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The character who puts life and limb at risk by doing things that no sane human being would do. Walking down the alley alone to tell his friend about the Serial Killer. Telling her best friend not to tell anybody, but she has a crush on somebody. Walking through the streets of Sunnydale. Splitting the party. Being curious. Searching the hero's room in such a manner that no one could miss that you did it. Telling everybody in earshot he has vital evidence that he'll be taking to the authorities very shortly. Visiting a known dangerous area. Not telling the rest of the heroes about the upcoming trap laid out for them. Bullying a Dragon. Not only possessing Genre Blindness, but putting Zaphod Beeblebrox's Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses on over it. Even close friends have to facepalm upon hearing of his or her exploits. (Though it never penetrates their own heads.) This trope is, surprisingly, Truth in Television, as many people can attest to.Examples
Beavis And Butthead,
Eustace and Muriel from Courage the Cowardly Dog,
Freakazoid,
Hank and Dean from The Venture Brothers,
Chowder in the second season of the show of the same name,
Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
DaffyDuck,
Mayor of Townsville from The Powerpuff Girls,
Fry from Futurama,
Hot Dog Knights, Lumpy Space,The banana guards and the two main characters Finn and Jake from Adventure Time,
The (stunningly naïve) Earth King from Avatar The Last Airbender,
Goran, the Russian Contractor in the second season of Darker than Black,
Princess Amelia, and to a lesser extent, Naga the Serpent from Slayers,
Loly and Menoly from Bleach,
Ash Ketchum, during the Pokélantis debacle Pokémon,
The "Red Shirts" from the battle against Teppelin in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan,
Every single government in Dragonaut The Resonance,
Luffy from One Piece
Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist as well as several members of the Amestris military who give Zolf J. Kimblee a Philosopher's Stone so he can test it to see how much more powerful he gets. Kimblee uses it to create massive destruction, upon his return they ask for it back, and Kimblee does what everyone who has spent 5 minutes with the man expects. He swallows the stone then kills the morons who gave arguably the most psychotic person in the series (only Envy is as close) a stone that upgrades his power. Maybe next time they should do some research on the guy they use for their experiment.
(Kimblee later suggests that he faked being sane in order to pass the State Alchemist exam. Perhaps everyone except the Homunculi and those in on their plan was fooled.)
And lets not forget Dietlinde Eckhart, the main villain of The Movie. She invades Amestris on the mistaken belief that it's Shamballa, which it shares no similarities with, and doesn't even make sense. Shamballa is supposed to be located near Tibet, and Amestris is in another dimension. She then tries to take over the place when the Thule Society has only about 1,000 members while Amestris is a heavy militarized nation with a much larger army. Her army is crushed in about 15 minutes
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Oh boy, this one.
How many times do I have to point it out to people: Anime and manga are some of the WORST offenders in this regard. Mangaka try to cover it up by making the characters sexy and handsome (especially with the women), adding wild fights, and making things edgy. Unfortunately, that does not excuse how dimwitted, impulsive, and foolishly the characters-good, bad, and neutral alike-all behave. Due to Japan's Warrior Culture, mangaka claim that they make the all the characters so dimwitted, violent, and explosive tempered (sometimes perverted) because it shows how 'high spirited' they are, warrior spirit being important to Asia, Japan especially I.E. the idea that instinct, guts, honor, and just trying hard enough is preferable to logic, science, careful thinking, and technology. Too bad that 'spirit' leads to disastrous consequences on all ends, and the fans excuse it on the grounds that the fights and 'bewbs' are cool. Too Dumb to Live actually becomes encouraged in anime and manga.
Too Dumb to Live in Samurai Spirit form is mostly averted in anime/manga series that are more western in nature such as Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Spice and Wolf, and Baccano! In Berserk, it's flat out deconstructed. This is one of the reasons that anime such as these are more popular in America and Europe than in Japan.
Let's face the facts: Most of the Punisher's more sadistic villains are Too Dumb to Live. Nicky Cavella thought that he could make the Punisher fight sloppy by pissing on the corpses of his dead family and posting it on the news. BAD IDEA. The Bulats, hateful and wretched as they were, should have just taken their money and slaves and gone back to Romania while they had the chance. Instead, Cristu focused on killing his father and Vera tried to help him instead of fleeing, and Tiberiu joyously looked forward to fighting Frank Castle. It didn't end well for any of them or their men. And Barracuda? He kidnapped the Punisher's illegitimate daughter to lure Frank out and threatened to kill her in front of him. She was only a baby. What happened to him? Here's your answer: Have you ever had electrodes attached to a car battery hooked up to your genitals and cranked up to maximum for nearly an entire day?
Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas was proud of being a sadistic psycho and terrorizing his friends and everybody he came across. Even so, he should have remembered that, as an associate, he doesn't kill a made man without a boss's permission. Once he reduced Billy Batts to a bloody smear over an insult, it was only a matter of time.
Nicky Santoro is nearly as nutty and violent as Tommy, and a lot greedier. As Ace puts it at the end of the film, "The bosses hadda 'nuff a' Nicky. They'd hadda 'nuff. How much were they gonna take?"
Interestingly done with Ray Pye in The Lost. Several years ago, Ray gruesomely shot two teenage girls in cold blood and was never convicted for it. As time goes on, he's hanging out with teenage girls and boys younger than him who are spineless dropouts and delinquents, knowing they won't do a thing about him. When he encounters girls who have a brain and backbone who reject his obvious advances, he becomes psychopathically enraged, going through multiple Villainous Breakdowns. He even tells one girl who he wants to score with about the murders he committed, acting penitent and remorseful to play on her desire for a bad boy. Ray's biggest Too Dumb to Live scene comes at the climax when he goes on a killing spree in public, using a rifle and revolver to kill multiple people in public and kidnap the girls he wants in broad daylight, completely unaware that his submissive friend, Tim, has finally broken down and is confessing to the police. The ending to this gory tale reveals Ray boasted about all the women he murdered (including his mother) in prison, resulting in him becoming an STD infected prison bitch.
Justine in The Misfortunes of Virtue might be the biggest idiot in literature, or at least the Marquis de Sade's world. I won't go into what happens to her for obvious reasons. I'll only say that no matter what happens to her, she continues to blindly believe that virtue, piety, and kindness will help her and others. If you know how and what Sade writes, this is not only a bad idea, but one which get you punished, big time.
In the creepypasta Give Her Hell, what was the excessively abusive and sadistic father thinking when he thought that he could trick Satan? It's still incredibly satisfying to see what happens to him at the end (oh, is it ever). You still have to wonder who in their right mind makes a Faustian Pact and thinks they can trick the Devil.
Any teenager/college student in a horror movie is going to be this. Enough said.
Every single character in the movie The Cavern makes stupid decision after stupid decision, resulting in all of them being killed. On the other hand, they weren't all that pleasant to begin with, and the movie itself isn't all that good, either.
He was cruel and despicable, but Carlo Rizzi REALLY should have thought twice about marrying Connie Corleone in the hopes that Vito would automatically promote him in the mob. And he should have thought three times about beating Connie to a pulp all the time with Sonny watching him like a hawk. And he shouldn't have even needed to think at all about getting Sonny killed in revenge and all of the other crooked dealings he did, resulting in Michael having him garroted. A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a true man, indeed.
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While I agree the Earth King was this, he did get better later on.
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Replace Safety with Cake, then you have Cake or Death!
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One correction, if I may.
Ash Ketchum after his first encounter with Team Rocket. You'd think that after that initial run-in with these bumbling, poem-reciting Poke-poachers, he'd see them coming a mile away and, oh I don't know, NOT FALL FOR ANY OF THEIR RIDICULOUS, INCOMPETENT, EVEN GENDER-CONFUSED DISGUISES!!!
It's obvious that Pallet Town's poster boy for "Special Ed" is clearly too freaking stupid to even exist.
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It's this kind of stuff that makes Scary Movie so fucking funny
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In the finale of Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Batmite makes the show jump the shark to start a darker series only to realize too late that he ended his own existence.
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Kisaragi from Elfen Lied IN THE FIRST CHAPTER?EPISODE 1.
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I haven't seen Elven Lied.
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Youtube Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQ9oA…
Manga: www.mangareader.net/190/elfen-…
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OK I'll check it out when I get the time
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Long time ago, I watched a soap opera when a girl discover who is the criminal who´s killed many people. Do you think she told her friends/family or the policy? No, she made a beeline for the villain himself and told him "I know you did all that". My mother and I simply couldn´t believe that.
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Also, pretty much every slasher-movie victim ever. "Alright everyone, there's a crazy killer on the loose. The best way to stop him is to split up and fan out so that we're all out of earshot before going into all of the dark rooms filled with shadows that have no escape routes or windows. Oh, and we should all be unarmed too, so make sure to leave anything that could act as a weapon behind. Go!"
Most of the cast from "Alien" is another good one. "I'll just look inside this egg that just opened, putting my face right up to it. What could possibly go wrong?" "...Can anyone come up with a plan that doesn't involve someone going into tight, narrow, inescapable passages on this ship and essentially being alone with the monster?"
Although, I have to wonder. Can this trope work in conjunction with "Idiot Houdini", or to qualify does the stupid person actually have to experience consequences of their stupidity?
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Yes! Every Idiot Houdini is Too Dumb To Live but lives anyway.
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