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1. Torturing a decent couple (Home Sweet Home Alone) – In this remake, the kid tries to defend his home from intruders, like in the usual Home Alone films. However, unlike the original movie, where the intruders are actual criminals trying to rob the house and attempted to harm a child several times, here they are a sympathetic, desperate couple trying to retrieve their stolen property so they can afford to keep their house. They are basically decent people, so watching them being tortured (and some of the methods are quite extreme) is far more painful and not funny even in the slightest. It also doesn’t help that the kid in this movie is a massive brat, and some of the reactions from the couple feel more realistic.

2. Foxy getting lobotomized (Chicken Little) – This is one of the most infamous cases of this and the karmic overkill trope. During an alien attack on Earth, she gets kidnapped and lobotomized by them, and her entire personality is rewritten from a nasty tomboy into a giggling girly girl. When the aliens are appeased and prepare to depart Earth, they offer to change her mind back, but one of Chicken’s friends, Runt, refuses, saying they like her better this way, and then he begins dating her. This is all treated lightheartedly as comeuppance for her bullying, but in reality, it is quite horrifying.

1. Blazing Saddles – Bart rides across the desert on his horse, then swanky jazz music suddenly starts playing. The camera then pans over and reveals that it is Count Basie and his full orchestra set up right in the middle of the desert, performing the music live.

2. SpongeBob SquarePants – In the episode “Clams”, ominous music begins playing whenever the giant clam approaches. Eventually, Mr. Krabs opens a door on the boat and sees a real-life orchestra playing the music whenever the clam appears, and he yells at them to stop. Later, Mr. Krabs uses the orchestra so the clam will return and he can get back his one millionth dollar, but when he jumps into the clam’s mouth in an attempt to retrieve the money, the clam swallows him. The orchestra then stops playing, and the conductor takes a bow.

3. Teen Titans – In the episode “Mad Mod,” the titular villain traps the Titans in a school, and during a chase scene, upbeat Japanese pop-rock music starts playing. During a Scooby-Doo-style hallway chase, the Titans eventually stop and see a moving statue head of Mad Mod playing the music, and Robin goes to the statue, flips the head back to expose a knob, and turns off the music.

1. The Diamond Arm – Foreign smugglers speak in nonsensical gibberish that is dubbed into Russian, which turns it into a heated debate and the translator then says, “What follows is untranslatable wordplay using local idiomatic expressions.”

2. Austin Powers in Goldmember – Austin Powers and his father decide to speak in “English English.” At first, the subtitles translate what they are saying, but eventually their speech becomes so incomprehensible that the subtitles devolve into question marks, then “tea kettle,” and finally “shat on the turtles.”

1. The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3) – At the end of the game, in the Jefferson Memorial, you need to enter a heavily irradiated room in order to activate a water purifier and bring clean water to the entire wasteland. It would have been a great heroic sacrifice, but the problem is that it could have been done by your three companions: Fawkes, a mutant who is immune to radiation; Charon, a ghoul who cannot be harmed by radiation; and the robot RL-3, which is built to survive radiation. However, when you ask them to do it, they flat-out refuse and say that it’s all on you. In the Broken Steel DLC, this was changed so you can send your companions instead, but the game still shames you for doing so. So I guess being stupid is more heroic.

2. Leone (Akame ga Kill!, anime) – After managing to assassinate the Prime Minister, she received multiple gunshot wounds to the stomach. It would have been a good idea to go to a doctor who could treat her wounds, but instead she chooses to say goodbye to Akame, spend the entire day wounded, drink with her friends at a bar, and then go into a dark alley to lie down and die.

3. Jonatan Kent (Man of Steel) – One of the most stupid death in fiction I have ever seen. A tornado appears out of nowhere, people start hiding from it, and the Kent family notice that a dog is trapped in a car. Clark goes to save it, but Jonathan stops him and says that he will do it himself. After saving the dog, Jonathan injures his ankle, and when Clark tries to save him, Jonathan gestures for him to stop because the world is supposedly not ready to learn that he has powers, so Clark just lets the tornado kill him.

First, Jonathan could have simply let his superpowered son save the dog instead of going himself as a normal human farmer. And after injuring his ankle, Clark still could have saved him by using his super speed, or he probably would not even have needed it and could have simply run to him, considering how slowly the tornado was moving toward him.

Regarding keeping his powers secret, Clark never had an issue risking his identity being exposed in order to save lives, and half the town already knows this after he previously saved a bus full of children, so it would not have been a big deal for him.

And also, we saw earlier that Clark showed a fair amount of rebellious teenage angst, which would make you think that he would go against his father’s advice, but no, he listens to it and does nothing while his father gets sucked into the tornado.

The scene is just ridiculous and only exists to make Clark sad.

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion — In the quest “Nature’s Fury,” to prove that you are peaceful, you must approach without attacking a bear. The bear will attack, but you can either let it hit you or run away for a bit; then it will walk away, allowing you to enter the cave behind it and claim the Boots of the Crusader.

2. Far Cry 4 — At the start of the game, Pagan Min tells you to stay and enjoy your meal while he handles something. If you choose to sit and wait for about 13 minutes, he returns and helps you fulfill your mother’s wish to have her ashes scattered in Lakshmana.

3. Metal Gear Solid 3 — During the confrontation with The End, if you save your game and wait a week in real time, he will die of old age.