History DumbMuscle / WesternAnimation

* Numbuh Four of the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is the idiot of the team, but also the most inclined to physical violence. His actual combat ability varies greatly between episodes, usually switching between RuleOfCool and RuleOfFunny.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Patrick, especially in the episodes "Karate Star" and "The Frycook Games."

* Ned from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', who is actually mentally disabled.
** Not to mention Humongoloid, whose tremendous size comes at the apparent cost of having Down's Syndrome. At least until he gets shrunk, at which point he displays average intelligence.

* ''WesternAnimation/KorgothOfBarbaria'' himself, a pastiche of Conan minus the ingenuity and ambition.

* ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNOW'' has The Flesh who's "super strong and super naked" as well as having the "honor" of being the dimmest of a team of brain-dead two-bit super "heroes".

-->'''Rock Bottom:''' Ten...nine...eight....uh, what comes after eight, Professor?
-->'''Professor:''' Seven, stupid!
-->'''Rock Bottom:''' Seven...stupid...six...five...four...two...one...

* Subverted with Red Menace from ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil.'' He's shown to be of normal intelligence and quite resourceful at times. In one episode, he even scored higher on a computerized intelligence test than Voltar (whose intelligence was on the level of celery).

* Big Billy of the Gangreen Gang in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
** Also the [[spoiler: short-lived]] ''fourth'' Powerpuff Girl, Bunny.

* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'': Ranger Stu.

*** And Skullcruncher, who is specifically described as "slow (in more ways than one) but powerful." This is the guy who eats his enemies after defeating them, even though Cybertronians don't get nutrition of any kind that way and he admits to hating how they taste. However, the surprisingly sophisticated symbolism of cruelly absorbing his foes isn't lost on Skullcruncher's Headmaster partner Grax, who can do enough thinking for the both of them easily.
*** ''And'' Stranglehold, whose strength has always outweighed his intelligence by a hefty margin. While he's a genius fighter, he's a moron when it comes to everything else, making him ultimately a liability and only welcome on the Mayhem Attack Squad, a team of misfits with similarly bad reputations.

* Gene from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''.
* Cliff from ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''.

* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''.

* Krusha in ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry''. However, he isn't dimwitted at all in the episode "Bad Hair Day".

* Ed from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''.
** May Kanker also qualifies. Despite being the most dimwitted out of the Kankers, she usually is willing to resort to physical violence along with her sisters, and is shown to be very strong.

* Dean's prisoners from ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily''.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': The Dinobots. People say Grimlock is smarter than he lets on, but he still wants Kup to [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen tell him about the petro-rabbits]], even in the middle of a firefight. Sludge is also particularly dim, and, as the largest of the Dinobots, particularly strong. All of the Dinobots have an idiosyncratic form of HulkSpeak that lends itself to this image. In later issues of the comics this is subverted. Depending on the writers, the Dinobots are either street-savvy bruisers, or regular Autobots who feign ignorance as an act. Grimlock is consistently portrayed as being a temperamental leader who prefers direct action.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Grimlock is almost toddler-like in his temperament and speech; Swoop and Snarl don't seem to have enough processor power to ''talk'' at all, either.
*** ''Animated'' also includes Lugnut, who is delusionally devoted to Megatron, Mixmaster and Scrapper, who are barely aware of their surroundings, and Blackout, the largest Decepticon in history, who needs to be closely supervised in order to be of any use.
*** It's not so much that Lugnut is dumb, he's just blinded by his extreme loyalty. He has his moments, like "Decepticon Air" when he led a small band of Decepticons in taking over the Elite Guard flagship.

** And Tidal Wave from ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]]'', who is basically only capable of saying his own name, and Demolishor's later incarnation in ''Energon''.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Mimsy, Nathan's [[TheDragon subordinate]] from "Crippled Summer"
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Patrick, especially in the episodes "Karate Star" and "The Frycook Games."
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'': Ranger Stu.

* The one-shot wrestler "Mongo" from ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' with a HulkSpeak voice to match.
* From ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}},'' we have Megabyte's henchmen, Hack & Slash. They're [[MinionWithAnFInEvil mostly incompetent]] and as dumb as a bowl of mice (not to mention constantly bickering), but can occasionally make up for it with SuperStrength, not to mention being MultiArmedAndDangerous.
** And a rare female example, Princess Bula of the Saucy Mare.
* The RareFemaleExample is Scorpia from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', who is one of the physically beefiest characters in the show, a very friendly and AffablyEvil sort, and is generally shown to be pretty far from the sharpest tool in the box...especially when [[LoveMakesYouDumb her infatuation with Catra starts interfering with her other mental processes]] in episodes like "Roll With It".
* Nelson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a bully, who should not underestimated. In a episode, he even managed to beat three other bullies. But he is not the smartest.
* Bioborg, Grenader from ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' is a sentient grenade man, but is often the first borg defeated by the Skysurfers.

* Mimsy, Nathan's [[TheDragon subordinate]] from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Crippled Summer"
* Patrick from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', especially in the episodes "Karate Star" and "The Frycook Games."
* Ranger Stu from ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy''.
* Edwin "Meat" Kapinski in ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan.'' The other school jocks could count.
* Mammoth, Cinderblock, Overload, and Soto in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Cyborg and Monsieur Mallah, who use brute force the most of anyone on their respective teams, but are both [[GeniusBruiser highly intelligent as well]].
* Bebop and Rocksteady in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' serve as Shredder's muscle. They're usually dumb as a rock but the Turtles would often win by out-thinking them, as they were already tough to begin with, and got even tougher when made a wild boar and a rhino respectively thanks to Shredder's Mutagen.
* Tyler and Lightning from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''.
* The Dinobots from ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers''. People say Grimlock is smarter than he lets on, but he still wants Kup to [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen tell him about the petro-rabbits]], even in the middle of a firefight. Sludge is also particularly dim, and, as the largest of the Dinobots, particularly strong. All of the Dinobots have an idiosyncratic form of HulkSpeak that lends itself to this image.
** In later issues of the comics this is subverted. Depending on the writers, the Dinobots are either street-savvy bruisers, or regular Autobots who feign ignorance as an act. Grimlock is consistently portrayed as being a temperamental leader who prefers direct action.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Grimlock is almost toddler-like in his temperament and speech; Swoop and Snarl don't seem to have enough processor power to ''talk'' at all, either.

* The Fixed Ideas in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'' are a whole race of idiotic strongmen. They're still a bit of a threat to our heroine since she’s a GlassCannon, but not be much since they're extremely dumb.