text: %%%%%%%%%%%% This list of examples has been alphabetized. Please add your example in the proper place. Thanks!%%%%%%%%%%%%!Note: As a DeathTrope, [[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers all spoilers on this page are unmarked]].----* ''Manga/SevenSeeds'':** Unami, the chosen guide for Team Summer A. The members of the team are previous students of his, all whom he has bullied, physically beaten, verbally and sexually abused and overall is hated by ''all'' of them to a certain degree. One of them even said she'll kill him. And upon awakening in the future, first thing he does, he bursts into the room where they are and begins barking orders to the students that hate him, ''all of whom were issued guns''! Of course, he ends up fatally shot and left to [[DyingAlone die alone]]... [[AssholeVictim You can't really feel sorry for the guy]].** Majority of the Team Summer A candidates. Despite being trained from birth onward to survive in nature and be self-reliant, they don't take the Final Test seriously and think it's not really dangerous. They quickly fall victim to various traps or dangers in nature, simply because they didn't use their heads.*** Special mention goes to the girls who bullied Ayu. They make her go with them and use her as a sort of maid, making her cook for them every time. When they decide they want to eat something with chopsticks, they choose to make them out of branches from a poisonous tree. Despite these girls having the same knowledge about plants as Ayu, they make the chopsticks, eat and die from the poison.* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'':** Humanity to a certain extent in the segment, "The Second Renaissance Part 2". They basically cause their own defeat by blocking the sun, without any objections and without thinking or using common sense, to try to cut off the machine's power supply, but it also kills Humanity's vegetation and it cuts off Humanity's Vitamin D (ouch), and the humans were not able to adapt to this and are ultimately defeated by the machines.* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':** Marco Bott overhears his classmates, [[TheMole Reiner and Bertolt]], having a '''very''' suspicious conversation about Titans. He immediately confronts them about it, making it clear that he overheard everything. They quickly panic and chase him down, at which point he attempts to talk his way out of it. They steal his gear and leave him to die, because HeKnowsTooMuch. * ''{{LightNovel/Baccano}}'':** Inverted when Randy and Pezzo's stupidity leads to them becoming ''immortal.''** Isaac and Miria, also Too Dumb To Die, as they'd probably fly under the radar of anyone who ''could'' kill them.*** Not that they'd be able to anyway; it takes them until they're walking around the modern-day world to realize they haven't aged in about 70 years, and are thus also immortals.*** Only immortals can kill immortals, and other immortals will either let them live because they are friends, because they find them amusing, because they underestimate the chaos they bring or because they are truly terrified of the after-effects they'd suffer from said killing.* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':** The torturer of the Tower of Rebirth. Thinking that he has the upper hand because he locked the most dangerous enemies of his kingdom (aka the main characters) in a dungeon room, he proceeds to hang around to taunt them. When Guts [[TranquilFury slowly stands and asks in an unnervingly quiet and soft voice]] if he was responsible for Griffith's mutilation, the torturer pays no heed and proceeds to describe exactly how he tortured him over the past year, finishing by showing them his crowning jewel: [[BerserkButton Griffith's severed tongue,]] worn as a necklace. His death is brutal, quick and horrifically painful. Worse, he brags how [[TemptingFate nothing they do will succeed]], because the door is three times thicker than any normal door. Too bad he never took Guts' [[{{BFS}} weapon of choice]] into account...* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'':** Chaka, not only the [[JerkAss biggest asshole]] in the series, but also the [[WhatAnIdiot biggest dumbass]] as well.*** Thinking himself to be the baddest ass of them all, he obnoxiously hits on [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] in an attempt to get her to duel him, then [[KickTheDog beats the crap out]] of [[MoralityPet Rock]] in order to antagonise her enough to draw on him, until he gets dragged off by Yoshida. This, despite the fact that Rock and Revy are working for Hotel Moscow, whom his bosses are trying to conduct important negotiations with.*** He decides to take over the group by kidnapping [[YakuzaPrincess the heiress to the leadership of the clan]] with the help of a street gang, and holding her hostage in order to draw out Ginji, her [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana-wielding,]] [[PapaWolf badass protector]], to kill him before selling the girl into sexual slavery. Predictably, Ginji and Revy tear the {{Mooks}} apart, whilst Chaka exits, dragging Yukio with him (and loses her after Rock blindsides him with some cleaning fluid, a bowling pin, and a [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck You!"]]).*** Later, he comes across Revy again, and again tries to get her to draw, because clearly he can take the woman ''who just tore through his entire crew'' like they were nothing. He starts counting down from ten... and she doesn't wait, and instead drop-kicks him in the face and delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, before luring him to a nearby pool... where Ginji is waiting for him to deliver an extremely nasty, but very, very KarmicDeath.** [[JokeCharacter Rotton the Wizard]] seems like this at first, with his InTheNameOfTheMoon spiel at his introduction, during which Revy shoots him. Subverted in that he's the only one who bothered to wear a bulletproof vest. And his current position as a maybe-MoralityPet to a DragonLady KnifeNut and a ChainsawGood body disposal expert.** The Neo Nazi who stops to brag about how awesome his HandCannon is. While the vicious, murderously psychotic DarkActionGirl [[OneManArmy who effortlessly slaughtered his fellows]] is standing right in front of him. ''And has her weapon drawn''. Needless to say, he gets blown away mid-rant for his trouble.** The Neo Nazis in general were this. They knew that there was another armed group in the area after the same painting that they were. What did they do after retrieving the painting and driving the Lagoon company away? They started to party. Loudly. With plenty of alcohol and not even a single guard posted. While they had a large supply of firearms on hand. Really, even without Revy and Dutch the idiots stood a good chance of accidentally shooting themselves up before the night was over..** Chen and Louvac are both this. Chen decides to hire Louvac to kill the Lagoon Company traders for working with [[TheMafiya Balalaika]], then proceeds to brag about it to everyone in town, completely ignoring that not only is the Lagoon Company successful for being ''very'' good at what they do, but that said skill has earned them a lot of friends in high places.*** Louvac and his men not only try to take on Revy (a badass of such renown in Roanapur that her presence bumped a bunch of mercenaries' price for a job from $1,000 to $30,000), but they try to shoot up the Lagoon Company's boat from both side... without staggering their positions, causing two of the boats to take each other out.* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':** Driscoll boasts about killing [[HeterosexualLifePartners Sasakibe to Yamamoto's]] face, then rubs it in further by using Sasakibe's stolen bankai against Yamamoto. Yamamoto's response is to fry Driscoll to the bone.** A captain is more powerful that the rest of his division (200+ warriors) combined and all shinigami know to stay well away from fighting captains as a result. When the Tenth Division captain accidentally crosses jurisdictional boundaries, a patrolling 13th division soldier runs over to protest, completely ignoring the fact the intrusion has happened because the captain is being pushed back by a captain-class enemy. The soldier is very quickly [[RedShirt killed]].* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'':** Sakura is this way around Sabato, always offering her a hand even when she had tried to kill him just seconds prior or allowing her to seduce him in her attempts to kill him. Her logic is, if she kills him, Dokuro can't. The eponymous Dokuro is an angel who can turn back time, meaning Sakura dies and then time is rewound to when Dokura wishes it to be. * ''Anime/CrossAnge'':** Julio proceeds with his extermination campaign, even when he was forewarned early by the other Mana leaders ''not'' to. He provokes the TranquilFury of [[BigBad Embryo]] and gets a twin WaveMotionGun attack to the face.* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'':** Goran, the Russian Contractor in the second season. He's got SuperSpeed with ''none'' of the RequiredSecondaryPowers. His reaction times aren't enhanced, he's [[FragileSpeedster not superhumanly tough]], heck, he even gets sore muscles. He is defeated by a contractor whose power is to make it rain, because his superspeed made each raindrop hit with the force of a bullet. He also doesn't carry a weapon of any sort, meaning his offensive options are... well he's got none. Any attempt to punch or grab his opponent would liquify his arm. * ''Manga/DeathNote'':** Raye Penber, an F.B.I. agent who was sent in to shadow Light Yagami, as a potential suspect for Kira. Due to circumstances, Raye is forced to get into contact with Light... and proceeds to show his real [=ID=] to his target, who he is following, because he is under suspicion of being the one who is killing people from afar. [[TemptingFate How could this possibly backfire]]? So, Light proceeds to memorize his face and name and manipulates him via the Death Note into helping him kill the other agents sent to Japan, before letting Raye die from a Death Note-induced heart attack.** Naomi Misora, the fiancee of the above-mentioned, recently murdered F.B.I. agent figures out crucial information on the Kira case and then decides to trust [[AloneWithThePsycho Light]] with it after he's been acting creepy, following her around, and asking "HaveYouToldAnyoneElse?" Incidentally, she decides to trust Light because he reminds her of L, lampshading that the two are NotSoDifferent.** Someone who uses the name of Kira to pad his own pockets, knowing that Kira is a vengeful god of justice without much sense of mercy. Demegawa? Can you say [[SubbingVersusDubbing "SAKUJO"/"DELETE?"]][[note]]SAKUJO means something like 'eliminate' or 'erase'. It's the catchphrase of Mikami, the 4th Kira, who ultimately does just that to Demegawa and his entire circle. [[NoIndoorVoice All caps are a must]].[[/note]]** Misa Amane. After having her life extended twice by two shinigami, she then goes and cuts her life in half twice, by doing the "eye deal" again. She later commits suicide anyway.* ''LightNovel/DenpaTekiNaKanojo'':** IdiotHero Juu, after seemingly defeating the SerialKiller, takes time to answer his cellphone looking the other way. Guess what happens. Later he will stage a StupidSacrifice for Ame. Then he will go through a room in fire to SaveTheVillain and talk with a person with a severe case of SanitySlippage in an ideal place to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. In all those cases, he is saved by Ame or LaserGuidedKarma.* ''Manga/DevilmanLady'':** Jun gets episode 1 going by encountering a strange woman (Asuka) stalking her. When Asuka comes to her door in the middle of the night, Jun, despite being afraid, unlocks her own door, willingly gets in a car with Asuka, lets Asuka drive her to a darkened area of the docks, and obediently walks into a deserted warehouse whereupon Asuka locks her in with a werewolf.** Also, Jun's girlfriend Kazumi dies when she leaves her hiding place for no good reason whatsoever.* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'':** [[DirtyCoward Makuramon]] decided it would be a [[BullyingADragon great idea to show up and taunt]] [[PsychoForHire Beelzemon]] over the latter having trouble fighting [[WalkingWasteland Megidramon]], ''while he was still fighting Megidramon''. Pushing the BerserkButton on a guy with a HairTriggerTemper who's already a ''lot'' stronger than you and has been having a bad day? Clearly too dumb to live.*** Never mind the fact that said guy, like most other Digimon in that world, [[YourSoulIsMine kills Digimon to absorb their data/strength]]--which Makuramon ''knew''-- and currently needed a boost to beat Megidramon. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Guess who]] [[WhatAnIdiot he picks]].* Every single government in ''Anime/DragonautTheResonance''. One side commits several outright acts of war, which the other side ignores. The same government then kidnaps one of the dragons, which causes the hive mind of the dragon's homeworld to launch an attack which destroys a space station, and a battle which wrecks most of Mars. Who does ultimate blame get placed on? The rescue party. And in a separate incident, a clearly insane dragonaut attacks another dragonaut over a perceived slight at the spaceport. While a shuttle is launching. When he misses a shot, trashing part of the launch equipment (nearly getting all the other dragonauts killed, as they are in the shuttle), he blames his target for dodging. He doesn't even get reprimanded, let alone receive the court-martial that kind of action deserves.* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':** Goku's father Bardock from the prequel OVA ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku'', who knows far in advance that Frieza is going to destroy his home planet. What does he do? Thanks to a double dose of both HonorBeforeReason and RevengeBeforeReason he decides to take on Frieza single-handedly in a bid to stop him from destroying Planet Vegeta, despite knowing perfectly well that he was FAR too weak to stand a chance in hell against Frieza instead of getting in the nearest pod and getting the hell out of dodge and maybe coming back when he did stand a chance. To be fair, [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Saiyans aren't exactly known for strategic retreats]].** Garlic Jr. from ''Anime/DragonBallZDeadZone'' is this in spades, as when he ends up fighting Goku and Piccolo in the climax and has them on the ropes, instead of just wearing them down with his immortal stamina he chooses to [[spoiler:open a portal to the eponymous Dead Zone, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which he is promptly knocked into by Gohan]]]].*** Later on in the series, Garlic Jr. returns, only to [[WhatAnIdiot try the exact same thing]]. Keep in mind again: Garlic Jr has CompleteImmortality. He could defeat literally anything in the universe by just wearing it down. He went for this solution ''twice.'' And since his return was only made possible by the Makyo Star (which is destroyed), the second time meant he was gone for good.*** In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'''s take on it, the plot of ''Dead Zone'' is a script Krillin is pitching to [[BreakoutCharacter Nappa]]. When pressed on the issue, Krillin [[LampshadeHanging admits that he wrote himself into a corner]]. Funny enough, this trope isn't so much in place, as Shenron responds to the wish by saying that he can't wait to see how Garlic Jr. manages to blow this.** During the Frieza Saga, one of Frieza's {{Mooks}} comes in while he's berating Zarbon and confirms Frieza's suspicions that Vegeta had attacked a Namekian village and made off with a Dragon Ball. Unfortunately, he makes the critical mistake of admitting to [[BadBoss Frieza]] that he killed the sole surviving Namekian without bothering to ask him ''where'' the Dragon Ball was, and [[YouHaveFailedMe gets vaporized for it]].-->'''Frieza''': You imbecile. You've disposed of the only witness.** Frieza has been sliced in half, near dead, and was given a sliver of Super Saiyan Goku's power to survive on as an act of mercy. And what does he do with it? He tries to use it to kill the Super Saiyan from behind, despite the fact that it most likely wouldn't have made a dent. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for the tyrant. He got better, only to get KilledOffForReal by Future Trunks. It's even worse when he comes back in both ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' and its ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' adaptation - after being resurrected, his men tell him to just leave Goku and just deal with his empire instead. Instead Frieza decides to train, get stronger and go try to kick Goku's ass again. Predictably he is beaten again and killed again.*** In fact, in ''Super'', he decides to try and piss off Goku '''again''', targeting his friends and trying to kill Krillin once again to deliberately enrage him, despite knowing full well from the last time [[SuperMode what happened when he pushed Goku]] [[TranquilFury past the]] [[CurbStompBattle breaking point.]] One wonders by this point if Frieza being knocked around on Namek gave him brain damage or something.*** Just to add some hypocrisy into the mix, he repeatedly mocks Goku and Vegeta for their arrogance, despite the fact that his own arrogance was not only the cause of his downfall, but he's ''continuing'' to act arrogantly. ** Vegeta, to some extent. He has the bad habit of throwing furious raging blasts at his enemies [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill that are often powerful enough to blow up a planet]]. However, ''Saiyans can't breath in space'', which means he would also die! Of course, Vegeta would rather die than lose, but he never even considers this detail, even when others scream it at him. This is also rather foolish behavior in that it tires him out quickly, which is how Frieza deals with him after transforming into his final form.*** Also, he let Cell absorb Android 18. That was arrogant to the point of sheer stupidity.** Dr. Gero created Androids 17 and 18, who were already rebellious teenagers when they were converted into beings far stronger than he whom he had no reliable way of controlling. Then he converted himself into an android, only to base his own design on the weaker energy absorbing model. Not content with ''that'' level of suicidal behavior, he continues to berate and threaten them after waking them up as a desperate GodzillaThreshold measure despite the fact that they've already tried to kill him once before, and ''continues'' doing this even after they snatch the killswitch remote control from him and he loses all his control over them. His death came quickly. For an evil "genius", he's not too bright.** Androids 17 and 18 themselves. Despite Android 16, Piccolo, Krillin, Trunks, and Tien ''all'' warning them to run from Cell while he's distracted, ''repeatedly'', both of them stayed, with 17 even arrogantly believing he could beat Cell by himself before he was absorbed -- ''after'' being beaten so badly by Cell he could barely stand, no less. His sister is no quicker on the uptake, though, standing around gaping even after Cell absorbs her brother, to the point where 16 literally has to grab her to try and make their escape (for all the good it does at that point.)** Babidi bosses [[EldritchAbomination Majin Buu]] around, abuses him both physically and verbally (especially Buu's intelligence), and the only thing he has to keep Buu in check is [[BullyingADragon repeated threats to seal him up again]]. The problem being that releasing Buu was Babidi's '''entire''' plan for millennia, meaning it was obvious he wouldn't re-seal Buu after all that time and effort, ''and'' Buu's HealingHands powers were the only thing offsetting Babidi's [[SquishyWizard Squishiness]]. After Goku plants the seeds of rebellion by asking "Why do you let him treat you so poorly?", Buu grabs Babidi by the throat (keeping him from casting the sealing spell), [[IronicEcho calls him an idiot]], and then [[OffWithHisHead punches his head off]].** During the Buu Saga, Chi-Chi walked up to Majin Buu and slapped him while yelling at him for killing her oldest son (who was leagues more powerful than her by dint of being a ''Super Saiyan 2''). While this was a perfectly understandable MamaBear reaction, she still got turned into an egg and smashed for her stupidity.** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': During the Future Trunks Saga, Gowasu goes to the future in an attempt to talk Zamasu/[[EvilTwin Goku Black]] down and give him a LastSecondChance at redemption, ignoring the fact that Black has already killed ''two'' [[AlternateSelf different iterations]] of him to advance his [[KillAllHumans Zero Mortals Plan]]; only Goku and Vegeta's intervention saves Gowasu from being vaporized when Black [[RedemptionRejection refuses]]. It's even worse in the [[Manga/DragonBallSuper manga adaptation]], where Gowasu decides to try to reason with Black ''without'' Goku and Vegeta backing him up, leading to Black [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbing him in the chest]].* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'':** All the gangs in the city of Ikebukuro have Rule #1: Don't screw with Izaya Orihara. However, the ''entire city'' has Rule #0: '''''DON'T SCREW WITH SHIZUO HEIWAJIMA'''''. The gangs in the city don't bother telling members the latter rule, since if you're dumb enough to break it, you're probably doing the gang a favor by getting yourself killed. This rule is prevalent that ''anyone'' who doesn't follow it is regarded as less intelligent than a public school dropout. Just about the only exception to it is the aforementioned Izaya Orihara, one of the few men capable of fighting Shizuo without facing major injury -- [[ArchEnemy the two outright]] ''[[ArchEnemy despise]]'' [[ArchEnemy each other]], and Izaya makes it a habit to piss off Shizuo whenever he can, mainly because he can get away with it (though ''not'' for lack of trying on Shizuo's part).* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':** The female assistant in the first episode. The moment she saw the devastation that was being caused you would have expected her to realize that a noncombatant like herself should do the smart thing and get to the exit ASAP.** Most of the guards in the first episode who are massacred by by Lucy also fall in this category. Despite knowing about the vector range (2 meters) they choose to stand still as slowly walking death approaches. * ''Manga/FairyTail'':** Mirajane and her [[NotQuiteDead not quite]] dead little sister Lisanna are battling Azuma, a BloodKnight opponent who appears disappointed by his two supposedly weak opponents until Lisanna boasts that Mirajane is the famed "[[RedBaron She-Devil]]" Mirajane who only becomes strong when using her Satan Soul transformation (which Mirajane clearly said she is refraining from using because she's low on magic power). So Azuma makes Mirajane do just that...by [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty strapping Lisanna to a bunch of explosives and giving Mirajane three minutes to beat him before they explode]], which leads to Mirajane making a HeroicSacrifice to save Lisanna from the blast. So Mirajane, one of the strongest fighters at Fairy Tail's disposal during a time when they need as many strong fighters as they can get, nearly gets herself killed thanks to her sister's underestimation of their opponent. Fortunately for Lisanna, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she realizes just how stupid it was of her to do that]] and wises up.** Something similar happens not long after, though in this case, it's more like "Too Dumb for Everyone Around Her to Live". Before Grimoire Heart came to attack, Fairy Tail was in the middle of an exam that Cana was taking very seriously to the point that she threatened to leave the guild if she failed. So what's the best thing to do when a bunch of uber-powerful opponents have come to fight, inadvertently interrupting the test in the process? According to Cana at the time, it's continuing to take the test as if there weren't any enemies to begin with, instead of helping her friends fight when some of them are falling left and right. To her credit, she didn't realize that some of her friends have already fallen, but what does she do next? After Lucy gives her a lead on how to pass the exam, ''[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she knocks out Lucy and abandons her to do just that]]''. And this is while knowing that there are enemies powerful enough to kill them wandering around. And Lucy ''would have'' been killed if she hadn't woken up at the last possible second. Again, to Cana's ''slight'' credit, she ''did'' try hiding Lucy out of sight from potential enemies. But that didn't stop Lucy from being found anyway. Similar to the above example, however, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Cana eventually recognizes her own idiocy]] [[BigDamnHeroes and rushes to her friends' rescue]].** The Tartaros arc features the titular guild, whose members are legitimate demons, trying to activate a powerful magic. To unlock this magic's seal they need to kill certain members (current and former) of the Magic Council, but don't know which ones, so they just opt to kill them all until they succeed. There is one, however, who is subverted to their purposes and helps them find the last former member with a seal. To save the trouble of tracking him down, the traitor takes the last part of the seal into himself, with the intent to give it to someone else so they can be killed and break the seal. He tells Tartaros' members this after taking the seal but ''before'' passing it on. A group that has a necromancer within their ranks, meaning he has no more value to them alive than dead in the first place. He's immediately RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':** In the manga version, several members of the Amestris military give [[PsychoForHire Zolf J. Kimblee]] a Philosopher's Stone so he can test it to see how much more powerful he gets. Kimblee uses it to create massive destruction, upon his return they ask for it back, and Kimblee does what everyone who has spent 5 minutes with the man expects. He swallows the stone then kills the morons who gave arguably the most psychotic person in the series (only Envy is as close) a stone that upgrades his power. Maybe next time they should do some research on the guy they use for their experiment.** Kimblee later suggests that he faked being sane in order to pass the State Alchemist exam. Perhaps everyone except the Homunculi and those in on their plan was fooled.** Dietlinde Eckhart, the main villain of TheMovie. She invades Amestris on the mistaken belief that it's Shamballa, which it shares no similarities with, and doesn't even make sense. Shamballa is supposed to be located near Tibet, and Amestris is in another dimension. She then tries to take over the place when the Thule Society has only about 1,000 members while Amestris is a heavy militarized nation with a much larger army. Her army is crushed in about 15 minutes.** Envy itself qualifies. Envy went on a huge rant about how it was the one who killed Roy Mustang's best friend, and almost hurt itself from laughing about it. Envy went out of its way to tell how it was also the one who started the Ishval War and how amusing it was to see such a huge battle over the death of one little girl that it killed. Envy finds itself [[KillItWithFire being tortured with fire about two seconds later]].* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'':** Miaka. Though Miaka doesn't actually die in this series, that is not due to lack of effort on her part. Time and time again, she runs headfirst into danger alone, despite not having any magic or compbat skills, and despite having 7 guardians whose sole purpose for existing is to protect her. She survives only because of the Suzaku 7 wage a vigorous battle with darwinism to keep her alive and the fact that most the enemies just want to kidnap her instead of kill her.* ''Literature/{{Gate}}''** Zorzal El Caesar, second son of Emperor Molt and Crown Prince of The Empire, This guy is an asshole and rapist who believes he can take on the JSDF and win despite the fact the latter has far superior tech. The first thing he does once he [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes the throne]]? Have his goons smear the JSDF's name [[DressingAsTheEnemy by disguising as them]] and attacking the Alnus Living Community.* ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'':** Team Try Fighters are going up against Team Angelfish, a group of Gunpla Fighters who do an aquatic theme as they're also part of the swim club. As the battle starts, Team Angelfish make note that all they had to do in their terrain, Tundra, is break through the ice, dive in, and give Team Try Fighters trouble. However, as the ice is frozen solid, they panic and decide to self-destruct instead of allowing a CurbStompBattle. What makes it this trope is the fact that they ''gave up so easily''. Their suits were a Z'Gok, Gogg and Zock, which were designed for aquatic ''landing'', meaning they were good for both water and land. All three of them also had dangerous weaponry, especially the Zock, who had beam-type weaponry in front, behind and on top. They essentially took CripplingOverspecialization to a new art form.* ''Manga/HangingBalloons'' by Creator/JunjiIto:** The town is being haunted by a massive swarm of giant floating heads with nooses hanging from them, all of which are intent on killing everyone (especially the person with "their" face) and cannot be stopped. The protagonist's father... decides that, instead of locking the doors and windows and remaining safe, he needs to go to the office and get some paperwork done. When his children point out the ''very clear danger'' waiting for them outside, he says he can just protect his neck by wrapping his arm around it. Predictably, only a few steps out the door, he's snagged by a noose and dragged away.* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':** In the Cross Fire omakes, a cult honestly expect Heinkel and Yumie, who they (correctly) believe to be Vatican assassins to leave simply because the cultists insist the church is a holy site. The same assassins that are there because members of said cult launched a chemical attack on the Vatican and ''tried to assassinate the pope'' then publicly took credit for the attack. Naturally Heinkel and Yumie kill all of them.* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':** Right, Keiichi, go into that creepy basement with a self-confessed psychotic murderer. And after you survive that, feel free to go out in the [[IdiotBall dead of night to chat with her]]. [[note]]To be fair, the original game had a decent reason. Doesn't make it any smarter, though.[[/note]]* ''Manga/HimitsuNoAkkoChan'':** Akko-chan in the aptly named '_____' episode asks her [[LiteralGenie magic mirror]] to make her deaf and mute, thus, more empathic to the [[LongLostUncleAesop new deaf kid in her class]]. After realizing that [[FridgeBrilliance she just wished herself mute, and her magic mirror could only obey to spoken commands]], she spends the whole episode as a non-verbal deaf girl, moving from curiosity to [[{{Wangst}} deep-rooted depression]]. Keeping her rationality until the realization of her newfound handicaps kicks in, she then starts acting in a completely unreasonable way, ranging from acting as she were completely uncapable of any kind of communication to running blindly in a dangerous, isolated place, knowing that, being unable to cry for help, she'd risk falling in a ravine and being left there to starve. Exactly what happens to her. On the top of it, the deaf boy "inspiring" her wish sees into her self-destructive ideas and manages to save her from certain death.* ''Manga/InitialD'':** The last Saitama team's fourth season calls a bunch of gang-banger types to beat up Project D and neglects the fact that the gang-bangers are from the same region as Project D and thus likely to be fans and that the owner of the car they forced into a wreck during the practice runs (using a cheap trick of spilled oil) was the former boss of those same gang-bangers. The current boss was NOT amused at being made to look bad.* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'':** Kikyo gloatingly tells Naraku EXACTLY why he can't kill her (Onigumo's heart is inside him). As a result he is able to rid himself of it and later ''use'' Onigumo's Heart to go ahead and kill her. ** We also have this with Tekkei, who, despite being a powerful youkai (or, rather because of that), doesn't seem to learn her lessons well, as what had her sick in the first place was eating a poisonous youkai, however, she tries to eat Naraku and this gets her killed.* ''Anime/KageKaraMamoru'':** The very premise of the series: a family has been secretly protected for ninjas for so long that they've lost the ability to survive normal life. The latest descendant, the female protagonist, therefore has a supernatural ability to walk blindly into trouble, and generally gets rescued before she even realizes what's happening.* ''Anime/{{Kagewani}}'':** Takeru, despite having his crew killed off mysteriously, decided to film a cryptid so that he can gain fame in being the first person in Japan to actually see it live. [[spoiler:He didn't live that long since the cryptid snuck up on him and killed him.]]* ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari'':** The main character Yamaoka Momosuke. He has a habit of blindly trusting and attaching himself to even ObviouslyEvil people, trying to sacrifice himself for others and jumping in to save people from sword-wielding maniacs without any other means to defend himself than yelling "Please calm down!" He'd probably have died at least once every episode if it wasn't for Mataichi's team always saving his ass.* ''Anime/MaiHime'':** Joseph Greer fatally shoots Alyssa with Miyu nearby, but does not run away immediately afterward, instead announcing his reasons for doing so. Within moments, an enraged Miyu kills him.** During her confrontation with Shizuru, Haruka not only [[BerserkButton unnecessarily insults Natsuki]], but continues to insult Shizuru ''even as her Element is drawn'' rather than stop provoking her or run away as Yukino suggests, thus forcing Yukino to try to defend her, leading to the destruction of Yukino's CHILD Diana, and Haruka's own death.** When Nao first encounters Shizuru while attacking Natsuki, she is easily defeated. In response, she kidnaps Natsuki again, this time ''for the express intention of luring Shizuru out''. To make matters worse, by this time, [[LoveMakesYouEvil Shizuru has gone insane from Natsuki's rejection]], and not only destroys her CHILD Julia, but tries to finish off Nao before Natsuki intervenes.* The Princess from ''Manga/MaouJouDeOyasumi'' doesn't have much in the way of common sense, and has died a few times because her need for a comfy sleeping spot outweighed her sense of self-preservation. At one point, she even purposely killed herself so she could take one of the demon monk's coffins to use as a bed.* ''Anime/MazingerZ'':** Several characters of the series (including TheHero or its {{Tsundere}} BattleCouple) get at least one occasion where they seem determined to off themselves. The civilians thought it was a good idea remaining near from the place where a HumongousMecha and a {{Robeast}} were fighting, or blamed the heroes for the destruction and deaths Hell and his lackeys were responsible of, or pressed the Government to yield EVERY TIME Dr. Hell was blackmailing it are good examples. A good, specific example is ''[[Characters/MazingerZ Yuri]]'', BrattyHalfPint Sayaka's cousin: Let's go over the facts, Yuri. You are a disabled, little IllGirl can't run or move quickly because you need a wheelchair. You know there is a giant robot in the city, stomping on buildings and people. Kouji has gone out to stop it after telling you very clearly you must stay in home because you are safer. Still do you insist on leaving the home and go to where the giant robots are fighting because you have a crush on Kouji and you want to see him? Okay, you can leave. After all, what can possibly go wrong?* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' features a depressingly sizable number of these.** Adenauer Paraya, TheFederation's point man in their negotiations with BigBad Char, is the brain trust who decides that the best way to appease a terrorist currently conducting a campaign of dropping giant space rocks on Earth is to give him.... a giant space rock. One loaded with nukes, even. He is shocked, ''shocked!'', when Char promptly betrays the agreement, and spends the rest of his onscreen time doing his best impression of the Persian messenger's VillainousBreakdown from ''Film/ThreeHundred'' ("We had a treaty! This is madness!") until his daughter Quess blows him away.** Chan Agi, Amuro's DesignatedLoveInterest and GirlOfTheWeek, is a Londo Bell technical officer whose job is to analyze the resident PlotTechnology, not sortie in combat. Needless to say, she deploys in the final battle under the bizarre logic of "Amuro needs more psycoframes!" but instead of going to help Amuro she veers in on Quess and Hathaway because someone had to ShootTheDog that Quess had become. While she does manage to shoot down the distracted Quess in her gigantic Alpha Azieru, an unstable and emotionally devastated Hathaway promptly shoots Chan herself.** Even ''Char himself'' is considered by many to be this, as he [[spoiler:secretly forwarded his organization's superior technology to Anaheim, knowing Amuro would receive it and build a custom Mobile Suit for himself with it]]. Whether this self-defeating behavior was the rresult of a misguided WorthyOpponent view of his rival Amuro or a degeneration into outright DeathSeeker is unknown, but what it ''not'' is rational. Naturally, this film marks his death, and it doesn't take a Mobile Suit genius to guess who offs him. Taking lessons from Vegeta, Char?** While she at least has the excuse of WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity, the aforementioned Quess Paraya also richly qualifies. Despite being a 13-year old girl with no combat training she eagerly leaps into an armed fight between Amuro and Char, allows herself to be subjected to the same Cyber-Newtype enhancement procedures that have driven multiple characters before her into insanity (among them resident Neo-Zeon Cyber-Newtype Gyunei Guss, who experiences ''steep'' SanitySlippage the moment Quess enters his orbit), and most extremely, launches herself out of her Mobile Suit's cockpit during battle '''while not wearing a spacesuit'''. Even Char himself is flabbergasted!* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans''** Carta Issue had already met Tekkaden in battle, where they proved that they don't believe TalkingIsAFreeAction and attacked her while she was in the midst of a speech and disrupted her men's AttackPatternAlpha mainly by ignoring it. She's sent to fight them again--and instead of simply destroying the train they're on, she stops them and tries to issue a formal challenge to a three-on-three duel of honor. To no one's surprise but her own, Mika attacks her before she's finished talking. When one of her men hangs around ''outside'' his cockpit yelling about the lack of honor, he's turned into a red smear in the snow as Mika proceeds to kill all three of them.* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'':** Adolf Junkers. First, he [[LookBothWays runs straight into traffic,]] then he sees a security guard fall down dead, leaves his room, and runs into an unlit area at night. ''When he knows someone really nasty is trying to kill him.'' Is anyone surprised when Junkers is found and shot to death?** Richard Braun, who's investigating a string of serial murders, more or less deduces that Johan's behind them all. Yet he doesn't think he should tell anyone when Johan ''shows up at his apartment and invites him out''. Shortly after this, he follows Johan up to an abandoned rooftop (in the middle of the night) while shouting, "[[TemptingFate I know what you're up to, kid!"]] To no one's surprise but his own, it ends badly. * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':** Doubles with WhatAnIdiot. [[TheChessMaster Kabuto]] brags to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Itachi]] that [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning killing him won't end to Edo Tensei]], laughing like a Bond Villain. He ends up in the [[AssPull Izanami]] [[FateWorseThanDeath loop]] since he can't keep his mouth shut or prepare in advance for someone attacking him directly to end Edo Tensei.* ''Manga/OkaneGaNai'':** Ayase�*** still trusts the cousin who sold him to pay off gambling debts*** after gaining a measure of freedom ''he goes back to his old house to get a photo album, intending to come right back!''*** after one of his so called "friends" tries to ''rape him'', follows him into an empty storage room after said friend tells him he's sorry*** gets a job at a ''club which acts as a brothel''.* ''Manga/OnePiece'':** IdiotHero Monkey D. Luffy. He's a genius when it comes to fighting, and no fool when it comes to friendship, but this trope when it comes to almost anything else. Perhaps the most notable instance is in the Alabasta arc: Crocodile set a trap for them in his casino �by setting up a sign that directed [=VIPs=] to the left and pirates to the right. Luffy, who [[BadLiar could not tell a convincing lie to save his life or anyone else's]] pre-TimeSkip, goes right, and winds up in a [[PowerNullifier Sea Prism Stone]] cage.** Civilians in One Piece are generally like this. They believe the propaganda of the World Government like helpless sheep, can't see truly ObviouslyEvil people like Spandam, and anyone with the name 'pirate', even if they have the reputation of ''saving entire islands'', are labeled evil. ** Priest Gedatsu in Skypiea. He has to be reminded by one of his lackeys that he needs to open his mouth in order to speak, and it's a good bet he has on occasion forgotten to breathe and needed to be reminded of that too.** The Fake Straw Hat Pirates. Notably, they picked fights with members of the actual Straw Hats despite being very weak (though to be fair, Usopp's wanted poster doesn't show his face,[[note]]but instead shows his alter ego, Sogeking[[/note]] both he and Nami had changed looks during the TimeSkip, and Luffy was wearing a ridiculous PaperThinDisguise, so they hadn't recognized them) and tried to hunt them down after being casually defeated and mauled by them.*** Their plan to take on the New World involved using Luffy's [[TheDreaded reputation]] to recruit an army of powerful pirates, then sending them out to take out any danger that the aforementioned reputation didn't scare away first. This might seem like kind of a clever plan at a casual glance, but the New World is loaded with pirates who still consider Luffy a rookie, and couldn't honestly care less about his accomplishments up to that point; not to mention there are numerous obstacles and dangers that are far too much for any pirate that was available on Saobody at the time, or simply require knowledge or skill rather than muscle to navigate. Not only that, but they also attracted the attention of [[TheStarscream pirates who were only joining so they could kill Luffy unawares in order to boost their own reputation.]] Sentomaru, sent by the Marines to arrest them because their informants had mistaken them for the real deal, actually [[LampshadeHanging called them morons for impersonating the Straw Hats]] after mauling the fake Luffy. What added to their misfortune is that around the same time they started recruiting, ''the real ones'' were about to reunite and journey into the New World. Really, a combination of bad luck and stupidity ensured that the Fake Straw Hats were never going to make it out of Sabaody.** Hody Jones. Most of his plan was well thought-out and clever, and may very well have worked out as well as he hoped, were it not for one decision that he made that makes him fit this trope to a T: he deliberately provoked the Straw Hat Pirates. He knew of their reputation and everything that they had done, but he was too caught up in arrogance and fanatic racism to consider any human a threat to him. How does that turn out? He and his army of 100,000 are dropped onto the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle against the nine Straw Hat Pirates and Jinbe.** This was Sanji's reaction when he found out that Caesar Clown, for all his genius, swindled money from Big Mom. '''''[[TheDreaded That]]''''' [[ImAHumanitarian Big]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Mom]]. SmallNameBigEgo, indeed.** [[AristocratsAreEvil The World Nobles/Celestial Dragons]]. Extra credit goes to Saint Miosgard and Donquixote Homing, who learned the hard way that the only reason people don't attack them is the threat of retribution from an [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Admiral]]. Homing's case is even worse: [[WhiteSheep for all of his good intentions]], his stupidity caused the ruin of his family ''and'' the death of his wife, got himself and his two young sons (one of them being a massive CreepyChild) subjected to ColdBloodedTorture... and at the end [[SelfMadeOrphan his creepy son ended up killing him]].* ''VisualNovel/OokamiKakushi'':** Hiroshi. He's prone to things like staying in a car with someone making [[NoYay creepy advances on him,]] walking around town at night after witnessing a brutal murder, specifically walking around the areas another classmate warned him to stay away from, seeing nothing suspicious in being called up at night or being asked to go into an abandoned barn...** Isuzu, for the most part, manages to make the right decisions to stay alive until episode eleven, wherein she sees the villain (whom we should add is [[AxCrazy highly unstable]] by this point in the story) walking through the forest. Instead of reporting it to the authorities, she decides it would be a better idea to follow them into the forest alone. While wearing bells tied to her wrist. This AxCrazy has ''a gun.''* ''{{Manga/Parasyte}}'':** Kana Kimishima, a girl with the ability to sense the protagonist, Shinichi Izumi, via the Parasite that shares his body, which quickly leads to her becoming infatuated with him. However she cannot distinguish between him and other Parasites, which prey on humans. Shinichi repeatedly warns Kana that he is dangerous and that she shouldn't get mixed up with him. She not only ignores his warnings but also lies to him, claiming that she can tell him apart from other Parasites. Kana's obsession leads to her death when she senses the aura of a Parasite. Convincing herself that it must be Shinichi, she follows the signal to an abandoned building, only to find another Parasite gorging on a fresh corpse. Shinichi does arrive but not in time to save her.* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':** Many, if not all, of the characters get at least one occasion where they act like this. However, this trope gets played to its actual conclusion in one late-manga story, which really makes it into MoodWhiplash. One character's father receives a scroll detailing a martial arts style which makes use of a lot of brute-force tricks, and a bearhug attack explicitly stated to be capable of snapping a man in half. Kumon Senior intends to use these moves to revitalize his dojo, which is dilapidated to the point it's being held aloft only by a single, rotting pillar, but he decides to master this spine-shattering bearhug by '''practicing on the pillar'''. Naturally, when he succeeds in learning it, the whole house collapses on top of him, killing him.* ''Anime/RaveMaster'':** Main character Haru Glory's mother Sakura. When someone is telling your husband about how they're going to make him suffer by being alone, you don't run up to them and let them impale you.* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'':** In the "[[Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada New Generation]]" episodes we're told of a town that tried to fight off the Invid invasion with sticks, pitchforks and axes. The Invid always go around in mechas, the smallest and weaker being the 2.3 meters-tall Invid Soldier that is ''still'' invulnerable to normal small arms fire. The town survived, but only because the Invid (that showed up with a squadron of slighty taller but MUCH broader and stronger Scouts) apparently decided they were too dumb to pose a danger.* ''Anime/RozenMaiden'':** [[MusicalAssassin Kanaria]] has some shades of this during the series, but it becomes blatant obvious during the final battle of the second season: not only she is the cause of turning Suiseiseki's HeroicSacrifice in a SenselessSacrifice by going back to the battle field, she also is killed by Barasuishou after the strings of her violin snaps and she forgets that, since she has Suiseiseki's [[AnatomyOfTheSoul Roza Mystica]], she could use her GreenThumb powers.* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':** Because Usagi/Serena is such a klutz (as well as a crybaby), the other Sailor Senshi/Soldiers/Scouts, and the two cats started pegging her as this (or at least that's what Creator/DiC's English version would like us to think...). However, this applies more to the first [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] than to the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] (especially the crybaby part).* ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'':** Koukaji in the anime version of the first series. He had previously been beaten with an inch of his life by Son Goku with his power limiter removed, and in the finale, he decides to try and fight him on his own again, and nearly gets killed, again. This wasn't in the manga.* ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'':** Princess Amelia, and to a lesser extent, Naga the Serpent. The latter is boastful and arrogant to the point that she ignores the reality of the situation around her (leaving Lina to do away with whatever situation they're in), while the former's view of morality is so {{black and white|Morality}} that she winds up in dangerous situations; anything that turns {{gray|AndGreyMorality}} leaves her dumbfounded. While Naga's intelligence varies, Amelia's is more a case of {{flanderization}} that spread to other adaptations - she certainly ''wasn't'' this trope in the light novels that the series originated from, and in the anime, at least, she grows out of this trope over time.** It also doesn't help for Amelia that she's a bit weaker than her companions; while Gourry TheDitz swordsman can fall under this, he generally doesn't because he [[ObfuscatingStupidity knows more than he lets on]] and is more skillful than any other swordsmen in the series.* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':** The {{Red Shirt}}s from the battle against Teppelin. Our leader has just obliterated himself against the mysterious shield surrounding our enemy's city? Quickly! More of us must ram into it so that his death will not be in vain!*** To be fair: In TTGL this [[RuleOfCool actually could work]].* ''Anime/TabooTattoo'':** This happens to [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Touko]] in Episode 8. While being escorted to safety by Tom, she runs off, refusing to leave Seigi. After Seigi consumes BB, Touko is later devoured by Iltutmish the minute she finds Seigi.* ''Anime/SwordArtOnline''** The members of Guild Moonlit Black Cats are never bothered why their newcomer, Kirito, is a lot stronger than them despite being at the same levels (Kirito actually has twice amount of levels compared to the gang, but deliberately hides it). Instead they believe themselves to be strong enough to tackle an over-leveled dungeon head on. [[SchmuckBait They get themselves locked in an obvious trap room with one treasure chest]], where they easily get wiped out by a ZergRush.* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'':** Poor Retasu Midorikawa. In her first appearance, she was a cool DarkMagicalGirl... for less than an episode, until she became [[GoodIsDumb too weak to fight the]] MonsterOfTheWeek. But as stressful as that would probably be, you still can't excuse her for ''[[HowDoIShotWeb forgetting her own powers]]'' when she falls into the ocean and panics. (Those powers? Water -- including ''breathing it''.)* ''LightNovel/{{Tytania}}'':** Duke Idris Tytania betrays another member of the clan he was sent to rescue, and stands by to watch while the enemy destroys his ship, presumably killing everyone on board, including Idris's subordinate, Berthier, who ''thought'' he was in on Idris's plans. Berthier actually manages to get to an escape pod and survives, though he is permanently crippled. Then, although he is presumed dead and could easily just take off, ''he goes back to continue serving the guy that just double-crossed and tried to kill him.'' Yeah.* The series ''[[LightNovel/YoujoSenki Youjo Senki: Saga of Tanya The Evil]]'' has the entire military of The Duchy of Dacia, who not only marched three divisions of infantry into a highly industrialized military super power with access to [[MilitaryMage flying magical troops]], using outdated military formation without ''any'' artillery, air support, or mages of their own to support their infantry, but also don't even try to hide their troop movements or radio transmissions. And just to add some more idiocy to the mix, not only left their ''capital'' poorly defended, but were already celebrating their "victory" before the '''first battle'''. It goes without saying, that they almost immediately receive a brutal CurbStompBattle, when Major Tanya Degurechaff's battalion of only forty eight mages route their army of '''fifty thousand infantry''', capture their commanding officer, and just for good measure, [[spoiler: stroll into their capital without any resistance and blow up their munitions plant, pretty much defeating the entire country in one night.]] * ''Anime/YuGiOh'':** [[TheLancer Jounouchi/Joey]]'s first Duel with [[TheRival Kaiba]] is like this. Sure, when you're up against a powerful monster and don't have something to beat it, the smart thing to do is keep throwing monsters out as meat shields until you get something that works. The problem is that Jounouchi plays all of them in Attack Position, meaning that every one Kaiba destroys chips away at his Life Points, so that when he finally plays one the few cards in his Deck that can stand up to Kaiba's Rabid Horseman, he's in prime position to lose as soon as Kaiba plays his signature Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Nothing was at stake with that Duel, thankfully.* In ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'''s prequel manga, Seto is so focused on seeing and dueling Atem that he listens to Sera and tries to break into ''the afterlife'' using nothing but his own brainwaves and without any sort of protection. It would have killed him if Mokuba hadn't intervened.* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': ** {{Idiot|Hero}} Protagonist Jaden/Judai nearly dooms the world by handing over the key to a KillSat, then expecting that Season's BigBad, Sartorius/Saiou, to not activate it until after defeating Judai in a Duel first. The fact that said BigBad didn't attempt to duel him first was a shock to many fans, as Saiou was the probably the first smart villain in ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' Though to be fair, Saiou ''did'' have [[TheRival Edo/Aster]] in a deathtrap over a pit of lava and was threatening to kill him if Judai didn't give him the key, so Judai didn't have much choice.*** Also, Saiou made a bit of a dumb move with that himself. The deathtrap was a scale, and to save Edo, Judai had to throw the key on the other side of the balance. It sounded like a good idea, but when Saiou actually went to ''get'' the key, Neos was able to block his path, which gave Kenzan time to pull Edo out of the way, which ''forced'' Saiou to Duel Judai. So, maybe Judai was dumb, but Saiou wasn't all-too smart either.* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'':** Divine needs a mention here: after being tricked into an EngineeredPublicConfession that he killed Misty's brother, not Aki, he then insults Misty's brother right in front of her. Knowing full well Misty is a Dark Signer, and knowing from firsthand experience that Dark Signers have supernatural powers far stronger than his own. ''And'' her [[PhysicalGod Earthbound God Ccarayhua]], a lizard nearly the size of a skyscraper, is standing right next to her. He is subsequently EatenAlive.** Another good example in the franchise was [[AncientConspiracy Yliaster]] member [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Kodo Kinomiya]]. Assigned by Godwin to test whether or not Aki was a Signer or not during the Fortune Cup, he knew that Aki had powerful PsychicPowers, was able to literally [[RealityWarper warp reality during a duel]] and [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry had very little control over her powers when enraged]]. Yet, he ''deliberately'' tried to make her angry during the duel by insulting her repeatedly. In fact, the original version, as opposed to the dub, doesn't even make clear whether or not he survives Aki's final attack. (Well, maybe you could blame it more on his greed than his stupidity. He had initially [[OnlyInItForTheMoney demanded five times his usual salary]] for doing it; eventually, he realized that it wasn't worth losing his life over, and tried to end the duel quickly, but by then, it was too late.)----


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Horde Imbeciles Abound!
Travel to Venomspite in Dragonblight and speak with Chief Plaguebringer Middleton.
The shipment from New Agamand was to arrive at Venomspite last week and then be delivered to me after some simple field tests. It is a Horde imperative - the last piece of the "victory puzzle."
<Sintar sighs.>
It is quite disheartening to know that you are surrounded by imbeciles and incompetent boobs!
You must travel to Venomspite, near the eastern border of Dragonblight. Find that buffoon, Middleton, and let him know that I am waiting on the package.
You will also receive:
- 60 (if completed at level 110)
- 25 reputation with The Hand of Vengeance

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Chocolate Ricotta Muffin with Hibiscus Jam
posted by virtual chef on May 13, 2009 | Bakery |
This recipe was adapted from the Joy of Baking website. Their photo of the chocolate ricotta muffin looked so delicious and mouth-watering. And since I have some leftover ricotta cheese, it was the perfect recipe to test. Instead of chocolate chips, I used hibiscus jam instead. The muffins still tasted chocolatey made light by the ricotta. The hibiscus jam provided the "crunch" effect although my husband said it was more of a "chewy" effect than crunch.
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/3 cup soy milk
- 1 tbs vanilla extract
- 4 tbs unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup wholewheat flour
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 1 cup hibiscus jam
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place rack in the middle of the oven. Line 16 muffin pans with paper liners or spray with a non stick vegetable spray.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk the ricotta cheese and then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the milk, vanilla extract, and cooled and melted butter, mixing well. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder. Add the ricotta mixture to the flour mixture. Stir just until combined and then fold in the hibiscus jam. Do not over mix this batter or the muffins will be tough when baked.
- Divide the batter amongst the 16 muffin cups using two spoons or an ice cream scoop. Place in the oven and bake about 20 minutes or until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool.
Makes 16 regular-sized muffins.
Notes: I reduced the amount of sugar from the original 1 1/3 cup to 2/3 cup because of the hibiscus jam which in itself already has sugar. Instead of regular milk, I used soy milk and found that it really didn't affect the texture or taste of the muffin. Also. instead of 2 cups of all purpose flour, I used half AP flour and half wholewheat flour. I was expecting the resulting muffin to be a little denser but in my opinion, the texture was the same.
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ooooooooooo man these sound so amazingly good!! I've never had hibiscus jam before, very intriguing!


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Victoria Wood says she only met Morecambe and Wise, separately, on one occasion each. Wise when she accepted a comedy award some years ago, and Morecambe when she was 25, at the Midland hotel in Morecambe. He said to her: "Oh you're that girl from Morecambe." In fact she's from Bury. She didn't mind.
Wood decided to tell the story of the pair's early days around a decade ago. The result finally hits screens on New Year's Day in the form of a BBC2 biopic, Eric and Ernie, which focuses on the pair's lives before they were famous because, as Wood puts it: "They were not born middle aged."
"This is not about the middle-aged comedians in suits that everyone remembers. It is a story that nobody has told," Wood says. We meet Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise when they are young children – Ernie was a child star clog dancing in Leeds and Bradford – and follow them until they are the cusp on finding fame in their late 20s.
Wood herself plays Sadie, Eric's mother. (The most difficult part of the process, she jokes, was having her hair finger waved every day.) Wood defends her from accusations of being a pushy mother: "Sadie made Eric take dancing lessons and thought he'd never be happy doing a boring job at the gas board so she manoeuvred him into talent contests," she says.
She shares a great scene with Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, who plays her husband George, in which she is considering her son's new stage name, which has to be catchier than Bartholomew. Sadie holds up a copy of the Morecambe Visitor. "What, Visitor?" says George, deadpan. It seems apparent that unassuming George may be the key to his son's comedy.
Moir says that members of Eric's family have watched the rushes and seem to think he has accurately portrayed George. He recalls filming on a particularly rainy day in Morecambe. "We were sitting on a bench thinking we'd have to rewrite the scene. Then there was suddenly the most beautiful sunset."
Bafta-winning screenwriter Peter Bowker (Occupation, Blackpool) wrote the script – a huge responsibility, he admits, because he wanted to serve the stars well, but also great fun. "My wife kept hearing all this laughter as I was watching clips of them while I was doing my research," he says. "Luckily there were no dark secrets. I was glad about that."
The drama "shows stars working for 20 years grafting not just overnight X Factor stars," Bowker says, and Eric and Ernie portrays, in all its cringeworthy glory, the pair's disastrous foray into television in 1954 – when they were forced to abandon their own material by the BBC. On the day of the debut, Sadie is in the fishmongers in Morecambe. The fishmonger leans forward, conspiratorially, and tells her he's got some finny haddock. She buys shrimp because there's a queue and she doesn't want to seem to be bigheaded.
As a result of their below-par television debut, the pair ended up fourth on the bill at the Ardwick Hippodrome. Bowker says Eric kept one review in his wallet for decades to remind him of where the duo had come from. It suggested the definition of TV as "the box in which they buried Morecambe and Wise". The clipping was still in his wallet when he died.


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Fox News -- June 25
Shown here are Rodney Johnson, right, a Houston police officer killed in 2006, and his widow Joslyn Johnson.
The widow of a Houston police officer killed by an illegal [alien] was "shocked" to learn that the city's former police chief has landed a top immigration job with the Obama administration, her lawyer told FoxNews.com on Friday.
That's because Joslyn Johnson, whose husband, Rodney Johnson, was killed in 2006, is suing former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt for failing to enforce federal immigration laws. She claims her husband would be alive today if the city had bothered to check up on the gunman's immigration status.
Now that Hurtt is taking a job to oversee partnerships between federal and local officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Johnson -- and other critics -- say they're concerned the official who resisted immigration enforcement in Houston will now be in charge of promoting it.
"She was shocked at the irony," Johnson's attorney, Ben Dominguez, said.
As a police chief, Hurtt was a supporter of "sanctuary city" policies, by which illegal [aliens] who don't commit crimes can live without fear of exposure or detainment because police don't check for immigration papers. During his tenure as Houston police chief, he criticized ICE's key program that draws on local law enforcement's support. He said in 2008 that local police "don't want to be immigration officers." He described that as a burden on the force.
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- Children's pool
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- Free parking nearby
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Free WiFi and free parking
For families
- Children's pool
- Private bathroom
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What's around
- Heart of Goreme
- Roman Castle - 5 min walk
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Heybe Hotel Hamam & Spa has 3 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include Swedish massages and massages. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam.
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Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of TRY 20 for adults and TRY 20 for children (approximately)
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- Heart of Goreme
- Roman Castle - 5 min walk
- Karanlık Kilise - 10 min walk
- Saklı Kilise - 19 min walk
- El Nazar Church - 25 min walk
- The Church of St. John the Baptist - 25 min walk
- Goreme Open Air Museum - 26 min walk
- Cavusin Castle - 40 min walk
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- Nevsehir (NAV-Cappadocia) - 43 min drive
- Free self parking
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- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
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Fabulous 8.8 From 69 reviews
Breakfast was good.
The staff is kind and helpful. The hotel is quiet. Breakfast is supplied with many tasty fruits. The room we stayed is cozy and lovely. The bad thing was that the pool was out of service. The place worth the price. Recommend!
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By Abdi Ali
PublishedMarch 7, 2016
African capital markets are likely to face challenging times in 2016.
Africa Capital Markets Watch 2015, a publication of PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PwC), says these challenges could spring from "market volatility and the emergence of renewed global economic uncertainty.â€
Even then, PwC says, growth across Africa shall "require continued investment†in sectors such as "infrastructure, agriculture, financial services, and telecommunications, alongside other industries more traditionally associated with Africa.â€
The five-year report analyses equity and debt capital markets transactions that took place between 2011 and 2015 on exchanges throughout Africa. It also looks at transactions by African companies on international exchanges. Equity capital markets (ECM) transactions included in the analysis comprise capital raising activities, whether initial public offerings (IPOs) or further offers (FOs), by African companies on exchanges worldwide, as well as those made by non-African companies on African exchanges. Debt capital markets (DCM) transactions analysed include debt funding raised by African companies and public institutions.
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Nicholas Ganz, PwC Africa Capital Markets Leader, says: "At 31 December 2015, African exchanges had a market capitalisation of about US$1 trillion, with 23% of this value residing on exchanges outside of South Africa. Though statistics cannot be interpreted in isolation, certain metrics commonly used to analyse global market performance, such as the market capitalisation-to-GDP ratio, suggest that untapped value remains in Africa's capital markets.â€
Overall, US$12.7bn was raised in 2015 in ECM activity across the continent. Over the past five years, there have been 441 African ECM transactions raising US$41.3bn.
There was a steady overall increase in IPOs of 12% in terms of transaction volume and 17% in terms of US dollar denominated value in 2015 over the previous year. However, 72% of 2015 IPO value and 54% of IPO volume was carried out during the first half of the year, reflective of the relatively higher levels of consumer confidence as compared to the second half of 2015.
Over the past five years, there have been 105 IPOs raising US$6.1bn by African companies on exchanges worldwide and non-African companies on African exchanges. The top 10 African IPOs by value in 2015 took place in South Africa, Egypt and Morocco.
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In 2015, capital raised from IPOs by companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in US dollar terms decreased by 11% as compared to 2014, largely due to the weakening of the South African Rand during the year; noteworthy is that the Rand value of IPO capital raised on the JSE in 2015 increased by 11% over 2014 levels. Capital raised from IPOs by companies on other African exchanges in US dollars increased slightly by 3% as compared to 2014. In terms of volume, the JSE saw a 33% increase in the number of IPOs as compared to 2014, and listings on the JSE's AltX more than doubled.
Over the past five years, the JSE has led African exchanges in terms of IPO transactions and capital raised, at US$2.7bn. In second place in terms of IPO transaction volume after the JSE was the Bourse de Tunis with 23 issuances, while in second place by capital raised was the Egyptian Exchange with $861m. In third place in terms of volume was the Casablanca Stock Exchange with 7 issuances, and third by capital raised was the Nigerian Stock Exchange with US$751m, over 70% of which relates to 2014 SEPLAT IPO.
Since 2011, capital raised from IPOs by companies on the JSE represented 45% of the total African IPO capital and 33% of the total transaction volume.
Coenraad Richardson, PwC South Africa Capital Markets Partner, says: "The JSE remains a significant anchor of African capital markets activity, with a ranking of second in the world for exchange regulation and a leading global ranking for ease of raising debt and equity capital, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016.â€
On a sector basis, the financial services sector continued to dominate the African IPO market during 2015 at 46% of total value and 50% of total volume, followed by industrial, health care and consumer goods sectors in terms of value.
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Over the past five years, there have been 336 FOs raising US$35.2bn by African companies on both African and international exchanges.
"Though the growth rate of 2015 FO activity did not match that of the prior year, the trend remained distinctively positive,†adds Andrew Del Boccio, PwC Associate Director in charge of Capital Markets for South Africa.
During 2015, FO activity increased by 20% in terms of transaction volume and by 13% in terms of US dollar value as compared to 2014.
In 2015, capital raised from FOs by companies on the JSE, specifically, increased by 17% (in US dollar terms), whereas proceeds from FOs on other African exchanges decreased by 30% from US$1.2bn in 2014 to US$827m.
Over the five year period, the vast majority of FO activity was from sub-Saharan African countries, with 76% and 86% of total FOs volume and value, respectively.
Between 2011 and 2015, capital raised from FOs by companies on the JSE represented 85% of the total African FO capital raised and 67% of the total transaction value. Over this period, in second place in terms of both FO volume and value was the Egyptian Exchange followed by the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
On a sector basis, FOs were slightly lower than the five-year average in the financial sector during 2015. There was a significant increase in the technology sector from 7% on average to 23%, driven largely by a December rights issue by Naspers.
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African DCM activity has declined since its peak in 2013. Over the past five years, 489 debt transactions took place on African debt markets or, more commonly, by African companies on international markets, raising US$110.2bn, of which 72% was US dollar-denominated. The average of proceeds raised in 2015 was US$411m per transaction, US$85m higher than 2014's average of US$326m and 83% higher than the average per transaction over the past five years of US$225m.
Darrell McGraw, PwC Nigeria Capital Markets Partner, says: "Despite challenging economic times, which are felt heavily in Nigeria, 2016 will be pivotal as companies will be looking to reassess their strategies, which may include divesting of non-core businesses. This will create an opportunity for cash-rich investors, or other corporates to tap into the local debt markets to raise domestic currency bonds. Until relative certainty returns to the currency markets, the popularity of US dollar denominated bonds is likely to taper.â€


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by Amy Keller
Posted 6/26/2012
Updated 6 yearss ago
PetMed Express founder Marc Puleo stepped down from the company's executive leadership team in 2005. [Photo: Miami Herald]
Traditionally, when a veterinarian prescribed medicine for Sparky or Fluffy, the animal's owner would buy the medication — at considerable markup — from the vet.
The vets, to their great annoyance, lost their near-monopoly in 1996 after Marc Puleo, a Fort Lauderdale anesthesiologist, set up a discount mail-order pet pharmacy, PetMed Express (more commonly known as 1-800-PetMeds) and began selling pet medications, along with flea and tick preventatives like Advantage and Frontline, for up to 25% less than what veterinarians charged. Sales spiked further after big pharma began to venture into pet medicines — in 2007, for example, Eli Lilly launched a version of Prozac for dogs.
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Today, PetMed Express, based in Pompano Beach, has grown into an economic monument to the importance Americans put on the health of their animal companions. In 2010, the company's annual sales reached $238 million.
Many vets still see that revenue as money that ought to be going into their pockets, however, and resentment lingers. A group of veterinarians protested after PetMed Express signed up to be an exhibitor at the 2012 North American Veterinary Conference in Orlando, calling it a slap in the face of the veterinary community.
The company withdrew from the event but participated in a panel discussion at which the veterinarians aired their concerns. The company's director of marketing told the group it has removed negative references to veterinarians from marketing materials and says its has plans to create a veterinary advisory panel that would screen the firm's ads.
Since many pet pharmaceutical companies will sell their medicines only to vets, many veterinarians are suspicious about where PetMed gets its products.
PetMed Express won't comment on where it gets its products but acknowledges in its annual report that because "substantially all the major pharmaceutical manufacturers have declined to sell prescription and non-prescription pet medications directly to us" it relies on "third-party distributors" for its supply.
PetMed CEO Menderes Akdag says he plans to continue the company's aggressive pricing while increasing advertising and expanding its product line. [Photo: Miami Herald]
To date, only one manufacturer has reversed its veterinary-exclusive sales policy. In 2010, Bayer Animal Health began selling its flea and tick products to brick-and-mortar and online retailers. PetMed Express says it will continue to try to establish direct purchasing arrangements with the major pet pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Meanwhile, PetMed Express faces challenges, including increased competition both from online vendors like Amazon.com and retailers like Walmart, Costco, Target, Kmart and Kroger. Economic pressures have also affected sales in the $3.8-billion market for pet medicines. In an investor presentation last fall, PetMed Express acknowledged that cost-conscious consumers have been "trading down" and purchasing less expensive medication brands.
To boost sales, the company has spent more on advertising and slashed prices — moves that in the short-term have taken a toll on its bottom line. Profit fell to $16.7 million in fiscal year 2012 from $20.9 million in 2011.
PetMed Express continues to aggressively protect its economic turf, filing trademark or copyright infringement lawsuits against almost any online competitor that adopts a name anything like its own or uses its trademarked terms in advertising.
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Akdag has seen the Pet Meds-veterinarian dynamic before. Before joining Pet Meds in 2001, he was CEO of Lens Express. When the online retailer of contact lenses and supplies went into business, it undercut optometrists and ophthalmologists, who had enjoyed a near monopoly on contact lens sales to that point.


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1892 – New York State unveiled the automatic ballot booth voting machine.
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Greeks Blaming Speculators Is Sure Sign of Panic: Jonathan Weil
There's a point in almost every financial crisis when pretty much anything anybody says about it can take on a ring of truth, because the leaders responsible for dealing with the disaster have squandered their credibility.
That's where the Greek financial crisis stands now. What's remarkable is how clearly this comes across simply from reading the government's press releases, including one last week from Greece's Ministry of Finance disputing an online article by the German magazine Der Spiegel.
The May 6 article, which said Greece had threatened to drop the euro, was "not only completely untrue but also written with incomprehensible flippancy," the ministry said. "Such articles are not only provocative but also highly irresponsible as they undermine Greece's efforts and those of the Eurozone and serve only the interests of speculators."
Red flags don't get more glaring than this. Whenever you see an issuer of securities -- be it a sovereign nation or a Wall Street bank -- blame speculators, journalists or rumor- mongerers for its troubles, you know the bosses there are panicking.
The other dead giveaway that the Spiegel story might have been on the mark, at least partly, was that the press release didn't point to anything specific in the article as inaccurate.
For instance, the first paragraph of the article said euro- area finance ministers and European Commission officials had scheduled a secret meeting for that night in Luxembourg. That same day, a spokesman for Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who is chairman of the euro area's council of finance ministers, told reporters for several news outlets that there was no meeting and that this part of the Spiegel story was wrong. Actually such a meeting did occur on May 6. The spokesman, Guy Schuller, later conceded he had lied.
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Asked to explain why, Schuller told the Wall Street Journal that "I was told to say there was no meeting," and that "we had certain necessities to consider." The euro was falling on the Spiegel report and "there was a very good reason to deny that the meeting was taking place," he said, namely "self- preservation." Besides, he said, when Juncker says something to the markets, "nobody seems to believe it."
So, maybe the purpose of the meeting had been to discuss such a threat by Greece. Spiegel said it got its information from unnamed German government sources. The article quoted at length from what it said was an internal German finance ministry report arguing why it would be a terrible idea for Greece to stop using the euro. Spiegel said German officials planned to bring the paper to the May 6 meeting in Luxembourg.
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By the time the confab was held, though, the fact it was being convened was no longer a secret, meaning the parties would have had plenty of time to change their minds about what to talk about. If indeed Greece had made such a threat, that doesn't seem to have been discussed there. But who knows? Your best guess is no less credible than any of the participants' most strenuous public denials.
(The website EUobserver, by the way, has a video you can see here of Juncker at a conference last month, where he said it's necessary sometimes for public officials to lie about financial and economic matters, and that he's done it before.)
Europeans aren't special when it comes to telling untruths or creating bogeymen. During the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox blamed short sellers, taking a page from Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers and John Mack at Morgan Stanley. American International Group's executives blamed mark- to-market accounting rules.
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Just last month President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder promised to investigate oil speculators, as if such things as the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies or Middle East unrest didn't adequately explain the recent rise in oil prices. Naturally they showed no outrage over speculators who made a killing this month when oil prices plunged.
As for Greece, where the yield on 10-year government bonds has topped 15 percent, investors are right to believe a debt restructuring is inevitable. This week the word from the finance ministry's P.R. shop was that it was "not justified" for Standard & Poor's to cut Greece's credit rating to B from BB-, when if anything S&P was late with its call, as usual. S&P's decision, the ministry said, was "based simply on rumors."
Perhaps someday the world's leaders will learn it is far more destabilizing for them to make up facts and blame straw men for their own governments' failings than it is for them to speak candidly and transparently in their communications with the public. We can only hope.
(Jonathan Weil is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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awww man! this is sooo goood! 5$
Great job! I love the light pulp comic feel to it. $5
WOw! This looks great on the shirt! Cheers!
awesome design 5
Amazing! Looks really cool on the tee.
awesome! 5$
that looks pretty damn awesome on red!
Wow, this looks great on the shirt!
women. $5
Also, really great comic-styled tee piece. You've really adapted the comic box format to the shape of the canvas you are working on. Like it on a lighter color.
a new way of presenting the idea. good one! placing is good as well
The all over print on red makes me happy. :D
Amazing on the red!
Love the extra large print and it works perfectly as a one color tee.
I loves it!
Love the pulpyness of this
on red, RAD :)
Good old school newsprint style and textures. 4!
nice work. Love the b/w version! LESS IS MORE!!!
holy shit this is awesomeness.. $5
super sweet! love the big print! $5
nice job buddy 5
wooot i'd buy one:D $5
great job
Great work!
You know, coming back to this... I love it on the red, and white would just be classic. But I wonder, wouldn't this be awesome on the white with a smack of red in the eye and on her lips? Still love it either way.
super nice. $5
digging this to the max woooo
I told you on emptees.
haha 2.6! i noticed each of my subs for this thing have gone up 10 points. haha. i guess you all liked this one the most! and thank you for another printable score!
terrific score! print print print print!!!!
nope...not gonna print it. alex already got the horror, and in the past they typically issue the wins around the same time to the artists and release them in a staggered fashion...i have not been notified about my horror subs.