"♫ Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die... ♫"
- In the 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft series, a majority of the deaths are caused by characters being just plain stupid. It's so common that there are too many examples to list. However, special mention goes to Stu, practically the living embodiment of this trope, who currently holds the record for highest number of deaths in the series soley because of his stupidity.
- Belmont in A Day in Dracula's Life thinks it is a wise idea to keep spamming Hydro Storm. If not for Maria's Big Damn Heroes moment, Belmont would have stayed in Dracula's mercy after finding himself on the bad end of Dracula's Unstoppable Rage, which resulted from all the spamming. The Super Smash Bros. Brawl spin-off, A Day in Meta Knight's Life, has fun with this to deconstruct Character Tiers by having the Pikmin's Big Damn Heroes moment be a Double Subversion where they just increase Pit's intelligence increased by one rank, so Pit, no longer relying on his arrows (which besides being annoying can wreck any player without sufficient skill) at all, is at most a step above Too Dumb To Live when he is counteracting Meta Knight's moves with ease.
- The Demented Cartoon Movie has a driver who crashes his car into a wall at full speed after reacting indecisively to his onboard computer warning about just that."I think you should steer. Do you want to crash?"
"Uhhhhhhhh..." - DSBT InsaniT: Discussed by Robo and Portica in "Untamed and Uncut".Robo: Is there any individual in this series that has the sense to not enter the animal enclosures?
Portica: Watching animals would make a rather dull episode. - Dumb Ways to Die: Exactly What It Says on the Tin, the series of web videos and games shows characters meeting their demise through acts of ever-increasing stupidity. Also played a bit seriously in that it's a stealthy Public Service Announcement for Metro Trains of Melbourne, letting people know that being unsafe around moving trains is one of the things that qualifies them as Too Dumb To Live.
- Etra chan saw it! had a Beach Day Video
where several people going to the water despite the high winds and waves warning. The beach even closed because of it. They would've drowned if it weren't for Karin saving them. - Essentially the premise of the animated short Free Apple. The King meets an Obviously Evil shopkeep who offers him an apple with a skull on it for free. Despite the signs and the King's partner owl noticing and pointing them out, the king take the apple thinking it looks cool and perfectly normal. This results in the king getting poisoned and dying. After which, the King returns and says he won't fall for such a trick again, only for the shopkeep to offer a banana for free under the same circumstances, which the king once again takes. Once again, the banana kills him. It then gets turned around the third time when the King decides to make a trade for something and offers the shopkeep a jar of honey in exchange. When the shopkeep takes the honey, the bees he apparently keeps around as pets go wild and kill him. The King isn't too thrilled with killing him though.Owl: He was a demon! It's fine!
King: I know we had our ups and downs. but-
Owl: He poisoned you!
King: I still liked the guy!
Owl: TWICE! - If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Vulkan has a definite case of this. Upon being told that the creature he's looking at, the Catachan Barking Toad, will disintegrate into a cloud of toxins that can kill space marines if startled, his immediate thought is 'boop the snoot'. Of course, he is a Perpetual, meaning that death is at most a temporary inconvenience to him, so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise he has no survival instinct.
- Happy Tree Friends:
- Lumpy is by far the stupidest member of the cast, and exists in a franchise where every installment ends in most of the characters dying—you can kind of do the math from there. One particularly defining moment for him is when his leg was trapped under a tree and he had to try to amputate it to free himself. After several in-universe hours of horrifyingly painful cutting, it's revealed that he was cutting off the wrong leg.
- For a single episode example, in "Chew Said a Mouthful" Nutty gets a jawbreaker and doesn't understand the basic concept of how to eat it or why it has its name, so his attempts to chew it lead to his mouth getting wired shut, then at the end of the episode he tries to chew it again and dies.
- In the episode "All Work and No Play", Nutty, Sniffles and Lammy all get maimed by playing on a clearly unsafe old playground that Lumpy was in the middle of demolishing, though it's thanks to Lumpy that Nutty and Sniffles are both killed.
- Hazbin Hotel: It's implied and zig-zagged that Angel Dust was too dumb to live. In life, he was an addict who overdosed on the drug he's named after in 1947, resulting in his death. In Hell, he continues to do drugs, though he can't die from them due to being a demon.
- Helluva Boss: Former Mafia muscle Chazwick Thurman tries to con Crimson. He claims to be rich so he can marry Moxxie and be part of the family. It doesn't end well for him.
- Pretty much the entirety of Klay World is this trope. Throughout the entire series the population of Klay World, the klaymen's, have gotten themselves in scenarios that would most likely result in their death. They can't even do simple things like spilling a glass of water without half the table drowning.
- The Most Popular Girls in School: Katelynn Zales just can't function properly, and just doesn't know what to keep out of her goddamn mouth. If it weren't for her Cool Big Sis Mackenzie, she'd be dead.
- Shrapnel: After Reznya kills one of the Ugandan knuckles for spitting on and insulting her after she helped free them, she asks "Who’s next?", and one of them is stupid enough to start saying he will not follow her, and doesn’t live long either.Ugandan knuckles: No!
Reznya: Oh for the love of god.
Ugandan knuckles: I will never follow a bruddah -
*gets shot*
Reznya: Jesus Christ. - Avery Halifax in the Thomas & Friends series The Stories of Sodor episode "Enthusiasts" is a rich railway enthusiast who takes pictures of the engines too close to the tracks, if not on the tracks. His reward for this, naturally, is to get run over and killed by Emily’s breakaway trucks.
- Pretty much every classic character in SMG4 is like this, with Mario being more prominent than others.
- Team Service Announcement:
- The BLU Heavy in "Minigun Spinup" takes so long to walk anywhere with his revving Brass Beast that the RED Spy and Sniper decide assassinating him is just too easy to be fun. So instead they drive a steamroller over him.
- The BLU Soldier in "Grenade Launcher" willingly stands on a stickybomb trap, claiming "I got a good feeling about this!"
- The BLU Heavy in "Minigun Spinup"
- Most deaths in Teen Girl Squad are the result of ridiculous random tragedies befalling them. Sometimes, though, the girls really have no one to blame but themselves. A pretty textbook example is What's-Her-Face eating "a heaping bowl of Staple Sauce" — a jar of staples in unidentified liquid. She chokes to death after swallowing the first spoonful.
