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* In ''[[Skyline]]'', with LA full of alien monsters eating everything that moves, our heroes decide to try and escape in cars with big, growly engines and in broad daylight. Granted, their chances weren't all that good whatever they tried, but at least on foot and at night they had some small hope of evading detection. And let's not even think about the fact that their entire daylight plan was to escape by boat. From flying aliens. Yeah, that will work!

* In general, [[Adults Are Useless|parents in horror films,]] [[Not Now, Kiddo|when they ignore]] [[Adults Are Useless|every sign possible that something is trying to hurt their child, to the point that it looks like]] [[Abusive Parents|emotional abuse.]]

* The Northern Water Tribe counts as this in ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', since the firebenders need torches to bend fire, Pakku suggests extinguishing all of them to render them powerless and... they never actually do that.

** Also the Fire Nation imprisoned some earth benders on...Earth. Luckily the Earth benders [[What an Idiot!|never actually figure this out]] until Aang came along.

** The IFF system would have been great if it actually ''worked'', but the film makes it clear that screamers looked at the IFF tabs as just a thing that goes "ping".

** And the tabs wern't an IFF system. They said "I'm already dead, don't kill me" not "I'm on your side, don't kill me".

** Considering that Luke demonstrated that the speeders can change elevation, racing through the trees at ground level in the first place qualifies everyone involved. On top of that, after Luke had been knocked off his speeder, his foe doubles back to finish him off rather than continuing on to get help, as all of the speeder troopers were commanded to do (and is the reason why they bolted from the scene in the first place).

*** A reasonable argument could be that, once dismounted, Luke used Force influence to convince the trooper to swing around and try to kill him. If you watch closely, Luke pulls out his light saber before the trooper turns around.

** Also, the Imperial ground forces in general in ROTJ deserve this. Locating your sensitive base in the middle of a forest where there's plenty of places for the hostile natives to hide? Oh, and wearing bright, gleaming white armor to a fight in said forest? Apparently, the Empire never invented camouflage.

*** [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|They did]] ''[[Genre Savvy|after]]'' [[Genre Savvy|that!]]

* The level of intelligence exhibited by the human race in ''[[Idiocracy]]'' can be boiled down to two phrases: [[Groin Attack|"Ow, my balls!"]] and "[[Creepy Monotone|Welcome to Costco. I love you]]."

* Hud from ''[[Cloverfield]]'' may qualify. Whether his friends are being attacked by parasitic creatures or a gigantic monster is hovering over him with a hungry look in its (many) eyes, it never occurs to him to just ''put the damn camera down and '''do''' something!'' Naturally, another character loses her life to save him from the parasites while his hands are full, and the hungry monster ends up eating him. On the [[Riff Trax]], Kevin Murphy describes Hud as "straddling a fine line between ''dumbass'' and ''inanimate object.''" There's a reason one of the [[Fan Nickname/Film|Fan Nicknames]] for the monster is "Darwin".

*** On the one hand, he had been pretty docile for about seventeen years, not making a sound or causing anyone any trouble. On the other hand, he was in the hospital for committing multiple brutal murders, and even killed one of the hospital staff for insulting him. Best not to provoke him.

* Multiple characters in ''[[Burn After Reading]]'' more than qualify, but Chad Feldheimer goes above and beyond the call of duty, and definitely earns the title since he ends up getting shot in the head before the second act is even over.

* The science fiction spoof ''[[Mom and Dad Save The World]]'' has a memorably absurd case of this on a massive scale, played for laughs of course: There's a weapon called the light grenade that disintegrates anyone it comes in contact with once the pin is pulled, but only if the victim is dumb enough to actually pick it up. It has the phrase "PICK ME UP" engraved on it. Because the movie literally takes place on a planet full of idiots, one of these left out in the open takes out an entire platoon of evil troops, each one picking it up immediately after seeing what just happened to the last guy who did that.

** When last seen, the next-to-last survivor of the platoon is just getting disintegrated, while the last survivor is radioing for more reinforcements to come pick up the grenade.

**** Of course the irony of this is King Raff, the smartest of the people on the planet, who admits even he himself is an idiot, somehow invented almost all the technology on the planet, including the Light Grenade, a device that is infinitely reusable, and leaves seemingly no waste, just lots of piles of perfectly clean clothes, as well as a beam that can pull a car and safely transport it and its occupants through space from Earth to his planet.

** In addition, Todd, while trying on hairstyles, asks "Mutton chops or Goatee" to one of the pair of twin guards, to which the guard responds, "Mutton chops, M'lord"; Todd's response is to tell the Guard, "No... shoot yourself in the head." which the guard does (Too dumb to live, so he killed himself, because he was ordered to do so) then Todd asks the other twin, who without a moment of pause or thought cheerfully responds, "Mutton chops!" then at Todd's stern look draws his gun and shoots himself in the head (Twins, too dumb to live... or maybe not), but wait, after checking himself in the mirror once more, Tod says, "You know, they have a point." Of course the entire planet is essentially TSTL.

* Pretty much ''any'' attempt the JSDF uses to stop/kill [[Godzilla]] falls under this. Most of the time, they only succeed in angering him...[[Unstoppable Rage|which only makes things worse.]] Conventional weaponry only annoys Godzilla and giant robots and laser cannons only serve as a temporary solution before Godzilla gets back up again and lays waste to them. And, yet they still use them in each film.

** The aliens in the Showa era don't seem to fair much better. You'd think they'd learn by now that Ghidorah is just going to be defeated by Godzilla (and whoever Godzilla is teamed-up with at the time). [[Failure Is the Only Option|Yet, they don't.]]

** Gabra from ''Godzilla's Revenge'' just loves to bully Minya, even though he's ''well''-aware that Minya happens to be [[Papa Wolf|Godzilla's son.]] He learns his lesson the hard way, maybe.

* ''[[King Kong]]'': Capturing a giant ape who's smitten with a female human and bringing him back to civilization? [[Sarcasm Mode|That's a GREAT idea!]] [[Tempting Fate|What's the worst that could happen?]] Oh... right...

* The archangel Gabriel from the movie ''Gabriel'' qualifies. From the very first person that he meets onward he is constantly warned that using his powers will attract the attention of every bad guy in the city, letting them know exactly where he is. So what does he do? Why, he seeks out his fallen comrades who are in hiding and proceeds to use large quantities of his powers to "help" them, even when they specifically and emphatically tell him not to and yell at him for it after the fact.

** To top it all off, Gabriel is actually shocked and suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] when he learns that he DID, in fact, lead the bad guys to his comrades and they all died because of his stupidity. [[The Dragon|Asmodeus]] even points out, "If you didn't want them dead, why did you lead us to them?"

'''Amanda:''' ''(on the megaphone)'' WHAT'S A BAD IDEA?

''(a roar is suddenly heard)'' }}

{{quote|'''Burke''': No, no. You're wrong there, Dr. Harding. We'll lose them once we leave their territory.

'''Sarah''': No, don't bet on it. Tyrannosaurs have the largest proportional olfactory cavity of any creature in the fossil record with the exception of one. }}

* Jesse from the second ''[[Alien vs. Predator (film)|Alien vs. Predator]]'' movie. Her companions already killed the Alien in the stairwell, but she runs away and screams, forcing her companions to chase after her through a more heavily Alien-populated section of the hospital. Then she dies when she gets into the path of the Predator's disc blades. The Predator wasn't even ''trying'' to kill her, she just runs straight into the middle of a fight between the Predator and Aliens and gets hit ''by accident''. [[What an Idiot!]].

** There's also the part near the beginning when the pizza delivery boy and his brother go down into the sewer for his car keys at night and nearly get killed by the Predator. It wasn't even like it turned to night by the time they got to the sewer, they clearly waited until night to go down, presumably so no one saw them doing it. Granted they didn't know that the Alien or Predator were on Earth yet, but still one would think that going into a sewer at night is just asking for ''some'' sort of trouble.

*** This is more an example of [[Distracted By the Shiny]], because Dr. Donovan was obviously overwhelmed by the moment, thinking he was holding the legendary Grail in his hands.

** Indy himself qualifies: A German officer has a gun to Schneider's head and is threatening to kill her if Indy does not put down his gun. His father tells him that the officer won't kill her, and not to listen to her either. Despite this, and, just as importantly, if not more, despite Schneider's German name and accent, Indy puts down his gun (whereupon Schneider pretty much immediately turns out to be an enemy).

* Raymond Cocteau in ''[[Demolition Man]]'' frees a dangerous psychopath in order to get rid of an enemy, but he has it implanted in his brain that he can't ever harm him. However, he also allows him to bring other criminals inside his home who don't have the don't-harm-Cocteau rule implanted. It doesn't end well for him.

* Davis in the 2004 remake of ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix]]''; the plane has just crashed in the middle of the desert and it's stormy outside. He goes out, in the middle of the night, to take a leak. Not only does he walk ''unnecessarily'' far away from the plane (It's the middle of the night! No one will see you, jeez), he somehow trips and falls down, then rolls ten meters away from where he was -- ''and gets '''lost'''''. He fails to find his way back to the plane, and dies out there.

* Half of Gotham in the 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie seems Too Dumb to Live. It was already common knowledge that the Joker had murdered many people, but that didn't stop them from diving at the cash he offered in public. He even said into a microphone, "Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives," but they're too engrossed to listen. A minute later, many are dead. And some who aren't dead yet ''still'' grab for cash.

* ''[[Batman Returns]]'' gives us The Ice Princess who is shown to be a ditz when she can't remember whether the lights come on and then pushes the switch or vice versa, but the real crown jewel is when she stands on the edge of a building; it's no wonder The Penguin so easily got Batman framed.

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', a guy is still driving towards the Joker at the end of the epic car chase sequence. Joker shoots up the car and the car crashes (the fate of the driver is not shown on screen). As pointed out on the movie's [[Riff Trax]], "If you're still driving ''towards'' him at this point, you deserved that!"

** An employee figures out that Bruce Wayne must be Batman, and wants to blackmail him. Lampshaded by [[Morgan Freeman]]'s character: "Let me get this straight. You think that one of your clients - one of the wealthiest, most powerful people in the world - is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to ''blackmail'' this person?"

* ''Every single human being'' in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' film ''[[The Creeping Terror]]'' qualifies. The title monster eats people, but in order to do so it has to reach them by moving very slowly. However, because idiots simply sit there and scream rather than run away, they suffer the grisly death that their stupidity deserves. The fact that [[Special Effect Failure|they have to crawl into its mouth to be eaten]] doesn't help.

* Also another film riffed by ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''; ''[[Women of the Prehistoric Planet]]''. A group of guys try to walk across a pit of acid on a small branch, and one them ends up falling in and dying. There was a path around the pit a few steps away.

** This is based on a very ''early'' scene from the book, where he, Merriman, and the Lady are holding a three-person circle of power in the Hall while the Dark tries to beat down the door, and they break his concentration by convincing him briefly that they've got his family captive. He lets go of his new comrades' hands, and the Lady has to temporarily die to save the day. Then Marriman actually explains a little bit, although he has an infuriating habit of explaining nothing, ever. (Will's also only just eleven in the book.)

** The '''only''' good thing about that movie is it had the [[Doctor Who|Ninth Doctor]] as the villain.

* ANYONE who buried anything in the burial ground in ''[[Pet Sematary]]'' after seeing the initial results (heck, after the initial ''warning'' for that matter). You'd think that after seeing what happened to Church the cat they would have stopped, but the guy then proceeded to bury his hit-by-a-truck toddler son Gage, who then came back and killed his wife. [[What an Idiot!|If that wasn't enough yet,]] he then '''buried his wife there''', and she mercifully put an end to his chain of idiocy.

** This is easily explained by the book. The burial ground calls out to people, and at one point the main character mentions that he feels great when going off to bury Church. Besides, the main character is insane with grief after Gage dies and just loses it when his wife and Jud get killed as well.

** Klatuu's people deserve extra stupidity points as well. Consider that their entire motivation for destroying humanity is to preserve the non-human portions of Earth's biosphere. They then set their nanotech-based weapon on "Dissolve Everything", ''including rocks and trees!'' In the immortal words of Robert Asprin, "Very inferior as superior beings go."

* Jake Sully in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''. On his first day there, Jake is told that [[Death World|Pandora is a dangerous world that will do its best to kill him]]. He is told this by a [[Badass]] [[Colonel Badass|colonel]]. A badass colonel who [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|is himself scarred by Pandora]]. Scarred with wounds that he got ''[[Everything Trying to Kill You|on his first day]].'' What does Jake do? Wander off and ''start touching random crap''! He is [[Designated Hero|the hero]], so he does not actually ''die'' here, but it would be perfectly believable if he did.

*** Its important to remember that all characters involved are literally stoned out of their minds at the time they start thinking this is a good idea.

** The girls also get one in their introduction, when they're setting up a scam pretending that Little Rock is bitten and needs to be offed. The whole monty hinges on the mark getting cold feet about shooting a kid and deciding to let Wichita do the deed - all it would've taken was for Tallahassee to say "Okay, I'll put her out of her misery" and a double-tap, and Wichita would've lost her sister. And it would've been entirely her own fault.

* The two dumb kids in ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', who decided that, while the town is on high alert for ANY potential shark fins, would do a prank involving a fake shark fin on a piece of wood, and tow it from underwater. Fortunately for the kids, they didn't get shot. Unfortunately, thanks to their distraction, at least one person was eaten and another kid was injured by the real shark, and managed to get away as a result.

** The shark himself, for eating an explosive.

** Actually, neither The White Star Line or Harland & Wolff ever described -or believed- the ship to be unsinkable. They said that she was PRACTICALLY unsinkable. The press at the time simply did away with the 'practically' and it was never corrected. The number of lifeboats actually exceeded the amount set by regulations -that were twenty years out of date. What's more, all other large liners at the time suffered the same problem -inadequate lifeboats due to outdated regulations. It was just pure Irony that the 'unsinkable' ship needed them.

** After the disaster, a U.S. Senate Inquiry discovered -to their shock- that procedures on the Titanic that they thought were negligent, were actually standard practice for the time. The big liners for all the major shipping lines tended to go full speed ahead at almost all times. (Blinding fog was pretty much the only thing they'd slow down for). Maintaining the schedule was regarded as being paramount. As well, Captain Smith was not doing anything different than he'd done throughout his career. For decades, he operated ships in that manner and never had any sort of accident or serious incident. There was, realistically, no reason why he would think to do things differently now. And, as noted, all other captains did the same thing. As Senator Smith noted at the Inquiry, the state of shipping practices meant that a major disaster was BOUND to happen sooner or later. It was just Captain Smith's bad luck that it happened to him.

* The [[Animal Wrongs Group]] at the beginning of ''[[28 Days Later|Twenty Eight Days Later]]''. After being explicitly told that a monkey is infected with a contagious disease, one of them frees it anyway.

** The US Army in ''[[28 Weeks Later|Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]''. They allow unsupervised access to an asymptomatic infected, who consequently infects someone. Then they evacuate another one to Europe where the whole thing starts all over again.

*** Even so, they lacked the most basic security measures, such as placing guards around an individual who carries the most dangerous pathogen known to humankind. Nevermind how children were able to sneak past outside of the safe zone as if they were sneaking out of a high school during a lunch break...

* Balian ([[Orlando Bloom]]) in ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]''. It makes more sense in context and is more like a case of lazy writing, but Balian's inaction is the prime reason behind the Big Battle of the film. His refusal, on many occasions, to kill a blatantly evil and dangerous character (a French Templar named Guy de Lusignan, played by Marton Czokas), is the prime reason behind the siege and the Big Battle of the film. Guy and his conspirators are the ones that provoke the war between Muslims and Christians, and their intentions are made clear (in-story, i.e. to other characters and not just to the audience) from the outset, and yet Balian doesn't make a move, and he refuses to do anything when his advisors/friends repeatedly express their concern. He doesn't come off as noble, more like an idiot and a passive character. Many characters die as a result of his course of action (or, rather, inaction), but he survives the film. In the film's epilogue with King Richard I he should probably say: "I'm the blacksmith, and the main reason you have to retake Jerusalem from Saladin, I'm the one that should be thrown in a dungeon full of Twilight merchandise." This film is not worth watching for this very story element, it's a classic case of a story where if the main hero acted within common sense, there wouldn't be much of a story to be told.

* 2001 heist film ''Firetrap''. A building is on fire. A guard is badly injured. What's a guy to do to save him? Get on the elevator during a fire, and talk a woman you like into going with you. What do you think happened to them?

* ''The Boogens'' features an entire ''cast'' of this. The titular monsters may actually be smarter than the humans and dog, and they're not actually depicted as anything other than hungry. Sadly, probably the stupidest of the humans are the alpha couple, and thus survive.

* Madison, the birthday girl in ''My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen''. While she and Skye, who happens to be the killer's daughter, are running from the killer, she picks that time to insult Skye again. You can guess what happens.

** Those who do stay in the library, decide to burn books to keep warm. Books that they have to take off the ''wooden shelves'' to burn.

*** Wooden shelves have to be broken up to fit in most fireplaces, and are usually painted/stained with substances that release toxic fumes when burned. Books were the safer alternative by far. The dumb part was in tearing them apart and burning them page by page rather than using some loose pages as firestarters and then burning entire books- that would have been much more effective.

** Then there was the scene meant to be a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] in which Frank is dangling from a glass roof. The glass starts to crack and Frank decides to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] because there is no way the glass can support Jason and his weight. [[Fridge Logic]] sets in when you realize Jason is holding onto two steel support beams that could have easily held the weight of the sled, the entire party, and probably an elephant.

* The Prison Guard in ''[[Con Air]].'' This Prison Guard and FBI Agent Larkin have just found a box labeled "Do Not Open" in the cell of Cyrus Grissom, a criminal genius, terrorist, murderer, and general all-around [[Complete Monster]]. Larkin goes to fetch the bomb squad, explicitly ordering the guard to not open the box. Literally the second Larkin is out of the room, the guard sits right down on the bed and opens the box. [[Stuff Blowing Up|He is immediately blown to smithereens.]]

* Vincent Vega of ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''. A veteran hitman who really should have showed a little more respect for his weapons, he ended up causing the [[Trope Namer]] for [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]] due to recklessly pointing his weapon in the wrong damned direction, and when he was sent to whack Butch Coolidge for turning around and winning the fight he was paid to throw, he left his MAC-10 submachine gun on the counter while he went to the bathroom, not taking heed to the fact that his intended target might come across it while he was doing his business, leading to Vincent getting blown away.

** Vega is more careless than dumb, in large part due to him being a sociopath, as after Marvin gets shot, he doesn't even seem to care one way or the other about it and in Butch's case it seemed so absurd that Butch would actually come back there that Marcellus leaves to get donuts.

* ''[[The Last House on the Left]]'': Aw, man, we raped and murdered these people's daughter, and they don't even know! Wow, now the mom is giving me a BJ! This is the best road trip ever!

* Every. character. in. ''[[Cabin Fever (film)|Cabin Fever]]''.

* ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]''. That rookie Street Judge that dies in the beginning. Isn't one part of police training to not run off alone into an unsecured building? In his first attempt to run blindly into combat, he actually cites a training exercise at the academy as giving him grounds to do so, before Hershey admonishes, "This is NOT a training exercise."

* In ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'', Kim and Amanda are this. They are 2 American teenagers who go to France by themselves to follow around a band. They take a taxi with a stranger and then ''tell the stranger their apartment number'' and that they will be alone in the apartment. No surprise, within the first 30 minutes of the movie they are kidnapped. The criminals that take them could be considered this as well. They run on the premise that trafficking some young, pretty white girls from wealthy countries is the way to go, not realizing that even if Kim's dad Bryan wasn't a former spy who could kick their asses, the families of those girls would ask questions (not to mention [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]).

* Invoked in the slasher spoof ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]''. Everyone agrees that with the recent killings they should hide out at a safe place – but they all think it should be in the middle of nowhere, preferably the dark woods in the pouring rain, and without any adult supervision or police protection in the near vicinity. One even suggests that they should go to a deserted place that's been abandoned ever since a bunch of dorky kids were dismembered there.

* Head goon Buddy in ''[[Christine]]'', when chased by the possessed big V-8 powered car, opts to run down a long stretch of straight highway, rather than get off-road where a car might have some difficulty getting through at any speed.

* Arguably Kalle from ''[[The Troll Hunter]]'', who concealed the fact he was a Christian from the crew and the hunter despite the hunter warning them that Trolls will go after anyone with Christian blood. It would have been justified since he didn't initially believe it to be a life or death decision when mythological creatures were involved, EXCEPT for the fact that both he and the crew had two violent encounters with trolls before finding themselves trapped in a cave filled with Mountain King Trolls that led to him getting killed.

* ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Tyrell, Tyrell, Tyrell. When your angry, vengeful creation is confronting you and demanding you perform a medical procedure on him, the correct answer is not to explain why that procedure would be fatal, it's to perform it anyway. Possibly justified in that his idolization of Roy as his ultimate creation may have been stronger than his self-preservation.

* Very much Frank of ''State of Grace''. A mafia boss who goes to extreme lengths to kill his own friends and relatives just to satisfy the requests of another gang, against which he fears to lose in case of a mob war. It's really no surprise that he ends up being topped by Terry, his last remaining childhood friend, with even more added irony cause Terry was actually an [[Reverse Mole|undercover cop]] and was having qualms about busting Frank and the others.

* Makes the perfect couple with [[Bond Villain Stupidity]] in ''[[A History of Violence]]'', where all the mobsters, including their boss, dies horribly by the hand of the protagonist [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|due to their inability to just kill him off at the first occasion.]] The result is particularly hilarious when we learn, just before the last shooting, that in spite of all the talking and the stalking the villains performed earlier, their intentions was REALLY and JUST and PLAINLY to see the protagonist DEAD. Bonus points for the fact that they even know he was the ultimate [[Badass]] from the very start.

* '''EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER''' in ''[[Splice]]''. Their so friggen stupid that when they all get killed or even raped by the monster, it's hard not feel as if they had it coming. When your characters are so stupid that you don't feel bad that they're getting raped and murdered by a horrible genetic monstrosity, something is obviously wrong.

* Many of the traps in ''[[Saw]] II'' required the participants to be terminally stupid in order to kill them. Most of them are therefore effective.

** Gus, who hears the reading of the note telling them all [[Schmuck Bait|not to try the key in the nearby door]], but decides to look through the peephole while Xavier does so anyway.

** Obi, who walks brazenly into a furnace and seizes the syringe without a second thought. If he'd taken a few seconds to look around first, he would have seen the valve to turn off the gas and wouldn't have been burned alive.

** While he may have known that Vader was under orders to not kill any of the senior staff, as Tarkin ordered Vader to release him, this merely downgrades his status from Too Dumb to Live to Too Dumb Not to Subject Himself To Pointless Suffering.

** His behavior is still spectacularly idiotic because even entirely aside from the part where Vader can literally kill him with his brain, Vader is the Emperor's personal loyalty enforcer. Openly insulting the chief of the secret police in a totalitarian regime is ''not a good career move'' regardless of how superpowered he is or isn't.

* In ''Omega Man'': Richie subscribes to the popular "Children are Too Dumb to Live" concept. After Neville cures Richie of the plague, Richie asks if he will cure the Family (the bad guys). Neville declines on the reasonable basis that they are homicidal maniacs who worship the plague and prescribe the death penalty for those who are not afflicted by it. So Richie decides, on humanitarian grounds, to walk into the lair of the Family and tell them about how he was cured and they can be too. It is a relief to see Richie exit the gene pool. Too bad he brings down the hero as a result.

* Josh Dalton from ''[[Insidious]]'' definitely qualifies. Not only does he spend most of the movie as the [[Agent Scully]], arguing with his [[Genre Savvy]] wife, when he finally does accept the weirdness and go into the Further to save his son, he breaks every rule he was told to follow, culminating in him stopping ''ten feet'' from his body to yell at a ghost that's been stalking him since childhood ''to possess him specifically''. The ghost, of course, possesses his body, resulting in the deaths of his family and every other character in the film. And Josh is likely stuck with a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].

* Quite a few characters in the film adaptation of ''[[Battle Royale]]''. Toshinori Oda probably takes the cake for surviving a burst of gunfire due to his bulletproof vest, then jumping up a few seconds later and loudly proclaiming "I'm alive!"