Idiot Ball/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

** Don Patch also has an attack where he injects you with a serum that makes you think like he does. Beauty didn't take it well.

* [[Subverted]] briefly on ''[[Death Note]]'':

** One of Light's few weaknesses is that, if something catches him without a plan, he's prone to panic. {{spoiler|You can see it at the end too}}. But this trope is played straight with Naomi Misora, who, {{spoiler|trusts a kid who keeps following her around telling her not to talk to the police and demanding to know her real name when all she had to do was walk ''three minutes'' down the street to the police station. In fact, if she had simply taken the ''three minutes'' out of her circuitous path to finish her walk she would have survived and Light would have been completely undone. She spiked that [[Idiot Ball]] and did a touchdown dance.}} Also Mello {{spoiler|He never guesses that [[Idiot Hero|Matsuda]] isn't the Second L or thinks to search a suspect in a murder conspiracy. These mistakes that ultimately cost him his life.}}

** Light still takes the Idiot Ball to the face, however, {{spoiler|when he stakes his ''endgame killing stroke'' on a note that he kept in an ''unmonitored box''. It would have taken Light ''less than a minute'' to verify the deathnote would work, but instead confidently announces he's won, when ''just shutting up'' would have kept him in the clear.}}