The entire android saga of DBZ. From the minute trunks shows up through the cell fight all of the characters collectively and individually do the exact opposite of what would solve the problem even as it’s pointed out to them.
“Guys I have an idea
. Let’s use the dragon to find where the guy who builds the robots is and stop him.”
“Nah
. We’d be just as bad since even though he’s done bad shyt before and is working on bad shyt, he hasn’t done this yet.”
“I found the guy we’re looking for and he’s on the way to activate the androids that are supposed to kill us all. Let me just chase him to his hideout and not sound the alarm so the rest of the gang can’t help me stop him and then we can find his lab and just destroy them before they’re activated.”
“This dude who claimed to be from the future says these androids killed me in a fight. Let me stop him from preventing them from being activated so I can fight them
“
“I gotta convince these 2 androids that there’s another one looking to eat them to get stronger so we gotta deal with him. Let me drag him out to the middle of nowhere on a tiny uninhabited island in the ocean and have a fight where we draw a bunch of attention with all the energy we put out.”
“I have this dude dead to rights whose done a number on everyone else and he says I should let him get transform to get stronger so he can beat me. Yeah this doesn’t sound stupid. I’m down for this even as my kid is losing his mind over the prospect of this happening. Surely this won’t backfire
“
“I got the deactivation switch to shut the other android down and destroy it so it can’t be eaten but the android looks like a model and now I’ve got the hots for a robot so I can’t do the deed.”
“I’ve fought this cell dude one on one in the ring for a while and he looks pretty worn out. Let me toss him a senzu bean and tell my 11 year old to fight him alone even as my old rival who trained my kid how to fight yells at me for how stupid an idea this is.”
“This guy cell is about to blow himself up. Let me get him out of here but not then quick get myself away from the blast too even as the gang might need my help. Instead let me just joke with my old teacher about it instead of saying to him to grab on and let’s get the fukk out of here before he explodes.”
None of them were stupid like this prior to this whole arc either