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* Mutons in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''. True, they're physically imposing and resistant to gunfire, but they have no real initiative. Fittingly, they're very predictable tactically, and their Will score is so low that any psionic trooper you have will mop the floor with them.

* The Marine in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars: The Pit'' is a stereotypical brainless grunt, high in Might and combat skills but low in Brains and technical skills.

* Tiny the Tiger in the {{Crash Bandicoot}} series. In his debut, ''{{Crash Bandicoot 2}}'': Cortex Strikes Back'', he's a large, roaring pile of muscle, and his appearance in the third game shows his talking for the first time in {{Hulk Speak}}, but {{Crash of the Titans}}, like with everyone else, decided to modify his character, making him still muscular but without the "Dumb" part.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has the Water Street Boys gang, which is basically a ''gang-wide'' case of this, complete with leader Winston Chu's right-hand man Conroy Wu (both described as possible steroid abusers) making his boss look ''worse'' for having him[[hottip:*:he's a walking, talking symbol of Winston's inability to attract subordinates with potential, cultivate such subordinates or even attract refined subordinates in the first place]], and both men plus their gang are collectively described[[hottip:*:by the previous mole Charlie Ho]] as unable to achieve their goals due to lack of sophistication, respectability[[hottip:*:with which to move into white-collar crime]] and just about anything ''except'' fierce loyalty to one another and brute force violence. Then [[GeniusBruiser Wei Shen]] comes along...

* [[BigBad Bowser]] of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back. Averted in ''VideoGame/VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', where Bowser displays a surprising amount of competence from the get-go.

* [[BigBad Bowser]] of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is frequently portrayed this way, especially in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. In particular, ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' gives him a BrainsEvilBrawnGood dynamic with Fawful, where the latter sets up a GambitRoulette and utilizes various gadgets and robots while Bowser simply punches his way through the Mushroom Kingdom to get his castle back.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s Super Mutant Behemoths are, not surprisingly, the least intelligent of their kind, and never speak, vocalizing solely in monster roars. The Vault 87 Mutants are in general dumber than the Mariposa ones.

** He also collects the heads of his enemies, [[CloudCuckoolander has tea parties with cardboard cut-outs, and wore a costume made of household rubbish, thinking he had fooled the police into believing he was a robot.]] Safe to say, he's none too bright.

* The Hunters and Brutes in ''{{Halo}}''.
** Somewhat subverted in the expanded universe, which shows that the Hunters are [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]] and that the Brutes are one of the few Covenant species who don't consider modifying Forerunner technology to be blasphemy.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has the Water Street Boys gang, which is basically a ''gang-wide'' case of this, complete with leader Winston Chu's right-hand man Conroy Wu (both described as possible steroid abusers) making his boss look ''worse'' for having him, and both men plus their gang collectively described as unable to achieve their goals due to lack of sophistication, respectability (with which to move into white-collar crime) and just about anything except fierce loyalty to one another and brute force violence.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s Super Mutant Behemoths are, not surprisingly, the least intelligent of their kind, and never speak, vocalizing solely in monster roars.

* Subverted by the {{Neverwinter Nights}} mod ''A Tale from Ajandel'' where part of the loot from a minotaur in a mazelike cave was a diary which briefly mentioned building the maze so that it could have a private place in which to write the "great minotaur novel" and mourn its late wife.

* [[CatGirl Taokaka]] and [[LittleBitBeastly Makoto]] from ''BlazBlue'' are both very physically strong and rather dim. [[MusclesAreMeaningless Although you probably]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse couldn't tell from]] [[BadassAdorable looking at them]].

* If you play as a fighter in the QuestForGlory games, your intelligence and communication skills start out lower than the mage or thief, and characters will sometimes remark about the lack of refinement in your speech. There's one scene in the fourth game where you read a book in the adventurer's guild about climbing, and the narrator notes that it was "obviously meant for fighters" as it is written in very simple language.

* Completely and totally averted in the case of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]] of ''DragonAge''. They are certainly big and strong, but while they tend towards the xenophobic and unimaginative they are in no way dumb. Every Qunari Hawke meets in DragonAge2 is perfectly capable of countering every argument Hawke makes against the [[ArcWords certainty]] presented by the Qun.

* In the VisualNovel DatingSim ''VideoGame/HatofulBoyfriend'', you start with 1 wisdom, 800 vitality, and 5 charisma, and you do not get more than about 35 to 40 possible points of stat increase throughout the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' features Goliaths, the GiantMook of the Bandit enemy type. Extremely slow and very childish, Goliaths also possess size and strength befitting their name