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*** From a recent chapter: {{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 f[[Honor Before Reason|ar 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 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 ''[[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.
** Also, 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.
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