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** In a later episode, James is feeling down because his Cacnea is having trouble learning a new move. Ash and Co., for absolutely no fathomable reason, decide to help train it. That's right. They're willingly going to ''help'' Team Rocket, the group who have been stalking them, spying on them and attacking them since day one, get ''stronger''. When Dawn points out that Ash is being a monumental idiot, he brushes it off, saying it's their job to help Pokémon. Have to wonder how he would feel if the training had succeeded and Team Rocket used their newly improved Cacnea to successfully steal Pikachu once and for all...
** Team Rocket actually grabs the ball ''constantly''. Among their exploits are running straight at a Frontier Brain while yelling at him to hand over the Articuno that was allowing him to use it in battle (without sending out any of their Pokémon).
** And then we have [[Big Bad|Giovanni]], in [[Pokémon the First Movie (Anime)|the first movie]]. He's been using [[Physical God|Mewtwo]] as his servant for a while, pretending that he believed Mewtwo could be equal to humans. He must have grabbed the Idiot Ball when he decided to let Mewtwo know that he felt Mewtwo was only meant to serve humans... Giovanni isn't unwittingly saying this to a Pokémon that he doesn't know is powerful. He's seen Mewtwo at work. He knows what devastation his "servant" can cause. Even with the [[Restraining Bolt|armor]]. Giovanni knows that Mewtwo is an enhanced clone of [[Olympus Mons|Mew, the probable ancestor of all Pokémon]]. And he ''[[What an Idiot!|still insults Mewtwo, right to his face]]''. With a leader this dumb, it's a miracle that Team Rocket hasn't all been rounded up and arrested, or killed by angry Legendaries.
** Specifically, this is the Pokemon who, minutes after "birth" slaughtered every last scientist in the facility, burned it to the ground and, under Giovanni's training, grew STRONGER still. And AFTER all this, Giovanni STILL chases Mewtwo to the next region over, bringing an army to try and stop him.
* Luffy from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' seems to willingly carry the idiot ball because, to him, it makes the adventure more fun. There's a noticeable difference between "serious" Luffy and "non-serious" Luffy. Serious Luffy is the guy who received a 400,000,000 beli bounty for crushing Arlong, defeating Sir Crocodile, and annihilating Enies Lobby, defeating CP9, rescuing Robin, punching a Tenryuubito, causing a prison breakout in Impel Down, and intervening in the War of the Best. Non-serious Luffy is the guy who dances at random, picks his nose in front of enemies, and considers "Four Swords" an appropriate insult against Zoro.
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** Lelouch's IQ seems to randomly drop when someone he cares about is involved. The most obvious example is when {{spoiler|his close friend and potential girlfriend is killed}}, which hinges on none of the important members of the Black Knight finding out but {{spoiler|they do.}} He then follows it up with including an insane male [[Tyke Bomb]] who wants to be Lelouch's brother... in the team tasked ''with saving Nunally''. {{spoiler|Despite knowing that ''he'' killed his almost girlfriend.}} That's not a typo, he really did something ''that'' stupid.
*** After taking over the school during the finale of the first season {{spoiler|Lelouch didn't make sure the students -including his own sister- were guarded 100% of the time. After most of the students leave Nunnally alone while trying to help Suzaku, V.V just waltzes on in and picks Nunners up}}. This makes Lelouch leave the Black Knights and causes the failure of the rebellion, leading to the capture of nearly the entire rebel force.
** Lelouch joking to {{spoiler|Euphemia}} about {{spoiler|being able to make her murder all the Japanese}}. Given the way the sequence is [[Dude, Not Funny]], awkwardly drawn out, and begging the question "why are you saying all this?", it was rather obviously just a setup for an incoming plot twist.
** Lelouch fails to take into account shoddy Chinese workmanship caused by corruption, after it was made perfectly clear that the Eunechs are corrupt. Considering that Lelouch sometimes borders on Omniscient this is a huge drop in competency.
** The reveal that Lelouch has been just outside the base of V.V the whole time looks impressive until [[Fridge Logic]] sets in, and you figure out that V.V is too stupid to have such sophisticated things as a lookout in case an army was about to attack his base. This makes him stupider than Meerkats who have developed such sophisticated methods.
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** {{spoiler|Kaname Tousen. The guy is practically toying with Hisagi and Komamura with his hollow mask alone. Yet he decides to use his resurrección, apparently without having tested before hand. Once he uses it he gets so intoxicated by his newly gained sight that he fails to notice Hisagi sneaking up behind him, and gets stabbed in the head as a result}}.
*** Again during his fight with Zaraki. He spent his time in Bankai lecturing him, even though Zaraki couldn't hear him anyways.
** In Ichigo's second fight with Ulquiorra, [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Loly and Menoly]] grab Orihime and start beating her. When Ichigo runs over to help, [[Too Dumb to Live|turning his back to Ulquiorra in the process]], Loly pulls Orihime in front of her and warns him not to come closer or she'll [[Eye Scream|gouge her eyes out]]. What does Ichigo do? ''Keeps running closer'', and even ''throws a [[Beam Spam|Getsuga Tensho]] at them'', even though '''Orihime was being used as a [[Human Shield]]''' and would likely have been killed by ''his'' attack if [[Villainous Rescue|Ulquiorra hadn't intervened]]. [[What the Hell, Hero?]]
*** Heck, Ichigo challenging Ulquiorra to a second fight at all. The guy killed you in less than a minute without even trying, your best attack did almost nothing to him, it's only been ''two hours'' since your last fight, his '''inferiors''' kicked your ass, and you not only charge in for a rematch, you actually ''expect to win?'' Wanting to rescue Orihime is one thing, but that's not trying to rescue her, that's tantamount [[Suicide By Cop|Suicide By Espada]]; ''rescuing'' her would involve grabbing her and getting the hell out of dodge, not trying to fight the guy with a [[Villainous Crush]] on her.
** Every opponent fighting Aizen who could use Bankai and didn't. Granted, it was [[
* So, [[Spice and Wolf|Lawrence]]. You've got a harvest goddess as a traveling companion, who prides herself at being "Horo the Wise" and being far cleverer than you give her credit for. You've already been called out for keeping secrets from her, and you had previously flubbed your [[Dungeons and Dragons|Insight check]] to pick up on her mood when you suggested you just {{spoiler|drop her off at the nearest town instead of going all the way to Yoitsu with her}}. Was it really such a good idea to {{spoiler|leave her with the letter that says her hometown is probably gone}}, just because you assume she can't read?
** He didn't just assume - she ''told'' him she couldn't read. And she did it probably so she could play some kind of trick on him, while he kept a secret to spare her feelings. Their fight was a result of mutual miscommunication.
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* Greed of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has the power to make himself invulnerable in a way that can only be circumvented by five people in the world. He rarely extends the power beyond his arms.
** In the anime, Greed goes full-armor when it's serious business. Any other time, he's still armored below the skin, as Izumi can attest to. "So, how many fingers did you break when you hit me just now?"
*** He says he doesn't like Full Armor Mode because [[One
** He also can't regenerate and use armor at the same time, as Ed notices during his fight after using a transmutation technique that makes Greed's carbon armor useless. {{spoiler|King Bradley/Wrath}} doesn't give him time to do either during their first fight.
* In [[Hajime no Ippo]], Kobashi, a physically weak boxer, uses a boxing style that goes for a win via points and exhausting his opponent instead of going for a knockout. However, during the last round of his match against Ippo, Kobashi, having a two point lead and an opponent too exhausted to catch him (meaning that all he has to do to win is dance around until time runs out), suddenly decides to try to go for a knockout against an opponent known for KOing all of his opponents. This idea ends about how you'd expect it to. This is made even worse by the fact that Kobashi had apparently put a great deal of research into Ippo's fighting style before the match. Kobashi even lampshades it after he wakes up.
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