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** Ilana had been training all her life for her mission and probably knew everything about the candidates (such as the fact that they can't kill each other or themselves). So in "Everybody Loves Hugo" she not only handles dynamite herself for no reason, but handles it more carelessly than Arzt and dies because of it.
** In the pilot of ''Lost'', some of the survivors find the plane's cockpit and the pilot still alive inside. Then they are attacked by what is obviously a very large, powerful animal which tosses the cockpit around like a chew toy. So what does the pilot do? He sticks his head and shoulders out of the broken cockpit window in order to try and see what it is. Is anyone even remotely surprised that he is promptly hauled out of the cockpit headfirst and eaten?
* Mitchell gets one in ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'', in the episode where Tully moves in. He comes home and finds that Annie is outside, scared and crying, after Tully tried to rape her. At this point, it has begun to show that George and Tully were starting to bond over their lycanthropy, so he protests over Tully's forced eviction. Instead of Mitchell taking George aside and explaining to him what Tully tried to do to Annie, he makes out like he's simply tired of Tully being a permanent guest, which leads George to become angry (which is somewhat reasonable, since Mitchell spent the entire first part of the episode encouraging the neighbors to visit whenever and all but forced George to spend time with Tully in the hopes that it would help George deal with his condition). The result is that when Mitchell finally ''does'' think to mention the assault on Annie (as a sidenote in the argument, more or less), George is too worked up to really care. Granted it ''was'' a very icky situation and Mitchell was shown to be very protective of his friends, but still...
* The title character from ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. After assembling his Merry Men, he has Will Scarlett craft the team their own small wooden "army tags" that are inscribed with a bow and arrow and worn around their necks. This is silly enough, but then Robin ''breaks into Nottingham Castle and'' '''shows''' ''one of these tags to the Sheriff, informing him that anyone wearing one of them is in Robin's gang.'' '''Buh?''' Sure enough, a few episodes later the Sheriff captures some men who are wearing these identification tags and duly has them executed an hour before Robin's rescue attempt. Seriously, what on ''earth'' was Robin thinking?
** While it does have adverse consequences, this actually lines up with Robin's wisdom and character. They had just been unjustly accused of killing a nun and a child (and targeting the Sheriff) and were dealing with a huge PR problem because of it. This made it a matter of ego and necessity. It was also noble, given the Sheriff tended to assume anyone in Robin's remote vicinity was part of his gang and immediately sentence them to death. Also, Robin was never shown giving the tags to the men who were captured and killed for wearing them four episodes later. It is much more likely that {{spoiler|Alan-a-Dale's brother and his band of thieves stole them along with the clothes, money, and horses, since the scene immediately following their betrayal is the first time you see them proudly wearing the tags.}} Robin specifically {{spoiler|withheld them earlier, explaining they would need to be earned,}} since it was a matter of not only his reputation, but their safety.
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