Idiot Plot/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** If they don't know who's behind the mask, why would they assume the [[Monster of the Week]] isn't dangerous?

** Some incarnations (particularly Mystery Inc.) justify this by making the monsters total psychopaths who are perfectly willing to commit murder and widespread destruction if someone gets in their way. They may be frauds but that doesn't mean they're not dangerous.

* The various ''[[Super Mario Bros. (animation)|Super Mario Bros]]'' cartoons were often driven by the characters being suddenly weakened to the point where they walk into or can't escape traps that they would have easily dealt with before. Some ridiculous examples include them just standing and watching as [[Harmless Villain]] King Koopa tosses Chain Chomps at them, which latch onto their ankles like makeshift manacles and leave them easy to capture and, in the ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' cartoon, they get forced to jump into a warp pipe leading to a Magikoopa's haunted house HQ when he ''threatens to throw Bob-ombs at them''"!

* Almost any given episode of ''[[Superfriends]]''. [http://seanbaby.com/super.htm Seanbaby elaborates here].

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* ''[[Ben 10]]: Destroy All Aliens'' arguably has this ''bad''. The Omnitrix is clearly malfunctioning, but Ben does not tell Tetrax nor anyone else that could deal with it until the halfway point of the film. It doesn't help that, because of these errors in communication, Azmuth, who was visiting to ''fix'' the Omnitrix's malfunction, {{spoiler|ends up being turned into an angry, incredibly dangerous Tokuster}}, causing his father to assume that Azmuth died, causing him to attack Ben, whose watch {{spoiler|absorbed the Tokuster}}. This, again, can be traced back to Ben not telling anyone he can trust about the watch, to see if something's wrong with it, as well as admitting ''he was really grounded''.

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