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** Charlie Brown's baseball team is pretty terrible, either for lack of skill or lack of dedication. Charlie Brown himself is a terrible pitcher who often gets knocked off the mound, while right-fielder Lucy misses every ball that comes her way, shortstop Snoopy tends to fall asleep (a shame because when awake he's also described as "their only good player"), Lucy the outfielder either runs from the ball so it doesn't hit her or just stands their looking at it as it lands next to her, and catcher Schroeder cannot throw, which he hides by finding excuses to walk the ball back. However, Charlie Brown seems to be the number one reason for his team's lack of victory, as when he gets sick and misses the game it results in his team winning.

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** Charlie Brown's baseball team is pretty terrible, either for lack of skill or lack of dedication. Charlie Brown himself is a terrible pitcher who often gets knocked off the mound, while right-fielder Lucy misses every ball that comes her way, shortstop Snoopy tends to fall asleep (a shame because when awake he's also described as "their only good player"), Lucy the outfielder either runs from the ball so it doesn't hit her or just stands their there looking at it as it lands next to her, and catcher Schroeder cannot throw, which he hides by finding excuses to walk the ball back. However, Charlie Brown seems to be the number one reason for his team's lack of victory, as when he gets sick and misses the game it results in his team winning.
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* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch's smarts are offset by his complete lack of physical ability. He's utterly winded after trying and failing to dig a two-foot hole and gets outrun by his classmate Kallen while she's in a GoofySuit.

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* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch's [[Characters/CodeGeassLelouchLamperouge Lelouch Lamperouge's]] smarts are offset by his complete lack of physical ability. He's utterly winded after trying and failing to dig a two-foot hole and gets outrun by his classmate Kallen while she's in a GoofySuit.
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* ''VideoGame/HatsuneMikuColorfulStage'': Kanade Yoisaki is a {{hikkomori}} with the most extreme of GeekPhysiques. Even just holding a kettle is taxing on her, so this trope is inevitable whenever she tries to do anything even remotely athletic. ''Let's Enjoy Together! [=SpoJoy=] Park'' is centered around her trying and '''failing''' to build up her athleticism, and she mostly gets through it on warm memories and friendly encouragement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUgOeVwJV4 When she and the rest of Nightcord at 25:00]] try playing ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'', she struggles to make her character run or even squeeze the Ring-Con hard enough to blow a gust.

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* ''VideoGame/HatsuneMikuColorfulStage'': Kanade Yoisaki is a {{hikkomori}} {{hikkikomori}} with the most extreme of GeekPhysiques. Even just holding a kettle is taxing on her, so this trope is inevitable whenever she tries to do anything even remotely athletic. ''Let's Enjoy Together! [=SpoJoy=] Park'' is centered around her trying and '''failing''' to build up her athleticism, and she mostly gets through it on warm memories and friendly encouragement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUgOeVwJV4 When she and the rest of Nightcord at 25:00]] try playing ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'', she struggles to make her character run or even squeeze the Ring-Con hard enough to blow a gust.

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* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': Cody struggles with most sports, only getting good at football when the ships security guard Kirby uses science to teach him.

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** Maddie is not good at Physical Education, is physically weaker than London, and needs London's help in order to not fail gym.
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* ''VideoGame/HatsuneMikuColorfulStage'': Kanade Yoisaki is a {{hikkomori}} with the most extreme of GeekPhysiques. Even just holding a kettle is taxing on her, so this trope is inevitable whenever she tries to do anything even remotely athletic. ''Let's Enjoy Together! [=SpoJoy=] Park'' is centered around her trying and '''failing''' to build up her athleticism, and she mostly gets through it on warm memories and friendly encouragement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUgOeVwJV4 When she and the rest of Nightcord at 25:00]] try playing ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'', she struggles to make her character run or even squeeze the Ring-Con hard enough to blow a gust.
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* ''Series/SuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': Cody struggles with most sports, only getting good at football when the ships security guard Kirby uses science to teach him.

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* ''Series/SuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': Cody struggles with most sports, only getting good at football when the ships security guard Kirby uses science to teach him.
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* ''Series/SuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': Cody struggles with most sports, only getting good at football when the ships security guard Kirby uses science to teach him.
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* ''VideoGame/{{A3}}'' has Itaru Chigasaki, an avid gamer who often tries to avoid any form of physical activities. He struggles with action scenes and gets quickly winded in physical exercises. For instance, he comes out as a loser in ''Walk with Me, Talk with Me''.
** Tsumugi Tsukioka is notorious for being stiff and clumsy, which hits him hard when he has to perform in sports-adjacent plays such as ''Dance with Butterfly''. The N backstage series of said play is mainly him struggling at the gym, including falling flat on his face right after getting on the trampoline. He later fails to stop bouncing and get off it too.
** Homare Arisugawa's job as a poet adds to the notion that he is this, but he ultimately subverts the trope. In Tasuku's [Spirited Flat Serve] backstage, Homare has attempted to lie his way out of a tennis game by claiming to be this, but Izumi does not believe him. And it turns out that he does so because he has set up a potential chaos with his idea of combining tennis with acting. In fact, Homare is an experienced ballroom dancer with a solid core to boot. While not to Tasuku's extent, Homare actually knows about muscle training well enough to guide Winter Troupe through the gym for ''Dance with Butterfly'' [[spoiler:and give Yuki and Muku muscle training sessions to prepare them for a St Flora choir competition in ''Spotlight: Tsukushi High and St Flora'']].
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* ''Series/WillAndGrace'': Will is repeatedly shown to be terrible at sports. He can't swim, can't play soccer and has to bribe a small child to let him win a basketball game.
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* Misaki, of ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'', knows she's a terrible athlete, as is her friend Kirara. So, when Kirara challenges Minako, who is stated to be a world class volleyball player, to a game against her and Misaki in order to get her to agree to a sponsorship deal with Kagura, her reaction is [[ThisIsGonnaSuck pretty predictable]]. The game itself is pretty predictable as well, with the horribly unathletic (and too short) duo only scoring a point because Minako's first serve landed out of bounds. The rest of the time, they're seriously considering whether they should try to return Minako's extremely powerful hits, with the usual answer being no. Eventually, Kirara tries to use one arm extended to her side to return a serve, and ends up on the ground clutching said arm, lucky she didn't break it. Minako calls the game off after that, concerned about their safety since Kirara pulled such a stupid, dangerous move.
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Compare PatheticallyWeak, when a character has trouble doing even basic physical activities. See also HighHopesZeroTalent. May happen alongside JockDadNerdSon. May overlap with GeekPhysiques.

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Compare PatheticallyWeak, when a character has trouble doing even basic physical activities. See also HighHopesZeroTalent. May happen alongside JockDadNerdSon.JockDadNerdSon and OutclassedAtTheGym. May overlap with GeekPhysiques.
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* ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'': Kahlua Marjoram is of the SquishyWizard variety, as while she's a powerful magic user, she's also the least athletic among the Rune Angels, frequently seen gasping for air if the team has to run somewhere. She's seen multiple times being trained in the Luxiole's gym, either assisted by Mimolette or another Angel Wing member, trying to get fit again on the treadmill or doing crunches.

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