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9* ''WhatAnIdiot/AlienAbductionRolePlay''
10* ''WhatAnIdiot/BattleForDreamIsland''
11* ''WhatAnIdiot/BrawlOfTheObjects''
12* ''WhatAnIdiot/DarkSimpsons''
13* ''WhatAnIdiot/DharMann''
14* ''WhatAnIdiot/GoAnimate''
15* ''WhatAnIdiot/HappyTreeFriends''
16* ''WhatAnIdiot/{{lonelygirl15}}''
17* ''WhatAnIdiot/McJuggernuggets''
18* ''WhatAnIdiot/PeppaPigGetsGrounded''
19* ''[[WhatAnIdiot/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]''
20* ''WhatAnIdiot/SuperMarioLogan''
21* ''WhatAnIdiot/DragonBallMultiverse''
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24[[AC:{{Webcomics}}]]
25* ''Webcomic/AmazingAgentJennifer'': When Agent K and Master Control are trying to escape, and Agent L, [[spoiler: who killed the present Count Bruckenstein, which is an act of treason,]] is covering their escape. He tells them to go.\
26'''You'd expect''' Agent K to haul ass out of Bruckenstein with Master Control and leave Agent L behind, since he has no qualms with staying behind and is no longer a part of the agency.\
27'''Instead''' Agent K engages in combat with Agent L to try to bring him with them and having him answer for the treason, which delays their escape enough for Agent D, who had just pulled a FaceHeelTurn a few pages ago, to catch up with them, therefore ruining their shot at escaping.
28* ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'' has Wrathia Bellarmina. As a ghost, she is stuck with Ava for the rest of their lives, until either Ava dies or she convinces Ava to make a pact with her and they fulfill their bargain. Wrathia expects Ava to make a pact her as soon as she is born, ignoring the fact she is just a child that doesn't know any better and thinks Wrathia is just an imaginary friend.\
29'''You'd Expect''': Wrathia to wait Ava grow so she can properly explain their situation and sweet talk Ava into accepting to make a pact and help her\
30'''Instead''': Wrathia gets pissed off, tries to convince Ava to kill herself and makes Ava's life a living hell. To no one's surprise, Ava can't trust Wrathia and attempts to ignore or run away from her.
31* ''Webcomic/BlastFromThePast'': Janna's friends advise her to communicate her doubts over her relationship with Tom.\
32''' You'd think:''' Janna would follow her friends' advice to voice her issues and work out with Tom what exactly they planned to do with their long-term relationship.\
33''' Instead:''' She works behind Tom's back to expose Avila as the mystery assailant.\
34'''The result:''' This gives Avila the opportunity to oust her successor and attempt to resurrect her own status as Tom's girlfriend.\
35'''It gets worse:''' Avila stabs Janna, mortally wounding her.
36* ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'':
37** Abby injects herself with succubus blood to get a bigger chest and ends up becoming a demon with horns and wings. She comes to Chloe for questions and Chloe decides to look into a way to get Abby back to normal.\
38'''You'd Expect:''' Chloe to take Abby to Adora, her mother, who stated all the way back in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' when Chloe is first sent to Tartarus Academy that if she needs any sort of help, she's more than welcome to come to her.\
39'''Instead:'''Chloe conveniently forgets her mother exists and ends up going to Sgt. Slash-Stab, a {{sadist}}ic {{Troll}} who cheerfully [[OutGambitted Out-Gambits]] people who try to manipulate her, and [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter thinking she'd help her undo Abby's transformation into a half-succubus]]. All that happened was things got a thousand times worse.
40** Later, after Sgt.Slash-Stab coerces Abby into signing a contract that makes her a full-blown succubus, Teddi finds out about what happened and loses his shit with Chloe.\
41'''You'd Expect:''' For the first thing to Chloe to state is that Abby injected herself with Succubus blood on her own and that there were two demon hunters (Tandy and Gabrielle) trying to kill them both later (Although Chloe didn't realize they were both going to be spared.) and that she only took them both to Hell to escape from them.\
42'''Instead:''' She leaves all of that out and words things in ways that anger Teddi to a point where she refuses to listen to Chloe's explanations.\
43'''Also:''' Teddi accuses Chloe of being nothing but a demon sent from hell to torment him and his family.\
44'''You'd Expect:''' Chloe to, again, explain that Abby injected herself with succubus blood herself and tell of the encounter with Tandy and Gabrielle. \
45'''Instead:''' She finds it relevant and necessary to tell the already angry Teddi that he's technically right since it's the reason Slash-Stab lets Chloe stay there, and starts to mention her college credits.\
46'''The Result:''' Teddi finally loses it and kicks Chloe out of the DeCarlo house.
47* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' features cultists of the Ocean God wanting to start a ritual to summon their master so he can TakeOverTheWorld. The trouble is, the spell to summon the Ocean God is written in a language that none of them know how to read.\
48'''You'd Expect''': The cultists would find out how to read the language, delaying the ritual for some time, or finding someone sympathetic to their plight to translate it for them. Or, if they find someone who knows the language but won't cooperate, force them to translate it. Since they are insane cultists of a MadGod, it's not like they're high on the mortality food chain, which they themselves admit.\
49'''Instead''': They ask members of the Mobian Inquisition to translate it for them. The Inquisition who is sworn to protecting the world from dark gods just like the one the cultists are trying to summon. The only reason the cultists aren't arrested is because the Inquisitors trick them into completely screwing up the ritual, sending them to another dimension.
50* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''
51** In one of the extra stories [[LargeHam Othar Tryggvassen]] ('''''GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!''''') has been "kidnapped" by Ferretina, the Weasel Queen, who has made it [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 extremely clear]] that she will offer sexual favors in return for companionship and understanding to help her get over her self-esteem issues.\
52'''You'd Expect''': He stays, at least long enough to help her out, convince her to stop attacking the villagers, and maybe pick up some "treats".\
53'''Instead''': [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080128 He figures that she's lured him into a deathtrap.]] Then again, it is well established that Othar ''is'' an idiot. Also, everything in the radio plays in exaggerated to hell and back in order to be played for ''extra'' comedy and drama, including Othar's usual tendencies.
54** Othar infiltrates the castle and comes across his sister [[ActionGirl Sanaa]] who had been imprisoned there with a number of criminals and had been using a false name to hide her identity; she angrily confronts him while revealing said identity.\
55'''You'd Expect''': The other prisoners to quickly help Sanaa up to her very dangerous hero brother in order to get Othar away from them.\
56'''Instead''': Fellow prisoner Snapper tries to take Sanaa, who he well knows is an ActionGirl, hostage by using the StandardFemaleGrabArea technique. '''KICK!!!''' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100319 "Dibs on his boots!"]]
57** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131108 Martellus finds himself in the snow without his allies or any weapons]] while Gil, who is clearly in the madness place, and is armed and with allies, is attempting to get answers about the fate of his paramour, close friends, and his father, who've all [[spoiler:been missing for two and a half years]].\
58'''You'd Expect''': Martellus to use the opportunity to flee, learn about the new circumstances he finds himself in or otherwise do anything ''but'' interrupting or taunting Gil.\
59'''Instead''': Martellus interrupts Gil in order to taunt him that "with luck" said paramour is beyond Gil's reach forever. It quite predictably earns him a brutal beat-down and Gil giving his enforcer-clank the order "If he says another word, ''[[BrainInAJar cut off his head and pack it in snow]].''"
60* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Rumisiel [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1036 finds the corpse of a missing angel]].\
61'''You'd Expect''': Him to contact [[CouncilOfAngels heaven]] since not only is a dead angel a [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=804 really big no-no]] and he's needing all the brownie points he can get to get back into heaven and have a proper investigation done.\
62'''Instead''': He jumps to the conclusion his brother must be the murderer, disintegrates the body obliterating all the evidence and {{Wangst}}s about it before [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse confronting his brother in a handy out of the way place with no witnesses]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully it appears Vashiel is innocent, of that murder at least]].
63* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}''. Syphile [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive//20090729c18p004.jpg sneaks into the Sarghress compound to try and assassinate Quain'tana]] and actually manages to get close enough for a clear shot with her crossbow.\
64'''You'd Expect''': Her to just fire at her head, get it done with and flee.\
65'''Instead''': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive//20090730c18p005.jpg She jumps out loudly declaring a challenge]], completely blowing her cover. When she does actually fire she ''[[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive//20090801c18p007.jpg misses]]'' several times and throws down her crossbow, allowing for a one-on-one match that she naturally loses in a CurbStompBattle that results in her death.
66* ''Webcomic/LasLindas'': Mora has just discovered that there is indeed a LoveTriangle between her, Rachael and Minos. \
67'''You'd Expect''': Mora to get the whole story from Minos (and maybe Rachael) before acting. \
68'''Instead''': Mora goes completely berserk and savagely attacks Rachael, loudly declaring her intention to beat her to within an inch of her life and then dump her broken, bloody body in the nearest alley. [[FromBadToWorse Things go downhill from there]].
69* ''Webcomic/{{Juathuur}}'': Rowasu swears to Sojueilo that he will kill her squad-mates, and then her, after he is done mourning the death of a friend. \
70'''You'd Expect''': Sojueilo to warn her squadmates that an AxCrazy psychopath is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and they are the target. \
71'''Instead''': she doesn't. It ends in her squadmate's blood.
72* In ''Webcomic/StrawberryDeathCake'', the cast members are part of an organisation waging a SecretWar against demons. They have received metamorph weapon (SwissArmyWeapon that can morph into any conceivable weapon and, when not active, these turn into rings).\
73'''You'd Expect''': That the cast would carry these weapons on their hands [[ProperlyParanoid at all times]], especially on a mission to investigate a case of demon bugs in an high school.\
74'''Instead''': [[http://rainchildstudios.com/strawberry/?p=2493 Jessica forgot them in another set of clothes]].
75* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
76** Old Blind Pete betrays his friend, Haley, Belkar, and Celia so he can get his sight back. After selling them out, he goes to the temple so he can get his eyes repaired.\
77'''You'd Expect''': He stays at the temple, goes to a museum, art show, or a strip joint, anything to occupy his time for a little while, since his house is a virtual warzone.\
78'''Instead''': He goes directly home and wants to hang out in his living room while the Thieves' Guild is obviously still in the middle of the operation. He couldn't have been gone ten minutes since Sending takes that long to cast and the cleric casting it couldn't finish. He is caught by the people he betrayed and nicknamed "Brainy Pete" by his old friend, as a CallBack to a line about when dealing with thieves, you should never name yourself after a body part you can't afford to lose.
79** Tsukiko has found clear evidence that Redcloak is manipulating their master Xykon in his study and plans to tell him. However, Redcloak walks in and catches her.\
80'''You'd Expect:''' She makes an excuse and leaves, then shows the evidence to Xykon.\
81'''Instead:''' She tells Redcloak what she just found and rubs it in his face.\
82'''The Result:''' Redcloak seizes control of her wights and has them kill her, before telling Xykon she was the traitor.
83** Nale has killed the Vector Legion's cleric Malack and is now facing down the rest of the legion, alongside Tarquin's private army and dinosaurs, and has so few hit points that he can be killed with one hit.\
84'''You'd Expect:''' Nale keeps quiet about it.\
85'''Instead:''' Nale proudly announces that he killed Malack and brags about how much he suffered.\
86'''The Result:''' He is quickly killed, and his corpse is disintegrated to prevent him from being resurrected.
87** Bozzok resurrects Crystal as a golem and sends her after Haley.\
88'''You'd Expect:''' He creates a normal golem.\
89'''Instead:''' He makes her self-aware.\
90'''The Result:''' Crystal [[AndIMustScream feels nothing but pain and is fully aware of it]]. Haley points out to Crystal that Bozzok deliberately turned her into this instead of simply using a resurrection spell, leading her to attack Bozzok instead. Crystal then points out that Bozzok always abuses her and calls her stupid.\
91'''You'd Then Expect:''' Bozzok apologizes and tries to persuade her that Haley is her real enemy.\
92'''Instead:''' He does exactly what she just accused him of doing and insults her.\
93'''The Result:''' Crystal kills him.
94** In the ''Start Of Darkness'' prequel: Lirian captures Xykon, Redcloak, and a few other goblins and has them locked in an underground prison.\
95'''You'd Expect:''' They'd keep an eye on them, either a guard or a constant scrying effect. If nothing else, it would be useful in case something happens and you'd want to help the prisoners. Or in case they have allies who might try to free them.\
96'''Instead:''' They're completely unsupervised, even in case there's an emergency, and Redcloak uses his plot-defying supersmarts to gather the resources to build a 120,000 GP phylactery out of stuff you'd find in an underground prison.
97** Also in the prequel: Xykon, Redcloak, and their army lay siege to Dorukan's dungeon intending to smoke him out so they can take it over and seize his Gate. They're at his doorstep for a full year, and Dorukan has been scrying on them the whole time. Eventually Xykon figures out Dorukan's BerserkButton and baits him into a WizardDuel.\
98'''You'd Expect:''' Dorukan would mop the floor with Xykon. He's an epic level wizard who has had a solid year to prepare. He can learn Xykon's weaknesses. He can ward himself against most kinds of damage. He can craft magic items. He can research custom spells. He can seek the aid of a cleric. A simple Death Ward (4th level spell for clerics and paladins, 5th level for druids) would have prevented what happened to him.\
99'''Instead:''' When he fights Xykon, he mostly uses direct damage spells against a creature with damage reduction, and Xykon kills him by simply casting Energy Drain every turn until he loses his spell slots and dies.
100** The High Priest of Odin prophesies that Durkon will bring death and destruction the next time he returns home. Afraid that "returns home" could mean "goes back to his domicile from the temple," he has Hurak, the High Priest of Thor, exile Durkon immediately.\
101'''You'd Expect:''' They would just ''tell Durkon about the prophecy.'' Being Lawful Good and extremely duty-bound, he would certainly have left voluntarily, and much suffering could have been avoided.\
102'''Instead:''' They throw him out on a trumped-up "diplomatic mission to human lands," with no possessions but his armor and without even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his mother, and tell him not to return until sent for.\
103'''Even Worse:''' They apparently told NO ONE ELSE in the church hierarchy either, because when Hurak dies, his successor approves Durkon's petition to return home. However, Durkon never receives the message due to the messenger's run-in with Team Evil.\
104'''The Result:''' Durkon is embittered and angry, and curses Hurak and the dwarves who exiled him. This moment becomes the basis for Vampire!Durkon's personality as the High Priest of Hel, who then comes back to fulfill the prophecy by killing many dwarves in an attempt to bring about the end of the world.
105* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
106** Abraham manages to disarm Raven.\
107'''You'd Expect''': He presses his advantage in Raven's moment of weakness to fully disable or kill him before he can cast any offensive or defensive spells having heard Raven mention he was a "properly trained wizard" only minutes previously.\
108'''Instead''': He lets Raven get out of range, taunts him about fighting with nothing but a scabbard and gives Raven time to cast a spell that both hides him and attacks Abraham. Only then does Abraham realize his mistake and remembers that Raven is wizard.
109** An ActuallyNotAVampire aberration in France has detected that Susan, visiting on a class trip, has the magical potential to destroy it.\
110'''You'd Expect''': It does nothing. Yes, Susan has the potential, but, as [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1097 she explains much later]], she can't actually use magic at this point, and doesn't even know magic or the aberration exist in the first place. And since it's a class trip, she's going to go home soon enough, which would solve the problem without requiring the aberration to so much as lift a finger.\
111'''Instead''': It pulls a CharmPerson on her and tries to lure her into a back alley to her death. Nanase pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment, and their encounter with this aberration gives a pair of elderly immortals the excuse they need to empower the two girls, allowing them to kill off the abomination and making them a permanent threat to any others.
112* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': PlayedWith. On one hand, the heroes make some really grave mistakes, up to [[spoiler:giving a universe cancer in a hurry.]] On the other hand, YouCantFightFate, and if anyone didn't behave the way they do in the comic they'd be doomed by Paradox Space.
113** [[spoiler:Eridan]] has decided to [[FaceHeelTurn switch sides]] and join the BigBad. [[spoiler:Eridan]] is surrounded by his former teammates, who oppose said BigBad and would not take kindly to this.\
114'''You'd Expect:''' That [[spoiler:Eridan]] would not outright tell his teammates what he was doing.\
115'''Instead:''' He tells his teammates outright that he is betraying them. They do not take it well.
116** Vriska, in her ego-driven frenzy, becomes aware that the kids' session will create a villain capable of horrifying feats who will kill hundreds and be nearly impossible to beat. She decides that she will be the one to beat him, and does her best to make the events leading up to his creation occur.\
117'''You'd Expect''' that she would actually have some kind of plan, maybe try to get everyone else on her side and let them know what she was going to do.\
118'''Instead''', [[IndyPloy she makes it up as she goes along]] and [[FromBadToWorse everything goes to hell.]]
119* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'':
120** Annie is told a secret of extreme importance: [[spoiler: her mother only pretended to love Reynardine so she could lure him into the Court, where he'd be imprisoned.]]\
121'''You'd Expect''' that as she knows how important this secret is, she doesn't tell anyone, especially not the person it's about.\
122'''Instead''', she yells it at him when they next get into a fight (which is basically about five minutes later) to hurt him. Great one, Annie.
123** Surma Stibnite, Antimony's mother, has a heritage as a fire elemental which means that as her daughter grows stronger, she grows weaker, as Antimony is literally absorbing her soul; this eventually results in her death before the events of the comic.\
124'''You'd Expect:''' Surma to tell Antimony about this at some point, and also communicate the mechanics of this to her husband, Anthony. Anthony's a doctor and a mature adult, and Annie was having dealings with death and psychopomps well before Surma's anticipated date of death.\
125'''Instead:''' Surma kept her fire elemental heritage a secret from Antimony, and apparently didn't tell Anthony that she and Annie share a soul.\
126'''The Result:''' During the fight mentioned above, Reynardine lashes out at Antimony and tells her she's the reason her mother died, further traumatizing her and causing her to run off into Gilette Wood for the summer. As a result of her father not understanding the mechanics of the soul, he ''nearly kills Annie'' in an attempt to bring Surma back from the dead, only stopped by the intervention of Zimmy and Gamma. He also loses a hand in the process! All because ''one woman'' refused to communicate with either extant member of her family.
127* From ''Webcomic/BetterDays'', Rachel overhears a conversation between Fisk and Lucy that references their past incestuous relationship. When Rachel is blown off by her roommates when she tries to tell them what she heard, she vows to expose Fisk and Lucy.\
128'''You'd Expect''' for Rachel to do actual evidence gathering, such as tapping the phones or planting cameras or even bribing someone to spy on Fisk and Lucy. Given Rachel's personality, such behavior would be in character for her.\
129'''Instead''', Rachel makes one, and only one, attempt to expose Lucy and Fisk's secret. It involves her flaunting a suggestive outfit in front of Fisk and waiting for him to come into her room and fuck her, most likely to get Lucy to flip her shit. This being ''Better Days'' and the character Rachel is seducing is Fisk Black, the plan, not surprisingly, goes nowhere.
130* ''Webcomic/TheDreadful:'' Kit runs into Jeanne Noelle, a notorious, LargeAndInCharge gang boss that terrifies everyone who knows her. She's huge, superhumanly strong, fast enough to dodge bullets, and utterly ruthless. Kit knows all of this, since she was a former member of Jeanne's gang. When they fight, Kit briefly gains the upper hand when she manages to get her gun to the back of Jeanne's head, and the action pauses for a few seconds.\
131'''You'd Expect''' Kit to ''pull the trigger.'' Kit knows how dangerous Jeanne is, and will never have a better opportunity to get out of the latter's shadow.\
132'''Instead''' she can't resist gloating ("Guess this is it, 'boss'."), and Jeanne immediately Shoryukens her 10 feet into the air, followed by a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Kit only escapes due to an outside rescue from a laundry ghost (long story).
133* This happens an awful lot in ''Webcomic/{{minus}}'', since [[YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb most of the cast are children]]:
134** minus is playing baseball with her classmates.\
135'''You’d expect:''' Her to understand that her classmates will never play with her again if she blatantly cheats with her RealityWarper powers, and thus won't do so. If she is such a sore loser that she insists on manipulating reality to win, she would at least do it so subtly they don't notice.\
136'''Instead:''' She [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus7.html makes the ball evade all the fielders and even defy gravity to hit someone on the nose]], so that she can score a home run without interference.\
137'''The result:''' She is kicked out of the game, and [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus9.html forbidden from playing with them again]].
138** After having transformed into an elephant, minus encounters a carnival and wants to ride the Ferris wheel.\
139'''You’d expect:''' She’d transform back, since she can easily do that.\
140'''Instead:''' She approaches the ride while still an elephant, and [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus11.html the operator doesn’t let her on]].
141** minus and her friend [[NoNameGiven (who has green hair)]] are gazing up at the stars. Her friend says she wishes she could reach out and touch one. minus gives her a look as though to remind her [[LittleMissAlmighty what kind of person she’s talking to]], and [[PerspectiveMagic grabs a star in her hand]].\
142'''You’d expect:''' That minus wouldn’t open her hand without conjuring up some protection for the two of them and their surroundings, or at least that her friend, who is very level-headed, would point that out to her first.\
143'''Instead:''' Neither do either such thing. [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus14.html Cue apocalypse.]]
144** A pair of twins who are minus’s classmates made a bet among themselves, and the longer-haired of the two loses and tries to get out of it by asking minus to send her back in time to before she took the bet.\
145'''You’d expect:''' For her to explain the situation carefully to minus. Most importantly, you’d expect that she’d tell minus how far back she wants to go before making the request.\
146'''You’d also expect:''' minus to let her classmate ''finish her sentence''.\
147'''Instead:''' The long-haired girl exclaims, “Hey minus! Send me back in time to...” and minus immediately [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus25.html zaps her to Victorian times alone]] with no way to get back.
148** An office worker is stressed by his job.\
149'''You’d expect:''' He’d do anything but leap out the window of a high-rise.\
150'''Instead:''' [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus35.html This can speak for itself.]] [[spoiler:At least minus saves his life.]]
151** minus is told to wash the dishes.\
152'''You’d expect:''' That since she’s, well, omnipotent, she’d snap her fingers and have them done in like two seconds. Then she wouldn’t have to get up from reading her book.\
153'''Instead:''' She makes a copy of herself and sends the copy off to do the dishes. Said copy shares her powers and her [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny personality]].\
154'''The result:''' Her copy gets bored and transforms the dishes into a master of martial arts, then duels it with swords. [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus56.html She’s run through,]] and Dishface goes on to leave a trail of blood in his wake.
155** The class is on a field trip to the museum. Outside, there is a statue of a horse, and the white-haired girl wants minus to bring it to life so they can all ride. minus gives her a phial which contains potion that imbues stone with life.\
156'''You’d expect:''' The white-haired girl would pour the potion directly on the statue itself.\
157'''Instead:''' She pours the whole phial onto a piece of rubble around the statue. [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus65.html The rubble comes to life]], but the statue remains a statue.\
158'''The result:''' Because of her classmate’s stupidity, minus gets stricken in the back of the head with a rock.
159** After reading a book on pirates, minus turns the library she is inside into a pirate ship, and presses the other guests into her crew. She just read that sailors had to eat lemons to prevent scurvy, so she conjures up a whole bowl for her crew, which disappoints them.\
160'''You’d expect:''' That since these innocent bystanders have just seen minus turn the library into a pirate ship, that they know what she’s capable of and that she doesn’t care about collateral damage, and so won’t antagonize her.\
161'''Instead:''' One man demands she give them real food, since they won’t get scurvy in modern conditions, and refuses to eat the lemons. [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus83.html minus gives him scurvy to encourage the others.]]
162** The green-haired girl tells minus she was absent from school due to illness. minus has never been sick before in her life, and doesn’t know what illness is.\
163'''You’d expect:''' minus to ask her friend to explain why she got a day off. After all, the school wouldn’t do that if there weren’t ''some'' kind of downside.\
164'''You’d also expect:''' That the green-haired girl knows her friend, and that she wants to have fun at all costs, so she tells minus in no uncertain terms that being sick is a miserable experience that makes it impossible to enjoy anything else.\
165'''Instead:''' She tells minus that she spent the day watching movies and eating jello, and that it’s fun to relax like that every so often.\
166'''The result:''' Predictably, minus makes herself sick the next day so that she doesn’t have to go to school. [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus87.html She throws up immediately]], and [[NotWhatItLooksLike is now convinced that her friend is an emetophile]].
167** A couple adults find out about minus’s RealityWarper powers, and ask her to use them to solve the world’s problems.\
168'''You’d expect:''' That they just ask her to end war and oppression, or something.\
169'''Instead:''' They ask her to end conflict, but minus doesn’t know the word, so they define it as people competing or fighting each other needlessly.\
170'''The result:''' minus [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus90.html makes all sports games end in draws]], and has more serious conflicts end by one side acquiescing to the other’s demands.
171** The couple then track minus down again.\
172'''You’d expect:''' They’d explain what they really want in terms a child can understand, while explaining that their original definition of conflict was too broad.\
173'''Instead:''' They draft up a thick tome of legalese. minus takes one look, and then [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus91.html makes it into origami structures and paper airplanes]].
174** Due to circumstances too complicated to go into detail here, minus strikes her head on the pavement and completely loses all sense of reality, spending three days running around in circles in her yard. The green-haired girl explains this to her friends at school, and the white-haired girl suggests that [[TapOnTheHead hitting her on the head]] [[WrongGenreSavvy will bring her back to normal]].\
175'''You’d expect:''' That the green-haired girl would ignore this idiotic suggestion, particularly since she herself admits that it would only damage minus further, and since Clary, the black-haired girl who is equally down-to-Earth and intelligent, gives her a DeathGlare for considering it.\
176'''Instead:''' She does it anyway since her friend says it’s better than doing nothing.\
177'''You’d then expect:''' That she would not hit minus hard enough to cause permanent damage.\
178'''Instead:''' [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus108.html She drops a huge rock on her head.]] minus [[spoiler:shatters into a million pieces]].
179** minus, [[spoiler:now a ghost]], is bringing ghosts back to life. A bunch of ghosts mob her, asking for the privilege.\
180'''You’d expect:''' That with so many ghosts asking, for them to consider if it’s worth it, since there isn’t enough space on Earth for everyone who has died to be revived. The spirit world lacks nothing the Earth has, so there is no downside to being dead.\
181'''Instead:''' No one even considers this, and one ghost asks minus [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus119.html to bring back literally everybody]].\
182'''The result:''' [[spoiler:The mass of bodies crushes everyone, sending all ghosts and all living people straight back to the afterlife.]]
183* ''Webcomic/RayFox'':
184** Jak is giving an audience a demonstration of his Black-Boxing martial art to promote it and even plans to have one of his students fight a large Yak to demonstrate its effectiveness.\
185'''You'd expect:''' He'd have a second tier student go into the ring to spar with the Yak to demonstrate Black-Boxing and ignore any protests Ray might have.\
186'''Instead:''' Jak has Ray go into the ring due to him technically being his best student, despite knowing Ray [[PowerIncontinence has trouble controlling his pyrokinesis]].\
187'''Result:''' While Ray is to mostly able to dominate the fight at first, he ends up accidentally settling the Yak's shorts on fire. In a panic, Ray tries to put out said flame but the yak sees an opening and knocks Ray out, leaving both Ray and Jak embarrassed in front of a large crowd of onlookers.
188** Khali witnesses [[spoiler: a train get cut in half by Halberd in an attempt to stop him from saving Morales, and then sees the Blaze step in to fight Halberd]].\
189'''You'd expect:''' Khali would have told Morales what happened and informed him of the details of who saved him.\
190'''Instead:''' He doesn't even ''bother'' to make an effort to actually say anything.\
191'''Result:''' The Blaze, [[spoiler: AKA Ray]], is blamed for a train getting cut in half and Morales still treats him with contempt even though his life was saved by the very person he helped to slander, and Khali knows he bears responsibility for [[spoiler: Ray's imprisonment, as shown by his guilty glance in Chapter 3 when Asuka was convincing Morales to release him to the S.O.S]].
192** Asuka has helped Ray escaped law enforcement after they were looking for him\
193'''You'd expect:''' Asuka would see this as an opportunity to get a new recruit for the S.O.S, and a learning moment for Ray as to ''why'' his vigilantism is bad and how her way of fighting crime is better.\
194'''Instead:''' She condescendingly lectures him, forces him to hang up his vigilante act and tells him to let the police handle incidents (and the Port Town Gang showed why that was already an exercise in futility), then sends him off with another S.O.S team to bring him home while she goes her own way.\
195'''Result:''' Ray is left vulnerable, and Asuka puts him and her entire team at risk by leaving him with them. Case in point, Liev knocks over the vehicle that he was in, and Ray essentially has to risk his life to protect ''her'' team, including Summer, because of her lack of foresight.
196* ''Webcomic/PeterAndCompany'' has the titular character looking for a birthday gift for Whitney, the girl that he's in love with. Chelsea, who is coming off looking rather [[SlasherSmile crazed]], immediately suggests a perfume for him to buy. Seth is also in the room with Peter when this is happening\
197'''You'd expect:''' Peter would have enough sense to pick up on the fact that Chelsea is being unusually helpful, or that Seth would actually look out for him and point out how Chelsea's been acting strange lately.\
198'''Instead:''' Peter ends up taking Chelsea's recommendation despite all the red-flags, and Seth is too busy looking at things in the store to pay attention to Peter's initial shocked call for help.\
199'''Result:''' Peter ends up giving the gift to Whitney, who suffers a comical but serious allergic reaction to it that sends her to the hospital, and all the kids blame him for a very long time until Chelsea confesses to Whitney.\
200
201[[AC:WebAnimation]]
202* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'':
203** In BFB 1, iance, which has Lightning, who can fly, as one of their members, needs to find a flying basket to win the challenge.\
204'''You'd Expect''': Lightning to fly up and grab one of the baskets, and give to X, easily winning them the challenge.\
205'''Instead''': Pencil and Match insist on their team jumping as high as they can to get to the basket, and not getting anywhere close to it, causing them to lose the challenge.
206** Back to "Get Digging", when Leafy throws knives Needle, Gelatin, and Puffball, Needle being made of metal, and Puffball could've just hovered with Gelatin up to avoid the knives.
207** In "Bridge Crossing" Snowball tries to throw Tennis Ball off a cliff, but the latter bumps into a bridge.\
208'''You'd Expect''': Snowball to aim his shot somewhere else.\
209'''Instead''': Snowball breaks the bridge.
210---> '''Snowball''': These dumb sticks are in the way!
211** In BFB 16, the eliminated contestants get a chance to escape the EXIT through Spongy's holes when Spongy is partially eliminated. They reach to the surface.\
212'''You'd Expect''': For all of them to jump out and successfully escape.\
213'''Instead''': Only Loser does such a thing.\
214'''Result''': All other eliminated contestants (minus Spongy) are sucked right back into the EXIT by Four.
215** In BFB 18, Firey sees through Bubble and Lollipop disguising as Flower. Then Gelatin shows up, carefully mimicking Flower’s personality.\
216'''You'd Expect''': Firey would see through the disguise, especially since he’d seen through even Lollipop disguising as Flower, and Lollipop actually has a shape similar to Flower!\
217'''Instead''': He ''falls for the personality mimicry,'' even though the appearance is obvious.\
218'''It Continues''': The '''real''' Flower shows up.\
219'''You'd Expect''': Firey would actually recognize that this was the real Flower.\
220'''Instead''': Firey mistakes Flower for an impostor, and then Gelatin accuses Flower of being Dora, who is eliminated (Taco even says that she's in ''TPOT''), and the entire team (''even Loser'') believes them.
221* ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse'': Ryan has the candy shop make a chocolate sculpture of him as a present for Barbie.\
222'''You'd Expect:''' Him to be careful with something that fragile,\
223'''Instead:''' When he shows it to her, he doesn't bring any shade for it. Barbie tries to remind him not to leave chocolate out in the Malibu sun, but the sculpture instantly melts before Ryan can move it.
224* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'': The fight scene with [=MePhone5=].
225** '''You'd Expect:''' [=MePhone4=] and/or 4S to chase [=MePhone5=] to run his battery down. As [=MePhone5=] can't eat to get energy the way 4 and 4S can, he'd have to find his charger, and he doesn’t have the power to generate one. Without a charger, [=MePhone5=] can't get energy. [=MePhone4=] could then send [=MePhone5=] to his watery grave, without killing himself, Bow, or 4S.\
226'''Instead:''' They let [=MePhone5=] shoot at them, while they try to punch and kick him. Then 4S forced Taco to shoot a lemon, and in turn, both 4 and 5 end up in the water with Bow, dead.\
227'''The Result:''' Bow dies, and [=MePhone4S=] is forced to sacrifice himself to revive [=MePhone4=].
228* ''WebAnimation/{{mashed}}'': In "Omnileaks", Everybody's secrets have been leaked and Sombra is held accountable. When they can't find any actual leads, they decide to let her go while asking Winston for the password to her handcuffs.\
229'''You'd Expect:''' Being the genius that he is, he would set an advanced and complex password to make sure that Nobody can easily remove the cuffs.\
230'''Instead:''' He reveals the password for the cuffs to be [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish "password"]].\
231'''Even Worse:''' He also reveals to have that be the password for all of his computers, making everybody realize that anybody could have effortlessly logged into Winston's computer to leak their secrets.
232* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': Mackenzie crafted a plan that specifically involved [[spoiler:blowing up one of her best, and most unstable, friend's car]].\
233'''You'd Expect:''' She'd say she knew from the moment that Brittnay punched someone that that conference would happen and simply came up with idea on the spot.\
234'''Instead:''' She proceeded to openly brag about it to Jenna Darabond in front of Brittnay when asked how she knew the parent teacher conference would be called.\
235'''The Result:''' Everyone finds out about it. She could have [[spoiler:framed Jenna for something else entirely]] and gotten the exact same results, minus an enraged Brittnay.
236* ''WebAnimation/PonyDotMov'':
237** Discord's been attacking Ponyville since "DRESS.MOV". Apple Bloom notices her cutie mark appearing.\
238'''You'd Expect:''' Her to understand that means there is danger she needs to stop the carnage and fight.\
239'''Instead:''' She stares at her rump because it looks shiny and pretty.\
240'''The Result:''' [[spoiler:She gets promptly squished by Discord.]] In-character, when you think about it, but still an example of this.
241** In "SHED.MOV", Fluttershy bursts in with a chainsaw that causes Pinkie Pie and Spike to bolt instantly.\
242'''You'd Expect''': Rainbow Dash to run with them, especially since her whole thing is going fast.\
243'''Instead:''' [[spoiler:She just stands there. And dies.]]
244* ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire:'' The main cast sign up to play some ''VideoGame/TecmoBowl''. Sonic makes a bet on the outcome of the game, hoping to score an easy fortune. His team consists of himself, Tails, Dr. Eggman, [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim Jim]], and Franchise/{{Kirby}}.\
245'''You'd Think:''' Sonic would bet on his team to win. He may be an easily-distracted JerkAss idiot in this version, but his signature SuperSpeed is still very much intact.\
246'''Instead:''' He bets on his team to lose.
247** Sonic has a history of getting distracted by competition and fame, often to the point of forgetting or neglecting everything else. It is all but guaranteed that Sonic will forget about his bet and try to [[CurbStompBattle steamroll the other team]] with his SuperSpeed.\
248'''You'd Then Think:''' That the rest of the group would call off or counter the bet. Or, failing that, cripple Sonic so he doesn't get the chance to play and steamroll the other team with his SuperSpeed. They're all {{Comedic Sociopath}}s in this series, and [[MadeOfIron Sonic has recovered from worse.]]\
249'''Instead:''' They do nothing and go along with it until the literal last second of the game, when Tails finally pulls a backup plan out of his ass to stop Sonic from steamrolling the other team with his SuperSpeed and losing the bet.
250* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss''
251** In Episode 2 titled “Loo Loo Land”, Stolas can clearly see that his daughter is upset today after overhearing him and Stella yell at each other. In order to cheer her up, Stolas tells Octavia that he’ll take her to Loo Loo Land to “have a day” together. Octavia replies in annoyance that she’d rather kill herself.\
252'''You'd expect:''' Stolas would ask Octavia what she and him can do together to brighten up her day, and see what she wants.\
253'''Alternatively:''' Stolas could have a private talk with Octavia to try and get her to feel better.\
254'''Instead:''' Stolas goes through with it anyway and drags her around the theme park, despite Octavia having stated ''twice'' that she didn't want to go and her facial and body language showing that she isn’t having fun at all. Stolas does not realize this until the end of the episode.\
255'''Additionally:''' Octavia is upset in the first place because Stolas having an affair has led to her parents being in constant conflict and ruined her home life.\
256'''You'd Expect:''' Stolas would keep Blitzo, the man he had an affair with, well away from her for now.\
257'''Instead:''' Stolas hires Blitzo as his bodyguard, despite being ridiculously powerful and not needing a bodyguard at all, just to flirt with/sexually harass him ([[BrokenBase depending on interpretation]]) all day, right in front of Octavia, sometimes crossing over into [[ParentalSexualitySquick inappropriately sexual terms]].
258** In Episode 4 “C.H.E.R.U.B.”, the angels are trying to get an old rich man to not kill himself by showing him the joys and cares of life. All of a sudden, I.M.P. barges into his mansion and straight up tells the old man to not listen to the cherubs and that he should kill himself anyway because life is terrible.\
259'''You’d expect:''' The cherubs to chase off or kill the imps as soon as they can so they don’t cause any trouble.\
260'''Instead:''' They don’t bother doing this until the end of the episode in an area full of stage equipment that could be lethal. Leaving I.M.P. be allows them to ruin the old man’s experiences throughout the episode.\
261'''The Result:''' This stage fight leads to the old man dying in an accident and the cherubs being banished from Heaven for something they didn’t do.
262** In Episode 6 “Truth Seekers”, Blitzo and Moxie are captured by two federal agents. After trying to question the demons and getting only insults in return, the agents exit the room and resort to hitting them with Truth Bomb gas. This gas forces Blitzo and Moxxie to start spouting truthful terms about each other, before going through a [[HelpfulHallucination hallucinative dream sequence.]]\
263'''You’d expect:''' The agents would return to the room and start bombarding them with questions, while forcing them to stay awake.\
264'''Instead:''' The agents just sit there with popcorn and drinks, watching Blitzo and Moxxie in their drooling trance without bothering to wake them up for answers.
265** In Episode 7 "Ozzie's", Moxxie books a reservation to the titular club as a one year anniversary celebration for himself and Millie. He also books a ticket to sing a song about how much he adores his wife. As it turns out, sentimental love is banned by the club's management.\
266'''You'd expect:''' Moxxie would do his research, learn of Ozzie's rule against sentimental affection and try to get a reservation to another club that's more accepting of his and Millie's gentle love.\
267'''Alternatively:''' Moxxie takes Millie to Ozzie's without reserving to sing a love song for her there, saving the tune for when they're in private. They are less likely to be called out this way.\
268'''Instead:''' Moxxie goes into the club blind, sings his song, and gets insulted in front of a crowd by Ozzie's top dogs, Asmodeus and Fizzarolli. This eventually leads to both him and Millie being kicked out.
269** In Season 2, Episode 1 titled "The Circus", a young Stolas has taken a liking towards the circus boy Blitzo. This catches the attention of Paimon, Stolas' father, whom approaches Blitzo's father asking if he could buy Blitzo to make Stolas happy for a while on his birthday. Blitzo's father, named Cash Buckzo, is a [[OnlyInItForTheMoney money-grubbing asshole.]]\
270'''You'd Expect:''' Knowing Paimon's rich status as a Goetia, Cash Buckzo would put an extremely high price on Blitzo's head to suck in as much money as he can.\
271'''Instead:''' Cash Buckzo sells his son for $5 and an ugly condom, before telling little Blitzo to steal as much money as he can from the Goetia home, risking his son getting caught and himself being put under scrutiny for theft.\
272'''Fortunately:''' Blitzo pulls off stealing a multitude of treasures without the Goetia family knowing.
273** Season 2, Episode 3, "Exes and Oohs"
274*** Moxxie and Millie's ex, Chaz, approaches the former's father, mob boss Crimson and claims to have come into a large sum of money. In truth, he's lying and is only looking for a way back into the mob.\
275'''You'd Expect:''' Crimson, being in a line of work where it's not easy to trust people as well as in ''Hell'', to run a background check on Chaz to make sure he's telling the truth. After all, he knows that Chaz is a sleazeball.\
276'''Instead:''' Crimson buys it with no question and sets up a ForcedMarriage between Chaz and Moxxie, who is already HappilyMarried to Millie.\
277'''The Result:''' Millie slaughters dozens of Crimson's men upon arriving to save her husband (and Crimson is lucky that Millie didn't feel the need to kill him) and Crimson is made to look like a moron when Blitzo reveals Chaz's scam to him, meaning that Crimson lost quite a bit all because he didn't run a background check on Chaz.
278*** Chaz's own choices throughout the episode pretty much sealed his fate. To wit, he's broke and is looking for a way to get money.\
279'''You'd Expect:''' If he really wants to get back into the mob, he can meet with Crimson and try to convince him of his use, such as still being a good hit man or, considering he's Moxxie's ex, he could possibly be used to lure Moxxie back into Crimson's clutches.\
280'''Or:''' Forgo the mob entirely and try to find other work. He could become a freelance hit man, a bodyguard, or, considering how proud he is of his supposed sexual prowess, he could try to find work as a prostitute or porn star.\
281'''Instead:''' He pulls a MockMillionaire scam on Crimson, ''a mob boss'' with no plans for what to do if Crimson finds out.\
282'''The Result:''' When Crimson learns of his scam, Chaz is KilledOffForReal and his teeth are taken as a trophy.
283** In Season 2, Episode 5 titled "Unhappy Campers", Moxxie and Millie need disguises to blend in with the humans at Camp Iwannakummore without raising suspicion. And it doesn't appear like the camp counselors or kids care about randos appearing out of nowhere at their camp.\
284'''You'd expect:''' Moxxie and Millie would disguise as camp counselors. They could easily get access to the boat house, allow themselves to get the trust/popularity of the kids, and be more revealing about their marriage.\
285'''Instead:''' They decide to disguise as two children who are brother and sister. This leads to some awkward stuff later.
286** In Season 2, Episode 6 called "Oops", Crimson, Striker, and their men have Blitzo and Fizzarolli distracted. Blitzo asks Fizzarolli to pull off a distraction while Blitzo comes up with an escape place...without bothering to whisper.\
287'''You'd Expect:''' Even if they didn't hear the plan, Striker (who is an experienced assassin) and the mob would still try to capture Fizzarolli and force him back into his cage for ransom while he is singing.\
288'''Instead:''' Striker, Crimson, and the men just stand around and watch Fizz sing while Blitzo mostly gets away with being unseen and creating an escape.
289* In ''WebAnimation/{{Oversimplified}}'s'' French Revolution video, Maximillian Robespierre decides, for whatever reason, that some of the member's of his own Convention are enemies of the Revolution and must be sent to the guillotine.\
290'''You'd expect:''' For Robespierre to order his most loyal supporters to round up the Convention members, ideally when they are separated, and send them to the guillotine.\
291'''Instead:''' He tells the Convention, ''to their faces,'' that he has a list of enemies that include members of the Convention. Also, he won't let anyone see the list.\
292'''The Result: ''' The Convention overwhelmingly vote to send Robespierre to the guillotine instead.
293
294[[AC:WebOriginal]]
295* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
296** "Episode 19": Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan are being confronted by the Ginyu Force who are on a mission to take the Dragon Ball that the three of them have, Vegeta attempts to pull a trick from the "Man your man could smell like" commercial and ends it by chucking the Dragon Ball away.\
297'''You'd Expect''': Vegeta to keep it in the dark about how he chucked the ball away.\
298'''Instead''': He tells them that he threw it, gloating that there is nothing they can do about it which leads to Burter grabbing it back.
299* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'':
300** L'Manburg's tactics for preparing for the Doomsday War leave much to be desired to some.\
301'''You'd Expect:''' The L'Manburgians to work to cover their weaknesses and assign trusted people to guard their most valuable gear so that they'll be ready for the war.\
302'''Instead:''' The L'Manburgians' strategy basically amounts to hoping they'll outnumber and swarm the Anarchists, which isn't the best tactic when two of the three Anarchists (''especially'' Techno) are a OneManArmy. They also leave their arms supply completely undefended.\
303'''As a Result:''' Their ZergRush strategy bites them when the much-more-organized Anarchists just send in [[OneManArmy Techno]], who is able to stall for long enough for the ''real'' destruction to begin. And leaving the arms supply undefended bites them when Fundy moves to blow it up and barely has to put in any effort to do so.
304*** Furthermore, Tommy knows about Techno's Hound Army and Withers, and knows where each of them are located due to his brief alliance with Techno.\
305'''You'd Expect:''' Tommy to ''say literally anything about them to L'Manburg'', send a group to the Wither cave to seize the skulls, and send another group to the L'Manburg underground to find the Hound Army. The Hound Army especially is at its most vulnerable, as they're all sitting down and in one spot, meaning they can't fight back if someone decides to attack them.\
306'''Alternatively:''' If Tommy doesn't remember where either the skulls or hounds are, he can at least tell L'Manburg that they ''exist'', so that the L'Manburgians can prepare in advance.\
307'''Instead:''' Tommy says nothing about them.\
308'''As a Result:''' Techno, who outright ''expected'' Tommy to say something, is able to hide away the Wither skulls and safely relocate the Hound Army, costing L'Manburg the chance for a pre-emptive strike and meaning the Anarchists have two of their deadliest forces not only on standby, but completely hidden from L'Manburg's knowledge.
309*** Lastly, the L'Manburgians opt to meet up right before the war for final preparations.\
310'''You'd Expect:''' Them to meet up in L'Manburg, or at least somewhere ''close'' to it, so that they can keep a close eye on L'Manburg. Given how close the war is to starting, they shouldn't be meeting up far away, because it'd cost valuable time getting from one place to another.\
311'''Instead:''' They meet in Eret's Fortress, which is in the heart of the Greater Dream SMP -- in other words, pretty far from L'Manburg.\
312'''As a Result:''' L'Manburg is entirely undefended, which would be bad enough if the Anarchists attacked on schedule. But it's even worse, as the Anarchists decide to attack early, meaning that only Tommy is able to show up before the war begins, and that most of the L'Manburgians are absent for the early stages of the war. By the time many of the defenders arrive, there's not much of a nation to defend anymore.
313** Much later on, in Season 3, Tommy considers hiring people to work for his hotel, and checks the tab-list to see his options. Online at the time were Ranboo, who Tommy doesn't know too well but is generally on good terms with due to the letters he wrote Tommy in exile, and Jack Manifold, who has literally tried to [[WouldHurtAChild nuke him]].\
314'''You'd Expect:''' Anyone thinking (not even logically, just at all) would expect Tommy to pick Ranboo. Alternatively, if he doesn't ''want'' to pick Ranboo, he can wait until more people are online, but at the very least the correct answer is ''"pick literally anyone but Jack".''\
315'''Instead:''' [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Tommy picks Jack]].[[note]]To be fair, Tommy didn't know about the nuclear bomb part, but Jack has openly attempted to murder him at least once ''in addition'' to the nuke.[[/note]]\
316'''As a Result:''' Jack ends up plotting behind Tommy's back, and when Tommy is sealed in Pandora's Vault, he takes the opportunity to usurp control of the hotel.
317* ''WebVideo/JosephsMachines'':
318** In ''Jiwi's Machines'' E4, Jiwi realizes that when Sam finishes his cake, the weight trigger will be activated, and Sam will fly backwards and land on the couch.\
319'''You'd expect:''' Jiwi would just move the dominoes at the start of the machine, which are right next to his feet, and so the machine would be disabled.\
320'''Instead:''' Jiwi tries to steal Sam's cake when he isn't looking, and when that doesn't work, he spills hot tea on Sam's lap. When Sam gets up and frantically tries to take his pants off, he bumps into the machine and activates it.
321* ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15''
322** TAAG has kidnapped a brainwashed girl from an evil cult and tied her up. She complains that her hands are going numb and begs them to loosen the ropes just a little. The last time they loosened a prisoner's ropes "just a little", the prisoner escaped the instant their backs were turned.\
323'''You'd Expect''': They'd tell the girl to just deal with it. Especially since Daniel and Jonas are both there.\
324'''Instead''': They loosen the ropes just a little, and the prisoner escapes the instant their backs are turned.
325** TAAG, having recently failed a mission, blames Steve on suspicion of treachery and decides to abandon him in the wilderness. The last time they abandoned a friend in the wilderness, said friend was captured and brainwashed by the aforementioned evil cult.\
326'''You'd Expect''': They'd at least drop him off in a town with enough money to buy a ticket home.\
327'''Instead''': Apparently having learned ''nothing'' from their past mistakes, they abandon him in the wilderness.
328* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'':
329** Captain Hammer manages to damage the device which allows Dr. Horrible to control the truck with Wonderflonium.\
330'''You'd Expect''': That Captain Hammer would stop the truck immediately.\
331'''Instead''': He jumps off the truck to flirt with a woman on the street. The truck goes out of control which could have injured or killed someone which nearly happened to Penny. On top of that Horrible managed to steal the Wonderflonium.\
332'''To Be Fair''': He at least tried to save Penny by pushing her into the trash, but there is no denying that his actions were very reckless.
333** In Act III, Dr. Horrible has finally turned the tables on his ArchEnemy, Captain Hammer, by shooting him with a [[TimeStandsStill Freeze Ray]].\
334'''You'd Expect''': He would [[CombatPragmatist get on with the shooting]] bit, given that the Freeze Ray is MadScientist technology and such things always have a disturbing tendency to fail when it's most inconvenient.\
335'''Instead''': He spends three full minutes singing an EvilGloating song, giving the Freeze Ray time to run out of power and release Captain Hammer.
336* ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'': A cop gets a call about a suspicious package in a hotel.\
337'''You'd Expect''': He evacuates everyone from the hotel and calls the bomb squad to deal with it.\
338'''Instead''': He goes into the room and opens said package, which ''is'' a bomb, killing several people and completely destroying the hotel.
339* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared''
340** When Duck Guy brings up a chart showing different parts of a human brain while talking about the concept of time, Tony then proceeds to stop Duck Guy in his explanations by beeping and shouting MEH! MEH! MEH! over and over to the point that it becomes too loud for the puppets to bear without covering their ears.\
341'''You'd Expect''': that Yellow Guy would have enough common sense to quickly cover his ears just like Red Guy and Duck Guy do.\
342'''Instead''': he redundantly just sits still on his chair without moving his arms, while Tony carries on [[LargeHam screaming in his face]], [[EarAche even as Yellow Guy's ears start bleeding.]]
343** In Episode 3, Our Three Main Characters are outside having a picnic, when Yellow Guy spots what is clearly an (animated) butterfly flying around him.\
344'''You'd Expect''': That the puppets would be able to identify such an easily recognisable bug by its name, as well as by the creature's recognisable coloured wings.\
345'''Instead''': Duck Guy verbally identifies the butterfly as a "Pesky bee!" right after he swats and kills the butterfly, much to Yellow Guy's dismay...\
346'''And Later On''': While Yellow Guy is up in a tree weeping over the dead butterfly, he meets Shrignold, -a puppet butterfly-, of which Yellow Guy identifies as "A Little Baby Pigeon."
347** In Episode 5, Duck Guy and Yellow Guy are being taught about food and healthy eating by a group of food teachers, where they demonstrate what sort of foods are supposedly healthy and unhealthy through things like a house-body graph and some real examples of healthy and unhealthy foods.\
348'''You'd Expect''': The teachers to use their examples to correctly identify which types of food would be deemed healthy or unhealthy according to some correct research.\
349'''Instead''': Their house-body graph shows pizza as a healthy food friendly to the organs and egg and vegetables as the opposite, and later point to plain foods like white sauce, cream and aspic as healthy while pointing to 'fancy' foods like cooked meat, fruit salad and 'soil foods' as unhealthy, going so far as to claim that they will "clog up the body adding unnecessary detail".
350** Finally in episode 6, where [[spoiler:Yellow guy is being taught about dreams, Red Guy, during the last third of the episode finds Yellow Guy being taught on the screen of a computer-control device that controls all the aspects of the previous teaching sessions before in the last episodes, as well as some more that were never used beforehand. As Red guy is cycling through all of the previous teachers from before, he suddenly brings Duck Guy back from the dead in the place of the teacher that was teaching Yellow Guy originally, who apparently is the only amalgamation out of the rest to be self-aware of what is going on around himself.]]\
351'''You'd Expect''': [[spoiler:given how Duck Guy was apparently eaten in the last episode and of what Yellow guy has been through, -namely losing his friends and being tortured by more and more 'teachers'- that Red Guy would aim to keep Duck Guy present alongside Yellow Guy from now on and try to focus on how to get them both out of there without doing anything else on the control panel that could potentially have him screw things up more and make the situation worse than it already is.]]\
352'''Instead''': [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero He just carries on switching through more completely new 'Teachers' in Duck Guy's place before he even got to know where he was, in a hopelessly vain attempt to turn off the teaching program even when Yellow Guy completely breaks down in tears.]] Eventually, Red Guy ends up screwing up the control system, leading to the machine frying up while poor Yellow Guy is trapped on the set and gradually losing his mind in front of the endlessly cycling teacher programs - all the result of Red Guy screwing up the system into an endless repeat. Ultimately, It is only when Roy approaches Red Guy that Red Guy is shown the power lead to the control system, where "wandering what will happen" he yanks the power lead. This results in everything resetting back to the first episode again. This time however, the three main characters are in their favorite colours, probably hinting that although it is a new day, there could be hope that they will ultimately have more freedom of choice this time around...]]
353* Ah, ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', where would you be without this?
354** The protagonist Jay recently paid a nocturnal visit to an abandoned house that he believes is connected to the various weirdness that's been going on. While there, he sees signs that someone had been living there recently, [[RuleOfScary a sink covered in blood]], and he has a sudden, ''extremely'' violent coughing fit for no apparent reason. For some time, he's had a Youtuber by the name of totheark responding to all his videos with ominous, MindScrew-tastic videos of his own; when TTA responds to this one, the usual cryptic messages are accompanied by [[ParanoiaFuel footage of Jay's coughing fit, taken from right behind him]].\
355'''You'd Expect''': Jay to stay the hell away from the place in future, or if he feels he absolutely ''has'' to look for more clues, to at least take precautions to prevent his stalker from doing anything worse than filming him hacking up a lung.\
356'''Instead''': He announces on Website/YouTube that he's going back to the house, along with ''the date''. He goes alone, at night. Predictably, he's jumped by a creepy guy in a WhiteMaskOfDoom on his way out of the house.\
357'''And Then''': ''He goes back a third time later. And announces it again.'' Though at least this time he had the brainpower to go during the daytime, [[spoiler:[[EldritchLocation not that it made any difference]]]].
358** Entry #40: Jay is standing around a parking lot outside a park, waiting for Alex so they can discuss what to do about [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos a certain someone who's been following them around]]. Alex is running really late and not answering his cell phone.\
359'''You'd Expect''': Jay to do anything except what he ultimately decides to do. Sit around some more, drive off to get some fast food, leave entirely, stand in the middle of the parking lot and do the Chicken Dance - ''anything''.\
360'''Instead:''' [[DontGoInTheWoods Jay wanders off into the exceptionally creepy woods]]. Off the trail. Alone. At night. [[TooDumbToLive Into a place he's never been before]].\
361'''Result:''' Not surprisingly, Jay gets hopelessly lost. He wanders a good two miles into the woods before reaching a creepy overgrown brick chimney, which he stops to stare at. The moment he turns around, [[EldritchAbomination the Operator]] is literally ''inches'' away from him. Surprisingly, Jay then averts this trope, doing the single most smartest action of anyone in the entire series: drop the camera and run like hell.
362* In the ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' review of ''[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS8E25 We Wish You a Turtle Christmas]]'' while Tamara is needed help that when Zombie!Malcolm is eating her alive.\
363'''You'd Expect''': Nostalgia Critic would shoot at the zombie and save Tamara's life.\
364'''Instead''': He just ignores it just let her been killed.
365* [[Website/NotAlwaysRight Not Always Series]] has many shining examples; here's a few of them:
366** [[https://notalwaysright.com/alls-well-that-girlfriends-well/ A guy goes into a library]] and tries to ask out a girl there. The girl turns him down, partly because of how he worded his question, but mainly due to the fact that she's a lesbian, a girl who only dates girls.\
367'''You'd Expect:''' The guy to figure out that he won't be able to do anything romantic with this girl, and leave her alone.\
368'''Instead:''' He keeps on trying to chat her up, which leads nicely into this moment:\
369'''You'd Expect:''' That the guy would have broken up with his current girlfriend beforehand. And if he doesn't have the decency to do that, he should at least make sure that she's not nearby.\
370'''Instead:''' She's in the exact same library, sees what's going on, and ultimately ends up dumping him. To add insult to injury, the girlfriend turns out to be bisexual and the two girls end up dating each other.
371** [[https://notalwaysright.com/your-hesitancy-is-not-my-emergency/ In another library]], a man ends up suddenly having a seizure, and a nearby student tries to help him. There's a nearby security guard, who's apparently very worried about {{Ambulance Chaser}}s.\
372'''You'd Expect:''' The guard to remember that there are Good Samaritan Laws in place which prevent people from being sued for trying to help someone whose life is in danger, and help the student. Or at the very least, the guard could not interfere with him, or the emergency services.\
373'''Instead:''' Not only does the guard try to dissuade the student from helping, but the guard actually tries to impede the emergency services. As in, the people whose job it is to deal with these kinds of situations and which have ''laws about impeding them''. As a result, the guard is fired, and it's very unlikely that he'll be able to get another job.
374** [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-management-messes-with-maleficent/128083/ A woman]] at a store is [[MistakenForServant mistaken for an employee]] by another customer. When the woman fails to help the customer, the store manger steps in.\
375'''You'd Expect:''' For the manager to stop and think and look at the woman's attire, realize it's ''not a store uniform'', and therefore, '''she's not an employee''', and help the customer instead.\
376'''Instead:''' He berates the woman [[NoIndoorVoice FULL BLAST]] for not helping the customer and refuses to [[OneSideOfTheStory listen to her side of the story]]. LaserGuidedKarma kicks in when a security guard intervenes and the manager is arrested for assault.
377** The caller in [[https://notalwaysright.com/in-the-company-of-idiots/197763/ this story]] gets a visit from a person wanting to take a DVD player on the basis that the company they supposedly work for has stopped selling DVD players.\
378'''You'd Expect:''' The caller to realise something's very wrong--like, BavarianFireDrill wrong--and ask the "employee" for identification. The person is in plain clothes, the company they claim to work for never sold DVD players in the first place, and even if the company did, ''retail companies don't barge into people's homes to confiscate discontinued products''. Even Samsung didn't barge into people's homes to confiscate Galaxy Note [=7s=], and there was a [[MadeOfExplodium legitimate safety hazard]] involved there.\
379'''Instead''': The caller allows the "employee" to steal the DVD player, only realising it was a robbery when the company rep they called tells them as much and to call the police.
380** "[[https://notalwaysright.com/for-dessert-well-have-some-cinnamon-plot-twists/242424/ For Dessert We’ll Have Some Cinnamon Plot Twists"]] takes the cake on DineAndDash, no pun intended. A group of "rowdy young adults" have engaged in a scam with a waitress; they'll pay her for the meal ahead of time, pretend to dash without paying, and ensure she gets a higher tip out of sympathy when she tells customers that the meal comes out of her paycheck.\
381'''You'd Expect''': The adults would space out this scam by a few months rather than a few weeks.\
382'''Instead''': They do the exact same trick a few weeks later.\
383'''The Result''': The OP, her law professor, and professor's husband notice because they all happened to dine at the same place coincidentally. It turns out the husband is an off-duty cop; he stops the youth from leaving and shows off his badge when the waitress [[OhCrap asks him to not collar the guy]]. The manager happens to notice the skirmish, comes to the group and demands an explanation, causing the young adults to admit this was a scam. Needless to say, they are banned from the restaurant and the waitress is fired.
384** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/does-no-one-follow-the-general-orders-to-the-sentry-anymore/282055/ this story]], two patients are on the same ward in a military hospital. One of them is a prisoner, serving time for desertion. However, when the shift changes in the middle of the night, the new guard doesn't know which patient is the prisoner.\
385'''You'd expect''': He would make certain to confirm the prisoner's identity with the guard he's relieving before taking over duty.\
386'''Instead''': One of the patients is awake, so the guard simply asks him who's who, and accepts the answer he's given at face value. It turns out to be the prisoner, who, unsurprisingly, identifies his sleeping roommate as the prisoner and takes the opportunity to escape.
387** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/were-no-parenting-experts-but-maybe-stop-handing-the-kid-glass/291821/ this one]], a woman is shopping with her toddler in the cart, and decides to get a jar of peanut butter. Unfortunately, the kid, who doesn't like peanut butter, assumes she's planning on feeding it to him, and throws it out, smashing it.\
388'''You'd Expect''': She would make sure to keep further jars out of the kid's reach.\
389'''Instead''': She just puts another jar in the cart. The kid smashes this one, too.\
390'''It Gets Worse''': She puts in another one. Yep, same thing happens.\
391'''The Result''': The staff grab a fourth jar off her before she can repeat this performance, telling her it'll be waiting for her at customer services (and when her bags are packed, make sure it's far down where the kid can't get it). They then charge her for all four jars. One broken one they would have let go as an accident, but not three, especially since a bit of common sense would have prevented it -- and they're getting fed up of having to clean up peanut butter and broken glass, anyway.
392* The plot of ''[[Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero The Rising of the Shield Hero]]'' starts with one of these, courtesy of King Aultcray. At some point he gets the [[SarcasmMode brilliant]] idea to summon all four of his world's Legendary Heroes to protect his kingdom of Melromarc from the Waves - mass invasions of the world by monsters - despite the world's kingdoms all agreeing to limit themselves to one hero each, and then destroy the reputation of the Shield Hero owing to reasons of FantasticRacism. While that alone would be foolish enough, the real kicker comes in the fact that Aultcray is outranked in terms of legal power by his wife, [[TheHighQueen Queen Mirelia]].\
393'''You'd Expect''': That Aultcray, being a master strategist - i.e. someone you'd assume capable of long term planning ''by definition'' - would sit back and figure out just how utterly foolish his plan is. Summoning all four heroes and deliberately mistreating one will almost certainly cause a major diplomatic incident that could lead to war - ESPECIALLY when there are kingdoms that literally worship the Shield Hero - the last thing the world needs at the same time as the Waves. To say nothing of what might happen if such treatment leaves the Shield Hero unwilling or unable to fight against the Waves, which by the way actually get stronger if one of the heroes dies.\
394'''Instead''': He tries to carry it out. He then proceeds to go out of his way to antagonize Naofumi - who isn't the same Shield Hero who earned the respect of the demihumans Aultcray despises so much - even after the latter shows himself to actually be a capable hero despite the king's attempts to keep him weak, and the other three heroes prove to be borderline [[TheMillstone Millstones]].\
395'''Result''': Mirelia has to spend a lot of time negotiating to prevent war, allowing for Aultcray's stupidity to run unchecked. Naofumi has to practically be arm-twisted to take up his role as a hero, and his poor treatment at the hands of Aultcray and Princess Malty leaves him reluctant to work with Mirelia and Princess Melty, despite the latter two actually being decent people. The incompetence of the other three heroes drives Melromarc's CorruptChurch to try and murder them along with Naofumi, despite once worshipping them. The only reason Aultcray escapes execution for all this is because someone (Mirelia in the web novel, Naofumi in the anime) decides to show him CruelMercy, after which he ends up stripped of his royal status and legally renamed "Trash".
396* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': Stampy can fall into this at times, especially during a Hit The Target attack or if it [[TrademarkFavouriteFood involves cake]]. [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Sometimes, it's both]]. For example:
397** In Episode 165, "Ocean Adventure", Stampy runs into a lava-filled corridor with a cake trap at the end, under the assumption that Lee Bear had prepared it as a surprise.\
398'''You'd Expect''': Stampy to question if Lee placed the cake there, and/or why the room is covered with lava, among other suspicions.\
399'''Instead''': He thanks Lee and rushes to the cake without hesitation, falling for the trap hook, line, and sinker, and getting himself in HTT's Kitty Cat Cage for his troubles.
400** In Episode 184, "Clone Calamity", Stampy decides to make sure nobody could ever use the Cloning Contraption again after Hit The Target made his own clone army.\
401'''You'd Expect''': Stampy to destroy the actual machine.\
402'''Instead''': Stampy only destroys the button for the Cloning Contraption. The only thing anyone would have to do to get it up and running again would be to make a new button and stick it on, which someone (it's not clear who) does between Episode 184 and Episode 300, "Everything". This leads to [[spoiler:Hit The Target and Veeva Dash eventually utilizing the machine to create ''an even bigger clone army than the one that prompted Stampy to destroy the button'', as well as the deaths of Bengy, Corey, and [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated apparently Fluffy]] at the hands of said army.]]
403** In Episode 320, "Sleepy Stampy", Stampy finds a random cake (laced with a "Sleeping Potion" by Hit the Target) after getting gold for his building and running into it on the way.\
404'''You'd Expect''': Stampy to wonder why the cake was there, most likely remembering the cake trap by HTT.\
405'''Instead''': [[AesopAmnesia He eats the cake without any question of where it came from]], and falls asleep long enough for Hit the Target to loot him and drag him to HTT's new castle.
406* WebVideo/TotalYoutubePoopAction: Chris escapes prison.\
407'''You'd think:''' He would lie low.\
408'''Instead:''' Goes right back to showing his face on national television.\
409'''Result:''' Unsurprisingly, he gets caught in the end.
410* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
411** Taylor Hebert, teenaged supervillain, [[spoiler:has just surrendered to the heroes, offering them her help in trying to avert the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]\
412'''You'd Expect:''' That these people, who know Taylor has a history of utterly obliterating any and all who stand before her, ''including people who were supposed to counter power specifically'', [[spoiler:would at least attempt to compromise, especially given that she willingly surrendered.]] And if they didn't to start with, you'd think [[spoiler:the GeniusBruiser heroine they brought in would think about it]], especially in the wake of the fact that [[spoiler:Taylor has way better PR than they do right now because of her effectiveness in beating the actual ''threats'' to her city, and maybe they could stand to help their situation.]]\
413'''Instead:''' They go in with a plan that specifically revolves around [[spoiler:''[[BullyingADragon pissing Taylor off]]'', believing that the aforementioned heroine's invulnerability would protect her from someone who can only control bugs.]] They pursue this strategy until they [[spoiler:lead her to believe that they killed one of her teammates, people she expressly told them she loved.]] So, instead of [[spoiler: getting an excuse to off/imprison Taylor, she utterly destroys them, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome including the "invulnerable" heroine]], killing the minority of individuals who attempted to screw her over and getting the PR spun in ''her'' favor, to add insult to injury.]]
414** Coil sends a very large amount of information about Empire Eighty Eight to the media. This includes the full names, addresses, names of their family members and so on of pretty much every member, from their leader to their flunkies. Naturally, the local superheroes soon have this information as well.\
415'''You'd Expect''': Since Empire Eighty Eight have no problem with attacking innocents and have a number of heavy hitters on their team, the local superheroes and law enforcement officers should avoid antagonising them unless it's to help them arrest them all.\
416'''Instead''': CPS and a group of capes go to Purity's (the ex-wife of EEE's leader and his second-in-command) house and take her baby into care while Purity's at work. When Purity finds out, she [[MamaBear snaps, rallies her team and starts destroying buildings in the area where the Undersiders reside until Tattletale helps her get her daughter back.]]
417* ''WebVideo/WhereTheBearsAre'':
418** Wood knows that Cyril, the serial killer who killed a man in his home and then tried to kill his friend Nelson, has escaped from prison, and that he is currently the only person in the house who knows this because their cable was temporarily canceled and none of the others pay attention to the news.\
419'''You'd expect:''' For Wood to tell Nelson, or at least tell Reggie and Todd so that they can figure out the best way to tell Nelson.\
420'''Instead:''' Wood puts the letter from the DA into Nelson's mail drawer, which might be reasonable except that he didn't tell Nelson that he had a mail drawer.\
421* {{Creepypasta}}:
422** In "The House that Death Forgot", the main character has stopped for the night in an eerie hotel, which has other residents even though her car is the only one parked outside. The other guests warn her to stay away from a mysterious man who stalks the entrance, and tell her that they are all the undead spirits of his victims, and have shown her their deadly injuries to prove it. They explain that anyone who tries to leave before morning will get killed and trapped forever like themselves.\
423'''You'd expect''': That since the narrator has seen hard evidence that the other hotel guests and the owner really are undead, and that she can see the murderer right through the window brandishing a knife, and since its 2 in the morning, that she actually listen to them and stay put.\
424'''Instead:''' She walks right out the door and directly into the killer's knife. She doesn't even try to dodge it and he doesn't even have to move his weapon; she literally walks ''[[TooDumbToLive right into it]]''.
425** In "Barney the Dinosaur", a father buys an Actimates Barney doll for his son, Chris. The father hears him talking to the doll and at one point swears that he hears a deep voice responding to his son and becomes suspicious of it. Because of this, his son becomes distant and starts claiming that Barney talks to him.\
426'''You'd Expect:''' Him to get rid of the doll and throw it away.\
427'''Instead:''' He just lets Chris continue playing with it, as if he never got suspicious of the whole thing in the first place.
428*** Then suddenly one day [[spoiler: Chris is kidnapped by the previous owner of the doll who had been talking to the boy through a radio in the doll and lured him out to his van.]]\
429'''You'd Then Expect:''' The father/narrator to [[PapaWolf chase down the kidnapper and punish him for his crime himself]].\
430'''Instead:''' He just stands there and doesn't bother going after him.\
431* It's pretty much a staple in ''Fanfic/SonicExe''. Even if there is no reason for anyone who plays it to believe it's cursed, it's on a suspect disc that may be full of viruses.
432** Tom hasn't heard from his friend Kyle in two weeks. When he finally gets a message from him, he is repeatedly told not to play the game because it will release a monster that is after and will presumably kill Kyle.\
433'''You'd Expect:''' Tom to just not play the game, since he was told not to about 20 times.\
434'''Instead:''' [[TooDumbToLive Tom just]] [[AnthropicPrinciple plays the game]], releasing X and causing lots of chaos.
435** In the sequel, the police deduce that the killer targets anyone who plays the game.\
436'''You'd Expect:''' [[JustEatGilligan The police to tell the public, which would pretty much stop any more murders from happening.]]\
437'''Instead:''' [[PoliceAreUseless They apparently can't be bothered to do that very obvious and simple thing that would solve all the conflict in the story]], thus letting X continue his murder spree.
438* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': Much of the show's humor comes from much of its tertiary cast being TooDumbToLive:
439** At least 10,000 people ([[AndZoidberg and one cat]]) are trapped in a video game [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame where the death of their avatars means their actual deaths]].\
440'''You'd Expect''': Everyone to take precautions and use strategy to beat the game's enemies.\
441'''Instead''': Nobody takes any precautions, quite a few go full LeeroyJenkins and their best strategy is to "[[AttackAttackAttack group up and hit it 'til it dies!]]" 2,000 people are dead in the first month alone.
442** Kirito participates in Diabel's raid party against Ilfang the Kobold Lord. Thanks to the Beta Tester's Guide Book Tiffany got them, they're aware ([[TooDumbToLive we hope]]) of Ilfang's abilities, including the talwar it brings out once it TurnsRed. When that happens during the actual battle, Ilfang instead pulls out a nodachi, a bigger and more dangerous weapon than a talwar. Kirito warns Diabel, who asks him "what's the difference?"\
443'''You'd Expect''': Kirito to cut to the chase and warn "It's bigger and more powerful than a talwar!"\
444'''Instead''': Kirito gives Diabel a long lecture about the histories of both weapons, which, while it includes plenty of good historical facts, is useless to the battle at hand. He only cuts to the chase when Illfang mortally wounds Diabel.
445** Rosalia and her Guild ambushes Kirito and Silica, and she decides to try some "[[HannibalLecture first-year psych-student bullshit]]" on him and his InternetJerk persona. This drives him LaughingMad and one of her goons worries that they might be MuggingTheMonster. When they reluctantly attack him on her orders, the goon's concerns are validated when Kirito reveals his ''much higher'' stats.\
446'''You'd Expect''': Rosalia to back off, considering Kirito could easily kill them.\
447'''Instead''': Rosalia tries to deconstruct Kirito one more time, which leads him to [[ShutUpHannibal shut her up, permanently]].
448** Kirito gives Laughing Coffin advice on how to improve [[PlayerKilling their business]] in an attempt to save witnesses and/or criminals from their wrath. After his spiel, they go off to implement the solutions he gave them.\
449'''You'd expect''' that they'd insist on keeping clients on a "in-game private messaging system" basis only. Keep in mind, they were a notorious player-killing guild in a video game that had become deadly months ago if not years. They don't want any kind of attention from the authorities.\
450'''Instead'''... well, let's just let Kuradeel spell out what they did and what happened next.
451--->'''Kuradeel''': Oh yes! "Ad campaign! PR blast! Get your faces out there!" Send an email with your exact location to EVERY PLAYER IN THE GAME!! [...] You made them SELL OUT! And what did it get them?! An army at their door and a blade to their hearts!
452** Thinker of the Aincrad Liberation Front is supposed to be a renowned genius, but he fails to show it when his rival Kibaou invites him to a peace talk. The thing is, it's in a dungeon.\
453'''You'd Expect''': Thinker to stop and ''think'' about this peace talk and bring some weapons or teleport crystals in case something goes wrong.\
454'''Instead''': Thinker blindly accepts Kibaou's terms, goes in without any items, and to no one but [[LoveMakesYouDumb Yulier's surprise]], the obvious trap is obvious, and Thinker is captured. Yui lampshades this:
455-->''Your leader is named Thinker, yet he appears to be something of a dullard.''
456** Just after the boss battle on the Skull Reaper, [[GameBreakingBug or what passes as one]], Kirito outs [[BigGood Heathcliff]] as being [[BigBad Kayaba]] to the whole raid party after he attacks him to no avail.\
457'''You'd Expect''': The other members of the raid party to sit back and let Kirito handle Kayaba.\
458'''Instead''': A random soldier tries his luck attacking Kayaba to similar results.\
459'''RESULT''': The already unstable and insane Kayaba invokes his admin privileges and paralyzes everyone. He lampshades this with his rant:
460--->'''Kayaba:''' This...FUCKING mastermind here, not two minutes ago, saw [Kirito] try the exact same thing to no effect. Yet, by some HERCULEAN leap in logic that we mere mortals can never hope to comprehend, he figured it'd totally work out if HE DID IT.
461* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
462** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-428 SCP-428]] can assimilate people to make itself bigger, stronger and smarter.\
463'''You'd Expect''': The Foundation to contain this by ensuring it can never assimilate any more people.\
464'''Instead''': They feed it a new person each month to keep it appeased, allowing it to grow even more dangerous.
465* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': In "MOLESTER MOON", the titular character makes an appearance to molest and kill people whenever the Moon emoji is texted three times to a person. This has happened twice so far with two of Ian and Anthony's friends.\
466'''You'd Expect''': For them to avoid texting the moon Emoji three times, or as Ian suggested, call the police about this.\
467'''Instead''': ''[[TooDumbToLive Anthony assumes Ian is the Molester Moon and texts the moon Emoji three times to him!]]''\
468'''As A Result''': Understandably, Ian retaliates by texting Anthony the moon Emoji three times to him, which gets both him and Ian targeted by the Molester Moon.\
469'''The Following Happens''': Anthony and Ian are in a dead end, but the Molester Moon is having trouble going through the doorway thanks to his width.\
470'''You'd Then Expect''': For the Molester Moon to turn sideways to fit through the doorway.\
471'''Instead''': He yells "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Ah!]] [[BleepDammit *** it]]!" and leaves.
472
473[[AC:LetsPlay]]
474* In {{LetsPlay/Marriland}}'s [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]] Nuzlocke, he was battling the Champion, Wallace, and brought him down to his last Pokemon, Gyarados. Thinking of a crazy strategy, he uses his Walrein and locks Gyarados into Dragon Dance with Encore.\
475'''You'd expect:''' That Marriland would just switch in his Magneton while Gyarados is locked into Dragon Dance and slaughter it with Thunderbolt, ending the battle.\
476'''Instead:''' He then poisons it with Toxic, and brings in his Crobat, confusing it with Confuse Ray. And while Gyarados does hit itself in confusion, it then eventually falls into the red, leading Wallace to heal it with a Full Restore.
477** After that, once Gyarados is at +5 Attack and +5 Speed, it knocks out Crobat (killing it and rendering it unusable) with Hyper Beam. While it's recharging, he brings in Magneton.\
478'''You'd expect:''' Again, that Marriland would use Thunderbolt while Gyarados has to recharge, winning him the battle.\
479'''Instead:''' First he paralyzes it with Thunder Wave, then sets up Reflect, while Gyarados knocks out Magneton with Earthquake. He then brings in his own Gyarados, which almost gets killed, but Wallace misses with Hyper Beam, allowing Devin to win the battle.\
480'''However:''' In his final lookback, he does realize his mistake and that he could have easily won with Magneton. He then ranted on Twitter about how he feels it was bogus that his fans think "he has to play perfectly all the time" or something like that.
481* Creator/RoosterTeeth:
482** In their LetsPlay of Minecraft part 37, Jack, Ray, and Ryan all have one point on the board and you need 2 points to win. Gavin nears the end of the course with Ray already there and the obsidian placed in front of his block. Gavin kills Ray and after retrieving the Tower, he gets his batteries stolen in real life by Ray as revenge.\
483'''You'd expect:''' Gavin to mine the obsidian and move it over to his space and stack it there, since nobody was anywhere near him.\
484'''Instead:''' Gavin doesn't move the obsidian and stacks the Tower of Pimps on Ray's space, causing Ray to win.
485** Gavin's stupidity reaches epic proportions during their LetsPlay of Monopoly. Gavin owns Park Place and Boardwalk and at one point had three houses on each. Unfortunately, he was forced to sell all of them due to Geoff, Michael and Ray not landing on either of his properties and him landing on Geoff's pink monopolies with buildings twice (Virginia Avenue with four houses and St. Charles Place with a hotel). Eventually in Part 2, he lands on one of the three railroads owned by Ray with only $90; not enough to cover his $100 rent.\
486'''You'd Expect:''' Gavin to mortgage either Park Place for $175 or Boardwalk for $200 (he has no other properties) which will give him more than enough to cover his bill.\
487'''Instead:''' He gets this [[SarcasmMode bright idea]] to ''trade away Park Place and Boardwalk'' to his competitors! Geoff declines his first deal to accept both for Baltic Avenue, the Water Works and $500 cash. Michael then accepts his next deal which results in him receiving Park Place and Boardwalk in exchange for Connecticut Avenue and $500 cash. Keep in mind, both of Gavin's deals had him trading away his properties for ''less than the combined face value''[[note]]Park Place is worth $350 and Boardwalk is worth $400 for a combined total of $750[[/note]] and he made a worse deal with Michael[[note]]$500 plus the $120 face value of Connecticut for a total of $620[[/note]] than he would have made with Geoff[[note]]$500 plus the face values of Baltic Avenue and the Water Works at $60 and $150 respectively, totaling $710[[/note]]. Even a beginner at Monopoly could tell Gavin he made a horrific move by trading away the two most expensive properties on the board.\
488'''To Make Matters Worse:''' Two turns later, Gavin makes an even worse deal by trading Connecticut Avenue ''back'' to Michael for '''$9!'''\
489'''Bonus Idiot Points:''' Gavin drags the game down even further by considering trades despite him having ''no properties''! It's no wonder the rest of the guys become genuinely thrilled to see Gavin finally bankrupting out of the game.
490* WebVideo/GameGrumps:
491** In part two of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' for the Nintendo Wii, [[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} Arin]] and [[WebVideo/JonTron Jon]] are faced with the puzzle SPI__ FRIED SHRIMP under the category Food & Drink.\
492'''You'd Expect:''' Either one of them to figure out that the incomplete word is SPICY.\
493'''Instead:''' After more than a full minute of gibberish guessing, this happpens:
494## Arin spins the wheel and calls an L.
495## Jon just decides to solve and, with a few seconds to spare, guesses SPING FRIED SHRIMP.
496## Their AI opponent solves, and both of them lampshade it by asking themselves how they could not get the word.
497** ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'': WebVideo/SteamTrain. Danny and Ross arrive at Fort Bridger with just over 100 pounds of food and $795 in cash.\
498'''You'd Expect:''' For them to put some of their funds towards some more food. Buying 1,000 pounds at 35¢ a pound would not even erase half their funds. At the very least, they could instead try hunting after leaving the fort.\
499'''Instead:''' They only buy ''100 pounds'', waste money to replace clothes that a thief had previously stolen and don't even think about hunting after they leave the fort.\
500'''So:''' They arrive at the next landmark, Soda Springs, where they have depleted their food supply.\
501'''You'd Then Expect:''' Either one of them to realize that they're out of food and either trade for some or leave Soda Springs to hunt.\
502'''Instead:''' They choose to rest at Soda Springs for ''two weeks'' without any food, resulting in three of their party members dying before they reach Fort Hall.\
503'''You'd ''Then'' Expect:''' After arriving at Fort Hall that they'd buy food for the remaining two party members.\
504'''[[RuleOfThree Instead]]:''' They continue to rest and [[TotalPartyKill their last two party members]] [[TooDumbToLive die of starvation]].
505** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed]]'': In episode 83, Sch evolves from Charmeleon to Charizard. Arin opts to have it learn Wing Attack. He can replace Scratch, Ember, Flamethrower or Metal Claw to accommodate the new move.\
506'''You'd Expect:''' Arin to remove Sch's Scratch since it's the most useless of his attacks.\
507'''Instead:''' He plays around with the menu and winds up replacing Sch's ''[[EpicFail Flamethrower]]''. Danny rags on him about it.
508** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': In episode 22, Arin has to complete the "Passing the Swim Test" mission. In this task, Mario has to steal a gold Koopa shell from a penguin and give it to the swim coach to earn a Power Star.\
509'''You'd Expect:''' Arin to recognize the penguin carrying said gold shell the moment he sees it.\
510'''Instead:''' He fails to notice the shell after the penguin carrying it passes by him ''several times'', all in clear visibility throughout the course of the episode. And keep in mind that the penguin is visibly holding the shell out in front of him as he swims. Needless to say, the viewers didn't respond kindly.
511** ''VideoGame/BattleKidFortressOfPeril'': In the third and final episode, Arin desperately attempts to defeat the Lotus Guardian, but he keeps racking up multiple deaths before rage quitting the game. Then Ross comes in the room since he saw Arin failing at the boss battle and he then gives Arin enough encouragement.\
512'''You'd Expect:''' Arin to move the cursor up and hit continue after Ross encouraged him.\
513'''Instead:''' He accidentally hits "END", which blows all of his progress from the start.
514*** '''As a result:''' Arin has a volcanic meltdown and rage quits after he accidentally closed the game and ruined the progress he made as he rage quits at his utter failure.
515*** '''Additionally:''' There was a password on the bottom of the Game Over screen, and the password is: "6N5WDCNU".
516** Bear in mind that the Grumps have noted on several occasions that they'll sometimes intentionally play "sub-optimally" because it's funnier. So how many examples are played straight and how many are ObfuscatingStupidity are up the eye of the beholder.
517* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faVDWbdLClY part 3 of Mathas Games']] LetsPlay of his second run of ''VideoGame/ThisWarOfMine'', he is attempting to steal supplies from an inhabited building. He says that he is going to try and avoid conflict, as that screwed over his last run. After a while he eventually gets spotted by the owner of the house and is warned to leave.\
518'''You'd expect:''' That he'd leave immediately, wait outside the house's threshold long enough for the NPC to return to neutral and go back into the house, allowing Mathas to continuing sneaking and stealing supplies without risk of confrontation. OR at the very least, return back to his shelter with the supplies he has gathered and return back to apartment the next night.\
519'''Instead:''' He runs around the NPC, tries to get more loot before he has to leave directly in ''front'' of the NPC who becomes increasingly more hostile with their warnings. Eventually the NPC pulls out a rifle and guns down Mathas as he tries to flee.
520* In the {{LetsPlay/Versus}} sequel for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', Creator/AttackingTucans has reached the finish line before Il Piantissimo. However, it does not qualify as a win until [[ItMakesSenseInContext he touches the pole.]]\
521'''You'd expect:''' Him to touch the pole.\
522'''Instead:''' Thinking that he won, he goofs around, waiting for his rival to show up, never touching the pole. When he does, Il Piantissimo shows up and declares himself the winner, denying Tyler the Sprite. Cue rage.

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