History IdiotHero / Comics

* Flaming Carrot from the eponymous ''ComicBook/FlamingCarrot Comics'', actually described in his origin story as "quintessentially retarded". Surprisingly, for some people he's actually a mentor and on occasion it even gives him the "superpower" of Zen Stupidity.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** Enemies of the Green Lantern Corps attempted to discredit them by giving counterfeit power rings to several idiots. One of those idiots, a G'newtain named G'nort, uncovered their plot and helped defeat them. He was rewarded with membership in the real Green Lantern Corps.
** Specifically, his original concept was that he was an incompetent GL who got into the Corps due to nepotism. Eventually it was retconned to "reveal" that his uncle had actually gotten him into a fake GL Corps (which he thought was real). The retcon was presumably intended to explain how on Earth the Guardians (who never much cared for individual GL's opinions, much less familial relationships) would ever give such an idiot a power ring or let him keep it, but it was still very much played for laughs, including showing several members of the idiot GL Corps.
* It's a good thing Ben Edlund's ''ComicBook/TheTick'' is nigh-invulnerable, or he'd probably have gotten himself killed years ago with his boisterous recklessness.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' is notoriously slow of mind, lacking ideals other than acquiring mass amounts of cheese dip. Early in the title he inadvertently, and often obliviously, pulled CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, but his destructive reputation has grown to the point that armies will flee at the mention of his name. Groo is almost always both stupid and unbelievably naive but he has, on occasion, lost the stupidity but retained the naivete, taking him into SkilledButNaive territory (''no one'' disputes Groo's fighting skills, or at least those who do find out pretty quickly they were wrong, often fatally).
-->'''Groo:''' "[[RunningGag What did you mean, 'slow of mind'?]]"
* Big Johnson Bone from ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}: Tall Tales'' is a Bone folk hero with a serious case of SmallNameBigEgo who (due to boredom and overestimating his abilities) cheerfully embraces every single danger that comes his way and ''never'' walks away any wiser.
* Fighting, cooking, and music are ComicBook/ScottPilgrim's strong points, thinking things through and [[LameComeback snappy comebacks]] are not.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Thor is perceived as such, but is actually quite smart. However, he's HotBlooded and like his mythological counterpart his answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] and he has a number of buttons that are fairly easy to press. This is largely the reason his nemesis Loki is able to trick him so often. However, particularly in recent years, Thor's shown a much more cunning side, which often comes as a surprise to those expecting him to be this trope.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'': Hercules, on the other hand, Thor's close friend and rival - he's pretty much Thor's match for strength and has the edge on him in hand to hand combat - is very well meaning, but generally considered to be rather dim. He can, at times, be surprisingly eloquent and is astonishingly charming and personable, [[TheCasanova particularly]] (but not exclusively) to women, [[AccidentalPornomancer even when he's not trying to be]].
* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck at times counts (if only because of naivete, acting by impulse, not listening to his nephews or all combined) while his cousin Fethry acts stupidly most of the time.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': Johnny Thunder, a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] [[TheFool doofus]] who had a genie that had to make his statements come true after he said "cei-u"—and he often prefaced his suggestions to others with "say, you...!" HilarityEnsues.
* In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link is portrayed as a complete dope, but he gets the job done.

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* Enemies of the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] attempted to discredit them by giving counterfeit power rings to several idiots. One of those idiots, a G'newtain named G'nort, uncovered their plot and helped defeat them. He was rewarded with membership in the real Green Lantern Corps.

* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' is notoriously slow of mind, lacking ideals other than acquiring mass amounts of cheese dip. Early in the title he inadvertently, and often obliviously, pulled CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, but now his destructive reputation has grown to the point that armies will flee at the mention of his name, and the writers are running out of foreign lands to put him in to make use of the trope.
** Groo is almost always both stupid and unbelievably naive but he has, on occasion, lost the stupidity but retained the naivete, taking him into SkilledButNaive territory (''no one'' disputes Groo's fighting skills, or at least those who do find out pretty quickly they were wrong, often fatally).
** "[[RunningGag What did you mean]], [[BrickJoke 'slow of mind']]?"

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is perceived as such, but is actually quite smart. However, he's HotBlooded and like his mythological counterpart his answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] and he has a number of buttons that are fairly easy to press. This is largely the reason his nemesis Loki is able to trick him so often. However, particularly in recent years, Thor's shown a much more cunning side, which often comes as a surprise to those expecting him to be this trope.
* [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], on the other hand, Thor's close friend and rival - he's pretty much Thor's match for strength and has the edge on him in hand to hand combat - is very well meaning, but generally considered to be rather dim. He can, at times, be surprisingly eloquent and is astonishingly charming and personable, [[TheCasanova particularly]] (but not exclusively) to women, [[AccidentalPornomancer even when he's not trying to be]].
* In the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, DonaldDuck at times counts (if only because of naivete, acting by impulse, not listening to his nephews or all combined) while his cousin Fethry acts stupidly most of the time.
* Al from ComicBook/{{Marville}}, who believed that time travel somehow gave him super powers and tries to solve poverty by handing out $100 dollar bills. Unfortunately, his idiocy is not endearing in any way, and more often is just a result of bad writing.

* [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], on the other hand, Thor's close friend and rival - he's pretty much Thor's match for strength and has the edge on him in hand to hand combat - is very well meaning, but generally considered to be rather dim. He can, at times, be surprisingly eloquent and is astonishingly charming and personable, [[TheCasanova particularly]] ([[BiTheWay but not exclusively]]) to women, [[AccidentalPornomancer even when he's not trying to be]].

* Enemies of the [[GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] attempted to discredit them by giving counterfeit power rings to several idiots. One of those idiots, a G'newtain named G'nort, uncovered their plot and helped defeat them. He was rewarded with membership in the real Green Lantern Corps.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is perceived as such, but is actually quite smart. However, he's HotBlooded and like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] and he has a number of buttons that are fairly easy to press. This is largely the reason his nemesis Loki is able to trick him so often. However, particularly in recent years, Thor's shown a much more cunning side, which often comes as a surprise to those expecting him to be this trope.

** His ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' version takes this even farther, as he got his (admittedly unimportant) job in the corps ''because of his uncle'' and could only remember The Oath with a cheat sheet.
*** The original version of his origin also was that he just got the job because his uncle was one of the greatest Green Lanterns. That "enemies discrediting the Green Lanterns" stuff sounds more like a CerebusRetcon. Then again, a real CerebusRetcon would have [[TheScrappy gotten rid of G'nort altogether]].
*** Specifically, his original concept was that he was an incompetent GL who got into the Corps due to nepotism. Eventually it was retconned to "reveal" that his uncle had actually gotten him into a fake GL Corps (which he thought was real). The retcon was presumably intended to explain how on Earth the Guardians (who never much cared for individual GL's opinions, much less familial relationships) would ever give such an idiot a power ring or let him keep it, but it was still very much played for laughs, including showing several members of the idiot GL Corps.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is perceived as such, but is actually quite smart. However, he's HotBlooded and like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] and he has a number of buttons that are fairly easy to press. This is largely the reason his nemesis SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} is able to trick him so often. However, particularly in recent years, Thor's shown a much more cunning side, which often comes as a surprise to those expecting him to be this trope.

* In the DisneyDucksComicUniverse, DonaldDuck at times counts (if only because of naivete, acting by impulse, not listening to his nephews or all combined) while his cousin Fethry acts stupidly most of the time.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor's,]] like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] which is largely the reason his nemesis SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} is able to trick him so often. Thor routinely attacks enemies he couldn't possibly beat all the time and only wins due to outside intervention. He once even tried to beat a humanoid alien several thousand times his size this way.

* Big Johnson Bone from''ComicBook/{{Bone}}: Tall Tales'' is a Bone folk hero with a serious case of SmallNameBigEgo who (due to boredom and overestimating his abilities) cheerfully embraces every single danger that comes his way and ''never'' walks away any wiser.

* Big Johnson Bone from the ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' collection "Stupid, Stupid Rat Tales" is a Bone folk hero with a serious case of SmallNameBigEgo who (due to boredom and overestimating his abilities) cheerfully embraces every single danger that comes his way and ''never'' walks away any wiser.

* TheTick
* GrooTheWanderer is slow of mind.
** Lacking ideals other than acquiring mass amounts of cheese dip. Early in the title he inadvertently, and often obliviously, pulled CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, but now his destructive reputation has grown to the point that armies will flee at the mention of his name, and the writers are running out of foreign lands to put him in to make use of the trope.

* [[{{Bone}} Big Johnson Bone]] is a SmallNameBigEgo who (due to boredom and overestimating his abilities) cheerfully embraces every single danger that comes his way and ''never'' walks away any wiser.
* ScottPilgrim. Oh, Scott...
* [[TheMightyThor Thor's,]] like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] which is largely the reason his nemesis SelfDemonstrating/{{Loki}} is able to trick him so often. Thor routinely attacks enemies he couldn't possibly beat all the time and only wins due to outside intervention. He once even tried to beat a humanoid alien several thousand times his size this way.

* FlamingCarrot from the eponymous ''Flaming Carrot Comics'', actually described in his origin story as "quintessentially retarded". Surprisingly, for some people he's actually a mentor and on occasion it even gives him the "superpower" of Zen Stupidity.

*** The original version of his origin also was that he just got the job because his uncle was one of the greatest Green Lanterns. That "enemies discrediting the Green Lanterns" stuff sounds more like a CerebusRetcon. Then again, a real CerebusRetcon would have [[AlienScrappy gotten rid of G'nort altogether]].

* [[TheMightyThor Thor's,]] like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] which is largely the reason his nemesis {{Loki}} is able to trick him so often. Thor routinely attacks enemies he couldn't possibly beat all the time and only wins due to outside intervention. He once even tried to beat a humanoid alien several thousand times his size this way.

** ("[[RunningGag What did you mean]], [[BrickJoke 'slow of mind']]?")

* GrooTheWanderer. ("[[RunningGag What did you mean]], [[BrickJoke 'slow of mind']]?")

* Al from ComicBook/{{Marville}}, who believed that time travel somehow gave him super powers and tries to solve poverty by handing $100 dollar bills. Unfortunately, his idiocy is not endearing in any way, and more often is just a result of bad writing.

* BuckyBarnes as the Winter Soldier.

* [[TheMightyThor Thor's,]] like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] which is largely the reason his nemesis Loki is able to trick him so often. Thor routinely attacks enemies he couldn't possibly beat all the time and only wins due to outside intervention. He once even tried to beat a humanoid alien several thousand times his size this way.

* [[TheMightyThor Thor's,]] like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[AllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] which is largely the reason his nemesis Loki is able to trick him so often. Thor routinely attacks enemies he couldn't possibly beat all the time and only wins due to outside intervention. He once even tried to beat a humanoid alien several thousand times his size this way.

* [[TheMightyThor Thor,]] like his mythological counterpart answer to most every problem is [[AllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit it with his hammer until it goes away"]] which is largely the reason his nemesis Loki is able to trick him so often. Thor routinely attacks enemies he couldn't possibly beat all the time and only wins due to outside intervention. He once even tried to beat a humanoid alien several thousand times his size this way.

** Groo is almost always both stupid and unbelievably naive but he has, on occasion, lost the stupidity but retained the naivete, taking him into SkilledButInexperienced territory.