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** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Dinobot at any given time, to the point at which he even does so vicariously through Cheetor in the episode "Equal Measures". As a result, also Cheetor.
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** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Dinobot at any given time, Miko in ''Transformers Prime'' has a tendency to the point at which he even jump headfirst whenever a fight between giant robots is going on. The fact she's a squishy teenager human doesn't stop her. Neither does so vicariously through Cheetor in being told to stay put by the episode "Equal Measures". As a result, also Cheetor.Autobots, or her more sensible human friends trying to talk sense into her. This often leads to her [[SpannerInTheWorks making the situation worse for the Autobots.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' gives this a bit of deconstruction with Beckett Mariner. She will jump into action and do things that would be against the rules, claiming that Starfleet's bureaucratic red tape just makes things too slow. While she's right, there's an underlying reason for all that: [[spoiler:she's actually a ShellShockedVeteran of the Dominion War and absolutely terrified of moving up in rank in fear of losing her friends, especially after the loss of Sito Jaxa]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'', Sonya Blade has a tendency to yell "[[{{Catchphrase}} Kombat Time!]]" immediately before charging towards her enemies.
--> '''Stryker:''' We need a strategic plan of attack.\\
'''Sonya:''' I got one: Kombat Time!
--> '''Stryker:''' We need a strategic plan of attack.\\
'''Sonya:''' I got one: Kombat Time!
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** In "Sonic Rainboom" one of the contestants in the Best Young Flier competition was a brown male background character that energetically shouts "Let's do this!" right before flying out of the starting gate to do his routine. This scene gave the character a small memetic status in the fandom and the FanNickname "Leeroy Wingkins".
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** "Sworn to the Sword" reveals that Pearl would repeatedly leap in front of Rose Quartz to protect her during the First Gem War. This is despite the fact that Rose was a powerful BarrierWarrior with an unbreakable shield, while Pearl is a WeakButSkilled FragileSpeedster in comparison. Basically she was a GlassCannon trying to tank blows for the ''actual Tank''. When Garnet mentions this to Steven, he envisions a little montage of Pearl being repeatedly poofed into Gem form by vastly stronger foes that Rose almost certainly could have handled by herself. Then the image switches Pearl and Rose with Connie and Steven. The scene cuts to Steven's horrified reaction right before the axe hits Connie — fully aware that Connie being human can't regenerate from a lethal blow — and he immediately tries to stop Pearl's training before Connie permanently falls into this mindset too.
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** "Sworn to the Sword" reveals that Pearl would repeatedly leap in front of Rose Quartz to protect her during the First Gem War. This is despite the fact that Rose was a powerful BarrierWarrior with an unbreakable shield, while Pearl is a WeakButSkilled FragileSpeedster in comparison. Basically she was a GlassCannon trying to tank blows for the ''actual Tank''. When Garnet mentions this to Steven, he envisions a little montage of Pearl being repeatedly poofed into Gem form by vastly stronger foes that Rose almost certainly could have handled by herself. Then the image switches Pearl and Rose with Connie and Steven. The scene cuts to Steven's horrified reaction right before the axe hits Connie — -- fully aware that Connie being human can't regenerate from a lethal blow — -- and he immediately tries to stop Pearl's training before Connie permanently falls into this mindset too.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' gives us Bobby the Barbarian, who thinks nothing of attacking '''Tiamat''' head on, much to the worry and consternation of his older sister, Sheila.
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* In a segment of ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'', [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]] directly quotes the TropeNamer when charging at a dragon.
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** The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has April of all people do this, complete with a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer:
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--->'''Cliffjumper:''' I'm goin' too... I wanna blast Megatron right in his Turbo-Charger...\\
'''Optimus Prime:''' Just find them. We'll deal with them later...\\
(''Hound and Cliffjumper travel to the Decepticons' Rocket Site'')\\
'''Hound:''' Cliffjumper, what are you doing?\\
'''Optimus Prime:''' Just find them. We'll deal with them later...\\
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'''Optimus Prime:''' Easy, Cliffjumper. Just find them. We'll deal with themlater...later.\\
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'''Hound:''' Cliffjumper, what are youdoing?\\doing?!\\
'''Optimus Prime:''' Easy, Cliffjumper. Just find them. We'll deal with them
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* El Guante Blanco, Puss in Boots' mentor from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots''. Once his youth and strength is restored, all he wants to do is rush into battle, even when he is clearly still outmatched.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'': Flip and Scooter Chan are prone to this quite a bit. (Oddly enough, though, in one episode Flip himself was the one to keep Scooter from running off before they had a plan.)
%%* Of the ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'', Modo, Throttle, and especially Vinnie fit this trope. Yes, all three of them. Charlie's strength is that she ''doesn't'' fit this trope.
%%* Marcia the marsupial mouse from ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Wheeler, equipped with [[PlayingWithFire the power of Fire]], has been known as this on some occasions.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'':
** William has his Leeroy Jenkins moment in episode "Final Round", during his first virtualization on Lyoko. So eager for clashing with the monsters, he never listens to Aelita's repeated calls for caution or Jérémie's orders of drawing back, and ends up captured and brainwashed by the Scyphozoa.
** Odd has his moments, too, several times. Usually lampshaded by Ulrich: "[Odd's] nuts."
* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': In "Zilly's a Dilly", Dick Dastardly hires a hypnotist to make Zilly brave. Unfortunately, Zilly becomes too reckless to follow plans and Dastardly decides to turn Zilly back into a coward.
* Dewey in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', his defining trait is he is always eager to charge head on to danger. [[spoiler:He gets it from his mom.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' gives us Bobby the Barbarian, who thinks nothing of attacking '''Tiamat''' head on, much to the worry and consternation of his older sister, Sheila.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'': Paploo does this quite often, which eventually gets him in trouble in "The Three Lessons", when he's held captive and tickled repeatedly by the giant Stranglethorn plant.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' does a parody of the TropeNamer where Peter Joe and Cleveland are having to face guy with uzis. Cleveland asks Joe and Peter if they are familiar with [[DiscussedTrope Leeroy Jenkins]]. Peter responds saying he doesn't know what Cleveland is talking about and then comes up with a plan that involves him running in shouting then Joe running in shouting. After Joe does a number crunch, Cleveland shouts "LEEROY JENKINS".
-->'''Peter:''' Cleveland, you're an idiot.\\
'''Cleveland:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall This episode has a lot of internet things.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FredTheCaveman'': In a couple of episodes where the characters were hunting, everyone would prefer to sneak up on the dinosaur silently and ambush it. Fred, however, prefers to just charge at it, club above his head, screaming.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}''. Ty can be considered one, and probably the worst offense was going to a garbage dump without waiting for orders. This led to his being brainwashed by Fartor, [[spoiler:and it took a lot of effort from his sister Abby to save him from the "fart side".]]
* Hawkgirl, as depicted in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited''.
-->'''Hawkgirl:''' Less talking, more hitting!
%%** ComicBook/TheFlash can be seen as this too, as shown in the pilot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In an episode of the second season, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are looking for a magical artifact in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. At one point, they go into a chamber with horizontally suspended ropes. Kaeloo says that if they touch the ropes, it might trigger a trap, so they have to move slowly and carefully. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] picks up a knife and runs through the chamber, cutting them all and triggering the trap. Stumpy escapes the trap, but the other three are impaled by AnnoyingArrows and get mad at him.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'': Texas is like this, although he does sometimes try to come up with plans, just not very good ones (such as inventing a shrink ray).
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the second part of "Friendship is Magic". Twilight prepares to charge [[BigBad Nightmare Moon]], which causes the latter to respond "You're kidding, right?". In the end, it was just a ruse to get closer to the [[MacGuffin Elements of Harmony]].
** Rainbow Dash, on a several occasions. When facing down a Hydra in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight wonders, "What would a brave pony like Rainbow Dash do?" Answer? Charge headfirst at it. In "Dragonshy", she kicks a dragon in the face. A dragon about fifty times her size, mind you.
** In "Daring Don't" we have the following:
--->'''Rainbow Dash:''' We've got to help Daring Do retrieve the ring for safekeeping before it's too late! \\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Okay. But sounds to me like we're in way, way, way over our heads. We're going to need a carefully thought-out plan... \\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' ''[Flies off]'' I'm coming, Daring Do! \\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' ''[Annoyed]'' That's not a plan!
** And again in "Power Ponies", when the Mane 6 arrive at the villain's headquarters:
--->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' All right, Power Ponies, here's the plan. Rarity, you, me, and... \\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Come on out, Mane-iac! Or the Power Ponies are comin' in! \\
''[thunder crash]'' \\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' So much for the element of surprise.
** In "Sonic Rainboom" one of the contestants in the Best Young Flier competition was a brown male background character that energetically shouts "Let's do this!" right before flying out of the starting gate to do his routine. This scene gave the character a small memetic status in the fandom and the FanNickname "Leeroy Wingkins".
** In "To Where and Back Again", the Changelings have captured and imprisoned the Mane Six and the Royal Family. The Changeling hive has a PowerNullifier that prevents non-Changeling magic from working. While Starlight, Trixie, Thorax and Discord sneak in to try to save them, Discord loses patience and charges in screaming he has to save Fluttershy at the top of his lungs. Naturally, he is caught pretty quickly.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' essentially recreate the original viral video with Buford in the title role. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXGMMT5UjZQ See it here.]]
* Blitz pulls this in the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' right after Hunter says they need to figure out a way to get into the enemy base ("Let the biting begin!"). He ''did'' get inside, though... after being knocked out from a distance by a gas grenade and taken prisoner by guards.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters", one of the bounty hunters was a huge, hulking guy named Boris, who actually ''planned'' to ambush Jack this way. Princess Mira, who had previously given a [[StraightMan rather detailed explanation to the others]] as to why their plans were flawed, gave a [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard pretty brief one to his]].
* Scrappy-Doo of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. Possibly downplayed in the fact that his recklessness didn't really destroy too many plans of Mystery Inc., since ''their'' plan essentially amounted to "split up and find the monster, figure that out when we get to it".
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had a parody of ''VideoGame/{{World of Warcraft}}'' with the principal antagonist being a griefer named Jenkins.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth "Storm Over Ryloth"]]: During the first attempt to break the blockade, Ahsoka, while commanding a fighter squadron, refuses to retreat when she's told, leading to the deaths of almost all of her pilots.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E2ADistantEcho "A Distant Echo"]]: Immediately after Anakin takes pains to remind everyone this is supposed to be a stealth mission, [[TheBerserker Wrecker]] charges into the first room they see and starts crushing and shooting patrolling droids, with the rest of the Bad Batch following soon afterwards.
--->'''Rex:''' SoMuchForStealth...
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' may be pretty smart, but he falls into this on occasion. In one episode, the OldSuperhero Soul Power, who has ShockAndAwe powers like Static, contacts him and warns that his arch-enemy Professor Menace has resurfaced. Static overconfidently charges into battle before Soul Power can stop him. He gets his ass kicked and has to be bailed out by Soul Power. Annoyed, Soul Power asks if he was even paying attention: Professor Menace is his arch-enemy, so he has a lot of experience dealing with guys who can control electricity.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E49JailBreak "Jail Break"]], Ruby and Steven run around Peridot's hand-ship in an attempt to find Sapphire. Sapphire is singing to help them find her, but whenever she stops, Ruby screams Sapphire's name at the top of her lungs, with zero regard for the fact that Peridot and Jasper are on the ship as well, and won't take kindly to the fact that their prisoners escaped.
--->'''Ruby:''' She stopped singing... ''SAPPHIRE!!''
** "Sworn to the Sword" reveals that Pearl would repeatedly leap in front of Rose Quartz to protect her during the First Gem War. This is despite the fact that Rose was a powerful BarrierWarrior with an unbreakable shield, while Pearl is a WeakButSkilled FragileSpeedster in comparison. Basically she was a GlassCannon trying to tank blows for the ''actual Tank''. When Garnet mentions this to Steven, he envisions a little montage of Pearl being repeatedly poofed into Gem form by vastly stronger foes that Rose almost certainly could have handled by herself. Then the image switches Pearl and Rose with Connie and Steven. The scene cuts to Steven's horrified reaction right before the axe hits Connie — fully aware that Connie being human can't regenerate from a lethal blow — and he immediately tries to stop Pearl's training before Connie permanently falls into this mindset too.
** When Amethyst is looking for a rematch with Jasper, she always runs straight at her by herself, even refusing help at first.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Supergirl starts off as this. When Darkseid built a device to cause a comet to redirect from its course and crash into Earth, Supergirl smashed it. Superman just glared at her and pointed out that he could have used the device to try and put the comet back out of harm's way. So now they had to go and stop it the hard way. Later, in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Green Lantern [[WhatTheHellHero chewed her out]] for being headstrong and endangering their mission, and threatened to have her kicked out of the League if she did that again. [[CharacterDevelopment She gets better though as the series progressed.]]
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** Shredder in the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' was always a threat to ruin Krang's well-laid plans by letting his hatred of the Turtles overtake him:
*** In "The Big Blow Out", as Krang was on the verge of sending Earth into Dimension X, Shredder [[spoiler:drove the Technodrome after the Turtles, falling right into their trap that sent the Technodrome into Dimension X instead.]]
*** "Shredder Triumphant": Shredder and Krang appear to have pulled off the [[ThePlan perfect plan]] when they capture the Turtles and banish them to Dimension X. Then Shredder [[spoiler:brings them back to Earth himself after they taunt him into believing he hadn't really beaten them unless he actually fought them.]]
** The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has April of all people do this, complete with a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer:
--->'''April:''' ''(gets fed up with the TMNT bickering about Raph's speech)'' Let's do this! APRIIIIIIIIILLL O'NEEEEEIIIILLLLLLLL!!!!!!! ''(leaps into action to save [[TeamPet Mayhem]])''\\
'''Mikey:''' Oh my gosh, she just ran in!
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian''. Thundarr, much to Ariel's dismay.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
** Bumblebee of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' always goes head-on into any battle, even though it's been repeatedly shown that his weapons do [[ShootingSuperman absolutely nothing]] against any Decepticons.
** His ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]]'' counterpart, Hot Shot, also had a tendency to do that.
** And was still at it in ''[[Anime/TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''. Overhaul also has elements of this.
** In various incarnations of ''Transformers'', this is the consistent character trait of Cliffjumper. He's always itching for a fight and always the first to leap into action -- even if, as his name suggests, that leap is off a cliff. This is especially true of [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1 Cliffjumper]] and [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime Cliffjumper]]. EstablishingCharacterMoment: From the first episode of Transformers ever...
--->'''Cliffjumper:''' I'm goin' too... I wanna blast Megatron right in his Turbo-Charger...\\
'''Optimus Prime:''' Just find them. We'll deal with them later...\\
(''Hound and Cliffjumper travel to the Decepticons' Rocket Site'')\\
'''Hound:''' Cliffjumper, what are you doing?\\
'''Cliffjumper:''' I've got Megatron dead-center in my view finder...\\
'''Hound:''' Remember what Prime said: Just find them.\\
'''Cliffjumper:''' (''fires and misses, alerting the Decepticons that they're being watched...'')
** Air Raid's motto is "If you look first, you may not leap", and he lives by that code with all his spark.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Dinobot at any given time, to the point at which he even does so vicariously through Cheetor in the episode "Equal Measures". As a result, also Cheetor.
* Keith from ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' is exactly this, though not so much with the yelling. Although initially appearing to be the most level-headed, it is soon realized that the temperamental quality of his Lion (the red Lion) matches that of its Paladin very much. Keith is prone to charging into situations (that could end up making the situation much worse) without thinking it through and is more reliant on his impulse than thought. However sometimes, it works in Keith's favor.
* Sir Sadlygrove Percidal of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''. If it weren't for the fact that he is part of the main cast, his complete lack of subtlety and love for impossible odds would've gotten him killed twenty times over. [[spoiler:Although he did die ''once''.]] In fact he states he wouldn't mind dying as long as it is during a great fight.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' episode "Mala Mala Jong", Master Fung sends the Chosen Ones away from the Temple with the Shen Gong Wu when Wuya is about to attack with the titular demon warrior. Raimundo decides to go back and help, and gets captured for his effort, letting Wuya track down the other heroes. This is why Raimindo wasn't promoted along the others.
-->'''Raimundo:''' But I was brave!\\
'''Master Fung:''' You did not obey my orders. Your brash and impulsive actions nearly led us to the brink of destruction.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''
** Superboy gives a perfect example, (except he yells rather than shouts his name) in "Performance". The team has a plan to take down Parasite... which Superboy promptly screws up by charging in screaming. [[spoiler:Interestingly, here it's an OutOfCharacterAlert and a sign that Superboy is using the [[PsychoSerum shields]], as Superboy had long since grown out of this.]]
** [[spoiler:Arsenal]] in his first real episode. Covert ops mission? He feels like spiting Luthor, so he ''blows up the lab''.
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* El Guante Blanco, Puss in Boots' mentor from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots''. Once his youth and strength is restored, all he wants to do is rush into battle, even when he is clearly still outmatched.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'': Flip and Scooter Chan are prone to this quite a bit. (Oddly enough, though, in one episode Flip himself was the one to keep Scooter from running off before they had a plan.)
%%* Of the ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'', Modo, Throttle, and especially Vinnie fit this trope. Yes, all three of them. Charlie's strength is that she ''doesn't'' fit this trope.
%%* Marcia the marsupial mouse from ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Wheeler, equipped with [[PlayingWithFire the power of Fire]], has been known as this on some occasions.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'':
** William has his Leeroy Jenkins moment in episode "Final Round", during his first virtualization on Lyoko. So eager for clashing with the monsters, he never listens to Aelita's repeated calls for caution or Jérémie's orders of drawing back, and ends up captured and brainwashed by the Scyphozoa.
** Odd has his moments, too, several times. Usually lampshaded by Ulrich: "[Odd's] nuts."
* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': In "Zilly's a Dilly", Dick Dastardly hires a hypnotist to make Zilly brave. Unfortunately, Zilly becomes too reckless to follow plans and Dastardly decides to turn Zilly back into a coward.
* Dewey in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', his defining trait is he is always eager to charge head on to danger. [[spoiler:He gets it from his mom.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' gives us Bobby the Barbarian, who thinks nothing of attacking '''Tiamat''' head on, much to the worry and consternation of his older sister, Sheila.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'': Paploo does this quite often, which eventually gets him in trouble in "The Three Lessons", when he's held captive and tickled repeatedly by the giant Stranglethorn plant.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' does a parody of the TropeNamer where Peter Joe and Cleveland are having to face guy with uzis. Cleveland asks Joe and Peter if they are familiar with [[DiscussedTrope Leeroy Jenkins]]. Peter responds saying he doesn't know what Cleveland is talking about and then comes up with a plan that involves him running in shouting then Joe running in shouting. After Joe does a number crunch, Cleveland shouts "LEEROY JENKINS".
-->'''Peter:''' Cleveland, you're an idiot.\\
'''Cleveland:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall This episode has a lot of internet things.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FredTheCaveman'': In a couple of episodes where the characters were hunting, everyone would prefer to sneak up on the dinosaur silently and ambush it. Fred, however, prefers to just charge at it, club above his head, screaming.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}''. Ty can be considered one, and probably the worst offense was going to a garbage dump without waiting for orders. This led to his being brainwashed by Fartor, [[spoiler:and it took a lot of effort from his sister Abby to save him from the "fart side".]]
* Hawkgirl, as depicted in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited''.
-->'''Hawkgirl:''' Less talking, more hitting!
%%** ComicBook/TheFlash can be seen as this too, as shown in the pilot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In an episode of the second season, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are looking for a magical artifact in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. At one point, they go into a chamber with horizontally suspended ropes. Kaeloo says that if they touch the ropes, it might trigger a trap, so they have to move slowly and carefully. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] picks up a knife and runs through the chamber, cutting them all and triggering the trap. Stumpy escapes the trap, but the other three are impaled by AnnoyingArrows and get mad at him.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'': Texas is like this, although he does sometimes try to come up with plans, just not very good ones (such as inventing a shrink ray).
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the second part of "Friendship is Magic". Twilight prepares to charge [[BigBad Nightmare Moon]], which causes the latter to respond "You're kidding, right?". In the end, it was just a ruse to get closer to the [[MacGuffin Elements of Harmony]].
** Rainbow Dash, on a several occasions. When facing down a Hydra in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight wonders, "What would a brave pony like Rainbow Dash do?" Answer? Charge headfirst at it. In "Dragonshy", she kicks a dragon in the face. A dragon about fifty times her size, mind you.
** In "Daring Don't" we have the following:
--->'''Rainbow Dash:''' We've got to help Daring Do retrieve the ring for safekeeping before it's too late! \\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Okay. But sounds to me like we're in way, way, way over our heads. We're going to need a carefully thought-out plan... \\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' ''[Flies off]'' I'm coming, Daring Do! \\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' ''[Annoyed]'' That's not a plan!
** And again in "Power Ponies", when the Mane 6 arrive at the villain's headquarters:
--->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' All right, Power Ponies, here's the plan. Rarity, you, me, and... \\
'''Rainbow Dash:''' Come on out, Mane-iac! Or the Power Ponies are comin' in! \\
''[thunder crash]'' \\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' So much for the element of surprise.
** In "Sonic Rainboom" one of the contestants in the Best Young Flier competition was a brown male background character that energetically shouts "Let's do this!" right before flying out of the starting gate to do his routine. This scene gave the character a small memetic status in the fandom and the FanNickname "Leeroy Wingkins".
** In "To Where and Back Again", the Changelings have captured and imprisoned the Mane Six and the Royal Family. The Changeling hive has a PowerNullifier that prevents non-Changeling magic from working. While Starlight, Trixie, Thorax and Discord sneak in to try to save them, Discord loses patience and charges in screaming he has to save Fluttershy at the top of his lungs. Naturally, he is caught pretty quickly.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' essentially recreate the original viral video with Buford in the title role. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXGMMT5UjZQ See it here.]]
* Blitz pulls this in the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' right after Hunter says they need to figure out a way to get into the enemy base ("Let the biting begin!"). He ''did'' get inside, though... after being knocked out from a distance by a gas grenade and taken prisoner by guards.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters", one of the bounty hunters was a huge, hulking guy named Boris, who actually ''planned'' to ambush Jack this way. Princess Mira, who had previously given a [[StraightMan rather detailed explanation to the others]] as to why their plans were flawed, gave a [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard pretty brief one to his]].
* Scrappy-Doo of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. Possibly downplayed in the fact that his recklessness didn't really destroy too many plans of Mystery Inc., since ''their'' plan essentially amounted to "split up and find the monster, figure that out when we get to it".
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had a parody of ''VideoGame/{{World of Warcraft}}'' with the principal antagonist being a griefer named Jenkins.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth "Storm Over Ryloth"]]: During the first attempt to break the blockade, Ahsoka, while commanding a fighter squadron, refuses to retreat when she's told, leading to the deaths of almost all of her pilots.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E2ADistantEcho "A Distant Echo"]]: Immediately after Anakin takes pains to remind everyone this is supposed to be a stealth mission, [[TheBerserker Wrecker]] charges into the first room they see and starts crushing and shooting patrolling droids, with the rest of the Bad Batch following soon afterwards.
--->'''Rex:''' SoMuchForStealth...
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' may be pretty smart, but he falls into this on occasion. In one episode, the OldSuperhero Soul Power, who has ShockAndAwe powers like Static, contacts him and warns that his arch-enemy Professor Menace has resurfaced. Static overconfidently charges into battle before Soul Power can stop him. He gets his ass kicked and has to be bailed out by Soul Power. Annoyed, Soul Power asks if he was even paying attention: Professor Menace is his arch-enemy, so he has a lot of experience dealing with guys who can control electricity.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E49JailBreak "Jail Break"]], Ruby and Steven run around Peridot's hand-ship in an attempt to find Sapphire. Sapphire is singing to help them find her, but whenever she stops, Ruby screams Sapphire's name at the top of her lungs, with zero regard for the fact that Peridot and Jasper are on the ship as well, and won't take kindly to the fact that their prisoners escaped.
--->'''Ruby:''' She stopped singing... ''SAPPHIRE!!''
** "Sworn to the Sword" reveals that Pearl would repeatedly leap in front of Rose Quartz to protect her during the First Gem War. This is despite the fact that Rose was a powerful BarrierWarrior with an unbreakable shield, while Pearl is a WeakButSkilled FragileSpeedster in comparison. Basically she was a GlassCannon trying to tank blows for the ''actual Tank''. When Garnet mentions this to Steven, he envisions a little montage of Pearl being repeatedly poofed into Gem form by vastly stronger foes that Rose almost certainly could have handled by herself. Then the image switches Pearl and Rose with Connie and Steven. The scene cuts to Steven's horrified reaction right before the axe hits Connie — fully aware that Connie being human can't regenerate from a lethal blow — and he immediately tries to stop Pearl's training before Connie permanently falls into this mindset too.
** When Amethyst is looking for a rematch with Jasper, she always runs straight at her by herself, even refusing help at first.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Supergirl starts off as this. When Darkseid built a device to cause a comet to redirect from its course and crash into Earth, Supergirl smashed it. Superman just glared at her and pointed out that he could have used the device to try and put the comet back out of harm's way. So now they had to go and stop it the hard way. Later, in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Green Lantern [[WhatTheHellHero chewed her out]] for being headstrong and endangering their mission, and threatened to have her kicked out of the League if she did that again. [[CharacterDevelopment She gets better though as the series progressed.]]
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** Shredder in the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' was always a threat to ruin Krang's well-laid plans by letting his hatred of the Turtles overtake him:
*** In "The Big Blow Out", as Krang was on the verge of sending Earth into Dimension X, Shredder [[spoiler:drove the Technodrome after the Turtles, falling right into their trap that sent the Technodrome into Dimension X instead.]]
*** "Shredder Triumphant": Shredder and Krang appear to have pulled off the [[ThePlan perfect plan]] when they capture the Turtles and banish them to Dimension X. Then Shredder [[spoiler:brings them back to Earth himself after they taunt him into believing he hadn't really beaten them unless he actually fought them.]]
** The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has April of all people do this, complete with a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer:
--->'''April:''' ''(gets fed up with the TMNT bickering about Raph's speech)'' Let's do this! APRIIIIIIIIILLL O'NEEEEEIIIILLLLLLLL!!!!!!! ''(leaps into action to save [[TeamPet Mayhem]])''\\
'''Mikey:''' Oh my gosh, she just ran in!
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian''. Thundarr, much to Ariel's dismay.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
** Bumblebee of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' always goes head-on into any battle, even though it's been repeatedly shown that his weapons do [[ShootingSuperman absolutely nothing]] against any Decepticons.
** His ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]]'' counterpart, Hot Shot, also had a tendency to do that.
** And was still at it in ''[[Anime/TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]''. Overhaul also has elements of this.
** In various incarnations of ''Transformers'', this is the consistent character trait of Cliffjumper. He's always itching for a fight and always the first to leap into action -- even if, as his name suggests, that leap is off a cliff. This is especially true of [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1 Cliffjumper]] and [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime Cliffjumper]]. EstablishingCharacterMoment: From the first episode of Transformers ever...
--->'''Cliffjumper:''' I'm goin' too... I wanna blast Megatron right in his Turbo-Charger...\\
'''Optimus Prime:''' Just find them. We'll deal with them later...\\
(''Hound and Cliffjumper travel to the Decepticons' Rocket Site'')\\
'''Hound:''' Cliffjumper, what are you doing?\\
'''Cliffjumper:''' I've got Megatron dead-center in my view finder...\\
'''Hound:''' Remember what Prime said: Just find them.\\
'''Cliffjumper:''' (''fires and misses, alerting the Decepticons that they're being watched...'')
** Air Raid's motto is "If you look first, you may not leap", and he lives by that code with all his spark.
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Dinobot at any given time, to the point at which he even does so vicariously through Cheetor in the episode "Equal Measures". As a result, also Cheetor.
* Keith from ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' is exactly this, though not so much with the yelling. Although initially appearing to be the most level-headed, it is soon realized that the temperamental quality of his Lion (the red Lion) matches that of its Paladin very much. Keith is prone to charging into situations (that could end up making the situation much worse) without thinking it through and is more reliant on his impulse than thought. However sometimes, it works in Keith's favor.
* Sir Sadlygrove Percidal of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''. If it weren't for the fact that he is part of the main cast, his complete lack of subtlety and love for impossible odds would've gotten him killed twenty times over. [[spoiler:Although he did die ''once''.]] In fact he states he wouldn't mind dying as long as it is during a great fight.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' episode "Mala Mala Jong", Master Fung sends the Chosen Ones away from the Temple with the Shen Gong Wu when Wuya is about to attack with the titular demon warrior. Raimundo decides to go back and help, and gets captured for his effort, letting Wuya track down the other heroes. This is why Raimindo wasn't promoted along the others.
-->'''Raimundo:''' But I was brave!\\
'''Master Fung:''' You did not obey my orders. Your brash and impulsive actions nearly led us to the brink of destruction.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''
** Superboy gives a perfect example, (except he yells rather than shouts his name) in "Performance". The team has a plan to take down Parasite... which Superboy promptly screws up by charging in screaming. [[spoiler:Interestingly, here it's an OutOfCharacterAlert and a sign that Superboy is using the [[PsychoSerum shields]], as Superboy had long since grown out of this.]]
** [[spoiler:Arsenal]] in his first real episode. Covert ops mission? He feels like spiting Luthor, so he ''blows up the lab''.
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