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Doomed Contrarian
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In stories where Anyone Can Die, there is often a protagonist who mysteriously (or not-so-mysteriously) seems to be very knowledgable about how to survive the situation. That character is often paired with this one; a Commander Contrarian who argues or disagrees with nearly every sentence he utters. It's rare that the Commander Contrarian survives the tale. If this character finally leaves the group in disgust, taking others with him, it's common that not one of the separated group survives. Though this trope is classically associated with Disaster Movies, it can apply to any genre where Anyone Can Die. In stories with a lower body count, some or all the Commander Contrarian's supporters may survive, but only after being subject to such misfortunes that they realize that The Complainer Is Always Wrong. Compare Doomed Defeatist. Compare and contrast Ignored Expert and The Cassandra. This is a Death Trope, so beware of spoilers. |
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Senator Robert Kelly of the X-Men books, noteworthy for being the only anti-mutant character who is not a frothing Strawman Political, has probably been targeted with more assassination attempts than you've had hot dinners. For about a decade and a half he was locked in a predictable cycle of being targeted by some mutant extremist, being saved by the X-Men and being an Ungrateful Bastard which started the whole cycle up again. He finally learned gratitude when Pyro saved him and made a heartfelt plea to him with his dying breath to end human/mutant hostilities, only for the law of averages to finally catch up with him. Ironically, the killer who finally got lucky and iced Kelly wasn't even a mutant. | |
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Some people left Spartacus's merry men to start pillaging. They were quickly obliterated by the Roman legions. | |
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In the made-for-TV Disaster Movie Ten Five Apocalypse, a bunch of people get stranded in a tower after a massive sinkhole swallows Las Vegas, and the geologist tells them to climb towards the roof because the building is going to sink. The other party thinks he's crazy, and you never hear from them again. | |
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In The Last Outlaw, Potts constantly argues against whatever Graff and later Eustis say and challenges their orders. While he actually makes a few good points and nearly manages to make it across the border to Mexico, he's fatally wounded by Graff right when he and Eustis are about to cross the Rio Grande and dies seconds later. | |
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Resident Evil: Degeneration: Downplayed with Greg Glenn, who doesn't pay attention to Leon's instructions that the only effective way to kill the zombies is to shoot them in the head, goes guns ablazing wasting ammo and time, and needs to be saved (and lectured) by Leon. He later ends up getting bitten anyway while the group escapes, and decides to stay behind and hold the zombies off as long as he can before turning into a zombie himself. | |
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In The Day After Tomorrow, this is played straight with the big group of people that ignores Sam's warnings and leaves the safety of the library. We learn later that they froze to death. It is then averted with the Dick Cheney-esque Vice President who believed that taking action to stop global warming would destroy the economy. He is seen alive at the end of the movie, giving a speech apologizing for putting short-term economic benefit ahead of the health of the planet. | |
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Averted in Jurassic Park III: The Commander Contrarian grad student turns up alive in the last scene. | |
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Lost had the good Dr. Artz. He pointed out everything the main characters were doing wrong, then promptly exploded. | |
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The Kryptonian Science Council who dismiss Jor-El's warnings about their planets instability as "the unscientific ramblings of a madman". | |
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Judson and Crimp from Five Came Back, which is about a plane that crashes into the Amazon jungle. Crimp doesn't want to follow orders from the pilots, tries to leave on his own, and gets killed by the local headhunters, alerting the headhunters to the white people in the jungle. Judson also doesn't want to follow orders, spends his time drinking, tells everyone that they'll never be able to fix the plane, and wants to make an almost certainly futile trek over the Andes. He dies in a Gun Struggle at the end. | |
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Doctor Who: Done with a twist in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" when the Doctor, Ian, and another man are locked in a cell on a Dalek spaceship. There's some random objects left lying around inside the cell that the Doctor immediately deduces to be a means of escape. The other man flatly refuses to believe it, and turns out to be right, since the whole thing was an intelligence test by the Daleks to see if they were suitable to be turned into mind-controlled servants. A few episodes have had the classic horror-movie "that creature is no threat to us!" character who immediately gets eaten or whatever, but often the Doctor saves the contrarians along with everyone else. The 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned" subverts it with a plot where nearly every likable character dies, but rude, unhelpful, selfish coward Rickston Slade not only survives the disaster, but turns out to have financially benefited from it. |
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In Jurassic Park, Genarro first disagrees with the scientists, then abandons the party. Averted in Jurassic Park III: The Commander Contrarian grad student turns up alive in the last scene. |
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