What An Idiot / MonsterVerse

• Godzilla (2014): The military is moving several high-value nuclear missiles by train to take on the monsters when they have to brake because of apparent gun fire. After the commander of the train repeatedly tries to find out if the bridge they are supposed to cross is clear without response, Lt. Ford Brody and three others move out onto the bridge to see if it is intact and clear. After some time, they can see that the bridge is intact. With this, Ford reports 'The bridge is intact'.
  You'd Expect: The other soldier with Ford to tell him that just because a bridge is intact does not mean it is clear. One of the monsters could have been in the area at the time, and the sight of the train could have spelt disaster for the convoy. After all, Nothing Is Scarier.
  Instead: He radios the others to tell them that they're clear to move out and sure enough the female MUTO is in the area.
  Result: The MUTO ambushes the train and destroys it, with Ford as the only member of the convoy who undeniably survives.
  Even Worse: The MUTOs 'feed' by absorbing radiation and consuming radioactive materials, so the military loses all but one of the nuclear missiles.
• Kong: Skull Island: The Monarch-led expedition team end up in a boneyard. A.K.A. the primary home of the Skullcrawlers. This obviously begins with them getting attacked by one of the Skullcrawlers.
  You'd Expect: Realizing that Skullcrawlers live here, someone would try to make as little noise as possible or try not to do anything that could catch their attention. Even if someone wanted to take pictures, they could have Mason Weaver, who has a camera that can turn off flash if wanted, take the photos without drawing attention.
  Instead: Bill Randa takes photos with flash photography on with a vintage camera that begins to malfunction.
  Result: One of the Skullcrawlers sees this and not only eats Bill, but also begins to attack the survivors. This could've ended with all the heroes dead had Captain James Conrad and Mason Weaver not set the Skullcrawler on fire before things got worse.
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019):
  • Dr. Emma Russell and Eco-Terrorist leader Alan Jonah team-up to release the Titans, one at a time with Emma's expertise, to save the Earth's ecosystem from man-made destruction. One of the very first Titans that Jonah wants set free is "Monster Zero", named such because so little is known about it, other than that it's one of the only Titans on Earth powerful enough to rival Godzilla for control of the planet.
    You'd Expect: Emma to persuade the eco-terrorists to put off freeing Monster Zero until they learn more about it, and instead, release any of the other sixteen or so Titans that they do know about.
    Instead: Emma willingly goes along with the plan.
    The Result: Monster Zero, better known as Ghidorah, turns out to be a Titan they never should have revived — not only does he actively slaughter all humans unprovoked and actively vie against the one Titan who's keeping the others in check, but he turns out to be an alien Titan who's more interested in reshaping the world with extinction-level disasters instead of fixing the planet. And he accomplishes this by releasing the Titans en masse to wreck and destroy everything.
  • Emma's reaction to the death of her son Andrew, who was a casualty of Godzilla and the MUTOs' city-destroying battle which Emma and her family were caught up in, is infamously regarded as an Ass Pull. After Andrew's death, Emma committed herself to working out why her son's death happened so that she could stop the problem at its source. Once Emma realized that the Titans' re-emergences were caused and are still being caused by ecologically-harmful manmade activity, and once she also realized that the Titans are essentially like the Earth's antibodies with the ability to repair damaged ecosystems, she decided to both end the problem and punish humanity by setting all the remaining Titans loose on the world.
    You'd Expect: Having witnessed first-hand the sheer death and raw destruction that just a couple of the Titans are capable of inflicting by doing nothing more than following their instincts, and having lost her own child to that destruction; setting the Titans loose on the world in population centers to create a million more Andrew's and broken families would be the last thing that Emma would want, no matter her end goals.
    Instead: She convinces herself that it's for the greater good. And she convinces herself that she's somehow honoring her son's memory by committing to this plan in his name.
    The Result: Madison rightly calls Emma out for believing that Andrew would have ever, in any conceivable reality, wanted his mother to become a mass murderer by proxy all in his name, and the accusation shakes Emma.
• Godzilla vs. Kong: Godzilla has been hailed by the world as a hero after he fought alongside the U.S. military, saved all life as we know it from King Ghidorah, and prevented the other Titans from going near human-inhabited settlements five years ago. When Godzilla enigmatically storms into Pensacola in a state of agitation, obliterates the Apex Cybernetics corporation's local facility, and then returns to sea; the world reacts with terror and confusion, Apex CEO Walter Simmons effectively declares war on Godzilla on national TV, and the reigning assumption is that Godzilla is no longer a hero.
  You'd Expect: With Godzilla's aforementioned past heroism in both Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the 2014 film in mind, and with it being common knowledge In-Universe that Godzilla only ever emerges to attack when he's provoked, more people than not would figure that there must be something provoking Godzilla's behavior that isn't immediately obvious. Furthermore, since it was explicitly the Apex facility on which Godzilla focused the destruction, Monarch and officials around the world will be giving Walter Simmons the stink-eye and saying "what are you hiding from us?", especially after Simmons draws further attention to himself with that speech on TV.
  Instead: Just about everyone except for Madison, Josh and Bernie just assumes without any further evidence that Godzilla has gone bad for no apparent reason and is now humanity's enemy — everyone including new Monarch director Mark Russell, who was portrayed in the previous movie as a top expert when it came to predicting Godzilla's behavior. And no-one except for Madison, Josh and Bernie accuses Apex of foul play — Monarch even goes along with Apex's proposal to combat Godzilla together without showing any signs of distrust about the corporation's role in all of this.
  The Result: Apex successfully get what they were after from right under Monarch's noses, then You Can't Thwart Stage One ensues, and no-one except for Bernie, Josh and Madison sees it coming when the Apex-made real threat to the world which Godzilla was hunting bursts out of Apex's Hong Kong HQ and destroys half of Hong Kong.

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