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A [[Villainous Breakdown]], [[Honor Before Reason]], and [[Revenge Before Reason]] might be confused for this trope, but are not, as those are logical progressions of events in the story.
Compare [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]], [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]], [[Third-Act Misunderstanding]], [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]].
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* ''[[Once Upon a Time In Mexico]]'': The [[Femme Fatale]] spots her ex-boyfriend wounded in the street from a distance; the sensible thing to do would be to snipe him, as she was perfectly capable. But instead she goes down to talk to him, so that they could have a dramatic final exchange and {{spoiler|so that Sands could shoot her}}.
* None of the characters in ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy II]]'' make intelligent decisions in the third act, which lead to {{spoiler|the villain getting the [[MacGuffin]] and the [[Love Interest]] dying}} (although critics felt it didn't hurt the overall film).
* The movie ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' when the [[Big Bad]] has rendered the hero completely helpless and has him on the floor at his feet... but then walks away to deal with another problem. The hero of course recovers and saves the day.
** Of course, the Hero is the spitting image of his dead daughter - a daughter he'd already been mortified by having to kill before. It was possible he wasn't able to bring himself to deliver the killing strike this time.
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* ''[[Charmed]]'' Zankou, S7's Big Bad is smart enough to come up with some cold-blooded torture that weakens the sisters' confidence enough so he can steal the Book of Shadows. Then in the finale his IQ seems to plummet and the sisters manage to goad him into doing something stupid so they can attack him. It was a shame because he was one of the few worthy opponents they had up to that point.
* Part of the fun of ''[[Columbo]]'' was [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zig zagging this]]. He's seem like a fool, and even seem to fall into this, but it's all an act.
* The [[Big Bad]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' special "[[Doctor Who
** In the original series story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S13
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