History SchmuckBait / LiveActionFilms

* ''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. [[MemeticMutation Admiral Ackbar]] would have known better.

--> '''Jon''': I've got to tell her...

--> '''Jon''': I've got to tell her...

--> (Jon runs off)
--> '''Garfield''':(to audience) [[TitleDrop Schmuck...]]

* The three simple rules for the care of Mogwai in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' definitely fall under this head. Just look at Gizmo - he's so cute and cuddly, what could possibly go wrong?

* The three simple rules for the care of Mogwai in ''Film/Gremlins'' definitely fall under this head. Just look at Gizmo - he's so cute and cuddly, what could possibly go wrong?

* Film/{{Garfield}}
--> '''Garfield''': The one thing you can't do is tell her the dogs gone
--> '''John''': I've got to tell her...

--> '''John''': I've got to tell her...

--> (John runs off)

* TheStinger during the credits of ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Percy's [[{{Jerkass}} slimeball stepfather]] finding his refrigerator locked and a note from Percy taped to it to the effect of "do not open under any circumstances". He immediately breaks the lock off [[spoiler:and finds himself face-to-face with [[TakenForGranite Medusa's severed head]]]].
* ''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. [[MemeticMutation Admiral Ackbar]] would have known better.
* [[Film/{{Garfield}} Garfield]]

* ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'' has the Schmuck Bait of the "Light Grenade" which will vaporize anybody who picks it up. When the protagonist asks why anybody would do such a thing, he is shown the ingenious inscription, "Pick Me Up". This is a [[PlanetOfHats Planet of Schmucks]]. The grenade manages to wipe out a whole squad of soldiers one by one.
** With the last soldier in the squad calling for more men.

* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Zorg counts on this happening to his alien former henchmen after giving them some weapons even though they didn't bring him what he wanted: "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 [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo presses it]], blowing them all up.
* ''Film/TheTransporter'': Rule Three: Never look in the package. Too bad said package got noisy...

** Also, there's a self-destruct button in the ship which Lone Starr has to push which tells you to not push unless you really, REALLY mean it.
*** Justified as it's actually guarded and has decent security.

* ''Film/TheRing''. That cursed videotape.
** It is at its worst in ''Film/{{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.]]
* While robbing a gumball factory, one of the thieves cannot resist the door labeled "DO NOT OPEN THIS DOOR" in ''The Brink's Job''.
* ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. While the title character is preparing to drag the demon out of the possessed girl he tells the men helping him "Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look." One of them does. He collapses and [[LockedIntoStrangeness his hair turns white]].
* In ''Film/SawII'', Jigsaw leaves his victims a note specifically instructing them ''not'' to use the key found within on the door to the room. Someone does it anyway and ends up shot by a gun positioned in the peephole.
* In ''Film/ConAir'', U.S. Marshal Larkin and a couple of prison guards search BigBad Cyrus Grissom's cell. One of the items they find is a small package with a note taped to it reading, "Do Not Open." The GenreSavvy Larkin immediately leaves to call the bomb squad, cautioning the guards on the way out ''not to open the box''. He's barely ten feet away from the cell when one of the guards plops down on the cot and opens the box. Cue massive explosion.
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
** ''Film/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.
** On the Safety First page of the ''Film/JurassicWorld'' website, visitors are reminded to not tap on the glass, cross barriers, throw objects into exhibits, or tease the dinosaurs. To emphasize this point, they show immediately below this text the entrance to the ''TyrannosaurusRex Kingdom'', the one exhibit where it really pays to obey the safety rules.
* ''Film/TimeBandits'': "Mum, Dad, it's evil! Don't touch it!" Guess what Mum and Dad proceed to do?
* In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' the cabin's cellar doesn't just have ''one'' piece of Schmuck bait, oh no. It's filled with ''dozens'' of weird or mysterious objects, and, if played with, each of them will summon a different kind of monster to kill the cabin dwellers. The cellar itself is SchmuckBait as well, since the trap door ''threw itself open'' in the middle of a game of Truth Or Dare.
* A couple of the gags in the ''Film/HomeAlone'' films follow this principle. For example, one involves the crook pulling on a doorknob, only to find that it comes loose and is attached to a string. He then must keep pulling ''several more yards'' of the string before the trap ([[GroinAttack a staple gun at crotch height]]) is triggered. Presumably the idea was they he'd know ''something'' was up, but be [[TooDumbToLive too determined to figure it out]] to stop.
** A similar one has the doorknob cause a large tool chest to start rolling down the stairs at the door. The sound is extremely loud, and it takes several seconds for it to complete the journey. Naturally the trap requires that the thieves be curious about the noise and press their ears against the door, until the tool chest arrives.
** Both of those are from ''Home Alone 2''; no particularly obvious traps are in the first one, except perhaps after Kevin uses his BB gun to shoot Harry in the crotch through the doggy door. Then Marv sticks his head through the door, and is promptly shot in the forehead.

* The protagonist in ''Film/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}}.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': "Candygram for Mongo!" Cue first half of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes stinger. "[[YouNoTakeCandle Mongo like candy]]." Open box. Watch powder explosion completely fill the screen, as if to EatTheCamera. Cue other half of the stinger.
* ''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 attacks him.]]
* In ''Film/{{Sheena}}'', Vic Casey is being driven somewhere as a prisoner of the bad guys. He's riding in back of a Land Rover with a single {{Mook}} to guard him. Vic turns the volume up on his portable radio really loud seemingly just to annoy the guy, but it's all part of his plan to escape. When the angry guard moves to turn the radio off, Vic makes his move and jumps him, knees him under the chin and tosses him out.
* The thug Blue Face got his name in Film/TheNiceGuys when he open a bag of banknotes containing a blue dye pack. The bag's owner's protests that the bag's contents don't belong to him (he's only holding it as a friend!) only make the schmuck bait even more irresistible to the men looting his apartment.

* The thug Blue Face got his name in Film/TheNiceGuys when he open a bag of banknotes with blue dye pack.

* In ''[[Film/{{Saw}} Saw II]]'', Jigsaw leaves his victims a note specifically instructing them ''not'' to use the key found within on the door to the room. Someone does it anyway and ends up shot by a gun positioned in the peephole.

* TheStinger during the credits of ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Percy's [[{{Jerkass}} slimeball stepfather]] finding his refrigerator locked and a note from Percy taped to it to the effect of "do not open under any circumstances". He immediately breaks the lock off [[spoiler:and finds himself face-to-face with [[TakenForGranite Medusa's severed head]]]].

* ''Film/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.

--> (john runs off)

* In ''Film/{{Sheena}}, Vic Casey is being driven somewhere as a prisoner of the bad guys. He's riding in back of a Land Rover with a single {{Mook}} to guard him. Vic turns the volume up on his portable radio really loud seemingly just to annoy the guy, but it's all part of his plan to escape. When the angry guard moves to turn the radio off, Vic makes his move and jumps him, knees him under the chin and tosses him out.

* In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' the cabin's cellar doesn't just have ''one'' piece of Schmuck bait, oh no. It's filled with ''dozens'' of weird or mysterious objects, and, if played with, each of them will summon a different kind of monster to kill the cabin dwellers.

* ''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 [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo presses it]], blowing them all up.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': "Candygram for Mongo!" Cue first half of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes stinger. "[[YouNoTakeCandle Mongo like candy]]." Open box. Watch powder explosion completely fill the screen. Cue other half of the stinger.

* ''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.

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

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': "Candygram for Mongo!" Cue first half of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes stinger. "Mongo like candy." Open box and cue other half of the stinger.

* ''UndercoverBrother''. The BigRedButton in The Man's island fortress was labeled "Atomic Core": who would have thought it would detonate the base's SelfDestructMechanism?

** It is 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.]]

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': "Candygram for Mongo!" Cue first half of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes stinger. "Mongo like candy." And cue the other half of the stinger.