History ObfuscatingStupidity / VideoGames

** ''VideoGame/Persona5Scramble'', [[spoiler:Kuon Ichinose initially appears to be a ditzy professor with an endearing lack of social skills, who assists the Phantom Thieves in unearthing the conspiracy surrounding EMMA, an app she developed. Near the end, it's revealed that she was fully aware of and abetting EMMA's true agenda the entire time, and promptly turns against the Thieves so that they won't interfere. Her lack of social skills is not an endearing quirk, but an indicator of her crippling inability to relate with others, which causes her to label herself as a heartless monster.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', after losing his eyes, Rahm Kota becomes so depressed that he spends all his time binge-drinking and claims that he has lost his connection to the Force. It eventually proves that he is still a mighty Jedi Knight, [[spoiler: like when he steals ''Emperor Palpatine's'' lightsaber.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':

** Resident hungry ghost Yuyuko Saigyouji definitely fits the bill. It's a very real possibility she's actually even smarter than TheChessmaster Yukari.

* Letho, the Kingslayer, from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2''. He's a big, hulking [[DumbMuscle mountain of muscle who really doesn't look very smart]] and he uses this to his advantage like a true MagnificentBastard [[spoiler: as he manipulates the Scoia'tel and the Lodge of Sorceresses to aid him in slaying kings under the pretense that it would aid their own ends, when his actual goal is [[DividedWeFall to make the Northern kingdoms descend into chaos so the Nilfgaardian empire could easily invade them]]]]:

* ''VideoGame/TroubleshootersAbandonedChildren'': Sion's cheerful, laid-back BigEater personality is genuine, but it is a very small part of his personality, that he plays up to mask the rest of it. Behind the mask lies a CulturedBadass with a seriously advanced education, NervesOfSteel and some very serious trauma. He just like playing BrilliantButLazy, and does it so well it's very easy to forget that there's a LOT more to him.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' gives us Makoto Nanaya. On the surface, you have a girl who [[CuddleBug glomps whatever she finds cute]], [[BigEater eats way too much]] for a 49 kilo girl, climbs trees for exercise, tends to forget the NOL [[BadassCreed creed]], and acts like a FunPersonified {{womanchild}}. Beneath it all, however, she is surprisingly [[StreetSmart clever]] and adaptible - she attended the NOL Military Academy entirely on scholarship amongst a throng of noble jerks, and she proved dangerously competent as a spy within NOL Intelligence [[spoiler:[[DoubleAgent and Sector Seven]]]]. This, coupled with her desire to protect her friends, elevates her threat level to Hazama considerably - [[spoiler:as if finding a throng of rejected Noel / Saya copies in Ibukido wasn't enough, she [[SpannerInTheWorks unknowingly thwarted his plans in another timeline]], [[OutGambitted almost knowingly ruined them again in an alternate possibility of the main timeline]], and is an active detriment to his plans at large that aforementioned cleverness makes it a ''nightmare'' to plan around her.]] Of all the pieces in his [[CosmicChessGame chess game with Rachel and Jubei]], she's the one whom he will skip all other measures and kill on sight.

* In ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', after losing his eyes, Rahm Kota becomes so depressed that he spends all his time binge-drinking and claims that he has lost his connection to TheForce. It eventually proves that he is still a mighty Jedi Knight, [[spoiler: like when he steals ''Emperor Palpatine's '' lightsaber.]]