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*** To some extent it's really his pride that does him in. He's been hunting and killing sharks for years, and can't quite accept that this particular one might be more than he can handle.
* The entomologist who knows all about the killer spiders of the movie ''[[Arachnophobia]]'' goes down like a [[Red Shirt]]. Perhaps a little more acceptable than most examples because he's a scientist, not a hunter, but he still wasn't very careful despite knowing how dangerous the spiders were.
* Four Jedi Knights set out to arrest Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Siddious in ''Star Wars III: [[Revenge of the Sith]]''. They're led by Jedi Master Mace Windu, who had just then been warned by Aniken that Palpatine was a Sith Lord, so there's no excuse for being taken by
** Curiously, the lore justifies it. ''The entire point of'' using a lightsaber is to maximize advantages of precognition for a Force-user, hence crazy stunts like deflecting blaster shots at the chosen targets. But for the same reason, any temple training is even less adequate than padded-only wood-only fencing. Even if they perform flawlessly with sparring partners, they may habitually look for the wrong signals. Then they face an actual Dark Side user with serious intent to kill, get overwhelmed or confused, and die before they can adapt.
* ''[[Predator]] 2''. Peter Keyes, the world's leading expert on the title creature, goes up against it. He manages to survive the first round but is killed later, leaving the Hero to finally dispatch it.
* ''[[Cube]]'' has Rennes, AKA "The Wren" an expert on escaping prisons who dies in the first rooms, by having ''his face burned off with acid''.
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