Line #13 Main/ImprobableBehaviorTropes


1	You can't generalize on how people will behave. Even [[TooDumbToLive basic survival instincts]] are frequently [[CrossesTheLineTwice (and humorously!)]] [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in RealLife; and HiddenDepths or a MysteriousPast mean characters have a lot of [[OutOfCharacterMoment leeway]] to act OutOfCharacter. However... there are many things people are still ''unlikely'' to do, especially when previous characterization has given them [[InformedAbility some measure of an attribute]] in contradiction to their new behaviour.
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3	Below are a list of tropes relating the different ways characters break WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief by pulling a 180 and doing really weird, nonsensical and/or stupid things. Why does this happen? Two reasons: the author sucks, and [[RuleOfDrama drama requires them to.]]
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6	!!Tropes
7	[floatboxright:Related Indexes
8	+ BallIndex
9	+ ContrivedStupidityTropes
10	+ {{Immaturity Tropes}}
11	+ PoorCommunicationKills
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13	[[index]]
14	* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Something bad happens, but it all works out. Because of it all working out, the character who the bad thing happened to isn't annoyed.
15	* AngstWhatAngst: A character doesn't seem sad or suffer psychological trauma despite the bad things they've been through.
16	* ArtificialAtmosphericActions: Background characters doing things in video games that are supposed to look realistic but instead look unrealistic.
17	* CharacterCheck: A character starts to act out-of-character but then does something which signifies they're back to normal.
18	* CharacterDerailment: A character suddenly and inexplicably changes personality.
19	* CharacterisationClickMoment: A character shows the starting points of gradual personality change that would later define them.
20	* CompressedVice: A character suddenly gets the (usually '''very''' exaggerated) flaw out of nowhere which dissapears without a trace after the end of act or story.
21	* ConflictBall: A character starts a conflict for weak or out-of-character reasons.
22	* ConformingOOCMoment: A character behaves unlike their usual personality in a group action.
23	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: A person loses their morality when they become a {{cyborg}}.
24	* DistressBall: A plot resolves around a character ending up [[DamselInDistress in]] [[DistressedDude danger]] and needing rescuing, but the character gets in trouble in the first place by doing something [[IdiotBall dumb]] and/or [[OutOfCharacterMoment out-of-character]].
25	* EasilyForgiven: Someone forgives another person, even when what the person being forgiven did was very evil.
26	* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop: A cartoon character dances in a stilted way due to being repetitive and/or not fitting the music.
27	* GoingForTheBigScoop: A reporter willingly goes right into danger to get a news story.
28	* HeroBall: A hero who is shown not to be [[IdiotHero dumb]] or [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny absent]] or [[BookDumb uneducated]] but [[IdiotBall makes a bad or dumb-seeming decision anyway.]]
29	* IdiotBall: A character does something stupid or foolish even though they're not [[TheDitz dumb]] and they have the information necessary for them to know it's a bad idea.
30	* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: A villain says that they would never reveal information, all the while revealing it (like "I'd never say that the answer is X")
31	* LittleProfessorDialog: Children using big words.
32	* OtakuSurrogate: In a work with an ImprobablyFemaleCast, a woman acts like a stereotypical fan of shows similar to the show she's in.
33	* OutOfCharacterMoment: A character does something that goes against their usual personality.
34	* PainMistakenForSex: Someone screams or moans in pain and another person thinks the screamer is having an orgasm.
35	* SchoolOfNoStudying: A work is set in a school but the characters are hardly ever seen studying.
36	* SmartBall: A character suddenly appears much smarter or more knowledgeable than their usual selves.
37	* ThinksOfSomethingSmartSaysSomethingStupid: A character says something stupid, even though they came up with something better to say.
38	* UndercoverWhenAlone: An undercover character keeps acting even when they're by themselves.
39	* VillainBall: A villain does something [[ForTheEvulz just to be evil]] which ends up [[IdiotBall being foolish]] and defeating them.
40	* ViolationOfCommonSense: Doing something idiotic and suicidal that no sane person would do and be rewarded for it.
41	* WelcomeBackTraitor: Someone betrays another character but is [[EasilyForgiven welcomed back instantly]].
42	* DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot: A YMMV page where viewers call a character an "idiot" for doing something perceived by them as foolish.
43	[[/index]]

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