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| 13 | Characters being TooDumbToLive in fan works. |
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| 15 | [[AC: ''Franchise/AceAttorney'']] |
| 16 | * Practically the whole cast of the deleted story, ''Phoenix Wright: Ghosts of the Past'', when they decided to let Maya channel Dahlia. Considering that because of Dahlia's haunting Iris was at the verge of [[BreakTheCutie mental breakdown]] and they were desperate for solution chanelling itself is understandable, but they had only taken precautions against Dahlia escaping, rather than from her trying to kill them, and what's more they did it in a ''kitchen''. Phoenix, Maya and Athena almost got killed, and no one present got out of it without any injuries. Summarised by Dahlia herself: |
| 17 | -->'''Dahlia:''' I don't know what the hell convinced you it was good idea? You had to know this is how I'd react! You gather everyone I hate in the same room and summon me? And you don't even have a back-up plan?! |
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| 19 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'']] |
| 20 | * PlayedForLaughs with the narrator in Bruinhilda's story ''[[http://bruinhilda.dreamstation.com/fanfic/twt1.html The Trouble With Tortuna]]''. He voluntarily ships off to the worst WretchedHive in the galaxy, one where humans are banned because it's controlled by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen's]] forces. Any human caught by the Crown will have their LifeEnergy stripped from them and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild turned into a Slaverlord]]. The reporter goes there, gets ridiculously intoxicated, then interferes several times when the Rangers show up and try to bail his ass out. |
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| 22 | [[AC: ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'']] |
| 23 | * When several gods in Heaven was making a porno (under the belief that begging for such from Hell was disgraceful) in ''[[http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600055428&chapter=2 The Vain Rose's Garden]]'', they decide not to include Urd, claiming that doing so might get Tyr or Hild after them. While a reasonable claim, they did so ''after'' shooting her scene. While nothing is proven, Peorth nonetheless notes that most of the gods involved in the filming disappeared "under mysterious circumstances" over the following years. |
| 24 | ** Later, one of a pair of demons hired to turn Urd into a demon tries to rape her while she's unconscious. His partner understandably freaks out, [[PragmaticVillainy not out of any moral objection]] but because rape in general is heavily punished in Hell and raping Hild's daughter is the kind of idiocy that would turn them into a cautionary tale to keep other demons from misbehaving for the rest of eternity. |
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| 26 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'']] |
| 27 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Deadshots}}'', when Azula (who is a better person than in canon but still a cunning and ruthless PragmaticHero) and Commander Zhao visit Kiyoshi Village looking for the Avatar, Zhao tries to destroy their statue of Avatar Kiyoshi, after Azula and Suki had already agreed to SacredHospitality. Azula challenges him to an Agni Kai for this insult to their hosts, and she would have killed him if she hadn't realized Aang was in Kiyoshi Village and was uncomfortable with killing (unbeknownst to Zhao, she wanted to recruit the Avatar to help her depose Ozai, not capture him as Zhao intended). When Azula spares him, he tries the same ISurrenderSuckers trick that he tried on Zuko in canon. Azula doesn't kill him then either, but she does declare him a Man Without Honor, which causes him to be as good as banished from the entirety of the Fire Nation and would have ruined his career in the Navy if he hadn't managed to convince Ozai to keep it on track. |
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| 29 | [[AC: ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'']] |
| 30 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Fragmentation}}'', a [=ComStar=] [[TheMole mole]] is wanted in four out of the five Successor States for [[PaedoHunt child molestation]]. That's bad enough. But what qualifies him for this trope is that in the Draconis Combine, his would-be victim was ''a member of the ruling Kurita family''. |
| 31 | --> '''Broker''': I was aware Kneiss was stupid from your briefings, but I was under the impression the genetrash still had [[LampshadeHanging some basic survival instincts.]] |
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| 33 | [[AC: ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'']] |
| 34 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': |
| 35 | --> '''Tiger Eye:''' Everyone get back! You're all in danger! Run to safety!\ |
| 36 | (The crowd moves into the street, where they're immediately hit by a truck) |
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| 38 | [[AC: ''Anime/CodeGeass'']] |
| 39 | * After being sent back in time in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12151205/1/God-s-Gambit God's Gambit]]'', Lelouch makes a point of warning the Blood of the Samurai that Britannia knows where they are and that Cornelia will be coming for them first as they're the largest resistance group they have a definitive location for. Despite this and one of their leaders insisting that they should take steps to prepare, the majority decides to instead "die with honor". The lone dissenting leader calls them out on the fact they're simply too proud to accept help from someone who's accomplished more in a week than they have in seven years and leaves, taking several of his subordinates with him. |
| 40 | * ''Fanfic/DauntlessAlloraGale'': A cop tries to shoot Suzaku, arguing that "a monkey like him must be blackmailing the prince". Even if another soldier hadn't shot him, Lelouch's response would have been legendary. Furthermore, attacking a Knight of Honor is legally exactly the same as attacking the prince/princess they're sworn to. |
| 41 | * Genbu Kururugi in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12746654/1/Reincarnation-Roulette Reincarnation Roulette]]'' tries to have the invasion of Japan halted by torturing [[GenderFlip Princess Luluka]] and broadcasting it to Britannia. Naturally, all this accomplishes is making the invasion more brutal in retribution. |
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| 43 | [[AC: ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'']] |
| 44 | * ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'': |
| 45 | ** The Brotherhood of Nod considers [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexual assault]] to be an "[[EvenEvilHasStandards offense against]] [[DarkMessiah the Messiah]]" and therefore a capital crime. At least one Nod soldier apparently didn't read up on the rules, because he attempts to rape a GDI prisoner while one of the [[WarriorMonk Black Hand]] is in the next room. An ''epic'' [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ass]]-[[PunctuatedPounding beating]] [[DestinationDefenestration ensues]]. |
| 46 | ** There's also a Nod soldier on the cordon around the White House who is reprimanded for not properly checking an incoming convoy because they're in Nod buggies and Reckoners -- this despite the fact that DressingAsTheEnemy and the EnemyExchangeProgram are time-honored traditions in both gameplay and story throughout the ''Command And Conquer'' 'verse. Of course, [[LaserGuidedKarma the very vehicle he neglected to check]] turns out to be a car bomb that incinerates him and his checkpoint. |
| 47 | [[AC:''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'']] |
| 48 | * ''Fanfic/CoolCatSavesVietnam'': Cool Cat turns his phone off airplane mode when the plane hasn't landed yet. Because of this, the plane starts to tremble and fall. ArtisticLicense applies here since in RealLife, turning off your phone's airplane mode will have no effect on the plane. |
| 49 | [[AC: CrossOver]] |
| 50 | * Vulture and Greyback, two griffin soldiers in ''Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar''. The former is outmaneuvered by Firebolt and killed upon crashing onto a column during the battle of Cloudsdale. The latter is fried by The Burning Talon's laser because he is too focused on trying to kill Lightning Bolt. When he finally notices the danger, it's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath too late for him]]. |
| 51 | * In ''Fanfic/ChristianGreyVsPepperPotts'', this trope pretty much ''defines'' [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Christian]]. One prime example is when he decides to romantically pursue Jennifer Walters, knowing full well that she can turn into She-Hulk. When Jennifer is creeped out by him taking her to a hotel room after picking her up while drunk and runs away, he has her assistant kidnapped. He then expects Jennifer to have a nice dinner in a warehouse, with the threat of the assistant's knees being broken with a sledgehammer if she refuses. By the time She-Hulk is done with him, his spine is broken and it's expected that he'll never move again. (He does recover, but only with the help of a vengeful Asgardian goddess). |
| 52 | * Skidmark in ''Fanfic/{{Constellations}}'' sends a party of grunts to kidnap a new cape who didn't use a SecretIdentity. No, the cape wasn't the dumb one, since the ABB - a gang led by a frigging ''dragon-man'' - likes her so much they would probably go to war to rescue her. Second: the cape is a ''priestess'' to a major goddess who can and ''does'' dish a BoltOfDivineRetribution for something so simple as slapping her human. And last but not least, the cape's father is a licensed Protectorate hero who's hellishly protective of her after his wife's death. Not only did the attempt fail, Skidmark's gang was utterly gutted in the following days. |
| 53 | * Dave in ''FanFic/DaveStdiderPokemonTraner''. Jake England the evil poacher wheels a ray gun specifically called the "Dave Kill Lazer" past Dave & co. while laughing maniacally. Dave nonchalantly acknowledges this fact and then just ignores the fact that an evil villain has a laser SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO KILL HIM. Also he's fooled by Jack and Karkat's false mustaches in Chapter 8, despite the fact that a nameless character (The Ticket Taker Man) notices like, a sentence before. |
| 54 | * ''Day of the Broken Fang'', a prequel to ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'': |
| 55 | ** This is what brought about the end of [[Franchise/GIJoe COBRA]] -- Cobra Commander, being based on his more competent Creator/MarvelComics incarnation, was smart enough to leave the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticons]] alone. Serpentor, on the other hand, wasn't as bright; driven by an egotistical desire to prove his dominance, the SuperSoldier ordered an attack on the Decepticons' main base with a slew of untested weapons, just because Doctor Mindbender assured him that they'd work. Needless to say, the Decepticon base was completely unscratched, but thankfully Megatron found it amusing enough he wasn't going to retaliate... Up until he was informed the attack's timing caused the loss of multiple energon cubes. ''That'' got him so angry he ordered a counter-attack that [[CurbStompBattle wiped COBRA off the map]] (literally, in the case of Cobra Island), with only a handful of survivors escaping the massacre (including the Commander, who had [[OhCrap realized what was coming]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled in time]]). |
| 56 | ** One of the survivors, Overkill, clearly didn't learn anything from the experience. A few years later, he tried to rebuild COBRA from other surviving soldiers and resources, and tried to make their mark by attacking West Point. This, despite the fact that by this point, the Earth Defense Command (formed by the unification of the Joes, the Oktober Guard, and other special forces and equipped with Cybertronian technology) had already driven the Decepticons off Earth. The new COBRA ended up crushed completely, with their stupidity lampshaded by the [[KarmaHoudini now-retired Cobra Commander]]. |
| 57 | --->"I mean seriously, fifty people, some tanks and some [=BATs=]? Did his hard drive crash or something?" |
| 58 | * In ''Fanfic/Flashpoint2AdventSolaris'', the sole original character of the fic - Lady Mairghread, is a corrupt political figure of Soleanna who was in the middle of staging a coup against Elise when Eggman surrounded the boat she was on with himself and his robots. She was going to hand Elise over to him, but decided to turn her back on him when he asked for a refund after losing the scepter of darkness to Team Dark. She even does a "Do You Who I am?!" type speech. Again, ''while he has her boat surrounded by armed and armored robots while her only protection is a bunch of human guards with only handguns''.[[spoiler:She doesn't prove long for the world]]. |
| 59 | * Major Silva in Fanfic/GuiltySparks, just like in [[Literature/HaloTheFlood his original appearance]] tries to bring the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' back to Earth while poo-pooing the threat of The Flood aboard the ship. Unlike the original novelization, however, he goes the extra mile and mutinies when [[VideoGame/HaloReach Colonel Holland]] orders him to abandon ship to help [[EnemyMine some rogue Kig-Yar pirates and Batarians]] in taking a ship that wasn't infested. |
| 60 | * ''Fanfic/HailToTheKingThuktunFlishithy'': Gendo has a rather dumb moment when he kidnaps Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s infant child as bait in hopes of luring him to Mount Fuji and killing him with the Evas. [[CurbStompBattle It goes badly for NERV]]. A downplayed example, as it was mainly a case of severely underestimating [[PapaWolf Godzilla]] rather than thinking there would be no consequences. |
| 61 | * ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': This is the only reason why Billy is categorized as an MLE. He has no ill intentions -- he's just so damn ''[[LethallyStupid stupid]]'' that he's a danger to himself, other loopers, and Yggdrasil as a whole. It is not an uncommon occurrence for Billy to manage to kill himself and several others by accident during a loop through nothing more than his sheer idiocy. |
| 62 | * In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Haruhi thinks this of Taniguchi after learning about [[SexinessScore his ratings]]. Kyon calling him a 'living perv-wiki' probably didn't help. |
| 63 | * ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': Touji’s sister was obsessed with seeing closely a battle between a giant robot and an alien monster. She left the shelter, her brother ran after her, and they almost got killed during the battle. |
| 64 | * ''Fanfic/MetalGearGreen'': |
| 65 | ** [[spoiler: Fudaki decides to take on the USJ Nomu by himself [[LeeroyJenkins without a clue as to what it is and how it works]]. This ends with the Nomu slamming his head into the ground until he died.]] |
| 66 | ** All the villains where Tokoyami and Koda were decide to charge at the Ocelot Unit rescuing the two students who had ordered them to surrender. The unit armed with assault rifles, machine guns and a fifty caliber [=MG=]. From Tokoyami's own words, [[NotEnoughToBury there wasn't enough to bury any of the villains.]] |
| 67 | * ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'': Nine and his lieutenants decide to confront the Slayer in the hopes that they can kill him. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath They are violently murdered as a result.]] |
| 68 | ** In Chapter 18, Volcano sends a tidal wave of magma at Izuku and his friends, uncaring of the fact Melissa was holding the rocket containing ''VX'' gas. Had the Slayer not [[HumanShield took the lava blast]], Volcano would've condemned his team and Curator to a nasty death. Curator even glares at Volcano for the utter idiotic stunt he pulled. |
| 69 | ** Chapter 21, [[LeeroyJenkins Bakugou decides to try and fight the Doom Slayer]]. This is despite the fact he's slaughtered the Steel Sabers, beat up 48 heroes (including his homeroom teacher) and just bested All Might in combat, though he treated it as a spar. He gets captured, Miruko tries to intervene, only to get captured and Bakugou decides to release [[DidntThinkThisThrough another explosion, without looking about]], despite All-Might and Miruko screaming for Bakugou to stop (as there was a leaking gas tanker a few feet away). Had the Slayer not hurled all three of them away, Bakugou would have succeeded where ''All for One'' failed. |
| 70 | * In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', the Kryptonian Science Council refused to heed Jor-El's warnings of Krypton's destruction even after being shown photographs of the planet's destabilized core. This doomed the entire Kryptonian race with the exception of baby Kal-El, who was sent away in the one rocket Jor-El was able to put together after the Council banned all space exploration technology. |
| 71 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': |
| 72 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Soren on how [[SarcasmMode clever]] of the Black Dogs to piss off someone as unstoppable as the Good Hunter, as if they have a death wish. Then again, [[DramaticIrony only the readers know]] about Kyril's ResurrectiveImmortality [[spoiler:as well as his [[EldritchAbomination true nature]]...]] |
| 73 | ** The [[CurbStompBattle aftermath]] of the Hunter's TrialByCombat against Maia and Alicia in the remastered version has some unnamed, hot-headed knights and errant warriors challenging him, ''because [[UnderestimatingBadassery they]] think the Hunter's skills are just a sham''. The predictable conclusion is either to be killed or to be maimed. |
| 74 | * ''Fanfic/OzInIkebukuroLand'' (crossover between ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' and ''Literature/{{Durarara}}''): |
| 75 | ** The universally despised "father" of [[TomatoInTheMirror Oz Vessalius]] shows up when Oz is feeling most confident, (having used his chain to follow Jack there and prevent him from destroying this world too) and decides now is the best time possible to, in front of a large amount of people, start berating Oz and calling him a thing. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mikado Ryuugamine starts telling him off for it]] and Kida Masaomi gets a little unnerved, but this moment really applies when he starts talking to Shizuo, telling him to stop hanging out with such a filthy beast. |
| 76 | ** You know, [[HairTriggerTemper that]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Shizuo]] Heiwajima, who does not like it when people hurt children (or in this case, [[spoiler: a chain in a human's body]], and this same man dislikes those who hurt children most. So it's all right if he pressures this obviously pissed-off guy to avoid a kid he's started caring for-to leave him. Of course, Zai gets kicked into the wall by Shizuo, who decides that he hates this guy more than Izaya himself and berates him, saying no decent person should treat their kid that way. |
| 77 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10917821/19/The-questionable-burdens-of-leadership-of-a-troll-Emperor The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor]]'': |
| 78 | ** After Ra's death, almost all of the System Lords engage in a brief but brutal civil war to claim as much of the deceased Supreme System Lord's holdings as possible. The only one not to participate is Yu, who remembers that they're still at war with another interstellar empire and later notes that the Goa'uld Hegemony lost more forces fighting each other than they had in centuries of war with the Celestial Empire. |
| 79 | ** Apophis fails to realize that seeing hundreds of Goa'uld killed has caused his slaves to realize they're not gods. It's even noted that Ra would have realized the danger of a human mob whose anger has overridden their fear. When Apophis tries cow them as usual, he's knocked to the ground and kicked to death. |
| 80 | ** Later Manga/{{Naruto}}, [[Manga/{{Sekirei}} Karasuba]], and Setsuna are both amused and disgusted that the Tollan disable theirs and [=SG1's=] ranged weapons but don't even ask them to relinquish their swords (or Setsuna's many knives) even after Karasuba introduces herself with "I kill people." Naruto privately wonders if they've had so little conflict that they simply have no survival instinct anymore. Furthermore, when [=SG1=] tries to warn the Tollan that the Goa'uld are attempting to sabotage their planetary defenses, the Tollan leader brushes off their warnings and threatens to rule against them in the current trial if they persist. |
| 81 | ** The NID deserve a mention for both kidnapping Yahan, whom they know Naruto views as a little sister, then later trying to assassinate Naruto during a press conference. The latter is particularly bad since even if they succeeded in killing him, they know for a fact he has a warship in orbit and an empire spanning a considerable portion of the galaxy. Said warship is outright stated to be perfectly capable of [[EarthShatteringKaboom turning Earth into an asteroid field at any time.]] |
| 82 | * A pair of Slayers in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28227-8/DianeCastle+The+Reality-Theory+Convergence.htm The Reality Theory Convergence]]'' decided to make a game of throwing knives as close as possible to the inscription of the ward protecting their apartment without hitting it. After ruining the ward, they don't tell anyone so it's not repaired until after they're attacked. Xander is furious and orders them to have to live with the rest of the "baby Slayers" and they have to share the smallest room because they're clearly not responsible enough to live on their own. |
| 83 | -->'''Xander:''' You two did something so stupid I’m surprised you can walk and wield a sword at the same time! You know how important these wards are, and you screwed around with them, and then you didn’t tell anyone you had ruined them! You could have died! You could have gotten someone else killed! You got to stay on your own by promising to be responsible. Well, this is the exact opposite of responsible! We’ll have a van here within an hour. Have everything you own packed and ready to go. Clothes in suitcases and duffelbags, books and knickknacks in boxes, weapons in your gymbags. We’ll move the furniture and kitchen stuff later. |
| 84 | * ''Fanfic/RemnantsBizarreAdventure'': |
| 85 | ** Four random White Fang goons get the brilliant idea of trying to take down Jotaro, despite Pucci having warned them not to mess with Jotaro if they can avoid it. To make things worse, they try to intimidate him into surrendering instead of taking him by surprise. [[CurbStompBattle It ends about as well as you would expect.]] |
| 86 | ** Ruby comes dangerously close but thankfully wises up in her fight with Oyecomova. Though it’s more of a case of “too idealistic to live,” really. She’s reluctant to kill Oyecomova even when doing so would save lives, and this allows Oyecomova to keep trying to kill her. He fails, but manages to escape. Oyecomova even [[LampshadeHanging mentions]] that many of his enemies don’t realize that maybe trying to physically restrain the guy who can turn anything he touches into a bomb might not be a good idea. |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/TheRisingOfTheShieldHeroTheManOutOfTime'': It doesn't matter what the Three Heroes believe about Captain America but it's complete idiocy in engaging in combat with the captain who is a trained soldier and had fought in a war while they had only spent a couple months adventuring combined the fact that they have been overly pampered by the kingdom. Cap effortlessly dodges all of Motoyasu's attacks before curbstomping the boy. |
| 88 | * Danzo really should have thought more about his decision to abduct not-quite-four-years-old Kobayashi Hikaru and deliver him to Orochimaru in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11557398/7/The-Road-to-Ruin The Road to Ruin]]''. Even if Hiruzen didn't decide to stop him pulling the bullshit, he failed to consider two things. First of all, letting the kid who helped to save the Hyuuga Clan Heiress from a kidnapping vanish into the unknown isn't going to fly. Two, the kid's parentage by his mixed-blood mother means he's a member of the Uchiha and Yamanaka Clans, and both are already irked by the fact Hikaru wasn't identified sooner. And even if ''they'' refused to help, ''Hatake Kakashi'' wouldn't quietly stand by and let his newfound son be taken away from him. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': During the [[Literature/{{Carrie}} Chamberlain Incident]], the two surviving pranksters try to run Carrie down...''after'' seeing her torch the school and '''''in front of multiple superheroes'''''. |
| 90 | * [[Franchise/StargateVerse Senator Kinsey]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8539844/5/Ship-of-the-Line-An-Unlikely-Hope Ship of the Line: An Unlikely Hope]]'' tries to threaten [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] (really [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] turned into Vader) while on-board the Executor, completely ignoring that not only is Vader a two meter cyborg with a laser sword and magic powers, but is also in command of a ship that (according to Star Wars fans in Stargate Command) could eliminate roughly ''90%'' of humanity in 24 hours with an orbital bombardment. |
| 91 | * ''Fanfic/SuicidalOverconfidence'': [[WesternAnimation/CentralPark Bitsy Brandenham]] thinks it's a good idea to try to intimidate ComicBook/TheKingpin while [[AloneWithThePsycho alone with him]] ''and'' throw petty insults at him while she's at it, not understanding that he's called "The Kingpin of Crime" for a good reason. She's also [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered to the point]] where, when asked if she wants an open or closed casket funeral, she ultimately decides on the latter so as not to be upstaged without realizing [[ImpliedDeathThreat why such a question would come up in the first place]]. She ends up getting beaten to death for her troubles. |
| 92 | * A random biker in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8491480/1/Tainted Tainted]]'' first makes bigoted comments about [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander's]] new girlfriend ComicBook/SheHulk. Then when she tries to play peacemaker between him and Xander, said biker backhands her. Fortunately for him, She-Hulk is willing to TurnTheOtherCheek. Unfortunately, Xander, [[EmpoweredBadassNormal who recently became a Hulk himself]], isn't. |
| 93 | * A vampire in ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-11757-89/Ouatic+Tales+from+the+Barman.htm Tales from the Barman]]'' tries to start a fight (and kill Xander's cat) in Xander's bar despite Xander being a veteran demon hunter. The presence of roughly a dozen [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Slayers]] either working or drinking makes it even worse. |
| 94 | * Dr. Emil Hamilton in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11965672/1/Terminal-Justice-by-Overkill-AKA-Irrational-Intelligence Terminal Justice]]''. While everyone else realizes how bad an idea it is to antagonize [[TheGrimReaper the embodiment of Death]], Hamilton decides to mind control Power Girl into slapping some magical shackles on him. Not only is he already aware of the very real possibility that this would merely prevent people from dying without affecting Death himself, he also knows that Death has a lot of friends in the Justice League, including his girlfriend Supergirl. The end result? Everyone and everything in the universe stops dying ([[FateWorseThanDeath no matter how horrifically injured]]) while Death is in a coma. Meanwhile his siblings cause widespread destruction (among other things, tornadoes started appearing literally everywhere in the world). Unlike many cases of this trope, Hamilton doesn't actually die. Instead he's so horrifically injured his doctors insist he won't be eating solid food for at least a decade; he's left infected with the plague (courtesy of Pestilence) and with all his backers destroyed (War's doing). |
| 95 | * In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': |
| 96 | ** Shinji hated his father but he decided to forget about Gendo since he'd got a real family (Misato, Asuka and Rei) and friends at last. However Gendo decided to hurt them to try to keep his son in line. Shinji's RoaringRampageOfRevenge was ''terrific''. |
| 97 | ** Kaworu introduces Shinji and gives his true nature away at the same time. Shinji attacked him right away. |
| 98 | * ''FanFic/TheTotallyAmazingSpiderMan'': ''Barely'' defied. [[spoiler: [[AlphaBitch Mandy]] ]] stayed inside of a burning building [[DeathByMaterialism just to save a prize-winning picture]], and when Spider-Man arrives to save her bacon, she ''very'' reluctantly leaves the picture behind, and only after being cajoled by the masked hero. |
| 99 | * Hiro and Hifumi, in ''Fanfic/TheUltimateBigBrother'', try to get a look under Charlotte Katakuri's scarf, even despite Makoto Naegi's attempts to keep them from angering him, but they don't listen to him, ignoring the signs of TranquilFury. Suffice it to say, he erupts in anger soon enough while releasing a wave of Conqueror's Haki, and everyone learns that you '''do not''' press the BerserkButton of a 16-foot tall pirate rippling with muscle with the ability to turn into a BlobMonster. |
| 100 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13190156/7/Wandering-of-a-Sword-Hero Wandering of a Sword Hero]]'', Shirou is forced to kill a slaver to save a group of enslaved children who were just ordered to die. One of the other slavers, having just witnessed Shirou kill his comrade to protect the children, threatens retribution when word gets out, causing Shirou to kill all of the slavers. |
| 101 | * In ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-27556-2/NimbustheMariner+The+Watchman.htm The Watchman]]'' Warren kills Tara, rapes Willow, and tries to kill [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] despite knowing that Xander has become ComicBook/TheSentry, who's described as "Superman on steroids with more mental problems than Joker". Warren thinks that because his magic orbs let him [[NormalFishInATinyPond fight a Slayer evenly]] he's a match for [[PhysicalGod Xander]] who treated a Hellgod as an annoyance. Xander throws Warren to Greenland, beats the hell out of him, rips off his head, and vaporizes his body. He then drops Warren's head off at the local [[BadGuyBar demon bar]] as a warning to anyone trying to mess with his friends. |
| 102 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8933408/16/Wizard-Runemaster Wizard Runemaster]]'': |
| 103 | ** The [[Literature/HarryPotter Wizarding World]] is this when Harry temporarily returns to Earth. In order to punish the goblins for not handing over Harry's wealth, the Ministry of Magic is having radioactive waste poured into their cave systems. Said goblin caves run under most of London and a good deal of Great Britain. |
| 104 | ** According to Harry, countless wizards have been killed by summoning a sword or some other type of weapon, then not dodging when it comes flying toward them at high speed. |
| 105 | * The [[Literature/HarryPotter Dursley family]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8527691/27/An-Incomplete-Potter-Collection The Devil Ashikabi]]'' sell Harry to [[Manga/{{Sekirei}} MBI]] and never consider Takami might call Child Services on them. |
| 106 | * {{Played For Laughs}} in ''Fanfic/{{Curse of the Dualshock}}'': Chase [[spoiler: dug straight down (Which of course is stupid), killing him when he swam in lava]]. |
| 107 | %%** First, a vampire sends thralls after [[Manga/BlackLagoon Boss Chang]]. Boss Chang hires Shenhua to "send a message". It's unknown what exactly she did but one of the local [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Slayers]] was amazed/horrified said vampire was still alive when she found him. |
| 108 | %%** Later a [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]] drains one of Balalaika's men and even after being caught, she brags to Balalaika about how she took her form while having sex with the man. Balalaika has the Succubus' horns, wings, and tail ''sawed'' off then lets the torturer do with her as they want. Afterwards, she's to be sent to work at a local strip club/brothel but not allowed to dance or have any contact with the customers, effectively starving her. |
| 109 | * Hostile aliens from the Franchise/StargateVerse in ''Fanfic/{{XSGCOM}}''. Loyalist Jaffa are slaughtered in troves, and as for the Wraith... [[spoiler:within days of the expedition's arrival to Atlantis a full quarter of the Wraith hives in the galaxy are nuked.]] Not that the friendly aliens were any better, especially the Ancients. |
| 110 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11181910/24/Yet-Again-Still-Even-More-Fragments Iron Age Politics]]'', [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Quentin Travers]] is basically dead-set on alienating every potential ally he can, as shown when he plans to steal Xander's design for a stake railgun he created with [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark's]] memories. He's also condescending enough to his assistant (who has several degrees under her belt) that she's started giving him extra sweets so it'll be less obvious when she poisons him into having a heart attack. |
| 111 | * A group of Afghan fighters in ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31640-7/TattleTail%2bMy%2bCopy.htm My Copy]]'' decide it would be a good idea to [[ShootingSuperman shoot at]] Lilith aka Destroyer aka a female clone of TheJuggernaut. To make things worse, she's currently fighting a group of demons who had been previously killing them, but they decide to stop shooting the demons trying to kill them and start shooting the woman saving them. |
| 112 | * Lampshaded by Mace Windu in ''Fanfic/AHorseForTheForce'' after Ranma wipes out a chapter of the Bounty Hunter Guild for almost killing Shaak-Ti. Mace remarks that any chapter that takes up the bounty on Ranma after both that and his actions on Yavin 4 will have "reached an evolutionary dead end". |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[AC: ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'']] |
| 115 | * ''Fanfic/ThreePointShot'': [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Gonta]] finds Kirumi passed out near the tea that she was going to serve, since the act of preparing the tea resulted in the poison in it producing fumes that knocked her out. In order to investigate the tea, Gonta ''drinks it'' and ends up being fatally poisoned. This action also results in inadvertently thwarting an attempt to kill Kokichi, resulting in the culprit being executed. |
| 116 | |
| 117 | [[AC: ''Manga/DeathNote'']] |
| 118 | * In ''Forty Seconds'' Tsen, a two-bit crook, goes around telling people he's Kira. Naturally the real Kira takes issue with this. |
| 119 | * In one [[http://kikirini.deviantart.com/art/Kira-Hates-Sues-58694863 fan comic]], a girl goes up to Light, knowing full well that he's Kira, and lists all her qualifications to be his girlfriend, including being [[InformedAbility smarter than anyone else at Wammy's House]]. She then gives him her name for him to write down, and he does... ''in the Death Note''. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[AC: ''Manga/DragonBall'']] |
| 122 | * This is pretty much the premise of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3213992/1/Bad-Man Bad Man]]'': one of Bulma's assistants, being heavily in debt with the mob, decides the best way to escape them is to kidnap Bulma while she is pregnant with Bra and blackmail Vegeta into killing his creditors, [[spoiler:using a machine that hid ki signatures to not be located]]. Needless to say, when Vegeta ultimately ''does'' find him, [[MakeAnExampleOfThem he uses the picture of his corpse on the papers to show the world what will happen to those who mess with his family]]. Worse still, during her captivity [[DefiantCaptive Bulma has managed to leave the basement she had been trapped into]] and outright tells her kidnapper to just surrender and hope she can convince Vegeta to show mercy. [[spoiler:He shoots her and runs]]. |
| 123 | * From ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': |
| 124 | ** Nappa thinks Krillin's Kienzan[=/=]Destructo Disk is a Frisbee and tries to catch it. With his teeth no less! Likewise, his appalling lack of intelligence makes him a [[LethallyStupid walking]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction disaster]]. |
| 125 | ** ''The World's Strongest (pre-Team Four Star)'': Doctors Wheelo and Kochin have JUST discovered that [[BewareTheNiceOnes Gohan]] has an infinite supply of badassery and ki that only comes out when he is pissed. |
| 126 | --->'''Wheelo:''' Kochin, did you ''feel'' the amount of energy that just came out of him?\ |
| 127 | '''Kochin:''' Yes, I did. And I have a ''great'' idea! Let's piss him off until he explodes! |
| 128 | ** On the Team Four Star version of ''Worlds Strongest'', Kochin still wants to piss Gohan off because of his power while Wheelo ([[AdaptationalHeroism who isn't evil in this version]]) knows how bad it is to piss off someone with lots of power. |
| 129 | --->'''Wheelo:''' Kochin, [[OnlySaneMan STOP ANTAGONIZING HIM!]]\ |
| 130 | '''Kochin:''' You're right! He's incredibly strong! In fact—\ |
| 131 | '''Wheelo:''' Kochin, he is a child!\ |
| 132 | '''Kochin:''' With a penis!\ |
| 133 | '''Wheelo:''' Kochin, please!\ |
| 134 | '''Kochin:''' You're right... I should check! |
| 135 | ** In ''Dead Zone Abridged'', Garlic Jr.'s minions were out picking up the Dragon Balls after having knocked Piccolo out (they were trying to kill him, but that kills Kami, which renders the Dragon Balls inert; they all thank Kami that they're incompetent), but one of the balls is on the hat of a kid named Gohan. Said minions thought it was a good idea to kidnap the kid and beat up his mom. The dad is Son Goku, the strongest man on the planet. Garlic Jr. does ''not'' take this revelation well. |
| 136 | ** Garlic Jr.'s time in the aforementioned Dead Zone did a number on his sanity, as he himself falls afoul of this trope when he tries to unleash the Black Water Mist upon the world. Getting to the font to vent the Black Water Mist requires going through Mr. Popo, who wastes no time detouring him to the Fuckbox. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[AC: ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'']] |
| 139 | * In the popular ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod ''Hope Lies'', the titular Hope Lies is searching for a flower that can heal her friend’s wife’s radiation sickness. She eventually finds it in Vault 22, in a heavily irradiated area. Only problem: she insists on trying to get it without a radiation suit, claiming God will protect her. To be fair, a radiation suit might not have ''helped'', and it’s hinted that she’s feeling a bit suicidal. But even so, taking the radiation suit would have meant she really would have done everything she could to try to save her friend’s wife. As it stands, she nearly dies from the radiation and [[SadisticChoice you have to choose between saving her or the flower]]. |
| 140 | * In the Powder Ganger-centric mod ''[[https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/74958/ Working on the Chain Gang]]'', there's a Powder Ganger named [[MeaningfulName Eleven-IQ Ian]], who has been hoarding gunpowder. When you go to take the gunpowder to give it to the Westside Powder Militia (a group of reformist Powder Gangers who have set up shop in Westside in order to defend it from raiders), Ian threatens you with a lit stick of dynamite, not seeming to realize that blowing you up with it would also set off his gunpowder, probably killing him as well. Furthermore, if you ask him about himself, he will talk about himself (including mentioning that he thinks his name means he has 11 INT on the SPECIAL stats, rather than 11 on the IQ distribution). When you're done talking to him, you point out that he's been rambling to you with a lit stick of dynamite in his hand, at which point he blows up. If you have the Wild Wasteland trait, he comes BackFromTheDead to confront you again and then ''falls for the exact same trick''. (He thinks it will end differently because he brought a stick with a longer fuse, but it's negated by the fact that he lit it when you went into a building in order to ambush you with it when you get back out, even though he had no idea how long you would be in the building.) |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[AC: ''Franchise/FireEmblem'']] |
| 143 | * In the lost ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' ''Future of Despair'' comic, Panne fits in through and through. Because "having to give birth to your and Henry's child in isolation per (fanon) Taguel customs" should '''not''' equal to "stupidly running away from a mostly safe CASTLE to the nearby WOODS all alone and thus getting yourself [[HumanPincushion skewered with arrows]] by a bunch of dumb hunters who didn't know better". |
| 144 | ** It's even worse when you recall the also lost notes on said "fanon" customs. These instincts that lead Taguel moms to seek for "complete isolation" when giving birth are supposed to be ''completely irresistible and unrestrainable'', so [[UnfortunateImplications they imply that]] ''every'' Taguel mother is pretty much WIRED to be TooDumbToLive, meaning none only could they potentially run into hunters like in Panne's case, but they deny themselves any support in case of pre/current/post-birth complications for herself and her baby/babies. |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[AC:''Webcomic/GirlGenius'']] |
| 147 | * ''Fanfic/RaisedByJagers'': Agatha's classmate at TPU, Kyril. Moments after being told not to touch anything in a lab, he presses the big red button and is nearly killed. Agatha doesn't even know whether Kyril is his first name or last name, but figures she'll find out at his funeral. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[AC: ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'']] |
| 150 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10617769/1/Girls-und-Panzer-International-War-Games Girls Und Panzer - International War Games]]'', during the original version of Chapter 12 (which has since been revised), [[OriginalCharacter Kenji]] while cleaning out the munitions storage with his sister, ends up ''[[RecklessGunusage tossing]]'' a white phosphorous grenade, resulting in it detonating, and his sister dying in a horrific manner that's practically right out of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''. [[IdiotHoudini Kenji, however, survives]]. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[AC: ''Series/{{Glee}}'']] |
| 153 | * Blaine's naivety in ''Fanfic/HuntingTheUnicorn'' seems to have crossed into this. Not only [[WideEyedIdealist would he help anyone at all without even questioning]], but he's so ObliviousToLove that he completely fails to notice his StalkerWithACrush. PlayedForDrama in that he's not literally ''stupid'', but [[WideEyedIdealist sheltered]] and [[BrokenAce emotionally damaged]]. Also, he's aware of this and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation has accordingly low self-esteem.]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'']] |
| 156 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures MaNi/Elder Brother]] due to his StupidEvil. He's so obsessed with getting another scrap with Monster X that he doesn't care that they're actively and clearly luring him into a trap, and goes straight for the bait; never mind the fact that [=MaNi=] has no idea what Monster X in their final form is capable of. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[AC: ''Literature/HarryPotter'']] |
| 159 | * Twice in ''Fanfic/DodgingPrisonAndStealingWitches'' John Potter pulls off an incredibly stupid stunt that nearly kills him (and others the second time). |
| 160 | ** First, after the troll on Halloween is crippled and barely dragging itself along the ground, he leaps at it and casts a blasting spell at point blank range. Not only was it completely unnecessary but he's badly injured as a result. The girls who crippled the troll consider it the stupidest thing they ever saw. |
| 161 | ** Second, upon coming across a necromantic ritual site, John starts casting in an attempt to destroy it. Doing so revives the Whomping Willow inferius there which nearly kills him, Neville, Draco, and Theodore Nott. Afterwards Draco tells him that introducing new magic to a ritual is literally the last thing you should do. |
| 162 | ** Daphne insists Hermione come with her to heal a dying unicorn despite them both knowing it's being hunted by Voldemort and using a Sense Danger spell that tells them they're currently in mortal peril. After they (barely) escape, Harry lectures them for risking their lives over a unicorn. Unlike the troll on Halloween, where they faced a dangerous but manageable threat to save a classmate, here they faced the most dangerous dark wizard alive to save an animal. |
| 163 | ** The story even begins with one, even bigger than the others. John, having failed to destroy Voldemort, was sent back in time by Death and Fate to try again - giving him four years of prep time. And then, during the second confrontation, he allows himself to be killed for what amount to no reason because he thinks he's in a GroundhogDayLoop, thinking the two entities will send him back again for as many times as he needs. Instead, they get pissed at John wasting his and their time, and instead give Harry the next chance. |
| 164 | * In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4606270/ Effects And Side Effects]]'', Draco manages to get himself executed by Gringotts staff for casting a killing curse, ostensibly at Harry, but with a high ranking goblin standing next to him. It's practically a RunningGag that the stupidity of his death gets repeatedly lampshaded throughout the story. |
| 165 | * Flint in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8704528/19/Enveloped-in-the-Darkness Enveloped in the Darkness]]'' nearly kills [[MoralityPet Draco]], because he's Harry's best friend and Harry pissed him off. Not only does he brag about it in front of the entire Slytherin house and Narcissa, he then insults her when she gives Harry the right to enact the Malfoy family's vengeance. It apparently never occurs to him that even if Harry wasn't able to [[CurbStompBattle easily defeat him]], he's attempted to kill the sole heir of one extremely rich and powerful family who pretty much control the Minister of Magic. Due to the rules of the Dueling Pit, Harry doesn't kill him; [[FateWorseThanDeath he just makes Flint wish he had]]. |
| 166 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13157026/1/Eternal-Fantasy Eternal Fantasy]]'', the Wizarding World continues on with life as they did before the "Transition" which changed earth into an {{expy}} of Videogame/FinalFantasy, even though Earth magic is eroded away on Gaia. They'd rather lock themselves away and continue breaking down magical items to fuel their wards that keep out Gaian magic than try to change. During a visit to Hogwarts, Harry's group notices a class of children being taught to turn beetles into buttons, despite every witch and wizard knowing that wands only have a certain amount of magic they can cast before being turned into ordinary sticks. Hermione lampshades that they're wasting a non-renewable resource learning parlor tricks rather than anything remotely useful. |
| 167 | * In one Harry Potter story, Hermione spots what she thinks is a WillOWisp. While following it, she notes how they're spirits that lead people into traps for fun. While not a will o' wisp, the flames are still controlled by Pansy Parkinson who quickly disarms and paralyzes Hermione. |
| 168 | * In ''Fanfic/ForLoveOfMagic'' a trio of Death Eaters try to kill Harry during the second task, but not only do they keep on their voluminous robes underwater, they cast blasting spells. The resulting underwater explosion leaves them badly injured and unconscious. Harry simply leaves them to drown. |
| 169 | * ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMagicOfTheBeasts'': |
| 170 | ** Yes, Snape, brag to Harry that he has sold Hermione as a sex slave to Walden [=MacNair=], [[SarcasmMode I'm sure that'll go well.]] Idiot was lucky Harry made him do the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]]. |
| 171 | ** Goyle Sr. plans alongside his two companions to rape and murder Lily. Harry viciously murders all three Death Eaters for that. |
| 172 | * Hermoine's [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]] in ''[[http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/fenriswolf/RAR01a.html Revelations and Results]]'' decides that he can isolate Hermoine from her friends and beat her, all the while being aware that one of her friends happens to be [[BullyingADragon Harry Potter]] who, among other things, is nicknamed The Boy Who Lived because, among other things, he survived an attack from Voldemort ''as an infant'' and who is also considered one of the best wizards at Hogwarts. Needless to say, when Harry finds out, it doesn't end well for said boyfriend. Harry even says it at one point while delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to him: |
| 173 | --> "You know, Petersen, for a Ravenclaw, you're about the stupidest thing walking on two legs."\ |
| 174 | "I don't know what you're talking about," the Ravenclaw blustered.\ |
| 175 | "No? Well, let's see if I can jog your memory. Hermione Granger, your girlfriend, the one you've been using as a punching bag? The girl who happens to be my best friend? Who is thought of as a sister by every other boy in Gryffindor? Who also happens to be friends with most of the teachers at Hogwarts, including Professor Dumbledore? Do you have any idea just how many people are going to be after your head on a pike?" Harry shook his head and stalked towards his target. "You couldn't have picked someone more likely to get you killed if you tried, you git--not that it matters." He smiled; it wasn't a very nice smile, and Petersen swallowed. |
| 176 | --> "You see, Mark--you don't mind if I call you Mark, do you--we're going to come to an understanding right now." His fist slammed into Petersen's gut, doubling him over. "You're not Hermione's boyfriend anymore," he continued, chopping a short punch to his face, splitting his cheek. "You're never going to go near her again," he added, throwing two more jabs, one to the mouth, the other to the nose. "In fact, you're never going to look at her again, because you're dropping out of Hogwarts," he said, hammering another blow to the kidneys. "You're going to be gone within 24 hours, I don't care if you have to walk; because if you aren't, Mark, this will seem like a pillow fight compared to what I'll do to you." The last punch landed well below the belt and left Petersen retching on the floor. |
| 177 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13281741/1/Umbridge-Goes-To-The-Moon-Or-Tries-To Umbridge Goes To The Moon (Or Tries To)]], Dolores Umbridge initially doesn't believe that American Muggles landed on the moon. When she finds out that it's true, she decides that anything Muggles can do, Wizards can do better. She doesn't bother researching what kind of dangers there are in space, instead immediately Apparating into orbit, and [[ThrownOutTheAirlock she dies horribly as a result]]. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'']] |
| 180 | * ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': After Daolon Wong [[DePower loses his magical powers]], he intends to have revenge on [[DragonsAreDemonic Shendu]] for double-crossing him. He does this by using a stolen gun to shoot the Demon Sorcerer's [[VillainousCrush beloved]] Valerie Payne -- right in front of the fully empowered demon while standing atop a van in plain view. Instead of trying to use the resulting shock from everyone's part to make an escape attempt, he [[BullyingADragon gloats in Shendu's face]]. This leads to Shendu quickly pummeling Wong in UnstoppableRage. |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[AC: ''Creator/MarvelComics'']] |
| 183 | * ''Fanfic/PeterParkersFieldTripOfCourseItsToStarkIndustries'': Mr. Harrison and the Principle never thought to call Stark Industries to confirm whether or not the various legal documents that Peter had given them as proof of his internship were real or forgeries, having their copy of Peter's contract shredded under the assumption that it wasn't a real document. Ironically this act might have saved the school from getting sued even worse, as shredding it ensured to prevent contact information that SI would have want to keep confidential just that. |
| 184 | --> '''Tony''': I'm sorry... instead of using the contact information that we had listed -- the highly sensitive contact information, beneath the non-disclosure agreement that you, presumably, signed -- to contact us and ask for validation of some kind. You... you threw out the '''very important''' legal documents pertaining to one of your students with no proof of forgery? Just on an assumption? |
| 185 | * Reed Richards in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12592223/33/The-Spider The Spider]]'' recreates the same dimensional portal that both gave the Fantastic Four their powers and that they had trapped Doom inside until he escaped. Peter calls him out on once again rebuilding a portal to another dimension that not only do they know nothing about, but that Doom has previously tried to steal. Mere seconds later, Doom hacks into Reed's systems to steal the blueprints of the portal. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[AC: ''Franchise/TheMatrix'']] |
| 188 | * Neo in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6706547/1/Pointless-Agent-Insanity Pointless Agent Insanity]] takes this up to eleven, with literally every single thing he does or says. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[AC: ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'']] |
| 191 | * The Blue Dogs gang in ''[[FanFic/MastermindStrategistForHire Mastermind: Strategist for Hire]]'' decide to [[MuggingTheMonster hold Izuku/Mastermind at gunpoint to get out of paying him for his plans to rob Okane Bank.]] Mastermind had just a few months prior had one of the Top 10 Heroes killed on live stream while said Hero was in protective custody. Immediately after the meeting, Izuku [[KarmicDeath sells plans on how to murder each of them to their enemies]]. Multiple characters lampshade how stupid one has to be to double cross Mastermind. |
| 192 | * In ''Fanfic/TurningANewLeaf'', the moment Aizawa walked into Principle Ozeru's office, he identifies him as a member of the Meta Liberation Army and correctly presumes that the rest of the staff is in on it. How? He had a copy of ''Meta Manifesto'' on display in his bookshelf. |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']] |
| 195 | * ''FanFic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'': Roughly half of the Unicorn nobility stayed behind when the Manehattan river valley was evacuated for the new homeland because they couldn't stand the thought of abandoning their hoards of treasure. They were all naturally frozen to death by the Windigos. |
| 196 | ** [[GeneralFailure Star Saber]]'s little group of thirty who tried to counter-revolt against Hurricane failed because they tried to steal weapons from an empty armory... which was positioned next to an active mess hall... in the middle of the day. Hurricane found this hilarious. |
| 197 | ** The extremely misandrist stallion-hating Commander Sullamander tried to use her position to pass laws that would effectively ''outlaw heterosexual intercourse'' among the pegasi. Wind Whistler points out that this would effectively end their people, and as such attempting to go through with this plan would count as high treason according to the Articles of Command, resulting in Sullamander's immediate removal from office and execution. She very, ''very'' reluctantly backs down, much to Wind Whistler's disappointment. |
| 198 | * ''Fanfic/TheDeathOfPrincessLuna:'' |
| 199 | ** Luna sneaks out all alone in the middle of the night, ignoring Celestia's advice, because she thinks that "anything that would try to harm her would be no match for her magic". As a result, she gets ambushed and abducted. Clearly, such a scenario never entered her mind until it was too late. |
| 200 | ** In the penultimate chapter, as the CelestialDeadline of the bad guys' choice approaches, the BigBad makes one last desperate, dumb move – [[spoiler:he shoots Luna in front of Celestia]]. Of course, [[spoiler:Luna survives, the entire conspiracy gets charges for an attempted murder, and Navy Shield is also stripped of all his titles and ranks and thrown into prison for life]]. |
| 201 | * ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': After [[EvilAllAlong Prince Jewelius]] successfully usurps Equestria's throne and turns the public and [[CorruptTheCutie Twilight Sparkle]] against the latter's friends as well as Shining Armor and the princesses, he lures the heroes into his trap not long after banishing them and [[JustBetweenYouAndMe tells them everything about his secret evil deeds]] and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe plans in regards to Twilight]]. This motivates the broken heroes to expose him for the monster he is and save Twilight from his manipulations. After the imprisoned Changelings have escaped along with the heroes, Jewelius [[SkewedPriorities focuses entirely on finding the heroes]], even though the public and Twilight are more concerned about the Changelings who managed to nearly conquer Equestria once already, and Queen Chrysalis -- a villainess who's more powerful than [[NonActionBigBad Jewelius]] and out for his blood [[WomanScorned for double-crossing her]] -- tries to kill him right after her escape. After Jewelius has allowed Twilight to realize how evil he is, she escapes with the Elements of Harmony and uses them with her friends to stop Jewelius' army during the final battle. When Jewelius is cornered by the heroes, the Changelings swoop in and take their revenge by [[DevouredByTheHorde eating Jewelius alive]]. |
| 202 | * Krysta from ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'', who decides to follow a strange orb of light with the voice of the bad guy, promising her to tell her where she comes from. |
| 203 | * Nightmare Sky, a minor antagonist in ''Nightmares'', steals the Elements of Harmony and tries to unleash their power on the Mane 6. To repeat, a ''Nightmare'', an incarnation of rage, hatred and disharmony, tries to wield a set of weapons designed ''specifically'' to fight disharmony, against the highly harmonious group ''chosen'' by said weapons to bear them. Given that Sky, unlike Nightmare Moon, did not have the advantage of having been an immortal god-pony before her transformation, the resultant backfire turned her into a sooty smear. |
| 204 | * Inverted in ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', where Rainbow Dash is literally too dumb to die. |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[AC: ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'']] |
| 207 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665921/45/Black-Flames-Dance-In-The-Wind-Rise-of-Naruto Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto]]'': |
| 208 | ** When the Kurama clan seeks to defect to Iwa one of the chuunin tasked with killing Yakumo's guards figures the medic is [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat dead for sure]] because he suffered a wound that would bleed out in several minutes. The other clan members are honestly amazed at his stupidity for believing a medic wouldn't be able to heal a wound like that when left alone and list off several different ways to do exactly that. |
| 209 | ** The entire Kurama clan is this due to the clan head's policy of RevengeBeforeReason. They want to defect to Iwa but know the only way it will work is if they have as much of a lead over any hunter-nin as possible. Rather than quietly leave during the one time almost half of all forces are away from the village, he insists they first kill Yakumo who is under 24-hour guard. A guard manages to escape and Naruto's team (plus Anko) are sent in to capture and/or kill everyone. |
| 210 | ** During the chuunin exams, one team for Hoshigakure films a porno ''inside the Forest of Death''. While in canon, this would merely be a bad idea as the forest isn't that dangerous even for genin, in this story [[AdaptationalBadass the forest is filled with demons, mutations, and animals evolved to eat them]]. Naruto only bothers killing one of them and lets the other two get eaten by giant centipedes. |
| 211 | * Tenten in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5537220/16/The-Darkest-Light The Darkest Light]]'' insults Naruto/Naruichi and [[TheDon Takada]] within earshot of both. Naruto beats her unconscious (which is the only reason Takada's bodyguard doesn't kill her) then when she wakes up, she's ripped a new one by her clan head before Naruto fights her sword with a wooden stick, spending an hour beating Tenten then healing her back up so he can start over. |
| 212 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6549314/1/Sexplosion Sexplosion]]'', the Kyuubi released a powerful pheromone when it was sealed that basically made everyone into sex maniacs the moment they hit puberty (extreme horniness is a perfectly acceptable reason to be excused from class, it's considered extremely rude to reject someone if they want to have sex, and sexual relationships between 14-year old Genin graduates and Jonins is looked on as normal). When Naruto first uses his [[GenderBender Sexy no Jutsu]], he's flat out told that turning into a naked woman, especially in public, will get him raped. When he says he'd just change back and laugh, he's warned that his attackers probably won't care what gender he is at that point. Naruto promptly vows to never use it again, unless it's really funny. |
| 213 | * Darui (and his entire team) in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10518212/2/The-Pride The Pride]]'' threatens to kill Shizune (knowing full well she's carrying Naruto's child) if Naruto doesn't do what he says. Naruto is currently in [[SuperMode Kyuubi Sage Mode]] and fully capable of [[OneManArmy taking on an entire country by himself]]. Needless to say, it doesn't go well for them. |
| 214 | ** A couple chapters (and several months) later, several Daimyo guards chase said Daimyo's prey ([[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame his]] [[MoralEventHorizon wife]]) through the tall grass of a preserve called The Savanna. Even if Naruto wasn't actively hunting them, experienced hunters like them should know better than to enter tall grass which has zero visibility on anything less than three or four feet tall. Especially since many of the animals from the Forest Of Death (such as giant tigers) are ''imported'' from The Savanna. |
| 215 | * ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': One of Danzo's Root agents was dumb enough to attack Tsunade [[spoiler:when she came across them trying to kidnap her comatose son]]. [[GoryDiscretionShot The narration doesn't specify what she did to them]], but the fact that the room is described as looking like a bomb went off in it and a nurse screams in horror when they arrive suggests that it wasn't pretty. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[AC:''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']] |
| 218 | * ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Gendo actually [[spoiler:''fires his two best Pilots'' for going against orders and pulling off a total victory anyway, thinking the new Dummy Plug system will suffice despite never being combat-tested.]] Even better, the timing of this means that [[spoiler:''Zeruel, the Angel of Might'']] shows up soon afterwards. Meaning, Gendo's suicidal overconfidence kicked in at the worst possible time. |
| 219 | * ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': Discussed. After Shinji pulled a suicidal move to win his and Asuka's dog fight Ritsuko reminded him how stupid was performing a maneuver that could have killed him, Asuka and their co-pilots during a training/friendly duel. |
| 220 | * ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': After [[spoiler:SEELE's failed final attack, members of the SEELE council points out to Keel that Fuyutsuki is alive and now in the custody of the Japanese Government, warning him that Fuyutsuki knows their secrets, has plenty of evidence to back his claims, and no longer has any reason to protect SEELE]]. Keel's answer is alongside the lines of: "So what? Do not get worried. Everyone see whatever they want to see, and for no particular reason I'm sure that the authorities will see whatever version benefits us." |
| 221 | * ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': [[BigBad Gendo]] thought that torturing a short-tempered combat-trained teenager and [[spoiler:MamaBear]] with [[spoiler:the name of her missing child]] was a good idea. It was not a good idea. |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[AC: ''Manga/OnePiece'']] |
| 224 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12893575/106/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-7 Smoothie and Luffy]]'', a couple of small time thugs try to mug Luffy and his new fiance. While Luffy could be excused since he's wearing a disguise, his fiance is Charlotte Smoothie, Big Mom's daughter and a woman with a bounty of nearly a billion beli. |
| 225 | * ''FanFic/ThisBites'': |
| 226 | ** Cross's thoughts on why one of the Baroque Works moles in the Royal Army tattooed the company's emblem on his shoulder. The defeated soldier says it was a combination of a lot of alcohol, a lot of boredom, and the fact that nobody is supposed to know about Baroque Works in the first place. |
| 227 | ** Spandam. [[spoiler:The man kept a ''black book'' for [=CP9's=] operations just to stroke his own ego. The fact that he hid it in a safe doesn't detract from this -- the book shouldn't even ''exist'', seeing as [=CP9=] is a covert black ops unit whose own existence isn't even officially recognized as far the World Government is concerned. All reports should have been summarily destroyed once confirmed. Once Cross finds it, it becomes the whistleblowing equivalent of a Golden Transponder Snail.]] |
| 228 | ** John Giant found out the hard way that saying Jaguar D. Saul was RewardedAsATraitorDeserves was not a good idea. Especially not in earshot of a lot of other giants who greatly respected him. |
| 229 | ** Vice Admiral Onigumo should have thought more before he responded to Cross's taunts about murdering a boatload of his fellow Marines just because Luffy landed on it, especially since Spandam had fallen for it less than an hour earlier. |
| 230 | ** Largo, captain of the Amigo Pirates, decided to pick a fight with the Straw Hat Pirates even after Cross had given them an opportunity to leave in peace, thinking that they can beat the Straw Hats because they outnumber them, Largo has a Devil Fruit, and Dr. Indigo provided them with experimental steroids to use at their discretion. Cross—who happens to be the ''weakest'' human Straw Hat—delivers a CurbStompBattle with only his three animal sidekicks as backup. And that was the lucky outcome for the Amigo Pirates; had they succeeded in killing Cross, the other Straw Hats would have massacred them in retaliation. |
| 231 | ** While the Straw Hats are on Skelter Bite, a no-name pirate by the name of Torino Red breaks the rules of Skelter Bite by setting up a DeadlyGame ([[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose where drinking poison and dying is the "win condition"]]) and forcing another pirate to play at knifepoint. When Zoro calls him on it, Torino Red threatens him and Chopper. The latter flattens him with one strike. Not content with that level of stupidity, he tries to shoot Zoro. Lola's men arresting him was likely ''lucky'' for him. |
| 232 | ** Charloss. [[spoiler:While it's well known that the World Nobles have more money than sense, when he meets Cross, a pirate in open rebellion against the World Government who operates a radio station that routinely plays anti-WG rhetoric, which Charloss should know because ''he listens to that radio station'', he ''demands'' Cross interview him, not realizing Cross would have ''no'' intention of making him look good to the SBS's global audience. He then proudly details a litany of sickening human rights violations taking place on Mariejoa, instantly earning the World Nobles the absolute hatred of virtually everyone outside of the island. Even if he thought it was all justified due to the atrocities being committed against "mortals," it wouldn't have taken much brainpower for him to realize "mortals" would be the ones listening to the interview, and they wouldn't see it that way.]] |
| 233 | * ''Fanfic/ToProtectEverything'': After Luffy, who is a high-ranking and respected officer in the Marines in this fic, captures Arlong, Captain Nezumi tries to claim credit, and the reward, for Arlong's capture. When Luffy places Nezumi under arrest, Nezumi points a gun at Luffy. Luffy already had Haki at this point and could have kicked his ass ten ways from Sunday, but he doesn't end up having to, because Garp shows up and does it for him. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[AC: Anime/PokemonOrigins]] |
| 236 | * ''WebVideo/HowICaughtYourMother'' offers a rare inversion in which the character is too dumb to ''die''. In the video, Green tries to kill himself by falling down the stairs in order to [[SkewedPriorities haunt Red as a Ghastly]]. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) for him, he forgets how to fall and ends up running down the stairs instead. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[AC: ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'']] |
| 239 | * In Chapter 25 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13438258/25/ 151 Pokeshipping Stories]]'', the death of Misty's mother is a result of this. The story narrates how Misty got into Water Pokémon thanks to her mother, so it's fair to assume she's an expert in them. Yet somehow, while walking across the beach and seeing a ''freaking'' Gyarados sleeping near the shore, it doesn't occur to her to keep a hold on her daughter's hand, or better, to ''get away from there ASAP''. The result is that Misty walks off on her own, awakens the Gyarados, and Misty's mother gets eaten by it while pushing her out of the way. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[AC: ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'']] |
| 242 | * Arnold of ''Fanfic/SoullessShellRedwall'' falls for Leif's not very clever bluff when threatened with execution for rape, inadvertently confessing to his crimes while begging for mercy as Leif sentences him to death. It's suggested that had he not done that, Leif might not have had enough evidence to actually sentence him to death. He then breaks out of prison, and not only is dumb enough to want to kill Leif in revenge, but tries to rape a young girl first, pushing Leif's BerserkButton and earning him a messy death at the hands of his OneWingedAngel form. Apparently, he didn't even think to bring the guards he recruited with him, although given how easily Leif dispatches them soon afterward, they wouldn't have done much good. |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[AC: ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'']] |
| 245 | * ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'': |
| 246 | ** Miyabi arguably falls into this in Act II, raping Mizore and then [[PostRapeTaunt bragging about it to Dark's face]]. Dark is a well-known WifeBasherBasher, and was once Fairy Tale's top agent and Kiria's [[TheDragon Dragon]], and Miyabi openly gloated about raping his girlfriend to his face; it does ''not'' end well for him. |
| 247 | ** In Act III chapter 8, Tsukune insists on trying to talk things over with Dark despite Dark having repeatedly threatened to kill him if he doesn't stay away from him and Mizore; Tsukune knows full well that Dark is ''not'' one to make idle threats. The only reason Dark stops his attack is because he sees with his own eyes how durable the [[RestrainingBolt Holy Lock]] is and is finally convinced that it can keep [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the ghoul]] sealed. |
| 248 | ** In Act III chapter 13, after Kou returns, Kokoa tells him everything that happened while he was away... including the fact that she and Moka settled a debate on who would be Tsukune's mate via the Eia Dreahl, a sacred vampire pact punishable by death if broken, and that Kokoa inadvertently broke that pact while possessed by raping Tsukune. Moka even reflects how idiotic that is and wonders ''why'' Kokoa did it. |
| 249 | ** In Act III, Gin decides to turn to [[WifeBasherBasher Dark]] of all people for help after stealing Apoch's underwear; the others actually ask him if he's suicidal. |
| 250 | ** In Act VI chapter 7, when Arial discovers that Mizore is Dark's girlfriend, she flies into a rage and is clearly about to kill her, with the others literally ''screaming'' at Mizore to run. Instead, after Arial uses her ice to stop an [=HDA=] MacrossMissileMassacre, Mizore approaches her directly to congratulate her on doing so; Arial promptly uses her ice claws to shred Mizore into LudicrousGibs, with Mizore's body having to be completely reconstructed by Ceal. |
| 251 | ** In Act VI chapter 42, Sun doesn't seem to understand that she's only making things infinitely worse for herself by telling an already pissed off Kokoa to her face that she doesn't deserve Gin at all. She doesn't stop even as Kokoa is [[BurningWithAnger supercharging herself]]; it comes as no surprise when Kokoa puts her through the wall before chasing her and Felucia through Fang Fang's villa in a homicidal rage. |
| 252 | ** In Act VI chapter 45, Kurumu starts to tease Kokoa over having sex with Gin... ''less than ten minutes'' after Kokoa beat Sun into a coma for doing basically the same thing. Ran [[LampshadeHanging even points out how stupid that was]]. |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[AC: ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']] |
| 255 | * At one point in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12854072/11/The-ProfessionARC The ProfessionArc]]'', one of the "elite" combat schools completely removed the practical part of it's combat courses due to one influential person's son losing a spar too badly. According to Professor Port, no one from that school managed to even get past initiation at one of the Huntsman academies. |
| 256 | * A couple racist teenagers in ''Fanfic/ServiceWithASmile'' decide to assault Velvet. While they can be excused for not knowing she's a huntress in training who could break them over her knee, they have no such excuse for not realizing every single customer in the cafe is also a huntsman/huntress, given that each one is armed. |
| 257 | ** Later, a group of wannabe gangsters try to pick up the Malachite Twins, thinking they're hookers. Both are amazed at how stupid they must be to not know of Junior's top enforcers, given he's one of two kingpins in the city. |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[AC:''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'']] |
| 260 | * In ''Fanfic/AshikabiOfThunderAndLightning'', Yukari attacks Minato out of jealousy immediately after he wings Akitsu. The next day, Takami explains to her daughter that she was astoundingly lucky Akitsu didn't kill her on accident. |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[AC: ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'']] |
| 263 | * Smith in the fic [[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]] ''was an idiot'' for torturing a detective with an inch of his life and gloating over the guy while he's dying. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Watson doesn't take to well to this.]] [[BigBrotherInstinct Really, really doesn't take too well it.]] It ends badly for the guy. Most likely Smith gets killed [[DeadlyDoctor with Watson's medical skills.]] |
| 264 | ** The captured criminal too. He [[VillainsWantMercy begs]] for mercy in having playing a part in what happened to Holmes. He gets [[TranquilFury coldly murdered]] by [[BewareTheNiceOnes Watson.]] BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed. Seriously. Watson ''might'' be [[NiceGuy very sweet]] but mess with his friend, though-he'll kill you. [[GoodIsNotSoft In cold blood.]] Basically, [[NightmareFuel he'll murder you]] if you ''really'' get him mad by messing with his friend. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[AC: ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'']] |
| 267 | * In ''Fanfic/ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript'', two Orcs laugh at [[GodOfEvil Morgoth]] being stupid enough to let someone sneak into Angband and make off with one of his Silmarils within Morgoth's hearing range. They never were seen or heard of again. |
| 268 | -->'''Morgoth:''' [slowly and ominously] --So. You vermin think it's funny, do you? |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[AC: ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'']] |
| 271 | * ''Fanfic/ADifferentWeaselMakesADifference'': |
| 272 | ** Oberyn Martell. Leading Dornish troops to war when Dorne and Aegon's troops weren't prepared to conquer Westeros? Well, maybe he thought Westeros was more vulnerable than it was. Splitting the troops because Connington was being an ass? Harder to defend, but if Connington was actively putting the Dornish troops in danger with his poor leadership, that's one thing. But his actions become less and less defensible, culminating in him evicting the lord of the castle his forces were holed up in to sleep with the man's wife. Stannis captures Oberyn and his forces while the Dornish prince is having an orgy. [[BackForTheDead In the final battle]], Oberyn gets himself and one hundred men killed in a reckless/desperate charge against the Wall Crusher, seemingly having not realized that he lacked enough force to break through the Others' army. Even granting that the defenders needed to prevent the Wall Crusher from firing, attacking it with insufficient men got them all needlessly slaughtered. [[SenselessSacrifice And then it fired anyway]]. |
| 273 | ** When the Others attack the Vale, Jon Snow leads an effort to burn as many of the corpses in the Vale as possible, but the Valemen object, believing the Others won't be able to raise bodies buried on consecrated ground. Jon tells them they are this. [[SubvertedTrope When the Others come, the Valemen turn out to be right. The Others really]] ''[[SubvertedTrope can't]]'' [[SubvertedTrope raise the dead buried on consecrated ground.]] [[DoubleSubverted But if that hadn't been the case, the Others likely would have won.]] |
| 274 | ** Daenerys tries to draw Lightbringer, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield but fails and is greatly weakened because she is not Azor Ahai]]. Undeterred by this, another ''seventy-nine'' random people try and all die horribly. It really shouldn't have taken that many failures before people stopped trying to draw it. |
| 275 | ** When the forces of the Vale were ordered to muster at Ronnel's Pass, Lord Lyonel Corbray refused and mustered his forces at his castle instead. He and his men didn't realize until too late that number of weapons they had that could harm an Other could be counted on hand; and they also didn't seem to realize that a dragon would have a bird's... er dragon's eye view of the battlefield and see them anywhere. CurbStompBattle really doesn't begin to cover what happens next. |
| 276 | * ''Fanfic/LetTheGalaxyBurn'': The Southern nobles really should have learned by now that the North is not to be taken lightly, but seemingly no amount of losses taken at the hands of Northern troops will teach them. The Ironborn are even worse; maybe ''don't'' launch a full-frontal assault on a superior force that's expecting you? Or do, it's not like dead Ironborn is a negative. |
| 277 | * ''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted'': |
| 278 | ** Before the story begins, Symond Staunton attempted to quell a riot armed with a troop of goldcloaks and his sense of superiority, and promptly got himself and his son torn to pieces. |
| 279 | ** Tytos Clegane regards Stafford Lannister and his friends as so incompetent and sheltered, having gotten their positions largely through nepotism, that their attempt at campaigning while ignoring veterans' advice will get them killed. [[spoiler:He is correct.]] |
| 280 | ** When the Greyjoy Rebellion begins early, Victarion Greyjoy announces his intention to sail home and fight for his brother while at Riverrun. He declares this while surrounded by Riverlands soldiers, and promptly gets arrested for his honesty. Later, he attempts to escape by throwing himself into the Trident while tied up, nearly drowns when the current is stronger than he expected, and as if to underscore his poor decision has a flashback of his mother calling him DumbMuscle. |
| 281 | ** [[spoiler:Glarus Glyn Glesai]] laments the number of people who think it's a good idea to hire an assassin and then stiff them on the fee. He had to kill four former employers because of this. |
| 282 | * ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'': One of Asha Greyjoy's men thought he was better with a knife than the others and that he could lecture them on taking orders from a woman. As explained by Asha's second, he died of stupidity. |
| 283 | * ''Fanfic/TheRavensPlan'': During the chaos in King's Landing immediately following [[PeggySue the Remembering]] occurring, Loras attempts to intercept the group, including Jaime and Barristan, that's trying to get Myrcella and Tommen out of the city to safety, and attack them. Again, that's Loras going up against Jaime Lannister and Barristan Selmy, two of the greatest swordsmen alive, ''at the same time''. Needless to say, he's killed in the attempt; everyone who hears about it afterwards admits that Loras was being idiotic and is the only one to blame for his death. |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[AC: ''Franchise/StarWars'']] |
| 286 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6873613/1/Food-Scandal Food Scandal]]'' someone decided to make money by tampering with the food they're selling to the military of the [[TheEmpire Galactic Empire]]. Worse, when troops from the ''Executor'' (as some of the tampered food had ended on Vader's ship) show up and he's identified, the culprit ''tries to kill the [=SciCorps=] officer that has just exposed him, '''in full view of a group of Stormtroopers that knows they would have eaten the tampered food had it not been discovered''''' (the only reason he survives is that the officer, who is there on Veers and Vader's authority, survives and tells the troopers that she needs him alive, and the Stormtroopers had their blasters set on stun at first). |
| 287 | ** When the tampering is first discovered by the [=SciCorps=] officer above both her shift leader and the chief of provisions blow her off because [[InterServiceRivalry it's food for the Stormtroopers]]. They're on the same ship of Darth Vader, who, upon finding out, kills them (one is bashed in the armoured wall plating hard enough to ''dent it''). |
| 288 | ** When she realizes what's going to happen, the officer tries to cover for her superior. Darth Vader can read minds, but lets her go with a warning of not lying to him due being the one who discovered the tampered food and was trying to do something about it to begin with. |
| 289 | ** Many [=SciCorps=] officers ostracized the one who found out the tampering and got two of her superiors killed by Vader, fully knowing she had Vader's full support. Worse, they continued even after Veers leaked to the Stormtroopers what had happened. Thankfully, Vader doesn't find out, so they get away with a beating from the Stormtroopers-who, in all their fury, aren't stupid enough to commit murder on the same ship as Darth Vader. |
| 290 | ** Ozzel expressed the same contempt as the [=SciCorps=] officers over the Stormtroopers, and openly complains they wasted time to track down people that had tampered food for the Stormtroopers. It's implied that this is part of what contributed to Vader eventually offing him. |
| 291 | * ''Fanfic/ImperiumOfVader'': Sate Pestage is stupid enough to suggest to Vader's face that Vader might have forged the Emperor's will (which names Vader as the Emperor's heir) and suggests that he should be Emperor instead. Guess how Vader reacts. |
| 292 | * ''Fanfic/RogerRoger'': That Neimodian commander really should have known better than to try to lecture Asajj Ventress. |
| 293 | * ''Fanfic/SupremeChancellorObiWanKenobi'': |
| 294 | ** Palpatine kills the assassin he hired to kill Obi-Wan after she failed ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness though he intended to kill her regardless]]). Despite knowing she's a skilled killer from the Hissleet Endai assassin guild and has been keeping her hands near her blasters for the entire conversation, Palpatine slowly strangles her with the Force while bragging about how helpless she is. Naturally, she shoots him and it's only pure luck on his part that he's merely seriously injured rather than fatally. Worse, the assassin fired her ''custom'' blaster any Hissleet Endai is issued to use to defend themselves from traitorous clients and ''embed them with nanomachines that make them easily identified'' so they can be avenged in case the traitor survives... So when the Hissleet Endai agent that was looking for her with Jedi Master Quinlan Vos is told the killer was a Sith Lord she ''gives the tracker to the Jedi'', knowing that while the Hissleet Endai can't avenge their fallen member the Jedi obviously can. |
| 295 | ** As Obi-Wan, now Chancellor elected to replace Palpatine, is comatose, Senator Halth, one of Palpatine's supporters, openly proposes to reinstate Palpatine, a move that is ''completely illegal'' and only succeeds into turning him into a suspect into the embezzling and corruption investigation going on against Palpatine and Mas Amedda and confirming Padme isn't one of Palpatine's toadies to the group that had got him ousted (who hadn't involved her because they suspected just that) when she shoots down Halth's proposal. Palpatine, [[NotMeThisTime who had]] ''[[NotMeThisTime not]]'' [[NotMeThisTime been involved]], is relieved he had no contact with the idiot in months and could prove it... And quite angry at the stunt ruining his timetable on finishing Obi-Wan off. |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[AC: ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'']] |
| 298 | * ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'' has Desaad, who knows that his merciless and powerful master ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} has absolutely no sense of humor and still makes jokes using his name to Darkseid's face. Desaad was promptly speared through his midsection and obliterated. |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[AC:''Literature/SwordArtOnline'']] |
| 301 | * Endemic in ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', which populates the titular game with the usual sort of idiots you'd find in any MMO: |
| 302 | ** Most players can't be bothered to listen to any sort of strategy session even though the game [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame is now literally a matter of life and death,]] and their best tactic to defeat bosses consists of "group up and hit it 'til it dies!" |
| 303 | ** Every time Kirito finds himself helping the GirlOfTheWeek, he ends up having to bail them out of trouble, leading him to complain "Am I the only one in this damn game who understands how [[DrawAggro aggro]] works?!" |
| 304 | ** Rosalia in Episode 4. When she and her Titan's Hand goons try to ambush Kirito, and her {{mook}}s note how unconcerned he seems and start to worry that they might be MuggingTheMonster, [[ConservationOfCompetence she dismisses their concerns]]. Her strategy is to deliver a BreakingSpeech which does reduce Kirito to a LaughingMad mess, but this doesn't change the fact that he's still so high-leveled that Rosalia's goons can't do enough damage to overcome his RegeneratingHealth. All she actually succeeds in doing is smashing ''several'' of Kirito's {{Berserk Button}}s, which turns out to be a fatal mistake. |
| 305 | ** When Kirito encounters Laughing Coffin, a small group of {{Player Kill|ing}}ers with a [[AsTheGoodBookSays "Jesus tells me to kill"]] conceit, he defuses the standoff by [[DoWrongRight advising them how to be better killers-for-hire]] and recommends they completely rebrand themselves with an ad campaign and full PR blast. Apparently they decided that this should also involve, as mentioned by Kuradeel a few episodes later, "sending an email with your exact location to every player in the game." Naturally, all the other players were very eager to pay them a visit. |
| 306 | ** [[IronicName Thinker]], leader of the Aincrad Liberation Front, agreed to meet a rival faction leader at a "peace talk" held in a dungeon. Unarmed. Without any teleport crystals. |
| 307 | ** Even [[BigBad Akihiko Kayaba]] is exasperated with just what kind of people are playing his game. |
| 308 | --->'''Kayaba:''' There's just no helping you people! It's like you crave death, but not just ''any'' death, nooooooo! You fuckers seem to have some kind of pool going to see who can end their existence in the dumbest, most avoidable way possible! ''And you just keep one-upping each other!'' Do you know how many of you have died screaming "LeeroyJenkins?!" ''More than zero!'' |
| 309 | ** Suguha does dip into this territory every so often. Let's just say you do not dislodge a muffin stuck in your throat by ''eating another one'', let alone eating the second so soon after the first even after it's cleared out. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[AC: ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'']] |
| 312 | * In ''Paternal'', a Spy (separate from the RED and BLU Spies) named Bane is on a mission to capture the BLU Scout on the Administrator's orders. His modus operandi is to corner Scout while he is alone. The past several times, he has only failed because someone else showed up to save Scout. So what does Scout do in Chapter 26? He goes out for a jog in the training room. Alone. At night. Without a weapon. |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[AC: ''Franchise/TouhouProject'']] |
| 315 | * In the ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'' series: |
| 316 | ** This is played with an age-regressed Reimu. On the account that she cannot sense danger and seems to have an inability to fear, the other characters tend to see her as this, as she is known to place herself right into danger and engage in something reckless. This is further exacerbated in that if told not to and the reasons as to why, she would do it anyway, especially in situations in which she should probably know better or otherwise have some common sense (like "don't put things in your mouth to see what it is", for example). What ''really'' doesn't help this is that, by being mentally conditioned and the results thereof, she doesn't have anything in her mind that tells her not to or makes her question anything, her reasonings especially. |
| 317 | ** This is PlayedForLaughs, in Baka's case, who is apparently stupid enough to fall for Reimu's tricks, the which involves him being tricked into sticking something in electric outlet. From what is said about that, he's fallen for it more than once and never seems to catch onto the fact that is why Reimu tricks him into doing that in the first place. |
| 318 | --->'''Ren''': "You are stupid as hell if you can fall for a child's mischief more than once." |
| 319 | ** In 20XXIII, there was Seija, who tried to get Yukari to kill the kids. While she doesn't die (right away, anyway), it doesn't end well for her, as Yukari flipped the tables, getting her smothered with a pillow, and then, after the others voted, getting three of her limbs cut off, before being gapped away. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[AC: ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'']] |
| 322 | * ''Fanfic/{{Katzenjammer}}'': Starscream is irritable and short-tempered enough on a good day. Having a hangover and being unable to stop himself from making a goofy sound every few seconds just makes his fuse even shorter. While Tidearrow finding the noise funny is understandable, he decides to mock Starscream about his current lack of coordination and insinuates that his threat to strip Tidearrow's bearings for spare parts is a DoubleEntendre, while Starscream ''already'' has a gun pointed at his face. Tidearrow ends up [[YourHeadASplode getting his head blasted to smithereens]] after he takes Starscream's [[AnyLastWords request for last words]] as an opportunity to comment that the Air Commander is terrible at performing some unknown sexual act. |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[AC: ''Literature/{{Worm}}'']] |
| 325 | * ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': |
| 326 | ** When Atropos publicly reveals that she was the one to kill Sophia Hess, she makes it clear that Sophia brought it upon herself. |
| 327 | ---> '''Atropos:''' She got warned twice, she ignored it twice. She died of stupid. |
| 328 | ** The Darwin Awards committee later rules that deaths resulting from ignoring a clear Atropos warning will be officially classed as "suicide" and thus not eligible for an award, although non-lethal humiliations could still qualify for Honorable Mention status. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'']] |
| 331 | * ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': When the Renegade protagonist [[spoiler: rounds up and kills the Light]], he's baffled by the fact that all the mooks keep throwing themselves at him as if it would accomplish anything. With two power rings and no [[ThouShaltNotKill rule against killing]], he's not even slowed down. In one woman's case, he even specifically gives her the option to walk away, after she sees him wreck the building and NoSell everything thrown at him. She still throws a knife at him and gets herself exploded. |
| 332 | --> '''Renegade:''' I just can't work these people out. They must ''know'' I don't care about killing them. Right? |
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