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* In ''[[Naruto]]'', the nameless ninja mooks are usually dumb brutes, masked and, in a world filled with powerful techniques, normally attack with kunai rather than, you know, throw a massive fireball or do any other flashy attack to blow the opponent to dust! Worse is that even the [[Red Shirt]]s can be defeated by a single attacker and barely fight using any jutsu. It seems like that only the main characters, villain or hero, are trained in anything other than holding a kunai against the opponent who can pick one technique of his ARSENAL and shoot fire hotter than the sun, create tornadoes, open the ground beneath them and bury them, or throw rocks the size of buildings at them...etc. Yeah. That's the guy you want to try and take prisoner with your dinky little knife.
* In ''[[Windaria]]'' the key to Lunara's floodgates are guarded by an old man that sleeps most of the day in a guardhouse without a door. At the start of the film, a spy walks in there, takes the keys, and no one realizes anything until he opens the flood gates. Considering this could have flooded the entire city it merges with [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* The Impel Down Arc in ''[[One Piece]]'' made one wonder about the competence of this so-called inescapable prison in more than one way:
** First off, Boa Hancock is able to sneak Luffy inside under her dress (leading to many jokes by fans about Luffy being a lucky SOB) and despite ''dozens'' of ways this could be botched, succeeds in doing so. Many of the rank-and-file Marines can't help but gawk at Hancock (maybe a little justified); Vice Admiral Momongo is slightly more wary than his men and suspects her of being up to something, until Hancock blatantly ''invites'' him to strip search her. He declines and lets her proceed inside.
** Hancock has another planned goal, delivering a message to Ace, but Magellan and his subordinates are very [[Genre Savvy]], requiring her to wear seastone shackles and making sure they are in the same cellblock when she does so. Hancock makes full use of her "natural" powers, causing all the other inmates to react with loud catcalls, forcing Magellan to put effort into quieting them, and as a result, what she tells Ace is drowned out and not heard by them.
** Also, once Luffy's infiltration starts, the guards go into [[Shooting Superman]] mode, turning their weapons on Luffy's [[Enemy Mine|reluctant ally]], Crocodile - not only are bullets ineffective against him as he can turn his body into sand, he has the reputation deserving of one of the cruelest prisoners in Impel Down. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crocodile simply grins at them in amusement]] with a [[Slasher Smile]] while smoking his cigar as the bullets harmlessly pass through him for a minute or two, ''then]] he proceeds to cut them down.
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