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'''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 ([[BrokenBaseCharacter depending on interpretation]]) all day, right in front of Octavia, sometimes crossing over into [[ParentalSexualitySquick inappropriately sexual terms]].

'''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.
'''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.
'''You'd Expect:''' Stolas would keep Blitzo, the man he had an affair with, well away from her for now.

'''Instead:''' Stolas goes through with it anyway and drags her around the theme park, despite Octavia’s facial and body language showing that she isn’t having fun at all. Stolas does not realize this until the end of the episode.

'''You'd Expect:''' For him to get rid of the doll and throw it away.\\
'''Instead:''' He simply just lets Chris continue playing with it, as if he never got suspicious of the whole thing in the first place.

'''You'd Then Expect:''' For the father/narrator to [[PapaWolf chase down the kidnapper and punish him for his crime himself]].\\

'''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.\\

'''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]]\\
'''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.

* ''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:
** 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.\\

** 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.\\

'''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 [[DisneyDeath apparently Fluffy]] at the hands of said army.]]
** 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.\\

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: There's quite a lot of this going on there.
** [[BadassPreacher Reverend Darren Englund]], one of the school's administrators, has discovered that there is a student on campus who is actually half lust demon and who is also part Great Old One. He decides that this student is a clear danger to humanity, and must be destroyed at all costs before she can harm or kill anyone else (she has to kill to feed, and has accidentally murdered people before getting the hang of her powers).\\
'''You'd Expect''' that he'd do his best to confirm that this student is evil before deciding to kill her.\\
'''Instead''' he decides that anything who happens to be part demon or Great Old One is evil by nature and can never be anything else. If he'd actually did his research, he would have found that the student in question loves life and Earth and doesn't want to destroy or harm anything, she just wants to live and grow- and she respects the opinions and rights of others.
*** Englund forms a plan to take her out: he gets the assistance he needs from the Syndicate, a global organisation of villains. However, he lies to them, telling them that they're hunting a monster his students can't handle, so they need some manpower. It's set to go down on Halloween night, when the students are having a party.\\
'''You'd Expect''' that he'd realise that the jig would very quickly be up, as the student in question would be celebrating with her friends, not walking around outside, and that he'd need to either tell the truth or come up with a decent lie.\\
'''You'd Also Expect''' that as the Syndicate are a giant organisation of ''villains'', Englund would be very careful of betrayals, desertions and so on.\\
'''Instead''' the entire plan gets hijacked by a super villain who was never part of the plan in the first place, who uses it as a way to target specific students, including the one Englund wants dead. After that, it all goes to hell, ending with hundreds of injuries,many traumatized students, one dead teacher and dozens of brutally maimed or killed security guards, a (possibly mortally) wounded SuperVillain, piles and piles of dead Syndicate soldiers, and Englund in the shit with his target alive and well.
** Migraine, a young psychic student, decides that her life is terrible and she wants to make it better. She manages to screw around with the minds of others so she gets to live with some new students who don't know her, and as a result gets some friends who are very protective of her despite the fact that all she does is use them. However, that isn't enough: being somewhat plain, she fixates on the idea of becoming an Exemplar (incredibly attractive super-human), and when one of her 'friends' develops a devise that could do it, she starts forming an elaborate plan that will test the devise and eventually give her a chance to use it herself.\\
'''You'd Expect''' that as the machine is a devise (which are by definition products of mad science and inherently unstable), Migraine would be very, very careful and not take any chances.\\
'''Instead''' she decides to just go all in and bets on everything working out for her. Unfortunately, [[GoneHorriblyRight it doesn't]], and she ends up having a mental breakdown and is transferred to a psych ward.
** Aspiring AlphaBitch Solange, who is secretly an Avatar (that is, has the ability to capture and use the powers of spirits) traps Jade's alter ego Jinn (it's a long story) and uses her to gain her powers, as well as give her additional psychic protection (because the second spirit makes her mind seem 'fuzzy' to telepaths). \\
'''You'd Expect''' that Solange would realize that in effect kidnapping another student would get her into serious trouble, especially as Jinn continues to struggle inside her mind to break free.\\
'''Instead''', she decides to try use the mental protection from this to make a move on the leader of the Alphas, ManipulativeBastard and telepath Don Sebastiano, figuring getting him into bed would give her a leg up in the clique. \\
'''Furthermore''', In order to do this, she first has to get her rival, Hekate, out of town for the week, so she cuts a horrific deal with Thuban: he would arrange for the death of a relative of Hekate's, in exchange for Solange allowing him to have herself possessed so that Montana - whom she had strung along with the promise of sexual favors the previous year, only to turn on him later - could, in effect, rape her. She agrees to this, convinced her new psychic defenses could protect her from the possession.\\
'''Meanwhile''', Jinn continues to drive Solange crazy by possessing her in turn while she sleeps (including making her sign a confession to the kidnapping), slowly convincing her that she didn't need the spirit bond after all.\\
'''In the end''', not only did the protection fail to work against Sebastiano, who used his powers to pluck out her [[ArmoredClosetGay deepest personal secret]] and [[{{Sadist}} use it against her]], when the time came to pay up for Thuban's agreement, Jinn harasses her to the point that she let's go of the spirit bond - only to find that she couldn't retrieve it. She is forced to endure gang-rape while unable to control her body for a full weekend.
** Jobe Wilkins, son of a major SuperVillain and TeenGenius, invents a serum that can turn anyone into his idea of a perfect girlfriend. Because of how it works, the transformation is meant to be irreversible. Unfortunately, in the middle of a lab accident involving a deadly venomous spider, he injects himself with the serum by mistake, and begins to turn into a female Drow. After he fails in his attempts to reverse the effect, he turns to his arch-enemy, Carmilla (the aforementioned half-demon), and tries to make a deal with her to change him back.\\
'''You'd Expect''' that he would go to his friend Nephandus, who has experience with demonic contracts, to arrange the agreement between them.\\
'''Instead''', he decides to use the Internet and his own formidable intelligence to make the deal, and misses it when Carmilla basically 'signs' the document with 'No way in Hell' written upside down. The Demon Queen of Lust completes his transformation into a woman, messes with Jobe's mind to make her attracted to men as well as women, and keeps his penis in a Lucite box on her mantelpiece as souvenir.

'''Instead:''' This.
## After more than a full minute of gibberish guessing, Arin finally decides to spin the wheel and calls L.

## The computer player solves, and both of them lampshade it by asking themselves how they could not get the word.

** Rosalia and her Guild ambushes Kirito and Silica, and she decides to try some "[[HannibalLecture first-year psych-student bullshit]]" on him and his InternetToughGuy 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.\\

--->''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.

* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', 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.]]\\

'''You'd expect:''' He touches the pole.\\

* In the {{LetsPlay/Versus}} sequel for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', LetsPlay/AttackingTucans has reached the finish line before Il Piantissimo. However, it does not qualify as a win until [[ItMakesSenseInContext he touches the pole.]]\\

'''Instead:''' They decide to disguise as two children who are brother and sister. This leads to some awkward stuff later.\\

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 6, Cordovan will not allow Team RWBY, ORNJ or Qrow into Atlas or Mantle because of heightened security caused by two school attacks. The Atlas military does make an exception for Weiss, due to the Schnee's family's influence. Regardless, they need a plan to get the lamp relic under protection.\\
'''You’d Expect:''' Have Weiss go to Atlas with the relic under the guise of seeing her family again, deliver the relic to Ironwood, and ask for permission to get the rest of the team a cleared ride to Atlas. Qrow's ability to turn into a bird could allow him to follow Weiss to Atlas with little suspicion.\\
'''Instead:''' The team commits a federal crime by stealing an airship from the military.\\
'''The Result:''' Cordovin goes haywire and sends a giant mech after the airship, leading to a huge fight between her and the heroes. They only stop after getting notified of an incoming Grimm attack.\\
'''Also:''' The stolen airship causes the team to be arrested immediately when they set foot in Mantle.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
** In Volume 6, Cordovan will not allow Team RWBY, ORNJ or Qrow into Atlas or Mantle because of heightened security caused by two school attacks. The Atlas military does make an exception for Weiss, due to the Schnee's family's influence. Regardless, they need a plan to get the lamp relic under protection.\\

'''Alternatively:''' The team would write a letter to Ironwood and Winter explaining everything and asking for clearance.\\

** In Volume 8, Team RWBY use the Staff of Creation to summon a genie that can help them evacuate the citizens of Atlas and Mantle to a safe spot.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The girls to tell the genie to open up a set of pathways leading to Mistral, Vale, Vacuo, and Menagerie, giving the citizens multiple areas to flee to and not overwhelming the Kingdoms with immigrants.\\
'''Instead:''' Team RWBY insists on having the pathways and portals lead to a single spot in only Vacuo, which could lead to a massive overpopulation problem for the Kingdom.\\
'''Even Worse:'''The citizens and the rest of the team don't even arrive at a populated area in Vacuo like Shade Academy. Instead they're dropped in the middle of the desert, surrounded by sandstorms and hungry Grimm.

* The plot of ''[[LightNovel/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]].\\

** 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.\\

** 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.\\

** 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.\\

'''Or:''' Forgot the mob entirely and try to find other work. He could become a freelance hit man, or, considering how proud he is of his supposed sexual prowess, he could try to find work as a prostitute or porn star.\\

** In Season 2, Episode 3, "Exes and Oohs", 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.\\

'''Instead:''' Crimson buys it and sets up a ForcedMarriage between Chaz and Moxxie, who is already HappilyMarried to Millie.\\

'''You'd expect:''' Stolas would instead Octavia what she and him can do together to brighten up her day, and see what she wants.\\

'''Instead:''' Blitzo and Moxie are stuck in a drooling trance from an outside perspective. The agents just sit there with popcorn and drinks watching them drool without bothering to wake them up for answers.

'''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 from Paimon.\\

* The plot of ''[[LightNovel/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]].\\
'''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.\\
'''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]].\\
'''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".

** ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'': WebVideo/SteamTrain. Danny and Ross arrive at Fort Bridger with just over 100 pounds of food to spare.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For them to put some of their $795 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.\\