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*** It gets better. The case of the prosecution rests on the idea that a frail, fourteen-year-old pianist with no firearms training could fire a 45-caliber pistol without injury, ''despite'' the fact that it is constantly stated that the recoil would be enough to dislocate the arm of a grown man of average build.

** Gumshoe in ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' Case 4 gives false testimony and implicates himself because {{spoiler|he refuses to admit that he shared a cookie with the young Kay Faraday, who broke her promise never to take anything from strangers}}. He only cracks when Edgeworth not only deduces the entire sequence, but also the reason he wouldn't spill.

* ''[[The Bard's Tale]]'':

** The modern version had an idiot plot, that only revealed itself to be an idiot plot at the end. It turns out the [[Damsel in Distress]] {{spoiler|is really an imprisoned demon queen}} and the Druids not only did not warn The Bard that {{spoiler|he was being manipulated to unleash a great evil (not that it would be the first time the Bard did it).}} If anyone stopped to explain anything, then well, there goes the whole game.

** Shadow Mario looks like he's made of dark blue water, while Mario is Caucasian with a red shirt and hat (although the overalls are blue).

** Of course, even worse is the fact that Mario ''wasn't even on the island when the crimes he's accused of were committed'', and there were ''numerous witnesses '''right there''' who could attest to that''.

* A very, very good example is the entire plot of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]''. It's not an exaggeration to say that everything, ''every single thing'' in the plot is the result of rampant stupidity on the parts of the characters. The examples from [[Creator's Pet|Princess Elise]] alone would take multiple paragraphs to explain. It got so bad that SEGA was forced to fire the then-current writing staff (which has worked out pretty well for them).

* The plot of the original ''[[Sonic Riders]]'' begins with Dr. Eggman appearing on public TV screens worldwide, announcing he's holding some races where entrants need to give him a Chaos Emerald. In what can only be explained as this, Eggman manages to get all seven of these all-powerful jewels, one of them from Sonic himself, in this manner.

** In ''10'':

*** Many robots are {{spoiler|infected by a computer virus that makes robots violent.}} No one is able to make a cure because humanity doesn't have the support that robots provide. No one, not even Dr. friggin' Light himself, decides to either just cut their losses, back up as much data as possible, and reset the robots to factory settings to purge the virus. Hell, this game points out how stupid humanity is since they followed Dr. Light's example and made the robots that friggin' complicated in the first place.

** Every Mega Man game is full of idiots. In ''[[Mega Man X]]'', humans actually thought it was a good idea to build robots with free will, and then give them a massive amount of built in weapons, and then keep producing them till they outnumber humans. And later on, they make them godlike by giving them copychips, which allow them to transform into anyone else. And they put the thoughts of the main villain Sigma, into the chips.

* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'':

** When he has an opportunity to shoot the unarmed villain, he completely freezes up because it turns out said villain is a transvestite (at least, that's what it looks like; he has a good thirty seconds to pump the guy full of lead and doesn't). This gives him time to set the [[Self-Destruct Mechanism|self-destruct system]] and force you to go to ''Antarctica'' when you do escape.

** While trying to escape Antarctica, Steve screws up operating a crane and flooding the room you're in with poison gas. Because (ready for this?) he's too busy [[Male Gaze|staring at the player character's butt]].

* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''. Almost every problem in the second half of the game that isn't strictly the war itself could have been easily solved by someone, ''anyone'', looking at {{spoiler|Alicia's Valkyria abilities and the effects they would have on her}} from an objective standpoint, instead of making assumptions based on the bad example set by [[The Dragon|Selvaria]] and her first traumatic power eruption. Welkin only manages to come close by {{spoiler|tying it in with his love confession}}, and of course this only happens at the most dramatic moment possible rather than taking her aside to reassure her when she first expressed how overwhelmed she was. {{spoiler|By the time she decided to attempt the [[Suicide Attack]] on the Marmotah, Alicia had clearly gained control over her new abilities, and could use them as much or as little as she chose. Everyone could have avoided a lot of trouble if someone had just pointed that out early on and attended to her emotional state for five minutes, instead of Welkin waiting until the last minute while everyone else ignored her repeated cries for help.}}

* In ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' the major town in the second act has a castle under generally heavy guard. The chapter would be SO much easier if the king in your party would just come right out and say, "I'm King Albert, here's my proof, and I can vouch for these people." But he never does. Oddly enough he even comes right out and says he will not bring up his royalty to get around, despite the rather massive stakes.

* ''[[Saints Row]] The Third''.

** The prequels were intentionally over the top, but at least things made sense in the bizarre world where police reality shows involve chainsaws and gang conflicts are solved with radioactive waste. The third game does away with realism altogether and relies on every NPC being an idiot.

*** Errr, the game specifically points out that STAG is leaving the Saints for last precisely because they're the toughest gang in town by that point, and so they're going to clear out all the other gangs before concentrating on you.

* The plot of ''[[Magna Carta 2]]'' is driven by the fact that everyone believes [[Villains Never Lie|everything that the villains say without question]], even after it becomes [[Devil in Plain Sight|bloody obvious how evil they are]].