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Whoops! Looks like we found some cartoon [[Wall Banger|story screw-ups]] here, too. It would have been nice if someone had spent a few minutes working these out before sending them to air.
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== ''Ben 10'' ==
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** Also, Charmcaster's father Spellbinder (and it's a wallbanger in of itself that he, a single soul, has to be ressurected with 600,000) gives his daughter a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech when he learns what she did, which is well deserved....but it's ''also'' terribly, needlessly harsh and cruel without any sort of understanding shown on Spellbinder's part. "[[Moral Event Horizon|How could you do something so evil?]] [[Complete Monster|You're worse than Adwaitya ever was!]]" That's right, Spellbinder, just ignore all reasoning as to ''why'' your daughter did this. Ignore that she was left alone in the care of her [[Abusive Parents|abusive uncle]] throughout her life, that she was later stuck in this hellish realm for who knows how long, and that [[Evil Power Vacuum|everyone tried to kill each other (and likely her) in an attempt to claim power after Adwaitya was deposed.]] Never mind how traumatized Hope's going to be when you say all this and then go back to being dead ''immediately afterward'', with no words of encouragement for her to redeem herself, no reassurance that she's truly not as evil as the guy who killed you if she does so, or that things will get better for her even without you. But I guess [[True Art Is Angsty]], so just let your daughter suffer! [[Sarcasm Mode|What wonderful parenting!]]
* Bringing Elena Validus and her father from the live action movie into the TV show [[Back for the Dead|just to kill them off]]. Seriously, what the hell? Julie being blatantly made out to be better than Elena in the episode also makes this a possible case of [[Derailing Love Interests]].
** Oops, looks like Elena's not dead, she's back as a complete [[
* Pierce is killed by the Forever Knights, just so that they can be a bigger threat now. Such a casual throwing away of a character....it's a male version of [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]! Oh, and [[Non Sequitur Scene|no-one ever finds out about it, and it's not spoken of again.]]
* Ben's defeat of a monster made from the "trash island" in the Pacific Ocean, after it's moved to the coast of San Francisco to get more trash. Since it's a [[Blob Monster]] he can't beat it conventionally. Then he sees that the waves in the ocean are eroding it. This inspires him to do the only logical thing: use Way Big (a giant alien) to run in a circle around the monster fast enough to create a tornado that ''hurls it into space on course for the Sun''. This series has never been good with the laws of physics and tends to abuse [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]], but this solution came right the fuck out of nowhere, kicked physics in the nuts, and pretty much gave a middle finger to any sense of rationality. Worst of all, it's a complete tangent to the observed weakness Ben was presumably trying to exploit.
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** There's also the bit of [[Fridge Logic]] that suggests that since they don't want adults to know about the moon base, they must have no idea what a telescope does.
* The end of Heinrich's ongoing story was most likely slapped together because the series was ending. That's the only explanation for how lousy it was. The cause of the feud between Numbah 5 and Heinrich as revealed to be because Heinrich didn't listen to Abigail when she warned him about eating magic caramel. Only, the truth is really "her" and "Henrietta". They did this so abruptly to Heinrich, it couldn't not be this.
* The [[Crossover]] with ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
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** Don't forget the "we'd be living in the Future right now if Christianity never existed." Uh, time out, here... 1. Christianity actually helped PRESERVE lost Roman sciences and arts during the Dark Ages. 2. The biggest cause of the Dark Ages was the burning of the Library of Alexandria by the Muslim caliphate and the destruction of the Roman Empire, both of which set back centralized research and development several centuries.
*** On the other hand, the Muslims preserved a lot of science and advanced scientifically while Europe didn't, and Muslim knowledge came back to Europe during the Crusades, which was what helped lead them out of the Dark Ages.
**** Your timeline is a bit off - the Dark Ages (remember that the term refers to the gap between the fall of Rome and the
** In the "People/Dog role reversal universe", apparently what 'breed' of dog you are is completely random, regardless of the 'breed' of your parents. That would be like the coupling of a white man and black woman giving birth to a Japanese baby.
** Ok, in one gag of the episode, Brian and Stewie end up in a Flintstones-esque universe with Peter as Fred and Lois as Wilma. The joke? Nothing but "rock" puns. Um, the writers of the show do know that ''[[The Flintstones]]'' was essentially ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' [[Recycled in Space|with cavemen]], right? It wasn't just "Rock Puns".
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* ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]] and the Cyber Chase'': So... a professor and his students create a device able to transport people and objects between different dimensions in the cyber world, and they choose to show this revolutionary technology to a bunch of hippies and their retarded dog? Did they honestly believe the Scooby Gang could stop a walking sentient computer virus capable of controlling the world's technology - that would be a job important enough for the government, don't you think?
** The fact that there even ''is'' a walking sentient ''computer virus'' would count.
*** Hey, it worked on ''[[
** The sentient computer virus thing is mostly [[Rule of Cool]]. The problem I had with it was when Daphne said that every villain they ever faced was in the game. So... the gang only faced 7 or 8 villains throughout their entire career?
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Maybe the game generates a set of villains randomly each playthrough?]]
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** [[Did Not Do the Research|You're asking about the point of the random, suspicious, scary guy who hunts catfish?]] It's been a staple of pretty much ''every'' mystery story that there's someone who acts shady as a [[Red Herring]].
* [[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]], Episode: "E-Scream", the gang deals with some little creatures who have a virus which causes them to become violent. The episode ends with the revelation that it's just a VR video game,<ref>thanks to Velma noticing a handful of [[A Glitch in the Matrix|glitches in the matrix]]</ref> and the critters don't exist. Hmmmmm, [[Sarcasm Mode|so I guess the intro scene, which wasn't part of the video game, and involved some dudes playing with said critters]] [[Plot Hole|was forgotten by everyone]]?
== ''The Secret of NIMH 2'' ==
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== ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' ==
* In Season 2 of ''[[Star Wars: The
▲* In Season 2 of ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'', Obi-wan, Anakin, and Mace Windu are trying to get information from {{spoiler|Cad Bane}}, who's not cooperating. After ruling out [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|torture]] for not being "the Jedi way", the "heroes" combine their Jedi Mind Trick powers and essentially [[Mind Rape]] the victim into cooperation. The victim cooperates, not because the trick worked, but because ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|he didn't want them to do it again.]]'' Looks like someone's definition of "torture" is incomplete...
** This isn't entirely bad when Anakin at least has the decency to point out that the Jedi are acting like a military and as a result should report to Chancellor Palpatine.....who, of course, is [[The Chessmaster|Darth Sidious]], so it serves to bite them in the ass even if they don't realize it at all at that point. But torturing...yeah.
*** Well considering that the lives of two babies were on the line I'd say that in this case desperate times call for desperate measures.
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** And then, the Father, living embodiment of the Force As A Whole, brings him [[Heel Face Revolving Door|right straight back to the Light Side again]], [[Easy Amnesia|with no memory of what happened]]. My ''God'' that plot twist was pointless...
** From the same episode, only this time, the [[Idiot Ball]] has been handed to the Daughter, [[Rule of Three|living embodiment]] of the Light Side. Get this; her brother is about to stab her father, and instead of, y'know, ''using the Force'' to pull the knife away from her brother, she [[Takes the Bullet]]. And dies. Thus leaving the Force in the care of her father, who is dying, and her brother, who is as dumb as she is and evil on top of that. ...If ''these'' are the people who are basically running the universe at large, is it ''any'' wonder that the Chosen One is an idiot? I mean, come on...
== ''Super Mario'' Cartoons ==
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* In ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'', the infamous episodes with a [[Shout-Out]] plot to [[Baby's Day Out]]. The [[Dumb Blonde]] who was supposed to be babysitting Tom's owner's baby instead spends all night taking on the phone, completely unaware of the [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|trouble Tom and Jerry are going through to keep the infant from suffering a very messy, very early end]]. For all their trouble, what do they get? ''Arrested'', when the babysitter finally decides to be a babysitter and immediately assumes the cat and mouse kidnapped the child. The fact there is absolutely no tangible comeuppance for her drives many older fans up the wall.
* One of the episodes from the 80s ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' involved an [[It's a Wonderful Plot]] for Dave. (Basically, after feeling he's ruined the boys' day by dealing with a lemony car, flubbing a soccer game play, and having to break the news to Alvin that they can't go to summer camp, Dave feels depressed and feels that they'd be better off without him) The Wallbanger is in Simon's story. (Long story short, it's about a spelling bee he had in kindergarten, and Dave helped him when he felt he couldn't spell anything.) In the Daveless future, Simon can't spell anything, but here's the Wallbanger: At the spelling bee Simon is given the word: "Mississippi" (hard word for a five-year-old), but when Simon misspells it, EVERYONE STARTS LAUGHING AT POOR SIMON! Yes, you read right, the entire audience full of supposedly mature adults bursts out laughing at a kindergartner who just tried to spell a word that he shouldn't be able to until he's eight, and traumatizes the poor guy. That's just cruel.
* ''[[My Little Pony:
** The episode "Secret Of My Excess" has one. Ok, so first Spike gets greedy from people giving him so many gifts (something he's not used to...despite that you'd think that Celestia, Twilight Sparkle's parents, and other people who knew Spike before the series began would give him gifts as well). Odd, but fine. Then, Spike starts growing larger and more powerful as he hoards more things. That's stretching the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] a bit...But, it's a cartoon, so we'll let that pass. It's then explained that Spike's growth is a result of his greed and that the more he wants/obtains, the bigger he gets and they must stop him from being greedy to return him to normal. An interesting metaphor, if a bit overused. But, fine. But, then...''then'' it's explained that this is a '''normal''' aspect of a dragon's growth. (beat) [[Big "What?"|WHAT!?!]] Not only has this ''never'' been established before with the other dragon characters shown in the series (Yes, they did hoard treasure, but they didn't mindlessly grab at any random object they could reach. And they certainly weren't reduced to [[Hulk Speak]] like Spike was), but it doesn't make sense at ''all'' regarding the lesson that the episode is trying to convey. [[Lost Aesop|Spike's greed is normal, but it's bad so we have to remind him to be generous with others by having him remember how good he felt when he gave Rarity that gem?]] Wouldn't a better lesson be "It's
** If you thought Pinkie got off easy for destroying Cranky's book, that's nothing compared to what her "friends" got away with in "Mmmystery on the Friendship Express." The former can at least be written off as an accident, the latter was completely selfish and slimy. Does it mean ''nothing'' to them that [[Butt Monkey|the Cakes]] poured their blood sweat and tears into the Mmm, while simultaneously taking care of two newborns? It doesn't matter how tasty it looked, it wasn't theirs to eat! The deus ex machina that took the heat off of them was such an [[Ass Pull]]. What really burns me up, is that we had episodes like ''Suited for Success'' where both sides of the conflict learn a lesson. Here however we see one of the most incredible [[Karma Houdini|Houdinis of the karma and lesson variety]]. Rather than ''"Dear Princess Celestia, today we learned that that we need to have better self-restraint, and that we should confess to our mistakes,"'' the lesson is some half-baked yarn about how Pinkie was in the wrong despite being practically the only person doing anything productive!
* Unfortunately, ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' had a small one at the end of "Lights, Camera, Candace". Phineas and Ferb's movie is finished and according to the director type, it's being shown to a crowd of teens in a theater. The teens love it...until Doof's Age Accelerator<ref>-Inator</ref> zaps them causing them to turn old and flee the theater complaining about the noise. The director dude is like "Oh they didn't like it, tough break, boys." even though he ''specifically said that there were TEENAGERS in the theater'' and not senior citizens!
** There's also a bigger one in ''Run Candace Run'', which revolves around Candace having to do three things-one for Jeremy, one for Mom, and one for Stacy[[What Happened to the Mouse?|(though Stacy's was never shown later on).]] However, it later on switches to the Johnsons' long lost family member, Annabelle, ''even though that had absolutely nothing to do with what was going on earlier.'' Later on, Candace accidentally reunites their long lost family member. [[Heartwarming Moments|Sure, that was nice and all,]] ''but what about the rest of the plot?'' Couldn't everyone who Candace had to help have just talked it over and come up with a solution?
* The ''[[Dexter's
* [[Archer]] usually avoids this, since its nonsensical elements and the idiotic actions of its characters are usually played for laughs, but it unfortunately runs headlong into this at the end of "Skin Game." Archer's dead fiancee Katya is resurrected as a cyborg, and when she feels she can no longer find acceptance among humans, she runs off with the only other cyborg on the show: Barry. The same Barry who caused her death and forced her to become a cyborg in the first place. All this despite the two trying to kill each other less than a minute earlier, Archer protesting that he still loves her even though she's a cyborg, and the fact that she had spent her entire career fawning over Archer.
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