov decides to attend a private meeting with Haman ''again''--really, the only reason she didn't kill him in that meeting is that Scirocco does it first and blames it on her.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' features a depressingly sizable number of these.
** Adenauer Paraya, TheFederation's point man in their negotiations with BigBad Char, is the brain trust who decides that the best way to appease a terrorist currently conducting a campaign of dropping giant space rocks on Earth is to give him.... a giant space rock. One loaded with nukes, even, and he goes so far as to mention that the thing's engines are still fully functional. He is shocked, ''shocked!'', when Char promptly betrays the agreement, and spends the rest of his onscreen time doing his best impression of the Persian messenger's VillainousBreakdown from ''Film/ThreeHundred'' ("We had a treaty! This is madness!") until his daughter Quess blows him away.
** Chan Agi, Amuro's GirlOfTheWeek, is a Londo Bell technical officer whose job is to analyze the resident PlotTechnology, not sortie in combat. Needless to say, she deploys in the final battle under the bizarre logic of "Amuro needs more psycoframes!" but instead of going to help Amuro she veers in on Quess and Hathaway because someone had to ShootTheDog that Quess had become. While she does manage to shoot down the distracted Quess in her gigantic Alpha Azieru, an unstable and emotionally devastated Hathaway promptly shoots Chan herself.
** Even ''Char himself'' is considered by many to be this, as he [[spoiler:secretly forwarded his organization's superior technology to Anaheim, knowing Amuro would receive it and build a custom Mobile Suit for himself with it]]. Whether this self-defeating behavior was the result of a misguided WorthyOpponent view of his rival Amuro or a degeneration into outright DeathSeeker is unknown, but what it ''not'' is rational. Naturally, this film marks his death, and it doesn't take a Mobile Suit genius to guess who offs him. Taking lessons from Vegeta, Char?
** 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!
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': 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.

** In the anime-exclusive Warship Island arc, a mercenary named Eric the Whirlwind tries to take on the Straw Hats as the Going Merry begins to sail up Reverse Mountain. He reveals himself to them ''while standing on the railing on the edge of the ship''. Nami simply knocks him off the ship and into the water. Eric the Whirlwind was a Devil Fruit user, meaning he couldn't swim, but as pointed out by Usopp, even if he could, it wouldn't have made a difference with the current going as fast as it was, thereby officially making Eric the first named character to die in the anime outside of a flashback.

* ''Literature/{{Another}}': Lampshaded by Matsunaga in his video tape recording of how he accidentally stopped the curse mid-year. He mentions a boy named Hamaguchi, whom he describes as not very bright, as being the only one who brought an umbrella while visiting a local shrine... ''during a thunderstorm.'' One has to wonder whether Hamaguchi's death from being struck by lightning was really due to the curse.