History WhatAnIdiot / HomeAlone

* In addition to this, just like a year earlier, they have an early flight to catch. Due to an overnight power outage, the alarm clock didn't work, resulting in the families being rushed off their feet as soon as they've been woken up. \\

'''The Result''': Alex sees them doing this twice, eventually leading to him catching them on camera the third time, which leads to him discovering the chip in the car and reporting it.\\ * When the spies try to get into Alex's house, Unger tries the front door, which is barricaded by a homemade electric fence, with a warning sign on it.\\

'''The Result''': Alex sees them doing this twice, eventually leading to him catching them on camera the third time, which leads to him discovering the chip in the car and reporting it.\\
* When the spies try to get into Alex's house, Unger tries the front door, which is barricaded by a homemade electric fence, with a warning sign on it.\\

* In addition to this, just like a year earlier, they have an early flight to catch and, due to an overnight power outage, the alarm clock didn't work.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Pam and Jeff to just simply go back to the house and ring the doorbell to ask about it (as it’s implied they told their relatives that they did exactly this, which would have cleared up the misconceptions.\\

'''Instead''': They don’t. \\

-->-- '''Kevin [=McAllister=]''', ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork''

* At the beginning of the film, Harry is impersonating a police officer to find out which families are going away for the holidays and what they use to indicate that they are gone.\\

'''The Result''': By bad luck, the Murphy kid from across the road is nosing around their van and gets mistaken for Kevin. No one notices him wishing them goodbye and having a nice trip. Heather looks extremely guilty when they land in Paris and Kate notifies them that Kevin was left behind.

** First, the two burglars go to the front door, whose doorknob had been given a hot charcoal lighter by Kevin. Harry is the one who first takes a try with the knob.\\

'''Instead:''' He just stand there and gets hit square in the face.\\

** Harry tries to enter though one part of the house, and for his trouble gets a blowtorch to the head.\\

'''Instead:''' He just stands there screaming for a full five seconds before running out to the snow, causing him to almost burn to death.

* The flight attendant at the gate of the New York flight also deserves a mention. Kevin has followed a man with a similar coat to the one his father's wearing to the wrong gate. The attendant brings Kevin to the plane where they see the man getting ready to sit down on the aisle.\\

* Kevin uses Johnny from ''Angels with Filthy Souls'' to pose as a hotel guest to talk to the hotel employees and cops that are after Kevin.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Mr. and Mrs. [=McCallister=] get the next flight to NYC, leaving everyone else in Miami in the care of Uncle Frank and Aunt Leslie until they're due to fly home.\\

'''Instead''': He gives the phone to Kevin, who wastes the battery on a futile attempt to call his mother.

'''Instead''': Simon wastes precious time calling Finn's parents. To make things worse, his wording makes it sound like he's a criminal who just kidnapped Finn and Alexis.\\

'''Instead''': She does neither, leaving Alex to continue to monitor his streets for the spies.

* Alex sees suspicious activity in his neighborhood and catches one of the spies inside a neighbor's house. He dials 911, but they leave before the police can show up. An officer shows up at Alex's house under the impression that his call was a false alarm. Alex [[CassandraTruth tells the officer that he did see an intruder in the house]]. He then gives a description of the spy, the getaway car and another person of interest walking a dog that doesn't belong to her.\\

'''You'd Then Expect''': The chief to investigate this further, go to the neighbor's house and look for clues. If not, he can radio another officer to do so.\\
'''Instead''': All he does is ask Alex if he saw it happen. Before Alex can try to talk to him again, his mother forces him to apologize to the chief. Fed up, Alex refuses and takes matters into his own hands.

'''You'd Expect''': Alice to notice this and go down the stairs instead.\\

* Alex sees the spies breaking into his neighbors' houses. He dials 911 but they get away before the police can apprehend them. An officer shows up at Alex's house under the impression that his call was a false alarm. Alex [[CassandraTruth tells the officer that he did see suspicious activity in his house]] and gives a description of one of the spies who was in it, the getaway car and another person of interest walking a dog that doesn't belong to her.\\

* The concierge of the Plaza Hotel, the hotel that Kevin booked into, is suspecting Kevin of stealing his father's credit card.\\

* Kevin's traps that he set at Uncle Rob's house also count. For instance, Marv, after finding out the knob to the front door results in him getting hit with staples from a staple gun, kicks the door open. However, there is a giant hole one step ahead the front door.\\

* Before that, Marv tried to get in through the front door and found it locked with a string going through a hole in the door.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Marv to look through the hole to try and see what the string is attached to, after that, he could try and step out of the way when he pulls the string to avoid the trap.\\
'''Instead''': Marv just keeps pulling on the string without looking through the hole to check for a trap. Eventually the trap goes off and Marv gets shot with a staple gun.

'''Instead:''' They check Kevin in under a reservation that doesn't bear his name. Kevin even says "Wow, it worked!" under his breath, the agent doesn't do anything about it.\\