History TooDumbToLive / FanWorks

* In the lost ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' ''Future of Despair'' comic, Panne fits in through and through. Because "having to give birth to your and Henry's child in isolation per (fanon) Taguel costumes" should '''not''' equal to "stupidly running away from a mostly safe CASTLE to the nearby WOODS all alone and thus getting yourself [[HumanPincushion skewered with arrows]] by a bunch of dumb hunters who didn't know better".
** It's even worse when you recall the also lost notes on said "fanon" costumes. These instincts that lead Taguel moms to seek for "complete isolation" when giving birth are supposed to be ''completely irresistible and unrestrainable'', so [[UnfortunateImplications they imply that]] ''every'' Taguel mother is pretty much WIRED to be TooDumbToLive, meaning none only could they potentially run into hunters like in Panne's case, but they deny themselves any support in case of pre/current/post-birth complications for herself and her baby/babies.

* ''FanFic/OzInIkebukuroLand'' (crossover between ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' and ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''):

* Vulture and Greyback, two griffin soldiers in ''[[Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. The former is outmaneuvered by Firebolt and killed upon crashing onto a column during the battle of Cloudsdale. The latter is fried by The Burning Talon's laser because he is too focused on trying to kill Lightning Bolt. When he finally notices the danger, it's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath too late for him]].

* Dr. Emil Hamilton in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11965672/1/Terminal-Justice-by-Overkill-AKA-Irrational-Intelligence Terminal Justice]]''. While everyone else realizes how bad an idea it is to antagonize [[TheGrimReaper the embodiment of Death]], Hamilton decides to mind control Power Girl into slapping some magical shackles on him. Not only is he already aware of the very real possibility that this would merely prevent people from dying without affecting Death himself, he also knows that Death has a lot of friends in the Justice League, including his girlfriend Supergirl. The end result? Everyone and everything in the universe stops dying ([[FateWorseThanDeath no matter how horrifically injured]]) while Death is in a coma. Meanwhile his siblings cause widespread destruction (among other things, tornadoes started appearing literally everywhere in the world). Unlike many cases of this trope, Hamilton doesn't actually die. Instead he's so horrifically injured his doctors insist he won't be eating solid food for at least a decade; he's left infected with the plague (courtesy of Pestilence) and with all his backers destroyed (War's doing).
* In ''Fanfic/RemnantsBizarreAdventure,'' four random White Fang goons get the brilliant idea of trying to take down Jotaro, despite Pucci having warned them not to mess with Jotaro if they can avoid it. To make things worse, they try to intimidate him into surrendering instead of taking him by surprise. [[CurbStompBattle It ends about as well as you would expect.]]

* In ''Fanfic/ChristianGreyVsPepperPotts'', this trope pretty much ''defines'' [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Christian]]. One prime example is when he decides to romantically pursue Jennifer Walters, knowing full well that she can turn into She-Hulk. When Jennifer is creeped out by him taking her to a hotel room after picking her up while drunk and runs away, he has her assistant kidnapped. He then expects Jennifer to have a nice dinner in a warehouse, with the threat of the assistant's knees being broken with a sledgehammer if she refuses. By the time She-Hulk is done with him, his spine is broken and it's expected that he'll never move again. (He does recover, but only with the help of a vengeful Asgardian goddess).
* A random biker in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8491480/1/Tainted Tainted]]'' first makes bigoted comments about [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander's]] new girlfriend ComicBook/SheHulk. Then when she tries to play peacemaker between him and Xander, said biker backhands her. Fortunately for him, She-Hulk is willing to TurnTheOtherCheek. Unfortunately, Xander, [[EmpoweredBadassNormal who recently became a Hulk himself]], isn't.
* The [[Literature/HarryPotter Wizarding World]] is this when Harry temporarily returns to Earth in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8933408/16/Wizard-Runemaster Wizard Runemaster]]''. In order to punish the goblins for not handing over Harry's wealth, the Ministry of Magic is having radioactive waste poured into their cave systems. Said goblin caves run under most of London and a good deal of Great Britain.
** According to Harry, countless wizards have been killed by summoning a sword or some other type of weapon, then not dodging when it comes flying toward them at high speed.

* ''Fanfic/GodsAngelsAndKings'': Gendo has a rather dumb moment when he kidnaps Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s infant child as bait in hopes of luring him to Mount Fuji and killing him with the Evas. [[CurbStompBattle It goes badly for NERV]]. A downplayed example, as it was mainly a case of severely underestimating [[PapaWolf Godzilla]] rather than thinking there would be no consequences.

* A vampire in ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-11757-89/Ouatic+Tales+from+the+Barman.htm Tales from the Barman]]'' tries to start a fight (and kill Xander's cat) in Xander's bar despite Xander being a veteran demon hunter. The presence of roughly a dozen [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Slayers]] either working or drinking makes it even worse.
* Major Silva in Fanfic/GuiltySparks, just like in [[Literature/HaloTheFlood his original appearance]] tries to bring the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' back to Earth while poo-pooing the threat of The Flood aboard the ship. Unlike the original novelization, however, he goes the extra mile and mutinies when [[VideoGame/HaloReach Colonel Holland]] orders him to abandon ship to help [[EnemyMine some rogue Kig-Yar pirates and Batarians]] in taking a ship that wasn't infested.
* ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'': This is the only reason why Billy is categorized as an MLE. He has no ill intentions -- he's just so damn ''[[LethallyStupid stupid]]'' that he's a danger to himself, other loopers, and Yggdrasil as a whole. It is not an uncommon occurrence for Billy to manage to kill himself and several others by accident during a loop through nothing more than his sheer idiocy.
%%* ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-24048-2/BHRamsay+Roanapur+Knights+Learning+Curve.htm Roanapur Knights: Learning Curve]]'' has two noteworthy examples.

* ''Day of the Broken Fang'', a prequel to ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'', shows that this is what brought about the end of [[Franchise/GIJoe COBRA]] -- Cobra Commander, being based on his more competent Creator/MarvelComics incarnation, was smart enough to leave the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticons]] alone. Serpentor, on the other hand, wasn't as bright; driven by an egotistical desire to prove his dominance, the SuperSoldier ordered an attack on the Decepticons' main base with a slew of untested weapons, just because Doctor Mindbender assured him that they'd work. Needless to say, the Decepticon base was completely unscratched, but thankfully Megatron found it amusing enough he wasn't going to retaliate... Up until he was informed the attack's timing caused the loss of multiple energon cubes. ''That'' got him so angry he ordered a counter-attack that [[CurbStompBattle wiped COBRA off the map]] (literally, in the case of Cobra Island), with only a handful of survivors escaping the massacre (including the Commander, who had [[OhCrap realized what was coming]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled in time]]).
** One of the survivors, Overkill, clearly didn't learn anything from the experience. A few years later, he tried to rebuild COBRA from other surviving soldiers and resources, and tried to make their mark by attacking West Point. This, despite the fact that by this point, the Earth Defense Command (formed by the unification of the Joes, the Oktober Guard, and other special forces and equipped with Cybertronian technology) had already driven the Decepticons off Earth. The new COBRA ended up crushed completely, with their stupidity lampshaded by the [[KarmaHoudini now-retired Cobra Commander]].
--->"I mean seriously, fifty people, some tanks and some [=BATs=]? Did his hard drive crash or something?"
* ''FanFic/TheTotallyAmazingSpiderMan'': ''Barely'' defied. [[spoiler: [[AlphaBitch Mandy]] ]] stayed inside of a burning building [[DeathByMaterialism just to save a prize-winning picture]], and when Spider-Man arrives to save her bacon, she ''very'' reluctantly leaves the picture behind, and only after being cajoled by the masked hero.
* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Soren on how [[SarcasmMode clever]] of the Black Dogs to piss off the Good Hunter. Then again, [[DramaticIrony only the readers know]] about Kyril's ResurrectiveImmortality [[spoiler:as well as his [[EldritchAbomination true nature]]...]]
** The aftermath of Kyril's TrialByCombat against Maia and Alicia in the remastered version has some unnamed, hot-headed knights and errant warriors challenging him, ''because [[UnderestimatingBadassery they]] think the Hunter's skills are just a sham''. [[FlatWhat What]].
* In ''FanFic/OzInIkebukuroLand'', a crossover between ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' and ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', the universally despised "father" of [[TomatoInTheMirror Oz Vessalius]] shows up when Oz is feeling most confident, (having used his chain to follow Jack there and prevent him from destroying this world too) and decides now is the best time possible to, in front of a large amount of people, start berating Oz and calling him a thing. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mikado Ryuugamine starts telling him off for it]] and Kida Masaomi gets a little unnerved, but this moment really applies when he starts talking to Shizuo, telling him to stop hanging out with such a filthy beast.
** You know, [[HairTriggerTemper that]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Shizuo]] Heiwajima, who does not like it when people hurt children (or in this case, [[spoiler: a chain in a human's body]], and this same man dislikes those who hurt children most. So it's all right if he pressures this obviously pissed-off guy to avoid a kid he's started caring for-to leave him. Of course, Zai gets kicked into the wall by Shizuo, who decides that he hates this guy more than Izaya himself and berates him, saying no decent person should treat their kid that way.
* Danzo really should have thought more about his decision to abduct not-quite-four-years-old Kobayashi Hikaru and deliver him to Orochimaru in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11557398/7/The-Road-to-Ruin The Road to Ruin]]''. Even if Hiruzen didn't decide to stop him pulling the bullshit, he failed to consider two things. First of all, letting the kid who helped to save the Hyuuga Clan Heiress from a kidnapping vanish into the unknown isn't going to fly. Two, the kid's parentage by his mixed-blood mother means he's a member of the Uchiha and Yamanaka Clans, and both are already irked by the fact Hikaru wasn't identified sooner. And even if ''they'' refused to help, ''Hatake Kakashi'' wouldn't quietly stand by and let his newfound son be taken away from him.

* A pair of Slayers in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28227-8/DianeCastle+The+Reality-Theory+Convergence.htm The Reality Theory Convergence]]'' decided to make a game of throwing knives as close as possible to the inscription of the ward protecting their apartment without hitting it. After ruining the ward, they don't tell anyone so it's not repaired until after they're attacked. Xander is furious and orders them to have to live with the rest of the "baby Slayers" and they have to share the smallest room because they're clearly not responsible enough to live on their own.
-->'''Xander:''' You two did something so stupid I’m surprised you can walk and wield a sword at the same time! You know how important these wards are, and you screwed around with them, and then you didn’t tell anyone you had ruined them! You could have died! You could have gotten someone else killed! You got to stay on your own by promising to be responsible. Well, this is the exact opposite of responsible! We’ll have a van here within an hour. Have everything you own packed and ready to go. Clothes in suitcases and duffelbags, books and knickknacks in boxes, weapons in your gymbags. We’ll move the furniture and kitchen stuff later.
* Skidmark in ''Fanfic/{{Constellations}}'' sends a party of grunts to kidnap a new cape who didn't use a SecretIdentity. No, the cape wasn't the dumb one, since the ABB - a gang led by a frigging ''dragon-man'' - likes her so much they would probably go to war to rescue her. Second: the cape is a ''priestess'' to a major goddess who can and ''does'' dish a BoltOfDivineRetribution for something so simple as slapping her human. And last but not least, the cape's father is a licensed Protectorate hero who's hellishly protective of her after his wife's death. Not only did the attempt fail, Skidmark's gang was utterly gutted in the following days.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', the Kryptonian Science Council refused to heed Jor-El's warnings of Krypton's destruction even after being shown photographs of the planet's destabilized core. This doomed the entire Kryptonian race with the exception of baby Kal-El, who was sent away in the one rocket Jor-El was able to put together after the Council banned all space exploration technology.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10917821/19/The-questionable-burdens-of-leadership-of-a-troll-Emperor The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor]]'':
** After Ra's death, almost all of the System Lords engage in a brief but brutal civil war to claim as much of the deceased Supreme System Lord's holdings as possible. The only one not to participate is Yu, who remembers that they're still at war with another interstellar empire and later notes that the Goa'uld Hegemony lost more forces fighting each other than they had in centuries of war with the Celestial Empire.
** Apophis fails to realize that seeing hundreds of Goa'uld killed has caused his slaves to realize they're not gods. It's even noted that Ra would have realized the danger of a human mob whose anger has overridden their fear. When Apophis tries cow them as usual, he's knocked to the ground and kicked to death.
** Later Manga/{{Naruto}}, [[Manga/{{Sekirei}} Karasuba]], and Setsuna are both amused and disgusted that the Tollan disable theirs and [=SG1's=] ranged weapons but don't even ask them to relinquish their swords (or Setsuna's many knives) even after Karasuba introduces herself with "I kill people." Naruto privately wonders if they've had so little conflict that they simply have no survival instinct anymore. Furthermore, when [=SG1=] tries to warn the Tollan that the Goa'uld are attempting to sabotage their planetary defenses, the Tollan leader brushes off their warnings and threatens to rule against them in the current trial if they persist.
** The NID deserve a mention for both kidnapping Yahan, whom they know Naruto views as a little sister, then later trying to assassinate Naruto during a press conference. The latter is particularly bad since even if they succeeded in killing him, they know for a fact he has a warship in orbit and an empire spanning a considerable portion of the galaxy. Said warship is outright stated to be perfectly capable of [[EarthShatteringKaboom turning Earth into an asteroid field at any time.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13190156/7/Wandering-of-a-Sword-Hero Wandering of a Sword Hero]]'', Shirou is forced to kill a slaver to save a group of enslaved children who were just ordered to die. One of the other slavers, having just witnessed Shirou kill his comrade to protect the children, threatens retribution when word gets out, causing Shirou to kill all of the slavers.
* Hiro and Hifumi, in ''Fanfic/TheUltimateBigBrother'', try to get a look under Charlotte Katakuri's scarf, even despite Makoto Naegi's attempts to keep them from angering him, but they don't listen to him, ignoring the signs of TranquilFury. Suffice it to say, he erupts in anger soon enough while releasing a wave of Conqueror's Haki, and everyone learns that you '''do not''' press the BerserkButton of a 16-foot tall pirate rippling with muscle.

** First, a vampire sends thralls after [[Manga/BlackLagoon Boss Chang]]. Boss Chang hires Shenhua to "send a message". It's unknown what exactly she did but one of the local [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Slayers]] was amazed/horrified said vampire was still alive when she found him.
** Later a [[HornyDevils Succubus]] drains one of Balalaika's men and even after being caught, she brags to Balalaika about how she took her form while having sex with the man. Balalaika has the Succubus' horns, wings, and tail ''sawed'' off then lets the torturer do with her as they want. Afterwards, she's to be sent to work at a local strip club/brothel but not allowed to dance or have any contact with the customers, effectively starving her.

* Neo in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6706547/1/Pointless-Agent-Insanity Pointless Agent Insanity]] takes this UpToEleven, with literally every single thing he does or says.

* Darui (and his entire team) in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10518212/2/The-Pride The Pride]]'' threatens to kill Shizune (knowing full well she's carrying Naruto's child) if Naruto doesn't do what he says. Naruto is currently in [[SuperMode Kyuubi]] [[UpToEleven Sage Mode]] and fully capable of [[OneManArmy taking on an entire country by himself]]. Needless to say, it doesn't go well for them.

* Hiro and Hifumi, in ''Fanfic/TheUltimateBigBrother'', try to get a look under Charlotte Katakuri's scarf, even despite Makoto Naegi's attempts to keep them from angering him, but they don't listen to him, ignoring the signs of TranquilFury. Suffice it to say, he erupts in anger soon enough, and everyone learns that you '''do not''' press the BerserkButton of a 16-foot tall pirate rippling with muscle.

* Palpatine in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17636003/chapters/67278214 Supreme Chancellor Obi-Wan Kenobi]]'' kills the assassin he hired to kill Obi-Wan after she failed (though he intended to kill her regardless). Despite knowing she's a skilled killer from the Hissleet Endai assassin guild and has been keeping her hands near her blasters for the entire conversation, Palpatine slowly strangles her with the Force while bragging about how helpless she is. Naturally, she shoots him and it's only pure luck on his part that he's merely seriously injured rather than fatally. Worse, the assassin fired her ''custom'' blaster any Hissleet Endai is issued to use to defend themselves from traitorous clients and ''embed them with nanomachines that make them easily identified'' so they can be avenged in case the traitor survives... So when the Hissleet Endai agent that was looking for her with Jedi Master Quinlan Vos is told the killer was a Sith Lord she ''gives the tracker to the Jedi'', knowing that while the Hissleet Endai can't avenge their fallen member the Jedi obviously can.

* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Haruhi thinks this of Taniguchi after learning about his ratings. Kyon calling him a 'living perv-wiki' probably didn't help.

** Daenerys tries to draw Lightbringer, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield but fails and is greatly weakened because she is not Azor Ahai]]. Undeterred by this, another ''seventy-nine'' random people die and all die horribly. It really shouldn't have taken that many failures before people stopped trying to draw it.

* ''A different weasel makes a difference'':

* In the lost ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' ''Future of Despair'' comic, Panne fits in through and through. Because "having to give birth to your and Henry's child in isolation per (fanon) Taguel costumes" should '''not''' equal to "stupidly running away from a mostly safe CASTLE to the nearby WOODS all alone and thus getting yourself [[HumanPincushion skewered with arrows]] by a bunch of dumb hunters who didn't know better". WhatAnIdiot!
** It's even worse when you recall the also lost notes on said "fanon" costumes. These instincts that lead Taguel moms to seek for "complete isolation" when giving birth are supposed to be ''completely irresistible and unrestrainable'', so [[UnfortunateImplications they imply that]] ''every'' Taguel mother is pretty much WIRED to be TooDumbToLive, meaning none only could they potentially run into hunters like in Panne's case, but they deny themselves any support in case of pre/current/post-birth complications for herself and her baby/babies. ''Double'' WhatAnIdiot!

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6549314/1/Sexplosion Sexplosion]]'', the Kyuubi released a powerful pheromone when it was sealed that basically made everyone into sex maniacs the moment they hit puberty (extreme horniness is a perfectly acceptable reason to be excused from class, it's considered extremely rude to reject someone if they want to have sex, and sexual relationships between 14-year old Genin graduates and Jonins is looked on as normal). When Naruto first uses his [[GenderBender Sexy no Jutsu]], he's flat out told that turning into a naked woman, especially in public, will get him raped. When he says he'd just change back and laugh, he's warned that his attackers probably won't care what gender he is at that point. Naruto promptly vows to never use it again, [[WhatAnIdiot unless it's really funny]].

* This is pretty much the premise of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3213992/1/Bad-Man Bad Man]]'': one of Bulma's assistants, being heavily in debt with the mob, decides the best way to escape them is to kidnap Bulma while she is pregnant with Bra and blackmail Vegeta into killing his creditors, [[spoiler:using a machine that hid ki signatures to not be located]]. Needless to say, when Vegeta ultimately ''does'' find him, [[MakeAnExampleOfThem he uses the picture of his corpse on the papers to show the world what will happen to those who mess with his family]]. Worse still, during her captivity [[DefiantCaptive Bulma has managed to leave the basement she had been trapped into]] and outright tells her kidnapper to just surrender and hope she can convince Vegeta to show mercy. [[spoiler:He shoots her and run]].

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures MaNi/Elder Brother]] due to his StupidEvil. He's so obsessed with getting another scrap with Monster X that he doesn't care that they're actively and clearly luring him into a trap, and goes straight for the bait; never mind the fact that [=MMaNi=] has no idea what Monster X in their final form are capable of.

[[AC: ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'']]

* Skidmark in ''Fanfic/{{Constellations}}'' sends a party of grunts kidnap a new cape who didn't use a SecretIdentity. No, the cape wasn't the dumb one, since the ABB - a gang led by a frigging ''dragon-man'' - likes her so much they would probably go to war to rescue her. Second: the cape is a ''priestess'' to a major goddess who can and ''does'' dish a BoltOfDivineRetribution for something so simple as slapping her human. And last but not least, the cape's father is a licensed Protectorate hero who's hellishly protective of her after his wife's death. Not only did the attempt fail, Skidmark's gang was utterly gutted in the following days.

[[AC: ''Film/TheMatrix'']]

* Palpatine in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17636003/chapters/67278214 Supreme Chancellow Obi-Wan Kenobi]]'' kills the assassin he hired to kill Obi-Wan after she failed (though he intended to kill her regardless). Despite knowing she's a skilled killer and has been keeping her hands near her blasters for the entire conversation, Palpatine slowly strangles her with the Force while bragging about how helpless she is. Naturally, she shoots him and it's only pure luck on his part that he's merely seriously injured rather than fatally.

* ''Day of the Broken Fang'', a prequel to ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'', shows that this is what brought about the end of [[Franchise/GIJoe COBRA]] -- Cobra Commander, being based on his more competent Creator/MarvelComics incarnation, was smart enough to leave the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticons]] alone. Serpentor, on the other hand, wasn't as bright; driven by an egotistical desire to prove his dominance, the SuperSoldier ordered an attack on the Decepticons' main base with a slew of untested weapons, just because Doctor Mindbender assured him that they'd work. Needless to say, the Decepticons were not only not harmed by the attack, but Megatron was so pissed that he ordered a counter-attack that [[CurbStompBattle wiped COBRA off the map]] (literally, in the case of Cobra Island), with only a handful of survivors escaping the massacre (including the Commander, who had [[OhCrap realized what was coming]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled in time]]).
** One of the survivors, Overkill, clearly didn't learn anything from the experience. A few years later, he tried to rebuild COBRA from other surviving soldiers and resources, and tried to make their mark by attacking West Point. This, despite the fact that by this point, the Earth Defense Command (formed by the unification of the Joes, the Oktober Guard, and other special forces) had already driven the Decepticons off Earth. The new COBRA ended up crushed completely, with their stupidity lampshaded by the [[KarmaHoudini now-retired Cobra Commander]].

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** Oberyn Martell. Leading Dornish troops to war when Dorne and Aegon's troops weren't prepared to conquer Westeros? Well, maybe he thought Westeros was more vulnerable than it was. Splitting the troops because Connington was being an ass? Harder to defend, but if Connington was actively putting the Dornish troops in danger with his poor leadership, that's one thing. But his actions become less and less defensible, culminating in him evicting the lord of the castle his forces were holed up in to sleep with the man's wife. Stannis captures Oberyn and his forces while the Dornish prince is having an orgy. [[BackForTheDead In the final battle]], Oberyn gets himself and nine hundred men killed in a reckless charge against the Night's Queen, seemingly having not realized that he lacked enough force to break through the Others' army.

[[AC: ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'']]
* ''A different weasel makes a difference'':
** Oberyn Martell. Leading Dornish troops to war when Dorne and Aegon's troops weren't prepared to conquer Westeros? Well, maybe he thought Westeros was more vulnerable than it was. Splitting the troops because Connington was being an ass? Harder to defend, but if Connington was actively putting the Dornish troops in danger with his poor leadership, that's one thing. But his actions become less and less defensible, culminating in him evicting the lord of the castle his forces were holed up in to sleep with the man's wife. Stannis captures Oberyn and his forces while the Dornish prince is having an orgy. [[BackForTheDead In the final battle]], Oberyn gets himself and nine hundred men killed in a reckless charge against the Night's Queen, seemingly having not realized that he lacked enough force to break through the Others' army.
** When the Others attack the Vale, Jon Snow leads an effort to burn as many of the corpses in the Vale as possible, but the Valemen object, believing the Others won't be able to raise bodies buried on consecrated ground. Jon tells them they are this. [[SubvertedTrope When the Others come, the Valemen turn out to be right. The Others really]] ''[[SubvertedTrope can't]]'' [[SubvertedTrope raise the dead buried on consecrated ground.]] [[DoubleSubverted But if that hadn't been the case, the Others likely would have won.]]
** Daenerys tries to draw Lightbringer, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield but fails and is greatly weakened because she is not Azor Ahai]]. Undeterred by this, another ''seventy-nine'' random people die and all die horribly. It really shouldn't have taken that many failures before people stopped trying to draw it.
** When the forces of the Vale were ordered to muster at Ronnel's Pass, Lord Lyonel Corbray refused and mustered his forces at his castle instead. He and his men didn't realize until too late that number of weapons they had that could harm an Other could be counted on hand; and they also didn't seem to realize that a dragon would have a bird's...er dragon's eye view of the battlefield and see them anywhere. CurbStompBattle really doesn't begin to cover what happens next.
* ''FanFic/LetTheGalaxyBurn'': The Southern nobles really should have learned by now that the North is not to be taken lightly, but seemingly no amount of losses taken at the hands of Northern troops will teach them. The Ironborn are even worse; maybe ''don't'' launch a full-frontal assault on a superior force that's expecting you? Or do, it's not like dead Ironborn is a negative.