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▲[[File:rsz_safety-death_3126.jpg|link=Scary Movie (Film)|right|Ummmmmm... do I [[Take a Third Option|get a third choice]]?]]
{{quote|''"When your life has been directly threatened by your boss and there's already been one unsolved murder in your office building, [[Sarcasm Mode|always work late and alone!]]"''|'''Noah "[[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One"]] Antwiler,''' ''Let's Play [[Phantasmagoria 2]]''}}
The character who puts life and limb at risk by [[What an Idiot!|doing things that no sane human being would do]]. Walking down the alley alone to tell his friend about the [[Serial Killer]]. Telling her best friend [[Have You Told Anyone Else?|not to tell anybody]], but she has a crush on somebody. Walking through [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
If a character is stupid, but does not put himself at an obvious risk of harm, it is not an example of this; see instead [[What an Idiot!]], [[The Ditz]], or [[Idiot Ball]]. Compare [[Artificial Stupidity]], the videogame equivalent of this which is a result of AI rather than the script being against them. Contrast [[Death By Pragmatism]] and [[Let's Get Dangerous]]. Not to be confused with [[Evilutionary Biologist]] or [[The Social Darwinist]], although [[Values Dissonance|they generally consider it a]] [[Moral Event Horizon]] [[Values Dissonance|to not murder the dumb in cold blood]].
'''Note:''' This trope has been subject to some [[Trope Decay|misuse]]. If you see any examples or [[Pothole|pot holes]] to this page in which the character's stupidity does not pose any threat to his physical wellbeing, please remove them or point them to one of the alternative idiocy tropes.
▲'''[[No Real Life Examples Please]]'''. See the ''[[Darwin Awards]]'' and ''[[What the Fuck Is Wrong With You (Web Video)|What the Fuck Is Wrong With You]]'' for those.
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