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10	Examples of TooDumbToLive in WesternAnimation TV series.
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16	* ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'': Aeon Flux is a ''literal'' case. Every time she's killed in the original shorts, it's either the direct result of her own stupid mistakes or because of some NecroNonSequitur. (Of course, the fact that she's killed so often is a satire of the invincible hero in more typical action fiction.)
17	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
18	** In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS2E22TheLimit The Limit]]", we meet the Hot Dog Knights, who are described by their own princess as being slow. When two of them (along with our heroes) are granted wishes:
19	--->'''Finn:''' Okay, so you guys should wish to get your buddies back right?\
20	'''Hot Dog Knight 1:''' I wish for a box! ''[a cardboard box appears]'' Sweeeet!\
21	'''Hot Dog Knight 2:''' I wish to blow up! ...I mean get big! ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOOM!]]''\
22	'''Finn:''' Wow, you guys are really stupid.\
23	'''Hot Dog Knight 1:''' What do you mean?
24	** In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS3E13FromBadToWorse From Bad to Worse]]", the candy people are turned into zombies and eventually infect Jake. Jake then seals himself in a "sciency shower" to prevent himself from infecting Finn and Lady Rainicorn. Finn and Jake both tell Rainicorn not to let him out of the shower. Care to take a guess what she does?
25	** "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS4E1HotToTheTouch Hot to the Touch]]" demonstrates that while Flame Princess is very powerful, she is not a very smart combatant. At one point, she ambushes Finn and Jake... and literally announces out loud "I am ambushing you!" If Finn actually wanted her dead (which he didn't), she most likely would be at that point. In fact, Flame Princess' strategy often involves being a LeeroyJenkins, as demonstrated in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E12VaultOfBones Vault of Bones]]", as she finds strategizing boring.
26	** In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E9AllYourFault All Your Fault]]", Lemongrab and his clone have turned ''all'' of the food that Princess Bubblegum has supplied them into living beings, then when Finn and Jake give them seeds to regrow their crops, they bring those to life as well, [[NeverMyFault so they continue to blame PB for their suffering]] and send their largest creation to attack the Candy Kingdom. Had PB not erased the life-bringing formula from their brains at the end of the episode, the Lemon Kingdom's population would be wiped out and the Candy Kingdom would be in rubble.
27	* In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' Jasmine is this in the episode "When Chaos Comes Calling" where she orders Chaos, a god-like being shown to be more powerful than Mirage (who herself is a powerful evil elemental capable of wiping Agrabah easily off the map without the heroes saving the day) to stop causing madness around the palace during a royal guest meeting. Although Chaos looks like a harmless silly blue cat with wings, Genie had explicitly warned her not to make him mad as he had "more power in his whisker than a palace full of Genies" and could grant his own wishes. To no-one's surprise, Chaos does not take being ordered around well and shrinks her to the size of an ant right under Aladdin's feet, who unknowingly endangers her life. Fortunately, she is brought back to full size due to Chaos' love for unpredictability. Jasmine should really have known better than to order around a trickster deity.
28	* ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' features the title character in addition to practically his entire kingdom. An evil ex-king is able to trick Julien into holding an election, and even when he admits to being evil, he is still able to convince the kingdom to vote for him with meaningless platitudes.
29	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
30	** Klaus claims to have invented the high-five, contrary to the belief that it was invented by Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker. As it turns out, Baker took the credit as {{revenge}} against Klaus and now seeks to take what little Klaus has left that he doesn't, which includes his German accent, the fact that he's a fish, which Baker achieves by wearing a fish costume in a giant fishbowl, and his ability to breathe underwater. He goes underwater with no diving equipment and drowns immediately.
31	** Stan revives a dodo bird using cloning technology from the CIA. The dodo constantly puts itself through situations that would end up killing itself (turning on the stove's fire after getting covered in flour, putting a loaded gun into its beak, etc.) with Stan constantly stopping every one. He ultimately fails when a thunder fries the dodo and turns it into dust.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
33	** Mindy has no self-preservation instinct and will follow anything she thinks is cute/interesting even if it leads her to an incredibly dangerous location (from a mail plane to a construction site to a volcano); her dog Buttons is the only reason she survives these incidents ([[LethallyStupid though he suffers a lot of brutal slapstick while keeping her out of danger]]). {{Justified\|Trope}}, considering she's three years old and therefore wouldn't know any better, and has pretty negligent parents as well.
34	** While many villains on the show prove to be gullible, a standout is Snow White from "Cute First (Ask Questions Later)". While she is hanging onto the castle for dear life after accidentally being knocked out of the window, Dot decides to call a vote for who the cutest is. She starts by asking everyone who thinks Snow White is the cutest to raise their hand. Snow White immediately raises ''both'' hands, falls into the moat, and is eaten by an alligator.
35	* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'':
36	** While most of the cast qualifies for the IdiotBall in some form, no one exemplifies Too Dumb to Live as well as Master Shake. Indeed, Shake repeatedly dies in many episodes (continuity is non-existent on the show), usually by his own stupidity. He has sliced himself in half with a katana, eaten a sandwich that he knew would send him to a hell dimension where an axe-wielding cyclops awaited to slice his head open, and has gone as far as committing suicide to ruin Meatwad's Ouija video game.
37	** Another sterling example of Too Dumb to Live is an episode where the Mooninites (usually actually fairly competent by the show's standards) are menaced by a monster that wants to eradicate them, and instead of doing anything to stop this, ''use it as the basis for a pyramid scheme''. At the same time as TheReveal that the monster was real, one of them gets a KarmicDeath for his stupidity and {{Jerkass}}ness when it squashes him, ''while he's trying to enroll it into the pyramid scheme.'' Truly epic instance of the IdiotBall.
38	** Shake once accidentally killed himself by eating a scorpion. He did so because Meatwad told Shake "I'll eat it. If ''you'' eat it." This was after Shake had stuck his hand into a beehive, [[ItMakesSenseInContext with the intention of the bee's venom making his hands larger, enabling him to play guitar better]].
39	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
40	** Cheryl Tunt nearly kills herself in "The Double Deuce" because Pam suggested it and only stops because dying would keep her from cashing in on the tontine. In "Crossing Over", she hooks up with Barry and asks him to [[EroticAsphyxiation strangle her]].
41	** Later, Pam eats tofu shellfish while at an all-you-can-eat buffet, despite the fact that she is fatally allergic to it. When told that she should stop eating, she keeps doing it. Later, she tries to con the Yakuza into buying counterfeit money for amphetamines. Instead of trying to sell the drugs, she just eats them.
42	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
43	** Zuko is pretty clever normally, but his HonorBeforeReason has a tendency to consume him. One of the biggest cases of this is in "The Siege of the North", where, in the name of capturing Aang and bringing him home, he infiltrates the Northern Water Tribe in the middle of a battle to kidnap Aang while the latter is in a spiritual trance. He pulls this off successfully--except that [[MissingStepsPlan he never got to the part of the plan where he escapes]]. Now, he's stuck at the North Pole and surrounded by enemies, so his only way out is to leave the city altogether and take his chances with the tundra. As a frustrated Iroh points out in a later episode, Zuko only survived because Aang's friends tracked him down, freed Aang, and took him with them out of mercy: had they ''not'' tracked him down, he would have died of exposure a few hours later, having achieved nothing.
44	** The (stunningly naïve) Earth King: fresh from having his EvilChancellor exposed as having deceived and manipulated him for years, he happily explains to the newly-arrived Kyoshi Warriors about the Day of the Black Sun invasion plan. Yes, they had a glowing endorsement from the Gaang, but even if the Warriors weren't actually [[TheDragon Azula]] and her sidekicks in disguise, The Earth King just openly blabbed about a major, secret military operation to a group of warriors he'd met literally seconds ago. And yes, this bites the good guys in the ass in a '''big''' way, later. Especially as the King clearly didn't bother telling them that the enemy knew because of him.
45	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'': Uniqua in the episode "Monster Detectives". The plot of the whole episode is [[GenkiGirl Uniqua]] keeps breaking most of [[DeadpanSnarker Detective Tyrone's]] rules while they look for the [[YouNoTakeCandle soccer monster]]. Despite Tyrone trying to get Uniqua to be serious and trying to be quiet so the Soccer Monster doesn't find it, she eventually is too curious to even bother looking for the Soccer Monster. For example, Uniqua saw and looked at the 4 trophies and eventually another trophy with Pablo on it, causing Tyrone to firmly snap at her, "Don't touch ANYTHING". This can prove that Uniqua, being the CheerfulChild she is, may be a ditz sometimes, but mostly, it's all in good pleasure. It is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], being that Uniqua is, 1: a curious little kid, 2: this IS a kid show, and 3: she doesn't know better. Poor Uniqua though..... And also, she gets turned into a Soccer Monster along with Tyrone himself. This happens to be a rare occurrence in a preschool show.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
47	** In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE27MadAsAHatter Mad as a Hatter]]", the Mad Hatter takes his secretary out on the town after a breakup. Somehow, she fails to notice that everyone serving them has an extremely conspicuous card reading "In This Style 10/6" on their heads (the Hatter's mind-control device), and fails to pick up on Tetch's crush on her until it's too late.
48	** In "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE1HolidayKnights Holiday Knights]]", the crowd of New Year's Day revelers don't see any danger in hanging around while the Joker works on something in plain sight right on center stage. They even put on the Joker-face masks he distributed, unconcerned that they might be poisoned or booby-trapped. Maybe they were [[AlcoholInducedStupidity just that drunk]]. This being several hours after he threatened to kill as many people as he could before the New Year. Alcohol or not, being anywhere near a man who has recently broadcast a terrorist threat against an entire city is just ''dumb''.
49	* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBoldS2E11ChillOfTheNight Chill of the Night!]]" retells the story of Batman confronting [[TokenMotivationalNemesis Joe Chill]] over the fact that Chill killed his parents. Like in the original story, Chill runs out to get some criminals to help him -- and reveals his role in the creation of Batman while doing so. Unlike the original story, though, where it was just goons, the criminals he tells this to are members of Batman's rogues gallery, including the Joker -- and in both stories, the people Chill tells this to don't take too kindly to Chill being the reason Batman exists, and while it's implied that the Spectre killed him, the rogues still tried to kill Chill first.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'':
51	** The stupidity of [[Characters/BeavisAndButtHeadTitularCharacters the title characters]] can reach extreme levels.
52	*** The most literal example of "too dumb to live" occurs when the duo take a driver's ed class. After watching a video about road safety, Butt-head practices driving... which means immediately flooring it onto a main road and driving headlong into a tractor trailer.
53	*** There's even one episode where they ''forget how to pee''.
54	*** In a wood shop class, Beavis cut his finger off with a table saw. It wasn't by accident when he and Butt-Head decided to slice up random things from around the classroom with the saw; it was because ''he just felt like touching the saw''. And when it gets reattached, he picks his nose with it ''[[EpicFail and it falls off again]]''.
55	*** Butt-head once got stuck after crawling inside a pipe. After taking the entire episode to get him unstuck (eventually having to resort to a rescue crew), Beavis ''went and got himself stuck in the same pipe''.
56	*** In one of the revival episodes, Beavis tries to [[CheekCopy photocopy his butt]], only to break the screen and get stuck. [[spoiler:After eventually being freed, Butt-Head suggests he photocopy his butt so they can see the damage done. Beavis immediately does and it gets stuck again.]]
57	*** If they weren't MadeOfIron, they ''would'' be dead.
58	** Harry Buddisker, the health inspector in "Closing Time", takes Beavis and Butt-Head at their word that the earthworms in the Burger World deep-fryer are "seasoned curly fries". He then eats them as he is shutting the place down for numerous flagrant health violations.
59	* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
60	** Darkstar has a moment in the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien episode'' "Couples Retreat". Saying that you want to take another girl as a trophy once you TakeOverTheWorld while within earshot of the girl who ''gave you your powers'' is not the best idea. Especially if the girl who gave you said powers is [[invoked]]TrueNeutral at best.
61	** The Vreedle Brothers ''personify'' this trope, so much so that they have actually been killed [[TheyKilledKennyAgain more than once]]. The best example comes when Octagon Vreedle launches a [[NukeEm nuclear fusion grenade]] at [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Ultimate Kevin]]. When told that it will blow up the entire space station that they're standing in, he replies:
62	--->'''Octagon:''' I did not fully consider that fact.
63	* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
64	** Honestly, how does Cricket manage to survive throughout the show? The kid has the survival instincts of a frickin' lemming. Seeing as how it's Disney though...
65	** Remy, Cricket's friend, falls into this trope in the episode "Tilly's Goat". Despite being extremely allergic to dogs, he insists on going to the local dog show and petting every dog there.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'':
67	** Steve Williams. Considering his colossal stupidity, it's astonishing he even manages to stay alive. According to "Two Weeks Notice", he has contracted ''multiple'' [=STDs=] from injecting himself with an unused syringe, eating a homeless man's sandwich in exchange for five bucks, and becoming blood brothers with a bunch of African tribe members.
68	** [=BoDean=] also counts; he is always shown shoving items into his mouth and [[EyeScream eyes]] as well as pointing weapons near his face. Even ''[[FatIdiot Bobby]]'' (his best friend) is a genius compared to him.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'':
70	** After the people of Targoviste were warned by a giant Dracula head made out of flames that they were to leave Wallachia within one year for killing his wife, the people not only ignore it, they actually host a celebration for the day she was killed. Dracula's coming sounds as angered as he is annoyed at the villagers' sheer stupidity as he releases an army of demons in the city. Driving the point home, after it has become public knowledge that demonic forces intend to kill every living being left in Wallachia, people go on their daily lives normally instead of running like there's no tomorrow or organizing any form of defense against them.
71	** Prior Sala, one of the {{Arc Villain}}s of Season 3, fatally stabs the Judge in the season finale. The Judge then tells Sala where he can find an escape route to get away from Trevor and Sypha. Sala questions why the Judge would help him, but when the Judge insists that he isn't lying, Sala believes him and tries to take the escape route. He ends up on the receiving end of the Judge's DeathTrap.
72	* The eponymous character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}''. Not only does he usually drive the plot along by either destroying something in stupidity or just by being incredibly stupid, but, well, apparently he's ''literally'' Too Dumb to Live without someone directing him. This is a guy who once thought the proper way to put away a spoon was to ''shove it in an electrical outlet'' after all (and judging from the marks it happened more than once).
73	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. Muriel and Eustace.
74	** Muriel is ''always'' fooled by the bad guys no matter how bizarre or obvious their disguises, even if said villain has menaced them before. There's one episode where she eats an explosive cyborg carrot missile... ''twice''. Though she does have her moments of clarity (ex. "Family Business").
75	** Eustace can be very stupidly stubborn in the face of danger. Like Muriel, he often blissfully gets in harm's way. Sometimes, Eustace is too stubborn to get out of harm's way.
76	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'', Dan cooks up a poisonous meatloaf to feed to the animals at the animal shelter because he can't sleep during the night. His friend Chris comes around and (without asking mind you) ''ends up eating'' the meatloaf even after Dan has told him about his plan. Chris ends up having to be hospitalized.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Dee Dee subverts this. Despite being the one who touches buttons, she does occasionally fix the problem, and it's NOT a good idea to make her mad by messing with her little brother.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'': Zeke, a malfunctioning robot who thinks he is a human, often strays into this territory. In "Rockin' in the Flea World", he chooses to ignore an alarm telling him that the Dogstar is flying into a black hole on the grounds that machines sometimes make mistakes.
79	* Also qualifies for Daffy in his portrayal of the title character from ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'', which has many a glaring example. One especially prominent one is when Dodgers decides he doesn't want to wait for the cadet to prepare blowfish and prepares it by slapping it around for a bit before ''taking a big bite out of the raw, unprepared blowfish with a 100% guarantee of it still being fatally poisonous.'' Don't worry, he only goes trippy for a while, if it were any other show he'd be dead already.
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83	* Two thirds of the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' trio show severe lack of intelligence that often ends with them in pain. Ed it's a wonder he can even function with his idiocy and Eddy due to his lack of [[DidntThinkThisThrough foresight]] and [[JerkAss attitude]] often goes about BullyingTheDragon
84	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
85	** Peter Griffin is a particularly extreme example, as demonstrated throughout the show's run. Gets a lampshade in an early episode where Brian tries putting out a fire, only to discover that the extinguisher is a prank item that sprays plastic snakes -- which promptly explode, exacerbating the fire. When the family comes back, Brian angrily demands to know WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to do such a thing; Peter responds "A man who cares enough about prop comedy to put his family at severe risk, that's who!" Justified in that the episode "Petarded" revealed that Peter has mental retardation.
86	** Brian's now-infamous temporary death is the result of standing in the middle of the street. In the episode "Our Idiot Brian", Brian discovers he has lost his intelligence, and he realises he is happier that way. Of course, he goes on to engage in life-endangering activities such as breathing car fumes with Peter. Stewie, concerned for his safety, manipulates Brian into [[StatusQuoIsGod getting his intelligence back]].
87	** Stewie of all people in the episode "Space Cadet". Near the end, Chris takes the family on a tour of a real working space shuttle at his space camp. After explaining that one red button launches the shuttle, Stewie runs in and presses it [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo "Ooh! Big red button!"]] launching the shuttle, coming very close to getting himself and his entire family killed. Later he even starts pressing other buttons without having a clue what he's doing and outright [[UnexplainedRecovery "killing"]] [[ButtMonkey Meg]]. What makes this example even more ridiculous is [[IdiotBall Stewie is the mad genius of the group]] and has been shown flying numerous aircraft and using various complicated high tech devices, and thus the one person in the family who should know perfectly well that you do not to press buttons on a vehicle you don't know the purpose of.
88	** In the episode "Dial Meg For Murder", [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends make the shortsighted decision to tease Meg, who has just been released from jail and has already been terrorizing her family, and pay for it when Meg beats them to a pulp.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'': It's honestly amazing that the denizens of Pontypandy ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' haven't gotten themselves offed, given how often the characters do something stupid that results in them having to [[CatchPhrase "call uncle sam]]" to bail them out of it.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
91	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} by Fry. Fry is so dumb that he lacks a certain brain function that even inanimate objects are said to have; ironically, it is the exact lack of this brain function that serves as a [[HandyShortcoming highly effective defense mechanism against extremely dangerous threats]] (i.e. threats that seek to destroy the entire universe) that are capable of reading minds, rendering him entirely invisible and mostly undetectable to them. It often falls to Fry as the only person in the universe who ''can'' save it, because his unique ability to survive against these threats derives directly from his being Too Dumb to Live. However, it's later revealed that he lacks this brain function (delta brain waves) thanks to having sex with the woman who turned out to be his own grandmother, as he so eloquently puts it. However, even with this in mind, his lack of a delta brain wave only protects him from threats like the Brain Spawn. Fry has still made many stupid decisions that nearly cost him his life:
92	*** In "My Three Suns", a BackAlleyDoctor tricks him into agreeing to remove his lungs in exchange for gills (the latter of which wouldn't be added for another week). He would have died if Leela and Bender didn't save him.
93	*** In "Fry and the Slurm Factory", Fry mentions having drunk 100 cans of soda a week back in the 20th century. It took him until his ''third'' heart attack to convince him to cut back.
94	*** In "T: the Terrestrial", while Fry is trapped on Omicron Persei 8, he eats what resembles M&M's, but is [[IAteWhat revealed to be Jrrr's poop]]. He is initially disgusted upon finding out, but continues eating them anyway, which ends up making him ''very'' sick.
95	** Zapp Brannigan is another odd case. He meets all the requirements except that his stupidity rarely hurts him personally. Even though the danger would be as likely to kill him as would anyone else in all but a few of the situations he causes through his epic stupidity/incompetence he always survives through dumb luck and/or heroically leading a retrograde advance while everyone around him (aside from the rest of the main cast... usually) dies.
96	** "That Guy", who, during the 1980s, suffered from a terminal illness called Boneitis. A drug company was about to come up with a cure, and what did he do? He arranged a hostile takeover and sold the assets. He ended up freezing himself until there was a cure, but when he was unfrozen, he forgot to cure it and died during a major business deal.
97	** In "Murder on the Planet Express", Dan [=McMasters'=] idea of a teamwork exercise was to pick up a hitchhiker and do a trust fall with him, which causes him to be eaten by the hitchhiker who was actually a shapeshifter. [[spoiler:However it's revealed that the events of the episode were staged and the shapeshifter was, in fact, part of the teamwork exercise, but he is killed by Fry and Bender after failing to convince them that he faked his death and that there was a pizza party in a secluded room, which is not really something you want to say to panicked and frenzied survivors who have had their trust towards others completely destroyed]].
98	** Amy Wong is easily tricked into doing stupid or downright harmful things (such as releasing Dr. Zoidberg from his restraints multiple times and not learning from her mistake; Bender even calls her a moron).
99	** Bender himself due to extremely low impulse control. As an example, he once, in short order: crashed a [[TheMafia Robot Mafia]] wedding, hit on TheDon's wife and both his daughters (one of whom was the ''bride)'', slept with his youngest daughter on the property, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking duplicated his meatball recipe]], and then, though fearing for his life after witnessing a mafia crime, tipped off the police because [[ComicallySmallBribe he was offered fifty dollars]]. He had to go into WitnessProtection over this.
100	--->'''Robot Devil:''' [[DealWithTheDevil Bender, would you like to make a deal?]]\
101	'''Bender:''' I'm not stupid! [[BaitAndSwitch So yes, absolutely]]. ''[signs contract]'' What have I agreed to?
102	* At the climax of the two-part ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' episode "There's No Place Like Springfield", Shipwreck steals a chemical the villains are working on (in their town base, called Springfield) that turns water into an explosive, and with Destro and a few mooks in hot pursuit, pours it down the drain of a lab sink. When Destro and the mooks break in, he holds a match over the drain, explaining that the chemical would likely blow up the entire base now that he's poured it into the plumbing system. Destro has a good laugh at this, and tells him a match isn't enough, and it would need something like laser-fire to ignite it; Shipwreck think's he lying and drops the match. Destro isn't lying. OhCrap. But then, the two mooks completely forget what he said, open fire on Shipwreck with their ''laser rifles'', missing, hitting the sink, and... Well, suffice to say now there really ''is'' [[LiteralMetaphor no place like Springfield.]]
103	* On ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', Goofy is this way several times, most obviously in the episode "Goof Fellas", where he mistakes TheMafia killing someone with a [[CementShoes cement suit]] for ''tailors'' and starts talking to them, which ends up not only putting his own life in danger [[LethallyStupid but also Pete's]].
104	* From ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Billy makes very poor choices thanks to his incredibly low intellect, sometimes his stupidity leads to his own demise. In one episode, after Billy turns his entire body into chocolate (to the point where he ''eats himself'', leaving him as a head), he's then taken to place where he can restore himself, but only if he can guess out of four objects of which one to eat with the last one that's clearly labeled ''Antidote'' right in front of him. Billy's decision? To eat all four objects at once, which results in him blowing up.
105	* In the Disney short "How to Have an Accident in the Home", ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' is the accident-prone protagonist showing off all kinds of ways to get himself hurt by being reckless around the house. This includes jabbing a knife into the still-connected and operating toaster while complaining "confounded infernal contraption", immediately before the inevitable ''ZAP'' and electric fireworks. Donald also appeared in "How to Have an Accident at Work", pointing out accidents caused in the workplace due to carelessness. Both episodes are observed by the embodiment of Fate, who points out that despite all the accidents being their own fault, [[NeverMyFault they choose to blame him instead.]]
106	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
107	** It is amazing how long the eponymous character has managed to survive, considering how often his idiocy has made things literally blow up in his face.
108	** GIR is a more extreme example, although being a [[MechaMooks robot]], he's easily repaired.
109	** As a matter of fact, the same could be told about the humans in this series in general. Seriously, a kid with [[PaperThinDisguise green skin, no ears, a weird uniform]] and [[LargeHam megalomaniac tics and mannerisms]], yet they don't suspect a thing. The [[OnlySaneMan only one to notice anything]] is Dib, and everyone just think he's talking nonsense. Dib's sister Gaz seems to know about the aliens, and has used their technology or helped save the world (grudgingly) before, but the thing is though she knows the truth, she just doesn't care. In fact, in one episode she outright states she doesn't give a damn what Zim is doing because he's way too incompetent to do any damage. ("He's so ''bad'' at it!")
110	* The titular ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''. Why else is Penny (and Gadget's dog Brain) having to help him from behind the scenes?...
111	* Most characters in ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' make bad decisions at some point, but usually those decisions are at least somewhat understandable. But a few stand out.
112	** [[BadassNormal Darkwing]] tries ''kicking'' [[spoiler:Omni-Man]] when he attacks the Guardians of the Globe. Darkwing’s projectile weapons had already proven at least somewhat effective in the fight, and he should know that getting into melee range with a NighInvulnerable FlyingBrick would end poorly for him. [[spoiler:He had just seen his friend Red Rush die]], but as the local ComicBook/{{Batman}} {{Expy}}, he should have kept his cool enough to realize that wouldn’t work.
113	** In the opening of episode 4, a cultist enters a tomb and resurrects an AncientEvil to spread death and destruction across the world. He seems genuinely surprised to be its first victim, as if he genuinely had no idea that the only reward ancient death gods give out is the eternal kind. Furthermore, the guides who brought him to the tomb knew about the AncientEvil, but they seem genuinely surprised that the cultist was there to resurrect it. What ''else'' would he have been there to do? Thankfully, Invincible just happened to be flying nearby enough to drop the door of the tomb back in place, or there would have been a bloodbath.
114	** In the opening of episode 5, several triad thugs try taking on Titan [[ShootingSuperman with guns]]. Already pretty bad, considering that they don't stop even after he shows himself to be immune to guns. But even worse are the guy who tries attacking Titan with a ''knife'', which even Titan seems incredulous at seeing, and the guy who tries shooting Titan from two inches away even after seeing bullets just bounce off of him. Titan doesn't even have to bother killing him; the bullet just ricochets into the thug's head.
115	** [[spoiler:In episode 7, several GDA soldiers attack Omni-Man in his house. Of course it wouldn’t end well for them, but they were intended as a HeroicSacrifice to stall Omni-Man while Cecil tried to contact Mark. What makes it Too Dumb To Live is that Omni-Man didn’t know the GDA knew he had killed the Guardians. He could easily have just assumed Debbie was still mad at him and Mark had yet to get back from his trip. The attack clued him in that the GDA was on to him. Cecil would have bought more time if he sent no one.]]
116	** In Season 2 Episode 5, [[spoiler:Komodo Dragon tears off and eats Rex Splode's hand. Rex's superpower is that anything he touches becomes a bomb, and even if one assumes he can't do the same to his own body parts, he was holding a coin. Do the math.]]
117	* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Finn, Ratso and Crow can be prone to this. Despite being elite enforcers of the Crime Syndicate, the Dark Hand, they can be overconfident, incompetent, and are often crushed in any fight involving the Chan Family. They even get themselves "killed" repeatedly in Season 3 after Daolon Wong transforms them into Dark Chi Warriors. After those defeats however, Daolon repeatedly resurrects them. It can be said that they're easily defeated as much as they are in this season so often because they're enslaved to do Daolon Wong's bidding, and are practically disposable.
118	-->''[attacking Jade, who has grown to the size of a {{kaiju}}]''\
119	'''Finn:''' You're going down, Queen Kong!\
120	'''Ratso:''' [[KilledMidSentence The bigger they are, the harder they]]-- ''[all three are crushed by Jade's foot]''\
121	'''Valmont:''' They ''didn't'' see that coming?! [[LampshadeHanging Honestly, why did I ever want them back?!]]
122	* ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverLandPirates'': Captain Hook frequently endangers himself and his crew in his blind pursuit of whatever treasure he's after for that episode. He also seems to never listen to reason, has no concept of compromise and brushes off Jake's attempts to convince him that something isn't what it appears to be as Jake simply trying to deceive him; in one episode, Jake and Hook's crews come across an ancient city that appears to be made of gold, but only looks like it because of light through a crystal making it appear that way. When Jake tells Hook the city's not really made of gold, he tries to dismantle it anyway.
123	* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest:'' At the climax of "The House of Seven Gargoyles", the two nameless thieves waiting to make an escape with mastermind Ivar once he arrives start shooting at the mini-helicopter carrying Race Bannon and Dr. Quest to keep them at bay. The problem with this course of action is that the thieves parked their mini-sub ''underneath an overhanging glacier''. Ivar desperately tries to stop them, but it's too late; the noise of their gunfire triggers an avalanche that buries all three of them, crushing and drowning them.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
125	** Franchise/{{Batman}} of all people has a Too Dumb to Live moment. In "Injustice For All", Luthor and his gang of supervillains brought in to fight the League do so once and escape; unbeknownst to them Batman has stuck a tracer on Luthor. Batman then [[IWorkAlone for some reason]] decides to head straight to the bad guys' new hideout and infiltrate it without calling for backup from the League or anyone else or even telling anyone where he's going. The result? He tries sneaking up on the villains playing cards only to get knocked out with a bag of rocks by Joker. It turns out they found the tracer and had been expecting him the entire time. If it weren't for the BondVillainStupidity of these villains Batman would have easily ended up dead. Doubles as an idiot moment in that Batman had no real reason not to at least tell the rest of the League where the hideout was if nothing else. However, unlike most who have lived through this trope, he actually ''learned'' from this experience. The next time he's walking into a set-up, he does call for backup.
126	** In the same episode, similar to his comic book counterpart, Luthor is discovered to be suffering from terminal cancer due to carrying Kryptonite on him for years in an attempt to keep Superman at bay. Had he taken the time to analyze it, like Batman had upon first coming across it, he would have realized that it was emitting low levels of radiation which, over time, would eventually be fatal to not just Kryptonians, but humans as well. Instead, he was so excited to have an edge over Supes, he didn't look any further into it. Naturally, upon finding out about his illness, [[NeverMyFault he blames it all on Superman.]]
127	** Desaad makes the mistake of calling one of Darkseid's endeavors "a fool's errand" in front of Darkseid. Darkseid doesn't take it well, and erases him from existence. And unlike [[DeathIsCheap in the comics]], death is permanent in this show, so Darkseid won't be bringing him back.
128	** In "The Once and Future Thing," one of the Jokerz, Chucko, decides to sell information on his boss, Chronos, to the Justice League. Chronos's ability? ''Opening portals through time.'' He really should have known Chronos would find out.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
130	** Stumpy the squirrel has done all sorts of stupid things and wound up getting killed (only to be brought BackFromTheDead), such as biting a live wire and shooting his own head off with a bazooka.
131	** If [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] wasn't [[NighInvulnerable indestructible]], he would have certainly died. For example, in one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack are playing "Red Light, Green Light" with the AxCrazy VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat. When Mr. Cat turns around, he fires a missile from a bazooka at the others. Kaeloo and Stumpy run away to escape. Quack Quack, on the other hand, stands in the path of the missile because the rules of the game say that he shouldn't move until Mr. Cat turns around again.
132	** Despite being fully aware that she [[BornUnlucky has terrible luck]], Violasse often puts herself into situations where she could easily be hurt or killed because she likes exploring. If it wasn't for her GoodLuckCharm she would have already been dead due to deciding to explore in dangerous places, facing circumstances such as nearly falling into a river of lava.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''
134	** Buckley is a literal example of this. After ignoring Hank's advice on how to handle propane tanks (despite the fact that Hank has had years of experience ''doing it for a living''), Buckley manages to blow up himself and the Mega-Lo-Mart.
135	** Debbie plans on hiding in a dumpster, waiting for a chance to kill her ex-lover Buck Strickland. After stealing his shotgun and grabbing some food, she places the shotgun in the dumpster since she doesn't want to put down her nachos. She climbs into the dumpster and steps on the trigger of the shotgun. Unsurprisingly, she kills herself instantly.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
137	** There's something WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck doesn't know that WesternAnimation/BugsBunny does in the Duck Season-Rabbit Season trilogy of cartoons. All Bugs has to do is manipulate a little of Daffy's syntax and Daffy's demand to get blasted in the face with Elmer's rifle will be granted. He virtually pleads for it at the near end of "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!":
138	--->'''Daffy:''' Shoot me again! I love the smell of burnt feathers... and gunpowder... and cordite! I'm an elk! Shoot me! It's elk season! I'm a fiddler crab! Why don'cha shoot me? It's fiddler crab season!
139	** In ''Bewitched Bunny'', Bugs wanders into the story of Literature/HanselAndGretel, where the title kids are found gleefully stuffing their faces with ice cream while sitting in a lidded roasting pan.
140	** In ''Streamlined Greta Green'', Junior races a train, crossing the tracks before the train can. Eventually, he runs out of gas and gets hit by the train before he can reach the other side. Immediately after he's fixed (and scolded by his mother for disobeying her), it happens a ''second'' time.
141	** In ''WesternAnimation/ADayAtTheZoo'', Egghead (Elmer's prototype) constantly teases a lion despite being warned by the narrator that it can only end badly. Eventually, the lion eats him alive.
142	** Wile E. Coyote is a SuperPersistentPredator who repeatedly tries to catch the Road Runner, [[ButtMonkey regardless of what hell he's put through trying to do so]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain (including dying at the end of a few of his cartoons)]]. While most of it is the result of the laws of physics being rewritten to make the coyote suffer, [[CutLexLuthorACheck you have to wonder why he doesn't give up and simply order food instead]].
143	** In ''WesternAnimation/DoughRayMeow'', Heathcliff the cat forgets how to breathe, puts live wires in his ears, and then almost dies after mistaking a stick of dynamite for a birthday candle. The ''only'' reason he survives is because Louie the parrot gloats about how Heathcliff can't take his million-dollar inheritance with him to Heaven, prompting his nine lives to dive back into his body.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': In one episode, WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam sings a song called "Stick to My Guns", which showcases all sorts of bad decisions he makes but sticks by anyway. Some of them aren't terrible, but others are ''extremely'' stupid (highlights include practicing yodeling in a grizzly bear's cave, wearing ankle weights while bullfighting, and declaring a vendetta on the mafia).
145	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': Arnold removes his helmet while the class is in the planet Pluto, thus freezing his entire face. Even if it's to prove a point to his [[AlphaBitch cousin]], removing your space helmet while you're on the surface of ''any'' planet not named Earth is a ''very'' stupid decision. Had this been reality, Arnold would've suffocated to death.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI8RPO87vSc This]]. That's right, Mega Man just took a bullet for ''a statue''. Said statue was that of Abraham Lincoln.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'': Tooley can't tell the difference between a "surprise party" and a ZombieApocalypse. Also when he tries to pet a hunter killer robot.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE43CrunchTheRockdog1 Crunch the Rockdog, Part 1]]", Danny decides to deal with the titular villain by walking up to the giant murderous dog that can turn anyone to stone with a touch and telling him to heel like a disobedient puppy. Quite literally the only thing that saves him is that Crunch is too busy rolling around in laughter before Megan runs in and drags Danny off.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]'s careless curiosity and naïveté has gotten her nearly killed more than once, such as when she gets herself thrown in the Conformatorium. She also tends to trust the wrong people, including [[spoiler:Philip Wittebane, who would later become Emperor Belos]]. Her survival is mostly linked to the support of her friends, family, and girlfriend.
150	* They don't call Dum-Dum on ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' that for nothing. In one episode he's in a hot air balloon with a binoculars case and he looks in the case. He says he can't see anything, so Clyde tells him to try taking the binoculars out first. Dum-Dum does that and still looks in the case saying it still doesn't work. Cue Clyde face-palming. (He was certainly the luckiest of the Ant Hill Mob -- Penelope kissed him twice for coming through on her behalf.)
151	* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls''' Mayor of Townsville. This even gets a LampshadeHanging in an episode where the girls get sick of "saving the day" which as revealed turned out to be mostly mundane tasks like screwing in a lightbulb, at which point they decide to take a vacation. But they can't get a break, having to walk the town through defeating a monster.
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155	* ''WesternAnimation/RabbidsInvasion'': If the Rabbids weren't NighInvulnerable, their entire species would have quickly died.
156	* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' pulls off some dumb stunts from time to time that put his well-being at great risk. Like eating the [=McFizzles=] even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continuing to eat the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours, which lead to him turning into a soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was ''green'' by the way, which caused him to fall under [[EvilTwin Evil Julian]]'s mind control, who then forced him to walk off and nearly fall down a cliff.
157	* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'':
158	** In "Eggscellent," Rigby tried to eat a giant omelette in order to win a hat, despite the fact that he is highly allergic to eggs. You can guess where that landed him in.
159	** In "Dead at Eight," Muscle Man constructs a water slide, then rides it without properly testing whether or not it's safe. He crashes into a tree, then Death shows up to take him away. Thankfully, Mordecai and Rigby were willing to do ''anything'' to keep him alive.
160	* Plenty of characters on ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' have made unwise decisions before, but some of them stand out by virtue of having lived long enough to make such decisions in the first place:
161	** The space snake in "Rattlestar Ricklactica" is the first snake of its planet to go to space as an astronaut. Its first instinct upon finding Morty, who is much bigger than itself, is to bite him in the ankle for no discernible reason, leading to Morty smashing its helmet open (which by the way has tiny holes big enough for its fangs to pass through, meaning it's ''designed'' to allow snake astronauts to bite people).
162	--->'''Rick:''' To paraphrase the great Creator/JeffFoxworthy, "if you bite your first contact on its ankle, you might be a [[JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit type-zero-civilization-neck]]."
163	** When one guy gets splashed with some of Rick's fake acid in "The Vat of Acid Episode", he thinks that means he's [[SophisticatedAsHell "impervious to acid".]] So what does he do? He goes on a talk show and gets himself dipped into a real vat of acid -- ''without even bothering to test it first.'' [[NightmareFuel The result is exactly what you'd expect it to be.]]
164	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
165	** The show parodied ''Series/TheHills'' and ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'' by putting three of the dumbest celebrities together. One of them drove the car off the road when he complained things were "too hard" and claimed the tires were flat. The other complained to the main dumb idiot that she was just jealous that she got Aaron ''the dumb driver'' and that things were also "too hard." Both idiots left in a huff. Finally, the third idiot couldn't get back into the car, and realized either the dumb blonde or the dumb driver had the car keys. Instead of going after them, she decided to go the completely OPPOSITE way.
166	** Another one is a ''Series/FraggleRock'' parody, reenacting ''Literature/WatershipDown''. The Fraggles are so stupid, they think moving cars aren't a threat, they don't recognize obvious traps, and ultimately are killed off since they made their new home under an oil well.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': In one episode, Otto decides that since he wants to go surfing but there aren't any waves that day, that he should instead surf in the local shipping lanes. Unsurprisingly, this turns out to be a bad idea; he's lucky to survive.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': In "Scrubbin' Down Under," Rocko gets a piece of spinach stuck in between his teeth, which doesn't come out even after brushing and flossing. Finally, he uses a jackhammer and winds up in the hospital.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': The titular characters have always put themselves in mortal danger during their adventures as a result of their naivety and cluelessness. It's only due to pure luck that they make it out unscathed. {{Justified\|Trope}} since they ''are'' only toddlers and [[AdultsAreUseless the adults]] [[LethalNegligence never bother to keep a close eye on them anyway]].
170	* While neither Franchise/ScoobyDoo nor Shaggy was known for his intelligence, and the inches-tall [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] tried to fight the monsters with his extremely tiny fists, none of them have anything on [[MeaningfulName Scooby-Dum]], Scooby-Doo's inbred hillbilly cousin. Scooby-Dum was literally too dumb to either run or hide, mostly having to be literally [[TheLoad dragged by Scooby-Doo and the others away from danger]].
171	* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' has characters who, if not meeting this trope individually, meet it as a team. Many episodes end in the destruction of the Sealab ([[NegativeContinuity continuity means nothing]]). To say that the Sealab crew being this is an understatement; they're Too Dumb to Save the World, as evidenced in the episode "ASHDTV" where they get a combination asteroid smasher and HDTV intended for Spacelab, and despite warnings of a giant meteor heading towards Earth, ignore the TV's asteroid-destroying abilities and keep on watching TV. The episode ends with [[EarthShatteringKaboom predictable results]].
172	-->'''Space Quinn:''' "What a bunch of freakin' idiots. Now they're all dead."
173	* ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'': Zeta flies around in a motorcycle that runs out of fuel without giving her enough time for a safe landing.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
175	** Homer Simpson. Citing one example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhrfhjLd9e4 the scene in "Homer Goes to College" where he sets his high school diploma on fire and sings about how smart he thinks he is while not noticing that the flames are spreading all over his house]].
176	** "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror":
177	*** Homer can (and will) be as stupid as he likes for the purpose of the {{Halloween episode}}s. Many other characters also tend to suffer a bit of a drop.
178	*** In "Treehouse Of Horror III"'s "Dial 'Z' For Zombie", Bart accidentally causes a ZombieApocalypse, and Ned Flanders lets some zombies into his house, thinking they're people needing help, and is promptly turned into one.
179	*** "Treehouse Of Horror IV"'s "Bart Simpson's Dracula" has Bart barely escape from a group of vampires, reach the top of the stairs, and then look at the lever that triggers the SurpriseSlideStaircase (which he already pulled) and decide to pull it again, just for fun.
180	*** In "Treehouse Of Horror XI"'s "Scary Tales Can Come True", when Bart and Lisa are lost in the woods after being abandoned by Homer, Bart decides to trust [[Literature/HanselAndGretel an old witch living in a candy house]]. Lisa, in a rare lapse in judgement, decides that Bart is probably right. The result is that they get chained up and forced to do chores while the witch plans to eat them. [[BullyingADragon She then makes fun of the witch for making up a fake boyfriend]][[note]]Who turns out to be real[[/note]], which almost got her thrown in the oven; thankfully, Homer managed to appear just in time to rescue them.
181	*** In "Treehouse Of Horror XIII"'s "Send In The Clones", Homer finds a hammock that can clone him and ends up making many ''who are dumber than him''. With the threat of Homer clones overtaking the USA, Lisa, in front of the real Homer, suggests the military lure all the clones over a cliff with giant donuts. It works. And when Marge is about to relax in the end, she learns her Homer is a clone. The real one ''was the first over the cliff''.
182	*** In "Treehouse Of Horror XVI"'s ""B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence", Bart decides to jump into the pool backwards... from the ''window'', predictably landing on the concrete. He's lucky to be merely knocked into a coma instead of killed outright.
183	*** In "Treehouse Of Horror XVI"'s "Survival Of The Fattest", [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Mr. Burns invites some of Springfield's men so that he can hunt them down]], [[MercyLead but allows them a 5-minute head start]]. Comic Book Guy, however, somehow thinks that's worse than ''getting hunted'', saying "Five minutes of running? Shoot me now!". Unsurprisingly, he's the first one immediately killed by Burns. The Blue-Haired Lawyer also counts for typing out a document that would allow Mr. Burns to get away with murdering them, even though he too is one of the people being hunted. He ends up being the second one killed.
184	*** In "Treehouse Of Horror XXIV"'s "Dead And Shoulders", Bart is flying a box kite at an airport and gets tired. He laments that he has nowhere to tie his kite and forgot to wear a scarf... then gets the brilliant idea of tying the kite string to his ''neck''. As a result, he gets decapitated when Arnie Pye's helicopter runs into his kite. Luckily, he manages to survive after his head is attached to Lisa's shoulder.
185	*** In "Treehouse Of XXVI"'s "Wanted: Dead, Then Alive", Sideshow Bob lures Bart into a trap with the intention of shooting Bart with a Harpoon Gun. Rather than make any attempt to trick Bob as he had done in the past, escape, or even make any real attempt to try to avoid being shot, Bart just mockingly dances [[BullyingADragon mocking Sideshow Bob for his past incompetence and even drawing an X on his forehead daring Bob to shoot him.]] Bart still doesn't get it after Sideshow Bob does actually shoot him through the chest. Bart continues mocking Bob for a few seconds before [[YouAreAlreadyDead finally realizing he's dead after Bob pulls his heart out with the Harpoon]].
186	** In "Bart Gets an Elephant", Homer got stuck in a tar pit. He first tried to pull out his legs with each arm, getting his arms and legs stuck. Then he tried to use his head to pull out his arms. Stampy was the only reason Homer survived.
187	** In "Homie the Clown" Krusty bet against the Harlem Globetrotters, which results in multiple assassination attempts on Krusty by the Springfield mob due to the resulting debt[[note]]For those who don't know, the Globetrotters are part of a choreographed halftime show and always win, except for one time in 1971[[/note]].
188	*** In the same episode, mobsters are trying to shoot Homer while he's buying a car and are such bad shots they shoot the car he's looking at instead of him, but instead of Homer or the salesman taking cover they just stand there while the car is shot dozens of times. Later on a similar thing happens while Flanders is talking to Homer and thus he gets shot instead, twice. Both times instead of taking cover Flanders simply stands up and explains that he had an item over his heart that saved him before finally deciding to get out of there.
189	** Frank Grimes in "Homer's Enemy" ends up this way, ironically after [[SanitySlippage driving himself crazy]] trying to prove how stupid and incompetent Homer is.
190	--->'''Grimes:''' Extremely high voltage? Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer [[KilledMidSentence Simp-]]"''
191	** Mayor Quimby in "This Little Wiggy" decides to put the fear into Springfield's criminals by sitting in the old penitentiary's electric chair, having the switch thrown, and pretending to be electrocuted live on TV. He takes it on blind trust that the power is still off rather than perform any kind of safety check. Only an extremely unlikely intervention[[note]]Bart, Ralph and Lisa launch a toy rocket toward the penitentiary with the note "The electric chair is on." It gets blown off-course and lands in Mr. Burns' office; he's annoyed to realize the penitentiary's been getting electricity and not paying for it, so he shuts them off.[[/note]] saves him from death.
192	** It's an outright miracle that Ralph Wiggum is alive, because the kid has no self preservation awareness. In one future episode, he has a bunch of clones who get killed in rapid succession because of various lethal mistakes (accidentally shooting himself in the head, getting run over a truck, crashing the same truck into a building, and setting fire to the clones in the back of the truck).
193	** Ralph's father Chief Wiggum is almost as dense, and exemplifies JugglingLoadedGuns to the point where he's the page image. He eats donuts off the barrel of his gun (then continues after accidentally shooting his hat), tries to kill a fly that landed on his nose with his gun, wipes his sweat off with a handkerchief that was supposed to help track down Milhouse (causing the police dogs to attack ''him''), etc. He miraculously never gets himself killed, [[LethallyStupid although his undercover men don't get off so easily]].
194	** [[TheAlcoholic Barney]] once charged a tab to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Burns]], and woke up in a landfill. Despite this, he claims it was worth it.
195	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E21TheFryingGame The Frying Game]]" introduces a species called the screamapillar, which is endangered presumably for this reason. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It screams loudly]], which attracts predators, and is stated to be sexually attracted to fire. Homer lampshades it:
196	--->'''Homer:''' Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead?
197	* ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'': {{Subverted}} when Mike and Charlie encounter the Croc Monster in [[Recap/SkullIsland2023S1E3WhatsUpCroc Episode 3, "What's Up, Croc?"]]. When faced with a distinctly alligator-like, semi-aquatic man-eating monster that just fatally ambushed a man in a river before coming ashore, ''who'' in their right mind would '''ever''' think that their best shot at escaping the predator is to dive into the river that it just came out of? Mike and Charlie are just lucky that it happened the Croc Monster ''was'' unwilling to hunt them in the water due to the risk of it getting caught up in the rapids as they were and carried down a nearby waterfall, ''and'' that there weren't any other Croc Monsters lurking in the river.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
199	** [[AdultsAreUseless Most of the adult cast]] qualifies but Randy Marsh takes the cake. Drives drunk with his kid and friends, purposely gets into drunken fights in little league games, gets Finland nuked off the face of the planet, is responsible for the death of his daughter's boyfriend.... His stupidity risks himself and [[LethallyStupid pretty much anybody caught in the line of his scheme]]. He also gives himself cancer just so he can get medical marijuana.
200	** At times, Eric Cartman as well (He shifts between being too dumb to live, and an EvilGenius). One notable moment had him filling his [=TiVo=] with stuff from the History Channel on the founding fathers, and building a device that drops him and the [=TiVo=] into a water-filled kiddy pool and electrocuting himself so he can have a flashback. Somehow it worked.
201	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' when Spidey apparently walks right into an ambush and gets pounded, Shocker uses these exact words to describe him. He's wrong though.
202	* ''WesternAnimation/SpyGroove'' has a minor GirlOfTheWeek named Bunny von Schneckle, a receptionist at a health spa. She leaves warnings for the agents about the episode's villain, the Contessa. That would be fine, but she not only leaves them where the Contessa can find them, but she signs her name at the bottom. No wonder she gets caught.
203	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick.
204	** Once, they were lost in the wilderness with nothing but a food supply, water, and a shelter. Patrick starts a fire... with the food supply! [=SpongeBob=] tries to put it out... with the shelter, which then Is destroyed. [=SpongeBob=] finally succeeds in putting out the fire... with the entire water supply. So, they've wasted their food, water, and shelter when they're in the middle of nowhere.
205	** Patrick once ate a Krabby Patty that had raw sewage in it, and [=SpongeBob=] once ate a rotten Krabby Patty complete with maggots and fungi.
206	** In "A Life in a Day," [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick did lots of stupid stuff. Among them: Patrick riding through a car crusher and [=SpongeBob=] making Patrick (and Larry the Lobster) fly into Ripper's Reef, a very spiky and deadly rock formation.
207	** In fact, most of the characters can qualify for this. Squidward once drove a vehicle off a cliff, Mr. Krabs sold his soul to many ghosts (and [=SpongeBob=]), and Sandy did lots of stupid stuff in "Pre-Hibernation Week" and "Squirrel Record" (like juggling a ton of chainsaws then throwing them everywhere).
208	** In "Imitation Krabs," Plankton put a one-cent self-destruct slot on the robot he was inside. He sums it up perfectly: [[DidntThinkThisThrough "Not one of my better ideas."]]
209	** "Dying For Pie": [=SpongeBob=], who ''completely'' looks past that Squidward just explained that the pie was a bomb and still suggests that they eat it anyway. He then trips over a pebble, accidentally sending the pie flying into Squidward's face, blowing up all of Bikini Bottom in the process. Squidward as well, for knowingly buying a pie explicitly said to be a bomb by the pirates, and taking their word for it when they say that they were [[JustJokingJustification just kidding]] as they con him out of a fast buck, although Squidward probably didn't care enough to think twice and only wanted to get Mr. Krabs off his back.
210	** In "Tea At The Treedome", Patrick doesn't realize [=SpongeBob=] is dying inside the treedome until he goes in there himself and almost dies as a result.
211	** In "SB-129", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's Precambrian ancestors repeatedly attempt to play catch (or Hot Potato, or whatever it is) with a jellyfish, barehanded; Squidward intervenes to teach them how to jellyfish mostly because their agonized screams are disrupting his clarinet-playing. You COULD make the excuse that they were cavefish with undeveloped brains, so they don't know if it's wrong or right, but even then you’d expect them to have basic self-preservation skills.
212	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'':
213	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E05CupidsErrantArrow Cupid's Errant Arrow]]": The plan to destroy an unstable moon is complicated by the fact that the inhabitants of Mixtus III don't seem to understand that their moon's orbit is decaying and will crash into their world, and care more about petty political and social ramifications. The representative of Mixtus II is genuinely concerned that the absence of the moon will expose his planet to deadly radiation and kill them all, until he reveals near the end that "all" comprises just him and his wife. One group objects because they lived on that moon for generations, ignoring how the moon is already falling apart and was going to crash into the planet, which would also destroy their homes.
214	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E04MugatoGumato Mugato, Gumato]]": The "renowned biologist" Patingi, who has five books on mugatos... that is, he's read five books on them, and thinks that this is enough to enable him to move among the dangerous predators. He gets his head bitten off in his second scene.
215	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E06TheSpyHumongous The Spy Humongous]]": Rumdar, [[OvertOperative the highly incompetent Pakled spy]], ends up mistaking the airlock for the bathroom and "flushing" himself into space.
216	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
217	** The Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nachkt. You'd think the guy would be smart enough to not be rude to a psychotic, eight-foot-tall {{cyborg}} who could use four lightsabers at once, like [[HeroKiller General Grievous]], but, apparently, he was not.
218	** ARC trooper Echo is this in the Season 3 episode "Counterattack". He charges right to the shuttle they were supposed to protect, while a Commando Droid fires a turret at him and he takes cover under the shuttle, only to be blown to smithereens, taking away the group's one-way ticket out.
219	* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', the protagonists suffer this in a big way. A prime example would be in the first episode, when they hear from secondhand sources that their father wants them to meet him at an abandoned power plant. No reason is given for this, he just wants them to, apparently. They predictably get kidnapped and, one bout of PlayingWithSyringes and seeming death later, wake up in a river. From there, they decide to ''get lunch'', instead of seeing the police about the guy with the dangerous mutants who kidnapped and experimented on them and heavily implied he did something equally nasty to their dad. Or, you know, go to the hospital and get checked up in regards to the unknown substances injected into their bodies. This trope seems to be genetic. The first episode also has their dad confront the BigBad in a remote location at night, without telling anyone where he was going or bringing any means of defense. To the surprise of no one, this sets up for a perfect HeKnowsTooMuch scenario, and leads to him being missing in action for the rest of the show's run.
220	* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' episode, "Volcano", had the captain of an alien ship that crash-lands into an active volcano. Despite the fact the ship and crew are in dire peril of sinking into the magma, he refuses to accept the help of native superheroes because they may be "dangerous".
221	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
222	** ComicBook/LoisLane. She's put herself in danger multiple times, but at least usually she didn't know how dangerous it was or at least ''tried'' to take some kind of precaution. But in “Target”, she's being targeted for murder. She knows how dangerous her unknown enemy is and she's actually under police protection. During a phone conversation with Clark she suddenly realizes who the attempted murderer is. What does she do? She sneaks off to confront them face to face. While Clark and everyone else still think she's under police protection. If it hadn't been for Luthor just happening to call Clark to give him a vital piece of information she would have been dead by the end of the episode.
223	** Leslie Willis. She was a ShockJock and DumbassDJ who decided it would be a good idea to host a concert ''during a thunderstorm''. The police, her producer and Superman warn her about doing this, yet she refused to listen to them and encouraged the crowd to attack the cops. Leslie ends up getting hit by lightning and transforms into Livewire. Upon recovering in a hospital, [[NeverMyFault she blames Superman for getting her electrocuted]].
224	* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
225	** [[GoingForTheBigScoop April O'Neil]] in the 1987 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 TMNT]]'' series. From Season 2 onward, Shredder et al. know where she lives. Yet, despite being kidnapped constantly, she never moves.
226	** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 series]], Timothy, a.k.a. "The Pulveriser", who refuses to listen to the turtles when they warn him that exposing himself to the Kraang mutagen is a seriously bad idea. So he deliberately mutates himself... and becomes [[BlobMonster Mutagen]] [[BodyHorror Man.]]
227	** The 2012 version of Michelangelo plants him firmly in this territory for the same reason. Similar to Timothy, he exposes himself to a can of mutagen on purpose, which causes his already mutated cells to start breaking down and eventually run the risk of killing him, forcing his brothers to look for a cure. Donatello had even planted warnings on the can that it was too dangerous to use, but Mikey had only looked on one side of the can that didn't have any labels.
228	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
229	** Robin has just had a fight with a shapeshifter who can impersonate anyone. And then she pops up and is like, "Hi, I'm totally Hotspot." He gives her his communicator without questioning whether it's really his friend. This nearly leads to all of the Teen Titans being frozen (NeverSayDie).
230	** In "For Real", Control Freak sets up five disasters to "test" the Titans East, confident that they can't do as well as the "real Titans". But they pass the tests with flying colors and save the city, so much that they become heroes in the eyes of the populace, and Control Freak can't help but teleport himself right in front of them to congratulate them... At which point they quickly arrest him. (Speedy says it best: "I can't believe the bad guy just zapped himself in front of us.")
231	* ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'': Many of the wizards Thundarr battles contribute to their own demises, but Vashtar, the villain of the episode "Prophecy of Peril", is the absolute worst. When Vashtar learns of a prophesy that three specific women will join forces to defeat him, he tries to stop them. One of the women is a fashion model from the 20th century, thousands of years before Vashtarr's time. First he time travels to the past to kidnap her; if he hadn't she would have died centuries before he was even born. Then, once he has captured her, instead of killing her he locks her in a cell that she escapes easily despite having no powers or relevant skills. Afterwards, she meets the other two women and strips him of his powers, but if had either left her alone in her own time or either killed or properly secured her when he had the chance he never would have been defeated.
232	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
233	** Starscream tries to assert his authority over an Insecticon which was big enough and strong enough to snap him in half, and smacks it to obeying him. The Insecticon does not oblige and would have ripped Starscream apart if not for Airachnid's arrival.
234	** Earlier Starscream managed to let slip that he was the one who killed Arcee's partner Cliffjumper while as her prisoner. He JUST managed to limp away with his head intact.
235	** Tops himself in the last season when he is put in charge of training Predaking. His idea of "training" consists of whacking the incredibly powerful robot dragon's face with a metal rod. At one point Predaking makes him into a literal chew toy, which Starscream only survives because he is wearing the Apex Armor. When Predaking reveals his robot mode (right after Starscream hit him with the rod ''again''), the first thing he does is to warn Starscream that he will bury that rod in Starscream's spark the next time he hits him. At the end of ''Predacons Rising'', Predaking eventually makes good on his threats to pay back Starscream for all of the beatings and humiliations he endured.
236	** Screamer can't seem to learn from his past failures. In the movie, he and Shockwave are creating '''MORE''' Predacons to fight against the Autobots. And once again, they aren't programmed to be loyal to him.
237	* Hank and Dean from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' In fact, they ''truly are'' Too Dumb to Live: the show reveals that [[spoiler:they have both died 14 times, mostly due to their own incredible stupidity. Describing them as "death-prone", their father keeps a few [[ReplacementGoldfish clones]] growing in the lab as a precaution.]]
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