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Sometimes, when viewing an arc in an anime or manga, there are times when a viewer feels compelled to shout, "[[What an Idiot!|WTF did you do that for?!]]"
Because of [[Values Dissonance]] between Japan and North America, [[YMMV|these are subjective]] - not everyone will agree with all of them.
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== ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' ==
* [[Creepy Twins]] Jasdero and Devit (Jasdevi) have the power to materialize anything they both think of. During the Ark arc, they wind up fighting Allen, Krory, Lavi, {{spoiler|a [[Brought Down to Normal]]}} Lenalee, and one normal person from the Black Order. The Exorcists are trying to get past them through a locked door leading further into the Ark. They screw around with the Exorcists, throwing fire and ice at them, materializing fake copies of the key to make it harder to find the real one, and making masks over their faces that make Jasdevi invisible. This could be justified as sadistic fun, up until the point where {{spoiler|[[Photographic Memory|Lavi]] picks out the real key}}.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' That they'd use their powers to do something like fill the whole room with concrete or, if they thought the [[badass]]es could break through that, gas that was poisonous to anyone who wasn't a Noah. {{spoiler|Well, that probably wouldn't work on Allen, but they had no way of knowing that.}} At any rate, it wouldn't be hard for them to instantly end the fight.<br />'''Instead:''' They let most of the Exorcists go, except for Krory, who decides to pull a [[You Shall Not Pass]]. In their fight with him, they do a [[Fusion Dance]] into a [[Super Mode]] with [[Prehensile Hair]] and [[Super Strength]], and it's mostly a martial arts battle. It's not until they've been at it for a while that it occurs to Jasdevi to create something heavy to squish their opponent, and it takes even longer for them to think of {{spoiler|slamming him in an iron maiden}}. Thus, despite their incredible power, which should by rights lead to a [[One-Hit Kill]], the twins don't win.
* During the Rewinding Town arc, Road commands an Akuma to self-destruct in front of Allen, and explains that if an Akuma is killed by anything other by Innocence, its soul will be destroyed.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Allen to use his [[Arm Cannon]] to shoot and purify the Akuma from where he's standing.<br />'''Instead:''' He leaps at it, almost gets caught in the explosion, and has to be saved by Lenalee. No wonder she slaps him.
== ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' ==
* Right in the beginning, Miaka has a ''huge'' [[What an Idiot!]] moment. After travelling into Ancient China and meeting Tamahome, they both witness a procession for the Emperor. Tamahome comments jokingly that in exchange for his help, he wants her to get him a jewel from the Emperor's crown.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' That she'd either 1. realize he's [["Just Joking" Justification|joking]], or 2. try to think up a plan to help him steal it.<br />'''Instead:''' She runs up to the Emperor's palanquin and yells at him to give her a jewel from his crown, grabbing onto his palanquin and ripping and breaking part of it. This has the expected result of the guards seizing her and attempting to execute her. This is especially ridiculous when one considers that, even ''without'' [[Culture Blind|ignorance of culture differences]], this action would pretty much be the equivalent of running up to the President of her country while he's in his car, tugging on the car door and breaking part of it, while screaming at him to give her 5000 bucks. And this is all played as if Miaka is an "average junior high school student" who has a reasonable education, instead of someone with a high amount of brain damage.
* Yui and Miaka both spend some time unconscious, with their last memories being men trying to attack them.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' That both, despite their understandable distress, would take a moment to assess their physical situation. For example, the fact that they were still wearing exactly what they were wearing when they passed out, including intact underwear. That they had no bruises, no cuts, no bumps, and maybe going so far as to check and find that their hymens were still perfectly intact. Or if they were too shy to check themselves, Miaka at least was a highly honored priestess in a civilized nation, and could have had a midwife from the Emperor's harem check her out and assure her of her virginity.<br />'''Instead:''' Both immediately assume that they were brutally raped, and now have nothing but revenge and misery and deep, deep shame left to them. Presumably they both know by this point about the mechanics of sex, including ejaculation... or they could just ask why on Earth their rapists bothered to put clean panties back on them when they were done.
== ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' ==
* In the Watanagashi arc, Keiichi narrowly manages to escape from his friend's [[Torture Cellar]] after almost having [[To the Pain|nails hammered into every joint in his hands]]. Before he escapes, however, she warns him not to come near her if he sees her again. She manages to escape as well and a few days later throws stones at Keiichi's window in the middle of the night.<br />'''You'd Expect''': Keiichi would lock all of the doors, stay inside, and call the police, since at this point, she's a full-blown [[Ax Crazy]] who's responsible for the murder of four different people.<br />'''Instead''': He goes outside and talks to her to find out if she's okay. After giving a few good [[Evil Laugh]]s, she shows him why this was so stupid and stabs him in the gut. Ironically, this isn't even the thing that does him in this arc. He finally dies from psychological trauma from all the abuse he racked up.
* In Onikakushi-hen, Rena and Mion (though mostly Rena) suffered from this. For Rena: Keiichi has been screaming at her and avoiding her for days now.<br />'''You'd expect''': For her to stay away from him at the next sign of a threat.<br />'''Instead''': She goes up to him, most likely with her signature machete in hand, and starts talking to him. Also, this is after he ''banged'' her hand into a door at full force.
== ''[[Inuyasha]]'' ==
* Kagome can travel from [[Feudal Japan]] to modern times via the Bone-Eater's Well. For a while, shortly after the hunt for the Shikon shards has begun, Kagome took to keeping these shards in a bottle ''on her desk back home''—which the bad guys can't get to, being stuck in the [[Feudal Japan|Feudal era]].<br />'''You'd Expect:''' For her to take each new Shikon shard with her back home, put it in the bottle, and assemble the Jewel in a time and location that [[Big Bad|Naraku]] has no hope of getting to, and where [[Obake|mythological Japanese beasties]] are much less numerous and easier to dispatch than in Inuyasha's native time period.<br />'''Instead:''' She keeps the incomplete Shikon Jewel on her person, making it child's play for Naraku to steal it and ''keep it'', making himself [[Power Copying|stronger and stronger with each passing minute]].
* Every month during the new moon Inuyasha undergoes a transformation into a weak, nearly helpless human. Every time this happens, some demon or other shows up to kick his ass and nearly kills him.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' that the group would at least try to plan their returns to the village around this ''very specific and reliable'' weakness so that Inuyasha could go to Kagome's time period where he would be safe.<br />'''Instead''' Inuyasha has never gone to Kagome's time even ''once'' during the new moon; instead the group is ''always'' out doing some sort of demon-hunting activity far away from Kaede's village.
* Speaking of Inuyasha's transformation, Naraku eventually finds out about this little development.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' for him to spy on the heroes to find out exactly when Inuyasha turns into a human and use this information to launch a sneak attack.<br />'''Instead''' Naraku never follows up on this, throwing away a perfectly good opportunity to kill Inuyasha and his friends.
== ''[[Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne]]'' ==
* Maron's classmates make comments that she resembles the titular character in Miyako's presence.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Miyako would find out immediately Maron is Jeanne and decided not to arrest her after all.<br />'''Instead:''' She refuses to believe they're the same person because of the resemblance, vowing to arrest her to prove her point.
* Miyako {{spoiler|finally found out Maron is Jeanne upon seeing her transform.}}<br />'''You'd Expect:''' {{spoiler|She retreats from the street to let her seal a demon attacking them.}}<br />'''Instead:''' {{spoiler|She fainted from the revelation and Fin takes her hostage.}}
* There's also episode 43 where {{spoiler|Miyako is not completely possessed by a demon, but manipulated by the [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Fin Fish into killing Jeanne so that "she can get Maron back".}} After a while, Jeanne begins to fight back.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' That she will just have to "checkmate" the demon within her.<br />'''Instead:''' {{spoiler|She just took away the gun she's holding.}} Like that'll ever work.<br />'''Even Worse:''' She doesn't fight back after that.
== ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' ==
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': [[Mad Scientist]] Sorceress Precia Testarossa needs all 21 Jewel Seeds (or, by her own estimates, at least 14) to activate a successful dimensional transference to Al-Hazard. Once she sees that her {{spoiler|cloned}} daughter, Fate, has lost her battle with Nanoha for control of '''all 21 Jewel Seeds,''' she zaps her and takes back the nine Jewel Seeds she had in her possession.<br />'''You'd expect''': Precia to ''also'' zap Nanoha and swipe the remaining Jewel Seeds, which were on her person at the time. '''Or''' even earlier than that, send Fate to TSAB as [[The Mole]] to get her hands on the rest of the Seeds.<br />'''Instead''': Neither thought occurs to her. Her subsequent attempt to use the nine Jewel Seeds to achieve dimensional transference ends catastrophically, and she perishes along with her lair.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's|A's]]'', it's eventually revealed that {{spoiler|the entire plot is the machinations of one [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Admiral Gil Graham]], attempting his own secret plan to destroy the [[Artifact of Doom|Book of Darkness]] for good. It's taken roughly nine years to set up, and is rather convoluted and intricate}}. A significant part of the plan involves sending his familiars, {{spoiler|Lotte and Aria}} out to aid the Wolkenritter (the Book of Darkness' defense programs) against the heroes several times, before finally {{spoiler|killing them in front of their young master, driving her over the edge to justify using extreme measures}}. Naturally, since they're somewhat well known, disguises are employed. Not a problem, magic can be used for that.<br />'''You'd expect''': Them to take disguises that, well, look like nothing, which shouldn't be that hard. Something that wouldn't stand out to anyone. They could even take different disguises each time, just to keep people guessing.<br />'''Instead''': They take on forms heavily implied to be [[The Ace|Chrono Harloawn]]'s dead father, who died working on the Book of Darkness case the last time it appeared. Naturally, this ''can't'' be a coincidence, and the list of potential suspects is narrowed significantly. Before long Chrono has defeated the familiars easily, arrested their master, and confiscated the Device meant to accomplish the plan. [[Rousseau Was Right|It wouldn't have worked anyway]], but if you spend nine years on something, it's hard to believe a weak point like that would slip through.
== ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' ==
* Mahoro finds out that her master Suguru participates in a street fight festival. She sets out with Minawa to retrieve him and bring him home safely. <br />'''You'd Expect''': Mahoro and Minawa take off for the air and survey the area from there, since you have to fight when you walk the streets. Alternatively, they could simply break the flowers on their heads indicating that they are disqualified, so they won't be bothered by all those baton-swinging morons looking for a brawl. <br />'''Instead''': They walk around with the flowers intact on their heads and get distracted by fighting all those apparently brain-damaged locals - which also takes a ridiculous amount of effort, considering they are ''battle-androids''.
* Also from ''[[Mahoromatic]]'': Mahoro keeps confiscating Suguru's [[Porn Stash]], since according to her "dirty thoughts are bad".<br />'''You'd Expect''': Suguru makes it clear that ''he'' is the master and ''she'' is the maid, and she has no right to tell him what he should or should not keep under his bed. <br />'''Instead''': Suguru lets Mahoro simply take away his expensive erotic books, even though he sometimes goes to great lengths to obtain a rare issue. Worse, he even allows himself to be scolded by her. Who is the master and who is the maid again?
== ''[[Maria Watches Over Us]]'' ==
* Sachiko has a hard time when her grandmother, who she loves immensely, becomes terminally ill and winds up in the hospital.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Sachiko explains to Yumi why she won't be around school much anymore in the following period, even if she finds it hard to talk about it. After all, Yumi is her beloved soeur and therefore the first and foremost person that she can confide her troubles to, outside family. That way she could have given a Yumi a chance to stand by her emotionally as well.<br />'''Instead:''' Sachiko tells Yumi nothing and keeps on disappearing without explanation, seemingly conspiring with her cousin Touko, Yumi's biggest rival at the time. This results in quite a bit of emotional turmoil for Yumi, who really has no clue about what is going on.
* First-year student Naito Shouko desperately wants to be a member of the Yamurikai, so she signs up for the tea-party which Yoshino and Yumi hold to find a soeur, since being picked by either one of them would secure her position in that prestigious student council.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' She concentrates her efforts on one girl, preferably the less-popular one, and tries to woo her into becoming her grande soeur. Since she has quite an impressive appearance her chances would have been rather good. <br />'''Instead:''' She outright mentions that either one of them is fine, spoiling any chance she might have had to be picked as a soeur.
== ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' ==
* The Evangelion have to have cords attached to them for power, and being unplugged and without a power source is a major problem for some episodes.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' They'd add external battery packs to the Evangelion for every sortie.<br />'''Instead:''' They do......in one episode, in which they are destroyed and are never rebuilt or mentioned again.
* Alright folks, sit down, grab a nice fluffy pillow, this is the big one. [[Apocalypse Maiden|Rei]] is created and bred to bring [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Just as Gendo is going to implement this plan however she hijacks the whole kit and kabudle. The fate of the human race is quite literally in her hands.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' She cancels the whole thing. When speaking to Shinji she voices her objections to Instrumentality, proving once and for all to be the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]. And if it killed her, well she wants to die anyway, so it'd be no loss for her.<br />'''Instead:''' She wipes out the human race on Shinji's behalf, because she asked and it was what he wanted. He learns to [[Be Careful What You Wish For]], and Rei states that each individual can reverse Instrumentality if they wish. You can still get brain damage from your reaction.
** Suicidal [[Apocalypse Maiden]]? Eyep, [[Sarcasm Mode|she's gonna pass up Instrumentality.]]
== ''[[One Piece]]'' ==
* A bunch of people ate mystical fruit that gave them superpowers but made them unable to swim.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Them to immediately take a sturdy merchant ship to the nearest continent and live out their lives in a low-moisture area. This is, in fact, exactly what Crocodile does initially, being an [[Evil Genius]].<br />'''Instead:''' Most Devil Fruit users aren't as savvy as Crocodile; they keep living on a string of islands, and half of them work as ''sailors''.
** Eating a devil fruit has the potential to give the eater ''insane'' powers, which can be useful when everyone's searching for a [[MacGuffin|legendary treasure]]. Historically, many [[Truth in Television|real life]] pirates also can't swim.
** It's also worth noting that except for the Red Line, the One Piece world seems to consist mostly of islands.
* From the Marineford Arc: {{spoiler|Luffy and Ace, along with the remainders of the Whitebeard Pirates, are trying to flee Marineford. They run into Akainu, who begins to trash-talk Whitebeard, something that Ace doesn't take kindly to.}}<br />'''You'd Expect:''' {{spoiler|They ignore the trashtalk and continue to hightail it out of there to their escape ship.}}<br />'''Instead:''' {{spoiler|Ignoring his fellow shipmates' and even Luffy's urgings to ignore Akainu and his words, Ace takes the bait and starts a fight with the Admiral, someone who can injure him despite his usual intangibility, and ends up with a lava fist through the gut in order to protect Luffy when Akainu decides to go after him too. And unlike everyone else in One Piece, he actually dies.}}
* The Dressroasa Arc had two examples (by different idiots) in one episode!
** First example: the Straw Hats' plan to liberate the island required knocking Sugar out, thus undoing the effect of her Devil Fruit power on previous victims, which had turned them into toys and made them her slaves (a number that, over ten years, had amounted to thousands). The initial plan was to trick her into eating [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|an incredibly spicy Tatababasco berry]] disguised as a grape, which would make her collapse. Even getting close to Sugar is difficult, as she’s always with her hulking bodyguard Trebol, but some distractions cause them to be separated, leaving Sugar potentially a sitting duck.<br /> '''You'd Expect:''' Usopp would use his “pepper delivered to foe’s mouth with slingshot” trick he had done so many times before, or his “pepper planted in innocuous-looking bowl of fruit” trick that he had also used many times before. Given Sugar’s weakness for grapes, someone could likely pull it off simply by offering it to her with a bunch of normal grapes, easy as ''giving'' candy to a baby.<br /> '''Instead:''' Usopp and Robin seem [[Honor Before Reason|far too worried about badly hurting Sugar to fight her]], given how much [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|she looks like a child]] (a [[Never Grew Up|side-effect of her Devil Fruit]]; she’s [[Older Than She Looks|much older]]) and the Tontatta tribe, who also severely underestimate, agree with this sentiment. So, they simply [[Leeroy Jenkins|charge into her room]] with an intent to ''gently'' restrain her and force-feed her the berry. This proves a near-fatal mistake, as Sugar quickly uses her power on Robin and the Tontatta, quickly using them to restrain Usopp. [[Darkest Hour|It seems all is lost]], but then comes the second example:
** Sugar realizes the general idea behind the suspicious berry, [[Right for the Wrong Reasons|but assumes it was some deadly poison]] and Usopp intended to kill her.<br /> '''You’d Expect:''' She’d just throw it away and use her power on him too. After all, someone like her can never have too many [[Slave Mooks]].<br /> '''Instead:''' Developing a bout of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]], Sugar decides to force-feed it to him, hoping he dies in agony. Fortunately, Usopp can’t tolerate such a hot spice either, and does a [[Wild Take]] to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|end all Wild Takes,]] scaring Sugar half to death, causing her to faint from fright, and having [[Achievements in Ignorance|the result the Straw Hats had originally intended.]]
* In the Egghead Arc, York (the "satellite" of Dr. Vegapunk who embodies his [[Greed]]) turns traitor against the others; after CP0 invades the island, she activates the Frontier Dome (placing the whole island on lockdown) to prevent escape, and then contacts the Five Elders, promising she will constuct a second [[Doomsday Device|Mother Flame]] in exchange for being made a World Noble and sparing the laboratory. Unfortunately for York (a [[Brilliant But Lazy]] type who lacks any real fighting skills), she is quickly overwhelmed and taken hostage by the Straw Hats. <br />'''You'd Expect:''' York is no fool, and the smart thing to do here would be to remain a quiet, cooperative prisoner and wait for rescue, especially since most of the heroes and the three surviving satellites are only ''reluctantly'' letting her live right now. This makes even more sense in hindsight, as later in the arc, Jaygarcia Saturn ''personally'' leads the armada to Egghead, and the Straw Hats are in for the fight of their lives. In fact, with the lockdown in place, they'd be doomed, but... <br />'''Instead:''' After [[Dirty Coward| shamelessly begging the Elders to rescue her]] before the Straw Hats cut off the transmission, she switches to true corny villain fashion, taking this time to gloat, giving the heroes the old [[You Have No Chance to Survive]] as long as the Frontier Dome was active, having admitted to encrypting its access with a passcode beforehand.<br />'''One Small Problem:''' Not only does she make this rant in front of the true Vegapunk, the surviving - and loyal - satellites Edison and Atlas are present. Vegapunk would be a sorry excuse for a supra-genius if an android he himself built could lock him out of a computer he himself designed. Long story short, she can't, he and the others manage to crack the code, causing Saturn to lose at least one edge he has.
** Of course, Vegapunk himself does deserve some of the blame in how he designed the satellites in the first place, a clear case of this otherwise brilliant scientist grabbing the [[Idiot Ball]].<br />'''Here’s How It Works:''' Vegapunk designed the satellites to each embody one side of his personality in a way to maintain [[Balance Between Good and Evil]], so that any extreme action taken by any of them could be scrutinized by an opposite counterpart. Thus, Shaka (Good) balances/is balanced by Lilith (Evil), Edison (Thinking) balances/is balanced by Atlas (Violence), and Pythagoras (Wisdom) balances/is balanced by York (Greed). In fact, one could say that Shaka has a clear advantage over Lilith, York, ''or'' Atlas, as Pythagoras and Edison would likely side with her over any extremist plan proposed by one of the "darker" satellites. However, Vegapunk also made it so none of his other selves (or himself) had any authority over another - period. In theory, it is democracy at its finest, but...<br />'''There’s Just One Problem:''' The loophole York exploited rests in another of Vegapunk’s creations (meaning all of them, York included, knows how they work), the Seraphim.<ref>This is a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] who are clones of the former Seven Warlords, with cybernetic enhancements, and artificial Devil Fruit powers, who work as a team; suffice to say, they are bad news.</ref> The Seraphim are programmed in a way that they can only follow the orders of one person at a time, until such time as that person changes the orders, relinquishes that order, or they receive an order from someone with higher authority. The tiers are, from highest to lowest, the Celestial Dragons, Vegapunk and his satellites, then Sentomaru (Vegapunk's bodyguard), and finally, anyone who is given a Command Token, which for the purposes of this Arc is CP0. The emphasis on this rule is ''higher''; an order cannot be overrided by someone of ''equal'' authority to the one who gave the order. York was thus able to assume command of the Seraphim on her own, and the other satellites had no means of stopping them. A much safer programming would have been to give them a “majority rules directive” of sorts, so that several members of one tier who agreed with each other could override the orders of one member, a situation that would have halted York’s plan very quickly.<br />'''To Make Things Worse:''' Now that Saturn is in command of the Seraphim, the Celestial Dragons could easily have the same problem should Saturn decide to turn against them (very likely his goal, given what is now known about him), as they are also (by their own designation) of equal authority. Although whether this would be “worse” for the good guys or the bad guys right now is debatable.
== ''[[Oniisama e...]]'' ==
* Mariko Shinobu makes sure Nanako Misonou and her best friend Tomoko Arikura miss each other after school. She then tells Tomoko that Nanako doesn't have time to spend with her anymore, since she joined the Sorority.<br />'''You'd Expect''': Tomoko calls Nanako the same evening to ask her directly what's up. Or maybe ask her in the way to school tomorrow. Seeing how Mariko is openly clingy with regards to Nanako should already have sounded some alarm bells, and since Tomoko lives near Nanako's home it should be easy to catch up with her in the morning.<br />'''Instead''': Tomoko simply decides to believe Mariko without any evidence and goes into instant sulk mode. She even refuses Nanako's phone calls later that evening, not even wondering why Nanako would call her in the first place when she doesn't have time for her.
* Local [[Rich Bitch]] Aya Misaki is very butthurt because an "outsider" like Nanako has been invited to have a spot in the famous Sorority, which she assumed it'd be hers due to having attended Seiran for far longer time and being from a very rich and distinguished family (Nanako is the daughter of an uni professor but technically is middle-to-high class, which is far below the average Sorority girl).<br />'''You'd Expect''': Aya decides to formally issue a "protest" via speaking directy to the "higher ups" like Fukiko, or at least take the deal with some dignity and keeping it to herself. The aforementioned Mariko (also a prospect Sorority member) may be clingy to Nanako, but she also seems to be quite protective of her, and not to mention she has also been attending Seiran for years so Aya has leads on Mariko's [[Hot-Blooded]] personality.<br />'''Instead''': Aya and her [[Girl Posse]], Miki and Megumi, openly bully Nanako in front of everyone, thinking that Aya's high social status will let her get a [[Karma Houdini]]. She adds insult to the injury via making cruel comments about Mariko too.
* Much, much later, Miki and Megumi are on their own, rather worried because {{spoiler|it looks like the Sorority will be disbanded, thus Aya's dream of being there will be definitely crushed.}} Two of the elder Sorority girls approach them and ask the two to {{spoiler|burn the signature books requesting the Sorority disolution, promising to make their beloved Aya a membress.}}<br />'''You'd Expect''': For Miki and Megumi to {{spoiler|make sure that the Sorority ladies ''do'' really mean what they've promised, asking for a sort-of proof in regards to it.}}<br />'''Instead''': The two girls actually {{spoiler|go and steal the records on their own, without even questioning anything.}}. This leads to {{spoiler|them getting caught, Aya taking the blame for them and letting everyone think she was behind it, which then causes her to cross the [[Despair Event Horizon]] and almost kill herself, Nanako and Tomoko's efforts being the only reason she lives on.}}
== ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' ==
* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]] R'' TV series, Mamoru Chiba starts freaking out after he has a dream where Usagi will die. And not only that, he has it ''several'' times. All of this takes its toll, and he dumps Usagi to avoid exposing her to danger. <br />'''You'd Expect''': Mamoru to eventually ''tell'' Usagi straightforwardly that [[It's Not You, It's Me|he's got big issues of his own to solve and needs some time out]] to figure what the hell goes on. Maybe not tell her the content of the dream, but he could at least let her know that the blame's not on her. <br />'''Instead''': Not only does Mamoru dump Usagi ''without any decent explanation'', but he actually does everything in his power to push her away for almost 20 episodes straight, sometimes even resorting to borderline psychological abuse... and ''[[Poor Communication Kills|still refusing to tell her why he let her go]].'' The result? - the confused Usagi flickers between being [[Love Martyr|determined to become strong enough to win him back]] and being so depressed that the enemy takes advantage of her fragile state of mind and almost ''kills'' her in episode 69.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]] S'', Mistress Nine awakens and takes over Hotaru's body. She temporarily reverts back to being Hotaru, claims Hotaru's body is rejecting her and asks Sailor Moon to give her the Holy Grail, despite the Outer Senshi pleading with her not to.<br />'''You'd Expect''': Sailor Moon to be on her guard and refuse to hand over the Holy Grail.<br />'''Instead''': Sailor Moon gives the Holy Grail to Professor Tomoe, who passes it to Mistress Nine. She places it in a device, the Holy Grail is destroyed, and all hell breaks loose as Pharaoh 90 appears and daimons swarm Tokyo.
== ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' ==
* Satou is given a stash of underage pornography by Yamazaki. Afraid that he himself is becoming a [[Lolicon]], he resolves to improve himself.<br />'''You'd expect''': He gets rid of the pornography.<br />'''Instead''': He comes up with a plan where he hangs around in the bushes outside a middle school wearing a trenchcoat and looking every inch the creepy paedophile while carrying a camera - the idea being that seeing himself like this will be sufficient impetus to stop his attraction to Lolita-like characters. This won't end well.
* In a later episode, Satou is invited to a seminar which instantly makes the fact that it's a pyramid scheme obvious, and realizes it's a scam right off the bat.<br />'''You'd Expect''': He runs away.<br />'''Instead''': He runs away... and ''still'' gets talked into joining. When he gets home that night, products in tow, his friends berate him for it. One of them runs to a bookstore and buys a book on pyramid schemes, and studies it for a solution. They find they have the option of returning the items and getting out.<br />'''You'd Expect''': They return the items and claim their refund.<br />'''Instead''': They return the items and claim their refund... and then get talked into ''buying more products''. On the way back, they start talking about how stupid someone would have to be to be involved in a pyramid scheme. They only realize this when the book they had consulted earlier falls out of one of their bags.
== Other Idiots ==
* [[Mirai Nikki]] gives us the standoff between Yuki and his Dad, after finding out he'd lied about coming back to the family to kill Yuki and had stabbed his Mom to death while fleeing.<br />'''You'd expect''': Yuki to completely reject his father's apology, and maybe even try to kill him. Or at least take it with a grain of salt, given how much he'd lied to Yuki at that point.<br />'''Instead''': He totally forgives his father, and even vows to go stargazing with him after his sentence is over. And when his father bites it, he grieves for him just as much as his Mom, promising to bring BOTH of them back. It's as if his dad had lied about taking him to the arcade or something—and he accepts the apology without questioning it once. [[What the Hell, Hero?]]?
* In ''[[Mamotte Shugogetten]]'', the hero Tasuke looks into a ring and gets a guardian spirit from it because of his purity of heart. A legend that his dad sent along with the ring said that something like this would happen. Of course, she causes him lots of trouble by doing things like destroying his school, locking him up at Christmas, etc. He receives more gifts like this via the mail from his traveling dad. They have legends that say if someone with a pure heart does something or other, some spirit will appear, etc.<br />'''You'd Expect''' He'd remember the legend of the ring and therefore count all these legends as true, being careful to avoid doing the stuff that would activate them.<br />'''Instead''' He does exactly what is required to activate those legends. He repeats this mistake ''twice''. Once the spirit inside has repeatedly tried to get him to pay attention to only her, and the other time the spirit's only job is to create "trials" for her master, really just making life more difficult on him.
* ''[[Blue Drop]]'': Hagino is the commander of an alien battleship who learns about her people's plan to invade the earth, which she is squarely opposed to since the has grown to love the planet and its inhabitants--[[Girls Love|and one inhabitant in particular: Mari]]. <br />'''You'd Expect:''' Hagino puts all of her knowledge and resources on the line to stall the invasion and to save as many people as possible—including herself and the girl she loves. She'd be a greater asset to the Earth's resistance when she's alive, after all. <br />'''Instead:''' She wastes a lot of time and energy rehearsing a silly [[School Play]], because the girl she loves is in it as well. Once the invasion starts, she can't do much more than {{spoiler|put on a kamikaze-act to save her girl's city from destruction}}. Although this is very heroic, it is also very stupid and wasteful. Hagino's people obviously have a lot of trouble thinking clearly when under the influence of hormones, as is also shown in the manga.
** Not to mention that she {{spoiler|ejected her co-pilot against her will}}, and didn't, you know, {{spoiler|eject herself afterwards when the ship had demonstrated quite enough AI to do it by itself. During the maneuver, she neither gives any order nor touches any command, it's like she was just there for the ride.}}
* In ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'', a girl named Hatsumi is tasked with getting a pregnancy test for her sister, under the premise that it's for her. On the way back however, she bumps into Ryouki, the [[Manipulative Bastard]] son of the landlady.<br />'''You'd expect''': Hatsumi lies and says "it's for me" or even better "my parents are trying for another child".<br />'''Instead''': She says "they're for my sister", setting up the blackmail plot of the series.
* ''[[My-HiME]]'': Episode 13, "Night of the Tamayura": Yuuichi and Shiho are out on a date, and they bump into Mai and Reito just as they're [[Will They or Won't They?|about to kiss]]. He's [[Cannot Spit It Out|still struggling to decide]] whether or not he actually likes Mai "in that way".<br />'''You'd expect:''' Yuuichi to keep his mouth shut and wait until the end of the festival to ask Mai about what happened...or perhaps confronted her about his feelings, maybe...''eight episodes ago'', when Reito wasn't around.<br />'''Instead:''' He picks the [[Moment Killer|worst possible time]] to blurt out Mai's name, and breaks two cardinal rules of dating in the process: 1. Never cockblock another guy just as he's about to get some action, and 2. Never confess/imply that you like another girl ''in front of your date''. Now, Shiho's mad at Mai and refuses to talk to her; and Reito, usually a calm and collected guy, is mad at Yuuichi because ''he'' suspects something's going on between the two of them. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice job breaking them up, "hero".]]
* In ''[[Strawberry Panic!]]'', [[Uke|sweet, shy, and cutesy Hikari]] has [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|fallen in love]] with her older classmate [[Bifauxnen|Amane]]. However, as a result, she is being stalked, harassed, and almost sexually assaulted by a [[Psycho Lesbian]] duo who want to get Amane to join the Etoile Election by threatening to harm her.<br />'''You'd Expect''': Hikari and/or Amane to report these occurrences to either the school staff or the police.<br />'''Instead''': Neither of them do anything, and the evil duo end up nearly raping Hikari twice, and she continues to be stalked and tormented until the end of the series. Not to mention that Amane is more or less bullied into entering the Etoile Election anyway.<br />'''The Result:''' Two Words: [[Karma Houdini]].
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kenshin and Shishio are [[You Can Barely Stand|on their last legs]]. Shishio's [[Hour of Power|15-minute limit]] has already elapsed. His right-hand man, Houji, has a rifle.<br />'''You'd Expect''': Yumi: "[[Just Shoot Him]]!"<br />'''Instead''': Houji: '''[[Honor Before Reason|"I believe in Lord Shishio!!!!!"]]''' * throws his gun away* .<br />'''The Result''': Shishio: * [[Man On Fire]]*
** But you want to know what makes this [[What an Idiot!]] moment worse? Previously on the Great Kyoto Fire chapters, {{spoiler|1=Houji modified Shishio's original plan by arranging that 7 members of the Juppon Gatana took part of the Great Kyoto Fire by killing the police officers and VIPs as a distraction while the rest sail towards Tokyo to bombard it and thus destroy it while the capital was undermanned.}} He did this because he wanted to bring total victory to Shishio regardless of costs and perhaps even risking gaining his ire modifying his plan in such a manner. Before the final fight with Kenshin, Houji swore that he would risk being hated like snakes and scorpions as he put it and had his rifle in hand in case the worst would come to worst! By pulling his [[Honor Before Reason]] moment, Houji completely contradicted himself in this double whammy of the most illogical, thus bringing us this moment. Holy crap.
*** Remember Shishio's philosophy, the one that Houji fanatically adopted? [[Social Darwinist|"If you're strong you live, if you're weak you die."]] As far as they were concerned, if Shishio got killed in battle, then it meant he was weak and ''deserved'' to be killed. Of course, Houji didn't seem ready for the possibility that Shishio ''could'' be killed, hence his [[Villainous Breakdown]].
** Similarly: Saito has just gained the advantage of surprise by suddenly appearing on the battlefield.<br />'''You'd expect:''' He'd go for Shishio's heart. Or pretty much anything vital in that area.<br />'''Instead:''' Tries to stab him in the forehead for some reason. So he hits ''the only armored part of Shishio's body''. And due to Shishio's ability to beat any attack he's seen once, even his Zero Gatotsu fails (an [[Ass Pull]] in itself) and that's pretty much it for him in the fight.
* In ''[[The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'', Chiko accompanies the Twenty Faces gang on a trip with a submarine.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' The captain of the submarine has Chiko frisked just like the grown-ups and makes her leave behind the conspicuous basket she's carrying. Better still: he leaves her ashore, since a submarine is no place for children. Yet even better ''still'' would be to only take the people who are needed for the mission, since a submarine tends to be crowded pretty fast.<br />'''Instead:''' He lets her enter the submarine unchecked. That's really stupid, since Chiko might be a kid, but she still accompanies a troop of known hoodlums.
* In ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', Sunohara has to endure ridiculous amounts of abuse at the high school soccer club.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Sunohara takes this up with the school authorities and at least ''tries'' to make clear how messed up the soccer club is. Failing that, he could simply join another club outside school, since every Japanese town worth its salt has at least one or two. In the unlikely case that there are none in his town, he could try in a neighboring one. And failing ''that'', he could even try to found his own club. Anything for the love his sport, right?<br />'''Instead:''' He causes a fight at the high school club, gets thrown out and then even gives up soccer ''completely'', sulking about it for most of the series.
* In ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', Kish figures out that Aoyama can only transform into Blue Knight if Ichigo is in danger.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Kish would attack Aoyama, and Aoyama only, since he is in a "I want to have my revenge on the Blue Knight!" rampage.<br />'''Instead:''' He ignores that vital fact and attacks Ichigo. Failure Ensues.
* In ''[[Ef a Tale of Memories|Ef: A Tale Of Melodies]]'', Mizuki sends Kuze a "letter of challenge", urging him to meet on the school roof in an effort to get him out of his self-inflicted isolation since he discovered he suffers from a [[Soap Opera Disease|terminal heart condition]]. He indeed shows up.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' She challenges him ''in words only'' to try to make him understand she really loves him and wants to be with him, despite his condition.<br />'''Instead:''' Mizuki actually pulls off a surprise attack and kicks Kuze hard in the chest, telling him that he "died once" already. Sure enough, Kuze gets a heart attack shortly after.
* In ''[[Gakuen Alice]]'', a heartbroken Mikan follows her beloved best friend Hotaru to a weird school filled with supernaturally gifted children. Once she gets there, Hotaru treats her like dirt most of the time. <br />'''You'd Expect:''' Mikan tries to get out of the school back into the normal world, to forget about Hotaru and mend her broken heart.<br />'''Instead:''' She sticks around, being the victim of abuse by the school's staff and students and of Hotaru's [[Tsundere]] tendencies.
* In ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'', Tsuzuki is pretending to be a casino dealer on a cruise ship. [[Depraved Bisexual|Antagonist Muraki]] comes over and offers to play poker with Tsuzuki. When asked what they're betting on, Muraki answers, "your body," and proceeds to describe what he would do with Tsuzuki. However, Muraki never states what's in it for Tsuzuki if he wins, making it a lose-lose proposition. <br />'''You'd Expect:''' Tsuzuki to say "Hell no. Do you think I'm stupid? There's nothing in it for me. Go away." <br />'''Instead:''' Tsuzuki says yes, promptly loses, and gets all whiny and whimpery when Muraki starts feeling him up. He doesn't even have the guts to punch Muraki or push him away.
* From ''[[The Rising of the Shield Hero]]'': Want an example of a lying liar who lies about everything, in including her lies? Look no further than Princess Malty Melromarc. The lies and slander she used to ruin the Shield Hero’s life included accusations of rape, attempted rape, treason, and murder. Naofumi is only the latest intended victim, and many others before him were executed as a result of her lies. And she gets away with this mostly due to her affiliation with [[Corrupt Church| the Three Heroes Church]], right up until the point said church is brought down. As a result of this action, Malty and her father are exposed as the conspirators they are, and a [[Shock Collar| slave rune]] is drawn under Malty’s neck that will punish her with physical pain should she answer a question untruthfully.<br />'''You'd expect:''' As [[Mark Twain]] once said, “It is better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone assume you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Malty was in ''big'' trouble and the old phrase was very literal. Now would have been a good time to confess her crimes and hope for a plea bargain.<br />'''Instead:''' Malty continues to lie and double down on previous lies all through her trial, with the slave rune in plain sight, which is broadcast for the entire kingdom to see, the rune reacting to every one. [[Not Helping Your Case| It doesn’t grant her much sympathy]], nor does it do much to sway the judge or jury. Even worse, it makes the prosecutor’s job much easier during her father’s trial, who due to his daughter’s shameless display now has no defense at all.<br />'''To Make Things Worst:''' Malty shamelessly pleads for her life even as she is brought to the guillotine, begging her former victim for mercy. To be blunt, it's a rather pathetic display, again in front of scores of witnesses. Amazingly, Naofumi does decide to grant clemency - so long as Malty changes her name to "Bitch" as an alternative punishment.
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'' OVA had the volleyball scene in which Kagami's team is one point ahead, Konata does a roll and block the ball.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Misao: Go for it, Chibikko! HIT IT WITH ALL YOU GOT! (knowing that Tsukasa is clumsy at everything but cooking).<br />'''Instead:''' Misao: Go for it, Little Sister! HIT IT WITH ALL YOU GOT!<br />'''Result:''' Tsukasa jumps up, misses the ball, hits the net and lost the game. (Ow, it seems I smacked into something.)
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* In ''[[Canaan]]'', Hakko is led to a room in the "Factory", where she finds someone sitting in a chair in Liang Qi's clothes, facing away from her.<br />'''You'd Expect''': Hakko makes sure that it is indeed the evil Liang Qi who is sitting there, especially since it's rather suspicious she would simply be waiting for Hakko to arrive, considering Hakko's deadly power.<br />'''Instead''': Hakko begins talking right away, unleashing her deadly voice upon the hapless victim in the chair—which for her is about the same as rushing into the room with guns ablaze. Of course, the person in the chair is ''not'' Liang Qi, but {{spoiler|her captured lover, dressed in Liang's clothes}}.
* ''[[NEEDLESS]]''. Uten, a needless with the ability to turn anything invisible, needs to find the location of our heroes' hideouts. He happens to chance upon two of them while they're out shopping.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Powers. Of. Invisibility. He only needs to shadow them back to base to succeed. This ain't rocket science, kids.<br />'''Instead:''' Uten sets up an extremely contrived trap for the two and tries to make them believe he's almighty and knows magic by turning parts of the building invisible, so he can interrogate them into revealing the base's location (changing gears midway into 'killing them and search corpses for clues'). He fails miserably. And dies. At no point does he even try to use his invisibility to escape when things have gone pear-shaped. Truly one for the record books.
* In the anime ''[[Suzuka]]'', Yamato Akitsuki has just broken up with his thoughtful, softspoken, and almost perfect girlfriend, Honoka, and confides in his friend and secret admirer, Suzuka.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' For Yamato to give a straightforward account of the tragic and mutual breakup and how shaken he was with the ordeal. Or at least to keep the reasons to himself.<br />'''Instead:''' Yamato lies and ''brags about how he dumped her'' saying that she was annoying ''for absolutely no reason'' . In a much-needed wakeup call, Suzuka berates him for treating Honoka that way, knowing that she put her all into their relationship.
** Toward the end of the series, Yamato and Suzuka reconcile their feelings for each other, but in order for her to truly come to terms with her past, she has to visit the grave of her ex-boyfriend one last time.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' Yamato would be a nice and understanding guy and allow her to come to terms with the emotional tumor that disallows her from developing trust, let alone a relationship, with another guy.<br />'''Instead:''' He grabs her arm and yells at her telling her that she shouldn't visit his grave any more and to get over the past. Luckily for him, instead of yelling at him or hurting him [[Tsundere|like the Tsundere she is]], Suzuka [[Take a Third Option|takes a third option]] and calmly invites him on her trip to the cemetery, to which he reluctantly agrees.
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** In chapter 107, Greed attacks Father to get the latter to grab him and absorb his philosopher's stone's souls.<br />'''You'd expect''': This is supposed to distract Father long enough for Ed to attack him.<br />'''Instead''': Greed gloatingly tells Father about this plan, giving Father the opportunity to counter Ed's attack.
** In Chapter 6, Ed and Al are being attacked by Scar, who has just blasted apart Al's left flank, and almost destroyed Ed's arm, thanks to his powers using his arm<br />'''You'd Expect''': Ed to pick a strategy that involves staying the hell away from Scar's reach at all costs.<br />'''Instead''': He charges Scar with a Blade Edge on the side of his automail. It goes about as well as you can imagine.
* In ''[[Kimi ni Todoke]]'', our heroine [[Shrinking Violet|Sawako]] looks like it has finally gotten into [[Extreme Doormat|her head]] that [[Nice Guy|Kazehaya]] ''does'' like her too. Valentine Day approaches.<br />'''You'd expect''': Sawako gives Kazehaya chocolate. Even if it is just "duty" chocolate.<br />'''Instead''': She gives chocolate to ''everyone'' but Kazehaya. You see, she's so honest that she couldn't give him just "duty" chocolate, but [[Extreme Doormat|too humble]] to dare to give him "love" chocolate. So she doesn't give him ''any''.<br />'''Result''': Kazehaya is left absolutely confused. Does she like him or not? [[Poor Communication Kills|Their relationship is now worse]] than it was at the beginning of the story.
* In ''[[Girls Bravo]]'', Koyomi and Tomoka, natives of the planet Seiren, come Earth to find a husband for Maharu. Once they find a suitable match, they intend to return to Seiren using their Aqua Lamps (two tiny silver beads).<br />'''You'd expect''': Them to keep the Aqua Lamps somewhere where they can't easily be stolen. After all, without the Aqua Lamps they're trapped on Earth. At the very least, you'd expect them to keep an eye on their magical items.<br />'''Instead''': The antagonist steals their Aqua Lamps with no trouble at all, and days (possibly weeks) elapse before they even become aware of the theft.
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* In ''[[Berserk]]'' Guts tries to leave the Band of the Hawk to embark on his own dream, but [[Yandere|Griffith]] [[If I Can't Have You|doesn't want any of that]] and battles Guts for his freedom - which he loses, being his very first defeat. Guts promptly leaves to set off on his journey, leaving his friends and comrades behind.<br />'''You'd expect''' Griffith to just pick himself up and get over it, since most of the hard work that the Band of the Hawk fought for was already over and all Griffith really had to do in order to obtain the Kingdom of Midland was to wait around and marry Princess Charlotte. Plus, Griffith said that a true friend to him wouldn't let anything get in the way of his dream, which was exactly what Guts was doing in the first place.<br />'''Instead''' Griffith has a [[Living Emotional Crutch|total emotional breakdown after Guts left,]] and did some truly downward-spiraling behavior that involved him {{spoiler|sleeping with the princess, getting imprisoned and tortured for a year,}} and just throwing away all of that hard-earned work.<br />'''The Result''': [[It Got Worse]]. ''Really'' worse.
** In the same chapter, the King of Midland hears word of what Griffith has done and storms into Charlotte's room. He sees that she has some love bites on her neck and some puddles by the windows where Griffith made his exit. However, the King is only truly convinced when he uncovers some blood stains on Princess Charlotte's bed.<br />'''You'd expect''' that Charlotte just lie and say that her period had just started.<br />'''Instead''' she just sits there and stares at her father.<br />'''The Result''': The King [[Wife Husbandry|begins to manifest]] [[Parental Incest|his very disturbing feelings]] [[No Yay|toward his daughter.]]
* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' has Ramia finding out Misao's father is coming to visit her.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' She'll just give her some slack and be with her father.<br />'''Instead:''' She has her transformed into Misa on that day.<br />'''Result:''' Sasami and Misao have discovered their magical girl identities in the end. [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Congratulations, Ramia, for making that happen]].
* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'': Caren saves the mermaid trio from the Black Beauty Sisters.<br />'''You'd Expect:''' She'd join them.<br />'''Instead:''' [[Aloof Ally|She refuses to join them]] all because she thinks Rina left her twin sister, Noel, to get captured.<br />'''Result:''' The Black Beauty Sisters captures her easily. Caren has bought all that on herself because she thinks she can rescue Noel ''by herself''.
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{{quote|'''Makoto:''' I sure used {{spoiler|my last time-leap}} on [[Lampshading|something stupid!]] Oh well, [[Tempting Fate|no big deal...]]}}
* In ''[[Fushigiboshi no Futagohime]]'' the [[Big Bad]]'s plan to conquer the world by convincing world leaders that [[Bandwagon Technique|everyone else has already surrendered]] to him. He's already next the prince of his homeland so he simply convinces his parents to retire. Next he steals the royal seal from the Moon Kingdom and uses it to falsify a treaty of surrender. Armed with this he then proceeds to the other kingdoms.<br />'''You'd Expect''': The world leaders would attempt to find out why the Moon Kingdom surrendered, which would naturally lead to them finding out the treaty had been forged.<br />'''Instead''': upon being shown the treaty they immediately surrender.<br />'''Furthermore''': every prince and the princess including the [[Big Bad]]'s sister knows he's a villain, but no one listens to them.
* ''[[Rocket Girls]]'': The girls in orbit rendevouz with a Space Shuttle, and while they're aboard, the Shuttle crew offer a "goods exchange": trade items with their mission logos. The only things the girls have with the SSA logo on it are their pens.<br />'''You'd expect''': Somebody would think to trade SSA pens for NASA pens.<br />'''Instead''': The girls give away their only pens in exchange for mission patches from the Shuttle's crew. ([[Fridge Logic|What were the Shuttle crew doing with extra mission patches in orbit? It costs over $50,000 to launch 1kg of mass into orbit aboard a Space Shuttle; ''nothing'' non-essential went into orbit at the time.]] Anyway.).<br />'''[[From Bad to Worse|It gets worse]]''': This comes back to bite them when the capsule's mission parameters change in mid-flight and the girls have to record a list of times and durations that they ''need'' in order to land safely.<br />'''You'd expect''': The flight specialist to call up a text editor on the capsule's computer display and record the numbers there... assuming Mission Control doesn't simply transmit them directly to the capsule's computer.<br />'''Instead''': Everybody lets the mission specialist — who they ''know'' blacks out when subjected to thrust above 4 Gs — memorize the numbers and hope she doesn't black out again. Of course she does black out during the very first (8 G) course correction, and it's only the flight specialist being [[Hot-Blooded]] in an otherwise-serious series that gets them home alive. ''Everybody'' was carrying the Idiot Ball in that scene.
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