Trope Talk: Idiot Plots

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This one's a spicy meatball! Today let's talk about the plots that are driven, in whole or in part, by the characters acting dumb - and how that's not always a bad thing!

Video examples in order of first appearance: I Love Lucy, Divergent, Star Wars III, Doctor Strange (as a contrasting non-idiot plot example), Spider-Man: No Way Home, Captain America: Winter Soldier, TMNT 2007, Batman v Superman, The Three Stooges, Twelfth Night, Alien, Romeo and Juliet, Hadestown, Assassin's Creed 2, The Dark Knight, Captain America: Civil War, Frozen,

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Scheming Weasel, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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