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* Cave Johnson from ''[[Portal]]'', another [[Posthumous Character]] whose own stupidity is the reason he's "posthumous". By his own admission, he always "trusted his gut" rather than thinking with his brain. As an industrialist and CEO of Aperture Science, his MO was to greenlight ''every single'' idea he thought up, no matter how absurd, ill-conceived, or outright ''dumb'' it sounded, and see if any of them panned out, and he claimed a thousand of these ideas were tested ''a day''. While he did manage to make some scientific breakthroughs like matter-manipulating gel, sapient AI programs, and of course, the portal gun, there were dozens of [[Epic Fail]]s per success, and he simply didn't ''learn''. To give one example of his insane experiments, Chell finds one recording intended for the ''second'' group of test subjects for a project involving injecting human subjects with praying mantis DNA, telling them the test was postponed indefinitely, but he now had another test for them - fighting the ''first'' group that was now an army of mindless mantis-men. Supposedly, Johnson died from kidney and lung failure due to "moon rock poisoning", and seeing as moon rocks were a main ingredient in the aforementioned gels, he was clearly [[Hoist by His Own Petard]].
* The Ancestor in ''[[Darkest Dungeon]]''. The foul corruption that has turned the Hamlet into a barely-habitable [[Überwald]], every boss encountered in the game (and for that matter, every Mook in the game) is a result of the blasphemous experiments he conducted in his attempts to unearth the eponymous dungeon, squandering his fortune ''multiple'' times, often making more mistakes in his attempts to fund his goal, all because ''he was bored''. The Crimson Court DLC shows that the action that caused him to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] involved ''drinking vampire blood'', not the wisest choice there. And despite ''acknowledging'' every mistake he made and often regretting every mistake, he never considered halting the insane goal, only realizing the sheer scope of his folly and taking steps to undo it (possibly) after succeeding and inadvertently unleashing a fiend with the intent to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
* Dr. Eggman has done a lot of stupid things in the long history of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise, but the one that buries the needle on the stupidity detector is his ''[[Evil Plan]]'' in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''. There are these two entities in the center of the Earth, the benevolent Light Gaia, who protects life, and Dark Gaia, who wants to destroy it. These two entities are locked in an eternal struggle, which must continue for eternity, lest Dark Gaia break free and destroy the world. Eggman decides to drain the Chaos Emeralds to power a device that releases Dark Gaia, and why? So he can use its energy to fuel the rapid construction of - get this - an Eggmanland theme park! Plus he builds it in ''the center of the Earth'', not the best location for tourism. Ironically, this is also stupid due to [[Boss Arena Idiocy]]. Sonic has access to the multiple refreshment stands and souvenir shops in Eggmanland, where he can buy power ups and other useful items with the Rings he collects.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
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