Examples of Too Dumb to Live in Web Videos
- 7-Second Riddles: The "Who Is Dumber?" riddles involve characters putting themselves or others in life-threatening danger out of obliviousness or stupidity. The audience is tasked with figuring out who is the dumber one by comparing the scenarios.
- In the Let's Play videos done by Achievement Hunter, you can be certain that 99% of the Too Dumb To Live moments in them are caused by Gavin.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd:
- Parodied in his A Nightmare on Elm Street video.AVGN: Front door, closet... front door, closet... closet.
- In the Angry Nerd Christmas Carol, old man AVGN insists on playing the motion controlled rhythm game Boogie and making needlessly grandiose gestures despite being not physically fit to do so. He even persists while having a heart attack, and you can imagine how that ends.
- Parodied in his A Nightmare on Elm Street video.
- YouTuber Chubbyemu's medical videos often involve people either taking overdoses of over-the-counter medicine or participating in ill-advised stunts like the "Tide Pod Challenge". Others simply fail to get medical attention even as their bodies fall apart on them, or neglect mentioning important details as to what they were doing. And while admittedly justified by a sudden spike in alcohol withdrawal symptoms coupled with sleep deprivation, one individual's troubles started when he made the very obvious mistake of drinking a lava lamp.
- Critical Role:
- When asked if she could retrieve a diamond that had fallen off a thousand foot cliff into the ocean bellow, Keyleth immediately responds "Oh, yeah!" and jumps off the cliff. Even though she couldn't see the bottom of the cliff, and her druidic powers could have transformed into anything from a seagull to an aquatic dragon, she instead turns into a goldfish and dies the instant she hits the bottom of the cliff. She is quickly revived.
- Played for Drama in campaign 3: Ashton was told multiple times by multiple extremely old and knowledgeable beings that absorbing the shard of Rau'shan would kill them, since absorbing the power of two elemental titans would be far too much for any mortal body to handle. Ashton apparently decided to take this as a challenge, and tricked the Hells into letting them absorb the shard with Fearne's help. The process is horrific and traumatic for everyone involved, Ashton barely survives* and the only thing they have to show for it is a new arm made of cooled volcanic rock, and a permanent two point reduction of their Constitution modifier.
- In "The Debbie and Carrie Show", Rebekah Smith aka Rebekah Wilson is a clear example of this. First she is disowned by her own parents as a teen for her criminal behavior, and also having kids repeatedly out of wedlock. Then she is rejected by her aunt Sandy Smith and cousin Debbie Smith for her disrespectful behavior to them. Then she allies herself with Diana Kalli, Sandy's worst enemy, and they both plot against Sandy and Debbie. But even Rebekah's own daughter Arlene Green rejects and opposes her. Then Diana Kalli is killed fighting with Sandy. Then Rebekah marries another enemy of the Smiths, Ted Wilson and together they plot against Sandy. Then Ted Wilson finds out she is spending his money faster than he can make it, and finally...... he MURDERS her and buries her body in their home's backyard!
- Eli from Deagle Nation classifies as this — he once tried to "parkour" over his mom's table, which ends up netting him a trip to the hospital.
- 5 Second Films' Johnny Quickdeath is an interesting case. In his first appearances he's doing things that fit this trope to a T (Scissor Jogging, anyone?
); but later, it appears he seemingly dies for no apparent reason; and takes people with him ("Johnny Quickdeath Celebrates Freedom"). It appears the trait is genetic, as well."It was ill-advised to begin with. But Johnny has a track record with this stuff." - The Flying Man: Rob, the Dirty Cop who's dealing weapons. Sure, the Flying Man's been ruthlessly tracking down and murdering criminals for a week, but there's no way it'd happen to him, right?
- Freeman's Mind:
- Early on, Gordon tries to rescue a scientist dangling above a pit, saying, "give me your hand". The scientist immediately plummets to his death, having tried to give Gordon the hand he was using to hold on to the ledge instead of his free one.
- Gordon also has the tendency of using this trope as an In-Universe explanation of the game's Artificial Stupidity.
- Highcraft: Travis charging at a creeper with no armor on in "INFERNAL HIGH II".
- IGSRJ:
- While in his emo phase, IGSRJ consumes an entire bottle of whiskey, drives 60 MPH through a residential neighborhood, and plays Duke Nukem Mobile on his cellphone. He manages to get through WITHOUT INCIDENT!
- Played for laughs in his Nintendo Sticker Album review, where he decides to stick a fork in an electrical socket to literally play with power.
- The King Of Hate very often makes very dumb tactical decisions in his playthroughs of video games:
- Bully: Scholarship Edition: On encountering a Game-Breaking Bug in the Christmas level, he notices a "Restart" option in the pause menu and selects it. Despite the prompt telling him it means to restart the entire game from the beginning, he goes ahead with it anyway and complains when he's faced with the first "Welcome to Bullworth" mission.
- Dead Rising: He tries to fight Carlito with only a wooden plank, which gets him killed very quickly.
- Dynasty Warriors 8: Repeatedly tries to fight Lu Bu.
- Grand Theft Auto IV: Literally runs right into a speeding car and then wonders why he was killed.
- Halo 2 Anniversary: He throws a sticky grenade at a charging Brute, resulting in blowing himself up.
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Facing down a veteran sniper who is supposed to be beaten in a Sniper Duel (and even then is a notorious That One Boss), he instead pulls out a shotgun and goes running through the brush looking for him, which results in him getting riddled with shots without getting any effective shots back at his attacker.
- Ratchet & Clank (2002): Continually attempts to use the wrench on very powerful enemies while having plenty of ammo for his guns.
- ＬＯＣＡＬ５８: The driver in You Are On The Fastest Available Route never questions the strange instructions their Sat Nav is giving them, even when it tells them to follow signs labelled "Do Not Enter." Subverted when they encounter the monster, at which point they high tail it out of there as fast as they can, all while the Sat Nav is repeatedly telling them to turn around.
- J from Marble Hornets has made such brilliant decisions as, after being attacked when he visited an abandoned house, immediately deciding to return. Then announcing when he would do so to the internet at large. Totheark, who J thinks is the attacker, responds with a video that basically amounts to, "Yes, please come so we can eat you!" J still goes. At night. And taken to new heights in Entry #40, wherein J gets tired of waiting for Alex, so he decides the best idea is to go for a walk in the creepy haunted woods. He had never been in the woods before, didn't know his way around, and, needless to say, didn't tell anyone where he was. On the plus side, he then did the most sensible thing anyone in the whole series has done so far: When Slender Man shows up to say hi, J just drops the camera and runs.
- Party Crashers:
- In their first Lethal Company video, Nick gets the brilliant idea to destroy a beehive with a shovel despite Sophist's warnings not to, which angers the Circuit Bees from inside and proceed to kill him on the spot. The others all agree that Nick absolutely deserved it, while Nick retorts that he regrets nothing.
- In their third Lethal Company video, Sophist gets the marvelous idea to put a metal screw into the ship's charger. He somehow survives and promptly tries again, to which this time he suffers a High-Voltage Death.
- In their Castle Crashers videos, Nick and Brent utterly refuse to upgrade their magic stat, despite the fact that they're playing as magic users. Cue the both of them constantly dying for most of the game.
- In their first Lethal Company video
- About 99% of the people in the trailer in the fake Shark Pool movie. A giant, man eating shark has somehow ended up in a swimming pool... and yet they don't just stay out of the pool... which the Only Sane Man repeatedly suggests they do.
- Smosh:
- They provided one of the trope's videos.
- In OUR VIDEO IDEAS STOLEN!, Peter Peter, the thief who stole their idea box, decides that using Anthony's idea of getting hit by a car and dying was a great idea.
- In one of the segments of EVERY NEW YEARS EVER, Shayne decides for his new year resolution to put a bag of salad over his head as a way of overcoming new challenges despite the warning not to do so being on the bag itself. Three guesses as to how it ended.
- Shrooms has Red; he believes the right way to drive ghosts from a haunted house is to insult their originality.
- SuperMarioLogan: Bowser Junior, to the extreme. In "The Drone", he puts his tongue on the blades of Cody's drone, even when Cody told him not to. Bloody Hilarious results ensue.
- Third Rate Gamer has a bomb lying around in his house for no good reason. As if that weren't stupid enough, he sets a game on fire and manages to throw it at the bomb, lighting the fuse.
- In The With Voices Project, Frisk has this opinion about the monsters in Undertale: Genocider who constantly attack him for no reason. He's perfectly willing to leave them alone if they'd just stop bothering him every step on the way (even though this Frisk is a Hunter of Monsters by trade, which means he's being very generous to them), but they simply can't get a hint, so he solves the problem the pragmatic way. In the end, even Chara turns on him despite knowing how powerful and pragmatic he is and begins threatening to kill his family, so he just shoots her repeatedly until she's no longer an issue, then simply leaves.
- Wizards with Guns: In "Megachurch Pastors Try to Predict the Apocalypse", Ruby Ranch accidentally pulls the pin out of one of the grenades they're trying to sell as an "intrusive thought." When Titus Diamondback tries taking the other grenade out of his other hand to keep him from doing it again, he winds up taking the pin out of the other grenade, forcing the both of them to take turns on holding the grenade's levers down to keep them from exploding.
- Wolverine's Claws Suck: In a world where you can buy mutant powers for money, two guys decide they want to be like Wolverine. Problem is they only have enough for either adamantium claws or healing factor... They chose the claws.
- World's Greatest Adventures’s Rufus Talltales, unsurprisingly, especially in Episode 13 as he keeps walking into the same electrified fence over and over and over.
- A vital part of 10 Things Webkinz Do series, especially "10 Dangerous Things Webkinz Do".
- In Jerry Terry's video Kiss Me (Kill Me), the main girlfriend ignored all the incredibly obvious warning signs in the site she was visiting with her partner, and she doesn't realize that she's in danger until she starts mutating horribly. Too bad she doesn't even get to die as herself, or at all.
