History TooDumbToLive / Fanworks

* Practically the whole cast of the deleted story, ''Phoenix Wright: Ghosts of the Past'', when they decided to let Maya channel Dahlia. Considering that because of Dahlia's haunting Iris was at the verge of [[BreakTheCutie mental breakdown]] and they were desperate for solution chanelling itself is understandable, but they had only taken precautions against Dahlia escaping, rather than from her trying to kill them, and what's more they did it in a ''kitchen''. Phoenix, Maya and Athena almost got killed, and no one present got out of it without any injuries. Summarised by Dahlia herself:
-->'''Dahlia:''' I don't know what the hell convinced you it was good idea? You had to know this is how I'd react! You gather everyone I hate in the same room and summon me? And you don't even have a back-up plan?!

* When several gods in Heaven was making a porno (under the belief that begging for such from Hell was disgraceful) in ''[[http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600055428&chapter=2 The Vain Rose's Garden]]'', they decide not to include Urd, claiming that doing so might get Tyr or Hild after them. While a reasonable claim, they did so ''after'' shooting her scene. While nothing is proven, Peorth nonetheless notes that most of the gods involved in the filming disappeared "under mysterious circumstances" over the following years.

* ''Fanfic/CoolCatSavesVietnam'': Cool Cat turns his phone off airplane mode when the plane hasn't landed yet. Because of this, the plane starts to tremble and fall. ArtisticLicense applies here since in RealLife, turning off your phone's airplane mode will have no effect on the plane.

* 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.

* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Basically anyone tries to attack Berk is considered this. Lampshaded by Princess Mór of Manu. Her brother, uncle, cousin, and father all died in a failed attempt to invade Berk. She tells Tuffnutt they died of a very bad case of rampant stupidity.

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* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Basically anyone tries to attack Berk is considered this. Lampshaded by Princess Mór of Manu. Her brother, uncle, cousin, and father all died in a failed attempt to invade Berk. She tells Tuffnutt they died of a very bad case of rampant stupidity.

** In Chapter 18, Volcano sends a tidal wave of magma at Izuku and his friends, uncaring of the fact one of them was holding the rocket containing ''VX'' gas. Had the Slayer not [[HumanShield took the lava blast]], Volcano would've condemned his team and Curator to a nasty death.

** Chapter 21, [[LeeroyJenkins Bakugou decides to try and fight the Doom Slayer]]. This is despite the fact he's slaughtered the Steel Sabers, beat up 48 heroes (including his homeroom teacher) and just bested All Might in combat, though he treated it as a spar. He gets captured, Miruko tries to intervene, only to get captured and Bakugou decides to release [[DidntThinkThisThrough another explosion, without looking about]]. Had All Might and Miruko not screamed for Bakugou to stop (as there was a leaking gas tanker a few feet away), and had the Slayer not threw the two away, Bakugou would have succeeded where ''All for One'' failed.

** Chapter 21, [[LeeroyJenkins Bakugou decides to try and fight the Doom Slayer]]. This is despite the fact he's slaughtered the Steel Sabers, beat up 48 heroes (including his homeroom teacher) and just bested All Might in combat, though he treated it as a spar. He gets captured, Miruko tries to intervene, only to get captured and Bakugou decides to release [[DidntThinkThisThrough another explosion, without looking about]]. Had All Might and Miruko not screamed for Bakugou to stop (as there was a leaking gas tanker a few feet away), Bakugou would have succeeded where ''All for One'' failed.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Deadshots}}'', when Azula (who is a better person than in canon but still a cunning and ruthless PragmaticHero) and Commander Zhao visit Kiyoshi Village looking for the Avatar, Zhao tries to destroy their statue of Avatar Kiyoshi, after Azula and Suki had already agreed to SacredHospitality. Azula challenges him to an Agni Kai for this insult to their hosts, and she would have killed him if she hadn't realized Aang was in Kiyoshi Village and was uncomfortable with killing (unbeknownst to Zhao, she wanted to recruit the Avatar to help her depose Ozai, not capture him as Zhao intended). When Azula spares him, he tries the same ISurrenderSuckers trick that he tried on Zuko in canon. Azula doesn't kill him then either, but she does declare him a Man Without Honor, which would have caused him to be as good as banished from the entirety of the Fire Nation if he hadn't managed to convince Ozai to keep him from being exiled.

* In ''Fanfic/Deadshots'', when Azula (who is a better person than in canon but still a cunning and ruthless PragmaticHero) and Commander Zhao visit Kiyoshi Village looking for the Avatar, Zhao tries to destroy their statue of Avatar Kiyoshi, after Azula and Suki had already agreed to SacredHospitality. Azula challenges him to an Agni Kai for this insult to their hosts, and she would have killed him if she hadn't realized Aang was in Kiyoshi Village and was uncomfortable with killing (unbeknownst to Zhao, she wanted to recruit the Avatar to help her depose Ozai, not capture him as Zhao intended). When Azula spares him, he tries the same ISurrenderSuckers trick that he tried on Zuko in canon. Azula doesn't kill him then either, but she does declare him a Man Without Honor, which would have caused him to be as good as banished from the entirety of the Fire Nation if he hadn't managed to convince Ozai to keep him from being exiled.

* 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.

* In {{Fanfic/Fragmentation}}, a [=ComStar=] [[TheMole mole]] is wanted in four out of the five Successor States for [[PaedoHunt child molestation]]. That's bad enough. But what qualifies him for this trope is that in the Draconis Combine, his would-be victim was ''a member of the ruling Kurita family''.

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