Poor Communication Kills: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'', [[Official Couple]] [[TV Genius|Amos]] and [[Tsundere|Edda]] broke up mostly because [[Cannot Spit It Out|she wouldn't tell him what was upsetting her]] (his dreamy ramblings about the concert violinist they'd watched) and it never occurred to him A) [[You Didn't Ask|to ask what was wrong]] or B) the answer might be him. They do reunite... without ever actually resolving the issue that split them up. This has become a running theme in Edda and Amos' relationship: Edda reacting to an emotional moment by freaking out and bolting, then cluing Amos in long after the fact (and then only when a third party points out the inappropriateness of her actions).

* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', late in the series. Cobra has captured a bunch of G.I.Joes. Cobra Commander, off-site, says to let them go. Unfortunately he conveys this as 'Get rid of them'. The officers on site dither and whine. Instead of calling back to ask 'You mean shoot them?' they agree to let a mook do it. Several Joes get their heads ventilated. GRAPHICALLY. Yikes.

* Oh Jason, if only [[Batman]] had told you he loved you. How much trouble, trauma and violent murder could have been avoided? Possibly justified in that Batman thinks his love for his boys is [[Cannot Spit It Out|perfectly obvious.]] And Jason probably wouldn't have believed him anyway.

* In Jango Fett: Open Seasons, the Mandalorians and Jedi fight a pitched battle that leaves all of the Mandos except Fett dead and most of the Jedi still in the snow, as well. This happened because Fett's archnemesis implicated the Mandalorians in mass murder of civilians and the Jedi reacted accordingly. However, the Jedi are ''Jedi'': they tell the Mandalorians to surrender and promise that they'll be treated fairly. If Fett had surrendered and tried to clear up the misunderstanding, things might have ended differently. Granted, a massive force of clearly hostile Jedi stepped into his camp and told them to surrender, and Fett ''knew'' that his archnemesis was behind it.

** Another example was in ''The Terror Beyond''; Solomon Grundy has been "recruited" by Aquaman and Doctor Fate to help prevent a Cthluhu-[[Expy]] from [[Sealed Evil in a Can|coming unsealed]]. Superman, Wonder Woman, and Hawkgirl come to stop them, believing they were up to no good. Rather than explaining the situation, Fate teleports Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Supes, and Grundy across the globe to have them fight it out, while he gets his ass handed to him by Hawkgirl. Great job, Doc.

*** Dr Fate can be excused for this due to the fact that a lot of his odder actions are actually the work of Nabu, the entity contained within the helmet. It will often make a decision that's best for the big picture but may end up hurting, or killing, the current wearer of the helmet.

** Then there was the time Metron stopped time to warn Luthor not to continue in his attempt to revive Brainiac, but neglected to explain ''why''. {{spoiler|It was Darkseid he was about to bring back to life.}}

*** Luthor even called him out on it, but Metron made a vauge comment that made it sound like {{spoiler|Darkseid's return instead of Brainiac's}} was only the most likely option, not an absolute. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Lex then threatans to shoot him if Metron doesn't help fix things (note, Metron is a god, being held up with a gun).]]