Horrible Judge of Character: Difference between revisions

 

If it's romantic, expect a [[Love Martyr]] or [[Mad Love]]. If the "friend" is a [[Chessmaster]], then they're an [[Unwitting Pawn]]. If the horrible judge of character causes a horrible plot development by doing this, they are an [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]. Contrast [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]].

 

 

* In ''[[Gankutsuou]]'', Albert is a Horrible Judge of Character. He ignores the strange coincidences when the count arrives in Paris, the horrible turns of events, the letters to his father. Even when his childhood best friend pleads with him that he be careful around the count, all he gets are ''tantrums''. The count, being a [[Magnificent Bastard]] and [[Manipulative Bastard]] counted on this, and systematically destroys Albert's remaining confidence in him by slowly spelling out how he was a piece in his schemes for revenge... and does so precisely in the most heartless manner possible to get him to challenge him to a duel and get a legal excuse to kill him as a revenge against his parents.

** There are also officially Sith techniques that allow them to hide the energy they project into the force. Which makes some sense, since Sith have been hiding from the Jedi and biding the time for their revenge for almost 7,000 years before the movies.

* Ralphie, from ''[[Storm of the Century]],'' who insists that [[Complete Monster|Andre]] [[Significant Anagram|Linoge]], who has been responsible for five deaths so far and is heavily implied to be ''[[the Devil]]'', isn't a bad guy because he gave Ralphie a present, and "bad guys don't give kids presents."

 

== Literature ==

* Gordon Frohman of ''[[Concerned]]'' is a [[Black Shirt]] who utterly supports The Combine who have enslaved his race and is utterly against [[La Résistance]] of the humans, Gordon Freeman as well as the Vortigaunts, the alien allies of the humans. {{spoiler|His hatred of Vortigaunts ends up making them choose to let him die rather than save his life}}.

* [[Scary Go Round|Ryan Beckwith]] is way too trusting for his own good when it comes to Ralph, Tackleford's local occultist. Even though Ralph's advice has come back to bite him in the ass time after time, he still defends him and goes back to get his spiritual advice. This may have changed now that Ralph has {{spoiler|been exposed as [[Louis Cypher|the devil]].}}

** There's also the fact that he still considers [[Manipulative Bastard|Sylvester]] one of his best friends despite the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100408195305/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_48.html absolutely] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100408195315/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_95.html goddamn] [http://agameoffools.com/comic_144.html horrible]{{Dead link}} things he manipulates him into doing.

* Otacon comes up again in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', where Liquid is able to convince him to install a nuclear launch program on Metal Gear by telling him that he wants to shoot down metors like in ''[[Armageddon]]'' (however, there's evidence that Otacon's in denial about Metal Gear's true purpose at this point, and Liquid did threaten to feed him to a largely-unfriendly-to-him-wolf).

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''

** Most people who trust [[Magnificent Bastard|Azula]]. This includes Zuko, who really should know better (although with him, Azula is just adept at telling lies he ''really'' wants to hear, and occasionally mixing just enough truth into it).

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': "It soon became obvious to me that The Joker, so often described as a raving homicidal madman, was actually a tortured soul crying out for love and acceptance..." Doctor Harleen Quinzel (aka [[Evil Clown|Harley Quinn]]), welcome to the list.

** Aladdin's not the only one. ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' has the Villagers being completely, legitimately loyal (as in, they willingly love and are not forced to love him out of fear) to Gaston, a man who not only has shown himself to be a self-centered, arrogant [[Jerkass]], but has no qualms of expressing it, reaching an all new low when Gaston and Le Fou blatantly state to the entire bar that their plan involved arresting Maurice under false accusations of being a dangerous madman in order to marry Belle, and they still supported him. Then again, maybe the villagers really are extremely, irredeemably evil.

* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' - King Spartos of Tarkon had a really bad habit of trusting advisors that told him what he wanted to hear, despite his daughter's objections and knowledge of the wider galaxy. It's only towards the end (and with the use of some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] from the Heart of Tarkon) that he's able to see his daughter and the Rangers are correct.

* [[Pinocchio]], both in the Disney film, and in the [[Filmation]] unofficial sequel, [[Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night]]. He seems to think he can trust ''absolutely everyone'' he comes across. Worse yet, he often trusts people that ''[[Too Dumb to Live|he's well aware have double crossed him before]]''. In the latter, he willingly makes deals with a boatman with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|glowing red eyes]] aboard a ship referred to as "The Empire of the Night."

* Yet again from the [[Disney Animated Canon]], Mufasa from ''[[The Lion King]]'' may get angry at his younger [[Obviously Evil]] brother Scar, but still trusted him as a family member. This leads Scar to manipulate Mufasa to get him killed.

 

== Real Life ==

* Many Western European politicians and intellectuals (Churchill included) initially saw Hitler as the right man for Germany.

* During the Three Kingdoms Era of China, Shu Kingdom's Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, despite being a military genius in the battlefield, was this according to his legendary nemesis, Wei Kingdom General Ssu'ma Yi. During the Battle of Jie Ting, Sima Yi banked on Liang to make the mistake for choosing an inspiring yet inept commander to make a mistake he can exploit. The mistake that the commander made dealt a huge blow to Shu that Zhuge was forced to execute him

 

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