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*** 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).
*** Being fair to Indy he already knew she was German. He just didn't know she was a ''loyal'' German, as she'd previously managed to convince him that she was one of the Germans who didn't like Hitler. Indy's behavior in this situation is more 'not willing to bet someone else's life on a his-word-vs-hers' situation, which is only mildly heroic stupidity.
* 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.
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