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*** A less serious moment happens briefly during Aqua's storyline. During her visit to [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Castle of Dreams]], Aqua has to protect Jaq while he carries the key to Cinderella's room across a room infested with Unversed, conveniently forgetting for a moment that her keyblade can open any lock on its own.

* Mentioned in a news article in ''[[Freelancer]]'': 500 years ago, the Emperor of Rheinland at the time commissioned a project to install gigantic mirrors on the great space-station orbiting the planet, with the intent to use these mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the dark side of the capitol, New Berlin. The mirrors ended up focusing the sunlight into a gigantic laser beam and burning a city to the ground. The Rheinlanders now commemorate the anniversary of this event -- and the chief custom is to go out and do something stupid.

* Most of the characters on Rokkenjima in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' are pretty intelligent in their actions, at least most of the time. Then we get to the end of ~~[[EP 7]]~~. {{spoiler|"Hey everyone, we've found a pile of gold and we'll never have to work again! Let's kill the only one who has the connections to make the gold useful, then continue to kill each other and then blow up the island!"}}

* Most of the characters on Rokkenjima in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' are pretty intelligent in their actions, at least most of the time. Then we get to the end of EP7. {{spoiler|"Hey everyone, we've found a pile of gold and we'll never have to work again! Let's kill the only one who has the connections to make the gold useful, then continue to kill each other and then blow up the island!"}}

* Genevieve Aristide has the Idiot Ball permanently glued to her hands in both [[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]] games. In the first game, as a multitude of phone messages reveal, multiple experts dealing with Alma Wade and Paxton Fettel advised Aristide ''not'' to reopen the Vault in a hope of restarting Project: Origin, and they were ignored. Subsequently, the team sent in disappeared and Alma began reaching out to Paxton again. Then, multiple people noticed certain unexplained indicators in Paxton Fettel that he was building towards another [[Noodle Incident|synchronicity event]], and that the results of such would be exponentially more catastrophic than the original one. Aristide and possibly others in charge completely ignore their warnings, and Fettel is psychically directed by Alma to send his army of telepathically linked clone soldiers to start conducting mass murders. In the second game, Snakefist, ''another expert,'' repeatedly tells Aristide that Alma cannot be contained and that the only option is to try to kill her. Aristide again disregards advice from people who know a lot more than her and tries to continue doing things her way. Everything is her fault, and she still [[Karma Houdini|has yet to pay for her crimes]].

* In ''[[Okami]]'', the priestess Rao asks Amaterasu to find the Fox Rods for her, as they are the only way to stop the Water Dragon that's been terrorizing Ryoshima Coast. When she does find them, {{spoiler|it's revealed that they are the exact opposite of that, and that Rao was lying through her teeth.}} When Amaterasu meets Rao next, she... {{spoiler|gives the Fox Rods to her}}?! [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]!