History DumbMuscle / Videogames

* ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'': In general, trolls and ogres are tougher than orcs and humans, respectively, but they are less smart which is why they usually work for the latter races.
** Grüü of ''Son of the Black-Eye'' campaign is a troll whose mind is not bright enough for many strategy, so his main job in the group (besides bringing along ''other'' trolls) is to smash his enemies with his hammer, which he can do ''very'' well.

* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Chang Koehan is a colossal numbskull with unbelievable physical prowess.

* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'', the [[EliteMooks Flashlight Guards]] are this, especially from the [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves second game]] onward. Murray also counts as a semi-heroic example.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series, though he's more simple minded than outright stupid.
** Knuckles, Sonic's original [[DefeatMeansFriendship rival-turned-ally.]] This is a bit of a justified example as however as Knuckles grew up away from civilization and the first person he ever met just so happened to be [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]], so he's not exactly well-equipped at dealing with guile and crafty people. Later games show him as being a knowledgeable treasure hunter and learning to avoid Dr. Eggman's lies, so it's more he just looks dim compared to the tech-savvy villains.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** The first two ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games are renowned for allowing you to not only play as this trope, but actually finish the game with it. Of course, you miss out on a lot of content, but people's responses to you are funny enough that it's worth it.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has the Water Street Boys gang, which is basically a ''gang-wide'' case of this, complete with leader Winston Chu's right-hand man Conroy Wu (both described as possible steroid abusers) making his boss look ''worse'' for having him[[note]]he's a walking, talking symbol of Winston's inability to attract and cultivate subordinates with potential intellect or refinement[[/note]], and both men plus their gang are collectively described[[note]]by the previous mole Charlie Ho[[/note]] as unable to achieve their goals due to lack of sophistication, respectability[[note]]with which to move into white-collar crime[[/note]] and just about anything ''except'' fierce loyalty to one another and brute force violence. Then [[GeniusBruiser Wei Shen]] comes along...

* Minsc, from the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' games, is a blend of DumbMuscle, GentleGiant, BoisterousBruiser, and CrazyIsCool.

** Storm the Albatross is another example, albeit with none of the justifications as the other two. Fittingly enough, he's an EvilCounterpart to Knuckles with the VideoGame/SonicRiders games.

* [[CatGirl Taokaka]] and [[LittleBitBeastly Makoto]] from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' are both very physically strong and rather dim. [[MusclesAreMeaningless Although you probably]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse couldn't tell from]] [[BadassAdorable looking at them]].

* Goliath, one of the bosses of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', is a huge hulking demon that isn't all that smart. It's such a defining trait for him, the game jokingly references it at least thrice; he's mocked by Nero for not being the sharpest tool in the shed, from comments on Nico's Report (where she describes Goliath as a "roided-out musclehead demon" who's "dumber [than] a sack of pork chops"), and as the caption of his Game Clear Bonus Art in New Game Plus ("All brawn, no brains").

** Knuckles, Sonic's original [[DefeatMeansFriendship rival-turned-ally.]] This is a bit of a justified example as however as Knuckles grew up away from civilization and the first person he ever met just so happened to be [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]], so he's not exactly well-equipped at dealing with guile and crafty people.
** Big the Cat is another example, though like Knuckles, he is also a hermit who lives away from people. And he's less "dumb" or more just simple-minded.
** Storm the Albatross is another example, albeit with none of the justifications as the other two. Fittingly enough, he's an EvilCounterpart to Knuckles with the VideoGame/SonicRiders games.

** Morton is one of the biggest and strongest of the Koopalings, and is "more brawn than brains" according to his ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' trophy.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has Reyn, although he’s a bit of a downplayed example. While not outright stupid, he is a little BookDumb and has a tendency to make rash decisions. He’s also a bit of a deconstruction, since he worries that his muscle is the only contribution to the gang, and once they can defend themselves, they won’t need him anymore. Thankfully [[CombatMedic Sharla]] is there to snap him out of it, and reassured him that he will always have a place on the team no matter what.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Both Lanz and Sena fit this role to a T, being the physically strongest members of the team, and also being the least tactically-minded[[note]]they have the lowest Tactical Points (a measure of a character's strategic ability) out of everyone except Triton, who's ''senile''[[/note]] and somewhat BookDumb. It's downplayed here, as they're both fairly emotionally intelligent (especially [[TheHeart Sena]]), and also deconstructed a bit, as they both have an InferioritySuperiorityComplex brought on by the fact that they believe their contributions to the team are limited to their muscle.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Both Lanz and Sena fit this role to a T, being the physically strongest members of the team, and also being the least tactically-minded[[note]]they have the lowest Tactical Points (a measure of a character's strategic ability) out of everyone except Triton, who's [[ScatterbrainedSenior ''senile'']][[/note]] and somewhat BookDumb. It's downplayed here, as they're both fairly emotionally intelligent (especially [[TheHeart Sena]]), and also deconstructed a bit, as they both have an InferioritySuperiorityComplex brought on by the fact that they believe their contributions to the team are limited to their muscle.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'': has Reyn, although he’s a bit of a downplayed example. While not outright stupid, he is a little BookDumb and has a tendency to make rash decisions. He’s also a bit of a deconstruction, since he worries that his muscle is the only contribution to the gang, and once they can defend themselves, they won’t need him anymore. Thankfully [[CombatMedic Sharla]] is there to snap him out of it, and reassured him that he will always have a place on the team no matter what.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': Both Lanz and Sena fit this role to a T, being the physically strongest members of the team, and also being the least tactically-minded[[note]]they have the lowest Tactical Points (a measure of a character's strategic ability) out of everyone except Triton, who's ''senile''[[/note]] and somewhat BookDumb. It's downplayed here, as they're both fairly emotionally intelligent (especially [[TheHeart Sena]]), and also deconstructed a bit, as they both have an InferioritySuperiorityComplex brought on by the fact that they believe their contributions to the team are limited to their muscle.

* Big the Cat from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series, though he's more simple minded than outright stupid.
** Storm the Albatross from ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' is a pretty straight example, however.
** Knuckles the Echidna is certainly the best example. He can break huge boulders bare handed, lift things many times over his weight and still falls for Eggman's "I'm good now, but Sonic is evil and is trying to steal the emeralds" lies.

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Princess Alevna is the game's heaviest hitter but has the absolute worst Wisdom stat in the group.

*** Sabin is actually played as a tech-savvy, fairly intelligent character otherwise. He's got the book smarts, but he's culturally oblivious. Which makes sense given that he spent the last decade before the start of the game in the mountains learning martial arts from a hermit master.
*** Umaro is probably a better example, using HulkSpeak on the rare occasions when he speaks at all. His main solution when he sees something he doesn't like is to repeatedly bash away at it until he destroys it. This can be the enemies he beats with his giant club, or [[DungeonBypass the walls in Kefka's Tower that he smashes down to clear a path for his friends]]. [[FridgeBrilliance Which, in its own way, is almost clever]].

** Ryuji Sakamoto plays this straight in ''VideoGame/Persona5''. A HotBlooded BookDumb JapaneseDelinquent with excellent physical stats. He's the self-proclaimed "First Attacker of the Phantom Thieves" and has a bad tendency to shout about the Thieves' activities when it's least appropriate. Compared to the more conventional weapons of his compatriots, Ryuji starts out with a [[ImprovisedWeapon pipe]] and admits that Joker is far smarter than him.

* [[NubileSavage Ayla]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a rare [[DistaffCounterpart female example of this trope]]. She's physically stronger even than Robo, the war robot from the future, while also being every bit as primitive as you'd expect of somebody in a society of tribal cavemen.

** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Mean Sonovabitch, a super mutant employed as a bouncer/guard. He's incredibly simplistic (his lack of tongue doesn't help) and acquired his name because everyone kept saying he was one, so he assumed it was his name (he's actually [[DeathbringerTheAdorable very nice]]).

* Most of the hard-hitting heavyweight characters in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series -- Donkey Kong, Bowser, and Charizard -- have shown below-average intelligence and poor judgment in their home series (or in Charizard's case, it's merely an animalistic character). Exceptions include Ike (who is of average intelligence), Ganondorf (who is a GeniusBruiser), and Bowser Jr. (a GadgeteerGenius who classifies as a heavyweight due to the vehicle he's riding in).

* ''VideoGame/TheTwins'' has Bob, who serves as the muscle of the duo, but is very simpleminded. He has a SimpletonVoice and is dumb enough to drink coffee laced with rat poison which visibly turns the coffee green.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'':

** Many of the series' physically larger minor races, such as [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giants]] and [[ALoadOfBull Minotaurs]], are considered this by the races of Men and [[OurElvesAreDifferent Mer]], but most subvert it by displaying greater intelligence than they are typically given credit for. [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogres]] are one exception, typically being every bit as dumb as they are described to be. Exceptions exist, but they are fairly rare.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Princess Alevna is the game's heaviest hitter but has the absolute worst Wisdom stat in the group.

* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'':

%%* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' is quite fond of this trope:
%%** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'': Arden to some extent.
%%** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776 Thracia 776]]'': Marty.
%%** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade The Binding Blade]]'': Gonzales, and Ward to an extent.
%%** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Sword]]'': Bartre. "Big words... make head hurt. I'm gonna go over there and punch that rock until my head feels better."%%Quotes are not acceptable context.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'':
** Balrog. After Bison's disappearance, Balrog was left in charge of Shadowloo, and promptly ran it into the ground.
** Zangief is another example. He's fairly lacking in intelligence and seems to be more brawn than brains, yet is a proud nationalist of Mother Russia and a gentle giant.
** Rufus arguably qualifies as well; While there [[StoutStrength doesn't appear to be an ounce of actual muscle on him]], he's quite the imbecile [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} in his own way]], though the comics apparently makes this as part of a BunnyEarsLawyer aspect since his [[LightningBruiser size]] and nonsensical ravings makes him easy to underestimate.
** In the same universe we also have Bratken, the FrankensteinsMonster-like manchild and unwitting pawn of Mad Gear in ''Final Fight II''.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Ogres. Most of them, anyway; Two-headed ogre mages are utter geniuses even compared to other races. To Ogres, might makes... might, and leadership is decided by who can beat up who.
** Pit Lords are not noted for their grasp of tactics or subtlety. When they're bigger than houses, wield two-end spears the size of trees, and hit enemies so hard it spills over to bystanders, they don't need to.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Chang Koehan is a colossal numbskull with unbelievable physical prowess.

* Bud Bison from ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'', though, atypically, he's very sentimental and is easily manipulated from an ''emotional'' angle.
* [[NubileSavage Ayla]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a rare [[DistaffCounterpart female example of this trope]]. She's physically stronger even than Robo, the war robot from the future, while also being every bit as primitive as you'd expect of somebody in a society of tribal cavemen.
* Victor von Gerdenheim in ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', a childlike behemoth who doesn't understand the concept of death -- or the fact that his appearance is frightening and monstrous.

* If you play as a fighter in the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' games, your intelligence and communication skills start out lower than the mage or thief, and characters will sometimes remark about the lack of refinement in your speech. There's one scene in the fourth game where you read a book in the adventurer's guild about climbing, and the narrator notes that it was "obviously meant for fighters" as it is written in very simple language.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' has Russell, who pretty much defines this trope.
-->'''Russell:''' Russell... likes to hurt people... for peace.
* The Heavy Weapons Guy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a subversion; although speaking simple English, he's [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue a lot more eloquent in Russian]] and even has a [=PhD=] in Russian literature (if you take his appearance in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'' as canon). He also lampshades this by saying people can outsmart him, but they can't outsmart bullet. That line is something of a GeniusBonus for folks familiar with Russian idioms, as there is a Russian expression about weapon safety that goes "Bullets are stupid and sightless". So he's actually calling his opponents blind idiots. Clever, Heavy, very clever.
** The Soldier, on the other hand, spent years fighting World War II ''after'' the war had actually ended, [[CaptainObvious repeats everything the announcer says]], and has trouble remembering the password of '1111'. He gets Sun Tzu confused with Noah, once stating that Noah used his fight money to buy a boat, and brought two of every animal aboard said boat to beat the crap out of every single one.
** He also collects the heads of his enemies, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} has tea parties with cardboard cut-outs]], and wore a costume made of household rubbish, thinking he had fooled an army of robots into believing he was one himself (though to be fair, it did work until their newest creation singled him out). Safe to say, he's none too bright. It is later revealed in the comics that this was due to lead poisoning in the water he drank.
** In-Game, bad Heavies and, most of the time, W+M1 Pyros also qualify. "If I keep going forward and shooting, I'll score some kills!"
%%* ''[[VideoGame/CityOfHeroes City of Heroes/Villains]]''. Wretch. Oh, Wretch.

* Minsc, from the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' games, is a blend of DumbMuscle, GentleGiant, BoisterousBruiser, and CrazyIsCool.
* Berserker from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', along with all other Berserkers in the Nasuverse, where becoming stronger at the price of getting dumber is an explicit ability of members of the class.
* Little Eddie, the first boss of ''VideoGame/MadWorld''. Little Eddie loves his big bada-booms! He also promises to "murderlize" Jack, and the slurring of his speech suggests actual mental impairment to some degree.
** And Frank. Co-Commentator Kreese Kreeley specifically describes him as "dumber than a box of blondes but strong as shit. Clumsy fucker, though; Jack can take him if he plays smart and fast." Both Little Eddie and Frank are several times larger than Jack, by the by.
** Kreese himself is implied to be at least as strong as Jack (since he talks about performing feats Jack can perform) and is completely illiterate. And he's not too good with numbers, either. [[RunningGag He blames our schools]].
* Goren from ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' qualifies, being large and stupid are pretty much his main bits of characterization.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' has an entire race of these with the Ettin, bulky two-headed ogres with apparently half a brain in each head. Most are aggressive monsters who know no other combat tactic than bludgeoning things to death and stomping the ground really hard, a few of them are peaceful [=NPCs=] who cannot understand any word longer than three syllables.
* The Hunters and Brutes in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' seem to be this, but the expanded universe shows that the Hunters are {{Warrior Poet}}s who were one of the more advanced species to be incorporated into the Covenant, and that the Brutes are one of the few Covenant species who don't consider modifying Forerunner technology to be blasphemy.
** Some of the smarter Brutes are quite terrifying in how cunning they can be. But then again, quoth the ''Halo 3'' Bestiary: "Jiralhanae are the only species on record who achieved space, [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves reduced themselves through internecine war to a preindustrial condition]], clawed their way back to their former state, and [[AesopAmnesia learned nothing from the experience]]."
* Spark Mandrill in ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' is actually aware of the fact that he's not so bright, and is also, you know, a punishing apelike robot. "Now, X, you never thought that maybe Sigma was right and you were wrong? I don't like thinking, either. Maybe we can find the answer together, in battle!"
* ''VideoGame/{{Lufia}}'':
** Dekar from ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' is a classic cutout for just the two words "Dumb muscle" put together.
** Guy in ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals''. He's not a complete moron (like Dekar), but he'll be the first to admit that his expertise lies primarily in smashing things.
* Flay in ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' falls pretty blatantly into this category, most of the time.
* Almost every ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' character indicated to be DumbMuscle, (by [[WordOfGod Nintendo's strategy guide]], even) turns out to [[SubvertedTrope actually be pretty bright]], just HotBlooded or careless. Even [[TheBrute Agatio]]. ''Especially'' Agatio.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** Completely and totally averted in the case of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]]. They are certainly big and strong, but while they tend towards the xenophobic and unimaginative they are in no way dumb. Every Qunari Hawke meets in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is perfectly capable of countering every argument Hawke makes against the [[ArcWords certainty]] presented by the Qun.
** Played straight, however, where [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Ogh]][[BoisterousBruiser ren]] is concerned.
* Played with by Dr. Mundo from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. On the one hand, he's a genius chemist capable of enhancing his own body to many times its physical limit and granting himself a massive HealingFactor. On the other hand, he forgets his own name if he doesn't constantly [[HulkSpeak say it to himself]]. Apparently those body enhancements had side effects.
* In the VisualNovel DatingSim ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', you start with 1 wisdom, 800 vitality, and 5 charisma, and you do not get more than about 35 to 40 possible points of stat increase throughout the game. That said, your character is quite erudite regardless of what you do with stats.
* Arche, the main character from ''VideoGame/FortuneSummoners'' literally gets called "Dumb Muscle" at one point. Might have to do with the fact that she's a [[LittleMissBadass little girl]], but even compared to her classmates she has a hard time with math or understanding some words (butler/butter, for instance).
* [[CatGirl Taokaka]] and [[LittleBitBeastly Makoto]] from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' are both very physically strong and rather dim. [[MusclesAreMeaningless Although you probably]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse couldn't tell from]] [[BadassAdorable looking at them]].
** Makoto is actually a strong ''subversion'' of this trope. Her [[ObfuscatingStupidity overt]] lack of intellect is more the result of a cocktail of [[OneOfTheKids a juvenile mentality]], [[BookDumb an aversion to studying]], and an overdose of [[FantasticRacism racism-induced]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast childhood trauma]], and most of the former two are shown in the Academy backstories. In the present day, she's shown to be surprisingly smart and perceptive, on top of showing dangerous levels of competence in Intelligence work.
* Levi, the Material of Power in ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny''. She's as strong as her title suggests, but comes with a very childlike and simple-minded personality. As in, 'easily pacified with a lollipop' childlike and simple.
* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'':
** The first two ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games are renowned for allowing you to not only play as this trope, but actually finish the game with it. Of course, you miss out on a lot of content, but people's responses to you are funny enough that it's worth it.
** And for an NPC example from the second game, there is Sulik, a tribal searching for his sister whom you can recruit in your party. Not exactly the brightest follower, but give him a [[DropTheHammer super sledgehammer]] and a PowerArmor and he will waste every enemy in sight.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'''s Super Mutant Behemoths are, not surprisingly, the least intelligent of their kind, and never speak, vocalizing solely in monster roars. The Vault 87 Mutants, with the exceptions of Fawkes and Uncle Leo, are in general dumber than the Mariposa ones.
*** Which isn't to say that the Mariposa mutants weren't stupid. By and large most Mariposa mutants were stupid, possibly/partailly due to a mix of radiation damaging the genes of humans (as the Master believed) and/or due an airborne strain of the Forced Evolutionary Virus inoculating wastelanders without mutating them (as Lieutenant believed). Regardless, humans with little to no radiation damage and immunity to [=FEV=] are able to stay smart.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Mean Sonovabitch, a super mutant employed as a bouncer/guard. He's incredibly simplistic (his lack of tongue doesn't help) and acquired his name because everyone kept saying he was one, so he assumed it was his name (he's actually [[DeathbringerTheAdorable very nice]]).
*** Another super mutant kept trying to get his car repaired and functional so he could drive it around. It was a toy car so small only a mouse could fit in it. In general, nightkin super mutants have trouble with this sort of thing, due to their Stealth Boy exposure adding a healthy dose of mental instability to the mix. Some are [[BunnyEarsLawyer intellectually fairly bright under the insanity,]] though.
*** The ''Dead Money'' DLC adds Dog, a Nightkin super mutant who's not much more than a violent animal who barely follows your commands. However, he's actually a subversion as he's got dissociative identity disorder, like many Nightkin, and his alternate personality, God, is highly intelligent but useless in a fight.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has Strong, another Super Mutant. He's not nearly as smart as Fawkes or Uncle Leo, and thinks the "milk of human kindness" from ''[[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} "Mack Beth"]]'' is something he can actually drink to become a more powerful Super Mutant.
* In ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', we've got Masaru, a pro-wrestler with absurdly high health and a huge variety of damaging martial arts moves, but no matter how much you LevelGrind, his base IQ always stays at a paltry 25.
* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has the Water Street Boys gang, which is basically a ''gang-wide'' case of this, complete with leader Winston Chu's right-hand man Conroy Wu (both described as possible steroid abusers) making his boss look ''worse'' for having him[[note]]he's a walking, talking symbol of Winston's inability to attract and cultivate subordinates with potential intellect or refinement[[/note]], and both men plus their gang are collectively described[[note]]by the previous mole Charlie Ho[[/note]] as unable to achieve their goals due to lack of sophistication, respectability[[note]]with which to move into white-collar crime[[/note]] and just about anything ''except'' fierce loyalty to one another and brute force violence. Then [[GeniusBruiser Wei Shen]] comes along...
* Crag Hack of ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' (Creator/NewWorldComputing verse only, the Ashan incarnation was quite a clever man in his appearances) may be a barbarian, but as his fellow barbarian Yog notes, most barbarians aren't ''quite'' so dumb as Crag Hack -- this is a man who, despite ''decades'' of experience as a mercenary across (''at least'') two continents, not all of it in combat, ''still'' hasn't picked up that 'Mister' is a title, not a name.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' features Goliaths, the GiantMook of the Bandit enemy type. Extremely slow and very childish, Goliaths also possess size and strength befitting their name. Strangely, they seem to get smarter when they lose [[RestrainingBolt their helmets]].
** Most bandits come off as dumber than hell because they're way too [[AxCrazy violently insane]] to possess any higher mental faculties, but special mention goes to the Psychos. While an ordinary Psycho is a scrawny human of average height, the Badass and, God help you, Super Badass Psychos are monstrously huge, mindlessly aggressive, and apparently still dumber than hell.
** Brick, who was playable in the first game, is an eight foot tall behemoth of a man and melee specialist, who was either named Brick because his parents knew he wasn't smart, or later had his name changed to Brick to reflect that he isn't very smart. Subverted in the second and later games, however, especially the Assault on Dragon Keep DLC; he certainly ''acts'' dumb, but he also knows a lot about the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' parody and gets into the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' spoof well before Mordecai does.
** Mr. Torgue is a GeniusDitz version. He is an enormous, muscular man whose entire brain has enough room for exactly two ideas at a time, and one of them is always StuffBlowingUp, leading to the owner of his galaxy-spanning company (who bought it from him for twelve bucks and a high-five) calling him "the dumbest person in the world". At the same time, he is a weapons design ''genius'' as long as your hopes for that weapon involve exploding rounds, leading to the Torgue corporation being one of the top shotgun and rocket launcher manufacturers in the game.
* Buldogue from ''VideoGame/CapoeiraFighter'' has one of the highest strength stats in the game but she also has had no schooling of any kind. In Ramba's arcade mode you can show her how to apply her strength better in matches and force her to get an education.
* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' has Masato, who is almost obsessed with muscles but isn't particularly bright and admits to having no good subjects at school. Though Riki does think at one point that if he spent as much time on schoolwork as he does on training he wouldn't be doing nearly so badly.
* In ''VideoGame/BibleAdventures'', Noah can lift up to four animals -- five for short distances -- even things like horses, cows, and oxen, and carry them on his head... but apparently, he chose to put a ''platforming challenge'' as the way to get to the door of the ark instead of a ''ramp''. Oh, Noah...
* Subverted by the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' GameMod ''A Tale of Ajandel'' where part of the loot from a minotaur in a mazelike cave was a diary which briefly mentioned building the maze so that it could have a private place in which to write the "great minotaur novel" and mourn its late wife.
* Tiny the Tiger in the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series. In his debut, ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', he's a large, roaring pile of muscle, and his appearance in [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped the third game]] shows his talking for the first time in HulkSpeak, but ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'', like with everyone else, decided to modify his character, making him still muscular but without the "Dumb" part.
* [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]] of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back. Averted in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', where Bowser displays a surprising amount of competence from the get-go. Additionally, this is generally averted in the main series.
** Morton is one of the biggest and strongest of the Koopalings, and is "more brawn than brains" according to his ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' trophy.
* Most of the hard-hitting heavyweight characters in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series - Donkey Kong, Bowser, and Charizard - have shown below-average intelligence and poor judgment in their home series (or in Charizard's case, it's merely an animalistic character). Exceptions include Ike (who is of average intelligence), Ganondorf (who is a GeniusBruiser), and Bowser Jr. (a GadgeteerGenius who classifies as a heavyweight due to the vehicle he's riding in).
* The Marine in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars: The Pit'' is a stereotypical brainless grunt. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration His base in-game stats reflect this lore]] by making him high in Might and combat skills but low in Brains and technical skills.
* Yellow Heart from ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'' has childish speech patterns, can only read and write very simple words, and is generally dumb as a brick. She can also slug the other [=CPUs=] hard enough to knock them out of SuperMode and send them over the horizon. [[spoiler: Part of this comes from the fact her normal form is a LOT younger than her CPU form looks, but counts as DoubleSubverted since she's still dim even for a child.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline'', in one of the challenges resides a boss named Ugg the Assertive, having the lovely {{Boss Subtitle|s}} <Confused Meatshield>.
* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': Unlike his more sophisticated comrades, Beelzebub's programming isn't very complex, and thus the fight with him is downplayed into a very generic boss battle. Asmodeus even Lampshades this.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The Swine King is the gigantic, brutish and extremely dangerous result of your Ancestor summoning some extraplanar creature into the body of a common pig. Unfortunately for him, what he got was too stupid to be useful in the least, and he locked it up in the warrens. When you fight it, it actually needs a helper to tell it who to target.
* [[ProudWarriorRace Krogan]] are generally considered to be this in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' by the other races, especially salarians and turians, and you'll find plenty of krogan thugs throughout the series that play it straight. Any krogan who's [[NominalImportance actually got a name]] is probably smart enough to avert the trope, though. Wrex, Grunt, and Drack certainly all are, while in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and ''[[VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda Andromeda]]'' there are even krogan scientists, engineers, mechanics, and technical minded individuals who are shown to be quite good at what they do.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Many of the series' physically larger minor races, such as [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giants]] and [[ALoadOfBull Minotaurs]], are considered this by the races of Men and [[OurElvesAreDifferent Mer]], but most subvert it by displaying greater intelligence than they are typically given credit for. [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogres]] are one exception, typically being every bit as dumb as they are described to be. Exceptions exist, but they are fairly rare.
** This is also the case for many forms of the series' [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]]. Some, like the [[GiantMook massive]] Ogrim and [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodilian]] Daedroth are quite powerful but have little intelligence to speak of. Even among the most intelligent and civilized varieties, such as the [[LegionsOfHell Dremora]] and [[AmazonBrigade Golden Saints]], it tends to be Downplayed. While sapient, they often put HonorBeforeReason and [[LeeroyJenkins prefer to attack issues head-on]], which, despite their power, isn't always the best course of action.
* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'', the [[EliteMooks Flashlight Guards]] are this, especially from the [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves second game]] onward. Murray also counts as a semi-heroic example.
* ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'':
** The main character, Akira, is shown to be intelligent enough to solve puzzles and mysteries, but is [[BookDumb hopeless when it comes to educational endeavours]] like reading and studying, and intelligence is his lowest stat. He makes up for it with his near superhuman physicality, soaring to the top of an underground fighting ring and serving as the party's main bruiser.
** Kubitarou has superhuman strength, but was addled by mental illness in life. She was given a poor education and treated as dull-witted by her village as a result.
* The Warrior in ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons'' is the most straightforward beatstick among the characters, making him in many ways a MechanicallyUnusualClass because he ''doesn't'' have a weird gimmick while the other five do. He entered the Dungeon in the hope of winning a ''monster truck'', and he's generally shown to be the dumbest and most gullible of the adventurers.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Princess Alevna is the game's heaviest hitter but has the absolute worst Wisdom stat in the group.
* ''VideoGame/TheTwins'' has Bob, who serves as the muscle of the duo, but is very simpleminded. He has a SimpletonVoice and is dumb enough to drink coffee laced with rat poison which visibly turns rhe coffee green.
* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'': Invoked with [[https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Actum Actum]], a unique weapon with powerful base stats, but sets your Intelligence points to 0.
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Beat's ridiculously slow wit is balanced by his equally overwhelming abundance of power.