Key takeaways
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Isekai MCs make dumb decisions, like repeating past mistakes, getting angry at everyone, and trusting crucial information to the wrong people.
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Characters like Arthur, Monster, and Han Hari suffer terrible consequences due to their foolish decisions in different fantasy worlds.
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From allowing enemies to escape out of arrogance to ignoring potential threats, these characters struggle with poor decision-making skills.
Have you ever wondered why Isekai Manhwa characters make such bad decisions? As we go through a great fantasy story about people traveling to another world, we often find parts where the characters make terrible decisions and that has dire consequences for the plot.
These are Isekai MC’s dumbest decisions, ranked: from the dumb idea of thinking that repeating mistakes from past lives will yield better results this time to the completely infamous and cliché decision to antagonize everyone in the new world just because.
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Arthur (The beginning after the end)
Repeating the mistakes of your past life and thinking that this time will be different
- Gender: Isekai, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery
- Author: turtle me
- Artist: fuyuki23
- State: In progress
TBATE’s Arthur Leywin has a track record of some of the worst decisions made consecutively, and among them, there is one that particularly irritates readers. Like King Gray in his previous life before being transported to another world, Arthur decided to live a solitary life and rely only on his strength above all else. And despite having great character development and having theoretically learned the lesson that there is strength in numbers, he went ahead and did it again.
In the Dicathian War Arc, Arthur insists on going alone despite constantly lamenting that he has been lonely his entire life and endangers everyone by forcing them to fight a war alone. Repeating mistakes from past lives, trying to convince himself that this time there will be a different outcome, can be considered the dumbest decision this character has ever made.
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Monster (I became an evolving space monster)
Allowing a person with information on how to kill him to escape
- Gender: Sci-fi, Action, Gore, Horror, Isekai
- Author: Scary Turtle (Gongpouigeobug-i)
- Artists: Scary Turtle (Gongpouigeobug-i)
- State: In progress
After being reborn in the world of a science fiction simulation game, our protagonist realizes that he has become a xenomorph alien and begins to massacre the crew of the research ship he is on in order to evolve. But what he doesn’t know is that some of the crew members (especially the Captain) have his agenda, namely: smuggling dangerous data to one of the largest corporations in the Galaxy.
After the Monster devoured half the crew, the captain’s pirate contacts invaded the ship, and while he was distracted “collecting genetic samples” to evolve, the captain of the Research Ship boarded an escape pod and fled, which would turn out to be a Tremendously Stupid Mistake Later: Since he took all the footage and battle data about The Monster for safekeeping, and will probably come up with a strategy to fight him in the future. Readers should note that this manhwa contains scenes of blood and graphic violence, and apparently also stupidity.
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Han Hari (The knight king who returned with a god)
Being extremely oblivious and being scammed by your colleagues
- Genres: Dark Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Reverse Isekai
- Author: Salam Sallyeo (Story)
- Artist: Jeoncheon Huma Geomsa (Art)
- State: In progress
When the envoy of the Gods of Justice, the Lion King Dragonia Leonhart, descends to Earth, the Korean government is the first to contact him through the Korean Awakeners Association, and they have no better idea than to send the distracted Han Hari to deal with it. with the topic.
The young woman in charge of the Korean association has no better idea than to volunteer to play the mascot (she literally wears a lion costume all the time) of the Pantheon guild, knowing that this will tarnish her reputation. Lately, another bad decision she makes is entrusting all of her retirement funds to Sir Spinner (a killer robot turned Knight), who is obviously creating a Ponzi scheme to divert all the funds to weapons research for the guild. Everything indicates that she is the most clueless character in the manhwa.
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Park Sooho (The Druid of Seoul Station)
Allowing your mortal enemy to escape out of sheer arrogance
- Gender: Sci-Fi, Action, Isekai, Fantasy, Drama, Martial Arts
- Author: Jin Seol U
- Artists: liveBear, MUN Sung-ho
- State: In progress
Park Sooho was sent to live for a thousand years in a nameless world, where wild animals roamed the lands and gained strength compared to that of the king of all beasts. Returning to Earth, precisely to his homeland of Korea, he quickly gains fame and reputation among the Awakened as an “irregular”, that is, a person whose ability is difficult to measure using usual means.
After creating his own organization (The Guardian Guild), he is quickly challenged by the awakened Japanese superior, Hiro, who is secretly a person who has gone back in time to harness all his knowledge of the future to gain fame and power. Hiro saw Sooho as a threat and attempted to eliminate him in an official 1-on-1 duel, but failed, revealing his true self: a half-demon. But then the dumbest thing happens: Park Sooho allows this dangerous awakened monster to flee, knowing full well that he’ll come back to bite him in the butt. Risking all life on Earth since he knows that he is corrupt and will try to take revenge on the society that now knows who he really is. Readers will have a hard time trying to figure out the reason why the MC let this villain live.
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Baek Yu-Seol (Magic Academy Genius Blinker)
Ignoring a possible threat to your life instead of confronting it
- Gender: Action, Isekai, Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, School Life, Shounen
- Author: Eunmilhi
- Artists: seoyu
- State: In progress
This story is about a Korean player who is reincarnated in his favorite game, Magic Academy World, where he plays the role of Baek Yu-Seol, the worst possible character to choose, with the highest level of difficulty. But because the MC is so OP and knows the game very well, he is able to bring Yu-Seol’s full potential to the highest levels. And even knowing the plot and everything that happens, he makes the dumbest decision in the second arc.
Knowing that one of the main characters named Flame is another reincarnated person, left her uncontrolled while advancing the main plot. Her decision to leave her alone rather than reveal that he is also a reincarnated person and work together with her will cause Flame to consider him an obstacle and attempt to take her life. At the end of the alchemy exam arc, we can see Flame conspiring with another student, Hae Wonryang, who asks him if something is bothering him. She replies that Baek Yu-Seol is bothering her, which will surely cause her a lot of trouble. Even more so because we can see that she is clearly plotting to “eliminate” him, as she believes that Baek Yu-Seol will prove to be an obstacle to her plans. You know what they say: keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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Park Byung-Jang, reincarnation of the veteran soldier
Making enemies every time you open your mouth
- Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Isekai, Comedy, Action
- Authors: Hood
- Artists: Sinmani
- State: In progress
Park Byung-Jang not only proved to be a mediocre and lazy member of the Reservist Corps, but also a terrible reincarnator. He dies during a training drill, and if readers think this is the dumbest thing this MC will ever do, then they’re in for a wild ride. Not even a second after being taken in by a Goddess to be reincarnated, he openly insults her and refuses to work as a savior, ultimately leading to the divine being becoming angry and throwing him into a dangerous land unprepared. All he has is his military training, a shovel and, of course, plenty of armor to protect him from an untimely death.
Somehow he manages to survive and attracts the attention of the deity’s worshipers, who quickly deem him “a demon” as he basically runs around insulting the Goddess. Afterwards, he continues to make the dumbest decisions, like getting angry at every human being he encounters, only to then barely survive by sheer luck. It’s hard to understand how this person manages to survive while he makes the worst possible decisions at every step of his journey. He even went so far as to join an organization to openly oppose the world’s main religion, knowing that he was opposing a being that was capable of completely destroying him in a matter of seconds. His arrogance will soon be his downfall, as he barely has the wit to go with the flow.