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Dr. Danger

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ThaBenMan said:
Oh, Ned [http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/introducing-stupid-ned-stark]...
I thought you meant Dennis NEDry from Jurassic Park.

Which would have been my answer too. Turn off the only thing keeping you from getting eaten or trampled by dinosaurs? You just couldn't wait for the bad weather to be over.
 

Zeema

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Rito in To Love Ru

srsly he annoys me just say

[to La la] 'Hey let's just be friend's'

[to Haruno] 'Hey i really like you do you wanna go out with me

and your done
 

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Thespian said:
warrcry13 said:
J.K. Rowling randomly declaring Dumbledore as gay. I have nothing wrong with gay people, but that made no sense.
The man who constantly wears a purple cloak, half moon spectacles and often speaks about some of his very close relationships with other men in his past life and having never had a wife or relationship with a female is gay...

Stop the presses.
Are you saying a man with half moon glasses and purple cloak has to be gay? Purple is my favorite color and i could see myself wearing half moon glasses when I get older. I never got a gay vibe from him when he talked about his friends, and I do not remember him saying he enver had a relationship with a woman.
 

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Bad guy has gun, hero is unarmed. Bad buy throws away gun and engages in overly dramatic hand to hand combat and loses.
 

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Kahunaburger said:
Commander Shepard working for Cerberus for no apparent reason.
Definitely [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points/8868-Experienced-Points-What-s-Wrong-with-Mass-Effect-2]

I still don't understand how you found the combat in the ME2 enjoyable tho.
 

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Any evil player-character in pretty much any RPG with a morality system. They're not evil. They're just fucking dumb and belligerently violent.
 

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Just because I watched it recently 9. ?Oh hey the robotic cat thing that was attacking us tried to put this talisman into that slot. I think I?ll put in myself and see what happens!?. At least all the other characters yell at him for it.
 

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Upham in Saving Private Ryan. Yeah, I know he's supposed to represent how the average person would react when suddenly thrown into a war, but his combination of stupidity and cowardice just really annoyed me.

He was INCHES away from the guy that was about to shoot Tom Hanks and he did nothing. He also got 2 other guys killed! Fuck you Upham.
 

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binnsyboy said:
-Shoved into a light bee-
Maybe it's a bit of an odd thing and seemingly wrong, but it's got to do with knowing that you're stuck with Legion, and that there are things Legion can't actually do for the crew of Red Dwarf while stuck on his station.

He can't make Lister's big plan happen. He can't make Rimmer's career goals or any amount of real success happen to him. He can't give the Cat anything to mate with. And Kryten? Come to think of it, Kryten doesn't have any selfish desire, so he would ironically be the only one who'd REALLY be at home.
Well Lister's plan kind of faded out, didn't it? As I said, the cyber park mentioned would probably give the cat his choice of sexual partners. I would have thought that being around a genius such as Legion would please Rimmer. Not much of what you said could really be accomplished back on Red Dwarf.
 

Gaiseric

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Basically anytime someone says let's split up.

Or when a someone has a gun at whoever's head and then cocks the gun instead of already having the gun ready for business.

Specific Example: In one of the newer Nightside books the baddie sends some crappy goons at Taylor which is dumb in of itself b/c at that point Taylor has become a major player and the baddie should know that goons won't do jack. Taylor uses his power to basically rip all the goons teeth out at once and the goons still think they can win until Taylor threatens to do the same thing to their balls at which point they then do the smart thing and beat feet.

If some dude rips all my teeth out with magic and no real effort, I'm out.
 

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Thespian said:
Every character decision in Portal 2.

What a horrible fuckmess of a game x_x
Really? I thought the it was an amazing game, character wise. I love Cave Johnson especially.

OT: has anyone said Other M yet? If not, that'd be a surprise.
 

The Funslinger

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TheIronRuler said:
But then what would happen to the plot?
Let it slide, mate.
Let it slide.
I've got nothing popping out at the moment, I'll think about it and edit an answer.
I know, but they could have just done something where they did something to have Legion force them to leave.

Oh, and in Eragon:

Eragon is flying on dragon back and notices Brom is being chased by Urgals. He lands between them, and tries to throw all the Urgals with telekinetic magic instead of killing them. All because of some "I hate killing" thing. There's making a deep character with inner-conflicts about what he has to do, and then there's just making a transparent ninny.

Gaiseric said:
Basically anytime someone says let's split up.
Not necessarily, sometimes it's necessary if they are looking for something/someone, or have multiple jobs to do. E.g. in Supernatural, it's usually for a good reason. In horror movies, when the character have no combat skills, are terrified of some murderer? Yeah, that's bloody pathetic. Would it kill a director to forcibly split his characters up for once?
 

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All of the guards in Ultraviolet. Man, they suck. It didn't make go ''What... really?'' as much as it made me go ''Oh my God, how stupid are these guys? You have guns, shoot her!''.
 

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binnsyboy said:
Well Lister's plan kind of faded out, didn't it? As I said, the cyber park mentioned would probably give the cat his choice of sexual partners. I would have thought that being around a genius such as Legion would please Rimmer. Not much of what you said could really be accomplished back on Red Dwarf.
It's an issue of imprisonment. Lister has always had an anti authority streak and thus co-uld not consent to be imprisoned with pretty strict rules (like the 'curfew', due to Legion needing every one to be in their cells when one of them sleeps). Plus, just because they haven't mentioned it for a while, Lister is still all about his plan and his farm on Fiji. To do that he needs to get back to Earth, to do that he needs a ship and Red Dwarf is the closest.

Kryten has to serve the surviving human (a point that crops up in White Hole- he doesn't really serve the crew, he serves Lister).

Rimmer, actually, hates being around geniuses, for the same reason he hates being around his brothers, they remind him of how much of a failure he really is. Plus, Legion was a genius when everyone around him was geniuses, now it's the dwarfers, he's no genius anymore, but still brighter than Rimmer (thus Rimmer would loathe his company- he only wanted Legion to go with them because it would increase his chances of survival and he's used to being hated by everyone around him).

Which leaves the Cat. You every tried trapping a cat in one place? They don't like it. Basically, staying doesn't actually fit any of the characters except Kryten. Also- note that Legion hates them as well and is quite relieved when they escape.

for stupid decisions, anything Peter Petrelli does in Heroes (Like when he goes to save Claire from Sylar in season 1 "I don't have time to wait for the man who can go back in time, or at worst, pause it!"), anytime a character in Heroes lets Peter make a decision.
 

Gaiseric

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binnsyboy said:
Gaiseric said:
Basically anytime someone says let's split up.
Not necessarily, sometimes it's necessary if they are looking for something/someone, or have multiple jobs to do. E.g. in Supernatural, it's usually for a good reason. In horror movies, when the character have no combat skills, are terrified of some murderer? Yeah, that's bloody pathetic. Would it kill a director to forcibly split his characters up for once?
Don't Sam and Dean get jumped fairly often when they split up? And they still don't have the elastic bands for their weapons!

I did mean it more for the second thing you said anyway.
 

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The part in Infamous 2 when

You shoot a nuke at the beast.

I actually could not believe how bad that plan was.

To anyone who is reading the spoiler because they haven't played the game and do not plan to, here is a basic outline of the plan. Two untrained civilians find a nuclear missile in a warehouse. They have no proof that the missile works and no knowledge of how powerful it is. They decide the best thing to do is to fire the nuke from the back of a flatbed truck, using a pair of binoculars to aim it. The target they are aiming a nuke at is visible from their position with the naked eye.

We are also told later that there are "no reports of fallout from the blast", despite the fact that the explosion was close enough to knock the protagonist out, and the fallout from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings was detected on the other side of the world.
 

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Nerfing one of the most badass characters so that he can only take on a few enemies at the same time, only carry two weapons and have to cry behind a rock to heal up, instead of taping health kits to his chest...
 

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warrcry13 said:
Thespian said:
warrcry13 said:
J.K. Rowling randomly declaring Dumbledore as gay. I have nothing wrong with gay people, but that made no sense.
The man who constantly wears a purple cloak, half moon spectacles and often speaks about some of his very close relationships with other men in his past life and having never had a wife or relationship with a female is gay...

Stop the presses.
Are you saying a man with half moon glasses and purple cloak has to be gay? Purple is my favorite color and i could see myself wearing half moon glasses when I get older. I never got a gay vibe from him when he talked about his friends, and I do not remember him saying he enver had a relationship with a woman.
I'm not saying he has to be, but those are hardly qualities generally associated with heterosexuality.
And not that he said he never had a relationship with a woman, but rather, nothing ever indicated that he had.

And finally, if you never got a sense that he might have fallen in love with one of his male friends before, then perhaps you should read more carefully. As Rowling saw it, Dumbledore had fallen in love with Grindelwald, adding to the horror of what he eventually became, and the depth of their relationship.

I just don't understand how a character that has never been alluded to being one sexuality or the other or expressed a love interest in any female can seem "wrong" to be gay. I don't know what you mean by "it made no sense". What does a character have to do for it to be okay for them to be gay? Have rainbows shoot out their eyes, cross dress and speak in a high pitched camp voice about fashion trends?

Geez.
 

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SilverUchiha said:
Thespian said:
Every character decision in Portal 2.

What a horrible fuckmess of a game x_x
Really? I thought the it was an amazing game, character wise. I love Cave Johnson especially.

OT: has anyone said Other M yet? If not, that'd be a surprise.
I enjoyed the game, but I thought it ruined the characters. Portal 1 managed to balance being funny and being sinister. In Portal 2...

The comic side-kick who was lovable, funny but not the least bit threatening became the villain. The big, end-all evil villain.
The previous big end-all evil villain known for being a sadistic murdering witch was put into a potato, so that you had absolutely none of the chemistry with her from portal 1.
The cold, unknown face of Aperture science that provided so much mystery was given a bland paint job with fucking Saxton Hale from TF2. Fairly funny, but it reminded us how boring Aperture was really, just a dude running a business with his secretary, no hidden motive behind it, no secret agenda, nothing.
Ugh.

So yeah :D But you are right about Other M, for sure.