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* ''[[One Piece]]'' has the "Fake Straw Hat Pirates" based in Sabaody Archipelago after the time-skip. Since Monkey D. Luffy has attained even more infamy than ever before due to his part in the War at the Summit, One guy going by the name "Three Tongued" Demalo Black got the bright idea of posing as him and setting up a crew to pose as the Straw Hat Pirates, usually getting his way by relying on Luffy's fame to threaten people and recruit fearsome pirates into his crew. Unfortunately, round out the time they were recruiting the ''real'' Straw Hats came back, and it got steadily worse when they try to recruit a pair of [[Ax Crazy]] pirate captains who intend to kill the Straw Hats for more fame, and the Marines show up with [[Mecha-Mooks|Pacifistas]], with a Marine Captain personally knocking out Demalo Black with his axe [[Too Dumb to Live|for trying to talk smack to him, while pretending to be Luffy]].

* Almost happens in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. The cast are discussing ways to retrieve Asuna and the Great Grandmaster Key from the Big Bads, and get the idea to use Natsumi's artifact (which makes the enemy completely unable to sense your presence) to get close for an ambush. Unfortunately {{spoiler|The [[Anti-Magic]] field coming from Asuna would make that plan useless.}} They almost go with the plan until Ako realizes the flaw. Cue Yue coming up with a workable solution, and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for everyone involved.

 

== Comic Books ==

'''Carmen:''' And that you've done. Now what?

'''Dusty:''' Well, we really didn't expect the first part of the plan to work, [[Indy Ploy|so we have no further plan]]. Sometimes you can overplan these things. }}

* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', [[Evil Chancellor|Jafar]] is defeated when Aladdin tricks him into wishing to become an all-powerful genie. Jafar either forgot or was not aware that genies in this setting are bound to a magic lamp and obliged to grant wishes ''by nature''.

{{quote|'''Genie:''' It's all part and parcel of the whole Genie gig. [[Large Ham|PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!]] ...Itty-bitty living space.}}

** In one strip, Charlie Brown gets ''so'' mad when the Kite-Eating Tree grabs his kite that he shouts, "If you don't let go of that kite, I'll kick you in the stomach!" Then he ''does'', and quickly finds out, [[Agony of the Feet|"These Kite-Eating trees have hard stomachs..."]]

** In another, Lucy is wondering if she'd be more popular if she had a different name, and is wondering what a better name might be. Linus cheekily suggests "Supermouth". Lucy naturally slugs him, and Linus moans to himself, "I've got to stop this business of talking without thinking..."

* In a ''[[Zits]]'' strip, Jeremy's parents buy a "teen tracker" app, forgetting, apparently, that they don't know jack about how to use apps, and have to ask Jeremy to activate it.

* In ''[[FoxTrot]]'', most of Jason's attempts to prank, troll, or annoy Paige turn out like this, starting with [https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1988/04/19 a strip in the second week of the comic], no less. Jason never seems to figure out that his older sister [[Bullying a Dragon|is much stronger than he is]] and has a rotten temper.

* Many of [[Donald Trump]]'s detractors have stated that simply thinking a few minutes before hitting the "Send" button on Twitter might have solved a lot of his problems.

** The most notable example was the [[w:2021 storming of the United States Capitol|January 6, 2021 Capitol Building riot]], which he at least partially encouraged. Breaking and entering the seat of the United States government (something that did not happen even during the [[American Civil War]]) and assaulting police is ''not'' the right way to convince everyone that the opposing candidate "stole" the election. The blatant act of terrorism caused Trump to lose much of his already waning support, and also caused the press to refer to him with words like "fascist", "traitor", and "Nazi", which they had, up to then, tried hard to avoid doing. Whatever the case, it was obvious to everyone [[Captain Obvious| it did not improve his political career or reputation]], likely ruining it and that of many others.

** The storm of pardons he issued in his final weeks in office. Accepting a pardon by American law is an admission of guilt by the pardoned party, but worse, doing so removes the recipient's protection against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment (because they can't be prosecuted they can't incriminate themselves); consequently they can be compelled to testify -- in this case, against Trump. It took several weeks for this to occur to anyone in Trump's White House (at which point it was too late); Federal investigators, of course, were aware of this and are more than happy to trade the convictions of a few underlings for testimony against Trump himself.

** His border wall - likely the keystone of his original campaign - was an ill-conceived and unrealistic goal right from the start, for many reasons:

* In 2010, Todd Davis, the CEO of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeLock LifeLock], had the "brilliant" idea to ''reveal his actual Social Security Number'' in a commercial, claiming his product would prevent ''any'' hacker from using it to steal his identity. Unfortunately, thirteen hackers proved him wrong. Adding insult to injury, such an [[Epic Fail]] undermined their customers' confidence in the product, and LifeLine was fined millions for deceptive advertising.

* [[Elon Musk]]'s acquisition of [[Twitter]] has been this for a large variety of reasons. A detailed analysis of his mistakes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2m2ihZVq0&list=RDCMUCrr7y8rEXb7_RiVniwvzk9w&start_radio=1&rv=Gb2m2ihZVq0&t=150 can be viewed here.]

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