Insane Troll Logic in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Authors Note:
- How did Knuckles steal Rouge's panties if he was a rock with googly eyes attached to it?
- How did Sonic eat chicken pot pies if he's a dildo?
- If Sonic's spaceship is made of Lucky Charms cereal, how come it didn't fall apart when they travelled to Mars?
- Just....whatever this line is.
The two heroes sat down on chairs (author’s note: chairs are made of entire galaxies and everytime someone sits on one, they are destroying whole civilizations) and pulled out menus to read. - Becoming more than what I am.: When Lucifer introduces Max to Chloe (Decker), he asks her to show her her wings to prove to her that he's the actual Devil. Max refuses, knowing that Chloe's mind wouldn't be able to handle direct exposure to them, she asks why he can't just show her his wings. He says that it's because he doesn't want her to think that he's "some run-of-the-mill angel and not the devil himself."
- One Hat to Rule them All
: Given their own experience with Fantastic Racism in their world, the Straw Hat Pirates aren't willing to accept the the Orcs and Trolls under Sauron as Always Chaotic Evil like the people of Middle Earth tell them. After finding out that the orc's rations and meat are always rotten by Sauron's design, Luffy concludes that the reason the Orcs are so malicious is because they are always fed bad meat. The orcs go along with it and join the heroes in the fight against Sauron, because they're scared of Luffy more than Sauron. - The Jackie Chan Adventures and Teen Titans crossover fanfiction A Shadow of the Titans:
- The Axe-Crazy villain Gadjo's (mis)understanding of human relationships (romantic) boils down to women basically giving men sex to get them to take out the trash (and it's even WACKIER in full). The Titans are all stunned, save for BB, who's TAKING NOTES!
- Gadjo also believes that the proper response to a bad-tasting pie is to keep eating it, in order to punish it for tasting bad.
- When Raven and Robin are angsting over apparently causing Jade's death, Cyborg's response is to stick them in a crate together, hoping that that much angst will cancel itself out, like how two negatives equal a positive. Surprisingly, he's right.
- Spy X Son: During a "whose older sibling is the strongest" argument between Son Goten and Yuri Briar, Yuri argues that his sister Yor is stronger than Gohan because while Gohan "merely" helped his mother raise Goten after their father died, Yor raised Yuri all by herself after their parents died.
- Lampshaded in Thinking In Little Green Boxes when Harry rips J. Jonah Jameson a new one after J.J. begins his usual spiel about how Spider-Man is obviously a menace because he wears a mask:Harry: Oh, okay... So Magneto is okay, because you can see his face through the helmet, even if he tries to Kill All Humans and stuff, but Spider-Man's a bad guy because you can't see his face. Gotcha.
- In Bill Nye The Blooper Guy, the title character is on his roof, preparing for an experiment.Bill: Hi, kids! Bill Nye here! And I'm going to teach you about gravity! It can save us all. As we know, there is no gravity in space. Earth is part of space; therefore, Earth has no gravity! Watch this! (Jumps off roof)
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: Calvin claims that since one of the water balloons was the same color as the ones Socrates had attacked him with last week, then the latter must be the culprit.
- Suzaku in The Black Empire is still working for Britannia after the Black Knights free Japan from Britannian rule. His reasoning is that since it was freed with violence, it doesn't count and Japan isn't really free. So the only way for Japan to be properly free... is to reconquer it and then become the Knight of One so he can rule it.
- In Six Paths Of Rebellion, Suzaku is convinced that anything Britannia does is righteous and anything Zero does is evil, outraged that the Japanese support Zero over Britannia when "It was Britannia that created the SAZ where they could live freely", conveniently ignoring that they lived freely until Britannia invaded Japan. As a result, he blames the Zero and the Black Knights for the Shinjuku and Saitama Massacres. Furthermore when the Black Knights successfully free Japan, he's one of the people who chooses to leave to Britannia and can't understand how the Japanese can possibly be happy when their freedom was "created by a madman and a monster in human flesh". Several people including Naruto, Euphemia, and Lelouch, call him out on the ridiculousness and outright hypocrisy of his actions but Suzaku insists that they're wrong for overthrowing the corrupt system instead of trying to fix it.
- Negaverse Chronicles: Quackerjack can occasionally dabble in this. Of course, he is literally insane, so that's understandable. Oddly, the voices in his head are quick to point out that his logic isn't particularly sound.He couldn't think of any normal reason for there to be deep gashes in the street. That meant there was probably an abnormal reason for them. And since his team was probably the most abnormal group of people around that could only mean it was somehow connected to Megavolt's disappearance.
- The Golden Boys Last Temptation: After telling how a stalker nearly assassinated then-current President Prez because she thought it would get her noticed by a super-hero/boxer called Ted Grant, Supergirl states she cannot fathom why that person possibly thought her plan even made any sort of sense.Supergirl: Some crazy woman had been writing letters to Ted Grant, the Wildcat, the one who used to be heavyweight champion of the world, and who used to be a super-hero, and then got to be a TV guy. She'd been stalking him, without much luck. So she tried to shoot Prez, thinking that would get Ted to answer her letters.
Why? I don't know. When you get into those states of mind, I guess, parallel lines meet, there's dimensions between the third and fourth, squaring the circle sounds simple enough, and they figure if you kill somebody, that means somebody has to return your calls.
It doesn't. Don't ever think that.
- This kind of "logic" is utilized by Naomi in All You Need Is Love:Naomi: [S]ince you keep claiming to be God this must somehow be your fault.
Light: I'm not sure that's how god complexes actually work, Naomi.- Also used by Light on a regular basis when creating his New World:Naomi: It's like you have this belief that if you say things enough times they suddenly become true.
Light: I do not.
Naomi: I'm the god of the new world?
Light (confused): But I am the god of the new world.
Naomi: No you're not. I have good intentions? Raye Penber is wallpaper? I don't get high off the murders of rapists and other murderers? I can keep going, you know, if I really want to.
Light: All true, I don't say them to make them true I just have to remind everyone else that they're true. If I didn't say anything people would assume that Matsuda's theories are correct, and I just won't stand for that.
Naomi: Yeah, completely buying that.
- Also used by Light on a regular basis when creating his New World:
- In the Crack Fic A Charmed Life, Ryuk successfully seduces Light by arguing that since (according to an article in Light's porn magazine) "people in power tend to be more submissive in bed" and since it turns out that Light is naturally a twink he's definitely going to become a God now. It becomes true because Ryuk makes it happen.
- In the Slash Fic A Cure for Love, Souichiro believes that forcing his son Light to spend a week with his family will cure him of any gayness. Later, there's the instance where Light somehow came to the conclusion that it wouldn't hurt so bad to get shot since he planned for it.
- Fade: L constantly justifies his actions with this: for example, he starts killing criminals who don't deserve death to convince Light to do the same so he can become the villain in the story L needs to stop, and so that way L can teach him to use the Death Note the "right" way. Any reasonably sane and intelligent person (let alone geniuses like Light, Near, Mello, Matt, and Beyond) can easily poke holes through his logic — the only reason Light himself has yet to act on it is because he's being blinded by love.
- In Asylum: after getting thrown in the loony bin Light concludes that the doctors must have made a mistake:"whatever it was Light knew it wasn't insanity. A God is perfect. And since he IS God he couldn't be crazy. Q.E.D."
- From Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami:I MUST KILL EVERYONE blud replied and he took the needle from TIOSEAFK!
"Why do you want to want to do that?" she asked pouting her lipsticky lips.
BECAUSE WE ARE SHINIGAMI AND THAT MEANS GOD OF DEATH AND GODS CAN DO ANYTHING SO THEY SHOULD MAKE EVERYTHING DEAD and he stuck the needle in a blood banana and sucked out the goopy blood inside.- Dark's threat in Chapter 17."I will writ 'EVERYONE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT DRAK' IN MY ROYAL DEATH NOTE UNLESS THE QUEEN OF THE SHINIGAMI CHALLENGE ME TO A DUAL!"
- Dark's threat in Chapter 17.
- In Welcome To The Family, Near makes frequent use of this:Linda: L says Justice never sleeps!
Light: Of course he does.
Near: This is just further proof that Kira is not justice.
- In Juvia's Logic, Juvia brings up that she and Gray are meant to be together because before they met, Juvia's Power Incontinence caused her to make it always rainy around her. Therefore, Juvia's old habit of making the skies Gray (which went away when she met Gray) means that they are destined to be together. Of course, Gray leaves halfway to fight Natsu. And since Gray is currently naked between his stripping habit and Natsu stealing his boxers, Juvia freaks out thinking that the two of them are having hot boy love instead of fighting.
- The aptly named sequel Insane Logic has Loke taking a page from Juvia's book and arguing that he and Lucy are meant to be together because he has the power of light and her name means light. Natsu argues that he's just as destined because his Fire Magic also makes light and his name means summer, which was the season that Lucy was born in. He even points out that he's using two of the same logic that Loke uses, so his claim is more valid. Annoyed at their arguing, Laxus calls them out for being morons and says by their logic any guy is destined for Lucy, sarcastically adding that he's destined to be with Lucy since they are both blonde... which causes Natsu and Loke to see him as another love rival.Laxus: The fuck?
Freed: ...it's official. Juvia's insanity is contagious.
- The aptly named sequel Insane Logic
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path:
- In the main story Byleth tries to invoke Loophole Abuse to let Ashe come along on the quest to defeat Lonato by saying that they just said Ashe couldn't come, not the Blue Lions. This fails because it makes no sense but Ashe gets to come anyway.
- In the support Professor Shamir, the Black Eagles and Shamir come across a garbled test question that would put Baldi to shame. The only person who can come up with an answer is Linhardt, whose thought process to get there baffles everyone, Hubert most of all.
- In Boys do Tankary?, Miho believes she, rather than Saori, is entitled to have Vincent because she's the commander in her tank.
- In Innocence Need Not Apply, Miho's father believes that the kind of traditionalism that the Nishizumi school operates on is comparable to this when taken to its logical conclusion, as he does in the following example.Mr. Nishizumi: If before the invention of fire humans ate meat raw, then should they have continued doing so after they invented fire?
- “Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Wizards”;
- Basically the entire wizarding world seems to have fallen victim to this after Harry is sent to Azkaban for killing Neville, and it's only revealed in the final battle that he was actually framed by Percy (who had become a Death Eater). Once Harry kills Voldemort, he only returns to Hogwarts because Dumbledore invokes a complex law to force Harry to attend in the hope that Harry will basically be “forced” to forgive everyone. This ignores how everyone trying to force Harry to forgive them just inspires new levels of anger, where the few who Harry genuinely forgave are those who at least didn’t turn on him or were willing to let him make contact on his own terms (Fred and George weren’t allowed to speak in his defence, Hagrid genuinely apologised for even being suspicious), as opposed to others who just try and force Harry to accept their apologies.
- This is a good summary of Snape’s “defence” for his brutal method of teaching Harry Occlumency, expecting Harry to basically know the basics of meditation and mental organisation necessary for Occlumency simply because he was a Potter, never even bothering to tell Harry that there were books on the topic that he could look up, even though he knew that Harry was raised in the muggle world and wouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn such meditative techniques.
- In Easy As Falling because Harry became a (In Name Only) "Dark Lord" in order to save Hogwarts from the Ministry, and kept them out using displays of force, McGonagall believes that the school hasn't really "saved". She believes the only right way to "save" Hogwarts now is to turn in Harry, allow the Ministry to close Hogwarts and gut the programs just like they wanted, and somehow become Headmistress.
- In Emancipation, Dumbledore reacts like this to Amelia Bones' insistence that she needs more than Dumbledore's word in order to issue a warrant for Snape's arrest.Did she not see that the crime was absolutely evident in and of itself? If Snape were to be arrested, he could be interrogated under Veritaserum and then she would have her evidence, but no, she needed the bloody evidence first! How in the name of Merlin was he supposed to bring it in, if the use of any truth potions was restricted to open investigations only and the stupid bint had refused to open the case?
- Dumbledore in Nymphadora's Beau not only refuses to take action against Umbridge (who's the Care of Magical Creatures teacher in this story) but actively hides evidence against her when Harry contacts the Aurors. He argues that since he knows what she's doing, it's better to have her around than get rid of her. This is despite the fact she's torturing students (like canon), using racial slurs when speaking or referring to students, ordering students to strip in class, and openly using her class to teach students "the difference between Pureblood wizards and Muggleborn animals". Dumbledore also insists Harry and Hermione apologize to Umbridge for "their disrespectful attitudes". Because refusing to be tortured by your teacher and protesting her Nazi-esque lessons is disrespectful.
- Most of Thirty Hs.Gumbledorp, if you don't stop, we'll starve, and no one will be around to kill everyone in the universe if we get around to bringing them back to life after we killed them.
- Dumbledore uses this in the Crack Fic Yet Another Twin to "prove" that Harry's brother is the Boy-Who-Lived.Dumbledore: My reasoning is, Rupert's scar is cross-shaped, cross is a symbol of Christianity, Christians burned witches, there are more Muggleborn witches than Muggleborn wizards, and Voldemort hates Muggleborns. It all makes sense in context.
- Becoming a True Invader: Zim is briefly convinced that Tel is actually The Mole for his sister Pel's cult because he has the most to lose from the mole's actions, and thus according to the "Law of Reverse Victim" must be the mole.
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim:
- Leashlor, the Animal Catcher on Slumia, stretches rationality quite a bit to justify treating Gaz as an animal despite the fact that she's clearly sapient.
- Red and Purple determine that no Irken would willingly betray the Empire in such a bold way as the NIO did in their attack on the Invaders' tournament, so obviously they were tricked into it by the Resisty.
- Sary: A monkey shows up out of nowhere in Rivendell. Without any reasoning, Sary just assumes that "IT IS A GIFT FROM GODS TO US IT IS A MIRACLE MONKEY IT CAN HELP US!"
- In Kid Keitaro, Naru and Motoko constantly insist that the eight-year-old Keitaro is a horrible, shameless pervert. Even worse, when Naru finds him sleeping with Kitsune after having a nightmare, she decides that an eight-year-old boy somehow overpowered and molested a twenty-one-year-old woman.
- Tony in The Many Doors of Niu Heimar argues that Steve should ride with Thor during a transport using some...unusual logic.Tony: Come on, you'll get along great. You're from the past, he's from ancient Scandinavia-
Steve: I'm from the 1940s.
Tony: Exactly! That's the past.
- In Burning Bridges, Building Confidence, Adrien blames Marinette and Cole for how Lila has turned the bulk of their class against them with her manipulative ways. Why? Because they didn't just stand aside and let her lie to everyone unchallenged. She was just lying, and lies never hurt anyone! Therefore, they deserve to be hurt by all of her Malicious Slander... a.k.a., by her lying about them. Because her lies are oh so harmless.
- To further drive home his Selective Obliviousness, he also believes that Cole is faking her vision troubles. Why? Because Lila, someone he knows to be a Consummate Liar with a grudge against her who is actively aiming to ruin her reputation, told him so. A sterling example both of how Lila's tall tales 'never hurt anyone' combined with him looking down upon and scorning Cole for her supposed fib, despite his instance that lies are harmless.
- LadyBugOut:
- The series gets kicked off when Alya insists that Ladybug being a superheroine makes her a celebrity — and as a celebrity, she has absolutely no right to privacy, while Alya has every right to deliberately misrepresent a photo, withholding context so speculation over the picture will draw attention to her Ladyblog. Much of the drama that ensues stems from her refusal to admit that she is in any way responsible for the consequences that naturally follow.
- Adrien/Chat Noir feels entitled to Ladybug's love since the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous complement each other — thus, he believes that being chosen to hold them means that they're destined to be together. Thus, Ladybug's resisting becomes her trying to defy destiny, in his eyes.
- At one point, Chat challenges Ladybug to prove she doesn't love him by kissing him. When she refuses, he attempts to physically force her into it, then smugly treats her rebuffing him as proof that she's in denial — because obviously, the only reason she wouldn't want to kiss him is because she knows she wouldn't be able to hide her 'true feelings' then. As opposed to not wanting to kiss him because she doesn't want to kiss some Jerkass who won't take no for an answer.
- The One to Make It Stay: After Marinette rejects Alya's invitation to join his group at the wax museum, Adrien takes that as a sign that she might not want to be friends anymore. So he decides to play a prank on her, because 'laughter is the best medicine'. This causes him to accidentally overhear Alya and Marinette arguing, learning that Marinette used to have a crush on him but has moved on. Plagg tries to convince him to fess up and clear the air, but Adrien refuses, not wanting to deal with the awkwardness of admitting he spied on them. He then proceeds to blame both of them — after all, if Marinette confessed how she felt, or Alya was able to convince her to do so, he wouldn't feel guilty at all over knowing about it.
- Truth & Journalism: Jalil insists that Hawkmoth was secretly Good All Along, and that Ladybug and her allies were the real villains preventing Gabriel and Emelie from ushering in a utopic new world. Chief amongst his 'evidence' is his insistence that Chat Noir was secretly working with Hawkmoth the whole time... something Jalil paints as an undeniably evil act despite simultaneously insisting that Hawkmoth was always secretly heroic. His father tries in vain to get Jalil to think about what he's saying.
- Ignited Spark: Nejire's Constantly Curious personality often leads to her jumping to some outrageous conclusions. For example, during the Entrance Exam, she spots Shoto, who has red and white hair, and wonders if his Quirk is related to something Canadian, like syrup.
- Mastermind: Rise of Anarchy:
- Katsuki refuses to accept that 'useless Deku' has become an S-class criminal, as his entire worldview revolves around the notion that Quirkless people are worthless. To this end, he convinces himself that Deku 'forgot his place' when he stopped actively bullying him.
- Eventually, after he suffers a major fall from grace and gets arrested, Katsuki gets upset by the fact that he doesn't get hauled off to Tartarus, taking it as a personal slight since he's being treated as less dangerous than Deku. This spurs him to decide that he's going to become the #1 villain purely to prove that he's stronger.
- Several of Izuku's classmates in Mean Rabbit make truly mind-breaking leaps in logic to hate him.
- Despite Izuku consistently placing in the middle of the pack during the Quirk Assessment test, Aizawa blatantly fudges the scores and claims he did the worst since he's Quirkless. He then forces Izuku to prove his mettle by pitting him against the five lowest-performing students...and when he wins, gives all five an expulsion scare. Their classmates insist that Izuku should have KNOWN he'd kick them out, and should have accepted his expulsion quietly instead of fighting back.
- During the Battle Trials, Katsuki still uses his gauntlet grenade while sneering that Deku will be fine if he dodges. Izuku does dodge, and pulls the pin on his other gauntlet, causing it to break his arm. Despite the fact that Katsuki was the one trying to use lethal force the whole time, most of their classmates blame Izuku for defending himself.
- When four of the students who went through the expulsion scare find a concussed and bleeding Izuku during the League's assault on the USJ, three of them are perfectly happy to leave him to die, claiming he "did the same thing" by nearly getting them expelled. Despite the fact that Aizawa was the one who put them through that. Jiro later apologizes for this, but continues to insist that Izuku is just so hateable that he deserved it.
- Izuku is determined to prove Aizawa wrong by staying in his class and graduating to be a great hero. When told that doing that won't prove Aizawa wrong, but make him believe he'd been in right in his treatment of Izuku (and other Quirkless students) by claiming his training was the reason for Izuku becoming great, Izuku counters by stating that he'll still prove Aizawa wrong by becoming twice the hero Aizawa is.
- One for All and Eight for the Ninth: As far as Bakugo is concerned, Izuku either hid he had a Quirk to laugh at him behind his back or cheated his way into U.A.
- Think Before You Speak (MHA): Aizawa's excuses for his Malicious Slander Batman Gambit. He argues that Heroics doesn't need someone as self-sacrificing as Izuku. It's pointed out that being willing to put oneself at risk to save others is a valid and necessary aspect of Heroics as well as a major aspect of the UA entrance exam, while the student Aizawa favored demonstrates a pattern of violence and no instinct to help anyone. Aizawa argues Bakugou can change, but denies that Izuku can. When questioned why, he gives as evidence that Izuku hasn't even bothered to learn quirk control in the ten years he's had his strength, whereas every other student had better control. Upon learning how wrong that assumption is, he doubles down on insisting that Izuku isn't fit for UA because he'll need copious resources to learn quirk control... despite the fact that he's at a school designed, in part, for exactly that, and it's pointed out within the story that individuals not given a Heroics Education typically don't get the chance to learn much of quirk control, so Aizawa's argument is basically that Izuku should be deprived of proper training because he needs the training too much. After making this statement, Aizawa goes silent, refusing to back down or respond to any more questions.
- Viridian: The Green Guide: Izuku's terrible self-esteem leads to him using plenty of it to explain away a lot of his positive encounters with others, such as Aizawa being relieved he's still alive after Izuku ran off with serious injuries or Aizawa complimenting his analysis skills. For the former, Izuku just assumes he's terrible at reading expressions and for the latter, he decides Aizawa was lying to make him feel better even though he knows of the man's Brutal Honesty tendencies.
- In Perfection Is Overrated, Hitomi Kirihara, a parody character, engages in this while she has Mai at her mercy through a mind-controlled Natsuki.Hitomi: It should be obvious to you now, if you know who I am, that it would be easier if you just answer my questions.
Mai: If I do, you'll just have Natsuki kill me, then kill herself. Maybe you'll even have her torture me fi- (Natsuki is forced to knee Mai in the leg)
Hitomi: Easier for me. If you cooperate quickly, then I can have a little fun before I put the two of you out of your misery.
Mai: FUN!? You think killing innocent people and forcing others to commit atrocities is fun?
Hitomi: Yes it is. And by putting people under my control, I enable them to throw off all their foolish inhibitions- their pride, their fear of the consequences, their sense of self-preservation, and most of all, their conscience! For those minutes, they can be as free as I am! This power does not only allow me to get what I want, but it allows me to do them a favor as well! Their lives are a small price to pay for that freedom!
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Contraptionology!: Ponies under the sway of convolvement tend to think in... novel ways. For instance, while trying to link Honesty to her Cutie Mark, Applejack reasons that drunk ponies have lowered inhibitions, hence drunk ponies are more truthful than sober ones, hence an absolutely drunk pony is absolutely honest, hence sufficiently high-proof booze is essentially liquid Honesty.
- Equestria: A History Revealed: Used many a times by the Lemony Narrator as the central form of thinking. For example, she concludes that baking is a form of dark magic because she doesn't understand how either one works.The act of baking is still not understood by most scholars (mostly me). It simply defies all reason; it cannot be explained. Do you know what else can't be explained? DARK MAGIC.
Now, what other types of food are baked? Cakes, cookies and PIZZAS. What do pizzas stand for? The combined power of the Elements of Harmony. What does this mean? The magical power brought about with the combined strength of the elements is fueled by dark magic. To put it in laypony's terms, if pizzas are powered by dark magic, then so are the Elements. - RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
- Twilight Sparkle runs on it just a little bit, partly due to having No Social Skills, and just generally being... well, Twilight Sparkle. Trixie admits she's not terribly powerful despite being the Element of Magic? Obviously a test, so naturally if Twilight goes into the Everfree Forest and finds an Ursa Minor, this'll prove something. After things inevitably go wrong, Twilight gets it into her head Trixie's a fraud and that it's her job to find proof of that. Also, she has to go on the run because she mind-controlled a bear and it caused property damage.
- But this is as nothing compared to her schoolmate Moondancer, who believed that Twilight missing her birthday party was clearly a calculated plot to ruin Moondancer's shot at being valedictorian.
- Chiaroscuro:
- Kakashi messes with the Suna nin by eating fresh sushi in front of them. And then claiming he got the fish from "ponds" (mirages) out in the desert. And then claiming he ran faster than the speed of light to catch them.
- Kakashi and Shikamaru arguing about cheating at board games.Shikamaru: That only works if you're five.
Kakashi: Actually, I was born on a leap year, so technically, I'm six.
Shikamaru: No you weren't. You were born on September 15th.
Kakashi: September 15th on a leap year. - Another quote from Kakashi:"There is a limited amount of chaos available in the universe. Therefore, if we create a regular amount of expected chaos, it will deter the unexpected chaos from also joining in, because the space it requires will already be taken up by the chaos we prepared for."
- First Try Series: Sasuke believes that Naruto couldn't possibly have been nominated to graduate early and pass because he wasn't. Because early nomination is political and the teachers told Sasuke they tried to nominate him but don't think he's ready. So the Dead Last has to have dropped out and be faking ninja. Regardless of the fact impersonating a ninja is illegal and Naruto is part of a Genin team.
- When Sasuke does find out that Naruto legitimately graduated early, he believes that Naruto was an Itachi-level genius biding his time in the Academy to get around graduation age-laws and have everyone underestimate him so he could leave them in the dust.
- That Look:
- Sarutobi's reasoning for why he never told Naruto that his fiancée has been sleeping around for years falls into this. Sarutobi says that when Naruto first announced his intent to marry Anko, he was eight and Sarutobi figured it was a childish crush. When Naruto asks why he didn't say anything in the eight years since then, Sarutobi insists that once Naruto became a ninja, he was an adult and it wasn't Sarutobi's place to tell him how to live his life. Because once someone's a legal adult you should never give them advice or even clue them in on a cheating fiance since that'd be telling them how to live their life.
- At one point, Naruto wakes up after a one-night stand with some woman he met in a bar and mentally castigates himself over how she was obviously a good woman who would make a good wife but he "despoiled her" with his lusts. All the while he conveniently ignores that she went to a bar and hooked up with a stranger whom she then took back to her place to have sex with.
- The author himself uses this to create a False Dichotomy. Either you only have sex with the person you love or you sleep around constantly and hate yourself. Every single character in the story that has multiple partners is stated as having slept with dozens of people (at a minimum) and always feeling "cold and empty inside" afterward.
- Evangelion 303: Saburo was Kaworu's boyfriend, but when Rei fell into a coma after a plane crash and Kaworu spent a long time by her bedside, Saburo felt ignored, got jealous and broke up with him. He regretted it afterwards and wanted to get Kaworu back, but Kaworu did not want him back. So Saburo started to lash out at everyone. In one scene he berates Kaworu for taking Rei to a restaurant and going back to (Kaworu's) home late (and when was Kaworu supposed to return to his own home?) and then warns him against wasting his forgiveness. Kaworu accurately points out that there is NOTHING to forgive.Kaworu: Forgiveness? You dumped me in a fit of jealousy fanned by the flames of your own imagination. There never was anything to forgive.
- Crossed Lines: In a Shout-Out to Second Wind, Zoro believes that east is always to the right.
- Second Wind: In Chapter 3, Zoro mixes this with No Sense of Direction, thinking that left is the same as west, and wherever the compass is pointing is where they have to go. Luffy calls him out on it (after realizing the fallaciousness himself)…and he still doesn't get it.
- This Bites!:
- Quite apart from his nonsense of direction, Zoro seems to have this attitude in regard to training, believing that broken bones heal stronger than they were before. Even in One Piece, that remains untrue, and Chopper is simultaneously infuriated and horrified.
- The Bleeding Heart Bounty Hunters' rationale is that since the WG cannot be trusted, Vivi's bounty is fake, and since all pirates are evil, she would never work with them willingly, therefore the Straw Hats kidnapped her.
- In Common Sense, Misty begins to chalk Ash's victories up to dumb luck or cheating, since she's still bitter about having lost to him in the Cerulean Gym, despite the fact she has seen him training the whole time to be ready to fight Team Rocket when they show up. This reaches a climax in Chapter 20, when she finds Ash training with Brock, and assumes it's the latter is helping the former, when it's actually the other way around, and Brock himself says so.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness:
- In Act III chapter 41, Kuyou goes on a rant towards the other students about how he tried to protect and guide them; of course this falls completely flat considering the fact that he ran the Security Committee like a yakuza group, made the other students' lives miserable, killed more than one of them in cold blood, and generally did the exact opposite of protecting and guiding the students.
- In Act VI chapter 15, when the group is confronting Arial over her theft of Mizore's ring, Arial states that, since everyone keeps saying that she's Dark's guardian angel and essential mother, she has a say in who Dark marries and says that Mizore can't marry Dark. When Ruby points out that as Dark's mother, she can't marry Dark either, Arial promptly tells them to think of her as his stepmother with no blood relation, insisting that no matter what, she's the only one good enough for Dark.
- In The Final Sword, the fact that Oda Nobunaga's body was never found after Honnōji is used to justify their survival, ignoring how their body could have been burned to ashes or that bodies go undiscovered all the time.
- The entirety of Prince Heinel Vs The Barney Bunch runs on this, to the point it's actually even easier to write the parts that DON'T run on it, but here is the most egregious part: Heinel manages to cure the world of it's ills using jump-rope.Now it was Heinel’s turn to smirk as he said “you know what they say, if you eat too much syrup, you’re gonna blow up.”“No one says that”“Well I just did” said Heinel before grabbing one of Barney’s DNA strands and yanking it away from the purple dinosaur.“And what are you planning to do with that, huh?” said Barney“This” said Heinel before he began using Barney’s DNA strand to jump rope with.Heinel jumped rope for a whole minute without missing a beat, genuinely impressing Barney in the process. The footwork that Heinel had during this process was unmatched, it was like his feet were made for this.After 3000 jumps, Heinel stopped jumping, and took a bow.An entire audience came out of nowhere and began clapping for Prince Heinel, Barney included. Tears of joy were shed, lives were changed, and red roses began to get tossed at the alien prince as he relished in the attention that the people were giving him.It almost seemed like world peace had been brought by the sheer magnitude of Heinel’s rope jumping. In other parts of the world, treaties were being signed to end wars currently going on, and sex traffickers had gotten the sudden idea to just let their victims go free. DNA jump rope seemed to be the answer to all the world’s problems.
