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* [[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?]]?

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'':

* 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 ''[[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.

** Also in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', 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.

* On ''[[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.<br />'''Instead:''' 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.