History IdiotHero / Film

* Film/BillAndTed, in every incarnation. While they have an intuitive understanding of SanDimasTime, their basic response to everything is almost always (a) tell a dumb joke, (b) make a rock music reference, (c) going along with what someone smarter suggests, or (d) some combination of the above.

* Po from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', while sincere and dorky, is often seen as an embarrassment to his teammates, although he's seen as much less of one after [[spoiler:becoming the powerful dragon warrior.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': A hero known as Thunderhead was remarked to have been "not the brightest bulb", and even his very name is a play on the term "dunderhead". Indeed, his NSA file in the film's disc 2 DVD gives him the lowest possible intelligence ranking, and it is revealed that he can't read and never finished high school. The Phylange and Universal Man have the same low intelligence rankings.

* Sam Witwicky from the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''.

* ''Film/ForrestGump''. He actually appears to succeed ''[[TheFool because]]'' [[TheFool of his idiocy, or rather]], because it never seems to occur to him to do anything other than the Right Thing by traditional standards. He becomes a decorated war hero just by trying to save his Army buddy Bubba and his comrades. His shrimping business succeeds only because a hurricane has sunk every boat in the harbor but his; it is strongly implied this is because Gump has been going to church lately and got God on his side. Other characters who do not share his conventional morality, and explore alternative values and lifestyles as so many Americans did in the 1960s and '70s, act like total bastards and/or make fools of themselves. Even the good-hearted Jenny succumbs to DeathBySex, since she gets AIDS.

-->'''Santa Claus:''' The next time you get the urge to take over someone else's holiday, I'd listen to ''her''! She's the only one who makes sense around this insane asylum!

* Sam Witwicky from the ''{{Transformers}}'' film series.

* ''Film/InspectorGadget'', true to his cartoon roots.

* Jack Skellington from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is probably one of the more {{justified|Trope}} examples, as his idiotic moments come from not being an idiot per se, but from either [[BlueAndOrangeMorality not understanding concepts outside of Halloween]] (the whole Christmas fiasco, thinking the shells were fireworks, etc.) or being so excited for Christmas that he doesn't listen to reason (Sally and her prediction). The only thing he does that is [[WhatAnIdiot just plain stupid]] is trusting Lock, Shock, and Barrel to take care of SantaClaus.

* Clumsy, slow-witted BumblingDad Gang-du from ''Film/TheHost'' is a tragicomic example. He's constantly viewed as the family screw-up, and because he's such an idiot he endangers lives without meaning to. [[spoiler: He even got his father killed after he miscounted the number of bullets in his gun]]. Still, he can be a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass when the situation calls for it.

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'' Kirk seems to be playing with this one. Unlike ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]]'' Kirk, the reboot Kirk needs his supporting cast to keep from getting his ass handed to him every five minutes [[spoiler:(Spock, Spock Prime, Sulu, Scotty, Bones, and ''Chekov'' keep Kirk from killing himself in various interesting ways while HypercompetentSidekick Uhura holds the ship together!). Likely justified, due to being raised without a father.]]