History WhatAnIdiot / Survivor

'''The Result:''' Q returns to camp utterly despised by everyone, especially his former allies whom he'd thrown under the bus before, leaving him firmly on the bottom.

* Hunter was left out of the Tevin vote and is known as a challenge threat. At Final 9 he loses immunity, but he has a hidden immunity idol. He catches wind that his name is being thrown around shortly before tribal council.
'''You'd Expect:''' Hunter to keep quiet about his idol and surprise everyone with it at tribal council, keeping himself safe.

* Not playing a Hidden Immunity Idol when you're blatantly in danger. Often, people have been voted out of the game with an idol in their pocket. Even worse is not even bringing it to Tribal Council.

'''You'd Expect:''' With so much time clearly left in the hourglass, he'd suck it up and keep going, and have more faith in Q.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' With so much time clearly left in the hourglass, he'd suck it up and keep going\\

'''Instead:''' In spite of Q pleading with him not too, Jelinsky smashes the hourglass, giving up the challenge and denying his tribe their supplies until after the first challenge.\\

* Bhanu has been warned by possible ally Q, who wants to use him and Tiffany to take Kenzie, who's a dangerous social threat, that he needs to watch what he shares with other people. Later one, he goes on a journey with Liz and Ben, who ask him what life at his tribe is like.\\

'''The Result:''' Bhanu not realizing how dangerous that could be and that he just put massive targets on all three of his tribemates causes Q to decide Bhanu is too dangerous to keep around, leading to Bhanu getting sent home in episode 4.

'''You'd Expect:''' Mitchell to at least lie and accept the offer to try and keep Tina unsuspecting are potentially actually accept since Jerri is closer to Colby and Amber than him. He also has a past vote and could be in danger.\\

'''Instead:''' He decides to win the challenge, and it ended up with C.C. showing off their mansion, a grand piano, and '''two''' brand new cars. The biggest one of all is that she wanted Brian to win the show so that they can go to Fiji. If Brian wasn't such a ManipulativeBastard, he might have easily been voted off due to a '''love letter from home'''.

'''Even Worse:''' Upon returning to camp, he publicly admits this, including that Maria and Tevin get extra votes.\\
'''The Result:''' The rest of the tribe becomes even more wary of him.

'''To No One's Surprise:''' After Tiffany drives one final nail into his coffin by pointing out that giving up his vote to give Tevin and Maria extra ones only helps him and not the rest of his tribe, Jelinsky becomes a unanimous first boot.

'''The Result:''' On top of possibly costing the tribe their supplies, Q ''hates'' quitters and Jelinsky has now poisoned the waters with him, denying himself an ally moving forward.

'''To No One's Surprise:''' After Moriah drives one final nail into his coffin by pointing out that giving up his vote to give Tevin and Maria extra ones only helps him and not the rest of his tribe, Jelinsky becomes a unanimous first boot.

* Within that same episode, Michael ended up lying to Kellyn about him having a Hidden Immunity Idol.\\

* David Jelinsky put in one of the most pathetic performances and is pretty much a textbook example of how not to play the game, with several mistakes throughout the episode.

'''Instead:''' John, considering the idea of targeting Foa-Foa is like playing "Junior Varisty Survivor", floats the idea of voting Monica out, with Erik telling every Foa-Foa member but Hantz to vote Monica, which snowballs into Natalie convincing Laura and Kelly to get rid of an untrustworthy Erik in a 10-2 blindside. Keep in mind in this episode that Brett wanted to vote out a Foa-Foa member while Shambo voted alongside Erik (which she revealed in her time at Ponderosa).\\

'''Instead:''' Erik and John float the idea of voting Monica out, with Erik telling every Foa-Foa member but Hantz to vote Monica, which snowballs into Natalie convincing the Galu women to get rid of Erik in a 10-2 blindside. Keep in mind in this episode that Brett wanted to vote out a Foa-Foa member while Shambo voted alongside Erik (which she revealed in her time at Ponderosa).\\

'''Result:''' At Tribal Council, Hantz stands up, says "I ain’t finished playing just yet", hands the hidden immunity idol that he found earlier this episode to Jeff Probst, and Kelly gets blindsided 4-0. Dave has the audacity to be shocked over this.\\

'''Instead:''' John freaks out over potentially going to rocks and switches his vote to Laura in the re-vote.\\
'''End Result:''' Galu gets systematically picked off one by one while Brett is the last Galu eliminated, as Foa-Foa ultimately shuts them out of the Final Three.

** Jeremy seems to get a reprieve after the immunity challenge, as people are discussing voting off Natalie for blowing the puzzle.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jeremy, who has had a conflict with Natalie in the past, would keep his head down and try to get the vote onto Natalie.\\
'''Instead:''' He blows up on Natalie in public, going after her at every turn and further damaging his already ''very'' unsteady position. This includes refusing to graciously leave a meeting that Natalie wants to hold without him present, which isn't ''entirely'' unreasonable, but there's a better way to do it than that.
** Finally, with his fate more or less sealed, we arrive at Tribal Council.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jeremy would at least take it on the chin and play it cool, and maybe talk at least one person into voting with him. \\
'''Instead:''' He continues to go after Natalie, going as far as to say that if she died right then and there, nobody would attend her funeral. \\
'''As a Result:''' Jeremy gets sent home unanimously, with even Mike voting against him.

* Angelina pulls off a stunt in the finale that has to be seen to be believed. She finds a Hidden Immunity Idol on reward, and because it's now the final five she knows it's the last time that it can be played.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Her to simply play it regardless of whether she gets votes just to show to the jury that she held an idol like some players at this stage have done in the past (notably Boston Rob in ''Redemption Island''). Or failing that, play it on Mike as he's on the chopping block. \\
'''Instead:''' She comes up with this elaborate ploy where she puts herself forward as a decoy boot to make her idol play look more impressive to the jury. Not only that, she makes the effort to make a fake idol for Alison to find. And ''she tells all of this to Mike and Nick''. \\
'''As a Result:''' This stunt loses whatever little morsel of respect the rest of the cast have left for her, and sure enough, Nick takes her to the Final Tribal Council with him as his goat where she gets ''zero'' votes.

* ''Redemption Island'' sees Russell, and by extension, all of Zapatera, getting hit ''hard'' with this trope. To elaborate, this is the first season that he's playing alongside people that had the chance to see him in action; they know exactly what he's all about. One of the first things he does is promise his tribe that he'll be playing a different game this time.\\

'''Instead:''' Dave insists not to worry about that, and the Galu members just go with it and pile their votes on him.\\

'''Even Worse:''' The following episode, Shambo – having enough of ‘fake purple’ Galu – jumps ship to Foa Foa, turning into an even 5-5 playing field. Come that episode’s Tribal Council, with the potential possibility of a rock draw…\\
'''You’d Expect:''' Every Galu member (except Shambo) to stay firm and vote Natalie. At best, a Foa Foa member goes. At worst, a Galu member goes.\\
'''Instead:''' John freaks out over potentially going to rocks and switched his vote to Laura in the re-vote.\\
'''End Result:''' Galu gets systematically picked off one by one while Brett is the last Galu eliminated, as Foa Foa ultimately shuts them out of the Final Tribal Council.