27 Characters Who Make The Dumbest Mistakes
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Sometimes actors focus so hard on portraying a personality that they forget to learn the basic skills of the person they're trying to be. It's not that they're making bad decisions, or getting their basic facts wrong. It's that they seem to lack the ability to perform the mechanics of how to be the character they're portraying. They're taking their job and making it unnecessarily harder.
Sure, they remember their character's tragic backstory, their character's mastery of the martial arts and other highly trained skills, and their character's motivation of revenge. But in while they focus on that, they sometimes forget how phones, computers, and even how pens work. Thankfully for them, these instances usually happen so quickly that you can blink and miss them.
But you all didn't. We want to thank our Cracked readers, especially gicusudoru, for sharing some of these instances where pop culture characters could have been a bit smarter.
![Iron Fist CRACKEDCO Usually, you answer the phone before actually talking through it, Ward Meachum.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/3/4/689734.jpg?v=2)
![THE EXPENDABLES Jason Statham can Shoot quality pictures without switching on the camera. INFO CAn](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/0/689640.jpg?v=2)
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![FBI agent, Gracie Hart (a.k.a a Miss New Jersey), claims to be a natural at playing wineglasses but while showing off her skills at a pageant talent s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/9/9/689699.jpg?v=2)
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![In Bohemian Rhapsody, when Queen pitches A Night At The Opera to a record executive, Freddie Mercury fiddles with the RPM-fine tuning knob on the turn](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/3/689643.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDcO In The Shining, Jack Torrance specifically requests a bourbon from the very well stocked bar, and the bartender pours him a Jack Daniel's. A](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/9/689659.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.com Br 35 eaking S3 E06 Bad 56 Sunset Pretty sure that's not how pens work, bro.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/4/689654.jpg?v=2)
![CRaCKEDco AMERICAN PSYCHO What Patrick Bateman seems to forget is that DEWALT a pneumatic nail gun is useless without an air compressor.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/3/689653.jpg?v=2)
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![Dr. Yang GREY'S on ANATOMY should know better than to discuss a patient's crowded case in front of elevator. a It is a huge breach of patient CHPAOE c](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/8/689628.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM the BIG BANG THEORY An experienced paintballer would never remove their goggles while on the field. Being hit in the eye with a paintball](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/7/689657.jpg?v=2)
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![Dr. Grant's CPR in Jurassic Park couldn't do anything. Tim's cheeks are puffed out, so air isn't leaving his mouth. Since he's not tilting back Tim's](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/7/689647.jpg?v=2)
![Tincorrect GRA Matt Damon shows his unfamiliarity with guns in The Departed. This hold is jokingly called 'The Tea Cup Grip and is not safe. Correct](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/6/689646.jpg?v=2)
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![At the beginning of Doctor Strange, the doctor totally contaminates his hands after scrubbing in for surgery. After sterilizing his hands, Strange dri](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/1/689631.jpg?v=2)
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![For being such a nerd, you'd think that Andy, THE 40 YEAROLD IRGIN, would know that to play a video game, you need to put your fingers on the buttons.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/2/7/689627.jpg?v=2)
![si8ns It seems that Meland Joaquin can't figure out that nailing boards to the door frame on this side of the door does absolutely no good when the do](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/5/689655.jpg?v=2)