1 | '''Basic Trope''': TheDitz [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is really smart]], at least in [[CripplingOverspecialization some area(s).]] |
2 | * '''Straight''': Clueless Alice is really clueless about most things, but she's brilliant at her chosen profession of biophysics. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Clueless Alice looks stupid in all areas, but manages to be competent at everything not requiring giving a straightforward answer. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Though easily distracted and a bit silly, Alice is able to handle her college classes fine. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Alice has a ''very'' narrow field of interests. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': |
7 | ** ModernMajorGeneral |
8 | ** DitzyGenius |
9 | * '''Subverted''': |
10 | ** Alice appears to be a genius at biophysics, but in fact just memorized a book about it on a whim. |
11 | ** What at first seems to be a fluke is actually {{foreshadowing}} that Alice is using ObfuscatingStupidity. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
13 | ** Her real specializaton is ''quantum'' physics. |
14 | ** After Alice shows a few unexpected signs of intelligence, those around her begin to suspect she's using ObfuscatingStupidity, and treat her as a font of wisdom. [[SeeminglyProfoundFool She isn't.]] |
15 | * '''Parodied''': When the characters are at a loss in a particularly esoteric subject, all eyes turn to Clueless Alice, who nails it except when that wouldn't be funny. |
16 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice has expert knowledge in some parts of some fields, an average level of knowledge about others, and none in others. |
17 | * '''Averted''': Alice is just TheDitz straight up. Or she's just TheSmartGuy. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': |
19 | ** TruthInTelevision |
20 | ** Alice was originally written as a simple [[TheDitz ditz]] but got one field of competence to make her character deeper. |
21 | * '''Lampshaded''': "And how exactly is it that you learned biophysics?" |
22 | * '''Invoked''': The team uses Alice to hustle money in biophysics quizzes. |
23 | * '''Exploited''': The hustle victims then challenge Alice to another field of study, and HilarityEnsues. |
24 | * '''Defied''': Alice admits she's as dumb as a sack of hammers. |
25 | * '''Discussed''': "Alice may seem stupid, but when it comes to biophysics, she makes everyone else look stupid!" |
26 | * '''Conversed''': "Alice is literally one of the most brilliant biophysics doctoral students I've ever seen in my twenty-five years of teaching. Bit scattered is an understatement, her office usually looks like a bomb went off in it, but wow is that woman going to go places." "Quite possibly the morgue, along with half the building we live in. Yeah, she's my roommate - I don't doubt at all that she's a truly rare talent in her field, but this is the woman who has left the gas on THREE GODDAMN TIMES this month, and did I mention that she's a smoker and frequently smokes inside when she's toiling away at something late at night? Yeah. She probably will change the world if she doesn't accidentally kill herself first." |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice is smart enough to catch on that other people see her as a ditz, and has self-esteem issues because of this. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': But she won’t let that put her down, and therefore, enjoy the skills she has. |
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30 | What?! You mean you can build an airplane out of scrap but you cannot create a link back to the main page? You could've told me ealier, GeniusDitz! |
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32 | %%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
33 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Untwisted''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
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