The biggest blunders made by a protagonist in animation.

[thewendyjx]

Jake Long from American Dragon, though he always redeemed himself he was the cause of a lot of his own problems.

[p_W_a_L]

1. Simba trusting his uncle Scar
2. Tarzan trusting the human explorers (which cost his "father" his life. One of the reasons I've never warmed up to Disney's version of the Ape Man).
3. Wanda marrying Cosmo
4. Tinkerbell falling for Captain Hook's false sympathy
5. Aladdin not freeing the Genie the first time around

[guy sense]

That would have made for a very downer ending since Jafar would have ended up killing everyone since he would have still been roaming around free.

[Low]

1. Krillin not pressing the remote that would have shut down Android 18 (thus preventing Cell from absorbing her).

2. Terra betraying the Teen Titans and secretly working for Slade.

3. Otis the cow partying while his father (Ben) was defending the hen house against coyotes (he died while trying to protect it).

[coocoopuffs]

There's this obscure French cartoon called Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus that I swear was the king of this kind of thing.

See, the three main characters all had super powers. Hermes could fly fast enough the cause tornados if he flew in a cricle, Aphrodite could control plants, and Jason had a belt that essentially could do whatever the plot needed.

As you might guess, they NEVER use these powers when it could actually be useful. One episode we could have Jason throwing rocks at skeletons, and a couple later he uses his belt to summon a full set of golden armor and a sword.

[collaredfairy0304]

This goes back to Collie's statement about a powerful artifact that should be destroyed and not split up or used by said protaginists. After all this one involves of all things, time travel and the paradoxes that are created when an item is destroyed in the future as the future hasn't even happened yet.

For this example, Kim Possible not stopping Dr. Drakken, Shego, Duff Killagan, and Monkey Fist from stealing the Body (And later the head) of the Tempus Simia Monkey in A Sitch in Time. With the villains in control of a very powerful artifact that can open time portals, the villains go back in time to break up Kim and Ron's friendship in Pre-K, then try to stop Kim from going on her first mission as a pre-teen. It's only then that Shego uses the Time Monkey and takes over the world some 16 years into Kim and Ron's present.
Only by later destroying the time monkey does the entire take over the world plot fails..but then this brings up a paradox as the idol is not destroyed in the present (2004), but rather in the future (2020), which means the ramifications of a time loop begin because the idol exists in the past(1993) and present(2004) but not in the future (2020). Had Kim and Ron used the idol to go back to the present and destroy i at that point, initally before the villains had accquired it, then the events of what happen 16 years into the future would not exist. So in the end Shego will take over the world in about 14 years in 2020 as the idol does exist.. until Kim destroys it, which will cause a time backlash and Kim and Ron go back to 2004 and live the 16 years of happiness over and over again ad nasuem.

But then we have another paradox. What would have happened if teenage Kim (who is 16 or 17 at the time), had destroyed the idol in the past when she was just 4 years of age? Then you have the ultimate paradox as either 4 year old Kim would suddenly become 16 or 16 year old Kim would not exist as you can't have one person who is two different ages (One of the two would exist, the other would not) who's best friend is a 4 year old boy. but the friendship would last but there would be an age difference of some 12 years or that the events of Ron Moving away would occur. So while Ron is 16, Kim would be 28 and thus dating Ron would be out of the question. or the events of the Alien Invasion in Graduation would occur and Kim would die at the hands of the Lowardians without Ron ever having to save her. so Kim would die at 18, and Shego would still take over the world in 2020 using a means to defeat the Lowardians and be considered supreme ruler.

Either way, Shego wins.

Way to go princess..

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