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FerrousFaucet
Since: Feb, 2014

What do you call characters who are clearly not very bright, meticulous, or far-sighted, who take actions that, given their initial success, suggest remarkable audacity on their part, but then, after a short time, their total failure reveals that they acted not out of courage but out of stupidity? Usually, this is due to some direct or indirect form of Plot Armor. Examples might be:
- Cersei Lannister of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. The confidence with which she carries out seemingly daring actions can initially lead others to believe that she is brave and calculating, but then, when her schemes fail, it becomes clear that she completely overlooked a crucial weakness in her plan that almost everyone else would have noticed, suggesting that she only acted because she is too short-sighted to think things through when making plans.
- Another character is Kenneth Marshall, from Mickey 17: a failed politician who leads the mission to find a new habitable planet. At first, the confidence with which he embarks on such an ambitious plan might suggests that he was unlucky in losing the election, or at least that he was acting out of desperation, but as the movie progresses, you see that both his failures and his decision to lead such a complicated and dangerous mission are due solely to the fact that he is too stupid to understand that he is in over his head.
Edited by NURJIN915