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* SuicidalPacifism: A character is such a committed pacifist that they refuse to deliberately harm anyone even when they're in a situation where fighting is the only sensible option.

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* SuicidalPacifism: A character is such a committed pacifist that they refuse to deliberately harm anyone even when they're in a situation where fighting back in self-defense is the only sensible option.
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* SuicidalPacifism: A character is such a committed pacifist that they insist on non-violent solutions even when they're in a situation where fighting is the only sensible option.

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* SuicidalPacifism: A character is such a committed pacifist that they insist on non-violent solutions refuse to deliberately harm anyone even when they're in a situation where fighting is the only sensible option.

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* RecklessPacifist: A person is so committed to only using non-violent solutions that they end up causing more harm by refusing to accept when fighting is the only sensible option.


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* SuicidalPacifism: A character is such a committed pacifist that they insist on non-violent solutions even when they're in a situation where fighting is the only sensible option.
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* RecklessPacifist: A person is so committed to only using non-violent solutions that they end up causing more harm by refusing to accept when fighting is the only sensible option.
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* JustEatGilligan

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* JustEatGilliganJustEatGilligan: Doing this one simple thing would solve everybody's problems, but then there'd be no plot.
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* GunsInChurch

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* GunsInChurchGunsInChurch: Choosing to bring weapons in areas where there is a zero-tolerance policy towards carrying weapons.
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* InventionalWisdom: Someone for some reason thought it would be a good idea to give the machine an easily-triggered mechanism that serves no purpose other than making the machine self-destruct or causing severe harm.
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* RadarIsUseless
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* DugInDeeper
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* WhatAnIdiot: Audiences lose sympathy for a character after they do something really dumb that they really should've known better than to do.

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* WhatAnIdiot: DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot: Audiences lose sympathy for a character after they do something really dumb that they really should've known better than to do.
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Capitalization was fixed from Main.Revealing Coverup to Main.Revealing Cover Up. Null edit to update index.
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* ThinksOfSomethingSmartSaysSomethingStupid: Character thinks of a smart thing to say, but says something stupid anyway.

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* BondVillainStupidity: The villain tells the captured hero their plan while leaving them in a very slow death trap, certain that there's no harm in spilling the beans if the hero is going to die.



** StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: The only way to proceed in the game is by doing something stupid.



* ChainedToABed: Someone agrees to be tied to the bed as part of foreplay, only for their partner to take advantage of their trust by robbing the tied-up person and leaving them there.



* ConflictBall
* ContractualGenreBlindness



* CutLexLuthorACheck: The villain uses their powers and inventions to commit robberies when they could easily use their gifts to get money the legal way.



* DistressBall



** ContractualGenreBlindness
** RealityShowGenreBlindness



* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Someone gets themselves killed because they revealed that they were aware of confidential information and confirmed themselves to be the only person aware of the secret to someone who most certainly doesn't want the information to be made public.
* HeroBall



** ConflictBall
** DistressBall
** HeroBall
*** OutOfSightOutOfMind
*** VillainExitStageLeft: The villain gets away in the end. Especially counts if the heroes could've easily stopped the villain before they escaped.
** ThirdActStupidity
** VillainBall: The villain's undoing is because of their own actions.
*** BondVillainStupidity: The villain tells the captured hero their plan while leaving them in a very slow death trap, certain that there's no harm in spilling the beans if the hero is going to die.
*** CutLexLuthorACheck: The villain uses their powers and inventions to commit robberies when they could easily use their gifts to get money the legal way.
*** JustBetweenYouAndMe
*** RevealingCoverup



* JustBetweenYouAndMe



* OnceIsNotEnough: The hero defeats the villain, but leaves instead of making sure the villain doesn't get back up again.



* OutOfSightOutOfMind



* RealityShowGenreBlindness



* RevealingCoverup



* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: The only way to proceed in the game is by doing something stupid.



* ThirdActStupidity



* VillainBall: The villain's undoing is because of their own actions.
* VillainExitStageLeft: The villain gets away in the end. Especially counts if the heroes could've easily stopped the villain before they escaped.



** ChainedToABed: Someone agrees to be tied to the bed as part of foreplay, only for their partner to take advantage of their trust by robbing the tied-up person and leaving them there.
** HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Someone gets themselves killed because they revealed that they were aware of confidential information and confirmed themselves to be the only person aware of the secret to someone who most certainly doesn't want the information to be made public.
** OnceIsNotEnough: The hero defeats the villain, but leaves instead of making sure the villain doesn't get back up again.
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* NeverRecycleYourSchemes

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* NeverRecycleYourSchemesNeverRecycleYourSchemes: It never occurs to the villain that they could make another attempt at a failed scheme while taking measures to prevent the circumstances that led to the scheme failing last time.
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* BullyingADragon: Someone picks on a being who could easily kill them in retaliation.

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* BullyingADragon: Someone picks on a being who could easily kill them (or at least cause them great harm) in retaliation.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Someone thinks that wearing Groucho Marx glasses and a funny hat (or some other ridiculous disguise) is enough to trick others into thinking they are a completely different person.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Someone thinks that wearing Groucho Marx glasses and a funny hat (or some other ridiculous disguise) is enough to trick others into thinking they are a completely different person. Likewise, everyone else is somehow stupid enough to not see through this person's shoddy efforts in disguising themselves.
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* MsRedInk

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* MsRedInkMsRedInk: A character who wastes a lot of their family's/friends' money.



* NoMeansYes

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* NoMeansYes NoMeansYes: Assuming that someone meant "yes" when they said "no" when they actually did mean to say "no".
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* AbileneParadox

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* AbileneParadoxAbileneParadox: Everyone agrees to do something no one wants under the assumption that everyone else does.
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* FailedASpotCheck: How the heck did they not notice that?!

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* FailedASpotCheck: How the heck did they not Failing to notice that?!something important, different or dangerous despite being nearby.



* ForgotICouldntSwim:

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* ForgotICouldntSwim: ForgotICouldntSwim
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* ClosedCircle

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* ClosedCircleClosedCircle: The characters cannot leave their area or get help until the very end.



* CreditCardPlot

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* CreditCardPlotCreditCardPlot: Someone gets their first credit/debit card but immediately maxes it out.



* FailedASpotCheck
* ForgotAboutHisPowers
* ForgotICouldntSwim

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* FailedASpotCheck
FailedASpotCheck: How the heck did they not notice that?!
* ForgotAboutHisPowers
ForgotAboutHisPowers: The character fails to use their super magical abilities for the sake of advancing the plot.
* ForgotICouldntSwimForgotICouldntSwim:



* ForgottenPhlebotinum

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* ForgottenPhlebotinumForgottenPhlebotinum: Useful power or device revealed in one episode is never used again.



* MacGuffinBlindness

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* MacGuffinBlindnessMacGuffinBlindness: Unable to realize the MacGuffin's true purpose.



* NoPeripheralVision

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* NoPeripheralVisionNoPeripheralVision: The character always looks straight ahead.



* OutOfContextEavesdropping

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* OutOfContextEavesdroppingOutOfContextEavesdropping: Someone overhears a conversation and mistakes it for something serious when they don't know the full context.



* SchmuckBait

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* SchmuckBaitSchmuckBait: Falling for an obvious trap.
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* CallousnessTowardsEmergency

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* CallousnessTowardsEmergencyCallousnessTowardsEmergency: Someone rudely brushes off a person in real danger needing their help as unimportant.
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* ExhaustionInducedIdiocy: The character doesn't have enough energy to spare to use for brain power.
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Contrived stupidity commonly causes things like the collapse of ASimplePlan in a SitCom or the effectiveness of SchmuckBait in {{Slasher Movie}}s. It is often accompanied by the meta-stupidity of the other characters' ignorance of HanlonsRazor. It is vulnerable to FridgeLogic; however, do remember that TropesAreNotBad.

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Contrived stupidity commonly causes things like the collapse of ASimplePlan in a SitCom or the effectiveness of SchmuckBait in {{Slasher Movie}}s. It is often accompanied by the meta-stupidity of the other characters' ignorance of HanlonsRazor. It is vulnerable to FridgeLogic; however, do remember that TropesAreNotBad.
Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad.
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** ChainedToABed
** HaveYouToldAnyoneElse
** OnceIsNotEnough

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** ChainedToABed
ChainedToABed: Someone agrees to be tied to the bed as part of foreplay, only for their partner to take advantage of their trust by robbing the tied-up person and leaving them there.
** HaveYouToldAnyoneElse
HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Someone gets themselves killed because they revealed that they were aware of confidential information and confirmed themselves to be the only person aware of the secret to someone who most certainly doesn't want the information to be made public.
** OnceIsNotEnoughOnceIsNotEnough: The hero defeats the villain, but leaves instead of making sure the villain doesn't get back up again.
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* NeutralFemale: An able-bodied woman just stands by and watches a fight in which she has a stake instead of trying to help her side win.
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* FuryFueledFoolishness: A character becomes stupid after they get angry.
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* ForgotToFeedTheMonster

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* ForgotToFeedTheMonsterForgotToFeedTheMonster: Character finds that the living being or beings they had locked away had starved to death by the time they were needed because the character neglected to feed them.
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* BullyingADragon: Someone picks on a being who could easily kill them.

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* BullyingADragon: Someone picks on a being who could easily kill them.them in retaliation.

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