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• The ExplodingTNT series has this happen during several episodes:
  • 6 House Ideas You Should Never Try: During the final segment, Steve builds just a regular house that happens to be above a stronghold.
    You'd Expect: That when some players who are searching for the stronghold get there, they would just dig tunnels that lead under the house without destroying it.
    Instead: They resort to demolishing the house. Just to get to the End portal.
  • If a BANNED Dimension Was Added to Minecraft: This is what kicks off the plot. When a character finds a chest filled with cakes, he is delighted.
    You'd Expect: That Notch, who owned the cakes, would put signs nearby telling would-be thieves whether the cakes are his or not.
    Instead: There is no such warning.
    You'd Then Expect: That the player would get a second chance. The theft was not entirely his fault.
    Instead: Notch bans him right there, claiming to be "germaphobic," which is just an Ass Pull since pathogens require a hack to exist in Minecraft.
    Later: Some jerks who got sent to the titular dimension later share their backstories, and the aforementioned accidental thief reveals that he accidentally ate Notch's cake.
    You'd Expect: That the jerks would show pity.
    Instead: They bully him. He later toughens up to show that he is no weakling, but Notch decides to ban him for good for speaking in all-caps. It doesn't help that the jerks were too close to the rules.
• Lonelygirl15
  • TAAG has kidnapped a brainwashed girl from an evil cult and tied her up. She complains that her hands are going numb and begs them to loosen the ropes just a little. The last time they loosened a prisoner's ropes "just a little", the prisoner escaped the instant their backs were turned.
    • You'd Expect: They'd tell the girl to just deal with it. Especially since Daniel and Jonas are both there.
    • Instead: They loosen the ropes just a little, and the prisoner escapes the instant their backs are turned.
  • TAAG, having recently failed a mission, blames Steve on suspicion of treachery and decides to abandon him in the wilderness. The last time they abandoned a friend in the wilderness, said friend was captured and brainwashed by the aforementioned evil cult.
    • You'd Expect: They'd at least drop him off in a town with enough money to buy a ticket home.
    • Instead: Apparently having learned nothing from their past mistakes, they abandon him in the wilderness.
• In a certain hentai, the main star has wishing powers given to him by a demoness! Who warns him, straightforward, on the rules of wishing, including that "If you wish for anything specific, we will steal it.", along with "You will get what you desire and <didn't pay attention> what you get." This is not the first time he has heard this lecture. Also, this demoness is rather kinky, with a TF fetish.
  • You'd Expect: He would pretty much be careful with his wishes, considering this is a demoness! Who is bluntly telling him that she is a Literal Genie!
  • Instead: His first wish is to be hung like a herd of bucking broncos. Clydsdale. You sure? YES! This ends, well, just about as well as can be expected. Oh, as a bonus, You want the stamina? Yes.Give the girls the same stamina? Yes! End Result: Demoness gets a TF field day. His next wish? I want a cowgirl. Can you make me one? The rest get worse.
• New York Magician: After a building on fire partially collapses on him, Michel takes himself to task for not getting magical head protection, or protection against environmental hazards.
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: In Act III, Dr. Horrible has finally turned the tables on his Arch Enemy, Captain Hammer, by shooting him with a Freeze Ray.
  • You'd Expect: He would get on with the shooting bit, given that the Freeze Ray is Mad Scientist technology and such things always have a disturbing tendency to fail when it's most inconvenient.
  • Instead: He spends three full minutes singing an Evil Gloating song, giving the Freeze Ray time to run out of power and release Captain Hammer.
• Darwin's Soldiers: a cop gets a call about a suspicious package in a hotel.
  • You'd Expect: He evacuates everyone from the hotel and calls the bomb squad to deal with it.
  • Instead: He goes into the room and opens said package, which is a bomb, killing several people and completely destroying the hotel.
• Ah, Marble Hornets, where would you be without this?
  • The protagonist Jay recently paid a nocturnal visit to an abandoned house that he believes is connected to the various weirdness that's been going on. While there, he sees signs that someone had been living there recently, a sink covered in blood, and he has a sudden, extremely violent coughing fit for no apparent reason. For some time, he's had a Youtuber by the name of totheark responding to all his videos with ominous, Mind Screw-tastic videos of his own; when TTA responds to this one, the usual cryptic messages are accompanied by footage of Jay's coughing fit, taken from right behind him.
    • You'd Expect: That Jay would stay the hell away from the place in future, or if he feels he absolutely has to look for more clues, that he would at least take precautions to prevent his stalker from doing anything worse than filming him hacking up a lung.
    • Instead: He announces on YouTube that he's going back to the house, along with the date. He goes alone, at night. Predictably, he's jumped by a creepy guy in a White Mask of Doom on his way out of the house.
    • And Then: He goes back a third time later. And announces it again. Though at least this time he had the brainpower to go during the daytime, not that it made any difference.
  • Entry #40: Jay is standing around a parking lot outside a park, waiting for Alex so they can discuss what to do about a certain someone who's been following them around. Alex is running really late and not answering his cell phone.
    • You'd Expect: That Jay would do anything but what he does. Jay could sit around some more, drive off to get some fast food, leave entirely, stand in the middle of the parking lot and do the Chicken Dance- anything.
    • Instead: He wanders off into the exceptionally creepy woods. Off the trail. Oh, and he's never been there before.
    • Consequently: He gets lost. He wanders a good two miles into the woods before reaching a creepy overgrown brick chimney, which he stops to stare at. Naturally, the minute he turns around, the Operator is literally inches away from him. Surprisingly, Jay then averts this trope: in the single most Genre Savvy action of anyone in the entire series, he responds by dropping the camera and running like hell.
• There's a Man in the Woods: The teacher explains that his students go down to the edge of the woods to have some honeysuckle. Sid wants all the honeysuckle, so to distract everyone, he claims that a man is lurking in the woods.
  You'd Expect: That the staff would get the police would do it. If the police find out that Sid was lying to get some honeysuckle, he could get into serious trouble.
  Instead: The teacher is forced to do the investigating, and Sid gets away with his crimes because his mother sees him as an absolute angel. When the teacher fails, he gets fired without defense. It comes to a head when Sid later has the honeysuckle as he wanted, and the ex-teacher finds him...
• Flashgitz's Racist Mario has this:
  • Mario has just found out that some third-party characters are joining the race that he and the other Nintendo characters are.
    You'd Expect...: That since the Mario Kart Arcade GP had non-Nintendo characters joining the roster, that Mario would allow the third party characters to join his friends in the race.
    Instead...: To Mario, the third party characters have poisoned the fun.
    Even Worse: Mario even falsely assumes that the Nintendo characters have conspired to let the third party characters in without approval from him.
  • Later, Luigi attempts to reason with Mario whilst he gets bombarded by fireballs.
    You'd Expect...: That Mario would realise that his mission was All for Nothing and that he would apologise and explain why he went on said rampage.
    Instead: Luigi gets a natural 1 on his Persuasion check despite giving a solid reason!
    Even Worse: "I have no brother!"
    Even Worse Than That: Mario tries to kill Luigi!
  • Then, Kratos accidentally kills Luigi with his swords as he tries to kill Mario as revenge.
    You'd Expect: That Mario would realise that all this destruction is his fault. He could then atone and set things right.
    Instead: Mario tries to kill Kratos, even devouring Toad in his mad attempts to do so.
    Consequently: Kratos easily overpowers Mario with his dual swords.

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