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Plot-essential [[NPC]] stupidity includes:<ref>However; at the same time, doing something that's [[Too Dumb to Live]] is usually given a game-over scenario.</ref>

* The ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' series is ''really'' guilty of this. Most of the time your clients are in a pickle because they [[Be as Unhelpful as Possible|won't talk]].

** ''[[Apollo Justice]]'':

* Literally the entire storyline of ''Spec Ops: The Line'' would not exist if the main character had not decided, in the first mission, that his four-man team was capable of taking on an entire renegade Army battalion all by themselves and that it thus made perfect sense for him to disobey every order he'd ever been given and charge off to try and do just that. Possibly subverted in the last act, when its revealed {{spoiler|that the main character had actually gone insane early in the game, it's just that none of the signs were visible to anyone else until it was far too late.}}

* The entire storyline of ''[[Watch Dogs]]'' wouldn't have taken place had Aiden Pearce not get himself into the seedy world of organised crime and put his own family at risk. This would be averted in the sequel where the plot is more about cybercrime and mass surveillance than a generic revenge plot framed in a hacker setting.