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• Samurai Jack:
  • Having lured Jack to the graveyard, Aku has successfully snatched his sword thanks to the witch possessing it. With the only weapon that can truly destroy Aku in his hands, Jack is now completely defenseless in his grasp.
    You'd Expect: Considering that Jack, for all his training, is useless against him without the sword, Aku just destroys the sword first, then either kill Jack with his million lethal arsenals or, being the Sadist he is, inflict a Cruel Mercy on him; let him go with the knowledge that he can never destroy Aku now that sword is destroyed and destroy any time portals out there so the samurai will undergo a slow, painful death of old age.
    Alternatively: For Aku to quickly throw the sword away if it cannot be destroyed, be it far away or at another time, to keep it out of Jack's hands before quickly switching to another way to kill him. At least without it, Jack can't kill him. Outside of the gods' intervention, there's no way to retrieve it.
    Instead: He chose to destroy the sword only after he stabs Jack with it to give him a "fitting death at the hands of his own sword." Somehow, the fact that Jack could potentially snatch it back does not cross his mind. Predictably, when Aku decides to stab him with it, it simply doesn't work as it turns out that it cannot harm the innocent in the hands of evil, allowing Jack to take the sword back as it is near him, completely wasting an opportunity to get a decisive victory over Jack and cause Aku's flaming eyebrows to go out.
    Even Worse: In Season 5, he actually manages to recreate this scenario again. Not learning anything from this encounter, he puts the sword on display as a trophy nearby. This time, Aku doesn't survive as Jack was able to get back to the past and finish the job.
  • In the episode "Jack & The Warrior Woman," Jack meets a mysterious green-skinned woman named Ikra.^note Who's really Aku in disguise There is, however, a lot of foreshadowing that shows that Ikra isn't really a good person and that she's actually evil.
    You'd Expect: For Jack to take these hints seriously, considering that he hasn't seen Aku since the day he was thrown into the future.
    Instead: He doesn't. It's not until Ikra destroys the jewel Jack was looking for and reveals herself as Aku does Jack finds out about Ikra's true nature.
  • In episode 9 of season 5, Scaramouche finally informs Aku that Jack lost his sword, unaware of the fact that Jack got it back. Aku wants Scaramouche to verify this by asking the latter if he really did lose the sword.
    You'd Expect: For Scaramouche to give more details to Aku about his last encounter with Jack, and tell him that he didn't have his sword when they last fought.
    Or: For him to not make any bets without any type of proof.
    Instead: "I bet my life on it!" He pays for this moments later.
• The Christmas special Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town: Sombertown's ruler, Burgermeister Meisterburger, trips over a toy duck and breaks his funny bone.
  You'd Expect: He would own up to his own mistake of being too careless to watch where he was going. Or, he would command that people don't leave things lying around in places where people could trip over them.
  Instead: He issues a decree outlawing toys in his town. All because he tripped over one and broke a bone.
  Now You'd Expect: The residents of Sombertown to heed this warning and hide the toys that Kris Kringle brings whenever Burgermeister and his guards are present. Or at least that the adults would make the children do it.
  Instead: Throughout the special, the children play with their toys in the streets and in the presence of Burgermeister and his soldiers! To make matters worse, the adults in the town don't do anything to make the children hide their toys when they are present. Needless to say, Burgermeister becomes increasingly pissed off and makes it harder for Kris to deliver the toys.
• In the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
  • "Howl of the Frighthound", Scooby wound up in a maximum security kennel because the mother of some kid crushing on Velma was trying to break up the gang and fix her son up with the girl he'd built a shrine to build a robot dog designed to frame him.
    You'd expect: Velma to move heaven and earth to clear Scooby's name so that he'd be beholden to her and pretty much let her have her way in the Friend Versus Lover conflict the two of them had wound up in.
    Instead: Not only did she do as little as possible to free the rival she claimed would get out some indefinite time in the future, but she was also so dismissive of Shaggy's concerns for his friend's well-being, she alienated him to the extent that he decided having a girlfriend wasn't for him at this stage in his life.
  • In the first episode of Season 2, "The Night the Clown Cried", Fred tries to get Daphne to rejoin the gang so they can trap the Crybaby Clown who has been terrorizing Crystal Cove. Daphne, however, tells him that she wants nothing more to do with him and his traps since she's now got a boyfriend named Baylor Hotner.
    You'd Expect: Fred to believe what Daphne is saying and find someone else to help them trap Crybaby Clown.
    Instead: He believes that she's faking it and begins to make a trap.
    Result: The plan doesn't work, and the Crybaby Clown escapes after blowing up a Fireworks shop.
  • Baylor also gets this. He reveals he's an actor who kidnapped his "posse" and Daphne as a means to do research for a role.
    You'd Expect: He would realize breaking the law means he won't get his Oscar, especially with so many witnesses.
    Instead: He does a very convoluted plan that involves kidnapping people and taking advantage of Daphne while he's on the rebound.
    The Result: He gets caught, arrested, and slapped by Daphne, who breaks up with him on the spot when Fred unmasks him.
  • In the episode "The Man in the Mirror", Fred realizes that he hasn't actually arrived in the future and that the villains are actually trying to trick him into revealing the location of a magical artifact. He then starts leading the villains on a wild goose chase to delay them and reveal to his friends what's going on.
    You'd Expect: For him to just keep doing that. Nothing was requiring him to ever give up the real location.
    Instead: Near the end, he inexplicably reveals the real location, ultimately allowing them to steal it.
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!:
  • In "A Clue for Scooby-Doo", the second episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Daphne, Fred, and Velma stumble upon what looks like Captain Cutler in a sunken ship.
    • You'd expect: That at least one of them remains outside while one or two of the others take(s) a look at the diving suit.
    • Instead: They all go in, allowing the ghost to lock them in.
  • In "Kooky Space Kook": Shaggy and Scooby lock themselves in an old air force cabin to protect themselves from the alien ghost. Scooby throws the key out the window. But the alien manages to get in by opening the other door from the other side.
    You'd Expect: Shaggy and Scooby to jump out the window and run for their lives.
    Instead: They jump out the window, retrieve the key, jump back into the cabin, and unlock the door so they can get out. The crowner moment is the monster roars in confusion.
• In the first episode of Simba, the Lion King, Simba's father is playing with his daughters, when he sees a gun that was ready to shoot him.
  You'd Expect: Simba's father to leave or do something else. It's a gun, after all.
  Instead: He just calmly stays there and stares at the gun, leading to his own death. If there's anyone responsible for his death (excluding Shere Khan and the hunter, obviously), he is.
• In Season 3, Episode 2 of Skatoony, the second round has ended and the roller coaster, with the contestants and The Earl on it, is headed for a hole in the track. From the ground, Chudd yells to The Earl to mind the hole. One of the contestants who lost the round, Wasp Boy, offers to save everyone.
  You'd Expect: The Earl to let Wasp Boy do his job. It's a life-or-death situation after all.
  Instead: He blows him off, all because he isn't moving on to the third round, and Wasp Boy and Scott are sent flying away.
  The Result: Chudd is forced to overcome his fear of roller coasters and save Earl and the remaining contestants from dying.
• In the first episode of Skylanders Academy, "Skylanders Unite!", the Skylanders' arch-enemy Kaos has gotten his hands on the Book of Skylanders, which is capable of controlling every Skylander and their leader Eon. After Eon tells Kaos that the book cannot be burned after an attempt by Kaos to do it, Kaos instead resorts to freezing it, which it can be.
  You'd Expect: Eon to lie and say that the book is immune to being frozen as well, especially as it can determine his and the Skylanders' lives and he shows himself later on in the series to not be above lying.
  Instead: "Uh... no comment?"
  The Results: Kaos freezes the book and every Skylander at the graduation ceremony along with Eon, almost earning himself a victory if Spyro wasn't there.
• In The Smurfs (1981) episode, "The Smurfette", Gargamel noticed changes in Smurfette, realizing she's not working with him anymore. Therefore, he tricks her into bringing all the Smurfs to lunch.
  You'd Expect: She will realize this is a trap and decided not to follow his orders.
  Instead: She is fooled by this act and does exactly what he said. This not only allows him to catch the titular characters but also leads them to think Smurfette double-crossed them.
  • Earlier on, Smurfette tries to get Greedy to open the dam so that the Smurfs' village will be flooded. When he hesitates, she decided to have another Smurf do her bidding. Greedy, being Greedy, has flipped open the valve to open the floodgates. Suddenly, he begins to close it, out of fear that the village will be flooded.
    You'd Expect: That Smurfette has no choice, but to accept the fact that her plan was foiled. That way, it would lessen the suspicions about her.
    Instead: She struggles with Greedy over the switch, resulting not only in both of them falling to the waters but also in Greedy telling the Smurfs his suspicions about her.
• Solar Opposites:
  • In the pilot, Linda is a bully who gets Yumyulack and Jessie into trouble. Yumyulack, in retaliation, shrinks her and puts her in a tiny-person maze. He and Jessie, however, have a crisis of conscience when seeing a news report on Linda's disappearance. Linda sees this as an opportunity to escape and reason with her captors.
    You'd Expect: Linda would beg for her life and promise not to tell anyone about the kidnapping. Then she can turn around and bust them when she's big enough to run away.
    Instead: She keeps gloating about how she's going to put the kids in prison for kidnapping her.
    The Result: Yumyulack nearly dissolves her in acid on the grounds of He Knows Too Much. He's barely convinced to dumb her down by pouring Diet Coke on her exposed brain.
  • During season 2's "The Rad Awesome Terrific Ray", Terry accidentally turns The Red Goobler's fiancee, Jen, into a rat after mixing up the guns. After which, she goes missing, much to Terry and Korvo's dismay. To make matters worse, The Red Goobler's bachelor party is about to start.
    You'd Expect: For Terry to go to the bachelor party to distract the Goobler and Korvo to look for Rat Jen. Terry's the fun-loving one who's good at distracting people, whilst Korvo is the super serious hard worker and the smarter of the two.
    Instead: They do the exact opposite, Terry looks for Rat Jen, while Korvo goes to the bachelor party.
    The Result: Terry gets distracted by an ice cream truck, and Rat Jen escapes the house.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: In the season 4 finale "Old Friends, New Planets", D'Vana Tendi engages in "Bartering by Combat" against her sister D'Erika in order to win an Orion Battleship to break through a "Trynar Shield" surrounding an entire star system. If Tendi's crew loses, they lose their ship, the Cerritos.
  You'd Expect: Tendi to pick someone on the Cerritos who's competent to participate in the combat ritual; she's not hurting for options between herself, Commander Ransom, heads of security Shaxs and Kayshon... even lead engineer Andothario Billups is well-built and could stand a chance.
  Instead: For her fighter, she chooses Dr. Migleemo, probably the most useless therapist in the Federation, and definitely the most useless crew member. Why? Because the combatant D'Erika chose, B'Eth, has severe allergies to down, and Migleemo is a bird-like alien.
  The Result: Migleemo manages to trigger B'eth's allergies, but that just ends up with her passing out and crushing him, resulting in the Cerritos losing. The only thing preventing the Cerritos from being passed onto Orion control is that Tendi promises her sister that she'll re-join her family's syndicate if they give her the ship.
• Being a Star Wars animated series, Star Wars Rebels has some idiotic moments.
  • In the first season finale, Fire Across the Galaxy, the Inquisitor and Grand Moff Tarkin take Kanan to Mustafar. In orbit, the Inquisitor tries to interrogate him, but can't get anything out of him. A while later, the crew of the Ghost, including Ezra, gets to Mustafar and sends an EMP-laced TIE Fighter into the Star Destroyer that Kanan is being held at so that they could knock out the power and get in undetected. The Inquisitor figures that the EMP is the work of the Ghost crew.
    You'd Think: The Inquisitor would kill Kanan since Ezra and the rest of the Ghost crew came to try to save him. After all, since he wasn't able to get anything out of him, the least he could do is kill him and make the rescue mission fruitless (Similar to when Cad Bane interrogated Bolla Ropal to death in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode, Cargo of Doom, where the rescue mission becomes fruitless because, by the time Anakin and Ahsoka got there, Master Ropal was already dead).
    Instead: He just leaves him in his cell with no guards at the cell. Ezra is able to save Kanan, and eventually, the Inquisitor gets defeated by Kanan in the reactor room, and he ends up committing suicide for failing to stop Kanan.
  • During the Battle of Atollon at the end of Season 3, Grand Admiral Thrawn sets up a blockade to prevent any rebels from escaping, and the key components of the blockade are two Interdictor cruisers that can completely shut down any Hyperspeed Escape.
    You'd Expect: For the other Imperial commanders to follow Thrawn's orders and stay put.
    Instead: One of the Interdictor commanders, Admiral Konstantine, decides to be a Glory Hound and goes after the Rebel carrier driven by Commander Sato. This ends up fitting into Sato's plan, as he then launches a kamikaze run on Konstantine's Interdictor, destroying both ships and opening a hole for Ezra Bridger to escape and get reinforcements.
• Static Shock:
  • "Frozen Out": While doing holiday rounds, Static notices a young homeless girl who can summon ice and causes snowstorms. She calls herself Permafrost and is lashing out due to the trauma of living on the streets and feeling alone. He investigates her and finds her living space, including a photo of her life before she ran away from her step-family. He goes to the church, where the reverend identifies her as one of his congregates, Maureen, and says she needs help because a kid living on the streets can get ill easily, especially in this weather.
    You'd Expect: Static would go back to Maureen's hideout and return the picture since it features her deceased mother. Or that he would track her down and explain that he wants to help her and that he cares because he knows what it's like to lose a mother, as he does later.
    Instead: Static goes on to light an event as part of a holiday ceremony. Even if it was scheduled, he had time.
    Predictably: Maureen crashes the event and angrily demands that Static return the photo, and you can see her point. He has to talk her down after returning it, and only then can he get her to the church and to the concerned reverend, who offers her blankets and shelter for the winter.
  • "Jimmy": Virgil and Richie notice that a kid in their class, Jimmy, is getting bullied while trying to befriend them. It comes to a head when his bully Nick shoves him into a locker, and Jimmy is traumatized by the experience.
    You'd Expect: Virgil and Richie would have gone immediately after and checked on Jimmy, even if Jimmy had scared them by talking about his father's gun. He's their friend and someone in need of assistance.
    Instead: It takes a week for Virgil to go and check on Jimmy after the latter misses school for all those days.
    The Result: Virgil finds out too late that Jimmy planned to steal his father's gun and kill Nick in revenge at the community center. He tells his dad and Jimmy's dad, who is horrified that Jimmy stole the keys to the lockbox. Even though Frieda and Jimmy manage to talk Jimmy down from killing him, Nick's friends tackle Jimmy and cause the gun to misfire, injuring Richie in the leg. Jimmy ends up in juvie, Nick and his friends get suspended, and Richie has to wear a cast for a few weeks. Virgil vows not to repeat his mistakes and helps another kid who is bullied.
• In the Stōked season 1 episode "The Pirate Who Came To Lunch", Emma and Lo have had enough of Kelly bullying them.
  You'd Expect: Lo tells everyone about Kelly, exposing her for everything she's done.
  Instead: She accidentally shows a video of her insulting the Ridgemount family.
  Result: Lo is barred from going to Thailand with her family, and Kelly gets to go instead.
• Strawberry Shortcake: "Pets on Parade" features a moment where the Peculiar Purple Pieman cheats to secure his victory, then claims that Strawberry Shortcake cheated by using her phonograph so he'd win.
  You'd Expect...: That the kids get suspicious as she's a sweet kid who wants to make everyone happy, and the Pieman is a nasty guy whose deeds cause misery.
  Instead...: They believe him and turn on her, which sends her into a Heroic Blue Screen of Death. However, Strawberry snaps out of it when Soufflé the skunk explains that she has to stand up for her own good, just like he did before, and when that happens, the Pieman has his scheme unraveled.
• Sunny Day: In "Band Together", Lacey is determined to win the Friendly Falls Talent Show that she sets out to ruin Sunny's band act. While the girls aren't looking, she and KC hide Doodle's drumkit in an unknown location, and they return to find it missing. Doodle begins to sniff it out.
  You'd Expect: Doodle to notice Lacey and KC behind the coat rack right in front of him, especially the latter, who can easily be noticeable.
  Instead: He doesn't even see them, nor do the girls, thus they look all around to find the drums. When they're nowhere to be found, Sunny makes a new drumkit out of Cindy's pots. They never found out Lacey was the one behind it, letting her off scot-free.
• Superfriends:
  • There's a lot of instances of characters forgetting that they have superpowers. In one particularly egregious example, the Legion of Doom has come up with a device that can transport people into books. Toyman lures Hawkman into following him into "Jack and the Beanstalk", and flees by scaling the beanstalk.
    You'd Expect: Hawkman would remember that not only does he have wings, but flying is his only power, and thus he would use that power to chase and apprehend the villain.
    Instead: Hawkman climbs up the beanstalk after Toyman, and has quite a difficult time of it, from the look of things. You just know that, the whole time, he's thinking, "Boy, if only I didn't have these big weights on my back, I'm sure I could climb a lot faster!"
  • One episode has Lex Luthor manage to travel back in time and negate Green Lantern's origin by getting to the crash site first and taking Abin Sur's ring. He then proceeds to fly back home, demonstrating that he can use the ring.
    You'd Expect: Him to keep the ring on. Aside from the obvious point of how powerful the ring is as a tool to crush the remaining Superfriends, his plan also depends on them not being able to return the ring to Green Lantern, so he should be keeping an eye on it anyway.
    Instead: He takes the ring off the moment he gets back.
• Super Secret Secret Squirrel: So Hot Rodney won the race after Morocco Mole accidentally discards the engine of Secret's race car, as a reward, Secret Squirrel hands the rooster a "victory belt", however, it's actually a dynamite belt Hot Rodney tied Morocco earlier to in the episode.
  You'd expect: That Hot Rodney would recognize the belt.
  Instead: He dons it and rides off into the distance after Secret activates it, getting blown up in the process.
• Sofia the First: In the Pilot Movie "Once Upon a Princess", after Sofia's dance lesson goes wrong thanks to Amber giving her trick shoes, she enlists Cedric's help to give her a spell that would make her a good dancer, but she doesn't know he really gave her a sleeping spell to blackmail her into giving him the amulet.
  You'd expect: For Cedric to wait outside the ballroom while Sofia cast the spell.
  Instead: He stays in the ballroom, and as a result, the spell hits him in return.
• SWAT Kats: the Radical Squadron
  • In "Katastrophe" Mac Mange kidnaps the mayor and Callie, while dressed up as their new chauffeur. Except, he's wearing the mask based on his original face.
    You'd expect Callie would immediately recognize the face of a dangerous criminal, especially since she was the one who signed his life sentence and alert the titular vigilantes immediately.
    Instead She's completely oblivious to him. At least the mayor noticed that it was not his regular driver.
  • In "The Origin of Dr. Viper", the titular character, when he was once Dr. Purvis, has stolen the Viper Mutagen 368 in order to become rich by selling it to the highest bidder. He's surprised by his colleague, Dr. Zyme, arriving because he forgot his reading glasses. He ended up discovering Purvis' plans so Purvis runs to the staircase where he punches Zyme.
    You'd Expect: Zyme should call the police to let them arrest his butt for trying to steal their formula.
    Instead: He trips Purvis by kicking his briefcase at the stairs, and the latter trips over with the formula spilled over him.
    Result: Dr. Viper is born. Way to go, Dr. Zyme.
• Squirrel Boy: In "The Big Haggle Hassle", Andy, his dad (Mr. Johnson), and Rodney are at a fair where Andy sees a ceramic angry clown and wants to buy it for his dad, but he wants to wash his hands first.
  You'd expect: Him to keep his money in his pocket while he washes his hands.
  Instead: He gives his money to Rodney, who is an asshole and not very smart.
  Result: After Andy washes his hands, different things happen that distract him and keep him away longer. Meanwhile, Rodney has spent the money on meat and decides to get a job in order to get the money back. He finds a post as a salesman exactly at the shop that sells the clown. Mr. Johnson comes and Rodney puts a disguise on in order to not be recognized and it works, then Mr. Johnson buys the clown from Rodney.
  You'd expect: Rodney to let things as they are. Andy wanted to buy the clown for his dad, and his dad got it; and by working at this job, he can get Andy's money back, maybe even make more money. Also, if Mr. Johnson bought the clown himself, this means that Andy will no longer spend his money on the clown and Rodney could try to convince the boy to buy something that he likes instead.
  Instead: He remembers that Andy wanted to buy the clown for his dad badly and tries to take it by force from Mr. Johnson, which results in a chase that leads to the shattering of the clown and the destruction of a part of the fair.
• Super Jail: In "Time Police", the titular police is an organization that travels through time and arrests very dangerous criminals before they commit crimes. They arrest Warden because he is about to start his plan of world domination and bring him to trial. After they prove he's guilty, the latter promises he won't enslave the human race if they set him free.
  You'd expect: Them to have a system that gives criminals a chance not to commit the crimes they would've done in the future and that they will let him free. If the accused doesn't keep their promise, they can travel through time to stop them.
  Or: If they want to lock Warden, they are going to make it impossible or as hard as possible for him to escape.
  Instead: They send him to a chaotic dimension where he can wander freely. This wouldn't have been too bad if the time police didn't choose said dimension to practice their songs in a room that isn't even properly locked.
  Result: The warden takes advantage of a moment in which they don't pay attention, steals their time stick, and uses it to return to Superjail and see the damage done. Later he takes the staff and inmates with him and travels to the past back to his trial, which results in a complete disaster for the entire world.

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• Tabaluga:
  • In the Season 3 episode "Do Not Forget To Remember", an amnesiac Tabaluga has managed to drive off Arktos and apologizes to everyone in Greenland for doing the evil snowman's bidding. Then, Shouhou decides to give him his special memory-restoring potion.
    You'd Expect: Happy and Digby to wait to see if Shouhou's memory cure will restore Tabaluga's memory. If it doesn't, then they can try and hit him on the back of the head as they did earlier in the episode.
    Instead: They both sneak off to grab a large hammer so they can hit him in the back of the head while Shouhou is giving him the memory cure.
    As a Result: Tabaluga takes the memory cure, and sure enough, it works in restoring his memory. When he calls out Happy and Digby by name, they both get so overjoyed that they throw the hammer upwards, causing it to land on both of their heads and erase their memories. Good thing Shouhou has plenty of that memory-restoring potion left.
• Teen Titans Go!:
  • In "Caged Tiger", the boys are headed for the bathroom when the Crime Alert goes off. Unknowst to Robin and Cyborg, Beast Boy is suffering from a Potty Emergency.
    You'd Expect: For Beast Boy to speak up about how it's a bad time for the Crime Alert to go off and ask if he can use the bathroom beforehand.
    Instead: Beast Boy keeps quiet about it and decides to have Cyborg turn into a train instead. He only brings it up when it's too late to do anything about it. And worse, they're trapped in an elevator.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In the episode, "The Acme Bowl", during the big game against Perfecto Prep, Babs, Shirley, and Fifi decide to help Buster when he needs three more members on his team. When Babs is passed the ball, the Perfecto Football players charge at her, but stop when she screams about having lost her contact lens.
    You'd Expect: For the Perfectos to realize this is a trick and snatch the ball from Babs so they can try to make another touchdown with it.
    Instead: They decide to help Babs look for her contact lens. While they are distracted, Babs scores a touchdown.
  • The "Night Ghoulery" special has one in the "A Gremlin on a Wing" sketch. Throughout the sketch, The Gremlin is trying to destroy the wing of the airplane that Plucky and the other passengers are on. At one point, he has a huge pile of explosives, but his lighter won't work. Plucky approaches him, carrying the plane's fire hose, and the Gremlin asks him if he has a working lighter.
    You'd Expect: Plucky not to give the Gremlin a working lighter, or to at least try to spray him with the fire hose, thus knocking him off the plane and preventing the explosives from ever being set off.
    Instead: Plucky hands the Gremlin his working lighter, thus letting him set off the explosives, only to realize a minute later what he was doing. He attempts to defuse the explosives with the fire hose only to miss by seconds, resulting in the plane's wing being destroyed.
• Tom and Jerry: In the episode "Buddies Thicker Than Water", Jerry saves Tom from freezing after he had been thrown out of his home by his owner and brings him into the house. They spend some time drinking wine until their owner comes back. Jerry warns him to hurry not to get caught, but she catches him and is ready to throw him out again.
  You'd expect: Tom to let her do it because Jerry most likely would have tried to save him again, considering he has been friendly with Tom in this episode.
  Instead: Tom betrays Jerry and convinces his owner to stay by showing him to her and throwing him out in the cold.
  Then: Tom accidentally falls out of the balcony at the end of the episode and expects Jerry to save him after he had betrayed him.
  As a result: Jerry doesn't.
• Totally Spies!:
  • An episode had a villain break into a lab by carving a hole into the window with the diamond-tipped heel of her shoe. She jumps through the hole and the heel breaks off as she lands on the floor. She notices this and comments on it.
    You'd expect: She'd pick up the broken heel at least so she could still super-glue it back on or something so her shoe wouldn't be ruined.
    Instead: She just leaves it there. When the spies find it they immediately track it to her, and later use it to escape the villain's trap, allowing them to foil her plan with ease.
    Even Worse: The shoes in question were incredibly rare -the episode mentions there were only four pairs in existence. The villain may as well have put a tracker on herself -a halfway decent private eye could handle that case, let alone the expert young women backed by the resources of WOOHP.
  • In "Stark Raving Mad" the Spies know that Sebastian is playing music that brainwashes teens into going on rampages at raves, and they go to the one where he is going to strike next to try and stop him
    You'd expect: Them to bring something to block out the music and protect themselves.
    Instead: They don't do that.
    As a result: They get brainwashed as well.
  • In "The Fugitives", the girls are framed for robbing a bank by evil clones.
    You'd Expect: Jerry and the rest of W.H.O.O.P. to realize this, or at the very least, ask the girls for any alibis and find more security footage to prove their innocence.
    Instead: They're quick to believe they did it, going so far as to put "behavioral modification chips" inside their brains to "reprogram" them.
    As A Result: The trio are forced to flee and left alone to clear their names. They were justifiably pissed when Jerry came back to apologize.

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