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** Fighter isn't the only one. Black Mage also qualifies, most famously for his fondness of solving every problem with nuclear blasts, having apparently once used it on a bee. It gets worse when it turns out that he can only use his nuke spell once per day, and favors using his knife over other spells (he repeatedly tries to kill Fighter with it, with no success), and when once suggested that he use a lower-than-level-9 spell, he said they weren't his idiom. Aside from this, there's also his attempts at hitting on White Mage, which usually result in her beating him to a pulp. Red Mage also falls under this, once being too dumb to use white magic on himself after getting his ass kicked by werewolves, and once not noticing a bridge across lava that Fighter and Black Mage notice. Even [[Magnificent Bastard|Thief]] gets this as [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/05/20/episode-150-even-thief-can-make-a-mistake/ this strip shows.] In spite of this, all four of them have some moments of intelligence.

** The entire order of the Red Mages, there's a reason Red Mage is [[The Last of His Kind]]. You see, they held their elaborate, secret meetings, while other people were busy finding mates and reproducing. This, combined with their trying to find the underlaying rules of how the universe worked by hitting each other with random weapons and spells to see how much damage they did, sort of resulted in, well... as Muffin so aptly put it:

** you can't forget Black Belt, who once got so lost travelling down a straight hallway that he ended up tearing a hole in space/time, resulting in him being followed around by a time duplicate of himself from one second in the past.

* Sapphire Gem from [[Monsterful]], all her "special" moments could have their own page.

** Since she's a zombie she's already dead anyways.

** Background character mentioned only in passing, but: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071217 X The Destroyer] is definitely an example.

** Also, Snapper, who once he learned "Wilhelm" was actually {{spoiler|Othar's sister}} immediately tried to take her hostage. She then kills him ''with a single kick'' and ''even the other inmates'' start claiming how stupid this was, earning him a place on this list.

** And then there's the ones who kept enough anti-matter around to create an eighty-megaton explosion and didn't even bother to fire-proof the containers. As it turns out, fuel-air explosives and fullerened anti-matter don't mix...

** Given that Aeris had given his mother an ''abortion'' two strips previously and Leo [[Unexplained Recovery|got better]], and that young Leo seems just as enthused about his future self's arms being cut off, Leo's a textbook case of Too Dumb to ''[[Beyond the Impossible|Die]]''.

* [http://antiheroescomic.com/comic/189 Kaalinor] of ''Anti-Heroes''. Fortunately, he's already dead, so his stupidity can't cause him further harm.

::Also from that same quote...

** Some fans also think that Celia the Sylph is this by way of [[Stupid Good]], due to her [[Actual Pacifist|pacifism]] and her willingness to do things like [[Genre Blindness|ignore the obviously evil surroundings]] of Greysky City, and Haley's explicit warnings, and wander off on her own with Roy's body. Haley certainly thinks so:

** Crystal of the Thieves' Guild is described by [[Word of God|Rich]] in the commentaries as being too dumb to live, and really only survives because she's got Bozzak thinking for her. The comics repeatedly demonstrate this fact.

** Tsukiko, necromancer (and -phile) and one of Xykon's lieutenants, thought that because Redcloak tolerated her constant taunts and attempts to undermine his authority he was a submissive coward. So when she found out that he was betraying their master, she told him that she knew and was going to alert Xykon, expecting him to stand meekly aside and allow it. What really makes this Too Dumb to Live is that even if Redcloak ''was'' submissive, telling him that you're going to get him killed would certainly provoke a response--even a docile animal can be dangerous when cornered.

* Many prey animals in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' display this behavior, such as walking into obvious predator traps, attracting attention to themselves while out in the open. Ray (a firefly) in particular isn't at all bothered by Lindesfarne being an insectivore.

** On the other hand, Ray is a bit on the dim side. His moth wife Tammy is theoretically smarter, and she has a close friendship with said insectivore.

* Freddy in ''[[Horndog]]''.

* The Elves in ''[[Errant Story]]'', with ''exactly'' two exceptions (Sarine and Misa [literally the youngest elf in the world]). The aftermath of the final battle brings this trope into full focus, when one of the surviving Elves {{spoiler|threatens Meji - who had just ''saved them all from genocide'' - that the surviving Elves would not rest until either she gave up the power she "stole" or she was dead. Note that Meji is just as powerful as Ian, the half-elf that nearly killed them all minutes earlier. ''And they know it.''}} Not a single Elf on the scene so much as protests his words (Save {{spoiler|Sarine}}, who's too exhausted and disgusted to muster the energy).

* [http://letsgetadditives.blogspot.com/search/label/skyrim This blogger] makes a series of quick comics of Skyrim. About half of those are this trope.