History WhatAnIdiot / ComicBooks

* In a later appearance by Superboy-Prime, he's fighting the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' in the distant future, only to find that the Legion's greatest enemy, the Time Trapper, is himself, aged centuries and now sporting a cool beard. Upon meeting, the Time Trapper insists that they need to team up to win the fight against the heroes.\\

* In the first storyline of ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'', ComicBook/LexLuthor announces there is a massive planetoid made of Kryptonite headed towards Earth, and in typical Luthor fashion, he blames Superman.\\

'''Instead''': In a later strip, not only does Mrs. O'Dell have a TV, but Paige is using it to watch a show known as ''Jerzy Spaniel'' (a parody of ''Jerry Springer''), which is not geared towards younger audiences, while baby-sitting (Andy apparently said, understandably, that nobody was allowed to watch it at home). Katie is playing near the TV set during the show, which results in her learning a curse word.

* ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'':

'''The Result''': When Mrs. O'Dell returns home, Paige admits to her that she accidentally taught Katie a curse word. However, Mrs. O'Dell says that children often hear and repeat inappropriate words, and the best thing to do is to not encourage using such words. Unfortunately, they then deal with Paige having watched ''Jerzy Spaniel'' while baby-sitting, and Paige's payment is 1¢.

'''You'd Also Expect''': That if Andy's mother is as "perfect" as everyone claims, she'd explain to Roger and the kids that there's more to Christmas than just the material aspects, e.g. presents, decorations, and food, and that Andy is trying to get them to realize this as well, because she loves them and wants them to be properly informed about such things.\\

* In ''ComicBook/{{Drama}}'', West and Bonnie are dating while playing the leads in the school play. They get into a fight when West finds out that Bonnie asked her tutor Jesse to cheat for her on a physics test. He gets mad, and thanks Jesse for telling him after night three and Bonnie already caused trouble by showing NoSympathy for West injuring his ankle onstage.\\

** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': There are several such moments of idiocy, especially in the Dark Knights' origin stories. Apparently a higher proclivity for murder goes hand in hand with the inability to think things through.
*** The Batman Who Laughs tries to recruit the other fallen Batmen to his cause at the moment their worlds are being destroyed, promising them that their worlds will be saved and that they will be heroes again. For context, the Batman Who Laughs himself is a Batman who was transformed physically and psychologically to resemble the Joker and plans to destroy the Multiverse, as he has done to his own world.\\

*** Earth -52 is coming to an end, as all worlds in the Dark Multiverse usually do. The Flash is being pursued by a grieving Batman, who wants to steal his connection to the Speed Force not only to save the world and his fallen sidekicks, but also to overcome the limitation of age. Flash is trying to reason with him so that they can work together to save their world from crumbling.\\

*** When Earth -44's Alfred is killed by Batman's worst enemies, Batman enlists Cyborg to help him create the Alfred Protocol to replace him. However, the AI becomes unstable and murderous, killing every single villain before turning to Wayne Manor, requesting that Bruce "let him in", which Cyborg strongly advises against in favor of shutting it down.\\

*** On Earth -32, moments after a young Bruce Wayne's parents are murdered, he gives chase to the mugger, devoid of any emotion. A Green Lantern ring picks up on his lack of fear and attaches itself to his finger. However, Bruce wants to kill the mugger, which the ring cannot allow. However, Bruce is insistent to the extent that his willpower starts to override the ring.\\

*** The Batwoman of Earth -11 loses her lover Sylvester Kyle to rogue metahumans, causing Bryce to seek to avenge his death by killing the ones responsible.\\

*** On Earth -12, a world in which Batman and Wonder Woman were romantically involved and fought against Ares to prevent him from using a helmet that would amplify his powers by a hundredfold, they succeed in removing the helmet, although Diana has apparently been slain by Ares. Bruce notices the helmet, which Diana warned would corrupt whoever put it on.\\

*** When his world's Superman went mad for an unknown reason, the Batman of Earth -1 tried to get through to him until Clark killed Lois, his own wife. Luckily, Batman had cultured a modified strain of the Doomsday Virus should he be forced to battle and kill Superman, and the virus can spread from person to person.\\

*** After killing his world's Joker, the Batman of Earth -22 inhaled a dose of his latest toxin, which causes him to adopt Joker-esque mannerisms, as demonstrated when he laughs when Superman tells him that one of the children affected in the Joker incident tore out a psychologist's throat. Both are alarmed.\\

*** As an honorable mention, Superman, initially the sole survivor of a now-insane Batman's Watchtower massacre, confronts Bruce and is poisoned, although there is still an opportunity to stop him.\\

*** The standard Batman gets in on the Dark Metal idiocy himself. After finding out that the demon Barbatos is here and a threat to the universe, Bruce decides something must be done.\\

** [[spoiler:One scientist of Atlantis wanted to prove their superiority and increase their prestige over their rival Heva. They used the Crystal of Atlantis to alter Lunica's orbit, Earth's second moon, into a perfect ellipse. This wasn't without incident, Lunica passed too close to the other moon, robbing it of its atmosphere and stopping its orbit. Years later, this proved to be utterly devastating: [[DetonationMoon an asteroid was in a collision course with Lunica.]] With no time to alter Lunica to a new orbit, all Atlantis could do was evacuate the planet or build sanctuaries as not everyone could be saved. [[ApocalypseHow Lunica was destroyed and tons a debris fell into Earth, creating massive tsunamis that wiped out all life on the planet]]. The Crystal remained intact and would have caused more catastrophes in the distant future.]]

'''You'd Expect:''' The Sharbakan will still keep an army or reduce its size. They will also keep a constant vigil over the Togons' movements. The Togons might stay on their territory, but that doesn't mean they have givin up on the invading Sharbakan.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The Sharbakan will still keep an army or reduce its size. They will also keep a constant vigil over the Togons' movements. The Togons might stay on their territory, but they can find ways to destroy the Emitter.\\

** The people of Sharbakan have endured waves of invasion by their neighbors, the Togons. One day, a scientist created the Emitter to repel the Togons for good (its waves destroy their cellular structure). The King of Sharbakan declares a new era of peace for his people.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Sharbakan will still keep an army or reduce its size. They will also keep a constant vigil over the Togons' movements. The Togons might stay on their territory, but they can find ways to destroy the Emitter.
Instead: The King orders the Sharbakan's army disbanded along with all their military hardwares.\\
'''Result:''' It only took a traitorous nephew of the King to inform the enemy of this intel. The Togons invaded with a surprise attack and prevented the Sharbakan from activating the Emitter.

** Despite what Irina thinks, her father the King of Sharbakan, is an idiot. After their DoomsdayDevice repelled the invading Togons, he ordered the Sharbakan's army disbanded. It only took [[LesCollaborateurs a traitorous cousin]] to betray their homeland and [[CurbStompBattle the Togons returned with a surprise attack that conquered the whole continent.]]

** Yamouth, an experienced astronaut, goes on a rescue mission to find his nephew stranded on Earth. He takes ''only one ship'' and Scrameustache is only the crewmate, who hasn't even graduated from Space Academy. Once on the scene, an aftershock cause a wall to collapse on Yamouth's head. Scrameustache has no other choice but to abort the mission and bring an injured Yamouth back to Aktarka.

** Professor Najboul has created the Scramesutache through genetic engeering, despite the Academy of Science's skepticism.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Professor Najboul will swallow his pride about his discovery and not reveal it to anyone. Najboul has rival named [[SmugSnake Trichtol]] who is in a better postion of authority than himself.\\

'''Result:''' Trichtol is jealous and uses his positiobn at the Academy to call the authorities and have Najboul arrested for illegal experiments.\\

** Professor Najboul called his rival Trichtol to brag about creating an animal, the Scrameustache, through genetic manipulations. [[SmugSnake Trichtol being a jealous]], but influent scientist, called the authorities to arrest Najboul for illegal experiments and have the Scrameustache destroyed. Considering Najboul was an unconventional scientist and had little credibility, the authorities has no problem believing Trichtol's claims. Najboul is arrested and the Scrameustache is forced into hiding.

** Professor Scaramian has [[spoiler:an alien dubbed "Moloch"]] trapped inside a sphere of glass strong enough to withstand an artillery shell. The prisoner turns out to be much stronger and makes a crack on the sphere with his fists. You think professor Scaramian will to put him into a much stronger prison? No, he let Moloch still inside the same prison and escape nights later with the sphere completely shattered.

** When Blake and Mortimer got wind of a terrorist group operating in Antartica, they go there to stop them with Nasir. You think a high-ranking guy at the head of the MI-5 would have gathered a team of agents instead of just three persons.

'''Instead''': In a later strip, not only does Mrs. O'Dell have a TV, but Paige is using it to watch a show known as ''Jerzy Spaniel'' (a parody of ''Jerry Springer''), which is not geared towards younger audiences, while baby-sitting (Andy apparently said that nobody was allowed to watch it at home). Katie is playing near the TV set during the show, which results in her learning a curse word.

'''Instead''': She claims that all she did was have the TV on while Katie was playing in the same room, and that she told her to not watch or listen. She then sarcastically asks if she's supposed to watch ''Barney'' while she's baby-sitting, and Katie starts cursing Barney.

'''Instead:''' They agree to take part in their Jokerized counterpart's plan and buy into his empty promises.\\

'''You'd Expect''': For Mrs. O'Dell to keep it that way, since she must have realized that there are healthier ways for children to have fun than by watching TV (''FoxTrot'' regularly references other comic strips, such as ''Calvin and Hobbes'', in which Calvin has a tendency to watch too much TV and his parents tell him that he and Hobbes should go to play outside. In fact, Calvin's Dad once said, "It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV!". Perhaps Mrs. O'Dell realized that not having a TV is good for her daughter).

'''You'd Expect''': For Mrs. O'Dell to keep it that way, since she must have realized that there are healthier ways for children to have fun than by watching TV (''FoxTrot'' regularly references other comic strips, such as ''Calvin and Hobbes'', in which Calvin has a tendency to watch too much TV and his parents tell him that he and Hobbes should play outside. In fact, his Dad once said, "It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV!").

'''Instead''': In a later strip, not only does Mrs. O'Dell have a TV, but Paige is using it to watch a show known as ''Jerzy Spaniel'' (a parody of ''Jerry Springer''), which is not meant for young children, while baby-sitting (Andy apparently said nobody was allowed to watch it at home). Katie is playing near the TV set during the show, which results in her learning a curse word.

'''Later''': When Paige hears what Katie's learned from listening to the show, she calls Peter, and asks him for help.

'''The Result''': When Mrs. O'Dell returns home, Paige admits to her that she taught Katie to say a curse word. However, Mrs. O'Dell says that children often hear and repeat inappropriate words, and the best thing to do is to not encourage using such words. Unfortunately, they then deal with Paige having watched ''Jerzy Spaniel'' while baby-sitting, and Paige's payment is 1¢.

'''Instead''': She claims that all she did was have the TV on while Katie was playing in the same room, and that
she told her not to watch or listen. She then sarcastically asks if she's supposed to watch ''Barney'' while she's baby-sitting, and Katie starts cursing Barney.

'''Instead''': In a later strip, not only does Mrs. O'Dell have a TV, but Paige is using it to watch a show known as ''Jerzy Spaniel'' (a parody of ''Jerry Springer''), which is not meant for young children, while baby-sitting (Andy apparently said nobody was allowed to watch it at home). From this, Katie learns a curse word.

'''Instead''': She claims that all she did was have the TV on while Katie was playing in the same room, and she told her not to watch or listen. She then sarcastically asks if she's supposed to watch ''Barney'' while she's baby-sitting, and Katie starts cursing Barney.

'''Instead''': In a later strip, Mrs. O'Dell not only has a TV, but Paige is watching a show known as ''Jerzy Spaniel'' (a parody of ''Jerry Springer''), which is not meant for young children, while baby-sitting (Andy apparently said nobody was allowed to watch it at home). From this, Katie learns a curse word.