History WhatAnIdiot / Pixar

'''As a Result''': Woody accidentally reveals Buzz's broken arm to the other toys, and this convinces them, even the ones who up to this point were still faithful to Woody, that Woody really is guilty of murdering Buzz, and they refuse to help him, leaving him and Buzz trapped at Sid's house.\\

** When trapped at the Tri-County Landfill, the gang hears Lotso (who was also tossed in the dumpster when the Sunnyside toys betray him and is the reason the toys are trapped there in the first place) calling for help. \\
'''You'd Expect''': The toys to not trust Lotso as he may have a few more tricks up his sleeve. \\
'''Instead''': They immediately fall for it and Woody rescues him. \\
'''Then''': With the incinerator in sight, Woody spots the conveyor belt off switch above them which could stop the belt and save them from a fiery death. \\

''''You'd Expect:''' They would choose an option appropriate for Luca, a young boy. Perhaps send him to another sea monster community further away from shore.\\

** To try and protect Luca, his parents decide to send him away after learning he's been visiting the surface [[note]]Keep in mind that so far, he's only been to an unhabitated island with a fellow sea monster and has yet to encounter any monster-hunting humans... or humans period.[[/note]]. They reason that he needs to be far from the temptation of the surface world.\\

** To try and protect Luca, his parents decide to send him away after learning he's been visiting the surface. They reason that he needs to be far from the temptation of the surface world.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

'''Predictably''': The barracuda is attracted to the sign of movement and goes after her. Marlin in an SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome attacks it to try and defend his wife, but the barracuda smacks him into the anemone wall and knocks him out. When he comes to, Coral is gone; so are most of the eggs. Either the barracuda was provoked to attack her in turn, or another opportunistic predator couldn't resist. Marlin grieves and cares for the sole egg, calling him Nemo in his wife's memory.

'''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 stowed away after getting a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass babysitter for their brother, then Helen would've been trying to rescue her husband completely alone, with no one knowing where she was. [[AdultFear Including their kids]].

'''You'd Expect''': Carl to watch his words and explain that he's been trying to get rid of the bird since it's been following him and Russell around. He really is trying to get his house to Paradise Falls and reason with a potential murderer who happens to be his hero. Meanwhile, he should signal to Russell to stop talking.\\

** Frantic about Luca after he goes missing, his parents arrive onshore and bravely walk on land, with both feeling guilty about how they pushed him away. After stealing some clothes, they come across a problem: Luca looks completely different when out of the water. He could be one of the dozens of kids in town, and one random boy bursts into tears when Lorenzo pushes him into the ocean mistaking him for their son. Getting sprinkled in water or drenched will expose him, ''but'' there are too many kids for his parents to splash in one go. Daniela realizes this is a problem, and they learn quickly that humans hunt sea monsters in this town. If they or Luca are exposed, they are dead. The local priest notices the pair causing trouble and approaches them offscreen.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They would honestly tell him "[[AdultFear Our son is missing]]" and the priest could tell them about any new kids in town based on Luca's height and age at least, if not his looks. Local gossip has gone around about Giulia's new team with Alberto and Luca, namely how they stood up to Ercole. Some process of elimination and Luca would be busted.\\
'''Instead''': Whatever they tell the priest, it convinces him to hire them as water distributors at the relay race.\\
'''The Result''': Daniela and Lorenzo waste time splashing the passing kids with water during the race, none of whom happen to be Luca. He in fact noticed them earlier and realized Daniela was his mother when she gave her signature dolphin laugh and has been avoiding them successfully. It's not until the climax that they find him, when he rescues Alberto from Ercole, Giulia saves them both, and her father stands up to Ercole and declares them the winners.\\
'''Fortunately''': Giulia and her father convince Daniela and Lorenzo that they were wrong about humans. When they reunite with Luca, they're more relieved he's safe and give permission for him to go on land as many times as he likes.

'''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.

'''You'd Expect''': That Hopper would kill Flik right then and there and then give his "ideas are very dangerous things" speech to the other ants to show them what happens to those who step out of line by defying him, Hopper even acknowledged earlier at his hideout that if one ant stands up to him then they all might stand up to him, so in killing Flik he would show that even he needs his own advice.\\
'''Instead''': He asks Flik why he did this to him causing his plan of killing the Queen Ant to be exposed, then he lets Flik live after having Thumper beat him up, and then he gives his ideas are very dangerous things speech. This lets Flik tell the ants that Hopper is afraid of them defying him. This causes the ant revolution to happen just as Hopper feared because he did not kill Flik the one ant that stepped out of line and Flik gave the other ants the courage to take the first step in fighting back against Hopper and they drive Hopper’s gang away forever and Hopper eventually gets lured to the real bird’s nest where he is eaten.

** After PT Flea has burned the fake bird with his match and Flik’s plan burns to the ground, Hopper demands to know who is responsible for giving him and his grasshopper gang the scare of their lives and just as he is about to hurt Princesses Atta and Dot, Flik confesses that he was the one who came up with the bird idea.
'''You'd Expect''': That Hopper would kill Flik right then and there without asking him why he did that to him and before he gives his ideas are very dangerous things speech to the ants to show them what happens those who step out of line by defying him, Hopper even acknowledged that if one Ant stands up against him then they all might stand up against him, so in killing Flik he would show that even he needs his own advice.
'''Instead''': He asks Flik why he did this to him causing his plan of killing the Queen Ant to be exposed, then he lets Flik live after having Thumper beat him up, and then he gives his ideas are very dangerous things speech. This lets Flik tell the ants that Hopper is afraid of them defying him. This causes the ant revolution to happen just as Hopper feared because he did not kill Flik the one ant that stepped out of line and Flik gave the other ants the courage to fight back and they drive Hopper’s gang away forever and Hopper eventually gets lured to the real bird’s nest.
** After Hopper is part of a long fight with the ants and their mechanical bird, which he eventually realizes is a fake, a real bird lands directly in front of Hopper.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' gets one in the first fifteen minutes. Ian is trying to get ready for school, wearing their dad's sweatshirt, and grab some breakfast. When his big brother Barley insensitively thwarts his attempt to get some cereal, Ian opts to get toast instead. Barley attempts to convince Ian to play some roleplaying games with him, but knocks the toast to the ground. He playfully tries to claim them using the five-second rule, only for his hands to get caught on the sweatshirt. Cue a MassOhCrap from everyone in the room as the sleeve tears and Barley's claw is snarled around the thread.\\

'''Instead:''' He puts the photo ''in his pocket,'' and the fight to retrieve it allows the Riveras to inadvertently expose him for the man he truly is to the ''entire'' Land Of The Dead. Though the photo still gets destroyed shortly after, Miguel manages to get home, save Héctor from Final Death, reconcile with his family, and expose Ernesto's lies. Now Ernesto's permanently disgraced, remembered in both worlds only as a fraud who murdered his own friend for his songs.

'''You'd Expect''': For Ernesto to agree and peacefully part 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 could've hired a songwriter to help himself if he ever needed new material to write down. Furthermore, he could've just simply asked Hector for permission to use his songs.\\

** Having successfully stolen Hector's songs, Ernesto has lived in the lap of luxury, and just to flaunt his ego even further, he decides to make some movies.\\

** Just as Ernesto was about to give Miguel his blessing and send him back to the living world, Hector arrives and pleads with Miguel to put his own photo on his ''ofrenda''. However, before Ernesto could process this, Miguel and Hector watch the footage and realize that he murdered Hector before he was about to go back to his family, which causes him to reveal his true colors as a sociopath in front of them.\\

'''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 superheroes, 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.]]

'''You'd Expect''': He would either ask her what happened or put two-and-two together. By logic, the house could have only been damaged by a super. There's no way a preteen and an infant otherwise. Then put Jack-Jack in stasis, ''just'' in case or kidnap him now while he's calm and leaving a ransom note.\\

'''The Result''': All of the mothers with Helen glare at Beth, and Helen gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Considering how the non-mom partygoers also look awkwardly at Beth, and Bob (who is cutting up steaks) is shown to be one of many in StunnedSilence by Beth's comments, it's also likely that, had Helen not stepped in, someone would have likely called Beth out for being rude towards her new neighbors at the very least.\\

'''Instead:''' He decides to go ahead and offer Nemo to her anyway.

** Marlin and Coral have just laid 4000 eggs, and can't wait for them to hatch. Just as they discuss names, and COral says she wants one to be named Nemo, a barracuda appears, obviously hungry. The barracuda is watching them, for signs of movement. Marlin remembers that barracuda don't eat eggs, but rather live fish and tend to avoid clownfish since they live in anemones. He tells Coral they need to stay inside their anemone and not panic because the barracuda will realize they aren't on the predator's normal menu. The problem is their babies are resting within the cliff below the anemone, and Coral is obviously worried the barracuda will go for them.\\

'''Predictably''': The barracuda is attracted to the sign of movement and goes after her. Marlin in an awesome moment attacks it to try and defend his wife, but the barracuda smacks him into the anemone wall and knocks him out. When he comes to, Coral is gone; so are most of the eggs. Either the barracuda was provoked to attack her in turn, or another opportunistic predator couldn't resist. Marlin grieves and cares for the sole egg, calling him Nemo in his wife's memory.

'''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.

** 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''': They would leave the grains they collect at any place other than at the edge of a cliff and make sure it's safe.\\
'''Instead''': They pile it next to a cliff where a slight accident causes it to topple, fall and lose all the food.

** 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.

'''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]]

'''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.

'''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.
** The tie-in short "Legend of Mordu" has one as well, for both the Witch and the Prince who would become Mordu. He wanted to claim the entire throne as the eldest son as four brothers rather than honor his parents' wishes and divide the kingdom; their battles became a stalemate since they all had equal sizes in armies. As the witch tells Wee Dingwald, the prince wanted the strength of ten men. So she gave him a spell that would give him that, in exchange for his signet ring and the purchase of a cheeseboard. This would make him the NighInvulnerable bear that became TheDreaded to Merida's family. He took the potion to the throne room where he and his siblings were meeting to discuss dividing the kingdom, while the prince had led them there under the pretense of a truce.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The witch would have made the CurseEscapeClause clear, since, in only a few days, the spell would turn him into a bear permanently, and make him feral. She says to Wee Dingwald that her intention was to have the prince reconcile with his family, which Merida had to do to change her mother back.\\
'''You'd Also Expect''': The prince would realize that being a bear-king is a terrible situation, for a lot of reasons, as soon as he transformed. As we learn from the witch, he still had his presence of mind after being transformed.\\

'''The Result''': SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when the bear-prince tries to lead his armies and claim the throne, except no one wants to follow what appears to be a bloodthirsty man-killing beast that can't even talk. He attacked them in turn, causing the kingdom to collapse. This later led to the four tribes of Scotland dividing the land and only allying to stop the Viking raiders, causing Elinor's family to work for decades to undo the damage. Thanks to the prince killing his brothers, he can't ever change back. His mind within a few days gave into the beast, and he is NighInvulnerable so that death wouldn't come easily, and he lived for hundreds of years. If you take the claw marks on the carving of them, it means that either the part of his mind that remains still hates himself for the kinslaying, or that he was desperately trying to undo the curse by fixing it the way Merida sewed together the tapestry. Mordu finds himself attacking the current king, Fergus, as well as his family, and in a great dose of irony Elinor ends up freeing him while cursed as a bear, by crushing him with pillars. Only then does the prince regain his human form in death, and nod in thanks at Elinor and Merida.

'''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]].\\

'''You'd Expect''': ''Someone'' would realize that Abuelita went too far. There is hating music, and there is destroying your great-great-grandson's personal property. The family needs to actually confront the stigma that's existed for ages.\\

'''The Result''': Miguel's parents are floored when he runs away, and if he hadn't been cursed by stealing the guitar from the shrine, it's implied he might have become a homeless preteen. They frantically search for him, especially since the last thing he said to them was that he didn't want to be a part of their family anymore.

** Having successfully stolen Hector's songs, Ernesto has lived in the lap of luxury, and just to flaunt his ego even further, he decides to make a movie...\\
'''You'd Expect:''' ... of a live performance?\\
'''Instead:''' Nope, Ernesto decides to make a movie that reenacts Héctor'S murder, but with ''him'' as the victim who sees through the deception in time. Miguel sees footage of this movie and points it out to Héctor, who slowly realizes the truth of his death.

'''You'd Expect:''' That he would rip the photo apart to ensure Héctor's Final Death; or if he can't do that, put it somewhere where no one will ever find it, such as his vault or into the sea.\\
'''Instead:''' He puts the photo ''right in his pocket,'' and the fight to retrieve it allows the Riveras to inadvertently expose him for the man he truly is to the ''entire Land Of The Dead''. Though the photo still gets destroyed shortly after, Miguel manages to get home, save Héctor from Final Death, reconcile with his family, and expose Ernesto's lies. Now he'll be permanently disgraced, remembered in both worlds only as a fraud who murdered his own friend for his songs.

'''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. [[note]] This is more forgivable if you take the view that a) he doesn't know she is killing them (the picture he has of her with the dead fish could have been taken by her parents and he never noticed that it was already belly-up) or b) he doesn't mind her doing so (but in that case, why is he giving her an exotic fish he went to the expense of harvesting personally from the Great Barrier Reef instead of another cheap goldfish?) [[/note]]

'''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.

** In a hilarious and awesome alternate opening, this happens. Bob and Helen "Smith" have moved into the neighborhood and are attending a housewarming barbecue. Helen makes conversation with a new neighbor, Beth Anderson, that works as a commodities broker. She reveals she's a homemaker because her only baby is a handful and a whole job in itself. The other woman excuses herself, so Helen goes with little Violet to talk with the other mothers.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Beth doesn't have to be ''nice'' per se, but she could keep her gossipy comments to a whisper if she thinks that giving up a career to raise a child is demeaning. Pragmatically speaking, you don't want to burn your bridges with the neighbors or worse, the HOA. If she CantHoldHerLiquor, as the wineglass indicates -- and you probably shouldn't be drinking that much if your tolerance is that low -- she surely has enough social skills to only have a sip and be mean in an undertone the way professionals do it.\\
'''Instead''': She loudly starts ranting about how having a "snot-nosed kid" would ruin her life and that she wouldn't want to give up everything for a child. It's so loud, actually, that ''everyone in the party'' hears Beth insulting a portion of the guests.\\
'''The Result''': Cue a ''horde'' of angry mothers with their babies giving a unanimous DeathGlare with Helen in the lead, and Helen asked, "You think being a parent is nothing?" The other partygoers also look awkwardly at Beth, and Bob who is cutting up steaks isn't the only one that is stunned that someone would insult his wife so boldly. Even if Helen hadn't given a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Beth for being so rude, inconsiderate, and judgmental, one of the other mothers would definitely have stepped up to the plate because you don't insult someone for the crime of choosing to have a kid. Or someone would have politely escorted Beth to a corner of the yard, confiscated her wineglass, and given her a WhatTheHellHero for being so inconsiderate to her new neighbors.\\
'''Fortunately''': Realizing that she made a huge faux pas, Beth apologizes to Helen, but not to the other mums she insulted. The only reason they don't join in on calling her out is that Bob accidentally breaks the steak knife due to accidentally running it over his hand, and he has to fake an injury due to being NighInvulnerable.