History Main / ObliviousMockery

-->'''Creator/DavidMitchell:''' ''What sort of twit would do that?''

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Gray does this a couple of times to Mirajane.

->'''Carol:''' Er… yeah, totally, I can't imagine anyone doing that… ahahaha… hem…

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->'''[[LethalChef Carol:]]''' Er… yeah, totally, I can't imagine anyone doing that… ahahaha… hem…

* ''Webcomic/{{Darths&Droids}}''; The Imperial officer who brings Luke in after his surrender on Endor mocks his parentage- '''to Vader'''. Who Luke then reveals as his (major spoiler) [[spoiler:"mum".]]

* ''Webcomic/Darths&Droids''; The Imperial who brings Luke in after his surrender on Endor mocks his parentage- '''to Vader'''. Who Luke then addresses as [[spoiler:"mum".]]

Sometimes, be it in a realistic universe or in a WorldOfBadass, there are actions that are deemed ridiculously dangerous, totally stupid or [[ImpossibleTask downright impossible]] to pull off. Nothing to be really proud of in any case. The characters talk about such actions and, soon enough, Alice will wonder out loud (probably sniggering) − "WhoWouldBeStupidEnough to do that?"

->'''Bob:''' Oh come on, that's a urban legend, nobody can be that clueless and incompetent! Right, Carol?

* There's a ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' comic where Batman shows Jaime the Brother Eye satellite which went berserk and created an OMAC army in ''InfiniteCrisis.'' Jaime asks what kind of person would build a machine like that, and Batman asks him not to let Green Arrow hear him say that (Batman was the one who built it).

* In MrsDoubtfire, Daniel mocks a terribly boring kids show host, and wonders what idiot put him on the air. The guy he says this to is the company president and ''he'' put him on the air. Luckily, he agrees with Daniel's assessment.

* Several gags in Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm rely on this. Typically, someone tells Larry David how rotten they think George Costanza is or how a plot of Seinfeld was unbelievable because nobody would act that stupidly. They don't realize that George was based on Larry and that many "unbelievable" Seinfeld plots were based on things Larry actually did.
* Played with in ''{{Friends}}'': Rachel & Monica discover a message on Ross's answering machine from Emily, Ross's ex-wife. Emily is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to someone else. They debate whether or not to erase the message - Monica wants to, Rachel doesn't.

* In one episode of ''{{Daria}}'', Daria lets Trent talk her into getting her navel pierced. When Jodi finds out, she thinks it's pretty cool "As long as you didn't do it for some guy." causing Daria to say "Uh, no, that would be wrong."

* In ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'', writer Joe Gillis complains to the producer Sheldrake that Betty Shaefer, a script reader, would have turned down ''GoneWithTheWind''; only for Sheldrake to reply "No. That was me".

* In DavidWeber's ''TheWarGods'' series, Baroness Hanatha Bowmaster asks her daughter Leeana if she tried to ford the river, and Leeana says that no one would be stupid enough to try that with the river 20 yards out of its banks. Hanatha admits that she did, though tries to defend herself by saying the river was only 15 yards out of its banks at the time.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Xander mocks Spike by saying that only a nutcase or a complete loser would sleep with him...in the presence of Buffy who's done just that the night before. The comment gives her an added incentive not to confess what's happened to her friends and forestall her DestructiveRomance.
** Also in ep. 519, where Ben is being fired for not turning up for work for two weeks, this dialogue happens with a supervising doctor.

-->'''DavidMitchell:''' ''What sort of twit would do that?''

* Several gags in CurbYourEnthusiasm rely on this. Typically, someone tells Larry David how rotten they think George Costanza is or how a plot of Seinfeld was unbelievable because nobody would act that stupidly. They don't realize that George was based on Larry and that many "unbelievable" Seinfeld plots were based on things Larry actually did.

* In one chapter of ''{{Naruto}}'', having heard that [[SplitPersonality Jugo]] went to [[MadScientist Orochimaru]] voluntarily, [[DeadpanSnarker Suigetsu]] comments that only someone completely nuts would throw himself into Orochimaru's arms. Right next to Sasuke, who threw himself into Orochimaru's arms for the sake of his revenge.
* In ''HajimeNoIppo'', a flashback shows us how Genji Kamogawa hardened his fists by ''punching large wooden logs into a hill''. Later in the manga, Ippo hits logs into a hill with a hammer to train his leg and body muscles. Itagaki tells Kamogawa about this training.

* There's a ''BlueBeetle'' comic where Batman shows Jaime the Brother Eye satellite which went berserk and created an OMAC army in ''InfiniteCrisis.'' Jaime asks what kind of person would build a machine like that, and Batman asks him not to let Green Arrow hear him say that (Batman was the one who built it).

->'''Bob:''' Oh come on, that's a urban legend, nobody can be that clueless and incompetent! Right, Carol?

* In ''JaysJourney'', Omelio wonders aloud what sort of pirate would be dumb enough to deliberately blow up his own ship... in the presence of the pirate who did exactly that.

Compare ObliviousGuiltSlinging, InsultFriendlyFire and IResembleThatRemark. Contrast NoodleIncident, where the characters vaguely talk about an event they know but the viewer doesn't. Contrast and compare WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, when Alice [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] and is proven right away that someone ''is'' stupid enough, and SchmuckBait. See also ItWillNeverCatchOn.

Compare ObliviousGuiltSlinging, InsultFriendlyFire and IResembleThatRemark. Contrast NoodleIncident, where the characters vaguely talk about an event they know but the viewer doesn't. Contrast and compare WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, when Alice [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] and is proven right away that someone ''is'' stupid enough, and SchmuckBait.

* The villain in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10452084/30/Ichigo-Meet-Ichigo Ichigo, Meet Ichigo]]'' creates a PhantomZone that has characteristics of the [[MentalWorld Mental Worlds]] of various people he traps within it. Since Ichigo has the most [[BattleAura reitasu]] of those captured, it most resembled his mind. Which lead to conversations like this-

-->'''Mika:''' It's weird.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', when the Doctor and Donna try to solve a murder mystery with Agatha Christie, Donna states how unlikely this scenario is by comparing it with: "meeting Charles Dickens, on Christmas, while surrounded by ghosts." Which is something that happened to the Doctor, before he and Donna met.