History TooDumbToLive / WesternAnimation

** Darkstar has a moment in the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien episode'' "Couples Retreat". Saying that you want to take another girl as a trophy once you TakeOverTheWorld while within earshot of the girl who ''gave you your powers'' is not the best idea. Especially if the girl who gave you said powers is TrueNeutral at best.

* Rigby in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' tried to eat eggs in order to win a hat, despite the fact that he is highly allergic to eggs. You can guess where that landed him in.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': In one episode, Rocko gets a piece of spinach stuck in between his teeth, which doesn't come out even after brushing and flossing. Finally, he uses a jackhammer and winds up in the hospital.

* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' pulls off some dumb stunts from time to time that put his well-being at great risk. Like eating the [=McFizzles=] even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continue eating the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours which lead to him turning into soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was ''green'' by the way, which caused him to fall under [[EvilTwin Evil Julian]]'s mind control who then forced him to walk off and nearly fall down a cliff.

* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' has the titular character's best friend pull off some dumb stunts from time to time that put his well-being at great risk. Like eating the [=McFizzles=] even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continue eating the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours which lead to him turning into soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was ''green'' by the way, which caused him to fall under [[EvilTwin Evil Julian]]'s mind control who then forced him to walk off and nearly fall down a cliff.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''' Mayor of Townsville. This even gets a LampshadeHanging in an episode where the girls get sick of "saving the day" which as revealed turned out to be mostly mundane tasks like screwing in a lightbulb, at which point they decide to take a vacation. But they can't get a break, having to walk the town through defeating a monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/RabbidsInvasion'': If the Rabbids weren’t NighInvulnerable, their entire species would have quickly died.

** It is amazing how long the eponymous character of has managed to survive, considering how often his idiocy has made things literally blow up in his face.

** Franchise/{{Batman}} of all people has a Too Dumb to Live moment. In "Injustice For All", Luthor and his gang of supervillains brought in to fight the League do so once and escape; unbeknownst to them Batman has stuck a tracer on Luthor. Batman then [[IWorkAlone for some reason]] decides to head straight to the bad guys' new hideout and infiltrate it without calling for backup from the League or anyone else or even telling anyone where he's going. The result? He tries sneaking up on the villains playing cards only to get knocked out with a bag of rocks by Joker. It turns out they found the tracer and had been expecting him the entire time. If it weren't for the BondVillainStupidity of these villains Batman would have easily ended up dead. Doubles as an idiot moment in that Batman had no real reason not to at least tell the rest of the League where the hideout was if nothing else. Though it could be a bit of a subversion -- while there he causes the team to turn on each other and reveals he could have escaped any time. Also the fact this was still early into the Justice League's creation and Batman was still known for preferring to do things on his own. Then, unlike most who have lived through this trope, he actually ''learned'' from this experience. The next time he is walking into a set up he does call for backup.
*** In Batman's defense, Joker wasn't originally part of the group and invited himself after Batman tagged Luthor. None of the other villains had noticed the tracker, but Joker knew to look for one out of his experience in dealing with Batman.

** In one of the revival episodes, Beavis tries to [[CheekCopy photocopy his butt]], only to break the screen and get stuck. [[spoiler: After eventually being freed, Butt-Head suggests he photocopy his butt so they can see the damage done. Beavis immediately does and it gets stuck again.]]

** {{Subverted|Trope}} by Fry. Fry is so dumb that he lacks a certain brain function that even inanimate objects are said to have; ironically, it is the exact lack of this brain function that serves as a [[HandyShortcoming highly effective defense mechanism against extremely dangerous threats]] (i.e. threats that seek to destroy the entire universe) that are capable of reading minds, rendering him entirely invisible and mostly undetectable to them. It often falls to Fry as the only person in the universe who ''can'' save it, because his unique ability to survive against these threats derives directly from his being Too Dumb to Live. However, it's later revealed that he lacks this brain function (delta brain waves) thanks to having sex with the woman who turned out to be his own grandmother, as he so eloquently puts it.

* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' has the titular character's best friend pull off some dumb stunts from time to time that put his well-being at great risk. Like eating the [=McFizzles=] even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continue eating the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours which lead to him turning into soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was green by the way, which led him to fall under [[EvilTwin Evil Julian]]'s mind control who then forced him to walk off and nearly fall down a cliff.

* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' has the titular character's best friend pull of some dumb stunts from time to time that his well-being at great risk. Like eating the [=McFizzles=] even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continue eating the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours which lead to him turning into soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was green by the way, which led him to fall under [[EvilTwin Evil Julian]]'s mind control who then forced him to walk off and fall down a cliff.

* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' has the titular character's best friend pull of some dumb stunts from time to time that his well-being at great risk. Like eating the {{McFizzles}} even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continue eating the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours which lead to him turning into soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was green by the way, which led him to fall under [[EvilTwin Evil Julian's mind control who then forced him to walk off and fall down a cliff.

* Howard Weinerman of ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' has the titular character's best friend pull of some dumb stunts from time to time that his well-being at great risk. Like eating the McFizzles even after seeing that they were what caused the people of the city to turn into zombies, continue eating the soupsicles when there was a warning label of not consuming more than two of them in 24 hours which lead to him turning into soupsicle-addicted monster, and drinking chaos-contaminated water, that was green by the way, which led him to fall under [[EvilDoppelganger Evil Julian's mind control who then forced him to walk off and fall down a cliff.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI8RPO87vSc This]]. That's right, WesternAnimation/MegaMan just took a bullet for ''a statue''. Said statue was that of Abraham Lincoln.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

** In "Bewitched Bunny", Bugs wanders into the story of Literature/HanselAndGretel, where the title kids are found gleefully stuffing their faces with ice cream while sitting in a lidded roasting pan.
** In "Streamlined Greta Green", Junior races a train, crossing the tracks before the train can. Eventually, he runs out of gas and gets hit by the train before he can reach the other side. Immediately after he's fixed (and scolded by his mother for disobeying her), it happens a ''second'' time.

** Franchise/{{Batman}} of all people has a Too Dumb to Live moment. In "Injustice For All", Luthor and his gang of supervillains brought in to fight the League do so once and escape; unbeknownst to them Batman has stuck a tracer on Luthor. Batman then [[IWorkAlone for some reason]] decides to head straight to the bad guys' new hideout and infiltrate it without calling for backup from the League or anyone else or even telling anyone where he's going. The result? He tries sneaking up on the villains playing cards only to get knocked out with a bag of rocks by Joker. It turns out they found the tracer and had been expecting him the entire time. If it weren't for the BondVillainStupidity of these villains Batman would have easily ended up dead. Doubles as a WhatAnIdiot moment in that Batman had no real reason not to at least tell the rest of the League where the hideout was if nothing else. Though it could be a bit of a subversion -- while there he causes the team to turn on each other and reveals he could have escaped any time. Also the fact this was still early into the Justice League's creation and Batman was still known for preferring to do things on his own. Then, unlike most who have lived through this trope, he actually ''learned'' from this experience. The next time he is walking into a set up he does call for backup.

* ComicBook/LoisLane in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. She's put herself in danger multiple times, but at least usually she didn't know how dangerous it was or at least ''tried'' to take some kind of precaution. But in “Target”, she's being targeted for murder. She knows how dangerous her unknown enemy is and she's actually under police protection. During a phone conversation with Clark she suddenly realizes who the attempted murderer is. What does she do? She sneaks off to confront them face to face. While Clark and everyone else still thinks she's under police protection. If it hadn't been for Luthor just happening to call Clark to give him a vital piece of information she would have been dead by the end of the episode.

** [[BadassNormal Darkwing]] tries ''kicking'' [[spoiler:Omni-Man]] when he attacks the Guardians of the Globe. Darkwing’s projectile weapons had already proven at least somewhat effective in the fight, and he should know that kicking a NighInvulnerable FlyingBrick would end poorly for him. [[spoiler:He had just seen his friend Red Rush die]], but as the local ComicBook/{{Batman}} {{Expy}}, he should have kept his cool enough to realize that wouldn’t work.

* Most characters in ‘’WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' make bad decisions at some point, but usually those decisions are at least somewhat understandable. But a few stand out.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'':
** Beavis in the case of an ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' pastiche, in which Beavis evidently turns out to be reasonably normal without Butt-Head's presence. (He finds Butt-Head's description of the real-world Beavis hilarious though.)
--->'''Beavis:''' What's a bunghole?\\
'''Butt-Head:''' [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment You're a bunghole, bunghole]]!

--->'''Octagon:''' [[WhatAnIdiot I did not fully consider that fact]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Finn, Ratso and Crow can be prone to this. Despite being elite enforcers of the Crime Syndicate, the Dark Hand, they can be overconfident, incompetent, and are often crushed in any fight involving the Chan Family. They even get themselves "killed" repeatedly in Season Three after Daolon Wong transforms them into Dark Chi Warriors. After those defeats however, Daolon repeatedly resurrects them. It can be said that they're easily defeated as much as they are in this season so often because they're enslaved to do Daolon Wong's bidding, and are practically disposable.

* They don't call Dum-Dum on ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' that for nothing. In one episode he's in a hot air balloon with a binoculars case and he looks in the case. He says he can't see anything, so Clyde tells him to try taking the binoculars out first. Dum-Dum does that and still looks in the case saying it still doesn't work. Cue Clyde face-palming. (He was certainly the luckiest of the Ant Hill Mob--Penelope kissed him twice for coming through on her behalf.)

* Plenty of characters on ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' have made unwise decisions before, but when one guy gets splashed with some of Rick's fake acid in "The Vat of Acid Episode", he thinks that means he's [[SophisticatedAsHell "impervious to acid".]] So what does he do? He goes on a talk show and gets himself dipped into a real vat of acid-- ''without even bothering to test it first.'' [[NightmareFuel The result is exactly what you'd expect it to be.]]

** ARC trooper Echo is this in the season three episode "Counterattack". He charges right to the shuttle they were supposed to protect, while a Commando Droid fires a turret at him and he takes cover under the shuttle, only to be blown to smithereens, taking away the group's one way ticket out.

** [[GoingForTheBigScoop April O'Neil]] in the 1987 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 TMNT]]'' series. From season 2 onward, Shredder et al. know where she lives. Yet, despite being kidnapped constantly, she never moves.