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For example, a cop protagonist has done just about everything with his/her partner, until it comes time to confront the murderer, and then the cop does it all alone.
Or on the villain's side, this bad guy has been [[No Delays for
A [[Villainous Breakdown]], [[Honor Before Reason]], and [[Revenge Before Reason]] might be confused for this trope, but are not, as those are logical progressions of events in the story.
Compare [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]], [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]], [[Third-Act Misunderstanding]], [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
** Justified in Light's case -- [[Hubris]] is the whole reason he eventually falls. Well, that and getting his [[Writer
** Light had also been reduced to great insanity by this point, and ultimately it was Mikami's failure that caused his failure. Had Mikami followed Light's instructions as he had done previously, Light's speech in the end would have been a gigantic [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]
*** Or, y'know, if Mikami had just had the rather obvious foresight (as Light did several times) to keep torn pages / pieces of the Death Note around for emergencies. In a continuum where even the slightest mistake will be punished to the fullest extent, this is the very LEAST of contingencies that would be accounted for.
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== Film - Animated ==
* In ''[[Hercules (
** Even better, the reason Hades did all this was because of a prophecy that was stated verbatum, "Should Hercules fight, you will fail." His super-strength was ''not'' [[Exact Words|stated as a requirement]]. So after sidelining Hercules, he then sends a giant Cyclops to basically ensure that Hercules does in fact fight. And naturally, Hades's plan fails.
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** The original ending of ''[[A Perfect Murder]]'' (the remake of ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'') was an aversion of this. {{spoiler|The wife shoots her husband for trying to have her killed, and fakes a struggle. Since she had evidence he planned to have her killed, the police shrug it off, and she actually commits the perfect murder.}} But it was decided that the audience couldn't morally identify with her, and then we had the wife doing this trope.
* ''[[Once Upon a Time In Mexico]]'': The [[Femme Fatale]] spots her ex-boyfriend wounded in the street from a distance; the sensible thing to do would be to snipe him, as she was perfectly capable. But instead she goes down to talk to him, so that they could have a dramatic final exchange and {{spoiler|so that Sands could shoot her}}.
* None of the characters in ''[[Hellboy (
* The movie ''[[Underworld (
** Of course, the Hero is the spitting image of his dead daughter - a daughter he'd already been mortified by having to kill before. It was possible he wasn't able to bring himself to deliver the killing strike this time.
== Literature ==
* Double-subverted in ''[[
* In the ''Crimson Shadow'' series by R. A. Salvatore, Greensparrow's intelligence correlates with the number of pages left in the story.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** Especially since they are lawyers and not [[NCIS]] agents. Mac was a Marine, and a badass one at that, but still.
* ''[[Charmed]]'' Zankou, S7's Big Bad is smart enough to come up with some cold-blooded torture that weakens the sisters' confidence enough so he can steal the Book of Shadows. Then in the finale his IQ seems to plummet and the sisters manage to goad him into doing something stupid so they can attack him. It was a shame because he was one of the few worthy opponents they had up to that point.
* Part of the fun of ''[[
* The [[Big Bad]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' special "[[Doctor Who
** In the original series story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S13
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* Yoshiyuki in ''[[
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