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Note: does not cover shows that set challenges; this is something the characters dream up of their own stupidity.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKpZ_6BSDhU This 2011 Hyundai Sonata ad.]
{{quote|"This year, 3 million young adults out there will get their drivers' license. Better get yourself a safe car."}}
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* Bruce Banner became the Hulk because Rick Jones accepted a dare to drive onto a ''[[Too Dumb to Live|nuclear testing site.]]'' To his credit, Rick has spent a good chunk of the rest of his life trying to make it up to Bruce as best he can.
* The game of chicken in ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''.▼
* The game of ship's mast in ''[[Death Proof]]''.▼
* ''[[Zombieland]]'' averts this with [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Little Rock]].▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The fake terrorists from [[Larry Niven]] and Pournelle's book ''Oath of Fealty'' - see [[Too Dumb to Live]] for more information on this.
* [[Older Than Print]]: In ''[[Beowulf]]'', the titular hero describes his and his cousin's swimming across the sea as something they did when they were young and prideful.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''Cain's Last Stand'', [[Ciaphas Cain]] observes that Kayla has too much sense to keep up with Jurgen's crazy driving, despite the delusions of immortality that youth gives.
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▲* The game of chicken in ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''.
▲* The game of ship's mast in ''[[Death Proof]]''.
▲* ''[[Zombieland]]'' averts this with [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Little Rock]].
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' and its spinoffs sometimes have to deal with the aftermath of a hazing gone wrong; ditto [[CSI]].
* Alex Russo of [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] defines this trope to a T - so very much so that the trope could also be called 'The Alex Russo Rule'.
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