History Main / StupidGood

** Dr. Light himself, despite not being the action hero, is also quite gullible and possibly just as stupid as [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles]]. A grand example of this is in ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' where Dr. Wily begs Dr. Light and Mega Man to help him find a cure for the Roboenza virus after his own robots attacked him. Along with Mega Man, Dr. Light agrees to help Dr. Wily while ignoring the fact that Dr. Wily has ALWAYS gone back to his evil ways shortly after being released or broken out of prison (though one could argue that the Roboenza virus was dangerous enough that Light took the risk of trusting Wily, who ''did'' have a cure).

Compare HonorBeforeReason.

This is the kind of person who would attempt to convince [[{{Satan}} the devil himself]] that his evil crusade is wrong and that he and his [[{{God}} good counterpart]] should resolve their differences with a kind word and a handshake. It is difficult, if not impossible to reason with hardened criminals or terrorists of any sort (at least, in most cases, without a credible threat of force that this sort of personality would naturally be unwilling to provide), both in reality and in fantasy. It gets even more ridiculous when one tries negotiating with entities whose goals include the [[EvilEmpire conquest]][=/=][[EarthShatteringKaboom destruction]][=/=][[TakeOverTheWorld domination]] of the world, or [[MadeOfEvil pure manifestations of evil]]. Yet the Stupid Good character attempts to convert the villain to the [[DefeatMeansFriendship side of good]] using ThePowerOfFriendship anyway -- cue everyone complaining when the [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome predictable bloodbath]] ensues.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Brian Goes Back to College", Brian is given the chance to cheat on an exam, but chooses not to and fails the class. He then says that "[[AnAesop at least I failed honorably"]] and "at least I didn't quit". The entire family immediately calls him out on that, saying that he should've just cheated and passed. The whole point of taking the class was to get a college degree that would allow him to be hired for a dream writing job he was otherwise completely qualified for. True, it is morally preferable that he be honest, but it is rather pious of him to swagger like that about failing a class for a degree that was going to be purely superficial.

* Fluttershy from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' seems to have some Stupid Good tendencies. She has a habit of appending "please," "if it's okay with you," and "if you wouldn't mind" to '''every''' request, be it "do me a favor?", or "quit bullying my friends," or "stop destroying my home" (although the last of these [[PolitenessJudo was actually quite effective]]). In part two of the second season premiere, she snuck up on a sleeping Rainbow Dash who had been {{brainwashed}} to be disloyal and hateful to her friends, only to politely wake her and ask if she wouldn't mind sitting still so they could forcibly tie her up and remove the curse, prompting a [[FacePalm facehoof]] from Twilight Sparkle. It's finally addressed directly in the season 4 episode "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies" when it's made clear that sometimes one must be CruelToBeKind.

* Fans have pointed out that ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' tends to act this way sometimes. Frequently, when having to choose between going home and forfeiting his chance to do so in order to save an innocent from death, imprisonment, slavery, or something worse, Jack will choose the latter without hesitation, because well, that's what he does. He never seems to stop to consider that if he were to keep going and take the opportunity, he's succeeded in his goal to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, and save ''everyone'' in this CrapsackWorld, ''including'' said innocents whom he selflessly puts first. Of course, because FailureIsTheOnlyOption (if he ever succeeded, the show would end) this is necessary.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lisa Simpson, so many times:

* Due to his naïveté, Butters from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' can teeter anywhere from mildly oblivious and gullible to TooDumbToLive. This happens especially in "Butters' Very Own Episode".
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' considers ''everyone'' his friend, no matter how many times they tell him to his face that they hate him. The one exception is Plankton, but even then only sometimes.

* In the movie ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', a spaceship is trying to reach the Sun (which is extinguishing) to detonate an uber-nuke into it (don't ask) and reactivate it. After a dramatic incident, it turns out there isn't enough oxygen for the crew to survive and complete the mission. The solution would be to kill one of them, who has gone insane -- with his death, they would spare enough oxygen to complete their task. The female protagonist, Cassie, takes the moral high ground and refuses to give her consent to the killing. Keep in mind that not only it was the sacrifice of one person versus the destruction of '''Earth and of the whole human race on it''', but that they were all going to die ''anyway'' since they had no chance to go back to Earth, whether they completed the mission or not.

* Yuuri from ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'' falls into this category. Even if the series is on the idealistic side, it doesn't change the fact that he forgives EVERYBODY (including traitors) and is willing to give the villains a second chance along with sparing him. It gives his friends a huge headache.

More than a few people have recognized the FridgeLogic in the behavior of the average LawfulStupid character. After all, smiting someone merely because your magic radar told you he was evil seems [[DesignatedHero more sociopathic than heroic to many]]. Someone can be evil without being a threat; maybe they're [[VillainsOutShopping just out shopping]] [[GoKartingWithBowser or playing a friendly game]], or [[AffablyEvil dream of ruling the world, but don't necessarily want to harm anyone]], or are [[TheAtoner working on]] their [[InsistentTerminology good-impairement]] issues as a regular in the local MonstersAnonymous meetings. In order to avoid this, however, some people take things too far to the other side, resulting in AllLovingHero taken to its illogical extreme.

Suffice to say, this isn't really the intended way to play a paladin [[LawfulStupid either]] (though the ''Book of Exalted Deeds'' did provide vows of non-violence for those who wanted to play a [[ActualPacifist pacifist character]]). The ''Book of Exalted Deeds'' didn't provide so much advice for these players (indeed, they left a paladin to choose between "destroying evil and honoring love" when said love was between two AlwaysChaoticEvil [[HornyDevils succubi]]), but they did indicate a good character could ask "How big is that dragon, and does it have any friends?" with an eye towards knowing if they stand a chance at all. Guess Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast thought it was more important to avoid being [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Miko Miyazaki]] than it was to avoid being [[Webcomic/{{Nodwick}} Piffany]].

* Although the page image up top here is of Piffany from ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', she isn't this trope. While she is ThePollyanna, she is also just so BadassAdorable that she can get away with it. Or perhaps she is this trope, but she has such a "reality distortion field" around her that evil creatures in her presence can be forced to behave if they are told she would cry if they didn't. It's stated by The Powers What Is that her IncorruptiblePurePureness level is so high that she [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism slides the world toward idealism]] just by the strength of her happy thoughts.

* Because of his refusal to kill villains, and especially the fact he tries stopping others from killing villains, many readers have accused Franchise/{{Batman}} of falling under this trope. Mainly because whenever he sends villains (especially ComicBook/TheJoker) to jail or Arkham, they always break out and go back to their old ways over and over again while they continue to make Gotham the dangerous place it's always been to live in. And yet Bruce, along with his sidekicks, still can't bring themselves to kill him or at least let someone else do it.
** As a counterargument to this, many others have argued that Gotham's official law enforcement falls under this even more and that dozens of authority figures should be held accountable before even beginning to look at the volunteering vigilante. With Batman, there at least exists the excuse that he doesn't want one vigilante to take the role of JudgeJuryAndExecutioner, and that the whole point of his crusade is to ''support'' law enforcement, not ''supplant'' it. With Gotham's official authorities, however, there exists no excuse why Joker hasn't been shot to death by cops, declared accountable for his actions by a legal psychiatrist, or just plain given the death sentence by a judge yet. Possible corruption isn't even a part of it, as Joker doesn't seem to be wielding any significant clout. During ''No Man's Land'', a storyline where Gotham becomes ravaged by an earthquake and is declared legally lawless and no longer part of the U.S., James Gordon actually has the Joker at gunpoint, ''after the latter killed his wife'', and still chooses to just [[{{Kneecapping}} kneecap]] him rather than finally doing what needs to be done, no laws holding him back in this one instance.

* Subverted in the movie ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' -- after [[ExtremeDormat behaving in an insanely passive way]] for the entire movie, Grace shows that it was a very irrational philosophy that led her to this which included treating everyone else as not responsible for their choices and finally comes to the conclusion that their responsibility as human beings cannot be denied any longer and that arson is a more appropriate reaction than turning the other cheek.

In some settings, however, Stupid Good behavior may actually ''work'' -- though these settings also tend to be so high on the idealistic end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism that they [[TastesLikeDiabetes crap sunshine and puke rainbows]]. The PuritySue also has a tendency to convert any villain -- [[DracoInLeatherPants no matter how loathsome]] -- to the side of Light.

%%* Peter Petrelli ("[[BigBad Adam]] [[GenreBlind is my friend]]. [[WhatAnIdiot I can't let you hurt him."]]) of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E21TheOldManAndTheLisa The Old Man and the Lisa]]", Mr. Burns loses his fortune and befriends Lisa, who encourages him to be more eco-friendly. He somehow warps this into making a gigantic net that dredges the ocean for fish, then grinds them into a slurry, which makes him rich again. Burns offers Lisa a 10% of the profits ($12 million total) as his way of saying thanks, and she tears the check up because it's "[[HonorBeforeReason the right thing to do]]". The idea that she could have donated the money to actual environmentally-friendly charities never seemed to enter her head; she just wrote it off as "blood money" and dismissed it as inherently dirty. On top of that, the sight of Lisa ripping up the check gives Homer [[BeyondTheImpossible simultaneous heart attacks]]. In the hospital, he says that he understands why Lisa did it but adds that they really could have used that "twelve thousand dollars". [[WhatAnIdiot Lisa quietly tells him that]] it was twelve ''million''. Cue another heart attack.

* Wrestling/{{Sting}}'s ridiculously trusting behavior earned him the FanNickname "The Dumbest Man In Pro Wrestling". Just count how many times he's been betrayed by Wrestling/LexLuger... or look at the time he actually joined the Four Horsemen, not even suspecting that the whole thing might be a set-up to destroy him despite having spent the last two years feuding with their leader, Ric Flair. This seemed to change for a while when he adopted the Crow gimmick... and then he turned around and joined up with the Wolfpac the instant they split off from the nWo. Needless to say, they punked his ass out in a few months. Right through to his run in TNA over the last few years, Sting has virtually never had an ally who did not betray him. The most recent of his betrayals came after he made a FaceHeelTurn, joining up with the Main Event Mafia to teach the young wrestlers some respect. They eventually turfed him for not being evil and greedy enough, which, to his credit, he did admit he expected.

* In the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime, Sailor Moon actually offers the BigBad of ''Sailor Moon S'' the MacGuffin she wanted all along to destroy the world because she refuses to sacrifice anyone. The show actually [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges how dangerous this gambit was]] when two of the Sailors, who were less than thrilled with the world coming so close to assured destruction, attacked her after the battles were over as a SecretTestOfCharacter. In ''Sailor Stars'', she does the same thing for that series' BigBad, though by the time she actually has to confront her, it is after the BigBad has killed her entire Sailor Team in combat. It actually works in her universe, but had it been slightly less on the idealistic side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, she would have just pointlessly died and failed to save the world in the process.
* Vash from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' ventures into Stupid Good territory. He's absolutely iron-willed in his conviction [[ThouShaltNotKill to never kill]] ''[[ThouShaltNotKill anyone]]'', even if they're coming at him in droves with guns blazing. However, Vash is a {{deconstruction}} of Stupid Good, seeing as how the series plays Vash's Stupid Good tendencies for drama and shows their realistic consequences. Vash suffers rather heavily to save people without hurting others to the point that when you see his bare chest, it is almost all either scar tissue or metal braces holding it together. He had plenty of opportunities to save many lives by ending a few, but always chose to resolve conflicts peacefully. [[spoiler:Being forced to confront that choice when it concerned people that he knew personally was what finally broke him. Vash was caught in a SadisticChoice by a bad guy between letting his friends die a pointless death from [[PeoplePuppets being killed by innocents that the bad guy was controlling]], or killing the villain but stopping the murders from happening. Eventually, Vash pulls the trigger and kills the bad guy. However, having to do this in spite of the nightmare of circumstances that led to it still haunts Vash for the rest of the series. Even at his lowest point, when faced with an enemy he simply can't defeat, mentioned above, he never gives up his ideals, but he does realize by the end that there are some forces he cannot overcome and he can't be everywhere at once, the last scene of the anime is him basically accepting this fact and moving on to try and live a more reasonable life.]]
* ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' blunders into being Stupid Good a number of times. Some instances it's acceptable, like in the Throne arc when [[spoiler:Kinnikuman Super Phoenix deliberately kills his subordinates who have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness become useless to him]]]]. Other times, like saying Warsman was the "better man" throughout their whole fight in spite of blatant cheating and nearly killing him, are not so acceptable.
* Weed from ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' sticks himself with an extreme [[TechnicalPacifist "killing as a last resort" ideology]], which tend to do him bad more than good due to the CrapsackWorld he's living in. He's willing to sack his own men for [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim not complying to his order]], while the spared villains rarely have a change of heart. Weed's idea, while being praised as a better way of living, is also criticized for being incredibly naive.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. He considers Sasuke his friend and insists on trying to save him when it's blatantly obvious that Sasuke does not want to be saved, and later on snapped and wasted no time JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. When he finally ''does'' get through to Sasuke, it's only after Sasuke has tried to take over the world ([[WellIntentionedExtremist in a misguided attempt to save it]]) and they've beaten each other so badly that [[spoiler:[[AnArmAndALeg they both lost an arm]]]].

* Yuuri from ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'' falls into this category. Even if the series is on the idealistic side, it doesn't change the fact that he forgives EVERYBODY (including traitors) and is willing to give the villains a second chance along with sparing him. It gives his friends a huge headache.

** His opinion of Britannia falls into this. He believes that the wrong means will not lead to anything good... despite the fact that Britannia conquered Japan with those means, and control the Japanese citizens through those means. He thinks that by joining them, he could change it for the better. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that turned out well.]]
* The ''[[{{Unicorn}} kirin]]'' of ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'' are uniformly Stupid Good, but this is an accepted fact in-universe: as the ''kirin'' are supernatural creatures of mercy, it's something that is hardwired in their nature, and one of a ruler's most important challenges is learning when to ignore the advice of his ''kirin'' since a kingdom cannot be ruled on compassion alone.
* Kio Asuno from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge''. The kid already [[OvershadowedByAwesome is rarely able to hold his own]], but his [[TechnicalPacifist sudden pacifistic attitude]] makes things worse. He now more or less cares more about the enemies than his wingmates; his stubbornness causes him problems with his commanders; his ideal doesn't work against ace pilots; he's still beaten senseless at times; finally, it's only DeusExMachina that allows him to have any legitimate high moral ground among Diva's crew.

* In ''Leader of Men'', the Dementors were breeding out of control, and in response, Hermione joined a group called the Peacekeepers which believed that they could be ''negotiated with''. She soundly deplored Harry's resistance group's more successful tactics, even though people were getting themselves Kissed in the attempt to destroy the soul-sucking little fiends. Even after they finally won, Hermione commented that it was pure genocide, which prompted Harry to snap that maybe she should've talked to the Dementors about not killing ''them''.

* In ''Fanfic/TheHavocSideOfTheForce'', after Literature/HarryPotter saves over a hundred slaves from the Hutts, he's absolutely pissed to be outed as such in the middle of the throne room despite his efforts to remain anonymous. Padme insists no one there would sell him out and that she trusts all of them implicitly. Even worse, afterwards, Padme tells Palpatine this but asks him to keep it a secret. Naturally, Palpatine forwards this information to said Hutts, resulting in Harry being attacked before he even arrives at his next destination.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Acceleration}}'', Dean/Gallant's insistence that Taylor should behave more heroically only succeeds in annoying her and later makes her hesitate in striking the killing blow against Lung, allowing him to grow stronger and cause significant collateral damage before she managed to stop him.
* Played with in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone''. A lot of people ''think'' the four are Stupid Good because they won't harm monsters and evil creatures (and actually save them once in a while), but there's a big difference between Stupid Good and [[ActualPacifist Actual Pacifists]], especially since they're the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]] in the world and don't want to be there and can't support genocide on either side. Besides, they're perfectly willing to restrain, knock out, mind control, and otherwise find creative nonlethal solutions to the problem of evil.\\\
Case in point: After learning about a racial trait of the Tayhil -- that the lower orders are genetically obliged to obey Leader Tayhil, even to the point of mindless death -- George immediately realizes that if [[VoluntaryShapeshifting he becomes a Leader Tayhil]], he can command the other Tayhil to do anything he wants. Theoretically, this means that if the good guys focused on capturing and imprisoning the Leaders, all the rest of the Tayhil can ultimately be told not to wage war against humans ever again. But ''no one'' will accept this as a solution, claiming that they've already thought of it and discarded the idea.\\\
Granted, George may be the only person who can easily do this, but he notes that there's so much magic and high tech floating around that there must be other ways of becoming Leader Tayhil, or simulating them.
* In "Fanfic/{{Curse of the Dualshock}}", Chase "used the cursed controller out of Stupidity and trapped the 9 pups in their console, setting off the events of the story".

* In the movie ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', a spaceship is trying to reach the Sun (which is extinguishing) to detonate an uber-nuke into it (don't ask) and reactivate it. After a dramatic incident, it turns out there isn't enough oxygen for the crew to survive and complete the mission. The solution would be to kill one of them, who has gone insane -- with his death, they would spare enough oxygen to complete their task. The female protagonist, Cassie, takes the moral high ground and refuses to give her consent to the killing. Keep in mind that not only it was the sacrifice of one person versus the destruction of '''Earth and of the whole human race on it''', but that they were all going to die ''anyway'' since they had no chance to go back to Earth, whether they completed the mission or not.
* Sometimes, Film/ForrestGump's efforts at ''actively opposing'' evil come off as this trope. For example, when he sees Jenny getting groped while playing folk music at a strip club, Forrest angrily attacks her tormentors -- and ''Jenny herself'' tells him off for spoiling the performance.
* Subverted in the movie ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' -- after behaving in an insanely passive way for the entire movie, Grace shows that it was a very irrational philosophy that led her to this which included treating everyone else as not responsible for their choices and finally comes to the conclusion that their responsibility as human beings cannot be denied any longer and that arson is a more appropriate reaction than turning the other cheek.

* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', [[DumbMuscle Zangief]] is this. Oh so hilariously so. He believes in friendship, loyalty, honor, fighting for freedom and peace, and saving the world, and ''ends up working for the villains'' because he actually believes [[BigBad General M. Bison's]] insane AGodAmI complex and takes his psychotic rants purely at face value. [[spoiler:It takes him all of about a second to [[HeelFaceTurn turn face]] and save the lives of about half the main cast once Deejay spells it out to him that he's an idiot and ''Bison'' is the enemy of freedom and peace, not the A.N.]]

* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' happens because both Doctor Strange and Spider-Man screw up - the former starts doing a memory-erasing spell (to make people forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man) without properly communicate the details of it beforehand, and the later starts remembering people who shouldn't forget and his tampering mucks up the ritual. As a result, five Spider-Man adversaries from other universes show up - three attack Peter on sight, one turns on him when he notices it's not the Spider-Man he knows, and the last one shows animosity as well. Strange wants to simply send everyone back. Peter is revolted that three of the villains are fated to die and opts against returning them to their worlds, even though they were never supposed to be there and are hostile towards him. This sudden burst of morality makes him fight Strange and strand him away so Peter can try to save the villains. And [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it costs him everything]].

* In ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter'', while on the run from the Queen (who wants to throw them in the Bastille), Athos learns that d'Artagnan and Porthos have already been captured. His response is to go to the Queen and ask her to release them, which -- surprise, surprise -- leads to him being imprisoned too. (And that's not even mentioning the times he stops his friends from killing the villain.)

* Played with in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' about the [[KnightInShiningArmour Knights]] [[ThePaladin of the Cross]]:

* Subverted in one of Creator/FredSaberhagen's {{Literature/Berserker}} short stories. Everyone tells the main character he's being stupid by trying to talk with the Berserker that's approaching the planet he lives on because Berserker are giant automated spaceships programmed to destroy all life and you can't argue with the pre-programmed directive of a machine. The Berserker does agree to talk, which is consistent with other stories in which they try to study humans so they can learn how to destroy them more effectively. During the conversation, the Berserker asks the man for a cell sample, which he provides. Eventually, the Berserker says it's going to leave to consider his arguments some more and offers the man a gift, which he accepts. After the Berserker leaves, other people, fearing an obvious TrojanHorse, ask him about the "gift". The last line of the story [[TheEndingChangesEverything provides the twist ending]]: [[spoiler: "I think it's killing off my cancer."]]
* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', Rowley Jefferson is one if not ''the'' nicest character in the stories, but also one of the dumbest.

* In ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''. Liu Bei. Worse yet, he combines it with MoralDissonance (ironically against his own Stupid Good at times) and ValuesDissonance. And he's the ''main'' protagonist for at least the first half of the book, people.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' inherited Paladins, but Second Edition splits them into three, Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic, all of whom are Stupid Good in their own way. For instance, the Liberator is Chaotic Good, and not allowed to threaten people or demand that they change their ways. They must also demand that other people be set free if unjustly imprisoned, and attack those who won't stop being evil. [[Catch22Dilemma Confused yet?]]

* ''Film/ForrestGump''
** Not always in the standard way, though. Sometimes, Forrest's efforts at ''actively opposing'' evil come off as this trope. For example, when he sees Jenny getting groped while playing folk music at a strip club, Forrest angrily attacks her tormentors -- and ''Jenny herself'' tells him off for spoiling the performance.

* Knuckles' main character trait from his debut in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' all the way to ''Sonic Adventure 2'' (at least) was his extreme repeated gullibility concerning who the bad guy was.

* Phineas from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is such an optimist that he has a hard time comprehending that the bad guys aren't his friends.

* Series/{{Charmed}}: Grams becomes this in the episode "Witchstock".

* The ''[[{{Unicorn}} kirin]]'' of ''LightNovel/TheTwelveKingdoms'' are uniformly Stupid Good, but this is an accepted fact in-universe: as the ''kirin'' are supernatural creatures of mercy, it's something that is hardwired in their nature, and one of a ruler's most important challenges is learning when to ignore the advice of his ''kirin'' since a kingdom cannot be ruled on compassion alone.

* Vash from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' ventures into Stupid Good territory. He's absolutely iron-willed in his conviction [[ThouShaltNotKill to not ever kill]] ''[[ThouShaltNotKill anyone]]'', even if they're coming at him in droves with guns blazing. This gets him in extremely uncomfortable circumstances [[spoiler:until he reaches his saturation point when caught in a SadisticChoice, and pulls the trigger]].
** Vash could be argued as a sympathetic {{deconstruction}} of this. He suffers rather heavily to save people without hurting others [[spoiler:to the point that when you see his bare chest, it is almost all either scar tissue or metal braces holding it together]]. He had plenty of opportunities to save many lives by ending a few but always chose to resolve conflicts peacefully. [[spoiler:Being forced to confront that choice when it concerned people that he knew personally was what finally broke him.]]
*** What's more, Vash is one of the few people on the planet who can live up to his ideal that he can save everyone due to his insane skills. He's aware that he is different in this respect, so it's less him being stupidly good and more using his more than adequate gifts to protect everyone. [[spoiler:Even at his lowest point, when faced with an enemy he simply can't defeat, mentioned above, he never gives up his ideals, but he does realize by the end that there are some forces he cannot overcome and he can't be everywhere at once, the last scene of the anime is him basically accepting this fact and moving on to try and live a more reasonable life.]]

This is the kind of person who would attempt to convince [[{{Satan}} the devil himself]] that his evil crusade is wrong and that he and his [[{{God}} good counterpart]] should resolve their differences with a kind word and a handshake. It is difficult, if not impossible to reason with hardened criminals or terrorists of any sort (at least, in most cases, without a credible threat of force that this sort of personality would naturally be unwilling to provide), both in reality and in fantasy. It gets even more ridiculous when one tries negotiating with entities whose goals include the [[EvilEmpire conquest]][=/=][[EarthShatteringKaboom destruction]][=/=][[TakeOverTheWorld domination]] of the world, or [[MadeOfEvil pure manifestations of evil]]. Yet the Stupid Good character attempts to convert the villain to the [[DefeatMeansFriendship side of good]] using ThePowerOfFriendship anyway -- cue everyone complaining when the [[RealityEnsues predictable bloodbath]] ensues.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Hank Hill is such a staunch believer in the GoodOldWays that he frequently falls into this trope.
** In "Ho Yeah!", Hank, Peggy, and Tammy are in a car chase with Alabaster Jones, Tammy's former pimp. Hank's plan for losing him is he waits on a yellow light just long enough so he can be the only one to cross before the light turns red. Hank is genuinely shocked when he sees him speeding through the red light.
-->'''Hank:''' What? He ran a red light! You can't do that!