History WhatAnIdiot / FireEmblem

** In the Blue Lions route, Dimitri spends the second quarter of the game or so acting under the reasonable if circumstantial belief that the Flame Emperor was responsible for the Tragedy of Duscur four years prior. Eventually, he unmasks them and discovers that the Flame Emperor's true identity is [[spoiler:Edelgard von Hresvelg]].\\

'''You'd Also Expect:''' One of the others, who compared to [[AxCrazy Dimitri]] are of sounder mind, to point out the flaw in his logic and make him see that his vengeance quest against [[spoiler: Edelgard]] is a senseless endeavor, or is at least directed at the wrong person.\\

'''Instead:''' No one says anything and seem to follow Dimitri's whims, such as him having the army make a beeline for [[spoiler: Embarr]] on what is essentially a suicide mission instead of recapturing Fhirdiad, saving their home and re-bolstering their forces for a better planned and equipped attack.

'''You'd Also Expect:''' One of the others, who compared to [[AxCrazy Dimitri]] are of sounder mind, to point out the flaw in his logic and make him see that his vengeance quest against Edelgard is a senseless endeavor, or is at least directed at the wrong person.\\
'''Instead:''' No one says anything and seem to follow Dimitri's whims, such as him having the army make a beeline for Embarr on what is essentially a suicide mission instead of recapturing Fhirdiad, saving their home and re-bolstering their forces for a better planned and equipped attack.

'''You'd Also Expect:''' One of the others, who compared to [[AxCrazy Dimitri]] are of sounder mind, to point out the flaw in his logic and make him see that his vengeance against Edelgard is a senseless endeavor, or is at least directed at the wrong person.\\
'''Instead:''' No says anything and seem to follow Dimitri's whims, such as him having the army making a beeline to Embarr on what is essentially a suicide mission instead of recapturing Fhirdiad, saving their home and re-bolstering their forces for a better planned and equipped attack.

'''Instead:''' No says anything and seem to follow Dimitri's whims, such as him having the army making a beeline to Embarr on what is essentially a suicide mission instead of recapturing Fhirdiad, saving their home and re-bolstering their forces for a more better planned and equipped attack.

'''You'd Also Expect:''' One of the others, who compared to [[Ax-Crazy Dimitri]] are of sounder mind, to point out the flaw in his logic and make him see that his vengeance against Edelgard is a senseless endeavor, or is at least directed at the wrong person.\\

'''Instead:''' He continues to believe they were responsible, even after five years have passed. One wonders if his ''many'' mental issues damaged his logical reasoning skills until the wake-up call with [[spoiler: Rodrigue's death]].

'''Instead:''' He throws away all of his advantages and charges straight into Byleth's waiting blades.\\

** In Azure Moon and Verdant Wind Chapter 17, [[TheEmpire Adrestian]], [[TheGoodKingdom Faerghus]], and [[TheAlliance Leicester]] forces march to Gronder Field to have a big battle. Claude, leader of Leicester, is primarily concerned with defeating Adrestia and has nothing to gain by picking a fight with Faerghus. Edelgard pulls [[HandWave some ill-explained trick]] to make it impossible for Claude to tell Adrestian forces from Faerghus forces.\\

'''The Result:''' On the Blue Lions route, he and Hilda get the shit beaten out of them, and the non-recruited Leonie, Ignatz, Raphael, and Lysithea as well as several dozen nameless soldiers all get themselves pointlessly killed.

** In Blue Lions and Golden Deer Chapter 17, [[TheEmpire Adrestian]], [[TheGoodKingdom Faerghus]], and [[TheAlliance Leicester]] forces march to Gronder Field to have a big battle. Claude, leader of Leicester, is primarily concerned with defeating Adrestia and has nothing to gain by picking a fight with Faerghus. Edelgard pulls [[HandWave some ill-explained trick]] to make it impossible for Claude to tell Adrestian forces from Faerghus forces.\\

'''Instead:''' Chagall calls Eldigan's words traitor talk and immediately has his best soldier executed despite Eldigan saving his life. Chagall then [[SuicidalOverconfidence stupidly challenges Grannevale in battle]] and is unsurprisingly killed. Due to Chagall never taking the time to produce an heir, the Agustrian royal line dies with him, and the country falls into crisis as a result.

->''"Are you daft?"''
-->--'''Severa''', when she defeats an enemy in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''

'''Instead:''' He continues to believe they were responsible, even after five years have passed. To be fair, Dimitri did have a ''lot'' of mental issues, so he probably wasn't able to think straight until the wake-up call with [[spoiler: Rodrigue's death]].
** In Blue Lions and Golden Deer Chapter 17, [[TheEmpire Adrestian]], Faerghus, and [[TheAlliance Leicester]] forces march to Gronder Field to have a big battle. Claude, leader of Leicester, is primarily concerned with defeating Adrestia and has nothing to gain by picking a fight with Faerghus. Edelgard pulls [[HandWave some ill-explained trick]] to make it impossible for Claude to tell Adrestian forces from Faerghus forces.\\

'''The Result:''' He and Hilda get the shit beaten out of them, and the non-recruited Leonie, Ignatz, Raphael, and Lysithea as well as several dozen nameless soldiers all get themselves pointlessly killed.

** In Blue Lions Chapter 17, Adrestian, Faerghus, and Leicester forces march to Grondor Field to have a big battle. Claude, leader of Leicester, is primarily concerned with defeating Adrestia and has nothing to gain by picking a fight with Faerghus. Edelgard pulls [[HandWave some ill-explained trick]] to make it impossible for Claude to tell Adrestian forces from Faerghus forces.\\

'''The Result:''' He and Hilda get the shit beaten out of them, and non-recruited Leonie, Ignatz, Raphael, and Lysithea as well as several dozen nameless soldiers all get themselves pointlessly killed.

'''Instead:''' He continues to believe they were responsible, even after five years have passed.

** Dimitri spends the second quarter of the game or so acting under the reasonable if circumstantial belief that the Flame Emperor was responsible for the Tragedy of Duscur four years prior. Eventually, he unmasks them and discovers that the Flame Emperor's true identity is [[spoiler:Edelgard von Hresvelg]].\\

'''Instead:''' The two catch a terminal case of stupiditis, brainwash her, and send her off to fight Seliph. While other ''Fire Emblem'' games have the "brainwashing the beloved one" scheme work in the villains' favor one way or another, here it almost seems like an afterthought plan without anything else to reinforce it. To further reinforce [[DidntThinkThisThrough how badly thought out this plan is]], Manfroy even sends her out ''on her own with no backup'', presumably under the (likely false) impression that Ishtar will have stalled Seliph long enough for Julia to join that battalion and that the crusaders don't have a Silence staff to stop her from attacking. Predictably, Seliph easily snaps her out of it, predictably, Julia gets her claws on the Naga tome, and predictably, Julius is turned into a smoking pile of ash, though not before cursing Manfroy's ruinous mistake.

'''Instead:''' The two catch a terminal case of stupiditis, brainwash her, and send her off to fight Seliph. While other ''Fire Emblem'' games have the "brainwashing the beloved one" scheme work in the villains' favor one way or another, here it almost seems like an afterthought plan without anything else to reinforce it. To further reinforce how badly thought out this plan is, Manfroy even sends her out ''on her own with no backup'', presumably under the (likely false) impression that Ishtar will have stalled Seliph long enough for Julia to join that battalion and that the crusaders don't have a Silence staff to stop her from attacking. Predictably, Seliph easily snaps her out of it, predictably, Julia gets her claws on the Naga tome, and predictably, Julius is turned into a smoking pile of ash.

'''Instead:''' The two catch a terminal case of stupiditis, brainwash her, and send her off to fight Seliph. While other ''Fire Emblem'' games have the "brainwashing the beloved one" scheme work in the villains' favor one way or another, here it almost seems like an afterthought plan without anything else to reinforce it. Predictably, Seliph easily snaps her out of it, predictably, Julia gets her claws on the Naga tome, and predictably, Julius is turned into a smoking pile of ash.

** In Chapter 3, Roy turns up at Araphen with a small amount of plucky but low-level fighters (and [[CrutchCharacter a really old Paladin]]) while Narcian, King Zephiel, and Idunn (the FinalBoss) are still there. The King and his forces have just finished sacking the place to squash the Lycian Alliance.\\

** In Chapter 4, the Lycian Army marches to Laus, a former member of the Lycian Alliance and one of Bern's new allies. This is where Narcian is coincidentally found.\\

'''Instead''': [[BondVillainStupidity He sends her to jail]], where she meets up with the traders from the previous game, and ''Kurth''. NiceJobFixingItVillain!

'''You'd Expect''': That after Chrom delivered the news about the expedition to everybody in the room, Vaike, Lissa, Chrom himself, or one of the other Shepherds would go look for Maribelle, who left the room earlier in a huff, and tell her about the mission to Regena Ferox and invite her to join them. It's always good to have a backup healer in case there's the off-chance the main healer (Lissa) falls in battle on the way there. If they had a back-up healer, they wouldn't be expending vulneraries.\\

** After Micaiah is made general of the Daein army, she leads an all-out assault on the Empress's army, culminating in an assassination attempt on the Empress herself. However, this fails spectacularly, and Sothe gets captured and nearly dropped to his death because she refused to stop the assassination attempt.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Micaiah is captured by Sanaki's army, or she at least explains that Pelleas is [[spoiler:under a blood pact with Lekain]].\\

'''Even Worse:''' In the Oosawa manga adaptation, when the Agustrian knight Zyne tells him in no uncertain terms that Chagall will execute him and that Chagall is being brutal to the people, who would definitely ''prefer'' Eldigan to be their king. Eldigan refuses and ''continues'' to refuse after Sigurd tells him to honor Zyne's dying wish. Admittedly, he is [[FreudianExcuse ashamed of his incestuous feelings for his sister]] in the manga and those would pose a ''huge'' problem if he became the King, but even running away to live as a hermit would be smarter than being loyal to Chagall.

'''You'd Expect:''' Chagall agrees, as they're already on the verge of defeat, [[OneManArmy Eldigan]] is clearly his most important supporter, and as the last of Agustrian royalty, Chagall has the duty to produce an heir to prevent the line from dying out.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' For them to slit her throat immediately. Thus dies the one person who can reliable stop their plans; the only other known people left with Naga blood are Seliph (who is marching on Belhalla as they speak and would have to be dealt with anyway) and Linoan (a minor character from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776'' who they might not know about), both of them having minor Naga.\\

'''You'd Think''': Garon would keep the fact that this is a UriahGambit to kill the Avatar all to himself, since there would be no benefit to announcing it to anyone in the Nohr family. Or, if Garon absolutely has to gloat, make sure that no one's in earshot first.\\

'''Instead''': In Chapter 26, they gang up on the Avatar ''when the other four Princes and Princesses of Nohr are nearby''. The four are skilled warriors/magic users, two of them have Sacred Weapons, and ''all'' of them adore the Avatar. Needless to say, this does ''not'' bode well for Hans and Iago ''at all'', as the Nohrian siblings and their retainers proceed to kill both Hans and Iago via UnfriendlyFire while Garon isn't around (due to him sitting in the throne room at the time).\\

** At the end of chapter 4, Alm and his army are right outside the gates of Rigel Castle, and Rudolf is marching out to meet him. In comes his nephew Berkut, who demands to be put on the front lines. Note that Rudolf knows [[spoiler:that his ThanatosGambit is about to come to fruition]] and this is almost certainly the last conversation he will ever have with his nephew.\\

'''The Result:''' After Rudolf kicks the bucket and [[spoiler:Alm is revealed to be his true heir]], Berkut completely snaps and comes to believe that Rudolf was stringing him along his entire life and laughing at him behind his back. His stupidity ultimately costs [[spoiler:Rinea, Fernand, and Berkut himself]] their lives.

** [[spoiler:After finally beating Darios in the following chapter, he asks for the twins to kill him before Velezark can fully revive; the reasoning given is that by doing so, Velezark would be sealed inside of his body, unable to do anything or hurt anybody.]]\\
'''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler:That the twins put aside their friendship with Darios for just a few moments and honor his request to strike him down. With how dangerous dragons like Grima and Anankos have been in the past, it's in their best interests to take the pragmatic route and deliver the killing blow to their friend so that millions of others will be saved. Failing that, one of their friends could step in and offer to do the deed before Velezark comes back to life; there's nothing saying Rowan and Lianna ''have'' to be the ones to slay Darios, and it's not like anybody trusts him at that moment.]]\\

'''Instead:''' The two catch a terminal case of stupiditis, brainwash her, and send her off to fight Seliph. Predictably, he snaps her out of it, predictably, she gets her claws on the Naga tome, and predictably, Julius is turned into a smoking pile of ash.

'''You'd Expect''': Micaiah to either suck it up or tell someone that she's off to get some rest, preferably Sothe or Muarim.\\get murdered by Begnion soldiers who were lying in wait for just such an opportunity.\\

** In Chapter 3, Roy turns up at Araphen with a small amount of plucky but low-level fighters (and [[CrutchCharacter a really old Paladin]]) while Narcian, King Zephiel, and Idoun (the FinalBoss) are still there. The King and his forces have just finished sacking the place to squash the Lycian Alliance.\\

'''Instead:''' He doesn't bother and dismisses Idoun's suggestion to fry them and leaves with her. To his credit, he does order Narcian to take care of it, and as a Wyvern General, Narcian ''would'' tear them apart easily.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' For Zephiel to personally escort her back to Bern, have one of his more loyal generals to do so in his place, or at least seize the Fire Emblem from her right away. The Fire Emblem is essential to unsealing the Binding Blade, the InfinityPlusOneSword that could pose a threat against him and Idoun's dragons.\\