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** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** Then there's Greedo, a bounty hunter so amateurishly stupid that he doesn't get the most basic line you need to say when you are covering your quarry, "Keep your hands where I can see them."
** Then there's Greedo, a bounty hunter so amateurishly stupid that he doesn't get the most basic line you need to say when you are covering your quarry, "Keep your hands where I can see them." Doubly idiotic as his intended victim is a notorious gunslinger.
* 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.
* 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]].
* 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]].
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