History WhatAnIdiot / LiveActionTV

'''Instead''': The Master is apparently left [[WallBanger by himself with one sailor to guard him]] ''on a small hovercraft.'' He somehow has time to hypnotize the salor, place a PerfectLatexDisguise on him and palm him off as The Master's own corpse. Then, as The Doctor and the Royal Navy troops are gawking at the reveal, The Master makes off with the hovercraft. ''This was the serial that the Royal Navy chose, out of all ''Doctor Who'', to endorse and lend the BBC resources for.''

*** Idiot, yes. Hero? Not by any definiton of the term that has existed in human history. That's kind of the point of the character: he's actually a [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], problematised NiceGuy showing his true unintelligent, privileged, thoughtless JerkJock nature every time he moves. His actions around Quinn in this episode are part of that.

*** Idiot, yes. Hero? Not by any definiton of the term that has existed in human history. That's kind of the point of the character: he's actually a [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], problematised NiceGuy showing his true unintelligent, privileged, thoughtless JerkJock nature every time he moves. His actions around Quinn in this episode are part of that.

* ''StarTrekVoyager:'' An earlier episode of The Next Generation had a wormhole with a stable entry point on one side, and a constantly jumping exit point on the other. Voyager finds this wormhole during the second season. They also find the Ferengi that were stranded in the Delta Quadrant, who have set themselves up as gods among a bronze-age people.\\

* ''Lost'', Kate Austen is a prime example for this trope, partially because she always tries to get her way. In the Season 2 Episode "The Hunting Party", Jack tells Kate to stay behind and take care of the Button while he, Locke and Sawyer go after Michael.\\

'''Instead''': not only do they do nothing, they take the time to speculate whether the Doctor will ever encounter the Master again, as the villain escapes ''right in front of them''.\\

'''Instead''': not only do they do nothing, they take the time to speculate whether the Doctor will ever encounter the Master again, as the villain escapes ''right in front of them''.
** Justified: [[strike: Callous observation and indifference is]] being a utter bastard and an idiot is the Time Lords thing.

'''You'd expect:''' While Mac is sprawled on the ground, she walks one room back to retrieve the gun she lost earlier and [[JustShootHim just shoots him]].\\

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Rick and Glenn cover themselves with zombie guts and PretendWereDead to make it through a crowd of zombies to a construction site. Along the way, one of Georgia's famous cloud bursts begins, threatening to wash off the guts and reveal them.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Being familiar with the local weather and knowing summer storms don't last long, they'd just shamble under one of the many storefront awnings and wait for the rain to pass.\\
'''Instead''': They continue right down the center of the street until enough gore is washed off that they have to make a break for it, barely escaping with their lives.
'''However''': They were trying to get a truck to rescue their friends at a store being besieged by zombies. They probably assumed that they didn't have enough time to waste, which was true considering that by the time they got back with the truck the zombies had broken into the store.
* 13: Fear Is Real, "Alone": Adam is specifically told by Ted and Nasser that Erica is the killer, and from then on sticks to them like glue. When the group is taking showers, Adam realizes that the others are wearing boxers, and that he didn't bring any.
'''You'd Expect''': Adam to either shower nude, wait for Ted or Nasser to finish and go back to the room together, or at the very least try to sneak back to his room if he's going alone.

'''You'd Expect:''' That, knowing this information, Janeway could have come back home as a legend and still kept Chakotay and Seven alive by not assigning them to away missions. Plus, the ship now has advanced Borg armor that would repel any ship-to-ship attack.\\
'''Instead:''' She (with the help of her counterpart) destroys a Transwarp Hub and sails right on home, content in the knowledge that she's saved a few more crewmembers at the cost of thousands - if not tens of thousands - of people who would potentially benefit from Voyager's assistance. Not to mention all the technology and information they would pick up along the way. Oh, and the Borg have assimilated Voyager's armor technology, so that advantage is gone.

'''Instead''': only Kristina realizes this while everyone else except Francesca seems to be staring at Rob awestruck and then looking at Phillip asking, "Is this guy serious?". Kristina then goes on to find the hidden immunity idol ''[[BeyondTheImpossible within the first three days]]'' and immediately intends to use it to get Rob out of the game. They then vote out Kristina and Francesca and let Rob do all the work for him, letting it progress into the solo game when the producers throw puzzle after puzzle after puzzle at Rob (The only challenges he gets to compete in, mind you) and are then ''surprised'' that Rob seems to be taking someone with a ZeroPercentApprovalRating amongst each other (Phillip and Natalie) over them. The Ometepe tribe definitely earns the award for the ''dumbest'' tribe ''ever'' to play the game of ''{{Survivor}}'', as well as the most ''boring''. \\

** ''Heroes Vs Villains'': The Villains tribe has been losing members recently, and some of the Heroes have noticed that they have been mostly male; assuming that a women's alliance is targeting them (a bad move on its own, but not the ''really'' stupid part). The merge was coming up and people were starting to consider how to deal with new tribemates.\\
'''You'd expect''': Tribes don't really worry about each other until after the merge; they only see each other at challenges anyway and that's not enough time to get a good read on the opposition.\\
'''Instead''': Hero tribe leader JT passes his hidden immunity idol to Russell, the last male Villain, hoping he'll save himself from the women and join the Heroes against them post-merge. In reality, Russell ''leads'' the Villains. JT's idol gets used against him by Russell's ally after the merge happens in the very next episode.\\
'''Justification (sort of)''': Russell's original season hadn't aired yet at the time of filming, so nobody could know how much of a schemer he was or that he had a knack for finding hidden immunity idols. However, being an unknown quantity should have made JT ''more'' paranoid if anything, even without the tip-off that Russell was classified a "Villain".

* ''{{Doctor Who}}'', a 1970s example. In ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'' episode 3, Sarah Jane decides to take pictures of a chained, sedated Tyrannosaurus Rex.\\

* ''{{Doctor Who}}'', new series example: In ''The Sound Of Drums'', the Doctor, Martha, and Jack find the [[CoolShip TARDIS]], which has been turned into a Paradox Machine by the [[MagnificentBastard Master]]. The Doctor states that it's too dangerous to do anything with the Machine until it's activated and he can find out what the exact paradox is that the Machine will create.\\

** '''Instead:''' The BBC [[ExecutiveMeddling do nothing about it]], despite viewer protests. But they don't ignore viewer feedback on ''DoctorWho'' or ''{{Eastenders}}''.

'''You'd expect''': Melinda to admit fault on throwing away the undercooked spaghetti, but point out that the reason why she'd had to ditch most of the other spaghetti was because Tek kept ruining the scallops, which required the entire dish to be recooked.\\
'''Instead''': She spends the next five minutes with a deer-in-the-headlights expression on her face and acts as if she's totally unaware of the fact that Ramsay is yelling at her and trying to extract an explanation. This proved fatal as, despite Amanda and Lovely making far worse mistakes in the service, Ramsay eliminated Melinda that night for her spaced-outness the amount of spaghetti she supposedly wasted.
** The following episode saw both teams lose, and Joseph was deemed the best member of his team, allowing him to pick two for potential elimination from his team. Gordon asks Joseph what two members on his team were picked to be removed and why.\\

'''Instead''' He does so when Seven is literally standing ''right next to him'', forcing the Doc to admit to betting on her performance. She is righteously pissed, and storms out, helpfully enraging the extremely drunk ambassador on the way.\\

'''For added stupidity:''' This already happened to the Feds... and it turned out to be an intelligence test (TAS novel).

'''Instead''': Picard implicitly trusts Lore, believing he's Data, even when he does things that Data wouldn't do. Even worse, Wesley explicitly tries to point out the possibility to Picard, and Picard for some reason ignores him. Sure, he's TheWesley, but that ''does'' mean he has a tendency to be right. The only reason everyone on the Enterprise didn't die due to Picard's appalling stupidity is that TheWesley goes against orders and manages to save the day. Just for the record, [[FanDumb Kirk would never have made that mistake.]]
** '''However''': Being TheWesley means you're right because the writers say so, and it especially means that you will be persecuted for it. Reality will contort in whatever way is necessary for this to happen, even smart people like Picard will grab the ''IdiotBall'' in order to accommodate your vindication.

'''Instead:''' She (with the help of her counterpart) destroys a Transwarp Hub and sails right on home, content in the knowledge that she's saved a few more crewmembers at the cost of thousands - if not tens of thousands - of people who would potentially benefit from Voyager's assistance. Not to mention all the technology and information they would pick up along the way.
** In the episode "Timeless", Harry Kim and Tom Paris come up with a transwarping method of travel that will carry them right to Earth's front door - but they have to make constant course corrections. A future version of Harry Kim rewrites the past so that the ship drops out of transwarp after two or three minutes in its trial run, so that it doesn't crash and kill the crew.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Harry to realize the technology works (but in short intervals), and use transwarp to "puddle-jump" the ship all the way to Earth. After all, it worked while being sustained for 2-3 minutes every time. The crew (including Harry) know this fact for certain, and discuss it at length.\\

** Ever notice how there's a disproportionately high number of What An Idiot moments for this Star Trek series?

'''ItGotWorse''': By the time "Ballads" rolls around, he decides that the best thing to do is to tell Quinn's even more conservatively Christian parents about her pregnancy. By singing 'You're Having My Baby' to her. At their dinner table. The first time he has been formally introduced to them. The scene ends with Quinn's father giving her thirty minutes - by the microwave timer - to pack her clothes and get out of the house, and is it any wonder?

'''You'd Expect''': They would read their history and act accordingly.\\