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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': The resident [[Magnificent Bastard]], [[Manipulative Bastard|"people person"]], and [[The Chessmaster|chessmaster]] Azula finds herself [[Villainous Breakdown|completely bewildered]] when {{spoiler|her [[Sidekick]] Mai risks her life to help the [[Turncoat]] Zuko escape [[The Alcatraz]]}}.
{{quote|'''Azula:''' [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|The thing I don't understand is]] ''[[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|why'']]''. Why would you do it? [[You Have Failed Me...|You know the consequences]].
{{spoiler|'''Mai:''' [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?|I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|You miscalculated]]. [[The Power of Love|I love Zuko]] [[Machiavelli Was Wrong|more than I fear you]]}}.
{{spoiler|'''Azula:''' No, ''you'' [[Berserk Button|miscalculated]]! [[Villainous Breakdown|You should have feared me]] ''[[Villainous Breakdown|more]]''!]]}} }}
** This moment of her inability to comprehend that love can trump self-preservation and loyalty born of intimidation has limits, flying in the face of her philosophy that "fear is the only reliable way" to control people, is actually the first step down the road towards her epic [[Villainous Breakdown]]. However, because she's [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], she's at least able to learn from this mistake and apply it to her strategy in the [[Grand Finale]] (while she was in the middle of said breakdown no less).
** [[Big Bad|Firelord]] [[Complete Monster|Ozai]] cannot fathom why {{spoiler|Aang spares him at the end of their fight.}}
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* In the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[For the Man Who Has Everything]]" (based on a story from the comics), Mongul imagines that Superman's greatest desire being shown to him by the [[Lotus Eater Machine|Black Mercy]] is of him ruling the galaxy. Instead, he's living peacefully on a farm on Krypton, married to a woman who resembles both Lana and Lois, and has a son.
** This is actually a departure from the original comic version, in which Mongul ''does'' imagine Superman is living a happy "normal" life in his dream world, and is spot on. Then again, the comic version's world [[It Got Worse|got worse]] ''very'' quickly.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' has this trope, too, when the Mad Hatter imprisons Batman in a [[Lotus Eater Machine|fake world]] where his parents were never killed and he's engaged to Selina Kyle, who isn't a criminal. It's practically a paradise. When The Mad Hatter asks him why he chose to escape, he responds with "Because it's not REAL."
** Batman does get the joke. The Joker just can never understand that [[Iron Woobie|a young Bruce Wayne]] was not amused and [[Determinator|wrote his own material]] as a [[Rage Against the Heavens|comeback]].
{{quote|'''Joker:''' It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? ''Why aren't you laughing?''
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* [[Kevin Spencer]], being an emotionless, violent sociopath, is completely caught off-guard when anyone shows him a form of kindness (such as a man giving him money when he finds out Kevin was a runaway.) Kevin's eventual response to these situations is to violently attack the person, or just steal their money. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Allan himself is surprised by this,]] [[Curiosity Causes Conversion|and mused that the kindness of others could put his faith back in humanity.]]
* General Zhal from ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' is left completely stunned after {{spoiler|he kills the [[Doom Patrol]] and the entire world chants "We are the Doom Patrol", showing that instead of making everyone see them as frauds, they see them as bigger heroes than before. Zhal is unable to even react to being arrested out of shock because he can't understand how a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] increases people's faith in the sacrificer.}}
* The biggest weakness of Discord from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is his inability to truly understand how strong the bond between the mane cast truly is. He's taken completely off-guard when he discovers that they've reforged their friendship after he seemingly broke it apart {{spoiler|leading to his defeat}}. He also gets ''very'' frustrated when Fluttershy proves too kind and accepting of her own faults to fall for his [[More Than Mind Control|attempt to convince her her friends think she's weak and helpless and thus she should be mad at them.]] This makes sense when one considers he's the [[Evil Counterpart|polar opposite]] of the Elements of Harmony, which run on the [[Power of Friendship]]. It may also be another of the apparent [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to [[The Powerpuff Girls|Him]], who shared this weakness as well.
** {{spoiler|Queen Chrysalis}}, the [[Big Bad]] of the second [[Season Finale]], also has this problem. {{spoiler|She's a sadistic, [[Shapeshifting]], [[Horny Devils|succubus-like]] [[Hive Queen]] who stole Princess Cadence's identity to feed off the [[The Power of Love|love]] her husband to be had for her. In the end, she doesn't once think that this same power could be turned against her. To her, it was just food and she didn't truly understand it's true power.}}
* In the Christian-based cartoon ''[[God Rocks]]'' a robot kept on trying to ruin the God Rocks concert to raise money for a good cause, and he didn't understand that even after he stole their instruments they still desired to play.
* From [[The Boondocks]], "What's good nigga? What's really good?!
* In one episode of the ''Battletech'' animated series, Mechwarrior Ciro forces a jumpship captain at gunpoint to record a message to Adam Steiner, saying that he knows where Adam's missing-in-action brother is, in an effort to lure Adam into a trap. [[Big Bad|Nicolai Malthus]] asks why Adam would respond to such a message, and Ciro replies that Adam would do anything to help his brother. It's a reaction Malthus finds impossible to understand.
 
 
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