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* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': Late in book 5, Ben Browning's greed gets the better of him, as he holds up a remote detonator ''in the middle of a lightning storm''. It promptly gets struck by lightning, exploding it and nearly costing him his hand in the process.
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* In Joan Didion's ''The Book of Common Prayer'', the narrator Grace notes how Charlotte Douglas, an American searching for her runaway daughter, always rewrites reality to be more agreeable to her no matter what the evidence is and is incapable of understanding that different circumstances require different choices. Charlotte stubbornly remains in Boca Grande (a fictional South American BananaRepublic) on the eve of a violent coup, despite being warned by everyone including Grace to leave, insisting she'll be fine because she's "not involved in politics". Leaving aside that coups are not generally known for their logical decisions about who counts as involved, she's slept with not one but ''two'' members of the ruling family. Then she goes for a walk alone at night in the middle of the fighting like nothing's wrong. Unsurprisingly, she ends up dead. Played with at the end of the book, though, as Grace reconsiders the various traumatic events that drove Charlotte to Boca Grande, and concludes she may have judged Charlotte wrong--the strong implication being that on some level Charlotte understood the danger perfectly well, [[DrivenToSuicide and that was the point]].
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* ''Literature/CanYouSurviveTheZombieApocalypse'' allows you to make some extremely stupid choices, like trying to fight zombies with a pool cue and a bright orange ''Big Buck Hunter'' toy shotgun. Making these choices will lead to your death, and sometimes undeath.
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* ''Literature/CanYouSurviveTheZombieApocalypse'' allows you to make some extremely stupid choices, like trying to fight zombies with a pool cue and a bright orange ''Big Buck Hunter'' ''VideoGame/BigBuckHunter'' toy shotgun. Making these choices will lead to your death, and sometimes undeath.
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* ''Life of Fred'':
** Fred Gauss is the smartest person in the world [[spoiler:except maybe for his long-lost twin sister]], but he’s also a five-year-old, and as such has done some stupid things. He rents a yacht, it springs a leak, and when he tries to read a book on boat leaks to figure out how to patch it, he gets distracted reading the section on the Titanic and forgets about the boat leak. He’s perpetually broke because he can’t identify even an obvious scam to save his life. He’s severely underweight for his age because he hardly ever eats anything. And he got drafted once, and failed to realize that not only would he be ineligible for the draft, but the U.S. Army cannot draft people except during world wars. (The “army” he got drafted into was a mercenary company that thought he was an adult because of his job as a college professor, and recruited soldiers by sending official-looking letters to people in order to get stupid people to sign on with them).
** C. C. Coalback, a scam artist, once broke out of prison. He got caught because he stole the shirt of a prison jumpsuit on the way out, didn’t realize it had the name of the prison on the back, and wore it in public.
** A bank robber once asked Joe, one of Fred’s students, to lend him a gun. Joe took his girlfriend’s pistol out of her purse, intending to hand it to the robber. The only reason he didn’t was because he accidentally fired it, and the robber thought it was a warning shot and immediately started begging for mercy until the police showed up.
** Fred Gauss is the smartest person in the world [[spoiler:except maybe for his long-lost twin sister]], but he’s also a five-year-old, and as such has done some stupid things. He rents a yacht, it springs a leak, and when he tries to read a book on boat leaks to figure out how to patch it, he gets distracted reading the section on the Titanic and forgets about the boat leak. He’s perpetually broke because he can’t identify even an obvious scam to save his life. He’s severely underweight for his age because he hardly ever eats anything. And he got drafted once, and failed to realize that not only would he be ineligible for the draft, but the U.S. Army cannot draft people except during world wars. (The “army” he got drafted into was a mercenary company that thought he was an adult because of his job as a college professor, and recruited soldiers by sending official-looking letters to people in order to get stupid people to sign on with them).
** C. C. Coalback, a scam artist, once broke out of prison. He got caught because he stole the shirt of a prison jumpsuit on the way out, didn’t realize it had the name of the prison on the back, and wore it in public.
** A bank robber once asked Joe, one of Fred’s students, to lend him a gun. Joe took his girlfriend’s pistol out of her purse, intending to hand it to the robber. The only reason he didn’t was because he accidentally fired it, and the robber thought it was a warning shot and immediately started begging for mercy until the police showed up.
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* Multiple player characters in ''The Literature/BinderOfShame''. "Everyone agreed there should have been some sign that the Desert of Certain Doom might be dangerous."
* ''Literature/TheCrawlspace'': The narrator’s roommates. A nice three-bedroom apartment in one of the most desirable and expensive areas of Rome is so cheap that four college students can afford to rent it for three months? Seems sound. There's a small door leading to a crawlspace which was intentionally blocked off by the owner? [[spoiler: Let's open it!]] Our roommate has been [[spoiler: hearing something moving about in the crawlspace and the door opens by itself?]] Probably a pigeon that flew in. [[spoiler: Something tried to come in our flatmate's room at night and it wasn't any of us?]] She’s probably just going crazy and imagining things. [[spoiler:They all end up [[UncertainDoom disappearing]], presumably killed by the creature]].
* ''Literature/ShadowrunStorytime'':
** Trout, despite being one of TheMostWanted men in America (complete with a SIN constantly advertising this fact) and having basically no resources but the tacsuit on his back, repeatedly tries to backstab his teammates at the drop of a hat. Unsurprisingly, he ends up being turned in by the team after one too many betrayals and a botched robbery that makes him into a massive security risk.
** Trout's replacement, Tank, is no slouch in this department either; his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him coming out of his house in a cop-patrolled neighbourhood, openly carrying a Troll-sized LMG and combat axe. Later on he decides to run back into a house he's been warned is booby-trapped, causing an explosion that badly injures and would probably have killed him were he not a Troll with heavy-duty bioware and armour. The crowning moment of dumbassery, however, is signing into a hotel with his real name and SIN -- already a bad decision due to the nature of Shadowrunning, he does this ''despite'' knowing there's a Shadowrunner team out there that wants to gank him as part of a feud. [[spoiler: Perhaps unsurprisingly, this does indeed get him ganked.]]
** One of [[TheCracker Wildcard's]] teammates checks the group's bounties on his personal commlink during a bank robbery. [[BoomHeadshot Wildcard's response is immediate]], coupled with him lampshading how stupid the guy was.
---> '''Wildcard''': Burn his body, we don't want a datatrail. Idiot signed his death warrant when he checked our bounties on his personal commlink. As if I wouldn't hack it.
* ''Literature/TheCrawlspace'': The narrator’s roommates. A nice three-bedroom apartment in one of the most desirable and expensive areas of Rome is so cheap that four college students can afford to rent it for three months? Seems sound. There's a small door leading to a crawlspace which was intentionally blocked off by the owner? [[spoiler: Let's open it!]] Our roommate has been [[spoiler: hearing something moving about in the crawlspace and the door opens by itself?]] Probably a pigeon that flew in. [[spoiler: Something tried to come in our flatmate's room at night and it wasn't any of us?]] She’s probably just going crazy and imagining things. [[spoiler:They all end up [[UncertainDoom disappearing]], presumably killed by the creature]].
* ''Literature/ShadowrunStorytime'':
** Trout, despite being one of TheMostWanted men in America (complete with a SIN constantly advertising this fact) and having basically no resources but the tacsuit on his back, repeatedly tries to backstab his teammates at the drop of a hat. Unsurprisingly, he ends up being turned in by the team after one too many betrayals and a botched robbery that makes him into a massive security risk.
** Trout's replacement, Tank, is no slouch in this department either; his EstablishingCharacterMoment has him coming out of his house in a cop-patrolled neighbourhood, openly carrying a Troll-sized LMG and combat axe. Later on he decides to run back into a house he's been warned is booby-trapped, causing an explosion that badly injures and would probably have killed him were he not a Troll with heavy-duty bioware and armour. The crowning moment of dumbassery, however, is signing into a hotel with his real name and SIN -- already a bad decision due to the nature of Shadowrunning, he does this ''despite'' knowing there's a Shadowrunner team out there that wants to gank him as part of a feud. [[spoiler: Perhaps unsurprisingly, this does indeed get him ganked.]]
** One of [[TheCracker Wildcard's]] teammates checks the group's bounties on his personal commlink during a bank robbery. [[BoomHeadshot Wildcard's response is immediate]], coupled with him lampshading how stupid the guy was.
---> '''Wildcard''': Burn his body, we don't want a datatrail. Idiot signed his death warrant when he checked our bounties on his personal commlink. As if I wouldn't hack it.
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** A great moment in Feet of Clay:
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** Prince Morion Martell of Dorne tried to start another war against the Targaryens, but made no attempt to hide it before his forces were ready. King Jaehaerys I and his sons flew out on their dragons and incinerated Morion and his entire army, in the shortest and most decisive war Westeros has ever seen. It is pretty telling that even Dorne, whose whole history with the Targaryens is a CycleOfRevenge, made no action then or afterwards to avenge Morion, as if in admission that, yeah, he had it coming.
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* The short story ''We Can Get Them For You Wholesale'' has the narrator, who is obsessed with bargains and deals, looking to hire a hitman to kill his wife's lover. He finds an agency in the phone book and meets with their probably-not-human representative, who tells him that if he asks them to kill ''ten'' people instead of one, he gets a discount. He immediately starts thinking of other people he wouldn't mind getting rid of. The representative makes more offers, the price per person keeps going down, and the list keeps growing, until he asks what it would cost to kill ''everyone in the world''. Upon hearing it would be absolutely free, he eagerly tells them to do it, and goes to bed satisfied. His death is at least implied to be quick.
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** One popular song in the wake of King Robert’s death is highly insulting to both Robert and the Lannisters. One not-so-bright minstrel decided to sing it in one of the royal courts during the War of the Five Kings. So whose court did he pick? Robb’s court? Stannis’s? No! He picked [[PsychopathicManchild Joffrey]]’s court! Joffrey must have been in a good mood that day, because the minstrel only lost his tongue for the insult.
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** Wandering into [[TheCityNarrows the Shades]] in [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] is also a definite form of suicide.
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** Wandering into [[TheCityNarrows the Shades]] in [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] is also a definite form of suicide.suicide, unless you're the toughest of the tough.
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* ''Literature/Everest2002'': The adults express this opinion in a horrified and angry fashion after learning that Bryn sleepwalks and never told anyone but Sammy, even though they are going on a mountain climbing trip and will be sleeping near lots of cliff faces. [[spoiler:They are right to feel this way, since Bryn does walk off a cliff and is lucky to survive.]]
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* Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/TheTwits'' has the titular Twits meeting an end befitting their names: they walk into their house to find that all the furniture has been glued to the ceiling, and the floor has been painted the same color as the ceiling. Their conclusion from this: the entire thing has been flipped upside-down, and now they have to get back to being right-side-up. They decide to accomplish this by standing on their heads. As it turns out, they've had glue splattered on their heads by the same animals that performed that little prank, and the moment their heads make contact with the floor, they're stuck there. By the end of the night, they end up being squished into nothing under their own body weight.
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. A common misconception about ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is that the easiest way to get yourself killed in the series [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished is by being good.]] The truth is that the easiest way to die in Westeros is to be ''stupid'', regardless of morality. For example:
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** Being king is awesome! That means that you can be as impulsively cruel and obnoxious as you want and nobody can stop you, right? Joffrey should have asked Aerys II how well that works out. Once someone finally assassinated Joffrey's psychotic ass, [[WhoMurderedTheAsshole the list of suspects is so long that it's next to impossible to find out who actually did it, and few actually care enough to put in the effort.]]
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* A non-fatal example-in the fifth ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, "The Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1", Jerome Horwitz Elementary's trip to a tissue factory goes awry when the tour guide Mr. Snoddy tries to give Melvin-who has been transformed into a giant snot monster-tissues; this, naturally, causes Melvin to freak out and grow to a colossal size-with the gift shop ending up as collateral damage-, but what, [[SarcasmMode in his infinite wisdom]], does Mr. Snoddy do to try and calm Melvin down? Give him more tissues, of course! It goes about as well as you'd think, and he ends up glued to the factory floor. The narrator even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]]:
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* A non-fatal example-in the fifth sixth ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, "The Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1", Jerome Horwitz Elementary's trip to a tissue factory goes awry when the tour guide Mr. Snoddy tries to give Melvin-who has been transformed into a giant snot monster-tissues; this, naturally, causes Melvin to freak out and grow to a colossal size-with the gift shop ending up as collateral damage-, but what, [[SarcasmMode in his infinite wisdom]], does Mr. Snoddy do to try and calm Melvin down? Give him more tissues, of course! It goes about as well as you'd think, and he ends up glued to the factory floor. The narrator even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]]:
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** Dumbledore is ultimately done in by a moment of stupidity. When he found one of Voldemort's Horcruxes and realized it was the Resurrection Stone, he hastily put it on his finger so he could see his family again and beg their forgiveness for failing them. Dumbledore forgot that it was still Voldemort's Horcrux, one that he knew Voldemort probably cursed. Dumbeldore falls victim to the curse, and despite Snape containing the curse in Dumbledore's now withered hand, Dumbledore still had less than a year to live. Dumbledore even admits to Harry that he was an idiot in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]''.
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** Dumbledore is ultimately done in by a moment of stupidity. When he found one of Voldemort's Horcruxes (Marvolo Gaunt's ring) and realized it was the Resurrection Stone, he hastily put it on his finger so he could see his family again and beg their forgiveness for failing them. Dumbledore forgot that it the ring was still Voldemort's Horcrux, one that he knew Voldemort probably cursed. Dumbeldore falls victim to the curse, and despite Snape containing the curse in Dumbledore's now withered hand, Dumbledore still had less than a year to live. Dumbledore even admits to Harry that he was an idiot in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]''.
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* A non-fatal example-in the fifth ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, "The Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1", Jerome Horwitz Elementary's trip to a tissue factory goes awry when the tour guide Mr. Snoddy tries to give Melvin-who has been transformed into a giant snot monster-tissues; this, naturally, causes Melvin to freak out and grow to a colossal size-with the gift shop ending up as collateral damage-, but what, [[SarcasmMode in his infinite wisdom]], does Mr. Snoddy do to try and calm Melvin down? Give him more tissues, of course! It goes about as well as you'd think, and he ends up glued to the factory floor. The narrator even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]]:
-->'''Narrator''': As you might have noticed by now, Mr. Snoddy wasn't exactly the brightest bulb on the Hanukkah tree.
-->'''Narrator''': As you might have noticed by now, Mr. Snoddy wasn't exactly the brightest bulb on the Hanukkah tree.
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* ''Literature/PennyFromHeaven'': When Penny has to stay in the hospital due to an injury from her arm getting caught in a wringer, she comments to herself that most of the kids in the hospital where she's staying are there from doing dumb stuff. One boy was mauled by a dog after baiting it, another burned himself on a camp stove, and a third burned a pile of poison ivy even he was allergic to it--he's covered in so many blisters he looks like he should be in a monster movie.
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* ''Literature/PennyFromHeaven'': When Penny has to stay in the hospital due to an injury from her arm getting caught in a wringer, she comments to herself that most of the kids in the hospital where she's staying other young patients, including her, are there from doing dumb stuff. One boy was mauled by a dog after baiting it, another burned himself on a camp stove, and a third burned a pile of poison ivy even he was allergic to it--he's covered in so many blisters he looks like he should be in a monster movie.
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* In ''Literature/PennyFromHeaven,'' Penny comments to herself that most of the kids in the hospital where she's staying are there from doing dumb stuff. One boy was mauled by a dog after baiting it, another burned himself on a camp stove, and a third burned a pile of poison ivy even he was allergic to it--he's covered in so many blisters he looks like he should be in a monster movie.
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* In ''Literature/PennyFromHeaven,'' ''Literature/PennyFromHeaven'': When Penny has to stay in the hospital due to an injury from her arm getting caught in a wringer, she comments to herself that most of the kids in the hospital where she's staying are there from doing dumb stuff. One boy was mauled by a dog after baiting it, another burned himself on a camp stove, and a third burned a pile of poison ivy even he was allergic to it--he's covered in so many blisters he looks like he should be in a monster movie.
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* In ''Penny from Heaven,'' Penny comments to herself that most of the kids in the hospital where she's staying are there from doing dumb stuff. One boy was mauled by a dog after baiting it, another burned himself on a camp stove, and a third burned a pile of poison ivy even he was allergic to it--he's covered in so many blisters he looks like he should be in a monster movie.
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* In ''Penny from Heaven,'' ''Literature/PennyFromHeaven,'' Penny comments to herself that most of the kids in the hospital where she's staying are there from doing dumb stuff. One boy was mauled by a dog after baiting it, another burned himself on a camp stove, and a third burned a pile of poison ivy even he was allergic to it--he's covered in so many blisters he looks like he should be in a monster movie.
