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If anyone says "Who would be stupid enough to fall for that?" or anything like it, you can be almost guaranteed that we'll see someone show that, yes, they are stupid enough, no matter how obvious the Schmuck Bait. This is also useful for summoning The Ditz to volunteer to do the aforementioned stupidity. If you don't want someone to do it, you are clearly Tempting Fate. Anything too stupid for even a single person to think of hasn't been invented yet. In some universes, this is a very dangerous trope to invoke. May be followed by a Description Cut, Answer Cut, or Inadvertent Entrance Cue. You may ask yourself "Who would be stupid enough to ask questions like that?" There's your answer. Closely related is someone showing up unexpectedly and others refusing to be surprised. "Yeah! I know you did this! Who else would be crazy/stupid enough to do this?" (In this case, the speaker has it exactly right. The culprit does turn out to be the person they named; not somebody else, nor does it turn out that nobody at all would be that stupid.) Another variation is the form "Not even (character) would be stupid enough to do that!" followed by the reveal that, yes, they were. Sometimes it will be deliberately invoked by someone whose enemies know they're not that stupid and allow them to catch the bad guys off guard. Often overlaps with Unintentionally Unwinnable, when the softlock wouldn't occur without players making out-there decisions. See also Schmuck Bait, Don't Touch It, You Idiot!, What Does This Button Do?. For the case when a character innocently mocks some action in the presence of someone who did said action, see Oblivious Mockery. For the case where people believe that a certain character is stupid enough to do something, see No One Else Is That Dumb. The inverse is Nobody's That Dumb where a character proves even they aren't dumb enough to do something. Murphy's Law asserts that someone is stupid enough to do anything, and the problem when people do stupid things is that the things could be done. |
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In Harrow the Ninth, the Emperor God tells Harrow that he sealed his worst enemy behind a blood ward that could only be opened by him (or a biological relative of his, as a "blood ward" is more accurately a "gene ward", but he has no such relatives). A few chapters later, we get a flashback to Harrow sealing some important letters, and dismissing the idea of a using blood ward instead of writing them in code, because it would be stupid to assume she won't bleed for the foreseeable future. Turns out Harrow was right. Some of the Emperor's elite super-necromancers turned on him, stole his sperm during a threesome, and handed it over to his enemies to make a baby who could be used as a key. | |
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In MapleStory, a detachment of Damien's forces discusses whether their enemies could be hiding in the snow amidst Rien's unforgiving blizzards. The commander of said detachment dismisses the thought, as only a fool would do that. As soon as they walk away, Evan pops out of the snow, teeth chattering. | |
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One episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit starts with Benson and Tucker drinking in a bar when a cheesy reality shownote a The Bachelor knockoff called Heart's Desire comes on the TV behind the bar. Benson snarkily wonders who would watch this garbage, and Tucker suggests throwing away the TV altogether. Cut to two of the detectives under Benson's command watching at home, and one of them tearfully declaring herself to be "Team Melanie". | |
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Ranma ½: In the anime episode that introduces Gosunkugi, he digs a pit in an attempt to trap Ranma. Two unnamed students ask each other who would make such an obvious trap, and who would fall into it. Enter Kun�... In the manga, Ranma says this when Akane wins a bathing suit that supposedly makes anyone capable of swimming like a pro Olympian just by wearing it. Shortly afterwards, it turns out that it really does work. |
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K: Missing Kings - Kuroh describes to Neko how the tower is heavily guarded, and finishes by saying, "Only a fool would try to break in through the front." Cue Misaki, on his skateboard, screaming. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Torg and Riff visit a space station in the Star Trek dimension, where Riff is warned that they must be discreet in this dangerous world. Riff replies that, "Discretion is our middle name." Cut to Torg shouting at a Klingon wielding the traditional blade, "No, YOU have no honor!" | |
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Arrow: In "The Return", Oliver Queen and his sister Thea are training on Lian Yu. After she's nearly killed by a swinging log Booby Trap with Spikes of Doom, Thea demands to know what psycho would set one up on the trail only for her brother to reply, "Me." In "Monument Point", Felicity Smoak wonders who in their right mind would think something like Rubicon—a device designed to seize total control over every nuclear weapon on Earth—would be an idea worth pursuing. To nobody's surprise, it turns out that it was Amanda Waller, the notoriously sociopathic and inept ex-director of ARGUS. |
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In the Cheers episode "Tan N' Wash", when someone asks who's stupid enough to get a dark tan at Norm's new company, in comes Woody. | |
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Deadly Rooms of Death combines this with But Thou Must! in the secondnote technically third because of a prequel game, where the only way to progress is to get caught in an obvious trap, while the people who set the trap debate whether you'll fall for it. | |
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Honor Harrington: In Storm from the Shadows, Admiral Byng says something to this effect, thinking that Michelle Henke and the Manticorans will not actually make good on their warnings to punish the Solarian aggression. It doesn't end well for him. Ironic in that Admiral Byng is himself so dense that his skull practically generates its own independent gravity well. | |
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Puffin Forest: In this video, when the dungeon masters are discussing the Obelisk Encounter, they say that it is really unlikely that anybody would try to push the obelisk over, releasing the powerful monster inside. Naturally, Ben's table ends up being the one to do it. | |
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In Squid Girl, to demonstrate to Nagisa that Ika isn't a threat, they give her a fishing pole with a shrimp as bait. Nagisa just finishes telling herself that there's no way an invader like Ika would fall for something so obvious when she feels a tug at the other end of the line. | |
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In Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, when the gang infiltrates Ultron's base: | |
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In Draft Day, Seahawks general manager Tom Michaels discusses his wish to make a trade reminiscent of the RGIII trade with his head coach Walt Gordon. Michaels knows that someone has to be really stupid to agree with such a trade. Gordon asks him: 'Who's the most desperate guy you know?' Cut away to the city of Cleveland... | |
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In Lunar: Silver Star Story, Alex and co are travelling through the woods when they find some traps to which one of them comments "Who would be dumb enough to fall for that?" Cue Nash calling out for help after being stuck in the aforementioned trap. | |
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One town in Breath of Fire IV is filled with traps designed to scare away intruders. Fall for one particular trap and you'll be told by an amused villager that "not even the animals are dumb enough to fall for that one!" | |
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Battle Beyond the Stars. Sador uses this trope to deride his brainless underling when asking who'd come to aid the Akirans. "No-one would be that stupid, even you!" | |
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In Superman III, Corrupt Corporate Executive Ross Webster has learned that someone is embezzling money from his company, and is despairing of figuring out who it is: | |
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A badass version of this occurs when episode twelve of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann pits the crew against Spiral King general Adiane. The fight ends up with Adiane's mecha on the deck of Team Dai-Gurren's battleship. Adiane taunts them with the fact that they wouldn't be stupid enough to fire on her when they're so close to one another. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara asks who would be a big enough idiot to propose a comic about future-caveman character Kamandi with him brandishing many, many guns, even in The Dark Age of Comic Books. | |
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Happens a lot with Smiffy from The Beano. | |
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Inverted in one Sam & Max: Freelance Police short story parodying Star Wars. | |
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In The Night Unfurls, right after her liege lady reminds her that a fortress is not invincible, Chloe internally asks "who would dare brazenly strike at the Black Fortress?" Cue Kyril and the Black Dogs arriving moments later, even coming out victorious in the next chapter. | |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: In "8-Bit Is Enough", Strong Sad outright says that only "some type of idiot" would take on Strong Bad's Trogdor-possessed arcade cabinet alone. When Strong Bad has trouble getting close to the cabinet, he thinks on these words. Homestar dutifully appears right on cue. | |
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Hero Chat: The heroes Queen Bee (Chloé Bourgeois) and Ryuko (Kagami Tsurugi) have their secret identities outed, and thus are publicly retired for their own safety. They are replaced by Honeybee and Arashi... who are still Chloé and Kagami. While there's a magical Glamour and the team's Master of Illusion helps with the "new" heroes meeting the "old" ones, multiple people point out that probably the only reason this actually works is because the city collectively thinks no one would be stupid enough to try such a simple trick. | |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron wonders what teacher would be dumb enough to fall for the trio's planned deception about why they want a potions book in the Restricted Section of the library, having apparently temporarily forgotten that Lockhart is their Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that year. In Order of the Phoenix, Arthur Weasley (recovering in hospital after a snakebite from a magical snake) mentions that he's become interested in a branch of muggle medicine called "Stitches" as a possible cure. Mrs. Weasley scoffs at the idea, saying it sounds like he wants to sew his skin back together and not even he's stupid enough to try that... Harry hears her screech "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THAT'S THE GENERAL IDEA?!" from the corridor outside the ward. Which is stupid in another way in that stitches are not usually used for puncture wounds. That's what happens when you don't give wizards any non-magical education after they turn eleven, and think of any Muggle methods as worthless (case in point — Ron's description of doctors as "Muggle nutters who cut people up"). |
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On Family Law, Rex is asked by a crook client to help his son out of a jam as "he'll never survive prison." Rex looks in the lobby to see the kid thinking he can stuff a ten-pound statue under his coat with no one noticing. The kid is accused of robbing a liquor store with a paper bag "disguise," which he kept lifting up to suck on a helium balloon to "alter" his voice and fled in his own car with a vanity license plate which he had reported stolen from himself. Rex is able to get the kid an acquittal by successfully convincing the jury that there's no way anyone could actually be this stupid when he knows this is the best plan this moron could come up with. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You has a ramen shop owner offer various kinds of ramen that would be impossible to finish, and when that fails, she starts offering ramen that no one would want to even order in the first place. The one that fits this trope best is the "Stupid-As-Hell Challenge Ramen", ramen topped with a hamburger topped with what appears to be soft-serve ice cream. Her intention is that nobody would order it since it looks gross and would be embarrassing to ask for in public. Then Naddy walks in and immediately orders it. | |
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Shows up a lot in Discworld, in fact. In The Last Continent: | |
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Freefall: Florence discovers that there's a program going out that will completely lobotomize the colony's robot work force; in addition to the fact that it's horrific genocide because the robots became sentient when the humans weren't looking, this would render the entire work force non-functional and doom the colony. Most of the authority figures who Florence speaks to assume she must be exaggerating or misunderstanding the problem, because there's no way the terraforming company would be stupid enough to destroy billions of credits worth of their own machinery. Except there's one executive who is stupid enough, and due to temporarily holding a higher position for someone competent, he has the authority to make it happen, because he thinks it will make him rich. | |
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In one Calvin and Hobbes strip, Calvin is sitting in front of the TV and disparaging the programs he's watching: | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry gets a beautiful one by proxy when Ebenezer McCoy figures out Harry's plan in Turn Coat. In summary the plan is calling out the worlds strongest Wizards to fight, then call in the Vampires saying he has what they want, and then getting them to work together against a common enemy, who Harry also invited to this location. | |
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Small Soldiers when the toy soldiers get out of control we get these lines of dialog: | |
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Garfield: In one strip, a TV-commercial is blatantly stating "Are you a complete loser without any taste? Then we've got the thing for you!". Cue Jon coming in the room: "Hey, I've got three of those." In another strip, Garfield is watching a commercial for a health supplement that promises to help men attract women, but then mentions that Side Effects Include... uncontrollable knee slapping, foot stomping, and blinking, as well as abnormal hair growth all over the body. |
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Phoenix's Tear: Reignition: Hare takes offense to C.P. accusing him and his friends of working for Muu, pointing out how Muu hates humanity, along with having other reasons to avoid employing them. He questions how anyone could assume that he'd accept any human followers... causing Genki to laugh nervously while flashing back to when he met Allan, an arrogant trainer who actually wanted to join Muu himself. | |
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In the Married... with Children episode "The Joke's on Al", one of the practical jokes Al plays during the prank war with Jefferson is to put superglue on his toilet seat. Bud asks what kind of moron would fall for that old gag. Cue Jefferson entering, with the toilet seat stuck to his butt. Another episode saw Al and Peggy rejoice to discover that they have won the "Weenie-Tot" sweepstakes, but swiftly despair when they realize that they are ineligible because their daughter Kelly is a Weenie-Tot employee. The Bundys then realize that they can circumvent this technicality by having someone claim the prize in their stead. |
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Discworld: Somewhat lampshaded in Thief of Time: Shows up a lot in Discworld, in fact. In The Last Continent: Mustrum Ridcully (normally quite sensible and level-headed, for a wizard) does precisely this in Hogfather and finds... a bathroom. Designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson. |
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In The Karma of Lies, Adrien tries to explain that Lila stole tens of millions out of his family's secret emergency account, using all her past scams as proof she'd do such a thing. However, the police believe he stole his own money in order to evade the government and is trying to frame her, and his lawyer explains that this trope is the reason why. Among other issues with his testimony, the police just don't believe he's stupid enough to let someone that he thinks is a con artist (one who he claims has been actively grifting his classmates for months, no less) get into a position where they can learn his banking information. | |
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In Final Fantasy VII, when the player is told by a conniving thief to pull one of two levers. It obviously makes no difference which is pulled, as the party is captured and the materia not returned either way. But Thou Must!... | |
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Pirate101: In Marleybone, you have to collect ingredients to make terrible tasting food. The merchant you go to for one of the ingredients, Sky Gar Fins, tells you that he can't sell them because they're rationed, but he also mentions that someone could theoritecally retrieve them from the Sky Gar who roam the Skyway. After that, however, he also mentions that with the war going on against Valencia and the Armada also roaming the Skyway, only a group of loonies would try something like that. | |
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Mexican Sitcom La familia P. Luche has the main character, Ludovico, insulting a manager for his size and getting called depraved when his attempts at apologizing went south. He then needs to retrieve a photocopy of a butt (not even his) that was sent by mistake. When the boss asks to see the photocopy and see what's the big deal, Ludovico asks what would happen if, hypothetically, it was a picture of buttcheeks. | |
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In Order of the Phoenix, Arthur Weasley (recovering in hospital after a snakebite from a magical snake) mentions that he's become interested in a branch of muggle medicine called "Stitches" as a possible cure. Mrs. Weasley scoffs at the idea, saying it sounds like he wants to sew his skin back together and not even he's stupid enough to try that... Harry hears her screech "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THAT'S THE GENERAL IDEA?!" from the corridor outside the ward. Which is stupid in another way in that stitches are not usually used for puncture wounds. That's what happens when you don't give wizards any non-magical education after they turn eleven, and think of any Muggle methods as worthless (case in point — Ron's description of doctors as "Muggle nutters who cut people up"). | |
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In The Music Man, the salesmen's discussion of Harold Hill and his scams on the train concludes with Charlie saying that at least there's no business for him here in Iowa: "Even the great Professor Hill wouldn't try to sell them neck-bowed Hawkeyes out here." The stranger who has been quietly playing cards with them then speaks up, telling them that they've convinced him to give Iowa a try. As he alights the departing train, he flashes his briefcase, which has "Prof. Harold Hill" written in big letters on its side. | |
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Played with on Slayers, where Lina sees a trap and tells Gourry that he'd be the only one stupid enough to fall for it... then Lina herself walks right into the trap about ten seconds later, after being Distracted by the Shiny. | |
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The Simpsons Movie: The citizens of Springfield decide to have someone distract Russ Cargill while the others escape the dome. | |
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The Order of the Stick: "Stuck in the Sand Trap": Inside Draketooth's complex, Varsuuvius falls into a trapdoor while distraught over the fact that they were responsible for the death of the entire Draketooth clan. Every so often someone asks about them and we get a cutaway panel to them unconscious at the bottom of the pit. At one point they start discussing how since all the illusions are dispelled, all the traps are trivially easy to spot... |
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A variation happened in Higurashi: When They Cry where Satoko said that only Keiichi would be dumb enough to fall for her mud Pit Trap. Cue a mud-covered Rika crawling out of the ground. | |
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Super Robot Wars 30: Swaile Qujappat uses his Geass to make Sayoko and Kallen look like copies of him to confuse them into attacking one another. When he does this to Van though, Van's reaction is to try and cut down all the Qujappats in front of him. Qujappat is stunned at how Van's crazy stupidity derailed his plan in no time flat. | |
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In Rusty and Co., Yuan-Tiffany asks who would be fool enough to come to a vampires' castle without an amulet to protect from being spotted by the undead. Cut to Madeline, who took INT as her dump stat. (Though, to be just, neither she nor the three intrepid adventurers with her knew it was vampires behind it all.) | |
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Played straight by The Chechen in The Dark Knight: "Who's stupid enough to steal from us?" Turns out, the Joker. Although "stupid" doesn't really factor into it. Try "supremely confident". | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: during the A.I. review, the host segments of which were spent mocking TMZ, whenever he asked a question along the lines of "Who would be that dumb?" the TMZ boss calls for a meeting. | |
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In one Sherman's Lagoon sunday, Sherman finds Ernest making a computer virus he calls, the "I wuv you" virus. Sherman points out that there was already a virus like that, and now people know not to open those kinds of emails. | |
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In It Takes a Thief (2005), The Heart makes fun of her fellow thieves who got conned into buying useless stuff off of infomercials... and then immediately hides her useless bracelet. | |
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In New California Dreaming, Coyle refuses to take a less-than-safe quest from Moira Brown. A few weeks later, some poor sucker from Vault 101 comes along... | |
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Michael gets hit with this a couple times in the Knight and Rogue Series. On one occasion his reason for being at the scene of a murder (following orders to meet someone in an unaddressed letter) isn't believed because the law enforcement can't believe anyone, especially someone without legal rights who knows something shifty is going on, would be stupid enough to get framed with such an obvious trick. | |
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Please Turn Over: When Jo doesn't believe that people could mistake the events of her book, Naked Revolt, for the truth: | |
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In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Harry outlines his plan for him and Marv to rob Duncan's Toy Chest, which he figures is a Refuge in Audacity; | |
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A variant appears in Haruhi Suzumiya. | |
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Used and conversed in The A-Team episode, "Blood, Sweat, and Cheers". | |
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In an episode of The Nanny, a sleazy supermarket tabloid publishes a slanderous story about Fran and Maxwell sleeping with each other while Maxwell's wife was still alive, during his honeymoon. Fran is upset, but Maxwell tells her not to be worried: | |
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The Simpsons: There's a comic where a truck driver is delivering a shipment of bunnies to Springfield Elementary, and a panther (well, Bart. Long story) to Springfield zoo. He tells Groundskeeper Willy that the rabbits are in the crate on the left, wonders if he should clarify which left he means, then reasons that no-one could mistake a panther for a rabbit. In the next panel, Willy is brawling with the Bart-panther, who apparently didn't take kindly to being fed carrots. In another issue, Bart notices that Duff Beer is holding a "Find the Winning Bottle Cap" contest and expresses his hopes that Homer might win. Homer remarks that such contests are for suckers, and wonders what kind of loser would buy beer just to win one. Cut to perpetual loser Gil, surrounded by hundreds of bottles. In another issue, after Homer is unable to go on a family trip due to the airport not allowing someone with his girth on the plane, he starts an organization for the rights of overweight airline passengers. When asked by Kent Brockman how he intends to fulfill his goal, Homer figures the best way was to ask a rich guy to bankroll an airline for obese people, prompting Brockman to wonder what idiot would do that. Cue Homer and his organization going to Mr. Burns' office. |
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Epithet Erased: Sylvie refuses to tell Molly and Giovanni his epithet, calling it "strategic suicide" and saying, "What kind of idiot tells his epithet to someone he's only just met?" Indus shows up immediately. | |
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Knives Out: Linda is not stupid enough to take the Schmuck Bait the Great Detective offers her in her interview, but her husband sure is. The entire plot of the standalone sequel, Glass Onion, hinges on this. The culprit of Andi's murder is obvious- too obvious. Benoit Blanc and Helen reason that billionaire "genius" Miles Bron can't be the real killer, because no one would be stupid enough to kill someone personally when they had so many (very public and well-known) reasons to want them dead. As such, they dismiss Bron as a suspect, only to find out after an entire movie's worth of investigating that it really was him - and to top it off, his methods of offing those who presented a threat to his plans, by their very concept and their lack of originality, made it as clear as day (at least in hindsight) that only he could've been the culprit. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing episode 3 has a scene where an Alliance commander declares "Only an idiot would challenge this base's defenses"; Zechs snarks "Well then, here come the idiots!" just before Heavyarms shows up and starts trashing the place. (Though in this case, the real idiot was the commander thanks to his Suicidal Overconfidence.) | |
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A Different World. Dwayne gets lost during a camping trip. While organizing a search party, the supervisor dismisses the idea of looking through the mountains, name-dropping this trope. | |
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Chainsaw Man: During Part 2 of the manga, Chainsaw Man is now a popular and well-known being with a devoted fanbase. While his identity is meant to be a secret, Denji is reckless and desperate enough to be trying to use his secret identity to get a girlfriend. When he tells Asa that he is the Chainsaw Man, she rebukes him and leaves. Yoru comes to believe he might really be the real deal, but Asa says that not only he was likely to lie to get her interest, but also that someone with such a dangerous job and massive public pressure as Chainsaw Man would be unlikely to be so stupid that he would just blurt out his identity to get a girl. A Running Gag with Denji is him triumphing over opponents who are far more powerful (not to mention frequently smarter) than he is by either completely blowing past their attempts to deceive him or pulling out some insane plan that's so utterly ludicrous and impractical that no sane tactician would ever expect an opponent to try it (like setting himself on fire). |
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NEO: The World Ends with You: In Another Day, Kanon is selling an overpriced encyclopedia set — so overpriced that Rindo remarks that only a moron would buy it. Immediately after he says this, Fret agrees to buy the thing. | |
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Girl Genius: Violeta wonders aloud who on earth would be crazy enough to hijack one of Albia's ships single-handedly, Wooster starts to reminisce about a time when Gil did something similar... then freezes in horror when he realizes the implication that Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, whose empire is on what could best be described as an uneasy detente with England, probably is involved. | |
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Exploitation Now: Early in the strip, Jordan has just lost the only tenants to her building and began wondering who would be stupid enough to rent out her dump of a building. With a narration box line of "What are the chances, indeed...", we see Bimbo and Ralph still in need of a new place to live. | |
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In Commander Kitty, after firing a pair of warning shots to no effect, the Triple-I decide to let escaped convict Nin Wah go (due to budget constraints) as long as the ship she's on doesn't try anything stupid. Cue CK loading up the torpedoes to return fire. | |
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The entire plot of the standalone sequel, Glass Onion, hinges on this. The culprit of Andi's murder is obvious- too obvious. Benoit Blanc and Helen reason that billionaire "genius" Miles Bron can't be the real killer, because no one would be stupid enough to kill someone personally when they had so many (very public and well-known) reasons to want them dead. As such, they dismiss Bron as a suspect, only to find out after an entire movie's worth of investigating that it really was him - and to top it off, his methods of offing those who presented a threat to his plans, by their very concept and their lack of originality, made it as clear as day (at least in hindsight) that only he could've been the culprit. | |
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Taskmaster uses this setup so often it borders on a Running Gag. Whenever Greg responds to a task introduction with a variant of "These are intelligent people. Surely no one would [insert an obviously faulty method of performing the task]", it's inevitable that the next contestant(s) shown will be doing exactly that. | |
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McAuslan: After the titular character is demoted, Lt. MacNeill takes him aside and comforts him with the fact that at least McAuslan didn't lose a guardroom. McAuslan blurts out this trope, whereupon MacNeill wisely doesn't mention that the soldier who fell asleep in a guardroom tent and woke up to find it gone was him. | |
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In Hsu and Chan, rival game designers Satoshi and Akira Yamamoto discuss how the only way for the Tanaka Brothers to stop them from stealing the game innovation of the century would be to plow through security, rush the stage, and physically smash their computer. Akira remarks that "No sane man would—" before realizing who he's dealing with. Cut to Hsu and Chan discussing their plan to plow through security, rush the stage, and physically smash the computer. | |
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Mustrum Ridcully (normally quite sensible and level-headed, for a wizard) does precisely this in Hogfather and finds... a bathroom. Designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson. | |
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In the Kim Possible fic If You Build a Better Monkey, Shego (now on Kim's side) suggests catching the thieves who stole some rare zoo animals by posting an ad to buy just such animals in a villain forum. Kim is skeptical that the culprits would fall for such an obvious set-up. Shego just rattles off a few names from Kim's Rogues Gallery, and Kim concedes the point that, yes, some villains are that dumb. | |
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Animorphs: Two human-Controllers transporting steer to a slaughterhouse find a pair of bulls in the midst of the herd. One of them suspects the "Andalite bandits", but the other is skeptical, claiming that the Andalites couldn't be stupid enough to infiltrate a slaughterhouse as the soon-to-be slaughtered. This is exactly what the Animorphs are doing, mind you. | |
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At one point in Sequential Art, Art, Kat and Pip are captured by aliens and trapped on a reality show. Kat suggests they just call for help because, y'know, TV, but Pip points out that the aliens can just edit the footage to make sure only what they want is aired. Art doesn't think the audience would be helpful anyway as, "You have to be a special kind of retard to enjoy this crap." Cut to Scarlet and her sisters eagerly watching. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron wonders what teacher would be dumb enough to fall for the trio's planned deception about why they want a potions book in the Restricted Section of the library, having apparently temporarily forgotten that Lockhart is their Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher that year. | |
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Sandor's campaign in Might and Magic: Heroes VI has an example of this trope, when Sandor and Kraal are trying to rescue Irina from a hunting lodge in the Wolf Duchy's territory. Sandor notes that the hunting lodge is not as well defended as he expected it to be, and Kraal responds that no-one is crazy enough to lead an army this far into Wolf territory. In the next cutscene, The guard outside Irina's cell tells her that no-one is crazy enough to try and rescue her; within seconds Sandor's army have stormed the hunting lodge and the guard has an arrow from Kraal's bow sticking out of his chest. | |
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Asterix Conquers America, where Julius Caesar outlines his plan to have Getafix thrown off the edge of the world: | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX gives us the following lines | |
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In Septimus Heap: Syren Septimus says that not even Milo would be stupid enough to acquire five thousand warrior jinn without knowing the Codes to control them. Turns out that Tertius Fume deceived him into doing so by promising to give the Codes later. | |
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In Pikmin 2, Olimar's Piklopedia entry for the Bumbling Snitchbug (which, rather than snatching up Pikmin like its cousin the Swooping Snitchbug, moves instead to abduct and drop the captains) asserts with confidence that only a reckless moron would ever be snatched up by one, even if it ever happened to the player. | |
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In One Piece, the answer is usually that Luffy would be stupid enough: Niji Vinsmoke at one point comments that nobody would be stupid enough to go up against Big Mom's army... cut to Luffy doing just that. After the Straw Hats and Bege interrupt the wedding with a bunch of animals disguised as Luffy to cause chaos; Big Mom, in a fit of rage, asks Luffy to show himself. Bege laughs to himself, asking if she is so stupid to think that he would actually do it. Immediately after, Luffy indeed shows himself, to the shock of Bege. |
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Portal 2: GLaDOS's chamber features a back door labelled: "GLaDOS Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary". Naturally, there's nothing to do but try to open it. GLaDOS can't believe it when you fall for it. One of the alternate universes in the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC is one where Aperture Science managed to acquire Black Mesa forming "Blaperture Mesa". Blaperture!Cave shuts down the anomalous materials experiment due to the possibility of it causing a resonance cascade and admonishes the scientists for their lack of "common sense" in being willing to risk it. This is especially notable considering that Cave has spent his entire life doing things like GLaDOS, who tried to murder the entire facility within nanoseconds. |
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In the 2004 series of The Chaser Decides, Chas calls up Australia's top radio commentators and passes himself off as a Liberal Party stooge posing as a concerned citizen by reading a campaign ad verbatim. John Laws sees through it and cuts "Tony" off in the middle of the first sentence ("Listen, Tony, mate, I'm not that stupid."). Back in the studio, Craig asks, "What kind of credible broadcaster would let you get away with reading the whole ad?" Chris replies, "Well, there might be one." Cut to "Tony" getting Alan Jones to do exactly that. | |
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RWBY: After the Fall: A flashback to Team CFVY's initiation shows Coco and Fox finding a cave whose entrance is decorated with cave art depicting with a people fighting a giant scorpion. Fox, who is blind, doesn't need the cave art to realise it's a Death Stalker den. It's so obvious that he notes "only an idiot" would go inside. This is a Mythology Gag; in the original show, Volume 1's initiation sees an oblivious Jaune lead Pyrrha into the cave, hoping to find the relic he's been tasked by the teachers to bring back to base. It's an early clue that Jaune comes from a different background to most Beacon students. | |
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Peanuts: The following exchange is from a May 1960 strip: From an April 1962 strip: A strip from 1986 has a variant: Peppermint Patty complains about how the school maypole dance was canceled due to the school having no liability insurance, asking in disbelief, "Who would be clumsy enough to get tangled around a maypole?" Of course, the final panel shows that Charlie Brown has somehow done exactly that. |
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In a FoxTrot comic, Jason asked every member of his family if they wanted to have a Snowball Fight with him. They each reply "Do I look like an idiot?"... until he gets to Roger, who says "Let me get my coat." before Jason can even finish the question. | |
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White Sheep (RWBY): Ren, a human, ends up in Menagerie, the home of the Faunus, and claims to be a sloth Faunus. He has no obvious Faunus traits, but everyone just assumes they're hidden or hard to notice, because what human would be stupid enough to come to Menagerie? He even tells Sienna Khan, leader of a violent Faunus militia group, to her face that a human would have to be "pretty ballsy" to pretend to be a Faunus in Menagerie. She still doesn't notice, and last we see her she's still hoping for romance with "a certain sloth Faunus." | |
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The copy protection material (a joke newspaper) for Space Quest V: The Next Mutation has an advertisement that clearly invokes this trope: "Are you a complete moron? Do you anything people tell you to? That's great! Send a copy of all your banking information to..." | |
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In one episode of The Thundermans, Phoebe tries to sneak into the school's auditorium but gets caught by the principal. Frustrated, she tells her best friend: "Now the only way inside there left is the air shaft and only an idiot would try that!" Cut to her brother Max crawling through the air shaft and crashing through the ceiling in the process. | |
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Scooby-Doo (2002): In the airport scene, Shaggy walks up to Fred and the girls without Scooby, prompting Velma to ask where is the dog. Shaggy explains big dogs aren't allowed on the plane. Cut to Scooby, wearing women's clothes. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, the answer to this question is usually "Orks." Ciaphas Cain has noted that with greenskins, it's safest to assume nothing, lest the Orks succeed in crossing seemingly impassible terrain to outflank their enemy, or try a tactic that a sane commander would write off as suicidal. Even during the Third War for Armageddon, when the Imperium was led by the legendary Commissar Yarrick, and the world was already experienced fighting Orks from the Second War for Armageddon, they were still caught off-guard when the Orks bypassed coastal hive cities' land and space defenses by means of an amphibious assault (using giant submarines). Imotekh the Stormlord, Phaeron of the Sautekh Dynasty, is one of the most brilliant strategists in the galaxy, capable of outwitting everyone from human generals to the Tyranid Hive Mind to even the notoriously scheming Eldar. But Orks prove to be so catastrophically stupid and reckless, their plans so hilariously unorthodox, that he can't actually plan against them. This is represented in-game with a special rule that allows the player controlling him a 50% chance to go first even if you didn't win the seize initiative roll-off, but can never go first if the opponent has an Ork army. |
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Beetle Bailey: In one strip, Sarge shows Beetle the new ejection seat on Sarge's jeep. Beetle asks Sarge if Sarge is worried someone will sit in the seat and pull the ripcord. Sarge asks who would be stupid enough to do that. The last panel is General Halftrack airborne. Another one has General Halftrack issuing a camp-wide directive not to stick one's nose in one's canteen.note An obsolete heavy metal water container used for hiking. Discussion wondering who would be so stupid trickles up (including Sarge's lampshading the Schmuck Bait) to the General, shown angry and porting a heavily bandaged nose. Similarly, Sarge issues a directive (this time, only to the Company) not to try to dislodge a ball stuck on a roof by kicking the building. Beetle, Killer, et al. confront an angry frowning Sarge, in a full leg cast hidden behind the desk. |
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In Chrono Trigger, one of the earlier bosses is described as "basically invincible, as long as no crazed idiot gets the bright idea to run up and hack at the head with a sword." Guess how you beat it. Go on, guess. Although you don't need to hit the head at all. It's just that in the first play through you can't do enough damage to overcome its Healing Factor. You can also shoot it in the face with a pistol. | |
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In the Team Fortress 2 comic "Catch-Up", Saxton Hale says that "only a moron would live" in the area of New Mexico where most of the story takes place. The next panel features the Mann family, who settled the area, with Hale narrating with "Here's some morons who decided to live here." | |
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Rose of Two and a Half Men is a Stalker with a Crush who goes to many extreme measures to stalk Charlie and/or get him to fall in love with her. Her plans have included staging a marriage to a a groom who doesn't exist, and moving to England while still returning to Malibu to observe Charlie in disguise. Such plans will be dismissed by both Charlie and the other characters because no one would be stupid enough to go to all that trouble (or, more accurately, no one would be crazy enough; but of course, Rose really is obsessive enough to go to all that trouble). | |
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In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, when Monokuma orders the students to head to the island park for an announcement, he offers free curry to whoever arrives first. Hajime dismisses the notion wondering how anyone could be baited by a obvious trick, to quickly find some of the others waiting for the curry. | |
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Used sometimes in Blackadder, and the answer to the question is usually "Baldrick". In The Cavalier Years, the royalist Blackadder has found out King Charles is to be executed, and Cromwell has (against Blackadder's predictions) found someone willing to do it. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Invasion", the Big Bad tests a weapon on a Cyberman that drives it insane, then callously abandons it to roam the sewers. When his Mook Lieutenant protests that the Cyberman will kill anyone it comes across, he just says that anyone stupid enough to roam the sewers deserves everything they get. There's an immediate Description Cut to a character who's just decided that she'll go down to the sewer and get an exclusive photograph of a Cyberman for the newspapers... In "City of Death": In "World War Three", after Joseph Green (a disguised alien infiltrator) delivers a speech about an alien threat with "massive weapons of destruction", the following exchange occurs: The Russian dub replaced the last line with "Well, you did believe." Translated from Russian here, of course. "The Name of the Doctor" shows a clip from the Doctor's initial escape from Gallifrey, and one of the guys monitoring the repair shop remarks, "Who would be stupid enough to steal a faulty TARDIS?" It's shown that Clara, as a Time Lady echo, recommended it, but only after the Great Intelligence did something nasty. In "Robot of Sherwood", after learning that the Sheriff of Nottingham is allied with robots from the future, the Doctor assumes Robin Hood to be just another robot, designed as a form of false hope to keep the slaves working longer. When he confronts the Sheriff with his theory, the Sheriff finds it ridiculous, even asking what kind of fool would create an enemy to make their plans more difficult. |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Although not with the exact same words... And later: Also subverted in another episode of the same series, where you'd expect Tristan to follow this trope again: |
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Person of Interest: Reese is informed that the Victim of the Week's number has come up before. He asks who'd be stupid enough to risk their life a second time. Cue embezzler Leon Tao flying out the window and landing at his feet, having pissed off yet another gang of thugs with big bank accounts. He shows up a third time, getting roughed up by the guys behind the Nigerian scam e-mails ("You guys are actually Nigerian?"), who he scammed. Once he realizes that they're planning to kill him, he stops negotiating and just tells them they need to start running. Reese kicks down the door and fights them all off with an annoyed expression on his face. |
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In Chapter 25 of Wild and Horned Hermit, a Touhou Project spinoff Manga, Marisa spots Sanae using a comet sighting to drum up interest in the Moriya Shrine. She then makes a remark that Reimu would probably be making an even worse get-rich quickly scheme, such as selling rubber tubes filled with oxygen. Guess what Reimu is shown to be preparing to do on the very next page? | |
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In the first episode of Dominion Tank Police, a mook in a stolen prototype tank is confident he's escaped the heroine's older model by climbing an elevator shaft, because she'd have to be some kind of lunatic to fire straight up at him. They both end up buried in the rubble. | |
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In Dragon Ball, whilst going through Pilaf's castle to retrieve the last Dragon Ball, Goku, Bulma, and co. follow arrows through a maze — leading to them being trapped. Pilaf remarks that he couldn't believe there were people stupid enough to fall for that. Even better, Goku's group expressed and dismissed concerns that the arrows were a trap on the grounds that they were too obvious to be a trap. | |
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Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: In an attempt to re-capture Princess Syalis after she escapes the castle, the Demon King sets up a Box-and-Stick Trap with a bed inside. His right-hand man immediately declares that "not even the Princess would fall for that" seconds before Syalis triggers it. | |
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Anytime someone on World's Dumbest... asks this of a featured stunt, there's a fair chance that Danny Bonaduce will immediately try it. Especially if it involves alcohol. | |
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On Pokémon: The Series, our heroes visit a sanctuary for abandoned Pokémon which is protected by several traps, including pitfalls. Ash comments that you'd have to be pretty stupid to fall into one (which offends Misty since she fell into one earlier); cut to Team Rocket at the bottom of a pitfall. | |
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Top Gear: While Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson are discussing a car which (theoretically) generates enough down force to drive upside-down (on the ceiling of a tunnel) at speed, Hammond mentions that the car's manufacturers have found the right tunnel and the right speed but they can't find a driver. Clarkson immediately volunteers Hammond to do it. In one of the news segments, Jeremy noted that if you're losing the "I have never" game, you can always go for "I have never used a tampon." Then James notes he HAS used a tampon. |
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In the "Fans vs. Favorites" season of Survivor, the Black Widow Brigade (Natalie, Amanda, Cirie, and Parvati) run into a problem when the last remaining outsider, Erik, wins immunity which will force them to vote one of their allies out. Cirie suggests to Natalie that she try to get Erik to give the immunity necklace to her by telling him that he's annoyed them so much that he won't be able to get enough votes to win unless he makes some grand gesture to the jury, to which Natalie replies, "No one would fall for that. I mean, who would be that gullible?" Still, she doesn't have much of a choice, so she goes along with the plan. And it works. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: After Mittens watches a television episode in which a character deliberately makes himself sick to create a diversion, she expresses doubts that anyone really would do something so dumb. Turns out Bolt does exactly that in order to get Penny and Joe to meet. | |
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In Eight Billion Genies, Ernest asks why anyone would wish for a volcano to erupt, much less eight of them all named "Mount Doom", complaining about how heavy that Foreshadowing is. In the same scene, Ed asks why a child would wish for Robbie's school to be turned into chocolate. Robbie's genie responds that they don't try to explain wishes, they just grant them. | |
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In the first season finale of Sailor Moon, the youma create an illusion of a captured Tuxedo Mask, which Sailor Moon rushes toward. After the trap is exposed, they create the same illusion again. Sailor Mars says, "Do you really think she's stupid enough to fall for it again?", only for Sailor Moon to prove that she is. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In "Siege at Naxos", Hercules and Iolaus hide out from barbarians in a castle after capturing their leader. Since the soldiers of the castle have long died, leaving the duo on their own (along with a woman named Elora and her elderly father), they put up dummies at night to fool the barbarians into thinking the castle is armed. | |
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A Rabbit Among Wolves: After seeing the news report about Adam's death, Juniper Arc remarks about how she knows her son Jaune is smart enough to stay out of trouble. Cue her seeing his face on the screen and the police knocking on her door. When Coco brings up how Jaune forgoing a mask is the smartest decision he's made since it lets people see him as a person, Yang brings up its also likely that he doesn't see a point as his face is already known though Coco says that's stupid. |
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In The MUSHU-Verse story She-Pooktacular, Danny Phantom meets his Alternate Universe Distaff Counterpart, Dani Fenton/Inviso-Belle. When everyone present questions her on the name, Dani answers that it was either that or "Dani Phantom", and remarks that only someone stupid would make their superhero alias a pun of their own name. Cue her looking at Danny's logo and realizing that's what he did. | |
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Homestar Runner: Homestar himself usually fills this role. For example, in the Strong Bad Email "candy product", Strong Bad designs a chocolate bar in the shape of a pair of pants with a bite taken out of them "for security, 'cause who's gonna steal a pair of half-eaten choco-pants?" At the end of the cartoon, an Easter Egg features Homestar, dressed like a Blatant Burglar, finding one of said candy bars on the ground and remarking "Ooh, pay dirt! A pair of half-eaten choco-pants!" In "record book", Coach Z attempts to set a record for "longest time singing the 'I'm Just Me' song while hopping on one foot with nine pieces of bubblegum stuck to your face". While Strong Bad is in the middle of decrying the record as "random crap that nobody would ever do", we cut to Homsar doing exactly what Coach Z described. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike gets this all the damn time. In Season 3's "Lovers Walk", Cordelia asks: "What kind of moron would want to come back here?" Enter our drunken moron. In Season 4's "The Harsh Light of Day", when he becomes a series regular, Buffy herself foreshadows the next three seasons: "A guy dating Harmony dead. Must be, like, the most tolerant guy in the world." Enter the most tolerant guy in the world. One of the worst (as it had an unintended "casualty") was when Xander mocks Spike by saying that only a nutcase or a complete loser would sleep with him... in the presence of Buffy who had done so just that the night before. |
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In one path of Henry Stickmin Series: Completing the Mission, Henry overhears Icepick discuss the plan of launching the Toppat Orbital Station into space. When asked if anyone can hear him, he replies that nobody in their right mind would try to hijack the station. Henry, being Henry, proceeds to do exactly that. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Shadows of the Empire: Several of the good guys' common-sense violating tactics are cited to work because the opposition wouldn't expect anyone to try them in the first place. Lando eventually lampshades this. Later he does it again. At one point, the Empire tries this method themselves. The ship transporting intel on the second Death Star is being moved on a cargo freighter which is loaded with fertilizer specifically to leak the intelligence and lure the Rebels in the trap of Return of the Jedi: |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi's Spin-Off Babies series Negiho has the girls trying to force out Konoka's "stalker" by doing annoying things to her (like Face Doodling and Tickle Torture). Off to the side, Yue wonders how stupid the stalker would have to be to actually show up for such an obvious trap. Cue Setsuna blasting the lot of them with her Shinmeiryuu techniques, Neck Lifting Asuna while shouting "What do you think you're doing to Ojou-sama!". She's quickly caught in a stalker-snare afterwards. | |
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Ciaphas Cain has noted that with greenskins, it's safest to assume nothing, lest the Orks succeed in crossing seemingly impassible terrain to outflank their enemy, or try a tactic that a sane commander would write off as suicidal. Even during the Third War for Armageddon, when the Imperium was led by the legendary Commissar Yarrick, and the world was already experienced fighting Orks from the Second War for Armageddon, they were still caught off-guard when the Orks bypassed coastal hive cities' land and space defenses by means of an amphibious assault (using giant submarines). | |
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Goblins gives us the Treasure Plants. | |
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The Footprint of Mussolini: In this alternate history story, Mussolini becomes magnanimous toward Jews. During the Second World War, Horthy disobeys Hitler's orders to deport Jews to death camps, instead choosing to send them to Italian soil, thinking he couldn't possibly get upset over that. Hitler not only proceeds to invade Hungary and topple Horthy, he starts ANOTHER war with Italy, all to kill the Hungarian Jewish refugees. | |
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In Spaceballs, the villains' plot relies on them discovering the pass code to the defenses protecting the heroine's planet. Dark Helmet eventually manages to get it: | |
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In Countdown to Final Crisis Monarch asks "Who would be stupid enough to take a shot at me?" Turns out that would be Superboy-Prime, who proceeds to rip apart Monarch's costume, destroying the universe. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIII, the other characters poke fun at Fang for giving into Orphan's nonsense about miracles coming out of misery. | |
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In Groo the Wanderer, the answer to that question, in any context, is always Groo. One of the comic's many Running Gags is that whenever someone makes an observation prefaced or followed by the phrase "As any fool can plainly see...", Groo will chime in with "I can plainly see that!" | |
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The War Gods: In Wind Rider's Oath, Baroness Hanatha catches her daughter Leeana returning from a dangerous horseback ride. Hanatha asks Leeana if she'd tried to cross the ford. Leeana insists that she's not doing things that risky, no one would be stupid enough to try the ford with the river twenty yards out of the bank. At this point, Hanatha admits that she and Leeana's father had been that stupid back when they were first married — though in her defense the river had only been fifteen yards out of its bank at the time. | |
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When the Nazis demand that Indy hand over the Grail Diary in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Henry Jones Sr. laughs at the idea that they'd assume his son was stupid enough to bring it with him after he'd mailed the diary to him in the first place to keep it out of the Nazis' hands. Unfortunately, Indy didn't quite get the memo... Although you figure his dad could have sent a note or something, saying "keep this away from the Nazis". | |
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Austin & Ally: The gang is trying to catch a thief who is robbing every store in the mall, so they prepare to catch him when he breaks into Sonic Boom. Dez sets up a giant life-sized flypaper with a slice of pizza glued to the edge as "bait". Trish tells him that nobody is dumb enough to fall for something so obvious. Dez then foolishly gets caught in his own trap and Trish says, "I was wrong. Someone is dumb enough" | |
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Jen's old co-worker, Bukowski, got scammed by a light elf from New Asgard using her shapeshifting to pretend to be Megan Thee Stallion. The elf's defense is "he had to know it was just fun roleplay, no one could be so stupid to actually believe Megan Thee Stallion would date this guy." Pug, Bukowski's lawyer, uses Jen as a character witness to declare "yes, he really is that stupid." | |
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In Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Opal seals Artemis and Holly in a Death Trap that involves them being ripped apart by a pack of bloodthirsty trolls, and Holly has flashbacks to an anti-troll training course she once had to attend. Unfortunately, the training only covered how to deal with a troll one-on-one, since no-one, the instructor reasoned, could possibly be stupid enough to put themselves in a situation in which they were dealing with multiple trolls at once... | |
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In one episode of Eyeshield 21, Sena watches a TV program on his team's new secret player, and there's a bit where Hiruma, posing as Eyeshield 21, gives an "obnoxious tough guy" speech. Kurita tries to assure him "No one would take that seriously", but then we cut to Monta watching the same program, talking about what a jerk Eyeshield 21 is. | |
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Any use of this type of question on The Goon Show is invariably a cue for Eccles and/or Bluebottle to show up. The audience will often start giggling in anticipation before the question can even be finished. | |
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In Full Metal Panic!, upon discovering that Sousuke plans to evacuate Jindai High School by having Atsunobu announce that "a student council aide I'm sure you're all well aware of" accidentally released a chemical weapon on school grounds, Kurama mocks him for thinking anyone would buy such a nonsense story. The answer, as Atsunobu helpfully points out, is a school dumb enough to let Sousuke keep attending after he accidentally released that last biochemical weapon on campus. | |
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In Mob Psycho 100, a group of delinquents wanting revenge against another delinquent group lures Mob to them with a fake love letter that has extremely terrible handwriting and written with "I'm a girl" in it. Some of the members find the plan pretty terrible and believe no one would believe such an obvious lie, yet Mob still went to see if a girl will show up. | |
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