History TooDumbToLive / Videogames

!!Note: As a DeathTrope, [[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers all spoilers on this page are unmarked]].

* In a Website/{{Newgrounds}} flash game called ''VideoGame/GretelAndHansel'', Hansel (the older brother and leader in the [[Literature/HanselAndGretel original fairytale]]) is very, very, very mentally challenged. He watches his little sister burn to death and doesn't seem fazed when she dies horribly in front of him in Part 2. Speaking of Part 2: Instead of saving his sister from the pit she fell into, he chases after a fairy and leaves Gretel to deal with a [[WhenTreesAttack tree monster]]. [[DamselInDistress When Gretel needs saving a second time]], he shoves the fairy who's willing to help into his mouth, cuts that same fairy in half with scissors, and even ''[[BigEater swallows those scissors]]''. He then stands on a cliff's edge tip-toed. No wonder Gretel is our protagonist.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'':
** The street trash in the games seem to be this in general, since it doesn't seem to matter how many of them get utterly and painfully thrashed by Kiryu, Majima, Akiyama, et al; if they see you, they charge straight at you for a fight. You'd think that after the fifth guy got a bicycle smashed over his head, they'd take the hint...
** The ''Kurohyou'' spinoff games attempt to justify this by stating that, among Kamurocho's street gangs, getting into a scrap with Kiryu ''et al'' is a RiteOfPassage: if you can get into a scrap with the Dragon of Dojima and walk away with your life, you're in.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', [[TheBrute Yoneda]] smashes Tachibana's face with a sledgehammer even after his boss Kuze explicitly tells him that they need him alive to interrogate him and that [[TortureIsIneffective further torture clearly isn't going to work]]. For his insubordination and monumental fuck-up, Kuze smashes his head against the floor and [[YouHaveFailedMe kills him]].
** In [[VideoGame/Yakuza2 the second game]], Sengoku is already in a bad way after [[EvenEvilHasStandards Goda sliced him open for taking the young Haruka hostage]] to get at Kiryu. But then he proves incapable of keeping his mouth shut, as he accuses Goda of [[{{Nepotism}} only getting where he is now]] [[BerserkButton because of his father]]. Three guesses [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice how well]] [[DisneyVillainDeath Goda takes that]] and the first two don't count.

---> '''Pirate Log:''' Aran's Power Suit technology remains a mystery, especially the curious Morph Ball function. All attempts at duplicating it have ended in disaster: four test subjects were [[BodyHorror horribly broken and twisted]] when they engaged our Morph Ball prototypes. Science Team wisely decided to move on afterward.

** After a large number of zombie outbreaks and failed business ventures resulting from said outbreaks, you'd think that Umbrella Corporation would move on to something different or at least put in stricter containment protocols, but nooooo...

** In general, the player can potentially [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this on any enemy/boss that uses magic attacks by using the [[WhiteMage Cleric]] skill Reflective Veil to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin reflect]] their magic attacks back at them, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments with hilarious results]]. A well-known CheeseStrategy is Sealticge's Seduction + Reflective Veil, which is ''very'' effective against the all-powerful Sorcerer god [[BonusBoss Dreisang]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* The people in the mall in ''[[Creator/ChoiceOfGames Choice of Zombies]]''. They have no quarantine or even medical examination period of any sort, they don't post lookouts, and they insist everyone store guns and ammo separately. ''In the middle of a ZombieApocalypse.'' Unsurprisingly, it turns out someone was infected and turns, then infects their whole medical ward.

** [[LoonyFan Conrad Verner]] deserves honorable mention. He's Shepard (the protagonit)'s biggest fan and asks you to make him a fellow [[EliteAgentsAboveTheLaw Spectre]] despite having no combat experience. If Shepard blows him off, he picks a fight with a street gang and gets himself killed. If he survives, you can meet him again in ''Mass Effect 2'' where he harasses a barkeeper over alleged [[FantasticDrug red sand]] sales (which are actually legal on the planet they're on). If Shepard blows him off this time, he tries to arrest a gang on top of a flying bus... [[DeathAsComedy only to fall off, get hit by several cars, and fall into a turbine]]. Subverted in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' (if he lives), because after forming a charity foundation and actually helping, he will [[HeroicSacrifice take a bullet for Shepard]] unless you completed a certain quest all the way back in the first game.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' — [[IdiotHero Chai]] is ''too dumb to die''. Despite getting a lot of AmusingInjuries, he survives everything, including [[spoiler:being shot from a cannon into the top of Vandelay's HQ (as a part of his own plan), pretty much unscathed]].

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' — [[IdiotHero Chai]] is ''too dumb to die''. Despite getting a lot of AmusingInjuries, he survives everything, including [[spoiler:being shot from a cannon into the top of the skyscrapper (as a part of his own plan), pretty much unscathed]].

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' — [[TheProtagonist Chai]] is ''too dumb to die''. Despite getting a lot of AmusingInjuries, he survives everything, including [[spoiler:being shot from a cannon into the top of the skyscrapper (as a part of his own plan), pretty much unscathed]].

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' — [[TheProtagonist Chai]] is ''too dumb to die''. Despite getting a lot of AmusingInjuries, he survives everything, including being shot from a cannon into the top of the skyscrapper (as a part of his own plan), pretty much unscathed.

** Nora. Because when held at gunpoint by somebody when they know you participated in the brutal battering of her father-figure, it is certainly ''not'' a good idea to [[DeathByMocking brag about how you still remember his screaming and how he was a little bitch who deserved to die]].

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Sure, charge headfirst into that angry Hunter who'll kill you with one swipe of its shield, or drive your Warthog straight into the enemy kill box; [[ArtificalStupidity no wonder the friendly AI have such a bad reputation]].

* Cindy from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' is this in both the first game ''and'' [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 its sequel]] thanks to the games' GroundhogDayLoop mechanic:

* The enemy A.I. in ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' isn't smart enough to avoid obvious and fatal environmental hazards. They'll walk into pitfalls and through roaring fires without a second thought.

** In the beginning of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'', Ethan, after getting an email from his missing wife Mia, ''who was presumed dead for years'', decides that he will go look for her alone. With no weapons. Or any way to guard himself. Even after seeing odd (main gate is padlocked, no answer on the intercom, which is admittedly not that bad, but Ethan decides to continue by trespassing), disturbing (a... "scene" made of strung-up deer carcasses and buzzsaws, which he has no reaction to), foreboding (charred remains of Mia's belongings thrown outside the house, a sign that says "accept her gift"), or downright mentally traumatizing (watching a VHS of a a guy found with his ''mouth impaled on a pipe, then the bodies being dragged away horror movie style'') sights, not ''once'' does Ethan consider going back. In fact, he's mostly unfazed. Better explained in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNemCJYRRTM the beginner's guide]] by LetsPlay/SuperButterBuns: