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'''Instead:''' He proceed to backstab the beast ''[[UngratefulBastard right after he saved his life]]'' knowing full well that he just got overwhelmed recently which led him to fall to his own death.

'''You'd Expect:''' Since he is completely overwhelmed by the Beast and that Belle shows no interest in him in favor of the former, he just cut his losses, rally any survivors from the castle, and get the hell out. Afterwards he either moves on with his life after realizing that he has no chance with Belle or try and study the Beast and attempt another attack, this time with perhaps more manpower.\\
'''Instead:''' He proceed to backstab the beast ''right after he saved his life'' which led him to fall to his own death.

'''Instead''': He just runs off and warnx Hercules of whom Meg is working for, pissing him off and causing them to break contact from one another.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'':
** Arkham Asylum is a prison and mental institution currently holding super villains. Among its inmates are some of the worst criminals in Gotham City, known for having huge body counts.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Inmates to be kept away from their equipment, the passwords of the warden to be more complex, and locks of the cell doors to be on separate systems.\\
'''Instead:''' Even ignoring the film's ties to the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', it's freaking ''Arkham Asylum'', a place repeatedly shown throughout the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' franchise to be staffed by people who are incompetent, corrupt, as mentally unhinged as the inmates, or any combination thereof. Of course, the warden's passwords are his birthday going backwards, all of the cells can be unlocked by one switch, and criminals like Bane and Scarecrow are locked up with their costumes and weapons.
** A government official wants to keep certain information about their operations unit a secret and a person who knows about it is in prison.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The official to just pay off a guard to [[spoiler:kill the person so that knowledge would die with him.]]\\
'''Instead''': Outside of Batman's search for the Joker's bomb, the entire plot happens because Amanda Waller decided to send in the Suicide Squad to [[spoiler:deal with the Riddler, who knows how to defuse the nanobombs Waller uses to keep the Squad in line--the ''very last people'' who Waller would want to learn that information.]]

** A government official want to keep their control of their covert ops unit unit a secret and person who knows is in prison.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The official to just pay off a guard to [[spoiler:kill the person so that knowledge to defuse said control die with him.]]\\

'''Instead''': Outside of Batman's search for the Joker's bomb, the entire plot happens before Amanda Waller decided to send in the Suicide Squad to [[spoiler:deal with the Riddler, who knows how to defuse the nanobombs Waller uses to keep the Squad in line--the ''very last people'' whose hands Waller would want that very information to fall into.]]

* ''Disney/RobinHood''
** Robin and Little John successfully steal from and humiliate Prince John. Vengeful and a NotSoHarmless villain, John sets the perfect trap: an archery contest where the prize is not just a golden arrow, but also a kiss from Maid Marian, Robin's childhood sweetheart. On hearing "kiss to the winner," Robin decides that they'll go since he is an expert archer.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Friar Tuck and Little John to realize that this is an obvious trap. When something is TooGoodToBeTrue, it usually is. Tuck could have simply kept quiet about the tournament and let it go on with Robin none the wiser.\\
'''Instead''': Friar Tuck talks about the tournament, kiss and all. Little John's concern is that the place will be "crawling with guards". He and Robin decide to attend, albeit in disguise, so Robin can earn that kiss. Robin ends up winning the tournament while dressed as a bird, but Prince John quickly captures him. If not for Little John pulling a knife on the prince, Robin would have lost his head to the executioner.
** Also, Prince John and Sir Hiss are in on the plan. They watch the proceedings with amusement. The Sheriff of Nottingham is also competing, despite the conflict of interest.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Prince John would tell the Sheriff that he's expecting Robin Hood to win the contest, and that he's going to capture the latter. Thus the Sheriff should hold back and let whoever the disguised outlaw is win. Or you think the Sheriff would deduct this, due to the Wanted Posters and archery contest.\\
'''Instead''': The Sheriff either isn't aware or doesn't care that the Prince of England is looking for Robin Hood. After earning a place as a finalist, he tries to fix his win and sabotage the disguised Robin's shot. Robin Hood ends up able to shoot the arrow in the center anyway, but it would rob Prince John of his opportunity to humiliate and capture Robin Hood for being the winner and the loser, as he puts it.
** After this, Prince John is furious that despite his plan, Robin gets away due to sheer luck and having allies like Little John and Cluckie. Also, all of Nottingham hates him, and the Sheriff knows it.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For the Sheriff to have more tact about the prince's losses, since Prince John is his boss and tried to kill Robin for saying the crown belonged to King Richard, and not be stupid while doing his job.\\
'''Instead''': The Sheriff overhears the "town hit," a ditty that calls Prince John "The Phony King of England," and foolishly teaches it to Sir Hiss while delivering the taxes. [[RightBehindMe Prince John happens to overhear]], and nearly hits the Sheriff with a wine glass.
** Thanks to the Sheriff's mistake about the ditty, Prince John's taxes land all of Nottingham in prison, since they can't pay their debts. Friar Tuck only has a farthing in the church's poorbox, and is doing what he can to keep the prisoners' spirits up by ringing the church bells on Sunday. \\
'''You'd Expect''': The authorities in Nottingham to remember that churches are tax exempt, and that only the Catholic Church can punish their priests. The murder and martyrdom of Thomas Beckett happened around this time, and John knows it. Also if Friar Tuck is sent abroad or even to another city for remonstrance, it means that Robin Hood and Little John can't rely on his help.\\
'''Instead''': The Sheriff pettily takes the farthing from the church's poorbox and says he's JustFollowingOrders. Friar Tuck then shoves him out of the church and starts assaulting him in a rage. Then when Friar Tuck is imprisoned for this, Prince John gets plans to hang him, "a man of the church" as Sir Hiss puts it with horror]], to lure out Robin Hood. Not only do Robin Hood and Little John rescue Friar Tuck and the debtors before the hanging can happen, but also King Richard returns and makes an example of Little John, Hiss and the Sheriff, by setting them to work in a rock pile, ostensibly for damage control with the Church.

** Belle knows Gaston is a complete creep, or at least suspects it from the way he talks about her dad, treats her books, etc. When Belle's father leaves town for the fair, Gaston shows up at her house wanting to propose.
'''You'd Expect:''' Belle to lock the door and barricade herself in the house after checking the peephole and seeing Gaston. And if you think that would spoil the rest of the story, she could always do her running-and-singing-on-the-hillside thing later after he gave up and left.

** Also, on Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Merriwether puts her foot down and insists on using magic to make Aurora's cake and gown because doing it by hand isn't going well and will appear as a mess to their foster daughter. Flora reluctantly agrees and the fairies plug up most of the holes in the house. As Merriwether cleans up the room, she's disappointed to see that Flora has chosen pink for the dress color instead of blue.\\

'''Instead:''' Cheetah is able to grab a gum because Diana sent her into a gun rack.

** The Nicelanders aren't much better. While Ralph does repeatedly wreck their home as part of the game, outside of the arcade's opening hours he's actually a pretty nice guy.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That at some point during a period of 30 years, someone would have talked to Ralph and figured this out, and that they'd show him a bit more respect as a result.\\
'''Instead:''' They refuse to have anything to do with him outside of gameplay. And while Felix is civil towards Ralph, he doesn't make any attempt to befriend him or build bridges between Ralph and the Nicelanders.\\
'''Result:''' Ralph gains a desire to become a hero, after seeing the respect and adoration Felix gets, and leaves. Not only does this nearly cause the game to be unplugged but Ralph sets off a chain of events that nearly includes the corruption of an unrelated game, and could have wrecked the entire arcade.\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' [[spoiler: when Woody, Buzz, and the other toys are on the conveyor belt at the dump. At first they think they're approaching daylight, but it turns out to be an ''enormous'' incinerator, which burns all the trash that falls into it. But they see a ladder which leads upward, and avoids being pushed into it, with a stop button that will halt the conveyor belt if pressed.]]\\

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Lord Farquaad's marriage to Fiona has been interrupted by Shrek and just as he's ordered both of them to be detained, Dragon crashes through the church and begins lunging at him.\\

'''Instead''': Shifu does all that he can to scare Po off, by torturing him during sessions and literally tossing him out of the Jade Palace. Tigress keeps accusing Po of treating kung fu and the Dragon Warrior status as s joke. Thus, when [[spoiler:Tai Lung escapes, Oogway ascends and Shifu has to train Po by necessity]], Po freaks out and tries to run away because he knows he can't go up against [[spoiler:Tai Lung, who has murdered needlessly]]. He calls out Shifu for trying to get rid of him and then suddenly changing his tune, while saying that he was hoping that Shifu would change him into someone better. This causes Shifu to have a JerkassRealization, fortunately, and he figures out how to train Po competently. Tigress in the meantime [[spoiler:goes off to stop Tai Lung, and nearly gets killed despite putting up a great fight with her friends' help]]. Po's silliness also [[spoiler:helps him distract Tai Lung during their climactic battle, and to ultimately gain the upper hand.]]

* In WesternAnimation/WakkosWish, when the Warners are told about the wishing star that landed near the town\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Warners to realize that if anybody else finds out about the star, they will definitely try to get to it as well and keep their mouths shut about it\\

'''Instead:''' He goes and dumps the silo in the recently cleaned up Springfield Lake right when the EPA was investigating Springfield's pollution. The lake now is so badly polluted that Springfield is sealed under a giant glass dome.\\

'''Instead:''' Homer loudly mocks them for it, and they start heading in the right direction. \\

** In the near future, Joker returns spry as ever, while Bruce Wayne has retired and Terry McGinnis has taken over as Batman. Bruce and Barbara Gordon insist that the Joker is dead, and Terry understandably wants to know why. He also wants to know how to save Gotham.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Diana to try to avoid smashing her archenemy into a shelf full of weapons.]]

* ''Shrek'': Lord Farquaad's marriage to Fiona has been interrupted by Shrek and just as he's ordered both of them to be detained, Dragon crashes through the church and begins lunging at him.\\
'''You'd Expect:'' He would run away from Dragon so that he could avoid being eaten. Donkey and Shrek managed to do so earlier in the film.\\

** So Hans. being the youngest of thirteen brothers. has no prospects of owning a kingdom. He goes to Arendelle in the hopes of courting Elsa but finds her younger sister and heir Anna falling for him. Hans comes up with the plan of marrying Anna, killing off Elsa years later to leave the throne free for him to claim, leaving Anna as a TrophyWife.\\

'''Instead''':He just leaves Anna to her death without double checking, completely gambling on the fact that Anna will die rapidly, that no one will hear her faint cries for help, and that no one knows where she is. Olaf, the SpannerInTheWorks for Hans, rescues Anna in the nick of time, and when she saves Elsa from Hans, every local and foreign guest sees his cruelty. As a result, Anna breaks off the engagement, and Elsa sends Hans back to the Southern Isles with disgrace for trying to kill them.

** In a world where the dinosaurs survived and have become settlers, Henry and his wife have three child. TheRuntAtTheEnd, Arlo, is trying to earn his mark like his older siblings by feeding the hens. The only problem? The hens are bigger than him and keep attacking him. He also messes with his siblings' chores while running from the chickens. Eventually Arlo gets tired of this and tries to face the hens and shove down his fear.\\

** In ''Disney/{{Cinderella}} III, a Twist In Time,'' when Cinderella is confused about the slipper supposedly fitting Anastasia\\

'''You'd Expect''':That Tinker Bell would, if she's going to go {{Yandere}}, make Wendy's death look like an accident and make sure the trail doesn't lead back to her. Or, she could let Neverland do the job for her. The mermaids are just as {{Yandere}} and try to drown Wendy merely because she's with Peter, and the natives put her to collecting firewood for a ceremonial bonfire.\\
'''Instead''': In keeping with the source material, Tink DidntThinkThisThrough. She goes to the Lost Boys and tells them that Peter has ordered them to shoot down a "Wendy-bird". When Peter finds out after saving Wendy from crashing onto rocks, the Boys immediately tell him what Tink said, which leads to her getting banished. He could have easily done worse if Wendy had actually been killed. Either way, Tink would be on the outs from Peter

'''Instead''': He still assumes it's a present, only when Tink arrives, and almost kills herself to get rid of the bomb, does he catch on.

** Also, on Aurora's sixteenth Merriwether puts her foot down and insists on using magic to make Aurora's cake and gown because doing it by hand isn't going well and will appear as a mess to their foster daughter. Flora reluctantly agrees and the fairies plug up most of the holes in the house. As Merriwether cleans up the room, she's disappointed to see that Flora has chosen pink for the dress color instead of blue.\\

** Also, Prince John and Sir Hiss are in on the plan. They watch the proceedings with amusement, at least until Prince John sends. The Sheriff of Nottingham is also competing, despite the conflict of interest.\\

'''Instead: ''' Purely out of [[NotGoodWithRejection anger at Roger and Anita for not selling her their puppies]], she hires two thieves named Horace and Jasper to ''steal'' their puppies. She assumes that no one wiil give much of a crap about some puppies being stolen, but soon almost the whole country starts hunting for them, and she is forced to hide them out in an old family property while worrying about the police finding them. In the live-action version proper, she actually gets arrested after the police conduct a raid on her house and find the illegal furs she's kept there.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Since he is completely overwhelmed by the Beast and that Belle shows no interest in him in favor of the former, he just cut his losses rally any survivors from the castle and get the hell out. Afterwards he either move on with his life after realizing that he has no chance with Belle or try and study the Beast and attempt another attack, this time with perhaps more manpower.\\
'''Instead:''' He proceed to backstab the beast ''right after he saved his life'' which led him to fall to his own death.

'''Instead''': Jafar clutches the VillainBall immediately tries to kill Aladdin when the latter barely escapes the Cave of Wonders. Abu attacks Jafar and steals the lamp surreptitiously, which allows Aladdin to find out about the Genie and become a prince.

'''Instead''': He pulls Simba close for some EvilGloating and tells Simba that he killed Mufasa. Furious, Simba gains his strength back and forces Scar to confess the dirty deed to the other lions of Pride Rock. After a fierce battle, Scar is then attacked and killed by the hyenas whom he tried to blame for Mufasa's death]].

'''Instead''': They never considered this choice until after Simba returns back. Years after Scar becomes the ruler of the land.
%%* Disney's sequel to the above, ''Disney/TheLionKing2'' , has one good moment if you think about it.
* Disney's ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''

** Hercules' trainer, Phil has caught sight of Meg talking to Hades, revealing of her employment to him.\\

'''Instead''': He just runs off and tried to warn Hercules of whom Meg is working for, pissing him off that they ended up breaking contact from one another.

'''Instead:''' He chooses to take their advice ''again'', resulting in him almost meeting the exact same fate he had just narrowly escaped earlier.\\

* ''FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue'': While Pips and the Beetle Boys are distracted by a carnival and are invited to stay in a girl's trailer when they're supposed to be rescuing some kidnapped animals, Batty is able to locate the animals and tries to tell Pips, even screaming this ''right in his face'' at one point.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Friar Tuck and Little John to realize that this is an obvious trap. When something is TooGoodToBeTrue, it usually is. Tuck could have simply kept quiet about the ceremony.\\
'''Instead''': John's concern is that the place will be "crawling with guards". He and Robin decide to attend, albeit in disguise, and earn that kiss. Robin ends up winning the tournament while dressed as a bird, but Prince John quickly realizes that this is the bounty, and captures him. If not for Little John pulling a knife on the prince, Robin would have lost his head to the executioner.

'''Instead''': The Sheriff either isn't aware or doesn't care that the Prince of England is looking for Robin Hood. After earning a place as a finalist, he tries to fix his win and sabotage the disguised Robin's shot. Robin Hood ends up able to shoot the arrow in the center anyway, but it would rob Sir John of his opportunity to humiliate and capture Robin Hood for being the winner and the loser, as he puts it.

'''You'd Expect''': For the Sheriff to have more tact about John's losses, since John is his boss and tried to kill Robin for saying the crown belonged to King Richard, and not be stupid while doing his job.\\

'''Instead''': ReedRichardsIsUseless and RuleOfFunny come into play. The millionaire couple adopts their child, who grows up to become the disillusioned superhero Metroman. The jail inmates, with their stern warden's permission, adopt the little blue baby, who becomes the playful supervillain Megamind, who views criminal activity as a game. In time Megamind gains multiple life sentences, while Metroman develops a HollywoodMidlifeCrisis and leaves the city to Megamind and a new "hero"'s mercy. The whole movie could have been avoided with a little common sense and decent government oversight.
** Metroman after a point [[spoiler:resents his role as Metrocity's savior. He hates how his life is full of nothing but "going through the motions" with his old buddy]], and that he doesn't have time too explore who he is or what he wants.\\

** Gaston in a fit of jealous rage realizes that Belle has feelings for a random Beast. He decides to steal her magic mirror and raise an angry mob to StormTheCastle and kill this Beast, for . . . [[DidntThinkThisThrough so that he can win Belle over by mounting the Beast's head on his wall]]? The castle residents fortunately get enough warning due to the mob being so loud and shouting, "KILL THE BEAST!" They manage to raise a successful defense even with their master in HeroicBSOD.\\

'''Instead:''' The main plot of the movie happens because Bruce dismissed it as exhaunstion and as a result, the League is almost killed by the Legion of Doom after Mirror Master steal Batman's protocols.

'''You'd Expect:''' Diana to try to avoid smashing her archenemy into a shelf full of weapons.

'''What You'd Expect''': Inmates to be kept away from their equipment, the passwords of the warden to be more complex, and locks of the cell doors to be on separate systems.\\

'''You'd Expect''': That one of the servants would stay with the Beast as every other castle object attacks. Mrs. Potts comes to warmn him about the invaders. He's NotHimself and not willing to fight, possibly welcoming Death. Also, a mob wants his head on a platter, and the castle must protect the master.\\