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* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'' episode 15 suffers from this. The entire plot for that episode depends on Souta and a few other unnamed characters acting like complete idiots, which eventually results in {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|Hare's death]].}}
* The entire plot of the latter half of ''[[Zoids: Chaotic Century]]'' hinges on Hiltz, the main antagonist, being a ''complete imbicile''. His evil plot: [[Sealed Evil in a Can|revive the Death Saurer]], [[Kill All Humans]], ???, [[Memetic Mutation|profit]]. He wages a pointless war against the heroes, giving them all the time they need to [[Time to Unlock More True Potential|become more powerful]], [[Mid-Season Upgrade|build the weapons]] and [[Heel Face Turn|acquire the allies]] they needed to defeat him, when he could have simply [[Manipulative Bastard|pretended to be nice]], asked [[Mysterious Waif|Fiona]] to open the door to [[MacGuffin|Zoid Eve]], betrayed her, and revived the Death Saurer at a point in the series where nobody would have had the skill or the technology to stop it. In light of the revelations made in the Final Four, the Geno Breaker and Death Stinger arcs retroactively become padding whose only point was [[Merchandise-Driven|to sell toys]].
* The very first arc in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' hinged on ''the entire cast'' failing to have the common sense to question or search out a reason for why one character was being unseen and forgotten by more and more of the school and town.
* This is how ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' starts, Ganta gets thrown into the titular prison, simply because he survived the brutal massacre. He pretty much gets accused of being responsible for said massacre.
* Any pre-Unova ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode is guilty of this, as Team Rocket would show up in ''every episode'' wearing [[Paper-Thin Disguise|easily transparent disguises]] and the protagonist would ''always fall for it'', then act surprised when Team Rocket tries to escape with their Pokemon.
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