Basic Trope: A character is physically very attractive but unintelligent.
- Straight: Alice is pretty and popular, but has been held back from grade 8 twice.
- Exaggerated: Alice is so extremely hot everyone who sees her falls for her despite the fact she cannot read, write or even spell correctly and she's so drop-dead dumb that she would gladly dive into a pool of blood-thirsty sharks if she was asked to!
- Downplayed:
- Everyone on the word is pretty hot, and none of them are exactly geniuses, but Alice is widely considered the best-looking and is most commonly the one acting The Ditz.
- Alice is a Genius Ditz who is only intelligent in matters involving personal appearance.
- Justified:
- Alice was always pretty and since her looks got her through life, she never bothered to apply herself in school.
- Alice has some degree of intellectual disability, but she still looks good thanks to her good genetics and her capability of grooming herself.
- Inverted: Alice is ugly and has a brilliant mind.
- Subverted:
- Alice is beautiful and popular but turns out to very smart too.
- Alice is revealed to actually be a magnificent and/or manipulative Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who feigns innocence and naivety to manipulate others and further her own goals.
- Alice turns out to be Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Double Subverted:
- Except it turns out that her apparent smarts are just parroted facts she doesn't really understand.
- Her "smarts" only apply to subjects amplifying her beauty, Alice may be an awesome fashion artist but good luck trying to teach her to operate a microwave.
- Alice starts Becoming the Mask.
- Parodied:
- Alice has a bad hair day and temporarily becomes a smarter person.
- Alice is considered to be the ugliest in her class but is fairly intelligent. Following a Makeover Montage, Alice suddenly becomes a mentally handicapped Valley Girl.
- Alice is literally brainless.
- Alice's intelligence increases whenever her face becomes bruised, dirtied, or mangled in some way. By the time she became the world's ugliest person, she also turned into the world's smartest person.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice's intelligence varies by the hour.
- Averted:
- Alice is pretty but of average or better intelligence.
- Smarter Than You Look
- Alice is of average looks and intelligence.
- Enforced:
- The creators wanted to make sure the audiences wanted to see Bob with Sue so purposely made Alice shallow and vapid to prevent people from identifying with her instead.
- The creators think Viewers Are Morons and male viewers prefer female characters to be beautiful and stupid since stupid women are easier to control and manipulate.
- Lampshaded: "Alice is devastatingly hot. Don't put her on the research team."
- Exploited: Alice is hired because, first, she is stupid enough not to see through the Masquerade, and second, she is pretty enough that the people who might be looking the wrong way.
- Invoked: Alice is just clever enough to realize that she's dumb, so she should probably make the most of her best features to succeed in life.
- Alice was targeted by a Stupidity-Inducing Attack.
- Defied: Alice studies hard and takes great lengths in general Character Development to avoid being stupid.
- Discussed: "Why are the good-looking ones always so dim?"
- Conversed: "This character just goes to show that having IQ and being GQ are inversely proportional."
- Deconstructed:
- It becomes clear that Alice was never taught anything besides grooming, despite being capable of better.
- Alice is an easy target for sexual predators. Too sexy to resist and too dumb to tell what is coming to her.
- Alice becomes bitter in old age, as her looks have gone and she realizes she wasted her youth.
- Alice's stupidity is so frustrating to the others that even those attracted to her are quickly turned off.
- Reconstructed: It becomes clear that Alice skates by on being pretty whenever anyone tries to make her do something hard.
- Played for Laughs: The Running Gag of the show features Alice, The Chew Toy who often suffers from Amusing Injuries from her stupidity, but her Beauty Is Never Tarnished.
- Played for Drama: People start hating Alice when her stupidity gets someone killed. Alice doesn't know why all of a sudden everyone starts looking at her in an incinerating way, and ponders if it's something she wore.
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