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* One example that stands out in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is when [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|Dolores Umbridge]] spews racial slurs at a herd of armed and very pissed off centaurs.
** And then there's Ginny with Tom Riddle's diary in ''Chamber of Secrets''. Basically, once she realizes that the diary is [[Mind Control|making her]] do bad things, instead of reporting it over to a teacher or to a Prefect, she just tosses it into a toilet, where Harry stumbles upon it. And when it winds up back into her possession once more, she still keeps it and still ''writes in it''. Sure she was only 11, but a little brain power would've been nice right there.
*** After already having been under the horcrux's influence for months she can likely plead the diminished responsibility defense here.
* All the authorities in the story ''Watchbird'', by [[Robert Sheckley]]. First, they build a crowd of machines programmed to protect humans, and make them autonomous, self-taught and without any control circuit so they can be efficient, and the machines get out of control and start protecting anything, from cows to other machines, so economy, farming and stuff ends in chaos, [[It Got Worse|and then]], to protect humanity they build a crowd of machines programmed to kill the first ones... and these are also autonomous, self-taught and without any control circuit so they can be efficient.
* The existentialist/absurdist book ''[[The Stranger]]'' has Meursault, the main character. The majority of the book is Camus trying to turn the [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moment in the first part into a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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