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Well, Creator/{{Disney}} prides itself on being the ''happiest'' place on Earth, not the ''[[WhatAnIdiot smartest]]''.

Well, Creator/{{Disney}} prides itself on being the ''happiest'' place on Earth, not the ''smartest''.

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!!Disney Films

* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''.
** When Cruella De Vil wants to make a coat out of dalmatian puppies, she goes to her old friend Anita and her new husband Roger, correctly guessing that both of their dalmatians will have puppies. However, they politely but firmly refuse to sell the puppies, in part because Cruella was extremely rude to them.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Cruella to just move on, and find somewhere else to buy the dalmatian puppies that she needs for her coat.\\
'''Instead: ''' Purely out of [[NotGoodWithRejection anger at Roger and Anita for not selling her their puppies]], she hires two thieves named Horace and Jasper to ''steal'' their puppies. She assumes that no one will give much of a crap about some puppies being stolen.\\
'''As a Result:''' Soon almost the whole country starts hunting for them, and she is forced to hide them out in an old family property while worrying about the police finding them. In the live-action version proper, she actually gets arrested after the police conduct a raid on her house and find the illegal furs she's kept there.
** After Cruella kidnaps the puppies, in the animated film the dogs in London all decide that the police can't help them, because they don't have any leads. They use the Twilight Bark to locate Pongo and Perdita's puppies, and to lead the parents to their puppies. This goes off with minimal hitches, since Pongo and Perdita are a BadassFamily.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That once the puppies are found and reunited with their parents, that some dog on the Twilight Bark would notify Scotland Yard that about one hundred and one puppies are traversing the countryside. This would mean that the dogs have more manpower against Cruella, Horace and Jasper. It would also mean they get a ride home to London sooner rather than later. The police actually do help rescue the puppies and their parents in the live-action film.\\
'''Instead:''' The Great Dane who helps Pongo and Perdita with directions declares that the humans have done all they could and don't consult them, or signal that the missing puppies in the news have been found.\\
'''As a Result:''' Pongo and Perdita have to take the kids through freezing snowstorms, have to hide their tracks for fear of Cruella finding them, and stow away on a truck to return to London. They're also AloneWithThePsycho when Cruella catches up with them.
** In [[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians the live-action remake]], Cruella offers a huge check for the puppies, and calmly says "take it." Anita looks at the check, and seems to actually consider it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Cruella to continue to be calm and friendly, as it looks like Anita just might agree, and not do anything to blow it.\\
'''Instead:''' She eventually loses patience, and roars '''TAKE IT!!!''' (with {{dramatic thunder}} in background). Naturally, this blows any chance of her getting the puppies.
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'':
** Aladdin leaves Abu alone with Carpet on the bank of a lake in the Cave of Wonders, and crosses to retrieve the lamp. Abu attempts to steal a piece of the forbidden treasure, to Carpet's horror.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Carpet to tackle Abu and fly him over the lake or something, since the stakes are too high for that kind of mindless tomfoolery.\\
'''Instead:''' Carpet [[IForgotICouldFly forgets he can fly]] and tries stopping Abu by grasping his tail. Abu slips free and touches the treasure, pissing off the Cave of Wonders.\\
'''As a Result:''' Aladdin, Abu, and Carpet have to rapidly retreat the ensuing tidal wave of lava, and the three come close to dying on multiple occasions.
** When the guards arrest Aladdin on Jafar's orders, Jasmine tries to get him released. The guards refuse, so she confronts Jafar about the arrest and demands that he free Aladdin. Jafar says that the charge was "kidnapping the princess," but Jasmine reveals that she wasn't kidnapped, that she ran away.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jafar to tell Jasmine what he tells her in the Disney California Stage version, that he let Aladdin go, or that he will be let go now that he knows that the "kidnapping the princess" charge is fake. It's the truth, and it means he remains on her good side. She is the princess, after all.\\
'''Instead:''' Jafar counts his chickens before they hatch. He cruelly tells Jasmine that he has already executed Aladdin by beheading, while planning to steal her kingdom with the lamp. Jasmine then tells the sultan what happened after he sees her crying, leading to the sultan reprimanding Jafar and Jasmine promising that when she's queen she'll get rid of Jafar.
** Jafar has promised Aladdin that he will get a reward if he cedes the lamp. He also helped the latter break out of prison for "kidnapping the princess".\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jafar to hold his end of the deal. Aladdin is just a harmless street rat with nothing to lose but with ample StickyFingers, only wanting a way out of prison which he got and some money. Not to mention there's Abu, a monkey that doesn't tolerate his human being threatened.\\
'''Instead:''' Jafar clutches the VillainBall and immediately tries to kill Aladdin when the latter barely escapes the Cave of Wonders. Abu attacks Jafar and steals the lamp surreptitiously, which allows Aladdin to find out about the Genie and become a prince.
** Also, Jafar's plan B is to marry Jasmine by hypnotizing the Sultan. "Prince Ali," Aladdin in disguise, arrives wanting Jasmine's hand as well. "Ali" makes a bad first impression on her by treating her as a "prize to be won," and the Sultan has to tell Ali to leave until she's calmer.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jafar to just let Prince "Abububu" make an ass of himself and become tiger meat, and focus on hypnotizing the Sultan. Even if on the off-chance Ali manages to woo Jasmine, Jafar could change the rules through the Sultan to make her go through an ArrangedMarriage to the vizier- him. All of the chump princes have failed to win Jasmine over, and this one should be no different.\\
'''Instead:''' He has the royal guards attempt to drown the prince while he hypnotizes the Sultan to gain Jasmine's hand. Even without Aladdin having the lamp, it's not exactly a good idea to murder a foreign prince, especially when you have a whole squadron of gossiping guards.\\
'''As a Result:''' Aladdin survives thanks to the Genie and outs Jafar as a traitor. Jafar only notices the lamp by luck, while he becomes a fugitive.
*** While that went on, "Prince Ali" takes Jasmine on a magic carpet ride. They stop to watch a fireworks show. Jasmine is enamored but suspicious since "Ali" resembles the boy that rescued her in the marketplace and was supposedly beheaded. On top of that, he did the same apple trick that he did in his hideout. To test her theory, she says, "It's a shame Abu had to miss this."\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Aladdin to remember that he's in disguise and tell Jasmine he doesn't know what she's talking about.\\
'''Instead:''' He forgets and tells Jasmine that Abu hates fireworks; he and Carpet realize what he said too late when he gets tripped up in his words. Jasmine figures out the disguise and calls out Aladdin on lying to her. It's only at the point that Aladdin is forced to make up a story on how they met in the marketplace.\\
'''Furthermore:''' He and Jasmine are watching fireworks ''in China'' during this scene, which is nowhere near Agrabah. There is nobody within earshot who has any kind of authority to prosecute Aladdin for his deception. He had no reason to continue lying to her.
** Aladdin quietly sneaks into Jafar's throne room while Jasmine is distracting the villain, and is mere inches away from the lamp. Abu pins down Iago and keeps him from screeching, but causes a ruckus. To keep Jafar distracted and to help out Aladdin, Jasmine pulls Jafar into a kiss.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Aladdin to take advantage of this and grab and/or rub the lamp, then wish for the Genie's freedom like he'd promised. Since the Genie is a nice guy, he would likely stick around to help fight Jafar out of gratitude to Aladdin, and there would be no threat of Iago or someone else stealing the lamp and wishing for worse things. Happy endings all around!\\
'''Instead:''' Aladdin freezes up at his girl kissing the villain and ''doesn't'' go for the lamp. When Jafar pulls back from the kiss after about ''five whole seconds'', he sees Aladdin's reflection in Jasmine's tiara. Things get worse, Aladdin has to fight for a tough victory, and then pays for it ''again'' in the sequel.
** In ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' the Oracle tells Aladdin that his father is alive and "trapped" in the world of the forty thieves. Aladdin decides to follow the trail and rescue his dad.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Aladdin to go with the Genie. The Genie is a powerful being who managed to chase off the thieves when they invaded the first wedding ceremony. He also has a strong interest in keeping Aladdin alive, since Genie is the "best man" and Aladdin is his friend.\\
'''Instead:''' Aladdin takes Iago, Abu and Carpet. Abu can pick locks and Carpet can fly, but Iago can only snark. Genie stays behind to cheer up Jasmine and establish a security detail on the second wedding ceremony.\\
'''As a Result:''' Aladdin only gets spared when Kassim argues for Aladdin to "face the Challenge" -- a DuelToTheDeath that Aladdin wins reluctantly with his OrphansPlotTrinket dagger.
** Aladdin finds out that the titular king is his father. Kassim like Aladdin is a lovable thief with standards, who wants to get to know his son again. After he and Kassim talk out their issues, Aladdin invites Kassim to the wedding. Iago points out to Kassim that it would be a prime opportunity to use the Oracle, since everyone will be distracted, and he can confirm the Oracle knows everything.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Kassim wouldn't disrupt the ceremony, or at least he would be open about his intentions since he's been searching for the treasure for a lifetime, and his argument with Aladdin could be that the Hand of Midas could benefit everyone, including the Sultan, Jasmine and his band of thieves so they'd never have to steal again. He'd wait until his son and daughter-in-law tie the knot, and then ask to use the Oracle.\\
'''Instead:''' He and Iago decide to steal the Oracle ''during'' the private ceremony. The Genie immediately tracks him down, which means even without the trap the guards have set that Kassim would have been busted for violating his son's trust.
*** The head guard Razoul also has a major IdiotBall moment. After the first wedding's disruption, he has a great incentive to catch the forty thieves. Saluk, who has survived a great fall and a shark attack, comes to him with information on how to catch the King of Thieves and claim his incentive is to make Agrabah safer. Razoul is suspicious but gets useful information.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He would recognize Saluk as one of the forty thieves that attacked at the wedding and humiliated the Royal Guard, since not many people go around wearing brass claws, and take him into custody. They should then interrogate him more forcefully later. They can work out a plea deal once Kassim is caught, and once the Sultan has time to sentence all the prisoners after the wedding. The other thieves call out Saluk for being a traitor when he goes to see them in prison, so the guards should obviously figure out that Saluk is one of them.\\
'''Instead:''' Razoul trusts Saluk after he learns the "Open Sesame" password wasn't a trick, and the Guard captures all but seven of the thieves. After Saluk reveals that Aladdin's father is the King of Thieves, Razoul lets Saluk go to set a trap for Kassim with the Oracle. This leaves Saluk free to go and turn the remaining seven thieves against Kassim when he returns.
*** Also, Aladdin drops the ball when he doesn't consider that his father desires the Oracle due to wanting the Hand of Midas for years on end. He just wants his dad to visit Agrabah, attend the wedding, and be his father. Genie has to point out that it's not a wise idea to just parade his father, a wanted fugitive who crashed the first wedding, in front of the Sultan and Jasmine.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Aladdin would remain suspicious and tell the Sultan what he found out: that his father is the King of Thieves, but that Aladdin is watching him strictly to make sure that he doesn't repeat any of his criminal behavior. The Sultan can have a few guards and the Genie around as BetrayalInsurance so that nothing goes wrong. Aladdin knows that you can change someone's clothes, but you can't change who they are; he can speak from experience from having posed as a prince.\\
'''Instead:''' Aladdin follows the Genie's lead of acting like his father is just his father, and ''not'' Agrabah's most wanted. The Genie changes Kassim's clothes so he looks like a trader, and his story that he was a prisoner of the Forty Thieves. Aladdin immediately believes his father has changed on seeing him get along with the Sultan and Jasmine and takes no precautions to watch his father. He ends up betrayed and heartbroken on seeing Kassim tried to steal the Oracle again, deciding to end his relationship with his father after freeing him from prison. Kassim then steals the Oracle anyway after Aladdin breaks him out, claiming IDidWhatIHadToDo and Aladdin tells him he had a choice to not do it.
* In ''Disney/TheAristocats'', the plot kicks off when the butler Edgar overhears his Madame making out her will. To his dismay, he finds that she's leaving her fortune to her cats before he can inherit. Edgar firmly believes that cats have nine lives and thus he will outlive all of the cats.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Edgar to realize that this gives him her fortune by default. As the cats' caretaker till the end of their lives, he'd double as their guardian and thus would have access to Madame's millions.\\
'''Instead:''' Edgar decides he'll get rid of the cats to inherit the fortune, by drugging them and ditching them in the French countryside, and he makes several mistakes. First, he fails to make an alibi for himself, although Madame and the cats trust him too much to suspect wrongdoing. Second, he leaves a lot of evidence in the countryside, which he has to retrieve the next night and does so with great labor. Third, when the cats return he has the bright idea of mailing them off to Timbuktu so that they can't return after Madame nearly hears them meowing.\\
'''As a Result:''' This waste of effort, combined with the efforts of the alley cats that Duchess and her kittens befriend, leads to Edgar being mailed off to Timbuktu after a HumiliationConga and stricken from the will because Madame believes he ran away.
** After they encounter a tomcat, Thomas O'Malley offers to help the family return to Paris. He hitches them as stowaways on a milk truck, by scaring the bejeebers out of the driver.\\
'''You'd Expect''': He would make sure the kittens and cats stay out of sight until the milkman reaches Paris. Otherwise they have to walk the rest of the way.\\
'''Instead''': Thomas suffers NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished. He opens a milk can for the kittens so they can get breakfast. The milkman sees through the rear-view window, slams the brakes, and shoos the "tramps" out. The cats then find themselves walking the rest of the time.
** The cats return home from the countryside but the kittens discover the pet door is locked. They try meowing to get Madame's attention only to be interrupted by Roquefort who warns them about Edgar.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The kittens to trust Roquefort and get away from the mansion before Edgar catches them.\\
'''Instead:''' They can't hear him through the glass window and interpret Roquefort's jumping around as excitement out of seeing them back. They continue to meow until Edgar opens the door and puts them in a sack.
* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'':
** [[BigBad Commander Rourke]] and his [[TheDragon lieutenant Helga]] are trying to prevent Milo and his Atlantean forces from rescuing Princess Kida, while also trying to lighten their balloon enough to escape. Helga throws the last heavy barrel overboard and says, [[TemptingFate "That's it, unless someone wants to jump."]]\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Rourke to not betray the one high-ranking soldier still loyal to him [[HeelFaceTurn after all the rest teamed up with Milo against him.]]\\
'''Instead:''' He ''immediately'' [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness tosses Helga overboard,]] mockingly telling her that it's [[NothingPersonal "nothing personal."]]\\
'''The Result:''' Unbeknownst to Rourke, Helga actually ''survives'' the fall (though mortally wounded) and shoots down Rourke's airship with a flare, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain pretty much undoing his whole plan in one fell swoop.]] [[IronicEcho "Nothing personal," indeed.]]
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'':
** The unnamed Enchantress is bullied by a young prince, and decides to use her magical power to force him to reform his character.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That she'd give him a humbling punishment, not one bound to make him even more antisocial than before.\\
'''Instead:''' She transforms him into an inhuman monster who the nearby townspeople would kill on sight, forcing him to stay in his castle and do nothing but brood on his spite and misery. Exactly how is that intended to make him ''atone''? Even if he felt genuine contrition for his actions, there's no way he could rejoin society.
** Belle knows Gaston is a complete creep, or at least suspects it from the way he talks about her dad, treats her books, etc. When Belle's father leaves town for the fair, Gaston shows up at her house wanting to propose.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Belle to lock the door and barricade herself in the house after checking the peephole and seeing Gaston. And if you think that would spoil the rest of the story, she could always do her running-and-singing-on-the-hillside thing later after he gave up and left.\\
'''Instead:''' She ''lets Gaston in'' and engages him in conversation, up to the point that he tries to pin her against the door and forcibly kiss her. Good thing she was in a position to grab the doorknob, or else that could've ended badly.
** Also, after Belle makes the bargain to stay in her father's place, the Beast forces his sentient carriage to escort Maurice back to the village. Maurice storms into a tavern where Gaston is receiving a PepTalkSong, begging for help since his daughter was kidnapped by a Beast.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Gaston has just been moaning about how Belle has humiliated him by turning him down. It would earn brownie points if he helped her father, "crazy old Maurice" during a search party. Maurice is also claiming that ''Belle is missing'', which is actually serious since you can't marry a missing person.\\
'''Instead:''' We know it's not the beer since Gaston is still able to think, so that's not an excuse. Gaston "helps" Maurice by tossing him in the snow, and hatches a scheme with the asylum owner to lock up Maurice unless Belle agrees to marry Gaston. This backfires because, again, ''Belle is missing,'' and it takes a while for her and Maurice to return home. Gaston still doesn't get the memo and makes [=LeFou=] stand watch until the pair reappear, which could have taken months. When threatened, Belle refuses because she just went through that with the Beast who at least had the decency to escort Maurice to the village, and just received her freedom back. Then she proves her father isn't crazy by revealing the Beast's existence. Sure, Gaston turns it around with the villagers, but he forfeited any chance of winning Belle over.
** The Beast tells Belle that she is allowed to go anywhere in the castle except for the west wing. He raises his voice at the last part for emphasis.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Belle to follow this order. She already knows he is incredibly emotionally fragile at this point and quite vicious when upset, so it's in her best interest to ensure he doesn't lose his cool.\\
'''Instead:''' Her curiosity gets the better of her and she goes to ''the one area she was explicitly told not to go to.'' After uncovering and almost ruining the rose, the Beast catches sight of her with predictable results.
** Gaston in a fit of jealous rage realizes that Belle has feelings for a random Beast. He decides to steal her magic mirror and raise an angry mob to StormTheCastle and kill this Beast . . . [[DidntThinkThisThrough so that he can win Belle over by mounting the Beast's head on his wall]]? The castle residents fortunately get enough warning due to the mob being so loud and shouting, "KILL THE BEAST!" They manage to raise a successful defense even with their master in HeroicBSOD.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That one of the servants would stay with the Beast as every other castle object attacks. Mrs. Potts comes to warn him about the invaders. He's NotHimself and not willing to fight, possibly welcoming Death. Also, a mob wants his head on a platter, and the castle must protect the master.\\
'''Instead''': No one stays with the Beast, so that he's alone when Gaston pierces through the castle's defenses to get to the Beast in the West Wing. This means he nearly gets killed, and would have died if he hadn't seen Belle return.
** Gaston has found the Beast looking forlornly out a balcony window. The Beast isn't even putting up a fight. He just resumes staring out the window. Gaston is determined to kill the Beast.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Gaston to use his rifle to get a BoomHeadshot. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is that he's a crackshot, and this is a giant Beast that is twice his height and at least three times as heavy. Now is not the time to give your target an inch.\\
'''Instead''': Gaston uses a bow and arrow to shoot the Beast in the shoulder. Then he kicks the Beast out onto the balcony and starts taunting him about being "too kind and gentle" to actually fight back. Belle then shows up, which gives Beast a HeroicSecondWind. Gaston would have died if not for the Beast's mercy.
** Despite the fact that Gaston attempts to kill the Beast for petty reasons and is about to fall off to his death, Beast saves Gaston and is given the chance to leave.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Since he is completely overwhelmed by the Beast and that Belle shows no interest in him in favor of the former, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm he just cut his losses]], rally any survivors from the castle, and get the hell out. Afterwards he either moves on with his life after realizing that he has no chance with Belle or try and study the Beast and attempt another attack, this time with perhaps more manpower.\\
'''Or:''' He'd pretend to get up and when they let their guard down he would take Belle hostage, granted it's definitely an [[DirtyCoward all-time low]] coming from him but knowing full well that the Beast would never hurt her, he could easily ransom the Beast into doing whatever he wanted.\\
'''Instead:''' He proceed to backstab the beast ''[[UngratefulBastard right after he saved his life]]'' knowing full well that he just got overwhelmed recently.\\
'''As a Result:''' The Beast throws Gaston off again, this time right off the balcony into a bunch of spikes.
** In the midquel, ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'', we are introduced to [[BigBad Forte]], a conductor with previously terrible skills who became more useful after the Enchantress's...well, enchantment turned him into a pipe organ. Because of this, unlike the other servants of the castle who want to become [[WaxingLyrical human again]], Forte much prefers his new role as advisor and doesn't want to turn back, lest he become useless again. Due to being a heavy piece of musical equipment that's [[MemeticMutation BOLTED TO THE WALL]], he can't move about freely, but his music can also move objects nearby and literally bring the house down. His fate is in jeopardy when Belle, who will inevitably break the Beast's spell, comes into his life.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Forte to wait until the Beast is out of the castle and use his powers to cause an earthquake, concentrating it all on Belle's location and making her fall to her death. He could easily MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, since the Beast trusts him so much, and he'd find no one else left to love him, leaving the castle enchanted forever.\\
'''Instead:''' He blackmails his MinionWithAnFInEvil Fife into sabotaging Belle's time with the Beast and sewing distrust, a short-term solution to a long-term problem.\\
'''Also, You'd Expect:''' If Forte was going to go through with this, he'd make sure Belle ''and'' the Beast started to hate each other. They ''both'' need to truly love one another for the curse to break.\\
'''Instead:''' All of his efforts are put on making the Beast not love her, but Belle is simply led astray one time.\\
'''As a Result:''' By the time Forte ''does'' resort to the earthquake method (with the intent of [[IfICantHaveYou killing them both]]), Belle and the Beast have patched things up and the latter saves the day by ripping his keys out, causing him to become unbolted and fall face first on the floor.
* ''Disney/BigHero6'':
** At the Student Expo, Hiro wows everyone with his microbots, including CEO Krei. When Krei makes an offer to buy Hiro's bots and hire him, Professor Callaghan steps in and accuses Krei of being a CorruptCorporateExecutive who cuts corners with science.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Krei would offer more than money to Hiro, like offer to cover his tuition for the best university possible and learn there or funding microbots for a huge community service project. And if Hiro doesn't accept the offer then, wait for a few months and keep trying to recruit. In addition, Krei should, being who he is, hire lawyers to defend himself against Callaghan's accusations since [[spoiler: later on, according to the video footage Hiro and the others find, we only have Callaghan's word that the transporter was tested too early]]. He has a reputation to uphold, after all.\\
'''Instead:''' He only repeats his offer and says that he and Callaghan agree to disagree, and later on doesn't follow up with Hiro when the latter doesn't register at the "nerd school", who then considers him [[spoiler: responsible for Tadashi's death as a potential identity of Yokai]]. He also doesn't help his case by apparently trying to walk off with one of Hiro's microbots (though he may have been shaken by Callaghan's accusations and genuinely forgot he had it, in which case he should have apologized).
** After Hiro's success at the Student Expo, the brothers hang out on campus, up until they see a fire in the building that breaks out. Tadashi is worried when someone says Callaghan is inside.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Tadashi to just wait outside and let the fire department handle it. Given San Fransokyo is in the United States, where fire safety is taught ''everywhere'', it's important that civilians never try and mount a rescue.\\
'''Instead:''' Tadashi runs into the fire to save Professor Callaghan. He dies, leaving Hiro, Cass, and his friends bereft. And as it turns out later, [[spoiler: Callaghan faked his death. As Callaghan himself put it, "that was HIS mistake!"]]
** Hiro and the gang are currently pursued by the vengeful Yokai who is out for their blood with Wasabi driving the car.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Wasabi to forget about any safety procedures of driving and steer away as fast as possible. No time think about the rules when you are currently chased by a supervillain.\\
'''Instead:''' He apparently obeys the rule of safety driving by stopping at a red light and using pointers ''[[LawfulStupid even when being pursued by a vengeful supervillain trying to murder them]]''. Had [=GoGo=] not decided to intervene and do some crazy driving to successfully escape from Yokai, he would have led to the suffocation of the entire gang by his lawful stupidity.
** After a long chase, [=GoGo=] has drove the car right into the bottom of the ocean and Yokai has seemingly lost sight of them.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He would wait and make sure that the kids are either dead or have managed to float to the surface. Regardless of whether they die or not, their bodies would eventually float right to the surface so he can get a clear confirmation as to what happened to them. If they surfaced while still alive and within his sight, well let's just say that the Big Hero 6 squad would not have been formed in the first place.\\
'''Instead:''' He just assumed that they all died and pretty much just gives up chase.\\
'''As a Result:''' This allows the kids to recuperate in Fred's mansion, forming a team of superheroes, and ultimately cases Yokai's downfall in the end.
** After unmasking [[spoiler: Callaghan]], Hiro and his teammates are in denial. Hiro in particular calls out [[spoiler: Callaghan]] for letting Tadashi die, and for trying to kill them at different points in the movie. At this point they've unmasked and depowered the villain.\\
'''You'd think:''' [[spoiler: Callaghan]] would KnowWhenToFoldEm and try not to anger a grieving Hiro while surrendering. He's seen Hiro as a potential bot fighter, and a kid who hasn't shown up to classes, and given he tried to kill the latter AND his former students, doesn't have much of a defense. Also, need anyone mention the robot that knows karate?\\
'''Instead:''' He's BrutallyHonest in saying that [[spoiler: Tadashi's death was the latter's mistake and that he wasn't responsible]]. Hiro, who in his EstablishingCharacterMoment crushed an opponent's robot to bits, [[spoiler: takes away Baymax's healthcare chip]] which turns the latter into a killing machine. [[spoiler: Callaghan]] barely escapes with his life, only because the others operate on ThouShaltNotKill.
* ''Disney/ChickenLittle''
** A year prior to the movie's events, Chicken Little causes mass panic when he rings the bell and claims that [[MistakenForApocalypse the sky is falling]], resulting in him becoming a town pariah. The claim in particular was that a giant piece of the sky shaped like a stop sign hit him on the head from above. It also caused him to become less close with his dad, Buck, who personally sees him as an embarrassment. After winning a big baseball game, he finally receives the town's, and his father's respect. That night, however, the very same "piece of the sky" falls on Chicken Little's head like before. The kicker is that it's a broken piece of an alien spaceship with cloaking technology, though he doesn't know about the "alien" part just yet.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Chicken Little to ''tell Buck about the piece.'' Now that it's in his possession, he can show it to him and finally prove that he wasn't crazy in the slightest.\\
'''Instead:''' He hides it from Buck and tells his RagtagBunchOfMisfits about the piece first. Abby even calls him out on this.
** The aliens are shown to speak English near the end of the movie, implying they know more than one language. This brings us to a point shortly after the above where two alien parents end up missing their child, Kirby.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For them, upon noticing their young is missing and there are four trespassers on the ship, to opt to speak English to the group and try to ask them where he is. Especially considering they saw their [[spoiler:acorn map]] and mistook it for a list of planets conquered, so they ''could'' use a bit more convincing that they're not evil.\\
'''Instead:''' They speak in their own alien language, scaring the kids and escalating to a full-scale invasion to try and rescue their son. They don't even speak English ''during'' the invasion, causing even more of a commotion.
** After Chicken Little rings the bell tower again to warn of the alien threat, they end up fleeing due to the bell hurting their heads. They make it to where the spaceship is, only for it to have already disappeared. Everyone barely misses it, with Chicken Little's friends sticking up for him and Buck in the crowd of people.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Buck to realize Chicken Little has a very good reason for ruining his own improved reputation and attempt to believe him this time.\\
'''Instead:''' He doesn't, leading to more tension between father and son.
* ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'':
** On the day after the ball, Cinderella finds out that she still has a chance with the prince because the grand duke will travel around the town to find the girl who fits the glass slipper.\\
Sadly, Cinderella picks up the Idiot Ball in the climax, when the Grand Duke is coming. She, of course, was the mysterious girl that the prince danced and fell in love with, and is the owner of the glass slipper they are bringing. At this point, the stepfamily is rushing to get ready for the Duke's arrival and shoe-fitting, and don't know about Cinderella being at the ball, having torn up the original dress she was going to wear. Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters, as usual, charge Cinderella with cleaning up and doing chores.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Cinderella to go about her chores like any other day and keep a low profile, knowing that only she can fit the slipper, and, having dealt with the Tremaines most of her life, also knowing that they will be hell-bent on stopping her from getting out from under their feet, and will take action if something even seems remotely off about her.\\
'''Instead:''' Upon hearing that the Duke is coming with the other slipper, Cinderella immediately zones out, drops a tray full of tea, and then hands the stepsisters' laundry back to them and softly dances back upstairs to get ready for her new life, singing "So This Is Love."\\
'''As a Result:''' It only takes 3 seconds of musing for Lady Tremaine to realize that Cinderella was the mystery girl at the ball, and wicked as ever, she follows her upstairs and locks her in her room, forcing the mice to retrieve the key in the film's climax.
** In ''Disney/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', when Cinderella is confused about the slipper supposedly fitting Anastasia...\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Cinderella to calm down, keep her mouth closed, and to keep the other slipper away from her evil stepmother's sight, and sneak to the palace with the evidence while the stepmother isn't looking.\\
'''Instead:''' ''Cinderella panics and shows the other glass slipper to her evil stepmother!!'' \\
'''As a Result:''' The stepmother snatches the other glass slipper from Cinderella and drops it, causing it to break.
* ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}''
** The circus is coming to town, with a mother elephant and her baby in tow. Mrs. Jumbo adores her little charge, Jumbo Jr., aka "Dumbo" as her fellow elephants cruelly nickname her baby. Every other elephant and human makes fun of Dumbo because his ears are unusually large. Dumbo for his part is just a baby and doesn't understand the cruelty aimed towards him, though his mother does.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The circus to know that any animal, no matter how domesticated, will react violently if their baby is threatened. Thus, Mrs. Jumbo and Dumbo should either be kept away from the public eye, or, if put on display, heavily guarded.\\
'''Instead''': TheGuardsMustBeCrazy comes into full effect. The circus puts its show animals on display for the local kids to see. One {{Jerkass}} kid is TooDumbToLive, sneaks under the flimsy safety rope, and grabs Dumbo by the ears twice to mock them.\\
'''The Result''': Any of the animal mothers would have been angry on seeing this, as would any of the normal animals like the tigers. Mrs. Jumbo gets ''furious''; she spanks the boy that grabbed her baby, and she goes on a MamaBear rampage. The ringmaster orders her locked up in solitary, leaving Dumbo parentless.
** Following this, the Ringmaster wants to do a circus act with the other elephants forming a pyramid. Timothy Mouse, Dumbo's new ally, plants the idea in the Ringmaster's head while the latter is sleeping, to have Dumbo jump to the top of the pyramid and form the climax. The idea is to make Dumbo so famous that they'll release his mother.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Ringmaster would have done at least one tech rehearsal to make sure that everyone, animal and human alike, could do their job.\\
'''Instead''': They just perform the act without rehearsing.\\
'''The Result''': Technical difficulties ensue. Dumbo keeps tripping up over his large ears when he runs, and he needs to run to reach the platform. Timothy in the time crunch ties up Dumbo's ears, but the knot comes loose and Dumbo misses his cue. In the chaos, the entire circus tent comes down, all the elephants get badly injured, and Dumbo is made a clown.
* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove''
** Emperor Kuzco has just "fired" his advisor, Yzma, for ruling the country behind his back. She is still allowed to stay in the palace. Yzma, after taking her frustration out on Kuzco statue heads, decides to assassinate the heir, which would leave her as the sole ruler. In her secret lab, she decides to simply poison him over a private dinner. Her bodyguard and lab assistant Kronk is DumbMuscle.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Yzma would let Kronk simply prepare the dinner since he's a good cook, and that she would surreptitiously slip the poison into his drink.\\
'''Instead:''' Yzma lets Kronk bring the poison. While Kronk manages to successfully spike Kuzco's drink, they realize too late that it was a transformation potion that turns the emperor into a llama.
** Following this, Yzma has to get the emperor out of the picture, and fast. He's still alive, but is an unconscious llama\\
'''You'd Expect:''' She would smother him, force-feed him poison, anything to do the dirty work herself, and then get rid of the body.\\
'''Instead:''' She agrees to have dessert and a quick cup of coffee before sending Kronk to "finish the job". Kronk has a crisis of conscience and can't go through with it, and ends up accidentally losing Kuzco's form to a random peasant. Yzma realizes that she and Kronk have to find the llama before the emperor returns to hurt her claim to the throne.
** In the climax, by some miracle, Yzma and Kronk beat Kuzco and Pacha to the secret lab and have pocketed the potion that would change him back to a human. Neither llama or peasant are in a state to fight, and Kuzco is bereft that his foster mother plotted to murder him. In fact, he and Pacha are paralyzed when it seems Yzma is only going to pull up her skirt, and she produces a knife.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Yzma would take them on, or call her more competent guards to murder them as she does later. Kronk has been good at everything else ''except'' blatant murder and he hesitates at using violence.\\
'''Instead:''' RuleOfThree kicks in; she tosses the knife to Kronk and asks him to murder both Kuzco and Pacha. When Kronk hesitates and starts talking to himself about it, Yzma hits her RageBreakingPoint and insults his spinach puffs.\\
'''As a Result:''' Kronk is motivated to commit a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal and turns the knife on Yzma instead, utilizing a FallingChandelierOfDoom that narrowly misses killing her.
* ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound'':
** Tod visits Copper late at night while Amos and Chief are asleep. Copper is happy to see Tod but is concerned for his safety. He warns Tod to leave before Chief wakes up.\\
'''You’d Expect:''' Tod to listen to Copper and get out of there as fast as he can.\\
'''Instead:''' Tod stays and tells Copper that Chief doesn’t worry him.\\
'''As a Result:''' Chief wakes up just seconds later, alerts his owner of Tod's presence and begins a chase, which ends with Chief almost getting killed, Amos becoming more determined than ever to kill Tod, and even Copper developing a grudge against his old friend. Furthermore, Widow Tweed is forced to give up Tod and drops him off at the local game preserve.
* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}:''
** Elsa ended up accidentally hurting Anna during their playtime in the night. Their parents, the king and queen, visit the trolls for help. Grand Pabbie gives Anna a LaserGuidedAmnesia where she loses her memories of Elsa's ice powers and tells Elsa that she must control her powers.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The king and queen would get to learn more about Elsa's powers and teach her to control them. Or that the ''trolls'' would train Elsa, since Grand Pabbie knows how to use magic. If they could find no way of controlling her power, then at the very least have Anna and Elsa keep indirect contact in each other whether it be through letters or outside the courtyard and tell Anna that her sister doesn't want to be close for fear of hurting her.\\
'''Instead:''' They keep Elsa in isolation and hid her powers from everyone, including Anna, while telling Elsa to do everything she can to suppress her powers rather than control them.\\
'''As a Result:''' Elsa grows to fear her power, loses control of it, accidentally plunges Arendelle into an ice age, and nearly kills Anna.\\
'''Additionally:''' Why did they feel the need to remove Anna's knowledge of Elsa's powers when Anna was clearly fine with them before? All that did was make it much harder for Anna to understand why Elsa is shutting everyone out. Most fanfics suggest that the memories had to be removed in order for the physical damage to Anna's head to be properly healed.
** Throughout the 13 years before the coronation, Elsa's isolation is clearly troubling Anna to no end, what's even worse is that she doesn't even know why she did it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That at some point when Anna grew older, someone should at least tell her why Elsa is isolating herself from her sister and is hiding herself in the room, whether it be her parents, one of the servants in the castle such as Kai, or Elsa herself that the reason she is isolating herself is because she is afraid of hurting Anna with her powers just like she did years ago. Not only will it lift a heavy burden of Anna's shoulders, but with this newfound knowledge that her sister had done, Anna would have gained a new determination in helping Elsa conquer her fears of power as much as possible and depending on Anna's decisions, could actually helped her control her powers and overcome her fears.\\
'''Instead:''' Nobody tells her anything during the thirteen year interval before the present day which led to Anna believing that Elsa actually hated her.\\
'''As a Result:''' Because she doesn't know why Elsa isolated herself, it ultimately leads to a disaster when an argument at the coronation with Elsa ends up accidentally revealing her powers, plunges the kingdom into an EndlessWinter, and nearly kills Anna.
** So Hans, being the youngest of thirteen brothers, has no prospects of owning a kingdom. He goes to Arendelle in the hopes of courting Elsa but finds her younger sister and heir Anna falling for him. Hans comes up with the plan of marrying Anna, killing off Elsa years later to leave the throne free for him to claim, leaving Anna as a TrophyWife.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That after causing Anna to fall for him that Hans would follow traditional royal etiquette, that is to court her over a matter of months rather than hours and undergo negotiations with Elsa for a marriage. Such negotiations weren't taken lightly among the higher class. This would also endear himself to Elsa, who tries to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure as queen.\\
'''Instead:''' He proposes to Anna after spending several hours with her at the coronation ball, and says nothing as she argues with Elsa about how she deserves a blessing for marriage because "it's true love". If not for the quick engagement angering Elsa and leading to the argument that reveals her ice powers, he wouldn't have been in any position to inherit Arendelle's throne.
** Hans has decided to propose a marriage to Anna and the latter, whom is shown to be starved for affection, happily accepts it then they both decides to find Elsa and asked for her blessing. But Elsa understandably seems opposed to the marriage given that they know each other only a few hours after their first meeting.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Elsa would not outright reject the marriage but rather, suggest that Hans would court her sister for some time before she would officially give them her blessing.[[note]]For advice on how to help a loved one who appears to be in an unhealthy relationship, check out [[https://www.thehotline.org/2017/02/16/supporting-someone-returning-to-abusive-relationship/ here]] or [[https://www.womenshealth.gov/relationships-and-safety/get-help/how-help-friend here]].[[/note]] After all, if this prince could give Anna the happiness that Elsa herself could not, then surely it wouldn't necessarily be harmful to give a relationship a chance to grow. [[spoiler:And if he turns out to be treacherous, he would then be easily exposed and stopped before he could harm either of them]].\\
'''Instead:''' Elsa tells Anna she's flat-out wrong, and when Anna pleads that "it's true love," Elsa asks "Anna, what do you know about true love?" As Elsa has been highly reclusive, and although the ''audience'' is aware of her reasons, as far as LockedOutOfTheLoop Anna knows, Elsa's shown little apparent interest in anyone else and has been ignoring Anna for most of their lives without any explanation or reason Anna has been made aware of, this makes her appear quite hypocritical and prompts Anna to point that out. Elsa then outright refuses to speak about it further, and decides to shut down the party and close the gates.\\
'''As a Result:''' The conversation snowballs into an argument that ultimately results in Elsa snapping and shooting ice spikes at her sister, revealing her powers, aka the very thing she had been trying to avoid.
** Anna immediately takes responsibility for the accident, and with Elsa fleeing the kingdom and an eternal winter starting, she knows that the kingdom needs to find Elsa, or everyone will freeze.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Anna would organize a search party, dressed in proper winter wear, to seek out Elsa and reason with her. Also, you would expect that she would stay behind to rule since there is no other heir to the throne.\\
'''Instead:''' Anna sets off with only a summer riding shawl and a horse, alone, leaving Hans in charge. Hans has no legal jurisdiction for this, and Arendelle has no precedent for such a crisis.\\
'''As a Result:''' Hans takes advantage of the situation to cement himself as a potential new ruler, while still feigning affection and concern for Anna because he still needs her alive. Anna in the meantime loses her horse and nearly freezes; by sheer dumb luck she finds a shop selling enough winter clothes for her to change, and an ice-cutter who can help her navigate the new terrain. As Kristoff snarkily puts it to his reindeer, Anna would die if she were left on her own.
** The Duke of Weselton wants stronger trade negotiations with Arendelle that he can exploit for more wealth. He also has a FantasticRacism of "witchcraft," as shown when Anna accidentally outs Elsa's powers by taking her gloves and baiting her. Elsa then flees in a panic, leaving the country in eternal winter.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Duke to prioritize his ambition over his prejudice & fear and would order the guards to assist Hans in capturing Elsa. Afterwards, with the queen held captive, he could demand her for stronger trade negotiations in order to make his kingdom even richer.\\
'''Instead:''' He lets his prejudice gets the best of him and stealthily orders his royal guards to assassinate Elsa once they find her.\\
'''You'd Then Expect:''' That if he really wants to kill her, he would supply the guards with a musket[[note]]Given the Industrial era setting of the film, they would certainly have firearm technology[[/note]] so he could have the guards shoot her to death with little effort. The Ice Queen has demonstrated her ice powers and has just froze the entirety of Arendelle, it would be best to come as fully armed and prepared as possible.\\
'''Instead:''' He just arms them with an outdated crossbow which allowed Elsa to block the arrow shot and mount a defense against them, and would have killed them too had Hans not stop her.\\
'''As a Result:''' When she returns to her rightful rule, Elsa cuts all trading ties with Weselton.
** After getting struck by Anna, Kristoff decides to take her to the trolls, claiming that they once did it before. Then upon encountering Grand Pabbie, the latter proclaims that due to the ice in the heart implanted by her sister, she becomes frozen solid and since it's not in the head therefore, the only way to remove it was an "ActOfTrueLove".\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Anna would put the pieces together and realize that the trolls know more about Elsa's power than they let on. Thus she would angrily demand they tell her ''everything'' they know about her sisters powers like when did she get it. Why is she so scared of her powers. And why exactly is her sister shutting her out besides to hide her own powers. Whatever knowledge she receives will be particularly useful in talking to Elsa again when she returns back to the Ice Castle after the ice in her heart is removed by the ActOfTrueLove.\\
'''Instead:''' She doesn't seem to bother questioning them and is seemingly more focused on getting a kiss to thaw her frozen heart but afterwards, she seemingly don't know what to do next. It is only because of Hans that she unwittingly performed the act that break the curse but if the timing is any different, she would probably turn into a solid block of ice forever.
** After Hans succeeds in capturing Elsa and bringing her back to Arendelle, in the hopes that she can undo the eternal winter, a half-frozen Anna returns. She manages to explain that Elsa attacked her, but that a kiss from Hans can save her because it would be an act of true love. Hans at this point doesn't truly "love" Anna in that he wouldn't make a great sacrifice for her, though he did ride out into the ice to find her when her horse returned.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Hans would try to actually kiss her, and muster up all the positive feelings he has for Anna. He needs her alive to make his claim to the throne legitimate, since they haven't actually gotten married, and she put him in charge only until she returned from finding Elsa. It's the perfect XanatosGambit: if the kiss works, then Anna is indebted to him and will follow through on their engagement. And by all accounts it should work: Hans and Anna are attracted to each other, he cares for her well-being as much as she does for his at this point, and she makes him happy during their few moments of courtship. If it doesn't work? At least Hans tried, and he can manipulate the situation so that Anna hands him Arendelle on a plate before she dies, with long-lasting legitimacy. He could even stay with her until the end, with witnesses to his grief. Afterwards, he can then retrieve Anna's frozen corpse and show it to the Elsa where the sight of her sister' frozen body will make Elsa lose the will to live and he can either kill her right away or capture her for trial and have her executed for her crimes, while making him look like a hero in the eyes of Arendelle.\\
'''Instead:''' Hans decides to cut his losses, telling Anna YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. He gains a SlasherSmile and cruelly reveals to Anna he never loved her. Then he douses all the candles and fire in the room and leaves her to die, claiming that once he kills Elsa and brings back summer that no one will care that Anna is dead.\\
'''You'd Then Expect:''' That he makes sure that Anna actually dies (for example, smothering her with a pillow or just waiting till she freezes solid), leaving no witnesses to his claim that Anna died in his arms. Afterwards, he would lie to them by claiming that Anna has said their wedding vows and has passed him the ownership of Arendelle.\\
'''Instead:''' He just leaves Anna to her death without double checking, completely gambling on the fact that Anna will die rapidly, that no one will hear her faint cries for help, that no one knows where she is, that she didn't write a note explaining to everyone that Hans killed her. Olaf, the SpannerInTheWorks for Hans, rescues Anna in the nick of time, and when she saves Elsa from Hans, every local and foreign guest sees his cruelty.\\
'''As a Result:''' Anna breaks off the engagement, and Elsa sends Hans back to the Southern Isles in disgrace for trying to kill them.
** In relations to the above thing, Hans tells the Arendelle royal council that Anna has "died" (well, she hasn't yet croaked), and that they said their wedding vows right before she took her last breath. As the new King of Arendelle, his first act is to sentence Queen Elsa to death for the supposed murder of her sister.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Someone to go to collect the body, or someone else to point out that a marriage has no legal meaning without witnesses and someone presiding over it. They should also point out that it is not within Hans rights to be the executioner as she needs to be captured for trial first (not to mention that such claims from a foreign representative basically tantamounts to a ''declaration of war'')\\
'''Instead:''' They just go along with everything Hans says, even the part where he thinks Elsa has to be killed. Granted, Elsa has scared them with the whole eternal winter thing and they want to repair it as fast as possible, but that's no excuse for them not to go fact-checking Hans's story at all and let him take over despite the fact that he has absolutely no legitimate claim to the leadership of Arendelle.
* ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'':
** In the second short and ShowWithinAShow "Mickey and the Beanstalk", Mickey, Donald and Goofy have been starving since a strange force kidnapped a magic harp that kept their home Happy Valley happy and prosperous. After Donald has a breakdown and tries to eat their cow alive, Mickey decides to sell the cow for food.\\
'''You'd Expect''': He would listen to his stomach and not to any conmen. A DeletedScene reveals that Princess Minnie might have given them to him, but another showed Gideon from ''Pinocchio'' running a con so he might have met a charlatan.\\
'''Instead''': He sells the cow for five "magic beans".\\
'''Predictably''': A starving, raging Donald tosses them away, seemingly wasting them. A beanstalk grows at night, carrying the trio's cottage into the sky and breaking it apart. Sure, it works out in the end, but Donald had a point.
** After the beanstalk carries them into the sky, the trio find themselves in Giant land, where the insects and fish are much larger, and when they enter a house so large they can crawl under the front door, they gorge themselves on food. The clatter leads to the captive Harp calling for help, and she tells them that a "wicked giant" kidnapped her. Said Giant appears, hungry, and encounters Mickey in his sandwich. However, he just catches him for sneezing in his face and trying to run away. So far Willy, as he's called, isn't being overtly malicious. He's just figuring out what these little Toons are doing in his home.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Mickey would explain to the giant they need the harp or everyone in Happy Valley would starve. As shown, Willy isn't the brightest tool in the shed, but he seems ObliviouslyEvil from what they've seen, more of a MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds. Maybe there's a peaceful resolution or they could compromise.\\
'''Instead''': Mickey tries to trick Willy into turning into a housefly, and swat him with a swatter that he sees nearby. Willy, who prefers bunnies, changes into a pink bunny at the last minute.\\
'''The Result''': Willy isn't ''that'' stupid when he catches on to what the trio tries. He locks them up, and when they escape and rescue the harp, gives chase on seeing Mickey trying to tie his shoelaces together. Cue one murderous sprint from the giant's castle, across the pond and down the beanstalk. Donald and Goofy barely manage to get the Harp down in time, and they end up sawing the beanstalk JustInTime. Willy as it's revealed survives and is still chasing after Mickey, in the "real" world.
* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'':
** The plot kicks off when Mr. Flaversham, a toymaker, is kidnapped on his daughter's birthday. The BigBad Ratigan has his {{Dragon}} Fidget do the job. He also anticipates that Flaversham as a loyal subject to the crown will not cooperate unless he has a little "persuasion".\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Ratigan would have ordered Fidget to capture both father and daughter at the same time, to tie up the loose ends, and that if Fidget doesn't see her at first to go through the tiny flat looking for her.\\
'''Instead''': Fidget doesn't even think about Olivia until long after her father has been installed in Ratigan's lair. Ratigan writes her down on a list and assumes Fidget will find her, while Olivia goes searching for Basil since only the best detective can find her father. Fidget only finds her again coincidentally at Basil of Baker Street's lair, and then at the toy shop where he steals toy soldiers' suits, and gears. As a result, Basil learns about Ratigan's scheme after many dead ends, and gets on the case.
** When Olivia finally tells the detective about her father being kidnapped, Basil takes interest because the "peg-legged bat" works for Ratigan, and Fidget happens to appear at Baker Street. She insists on going along when Basil recruits Toby, a basset hound, to go after Fidget, so that she can find her father. Basil has said that Ratigan boasts about drowning widows and orphans and doesn't want her to come along because he's not a nursemaid.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Olivia should realize that it's safer for her to stay at Basil's place since she would be TheLoad even if he finds her father. Given how much of a BunnyEarsLawyer Basil is, as Olivia sees firsthand, it's best to not distract him from his methods.\\
'''Instead''': Offscreen Olivia has her way, so that Basil takes her along reluctantly as TheLoad. Fidget then takes the opportunity to kidnap her at the toy shop, which forces her father to build the robot Ratigan wants, while Ratigan uses Olivia's wraps to lure Basil and Dawson to a certain spot in the lair and have them surrounded by minions. In the climax Ratigan then uses her as a hostage to get away from the Royal Palace when Basil unravels his scheme, and Basil then has to put her safety above his when Ratigan goes feral in Big Ben.
** Basil and Dawson have discovered the location of the nefarious professor Ratigan's lair in the sewer. Olivia, has also been taken to Ratigan's lair, so they want to rescue her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Basil, knowing that Ratigan is much bigger and stronger than him and has a relatively large number of minions, to have the city police accompany him to the hideout for backup.\\
'''Instead:''' He goes with just his well-intentioned but inexperienced partner Dawson to catch Ratigan and rescue the Flavershams.\\
'''As a Result:''' Ratigan was expecting him after learning that Basil had got his hands on the list and had set up a trap for him, resulting in the two being quickly captured.
* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'':
** In the beginning of the movie, Hades snarkily reveals that Zeus put him in charge of the Underworld, and it's a job in a dark place that doesn't allow for much fun or festivity. Zeus for what we see doesn't seem to hate Hades.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Zeus would ask his brother what would make him happier or his job easier. Like, perhaps more help? Or an Elysium to go with the Tartarus?\\
'''Instead''': Zeus is an InnocentlyInsensitive buffoon that ignores Hades's hints that he is resentful of working in the Underworld.\\
'''The Result''': Hades plays TheLongGame to take over Olympus and betray his family.
** Hades plans to kill Hercules after learning of a prophecy that will end in him ruling Mount Olympus unless Hercules lives long enough to stop him. To get him out of the picture, Hades sends his cronies Pain and Panic to kidnap the infant Hercules, steal his immortality, and kill him only for them to bungle the job and leave Hercules with his godlike strength, preventing them from finishing him off and leading them to decide to lie about killing Hercules to spare themselves from Hades' wrath.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Being the God of the Underworld, Hades searches through his many souls to see if Hercules is among them. And he keeps in contact with his brother so that he'd have confirmation about Hercules being gone from Olympus.\\
'''Instead:''' Hades somehow never talks to his brother or the rest of his family, and doesn't learn (until some eighteen years later) that Hercules is still alive and living on Earth as a mortal. Cue the epic SpitTake.
** Hercules's first great battle in public (saving Meg from the river centaur was rather private) involves a hydra that he accidentally released when saving two boys (Pain and Panic in disguise) from a cave-in. During the battle he cuts off the hydra's head after it swallows him, only to find that three heads regrow in his place.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Hercules to try other tactics than beheading: he could aim his sword at the belly, or do what he did in myth and cauterize the severed heads so that they can't regrow.\\
'''Instead:''' Hercules ''keeps slicing the heads'' until he's facing dozens of them. Phil lampshades this while telling Hercules to stop beheading the monster.
** Hercules' trainer, Phil has caught sight of Meg talking to Hades, revealing her employment to him.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That he would listen to the entire conversation to see if she will go through with his plan or not, and ''what'' the plan is. If he caught sight of her rebelling against Hades, then there's no need for Phil to worry about her since he spent most of the film seeing her as a distraction for Herc.\\
'''Instead:''' He just runs off and warns Hercules of whom Meg is working for, having no proof whatsoever, pissing him off and causing them to break contact from one another.
** Hades has successfully tricked Hercules into depowering himself for 24 hours in return for Megara's safety but not after revealing to him that Megara has been working with him all along. With Hercules BroughtDownToNormal and depressed, Hades immediately takes the opportunity to release the Titans in order to take over Mount Olympus.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That since the contract will be broken should Meg get injured, he will just leave them be and would go ahead & become the new rules of Olympus with the other gods at his mercy. Or better yet, why not just capture Hercules and send him to the River Styx where he will get trapped with all the deceased spirits, potentially forever. After all, he may have a contract about keeping Meg safe but there is nothing to suggest that the same applies to Hercules himself.\\
'''Instead:''' He decides to send the Cyclops to finish off Hercules [[note]]Why not have Hades do so himself then if he really wants to murder him?[[/note]] which will potentially get Meg hurt and allow Hercules to regain his powers back before time is up.\\
'''As a Result:''' Hercules regains his powers, takes down the Titans, and send Hades to the River Styx, where he will be trapped for a whole eternity.
* ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''
** At the start of the movie, Frollo arrests a group of Romani who are entering Paris illegally. He notices a woman is holding a bundle. The guards ask her what it is, and it turns out that it's her baby. She doesn't get a chance to explain herself.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The guards would check ''what'' the bundle is. Or that Frollo would.\\
'''Instead''': Assuming the bundle is stolen goods, Frollo orders the guards to "take it from her. In the German stage version, it's even worse as she tries to explain, but Frollo assumes that she's lying.\\
'''The Result''': The unnamed Romani woman goes MamaBear, albeit in a more realistic fashion. She escapes from the guards and outpaces Frollo on his horse, running to Notre Dame to scream for sanctuary. Frollo knocks her against the steps, instantly killing her, and only ''then'' realizes that the bundle was a baby when it starts to cry from the chaos. When the Archdeacon appears and stops him from dropping the baby in the well since it's deformed, he tells Frollo that committing murder on church grounds means he is not hiding from the eyes of God. Frollo briefly gets a HeelRealization that he's damned, only to get an IgnoredEpiphany when he agrees with the Archdeacon to raise the child as his own, in the hopes that it will serve him later in life.
** Esmeralda has barely escaped from Frollo's guards for defying his orders and freeing a tied-up and beaten Quasimodo. Phoebus covers for her and lies that she has claimed sanctuary in Notre Dame; Frollo is forced to abide by the sanctuary when the Archdeacon reminds him of what he did twenty years ago, but he grabs Esmeralda and tells her that this "fine prison" is still a prison. Also it's clear that he can come and go as he pleases, something that does rattle Esmeralda. She learns that Quasimodo lives in the church, and he offers her SacredHospitality, a tour, and a lovely view of the sunset. He even says that she could stay forever since she has sanctuary, which actually isn't true but buys her time.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Esmeralda would stay with Quasimodo until her time of sanctuary is up. There are lots of places in the cathedral for her to hide from Frollo.\\
'''Instead''': She tells Quasimodo that she prefers her freedom, and that she doesn't want to be trapped in Notre Dame with Frollo able to walk in as he pleases. \\
'''The Result''': Quasimodo, since she was kind to him before, personally escorts her out of Notre Dame with some parkour that gets them past the guards. He says he can't come with her after the awful day he had and promised to never leave the church, so she gives him a talisman that's a map to the Court of Miracles. This leads to a bad chain of events; Frollo burns down all of Paris in his search to find Esmeralda, trashes Quasimodo's delicately hand-carved replica of Paris, and sets a trap by saying that his men have found the Court of Miracles and will storm it at dawn. Quasimodo and Phoebus run to warn the Romani, but end up dooming them by accident. Esmeralda nearly gets burned at the stake, barely surviving the smoke inhalation in the film and dying from it in the stage version. Lots of Romanis get captured and imprisoned, and Phoebus has to raise an insurrection against Frollo when he invades Notre Dame.
** Frollo is clinging to the side of Notre Dame with his sword drawn, and sees Esmeralda holding up Quasimodo, thus making her vulnerable, and goes to attack her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He'd take the second to hop over the balcony rail that's inches away from him before attacking her, or at least quickly cut off her arm if he really wanted them both dead.\\
'''Instead:''' Shouting "... And He shall smite the wicked!", he raises his arms above his head and balances his whole weight on an already centuries-old gargoyle.\\
'''As a Result:''' The gargoyle collapses under his weight and he falls from the tower into the blazing inferno below.\\
'''Even Better:''' He'd cut through that very gargoyle with his own sword minutes beforehand.
* ''Disney/TheJungleBook'':
** The movie's conflict starts when Shere Khan returns to the wolves' territory, and he is targeting their feral man-cub Mowgli. Rama, Mowgli's adoptive father, protests having to give up his child to the man-village but Akeela the pack leader tells him that the wolves are unable to protect the boy from the tiger.\\
'''You'd Expect''': If Rama cares so much about Mowgli, that he talk to him first and explain why he must leave. Mowgli would be upset, but if he has longer to process the situation then he could understand. You would also expect Rama and his family would escort Mowgli to the man-village so that they can say a proper goodbye, and protect him in case Shere Khan intercepts them en route. This actually does happen in the book, where Mowgli finds out from his wolf brothers that Shere Khan is planning a pack mutiny, and counterattacks by stealing fire from the village.\\
'''Instead''': The wolves don't think to break it to Mowgli gently why he must go and make sure he understands that Shere Khan won't listen to reason that Mowgli won't ever grow up to learn how to hunt, ESPECIALLY if he remains a jungle boy. Bagheera the panther, who is an outsider and the one who found Mowgli, volunteers to escort Mowgli on the pretense of walking with him as per routine. Mowgli, on hearing that his usual night stroll with Bagheera is a permanent goodbye, doesn't react well to learning he needs to leave his home. As the movie shows, he can handle himself against threats like Kaa, so he's not completely defenseless.\\
'''As a Result:''' Mowgli puts up a huge fuss the next day, wastes time by hanging out with Baloo, and ultimately encounters Shere Khan anyway in the middle of vultures cheering him through HeroicBSOD. Bagheera doesn't help at all during this encounter, and Baloo nearly dies from protecting Mowgli.
** On the other side of the equation, Shere Khan returns and makes it clear his intention to kill Mowgli. His reasons are that soon the man-cub will grow up and become "another hunter with a gun".\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shere Khan to realize that if Mowgli stays in the jungle, with most of the animals being his friends, that he would never become a hunter or logically have access to a gun since to get those you'd need to steal it from a human or reenter civilization. Mowgli himself says he wouldn't grow up to be a hunter and they should just tell Shere Khan that, and Baloo says that Mowgli wouldn't be able to get a gun. Surely a compromise could be reached.\\
'''Instead''': Shere Khan at some point off-screen ignores this logic and pursues Mowgli, forcing the wolves, Baloo and Bagheera to escort him back to humanity.\\
'''As a Result:''' Mowgli discovers fire and uses it against the tiger, meaning a SelfFulfillingProphecy ensued with him learning to use weapons against animals. Now that Mowgli is in the man-village, likely to become a homesteader, he's even ''more'' likely to get a gun!
** A pillar that was holding up an ancient palace falls apart, leading to King Louie holding it up to keep from falling.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Baloo to use this opportunity to grab Mowgli and run off.\\
'''Instead:''' He goes to Louie to tickle his armpits as he's holding up the palace, giving the other monkeys time to intervene and charge towards Baloo with a large battering ram, intending to save their leader and stop Baloo from doing any more harm.\\
'''Although now you'd expect:''' That given the current dilemma that King Louie is in, the monkeys at least take care not to have their own leader come to any harm as they charge straight for Baloo by charging at Baloo from an angle out of King Louie's way, giving time for another group of monkeys to directly assist Louie where he is and hold up the building.\\
'''Instead:''' Not only do they recklessly charge straight into Baloo without taking any care to not hit Louie by accident, but they end up knocking Louie straight another pillar that crumbles, winding up with Baloo in the same spot that Louie was in earlier and Louie now stuck holding up another part of the doomed building. Only now does Baloo decide he's had enough and runs off with Mowgli and Bagheera while Louie just stays there hoping to keep his building from falling; just as the whole palace is splitting in half and nearly flattens our heroes.
''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp''
* After the happy couple Jim Dear and Darling has a baby, they decide to go on a short trip. They ask Aunt Sarah to watch over the house, the baby, and their dog Lady, who is a sweet Cocker-Spaniel.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Aunt Sarah would make all three of these things her priority. Lady is family to the couple, and has been with them for years. Also, Aunt Sarah is a ''guest'' in someone else's home, even if she is doing babysitting duty. She should act like one.\\
'''Instead''': Aunt Sarah is a terrible {{Jerkass}} to Lady. She shoos the well-behaving dog out of the baby's room, muzzles and chains Lady up on two separate occasions, and brings her cats to the house. The last part is especially egregious since the cats trash up the living room and threaten the baby on hearing its cries.\\
'''The Result''': When Jim Dear and Darling return to find Lady locked up int he basement and hear what happened, they tell off Aunt Sarah for not realizing that Lady wouldn't act like this unless something was really wrong. In this case, it was a rat threatening their baby, which Aunt Sarah missed while a tied-up Lady was barking in alarm. Aunt Sarah's negligence means that the baby nearly gets mauled by both her cats and the rat, and Tramp nearly gets killed at the pound if not for Lady's dog neighbors stopping the dogcatcher's wagon. Also, what would Aunt Sarah have done if Lady had taken the Tramp's offer to travel the world with him rather than return home, and she had to explain that she lost Lady while getting a muzzle for the latter?
* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'':
** On Earth, Lilo arrives late to hula dancing because she was feeding Pudge the fish a peanut butter sandwich because "Pudge controls the weather". Everyone in the room, from the dance instructor to the other students, know that Lilo has just lost her parents and is coping with the grief in various ways. One of them is Mertle, the local AlphaBitch.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Mertle would keep her mouth shut.\\
'''Instead:''' She calls Lilo weird, which causes the other girl to attack and bite her.
** After that, Lilo and her sister Nani adopt Stitch, the latter of whom causes Nani to lose her job. A social worker Cobra Bubbles appears, who tells Nani she needs to get employment or she can't keep Lilo, and notices Stitch, who attacks him. We find out later that Cobra has worked with aliens before, and recognizes Stitch as one.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He'd explain to the sisters who Stitch is, and try to offer help since as it is he's BotheringByTheBook to give Nani time to clean up her act and prove herself responsible enough to keep Lilo.\\
'''Instead:''' He tells them the "dog" needs to become a model citizen. Lilo tries but ultimately fails while using Elvis as a reference.
* ''Disney/TheLionKing'':
** Just after killing Mufasa, Scar goes down into the canyon to confirm that Mufasa is dead, running into Simba. Since Scar's plan relies on both Mufasa and Simba being dead, Scar's plan is only half-finished.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Scar would try and kill Simba right then and there. After all, the only witnesses around are the hyenas, who are loyal to Scar, and Simba has proven no match for them on his own. With all three of them, plus Scar, they could easily overpower the young prince.\\
'''Instead:''' He manipulates Simba into accepting the responsibility of Mufasa's death and tells him to run away. Scar then waits until Simba is out of earshot, ''then'' he sends the hyenas after Simba to kill him. Perhaps Scar didn't want to personally shed any blood, but that seems like a strange thing to be stubborn about, considering he'd just committed fratricide.\\
'''As a Result:''' Simba escapes the hyenas and runs away into the wild. He ''could'' have died of dehydration, at the very least, had [[SpannerInTheWorks Timon and Pumbaa]] not come across him and given him a home for the next few years. In other words, Scar traded a plan with no chance of Simba living to a sliver of a chance and it bit him in the butt.
** In the film's climax, Simba returns to the Pride Lands and confronts Scar over Mufasa. By getting Simba to accept the blame for his father's death yet again, Scar gains the upper hand and dangles him over Pride Rock.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Scar to finish off Simba then and there by letting him fall off the rock.\\
'''Or:''' If he doesn't want to kill Simba, Scar could enforce his authority as king of the Pride Lands by laying down some ground rules. He could also manipulate Simba even further by telling him the other lions will never respect him since he is still saddled with the responsibility of Mufasa's death.\\
'''Instead:''' He pulls Simba close for some EvilGloating and tells Simba that he killed Mufasa.\\
'''As a Result:''' Furious, Simba gains his strength back and forces Scar to confess the dirty deed to the other lions of Pride Rock.
** Related to the above, the lionesses were shocked when Simba remorsefully confess that he caused Mufasa's death and Scar takes this opportunity to assert his dominance over the other lions and begins to throw Simba to his own death.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That the lionesses, or at least Nala & Sarabi would immediately snap out of it and fight back against Scar and his hyenas and help Simba forgive himself. After all murderer or not, he is still the only chance to restore the kingdom of its colors and could perhaps let Simba explain himself of what really happened during the incident.\\
'''Instead:''' The lionesses doubt Simba and don't even bother to vouch for him, even as he reach the edge of the cliff. It is only by Scar throwing a big VillainBall do they even fight back but that leaves a BrokenAesop message in the fans mind.
** Once Scar takes over the mantle as the king of the Pride Lands, the whole land seems to suffer to the point that ''every single animal including the hyenas themselves loathes him'' and wishes that Mufasa would be around to stop him.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That the whole group of lions along with the other animals team up and overthrow the childish tyrant.\\
'''Instead:''' They never consider this choice until after Simba returns years after Scar becomes the ruler of the land.
** At the climax of movie, Scar is now trapped at the top of Pride Rock with only the hyenas as his remaining followers. Simba confronts him.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Scar to either shut his mouth or engage in some EvilGloating in how Simba is nothing but a failure as he stalls enough time for the hyenas to come to his aid and potentially win the battle for him as they gang up on Simba and give the hyenas a feast for their lives.\\
'''Instead:''' He desperately tries to blame everything on the hyenas, aka his only remaining followers, which ends up turning the entire pack against him and forces him to fight Simba alone.\\
'''As a Result:''' After Scar is defeated, the hyenas eat him alive, fully aware of his true colors.
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a few infamous moments in the first and second movie:
** So Triton angrily blasts all of Ariel's treasures ''all because she said she loved Eric''. When he's finished, he visibly looks remorseful about upsetting her when she bursts in tears.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Triton to swim up to her and apologize, and maybe have a heartfelt moment. Even if we are to assume he's gone beyond Ariel's forgiveness by this point, and she might have told him to fuck off (like she did to Sebastian), he could have at least tried.\\
'''Alternatively You'd Expect''': He would attempt to repair the damage with his trident. Surely if a magical weapon can transform people into mermaids and vice-versa, and in the direct-to-video sequel we see a handful of the items in her grotto restored. It's safe to assume Triton could undo everything that he just did because even he realizes that he went too far when the red fades from his ways.
'''Instead:''' Triton just swims away after that, leaving her to cry. This gives Ursula's minions a chance to exploit her emotional vulnerability, leading to her making an impulsive DealWithTheDevil with Ursula.\\
'''The Result''': In both the stage show and the movie, Ariel runs away. So does Sebastian, apparently. Triton sends out dozens of search parties, but no one can find the pair. By the time Sebastian reappears, it's too late; Ursula's succeeded in winning her deal with Ariel and owns her, and Triton to save Ariel from becoming another plant for Ursula takes her place in the deal.
** Eric in a matter of minutes learns that a sea witch hypnotized him into a marriage and has stolen away his true love, the mute girl he had taken in who transforms into a mermaid.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' As a prince with a loyal kingdom, he would bring in TheCavalry, including the sailors that told him the myth of Triton (and Ursula in the deleted SpoilerOpening), which he does do in the stage version. He already knows that Ursula can do dangerous magic, and has the strength of a large octopus at the least.\\
'''Instead''': He goes alone in a dinghy, only armed with a harpoon, with no idea of what he's up against. He gets in way over his head as a result and only turns the tides with quick thinking, but before that the harpoon only gives a flesh wound to Ursula. She nearly drowns and disintegrates him in revenge.
** On that note, Ursula pins down Ariel with her newly-acquired trident for attacking her, and then sends her eels Flotsam and Jetsam after Eric when ''he'' launches his offense. Before Ariel can help Eric, Ursula grabs her in a tight hold, so that Ariel can only scream at Eric to look out and swim for it.\\
'''You'd Expect''': She would ''keep'' Ariel in that grasp, since Ariel can't break free, and make her watch Eric die by the trident's blast. Ariel has previously been established as an impulsive ActionGirl and SpannerInTheWorks who protects the ones she loves with righteous fury.\\
'''Instead''': Ursula for no reason at all releases Ariel before gloating, "Say goodbye to your sweetheart." Ariel manages to throw off her aim so that the trident's blast hits Ursula's eels instead, disintegrating them into scattered body parts.
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'':
** Ursula's sister Morgana shows up at the celebration of Ariel and Eric's daughter Melody's birth, still angry at them for killing her sister. Out of revenge, she threatens baby Melody's life by snatching her in a sneak attack and dangling her over a shark, demanding Triton's trident. Triton prepares to surrender it since he doesn't want his granddaughter hurt. \\
'''You'd Expect''': She'd stay out of range from Ariel and Eric, especially since Eric took down her sister with his wits and a wrecked ship, while holding Melody hostage.\\
'''Instead''': Much like Ursula, Morgana can't resist EvilGloating. She comes closer to the royal boat to explain that she's vengeful about them killing Ursula. [[MamaBear Ariel]] uses Eric's sword to cut a rope that leads to a mast hitting Morgana in the face, and [[PapaWolf Eric]] catches Melody as she sails through the air.
** After this happens, Undertow the shark prepares to eat Melody after Morgana loses her hold on her. Triton still has his trident, which can reduce living beings to fragments and do much more damage.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Triton would just kill Undertow when he has a clear shot. He's a PapaWolf as well and has previously shown no compunctions for causing collateral damage.\\
'''Instead''': Triton uses the trident to turn Undertow into a pathetic, tiny shark, who escapes with Morgana. Years later he seeks out Melody when she runs away from home to learn about the locket, and leads her to Morgana's icy lair.
*** After Ariel and Eric save their baby, Morgana escapes and vows to return.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Ariel to just tell Melody that Morgana would kill her if she went into the sea, and to have Triton establish a guard on the sea part of the kingdom so that Morgana's return would raise red flags. Or, if not wanting to scare the heck out of her, say there's a threat out in the sea and no one can go out there until it's taken care of.\\
'''Instead:''' Ariel decides to not only forbid Melody to go into the sea while Morgana poses a threat, but also keep her from knowing about Morgana ''or'' her mermaid heritage in general because...[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext um]]...\\
'''As a Result:''' Melody does not understand why she is forbidden to go into the sea, and continues sneaking out under the huge wall Ariel and Eric have built to keep Melody from the water.
*** Ariel discovers her daughter was sneaking out and found a medallion with her name on it, clearly showing that mer-people and Atlantica exist. Naturally, Melody has some questions.\\
'''You’d expect:''' Ariel would remember how badly her own argument with Triton ended and calmly tell Melody the truth, explaining why she was lied to her whole life.\\
'''Instead:''' Ariel snaps at Melody for disobeying her and refuses to answer any of her questions. Just when she calms down, talks with Eric and decides to tell Melody the truth, Melody runs away and falls right into Morgana’s grasp. [[HereWeGoAgain Just like what happened with Ariel and Ursula!]]
*** Speaking of the example above, Ariel has finally admitted this to Melody, who has stolen Triton's trident because Morgana claimed that a bad man took it years ago, after two catch each other in mermaid form.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Melody would put aside her (albeit justified) anger towards Ariel for her secretiveness, understand what's going on, and return the trident to Ariel, or even better, King Triton because he's the owner of the trident in the first place.\\
'''Instead:''' She impulsively gives the trident to Morgana. [[SarcasmMode Big surprise]], the latter goes back on her deal with Melody of making her a mermaid permanently and instead locks her under the sea until the spell wears off and Melody nearly drowns.
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'':
** Mulan runs late for her matchmaker exam, and her mother along with some women help her get ready in a rush. Fa Li discovers the notes that Mulan wrote on her arm, "in case I forget something," Mulan explains sheepishly. Said notes are already smeared due to the ink mixing with the bathwater.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Fa Li would wipe off the notes and give Mulan a rushed lecture about how CheatersNeverProsper.\\
'''Instead''': Fa Li rolls her eyes and leaves the notes alone when Grandmother Fa asks her to hold Cri-Kee the cricket.\\
'''The Result''': Mulan manages to read some of the notes and pass one part of her test, but the ink gets smeared on the Matchmaker's face, which is a bad omen of what's to come.
** Cri-Kee is a cricket that Grandmother Fa gives to Mulan for good luck during the matchmaking test. Cri-Kee just fainted from how Grandmother Fa tested him, and is shown to be aware of human events.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Cri-Kee would stay in his cage until the test is done, or if they get out, to get back in as soon as possible.\\
'''Instead''': Cri-Kee after getting loose from his cage decides it's a good idea to take a swim in the Matchmaker's tea. Mulan trying to hide him leads to her setting the Matchmaker on fire.\\
'''The Result''': The DisasterDominoes means that Mulan fails her overall matchmaking test gloriously. Mulan doesn't blame the cricket and sets him free, but out of guilt he follows her and watches until she decides to run away and save her father from battle.
** To cap off the terrible day Mulan is having, her father is given conscription orders to join the army. She has a terrible fight with him over dinner where she says his life is not worth the honor. Fa Zhou hits his RageBreakingPoint after taking Mulan's failure and disrespect to the Emperor's Councilman Chi-Fu fairly well, and tells her he knows his place and she needs to know hers. Mulan runs outside in tears into a rainstorm.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Either Fa Li or Grandmother Fa would go out to get Mulan before she catches her death of cold, or at least check up on her. Yes, she messed up and spoke out of turn, but the latter part was due to fear of his father dying.\\
'''Instead''': The family leaves Mulan to sob in the rain for hours. They go to bed, and she watches her father blow out the candle.\\
'''The Result''': During that time, Mulan makes the decision to cut her hair, steal her father's armor and conscription notice, and ride off to join the army in his place. By the time a worried Grandmother Fa wakes up Fa Zhou and Fa Li, it's too late; Fa Zhou is only left with Mulan's flowered comb and the [[PartingWordsRegret memories of their last fight]].
** The Chinese army that have defeated Shan Yu have discovered that their hero, "Ping", is a woman. Captain Shang is ordered to kill Mulan but spares her since she saved him and the entire army, leaving her and her horse with enough supplies to ride home. Mulan then comes to find them in the city to tell them the Huns are alive and coming for the Emperor.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Shang to realize that Mulan would have no other reason to return. She's been disgraced and told to go home. Although it may have not made much difference in fending off the Huns' ambush, at least the army could have put up a better defense.\\
'''Instead:''' Feeling hurt about the law putting him in a difficult position about killing Mulan, who did save him, Shang dismisses her and says he can't trust her. The Huns proceed to attack and take the Emperor hostage in his palace. Only then does Shang wise up and let Mulan take the lead, knowing that her ideas are CrazyEnoughToWork, in rescuing the Emperor and stopping Shan Yu.
** Also, Mulan's plan is essentially to distract the guards and incapacitate them so that Chien Po can escort the Emperor to safety and Shang can take on Shan Yu to defeat him, thus earning the glory due to him.\\
'''You'd Think:''' The plan would involve Ling and Yao staying behind so that they can help their commanding officer. While Shang is a badass, he still is only one man against China's greatest foe.\\
'''Instead:''' Mulan doesn't consider that Shan Yu, being larger and more experienced than Shang, can overwhelm her captain. Despite the latter putting up a good fight, Shan Yu manages to beat Shang to a pulp as Yao and Ling escape with Chien Po. She cuts the line to safety as Yao and Ling encourage her to follow them, so that Shan Yu can't go after the Emperor, and has to use her brains to save Shan Yu from skewering Shang in revenge.
* ''Disney/PeterPan'':
** Tinker Bell isn't happy that a human girl that tried to kiss Peter is coming with the two of them to Neverland. She makes her GreenEyedMonster tendencies blatant.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Peter at some point would reassure her that Tink means more to him than to anyone else, as he does later in the movie. Humans come and go, but there's only one pixie.\\
'''Instead:''' Peter doesn't do this. He smacks Tink on the butt to get pixie dust for the Darlings and ignores her during the flight to Neverland.
** Tink then gets the bright idea that she needs to get Wendy out of the way, to have Peter to herself.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Tinker Bell would, if she's going to go {{Yandere}}, [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident make Wendy's death look like an accident]] and make sure the trail doesn't lead back to her. Or, she could let Neverland do the job for her. The mermaids are just as yandere and try to drown Wendy merely because she's with Peter, and the natives put her to collecting firewood for a ceremonial bonfire.\\
'''Instead:''' In keeping with the source material, Tink DidntThinkThisThrough. She goes to the Lost Boys and tells them that Peter has ordered them to shoot down a "Wendy-bird".\\
'''As a Result:''' When Peter finds out after saving Wendy from crashing onto rocks, the Boys immediately tell him what Tink said, which leads to her getting banished. He could have easily done worse if Wendy had actually been killed. Either way, Peter is now ''royally'' steamed at Tink.
** After Wendy decides to go back to London, Peter receives a "present" from "Wendy" (In reality, it's a bomb sent down by Captain Hook), the tag says not to open it until six o' clock. \\
'''You'd expect:''' That Peter would be suspicious.\\
'''Instead:''' He still assumes it's a present, and only when Tink arrives and almost kills herself to get rid of the bomb, does he catch on.
* ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'':
** A kindly carpenter named Gepetto makes a boy puppet and wishes for him to come to life as a real boy. The Blue Fairy complies halfway, making Pinocchio sentient but still a wooden puppet. He's also naive about the world, as evidenced when he sticks his finger into fire to see what happens.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Gepetto would try and teach his new son more about the world before letting him explore it. Pinocchio is only a few hours old, and Jiminy Cricket can't protect him from everything. The workshop is safe enough for a young puppet with sentience.\\
'''Instead''': Gepetto tries to be a normal parent and send off Pinocchio to school, with a snack and without telling him where to go. This means that Pinocchio gets easily led astray, where he's sold to a nasty puppeteer. By nightfall, Gepetto is fretting about where his new son is, realizing he never made it to school.
** Pleasure Island is a theme park that lures troublemaking boys with the promise of never having to go to school and being able to cause trouble without being stopped...but after a few hours. The coachman hires two conmen named J Worthington Fowlfellow and Gideon to lure boys to the park, promising to pay them handsomely. They just happen to stumble upon Pinocchio, whom the two had recently sold to a puppetmaster named Strombolli. After giving him a false medical examination, they tell him that he is ill and the only cure is a vacation on Pleasure Island.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That since taking their advice previously almost landed the him in a life of slavery as the Strombolli's star attraction with all profits going to Strombolli, that Pinocchio would immediately refuse and leave. Not to mention if he was a touch wiser, he'd realize that the medical terms the two were giving were all mostly gibberish, even telling him that his medical condition was that he was "allergic", and see through their clearly obvious ruse.\\
'''Instead:''' He chooses to take their advice ''again'', resulting in him almost meeting the exact same fate he had just narrowly escaped earlier.
** The other boys lured to Pleasure Island deserve special mention as well. Although most lose their ability to speak after being transformed into donkeys, a handful of them retain their ability to speak, which the coachman checks for by asking each donkey their name. If they have lost their ability to speak, they are put into crates to be shipped to circuses and salt mines. As for the few who retain the ability, the coachman puts into a pen with their ultimate fate being unknown.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The donkeys who can still speak to ''pretend'' that they have lost vocalization when interrogated by the coachman so that they will be able to leave the island and tell the humans they are sold to about Pleasure Island (after all, who wouldn't believe a talking donkey?) Not to mention that with the coachman arrested, they might be able to get information out of him about how to turn the donkeys back into boys.\\
'''Instead:''' The ones who can still talk all foolishly speak when the coachman asks, telling him their names and begging to be returned home. They coachman then enacts on said fate for the donkeys, thus allowing the wicked coachman to continue luring more boys to Pleasure Island and selling them.
** The parents of the town as just as much to blame. Many kids (particularly sons) are going “missing” from skipping school to chill out in Pleasure Island.\\
'''You’d Expect:''' For the parents to wonder why their children haven’t returned from Pleasure Island and make reports about their missing children to any type of authorities.\\
'''Instead:''' They don’t. This is why the Coachman will continue to get away with turning innocent boys into donkeys.
* Disney's ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'':
** Governor Ratcliffe has an obsession with gold, but his first few days of plundering Virginia have yielded no results. His men dug up a large area without finding a speck and through his captain, he is informed the natives do not know of the existence of the shiny metal.\\
'''You'd expect:''' After a few days, Ratcliffe and his men would leave Virginia and sail further south. From there they'd settle in uninhabited lands closer to where the Spanish found their own gold, where there'd be a better chance for the English to discover some. If unsuccessful, he would give up and sail back to England to be dishonored, having failed his mission.\\
'''Instead:''' Ratcliffe constructs the Powhatan Tribe's attack on his camp as them acting in defense of the gold they have already mined and stored and proposes to annihilate the Native Americans in order to get their gold, choosing to make war with the people that could show him and his settlers the lands.
** [[spoiler:John Smith is shot in the abdomen protecting Chief Powhatan from a bullet fired by Governor Ratcliffe. He is heavily wounded, but survives.]]\\
'''You'd expect:''' The Powhatan Tribe patches him up and lets him rest, knowing his chances for survival are slim but not nonexistent, since it is shown the tribe has adequate medical knowledge to treat wounds, even those that are "strange to them". Aside, at least a few of the Britishmen must know how to tend to gunshot wounds including the victim himself.\\
'''Instead:''' Everyone agrees the victim has a better chance of surviving if he is sent across the ocean on a lengthy voyage of several months, to be treated in 1600s London. The victim and his lover have a teary farewell and the British ship leaves, also leaving the remaining Britishmen unable to escape or return to England for at least a year.
* ''Disney/TheRescuers'':
** Medusa succeeds in motivating Penny to find the Devil's Eye in the Black Hole cave, by taking her teddy bear hostage. Penny with Bernard and Bianca's help gets the diamond before they all drown from the incoming tide. Medusa already plans to cut her accomplice Snoops out of the deal, but Penny is a child. She threatens them with a shotgun to stay on the boat while making her getaway. Penny demands her teddy back since she found the diamond and Medusa "promised".\\
'''You'd Expect''': Medusa would hand over the teddy bear to Penny as promised. At this point Penny has served her purpose.\\
'''Instead''': Medusa has sewn the diamond into "Teddy," for ''no reason whatsoever'', and declares the bear goes with her. While she doesn't know about the Rescuers, Penny attempts to grapple with her, despite Medusa having her shotgun, to save her bear.\\
'''The Result''': When the Rescuers and the local swamp critters distract Medusa and Snoops with an ambush, Penny naturally grabs her teddy bear, with the Devil's Eye inside, and runs to steal the swampmobile that she and the Rescuers decided to use to escape. The adrenaline and teamwork, which involves Luke's GargleBlaster ale as swampmobile fuel, keep her ahead of a persistent Medusa, who angers her guard-crocodiles during the chase. Medusa ends up clinging to the boat's pipe, without her diamond, where Brutus and Nero wait for her to fall and wait to eat her. As an added bonus of positive LaserGuidedKarma for Penny, the publicity of finding the largest diamond in America allows her to [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments finally get adopted by a loving couple]].
** Snoops, Medusa's accomplice, thinks that he has earned half of the diamond due to watching Penny in Devil's Bayou for months. He also thinks it's ridiculous that Medusa doesn't want to sell the diamonds that Penny has found, which amount to dozens.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Snoops would know Medusa is dishonorable, given she won't even keep her promises to a child, and sell the diamonds that she doesn't want. Easy money on the side, and no more hanging around in Devil's Bayou.\\
'''Instead''': He's completely blindsided when Medusa double-crosses him and declares the Devil's Eye is all hers and she won't cut it for him. Then when the Rescuers launch their offensive, Snoops prioritizes fighting Medusa for the diamond the minute she loses control of the situation. This lands him in the crossfire when the owl lights fireworks aimed at him and Medusa. Said fireworks also cause the boat to explode, with Brutus and Nero inside.\\
'''Fortunately''': By the time the boat blows up, Snoops has the sense to float away on a handmade raft before the crocodiles turn on him as well. One can hope he pocketed the diamonds that would otherwise be sinking into the swamp.
* ''Disney/RobinHood''
** ** The movie starts when Robin Hood and Little John, after escaping the Sheriff of Nottingham, hear Prince John's royal coach passing through Sherwood Forest. Little John initially balks because they've never robbed royalty before, and tries to bail. Robin Hood convinces him, and they pose as fortune tellers. During this time, Prince John has usurped the crown in his brother King Richard's absence and has been taxing the poor due to his ManChild desire for gold.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They would be rather discreet about stealing so that Prince John doesn't notice that his carriage is a little lighter than it was before.\\
'''Instead''': Robin and Little John blatantly steal the prince's rings, with Sir Hiss noticing, and rob the carriage blind while reading his fortune, with Robin even grabbing the robes off Prince John's back. When Prince John sees them running off, Robin gives a mocking laugh, and thanks to Little John stealing the gold hubcaps, the carriage breaks down and tosses the prince and Sir Hiss into the mud.\\
'''The Result''': Prince John puts Robin Hood on a Wanted poster, and prepares to bait a trap for the ruffian, with all intents of executing him.
** Vengeful and a NotSoHarmless villain, Prince John sets the perfect trap: an archery contest where the prize is not just a golden arrow, but also a kiss from Maid Marian, Robin's childhood sweetheart. On hearing "kiss to the winner," Robin decides that they'll go since he is an expert archer.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Friar Tuck and Little John to realize that this is an obvious trap. When something is TooGoodToBeTrue, it usually is. Tuck could have simply kept quiet about the tournament and let it go on with Robin none the wiser.\\
'''Instead''': Friar Tuck talks about the tournament, kiss and all. Little John's concern is that the place will be "crawling with guards". He and Robin decide to attend, albeit in disguise, so Robin can earn that kiss. Robin ends up winning the tournament while dressed as a bird, but Prince John quickly captures him. If not for Little John pulling a knife on the prince, Robin would have lost his head to the executioner.
** Also, Prince John and Sir Hiss are in on the plan. They watch the proceedings with amusement. The Sheriff of Nottingham is also competing, despite the conflict of interest.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Prince John would tell the Sheriff that he's expecting Robin Hood to win the contest, and that he's going to capture the latter. Thus the Sheriff should hold back and let whoever the disguised outlaw is win. Or you think the Sheriff would deduct this, due to the Wanted Posters and archery contest.\\
'''Instead''': The Sheriff either isn't aware or doesn't care that the Prince of England is looking for Robin Hood. After earning a place as a finalist, he tries to fix his win and sabotage the disguised Robin's shot. Robin Hood ends up able to shoot the arrow in the center anyway, but it would rob Prince John of his opportunity to humiliate and capture Robin Hood for being the winner and the loser, as he puts it.
** After this, Prince John is furious that despite his plan, Robin gets away due to sheer luck and having allies like Little John and Cluckie. Also, all of Nottingham hates him, and the Sheriff knows it.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For the Sheriff to have more tact about the prince's losses, since Prince John is his boss and tried to kill Robin for saying the crown belonged to King Richard, and not be stupid while doing his job.\\
'''Instead''': The Sheriff overhears the "town hit," a ditty that calls Prince John "The Phony King of England," and foolishly teaches it to Sir Hiss while delivering the taxes. [[RightBehindMe Prince John happens to overhear]], and nearly hits the Sheriff with a wine glass.
** Thanks to the Sheriff's mistake about the ditty, Prince John's taxes land all of Nottingham in prison, since they can't pay their debts. Friar Tuck only has a farthing in the church's poorbox, and is doing what he can to keep the prisoners' spirits up by ringing the church bells on Sunday. \\
'''You'd Expect''': The authorities in Nottingham to remember that churches are tax exempt, and that only the Catholic Church can punish their priests. The murder and martyrdom of Thomas Beckett happened around this time, and John knows it. Also if Friar Tuck is sent abroad or even to another city for remonstrance, it means that Robin Hood and Little John can't rely on his help.\\
'''Instead''': The Sheriff pettily takes the farthing from the church's poorbox and says he's JustFollowingOrders. Friar Tuck then shoves him out of the church and starts assaulting him in a rage. Then when Friar Tuck is imprisoned for this, Prince John gets plans to hang him, "a man of the church" as Sir Hiss puts it with horror]], to lure out Robin Hood. Not only do Robin Hood and Little John rescue Friar Tuck and the debtors before the hanging can happen, but King Richard returns and makes an example of Prince John, Hiss and the Sheriff, by setting them to work in a rock pile, ostensibly for damage control with the Church.
** It's the night before Friar Tuck's scheduled hanging. The sheriff and his watch vultures have built a scaffolding. Trigger, a vulture with a crossbow that he keeps firing by accident, senses that a jailbreak is going to happen. He's completely right; Robin Hood and Little John are waiting for the prime opportunity to bust out all the inmates.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Sheriff would listen. If he's exhausted from being up at 3 in the morning, he could increase the guard retinue and instruct the rhinos and jackals to let no one into the cell, or trust the key to someone who will stay awake.\\
'''Instead''': He yells at Trigger for setting off his crossbow too many times, at Nutsy for announcing the time incorrectly and keeping him awake, and dozes off with the jail keys around his belt.\\
'''The Result''': Robin Hood and Little John incapacitate Nutsy, the Sheriff, and Trigger, in that order, break out everyone in the cells, and start robbing Prince John of his gold thanks to a makeshift assembly line.
** Dawn is breaking, which means everyone at the castle will wake soon. Robin Hood has been stealing all the gold from Prince John and Sir Hiss's bedchamber. He manages to get all of it, except for the ones that Prince John has in his bed.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Having come this far, he would just bail and leave. Robin earlier had a close call where Prince John accidentally woke up Sir Hiss by kicking him in the face.\\
'''Instead''': Robin steals the last few gold bags from Prince John's bed, including one that the prince is clutching in sleep.\\
'''The Result''': The noises that Prince John makes wakes up Sir Hiss, who sees Robin making off with the last bag of gold. Sir Hiss alerts John by accidentally dragging him out of bed and crashing him into the jail cell. Cue all the castle guards chasing down the fleeing inmates, shooting arrows even at [[WouldHurtAChild the children]], and Robin turns around to mount a rescue when he sees that in the panic that Skippy's little sister, a baby rabbit, has been left behind. He barely escapes the castle with his life, though it does increase his hero's reputation at defeating near impossible odds.
** The Sheriff leads the guards to chase down Robin Hood. Earlier, Little John stripped the Sheriff to his underwear and disarmed him.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Sheriff would grab another sword, spear, or some such weapon, from one of the other guards. He technically outranks them and should be practical about stopping the jailbreak that he ignored earlier.\\
'''Instead''': He wields a torch against a cornered Robin Hood.\\
'''The Result''': The Sheriff fails to kill Robin Hood with it and sets the entire castle on fire. This nearly kills him, Prince John, and Sir Hiss, and probably does get a number of castle residents killed.
* ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'':
** After the three good fairies take the infant Princess Aurora into hiding after a curse was placed on her in which she would fall into a deep sleep if she pricked her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, Maleficent has her henchmen look for Aurora to ensure that the incident does take place.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Her henchmen to realize that Aurora would start to get older and search for girls that would be around Aurora's age (or at least a trio of ladies that would resemble the three good fairies).\\
'''Instead:''' A good sixteen years of searching is wasted all because Maleficent's henchmen assumed that Aurora was still a baby. The villainess is understandably ticked off.
** Also, on Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Merriwether puts her foot down and insists on using magic to make Aurora's cake and gown because doing it by hand isn't going well and will appear as a mess to their foster daughter. Flora reluctantly agrees and the fairies close all the doors and windows and plug up most of the holes in the house. As Merriwether cleans up the room, she's disappointed to see that Flora has chosen pink for the dress color instead of blue.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Merriwether to wait until the dress is done, and then surreptitiously turn it blue before Flora can notice. She actually does do this later on, and Flora doesn't realize until the end of the movie.\\
'''Instead''': Merriwether carelessly turns the dress blue, and starts a color war with Flora. This alerts Diablo the crow, who sees the magic pouring out of the chimney, the ''one'' place the fairies didn't plug (which also begs the question of why they didn't double-check to make sure that they had sealed every opening in the house before using magic).\\
'''As a Result:''' Maleficent finds out Aurora's location and makes the curse come true.
** Also, the fairies return to the castle with Aurora. Aurora is still upset about not getting to see her true love again (not realizing at this point that he is, in fact, her betrothed).\\
'''You'd Expect''': The fairies would stay in the room and continue to keep an eye on Aurora until after the sun set. If they wanted to give her some time alone, they could have just moved to another corner and let her cry while still keeping watch over her since she was still vulnerable to the curse.\\
'''Instead''': The fairies decide she needs some time alone and exit the room leaving Aurora completely unattended. This gives Maleficent the perfect opportunity to make the curse come true.
* ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'':
** The Queen finds out from her magic mirror that her teen stepdaughter Snow White is the "fairest in the land". She decides MurderIsTheBestSolution after opening her curtains and seeing a random prince serenading Snow White from outside.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Queen would do the deed herself, or find an assassin who is a heartless killer that WouldHurtAChild.\\
'''Instead''': She orders her Huntsman to kill Snow White, on the pain of death. The Huntsman at first protests and begs for Snow White's life. This doesn't placate the Queen, who also demands that the Huntsman bring back Snow White's heart.\\
'''The Result''': The Huntsman tries to go through with the deed but can't do it. He apologizes to Snow White, begs for her forgiveness, and warns her that the Queen wants her dead. He shoos her into the woods and tells her to run, while he kills a pig and uses its heart instead. By the time the Queen finds out, she has to resort to trickery to get close enough to Snow White to poison her.\\
'''To Make Matters Worse''': In the expanded versions where the Queen imprisons him and the Prince -- the Huntsman for disobeying her orders, and the Prince for eyeing Snow White -- the two men bust out, and in revenge the Huntsman burns down the Queen's castle.
** The dwarfs inspect their cottage after finding out it had been broken into while they were mining. Bashful discovers some freshly-picked goldenrod flowers in a vase.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Bashful to keep the flowers away from Sneezy, since as his name suggests, Sneezy has allergies.\\
'''Instead:''' He ''shoves the flowers in Sneezy's face.'' You can see where this is going.
** Also, the dwarves near the climax leave Snow White alone at home to go to work at the mine and to surprise her with a new bed. They all warn her not to let anyone into the house or talk to strangers, since the Queen wants her head on a platter, or at least her heart in a box.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The birds and animals would appoint themselves as an informal day watch for Snow White and keep an eye out for the Queen, or anyone that may appear suspicious. The dwarves could also do this, leaving one dwarf like Dopey behind for the day until they have an alarm system in place. Dopey may be, well, Dopey but even he can swing a hammer like nobody's business. Snow White is only fourteen, and while she's an ActionSurvivor she also is too kind for her own good. The birds are shown as highly able to fly long distance in a short amount of time.\\
'''Instead:''' The dwarves do not think of leaving one of their own behind, because they don't think of changing their routine. In addition, the birds help Snow White make blueberry pies for the dwarves, setting up no guard whatsoever.\\
'''As a Result:''' When the Queen does come, disguised as an old peddler, she surprises everyone in the kitchen, animals included. The birds immediately spot the danger given the vultures and go on the attack. Snow White then shoos them away, and is forced to abide by SacredHospitality when the Queen feigns a heart attack and begs for water.
** Also, Snow White has been warned about the Queen wanting to kill her. The birds and animals have been protecting her for a good part of the movie and have good instincts.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Snow White to shed her naivete and kindness for some self-preservation instincts and trust the animals.\\
'''Instead''': Snow White gives into her kindness, shoos the birds away, and lets the peddler into the house to give her water. This gives the Queen the perfect opportunity to poison Snow White with the apple.
* ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}''
** Kala has adopted an orphaned baby human after her gorilla baby was murdered. Tarzan has since grown into an excitable child, who yearns to be like the other apes, including his adopted cousin Terk. Terk wants some alone time to hang with her friends, the other ape younglings that are their age.\\
'''You'd Expect''': She'd have told Tarzan this honestly that she doesn't want to hang with him for the moment but they can later. Tarzan would have been upset but not misled.\\
'''Instead''': Terk outpaces Tarzan and says that he can hang with the others if he can catch up. When Tarzan catches up, much to the others' annoyance, Terk facetiously says that Tarzan can't be an ape until he gets an elephant's hair, due to hearing an elephant herd bathing in the river, expecting that the ImpossibleTask would dissuade her cousin.\\
'''The Result''': Tarzan nearly wipes out while jumping into the river to get the hair, and causes an elephant stampede that endangers every animal in the area. Terk goes OhCrap and MyGodWhatHaveIDone when Kerchak confronts Tarzan, who successfully obtains a hair but gets no respect for it. The only benefit is that they befriend Tantor, a nervous elephant calf, as a result of Terk and Tarzan's foolishness.\\
'''Fortunately''': CharacterDevelopment sets in, and Terk sincerely helps Tarzan as he works to be the "best ape ever" and impress Kerchak. She's also more upfront about her feelings, especially after Tarzan manages to kill Sabor and then spends time with the humans.
** Jane is a scientist and animal artist. While in the jungle, she sketches a young baboon. The baboon is so flattered that he steals the drawing. Jane is annoyed and wants it back, though she gets her sketchbook back.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Jane to remember these are wild animals. She can just make another sketch and walk away.\\
'''Instead''': She tricks the baby into looking away and snatches away the drawing. Expectedly the baby gets upset and cries.\\
'''The Result''': The baby's cries alert its baboon pack, which nearly maul Jane. Tarzan has to rescue her, ask the baboons why they attacked her in the first place, and give back the drawing to placate the baboons.
* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'':
** Tiana has been saving up for years to buy an old sugar mill to convert into a restaurant, a dream she and her father shared. She happily tells the real estate agents at a Mardi Gras party that she's ready to sign the papers as soon as possible.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That the agents would agree with her. Tiana believes in the value of hard work, and she won't default on the mortgage.\\
'''Instead''': From the way the agents are talking, it's implied that they don't want a black woman running an establishment in 1920s New Orleans, even an honorable one that would create more publicity for their city. The agents engage in MovingTheGoalposts and claiming another buyer has the money and wants the place at full price, giving Tiana a few days to match the amount. Then they condescendingly say the work would be too much for a "woman of her station". When Tiana gets married later on, she's able to purchase the mill with the help of a friendly alligator and her royal husband, implying there was never another buyer in the first place. So they wasted her time, kickstarted the rest of the movie, and insulted new royalty all at once.
** The mayor of New Orleans has invited Prince Naveen of Maldonia to court his daughter Charlotte. Naveen's family has cut him off, so he needs to marry Charlotte to main his wealthy lifestyle. Lawrence at least tells him he can either do that or get a job like a normal person.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Naveen to do what his servant Lawrence advises and go to the mayor's house immediately. Naveen has no funds, on the practical side, and even on the etiquette side it's rude to show up late when you're a guest.\\
'''Instead:''' Naveen wanders around New Orleans, trading his crown for a cap, with a guitar and offering to buy drinks for all his new friends. Lawrence, straggling behind with his bags, can barely keep up and they don't know where they are.\\
'''As a Result:''' Dr. Facilier takes the opportunity to approach the two men and entrance them. When Lawrence tries to warn the prince that Facilier is a charlatan, the doctor shuts him up and leads them into his parlor to trick them into taking a deal. Naveen goes along with it because he thinks it's just a show, and Lawrence gets tempted into betraying the prince. As a result, Naveen is turned into a frog, and his blood is used to change Lawrence into Naveen's double so he can marry Charlotte and give half her money to Facilier.
** Later that evening, thanks to Tiana's friend Charlotte lending her a princess gown, a talking frog who calls himself Prince Naveen mistakes Tiana as a princess and believes she can undo his curse. Charlotte is supposedly dancing the night away with Naveen, the guest of honor. A freaked out Tiana asks, "If ''you'' are the prince, then ''who'' is dancing with Lottie out there?"\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Naveen to explain what happened with the Shadow Man, since he had to have seen Lawrence, his BeleagueredAssistant, disguised as him when the latter freed him from a glass jar. Thus, Tiana knows that the "Naveen" dancing with Charlotte is an imposter, and so she can warn her best friend.\\
'''Instead:''' Naveen explains, "One minute I was dancing, the next I was green," which Tiana interprets to mean that Naveen was turned into a frog after dancing with Charlotte. He also never clarifies for the rest of the movie.\\
'''As a Result:''' This lack of precise wording throws a wrench into his plans to become human again. Lawrence poses as Naveen successfully and nearly marries an unwitting Charlotte, and Tiana later on goes into a HeroicBSOD when she thinks Naveen has married Charlotte and she's had a BelatedLoveEpiphany.
** Naveen then finds a storyboook showing the "Frog Prince" fairytale and is convinced Tiana can break the spell if she kisses him. Tiana's not keen, due to a childhood disgust of frogs.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Tiana to explain that she can't kiss Naveen because she's not a princess. Her dress is just a costume for Mardi Gras. Then they could wait for Charlotte to return and explain that her prince turned into a frog and figure out what to do from there.\\
'''Instead:''' Tiana refuses on the grounds that she doesn't kiss frogs. Naveen then bribes her with money, which it turns out he doesn't have, and she gives into temptation to kiss him.\\
'''As a Result:''' This gets her turned into a frog, since only a princess could break the curse, and probably because AWizardDidIt. Naveen lampshades this when Tiana moans about her MomentOfWeakness.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'':
** It's Rapunzel's birthday, and she very clearly tells Gothel that she wants to leave the tower to see the lights that only appear on her birthday. Gothel refuses, and Rapunzel instead asks for Gothel to get her special paint that will take several days to obtain rather than reveal the person in her closet (a locked-up Flynn Rider).\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Gothel, who is a very good liar, to see through this obvious deception and make some kind of excuse to put off her trip for a day or two, causing Rapunzel to miss the lantern festival and thus be less interested in leaving for another year.\\
'''Instead:''' Gothel buys it and leaves more or less right away. Predictably, this makes Rapunzel leave the tower, setting off a chain of events that ends up [[spoiler:costing Gothel her beauty and her life.]]
** Flynn starts the movie helping to steal the crown that belongs to the Lost Princess. He wants the crown so he can buy his own island and never worry about money again.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He stay as quiet as possible when making the raid, since the guards aren't the most competent and could take hours to notice the crown is missing.\\
'''Instead:''' While stealing it, he snarks about one guard's hay fever after the latter sneezes. This reveals his and the Stabbington's brothers' plans, giving them less of a head-start to escape, and enough time for the guards to put up Wanted posters.
** Also, the horse Maximus wants the crown back, and he leads the hunt for Flynn Rider after the guards get a lead that Flynn's in a tavern with a longhaired blonde accomplice. Eventually the hunt leads Flynn, Rapunzel, Maximus and the guards to a nearby dam. Flynn and Rapunzel manage to make the long jump over a gap where the horse can't follow.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Given the dam appears old and rickety, that Maximus would find a way across without compromising its structural integrity. The guards have rope and chains, after all, and you can't arrest Flynn if you're dead.\\
'''Instead:''' Maximus kicks down a beam supporting the dam so as to create a makeshift bridge. This more than Flynn riding down on the dam's supports leads to the entire damn collapsing, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the ensuing flood nearly drowns everyone]].
** When the flood happens, Flynn and Rapunzel are barely outpacing it. The flood is causing rocks to collapse as well.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Flynn and Rapunzel would go for higher ground and stay out in the open. Rapunzel has enough upper-body strength to get herself and Flynn upward.\\
'''Instead:''' They run into a mine shaft, which is in the collapsing rock.\\
'''The Result:''' The rocks and rising water trap Flynn and Rapunzel in the dark, and for a few moments it seems like they're going to drown because they can't find an opening. If not for Rapunzel remembering that her hair glows when she sings, they would have died before their journey had begun.
** To ensure that Rapunzel will be traumatized by going outside so that she'll return to the tower, Gothel proposes an alliance with the Stabbington Brothers, as part of her BatmanGambit. She hands over the stolen crown to the Brothers, but mentions that she knows of a treasure worth several times more, and that her plan to get it would involve revenge on Flynn Rider.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That after Flynn double-crossed them the Stabbington Brothers would try to figure out the catch, and turn Gothel down. She's a random stranger who happened to have the {{MacGuffin}}. They have the crown, and have essentially cut Flynn out of the deal. They could easily go on their way and settle down.\\
'''Instead:''' They decide to trust Gothel to get their revenge, not commenting when she sings to the long-haired girl that calls her "Mother". She tricks them into [[spoiler:delivering the valuable crown to the Royal Guard with a knocked out Flynn, then double-crosses them so that they don't end up with the treasure she mentioned-- Rapunzel's healing hair]]. They realize that they messed up when Flynn confronts them and they confess it was the "old lady's" idea.
** Much later on, at the Festival of the Lanterns, Flynn realizes that he has started to fall for Rapunzel, and she has feelings for him as well. She gives him back the satchel with the crown, nullifying their earlier deal but it doesn't matter to him anymore. Just as they're about to kiss, he sees the Stabbington brothers waiting onshore. Earlier they had tried to kill him and Rapunzel to get the crown.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Flynn to point out the Stabbington brothers to Rapunzel and tell her that he's going to give the crown to them so that they won't go after her and him anymore. She may object and insist to go with him, but he in turn could point out he promised to escort her back safely to the tower, and that's what he's going to do. Also you'd expect he would tell her that if anything goes wrong to run, row away, or wield her frying pan. It's not like Rapunzel is a DamselInDistress; she can take care of herself if she knows the danger. \\
'''Instead:''' Flynn doesn't do any of this. He tells Rapunzel to wait by the boat, and goes to give the crown to the brothers without informing her of their presence.\\
'''As a Result:''' The brothers knock him out, tie him up in a boat with the crown, and make it appear to Rapunzel that he's betrayed her while delivering him to the Royal Guard. Flynn nearly gets hung, and Rapunzel's not ready to fight off two grown men while emotionally distraught.
** After all of this, Rapunzel by studying the sun handkerchief she got and the imagery she's painted all over the tower, as well as flashbacks from the Festival, realizes she's the lost princess. Rapunzel confronts Gothel, whose OhCrap response reveals that she's not really Rapunzel's mother and has been keeping her prisoner for selfish purposes.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Rapunzel by this point realizes that Gothel is a monster and possessive about her flower leaving, and thus should not make her suspicious. She should pretend to accept her mother's justifications about protecting her and hightail it out of the tower as soon as Gothel is distracted and make it back to the kingdom.\\
'''Instead:''' Rapunzel delivers an epic CallingTheOldManOut, refusing to listen to her adoptive mother and turning her back on Gothel after knocking her down. This gives Gothel, who realizes that Rapunzel will no longer listen to her, an opportunity to sneak up on her and chain her.
* ''Disney/TheTiggerMovie'':
* It's the end of fall, and everyone is preparing for a freezing winter. While Tigger is trying to find bouncing buddies, he accidentally topples a giant rock on top of Eeyore's house, a pile of sticks. Rabbit comes to help because Eeyore needs a home for the upcoming long winter, and all the toys consider Rabbit as their leader since he is the smartest.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd realize that the rock would have squashed the house flat, and build a new one. It's Eeyore's home, but it would be simpler to make a new pile of sticks.\\
'''Instead''': Rabbit orders everyone to help in moving the rock. His plan involves rudimentary physics and a pulley system to create a giant lever.\\
'''You'd Then Expect''': Rabbit would get off the top of the rock once all the ropes are secure. It's a very dangerous position. Or at the least he and the others would clear out when Tigger offers a lending bounce to move the rock.\\
'''Instead''': He stays on the rock to survey the pulley system and laughs when Tigger uses his Whoop-De-Dooper-Super-Duper-Alley-Ooper Bounce.\\
'''The Result''': The ropes entangle everyone when the rock moves, and they end up in the mud, except for Tigger and Roo, who lands safely on a tree branch. While Roo goes to Tigger and tells him he wants to learn the bounce, everyone else is mad at Tigger even though he was just doing what he could to help.
* After this, due to a series of wild events, all the toys write a letter to Tigger from "his family," because he has been searching for other Tiggers. Tigger is so happy that he thinks the family is coming the next day for a celebration, even though there was nothing like that in the letter. Everyone meets to figure out what to do, with Kanga and Owl being the sensible ones of the group after Rabbit goes to make more winter preparations since heavy snow is coming later that night.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They would tell Tigger, as they do at the end of the movie, that they wrote the letter because they love him, and they consider him part of their family. Even if they aren't Tiggers, they want him to be happy and they will try their best to be his family.\\
'''Instead''': They get the [[SarcasmMode bright idea]] to dress up as Tiggers to MaintainTheLie.\\
'''The Result''': While in a later movie Tigger looks fondly on the event, at the time he is hurt when he finds out his friends pretended to be Tiggers, as Roo's mask comes off during the party. He goes into the oncoming blizzard with only a scarf around his neck and tells them, "TTFE, Ta Ta For Ever." After some minor hesitation, Rabbit leads everyone in a search party through the snow to find Tigger, and an avalanche nearly buries them all alive after Tigger fights with them to let him find his family.
* In ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', the hero, Jim Hawkins, hears a conversation that John Silver, the only one of the ship's crew who gets along with him, will start a mutiny when they find Treasure Planet. However Scroop, a vicious crew member, taunts him about his friendship with Jim which leads Silver to claim it was just to not get him suspicious, so to not be seen to the rest of the mutineers as his weakness. After the mutiny of the ship, Jim and his partners are trapped on Treasure Planet and John Silver eventually finds them.\\
He goes alone to negotiate with Jim outside their hideout. Silver admits he said those things about Jim because if the other mutineers knew about his weakness, it would result in another mutiny against Silver and they would most likely eviscerate him and the others. Silver proposes a plan to betray his own comrades and join forces with Jim to find the treasure themselves.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jim to understand the odds of not siding with Silver and accept his plan. He may even convince Silver to bring along his friends as they can help against the mutineers. Silver finds his beloved treasure, Jim gets a share of it to rebuild his home, and his friends are A-OK. Everybody is happy.\\
'''Instead:''' He still resents him for having said those things about him (or the greed gets the better of him) and rejects the offer. He even goes as far to tell Silver he won't get a piece of HIS (Jim's) treasure as he has the map.
** Eventually, Jim (under duress from Silver) leads the shore party to the treasure room at the center of the titular planetoid.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The pirates to look around before entering the gate, and avoid anything that looks like it might set off a booby trap. Captain Flint was a pirate captain, and pirates are none too loath to give up their ill-gotten gains just because they're dead.\\
'''Instead:''' They walk right on in with their eyes glued to the giant ball of loot. [[spoiler: Flint ''did'' BoobyTrap the Treasure Planet to explode, set a trip laser across the entrance to activate it, and then ripped his servant robot's memory module out so he couldn't warn anybody about the trap.]]
* ''Disney/WreckItRalph:''
** At the 30th Anniversary party for ''Fix-It-Felix, Jr.'', Ralph, the game's villain, is trying to argue that his decoration has just as much right to be on top of the celebration cake as the others do.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Ralph to avoid doing anything to disrespect Felix, the game's hero, and the guy that every other character in the game loves.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes the decoration of Felix and plonks it right down in the mud next to the building, where his decoration originally was. The Nicelanders[[note]] NPC's of the game[[/note]] are all understandably offended.
** The Nicelanders aren't much better. While Ralph does repeatedly wreck their home as part of the game, outside of the arcade's opening hours he's actually a pretty nice guy. Also, he needs to play the bad guy role because without Ralph, there's no game.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That at some point during a period of 30 years, someone would have talked to Ralph and figured this out, and that they'd show him a bit more respect as a result. Even from a pragmatic standpoint, you shouldn't isolate or insult your coworkers when they're essential.\\
'''Instead:''' They refuse to have anything to do with him outside of gameplay. And while Felix is civil towards Ralph, he doesn't make any attempt to befriend him or build bridges between Ralph and the Nicelanders. When they refuse to invite him for the game's ''thirtieth anniversary'' and Ralph crashes the party, Gene says that Ralph isn't heroic enough to get a medal and sarcastically says he'll give him the penthouse if Ralph wins a medal.\\
'''As a Result:''' Ralph hits his RageBreakingPoint and gains a desire to become a hero, after seeing the respect and adoration Felix gets, and leaves. Not only does this nearly cause the game to be unplugged, but Ralph sets off a chain of events that nearly includes the corruption of an unrelated game, and could have wrecked the entire arcade.\\
'''Worse:''' While Felix gets a JerkassRealization when he suffers one of what Ralph handles every day of being "rejected" and treated like garbage, at no point do we see the Nicelanders acknowledge their responsibility for what happened. Sure, things were partly Ralph's fault, and [[spoiler:they do start treating him better at the end of the film]], but still.
** King Candy has a colossal one soon after he's introduced. It's revealed that he can use the KonamiCode to gain special user privileges in ''Sugar Rush'', allowing him to, among other things, take possession of any object in the game. Ralph comes into ''Sugar Rush'', and King Candy has Officers Wynchell and Duncan capture him and bring him to the castle. When asked for an explanation on what he's doing in ''Sugar Rush'', Ralph explains that he's trying to get his hands on a medal that Vanellope stole from him, and used to buy her way into a race.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' King Candy to simply hack the code to get Ralph's medal back, give it to him, and then send him on his way.\\
'''Instead:''' He lies about not being able to get it back, tries to have Wynchell and Duncan forcibly remove Ralph from the game and then expects him to stay out afterwards. The result is that Ralph escapes from his clutches, and stays in Sugar Rush long enough to team up with Vanellope (in order to get his medal back), and ends up causing King Candy quite a bit of trouble that he could have avoided if he'd just given the medal back in the first place.\\
'''Worse Still:''' King Candy does resort to this, but only after Ralph has forged a bond with Vanellope and thus has a greater investment in her success than he would have if King Candy had been polite about the intrusion to begin with.
** In the scene after King Candy tells Ralph what will happen after Vallenope wins the race, Ralph is upset and Vanellope discovers he has his medal:\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Vanellope to listen to Ralph and understand why she can't win the race.\\
'''Instead:''' She gets angry at Ralph and calls him a traitor.
** Ralph then decides to explain why she can't race: if she finishes high enough, she'll become a selectable character, but players will see her glitching. Because of that, gamers might think the game's broken and it'll be unplugged, killing Vanellope as a result.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Vanellope to actually take this explanation seriously.\\
'''Instead:''' She pretty much ignores it and insists on racing, even when Ralph had warned her of the consequences of doing so.\\
'''As a Result:''' Ralph is practically forced, against his own wishes, to trash the kart.
** After retrieving his medal, Ralph returns to his own game, only to learn from Gene that after Felix disappeared trying to find him, all the Nicelanders have abandoned it, knowing that the game will be unplugged in the morning. When Gene asks what Ralph was hoping to gain from this, Ralph explains that he didn't want to have to live alone in the garbage.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Gene would realise that he and the Nicelanders also had a role in causing this mess, and either apologise to Ralph or acknowledge it.\\
'''Instead:''' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint "Now you can live alone in the penthouse."]]
** The racers of ''Sugar Rush'' have previously been downright ''horrible'' to Vanellope, who eventually ends up in the perfect position to make them suffer for what they did. The racers acknowledge that what they did was wrong, and Vanelope starts to talk about what she'll do to them.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That it would occur to the racers that whatever Vanellope has planned for them is probably going to suck.\\
'''Instead:''' They get EXCITED, then gasp in shock when Vanellope declares that she'll have them all killed. [[spoiler: Luckily for them, she's just joking.]]

!!Pixar Films

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''
** The whole plot kicks off when Queen Elinor receives notification that three tribes will send suitors to win her daughter Merida's hand. Merida's not keen on the idea, and the two have a row about it. Fergus convinces Elinor to practice speaking with him as if he's Merida, and Merida carries on a similar conversation with her horse Angus.
*** '''You'd expect''': Elinor after practicing talking to Merida with Fergus would seek her daughter out, and Merida would do the same. They both have good intentions, each not trying to hurt the other, and they can find middle ground, which they later do find.\\
'''Instead''': Elinor keeps her words to herself while dressing up Merida for the occasion, and Merida keeps her mouth shut in hopes of devising a means out of the situation. Merida invokes LoopholeAbuse to win her own hand which threatens a four-way war, Elinor in a fury throws her daughter's bow into the fire, and Merida runs away in tears.
** A worse mess ensues because Merida meets a stranger, who she soon realizes is a druid. Despite knowing ''absolutely nothing'' about magic, she bargains with this stranger for a spell to "change her fate". \\
'''You'd Expect:''' Merida to listen to the witch about "unhappy customers" and her hints of warning such as, "Are you sure you know what you're asking for?" She could take her time to think about the wording of the spell as well if she's going to go through with it, since "change" can lead to so many possibilities. Witches were also considered ''wisewomen'', so she could simply pay for advice on how to get out of an ArrangedMarriage.\\
'''Instead:''' Even after the druid ominously warns her that all magic has consequences, Merida insists on purchasing the spell, as well as all the witch's carvings, and pays no mind to the hints that the witch is dropping. Then the spell turns her mother into a BrainwashedAndCrazy bear.
** Following this, Merida seeks to undo the spell by going back to the witch's cottage with her mother. That in itself is reasonable, but the witch has left behind a message with potions and a CurseEscapeClause that is coded with vagueness.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Merida would become a little more cautious about magic.\\
'''Instead:''' She immediately tries to fix her mother by...grabbing potions at random and pouring them into a nearby hearth. As her previous experience with magic clearly shows, this only makes the problem worse. [[note]]Really, Merida's lucky that her antics ''only'' ended up terrifying herself, her mother and forcing them to sleep outside for the night.[[/note]]
** Once Merida and her mother figure out the CurseEscapeClause that the witch left behind, Merida realizes that she has to mend the tapestry that she ripped earlier with her sword in a fury. That means going back to the castle, getting the tapestry, and sewing it.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Merida to have her mother wait outside the castle after the latter shows her the secret entrance, and mend the tapestry quickly before bringing it out to drape over her mother. As Merida put it earlier, Bear!Elinor in Fergus's castle is as good as dead if anyone sees her, and Elinor could easily revert into wild bear form as she did by the river.\\
'''Instead''': Merida brings her mother with her, and barely gets her into the room with the tapestry. While Elinor helps Merida negotiate a compromise with the lords with some creative charades, she also reverts to bear form just when Fergus discovers his wife's torn dress in their room and Merida needs her mother's help to find the needle and thread. Fergus on seeing what he thinks is a wild bear attacking his daughter, and Merida defending said bear, draws his sword and a fight ensues. The end result is that Fergus is on the bear hunt again, Merida and her mother haven't mended the tapestry or broken the curse, and the sunrise deadline is closer than ever. Merida then has to stop her father from killing her mother, and mend the tapestry on horseback.
** Also after this happens Merida tearfully confesses to Fergus what happened with the spell and the witch.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Fergus to take a moment to listen to his daughter, since even though he doesn't believe in magic it's odd that someone like [[ActionGirl Merida]] would protect a bear that slashed her, not to mention that said bear ran off in a fright after attacking him and her which isn't what Mordu did.\\
'''Instead''': Fergus pays no mind at all to what Merida says and locks her in the tapestry room for her "safety". He leads the lords on a bear hunt and nearly kills his wife. He then fights Merida when she stops him from shooting Bear!Elinor and cuts off his wooden leg, instead of listening to her, until the triplets tackle him in bear cub form and confirm her story, which makes him vulnerable when Mordu, the actual bear threat, appears.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}''
** The BigBad is a lemon mob boss with a civil face. His plot is to sabotage the view of alternative fuels so that cars will switch to gasoline indefinitely while an oil rig in the mob's hands is being developed. [[spoiler:The BigBad is revealed as Sir Miles Axlerod, who manipulates the other lemon mobsters by talking about how others mock them and hate them, since they are prone to leaking and breaking down]].\\
'''You'd Expect''': He would keep his cover and not retain any evidence that he's with them.\\
'''Instead''': [[spoiler:Sir Miles uses gasoline and oil, and not alternative fuels, in his car. He also leaks at the big party in Japan, which he has to blame on Mater. To top it all off, the bomb strapped to Mater in the climax is done with wet-work bolts, the same bolts used in his faulty engine, and voice-activated by him]].\\
'''The Result''': Mater gets a EurekaMoment and puts all these little clues together. He and Lightning fly and confront [[spoiler: Axlerod. To get him to deactivate the time bomb, Mater corners Axelrod after doing his KirkSummation and makes him give the voice command to save both their lives. Axlerod is caught and taken into custody, when not even Agents Finn and Holly had suspected him]].
** The American agent Rod "Torque" Redline got a picture of the BigBad. He's in disguise at the Japanese race of the Grand Prix. He has to get the picture to Finn, whom he knows by name. Unfortunately, the lemons are onto him.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Rod would stay in disguise, in a public place where he can't be cornered, and use the TrustPassword that all the spies know.\\
'''Instead''': He goes into the bathroom and sheds his disguise.\\
'''The Result''': The lemons corner him and start beating him up. Holly, who's been ordered to meet with him, doesn't want to go into the men's room and doesn't reach him in time. It's only due to Mater struggling with the foreign toilets that Mater doesn't overhear the struggle, and Rod takes the time to plant the picture on Mater as the latter leaves. Then the lemons capture Rod, torture him to find out where the picture went, and [[spoiler:murder him]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'':
** After traveling with Ernesto for months in order to find inspiration, Héctor becomes homesick that he decided to quit touring with his best friend. \\
'''You'd Expect''': For Ernesto to agree with parting ways with his old friend. While he lacked the ability to write songs, he was handsome, charismatic, talented at singing and playing guitar, and the two were already on the cusp of fame when Héctor decided to go home. He should consider hiring a songwriter to help himself if he ever needed new material to write down.\\
'''Instead''': He kills Héctor with a poisoned tequila and stole his songs from him.
** Having successfully stole Hector's songs and goes out unscathed, Ernesto has lived the luxury of his life and just to flaunt his ego even further, he decides to put a recording of himself in...\\
'''You'd Expect:''' ...his final performance before getting crushed by a bell?\\
'''Instead:''' Nope, he decides to put a footage of him sharing one last drink with Hector with him as the victim. This clues both Hector and Miguel and realize that Hector never left his family at all but was actually murdered and allows them to realize his true colors.
** Just as Ernesto was about to give Miguel his blessings about pursuing your own goals over family, Hector arrives and pleads with him to put his own photo. However, before Ernesto could contemplate on this, Miguel and Hector watch the footage and realize that he murdered Hector before he was about to go back to his family which cause him to reveal his true colors as a sociopath in front of them.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That he would rip the photo apart in front of Miguel as prove that he will forever be forgotten or if he can't do that, put it somewhere where the crowd will never find such as either his vault or into the sea.\\
'''Instead:''' He puts the photo right in his pocket which allow the Riveras to retrieve it back and inadvertently expose the man he truly is and he will now forever be condemned as a fraud who stole the one who created them.
* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'':
** The dentist plans on offering Nemo to his young niece as a gift. Unfortunately Darla is an uneducated SpoiledBrat who accidentally killed her last fish when she wouldn't stop shaking the bag. \\
'''You'd Expect:''' The dentist to offer her something she can't accidentally kill, or at least teach her how to properly care for her pets to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again. \\
'''Instead:''' He decides to go ahead and offer Nemo to her anyway.
** In order to escape the dentist, Nemo plays dead while inside the bag. Just as the Tank Gang are relief that he's going to get flushed down the toilet, the dentist thinks of putting him in the trash can instead. At that time, Nigel arrives with Marlin, the fish's father and Dory, who were searching for him on their journey. \\
'''You'd Expect''': Nemo to open his eyes in between the events so that he'll know of Marlin searching for him and feel relief of the news. \\
'''Instead''': He keeps up the act even during the chaos from Nigel entering the office. When the dentist drops the bag, Marlin saw him and left to believe he died before the dentist forces him, Dory, and Nigel out. Nemo opened his eyes too late to see his father came just for him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'':
** In a world where the dinosaurs survived and have become settlers, Henry and his wife have three children. TheRuntAtTheEnd, Arlo, is trying to earn his mark like his older siblings by feeding the hens. The only problem? The hens keep attacking him. He also messes up his siblings' chores while running from the chickens. Eventually Arlo gets tired of this and tries to face the hens and shove down his fear.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That his siblings wouldn't mess up Arlo's chances. Or, alternatively, they could help him not fear them because while his fear is rational, it does make him TheMillstone.\\
'''Instead''': Buck, a BigBrotherBully, plays a prank on Arlo with the hens, which messes him up. He then knocks over Arlo when the latter gets understandably angry at him. This ends up starting a chain of events that leads to the father Henry dying and the family farm going to ruin.
** After this point the whole family sees Arlo raging at Buck. It's obvious that Buck played a prank on Arlo and has sabotaged the one time he's tried not to be scared.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Henry and his wife would give Buck a WhatTheHellHero speech and to help Arlo work smarter, not harder. The siblings should be supporting each other, and Arlo needs more time and confidence to make his mark.\\
'''Instead''': Buck doesn't get lectured, making him a KarmaHoudini because JerkassHasAPoint. While Henry does cheer up Arlo by taking him out at night to see fireflies, he decides it would be a ''bright'' idea to have his youngest son capture a pest that's getting into their food, rather than help him with the hens. Arlo when he sees the pest, a tiny human he names Spot, can't kill it and frees it. Then when this happens, Henry takes him on a trip that ends up killing Henry and stranding Arlo far away from home. Arlo then has to make the trip with the human Spot, while dealing with his dad's death.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''
** As a result of being sued by the public as a whole [[UngratefulBastard despite having their lives saved]], all the heroes have to go into hiding, making them unable come into action when a supervillain shows up.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Realizing that there are no more superheroes to stop them, the villains would team up and declare an all out war against the world and thanks to the superheroes negative reputation, can either kill off mass number of people or commit several bank heists unhindered.\\
'''Instead:''' For some reason, the villains also just as mysteriously disappear with the sole exception of Syndrome giving the general public even more reason to hate on the heroes because they blame them for any disasters going on essentially making the whole populace a massive KarmaHoudini.
** The supers following a series of lawsuits have to go underground; the government helps them build civilian identities and find new jobs.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The government would put supers in jobs that they want to do, and where they will excel and where they won't arouse suspicion. Bob would do great as a cop or firefighter, for example, due to his durability and desire to help people, and no one would think twice of him helping to carry fire victims due to his bulk. A private business owner (like Syndome) could easily hire away supers to use their powers as secret police or for an army, and that would be a liability.\\
'''Instead''': The government job placement is incredibly terrible. Bob is stuck in one dead-end office job after another; his latest is working for a CorruptCorporateExecutive who hates that insurance clients are finding loopholes to get the claim they want. Bob ends up [[KickTheSonOfABitch sending that executive through about ten walls after the latter refuses to let him help a man getting mugged outside]], and [[RealityEnsues the loss of his job]] makes him vulnerable and desperate enough to accept the mysterious offer from Mirage. Judging by the number of other supers that [[spoiler:Syndome has hired away and killed]], the government has been doing a terrible job with it.
** Due to the malicious job placements for supers, Bob loses his position at the insurance company. [[UnconfessedUnemployment He doesn't dare tell Helen this]], or that he's accepted a better paying position with a private employer that knows his secret identity. This new job pays triple his previous salary, which is enough to buy two new cars, and makes him happy. [[spoiler:He doesn't know that his employer Syndrome will kill him in good time.]]\\
'''You'd Expect''': That eventually he would tell Helen that he "got transferred" to another company, or at least to give her updated contact information for when he goes to the island to do odd jobs. This way if there's an emergency, like Jack Jack running a fever or the kids being in trouble, then she can contact him and he can jet back to the mainland.\\
'''Instead''': Bob never tells Helen or gives her updated contact information, which he admits that he should have with hindsight. When [[spoiler:Syndrome tries to kill him]], he has no way of calling for backup, since Helen was also a hero and as it turns out a licensed pilot. Helen as a result finds out much later that he was fired, and has no way of contacting him when suspecting him of having an affair. Edna Mode tells her to activate the tracking device in his new suit, which causes Bob to get caught [[spoiler:and tortured when Syndrome thinks that Mr. Incredible is dead]].
** Following this, Syndrome profiles all of his super victims so that his robot can be the perfect patsy for his [[spoiler:EngineeredHeroics ploy]]. Mr. Incredible for him is a personal project, given Incredible was once his hero and who disappointed him in a BrokenPedestal moment.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Syndrome would keep all tabs on Mr. Incredible, including finding out about his family and their powers. This isn't just being a collector; super powers are genetic, which means his family might be able to save Mr. Incredible, and Syndrome can anticipate setbacks to killing and later imprisoning Incredible.\\
'''Instead''': Syndrome leaves this up to Mirage, who discreetly leaves Mr. Incredible's family out of the picture when sending Syndrome his information; it's implied that EvenEvilHasStandards given her horror when Syndrome plans to blow up a plane [[spoiler:with children aboard-- INCREDIBLE'S CHILDREN]]. This allows Helen to save herself and the kids given she's Elastigirl, something Syndrome finds out much later, and for Violet to bust her family out of their force-field prison.
** Helen after Bob finds his new purpose is at first pleased. He stops coming home late at night covered in ashes, gets into shape, gives her a lot more loving and a new car, and spends more time with the kids. Then she finds a hair on one of his business suits, a long white hair. Suspicious, she listens into a phone call where a strange woman asks Bob to come over. Then she notices Bob's old suit got repaired, and only Edna Mode would have done it. Edna then shows her all the prototypes that she designed for the entire family, factoring in their powers. When a confused Helen asks for an explanation, Edna gives her the tracking device to Bob's new suit, which reveals that Bob is on a remote island.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Helen would put all the red flags together: Bob not doing illicit hero work that leaves ashes on his clothes, his old suit getting mended and replaced by Edna Mode, and their improved sex life. He's somehow found a way to reignite his old passion of doing heroics.\\
'''Instead''': Helen assumes Bob is having midlife crisis -- which is true-- and an affair -- which isn't true. After she breaks down in tears in front of Edna, the latter encourages her to go find Bob and kick the crap out of him.\\
'''The Result''': Helen goes to the island without any planned backup, though she calls in a favor from Snug to get a plane. If Violet and Dash hadn't impulsively stowed away, after they get a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass babysitter for their brother, then Helen would have been trying to rescue her husband completely alone, with no one knowing where she was. [[AdultFear Including their kids]].
** Mirage after [[spoiler:Syndrome gambles with her life decides to pull a HeelFaceTurn. It helps that she learns that several unknown people survived the plane crash. She goes to free Mr. Incredible, who has spent the night in his restraints thinking his entire family died.]]\\
'''You'd Expect''': She would remember that she isn't the most trustworthy person to him after she lied to him about everything, and that he threatened to kill her once already. She should [[spoiler:tell him that his family's alive, and keep a safe distance away after freeing him]].\\
'''Instead''': She frees Mr. Incredible first, goes straight to him, and whispers for him to move fast before they're both caught.\\
'''The Result''': Mr. Incredible strangles her in a grieving rage before she can tell him his family's alive. She's pretty lucky that he didn't snap her neck off the bat, as he had threatened to earlier.
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'':
** Several months after Syndrome terrorized the city with his robot and the supers came out of hiding to save everyone, the public opinion towards supers is finally changing after a decade. Mr. Dicker in the previous film promised the Incredibles family that while Congress argues out the red tape, the family has nothing to worry about during the transition. In the meantime, the villains return and are too much for the police or ordinary military to handle.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Congress would quickly pass a law of pardon for supers. This isn't rocket science; they are needed, practically speaking.\\
'''Instead''': Mr. Dicker gets fired and the supers are still considered overpowered vigilantes. Which means that every time the family dons their masks, they are risking their lives ''and'' breaking the law.\\
'''The Result''': The Incredibles family is put through the wringer after they work to stop the Underminer, with Violet in particular getting the short end of the stick. When a PR executive hires Elastigirl to be the new face of super heroes, she lampshades that she has to break the law to do her new job. [[spoiler:When a new villain comes that vows to destroy the supers once and for all, they're pretty much unbeatable.]]
** During the Underminer rampage, Bob tells the kids to stay out of the fight. Helen hands off Jack Jack's stroller, and Dash quickly runs to leave Violet with the baby and set up a perimeter. Violet's unhappy about being saddled with babysitting duty.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Violet would keep her mask on; it's the first rule Helen taught her about being a hero.\\
'''Instead''': She throws it off in a fury.\\
'''The Result''': An InnocentBystander sees her without her mask. Which happens to be the boy who asked her out on a date at the track meet, Tony Rydinger.
** Tony freaks out and ran because he was surprised from seeing Violet in the suit, without her mask. Violet feels awful and doesn't know what to do.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Violet would keep quiet of the discovery and trust him to keep her secret safe, or talk with him privately later about being in "drama class" with tights as she attempts later, or about the truth. After all, he's nice enough not to tell anyone about it, especially from his parents. Who knows? With her secret revealed to him, that should bring them closer together.\\
'''Or''': If she wanted him to forget about it, she should tell her father, Bob, about what happened and be specific on the event that needs to be erased from his mind. Also, she should tell him about her relationship with Tony just to be safe. \\
'''Instead''': She told Bob about the discovery without telling him of her relationship with Tony, nor what memory needs to be erased from his mind.\\
'''The Result''': Assuming Tony is just a civilian blackmailing/threatening his daughter's secret, Bob told Mr. Dicker to wipe all of Tony's memories of Violet, which he did. This means he stands her up accidentally because he forgot their date. Violet yells at her father when she finds out, and tries to destroy her super suit. When Mr. Dicker hears from Bob, he apologetically says that memory wipes are imprecise and implies it can't be undone. Bob tries his best to fix the situation, but ends up making his daughter feel worse by taking the family out to a place where Tony works part-time. Violet finally decides to move on by talking to Tony one-on-one and getting another date with him, starting a new relationship.
** It's revealed that the villain's motivation is [[spoiler:to destroy the Supers once and for all, by mindcontrolling them into terrorizing ordinary people, because her father died due to underground supers not responding to his distress call]]. Note that Supers are still illegal, and a tech CEO wants to bring them back so that no more preventable tragedies will happen. [[spoiler:Said BigBad is the CEO's sister, whose family was the victim of a preventable tragedy]].\\
'''You'd Expect''': [[spoiler:They would realize that the Supers weren't to blame for their father's death. Supers weren't allowed to use the emergency distress call phones, and as we saw with Mr. Incredible, trying to save lives discreetly is ''very dangerous'' for Supers and ordinary people alike]].\\
'''Instead''': They use InsaneTrollLogic to justify [[spoiler:supposedly supporting their brother's attempts to restore the Supers, only to turn on him and his new hires and get their "revenge" for their father]].\\
'''The Result''': Their actions ensue [[spoiler:that the Supers are made legal again. On top of their, their relationship with their brother is destroyed]].
** On that mark, [[spoiler:Evelyn in a fit of EvilGloating reveals that she considers herself the responsible sibling to Winston's foolish sibling, saying he's a child who equates having superheroes with having good parents. Part of her plan involves having a boat crash with all the international supers and their ambassadors, and sparing Winston by dragging him aboard an escape plane. And she knows he believes in the supers and the good they can do]].\\
'''You'd Expect''': If trying to [[spoiler: "save" her brother then she'd have restraints handy to keep him on the plane once he gets the gist of the situation. Such as, I don't know, the same goggles she used on Helen and her brother's supers team, or even a handy rope to tie him to one of the seats. As we saw, she knows her brother's idealistic to a fault.]]\\
'''Instead''': She [[spoiler:drags Winston onto her escape jet fully conscious and gives him enough information for him to figure out that she's the Screenslaver and plans to let everyone die on the ship. In other words, she destroyed everything he was working for, including his good intentions, and didn't consider he would take it personally]].\\
'''The Result''': Winston predictably [[spoiler:refuses to go along with his sister's plan and jumps back onto the boat, breaking her hypnosis screens and preferring to save everyone or die trying. By that time Evelyn can't grab him because she has to fly, so as far as she knows she killed her brother. At the end when she gets arrested, he apologizes to the supers for Evelyn did, lets the Parrs stay in his fancy house while still employing the parents, and implies he's going to testify against her for what she did, even if with her connections she'll get "a slap on the wrist"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' has a few moments as well.
** While making the long trek back to headquarters, Joy and Sadness run into workers that send an EarWorm as a joke through recall tubes.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Joy would send several of the core memories up to tide Anger, Disgust and Fear using those same tubes, as ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'' noted, so that the remaining personality islands don't collapse as Sadness and Joy make the long trek back, using the Train of Thought. \\
'''Instead''': Joy insists that she has to personally take the core memories back to headquarters, not even letting the possibility cross her mind since the core memories are too valuable. This oversight ends up costing her and Sadness crucial time; when she [[spoiler: thinks to use the recall tubes to transport herself and the memories much later on, they collapse due to Honesty Island collapsing at the same time.]]
** Bing Bong points out a "shortcut" that says "DANGER- Keep Out". Bing Bong can't read, but Joy very well can. Sadness realizes what the danger is and warns Joy not to go in.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Joy would listen to Sadness's worries and bypass the "shortcut," given the sign and all.\\
'''Instead''': Joy and Bing Bong go in, with Sadness reluctantly following to help them out when they get turned into abstract thought. CessationOfExistence nearly ensues.
** The Train of Thought stops for the night, since Riley needs sleep. Joy is frantic since without the train they have a long journey ahead of them. They sneak into the dream-making studios to try and wake Riley up.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Each emotion has alternating dream shift duty; Joy in fact was on one, and the dreams tend to be repetitive. Joy and Sadness after crashing the dream could try and send a message to Fear, Anger or Disgust through the images to not do anything rash and that Joy and Sadness are on their way back to headquarters. The dream has a WeirdnessCensor, but even Fear can see through most of it and criticize the quality.\\
'''Instead''': Joy and Sadness only focus on waking Riley up, and Fear has no idea what's going on when he sees the strange nightmares that the other two emotions cause. Anger and Disgust chide him for waking Riley up during a nightmare, not realizing Joy's intentions due to miscommunication, and plant the idea for Riley to run away.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':
** Sulley and Mike are busy running like hell when they discovered Randall's scheme in extracting the screams from children like force in which that's what he planned to do to Boo.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Mike to continue running without saying anything that would complicate things further.\\
'''Instead''': He shouts out "Goodbye, Monsters Inc. Goodbye, Mr. Waternoose," while running which made Sulley attempting to approach Waternoose to expose Randall's actions. Unfortunately for him, Waternoose is conspiring with Randall and has him and Mike banished to the Himalayas.
** After being banished to the Himalayas, Mike chews out Sulley for his plan.\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Sulley to listen to what Mike has to say.\\
'''Instead''': He still ignores him in his misery, prompting an enraged Mike to tackle him all the way down.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'':
** Alfredo Linguini, a young clumsy man whose mother has died recently, comes to Gusteau's asking for a job. Chef Skinner doesn't like him, but he accepts his second-in-command hiring Linguini for the menial garbage boy position. However, while mopping he accidentally knocks a pot of soup over.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Linguini to take responsibility for the mistake and promise to be more careful in future. It's not likely that he'd be fired for a single relatively minor mistake.\\
'''Instead''': Linguini on an impulse decides to recreate by throwing in random ingredients making the soup taste terrible. He nearly gets fired because Chef Skinner catches him with a ladle in his hand, and would have lost his job if Remy hadn't been watching and fixed the soup in record time. Chef Skinner decides to hold a grudge against Linguini as a result and watch him closely while hiring him as a chef on probation.
** Following this, Linguini and Remy form an alliance so that Remy can cook for Linguini in the kitchen. They come up with a system so that when Remy pulls on Linguini's hair, Linguini's body moves like a marionette.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Linguini while working with Remy would start writing the recipes down, or figure out a way to communicate with the rat. Remy can't write but he can read, and Linguini can understand most of his miming. Practically speaking there may be occasions of them getting separated, or even Linguini wanting to give Remy a night off. If on the off-chance their relationship goes sour, which it does, Linguini will be able to tell the other chefs how to replicate the dishes like Linguini's Sweetbread. Linguini also has the capability to take notes and listen, as he does when Collette mentors him.\\
'''Instead''': Linguini doesn't think this far ahead. While he accuses Remy of treating him like a puppet after a silly argument over the press and the reviewer Anton Ego and then [[spoiler:kicks him out of the kitchen when Remy leads hordes of rats into the restaurant out of spite, the next day]] he realizes that without "Little Chef"'s recipes the kitchen can't function and impress Ego with a new dish. [[spoiler: ''Collette'' manages to do this, by cooking alongside Remy when she talks to him and he shows her his way of making ratatouille.]]
** After customers tire of Linguini's soup, they ask him to make something new. Skinner is shocked, and suspicious that Linguini is SmarterThanYouLook after reading the letter from Renata that Linguini is [[spoiler:Gusteau's son. Skinner is waiting on a DNA test to see if this is true.]]\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Skinner would realize that sabotaging Linguini on preparing a new dish could easily cause the restaurant to lose another star. \\
'''Instead''': Skinner spitefully orders Colette and Linguini to prepare a sweetbread recipe that Gusteau considered "a disaster". He hopes this will discredit Linguini, at the cost of the restaurant's reputation. Fortunately, Remy fixes the recipe and prepares it before Colette can stop "Linguini" from changing it. Skinner only then realizes how "good" this is and the near miss he had, before interrogating Linguini with wine.
** After the night of success with changing a sweetbread recipe, and Remy reuniting with his family, he returns to the restaurant to find Linguini passed out on the kitchen floor after a night of cleaning while drunk. Remy hears Collette entering as well.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Remy to let Collette find Linguini sleeping. It's not a bad thing given the kitchen is clean and that he performed double duty as garbage boy and chef, which means that to Collette either Linguini is a dedicated worker or the boss's puppy to kick.\\
'''Instead''': Remy uses his marionette skills and a pair of sunglasses to feign that Linguini is awake, and Collette takes offense with how Linguini won't talk about his night talking to the boss since if not for her, he wouldn't have made it so far.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':
** A major moment of this type occurs in the first movie. Buzz and Woody are trying to find Andy when they see that their only chance is to use a Pizza Planet delivery vehicle, a small pickup truck. Woody wants the two of them to ride in the bed, notifying that "no one will see them there." However, Buzz warns him that "There are no restraining harnesses in the cargo area." As it turns out, despite Woody's warnings, there apparently happens to be a stack of pizza packages between the driver's seat and the passenger's, which is enough to obscure Buzz from the driver's view.\\
'''You'd expect''': Woody would realize that Buzz has a point and to sit somewhere in the front where the humans won't see him.\\
'''Instead''': He still chooses his idea of hiding from the humans, which is to sit in the bed; with disastrous consequences.
** Later on, when Buzz gets separated from Woody on the moving truck, Woody plans on using RC to drive him back.\\
'''You'd expect''': Woody to tell the rest of Andy's toys that Buzz is out there and to prove it by using Lenny (a pair of toy binoculars). That way the rest of the toys can help him bring Buzz back to the truck.\\
'''Instead''': He doesn't say a thing and the moment he pushes RC off the truck, the rest of the toys, still upset that he knocked Buzz out the window, turn on him. Their antics almost cause Buzz to get knocked off RC and they eventually throw Woody off the truck. When they look through the binoculars and realize he's telling the truth, all their subsequent efforts fail.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'':
** Near the beginning, Woody has ended up found by a toy collector named Al in Yard Sale while trying to save another toy from being sold, but Andy's mom refuses to sell him as he is still her son's favorite toy.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Mrs. Davis to hold onto Woody or take him back up to Andy's room.\\
'''Instead:''' She merely locks him in her money chest for the yard sale and leaves. Al distracts Mrs. Davis by knocking over some stuff with a skateboard and then picks the lock to the chest and steals Woody.
** In the middle of the film, the toys are looking for Woody in 'Al's Toy Barn', where early on, Rex picks up a magazine that tells him how to defeat Emporer Zurg in the 'Buzz Lightyear' Video Game, and then afterwards, they get a toy van to explore the toy store's different aisles in, with a 'Tour Guide Barbie' on the wheel. During all this, Rex is spending time looking at his magazine in the back seat.\\
'''You'd Expect''': that Rex keeps the big magazine to himself without doing anything to disrupt Tour Guide Barbie while she is at the wheel.\\
'''Instead''': Upon finding something on the magazine that tells him how to defeat Zurg, he -for no good reason- shoves the whole magazine in front of the driver's view, resulting in them accidentally hitting a large tub of bouncy balls, further causing the van to spin out of control and for Rex to have his 'Source of power,' the magazine fly out of his 'little arms' and underneath one of the lower shelves out of his reach. He even almost gets left behind as he tries to catch up with the van that veered off without him.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''
** Andy is leaving for college, and his mother tells him he has to clear out his room. She gives him instructions that garbage bags hold trash, like his apple core, and cardboard boxes hold sentimental items for storage in the attic. \\
'''You'd Expect''': Andy to follow his mother's instructions. Despite having outgrown all of his toys, he's deeply attached to the ones that survived his childhood.\\
'''Instead''': He puts his toys in a garbage bag and leaves them below the attic door. Mrs. Davis on seeing the bag puts it in the trash. Later, Andy can't find his toys, and when he explains to his mother, she goes OhCrap. Fortunately, [[spoiler:the toys make it back before Andy leaves for college, and he thinks he just misplaced them, but still!]]
** Woody runs with a pair of scissors to save his friends, who manage to escape the garbage truck. By the time he catches up, however, they believe that Andy has abandoned them. Jessie is particularly hurt since it triggered her abandonment issues and claustrophobia. Woody tells them that Andy was putting them in the attic.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That they would believe Woody, and return to the attic on their own, before Andy notices they're gone.\\
'''Instead''': The toys don't believe Woody, especially since Andy's taking him to college. Jessie decides to go with Molly's abandoned Barbie to the local daycare. [[spoiler:They soon find that the daycare is a FalseUtopia for new toys, and its leader Lotso won't let them return when Mrs. Potato Head sees through her missing eye that Andy is looking for them. Jessie apologizes to Woody when he comes back for them, lampshading that the toys were wrong.]]
** Lotso explains to Buzz how the "system" at Sunnyside works and offers to let Buzz join his team and live in luxury in the Butterfly Room. Buzz doesn't question the system, accepting that it "makes sense," but declines the offer because he refuses to leave his friends.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Lotso would say, "Okay," and let Buzz go willingly back to the Caterpillar Room (where Lotso originally planned for him to go in the beginning) with his friends. There's no threat of rebellion at this point (just the opposite, in fact!), no danger to his system continuing to run as it always has. Buzz and the rest of Andy's toys still see him as a benevolent leader doing what's best for everyone.\\
'''Instead''': Buzz unknowingly triggers Lotso's BerserkButton when he uses the family justification, and brainwashes Buzz into serving him purely out of spite. He then goes and informs the rest of Andy's toys that they're not allowed to leave, revealing that them ending up in the Caterpillar Room wasn't a mistake and that Sunnyside "isn't a family, it's a prison," which, of course, leads to the rebellion that he tries to have Buzz stop, even though it was triggered by Lotso brainwashing Buzz and having him attack the others.



!!Animated Series

The following shows have their own pages:

* WhatAnIdiot/DuckTales2017
* WhatAnIdiot/GravityFalls
* WhatAnIdiot/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'':
** Genie often falls under this trope. One example that comes to mind is the episode ''I Never Mechanism I Didn't Like''. Genie miniaturizes himself so he can get inside a robot to disable it. The villain of the episode responds by sending a miniature robot after Genie.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Genie would poof himself back to his normal size and skoosh the robot.\\
'''Instead:''' He stays small and lets it chase him around.
** In the same episode, Genie discovers he can reverse the villain's mind control. After freeing Aladdin, they set off to kick the villain's butt and save Agrabah.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Genie would use what he discovered to release everyone else.\\
'''Instead:''' He leaves everyone else under the villain's mind control, forcing Aladdin to fight them off. And you thought Aladdin was lazy.
** In "When Chaos Comes Calling" Agrabah is targeted by a godlike entity who's apparently the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Chaos and frenemy with Fate. While Chaos pranks the palace, Genie does little more than shiver in fear. When Jasmine wants to step in, Genie warns her that Chaos has "more power in his whisker than a palace full of Genies"\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jasmine to be very apprehensive and not do anything to provoke Chaos' wrath until if/when she has some sort of leverage over the God of chaos and enemy of order.\\
'''Instead:''' She foolishly orders Chaos to stop, he doesn't take it well to put it mildly.
*** Surprisingly, such leverage is later delivered on a silver plate. After Chaos had bragged about how his godlike powers have saved the citizens of Agrabah from boredom, Iago promptly yells that with all the things happening all the time boredom is the ''least'' of their problems. [[GuileHero Aladdin]] immediately sees how to take advantage of the situation and asks Genie to show Chaos they're not boring.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That Genie will keep advertising Agrabah as a CityOfAdventure for as long as it takes to send the message that they don't need his services.\\
'''Instead''': Midways through the advertisement, Genie lets it slip that [[InvincibleHero Aladdin never loses]].\\
'''The Result''': Unimpressed, Chaos chews out at Aladdin and accuses him of being blessed by fate (read: a Mary Sue). He then forces Aladdin to a MirrorMatch.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
** "The Fremergency Fronfract": Hater is at the dentist getting a chipped tooth treated, and Hater through a mouthful of dental rubberbands shouts that Wander is to blame. After they sedate him with electric shocks, the dental assistant asks Hater who his emergency contact is.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Peepers to be the emergency contact on the paperwork, and to have been waiting already to pick his boss up. Dental treatment in the galaxy isn't that much different from real-life, in that the sedation makes the patient loopy.\\
'''Instead''': For some reason Peepers isn't there. Hater misses the question completely and shouts "Wander" repeatedly, which leads the dentist to assume that Wander is Hater's emergency contact.\\
'''The Result''': Wander and Sylvia pick up a loopy Hater, who proceeds to wander off under the mistaken impression that they are best friends and not enemies. Wander gives into temptation and tries to make Hater a better person, while Sylvia takes one embarrassing video after another of Hater. Peepers and the Skullship catch up to Hater ''much later'', and he ends up opening fire on his own men when they try to conquer the planet where he spent the whole day, because he threatened a little girl they met called Olive. Oh, and when Hater sees one of the videos that Sylvia took, he cracks all his teeth in anger, which means he’ll have to go back to the dentist.
** “The Waste of Time”: Wander while filling up on Orrble juice accidentally grabs the time traveling version. This means that he and Sylvia start traveling to the future and to past memories. Sylvia starts worrying about the time paradox and stepping on a butterfly to change their future.\\
'''You’d Expect''': Wander would listen and carefully navigate with Sylvia to return to the station.\\
'''Instead''': He gets so excited that he starts running to and from various places. They end up at the station but at ten years too early.\\
'''The Result''': Wander and Sylvia spend ten years at the gas station and prevent their past selves from getting the time orrble juice. This leads to them ceasing to exist as they hug each other and say that time spent together is never wasted. It also means that they forget a future event where Hater is in danger.
* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'':
** Now that she has been restored to her proper place, Rapunzel is living with her real parents in Corona. Her father, King Frederic, is worried sick of losing her again and has forbidden her from leaving the kingdom to explore beyond its walls. While he has a point that she's vulnerable as a public figure and the heir to their throne, she has a point that she's spent her whole life locked up and wants more freedom.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That the two would compromise. Rapunzel can prove she's earned the right to travel beyond the Corona walls. and Frederic can insist that she have a bodyguard or a retinue without overwhelming her.\\
'''Instead''': Rapunzel and her lady-in-waiting/bodyguard Cass sneak out the night before her coronation to see where the Sundrop flower grew. This leads to Frederic finding out, because Rapunzel's golden hair grows back and can't be cut, and she uses it to save his life when thieves crash the coronation.\\
'''The Result''': He's disappointed and fearful that the thing that made Gothel steal her away has returned, and orders that Rapunzel can only explore things inside the kingdom, rather than go outside of it. Rapunzel refuses to confide in him about her daily adventures, which leads to him sending spies on her, and so on and so forth. [[spoiler:Much later on, when he and the Captain of the Guards find out what Cass did, defying their orders, Cass is sent to a convent.]]
** Meanwhile, Cass reveals that she inherited disdain for Eugene from her father. She initially believes that he is a GoldDigger looking to profit from dating the Lost Princess. Eugene, Rapunzel and the audience know this isn't true, since they spent an entire movie saving each other. There is also the fact Eugene turned himself in after the events of the movie, when he could have let Rapunzel go to the palace alone while resuming his thieving ways.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Cass to not antagonize Rapunzel's almost-fiancee. As a lady-in-waiting, her only job is to keep Rapunzel company and protect her from perceived threats. Besides which, Eugene ''died'' so that Rapunzel would have her freedom. While he makes mistakes during the series, he keeps prioritizing Rapunzel's happiness over his.\\
'''Instead''': Cass spends the pilot and second episode forcing Rapunzel to keep the fact that Cass sneaked her out as a secret, which drives a wedge between Eugene and Rapunzel temporarily until Rapunzel tells him and Eugene promises to keep his mouth shut for Rapunzel's sake. It also leads to Eugene understandably not trusting Cass and getting into fights with her. While Cass motivates Eugene to better himself and prove he is worthy of Rapunzel's love, she also is quite a {{Hypocrite}} with how she broke the rules to make Rapunzel happy and has endangered her on several occasions. Rapunzel attempts to make them bond by invoking FireForgedFriends and locking them in a dungeon, but they revert back to bickering soon enough. While eventually they grow to respect each other, it takes a dire crisis for them to make the first steps of progress. [[spoiler: {{Irony}} and LaserGuidedKarma eventually kick in when the Captain and the King bust Cass for sneaking Rapunzel out in the first place, while Eugene who has done no such thing is allowed to stay at the palace.]]
** Also eighteen years ago, Frederic wanted to save his pregnant wife. To do so, he consulted [[spoiler:Quirin, a village leader]], who warned him that uprooting the Sundrop flower to save Arianna would lead to devastating consequences.Frederic uproots the flower anyway, which leads to Gothel stealing his baby daughter and black spikes growing where the flower was. The spikes stop plant life from growing and cannot be cut by any sword or knife.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Frederic afterward would keep an eye on the black spikes, and warn Rapunzel as well as the royal family about them. It's his responsibility as the king to make sure his subjects are safe, and Rapunzel should be aware of the roots of her magic. Besides which, the flower was the whole reason she was stolen away, so she has a right to know.\\
'''Instead''': Frederic puts his head in the sand and does nothing apart from erecting a small plaque honoring the Sundrop and following up with [[spoiler:Quirin]] on occasion. The end result is that Rapunzel touches the spikes not knowing what they are when Cass sneaks her out to see them, causing them to grow and cause an infestation in the kingdom. Then when Rapunzel finds an important {{MacGuffin}} and decides to deliver it to Varian on receiving a prophetic dream, Frederic rather than ''talking'' to her [[spoiler:sends elite mercenaries to steal the {{MacGuffin}} and use it for unknown purposes.]]\\
'''The Result''': Due to this gross miscommunication, [[spoiler:the mercenaries, including Cass's ''father'']], nearly kill Rapunzel and her friends [[spoiler:and destroy her childhood home. Rapunzel is heartbroken on furious when she learns that her father ordered such a thing and decides to work with Varian to save the kingdom rather than trust Frederic.]] This leads to more devastating consequences, including [[spoiler:Varian's betrayal]] and the spikes devastating the kingdom.
** Then we have Varian. A TeenGenius inventor and Quirin's son, who tries to get rid of the spikes to both make his father proud and deal with it before the villagers lose their land. [[spoiler:He fails, and Quirin gets trapped in the spikes protecting his son.]] Varian goes to Rapunzel for help, only to find her swamped in the middle of a crisis. The guards have to send him away.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Once the Corona disaster is averted that Rapunzel seek out Varian and find out what the situation is. He's her friend, and her subject; plus as the villager's son he is second in command after his father is incapacitated. The villagers need to know who is leading and who will protect them.\\
'''You'd Also Expect''': Varian to realize that Rapunzel as a royal couldn't drop everything to help him, and it wasn't her intention to break a promise to rescue Quirin. Also that he needs her because, from their very first meeting, he knows that her hair has unknown magical properties.\\
'''Instead:''' ''Weeks'' pass before Varian contacts Rapunzel and she finds out what happened. In the meantime, [[spoiler:Varian decides to go NeverMyFault and perform a FaceHeelTurn, to trick Rapunzel into delivering the remains of the Sundrop flower to him.]]\\
'''The Result:''' Varian [[spoiler:commits treason and tries to kidnap and murder the entire royal family when he realizes that the Sundrop flower is useless and all it's magic is locked inside Rapunzel's hair. He fails to activate the magic, and is tossed into the royal dungeons without even saving his father. Rapunzel manages to save most of the kingdom and her family, but she also fails to rescue Old Corona.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** While she is under the effects of a chemical that makes her slowly disappear every time she gets embarrassed, Kim willingly decides to go on a date with someone.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Kim to decline the date offer, knowing it's too risky.\\
'''Instead:''' She accepts, leaves the safe haven of her home, encounters embarrassment galore and [[NearVillainVictory nearly gets herself killed in the process]]. [[SarcasmMode BRILLIANT IDEA, KIM]].
** Shego has recently fallen into a shallow trap with crocodiles, and says she can't hurt any of the crocodiles.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Shego, with her abilities to shoot plasma beams just by pointing her fingers or jumping straight several meters up the air, would either shoot the crocodiles with her plasma beams or just jump out of that shallow hole.\\
'''Instead:''' She starts wrestling with one crocodile's jaw while whining about needing help...
** At the end of TheMovie, [[{{HarmlessVillain}} Drakken]] has [[NotSoHarmlessVillain succeeded with all his plans]]. He is not only mere hours away from unleashing the evil machines that he will use to take over the world, he has also captured and tied up his arch enemy Kim Possible and her sidekick though a cunning plan of his.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Drakken would a) learn by his mistakes and actually capture Rufus so that the pet does not free Kim and Ron again, and b) not take the backpack, containing a laser beam and the necessary disruptor to the transmitter to the evil machines, to the exact same room that Team Possible were tied up in.\\
'''Instead:''' Drakken overlooks Rufus, again, and puts the backpack, with all the mission crucial toys, [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard in the same room as Team Possible]], so naturally Team Possible escapes and not long after destroys Drakken's plans.
** In the episode "Ron Millionaire," because Ron is such a loyal customer for Bueno Nacho, he wins $99 million.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Ron to immediately open up a bank account and store the money there. You would also expect for him to use some of the money to spend on a financial adviser so he could keep the money and use it for mostly things he needs.\\
'''Instead:''' He foolishly keeps $99 million in CASH in his pockets all times. Heck, even ''[[OnlySaneMan Kim]]'' mentions how foolish it was for Ron to carry such a large amount of money with him at all times. He also spends the money on unnecessary things, and even acquires fake friends.\\
'''As A Result:''' This gets him captured by Drakken. Ron also loses all of his money at the end of the episode due to his poor spending habits.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'':
** "Doug Gets His Wish": Ms. Kristal is revealed to be a CoolTeacher but also intense. She gives a lot of homework and has high expectations for her English literature students. At one point Willie, who walked in late and doesn't know what the story is, has to tell his father that Ms. Kristal wants to meet for a parent-teacher conference. Willie claims that she hasn't taught him anything. Ms. Kristal also admits that she didn't vote for his father, who is the school principal and was formerly a mayor.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Principal White would talk to Ms. Kristal to learn about the curriculum during the conference. They could then try to figure out how to help Willie with the material.\\
'''Instead''': In a blatant abuse of power, he fires her on the grounds that Willie claims he's never learned anything in her class and for not voting for him, and then puts Willie in charge of English literature. Skeeter sees the danger, but Willlie suspends him for pointing out that Doug has the right to talk with Ms. Kristal at the grocery store.\\
'''The Result''': When Willie gets DrunkWithPower, the students bound together against him and petition the school board to have Ms. Krystal reinstated. [[RealityEnsues Tippi Dink, the head of the board, points out that you can't fire a teacher because she didn't support your election]], and Doug quickly proves that Willie learned a lot from Ms. Kristal. Tippi reinstates her, and puts Principal White in the class to learn.
** "Doug Gets Booked": Ms. Kristal assigns a rules-free book report assignment to the whole class. They feel pressured that Bee Bee is having a documentary run on her, and thus their reports will be on television.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Most of the class to remember to read the book, and minimize their stunts. They know Ms. Kristal has high expectations.\\
'''Instead''': The class goes nuts trying to prepare for television presentations. Roger and Bee Bee use their wealth to create elaborate special effects, while Doug goes on spending and anxiety sprees trying to figure out what book is exciting enough and what effects he can afford. Bee Bee pays for a large reenactment of ''Literature/TreasureIsland''. In Roger's case, he hires a ghostwriter to write a book about his family and then actors to do a movie on it.\\
'''The Result''': On due date, most of the class suffers a number of technical difficulties with their effects, even those like Skeeter and Patty who put in the work. As Bee Bee finds out, her ''Treasure Island''' performance sinks the day reports are due. The actors go on strike right when Roger presents them. Both admit they didn't read the book, to Ms. Kristal's obvious befuddlement, and Skunky embarrasses Roger further by showing up with a BoringButPractical book report on ''Biography of Klautz'' that earns him an A. Doug presents with his simple handwritten report on Edgar Allan Poe, and his oratory skills steal the show from Bee Bee. The lesson? ''Actually do your homework''.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'':
** In the episode "Wishy Washy", Gantu captures an experiment who grants wishes and Lilo and Stitch have come to stop him. Gantu has captured this experiment by saying "I wish that the experiment was in my grasp".\\
'''You'd expect:''' Gantu would say something like "I wish no one could stop my plans" or "I wish Lilo and Stitch would be teleported into space".\\
'''Instead:''' Gantu wishes that his blaster was 100X more powerful and larger. This means that not only is his blaster harder to aim, it also does more accidental damage to his ship.
** In the episode "Checkers", Lilo gets an experiment that causes anyone who were it as a crown to be viewed as a king. Lilo naturally enjoys having authority, but the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse become her guards, and arrests anyone who so much as crosses her the wrong way.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Lilo to stop their arrests. SheIsTheKing, and she knows these so called crimes are harmless.\\
'''Instead:''' Lilo reluctantly goes "I guess if they say he's a troublemaker...", let's them arrest the whole town. Everything eventually goes back to normal, and Lilo learns AnAesop about accepting the authority of adults. If she's that inept as a king, she needs that lesson.
* In the "Rise of Scar" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', Kion's friends have managed to rescue Kiara from Janja's clan after she was captured as part of a scheme to make Kion use the Roar of the Elders bring back Scar. However, Janja tells Kion that next time, he might actually ''kill'' Kiara, or Bunga, or his parents.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Kion to just ignore Janja and return to the Pride Lands with his rescued sister.\\
'''Or:''' At the very least, say something along the lines of "We'll be ready for you, Janja!" and just leave it at that.\\
'''Instead:''' He uses the Roar of the Elders in anger, thus putting the Hyenas' plan of bringing back Scar into action.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Candace's main obsession in the series is to bust her brothers for their escapades. It's not exactly clear why: it could be that some of the inventions and adventures are dangerous, that she wouldn't be allowed to get away with the same if she tried to do the same, or that her brothers inadvertently make her a ButtMonkey despite the fact that both care about her a lot and will do what they can to make her happy. It's also shown that Candace would be happier if she just joined in on her brothers rather than try to kill their fun.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Candace would eventually get this message. It's not like the boys are intentionally causing trouble or trying to make her into a ButtMonkey, and they will make her happy. Even her subconscious in "Wizard of Odd" told her off for focusing more on the rule-breaking than on the fact that the boys are having fun and bringing joy to their city.\\
'''Instead''': AesopAmnesia is always in full force, up until the series finale. Candace does what she can to reveal to her mother that her brothers are engaged in rather illicit activities that, in the timelines where her mother does find out, put the boys on lockdown and cause a BadFuture.\\
'''The Result''': Candace's attempts to be a fun-killer end up hurting her more often than the boys.
** A good example of this is in the episode "Phineas and Ferb-Busters!". In that one, Candace forms a team with Stacy and Jenny known as the Phineas and Ferb-busters, which includes communication headsets so they can signal each other. Around the same time, Phineas and Ferb build a set of giant tops for them, Isabella, and Baljeet to ride in, inspired by a board game they were playing with them and Buford. These tops are powered by a power source that radiates energy across the yard. As Candace, Stacy, and Jenny spy on Phineas and Ferb, Buford turns up the power source, causing the tops to spin out of control, and also overloading and destroying Stacy and Jenny's headsets, so they're unable to signal Candace. When Linda arrives home, she hears noise in the backyard and decides to go there to see if Phineas and Ferb are up to something wild and dangerous, like Candace said they would be.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Candace to let Linda investigate, so that she can see Phineas and Ferb riding the tops and punish them for it, thus finally letting Candace accomplish her goal of busting Phineas and Ferb.\\
'''Instead''': Candace, obsessed with having her new team's work go according to plan, refuses to let Linda in the backyard until she gets the signal from Stacy and Jenny. Because the headsets are destroyed, they can't signal her. When Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, and Baljeet stop riding their tops, the tops fly away. Around the same time, Perry shuts off the power source. Thus, when Linda finally does get to the backyard, she finds Phineas and Ferb playing the top-themed board game with Isabella, Baljeet, and Buford. When Stacy and Jenny tell her what really happened, she doesn't believe them, as per the norm with Candace.
** In "Hip-Hip Parade", Candace is asked to go a day without trying to bust her brothers. This proves difficult when the two are throwing a parade, and it just so happens to be next to the restaurant she and Linda are having lunch, with Linda seated facing away from it. Thus, her mission is to get Linda to notice the parade without her usual cries of "Mom, Mom, Phineas and Ferb are doing this!"\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Candace could innocently shout, "Look, a parade" without speaking of Phineas and Ferb's involvement in it.\\
'''Instead:''' She vaguely tries to get Linda to turn her head around. Linda doesn't understand why, nor does she notice the parade. By the time she turns her head around in the credits, the parade has passed.
** In "The Secret of Success", Candace attends a seminar with Stacy to discover the secret to busting her brothers. It is announced that the final step to success will be revealed after the break. During the break, Phineas and Ferb drive by in their all-terrain vehicle they built.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Candace would ignore Phineas and Ferb and wait until after the seminar is over before she busts them. Her previous attempts to bust her brothers have always failed, so there's no reason to assume this time should be any different.\\
'''Instead''': Candace decides to go ahead and bust her brothers by driving their vehicle so she can show Linda, and she tells Stacy to take notes for her. When Linda finds out that Candace has been driving without adult supervision, she grounds her. Later, when Candace asks Stacy what the final step was, the only answer she gets is "F.R.E.E.P.O." But Candace cannot figure out what it stands for. Naturally, her attempts to bust her brothers continue to fail throughout the rest of the series.
** "Tip of the Day": Dr. Doofenshmirtz attaches a universal delete button to a mind reading helmet, which when he presses the button, would cause everyone to forget about whatever he's thinking. He intends to make everyone forget about that embarrassing viral video of himself.\\
'''You'd expect''' Doofenshmirtz to immediately press the button the minute he puts on the helmet, while he's still thinking about the embarrassing video, then his plan would succeed.\\
'''Instead:''' He wastes his time explaining his whole plan to Perry while he's wearing the helmet, then ends up getting distracted when he trips, setting his mind to something else and causing everyone to forget about the aglet instead.
** Well, alright, but there's still Isabella's crush on Phineas, and how obvious she makes it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Phineas to realize her love for him.\\
'''Or:''' Isabella would straight-up say "I love you, Phineas" or something similar.\\
'''Instead:''' [[ObliviousToLove He's just completely oblivious to it, which sadly continues throughout the series.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'':
** The Time Travel Bureau works to correct various temporal anomalies. They send their most inept agents, Dakota and Cavendish, to protect pistachios from going extinct.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Bureau would focus on just the plants and seeds.\\
'''Instead''': Dakota and Cavendish's missions half-focus on commercially processed pistachios. Ones that cannot reproduce.
** The agents notice that their missions fail every time Milo Murphy shows up and asks for pistachios. This happens because Milo is cursed with terrible bad luck. Cavendish becomes convinced that Murphy is a rival agent sent to thwart them.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Bureau would realize what Dakota and Cavendish realize, that the pistachio mission fails whenever Milo Murphy is around. And that he's a descendant of the original Murphy.\\
'''Instead''': Their boss tells the duo to focus on their mission and that Murphy is an ordinary teenage kid. While Milo is a NiceGuy, he is far from ordinary.\\
'''The Result''': Cavendish goes off on his own to find evidence that Murphy is an enemy, and fails because he and Dakota are mistaken for vampire hunters by Murphy's friends. He only finds out that Murphy has terrible bad luck because Dakota thinks to ask the kid about it rather than attack him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'':
** In the episode "Hip-Hop Helicopter," Penny gets peer-pressured into wearing her LPDZ outfit that her parents forbid her to wear to Bethany's (Dijonay's Cousin) party. To avoid getting caught wearing the outfit by her parents, Penny wears normal clothes over her LPDZ outfit. At the party, Penny and her friends eventually get bored and turned off by the older guys' behavior towards her and wants to leave.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' While Penny was already angry at and confronting Bethany, Penny should have at least calmed down and politely asked Bethany to give her (and her friends) regular clothes back for her to change into, so she could avoid getting caught by her parents.\\
'''Instead:''' Penny forgets to do so. She and her friend even lampshade this when Penny's already at her house and her family, along with Lacienega's family, pull up in their vehicles.\\
'''As a result''': Predictably, [[YouAreGrounded Penny and her friends get grounded at the end of the episode]].
** A RunningGag throughout the show is that Oscar's Proud Snax are so terrible that anyone who eats them becomes violently ill. (Peabo is the only character who likes them, but one customer isn't going to make him much money)\\
'''You'd Expect''': Oscar to either make better snacks or try a different career.\\
'''Instead''': He does neither.\\
'''As a result''': Proud Snax don't sell very well and he makes very little money, making veterinarian Trudy the breadwinner of the Proud household.
* Every episode of the [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior]] short series, ''Nina Needs To Go!'' starts with either of Nina's parents or her older brother, Frank, asking Nina if she [[PottyEmergency needs to use the restroom]], or if she used it before they left the house.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Nina to tell either of her parents or Frank that she needs to go to the bathroom, in case she can't hold it in the entire time the rest of the family is involved in whatever the episode's activity is.\\
'''Instead:''' She tells them that she's fine, and about 10 seconds later, she tells them she needs to go immediately. Unfortunately for her, there's no nearby restroom.
** The Beach episode has one of its own. Nina's Mom is trying to get Nina to the beach's bathroom, and on their way, they come to a volleyball field.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Nina's Mom to continue to try to take Nina to the bathroom, not even letting the volleyball game distract her.\\
'''Instead''': Nina's Mom says she loves volleyball, and joins the other players in the volleyball game, forgetting about taking Nina to the bathroom. Fortunately, Nana takes over for her.

!!Comics

* In one Kid Gravity story, the titular character creates a machine that prints out his homework in record time, like one essay.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He'd check over the paper for anything wrong.\\
'''Instead:''' He doesn't.\\
'''Consequently:''' He gets an F because his machine credited the work to itself.

!!Books

* In ''How to Lose Your Classroom Pet'', Willimena has been tasked with keeping her class pet hamster at home.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Willimena to keep an eye on the hamster to make sure he tries nothing funny and his cage is secure.\\
'''Instead:''' She puts down the cage and forgets about it, allowing the hamster to escape.
* In ''The Meanest Doll in the World'', Annabelle is in a closet when a mean doll called Mimi comes up to her. Mimi tells Annabelle that her friend, Tiffany, told her that she is tired of hanging out with someone who's scared of spiders, and is going on a picnic without her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Since this is all coming from a doll who's been nothing but antagonistic toward her and Tiffany, Annabelle would realize at once that Mimi is bullshitting her and tell her to get lost. At the very least, you'd think she'd question ''why'' Tiffany would want to even be ''near'' Mimi, let alone talk to her.\\
'''Instead:''' She falls for what Mimi tells her and yells at Tiffany. The two get into a fight and do not talk to each other for a while. When they eventually reconcile, Tiffany points out that Mimi must have heard them talk when they were in a backpack.

!!Video Games

Franchise/KingdomHearts has [[WhatAnIdiot/KingdomHearts its own page]].

!!Live-Action TV

Series/OnceUponATime has [[WhatAnIdiot/OnceUponATime its own page]].

!!Life-Action Films

* In ''Film/CampNowhere'', [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Mud]] and the other protagonists are pulling off an elaborate [[TheCon Con]] on their parents by staging a phony Parents' Day at their phony summer camp. Using HomemadeInventions, they have full video surveillance of the grounds, including the front gate. These kids know that anything could go wrong during the con. They also know that a debt collector named Polk is searching for Dennis, the man who helped them with their con. Indeed, said debt collector finds his way to the camp at the very end of the con.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The kids would catch Polk on camera at the front gate and manage to sidetrack him. They would keep an eye on the last group of parents to make sure that they leave the camp. Polk would be sent on another wild goose chase, the con would be preserved, and the kids would make it to the end of the summer without their parents being any the wiser.\\
'''Instead:''' The kids pay ''no'' attention at the end. Polk gets into the camp and runs into Mud's dad right as he's leaving with the last group of parents. Both of them go to look for Dennis, and stumble into the kids right when they're toasting their victory. All the parents are notified, the kids are sent home, and Mud pays off Polk with the remainder of the camp money in order to save Dennis.
* ''Film/FaceOff''
** The Walsh Institute is keeping Castor Troy alive, in a coma. They decide to carry out a surgery that causes Sean Archer to receive Castor's face.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That afterwards, they keep the comatose Castor under the watch of armed guards 24/7, and also restrained to his hospital bed.\\
'''Instead:''' The people at the Institute decide that Castor is not enough of a flight risk to justify even restraining to the bed, even though Castor is a cop killer, and even have a phone in the same room as Castor's bed. Hence, when Castor wakes up, it's easy for him to call his cronies, so that he can force Dr. Walsh to give him Archer's face.
** Earlier, before he undergoes the surgery, Archer is told by Miller that the mission he is undertaking is a black bag operation (classified, strictly off the books, no paperwork), meaning he cannot tell his boss Victor Lazarro or his wife and daughter that he is about to receive Castor's face. Archer seems skeptical and a bit reluctant at first to carry out such a mission, thinking that there are a number of ways that something could go wrong, one of which appears to be "what if Castor comes out of his coma?".\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Archer to disregard Miller's instructions and tell his family and the director that he is about to get Castor's face with a special surgery. That way, there is someone who knows who Archer really is in the event something happens to Tito or Miler.\\
'''Instead:''' He never does. Castor comes out of his coma, makes the doctor give him Archer's face, then kills Dr. Walsh, Miller, and Tito by burning down the Institute, before going to the prison to taunt Archer that with everyone alive who knows who he really is dead, he'll be stuck in prison for the rest of his life. It is hence impossible for Archer to prove who he really is until he breaks into his own house to tell Eve that he and Castor have different blood types.
* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' has a couple:
** After Troy, the basketball captain and star player, blows off practice in favor of preparations for the school play, the coach (his own father) rags him out for it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Coach Dad would say something like "It's great that you've got a girlfriend, and it's okay that you're exploring musical theater too. But you've already made a commitment to this team; you need to decide where your focus should be, and stick to it."\\
'''Instead:''' He starts off verbally attacking Gabriella, the one person who shoulders approximately ZERO PERCENT of the blame for Troy's missing practice. This puts Troy on the defensive.
** Later, Troy's teammates confront him over his lack of focus on the upcoming big game.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Troy might apologize for his recent lack of focus, but then to tell them that he likes Gabby and he intends to try out for the school play, and that what he does on his own time is his own business.\\
'''Instead:''' He allows his teammates to pressure him into renouncing not only the school play, but Gabriella as well.
** Concurrent to the above: Taylor has on her laptop a live webcam feed from one of Troy's teammates; she shows this video to Gabriella, particularly the part where Troy dumps Gabby.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Gabby would, at the very least, be suspicious that Taylor should have access to this "CoincidentalBroadcast" and to suspect a setup.\\
'''Instead:''' She totally accepts Troy's words at face value, leading to their (temporary, but they don't know that) break-up.\\
'''You'd Also Expect:''' That Troy would notice his teammate setting up a webcam in plain sight five feet in front of him.\\
'''Instead:''' He totally FailedASpotCheck.\\
'''Result:''' The ThirdActMisunderstanding.
* In ''Film/ItsPat'', Kyle is obsessed with knowing what [[AmbiguousGender gender]] Pat is, to the point of stealing computer diary and figuring out the password, only to find nothing on Pat's gender. Eventually, a desperate Kyle confronts Pat, revealing he has the diary but has not learned the one thing he wants to know, and Pat, believing Pat put everything in the diary, wonders what else there is to know.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' With how obsessive he is and how much trouble he's gone through to find out, he'd just flat-out ask Pat what gender Pat is.\\
'''Instead:''' Kyle just tells Pat to take off Pat's clothes. Pat just sees him as a pervert and runs.
* In the 2005 film of ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', Peter, Susan, and Lucy are trying to cross a river and being menaced by the Witch's {{Dragon}}, a big wolf named Maugrim.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Susan to listen to the Beavers, who have been guiding them at risk of their own lives, and try to get herself and Lucy across the fracturing ice while encouraging Peter, who is trying to fend Maugrim off with the sword he just got.\\
'''Instead:''' She actually takes Maugrim's side and says Peter should listen to him and drop the sword... which was one of the weapons Father Christmas gave to all three of them, including herself. Side with the menacing wolf and arguing on melting ice. It's particularly absurd because ''she'' was the one who pointed out earlier in the film that they couldn't go to the Narnian police for help because of the "ransack this house" order that had been ''signed by Maugrim''.
* ''Film/MaryPoppins'': George Banks finds out that Mary Poppins is a wonderful nanny. His children are behaving, happily greeting him at breakfast and when he comes home, telling about the strange adventures they have. Ellen and Cook are getting along, and even the birds are chirping. George finds this all disconcerting, even though Mary is the first nanny that the kids aren't actively undermining.\\
'''You'd Expect''': George wouldn't complain and accept the situation as it is, and since the kids didn't specify wages for a nanny in their advertisement, he's not even paying her. Excessive cheeriness is a small price to pay when the household help is happy, the kids aren't running off into the part and into who knows where, and they are going to bed on time and all. Even Winifred looks less frantic, balancing suffragette duties with mothering.\\
'''Instead''': When he hears the kids' flighty stories about having a tea party on the ceiling, George gets angry and prepares to sack Mary Poppins because he thinks that her methods of caring for the children are a waste of time. He starts telling her how ''he'' thinks an outing should go, and what sort of things the children should learn.\\
'''The Result''': Mary Poppins is no fool, and as she tells the kids later, "I never get sacked." She starts out by agreeing with George, and implicitly saying LetsSeeYouDoBetter by making him agree to take the children to the bank the next day to see his world. [[spoiler:George after realizing that he had indeed suggested the idea seems keen, up until the kids get into a fight with his boss when the bankers want to invest Michael's tuppence in a savings account. The children, who wanted to use the money to pay the bird woman, take the tuppence and run away, just like they did with previous nannies. On top of that, the fight leads to him losing his job later that night, hours after he had to help the bank manage the subsequent run on money. ''Then'' Mary Poppins leaves the next morning, after the wind has changed]].
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** In the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first film]], the crew of the Black Pearl arrives at Port Royal in search of the last cursed medallion along with Bootstrap Bill Turner's descendant, whose blood they need to break the curse. They eventually find the coin in possession of a woman who gives them Turner as her last name.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The crew to make sure that she is Bootstrap's child. After all, Turner is a very common last name and she could've taken it from a man she married. Just possessing the medallion isn't conclusive proof as the crew mentioned spending the other coins across the Caribbean.\\
'''Instead:''' They assume she is Bootstrap Bill's child and kidnap her to use her blood. When they do the ritual, it doesn't work and only then do they ask her if Bootstrap was her father, to which she answers no.
** In the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third film]], Captain Jack Sparrow is visited in Davy Jones' Locker by his old friends, crew, enemies, and a load of Chinese pirates, all of whom want to get him out of there. They prepare to leave on the Black Pearl, but Jack refuses to take along Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa, Pintel and Ragetti, since all five have attempted to kill him in the past. He discovers that Barbossa has in his possession a special map that is implied to be their only way out of the locker, seemingly leaving Jack with no choice but to take him and the other four along, since his magic compass doesn't work here.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jack to have the many pirates at his command overpower the five and get the charts, if he doesn't trust them enough to let them be in his crew. Then he can leave them in the locker while he uses the charts to escape.\\
'''Instead:''' He decides to take the lot of them with him. While most of the immediate consequences are either comical (Jack and Barbossa both trying to captain the ship) or quickly overcome ([[spoiler: Will's]] betrayal of the crew), the film does end with Barbossa [[spoiler: stealing the Black Pearl]] AGAIN.
** In the third film's climatic big battle, [[TheHero Will Turner]] has gotten behind [[TheDragon Davy Jones]]. Will is armed with a cutlass.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Will to remember that Davy Jones's heart isn't in his body, and instead target his limbs to try and immobilize him, or at least slow him down.\\
'''Instead:''' He stabs Jones where his heart would be. Jones [[NoSell isn't affected]], disarms Will, [[spoiler: and fatally wounds him soon after]].
** Also during that battle, Captain Jack Sparrow manages to get his hands on said heart. Jack intends to stab it and achieve immortality, since whoever does so will take Davy Jones's place, and will have the job of ferrying those who die at sea to the next world for eternity.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Jack to immediately stab the heart]].\\
'''Instead:''' He reveals to Jones that he has the heart. [[spoiler:Jones responds by stabbing Will, and Jack ends up making Will stab the heart, so that he can captain the Flying Dutchman, and continue to see [[LoveInterest Elizabeth]]]].
** Near the end of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]], Barbossa has just stabbed [[spoiler:Blackbeard]] with a sword, and left it in him. Angelica rushes over to pull the sword out.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Her to pull the sword out by the handle.\\
'''Instead:''' She pulls it out by the handle AND the blade, cutting her hand as a result.\\
'''To make matters worse:''' The blade's poisoned. Jack subsequently has to pull a BatmanGambit on Blackbeard to make him [[spoiler:unwittingly give up his life for Angelica's]].
* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'':
** Mia wants to keep her princess identity on the down-low because she feels enough like an outsider already and doesn't want to stand out more than she already does. Clarisse agrees reluctantly, although Paolo outs Mia to the papers to show off his makeover. This means when Mia arrives at school, she gets harassed by the press and classmates alike. She, Clarisse and her mother go MassOhCrap when they realize Mia can't be a secret anymore.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Clarisse would insist that Mia has a bodyguard with her at all times, the way Mia does in the books. It's embarrassing for Mia in terms of having the princess status around her all the time, but it's a better alternative to ending up in a bad situation. Mia's dad, who was alive in the books, had a BrutalHonesty moment where he told her that she couldn't stop being a princess, no matter how much she wanted.\\
'''Instead''': Clarisse respects Mia's wishes to keep the princess stuff firmly away from her school and social life, and Mia gets no bodyguard.\\
'''The Result''': When Mia gets humiliated and harassed by paparazzi, the only adult available around to protect her is her [[MamaBear gym coach]], [[CoolTeacher who quickly gets her out of there]].
** Mia had been invited by JerkJock Josh to go to his beach party, where the AlphaBitch Lana and her posse also will be at. This clashes with the plans of Mia being a guest of Lilly's TV show.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Mia to have been suspicious of the fact that Josh was acting nice to her all of a sudden, and politely reject his request. Or at the least, the last time he was nice to her, it was coaching her on how to relax as a soccer goalie. very different scenario here.\\
'''Or:''' For Mia to remember that she already made plans to attend Lilly's show and stick to her word.\\
'''Instead:''' She foolishly attends the party with Josh, and the paparazzi are able to find Mia.
** Later at the party, Mia is running away from the paparazzi. She wants to change her clothes quickly. She comes across a tent, where Lana and her posse are standing next to. Mia tries to ask Lana and her friends to watch out for the paparazzi while she changes her clothes.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Mia to realize that trusting someone like Lana to look out for her would be a foolish thing to do (considering how Lana takes pride and pleasure out of humiliating Mia) and find somewhere else to change her clothes. Especially egregious is the fact that Mia went on a beach date with Lana's ex, who broke up with Lana to be with Mia.\\
'''Or:''' For Mia to just simply not change her clothing ,leave the beach, and focus on getting ''far'' away from the paparazzi (her clothes weren't too inappropriate for the public).\\
'''Instead:''' Mia foolishly trusts Lana to look out for her. As expected, Lana and her friends (being the assholes they are) lift up the tent, allowing the paparazzi to see Mia, and the paparazzi takes a lot of photos of her in a towel. As a result, Mia is humiliated. Later in the movie, her grandmother gets angry at her for (unintentionally) embarrassing the family. Lilly and Michael end up angry as well.
* ''Film/TheSantaClause'':
** In the event that the current Santa Claus dies, the role is passed down to the next man to put on his trademark coat. This happens to Scott Calvin who continues delivering presents after the previous Santa falls off his roof. Scott is understandably confused by this, even after the elves explain the situation at the North Pole.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The elves to be in contact with Scott all the way through the following Christmas. That way, he'll at least be better prepared for what to do when the big day arrives. This especially considering that Scott is divorced and took his son Charlie to the North Pole without the knowledge of his ex-wife Laura and her husband Neil.\\
'''Instead:''' They magically send Scott home on Christmas morning and don't even bother to say anything else to him until the following Thanksgiving, ''eleven months later''.\\
'''The Result:''' Scott at first is forced to think the entire trip is a crazy dream, a claim that becomes less believable when he goes through the transformation into Santa. By the final stages, Laura and Neil think he's snapped and deny him visitation rights to Charlie.
* ''Film/{{Signs}}'':
** There is a species of aliens for whom water is a lethal acid.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' These aliens would stay far away from a planet that has a 70% water surface. Or, at the very least, they'd stay in their advanced interplanetary spaceships for the duration of the invasion, or they'd wear some sort of environmental suits to protect from the deadly acid that exists in gaseous form in the air and frequently falls from the sky.\\
'''Instead:''' The aliens invade water-soaked Earth, on foot, naked.\\
'''You'd Also Expect:''' Aliens advanced enough to conquer interstellar travel would be somewhat intelligent, or at least technologically superior to humans.\\
'''Instead:''' The aliens are unarmed, are outmatched by baseball bats and glasses of water, and are outsmarted by ''closet doors''.\\
'''You'd ''Really'' Expect:''' These hydrophobic creatures would finally be repelled in a scheme that makes use of the planet's prodigious water supply.\\
'''Instead:''' News reports say that the invasion is repelled in the ''deserts'' of the Middle East.
** '''This Entirely Sums It Up:'''
--->'''Cracked Magazine:''' It's like humans landing on a planet where 70 percent of the surface is covered in molten lava, and the inhabitants are basically just moving sacks of lava. Even the atmosphere is so dense with lava vapour that often lava just rains from the sky with little to no warning. So what's your plan of attack? If you say anything other than "Jump out of the spaceship completely naked, your junk proudly flopping about, and engage the lava monsters in hand-to-hand combat," then congratulations -- you are smarter than the aliens in ''Signs''.
* In ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', near the end of the movie, Will's friends arrive at the hall, seeing him pinning Gwen/Royal Pain, ready to finish her off.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' They would wait for Will to finish her off before calling him.\\
'''Instead:''' They call him right away, distracting him, allowing Gwen to break free.
* In ''Film/SnowDogs'', A blizzard hits during the Arctic Challenge race and the mushers all bunk down at the rusty knife checkpoint.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Thunder Jack to bunk down with everyone else.\\
'''Instead''': After making the check-in, he heads off into the storm anyway, foolishly thinking he'll win if he does.\\
'''As a result''': Jack ends up crashing into a tree and breaking his leg, and although his dogs managed to get him to his secret cave, he'd surely have died had Ted not went after him.

!!Modern Disney Shorts

* In "Feed the Birds," Mickey is trying to get bread crumbs to a sweet little bird named Tuppence. Every time Tuppence tries to eat, nearby pigeons bully him away from his breakfast. When Mickey tries to bring Tuppence to the safety of his home, the pigeons fly into the chimney and kick them out. Mickey gets ''angry'' and quickly advertises a pigeon paradise on TV that has all the food, movies, and amenities they could ever want.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The pigeons would realize that Mickey would have no reason to want to help them after they kicked him out of his own house and burned down the custom feeder he made for Tuppence.\\
'''Instead''': They fall for the SchmuckBait and go to the paradise.\\
'''Predictably''': It's revealed to be a trap; Mickey reveals the barn is a rocket, and allows Tuppence to push the launch button. Tuppence goes BewareTheNiceOnes and does so with a GrinOfAudacity.
* In the Mickey Mouse Halloween special, "The Scariest Story Ever", Mickey, Donald, and Goofy and are hosting Huey, Dewey, Louie, Morty, and Ferdie on Halloween who want scary stories. These kids are also jaded.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The trio would have prepared their tales ahead of time.\\
'''Instead''': They improvise their stories, with cliched twists and turns.\\
'''Predictably''': The kids aren't amused.

!!Vintage Disney Shorts

* Even the classic Disney shorts have WhatAnIdiot moments, as seen in "Donald's Happy Birthday". Needing money to buy some cigars as a birthday gift for Donald, his nephews go on a chore binge, with Donald being clueless about the kids' sudden desire to do chores in order to get a certain amount of money.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Donald would ask his nephews the reason for this sudden need of money (or at least realize that today is his birthday and deduce that they must be getting money for a present).\\
'''Instead:''' Donald forces his nephews to put the money they earned into a mechanical toy bank, with most of the short then consisting of the nephews trying to get it back in order to buy Donald's present.\\
'''It Gets Worse:''' Once the nephews finally get back their allowance and use it to buy the cigars as a birthday gift, Donald assumes that the boys were buying them for ''themselves''. Without giving them a chance to explain it, he [[RadishCure forces them to smoke the cigars]], not realizing that the cigars were meant for him until, after exhausting all of the cigars, he [[TearJerker discovers the birthday card from his nephews]].
* "Donald's Snow Fight"
** It's a snow day, and Donald hopes to go sledding. He finds that his nephews are building a snowman on the hill that he wants to ride. It's one of the rare times when they aren't being complete brats to him, as was common in the Disney shorts.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Donald would leave them alone and go down another hill. He knows that his nephews can be little monsters when instigated. You shouldn't spoil someone else's fun.\\
'''Instead''': He deliberately crashes into their snowman, which they had just finished. Then he laughs in front of them. The triplets retaliate by building a snowman around a rock and goading him to crash into it. This leads to their titular snowfight, where after Donald launches a good offense the triplets use mousetraps, coal, and fire against him and freeze him in a lake.
** During the fight, Donald and the triplets have their respective forts. The triplets have solid reinforcements such as mattresses and wood.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Donald to have built his fort similarly, and on the solid bank.\\
'''Instead''': It's in the middle of the lake, a purely ice boat that can't even move or provide adequate cover. As a result, the triplets easily melt it and beat him.
* "Once Upon a Wintertime"
** As part of a date, a nameless youth takes his beau out on the ice. It's clear that she's only started to learn how to skate. During the date, he accidentally gets a lot of ice on her while skating fast and braking. Then she slips on the frozen lake, which reveals all of her petticoats. She starts to get huffy.\\
'''You'd Expect''': He would apologize to her, or do it as best as he can within the constraints of the cartoon leaving them and the accompanying bunnies mute. Helping her up and dusting her off may be a good way to save the date.\\
'''Instead''': He stifles a giggle and doesn't help her up. She notices, angrily kicks off her skates and walks away, much to his dismay. Fortunately, his attempt to save her when the ice they're on breaks mends their relationship, at least so he can escort her home on the sleigh ride.
* "The Autograph Hound”
** Donald is touring Hollywood. He's seeking autographs. As Shirley Temple reveals later, Donald is fairly famous due to being a Toon. He gets on a guard's bad side for appearing to be the titular autograph hound, that is someone bothering the talent.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Donald would explain he's a celebrity but is trying to be an undercover fan. As its shown later, he gets mobbed when everyone in the studio lot recognize him. it also turns out the guard is a fan of Donald Duck cartoons.\\
'''Instead''': Donald does his typical Donald hijinks to sneak into the studio and get as many autographs as possible. HilarityEnsues, even when Shirley Temple clarifies who Donald is.
* "Chef Donald"
** The short begins with Donald gluing recipes in his scrapbook with a bottle of rubber cement, when he hears a recipe for Mother Mallard's golden brown waffles on his radio. This puts him in the mood to cook and eat some, so he puts away his scrapbook and puts baking supplies on the table.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Donald to also put away the bottle of rubber cement.\\
'''Instead:''' Donald leaves it on the table with the baking supplies.\\
'''As a result:''' When Donald follows the recipe, he accidentally pours in rubber cement instead of baking powder, and ends up making a sticky mess that sticks to the bowl and spoon, causing him grief throughout the rest of the short.
* "Disney/LonesomeGhosts"
** Near the end of the short, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy get covered in molasses and flour, giving them the appearance of ghosts themselves and are spotted by the titular Lonesome Ghosts.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The ghosts to start laughing at our heroes now that they look like ghosts themselves thanks to all the pranks they've pulled on them.\\
'''Instead:''' They have a FreakOut and run out of the house to get away from the "ghosts," forgetting that ''they're ghosts themselves!''

* ''WesternAnimation/Doug'':

'''As a result''': Jack ends up crashing into a tree and breaking his leg, and although his dogs managed to get him to his secret cave, he'd surely have died had Ted not went after him.