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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]]. BullyingADragon or MuggingTheMonster. [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Touching buttons]] [[DontTouchItYouIdiot when told not to]]. JugglingLoadedGuns. [[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!

* Another GEICO example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYae3ZAAbLc "Horror Movie"]]. Even the Killer does an eye roll and has a look on his face that simply says "Are you '''fucking''' kidding me?".

* A family in a flood is being rescued from a window on the second floor of their house when one of the crew notices a hat somehow floating upstream. As he watches, the hat turns and floats downstream, then begins floating upstream again.

* TooDumbToLive/{{Jokes}}

* [[TooDumbToLive/AnimatedFilms Films – Animation]]
* [[TooDumbToLive/LiveActionFilms Films – Live-Action]]

* TooDumbToLive/WebOVideos

* [[spoiler: Katie]] from the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town'' thinks that the first several murders are fake and that she's being pranked, so she gets fed up with everything that's happening and tries to walk out of the room backwards while ranting at the others…directly into a meat hook.

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* TooDumbToLive/{{Advertising}}

* TooDumbToLive/MusicVideos

* TooDumbToLive/{{Podcasts}}

* TooDumbToLive/{{Radio}}

* TooDumbToLive/{{Webcomics}}

[[caption-width-right:350:Uh... is there a third option?]]

There's simple ignorance, when you just didn't know something. There's catching the IdiotBall, which is a momentary lapse. There's fear and panic in a chaotic situation. All those situations are understandable reasons for making poor decisions.

[[caption-width-right:350:Uh... do I get a third option?]]

** ''TooDumbToLive/TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie''

There's simple ignorance, when you just didn't know something. There's catching the IdiotBall, which is a momentary lapse. There's fear and panic in a chaotic situation. All those situations are understandable reasons for making poor decisions. If these guys survive with, at worst, serious but not life-threatening injuries, that would be grounds for WhatAnIdiot

Note that it's not actually a requirement for the character in question to die. Death is often the result, but as long as it's a foolish action that very well ''could'' have gotten the character killed, even if it didn't, then the trope applies. As this is still a DeathTrope, however, '''[[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers expect unmarked spoilers on the subpages]]'''.

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]]. See also SuicidalOverconfidence, another video game version. LethallyStupid is when someone's stupidity causes havoc for others.

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]]. See also SuicidalOverconfidence, another video game version. LethallyStupid is when someone's stupidity simply causes havoc, instead of being the cause of their demise.

As this is a DeathTrope, '''[[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers expect unmarked spoilers on the subpages]]'''.

There's simple ignorance, when you just didn't know something. There's catching the IdiotBall, which is a momentary lapse. There's fear and panic in a chaotic situation. All those situations are understandable reasons for making poor decisions. Then there's ''these'' guys. People who are so stupid that they simply do not ''deserve'' to survive.

[[caption-width-right:350:Uh... can I [[Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire use a lifeline]]?]]

This trope is, surprisingly,[[note]][[HumansAreMorons or not]][[/note]] TruthInTelevision, as many people can attest to, although [[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease we won't.]]

This trope is, surprisingly[[note]][[HumansAreMorons or not]][[/note]], TruthInTelevision, as many people can attest to, although [[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease we won't.]]

'''Note:''' This trope has been subject to some [[TropeDecay misuse]]. If you see any examples or {{pot hole}}s to this page in which the character's stupidity does not result in their demise, please remove them or point them to one of the alternative idiocy tropes. [[ChoosingDeath Suicide]] and HeroicSacrifices are not examples either.

->''"That's right, I'm the best shot in the platoon. I could shoot the pipe from an officer's mouth at 300 meters. Don't believe me?"''
-->-- '''[[TabletopGame/OnlyWar Guardsman Varrant]]''', six minutes before his execution

->''"Okay, Marge, you hide in the abandoned amusement park! Lisa, the pet cemetery! Bart, spooky roller disco! And ''I'll'' go skinny dipping in that lake where the sexy teens were killed one hundred years ago tonight!"''
-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X]]"