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* ''Podcast/HeroClub'': The Deputy in ''Killer Dismount'''s introduction. When investigating an abandoned government medical facility, at night, by himself, he goes through a door to a basement that's clearly been barricaded. He also doesn't see "God Have Mercy On Our Souls" written in blood on a wall, and a bunch of strung up corpses literally dripping with maggots in a later room. While he lives longer than his sheriff, the Red Bend Slasher kills him fairly quickly.
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Compare ArtificialStupidity, the video game equivalent of this which is a result of AI rather than the script being against them. Contrast DeathByPragmatism and LetsGetDangerous. Not to be confused with EvilutionaryBiologist or TheSocialDarwinist, although [[ValuesDissonance they generally consider it a]] MoralEventHorizon [[ValuesDissonance to not kill the dumb]]. Also not to be confused with DrivenToSuicide, which is the intentional, [[DespairEventHorizon despair]]-induced taking of one's life. See also SuicidalOverconfidence, another video game version. LethallyStupid is when someone's stupidity simply causes havoc, instead of being the cause of their demise. Unless someone reacts to their impending self-inflicted doom with extreme élan, an UndignifiedDeath is pretty much guaranteed.
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Compare ArtificialStupidity, the video game equivalent of this which is a result of AI rather than the script being against them. Contrast DeathByPragmatism and LetsGetDangerous. Not to be confused with EvilutionaryBiologist or TheSocialDarwinist, although [[ValuesDissonance they generally consider it a]] MoralEventHorizon [[ValuesDissonance to not kill the dumb]]. Also not to be confused with DrivenToSuicide, which is the intentional, [[DespairEventHorizon despair]]-induced taking of one's life. See also SuicidalOverconfidence, another video game version. LethallyStupid is when someone's stupidity simply causes havoc, instead of being the cause of their demise. Unless someone reacts to their impending self-inflicted doom with extreme élan, an UndignifiedDeath is pretty much guaranteed.
guaranteed. Could result from FearInducedIdiocy.
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* ''Manhwa/IWish'':
** Byeon-Hui Park is an extremely NiceGuy and hates doing anything that might hurt another person's feelings. When Lyu-Jin gave him chocolates for Valentine's Day, he ate them, despite being allergic to chocolate. He survived by being taken to the hospital in time.
** Byeon-Hui Park is an extremely NiceGuy and hates doing anything that might hurt another person's feelings. When Lyu-Jin gave him chocolates for Valentine's Day, he ate them, despite being allergic to chocolate. He survived by being taken to the hospital in time.
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** Byeon-Hui Park is an extremely NiceGuy and hates doing anything that might hurt another person's feelings. When Lyu-Jin gave him chocolates for Valentine's Day, he ate them, despite being allergic to chocolate. He survived by being taken to the hospital in time.
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* In one episode of The Lucky Die, Lafian discovers that the items he's trying to arrange into a perimeter trap are cursed and warns Rhal not to touch anything. Rhal ''immediately'' wanders off and picks up a gemstone, which explodes and almost kills both of them.
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* Website/{{Cracked}} blog once poked fun at ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', specifically how all these people were clearly either terminally dumb or seriously determined to self-terminate ([[IncrediblyLamePun sorry]]). [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-series-of-emails-from-cyberdynes-tech-guy/ That is]] --
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* Website/{{Cracked}} blog once poked fun at ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', specifically how all these people were clearly either terminally dumb or seriously determined to self-terminate ([[IncrediblyLamePun ([[{{Pun}} sorry]]). [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-series-of-emails-from-cyberdynes-tech-guy/ That is]] --
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-->'''Cyberdine's tech support engineer:''' ...Again, my strength really lie in fixing computers, not in designing or managing needlessly nightmarish robots, but it just seems like a basic rule of computer-making that you should be able to turn it off at some point. I mean, my toaster has a plug in case something goes wrong, you know? And I haven't armed my toaster or given it access to my house's security system.
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* The aforementioned ''Website/DarwinAwards'' is a website dedicated to documenting (usually fatal) cases of this.
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* In general, 'players' in mobile game commercials will often be this, especially when the game promises to 'rate' your intelligence or iq. This is obviously to anger the viewer and drive them to downloading the game to show that they can do better.
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* The narrator of Music/BillyJoel's "You May Be Right" is self-admittedly TooDumbToLive:
-->''I've been stranded in the combat zone''\\
''I walked through [[WretchedHive Bedford-Stuy]] alone''\\
''Even rode my motorcycle in the rain''\\
''And you told me not to drive''\\
''But I made it home alive''\\
''So you said that only proves that I'm insane!''
* The victim in Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel", the {{Glurge}}-worthy granddaddy of all TeenageDeathSongs:
-->''That fateful night''\\
''The car was stalled''\\
''Upon the railroad tracks''\\
''I pulled you out''\\
''And we were safe''\\
''But you went running back.''
** And what was so damn important that she was willing to throw herself ''back'' into the path of an oncoming train?
--->''They said they found my high school ring''\\
''Clutched in your fingers tight...''
** The mere fact that she had to be pulled out of a car that had only stalled says something. Was she too dumb to open the door and get out?
* In Bobby Bare's "Marie Laveau", Handsome Jack goes to the eponymous swamp [[HollywoodVoodoo Voodoo Queen]] and asks to be made rich in return for agreeing to marry her. She grants his wish, and then he immediately tries to back out of his half of the deal. It doesn't go well for him.
* "We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows" by Music/{{NOFX}}
* "Dumb Things" by Paul Kelly:
--> ''Saw the knives out, turned my back''\\
''Heard the train coming, stayed right on the track''
* Reinhard Mey (German songwriter and singer) had a song ''Die Legende vom Pfeifer'' (there's even an English version called ''The Whistler'') about a gunman who always whistles before he shoots. Someone convinces him to go to the sheriff and tell him who he is and that he'd like the bounty that was offered for himself. He gets sentenced to die, and hung - [[SubvertedTrope or they try to, but the branch keeps breaking until the movie director decides to call it a day and continue shooting the final scene the next day...]]
* That girl with a white flag in the last verse of "Hero of War" by Music/RiseAgainst. So, you're in the middle of a war, and a soldier carrying a BFG is asking you to stop. What do you do? Why, keep walking! Of course she got shot, white flag or no white flag.
* The music video for Music/ShaniaTwain's "That Don't Impress Me Much". She's wandering around the desert in furs and no head cover, without water, and she keeps rejecting every guy who offers her a ride to safety. Yeah, Shania, that guy might've been a rocket scientist, but you sure ain't. As Creator/{{MTV}} pointed out: "Shania's chances of survival don't impress us much."
* The warden in Maggie Rose's "Whiskey and a Gun" has just lost his pistol to the woman he was just trying to sexually assault, who happens to be doing time for murder. She is holding him at gunpoint, and he just smiles and says, "You ain't got the guts." Really? You bet your life that a convicted murderer doesn't have the guts to shoot you after you just tried to sexually assault her?
** To say nothing of the murderer herself, who seems to be pretty shocked at her execution after killing two people (one of whom was completely unarmed).
* "Acid In[di]gestion" (parts 1 and 2) by Music/PrettyBalanced, about a girl who samples chemicals from the school science lab and, of course, dies as a result.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: The narrator of "A Complicated Song" is told not to stand on a roller coaster. He does, and gets decapitated. He describes this as a "a major inconvenience".
** Also from Weird Al is "I'll Sue Ya", which is about a moron who repeatedly hurts and inconveniences himself through sheer idiocy and lack of common sense, and at no point does he ever realize this, instead suing companies for not telling him things that should go without saying.
* Music/GreenDay inverted this a bit in their song "Too Dumb To Die".
* The Mountain People of The Original Caste's "One Tin Soldier". Starting a rumor that you have treasure when you know that your neighbors are greedy and violent isn't too bright to begin with but it doesn't get any better when they're gathering to massacre you and you still maintain the hoax rather than let them know the truth.
* Vicki Lawrence's "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" is about a man who tries to alert the police of a murder victim (who was killed by being shot to death) by firing a gun.
* Creator/BernardCribbins "Right, Said Fred" ends with one of the movers making a dumb suggestion to cut a hole in the ceiling to help move an unidentified piece of furniture. The eponymous Fred goes along with this dumb suggestion and before anyone else can do anything he knocks out the support to the ceiling bringing the whole kit and kaboodle right down on his head.
* In the Creator/ShelSilverstein-written "The Unicorn" by the Irish Rovers, the entire unicorn species was too devoted to hiding and "playing silly games" to let Noah capture a couple to bring on the Ark, and they were all washed away.
* In the music video for ''Roar'', Music/KatyPerry's [[AssholeVictim self-absorbed boyfriend]] gets eaten by a tiger while he's inattentively trudging through an [[HungryJungle unexplored and dangerous jungle]] in the middle of the night.
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* The narrator of Music/BillyJoel's "You May Be Right" is self-admittedly TooDumbToLive:
-->''I've been stranded in the combat zone''\\
''I walked through [[WretchedHive Bedford-Stuy]] alone''\\
''Even rode my motorcycle in the rain''\\
''And you told me not to drive''\\
''But I made it home alive''\\
''So you said that only proves that I'm insane!''
* The victim in Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel", the {{Glurge}}-worthy granddaddy of all TeenageDeathSongs:
-->''That fateful night''\\
''The car was stalled''\\
''Upon the railroad tracks''\\
''I pulled you out''\\
''And we were safe''\\
''But you went running back.''
** And what was so damn important that she was willing to throw herself ''back'' into the path of an oncoming train?
--->''They said they found my high school ring''\\
''Clutched in your fingers tight...''
** The mere fact that she had to be pulled out of a car that had only stalled says something. Was she too dumb to open the door and get out?
* In Bobby Bare's "Marie Laveau", Handsome Jack goes to the eponymous swamp [[HollywoodVoodoo Voodoo Queen]] and asks to be made rich in return for agreeing to marry her. She grants his wish, and then he immediately tries to back out of his half of the deal. It doesn't go well for him.
* "We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows" by Music/{{NOFX}}
* "Dumb Things" by Paul Kelly:
--> ''Saw the knives out, turned my back''\\
''Heard the train coming, stayed right on the track''
* Reinhard Mey (German songwriter and singer) had a song ''Die Legende vom Pfeifer'' (there's even an English version called ''The Whistler'') about a gunman who always whistles before he shoots. Someone convinces him to go to the sheriff and tell him who he is and that he'd like the bounty that was offered for himself. He gets sentenced to die, and hung - [[SubvertedTrope or they try to, but the branch keeps breaking until the movie director decides to call it a day and continue shooting the final scene the next day...]]
* That girl with a white flag in the last verse of "Hero of War" by Music/RiseAgainst. So, you're in the middle of a war, and a soldier carrying a BFG is asking you to stop. What do you do? Why, keep walking! Of course she got shot, white flag or no white flag.
* The music video for Music/ShaniaTwain's "That Don't Impress Me Much". She's wandering around the desert in furs and no head cover, without water, and she keeps rejecting every guy who offers her a ride to safety. Yeah, Shania, that guy might've been a rocket scientist, but you sure ain't. As Creator/{{MTV}} pointed out: "Shania's chances of survival don't impress us much."
* The warden in Maggie Rose's "Whiskey and a Gun" has just lost his pistol to the woman he was just trying to sexually assault, who happens to be doing time for murder. She is holding him at gunpoint, and he just smiles and says, "You ain't got the guts." Really? You bet your life that a convicted murderer doesn't have the guts to shoot you after you just tried to sexually assault her?
** To say nothing of the murderer herself, who seems to be pretty shocked at her execution after killing two people (one of whom was completely unarmed).
* "Acid In[di]gestion" (parts 1 and 2) by Music/PrettyBalanced, about a girl who samples chemicals from the school science lab and, of course, dies as a result.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: The narrator of "A Complicated Song" is told not to stand on a roller coaster. He does, and gets decapitated. He describes this as a "a major inconvenience".
** Also from Weird Al is "I'll Sue Ya", which is about a moron who repeatedly hurts and inconveniences himself through sheer idiocy and lack of common sense, and at no point does he ever realize this, instead suing companies for not telling him things that should go without saying.
* Music/GreenDay inverted this a bit in their song "Too Dumb To Die".
* The Mountain People of The Original Caste's "One Tin Soldier". Starting a rumor that you have treasure when you know that your neighbors are greedy and violent isn't too bright to begin with but it doesn't get any better when they're gathering to massacre you and you still maintain the hoax rather than let them know the truth.
* Vicki Lawrence's "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" is about a man who tries to alert the police of a murder victim (who was killed by being shot to death) by firing a gun.
* Creator/BernardCribbins "Right, Said Fred" ends with one of the movers making a dumb suggestion to cut a hole in the ceiling to help move an unidentified piece of furniture. The eponymous Fred goes along with this dumb suggestion and before anyone else can do anything he knocks out the support to the ceiling bringing the whole kit and kaboodle right down on his head.
* In the Creator/ShelSilverstein-written "The Unicorn" by the Irish Rovers, the entire unicorn species was too devoted to hiding and "playing silly games" to let Noah capture a couple to bring on the Ark, and they were all washed away.
* In the music video for ''Roar'', Music/KatyPerry's [[AssholeVictim self-absorbed boyfriend]] gets eaten by a tiger while he's inattentively trudging through an [[HungryJungle unexplored and dangerous jungle]] in the middle of the night.
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* ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra''. Who have even less excuse for this than Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet, seeing that they're not teenagers and that they are two of the most powerful people in the world. Antony ignores the advice of his generals to fight on land, and fights at sea because Cleopatra wants him to. Halfway through the battle, Cleopatra gets frightened and orders her ships to flee, and Antony orders his ships to FOLLOW HER. Naturally, he loses the battle, and blames Cleopatra. To test whether Antony still loves her, Cleopatra sends him a messenger bearing word that she is dead. When he hears this, Antony decides to kill himself, but he's almost too much of a coward to go through with it, and stabs himself in the wrong place so that he is badly wounded, but not yet dead. THEN Cleopatra sends another messenger to say "Oops, I was just messing with you!" What makes it worse is that this actually happened in RealLife. Antony and Cleopatra really were that dumb!
* In ''Theatre/GettinDownInYourTown'', the fact that the Turtles believed Shredder when he says that he can blackmail them from his PrisonDimension really tells you how dumb they are. The fact that they freed him because they ''wanted'' him to show the blackmail material in front of their audience just compounds the issue further.
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
** So Hamlet just found out that his dad was killed by his uncle, but he still wants to spy around and make sure that the ghost was telling the truth. Fair enough. And then he decides to pretend to be insane, for absolutely ''no reason at all''. There is no suspicion on him at this point and the uncle has no idea that the ghost even exists, let alone that it might warn Hamlet of what happened. Of course, his insane act is what gets everyone suspicious in the first place and sets up for the massive death scene at the end.
** Depending on the performance, Polonius could also count. Towards the middle of the play, he decides to hide in the queen's bedchamber to spy on her conversation with Hamlet. As things go on, he panics and starts screaming for help, leading a very paranoid Hamlet to run him through. If the actor playing Hamlet is sufficiently insane and frightening, it's a bit more understandable. Otherwise...
* In ''Theatre/PokemonTheMewsical'', most of Team Rocket counts. Several Rocket Grunts annoy Giovanni and are shot as a result, and one Grunt reports that an agent fought a boulder for twenty minutes because they mistook it for a Graveler.
* The titular duo of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' have known each other less than a few days, before they kill themselves in despair when they find each other's dead bodies. The play exacerbates this by making her wake up *the second* Romeo drinks the poison, before she stabs herself with his dagger.
* February, the [[TheSmartGuy schience officer]] from ''Theatre/{{Starship}}'' who goes down to an uncharted alien planet and scans the air for breathability... ''after'' taking off her helmet. It gets worse from there.
* In Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', after hearing Jekyll confess to murder and that he can no longer control when he becomes Hyde, the characters let him leave the room to get his coat so they can take him to the police. Hyde returns seconds later with a gun.
* Theatre/Six:Anne Boleyn decides it’s an excellent idea to flirt with some guys to make Henry jealous then insult him on his impotence. She gets beheaded for it.
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': "Pirelli" recognizes a former employer, who so far as he knows is guilty of such a serious crime that he was transported to Australia. So, "Pirelli" decides to meet alone with this man, whose profession involves use of lethal weapons (straight razors), to try to blackmail him. Not exactly surprising that this piece of stupidity ''does'' end up being fatal.
* ''Theatre/TheThousandYearRose'' has Ciera, the witch. She has many moments of stupidity throughout the play, but moments before she and Wicked Witch Abigail are about to kill Kimmi, Kimmi says "quick, Ciera -- let me go!" and Ciera drops her hold on Kimmi and cheerfully says "OK!"
* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'':
** Eddard Stark eventually figures out that his foster father did not die of a fever, but got killed because he had discovered a secret about the royal family and was about to expose it. Eddard's response to that is try to figure out what the secret was, plan to expose it himself ''and tell other people about his findings''. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't last long.
** Robb Stark takes after his father. He promises Walder Frey an ArrangedMarriage with one of his daughters in exchange for troops and the right to cross a bridge guarded by the Frey family. A few months later, he sleeps with another woman and makes up for it with a HonorableMarriageProposal. The Freys retaliate by having Robb and his mother killed.
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* ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra''. Who have even less excuse for this than Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet, seeing that they're not teenagers and that they are two of the most powerful people in the world. Antony ignores the advice of his generals to fight on land, and fights at sea because Cleopatra wants him to. Halfway through the battle, Cleopatra gets frightened and orders her ships to flee, and Antony orders his ships to FOLLOW HER. Naturally, he loses the battle, and blames Cleopatra. To test whether Antony still loves her, Cleopatra sends him a messenger bearing word that she is dead. When he hears this, Antony decides to kill himself, but he's almost too much of a coward to go through with it, and stabs himself in the wrong place so that he is badly wounded, but not yet dead. THEN Cleopatra sends another messenger to say "Oops, I was just messing with you!" What makes it worse is that this actually happened in RealLife. Antony and Cleopatra really were that dumb!
* In ''Theatre/GettinDownInYourTown'', the fact that the Turtles believed Shredder when he says that he can blackmail them from his PrisonDimension really tells you how dumb they are. The fact that they freed him because they ''wanted'' him to show the blackmail material in front of their audience just compounds the issue further.
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
** So Hamlet just found out that his dad was killed by his uncle, but he still wants to spy around and make sure that the ghost was telling the truth. Fair enough. And then he decides to pretend to be insane, for absolutely ''no reason at all''. There is no suspicion on him at this point and the uncle has no idea that the ghost even exists, let alone that it might warn Hamlet of what happened. Of course, his insane act is what gets everyone suspicious in the first place and sets up for the massive death scene at the end.
** Depending on the performance, Polonius could also count. Towards the middle of the play, he decides to hide in the queen's bedchamber to spy on her conversation with Hamlet. As things go on, he panics and starts screaming for help, leading a very paranoid Hamlet to run him through. If the actor playing Hamlet is sufficiently insane and frightening, it's a bit more understandable. Otherwise...
* In ''Theatre/PokemonTheMewsical'', most of Team Rocket counts. Several Rocket Grunts annoy Giovanni and are shot as a result, and one Grunt reports that an agent fought a boulder for twenty minutes because they mistook it for a Graveler.
* The titular duo of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' have known each other less than a few days, before they kill themselves in despair when they find each other's dead bodies. The play exacerbates this by making her wake up *the second* Romeo drinks the poison, before she stabs herself with his dagger.
* February, the [[TheSmartGuy schience officer]] from ''Theatre/{{Starship}}'' who goes down to an uncharted alien planet and scans the air for breathability... ''after'' taking off her helmet. It gets worse from there.
* In Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', after hearing Jekyll confess to murder and that he can no longer control when he becomes Hyde, the characters let him leave the room to get his coat so they can take him to the police. Hyde returns seconds later with a gun.
* Theatre/Six:Anne Boleyn decides it’s an excellent idea to flirt with some guys to make Henry jealous then insult him on his impotence. She gets beheaded for it.
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': "Pirelli" recognizes a former employer, who so far as he knows is guilty of such a serious crime that he was transported to Australia. So, "Pirelli" decides to meet alone with this man, whose profession involves use of lethal weapons (straight razors), to try to blackmail him. Not exactly surprising that this piece of stupidity ''does'' end up being fatal.
* ''Theatre/TheThousandYearRose'' has Ciera, the witch. She has many moments of stupidity throughout the play, but moments before she and Wicked Witch Abigail are about to kill Kimmi, Kimmi says "quick, Ciera -- let me go!" and Ciera drops her hold on Kimmi and cheerfully says "OK!"
* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'':
** Eddard Stark eventually figures out that his foster father did not die of a fever, but got killed because he had discovered a secret about the royal family and was about to expose it. Eddard's response to that is try to figure out what the secret was, plan to expose it himself ''and tell other people about his findings''. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't last long.
** Robb Stark takes after his father. He promises Walder Frey an ArrangedMarriage with one of his daughters in exchange for troops and the right to cross a bridge guarded by the Frey family. A few months later, he sleeps with another woman and makes up for it with a HonorableMarriageProposal. The Freys retaliate by having Robb and his mother killed.
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* Website/{{Cracked}} blog once poked fun at ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', specifically how all these people were clearly either terminally dumb or seriously determined to self-terminate ([[IncrediblyLamePun sorry]]). [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-series-of-emails-from-cyberdynes-tech-guy/ That is]] --
-->'''Cyberdine's tech support engineer:''' ...Again, my strength really lie in fixing computers, not in designing or managing needlessly nightmarish robots, but it just seems like a basic rule of computer-making that you should be able to turn it off at some point. I mean, my toaster has a plug in case something goes wrong, you know? And I haven't armed my toaster or given it access to my house's security system.
* The Website/JollyRogerTelephoneCompany provides bots designed to talk to telemarketers and other annoying callers. There's a female bot who has a routine in which the talks about mixing ammonia with bleach to make a cleaner, stumbles around stubbing her toe, and otherwise acts the idiot.
* Some of the people in the stories on Website/NotAlwaysRight and its sibling sites, such as [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-caller-is-off-the-hook/11949 here.]]
* ''Website/TheOnion'': The Experts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE/ agree, the giant, razor clawed bioengineered crabs pose no threat]].
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** It brings us [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2416 SCP-2416]], a seemingly-ordinary man who keeps dying in various ridiculous ways (including attempting to kiss a table saw, trying to climb the Chrysler Building, and choking on oatmeal), only to reincarnate every time.
** A similar story happened to the former owners of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1958 SCP-1958]]. Hippies discover a flying bus which can hold a livable climate and breathable atmosphere even in outer space, and decide to use it to colonize Alpha Centauri. Which is about four ''light-years'' away from Earth. When they find out the bus is "pulling eighty-two", they get ecstatic and figure they'll be there within a few weeks. Four months later, everyone is dead (one from taking a spacewalk without any kind of harness, one suicide, and one from scurvy), and they've only just reached Earth's moon. You would think a group of four people, one of whom is a graduate and was able to make a working, airtight space van would know better than screw up so badly. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, their pilot barely even knew how to drive a regular bus]].
** One of the termination attempts for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 SCP-682]] was taping a picture of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-096 096]] to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173 173]]. 096 kills anyone who sees its face, while 173 kills anything that looks away. The Foundation noted that it might kill 682, but the suggestion is still unbelievably stupid because there'd be no way for the Foundation to safely contain 173 afterward.
** The joke scp [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1543-j SCP-1543-5]] is a launchpad to [[HurlItIntoTheSun throw certain anomalies into the sun]]. Among the list of anomalies that have been flung there is a globe that "controls what happens on earth— whatever is inflicted on it occurs on our planet as well." So [[SarcasmMode it makes perfect sense to throw it into the sun]]. You can't even say this was discovered after the fact, either, since if the anomaly in the object wasn't known, there wouldn't be any reason to treat it as an SCP and it wouldn't have been hurled into the sun. The anomaly thrown immediately after that implies they did the same thing to an object tied to the ''entire universe''.
* [[ImageBooru Danbooru]] has two pools dedicated to this trope. First of all the [[https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/1246 "Digging Your Own Grave"]] pool, which is about characters doing/saying something stupid with a lack of foresight and being about to be punished for it, comments along the lines of "Death Flag triggered" are quite common. Secondly is the "Told You Not To Do That" pool, which is about [[AmusingInjuries the aftermath and/or consequences]] of characters doing/saying something stupid with a lack of foresight.
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* The Interviewer guy of ''On the Set of 4th Edition'' normally is a CosmicPlaything, getting killed by the creatures he interviews that don't get killed alongside him. But when drunk, all survival instincts flee him at high velocity as, to demonstrate a skill challenge, he decides to hit on The Lady of Pain, who he knows is capable of nullifying gods and flaying people with a glance, and he outright tries to intimidate her into giving him her number. Of all the times he's been killed in these shows, this was the one time he deserved it.
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* Website/{{Cracked}} blog once poked fun at ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', specifically how all these people were clearly either terminally dumb or seriously determined to self-terminate ([[IncrediblyLamePun sorry]]). [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-series-of-emails-from-cyberdynes-tech-guy/ That is]] --
-->'''Cyberdine's tech support engineer:''' ...Again, my strength really lie in fixing computers, not in designing or managing needlessly nightmarish robots, but it just seems like a basic rule of computer-making that you should be able to turn it off at some point. I mean, my toaster has a plug in case something goes wrong, you know? And I haven't armed my toaster or given it access to my house's security system.
* The Website/JollyRogerTelephoneCompany provides bots designed to talk to telemarketers and other annoying callers. There's a female bot who has a routine in which the talks about mixing ammonia with bleach to make a cleaner, stumbles around stubbing her toe, and otherwise acts the idiot.
* Some of the people in the stories on Website/NotAlwaysRight and its sibling sites, such as [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-caller-is-off-the-hook/11949 here.]]
* ''Website/TheOnion'': The Experts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uq9pp586AE/ agree, the giant, razor clawed bioengineered crabs pose no threat]].
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** It brings us [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2416 SCP-2416]], a seemingly-ordinary man who keeps dying in various ridiculous ways (including attempting to kiss a table saw, trying to climb the Chrysler Building, and choking on oatmeal), only to reincarnate every time.
** A similar story happened to the former owners of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1958 SCP-1958]]. Hippies discover a flying bus which can hold a livable climate and breathable atmosphere even in outer space, and decide to use it to colonize Alpha Centauri. Which is about four ''light-years'' away from Earth. When they find out the bus is "pulling eighty-two", they get ecstatic and figure they'll be there within a few weeks. Four months later, everyone is dead (one from taking a spacewalk without any kind of harness, one suicide, and one from scurvy), and they've only just reached Earth's moon. You would think a group of four people, one of whom is a graduate and was able to make a working, airtight space van would know better than screw up so badly. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, their pilot barely even knew how to drive a regular bus]].
** One of the termination attempts for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 SCP-682]] was taping a picture of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-096 096]] to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173 173]]. 096 kills anyone who sees its face, while 173 kills anything that looks away. The Foundation noted that it might kill 682, but the suggestion is still unbelievably stupid because there'd be no way for the Foundation to safely contain 173 afterward.
** The joke scp [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1543-j SCP-1543-5]] is a launchpad to [[HurlItIntoTheSun throw certain anomalies into the sun]]. Among the list of anomalies that have been flung there is a globe that "controls what happens on earth— whatever is inflicted on it occurs on our planet as well." So [[SarcasmMode it makes perfect sense to throw it into the sun]]. You can't even say this was discovered after the fact, either, since if the anomaly in the object wasn't known, there wouldn't be any reason to treat it as an SCP and it wouldn't have been hurled into the sun. The anomaly thrown immediately after that implies they did the same thing to an object tied to the ''entire universe''.
* [[ImageBooru Danbooru]] has two pools dedicated to this trope. First of all the [[https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/1246 "Digging Your Own Grave"]] pool, which is about characters doing/saying something stupid with a lack of foresight and being about to be punished for it, comments along the lines of "Death Flag triggered" are quite common. Secondly is the "Told You Not To Do That" pool, which is about [[AmusingInjuries the aftermath and/or consequences]] of characters doing/saying something stupid with a lack of foresight.
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* The Interviewer guy of ''On the Set of 4th Edition'' normally is a CosmicPlaything, getting killed by the creatures he interviews that don't get killed alongside him. But when drunk, all survival instincts flee him at high velocity as, to demonstrate a skill challenge, he decides to hit on The Lady of Pain, who he knows is capable of nullifying gods and flaying people with a glance, and he outright tries to intimidate her into giving him her number. Of all the times he's been killed in these shows, this was the one time he deserved it.
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* Eugene in ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'' is usually a pretty smart guy, but there was at least one moment where his big mouth almost got him killed. He had been captured by two diamond thieves, who think he was trying to imitate their MO. Their first thought of what to do with him was to turn him in to the police and try and get him charged with their crimes. Eugene has a strong alibi and a positive reputation in the area, and knows the real thieves' names and faces, so this would end badly for the thieves. Instead of letting them dig their own graves, Eugene proceeds to tell them why it's such a bad idea. The thieves realize he's right, so they decide to just tie him up and leave him in an abandoned building. Eugene then begins telling them why that is also a bad idea. Fortunately, Mr. Whittaker arrives with the police before Eugene can convince the thieves to kill him.
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For RealLife examples, see the ''Website/DarwinAwards'' and ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou''''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou''. ''Be Amazed'' also discusses Darwin Award winners in [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDgvFPuLtQbQMcFFmSOHwA2fB9k-nWODi this playlist]].
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* ''Advertising/ClaudeTheCat'': Defied. Claude's owner often makes foolish mistakes that ''nearly'' kill him, but Claude saves him.
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* "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl" is a seat belt safety PublicServiceAnouncement wherein ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and her three wards repeatedly run into people who refuse to wear their seat belt because of silly reasons: it is uncomfortable, it is needless, it cramps their style...Invariably, their car crashes and Supergirl's intervention is the only reason why they don't get killed.
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* "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl" is a seat belt safety PublicServiceAnouncement PublicServiceAnnouncement wherein ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and her three wards repeatedly run into people who refuse to wear their seat belt because of silly reasons: it is uncomfortable, it is needless, it cramps their style...Invariably, their car crashes and Supergirl's intervention is the only reason why they don't get killed.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWD6EhA1pmY One early advertising campaign for]] Advertising/{{GEICO}} featured something like this; each animated short had a curious man doing something ''really'' dumb (like walking up to a cannon and then pressing a button next to it, causing the cannon to fire in his face), at which point the voiceover announcer would say, "We all do dumb things. Paying too much for car insurance doesn't have to be one of them."
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWD6EhA1pmY One early advertising campaign for]] Advertising/{{GEICO}} ''Advertising/{{GEICO}}'' featured something like this; each animated short had a curious man doing something ''really'' dumb (like walking up to a cannon and then pressing a button next to it, causing the cannon to fire in his face), at which point the voiceover announcer would say, "We all do dumb things. Paying too much for car insurance doesn't have to be one of them."
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* The people from the Jack Links Beef Jerky "Messin' with Sasquatch" commercials. Seriously, it's not worth it for just a few laughs!
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* The 90s era of the Advertising/LouieTheFly ads for Mortein would have Louie finally avoid being killed by the pesticide. Unfortunately, other bugs weren't so lucky, and would actively ignore Louie's warnings of locations that have used the products, leading to their near-instantaneous deaths.
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* The 90s era of the Advertising/LouieTheFly ''Advertising/LouieTheFly'' ads for Mortein would have Louie finally avoid being killed by the pesticide. Unfortunately, other bugs weren't so lucky, and would actively ignore Louie's warnings of locations that have used the products, leading to their near-instantaneous deaths.deaths.
* "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl" is a seat belt safety PublicServiceAnouncement wherein ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and her three wards repeatedly run into people who refuse to wear their seat belt because of silly reasons: it is uncomfortable, it is needless, it cramps their style...Invariably, their car crashes and Supergirl's intervention is the only reason why they don't get killed.
* "Advertising/AmericanHondaPresentsDCComicsSupergirl" is a seat belt safety PublicServiceAnouncement wherein ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and her three wards repeatedly run into people who refuse to wear their seat belt because of silly reasons: it is uncomfortable, it is needless, it cramps their style...Invariably, their car crashes and Supergirl's intervention is the only reason why they don't get killed.
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Walking down the alley alone to tell his friend about the SerialKiller in town. Telling everybody in earshot he has [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse vital evidence that he'll be taking to the authorities very shortly]]. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast Hovering in a known dangerous area]] [[NeverSplitTheParty without backup]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills Not telling the rest of the heroes about the upcoming trap laid out for them]]. Accepting food and drink from the somewhat weird stranger who lives in the seemingly abandoned house in the middle of nowhere and keeps asking odd questions in a [[CreepyMonotone creepy monotone voice]], such as if they came to the house alone and if anybody knows where they are (and, of course, answering "yes" and "no" to these questions). BullyingADragon, MuggingTheMonster, or whatever. [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Touching buttons]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot when told not to]]. JugglingLoadedGuns. [[ThrowThePin Throwing the pin and holding onto the grenade.]] [[AccidentalSuicide Plugging in electric appliances right next to their full bath]]. [[PerilousOldFool Refusing to believe his glory days are behind him]]. [[BlackmailBackfire Blackmailing someone about murder]]. Not only possessing GenreBlindness, but putting [[Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox's]] [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses on over it]]. Even close friends have to {{facepalm}} upon hearing of his or her exploits. WhoWouldBeStupidEnough These people, that's who!
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Walking down the alley alone to tell his friend about the SerialKiller in town. Telling everybody in earshot he has [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse vital evidence that he'll be taking to the authorities very shortly]]. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast Hovering in a known dangerous area]] [[NeverSplitTheParty without backup]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills Not telling the rest of the heroes party about the upcoming trap laid out for them]]. Accepting food and drink from the somewhat weird stranger who lives in the seemingly abandoned house in the middle of nowhere and keeps asking odd questions in a [[CreepyMonotone creepy monotone voice]], such as if they came to the house alone and if anybody knows where they are (and, of course, answering "yes" and "no" to these questions). BullyingADragon, MuggingTheMonster, or whatever. [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Touching buttons]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot when told not to]]. JugglingLoadedGuns. [[ThrowThePin Throwing the pin and holding onto the grenade.]] [[AccidentalSuicide Plugging in electric appliances right next to their full bath]]. [[PerilousOldFool Refusing to believe his glory days are behind him]]. [[BlackmailBackfire Blackmailing someone about murder]]. Not only possessing GenreBlindness, but putting [[Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox's]] [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses on over it]]. Even close friends have to {{facepalm}} upon hearing of his or her exploits. WhoWouldBeStupidEnough These people, that's who!
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* "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood": The titular character can't tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother, and ends up eaten. Subverted in the original tales, wherein Riding Hood realizes she is talking to a wolf and manages to outwit him.
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* "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood": The titular character can't tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother, and ends up eaten. Subverted Averted in the original tales, wherein Riding Hood realizes she is talking to a wolf and manages to outwit him.
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* "Literature/TheGooseGirl": The King asks the impostor what would be the fair punishment for someone who commits identity theft and generic bastardness on a princess, and she doesn't recognize her own story and suggests to strip the perpetrator naked, put him into a barrel with sharp nails and roll him from the hill into the river. Her wish is granted.
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Walking down the alley alone to tell his friend about the SerialKiller in town. Telling everybody in earshot he has [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse vital evidence that he'll be taking to the authorities very shortly]]. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast Hovering in a known dangerous area]] [[NeverSplitTheParty without backup]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills Not telling the rest of the heroes about the upcoming trap laid out for them]]. Accepting food and drink from the somewhat weird stranger who lives in the seemingly abandoned house in the middle of nowhere and keeps asking odd questions in a [[CreepyMonotone creepy monotone voice]], such as if they came to the house alone and if anybody knows where they are (and, of course, answering "yes" and "no" to these questions). BullyingADragon, MuggingTheMonster, or whatever. [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Touching buttons]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot when told not to]]. JugglingLoadedGuns. [[AccidentalSuicide Plugging in electric appliances right next to their full bath]]. [[PerilousOldFool Refusing to believe his glory days are behind him]]. [[BlackmailBackfire Blackmailing someone about murder]]. Not only possessing GenreBlindness, but putting [[Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox's]] [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses on over it]]. Even close friends have to {{facepalm}} upon hearing of his or her exploits. WhoWouldBeStupidEnough These people, that's who!
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Walking down the alley alone to tell his friend about the SerialKiller in town. Telling everybody in earshot he has [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse vital evidence that he'll be taking to the authorities very shortly]]. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast Hovering in a known dangerous area]] [[NeverSplitTheParty without backup]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills Not telling the rest of the heroes about the upcoming trap laid out for them]]. Accepting food and drink from the somewhat weird stranger who lives in the seemingly abandoned house in the middle of nowhere and keeps asking odd questions in a [[CreepyMonotone creepy monotone voice]], such as if they came to the house alone and if anybody knows where they are (and, of course, answering "yes" and "no" to these questions). BullyingADragon, MuggingTheMonster, or whatever. [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Touching buttons]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot when told not to]]. JugglingLoadedGuns. [[ThrowThePin Throwing the pin and holding onto the grenade.]] [[AccidentalSuicide Plugging in electric appliances right next to their full bath]]. [[PerilousOldFool Refusing to believe his glory days are behind him]]. [[BlackmailBackfire Blackmailing someone about murder]]. Not only possessing GenreBlindness, but putting [[Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox's]] [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses on over it]]. Even close friends have to {{facepalm}} upon hearing of his or her exploits. WhoWouldBeStupidEnough These people, that's who!
