History SchmuckBait / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/{{Deathstalker}}'': The Amulet of Life is sort of used as this towards the end of the movie. [[spoiler: It is left hanging from the ceiling of a completely unguarded room that the main protagonist had no trouble reaching. When Deathstalker tries to grab it, however, one of the main villain's mooks attack him.]]

* ''Film/{{Deathstalker}}'': The Amulet of Life is sort of used as this towards the end of the movie. [[spoiler: It is left hanging from the ceiling of a completely unguarded room that the main protagonist had no trouble reaching. When Deathstalker tries to grab it, however, the main villain sneaks up from behind and attacks him.]]

* ''Film/{{Deathstalker}}'': The Amulet of Life is sort of used as this towards the end of the movie, as it [[spoiler:is left hanging from the ceiling of a completely unguarded room that the main protagonist had no trouble reaching. When Deathstalker tries to grab it, however, the main villain sneaks up from behind and attacks him.]]

* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Zorg counts on this happening to his alien former henchmen after giving them some weapons: "Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the [[BigRedButton little red button]] on the bottom of the gun. One of the aliens looks puzzled at the button and then presses it, blowing them all up.

* [[http://http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Garfield Garfield]]

* The protagonist in ''HellraiserDeader'' finds the several day old corpse of a young woman with a packet near her body and the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lament]] [[SummoningArtifact Configuration]] in her stiffened hand. After retrieving both, the journalist watched a video tape from the packet in which the dead woman instructs her, with quite a large degree of urgency, to ''not open the box''. Mere seconds after finishing the tape, [[TooDumbToLive she opens the box]].

* In the climax of ''Film/{{Steel}}'' the BigBad has the hero's hammer. Steel tells him not to press the red switch. The big bad notes he "has to push the envelope", activating the electromagnet and causing the weapon to return to {{Steel}}.

--> '''Garfield''' The one thing you can't do is tell her the dogs gone
--> '''John''' I've got to tell her...
--> '''Garfield''' No.
--> '''John''' I've got to tell her...
--> '''Garfield''' No! That's not what I said!

--> '''Garfield'''(to audience) [[TitleDrop Smuck...]]

--> No! That's not what I said!

--> '''Garfield''' The one thing you musn't do is tell her the dogs gone

--> '''Garfield''' No, don't do that!

--> '''Garfield'''(to audience) [[NameDrop Smuck...]]

* ''Film/Garfield''

* ''Film/Garfield''

* ''Film/Garfield'

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* ''Film/Garfield''

--> (to audience) [[NameDrop Smuck...]]

--> ''Garfield'' The one thing you musn't do is tell her the dogs gone
--> ''John'' I've got to tell her...
--> ''Garfield'' No, don't do that!

--> [Garfield] The one thing you musn't do is tell her the dogs gone
--> [[John]] I've got to tell her...
--> [[Garfield]] No, don't do that!

--> [[Garfield]] The one thing you musn't do is tell her the dogs gone

* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Chewie and the piece of meat. Possibly one of the few instances where it ''was'' bait. Annoying for those who thought Chewie should've been too smart to fall for something so obvious. Maybe it was just too obvious and cliché that Chewie suspected it absolutely could NOT be a trap. [[MemeticMutation Admiral Ackbar]] would have known better.

* There's a nice example of subtle Schmuck Bait action in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''. The Corsair ships arrive for the battle of Minas Tirith and Aragorn and company jump down in front of the orcs instead of the pirate reinforcements they were expecting. After being surprised for a bit, the orcs regain their confidence and start smirking. “After all,” they are probably thinking, “It's a bunch of us against three of them, we can totally win.” Except they are forgetting the fact that these guys apparently took out an ''armada by themselves''... Cue utter horror and sheer terror when the [[ArmyOfTheDead Dead of Dunharrow]] charges at them.
** It also was evident a few scenes earlier, in the Extended Cut at least, when you are shown Aragorn and company confronting the Corsairs. It never crosses the Corsair's minds that these three might have a ''[[ArmyOfTheDead reason]]'' for being so confident... (Bonus points for the film crew as the Corsairs are all production crew dressed up and the corsair that goes down under Legolas's arrow is ''Peter Jackson'' himself!)
** There's one even before that, this time the guilty ones are Gondors Archers. They have huge siege towers approaching the wall, but instead of shooting at the trolls that are pushing them, they try to shoot at the Orcs that are in them. Certainly not a bad idea if you're a decent enough shot, as it does thin out the ranks.... slightly. But when you're dealing with an army of what looks like over a hundred thousand orcs in a siege situation... you're better off finding ways to keep that army out.

* ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' gives us the famous line, [[MemeticMutation "DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!"]] Although this could simply be more of a CassandraTruth than anything, this warning is still completely ignored. [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive And]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim yes,]] [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] [[KillAllHumans does]] [[RaptorAttack indeed ensue.]]]] It could also be that the men couldn't hear Ajay over the sound of their own panicking.

* The protagonist in ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Hellraiser: Deader]]'' finds the several day old corpse of a young woman with a packet near her body and the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lament]] [[SummoningArtifact Configuration]] in her stiffened hand. After retrieving both, the journalist watched a video tape from the packet in which the dead woman instructs her, with quite a large degree of urgency, to ''not open the box''. Mere seconds after finishing the tape, [[TooDumbToLive she opens the box]].

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* ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' gives us the famous line, [[MemeticMutation "DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!"]] Although this could simply be more of a CassandraTruth than anything, this warning is still completely ignored. [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive And]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim yes,]] [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] [[KillAllHumans does]] [[RaptorAttack indeed]] [[NightmareFuel ensue.]]]] It could also be that the men couldn't hear Ajay over the sound of their own panicking.

* The protagonist in ''HellraiserDeader'' finds the several day old corpse of a young woman with a packet near her body and the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lament]] [[SummoningArtifact Configuration]] in her stiffened hand. After retrieving both, the journalist watched a video tape from the packet in which the dead woman instructs her, with quite a large degree of urgency, to ''not open the box''. Mere seconds after finishing the tape, [[TooDumbToLive she opens the box]].
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* ''TheRing''. That cursed videotape. At its worst in ''Ringu'', where the protagonist actually has to travel to the Izu peninsula campsite and ask the owner for it, while being warned, and then watches it anyway. [[spoiler:And leaves it where her kid can get at it.]]

* The protagonist in ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Hellraiser: Deader]]'' finds the several day old corpse of a young woman with a packet near her body and the [[ArtifactOfDoom Lament]] [[SummoningArtifact Configuration]] in her stiffened hand. After retrieving both, the journalist watched a video tape from the packet in which the dead woman instructs her, with quite a large degree of urgency, to ''not open the box''. Mere seconds after finishing the tape, [[TooDumbToLive she opens the box]].