Discussion Main / HorribleJudgeOfCharacter

Per TRS, the requirements involving Idiot Ball and the person being trusted being evil are no longer requirements, and the trope has been expanded to cover any characters who are too quick to trust other people:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16684877960.89468900&page=1#comment-20

Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.

Can this trope have other meanings? Like a Lawful Evil character perceives a Chaotic Evil character as Stupid Evil when it's perfectly clear that they aren't.

• Code Geass is just chock full of them, from Suzaku to the Black Knights, when Schneizel fools them into betraying Lelouch.

Suzaku's actions were never result of poor judgement, he was simply Lawful Stupid Principles Zealot, he refused to use wrong means no matter what. Black Knights' rebelion was far more complicated than simple misjudgement, and their distrust for Zero began before any of them even met Schneizel.

• And Nunnally, who believes Schneizel when he says that he evacuated Pendragon before nuking it.

This was less about Nunally being bad judge and more about Schneisel being good liar. She was shown to have good judgement a few times, like when she refused to believe bad advisor who falsely told her that actions she was supposed to support would be good for Japaneese, and when she regonised Suzaku is lying to her about Lelouch.

• Lelouch could count too, as his decisions to use and manipulate Rolo and Viletta in R2 end up become a good part of his further descent into insanity that eventually resulted in his decision to do the Zero Requiem plan.

None of this has anything to do with misjudging either Rolo or Viletta.

I've removed a LOT of bad examples, and I certainly didn't get them all. All of them were more Devil in Plain Sight as in all cases it was not one or two people misjudging someone's character, but a majority.

Ok, I'm curious. Shouldn't this page be applied solely towards characters who by narrative standards are insightful and intelligent, yet being H Jo C? I mean Beavis and Butthead are idiots. Of course they're going to be a poor judge of character.

Now Van Driessen on the otherhand works, because he's for the most part more competent than either of them and still makes poor judgement.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16104243270A34144300