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| 11 | Some animated film characters' actions can get so dumb, one might wish for the directors to re-write the script in order for the character to get it "right". |
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| 15 | [[index]] |
| 16 | * WhatAnIdiot/DisneyAnimatedFilms |
| 17 | * WhatAnIdiot/DreamWorksAnimation |
| 18 | * ''WhatAnIdiot/TheLoudHouse'' (including entries from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouseMovie'') |
| 19 | * WhatAnIdiot/{{Pixar}} |
| 20 | ** ''WhatAnIdiot/{{Ratatouille}}'' |
| 21 | [[/index]] |
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| 23 | !!Individual examples: |
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| 27 | [[folder: A-F]] |
| 28 | * While en route to America in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel Mousekewitz, separated from his family, finds himself at the bottom of a staircase leading outside. The ship they're on is sailing through an intense storm, and water pours in down the stairs through the open door, bringing fish with it. While the sight of fish piques his curiosity, getting closer obviously isn't safe.\ |
| 29 | '''You'd Expect:''' Fievel to just backtrack and rejoin his family, content with seeing the fish that just washed in.\ |
| 30 | '''Instead:''' Fievel wants to see ''more'' fish and throws his hat up to the doorway to provide an excuse to go check it out, even as his alarmed father arrives and repeatedly tells him to stop and come back. When he looks outside, Fievel realizes his mistake, but still goes for his hat as it falls out the door.\ |
| 31 | '''The Result''': Fievel gets caught out in the storm and eventually thrown overboard. He ultimately survives and makes it to America, but loses contact with his loved ones until the last few minutes of the movie. |
| 32 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'': |
| 33 | ** In the opening, a revolution happens that leads to all the Romanovs getting shot offscreen. Only Dowager Empress Marie and her granddaughter Anastasia make it out of the palace alive. After a terrifying grapple with Rasputin, they make it to the train station and plan to leave the country.\ |
| 34 | '''You'd Expect''': Marie would keep a tight grip on her granddaughter in the middle of this political upheaval. They nearly died, after all.\ |
| 35 | '''Instead''': In the bustle of the train station, Marie loses her grip on Anastasia's hand.\ |
| 36 | '''The Result''': She makes it onto a departing car, but Anastasia doesn't. |
| 37 | ** Anastasia's trailing the train and trying to catch up. Marie manages to grasp her hand, telling her not to let go.\ |
| 38 | '''You'd Expect''': The other people on the train would help an old lady pull her granddaughter abroad, forming a ChainOfPeople. One is holding Marie securely to make sure she doesn't fall.\ |
| 39 | '''Instead''' They watch.\ |
| 40 | '''The Result''': Marie isn't strong enough to hold onto Anastasia, who falls, hits her head, and passes out on the train station platform. All Marie can do is scream her name as the passengers keep her from jumping and getting injured in turn. It takes ten years for her to reunite with her grown granddaughter, who now goes by the name of Anya and doesn't even remember much of her childhood due to said TapOnTheHead. |
| 41 | * ''Videogame/AngryBirds'' tells the story of a group of birds fighting pigs over eggs. |
| 42 | ** According to [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie the movie]], the reason for this is a prime case of stupidity. At the film's start, the birds are living peacefully on their own when the pigs arrive on their island in a boat. Leonard, their leader, disembarks with his assistant, and claims that it's just two of them: in fact, he has a whole army of pigs waiting to steal the birds' eggs.\ |
| 43 | '''You'd Expect:''' The birds to quiz Leonard on the subject as much as they can. If they find out his true intentions sooner, they can send him away and everything's rosy.\ |
| 44 | '''Instead:''' All of the birds (except [[OnlySaneMan Red]]) welcome the pigs ashore unaware of their intentions. For an extra shot of stupidity, Red is ignored over his concerns just because he's an outcast. The pigs then manage to pull their heist off by distracting most of the birds, forcing Red to unleash their anger in order to get the eggs back. It's not called 'Angry Birds' for no reason! |
| 45 | ** Of course the pigs can be equally stupid. While they steal the eggs from birds, they also lay ruin to the town.\ |
| 46 | '''You'd expect:''' That they either destroy the slingshot they gave the birds or take it away.\ |
| 47 | '''Instead:''' They leave it alone.\ |
| 48 | '''As a result:''' The birds use it to break into the pigs' city to get the eggs back, which ultimately leaves the city in shambles and Leonard humiliated. |
| 49 | * ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954'': While the animals are busy fighting against the invading farmers, Jones sneaks into the windmill, fills it with explosives, and then sets it on fire. \ |
| 50 | '''You'd Expect:''' Jones to get away from the windmill as fast as he can.\ |
| 51 | '''Instead:''' He stops to drink a bottle of wine and the windmill explodes. We never hear from Jones again. |
| 52 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' |
| 53 | ** [[TheHero Balto]] and his fellow sled dogs are trying to deliver medicine to sick children. Unfortunately, [[BigBad Steele]], the leader of the dogs, and Balto's rival, loses his way. Balto manages to find a surefire way to get back to Nome.\ |
| 54 | '''You'd Expect:''' Steele to refrain from looking a gift horse in the mouth, just follow Balto back to Nome and use his ManipulativeBastard cred to downplay his involvement and still get a sizeable chunk of the glory and his reputation otherwise untarnished.\ |
| 55 | '''Instead:''' Steele's pride and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] clouds his judgement to the point where he decides that if ''he'' can't deliver it to them, [[IfICantHaveYou the medicine won't reach the kids at all]]. He picks a fight with Balto, but loses and gets separated from the rest of the team. In anger, he sabotages Balto's trail markings to get the group lost, and then makes up a story about their supposed deaths. He seems not to know (or care) about the black mark that failure to get important medicine would have left on his reputation even if his plans to get the group killed ''had'' worked[[note]] [[BrokenPedestal to say nothing of what actually happens]][[/note]]. |
| 56 | ** Steel gets another one when trying to convince Jenna that Balto was dead.\ |
| 57 | '''You'd Expect:''' Steele to word his story to claim that he promised Balto that he would take care of Jenna.\ |
| 58 | '''Instead:''' Steel claims that Balto made him promise to take care of Jenna. This causes her to realize that he is not telling the truth. |
| 59 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' |
| 60 | ** In the near future, Joker returns spry as ever, while Bruce Wayne has retired and Terry [=McGinnis=] has taken over as Batman. Bruce and Barbara Gordon insist that the Joker is dead, and Terry understandably wants to know why. He also wants to know how to save Gotham.\ |
| 61 | '''You'd Expect''': For Bruce and Barbara to explain to Terry immediately what happened with the Joker as soon as possible: [[spoiler:that Joker and Harley Quinn kidnapped and tortured the second Robin, Tim Drake to insanity; Tim while ordered to shoot Batman either shot the Joker instead (uncut version) or threw the gun and tackled the Joker, causing him to get drenched in water and tangled in cables before tripping and grabbing a switch and inadvertently electrocuting himself (edited version), but either way not before he had been forced to reveal all of Bruce's secrets]]. When Terry does hear the story, much later, he's shaken but able to think about it logically. He also asserts to Bruce that he's not like any of the Robins.\ |
| 62 | '''Instead''': Bruce makes Terry quit as Batman for fear that the Joker will kill Terry in the suit, and Barbara keeps mum while talking to a grown-up [[spoiler:Tim Drake]]. Joker then proceeds to attack a defenseless Bruce in the Batcave, and send his new gang against Terry in civilian identity, because he figured it out. Terry fends them off, but his girlfriend Dana gets injured during the confrontation. Terry then barely arrives in time to save Bruce, who ends up bedridden for most of the third act. |
| 63 | ** The flashback shows how Robin became traumatized. As Barbara explains it, he went missing for three weeks after a solo patrol night goes wrong. (For context, Harley Quinn got the jump on him while disguised as a DecoyDamsel.) Then Joker sent them a message via an exploding jack-in-the-box: an Arkham jumpsuit. Both Batman and Batgirl go OhCrap because the old Arkham was decommissioned and retired, owing to structural issues.\ |
| 64 | '''You'd Expect''': Batman and Batgirl would go with backup from GCPD. As we find out, Commissioner Gordon helped cover up what happened that night, and they've worked with the police before in the previous series. He has a soft spot for the Robins, and he treats Tim like his nephew when the latter is sitting in on criminal meetings. Not to mention that the old Arkham is unstable owing to how the foundations are crumbling. Having some backup on hand would ensure that Joker is not getting away this time.\ |
| 65 | '''Instead''': They go alone, with not even Nightwing coming to rescue his kid brother. Note that Joker didn't even specify it just had to be the Bat-family; all he did was send the uniform so there was no reason for it to simply be Barbara and Nightwing. [[spoiler:Joker and Harley are able to set the scene for their new "family" and explain how they tortured Tim, making him into a Joker Jr.]]\ |
| 66 | '''The Result''': [[spoiler:Joker is able to get the jump on Batman by triggering his PapaWolf instinct, and Bruce for the only time ever attacks Joker with murderous intent. He reveals that he intends for Tim to shoot Batman while brainwashed, after successfully stabbing Batman in the leg and seemingly breaking his spirit. Harley's attempts to blow up Barbara with a bazooka go wrong when a misfire sends them shooting down the depths of Arkham Asylum, and her costume sleeve rips when Barbara tries to lift her up to safety. While Barbara knows that Harley is alive, owing to the fact that neither Batman nor Batgirl found her body, she might have been safely arrested with the police force available. Not to mention that when Tim ends up shooting Joker instead, he remains traumatized from what happens and starts sobbing uncontrollably, when having a cop there to hold Joker at gunpoint might have prevented things from escalating that far. ]] |
| 67 | ** In the climax of the movie, Joker has seemingly incapacitated Batman. There is a problem for him: Terry brought backup in the form of Ace the Bathound. [[spoiler:This leads to the satellite getting damaged, sending the beam to their location. When Joker tries a VillainExitStageLeft, Terry stops him and says that he's turning Joker into GCPD, and every armed police officer is on their way thanks to Terry transmitting the location of the Jolly Jacks factory to Barbara Gordon.]]\ |
| 68 | '''You'd Expect''': Joker to warn Batman that if he brings him in, then Tim would be the one getting in trouble, and Tim's body may not be able to survive repeated blows from the Batsuit. Terry has no way of knowing that Barbara would be able to cover up for Tim, so it's a legitimate worry. Then Joker could try the same "eye on the other hand" trick or some misdirection to plain up kill Terry rather than keep him alive long enough to watch the mayhem that will hit Gotham in a matter of minutes.\ |
| 69 | '''Instead''': Joker scoffs that because he has Tim's body and training combined with the nanotechnology, Terry doesn't a chance against him.\ |
| 70 | '''The Result''': Terry seals the doors and kills the lights; he notes that Joker is tough but he has one weakness: the fear that no one finds him funny. After all, every comedian hates a heckler, and Terry pinpoints that Joker wanted to make Batman laugh. So he grabs Joker's joy buzzer and starts laughing about how pathetic he is, waiting for an opening to undo the microchip. |
| 71 | ** Harley Quinn has [[spoiler:retired from crime, following the terrible night where the Joker died and she assisted in torturing young Robin into becoming the Joker's "son"]]. She went on to have children, and [[spoiler:grandchildren who are implied to know about her past]].\ |
| 72 | '''You'd Expect''': Her grandchildren to have learned from Harley's mistakes. Harleen Quinzel, from what we know, she is a permanent fugitive who had to live in fear of the law, [[spoiler:and her own guilty conscience now that she knows what it's like to have the worries Batman must have felt on seeing Tim Drake broken]].\ |
| 73 | '''Instead''': [[spoiler:The Dee Dees]] become members of a Jokerz gang. A Jokerz gang that happens to belong to the actual Joker, who has seemingly returned from the dead.\ |
| 74 | '''The Result''': Batman has to beat up the girls several times, once in costume and once in civilian guise. [[spoiler:They end up in jail, and Harley has to bail them. She is furious, while they in turn point out her hypocrisy.]] |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' |
| 76 | ** Jason Todd was murdered by the Joker, [[spoiler:and then revived by a Lazarus Pit.]] Since then, the Red Hood's gone on a spree to control all the drug lords in Gotham, and to avenge his murder. This means he finally catches the Joker, and then beats him brutally with a crowbar, [[spoiler:the way he was beaten. Jason wants more than that, however; he wants Batman to murder the Joker]].\ |
| 77 | '''You'd Expect''': The Red Hood to realize that Bruce will never break his code in such a fashion. He can beat the Joker to death, or shoot or stab him, [[spoiler:and then call out Bruce for leaving the clown alive. That means Mr. J will be in no position to come back and do his JokerImmunity thing]].\ |
| 78 | '''Instead''': The Red Hood leaves Joker barely alive after beating him up, and calls out Bruce for sparing him. Batman points out the reason why he hasn't: much as he would want to tear the Joker apart, going down that route means it would get easier to kill criminals. What's more, he's not the judge, jury and executioner. [[spoiler:Jason then offers Batman a sadistic choice: shoot the Joker, or shoot Jason to stop the latter from killing Mr. J]].\ |
| 79 | '''The Result''': Batman goes TakeAThirdOption and uses his Batarang [[spoiler:to disarm Jason. It also means that Joker survives to the end of the movie]]. |
| 80 | ** Black Mask displays a serious case of ThirdActStupidity after [[spoiler:he's almost killed by the Red Hood.]]\ |
| 81 | '''You'd Expect''': Black Mask would hire a skilled assassin with a code of honor such as Deathstroke or Deadshot to take out the Red Hood.\ |
| 82 | '''Instead''': [[spoiler:He reluctantly hires [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the Joker.]]]]\ |
| 83 | '''Predictably''': [[spoiler:the Joker betrays Black Mask and tries to kill him and his associates, fortunately he's saved by Batman.]] |
| 84 | * ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'': |
| 85 | ** The Toa Metru find Metru Nui covered in webs and Whenua tells them it was done by Visorak (which are giant spiders) and there are lots of them in Metru Nui.\ |
| 86 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Vakama use his mask power (which is invisibility) to launch a surprise attack.\ |
| 87 | '''Or:''' Onewa to use his mask power (which is mind control) to mind control the Visorak into leaving them alone.\ |
| 88 | '''Instead:''' Vakama just assumes they won't be a problem and continue on their path.\ |
| 89 | '''Result:''' The Toa get captured and brought into cocoons by the Visorak.\ |
| 90 | '''Then You'd Expect:''' Nuju (who has telekinesis) to take them out of the cocoons and leave.\ |
| 91 | '''Instead:''' He doesn't do anything.\ |
| 92 | '''Result:''' The Toa get mutated into Hordika (which are half-beast Toa). |
| 93 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!)]]''. During the chateau fire sequence, Linus and the Baron's daughter are trapped on a window ledge. Linus throws down his blanket, telling the gang they can use it as a makeshift life net. The Baron's daughter jumps off the ledge and lands on the blanket safely.\ |
| 94 | '''You'd Expect:''' The gang to catch Linus with the blanket.\ |
| 95 | '''Instead:''' '''They take off without the blanket, leaving Linus on the ledge!''' Snoopy does save him by dragging a SoftWater pool underneath the ledge but still... |
| 96 | * The major plot points of ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToasterToTheRescue'' are set in motion due to Rob lacking any sort of common sense. |
| 97 | ** Rob has a 600-page thesis that he is set to turn in the following day. He literally cannot graduate unless he gets this thing turned in.\ |
| 98 | '''You'd Expect''': For him to know basic writing 101 and have this thing backed up. Even though the movie was made before the technology boom really took a foothold, he still had plenty of options -- backing it up to floppy disks, emailing it to himself for a cloud backup (the movie makes it quite apparent that the Internet was a thing), or even if those weren't options, he could at least have printed out a draft of it since he had a printer at his home. Sure, it's not the most ideal backup to have, but it's better than no backup. Again, graduation is on the line here; the stakes are way too high to risk losing it.\ |
| 99 | '''Instead''': He ''doesn't back it up.'' Apparently it never occurred to him over several months worth of work and sleepless nights that having a backup copy of all this work would ''maybe'' be in his best interest. Following the events of a power surge and a computer virus outbreak, he loses his thesis, and is horrified to find a colleague of his is unable to retrieve the lost file. This puts his graduation in jeopardy, [[spoiler:and the crisis is only narrowly averted towards the end.]] |
| 100 | ** When Rob decides to start working on his thesis again from scratch, he's unable to supervise the lab.\ |
| 101 | '''You'd Expect''': That Rob would find a trustworthy colleague to supervise it for him for a few days, or possibly even a professor who might be willing. This would give him a little less to stress out about in his moment of crisis.\ |
| 102 | '''Instead''': He lets his old lab assistant, Mack, who makes his jealousy towards Rob's awards, recognition, and future wife ''very'' apparent, run the lab. Sure, Rob may be going through a HeroicBSOD at this point in the movie (especially since Chris was already pissed off at him for forgetting his anniversary on top of losing his thesis), but even in this moment of peril he should know better than this. And of course, because of this decision, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Mack is the one who ends up setting the main conflict of the movie in motion]]. |
| 103 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', Darla's EvilPlan to discredit the heroes has worked: she tricked [[TheHero Danny]] into using a soundstage to try and impress the studio head. Then she sabotaged it via floods, and just drops by to drop off the hostage again.\ |
| 104 | '''You'd Think:''' She'd feign being angry, shouting "[[WhatTheHellHero What the heck]]?! How could you disappoint me like that, after that opportunity? And you trusted the controls to a little penguin?"\ |
| 105 | '''Instead:''' She takes the opportunity to engage in some EvilGloating that makes it very clear she's responsible, and eventually leads to her downfall. |
| 106 | ** After Darla's movie plays out, Danny brings his friends to perform a show. Darla Dimple attempts to sabotage the show, but only makes it better. After the show ends, she shows up onstage angry.\ |
| 107 | '''You'd Expect:''' That she would stay calm and maybe say "A word with you, Danny" and call him out once she's away from the audience and microphones.\ |
| 108 | '''Instead:''' She blurts out that she flooded the stage in front of the audience (with a microphone hanging above her), thus incriminating herself and getting her demoted into being a janitor. |
| 109 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' |
| 110 | ** Coraline Jones and her family has just moved into the Pink Palace. The landlady's grandson, Wyborn, comes to like the new girl even though she kicked him off his motorbike and accused him of stalking her. (Thing is Coraline's not wrong that "Wybie" scared her by appearing in a mask akin to a serial killer's and nearly ran her down, so her kneejerk response was entirely reasonable.)\ |
| 111 | '''You'd Expect''': Wybie would loudly announce himself the second time so as to avoid getting punched again.\ |
| 112 | '''Instead''': He sneaks up behind her while hunting for slugs in the fog.\ |
| 113 | '''Predictably''': Coraline slugs him, and chews him out for startling her again. |
| 114 | ** Miss Spink and Forcible are retired theater performers that spend their days sewing costumes for their dogs and collecting vintage taffy. They find "Caroline" interesting, read her tea leaves, and advise her to be careful when Miss Spink reads "danger" and Forcible reads "giraffe" in the grounds. A few days later, Coraline comes to them in a panic. She reveals over another cup of tea that her parents went to sell their book, a gardening catalog, and haven't returned. The thing is the car is home, as is her dad's cellphone. Something weird is going on, and it turns out the couple is clairvoyant. They comment this is terrible.\ |
| 115 | '''You'd Expect''': Miss Spink and Forcible tell her that she can stay the night, they'll get another neighbor to check on her, or they'll call the cops and explain what happened. (In the book, Coraline tried option three but it didn't work because she tried telling them about the Other Mother and they assumed she was having a nightmare.) Mr. Bobinsky is shown to be athletic, and surely he could spare a few hours away from the mice circus to watch over a scared preteen. What's more, his mice were the ones that warned Coraline not to go into the door. While Coraline scared Wyborn away by telling him about what she saw on the other side, Ms. Lovat is revealed to actually be protective of children, as her sister disappeared in the Pink Palace, so she would have given some space for Coraline.\ |
| 116 | '''Instead''': They give her a piece of old taffy with a hole in it, advising her to use it for finding either "lost" or "bad" things. Coraline leaves while the two are arguing about which purpose the taffy serves.\ |
| 117 | '''The Result''': While it turns out the [[ChekhovsGun taffy becomes extremely useful later on]], Coraline is forced to tuck herself into bed crying within the Jones's new apartment. She makes facsimiles of her parents out of pillows to comfort herself, terrified of what could have happened to them. When the cat wakes her up and reveals that her Other Mother has taken her parents hostage, in an attempt to lure Coraline back to the Other World, Coraline goes back alone, armed with only some gardening equipment as a weapon. Bobinsky's athletics would have been useful in chasing down his doppelganger, for one. |
| 118 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', Gru sets out to steal the Shrink Ray from Vector's house by setting out his newly adopted three daughters to distract Vector long enough with cookies (or cookie robots). He breaks into the vault that has the shrink ray, but before he can escape his robots close the door too soon. Then Vector comes in to check on his hallway where the vault room is.\ |
| 119 | '''You'd Expect:''' Gru to pull out his Freeze-Ray gun or even test out the Shrink Ray on Vector then go out the front door.\ |
| 120 | '''Instead:''' He and his minions just panic, act like they can't do anything against Vector and use the ducts to (barely) escape. |
| 121 | ** Later, Vector demands that Gru give him the shrunken Moon in exchange for letting Margo, Edith, and Agnes go. Gru complies and gives Vector the Moon.\ |
| 122 | '''You'd Expect:''' For Vector to understand that if Gru gave him the Moon, he deeply cares about the girls and would be very upset if Vector reneged on the deal, and then give the girls back.\ |
| 123 | '''Instead:''' Vector reneges on the deal, keeping the girls, causing Gru to go after him, causing Vector to lose his ship, the girls, the Moon, and get stranded in space on the now-restored Moon. |
| 124 | * At the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'', Balthazar Bratt attempts to steal the Dumont Diamond and nearly succeeds despite it being transported on a heavily guarded ship. Gru manages to recover the diamond, but Bratt manages to get away.\ |
| 125 | '''You'd Expect:''' The AVL to either keep the diamond in their base or in another heavily guarded place. After all, Bratt ''almost'' got it the first time he stole it.\ |
| 126 | '''Instead:''' It's shipped to a museum with very little security.\ |
| 127 | '''The Result:''' Bratt manages to swipe the diamond almost effortlessly after disguising himself as a jewel expert, allowing him to set his plans in motion. |
| 128 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo'', the titular character is already lost in the woods, it's then revealed in a flashback that she requested her parents' permission to go out and find food for her rabbits.\ |
| 129 | '''You'd Expect:''' that in addition to reminding their daughter it is time for their evening meal and it will be going dark soon, Dot's parents and/or grandfather would at least make the effort to accompany her, even if it means waiting until after they've eaten.\ |
| 130 | '''Instead:''' They allow Dot to go off on her own and she promptly gets lost in the woods and has to rely on a mother kangaroo to keep her safe and help her find her way back while her father and grandfather try in vain to look for her. |
| 131 | * The infamously panned film, ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', has quite a lot of these moments that makes most of the characters [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unsympathetic]]. |
| 132 | ** Gene now goes on his first day of the job and prepares to make his face to be scanned by Alex, their phone user. \ |
| 133 | '''You'd Expect:''' For Gene to just simply and calmly use his meh face since that's his designated emotion for the message. \ |
| 134 | '''Instead:''' He freaks out for no reason whatsoever (especially considering that ''just one face'' isn't too hard) and destroys the entire work system in the process. |
| 135 | ** The main trio's main adventure results in several of Alex's apps acting all funny and this humiliates Alex a little bit. \ |
| 136 | '''You'd Expect:''' For him to just check himself what's wrong with his phone and try to use some real messages or other emojis to communicate with Addie. \ |
| 137 | '''Instead:''' Just because of "the wrong face" and his apps turning on automatically, he immediately tries to [[spoiler: get his ''entire phone'' erased.]] |
| 138 | ** The trio need to reach to Dropbox in attempt to fix Gene's problem. \ |
| 139 | '''You'd Expect:''' For the three characters just to ''walk around'' the apps to get to their destination since that'll just be simple enough. \ |
| 140 | '''Instead:''' They travel ''through'' the apps, which results in Alex trying to [[spoiler: delete the entire phone because of it.]] |
| 141 | ** As the trio head through ''Just Dance'', Jailbreak warns the two not to touch anything so the robots won't catch and kill them and to be able to get to Dropbox quickly. \ |
| 142 | '''You'd Expect:''' For Hi-5 to heed Jailbreak's warning and just stay put with them until they make it to Dropbox. \ |
| 143 | '''Instead:''' For no reason, [[spoiler: he turns it on, resulting in the robots finding them, the app getting deleled, and Hi-5 gets taken by one of the robots]], which actually leads to… |
| 144 | ** Feeling guilty that [[spoiler: Hi-5 got sent to the trash]], Gene and Jailbreak [[spoiler: go to the trash so they could save him.]] \ |
| 145 | '''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler: After they rescue Hi-5, they should ''also'' go out of their way to save the ''Just Dance'' girl, Akiko Glitter, from getting deleted ''permanently''.]] \ |
| 146 | '''Instead:''' [[spoiler: They ''only'' save Hi-5 and don't even ''consider'' rescuing Akiko Glitter, thus ''[[FridgeHorror leaving her to die]]'' along with the trolls.]] |
| 147 | * ''WesternAnimation/FernGully2TheMagicalRescue'': While Pips and the Beetle Boys are distracted by a carnival and are invited to stay in a girl's trailer when they're supposed to be rescuing some kidnapped animals, Batty is able to locate the animals and tries to tell Pips, even screaming this ''right in his face'' at one point.\ |
| 148 | '''You'd Expect:''' Pips and the Beetle Boys to realize that they have gotten distracted and get back to work on rescuing the animals.\ |
| 149 | '''Instead:''' "Oh, Budgie's gonna take us on some rides later. You're welcome to join us." |
| 150 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'': Early in the film, the representative for Brand X, Mr. Clipboard shows up at the Marketropolis Market. Despite the store's manager, Leonard clearly not knowing whether to trust a guy who's stumbling and slurring his speech as though he were severely drunk, Mr. Clipboard and his minions barge his way into the shop's aisles, then just to drive home the point that he's ObviouslyEvil, knocks a packet of potato chips off the aisle and crushes them underfoot.\ |
| 151 | '''You'd Expect:''' Leonard to demand that Mr. Clipboard pay for the chips he just ruined, then leave. This is ''clearly'' a guy who you don't want to be doing business with.\ |
| 152 | '''Instead:''' He picks up the crushed bag and actually starts mourning it, as though Mr. Clipboard had just murdered a small animal to amuse himself. And he's apparently so busy doing this that he doesn't bother to stop Mr. Clipboard and his minions packing their dubious goods onto his shelves against his wishes. |
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| 154 | [[folder: G-L]] |
| 155 | * In the first segment of ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', '''Harry Canyon''', the titular main character gets into his taxi, only for a gangster to enter the back of his taxi. When the gangster threatens him with a knife, Harry pushes the gangster's arm aside, saying, "Oh, come on" and prepares to use the button that he presses to vaporize criminals who threaten him in his car. The gangster's boss -- who caused the story's conflict -- enters the backseat and says, "I wouldn't do that, if I were you."\ |
| 156 | '''You'd Expect:''' Harry to ignore the gangsters and still press the button to vaporize both, because they would be dead before they could do anything else. The end.\ |
| 157 | '''Instead:''' He complies and doesn't do it, though the gangster with the knife leaves and his boss makes a nonviolent proposal. |
| 158 | ** Later, Harry meets with the aforementioned mob boss and exchanges the Loc-Nar, the {{MacGuffin}} of the story which is shown to melt one of the workers who discovered it and is thus safely encased in a protective capsule.\ |
| 159 | '''You'd Expect:''' The mob boss to leave it in its casing.\ |
| 160 | '''Instead:''' He opens the case and picks up the Loc-Nar, which melts him. |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' has a few cases: |
| 162 | ** Wolf W. Wolf is investigating the disappearance of recipes in the woods. He encounters Red, a girl triyng to deliver her family recipe to her Granny. Red also just fell out of a cable car.\ |
| 163 | '''You'd Expect''': He would realize he's interrogating a child who has no reason to trust him and bring out any press credentials he has. The police recognize him, after all, as one of their contacts.\ |
| 164 | '''Instead''': He pegs her as the thief when she understandably maces him after he seems to attack her.\ |
| 165 | '''Predictably''': Red tails it out of there after she beats him to a pulp and manages to elude him at every turn. It turns out if they had worked together from the beginning, they would have found the real thief [[spoiler:Boingo]] much sooner. |
| 166 | ** The Wolf and Twitchy manage to use the emergency brake stop their mine cart at the bottom of the drop out of the tunnel after accidentally blowing up part of the track (due to Twitchy mistaking a stick of dynamite for a candle). After this, Red's cart comes barrelling through the same tunnel and approaches the dead-ending track:\ |
| 167 | '''You'd Expect:''' Being that she's smart enough to take care of herself and escape from the Wolf, that Red would manage to find the same emergency brake handle to stop her cart before it could reach the end of the tunnel or consider even jumping.\ |
| 168 | '''Instead:''' She holds on for dear life, and does nothing to stop the cart as it flies off the end of the track and goes airborne. |
| 169 | ** Red's attack on Boingo at the tramway terminal lair:\ |
| 170 | '''You'd expect:''' Considering that Red is a black belt in karate, she would know aim her blows at Boingo's vulnerable spots and use her reach as she was taking on a smaller opponent in body size.\ |
| 171 | '''Instead:''' She aims all her blows at Boingo's head, and he blocks them with his prehensile ears. She is defeated, tied up and nearly gets blown up for her attempt. |
| 172 | * ''WesternAnimation/Injustice2021'': |
| 173 | ** Superman, Wonder Woman, and Cyborg go to Arkham to send the inmates to a more secure prison. The Bat-Family tries to convince them otherwise. Harley tags along and she releases all the inmates.\ |
| 174 | '''You'd Expect''': Given that the Inmates are heavily out of their league and would have to deal with the [[FlyingBrick Flying Bricks]] Superman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg in addition to the Bat-Family, they would stay put. \ |
| 175 | '''Instead:''' The Inmates try to escape and fight all the superheroes. \ |
| 176 | '''The Result:''' All of them get their butts whooped, with Riddler left crying in a fetal position and Grundy missing a limb with a fresh Kryptonian-shaped hole in his chest. |
| 177 | ** Atom successfully manages to hinder Superman by shrinking down and holding a kryptonite shard next to his brain, however, Ra's Al Ghul turns up and uses radiation to kill Atom.\ |
| 178 | '''You'd Expect''': Atom to stab the kryptonite shard into Superman's brain, there's no way Atom can survive the radiation so he might as well make his death mean something by stabbing Superman's brain so it would debilitate him and leave him permanently vulnerable until it could be surgically removed. Batman may be against murder but he's perfectly fine with leaving his opponents with sustainable traumatic brain damage and broken bones.\ |
| 179 | '''Alternatively''': Make the kryptonite shard bigger so it won't be destroyed by the radiation, also leaving a permanent weakness to Superman and potential debilitating brain damage.\ |
| 180 | '''Instead''': Atom simply tries to outrun the cloud of radiation, which kills him and destroys the shard. |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'': |
| 182 | ** When Hogarth discovers the TV Antenna has been bitten off and giant footprints leading to the forest, he equips himself with his BB gun and torch to investigate, as well as some tape to attach his torch to his BB Gun.\ |
| 183 | '''You'd Expect:''' Hogarth would tape his torch away from the gun barrel of his BB gun.\ |
| 184 | '''Instead:''' He just tapes the torch at the end of his BB Gun with it just blocking the gun barrel. Although, Hogarth readies his trigger, he never actually fires his BB gun at any point when searching in the forest. |
| 185 | ** When the Giant approaches Rockwell where the soldiers where about to open fire, they believe that the giant is innocent and seeing Hogarth unharmed. Kent Mansley tells Rogard that it is a trick and orders him to open fire, but Rogard refuses and orders all units to stand down and contacts the USS Nautilus to abort the missile. However, Kent still believes that the Giant is still a threat.\ |
| 186 | '''You'd Expect:''' That even in his paranoia, Kent would realize that since the Giant is only 50 feet away from him, launching the missile at it would not only destroy it but the entire town as well and kill everyone inside, including Kent.\ |
| 187 | '''Instead:''' He grabs Rogard's radio, shouting at the Nautilus to [[MemeticMutation LAUNCH THE MISSILE NOW!]]\ |
| 188 | '''You'd Also Expect:''' The ''Nautilus'' crew would request the identity and clearance credentials of the new voice shouting into the radio at them before firing the nuke. A select few people in the United States government have the security clearance to order a nuclear launch. If this new voice doesn't identify as being among them, the ''Nautilus'' crew would refuse the order.\ |
| 189 | '''Instead:''' They immediately pound the red button without question and fire the missile up.\ |
| 190 | '''Result:''' Only after a furious Rogard reminds Kent that the missile is locked to the Giant's current location does Kent realize his mistake.\ |
| 191 | '''Thankfully:''' The Giant chooses to sacrifice himself to save the town from the missile. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': |
| 193 | ** After all the parents in Retroville get kidnapped by aliens that Jimmy unknowingly successfully communicated with, they leave behind a "note" to every home in town telling the kids that their parents are taking a vacation in Florida.\ |
| 194 | '''You'd Expect:''' For all the kids -- Jimmy especially, considering he's, y'know, a ''boy genius'' -- to pick up on all the extremely obvious hints that the note is a total ruse (such as the blatant font typeface, the fact that ''everyone'' got the exact same note with no advance notice, the fact that it's not addressed to anyone by name, etc).\ |
| 195 | '''Instead:''' The kids don't question this completely unexplainable happening and just roll along with it, celebrating a day without parents. Okay, well, that part is understandable, as they were just wanting a taste of freedom earlier, but after the novelty of the concept wears off, it still crosses nobody's mind that they may have just been duped. It isn't until Jimmy scans the note in his lab and finds it doesn't match any of his parents' handwriting (which is pretty obvious in the first place considering it's ''typed'') that he finally figures out it's a fake. |
| 196 | * ''WesternAnimation/JosephKingOfDreams'' |
| 197 | ** Several brothers are treated as TheUnfavorite when their youngest sibling is born, a SpoiledBrat named Joseph who has prophetic visions. Joseph despite his brattiness means well and is willing to learn when his mother Rachel tries to curb his arrogance. At one point, Jacob tells off the older boys for leaving Joseph alone on sheep duties since he nearly got killed by wolves. Joseph also has a vision of his brothers bowing to him.\ |
| 198 | '''You'd Expect''': Simeon and Judah would go to their mother and complain about the DoubleStandard. Or they would just agree to leave and seek their fortune because it's Jacob who's at fault and he can't manage the sheep with only Joseph for help. Joseph is just a kid and who knows if his visions even mean anything? They could simply be hallucinations.\ |
| 199 | '''Instead''': They think the best solution is to sell their ''little brother into slavery'', fake his death, and pocket the money.\ |
| 200 | '''The Result''': KarmaHoudiniWarranty hits them several years later; the brothers are horrified about what they did, Jacob and Rachel are overwhelmed by grief, and Rachel later dies in childbirth having Benjamin. Jacob repeats his mistakes by being overprotective of Benjamin, but this time the brothers treat Benjamin well as atonement for their crime. Simeon knows they can never confess because it would mean that their father would read them the riot act or disown them, and there's no way to make up for betraying their brother and giving him a death sentence. Joseph in the meantime rises from a household slave to the vizier of Egypt but is still a ShellShockedVeteran when he sees his brothers again coming to buy grain during famine and they don't recognize him. He goes TookALevelInJerkass, imprisons Simeon on charges of being a liar -- which Simeon is-- and demands to see his ReplacementGoldfish, Benjamin. It's not until his older brothers confess after Joseph frames Benjamin for theft that he forgives them and reveals himself, but they still stole decades of his life because he was a SpoiledBrat. Talk about MisplacedRetribution! |
| 201 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDark'': [[spoiler:Dr. Destiny]] can shroud himself in a shield that is powerful enough to repel Deadman, Etrigan, Green Lantern and Swamp Thing's best attacks.\ |
| 202 | '''You'd expect''': He would never drop it, as it essentially makes himself completely invincible. In fact, this is exactly what he states when Deadman tries to possess him.\ |
| 203 | '''Instead''': He is surprised by Constantine's defiance and brings the hero inside his shield, apparently in an attempt to intimidate his enemy.\ |
| 204 | '''End Result''': It's revealed that [[spoiler:Deadman was inside Constantine at the time, and was therefore able to bypass the one obstacle preventing him from possessing Destiny]]. This ultimately leads to the villain's defeat. |
| 205 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'': Darkseid has the mean to brainwash the heroes and turn even deceased ones into mind-controlled superpowered cyborgs.\ |
| 206 | '''You'd Expect''': Darkseid would use this on all of the League and Titans he could get his hands on.\ |
| 207 | '''Instead''': He leaves most of the heroes for dead, even those whose bodies could be safely retrieved. |
| 208 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'': |
| 209 | ** After a battle with the Royal Flush Gang, Batman gets in the Batmobile only to see Mirror Master briefly in the rear view mirror.\ |
| 210 | '''You'd Expect:''' Given Mirror Master is an established villain in this universe that, despite seeing no one behind him when he looks, Batman would think his car is compromised and take measures to keep Mirror Master from getting into the car.\ |
| 211 | '''Instead:''' The main plot of the movie happens because Bruce dismisses it as exhaustion and as a result, the League is almost killed by the Legion of Doom after Mirror Master steals his protocols. |
| 212 | ** During the final battle with the Legion of Doom, Wonder Woman is fighting Cheetah.\ |
| 213 | '''You'd Expect:''' Diana to try to avoid smashing her archenemy into a shelf full of weapons.\ |
| 214 | '''Instead:''' Cheetah is able to grab a gun because Diana sent her into a gun rack. |
| 215 | ** At the end, Batman is asked about the idea of a protocol for himself by Superman.\ |
| 216 | '''You'd Expect:''' Bruce to take into account the possibility that whatever could cause the League to go rogue could affect him, too.\ |
| 217 | '''Instead:''' He states he considers the League the protocol against himself. |
| 218 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'': |
| 219 | ** After using his SuperSpeed to meddle with time, Barry Allen a.k.a. the Flash has found himself in an alternate timeline. He no longer has his speed powers, most of his closest friends are about to enter a war that threatens to tear the world apart, on the run from the aforementioned, or already dead by their hand. Barry decides to turn to the one person he trusts to still be as impartial as he is in Barry's home timeline, Batman.\ |
| 220 | '''You'd Think:''' Barry would knock on the door, use the doorbell, call ahead, do something in the way of basic courtesy. This isn't the same Batman that Barry knows, who will just let him enter the Batcave any time he pleases.\ |
| 221 | '''Instead:''' Barry walks right through Wayne Manor and into the Batcave. He finds a very angry Batman ready to beat the complete stranger to a bloody pulp that just wandered into his lair uninvited. |
| 222 | ** Barry pieces together that in this timeline, it was ''Bruce'' Wayne that died; the Batman bearing down on him is Bruce's father, ''Thomas'' Wayne.\ |
| 223 | '''You'd Think:''' That, given how sensitive his Batman was about his parents' deaths, Barry would make these observations silently to himself. That Batman was always protective of his secret identity, often known to taking extreme measures to keep it secret. There's nothing about this Batman that says he's any different.\ |
| 224 | '''Instead:''' He works it out aloud. Batman responds by [[{{Fingore}} breaking one of Barry's fingers]] and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique threatening to break the rest of them unless Barry explains how he knows who Batman is.]]\ |
| 225 | '''You'd Then Think:''' Barry would NOT mention Bruce by name when giving his answer, lest this far more brutal version of Batman be [[BerserkButton as sensitive to losing his son as Bruce was about losing his parents.]]\ |
| 226 | '''Instead:''' While stammering out his answer, he mentions Bruce. Thomas gives him a DeathGlare and breaks another finger. |
| 227 | --> '''Batman:''' I used to be a doctor. Mention my dead son again, and I will break out my surgical instruments. |
| 228 | ** Mera learns that her husband Aquaman and Wonder Woman are having affair.\ |
| 229 | '''You'd Expect:''' Her to confront Diana about it when she's not doing what she's doing in the movie.\ |
| 230 | '''Instead:''' She confronts Diana while Diana is sharpening a sword. It results is a battle that ends with Mera decapitated. |
| 231 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': |
| 232 | ** Cera, one of the main protagonists, while trying to find her way to her family through an empty ravine, lands on a giant T-Rex named Sharptooth, who is unconscious and does not wake up.\ |
| 233 | '''You'd Expect:''' Cera would get out of there as fast as she could before he wakes up.\ |
| 234 | '''Instead:''' She mocks him while he's asleep by ramming into him, which wakes him up and nearly gets Cera killed. |
| 235 | ** When Sharptooth returns, Cera is the only one who's awoken by his growl. She wakes Littlefoot and tries to persuade him to wake the others and slip away quietly before Sharptooth spots them.\ |
| 236 | '''You'd Expect:''' Littlefoot to know that the Sharptooth he believes to be dead isn't the ''only'' Sharptooth to exist in their world, and to realize that Cera could be trying to warn him about a completely different Sharptooth. It's also very clear that she is terrified about something, and he knows that she doesn't scare easily. At the ''very'' least, he's got nothing to lose by poking his head up enough to see for himself.\ |
| 237 | '''Instead:''' His reaction is basically "Sharptooth's dead so we're completely safe, now shut up and let me go back to sleep," right up until Sharptooth is within literal stomping distance of them, and very nearly gets himself and his friends killed. |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' |
| 239 | ** During the opening fight scene, Poison Ivy grabs Batman and attempts her KissOfDeath. Batman nabs one of Penguin's bird mooks with his grappling hook and has her kiss it instead. Ivy is disgusted and kicks it away.\ |
| 240 | '''You'd Expect''': That Ivy would tie up Batman in more vines before repeated the attempt, if she wants to go for the kiss.\ |
| 241 | '''Instead''': Ivy repeats the same attempt, without restraining Batman further, about ''ten times''. This is enough time for Batman to free himself and take her down. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. |
| 242 | ** Joker pulls off the ultimate VillainTeamup, drawing on all of Batman's Rogues Gallery. After Batman delivers a CurbStompBattle to all of the Rogues and moves to catch the Joker, the Clown Prince reveals that he's set up a bomb that will tear the city apart (due to it being LEGO pieces) and Batman can either choose to save the city or catch Joker, Batman's "greatest enemy".\ |
| 243 | '''You'd Expect''': Batman to quickly TakeAThirdOption and tie up the Joker since he's got the latter tethered to a bar before going to dismantle the bomb, the way his 1980s counterpart did. Alternatively, he could let the Joker go and stop the bomb, to save the city.\ |
| 244 | '''Instead''': Batman wastes time ranting at the Joker that J isn't his greatest enemy, Superman is, and Batman and the Joker don't have a relationship, and that Batman doesn't need the clown. This wastes the crucial time needed to defuse the bomb, which Batman leaves for the last minute. Joker develops a brief VillainousBSOD, and his subsequent scheme centers around making Batman respect him, which endangers Gotham on a scale that outstrips Batman's capacity. |
| 245 | ** Barbara Gordon is the new commissioner of Gotham City. She has long looked up to Batman, educated herself on martial arts and law, and plans to combine Batman's experience with practical law, so that Gotham citizens can protect themselves. Among many things, she points out that while Batman does his best to keep the city safe, all of his Rogues gallery either evades arrest or keeps escaping, due to JokerImmunity. She announces all of this at her father's retirement party, as she plans to take on the new job.\ |
| 246 | '''You'd Expect''' Barbara would try to spin her story as that Batman has done great services for the city, but he could do even better as an officer of the law. In other words, to up his firepower. There are some comics where Batman has been officially deputized, and it would put it in a way that wouldn't offend an egotistic incarnation of the Dark Knight.\ |
| 247 | '''Instead''': Barbara's slogan is "It takes a village, not a Batman" and launches into a series of criticisms about how Batman. The criticisms are legitimate, to be fair, but they also underestimate how Batman is doing all he can to keep the city safe. On top of that, she announces that all vigilantes are outlawed, so as to force Batman to work with her.\ |
| 248 | '''The Result''': Even a nice incarnation of Bruce Wayne would be taking offense since it isn't his fault that Arkham is a CardboardPrison; an AwesomeEgo Bruce engineers a SpitTake and takes ''loads'' of offense. He questions her intentions and her disregard of all that Batman does, and when in the cape decides to ignore her new rules completely. And of course this means that when [[spoiler:Barbara points out that the Phantom Zone is outside their jurisdiction for locking the Joker away, that Bruce doesn't listen. The latter part was his fault, but Barbara has to learn to work with Batman's rules before she can save the city]]. |
| 249 | ** Joker's first phase of his scheme is surrendering himself and the entire Rogues Gallery to the new Commissioner Barbara Gordon. Batman and Barbara are suspicious because it's never this easy, and Batman is stir-crazy without having criminals to catch since apparently LEGO Gotham only has the superfluous villains. Barbara asks Batman to help her figure out what Joker's plan is.\ |
| 250 | '''You'd Expect''': Batman to agree, and put their heads together. He has a crush on Barbara, {{Squick}} aside, so he'd want to win brownie points with her, and besides which, ''she is the new Commissioner''. She's got 24-hour surveillance on the Joker in Arkham Asylum while he has the big brains.\ |
| 251 | '''Instead''': Batman refuses to work with Barbara. With 'Puter and [[spoiler:Dick Grayson's help]], he [[spoiler:steals Superman's Phantom Zone Projector, busts into Arkham with it when Barbara insists that he enter without any of his weapons, and zaps Joker into the Phantom Zone. This allows Joker to recruit multiple villains trapped there, like Lord Voldemort and Sauron, and help them escape]]. Also, apparently everyone forgot about [[spoiler:Harley Quinn, who poses as an Arkham employee and releases all of the Phantom Zone prisoners to terrorize Gotham. Yes, this was all Batman's fault.]] |
| 252 | * At the end of the [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 CGI Lorax film]], the environment outside the town becomes exposed thanks to a wall being destroyed.\ |
| 253 | '''You'd expect:''' [[BigBad Mayor O'Hare]] to not do anything that might get him impeached. He can be serious about turning a new leaf, like your typical Dr. Seuss villain.\ |
| 254 | '''Instead:''' He reveals he was kidding and orders the seed destroyed.\ |
| 255 | '''The result:''' He gets impeached and sent flying away. |
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| 259 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout2005'': |
| 260 | ** In the beginning of the film, Dougal has sneaked off out of the village and placed a thumbtack on the road to pop one of the tyres of Mr. Grimsdale's cart. He successfully convinces Mr. Grimsdale to go and get him the things he needs while Dougal stays to "look after" the cart. After Mr. Grimsdale left, Dougal plans to nibble on the sugary sweets in the cart.\ |
| 261 | '''You'd Expect:''' Dougal to look carefully around the motorbike first to avoid treading on a button that starts it up again.\ |
| 262 | '''Or Alternatively:''' Dougal to jump into the box to get the sweets without climbing onto the motorbike.\ |
| 263 | '''Instead:''' He gets so distracted by the sight of the sugary sweets in the cart that he doesn't look where he treads and accidentally activates a button that starts up the engine of the motorbike again and making it go zooming round the village with Dougal inside the cart, causing Florence and the children to run onto the Magic Roundabout, and the cart flies up in the air after going over a sidewalk sign where Dougal falls out before the cart crashes backend first into the roof of the said roundabout.\ |
| 264 | '''As a Result:''' Seconds after crashing, the build-up pressure in the motorbike causes the engine to explode and badly damage the roundabout that it spins out of control with Florence and the children still on it. This gives Zeebad, who is locked away by Zebedee 10,000 years ago, the opportunity to escape his prison by flying out through the hole in the roof of the roundabout and freeze the roundabout over, trapping Florence and the children, along with Mr. Rusty (who quickly got on the roundabout to try and shut it down). |
| 265 | ** Seeing Florence, Mr. Rusty and the children trapped on the roundabout when it was frozen over by Zeebad, Dougal, Ermintrude, Dylan and Brian are ultimately horrified by this.\ |
| 266 | '''You'd Expect:''' Having performing in her concert earlier, Ermintrude would sing at a very high note to shatter the ice on the roundabout to rescue Florence, Mr. Rusty and the children from their icy prison.\ |
| 267 | '''Instead:''' Nobody considered this before Dougal and his friends set out to retrieve the two diamonds with the third diamond hidden somewhere on the roundabout.\ |
| 268 | '''As a Result:''' Florence, Mr. Rusty and the children are left shivering on the roundabout for three days where it resulted in Florence to be unconscious as poor Dougal found out when he and his friends returned to the now frozen village after Zeebad got all three diamonds. Then, Dougal figures out that Ermintrude's singing can shatter the ice on the roundabout after seeing a crack form when she screamed loudly in pain when Zeebad zapped her tail. Dougal and Brian tell Ermintrude to sing at a high note and she does so, shattering most of the ice on the roundabout which frees those who are trapped in there.\ |
| 269 | '''Fortuantely:''' After Zeebad was re-imprisoned, an anxious Dougal manages to wake Florence up by licking her face, thus saving her life. |
| 270 | * ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'': |
| 271 | ** From "Christmas: Impossible": Huey, Dewey and Louie have successfully stolen the key they need to access Santa's List.\ |
| 272 | '''You'd expect''': The nephews to run straight across the workshop to the other side.\ |
| 273 | '''Instead''': They take various detours and mess with the toy making machines, thus resulting in the key to get lost in a pile of Jailbreak Bob keys.\ |
| 274 | '''Then''': The boys lie and say they really need the key that doesn't fit a Jailbreak Bob toy because they lost the toilet keys. The elves help out and promise to give them the key that doesn't fit. Then an elf finds a key that doesn't fit, announces it and asks what she should do with it.\ |
| 275 | '''You'd expect''': Huey, Dewey and Louie to quickly say it's theirs, and get it back.\ |
| 276 | '''Instead''': Silence from HD&L. Some other elf tells her to just throw it away. The nephews try to stop her, but she doesn't listen. Then...\ |
| 277 | '''You'd expect''': She looks where she throws it, or even keeps it somewhere in case it's important.\ |
| 278 | '''Instead''': She throws it ''in a random direction'', and it lands in a gift.\ |
| 279 | '''You'd then expect''': HD&L to pay close attention to the gift with the key to maximize their chances of finding it while minimizing the damage.\ |
| 280 | '''Instead''': They open -- and ruin -- practically every gift they can find!\ |
| 281 | '''Result''': Christmas is ruined. To really rub it in, the idiot who threw the key doesn't get any comeuppance and all the blame is put on HD&L. |
| 282 | ** From "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas": The impatient Pluto really wants to put the star on the tree. However, Mickey needs him to wait and be careful. Pluto has just found the star, but Mickey stops him in time and gets it back. Then, the phone rings.\ |
| 283 | '''You'd expect''': Mickey would bring the star with him when he answers the phone. Or put it somewhere that Pluto can't access.\ |
| 284 | '''Instead''': Mickey leaves the star on the ladder right in front of Pluto. This predictably leads to Pluto trying to put it on the tree, which ruins Mickey's Christmas decorations, which in turn causes Pluto to get scolded and later run away. |
| 285 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'' |
| 286 | ** When Katie wants to show her family a video she animated, Rick messes up by saying she's going to fail and should have a backup plan, the ''night before college''. Then he smashes her laptop by accident, causing her to run to her room upset. His wife suggests maybe he should stop trying to solve problems and try to talk to Katie on her wavelength. Rick misses how he and Katie used to be close, and she's off to college the next day.\ |
| 287 | '''You'd Expect''': Him to buy her a new laptop as a peace offering, offer to drop it off for rush-job repairs, or at least put the one she wants on a wishlist if the family can't afford it. Doing that would make Katie more than likely to listen, and she may also appreciate an apology from him for saying she will fail.\ |
| 288 | '''Instead''': He reveals the minute she wakes up that he canceled her plane ticket and is scheduling a spontaneous family road trip to take her to college in the family's alleged car.\ |
| 289 | '''The Result''': His wife points out that he went "rogue" on this one and is supporting him under protest, Katie sulks and live-streams all of the trip's misfortunes (like getting into a car accident or trying food from a zero-star restaurant), and she also points out that it was not cool of him to spring it on her when there's a whole week of orientation. Worse, when she does attempt to bond with him, he accuses her of hiding behind her phone when she asks him to say something cool for her to record, and it takes a robot apocalypse for them to start reconciling. The fact that Rick accidentally saved the family with the road trip doesn't make up for the fact that his actions were very uncool. [[spoiler:Thankfully, it's revealed near the end of the film that Katie has a repaired laptop, or at least a new one for video calls]]. |
| 290 | ** When the family ask the malfunctioning robots how to stop the uprising, they reveal that a kill code needs to be uploaded to the leader AI, who is protected by a swarm of killer bots up its tower in Silicon Valley... Or they can upload it in any PAL store, the nearest being in a mall just a few miles away. The Mitchells attempt the upload in the mall, but it's interrupted when the router is destroyed.\ |
| 291 | '''You'd Expect''': Them to ask their robot allies to locate the next-closest PAL store and drive there to try again since it proved to be a quite simple operation (not counting the army of killing Roombas and Furbys who were expecting them; in any case, it's still ''safer'' than drving into the enemy fortress).\ |
| 292 | '''Instead''': They straight-out drive right into the enemy fortress.\ |
| 293 | '''The Result''': They are discovered, get captured, and barely manage to save the world by the skin of their teeth. |
| 294 | * ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'': |
| 295 | ** In the climax of the movie, the protagonists fight to kill the eponymous house by throwing a stick of dynamite into it's chimney, destroying it from the inside.\ |
| 296 | '''You'd Expect''': the protagonist DJ, once he's grabbed the stick, to make a beeline for the chimney: after all, it leads directly to the heart of the house, which is '''billowing fire'''. It's essentially the Death Star run on (relative) easy mode.\ |
| 297 | '''Instead''': for some reason, everyone believes that they have to light the fuse first, an action that not only wouldn't help their situation (either the TNT reaches the fiery heart and explodes, or it misses) but actively makes the plan more dangerous (now there's a chance that the stick blows before you can throw it!)\ |
| 298 | '''The Result''': DJ has to chase a dropped lighter around the battlefield, while the House actively tries to crush him to death. |
| 299 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' |
| 300 | ** Baby Lickety Split wants to do her own dance for the dance recital, but Spike warns her that if she does she'll mess everyone up.\ |
| 301 | '''You'd Expect:''' Baby Lickety Split to swallow her pride and do the rehearsed dance with the other ponies. If she really wants to do her own thing, she could ask to do a solo performance afterwards.\ |
| 302 | '''Instead:''' She ignores Spike and does her own dance during the performance. Predictably, she ends up ruining the entire thing, and the ponies heavily call her out for it, leading to her running away |
| 303 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' |
| 304 | ** The movie is about the King of Halloween, Jack Skellington, struggling to regain his purpose as years of Halloween take their toll on him. He strolls in the woods and finds a door to Christmas Town. Christmas is so full of joy and wonder that Jack takes to it, and wants to understand how it works. He fails to explain it to the townspeople except Sally, when he returns. The books, toys and gifts he got from Christmas Town also aren't providing the answers that he needs.\ |
| 305 | '''You'd Expect''': He would return to Christmas Town and ask "Sandy Claws" or his elves directly, explaining he's the King of Halloween and is looking for a new purpose. Yes, it may be a bad time since it's the holiday rush, but Santa could explain that Christmas isn't scientific but instead about generosity. You give gifts to others and charity to show others what you know about them. The joy comes from making others happy, as well as reciprocity. If the town is worried about him leaving, he can reassure them that it's only for a few days at most.\ |
| 306 | '''Instead''': He borrows scientific equipment from Dr. Finklestein and tries to conduct experiment on his merchandise.\ |
| 307 | '''Predictably''': HilarityEnsues via FailureMontage, where Jack can't even cut a proper snowflake out of paper. After obsessing, he decides the best thing to do is try Christmas and ''be'' Santa for the kids. |
| 308 | ** Jack, having decided to try doing Christmas himself, sends Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap SantaClaus.\ |
| 309 | '''You'd expect''': Jack to employ more trustworthy people, or even perhaps ''ask Santa if it's okay to try doing Christmas himself'', maybe even getting some tips in the bargain.\ |
| 310 | '''Instead''': He trusts the trio to "keep him [Santa] comfortable" and they, of course, send Santa down to Oogie Boogie.\ |
| 311 | '''Also, You'd Think''': Jack would make sure he knows what the heck he's doing.\ |
| 312 | '''Instead''': He charges into the holiday face-first, scaring the crap out of everyone and getting himself blown up, and would've stayed completely dead if Zero, his ghost-dog, didn't put him back together again, and if that didn't happen, Oogie would've killed Santa and Sally, and without Santa, Christmas would have to be canceled forever. |
| 313 | * ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'': |
| 314 | ** Norm, while pretending to be an actor dressed as a polar bear, decides to become the leading man for Greene's failing ad campaign in order to save the Arctic.\ |
| 315 | '''You'd expect:''' Norm to put on a really bad publicity stunt to get Greene's already low approval ratings to hit rock bottom.\ |
| 316 | '''Instead:''' Norm decides to make it really popular and then say he doesn't support it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which allows Greene to take advantage of him]]. |
| 317 | * ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'': |
| 318 | ** During the 1600s, when the witch trials were going on, the judges in Blithe Hollow sentenced [[spoiler:a little girl who could see ghosts]] to death. At her hanging, the other judges die from the psychic backlash of her death, and from her DyingCurse, transforming them into horrfying but remorseful zombies.\ |
| 319 | '''You'd Expect''': Someone to realize that they had actually [[OhCrap executed an actual witch]] rather than TheScapegoat and realize that she can lash out even in death. It may be best for them to not anger her, and to do more research. You would also expect that if she's a historical figure then the town would keep accurate records on her.\ |
| 320 | '''Instead''': Agatha is buried after she's hung, with only [[spoiler:her family]] visiting her grave. They accidentally keep her docile by reading her bedtime stories, while not allowing her to move on to the afterlife because she's still the [[spoiler:traumatized girl]] she was when she died. The town has also turned Agatha's witch status into their money-making tourist attraction, with no attention paid to accuracy or record-keeping.\ |
| 321 | '''The Result''': By the time Norman is volunteered into reading fairy tales to the witch's grave, [[spoiler:four hundred years of being painted as the villain and being unable to reunite with her mother has done a number on Agatha's ghost]], and the bedtime stories are a NoSell when Norman tries to use them twice. He and his friends also can't find any information on the witch or her executioners when they try to do research in City Hall, which causes most of them to nearly bail. It's only by Norman, who can see ghosts, witnessing a vision of [[spoiler:Agatha's unfair trial]] and talking to the zombies that he realizes a solution, right when he's about to be killed by an angry mob and the witch is lashing out against the town. |
| 322 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'': Super Super Big Doctor has just revealed her true colors to Candace and has her strapped to a treadmill so she can generate more Remarkalonium, which turns out to be carbon dioxide, something every human on Earth breaths out, for Mama.\ |
| 323 | '''You'd Expect:''' Candace to not reveal this fact to Super Super Big Doctor and let her think that she is the only source of the stuff. With any luck, Super Super Big Doctor won't figure it out and Candace can work on an escape plan.\ |
| 324 | '''Instead:''' Candace states that every human breaths out carbon dioxide and that it's not special.\ |
| 325 | '''The Result:''' Super Super Big Doctor promptly sets course for Earth. |
| 326 | * ''WesternAnimation/PinocchioAndTheEmperorOfTheNight'': So, the Emperor of the Night had captured Geppetto and had Twinkle, Igor and Scalawag all held hostage where he wanted. He offers a deal with Pinocchio where he could sign his freedom away and set his father and friends free, which he accepts. |
| 327 | ** '''You'd Expect:''' That the Emperor would stick to his end of this deal by releasing Pinocchio's companions to stay on his good side. |
| 328 | ** '''Or As An Alternative:''' That the Emperor would [[ExactWords twist his end of the deal with a loophole]], and probably curse one/some of Pinocchio's companions when Pinocchio's helpless to do anything to stop him. |
| 329 | ** '''Instead:''' [[ILied He goes back on his deal]] by taking away Pinocchio's humanity, ''and'' sending the companions to the dungeon. |
| 330 | ** '''As A Result:''' Pinocchio gets understandably ''furious'' at the Emperor and sacrifices himself to save his companions and kill the Emperor. [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Dr. Facilier]], he is not. |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'': |
| 332 | ** After the train successfully clears Caribou Crossing, the train picks up speed to make up for lost time. Smokey the Engineer opens up the Johnson Bar, but notices it's jammed.\ |
| 333 | '''You’d Expect:''' That he'd get up from his seat and check to see what's jamming it. This is a train full of children he's in charge of, and due soon is the steep downgrade of Glacier Gulch, which he cannot speed down too fast lest he derail the train.\ |
| 334 | '''Instead:''' He keeps ramming at it, hoping it will come loose and start working properly.\ |
| 335 | '''As a Result:''' He pops the cotter pin out and rips the Johnson Bar right into his hand, causing the train to rapidly pick up speed and careen up and down Glacier Gulch like a roller coaster and derail onto a frozen lake. Smokey and Steamer try to recover the pin and it flies out of the cab in all the chaos, landing on the ice and cracking it. If it weren't for their quick thinking afterwards, the train full of children would've sunk beneath the freezing water. |
| 336 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': |
| 337 | ** God has struck Egypt with all the plagues since Ramses won't let the Israelites free.\ |
| 338 | '''You'd Expect''': Ramses to back off once he realizes the Egyptian gods are no match and free the Israelites at any point: during the plagues, after the death of firstborn, after God sends a fireball to stop them, after God literally opens the Red Sea.\ |
| 339 | '''Instead''': He does not back off at all, until after his son dies, but he changes his mind and follows them all the way to the Red Sea to kill them.\ |
| 340 | '''The Result''': Egypt is ruined because of the plagues. His first born son is dead. His army has drowned and the Israelites are free. |
| 341 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndThePea'': |
| 342 | ** Laird may be the BigBad but he certainly lacks the brains. It all began the day before his coronation and it turns out he wants to be crowned King in a [[SkewedPriorities specific]] [[FashionVictimVillain pair of shoes]].\ |
| 343 | '''You'd Expect:''' Laird to keep his shoes on the entire time.\ |
| 344 | '''Instead:''' He throws them at Prince Rollo during a outrageously childish argument over "what it takes to rule" and doesn't even bother to retrieve them afterwards. |
| 345 | ** After this, Sebastian explains to Rollo that actually, it's the first who enters who gets crowned King, not the oldest.\ |
| 346 | '''You'd Think:''' Laird would know about this rule and quickly get his shoes back before the coronation ceremony starts.\ |
| 347 | '''Instead:''' He orders his younger brother Heath to get the shoes which were in the throne room where the coronation ceremony is being held which gives Sebastian and Rollo the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the situation and have the much kinder and more selfless Heath enter first and get crowned King instead, saving the kingdom from being ruled by the greedy and conceited manchild Laird and the disaster that would have entailed.\ |
| 348 | '''The Result:''' Laird loses his claim to the throne and he and his [[BigEater gluttonous]] wife Helsa are assigned rule over the Pig Kingdom. Needless to say, Laird doesn't take it well. |
| 349 | ** Speaking of Heath, he's not the sharpest sword in the armory either. Nine months later, his wife Mariana dies giving birth to their daughter and this happens around the same time Laird and Helsa had their own daughter, which gives Laird the idea of lying that his own child died and sending Helsa to care for the Princess as a wet nurse. Later in the middle of the night, Laird [[SwitchedATBirth has the babies switched]] as part of his plan to take back the kingdom, but there's only one problem with this scheme, the girls look completely different and Heath's daughter has a heart shaped birthmark on the left foot, not to mention the different blankets.\ |
| 350 | '''You'd Expect:''' Heath to get suspicious that the princess growing up in his castle not only doesn't look the same but also looks very much like Laird and Helsa and is even just as rotten as they are. His daughter had green eyes but Hildegard's eyes are purple, and also the blanket his wife made when she told him she was pregnant has disappeared too.\ |
| 351 | '''Instead:''' He doesn't notice the difference at all for 18 years! and the possibility doesn't occur to anyone else either! |
| 352 | * ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'': |
| 353 | ** Two of Ruber's men hold Kayley and her mother hostage, as Ruber transforms several of his men into mechanical selves by using a magic potion mixed in the farm's well.\ |
| 354 | '''You'd Expect:''' One of Ruber's men to keep a grip on Kayley and wait for one of the transformed thugs to take his place while he goes to transform into his new self.\ |
| 355 | '''Instead:''' He literally lets her go and runs to the well to be transformed, giving Kayley a chance to escape through the wall to the other side where she will not be seen. |
| 356 | ** After Kayley overheard Ruber and the Griffin's conversation about Excalibur being dropped somewhere in the forbidden forest, she decides to venture into there to find the sword.\ |
| 357 | '''You'd Expect''': Whilst destined to become a knight, Kayley would prepare herself with a practical weapon like her late father's sword to try and defend herself from Ruber's minions and any dangerous obstacle in the forest.\ |
| 358 | '''Instead''': She heads down the path leading to the forest, completely unprepared for what lies in there.\ |
| 359 | '''Result''': After losing her horse and with two of Ruber's men on her trail, Kayley has to venture in the forest on foot with no armed weapon or shield to defend herself and would have been doomed had Garrett not come to save her from Ruber's men. |
| 360 | ** In the last third of the film, after Ruber has claimed Excalibur (with it fused to his arm by his magic potion) and has held Kayley hostage in the wagon, forcing Juliana to sit up front so he can gain access into Camelot. The knights recognize Juliana and lower the bridge to let her in, along with the wagons where Ruber's henchmen are hidden and Ruber himself, who disguised himself with a black cape to avoid being recognized.\ |
| 361 | '''You'd Expect''': Either one of the knights to check the wagons before letting them in.\ |
| 362 | '''Or''': Ask the suspicious black-hooded figure for identification.\ |
| 363 | '''Instead''': They didn't and let Juliana and the wagons into Camelot without question. Meanwhile, a bounded and gagged Kayley has defeated one of Ruber's thugs by sending him through the floor of the wagon, as he is scrapped along the stone tiles.\ |
| 364 | '''You'd then Expect''': That anyone in Camelot would notice this and alert one of the knights.\ |
| 365 | '''Instead''': Neither of them spot what's happening underneath the wagon.\ |
| 366 | '''Result''': The knights realize too late that they let in Ruber and his henchmen when Kayley (who has escaped with the help of Bladebeak) warns everyone that it's all a trap. Cue an battle between the knights and the mechanical army that terrorizes everyone. |
| 367 | ** In the climax of the film, Ruber corners Kayley and Garrett in the courtyard where the stone Excalibur came from is, and is about to strike.\ |
| 368 | '''You'd Expect:''' Ruber to eventually realize that Kayley and Garrett are in front of the stone, and decide to make a different attack from the side.\ |
| 369 | '''Instead:''' He clearly never noticed the stone that Kayley and Garrett are in front of, and aims the sword in front of them, but they dodge away at the right time.\ |
| 370 | '''Result:''' Ruber sends Excalibur back into the stone, and is unable to pull himself free. Because he bonded the sword to his hand with his potion earlier, Ruber clearly never considered the drawbacks of his move or to realize that only the rightful king can pull the sword free. [[spoiler:This effectively causes Ruber to meet his untimely demise.]] |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'': Lucy, Sally, Marcie and Pepperment Patty form a group for the race together and [[HypocriticalHumor resolve dilemmas by paper votes]]. This essentially becomes their IdiotBall. |
| 372 | ** It all begins when they vote on a leader.\ |
| 373 | '''You'd Expect:''' They'd consider their choices wisely and pick someone that would best represent their group.\ |
| 374 | '''Instead:''' They vote for themselves...or at least Marce does. She tallies the votes and upon reading her name, she blushes. |
| 375 | ** Just after the race begins, the girls come to a fork in the river.\ |
| 376 | '''You'd Expect:''' That they'd take the left or the right way without any trouble.\ |
| 377 | '''Instead:''' They have a vote and it turns out to be a tie.\ |
| 378 | '''Immediately Afterward:''' Their raft crashes into the bank that divides the river. |
| 379 | ** After the bullies sabotage their raft, the girls get back on and leave Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder and Franklin wading in ice cold water.\ |
| 380 | '''You'd Expect:''' That they'd help the boys climb aboard with no hesitation.\ |
| 381 | '''Instead:''' They take a pretty long time before ''deciding'' to vote, Charlie Brown screaming in frustration all the while. After some deliberation they unanimously let the boys join their team. Seriously, ''voting'' over whether to allow an outside party to freeze to death?\ |
| 382 | '''Later:''' [[spoiler: The entire group has pulled ahead of the bullies, Snoopy and Woodstock with the finish line in their sight.]]\ |
| 383 | '''You'd Expect:''' [[spoiler: That they'd just cross the darn finish line.]]\ |
| 384 | '''Instead:''' [[spoiler: The girls exclaim in early jubilation, causing the boys the fall out of their raft. They go back to help them because they have decided on finishing as a team.]]\ |
| 385 | '''You'd Then Expect:''' [[spoiler: That this rescue would go smoothly as they have already saved the boys once before.]]\ |
| 386 | '''Instead:''' [[spoiler: The boys pile up on one side of the raft, causing it to capsize.]]\ |
| 387 | '''The Result:'''[[spoiler: They lose the race to Woodstock.]] |
| 388 | * ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'': |
| 389 | ** The BigBad of the movie, Dr. Phillium Benedict is upset that the students are falling behind in the academic tests in the 1960s and wants to do something to improve it.\ |
| 390 | '''You'd Expect:''' That he would conduct proper research, study what the high-performing countries like Japan do with testing, and simply try to enforce several strict rules such as either be more punctual, a punishment such as a detention for receiving low grades or simply gave them a pre-school tasks such as one to do in a summer vacation. You'd also expect that he recognize that sometimes, students and teachers needed breaks and thus he encourages them to go on summer vacation as a relief from the school pressures.\ |
| 391 | '''Instead:''' He decides that the best thing to do is to cancel recess. The attempt does not go well and all it achieves it getting him fired. In fact, one episode of ''Recess'' showed that getting rid of recess leads to lower test scores and morale.\ |
| 392 | '''Then:''' For some reason, he manages to become the Secretary of Education.\ |
| 393 | '''You'd Expect:''' That he change his tactics. It says something if you lose your job due to an overly strict mandate, so best to refine your methods.\ |
| 394 | '''Instead:''' He attempts to cancel recess nationwide. It is the exact same result and he loses his government job as well.\ |
| 395 | '''What's worse:''' He refuses to learn from his mistakes, [[NeverMyFault first blaming Principal Prickley for getting him fired,]] stealing his job and girlfriend Muriel Finster; we don't hear his opinion on the president firing him. Later on somehow he thinks that it's a good idea to create a global Ice Age just to get remove the summer vacation and recesses all because he thinks that with ice and snow that kids will just sit inside and study. He also believes that working all day is going to improve the marks and get him promoted into a president because of his InsaneTrollLogic that countries like Canada, Iceland and Norway have colder seasons. Safe to say, if his plans ended up being executed perfectly, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt he would have done a thousand times more harm than good in the long run.]] TJ also points out that kids will find ways to have fun in the snow: "You can get rid of summer, but you can't get rid of summer vacation!" |
| 396 | ** Also in the film Benedict's plan involves using a stolen tractor beam to move the moon to another position, to create permanent winter in the United States on the day that the moon is closest to the Earth.\ |
| 397 | '''You'd Expect''': He would make sure the location is out of sight, and in a prime place to move the moon, say an observatory in the mountains where no one will notice. Also that he would cover up any misdeeds efficiently.\ |
| 398 | '''Instead''': He chooses Third Street School, which his hired scientists say is not suitable for the position, due to his obsession with having lost his job there. TJ, one of the two kids left in town after summer camp, sees the green glow from the tractor beam in ''broad daylight'', and his friends later see it in the evening which makes them suspicious. Then after kidnapping Prickley, Benedict tosses the principal's golf pants in the trash and the bald guy impersonating Prickley unmasks himself in broad daylight while gloating about taking away the pants. The end result is that TJ and his friends find out about Benedict's plan and foils it. |
| 399 | ** While this has been going on, three parties have informed the police about the strange things going on at the school: TJ, his friends, and Ms. Finster. TJ talks about the school safe being levitated, his friends mention scientists with a strange beam, and Ms. Finster reports ninjas.\ |
| 400 | '''You'd Expect''': TJ and his friends are one thing, but Ms. Finster is a respectable adult. At the very least the police can open an investigation and set up a stakeout at the school.\ |
| 401 | '''Instead''': The police take a report from TJ, but they laugh. Each time, even with Ms. Finster. This means the kids have to rely on themselves to form an army from their classmates, and Finster follows suit with the teachers. |
| 402 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'': |
| 403 | ** At the beginning of the film, a flood began to ensue and Edmond's family goes to stop the flood. Edmond asks his mother if he could help.\ |
| 404 | '''You'd Expect''': She would take Edmond with her and her family. After all, they're all facing a deadly flood. They need to get to a raft immediately.\ |
| 405 | '''Instead''': She just tells Edmond to stay in his room and pray for Chanticleer. |
| 406 | ** Shortly after Edmond calls for Chanticleer, the Grand Duke of Owls shows up to kill Edmond.\ |
| 407 | '''You'd Expect''': The Grand Duke of Owls would just simply kill him immediately (i.e. strangle him to death).\ |
| 408 | '''Instead''': He turns him into a kitten and decides to eat him, which ultimately fails when Patou shows up and eventually has to deal with the consequences. |
| 409 | ** While trapped in a chest underwater, Snipes gets claustrophobic.\ |
| 410 | '''You'd Expect''': Snipes would try to realize what situation he and the others are in and do nothing until they can find safety.\ |
| 411 | '''Instead''': He panics and tries to break his way out by using his beak to break open the chest, which nearly causes him, Patou, Peepers, and Edmond to drown. A sadly accurate depiction of the irrationality of phobias. |
| 412 | ** The Grand Duke of Owls wants to ensure Chanticleer does not return to the farm to crow and raise the sun by any means necessary. The Duke's main two underlings are Pinky, a CorruptCorporateExecutive fox who picked up Chanticleer after he left the farm in disgrace and is making a fortune off of the rooster's singing career as "The King" while distracting him from his prior life, and Hunch, his aggressive and idiotic nephew who he sends to stop Edmond and his companions from reaching the city to find Chanticleer, only for Hunch to unwittingly help them reach the city via an aqueduct pipe.\ |
| 413 | '''You'd Expect''': The Duke would ensure his underlings are properly coordinated. Since he knows Edmond's search party is looking for Chanticleer and Pinky has a close eye on the rooster, he would send Hunch to the city to rendezvous with Pinky so that if Edmond and his friends get too close to Chanticleer, Hunch will already be one step ahead of them and ambush them when the opportunity presents itself. Even if Hunch fails to kill the search party, Pinky's numerous toad bouncers would be able to better subdue and kill them before they have the chance to get near Chanticleer.\ |
| 414 | '''Instead''': He simply provides Hunch with a pair of sunglasses so his nephew won't be blinded by the city lights as he hunts for the search party and leaves Hunch to his own devices.\ |
| 415 | '''As A Result''': Hunch is left LockedOutOfTheLoop. When he finds the search party after they've been incapacitated by Pinky's goons to use as leverage against Chanticleer, Hunch doesn't realize Pinky is in cahoots with his uncle and overzealously breaks into Pinky's trailer to kill the heroes, only to end up freeing him due to his incompetence. |
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| 419 | * ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries'': |
| 420 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AlohaScoobyDoo'': The gang goes to Hanahuna Bay in Hawaii so that Daphne can participate in a surfing contest and serve as the face for a surfing and swimwear company. They arrive just after a local monster called the Wiki-Tiki has kidnapped a woman named Snooki using AdorableEvilMinions, and her boyfriend Manu goes missing while helping the gang find a wise woman named Auntie Mahina that can tell them what to do to appease the Wiki-Tiki. To investigate, the gang goes to the nearby volcano when Auntie Mahina tells them to look there. [[spoiler:Unknown to them, [[ScoobyDooHaox Snooki faked her kidnapping and Manu was posing as the Wiki-Tiki]], as part of a scam]]. They find a woman in the caves, and ask if she's Snooki.\ |
| 421 | '''You'd Expect''': It's established that [[spoiler:Snooki is literally a rocket scientist, as Velma summarizes in the end. Hence she's no fool]]. Logically speaking, ''someone'' would eventually organize a search party to find her. She ought to [[spoiler:fake relief that someone has come to "rescue" her, go with them, and simply have the Wiki-Tiki recapture her, as they do later]].\ |
| 422 | '''Instead''': She [[spoiler:screams and runs away]].\ |
| 423 | '''The Result''': While the gang erroneously concludes that she's [[spoiler:traumatized and scared from being kidnapped and held hostage for so long]], eventually Velma puts the pieces together after doing some research on the Internet. [[spoiler:Manu sent them on a WildGooseChase and had them travel the long way to Auntie Mahina, so as to fake his kidnapping as well. Snooki had engineered said minions to scare their friends and neighbors and buy their land for cheap]]. |
| 424 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'': [[spoiler:Bill]] is infamous for being one of the dumbest criminals in ''Scooby-Doo'' history. He programs the [[AIIsACrapshoot Phantom Virus]] to sabotage Eric's project at the university Mystery Inc. end up visiting for DudeWheresMyRespect reasons, and releases it upon the world. Now, [[spoiler:Bill]] had no way of knowing that Mystery Inc. would show up at the university he works at, but...\ |
| 425 | '''You'd Expect:''' He would keep his ego in check and not program the Phantom Virus with [[spoiler:his own love of baseball]] that would leave easy clues as to the creator's identity.\ |
| 426 | '''Instead:''' [[NiceJobFixingItVillain He does just that]], and [[DidntThinkThisThrough doesn't realise that doing so was a bad idea]] until the jig is up. To add further to [[spoiler:Bill]]'s stupidity, while Mystery Inc. is going over all the clues they found about who created the Phantom Virus near the end, [[VillainExitStageLeft he tries to escape]], [[NotHelpingYourCase which only makes him look even more guilty]]. |
| 427 | --->'''[[spoiler:Bill]]:''' [[TemptingFate Did you find out who created the Virus?]] |
| 428 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': TheReveal comes out that [[spoiler:the zombies aren't the real BigBad of the movie- Mooonscar Island residents and homeowners Simone and Lena are. They are cursed cat creatures that must sacrifice people during the full harvest moon by midnight every year. Moreover, they've been doing it for a few ''centuries'' since their cat god first cursed them as a price for revenge on pirates]].\ |
| 429 | '''You'd Expect''': They would be discreet and choose their victims carefully, ensuring they're people that no one will miss.\ |
| 430 | '''Instead''': The victims include some tourists, a few of which had families. When they hear about the Scooby gang trying to find real monsters, [[spoiler:Simone and Lena think it's a good idea to invite a famous talk-show host and her mystery-hunting friends to "investigate" the zombies and lure them into a trap]].\ |
| 431 | '''Predictably''': What the Scooby gang lacks in unity, they make up in years of experience. [[spoiler:Simone and Lena]] get the drop of the "meddling kids" but not Scooby and Shaggy, whose blind panic [[spoiler:knock the voodoo dolls incapacitating the gang into Velma's bound feet as they're running from the zombies and cat ladies as well as a transformed Jacques. Velma frees everyone and uses the extra voodoo wax to incapacitate Simone and Lena before they can drain Shaggy and Scooby for their life force, just in time for midnight to pass and the curse to end]].\ |
| 432 | '''To Make Matters Worse''': When the dust has settled, Beau the grumpy gardener who fought to protect the kids [[spoiler:reveals that he's an undercover cop, Detective Beau Neville from Lousiana PD. It turns out [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that when you make a bunch of tourists disappear in one location at the same time every year, the police will investigate]]. Simone and Lena were pegged as the most likely suspects from the start owing to OccamsRazor. They were planning to sacrifice Beau, which would have gotten the rest of Louisiana PD on their tail. While he has no physical evidence of zombies or cat gods, Beau says that he'll write up a report anyway so it's on record]]. |
| 433 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' |
| 434 | ** When Homer takes Spider Pig/Harry Plopper's waste silo to be disposed of, he gets a call from Lenny telling him that they're giving away free donuts at the shop but they're going fast.\ |
| 435 | '''You'd Expect:''' Homer to make a pit stop at the donut shop first and ''then'' dispose of the silo.\ |
| 436 | '''Or:''' Homer to ask Lenny to save him some donuts while he continues on his way.\ |
| 437 | '''Instead:''' He goes and dumps the silo in the recently cleaned up Springfield Lake right when the EPA was investigating Springfield's pollution. The lake is now so badly polluted that Springfield is sealed under a giant glass dome. |
| 438 | ** When the citizens of Springfield find out Homer was responsible for their imprisonment in the dome, they form an angry mob to try and kill him outside his house...but are heading in the opposite direction!\ |
| 439 | '''You'd Expect:''' The Simpsons to take advantage of the situation and get out of the house before they realize they're heading the wrong way.\ |
| 440 | '''Instead:''' Homer loudly mocks them for it, and they start heading in the right direction. |
| 441 | ** Bart, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie are on the train on their way back to Springfield & the EPA are keeping track of what everyone is saying by using hidden microphones.\ |
| 442 | '''You'd Expect:''' For Bart, Marge, and Lisa ''to keep quiet'' during the ride to Springfield.\ |
| 443 | '''Instead:''' They run their mouths and the EPA is able to hear them! They get captured, and end up back in the dome. Way to go there, guys.\ |
| 444 | '''That said:''' Lisa was at least smart enough to lampshade the potential danger, but Marge simply dismissed it. |
| 445 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'' |
| 446 | ** Buster Moon decides to hold a singing competition to save his beloved theater from going under, offering a prize of one thousand dollars to the winning contestant. Except a typo on the flyers advertising the contest makes everyone believe the prize money is a hundred grand, which Buster only learns of after he's selected which animals will be involved in the contest.\ |
| 447 | '''You'd Expect:''' Buster would come clean about the typo on the flyers the minute he finds out about it. While the contestants are likely to be disappointed over the cash prize not being anywhere near what they thought it would be, not all of them are OnlyInItForTheMoney and would still be willing to compete in order to make their singing talents known to the world.\ |
| 448 | '''Instead''': he doesn't, and instead scrambles to find a way to get ninety-nine grand while having to manage the show.\ |
| 449 | '''As A Result''': One of the contestants, Mike, becomes an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom when he swindles a group of bear thugs out of their money in a poker game. When they come to the theater to demand it back on the same day Buster is holding a preview of the show to persuade his partner's wealthy grandmother to sponsor the prize money, Mike attempts to placate them by offering what Buster has already, and their attempts to obtain it end up exposing Buster's deception and gets the theater destroyed. |
| 450 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': |
| 451 | ** The entirety of South Park Elementary, save for Wendy and Gregory, has seen the new ''Terrance and Phillip'' movie. Cartman calls Kyle a "fucking Jew" which gets him in trouble. Mr. Garrison asks, "Did you just say the f-word?"\ |
| 452 | '''You'd Expect:''' Kyle and the other kids to keep their mouths shut and let Cartman take the heat.\ |
| 453 | '''Instead:''' Kyle explains, "He's talking about "fuck". You can't say "fuck" in school, you fucking fatass."\ |
| 454 | '''To Make Matters Worse:''' Stan and Kenny say fuck for no good reason, and all four boys get sent to the school counselor. |
| 455 | ** Kyle stands up to his mother, Sheila. He criticizes her for starting the American-Canadian War and wanting Terrance and Phillip dead, all because of foul language. The soldiers all around him tearfully admit that he's right and agree to stop fighting.\ |
| 456 | '''You'd Expect:''' For Sheila to admit that she was wrong and share a heartfelt moment with her son.\ |
| 457 | '''Instead:''' She lets out a BigNo, snatches a commander's gun and fires at Terrance and Phillip. When their blood touches the ground, Satan and Saddam Hussein emerge from Hell and begin their reign of terror. Oops. |
| 458 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': |
| 459 | ** Miles Morales is a biracial teen from Brooklyn who has been accepted into an elite charter school. He dislikes this because for the first time he's away from his friends, most of the students there laugh at him, and he's having a CultureClash with having to meet the high standards. His dad Jefferson disagrees; he believes Miles has earned his place in this school and could benefit from a higher education.\ |
| 460 | '''You'd Expect''': Miles would talk to his teachers about a potential alternative to the academy, or plan to stick it out until he graduates middle school, and can argue to return to his Brooklyn friends before college.\ |
| 461 | '''Instead''': Miles tries to deliberately flunk a true-false physics exam and gets every question wrong on purpose, so as to get expelled.\ |
| 462 | '''The Result''': His physics teacher calls him after class and gets him to admit that he failed on purpose by quizzing him on probability. She turns his 0 into a 100 since it proves he knew every answer, and assigns him an essay about what he wants out of his life under the title "Great Expectations". |
| 463 | ** After this, Miles goes to visit his Uncle Aaron. Aaron is pleased to see the sketch he made for a "Great Expectations" graffiti, and tells him they should go spray it somewhere. Miles somewhat defers because his dad, a cop, has asked him not to put up graffiti or stickers. [[spoiler:Unknown to Miles, Aaron is the hitman and supervillain The Prowler, who works on Kingpin's payroll]]. Uncle Aaron suggests a spot where his brother Jefferson won't find the art.\ |
| 464 | '''You'd Expect''': Aaron would choose a very secluded and relatively safe area, [[spoiler:far from where the Kingpin is hosting his dimensional experiments. As a hitman who loves his nephew, he ought to know better]].\ |
| 465 | '''Instead''': Aaron takes Miles down to an abandoned subway tunnel that's fairly old and decrepit. [[spoiler:It's also close enough to the Kingpin's Brooklyn Alchemax headquarters.]] When Miles returns the next night to investigate the spider that bit him, he sees the portal projects that Kingpin is doing.\ |
| 466 | '''The Result''': The first night, Miles gets bitten by a spider that coincidentally happens to come from [[spoiler:Alchemax and can infuse anyone it bites with Spider-Man's powers]]. On night two, when he goes back to figure out what kind of spider gave him powers, Miles gets caught in the three-way battle between Goblin, Spider-Man, and Kingpin. [[spoiler:Spider-Man dies protecting Miles and ordering him to destroy the portal, while Kingpin sees Miles's fleeing silhouette and orders the Prowler to kill the only eyewitness]]. |
| 467 | ** Much later on, Miles, Peter B., and Spider-Gwen go to visit this world's Aunt May, who has been overwhelmed with people's [[spoiler:grief, love, and tributes for her nephew]]. She reveals that Spider-Heroes from other dimensions have come as well, and they decide to team up to stop Kingpin and shut down the portal. Miles volunteers to be the shut-off guy because he's the only one who won't die from cellular disintegration, due to this being his home dimension. The other Spider-Heroes, especially Gwen, are skeptical and worried about an untrained kid being killed on their mission; Peni Parker's even younger but she has her genius skills and mecha to fight. Miles points out that he made a promise to his Spider-Man, and it's his responsibility.\ |
| 468 | '''You'd Expect''': They would concoct a plan that would allow [[spoiler:Miles to explode the portal after they go home, and to escape Kingpin's wrath. Miles doesn't actually need to fight if he can learn to control his invisibility. They just need to figure out how to help him control it while still being hard on him at the same time]]. \ |
| 469 | '''Instead''': The Spider-Heroes challenge Miles to various fights to see if he has the same special abilities as them and/or the endurance to get up after someone knocks him to the ground. Miles obviously doesn't, not just because he’s different from them but also because he's only had his powers for a few days, and they conclude he'd be TheMillstone.\ |
| 470 | '''The Result''': Due to Miles's poorly-thought but understandable decision to [[spoiler:go to his uncle for advice, and realizing that his uncle is the Prowler, Kingpins' villains arrive at May's front door to take out all the Spider-Heroes. The Spider-Heroes win the fight, but Uncle Aaron dies refusing to fire on Miles when he realizes the kid he was ordered to kill is his beloved nephew.]] |
| 471 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'': |
| 472 | ** Lance Sterling is called one of the greatest spies in the world. He's framed for stealing a drone that could infiltrate secure bases. Lance knows that it's not him but barely escapes the woman chasing him, named Marcy, as well as her special ops team before she can detain him indefinitely. To "disappear" he decides to go to the gadget guy that he just fired, Walter, who was trying to sell him on the invention as well as other pacifist options that would incapacitate your enemy but not make them go "boom".\ |
| 473 | '''You'd Expect''': He would know the meaning of getting an undercover vehicle. That's the whole point of being a spy.\ |
| 474 | '''Instead''': Lance uses his CoolCar, private plane, and yacht to travel all over the globe and find the man framing him.\ |
| 475 | '''Predictably''': Marcy is able to track him owing to the fact that such vehicles are very conspicuous and known to the agent. She's only able to get the jump on them in Venice where a surrendering Walter tries to explain that Lance was framed, and then Killian interrupts to conduct his theft, forcing a brief EnemyMine as Marcy, Walter, Lance, and their pigeon squad attempt to steal back the device. |
| 476 | ** Lance shows up at Watler's house, asking for the "Disappearing" device and asking if he has it on hand. Walter quips that he has it "in hand" since he just developed the formula and it's in a drinking glass. He offers to fetch Lance another drink so he can explain it in a calm environment since it's still in process and he doesn't want to poison the guy.\ |
| 477 | '''You'd Expect''': Even if Lance is in a time crunch with Marcy's agents chasing after him, he should hear the kid out. This is a device that could save his bacon but it could also go horribly wrong. He could also ask Walter to keep this on the down-low since every agent is now after him.\ |
| 478 | '''Instead''': He steals what he thinks is the kid's "diet soda" and then demands the device.\ |
| 479 | '''The Result''': Walter goes {{Squee}} and {{OhCrap}} at the same time, because Lance wasn't supposed to drink that much in one gulp. He explains in a meek voice about what Lance just swallowed, before using his devices to record Lance's reactions as the formula changes his genome. After he spurts feathers and a beak, Lance goes NeverMyFault about Walter turning him into a pigeon, and Walter has to point out he didn't make Lance drink it. To top it all off, Walter called the agency to let them know where Lance is because he didn't know Lance has been framed, forcing them to abandon the house. |
| 480 | ** Marcy also has a few moments. She's chasing down Lance under the belief that he stole the prototype for a dangerous attack drone. When Walter Beckett calls the agency explaining Lance is at his house but he's fine, she hones in on the address.\ |
| 481 | '''You'd Expect''': The team members would notice Lance's car near the house and cover it.\ |
| 482 | '''Instead''': They completely ignore the CoolCar until Lance and Walter start the engine.\ |
| 483 | '''The Result''': Both Walter and Lance make their getaway and Marcy lampshades this lapse in judgment before putting her vehicle in gear to pursue them. |
| 484 | ** There is also the fact that her team doesn't know why Walter is helping Lance escape after calling the agency. Marcy (correctly) deduces that Lance was using the kid and his naivete to make his getaway. She also has read Walter's case file and knows that he's an idealist wanting to make the world better with weapons that defuse rather than escalate situations. He also got fired that day, which means it's likely he didn't know about the charges against Lance. Soon Marcy catches up to the duo in Venice just as they prepare to guard the Database from "Claw Guy" as they call the guy framing Lance. Walter allows a transformed Lance to hide as he holds still, arms raised.\ |
| 485 | '''You'd Expect''': Marcy would be upfront in telling Walter about the charges against Lance. As far as she knows, he murdered a bunch of his fellow agents and committed treason while using a child to further his ends. Walter ''has'' noted that Lance's body count is high and he would question why the agent would come to the guy he just fired and strong-armed him into handing over the device. At the least, they could clarify why they're chasing him since for all Marcy knows Lance lied and is using Walter as a patsy.\ |
| 486 | '''Instead''': She offers to hire him back so that he can make the world better, one where people like his mom won't die protecting others. It ends up being what Walter wants to hear, but that isn't the issue. The issue is someone is going to steal the database and they need to protect it.\ |
| 487 | '''You'd Then Expect''': Walter would tell Marcy that someone else is framing Lance, and Kimura told them that the guy was traveling to Venice while hopped up on truth serum. The big priority is protecting the database before that guy appears.\ |
| 488 | '''The Result''': Walter innocently tells Marcy that he would, but Lance is a good guy and they can all work together to stop the real threat. As she prepares to take him into custody for treason, an explosion rings out in the database building. The confrontation was all the distraction that Killian needed to pull off an armed robbery and seek the database with all the agents. While Marcy tries to detain Walter, Lance frees him, and [[EveryoneHasStandards she freaks out]] on seeing a child run ''into'' explosions to try and save the database and shouts at him to stop. She at least sees that a man with a hook claw is impersonating Lance, and realizes they may have gotten the wrong idea. |
| 489 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'': So Squidward finds out that Plankton has stolen the Krabby Patty Formula ''and'' King Neptune's Crown while framing Mr. Krabs in the process, and he decides to take action.\ |
| 490 | '''You'd Expect:''' Squidward to go straight to King Neptune and clear Krabs' name once and for all. Granted, he likely would have been completely ignored and fobbed off, especially considering that he had no proof to help his case, but it would have been worth a shot. He still could have gotten help from Princess Mindy to fix the situation, though.\ |
| 491 | '''Instead:''' He charges straight into the Chum Bucket, brags that he's going to expose Plankton, and gets cornered and brainwashed as a result. Plankton even dubs the stubborn, outspoken octopus "Inspector Looselips". |
| 492 | ** How does Plankton frame Mr. Krabs for stealing the crown? Simply by leaving a note saying ''I stole your crown signed Eugene Krabs.''\ |
| 493 | '''You'd Expect:''' Neptune to realize that this clearly an attempt to frame somebody as probably nobody on earth would do something so stupid, and instead try to look for clues, like checking for fingerprints or possibly asking the guards if they noticed anyone strange in the palace.\ |
| 494 | '''Instead:''' The note totally convinces Neptune that Krabs did it. |
| 495 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': |
| 496 | ** While flying in Tulip's homemade hovercraft, Tulip, who is flying the craft, becomes concerned about the baby when she starts fussing. Junior tells her not to worry about it, but Tulip's conscience gets the better of her and goes to check on the baby, causing the craft start losing altitude.\ |
| 497 | '''You'd Expect:''' That either Junior or Tulip would press the auto-pilot button to stabilize the craft.\ |
| 498 | '''Instead:''' Out of panic, neither one thinks to do this and the craft ends up crashing in the Arctic as a result. The two of them lampshade this moments later. |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': Roland is cheating on Princess Marianne who he is about to marry for her armies.\ |
| 500 | '''You'd Expect:''' Him to wait a single day until he's married to Marianne before he continues cheating on her.\ |
| 501 | '''Instead:''' He cheats on her right before the wedding, '''in broad daylight!''' It's a wonder that she didn't catch him before. |
| 502 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie:'' [[spoiler:Princess Peach reluctantly agrees to marry Bowser because he threatens to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom. But right before Kamek, who acts as the priest, starts talking during the wedding, Peach knocks him out and calls it off, revealing an Ice Flower that was hidden in her bouquet, which she uses to freeze the chain that is dropping people in cages into lava and to fight Bowser.]]\ |
| 503 | '''You'd Expect:''' That the [[spoiler:wedding guests]], those being Bowser's underlings, would jump into action and assist their king during this.\ |
| 504 | '''Instead:''' They simply sit where they are and watch as [[spoiler:Peach freezes Bowser up,]] and it's only after that where they ''finally'' rises up and rush at her.\ |
| 505 | '''Results:''' [[spoiler:Peach]] is able to defeat all of them since they don't have their king to do a bulk of the fighting for them. Bonus points for one of these underlings being King Boo, who is commonly portrayed as a powerful boss in the games, yet seemingly doing nothing when the fight happens. |
| 506 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': |
| 507 | ** In the first film, Odette is proposing to Derek before their marriage and asks him if there's anything he cares about other than her beauty.\ |
| 508 | '''You'd Expect:''' Derek to explain how kind she is and that she has a good heart, like he does near the end of the film.\ |
| 509 | '''Instead:''' "What else is there?" |
| 510 | ** Also in the first film; Derek has finally found Odette after (presumably) months of searching despite everyone telling him that she's dead. He learns that the only way to break the spell on her is to make a vow of everlasting love and prove it to the world. Before he can escape, Derek remembers the ball his mother is hosting where he's expected to announce his bride.\ |
| 511 | '''You'd Expect:''' Derek to come up with some way to get soldiers to Swan Lake and escort Odette to the ball to make sure she isn't waylaid by Rothbart. Or at least come back the next night and bring her back himself.\ |
| 512 | '''Instead:''' Derek just runs right off, telling Odette to make her way back to the castle.\ |
| 513 | '''Results:''' Rothbart (who revealed that he had been eavesdropping) reminds Odette that the next day is the new moon (meaning she won't be transforming back into a human), locks her up in a leaking tower and comes up with a diabolical plan to have the Hag impersonate Odette at the ball, thus dooming Odette to die so "I can finish Derek off myself". |
| 514 | ** In the second film, ''Escape From Castle Mountain'', Puffin is flying over the forest and sees Clavius' henchman, Knuckles, setting a trap for Derek.\ |
| 515 | '''You'd Expect:''' Puffin to find Derek and warn him that there's a trap waiting for him in the forest.\ |
| 516 | '''Instead:''' [[LeeroyJenkins He flies down to attack Knuckles]], who is easily able to swat him into a tree, spraining his tail and rendering him unable to fly for the rest of the movie. |
| 517 | *** Near the end of the film, Derek has managed to steal the Forbidden Arts back from Clavius and orders his friends and mother into the balloon so they can escape.\ |
| 518 | '''You'd Expect:''' Clavius to try and shoot the balloon down with a bolt of magic.\ |
| 519 | '''Instead:''' He leaps onto the balloon and tries to climb the rope. As a result, Derek drops the Forbidden Arts and Clavius falls down with it. When the Forbidden Arts hits the floor, it explodes, killing Clavius. |
| 520 | ** In the third film, ''The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure'', Derek has Rothbart's notes on the Forbidden Arts locked away in a chest, because he believes that he can use their power for good. Odette, however, expresses concern about this and tells Derek to destroy the notes.\ |
| 521 | '''You'd Expect:''' Derek to listen to Odette and burn the notes as soon as possible.\ |
| 522 | '''Instead:''' He tells her that he will destroy them after the festival that they're preparing for is over.\ |
| 523 | '''Result:''' Zelda manages to steal the Forbidden Arts. |
| 524 | *** Later in the film, Derek is on his way to confront Zelda, when he meets Odette (actually Zelda) in the middle of the forest.\ |
| 525 | '''You'd Expect:''' Derek to be somewhat suspicious of seeing Odette in the middle of the forest after Zelda explicitly stated that she has captured Odette. After all, Rothbart pulled that trick on him all the way back in the first movie.\ |
| 526 | '''Instead:''' He instantly believes that Odette managed to escape from Zelda.\ |
| 527 | '''Even Worse:''' He accidentally reveals that he has the last word to complete the Forbidden Arts' power to destroy. As Zelda takes it away from him and sheds her disguise, she lampshades how foolish Derek is: |
| 528 | --->''"You keep falling for that fake Odette trick, don't you, big guy?"'' |
| 529 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'' |
| 530 | ** Brother Blood has hired Deathstroke the Terminator to capture the Titans, so that he can absorb their powers. Deathstroke to this purpose uses a mole named Terra, whom he rescued as a child and is grooming. Terra can move the Earth. He manages to capture all of the Titans except for Nightwing, and Deathstroke has to presume he is dead.\ |
| 531 | '''You'd Expect''': Slade to remember that Terra is an unstable teenager and that she emotionally depends on him. Also, you would expect he'd send her to hunt down another metahuman to fit the bill.\ |
| 532 | '''Instead''': He [[spoiler:sells her out to Brother Blood to fulfill his contract]].\ |
| 533 | '''The Result''': She [[spoiler:goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge the minute she's free from the machine, asking if she was just another test subject for him. Slade can't put up a sensible defense or reason with her, and they both die in the ensuing landslide]]. |
| 534 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}}'' gives a major one early into the movie. After an encounter with Mrs. Toad and her sons, Thumbelina meets Jacquimo, whom Thumbelina tells about her situation about getting back home.\ |
| 535 | '''You'd Expect:''' Either A) for Thumbelina to realize that Jacquimo is a bird who can fly and would ask for him to fly her home, or B) for Jacquimo to offer to fly Thumbelina back home. Either scenario, Thumbelina would [[EarnYourHappyEnding be reunited with her mother and Cornelius.]]\ |
| 536 | '''Instead:''' The thought never ''once'' comes to the two of them, and all Jacquimo can do is to tell Thumbelina to "follow her heart" back home and leaves her to walk back while he goes to find the Valley of Fairies, leading Thumbelina to have a series of encounters with multiple villains who want to take advantage of her in multiple ways.\ |
| 537 | '''Even Worse''': At the end of the movie, Jacquimo ''does'' fly Thumbelina [[spoiler:to the Vale of the Fairies]], proving that he could fly with her weight on his back, and having received no upgrades during the film, could likely have done it earlier! |
| 538 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', Megatron is stalling Optimus, who has some exposed wounds on his left side, so he can grab a gun to shoot him while Optimus is busy talking instead of executing him. Hot Rod sees this and tries to stop Megatron.\ |
| 539 | '''You'd Expect''': Hot Rod shoots the gun, shoots Megatron in the back, or yells at Optimus "He's going for a gun!"\ |
| 540 | '''Instead''': He tries to tackle pound-for-pound one of the strongest and most dangerous Decepticons in the series, who easily overcomes him, thereby giving Megatron an Autobot shield from which be can blast Optimus with ease without fear of retaliation. Optimus dies as a result.\ |
| 541 | '''Alternatively:''' Optimus could've kept his own mouth shut and killed Megatron as soon as he leveled his gun on him. Or positioned himself so that his injuries weren't in Megatron's line of fire. Especially since Optimus knows from personal experience that Megatron has multiple built-in weapons. |
| 542 | ** Ultra Magnus has been utterly destroyed by the Decepticons, such that his body is laying in pieces. The Junkions collect his parts, reassemble him, and he is miraculously brought back to life.\ |
| 543 | '''You'd Expect''': Once the threat of Unicron has been dealt with, the Autobots bring to the Junkions the bodies of Optimus Prime and any other Autobots that have been killed earlier so they can also be brought back to life.\ |
| 544 | '''Instead''': The Junkion's resurrection ability is never brought up again. |
| 545 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'' |
| 546 | ** First, Moxy goes to Lucky Bat about the Big World, and she mistakes what he is trying to say as it's not in what he sees, but what she sees. And so, she looks into her tea cup to see nothing but leaves.\ |
| 547 | '''You'd Expect:''' Moxy to see nothing but leaves and just give up on the Big World.\ |
| 548 | '''Instead:''' Moxy believes that she needs to leave and find her kid. \ |
| 549 | '''The Result:''' She and Lucky go rally up her friends and find the Big World.\ |
| 550 | '''However:''' [[spoiler: [[EarnYourHappyEnding She does get her wish at the end]]]]. |
| 551 | ** Subverted when Uglydog questions how they get up to a pipe to the big world, Babo [[HammerSpace pulls out a ladder, trampoline, etc that can help them out of his pockets]].\ |
| 552 | '''You'd Expect:''' That Babo uses one of these things.\ |
| 553 | '''Instead:''' He says "I got nuthin."\ |
| 554 | '''However:''' They were all damaged.\ |
| 555 | '''The Result:''' They use Uglydog as a [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty grappling hook]]. |
| 556 | ** After Lou [[spoiler: throws Moxy and Mandy into a recycling center]] and leaves them for dead.\ |
| 557 | '''You'd Expect:''' For him to board up the pipe so no one can save them.\ |
| 558 | '''Instead:''' He does not and the two are saved.\ |
| 559 | '''Also:''' He could've just blocked the side of the pipe leading to Perfection in order for no Uglydolls to go there.\ |
| 560 | '''The Result:''' The Uglydolls run the Gauntlet. |
| 561 | ** After Babo saves Tuesday after [[spoiler: Lou pushes her into a vacuum]] near the end of the film. \ |
| 562 | '''You'd Expect:''' For her to thank Babo and/or apologize to Babo for how she treated him and her friends and [[HeelFaceTurn turn against Lou completely]].\ |
| 563 | '''Instead:''' She doesn't thank him, and doesn't fully turn against Lou until [[spoiler: his true intentions are revaled]]. |
| 564 | * ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit : WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'' |
| 565 | ** Gromit has just been to Piella's house and has found out from her diary that she's the serial killer and that she intends to murder Wallace. He takes her diary so he can show it to Wallace and warn him.\ |
| 566 | '''You'd expect:''' Gromit to make sure that Piella wasn't in the house before he showed Wallace the diary.\ |
| 567 | '''Instead:''' He doesn't, and she turns out to have been sitting in the same room as Wallace the whole time, and to have seen everything.\ |
| 568 | '''As a result:''' Piella surreptitiously takes the diary off Gromit and [[DestroyTheEvidence throws it in the fire]]. Gromit loses the only piece of evidence he has to convince Wallace that Piella doesn't have his best interests at heart.\ |
| 569 | '''Even worse:''' [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow Piella now knows that Gromit knows that she's planning to kill Wallace,]] and can now make sure that he's out of the way before she makes any more attempts on Wallace's life. |
| 570 | ** Piella sets a trap for Gromit and locks him in a room with Fluffles.\ |
| 571 | '''You'd expect:''' Piella to make sure that there was nothing in the room that the dogs could use to escape.\ |
| 572 | '''Instead:''' She doesn't, and the room turns out to contain the Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon.\ |
| 573 | '''As a result:''' Gromit and Fluffles use the balloon to fly to Wallace's house in time to save his life. |
| 574 | ** After Gromit and Fluffles save Wallace from Piella, she escapes from them using the Bake-O-Lite balloon.\ |
| 575 | '''You'd expect:''' Piella to remember that she's too heavy for the balloon and to get off of it.\ |
| 576 | '''Instead:''' She doesn't, and the balloon descends into the zoo where she is [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile eaten by crocodiles]]. |
| 577 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', when the Warners are told about the Wishing Star that landed near Acme Falls...\ |
| 578 | '''You'd Expect:''' For them to skip town as quickly and quietly as possible and not tell ''anyone'' about the star so they can get it themselves. They're the only ones who know about it at this point and want to use it to help the town. If anybody else finds out, they’ll ''definitely'' try to get to it as well.\ |
| 579 | '''Even Better:''' It's the ''middle of the night,'' and while they don't know it, the other townsfolk weren't woken up when the star crashed. If they leave now before anyone gets up and starts getting curious about the strange light on the horizon, they won't have to talk to ''anyone'' in town or answer unwanted questions about where they're going, and no one’ll follow them because they won't know ''where'' they went!\ |
| 580 | '''Instead:''' The Warners decide to wait until morning to pack up, gather the entire town to tell them - ''in song,'' no less - about how they're going to the wishing star and ''exactly how to get the wish''.\ |
| 581 | '''As A Result:''' Everyone in town ''immediately'' starts racing to get there first.\ |
| 582 | '''Even Worse:''' The BigBad King Salazar learns about the star himself when his guards arrest the town tax collector and constable (who joined in on the chase) for speeding, and tell him everything under his interrogation. |
| 583 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', a film that portrays the grim and realistic life of a rabbit, a prologue at the very beginning reveals that the reason for this is a very prominent example of this trope. In the beginning, all the animals lived together in peace and harmony until the rabbit population started increasing rapidly and started claiming most of the food and resources for themselves. Eventually, the animal god Frith tells the leader of the rabbits (El-ahrairah) to get his people under control, or else ''he'll'' find a way.\ |
| 584 | '''You'd Expect:''' That since Frith is an all-powerful god and that his ways of controlling them will undoubtedly lead to big trouble for all of the other rabbits, El-ahrairah would take Frith seriously and order the other rabbits to be more thoughtful with how much food they consume.\ |
| 585 | '''Instead:''' The egotistical rabbit brushes off Frith's warning and tells him that his people are the strongest in the world. Frith then gives all of the other animals a strong desire to devour rabbits, resulting in the dangerous life a rabbit has to go through in general. |
| 586 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf'': The training of new witchers is shown. We know that the transformation itself can be lethal, and few survive it.\ |
| 587 | '''You'd Expect:''' That the witchers would ensure as many trainees make it to the transformation as possible, to ensure they get the best number of full witchers.\ |
| 588 | '''Instead:''' Just before undergoing the transformation, the group of trainees are dumped in a monster-infested swamp with nothing but witcher medallions to let them know when they're about to be killed by a monster.\ |
| 589 | '''As A Result:''' Nearly ''all'' the trainees dropped in the woods die, the one we do not see messily ripped apart tumbles down a cliff which could easily kill him, and in the next scene we see only a few survived, all wounded. Only five or six boys are able go into the transmutation, and that kills at least two of them. When there were easily ten boys before they got dumped in the swamp. |
| 590 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Vivo}}'': |
| 591 | ** One from Marta's end. She desires to reconnect with an old boyfriend, Andrés, and confess her feelings for him. Coincidentally, Andrés has nurtured a love for her for the sixty years they've been apart. Marta sends a letter with a ticket, inviting him to her farewell concert and saying that she wants to perform with him.\ |
| 592 | '''You'd Expect''': Marta would follow up by dialing a neighbor with a landline, and ask to talk to Andrés in person. Alternatively, dial someone with a cellphone- it's generally a sensible idea to figure out if someone ''can'' make it to your special event.\ |
| 593 | '''Instead''': She spends the time up to the concert getting prepared and waiting for Andrés to appear.\ |
| 594 | '''The Result''': To her shock and sadness, [[spoiler:her manager knocks on her door mere hours to showtime and hands her a news clipping revealing Andrés died in Havana two days before, with all of his neighbors attending the funeral. Marta nearly refuses to perform because she's sobbing with regret that she sent a message far too late. It takes Vivo delivering Andrés's last song to give her the reassurance that Andrés ''did'' love her, and that he would always return her feelings no matter where she was]]. |
| 595 | ** Gabi gets one when she determines to help Vivo get to Miami and the Mambo Cabana. When asking her mother if they can go to the concert doesn't work, she buys a bus ticket instead to Miami from Key West. It will be a pinch but they will make it just in time to see Marta before the show.\ |
| 596 | '''You'd Expect''': Since she already bought a bus ticket that Gabi would see if the tickets to Marta's concert are available. They may have sold out or may be too expensive, but it doesn't hurt to check.\ |
| 597 | '''Instead''': She just says they need to print out the bus ticket and they'll be golden, though she has the sense to buy an extra bus ticket for Vivo in case anyone asks questions.\ |
| 598 | '''The Result''': When they make it to Miami much later after one heck of a journey, security won't let in Gabi unless she has a ticket. Gabi goes OhCrap on realizing she DidntThinkThisThrough and that's ''before'' her mother comes to bust her for traveling such a far distance on her own. She has to hop the line and run from security so Vivo gets the chance to reach Marta's dressing room. |
| 599 | ** And ''another'' involves the sheet music itself - it's clearly fragile, considering it was written years ago.\ |
| 600 | '''You'd Expect''': Since Gabi knows the whole mission to deliver the music will be pointless if it gets damaged, she'd be smart and at ''least'' make another copy of the music to ensure some record of it remains to give to Marta in case something happens to the original, be it by using a photocopier (if her mom has one) or just quickly snapping a picture of it on her phone. \ |
| 601 | '''Even Better:''' She could negate the need to go to Miami in person ''completely'' by simply taking a picture of the music on her phone, uploading it to her computer, and sending it in an email to the Mambo Cabana (she already went to the site) or even Marta herself (since someone as famous as her probably has an open email available to the public for fanmail), explaining that she's the grand-niece of Andrés and found a song he wrote for Marta among the belongings she'd inherited from him after his death. She could even ''call them'' with this information to ensure Marta gets it in time.\ |
| 602 | '''Instead''': She doesn't think about this at all and decides to set out immediately, with the only copy of the song.\ |
| 603 | '''The Result''': The Sand Dollars, after following Gabi to the Everglades, steal it and hold it hostage to force her to give up and surrender Vivo, and accidentally drop it in the water during their encounter with Lutador. It's only by sheer luck that Gabi and Vivo are able to recreate it from memory. |
| 604 | ** The Sand Dollars want to quarantine Vivo because per international travel rules, wild animals may be ill from the journey or carriers for diseases, so they need a clean bill of health. Due to chasing down Gabi, Gabi and Vivo end up falling from the Key West bridge into a barge full of sand.\ |
| 605 | '''You'd Expect''': Considering Gabi and Vivo could be hurt or ''killed'' falling from that height, that their first response would be to call the Coast Guard and explain the situation, or at least their Sand Dollar leader. A trained adult in that situation could locate the pair, stop the barge, administer medical treatment, and ''then'' deliver Vivo to a vet for quarantine.\ |
| 606 | '''Instead''': The girls take their parents' boat without telling anyone to hunt down Gabi and Vivo personally.\ |
| 607 | '''The Result''': When Lutador ambushes them, all the girls can do is run from him, and it strikes them that they are alone in the Everglades, with only Gabi to protect them. Vivo has to pull a BigDamnHeroes moment to stop them from being EatenAlive. What's more, the Sand Dollars are ashamed that they were bullying Gabi the whole time, but she still risked her life to rescue them from Lutador. |
| 608 | ** Andrés is in love with Marta. Marta is in love with Andrés. Marta gets a job singing in Miami.\ |
| 609 | '''You'd Expect:''' Andrés goes with her, supports her in her career, and they happily spend their lives making music together.\ |
| 610 | '''Instead''': He never confesses his feelings to her out of fear that she would feel obligated to stay in Havana if he did.\ |
| 611 | '''The Result''': Andrés and Marta live out their entire lives a little sadder than they probably would have been if they'd just gotten a place together. |
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