History Literature / Incompetence

* NeverFoundTheBody: Harry shoots [[spoiler: Klingferm]] [[BoomHeadshot in the head]], but he seems to survive it, despite a large chunk of his brain being splattered against the wall. He manages to escape, though Zuccho is sure that he's in no fit state to make any plans.

* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When arriving at a food police headquarters, Harry jokingly asks a cop having his lunch if he’s about to eat evidence. Even after Harry has explained he was joking four or five time,s the guy is too freaked out at the idea to eat his lunch, becoming so convinced that it is some sort of criminal evidence that he arrests the sandwich maker he got it from, even though he has no clue what he’s arresting him for (and also accidentally handcuffs himself instead of the sandwich guy, and loses the key). Harry predicts that he’ll be commissioner of police by sunset.

* YoureInsane: Harry tells Doctor Rutter this once he's finished talking about his hobby of swapping different body parts around on cadavers. Rutter notes that his own wife told him the same thing, though not because what he's doing is unethical, but [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because she thinks his upcoming plan to swap buttocks around will be a technical nightmare].

* ShesGotLegs: Gina, based on Harry's narration. Harry notes that when he misses their date, they're probably wrapped around some lucky bar stool.

** The main Euronews reporter and anchor covering the death of the French Minister of Interior seem to have a fairly accurate grasp of The German cops BlatantLies and do a good job conveying this to the audience.
** While Gina handles her job in an over-sexed way she's one of the only people we meet whose incompetent in some way who ''realizes'' her incompetence and strives to do better.

** According to the BigBad most of the poisoning victims were competent individuals, being some of Europe’s best and brightest although it’s more of an InformedAttribute.
* PetTheDog: Harry gets several moments showing that he deserves the audiences sympathy, such as bu giving one of his fake [=IDs=] to a man declared legally dead to help him get a fresh start, or advising a fellow prisoner locked up over a technicality on how to get out.

* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Article 13199 of the Pan-European constitution states that no person may be excluded from any employment on the grounds of age, race, creed or incompetence. This leads to people holding jobs that they are entirely unsuitable for, such as airline pilots with vertigo, police officers who are either TooDumbToLive or fall under the RabidCop category and an old man holding a job as a PlayboyBunny.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While the Hotel manager in Rome is still fairly dim, after Harry gives him a taste of his own medicine by having him try to call various building services only for all of her to go to a restaurant employee who can’t redirect calls (which Harry suffered through a lot) he seems to understand Harry’s frustration and gives him a new room.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When arriving at the good cops headquarters, Harry jokingly asks a cop having his lunch if he’s about to eat and evidence. Even after Harry has explained he was joking four or five times the guy is too freaked out at the idea to eat his lunch, becoming so convinced that it is some sort of criminal evidence that he arrests the sandwich maker he got it from, even though he has no clue what he’s arresting him for (and also accidentally handcuffs himself instead of the sandwich guy and loses the key). Harry predicts that he’ll be commissioner of police by sunset.

* WorstAid: Harry fakes a heart attack to try and get a free upgrade to business class on a flight. Unfortunately, the stewards decide to administer "CPU" to him, which involves choking him with his own tie, then beating on his chest several times, winding him. It's only by sheer fluke that Harry comes out of it alive.