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Freezer
Since: Jan, 2001
14th Feb, 2011 06:39:36 PM
Achievements in Ignorance? The Fool?
My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn.
GreyBard
Since: Dec, 2009
14th Feb, 2011 08:21:37 PM
Not quite. It isn't so much that the stupid person is accidentally achieving good things thanks to the lack of brainpower. It's that someone on their own side is intentionally setting things up to use that person and his stupidity as a tool.
Is there a trope for useful stupidity? I don't mean Obfuscating Stupidity, I mean Character A is smart and uses the obvious stupidity of his ally Character B to his advantage when dealing with their antagonists and obstacles.
Ex. In A Scotsman In Egypt, the Scottish diplomat Gilles lets his brash young and dumb apprentice Gordon tell the Pope things that Gilles could never get away with saying, and then smooths it over with "Your Holiness, I apologize profusely for my associate."