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movies for this list we're going over
the most questionable short-sighted and
just plain dumb decisions made by
characters in superhero movies because
many of these decisions affect the plot
there will be spoilers enough said
number 10 giving Loki an infinity stone
The Avengers much of the saga thus far
in the MCU involves the Infinity stones
and Thanos is pursuit of them this makes
it all the more baffling when you
realize that early on he gave one away
in the Avengers Loki has given a
powerful scepter by the mad Titan to aid
in the Asgardians battle on earth and in
acquiring the space stone Ultron later
reveals that the mine stone was hidden
inside the scepter so why would thinness
give one of the things crucial to his
goal to someone who could and did lose
it
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the mine stone ends up being the last
one he acquires and he would have had
them all sooner if he'd never given it
up
ya know number 9 Jonathan Kent
sacrifices himself Man of Steel like
most of the DC EU the movie that kicked
it off is a bit of a mixed bag
Clark you have to keep this side of
yourself a secret what was I supposed to
do just let him die one of the more
notable nuggets of dumbness comes with
Jonathan Kent's vehement opinion that
Clark should keep his superpowers a
secret even if it costs others their
lives true to this philosophy when
Jonathan is about to die in a tornado he
tells his son not to save him while the
idea that he would sacrifice himself to
keep Clark safe from exposure has
potential the execution doesn't work not
only because it flies in the face of
Clark's character for him to allow his
father to die but also because with his
SuperSpeed he could easily save him
before anyone noticed number 8 sending
the whole police force underground The
Dark Knight Rises with the masked
terrorist Bane threatening Gotham
Commissioner Gordon who is still
recovering from his encounter with the
villain makes the idiotic decision to
send all the police into the sewers to
smoke out Bane in his men
of all patrols animal I did say get
every available cop down there and smoke
him out the mayor won't want panic
naturally this leads to all the police
getting trapped underground letting Bane
and the criminals he freeze have free
reign in the city no matter how much of
a threat Bane is putting most of the
police in a confined space it's just a
bad idea
around the tunnels are gonna blow and
trap the cops underground why not block
the entrances and send in a strike team
for that matter why isn't someone else
making the decisions instead of the
Commissioner is allowing trauma victims
to make strategic decisions standard
police procedure
number seven yelling at Hulk The
Avengers Loki makes a number of
questionable choices throughout this
film but this is easily the dumbest and
probably the one he regrets the most
during the Battle of New York Loki is
knocked back onto the Avengers Tower and
is pursued by the Hulk who knocks him
inside creature frustrated that things
aren't going his way
Loki yells at the Hulk proclaiming his
godhood and insulting the green guy
the angry green guy then proceeds to
smash him into the ground repeatedly
leaving Loki groaning in high-pitched
pain we don't know what Loki was
thinking but we think Tony Stark said it
best not a great plan number six
giving the Mandarin his address Iron Man
3 Tony Stark may be a genius inventor
scientist and engineer but even he's not
immune to being an idiot after his
friend happy is severely injured by
terrorists in the employ of the
mastermind known as the Mandarin Tony
calls out the baddie on TV inviting him
to his house to settle the score on the
off chance for a man here's my home
address ten eight eighty Malibu point
902 65 I'll leave the door unlocked not
only is it a stupid idea to invite a
terrorist to where you live to fight but
Tony also puts on his only unfinished
Iron Man suit and doesn't activate the
dozens of remote-controlled suits we
know he has oh and he doesn't get his
girlfriend out in time either it's like
Tony handicapped himself on purpose for
no reason number five Bruce Wayne
revealing his identity to prospective
recruits Justice League in order to
combat the coming threat Bruce Wayne
decides to gather a group of powerful
people together so let me get this
straight
he do a dress like a bat I can buy an
actual bat work for twenty years in
Gotham
to that end he meets up with several
potential team members and attempts to
convince them to join him however while
doing so he's very cavalier with a
secret identity as Batman
he's a Batman so you're fast you'd think
the world's greatest detective would be
more cautious than to reveal who he is
two complete strangers before he's
confirmed whether they're joining him or
not this might have been excusable if he
were just starting out but it's clear
that he's a veteran hero at this point
so what gives Bruce well it's gone crazy
Jim maybe heat it to number four
ignoring buddy The Incredibles Bob Parr
the once mr. incredible longs for his
glory days as a superhero however not
everything about his past is glorious I
know why you're moved your crime
fighting style favorite catchphrase is
everything I give me your number one fan
when his number one fan buddy sought to
become his sidekick mr. incredible
rejected his aide turning the young boy
bitter and vengeful eventually buddy
grows up to become the villain syndrome
who's responsible for killing dozens of
superheroes and for nearly doing the
same to mr. incredible and his family
don't worry I'll be a good mentor
supportive encouraging everything you
weren't as stupid as mr. incredible was
for not being more understanding to his
fan
it works well within the story in fact
it's such a good bad decision that Iron
Man 3 basically copied it with the same
results number three no security on the
plane
spider-man homecoming for as much as
Peter Parker needs to learn about powers
and responsibilities the dumbest
decision in homecoming isn't actually
his after selling Avengers tower in New
York Tony Stark and happy Hogan pack up
all of the Avengers advanced gear and
equipment from the location to be moved
to a new location to move it safely they
do so by loading it all onto an
invisible plane and send it all on
autopilot with no one on board to its
destination the fact that no one is on
board means it's an easy target for the
vulture to try to hijack it which he
nearly did with only spider-man's
intervention foiling him number two
creating Ultron Avengers age of Ultron
you'd think a guy who makes as many
pop-culture references as Tony Stark
would know that mixing AI and weapons
rarely turns out well for anyone this
could be a good person this could be the
key to creating Ultron
however the temptation to put a suit of
armor around the world is too tempting
an opportunity and when Tony discovers
an artificial intelligence inside Loki's
scepter
he decides to use it with Bruce banners
helped to create Ultron a Defense
Initiative that soon gained sentience
and concludes that humans are the
biggest threat to the planet and must be
eliminated I'm on a mission what mission
piece of art I'm for as much as we love
Tony
he really has a terrible record of dumb
decisions and this is one of the worst
hey just because they're superhuman
doesn't mean they're super smart right
but there's one superhero decision that
rises above the rest as the dumbest
so let's facepalm through these
honorable mentions and then we'll find
out which was the dumbest and perhaps
most devastating decision in a superhero
movie
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attacking fan OHS Avengers infinity war
the responsibility of who could have
stopped the snap falls on many shoulders
and while it was tempting to call out
Thor for not going for the head or the
arm for that matter we have to point a
finger at star-lord on Titan a disparate
group of heroes fights desperately
together and finally manages to briefly
subdue Thanos while he's wearing the
Infinity Gauntlet no less you took her
to warm here he came back with the saw
still however before they managed to get
it off him Santos announces he killed
his daughter Gamora whom quill loves
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while we would certainly be devastated
and angry if we were in a situation we
like to think that we could have held on
to our rage until after the Infinity
stones had been secured
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