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* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' since Bob starts out as officially the world's most average man, he's not really ''dumb,'' but since the rest of main cast (Jean's a scientist, Molly's a prodigy, and Voluptua's a 300-year-old alien) are much brighter and more well-educated than average, he tends to come off looking Book Dumb BookDumb by comparison.
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* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Isaac and Miria, the OutlawCouple pair, are twice as flakey. For instance, they think the fact that no one has ever found gold in a given hill is a perfect reason to dig for gold there, and that to perform a "train robbery", you take a train somewhere, rob someone, and then use the train to escape.
* Akihisa Yoshi from ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' is by far the stupidest person in the school. He divides pot noodle in half continually thinking that [[InsaneTrollLogic that way he can get infinite meals out of one serving]]. He even concludes that discovering this makes him a genius. Most geniuses don't spend their food money on porn in the first place. He explains that this why he is eating 1/67th of a pot noodle. Nobody is even surprised that he gets the math wrong there. When Hazuki Shimada turns up and calls asks for the big idiot Akihisa Yuuji Sakamoto says he's surprised that everyone in Japan knows of his stupidity. Akihisa insists it's not all of Japan, just the local area.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Vlok is not the brightest bulb among the dragons of 109th. Still bright enough, though, to be a competent swordfighter and a soldier.
* In ''Literature/{{Buddenbrooks}}'', Tony is impressed by smart people (like Morten Schwarzkopf -- a doctor-to-be with whom she falls in love, but can't marry him because of the Grünlich thing), but is neither book smart nor street smart herself, and calls herself "a silly goose" sometimes. Her poor relative Klothilde is even more so.
* ''Literature/DearDumbDiary'' -- Emmily. [Yes, she really spells it with 2 Ms. It's because it reminds her of candy that way -- not M&Ms (those are Ws and 3s) but because "Mm" is the sound she makes when she eats candy.]
-->''You remember Emmily -- she was very sweet and we all loved her, but she was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Emmily wasn't even the sharpest spoon in the drawer. Most of the time, Emmily wasn't even in the drawer at all. She was lost somewhere in the bottom of the dishwasher.''
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Creighton the Cretin (Greg's comic strip character in the first book) is this in spades. He's tricked into thinking his name is "Stewart Pid" (and then says his name is "Stew Pid"), mistakes a brick for a box, and asks a doctor to give him a new butt because his old one has a crack in it.
* Razza from ''Literature/DontCallMeIshmael''. His grades are terrible and he isn't very intelligent, but he is very sociable and fun-loving.
-->Sometimes, Razza wasn't quite on the same page as other people -- often, he wasn't even in the same library.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has a few subversions:
** Maeve does her level best to be perceived as a narcissistic, hedonistic political non-entity. While there is some truth to the first two, Maeve is far more savvy and in control than her public persona indicates. When Billy tells her no-one buys the act, she pouts, but immediately becomes all business and casually provides important information the heroes have been busting their chops to get a hold of. Underestimate the queens of Winter at your own peril.
** Abby of the [[PretentiousLatinMotto Ordo Lebes]] comes across as scatterbrained through no fault of her own. Abby is actually pretty intelligent and perceptive, but she is also a very limited-ability precognitive with very little control of her ability. The reason she spaces out and comes up with non-sequiturs sometimes is that she sees the present and about a minute into the future simultaneously and occasionally loses track of which is which.
* Lina the maid from Creator/AstridLindgren's ''Emil i Lönneberga''. When the parish priest asks her who the first humans were, she answers "Thor and Freya". That doesn't make sense even in Myth/NorseMythology!
* Homura Hinooka from ''Literature/FireGirl'' is a downplayed example. Her ditziness mostly stems from her status as being BookDumb and being fairly incompetent in knowledge regarding "complicated" basics in life (she doesn't even know how to use the ''internet'' for starters) but she is actually fairly self-aware and perceptive otherwise.
* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoDrankTheMoon'' has Fyrian: woefully uneducated, unable to observe or retain information, and believes everything he is told, but through this becomes an enthusiastic, optimistic, and loving family member.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Ponix Enaz is constantly forgetting to fully shapeshift back into his elven form and thus leaving strange body parts lying out, providing TooMuchInformation, or being so absorbed by puzzles that he neglects what's around him.
* ''Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'': The titular protagonist theorizes that Raziel is the origin of dumb blonde jokes.
* Jack Pumpkinhead from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' series is ''always'' described as unintelligent. Some of the words used to describe him are "stupid", "dim", "innocent", "simpleton", "not known for his intelligence", etc. He might also have a bit of a neurological disorder, as he fails to pick up on vocal cues and sometimes takes sentences to mean the opposite of what they mean (he once called a ferryman 'nice' after he refused to let Pumpkinhead cross a river on account of not having any money).
* ''Literature/MissMarple'': Lettice Protheroe from ''Literature/TheMurderAtTheVicarage'' is vague about everything, and frequently confused about what time and even what day it is. Several characters express the opinion that it is a form of ObfuscatingStupidity.
* In the Literature/ModestyBlaise novel ''The Night of Morningstar'', Earl St. Maur's wife Victoria is an airhead from a noble family who is incapable of maintaining a train of thought on any subject that doesn't involve horse-riding or sex.
* ''Literature/MotherGoose'': Simple Simon was one, "simple" being a common term for "stupid" when the poem was written. After his meeting with the pieman, he tries to fish for a whale in a bucket of water and then tried to find plums on a thistle bush.
* ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'' has Sheila, who is so dumb she thinks a drawn-on mustache is real and it's not even well-drawn.
* Louie from ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'' has a complete disregard for his own or anyone else's safety: ''"When it comes to the odds, I have done worse than 20 percent!"''
* In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', Kira pretends to be like this at the Norlander imperial court, being flighty, talkative, politically naïve, and superficial. Some people see through it, but as she notes, it's pretty difficult to ''prove'' she's smarter than she acts, so it's still a good barrier against people trying to get anything from her.
* Volatilus, the sweet but not too bright little dispatch dragon from the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' books. The little guy can't even pronounce the titular dragon's name -- the best he can do is "Temrer".
-->'''Temeraire:''' And where, pray, do you come from?\\
'''Volly:''' I was hatched! From an ''egg!''
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'':
** Gourry Gabriev is nicknamed "jellyfish brain" because he lacks so much common knowledge about the world and is generally clueless in any circumstance.
** Naga the Serpent, Lina's ([[UnknownRival self-proclaimed]]) greatest rival, gets into a lot of trouble with her lack of sense. In Naga's defense, WordOfGod implies she is mentally traumatized, so it's less that she's stupid and more that she's genuinely mentally unwell. Although it's probably fair to say she wasn't sensible, to begin with, given the strong hints she's related to Amelia and Prince Philionel, who are... definitely flaky.
* Tawneee (yes, three 'e's), a minor character from ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', a pole dancer. A short, somewhat paraphrased, description: "It's as if the gods said, 'Sorry, kid, you're going to be thicker than a tub of lard, but it'll be okay -- because you'll be ''very'' beautiful'." She thinks people come to see her because she's a good dancer and knows some "tricky steps".
* ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'': Redival is unable to focus on the Fox's classes and at times misunderstands his teachings. She ends up lacking the foresight to see her gossip and slander against her sister will do great harm to her family.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Fuzz, the kittypet that Barley meets in ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsSecretsOfTheClans Secrets of the Clans]]'', is a cheerful ditz who is so literal-minded that he thinks Barley's name is "Erbarley", and upon being corrected, then thinks it's "Justbarley".
* ''Literature/WhoWetMyPants'': Reuben doesn't notice when he wets his pants and when it's pointed out to him, he thinks first that someone else did it and then that they sprang a leak.
* ''Literature/WolfHall'' portrays Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory as a bit dim. While Cromwell is a highly savvy polyglot, Gregory is a poor scholar, guileless, and flighty; at one point Cromwell admits to a friend that neither Cambridge nor Gregory have anything for each other. Gregory does wise up as time passes and his father finds more effective mentors for him, but Cromwell actually ''likes'' that his son is so unlike himself even if it makes it difficult to relate -- he might not be the brightest but he's a model gentleman. More importantly, having a genial ditz for a son is always leagues better than getting Granddad's drunken, abusive jerkassery repeated in the family tree...
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* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Isaac and Miria, the OutlawCouple pair, are twice as flakey. For instance, they think the fact that no one has ever found gold in a given hill is a perfect reason to dig for gold there, and that to perform a "train robbery", you take a train somewhere, rob someone, and then use the train to escape.
* Akihisa Yoshi from ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' is by far the stupidest person in the school. He divides pot noodle in half continually thinking that [[InsaneTrollLogic that way he can get infinite meals out of one serving]]. He even concludes that discovering this makes him a genius. Most geniuses don't spend their food money on porn in the first place. He explains that this why he is eating 1/67th of a pot noodle. Nobody is even surprised that he gets the math wrong there. When Hazuki Shimada turns up and calls asks for the big idiot Akihisa Yuuji Sakamoto says he's surprised that everyone in Japan knows of his stupidity. Akihisa insists it's not all of Japan, just the local area.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Vlok is not the brightest bulb among the dragons of 109th. Still bright enough, though, to be a competent swordfighter and a soldier.
* In ''Literature/{{Buddenbrooks}}'', Tony is impressed by smart people (like Morten Schwarzkopf -- a doctor-to-be with whom she falls in love, but can't marry him because of the Grünlich thing), but is neither book smart nor street smart herself, and calls herself "a silly goose" sometimes. Her poor relative Klothilde is even more so.
* ''Literature/DearDumbDiary'' -- Emmily. [Yes, she really spells it with 2 Ms. It's because it reminds her of candy that way -- not M&Ms (those are Ws and 3s) but because "Mm" is the sound she makes when she eats candy.]
-->''You remember Emmily -- she was very sweet and we all loved her, but she was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Emmily wasn't even the sharpest spoon in the drawer. Most of the time, Emmily wasn't even in the drawer at all. She was lost somewhere in the bottom of the dishwasher.''
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Creighton the Cretin (Greg's comic strip character in the first book) is this in spades. He's tricked into thinking his name is "Stewart Pid" (and then says his name is "Stew Pid"), mistakes a brick for a box, and asks a doctor to give him a new butt because his old one has a crack in it.
* Razza from ''Literature/DontCallMeIshmael''. His grades are terrible and he isn't very intelligent, but he is very sociable and fun-loving.
-->Sometimes, Razza wasn't quite on the same page as other people -- often, he wasn't even in the same library.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has a few subversions:
** Maeve does her level best to be perceived as a narcissistic, hedonistic political non-entity. While there is some truth to the first two, Maeve is far more savvy and in control than her public persona indicates. When Billy tells her no-one buys the act, she pouts, but immediately becomes all business and casually provides important information the heroes have been busting their chops to get a hold of. Underestimate the queens of Winter at your own peril.
** Abby of the [[PretentiousLatinMotto Ordo Lebes]] comes across as scatterbrained through no fault of her own. Abby is actually pretty intelligent and perceptive, but she is also a very limited-ability precognitive with very little control of her ability. The reason she spaces out and comes up with non-sequiturs sometimes is that she sees the present and about a minute into the future simultaneously and occasionally loses track of which is which.
* Lina the maid from Creator/AstridLindgren's ''Emil i Lönneberga''. When the parish priest asks her who the first humans were, she answers "Thor and Freya". That doesn't make sense even in Myth/NorseMythology!
* Homura Hinooka from ''Literature/FireGirl'' is a downplayed example. Her ditziness mostly stems from her status as being BookDumb and being fairly incompetent in knowledge regarding "complicated" basics in life (she doesn't even know how to use the ''internet'' for starters) but she is actually fairly self-aware and perceptive otherwise.
* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoDrankTheMoon'' has Fyrian: woefully uneducated, unable to observe or retain information, and believes everything he is told, but through this becomes an enthusiastic, optimistic, and loving family member.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Ponix Enaz is constantly forgetting to fully shapeshift back into his elven form and thus leaving strange body parts lying out, providing TooMuchInformation, or being so absorbed by puzzles that he neglects what's around him.
* ''Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'': The titular protagonist theorizes that Raziel is the origin of dumb blonde jokes.
* Jack Pumpkinhead from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' series is ''always'' described as unintelligent. Some of the words used to describe him are "stupid", "dim", "innocent", "simpleton", "not known for his intelligence", etc. He might also have a bit of a neurological disorder, as he fails to pick up on vocal cues and sometimes takes sentences to mean the opposite of what they mean (he once called a ferryman 'nice' after he refused to let Pumpkinhead cross a river on account of not having any money).
* ''Literature/MissMarple'': Lettice Protheroe from ''Literature/TheMurderAtTheVicarage'' is vague about everything, and frequently confused about what time and even what day it is. Several characters express the opinion that it is a form of ObfuscatingStupidity.
* In the Literature/ModestyBlaise novel ''The Night of Morningstar'', Earl St. Maur's wife Victoria is an airhead from a noble family who is incapable of maintaining a train of thought on any subject that doesn't involve horse-riding or sex.
* ''Literature/MotherGoose'': Simple Simon was one, "simple" being a common term for "stupid" when the poem was written. After his meeting with the pieman, he tries to fish for a whale in a bucket of water and then tried to find plums on a thistle bush.
* ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'' has Sheila, who is so dumb she thinks a drawn-on mustache is real and it's not even well-drawn.
* Louie from ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'' has a complete disregard for his own or anyone else's safety: ''"When it comes to the odds, I have done worse than 20 percent!"''
* In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', Kira pretends to be like this at the Norlander imperial court, being flighty, talkative, politically naïve, and superficial. Some people see through it, but as she notes, it's pretty difficult to ''prove'' she's smarter than she acts, so it's still a good barrier against people trying to get anything from her.
* Volatilus, the sweet but not too bright little dispatch dragon from the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' books. The little guy can't even pronounce the titular dragon's name -- the best he can do is "Temrer".
-->'''Temeraire:''' And where, pray, do you come from?\\
'''Volly:''' I was hatched! From an ''egg!''
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'':
** Gourry Gabriev is nicknamed "jellyfish brain" because he lacks so much common knowledge about the world and is generally clueless in any circumstance.
** Naga the Serpent, Lina's ([[UnknownRival self-proclaimed]]) greatest rival, gets into a lot of trouble with her lack of sense. In Naga's defense, WordOfGod implies she is mentally traumatized, so it's less that she's stupid and more that she's genuinely mentally unwell. Although it's probably fair to say she wasn't sensible, to begin with, given the strong hints she's related to Amelia and Prince Philionel, who are... definitely flaky.
* Tawneee (yes, three 'e's), a minor character from ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', a pole dancer. A short, somewhat paraphrased, description: "It's as if the gods said, 'Sorry, kid, you're going to be thicker than a tub of lard, but it'll be okay -- because you'll be ''very'' beautiful'." She thinks people come to see her because she's a good dancer and knows some "tricky steps".
* ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'': Redival is unable to focus on the Fox's classes and at times misunderstands his teachings. She ends up lacking the foresight to see her gossip and slander against her sister will do great harm to her family.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Fuzz, the kittypet that Barley meets in ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsSecretsOfTheClans Secrets of the Clans]]'', is a cheerful ditz who is so literal-minded that he thinks Barley's name is "Erbarley", and upon being corrected, then thinks it's "Justbarley".
* ''Literature/WhoWetMyPants'': Reuben doesn't notice when he wets his pants and when it's pointed out to him, he thinks first that someone else did it and then that they sprang a leak.
* ''Literature/WolfHall'' portrays Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory as a bit dim. While Cromwell is a highly savvy polyglot, Gregory is a poor scholar, guileless, and flighty; at one point Cromwell admits to a friend that neither Cambridge nor Gregory have anything for each other. Gregory does wise up as time passes and his father finds more effective mentors for him, but Cromwell actually ''likes'' that his son is so unlike himself even if it makes it difficult to relate -- he might not be the brightest but he's a model gentleman. More importantly, having a genial ditz for a son is always leagues better than getting Granddad's drunken, abusive jerkassery repeated in the family tree...
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* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Isaac and Miria, the OutlawCouple pair, are twice as flakey. For instance, they think the fact that no one has ever found gold in a given hill is a perfect reason to dig for gold there, and that to perform a "train robbery", you take a train somewhere, rob someone, and then use the train to escape.
* Akihisa Yoshi from ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' is by far the stupidest person in the school. He divides pot noodle in half continually thinking that [[InsaneTrollLogic that way he can get infinite meals out of one serving]]. He even concludes that discovering this makes him a genius. Most geniuses don't spend their food money on porn in the first place. He explains that this why he is eating 1/67th of a pot noodle. Nobody is even surprised that he gets the math wrong there. When Hazuki Shimada turns up and calls asks for the big idiot Akihisa Yuuji Sakamoto says he's surprised that everyone in Japan knows of his stupidity. Akihisa insists it's not all of Japan, just the local area.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Vlok is not the brightest bulb among the dragons of 109th. Still bright enough, though, to be a competent swordfighter and a soldier.
* In ''Literature/{{Buddenbrooks}}'', Tony is impressed by smart people (like Morten Schwarzkopf -- a doctor-to-be with whom she falls in love, but can't marry him because of the Grünlich thing), but is neither book smart nor street smart herself, and calls herself "a silly goose" sometimes. Her poor relative Klothilde is even more so.
* ''Literature/DearDumbDiary'' -- Emmily. [Yes, she really spells it with 2 Ms. It's because it reminds her of candy that way -- not M&Ms (those are Ws and 3s) but because "Mm" is the sound she makes when she eats candy.]
-->''You remember Emmily -- she was very sweet and we all loved her, but she was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Emmily wasn't even the sharpest spoon in the drawer. Most of the time, Emmily wasn't even in the drawer at all. She was lost somewhere in the bottom of the dishwasher.''
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Creighton the Cretin (Greg's comic strip character in the first book) is this in spades. He's tricked into thinking his name is "Stewart Pid" (and then says his name is "Stew Pid"), mistakes a brick for a box, and asks a doctor to give him a new butt because his old one has a crack in it.
* Razza from ''Literature/DontCallMeIshmael''. His grades are terrible and he isn't very intelligent, but he is very sociable and fun-loving.
-->Sometimes, Razza wasn't quite on the same page as other people -- often, he wasn't even in the same library.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has a few subversions:
** Maeve does her level best to be perceived as a narcissistic, hedonistic political non-entity. While there is some truth to the first two, Maeve is far more savvy and in control than her public persona indicates. When Billy tells her no-one buys the act, she pouts, but immediately becomes all business and casually provides important information the heroes have been busting their chops to get a hold of. Underestimate the queens of Winter at your own peril.
** Abby of the [[PretentiousLatinMotto Ordo Lebes]] comes across as scatterbrained through no fault of her own. Abby is actually pretty intelligent and perceptive, but she is also a very limited-ability precognitive with very little control of her ability. The reason she spaces out and comes up with non-sequiturs sometimes is that she sees the present and about a minute into the future simultaneously and occasionally loses track of which is which.
* Lina the maid from Creator/AstridLindgren's ''Emil i Lönneberga''. When the parish priest asks her who the first humans were, she answers "Thor and Freya". That doesn't make sense even in Myth/NorseMythology!
* Homura Hinooka from ''Literature/FireGirl'' is a downplayed example. Her ditziness mostly stems from her status as being BookDumb and being fairly incompetent in knowledge regarding "complicated" basics in life (she doesn't even know how to use the ''internet'' for starters) but she is actually fairly self-aware and perceptive otherwise.
* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoDrankTheMoon'' has Fyrian: woefully uneducated, unable to observe or retain information, and believes everything he is told, but through this becomes an enthusiastic, optimistic, and loving family member.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Ponix Enaz is constantly forgetting to fully shapeshift back into his elven form and thus leaving strange body parts lying out, providing TooMuchInformation, or being so absorbed by puzzles that he neglects what's around him.
* ''Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'': The titular protagonist theorizes that Raziel is the origin of dumb blonde jokes.
* Jack Pumpkinhead from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' series is ''always'' described as unintelligent. Some of the words used to describe him are "stupid", "dim", "innocent", "simpleton", "not known for his intelligence", etc. He might also have a bit of a neurological disorder, as he fails to pick up on vocal cues and sometimes takes sentences to mean the opposite of what they mean (he once called a ferryman 'nice' after he refused to let Pumpkinhead cross a river on account of not having any money).
* ''Literature/MissMarple'': Lettice Protheroe from ''Literature/TheMurderAtTheVicarage'' is vague about everything, and frequently confused about what time and even what day it is. Several characters express the opinion that it is a form of ObfuscatingStupidity.
* In the Literature/ModestyBlaise novel ''The Night of Morningstar'', Earl St. Maur's wife Victoria is an airhead from a noble family who is incapable of maintaining a train of thought on any subject that doesn't involve horse-riding or sex.
* ''Literature/MotherGoose'': Simple Simon was one, "simple" being a common term for "stupid" when the poem was written. After his meeting with the pieman, he tries to fish for a whale in a bucket of water and then tried to find plums on a thistle bush.
* ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'' has Sheila, who is so dumb she thinks a drawn-on mustache is real and it's not even well-drawn.
* Louie from ''Literature/RuneSoldierLouie'' has a complete disregard for his own or anyone else's safety: ''"When it comes to the odds, I have done worse than 20 percent!"''
* In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', Kira pretends to be like this at the Norlander imperial court, being flighty, talkative, politically naïve, and superficial. Some people see through it, but as she notes, it's pretty difficult to ''prove'' she's smarter than she acts, so it's still a good barrier against people trying to get anything from her.
* Volatilus, the sweet but not too bright little dispatch dragon from the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' books. The little guy can't even pronounce the titular dragon's name -- the best he can do is "Temrer".
-->'''Temeraire:''' And where, pray, do you come from?\\
'''Volly:''' I was hatched! From an ''egg!''
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'':
** Gourry Gabriev is nicknamed "jellyfish brain" because he lacks so much common knowledge about the world and is generally clueless in any circumstance.
** Naga the Serpent, Lina's ([[UnknownRival self-proclaimed]]) greatest rival, gets into a lot of trouble with her lack of sense. In Naga's defense, WordOfGod implies she is mentally traumatized, so it's less that she's stupid and more that she's genuinely mentally unwell. Although it's probably fair to say she wasn't sensible, to begin with, given the strong hints she's related to Amelia and Prince Philionel, who are... definitely flaky.
* Tawneee (yes, three 'e's), a minor character from ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', a pole dancer. A short, somewhat paraphrased, description: "It's as if the gods said, 'Sorry, kid, you're going to be thicker than a tub of lard, but it'll be okay -- because you'll be ''very'' beautiful'." She thinks people come to see her because she's a good dancer and knows some "tricky steps".
* ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'': Redival is unable to focus on the Fox's classes and at times misunderstands his teachings. She ends up lacking the foresight to see her gossip and slander against her sister will do great harm to her family.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', Fuzz, the kittypet that Barley meets in ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsSecretsOfTheClans Secrets of the Clans]]'', is a cheerful ditz who is so literal-minded that he thinks Barley's name is "Erbarley", and upon being corrected, then thinks it's "Justbarley".
* ''Literature/WhoWetMyPants'': Reuben doesn't notice when he wets his pants and when it's pointed out to him, he thinks first that someone else did it and then that they sprang a leak.
* ''Literature/WolfHall'' portrays Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory as a bit dim. While Cromwell is a highly savvy polyglot, Gregory is a poor scholar, guileless, and flighty; at one point Cromwell admits to a friend that neither Cambridge nor Gregory have anything for each other. Gregory does wise up as time passes and his father finds more effective mentors for him, but Cromwell actually ''likes'' that his son is so unlike himself even if it makes it difficult to relate -- he might not be the brightest but he's a model gentleman. More importantly, having a genial ditz for a son is always leagues better than getting Granddad's drunken, abusive jerkassery repeated in the family tree...
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* Virtually every character played by famed comedian Lou Costello of the Creator/AbbottAndCostello comedy duo. Occasionally he will even lampshade ''himself'', such as when one of his characters in the film ''Who Done It?'' turns on a radio and hears "WhosOnFirst" (one of Abbott and Costello's most famous routines) and immediately turns it off, remarking how stupid the "short, chubby guy" (actually Costello himself) is.
* Brick in ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy''.
--> '''Brick:''' I love lamp.
--> '''Brick:''' [shouts] Loud noises!
** Though he turns out to be a bit of a GeniusDitz in ''Wake Up Ron Burgundy'' (a bonus 'film' on made of deleted ''Anchorman'' scenes)
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', we learn that Marty's son Junior is a total moron. Probably it has to do with the fact Marty had become a "chicken" after his car accident [[spoiler:in the coinciding 1985 timeline]].
* Mr. Bean in ''Film/{{Bean}}: The Ultimate Disaster Movie'' and ''Film/MrBeansHoliday''. Also Film/JohnnyEnglish to some extent.
* ''Film/{{Bullshot}}''. Rosemary Fenton, DamselInDistress and daughter of an AbsentMindedProfessor with a dangerous habit of [[EducationThroughPyrotechnics knocking over equipment]] in Daddy's lab.
-->'''Bullshot''': "I see. You intend taking on the Most Dangerous Man in Europe by yourself, do you? Have you given a moment's thought as to what you intend using for brains?"
-->'''Rosemary''': "How dare you! I've done pretty well without brains so far!"
* August in ''Film/CemeteryGates''. When Kym tells Tony and Enrique that they wouldn't now what to do with a pragmatic woman, August comments that she is part Russian. Later, Tony persuades her to make a [[HomePornMovie sex tape]] with him with the argument "everyone is doing it".
* Cher Horowitz in ''Film/{{Clueless}}''... kind of. She's certainly no genius level intellect, and is definitely more than a little naive and '[[TitleDrop clueless]]', but she's savvy enough when she needs to be and has enough wits about her to 'negotiate' her grades with most of her teachers.
* ''Film/CorkyRomano'': Corky is a total goofball who's very nice but also extremely quirky and clumsy.
* Tabby in ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'', who has to count to work out that 'E' is the fifth letter of the alphabet.
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}}'': Kevin Beckman. Bless him, but as [[MrFanservice gifted as Kevin is physically,]] the pendulum swings '''hard''' in the other direction when it comes to his brains (specifically his lack thereof). He wears glasses but took the glass out so he didn't have to clean them, thinks covering his eyes blocks out sound, cannot figure out how to work a phone, only announces appointments when the person has been waiting for at least ten minutes, and wanders off during the final battle to go get a sandwich. Erin wanted to hire him because he is [[MrFanservice just so damn pretty]], while the other girls went along with it because he was the only applicant.
* ''Film/GoodBurger'' has the main character, Ed. When Dexter says he looks familiar, Ed isn't sure why but speculates that he (as in Ed himself) might be someone famous, like a baseball player, or a pretty nurse.
* Tiffany in ''Film/HeadlessHorseman''. After Doc discovers that the 'blood' on her forehead is really [[ABloodyMess red nail polish]], her reaction is an astounded "Oh! So that's why it didn't hurt!"
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Glimmer -- for a Career, anyway.
* The whole future society of ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is comprised of these.
* Karen in ''Film/MeanGirls'' Has a ''fifth'' sense, which she refers to as ESPN, where her breasts can tell when it's ''already'' raining.
* In ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'', after Martin clones Brace's body and mind, and later returns to normal.
--> '''Martin:''' [clutching his head] Whoa. Her head was ''dark'' and ''empty''.
* In ''Film/StrangerOnATrain'', Bruno's mother is quite clueless and dotty to everthing concerning her husband and her son, Bruno. She is told her son may have committed murder, and continues to be happily unaffected and disconnected. One interesting note - she shows Bruno her latest painting, and the image is surreal and disturbing. This indicates that Bruno inherited his psychopathic nature from his mother, who is too dense to present any of the symptoms herself.
* ''Film/NotOkay'': Danni starts off as this, somehow thinking that her article is worth publishing despite her saying things like she "missed" 9/11.
* Sorina from ''Film/PainAndGain'', who easily buys Daniel's story about him and the others being CIA agents [[spoiler:and even seems to still believe it when testifying at their trial]].
* Dean Walker's daughter in ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' who falls for Cassie's story hook, line and sinker and is left [[spoiler:sitting in a diner convinced that her favourite boy band is going to show up to shoot a music video]]. Even Cassie, who is generally sympathetic to other women, tells Dean Walker that is a good thing that the girl is pretty because she isn't very smart.
* Sharon in ''Film/SatansCheerleaders'', who has it to have explained to her what an 'unsoiled maiden' is.
* Sheila in ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer''. Upon arriving at Caleb's farm, she asks "What is this? A farm or something?", to eye-rolling from Mary in the back seat.
* Officer Ed from ''Film/ScotlandPA''. Why would anyone trust this man with a loaded gun? [[spoiler:They don't.]]
-->'''Ed:''' Sir, I called the number, like, 95 times. I practically had it memorized.
* Blanko the Nerdluck in ''Film/SpaceJam''. [[MeaningfulName They don't call him 'Blanko' for nothing.]]
* Zangief in ''Film/StreetFighter''. His proposed solution to seeing, on a TV screen, a vehicle loaded with explosives heading toward the building he was in at the time was to change the channel.
* Margalo from ''Film/StuartLittle2''. She puts on an understated version of this, mostly to throw Stuart off the fact that she's an ArtfulDodger.
* In ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', none of the characters are particularly bright, but nearly everything Nigel Tufnel says is, as David St. Hubbins puts it, confused.
-->'''Marty:''' Why don't you make ten louder and make ten the top number and make that a little louder?
-->'''Nigel:''' ''(long pause, staring at his amp and thinking)'' These go to eleven.
* ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'' introduces DumbBlonde Madison. While she is [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass rather capable of fending off zombies in her own way]], she lacks quite a bit of common knowledge. For example, she goes through a SelfInducedAllergicReaction to almonds because [[InsaneTrollLogic she thought trail mix was vegan.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Bob tries to justify Thunderhead's death by his cape snagging on the fin of a missile with this trope, saying, "Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb..."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Ed is easily the least intelligent of the trio of Hyenas, lacking common sense and being unaware of everything as well as laughing at things that are not funny and at inappropriate times. He even bites his own leg after a brief scuffle with Banzai. He even has the FishEyes to match, suggesting some sort of intellectual disability.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Charlotte is a young woman who is still in her PrincessPhase and in addition to being RichInDollarsPoorInSense.
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* All of the four main characters of the ''Fanfic/AvantasiaProtagAU'' series have their turns at being ditzy. Some of it is justified because of the time travel leading to unfamiliarity with modern things, but often they do wacky or stupid things with little excuse. [[WordOfGod The author]] describes them as "sharing a single brain cell which gets passed around between the four of them."
* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Martin is the eponymous idiot, doing things like assuming Lincoln is so-named because he's related to presidents, getting people's gender wrong, and forgetting things moments after doing them.
* Cao Hong in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' The rare occasions when he actually does something sensible are considered remarkable.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Italy sure seems like one. After all, he seems to be oblivious to ''a lot'' of things including Germany's and Japan's ''obvious'' feelings for him. Keyword: ''[[ObfuscatingStupidity seemed]]''.
* Limefrost Spiral in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' is described as being forgetful and not very bright outside her element. Her first appearance has her completely forgetting the time that she was supposed to meet Smooth Beat for a date, leaving him to wait at her door while she wasted time sunbathing.
* ''FanFic/MyStupidReality'': Sayu gets in on this:
--> '''Sayu''': I guess. Why do we have to take a train or walk everywhere? You're way old enough to drive.
--> '''Light''': It would take longer to drive than it does to walk. Have you ever seen rush hour?
--> '''Sayu''': The movie?
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', Leni's impostor is just as dumb as her and accidentally gives away the location of the real sisters.
* [[Literature/TheHouseOfNight Kayla]] in ''Fanfic/NoHoper'', is an example of a ditz too dumb to take a hint and cannot fathom that [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] is not in the least bit interested in her:
-->'''Light:''' I like... science.
-->'''Kayla:''' Oh? Really?
-->'''Light:''' Yes. And some silence.
-->'''Kayla:''' Is that a band?
* Ash Ketchum of ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'', who often borders on TooDumbToLive and/or LethallyStupid at times. His stupidity and gluttony often kickstart an episode's main dilemma (such as "Unhappy Trails", where he mistakes RM's credit cards for ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'' cards and trades them, which forces the entire squad to live in a trailer park. [[spoiler:Ash burns down their trailer while imitating ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'']].)
* ''Webcomic/{{Spooky}}'': Tombstones often creates problems for himself, whether it be by not thinking ahead, using his scythe as a universal tool, or just not comprehending how to tackle a situation.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': With Vivi now having a permanent place on the crew [[spoiler:due to her undeserved bounty]], her tendency to act before [[NowYouTellMe remembering, considering or displaying all available information]] is shown in a lot more detail. An example is how she mistranslated the sign language of an ancient civilization of octopi and got everyone mad at the crew because she failed to read through the whole translation book properly and thus didn't notice the particular dialect for people with joints.
* ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'': Cody describes talking to Lindsay as "best to avoid allusion, irony, sarcasm, repartee, satire, and words longer than 'chicken'."
* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/WishingWell'' with Rainbow Dash. He's described as "vapid and innocent", but this is due to essentially brain damage. He was fond of eating a fruit that was later found out to cause short-term memory loss. Rainbow Dash's memory issues and childish personality make him unpopular and awkward to be around.
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* All of the four main characters of the ''Fanfic/AvantasiaProtagAU'' series have their turns at being ditzy. Some of it is justified because of the time travel leading to unfamiliarity with modern things, but often they do wacky or stupid things with little excuse. [[WordOfGod The author]] describes them as "sharing a single brain cell which gets passed around between the four of them."
* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Martin is the eponymous idiot, doing things like assuming Lincoln is so-named because he's related to presidents, getting people's gender wrong, and forgetting things moments after doing them.
* Cao Hong in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' The rare occasions when he actually does something sensible are considered remarkable.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Italy sure seems like one. After all, he seems to be oblivious to ''a lot'' of things including Germany's and Japan's ''obvious'' feelings for him. Keyword: ''[[ObfuscatingStupidity seemed]]''.
* Limefrost Spiral in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' is described as being forgetful and not very bright outside her element. Her first appearance has her completely forgetting the time that she was supposed to meet Smooth Beat for a date, leaving him to wait at her door while she wasted time sunbathing.
* ''FanFic/MyStupidReality'': Sayu gets in on this:
--> '''Sayu''': I guess. Why do we have to take a train or walk everywhere? You're way old enough to drive.
--> '''Light''': It would take longer to drive than it does to walk. Have you ever seen rush hour?
--> '''Sayu''': The movie?
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', Leni's impostor is just as dumb as her and accidentally gives away the location of the real sisters.
* [[Literature/TheHouseOfNight Kayla]] in ''Fanfic/NoHoper'', is an example of a ditz too dumb to take a hint and cannot fathom that [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] is not in the least bit interested in her:
-->'''Light:''' I like... science.
-->'''Kayla:''' Oh? Really?
-->'''Light:''' Yes. And some silence.
-->'''Kayla:''' Is that a band?
* Ash Ketchum of ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'', who often borders on TooDumbToLive and/or LethallyStupid at times. His stupidity and gluttony often kickstart an episode's main dilemma (such as "Unhappy Trails", where he mistakes RM's credit cards for ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'' cards and trades them, which forces the entire squad to live in a trailer park. [[spoiler:Ash burns down their trailer while imitating ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'']].)
* ''Webcomic/{{Spooky}}'': Tombstones often creates problems for himself, whether it be by not thinking ahead, using his scythe as a universal tool, or just not comprehending how to tackle a situation.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': With Vivi now having a permanent place on the crew [[spoiler:due to her undeserved bounty]], her tendency to act before [[NowYouTellMe remembering, considering or displaying all available information]] is shown in a lot more detail. An example is how she mistranslated the sign language of an ancient civilization of octopi and got everyone mad at the crew because she failed to read through the whole translation book properly and thus didn't notice the particular dialect for people with joints.
* ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'': Cody describes talking to Lindsay as "best to avoid allusion, irony, sarcasm, repartee, satire, and words longer than 'chicken'."
* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/WishingWell'' with Rainbow Dash. He's described as "vapid and innocent", but this is due to essentially brain damage. He was fond of eating a fruit that was later found out to cause short-term memory loss. Rainbow Dash's memory issues and childish personality make him unpopular and awkward to be around.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Martin is the eponymous idiot, doing things like assuming Lincoln is so-named because he's related to presidents, getting people's gender wrong, and forgetting things moments after doing them.
* Cao Hong in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' The rare occasions when he actually does something sensible are considered remarkable.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Italy sure seems like one. After all, he seems to be oblivious to ''a lot'' of things including Germany's and Japan's ''obvious'' feelings for him. Keyword: ''[[ObfuscatingStupidity seemed]]''.
* Limefrost Spiral in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' is described as being forgetful and not very bright outside her element. Her first appearance has her completely forgetting the time that she was supposed to meet Smooth Beat for a date, leaving him to wait at her door while she wasted time sunbathing.
* ''FanFic/MyStupidReality'': Sayu gets in on this:
--> '''Sayu''': I guess. Why do we have to take a train or walk everywhere? You're way old enough to drive.
--> '''Light''': It would take longer to drive than it does to walk. Have you ever seen rush hour?
--> '''Sayu''': The movie?
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', Leni's impostor is just as dumb as her and accidentally gives away the location of the real sisters.
* [[Literature/TheHouseOfNight Kayla]] in ''Fanfic/NoHoper'', is an example of a ditz too dumb to take a hint and cannot fathom that [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] is not in the least bit interested in her:
-->'''Light:''' I like... science.
-->'''Kayla:''' Oh? Really?
-->'''Light:''' Yes. And some silence.
-->'''Kayla:''' Is that a band?
* Ash Ketchum of ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'', who often borders on TooDumbToLive and/or LethallyStupid at times. His stupidity and gluttony often kickstart an episode's main dilemma (such as "Unhappy Trails", where he mistakes RM's credit cards for ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'' cards and trades them, which forces the entire squad to live in a trailer park. [[spoiler:Ash burns down their trailer while imitating ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'']].)
* ''Webcomic/{{Spooky}}'': Tombstones often creates problems for himself, whether it be by not thinking ahead, using his scythe as a universal tool, or just not comprehending how to tackle a situation.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': With Vivi now having a permanent place on the crew [[spoiler:due to her undeserved bounty]], her tendency to act before [[NowYouTellMe remembering, considering or displaying all available information]] is shown in a lot more detail. An example is how she mistranslated the sign language of an ancient civilization of octopi and got everyone mad at the crew because she failed to read through the whole translation book properly and thus didn't notice the particular dialect for people with joints.
* ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'': Cody describes talking to Lindsay as "best to avoid allusion, irony, sarcasm, repartee, satire, and words longer than 'chicken'."
* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/WishingWell'' with Rainbow Dash. He's described as "vapid and innocent", but this is due to essentially brain damage. He was fond of eating a fruit that was later found out to cause short-term memory loss. Rainbow Dash's memory issues and childish personality make him unpopular and awkward to be around.
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* Dumb Bunny from the Inferior Five ('60s humor comic from Creator/{{DC|Comics}}), whose name says it all, really. She's "stronger than an ox -- and almost as smart!"
* In ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo, [[{{Jerkass}} Norbert Nuskle's]] brother-in-law Boswick is so dim, it takes him roughly ten seconds to react or answer someone.
* The eponymous character from ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' was infamously slow of mind. It often took him pages to react to an insult, and recurring characters would frequently have to remind Groo that they had met before. Sometimes he'd remember that he knew them, but not whether or not he ''liked'' them. Say, what did he mean, "Slow of Mind"?
* Boom-Boom/Meltdown/Tabitha Smith of ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': trailer-trash klepto with the power to make things go boom. She says "[[LeetLingo zomg]]" out loud and misspells ''her own name.''
-->"I ''hate'' cops! Because, like, cops keep ''arresting'' me and stuff? For ''stealing?'' Like stealing's a ''crime'' or something?
** [[spoiler: Forbush Man]]'s mental powers do not work on her. Guess why. Her explanation? "I gave him the explodo because I am clever."
* A particularly extreme example would be minor EldritchAbomination Avaggdu from ComicBook/{{Slaine}}. So terminally stupid that when tricked into biting his hands, he doesn't notice they're his and starts devouring himself ''until there's literally '''nothing left.'''''
* Kelly from ''ComicBook/SoulsearchersAndCompany'' is undoubtedly helpful, cheerful and well-meaning. However, she is also far from the sharpest tool in the shed. In her background, it is stated that one of the reasons Arnold keeps her employed is that she usually forgets to ask for her salary.
* The Parademon from the ''[[ComicBook/SecretSix Villains United]]'' miniseries. He even fully admits to wanting to die in a stupid gesture.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** In their original iteration back in the pages of ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' two of the Heyday triplets were {{dumb blonde}}s -- to the point that their grandmother left their inheritance to the one smart triplet figuring they'd be better off with her in charge of their money -- who still liked to pull pranks and hated fascists along with the rest of the Holliday Girls. Their ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' iterations were reduced to twins, changed to redheads and the traditionally smart one became the clueless one while the other became the smart one.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Stheno has a tendency towards cluelessness that irritates her sisters. One of her standout moments involved licking a television because there was ice cream on the screen, even though she's been around [=TVs=] before and should be aware it's just an image. It's possible she's lost a bit of grey matter during her numerous [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrections]].
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* ThoseTwoGuys in the Sonic Drive-In (an American fast food chain) composed of a [[StraightManAndWiseGuy straight man and total idiot]]. While the dumb one was only slightly dim at first he was later {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into being the ditz of the pair. Around late 2016 to early 2017 he mistook a cherry stem for a straw and complained "how it didn't work" and thought his friend was the dumb one and when they talked about "the dumb friend that never gets it" they believe that the smart one is the dumb one and he's being hard on himself.
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* The women in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MpqyQRaBo this ad]] for the LA County Fair. All three women act like dumb [[ValleyGirl valley girls]] who think that cotton candy is "vegan" because it "comes from cotton".[[note]][[RightForTheWrongReasons Cotton candy can indeed be vegan: it's mainly just spun sugar, and sugar is normally vegan]]. The food coloring used in it may not be, though.[[/note]]
* ThoseTwoGuys in the Sonic Drive-In (an American fast food chain) composed of a [[StraightManAndWiseGuy straight man and total idiot]]. While the dumb one was only slightly dim at first he was later {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into being the ditz of the pair. Around late 2016 to early 2017 he mistook a cherry stem for a straw and complained "how it didn't work" and thought his friend was the dumb one and when they talked about "the dumb friend that never gets it" they believe that the smart one is the dumb one and he's being hard on himself.
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* The women in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MpqyQRaBo this ad]] for the LA County Fair. All three women act like dumb [[ValleyGirl valley girls]] who think that cotton candy is "vegan" because it "comes from cotton".[[note]][[RightForTheWrongReasons Cotton candy can indeed be vegan: it's mainly just spun sugar, and sugar is normally vegan]]. The food coloring used in it may not be, though.[[/note]]
* ThoseTwoGuys in the Sonic Drive-In (an American fast food chain) composed of a [[StraightManAndWiseGuy straight man and total idiot]]. While the dumb one was only slightly dim at first he was later {{flanderiz|ation}}ed into being the ditz of the pair. Around late 2016 to early 2017 he mistook a cherry stem for a straw and complained "how it didn't work" and thought his friend was the dumb one and when they talked about "the dumb friend that never gets it" they believe that the smart one is the dumb one and he's being hard on himself.
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* The main lead of ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' has his moments (it's more a combination of NiceGuy, TheKlutz, and SelectiveObliviousness actually), but then we have the most fearsome and brutal of the Shadowy seven: Hishida Haruka! Yep, she's The Ditz, and TheKlutz, and almost a {{Pollyanna}} ...she's also the living embodiment of ConfusionFu, and she's not ''even aware'' of all the destruction she's spreading around.
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'':
** Several characters have bluntly called Mira dumb. For example, in response to her getting a cold, Mikage actually says she's "a genius in being stupid" to her face, due to her subverting IdiotsCannotCatchColds.
** And then when Sayuki "Eva" Ibe appears, Mikage decides she is ''even more stupid'' than Mira. How? Sayuri attempts to eavesdrop on the Earth Science Club to scoop on {{blackmail}}ing material, but she operated in such an obvious way, that every member sees it, and when brought into the Earth Science Club's room, she pretty much mentioned her intentions without any prodding.
* Rino Rando from ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil''. Most of the smarts seem to have been given to her snarky hand puppet Pucchan.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': [[StockShonenHero Kazuki Muto's]] younger sister Mahiro is a sweet girl, with GenkiGirl tendencies, who is such a scatterbrain that when her brother and [[ActionGirlFriend Tokiko]] invent the lie that they're siblings immediately believes them and is confused by the fact that nobody told her she had an older sister.
* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'':
** Hikari is the [[GenkiGirl most energetic]] among the siblings, but she seems extremely clueless about the consequences of her actions.
** While Akane's most important characteristics are JusticeWillPrevail and ShrinkingViolet, as the story goes on it's quite clear that despite her own self-consciousness, she's utterly clueless of what's happening around her -- like whether she's wearing anything on her lower body (Chapter 12/Episode 4A), or that [[PaperThinDisguise everyone knows she is Scarlet Bloom]] (Chapter 21/Episode 9A).
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': An extremely ditzy [[TerroristsWithoutACause Re-Coder]] shows up. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ''ten fingers!'' But I'm not in a counting mood, so now [[AxCrazy I'll kill you painfully!]]" She never lapses into a SlasherSmile but remains cheerful and perky throughout.
* The characters of ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' tend to pass the IdiotBall around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla" -- which, considering a gorilla is actually part of the cast, is ''proven true'' in the show. In his defense, the gorilla is the smartest member of the class. Yeah. It's that kind of series.
* The frequent use of this trope as a CharmPoint was parodied in a {{stinger}} skit in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''.
** Yanagin gets her sempai to teach them how to be cuter, and the correct answer is...
--->'''Yanagin's Senpai:''' "[[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be an idiot]] who doesn't even know common knowledge[[note]]Like not recognizing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga[[/note]] is what makes high school girls cute! Listen up, their brains and eyes are directed [[ZettaiRyouiki right here]]..."
** Ringo-chan is a straight example; she's not the brightest bulb in town. In ''High School Boys and Panties'' it took her an hour to diagnose the reason for a network problem: ''the wire was never plugged on''. Then she unwittingly flaunts her panties to Motoharu, the President and the Vice-President; fortunately for her, she doesn't get to see them in the act, much less their [[HeelRealization horrified reaction]].
* Touta Matsuda from ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Most of the time, anyway]]. In his defense, he is not so much a could-not-function-in-normal-society Ditz. Most of the time, he acts like a fairly normal (if somewhat impulsive and over-enthusiastic) young man. It's just that in a situation where one false move (like revealing your face to the wrong person) could mean instant death, any false move starts to come off as TooDumbToLive. It also doesn't help that he's working with (or, as it turns out in one case, against) people like Light, L, Near, and Mello.
* The standout ditz of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' would be Akina's childhood friend Chigusa. She almost always has a dreamy look on her face and her likes are listed as "stripes". When boys would ask if she would go out with them, she'd respond with "go out where?", {{Oblivious|ToLove}} to the fact they were hitting on her. Konatsu is also ditzy in the more GenkiGirl fashion.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed by Director Kurama's ditzy secretary, Kisaragi, who gets decapitated by Lucy in the first 7 minutes of the show because she's TooDumbToLive. This is made better in the German dub, where she tells her colleagues "[[HarsherInHindsight I just don't lose my head]]." moments before.
** Anna (after she returned to normal) is another example, being unable to solve basic mathematical problems.
* The title character (and arguably most of the cast) of ''Manga/ExcelSaga''.
* Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' isn't ''quite'' as dimwitted as some; his ditz qualifications comes mostly from his utter lack of a filter between his thoughts and his mouth.
* Tomoko from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is clumsy, BookDumb, and doesn't have any real friends when Onizuka meets her. In the manga, her classmates nickname her [[MaliciousMisnaming Toroko (Slo-mo-ko in English)]] since she's so "slow". She turns out to have HiddenDepths, though.
* Joshua Lundgren in ''Anime/GunXSword'' straddles the line between ditz and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. He once looked for Wendy by heading into every women's restroom in a train station, not understanding why the women were screaming until he got arrested for it.
* Satomi Ookuma of ''Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl'' is the "Sheltered Girl" in the title. She's completely oblivious to how her friend at college, Mizuki Kanda, is not a man but actually an androgynous-looking woman, and thus the "Handsome Girl." It's implied that Ookuma's overprotective parents may be part of the problem, especially since they have some rather strange ideas; her father wants any prospective boyfriend to submit a resume to him.
* Shizuka Marikawa from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead''. Her entire character is practically this and MsFanservice (though, to be fair, most of the girls in this series are that).
** [[LampshadeHanging Literally pointed out]] in episode twelve.
--->'''Shizuka:''' That's so cool!
--->'''Saya Takagi:''' Ugh! You're such a ditz!
--->'''Shizuka:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Well, that is my character, after all.]]
* [[MoeAnthropomorphism Italy]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': the name of the series is even a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "hopeless" and "Italy". Italy is such a DistressedDude that it's a wonder he survived until Germany formed an alliance with him. One notable example is when Germany tries to teach him how to throw a grenade. Italy throws the pin, leaving the grenade ''clenched in his mouth''. He then just sits there blankly, while Germany screams at him to throw the grenade before they both get blown up. The one time Italy manages to plant a grenade correctly he stands there cheering... as a Russian tank comes up behind him. Romano later does the same thing, suggesting that this trope runs in the family, which in the dub Germany immediately lampshades. America is more of the 'lovable/obnoxious oaf' kind.
* ''Manga/ImaizuminChiWaDouyaraGalNoTamaribaNiNatteruRashiiDeep'': Ruri often forgets the point she's trying to make. Reina calls her having 30 IQ.
* Subyss from ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'' is a darker example. He is a TortureTechnician with a sadistic streak a mile long, but he is kind of silly in an almost amusing way. He'll ask the wrong questions, get drunk at inopportune moments, is professionally unlucky, and is dumb enough to believe his job is something to be proud of.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Suzi Q isn't exactly that smart, something that's best shown when [[TheHero Joseph Joestar]] [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral arrives at his own funeral]], learning that the rest of the cast spent the last few weeks thinking he was dead because Suzi ''forgot to send the telegram telling them that he's alive'' (Then again, there have been several moments that have shown she's actually [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than She Looks]], and it's implied that [[ObfuscatingStupidity she acts like this]] to {{Troll}} Joseph).
** Okuyasu Nijimura from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' openly admits that he's not very smart. His ditz status is especially notable in a cast of intelligent, creative heroes, traits which are almost a requirement to make the most out of the more esoteric [[FightingSpirit Stand]] abilities. By contrast, Okuyasu's Stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its right hand, is incredibly powerful and would be an outright StoryBreakerPower if Okuyasu was smart enough to use it more creatively (in fact, his EstablishingCharacterMoment is managing to ''knock himself out'' with his own Stand).
** L.A. Boom Boom of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Boom Boom Family]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' apparently inherited his not-so-great intellect from his mother, something his [[AbusiveParents father]] and even his brother mock him for.
** [[DumbBlonde Hato Higashikata]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' is ''extremely'' air-headed. [[spoiler:[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Don't underestimate her in a fight, however]]]].
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''Manga/{{Karneval}},'' [[spoiler:although he's really a cute little animal]]. Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* In ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', Hululu, the Humboldt Penguin member of the PPP, is both a ditz on and off the stage.
* Yayoi of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' (the pink-haired one, not the one with the eyepatch.) When standing in the middle of a heated battle with [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the shots missing her]], her only response is "Fireworks!"
* Shinobu of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'' is hardly bright. One of the earliest strips showed her scoring zero in math, and despite her European ForeignCultureFetish, she doesn't know much English (and tried to read an English paper!) and may or may not even know that England and France are part of Europe at all!
* Nadeshiko from ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' doesn't appear to be very bright; nearly the first thing we know about her is her ''not'' bringing a cell phone nor having any meaningful amounts of cash (just 100 yen) when she cycles in the countryside of a place she moved into a day ago.
* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a sweet girl who's also airheaded, forgetful and [[BookDumb regularly gets poor grades in school]], putting her [[PolarOppositeTwins in contrast with her smarter and more responsible twin sister]] Kagami. Even mundane tasks like following a study schedule, reading a newspaper or finding her own cellphone number prove to be very challenging for her.
* Kanako from ''Manga/MariaHolic'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding girl-love that she's dim in everything else. Including the realization that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
* Papi of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' and her [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' are both [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[{{Stripperiffic}} barely wear anything]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl have just as much upstairs]].
--> '''Kimihito Kurusu and Mamoru Onodera''': She's a birdbrain!
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': The '''entire point''' of the series is that it's a RomanticComedy driven by a cast full of characters who are "just a little dumb" (in the author's own words); however, they're all depicted as lovable goofs or space cases rather than simply idiots. Special mention goes to the female lead Youko Shiragami, whose goofiness has more often than not put [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire her secret]] at risk.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[ObfuscatingStupidity almost certainly an act]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The toad Gamatatsu is rather childlike and obsessed with food.
** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of BookDumb. He outgrows it after the time skip.
* Aoba of ''Manga/NewGame'' can be pretty spacey and oblivious at times, like forgetting her ID card multiple times, or failing to recognize that Sophia was inspired by her own appearance. In fact, when designing Sophia, she started to do a search for reference material on twintails -- the style of hair that ''Aoba herself has''.
* Himeko from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** [[TerribleTrio The Team Rocket trio]] seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, (with the exception of the ''Best Wishes'' series).
** Misty's Psyduck stumbled from place to place with a vacant look on its face. He was also shown to be unable to swim despite being a Water-type. He is somewhat more competent in his return in a ''Sun & Moon'' episode, though.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers -- May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on to her starter Torchic, who TookALevelInBadass and evolved into Combusken in the middle of Hoenn, eliminating this trait.
** Cameron from the Unova arc was ditzier than Ash was in almost the entire anime, as he practically had to be handheld as a Trainer through all of his appearances. In spite of all this, he beats Ash after bringing 5 Pokemon to a 6-on-6 Pokemon League battle.
** Ash's Rowlet is shown to be this when it isn't [[{{sleepyhead}} asleep]]. Its first appearance in the anime showed it mistaking a wind chime for food.
** Casey from the Johto saga is cute, but she's not the brightest kid. In her first appearance, she [[BullyingADragon insulted Ash as a trainer]] despite only just starting her journey and having about a few days of being a trainer, and insisted on battling him despite this, which [[CurbStompBattle predictably ends with her losing miserably to Ash's Charizard]]. Being [[FanGirl a huge fan of the Electabuzz baseball team]], she also tries to sing their fight songs... [[CuteButCacophonic and she really sucks at it]]. Misty once had to stop her because her singing was so terrible.
* In the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, the pink-themed leaders might be the sweetest girls they can be, have nifty skills that set them apart and great leadership skills, they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed. Examples include [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]], who infamously got kicked out of every school club possible due to her clumsiness, and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika]], who kept thinking the [[{{Bifauxnen}} boyish girl]] was a handsome boy ''even when she transformed into a Cure herself''.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Despite being the most enthusiastic in being taught be Fuutarou, Yotsuba Nakano also gets the lowest grades out of her sisters; her test grade in Chapter 2? '''''Eight''''' out of one-hundred. Additionally in Chapter 20, not only she has the lowest overall grades out of her sisters again, her score in mathematics is '''''Nine''''' out of one-hundred.
* The main character of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Usagi "Dumpling Head" Tsukino. Her ditzy personality is tied together with the rest of her character.
* Tenma Tsukamoto from ''Manga/SchoolRumble''. When you're the lead character of a LoveDodecahedron series, [[LoveMakesYouDumb it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': Mina doesn't seem to be dumb or anything, but she tends to overreact to things, and once walked into the toilet, saw Takagi and asked if she and Nishikata were dating (Takagi said no), left the toilet, ran into Nishikata and his friends and mentioned her conversation with Takagi, and then remembers she went to the toilet because she needed to pee. She also apparently once got hypnotized while watching a hypnotist on TV.
* Mihoshi, in the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' television series ({{Flanderiz|ation}}ed from a BunnyEarsLawyer / GeniusDitz in the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs). She is an endless source of frustration and despair for not only Kiyone, her long-suffering partner in the Galaxy Police, but also Washu, whose projects are always being [[SpannerInTheWorks ruined by her stupidity]].
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' qualifies. Sure, she's five years old, but what kid that age doesn't even know how a swing works? She can also be led by the nose rather easily. Any moderately intelligent five-year-old would eventually figure out that Danbo is simply Miura in a cardboard box, for instance.
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'':
** Several characters have bluntly called Mira dumb. For example, in response to her getting a cold, Mikage actually says she's "a genius in being stupid" to her face, due to her subverting IdiotsCannotCatchColds.
** And then when Sayuki "Eva" Ibe appears, Mikage decides she is ''even more stupid'' than Mira. How? Sayuri attempts to eavesdrop on the Earth Science Club to scoop on {{blackmail}}ing material, but she operated in such an obvious way, that every member sees it, and when brought into the Earth Science Club's room, she pretty much mentioned her intentions without any prodding.
* Rino Rando from ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil''. Most of the smarts seem to have been given to her snarky hand puppet Pucchan.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': [[StockShonenHero Kazuki Muto's]] younger sister Mahiro is a sweet girl, with GenkiGirl tendencies, who is such a scatterbrain that when her brother and [[ActionGirlFriend Tokiko]] invent the lie that they're siblings immediately believes them and is confused by the fact that nobody told her she had an older sister.
* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'':
** Hikari is the [[GenkiGirl most energetic]] among the siblings, but she seems extremely clueless about the consequences of her actions.
** While Akane's most important characteristics are JusticeWillPrevail and ShrinkingViolet, as the story goes on it's quite clear that despite her own self-consciousness, she's utterly clueless of what's happening around her -- like whether she's wearing anything on her lower body (Chapter 12/Episode 4A), or that [[PaperThinDisguise everyone knows she is Scarlet Bloom]] (Chapter 21/Episode 9A).
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': An extremely ditzy [[TerroristsWithoutACause Re-Coder]] shows up. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ''ten fingers!'' But I'm not in a counting mood, so now [[AxCrazy I'll kill you painfully!]]" She never lapses into a SlasherSmile but remains cheerful and perky throughout.
* The characters of ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' tend to pass the IdiotBall around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla" -- which, considering a gorilla is actually part of the cast, is ''proven true'' in the show. In his defense, the gorilla is the smartest member of the class. Yeah. It's that kind of series.
* The frequent use of this trope as a CharmPoint was parodied in a {{stinger}} skit in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''.
** Yanagin gets her sempai to teach them how to be cuter, and the correct answer is...
--->'''Yanagin's Senpai:''' "[[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be an idiot]] who doesn't even know common knowledge[[note]]Like not recognizing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga[[/note]] is what makes high school girls cute! Listen up, their brains and eyes are directed [[ZettaiRyouiki right here]]..."
** Ringo-chan is a straight example; she's not the brightest bulb in town. In ''High School Boys and Panties'' it took her an hour to diagnose the reason for a network problem: ''the wire was never plugged on''. Then she unwittingly flaunts her panties to Motoharu, the President and the Vice-President; fortunately for her, she doesn't get to see them in the act, much less their [[HeelRealization horrified reaction]].
* Touta Matsuda from ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Most of the time, anyway]]. In his defense, he is not so much a could-not-function-in-normal-society Ditz. Most of the time, he acts like a fairly normal (if somewhat impulsive and over-enthusiastic) young man. It's just that in a situation where one false move (like revealing your face to the wrong person) could mean instant death, any false move starts to come off as TooDumbToLive. It also doesn't help that he's working with (or, as it turns out in one case, against) people like Light, L, Near, and Mello.
* The standout ditz of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' would be Akina's childhood friend Chigusa. She almost always has a dreamy look on her face and her likes are listed as "stripes". When boys would ask if she would go out with them, she'd respond with "go out where?", {{Oblivious|ToLove}} to the fact they were hitting on her. Konatsu is also ditzy in the more GenkiGirl fashion.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed by Director Kurama's ditzy secretary, Kisaragi, who gets decapitated by Lucy in the first 7 minutes of the show because she's TooDumbToLive. This is made better in the German dub, where she tells her colleagues "[[HarsherInHindsight I just don't lose my head]]." moments before.
** Anna (after she returned to normal) is another example, being unable to solve basic mathematical problems.
* The title character (and arguably most of the cast) of ''Manga/ExcelSaga''.
* Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' isn't ''quite'' as dimwitted as some; his ditz qualifications comes mostly from his utter lack of a filter between his thoughts and his mouth.
* Tomoko from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is clumsy, BookDumb, and doesn't have any real friends when Onizuka meets her. In the manga, her classmates nickname her [[MaliciousMisnaming Toroko (Slo-mo-ko in English)]] since she's so "slow". She turns out to have HiddenDepths, though.
* Joshua Lundgren in ''Anime/GunXSword'' straddles the line between ditz and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. He once looked for Wendy by heading into every women's restroom in a train station, not understanding why the women were screaming until he got arrested for it.
* Satomi Ookuma of ''Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl'' is the "Sheltered Girl" in the title. She's completely oblivious to how her friend at college, Mizuki Kanda, is not a man but actually an androgynous-looking woman, and thus the "Handsome Girl." It's implied that Ookuma's overprotective parents may be part of the problem, especially since they have some rather strange ideas; her father wants any prospective boyfriend to submit a resume to him.
* Shizuka Marikawa from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead''. Her entire character is practically this and MsFanservice (though, to be fair, most of the girls in this series are that).
** [[LampshadeHanging Literally pointed out]] in episode twelve.
--->'''Shizuka:''' That's so cool!
--->'''Saya Takagi:''' Ugh! You're such a ditz!
--->'''Shizuka:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Well, that is my character, after all.]]
* [[MoeAnthropomorphism Italy]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': the name of the series is even a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "hopeless" and "Italy". Italy is such a DistressedDude that it's a wonder he survived until Germany formed an alliance with him. One notable example is when Germany tries to teach him how to throw a grenade. Italy throws the pin, leaving the grenade ''clenched in his mouth''. He then just sits there blankly, while Germany screams at him to throw the grenade before they both get blown up. The one time Italy manages to plant a grenade correctly he stands there cheering... as a Russian tank comes up behind him. Romano later does the same thing, suggesting that this trope runs in the family, which in the dub Germany immediately lampshades. America is more of the 'lovable/obnoxious oaf' kind.
* ''Manga/ImaizuminChiWaDouyaraGalNoTamaribaNiNatteruRashiiDeep'': Ruri often forgets the point she's trying to make. Reina calls her having 30 IQ.
* Subyss from ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'' is a darker example. He is a TortureTechnician with a sadistic streak a mile long, but he is kind of silly in an almost amusing way. He'll ask the wrong questions, get drunk at inopportune moments, is professionally unlucky, and is dumb enough to believe his job is something to be proud of.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Suzi Q isn't exactly that smart, something that's best shown when [[TheHero Joseph Joestar]] [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral arrives at his own funeral]], learning that the rest of the cast spent the last few weeks thinking he was dead because Suzi ''forgot to send the telegram telling them that he's alive'' (Then again, there have been several moments that have shown she's actually [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than She Looks]], and it's implied that [[ObfuscatingStupidity she acts like this]] to {{Troll}} Joseph).
** Okuyasu Nijimura from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' openly admits that he's not very smart. His ditz status is especially notable in a cast of intelligent, creative heroes, traits which are almost a requirement to make the most out of the more esoteric [[FightingSpirit Stand]] abilities. By contrast, Okuyasu's Stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its right hand, is incredibly powerful and would be an outright StoryBreakerPower if Okuyasu was smart enough to use it more creatively (in fact, his EstablishingCharacterMoment is managing to ''knock himself out'' with his own Stand).
** L.A. Boom Boom of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Boom Boom Family]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' apparently inherited his not-so-great intellect from his mother, something his [[AbusiveParents father]] and even his brother mock him for.
** [[DumbBlonde Hato Higashikata]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' is ''extremely'' air-headed. [[spoiler:[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Don't underestimate her in a fight, however]]]].
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''Manga/{{Karneval}},'' [[spoiler:although he's really a cute little animal]]. Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* In ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', Hululu, the Humboldt Penguin member of the PPP, is both a ditz on and off the stage.
* Yayoi of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' (the pink-haired one, not the one with the eyepatch.) When standing in the middle of a heated battle with [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the shots missing her]], her only response is "Fireworks!"
* Shinobu of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'' is hardly bright. One of the earliest strips showed her scoring zero in math, and despite her European ForeignCultureFetish, she doesn't know much English (and tried to read an English paper!) and may or may not even know that England and France are part of Europe at all!
* Nadeshiko from ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' doesn't appear to be very bright; nearly the first thing we know about her is her ''not'' bringing a cell phone nor having any meaningful amounts of cash (just 100 yen) when she cycles in the countryside of a place she moved into a day ago.
* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a sweet girl who's also airheaded, forgetful and [[BookDumb regularly gets poor grades in school]], putting her [[PolarOppositeTwins in contrast with her smarter and more responsible twin sister]] Kagami. Even mundane tasks like following a study schedule, reading a newspaper or finding her own cellphone number prove to be very challenging for her.
* Kanako from ''Manga/MariaHolic'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding girl-love that she's dim in everything else. Including the realization that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
* Papi of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' and her [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' are both [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[{{Stripperiffic}} barely wear anything]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl have just as much upstairs]].
--> '''Kimihito Kurusu and Mamoru Onodera''': She's a birdbrain!
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': The '''entire point''' of the series is that it's a RomanticComedy driven by a cast full of characters who are "just a little dumb" (in the author's own words); however, they're all depicted as lovable goofs or space cases rather than simply idiots. Special mention goes to the female lead Youko Shiragami, whose goofiness has more often than not put [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire her secret]] at risk.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[ObfuscatingStupidity almost certainly an act]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The toad Gamatatsu is rather childlike and obsessed with food.
** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of BookDumb. He outgrows it after the time skip.
* Aoba of ''Manga/NewGame'' can be pretty spacey and oblivious at times, like forgetting her ID card multiple times, or failing to recognize that Sophia was inspired by her own appearance. In fact, when designing Sophia, she started to do a search for reference material on twintails -- the style of hair that ''Aoba herself has''.
* Himeko from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** [[TerribleTrio The Team Rocket trio]] seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, (with the exception of the ''Best Wishes'' series).
** Misty's Psyduck stumbled from place to place with a vacant look on its face. He was also shown to be unable to swim despite being a Water-type. He is somewhat more competent in his return in a ''Sun & Moon'' episode, though.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers -- May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on to her starter Torchic, who TookALevelInBadass and evolved into Combusken in the middle of Hoenn, eliminating this trait.
** Cameron from the Unova arc was ditzier than Ash was in almost the entire anime, as he practically had to be handheld as a Trainer through all of his appearances. In spite of all this, he beats Ash after bringing 5 Pokemon to a 6-on-6 Pokemon League battle.
** Ash's Rowlet is shown to be this when it isn't [[{{sleepyhead}} asleep]]. Its first appearance in the anime showed it mistaking a wind chime for food.
** Casey from the Johto saga is cute, but she's not the brightest kid. In her first appearance, she [[BullyingADragon insulted Ash as a trainer]] despite only just starting her journey and having about a few days of being a trainer, and insisted on battling him despite this, which [[CurbStompBattle predictably ends with her losing miserably to Ash's Charizard]]. Being [[FanGirl a huge fan of the Electabuzz baseball team]], she also tries to sing their fight songs... [[CuteButCacophonic and she really sucks at it]]. Misty once had to stop her because her singing was so terrible.
* In the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, the pink-themed leaders might be the sweetest girls they can be, have nifty skills that set them apart and great leadership skills, they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed. Examples include [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]], who infamously got kicked out of every school club possible due to her clumsiness, and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika]], who kept thinking the [[{{Bifauxnen}} boyish girl]] was a handsome boy ''even when she transformed into a Cure herself''.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Despite being the most enthusiastic in being taught be Fuutarou, Yotsuba Nakano also gets the lowest grades out of her sisters; her test grade in Chapter 2? '''''Eight''''' out of one-hundred. Additionally in Chapter 20, not only she has the lowest overall grades out of her sisters again, her score in mathematics is '''''Nine''''' out of one-hundred.
* The main character of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Usagi "Dumpling Head" Tsukino. Her ditzy personality is tied together with the rest of her character.
* Tenma Tsukamoto from ''Manga/SchoolRumble''. When you're the lead character of a LoveDodecahedron series, [[LoveMakesYouDumb it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': Mina doesn't seem to be dumb or anything, but she tends to overreact to things, and once walked into the toilet, saw Takagi and asked if she and Nishikata were dating (Takagi said no), left the toilet, ran into Nishikata and his friends and mentioned her conversation with Takagi, and then remembers she went to the toilet because she needed to pee. She also apparently once got hypnotized while watching a hypnotist on TV.
* Mihoshi, in the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' television series ({{Flanderiz|ation}}ed from a BunnyEarsLawyer / GeniusDitz in the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs). She is an endless source of frustration and despair for not only Kiyone, her long-suffering partner in the Galaxy Police, but also Washu, whose projects are always being [[SpannerInTheWorks ruined by her stupidity]].
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' qualifies. Sure, she's five years old, but what kid that age doesn't even know how a swing works? She can also be led by the nose rather easily. Any moderately intelligent five-year-old would eventually figure out that Danbo is simply Miura in a cardboard box, for instance.
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* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'':
** Several characters have bluntly called Mira dumb. For example, in response to her getting a cold, Mikage actually says she's "a genius in being stupid" to her face, due to her subverting IdiotsCannotCatchColds.
** And then when Sayuki "Eva" Ibe appears, Mikage decides she is ''even more stupid'' than Mira. How? Sayuri attempts to eavesdrop on the Earth Science Club to scoop on {{blackmail}}ing material, but she operated in such an obvious way, that every member sees it, and when brought into the Earth Science Club's room, she pretty much mentioned her intentions without any prodding.
* Rino Rando from ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil''. Most of the smarts seem to have been given to her snarky hand puppet Pucchan.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': [[StockShonenHero Kazuki Muto's]] younger sister Mahiro is a sweet girl, with GenkiGirl tendencies, who is such a scatterbrain that when her brother and [[ActionGirlFriend Tokiko]] invent the lie that they're siblings immediately believes them and is confused by the fact that nobody told her she had an older sister.
* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'':
** Hikari is the [[GenkiGirl most energetic]] among the siblings, but she seems extremely clueless about the consequences of her actions.
** While Akane's most important characteristics are JusticeWillPrevail and ShrinkingViolet, as the story goes on it's quite clear that despite her own self-consciousness, she's utterly clueless of what's happening around her -- like whether she's wearing anything on her lower body (Chapter 12/Episode 4A), or that [[PaperThinDisguise everyone knows she is Scarlet Bloom]] (Chapter 21/Episode 9A).
* ''Manga/CodeBreaker'': An extremely ditzy [[TerroristsWithoutACause Re-Coder]] shows up. When asked how many people she killed, she says "One, two, three... Ten, I guess, because I have ''ten fingers!'' But I'm not in a counting mood, so now [[AxCrazy I'll kill you painfully!]]" She never lapses into a SlasherSmile but remains cheerful and perky throughout.
* The characters of ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' tend to pass the IdiotBall around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla" -- which, considering a gorilla is actually part of the cast, is ''proven true'' in the show. In his defense, the gorilla is the smartest member of the class. Yeah. It's that kind of series.
* The frequent use of this trope as a CharmPoint was parodied in a {{stinger}} skit in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''.
** Yanagin gets her sempai to teach them how to be cuter, and the correct answer is...
--->'''Yanagin's Senpai:''' "[[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be an idiot]] who doesn't even know common knowledge[[note]]Like not recognizing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga[[/note]] is what makes high school girls cute! Listen up, their brains and eyes are directed [[ZettaiRyouiki right here]]..."
** Ringo-chan is a straight example; she's not the brightest bulb in town. In ''High School Boys and Panties'' it took her an hour to diagnose the reason for a network problem: ''the wire was never plugged on''. Then she unwittingly flaunts her panties to Motoharu, the President and the Vice-President; fortunately for her, she doesn't get to see them in the act, much less their [[HeelRealization horrified reaction]].
* Touta Matsuda from ''Manga/DeathNote''. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Most of the time, anyway]]. In his defense, he is not so much a could-not-function-in-normal-society Ditz. Most of the time, he acts like a fairly normal (if somewhat impulsive and over-enthusiastic) young man. It's just that in a situation where one false move (like revealing your face to the wrong person) could mean instant death, any false move starts to come off as TooDumbToLive. It also doesn't help that he's working with (or, as it turns out in one case, against) people like Light, L, Near, and Mello.
* The standout ditz of ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' would be Akina's childhood friend Chigusa. She almost always has a dreamy look on her face and her likes are listed as "stripes". When boys would ask if she would go out with them, she'd respond with "go out where?", {{Oblivious|ToLove}} to the fact they were hitting on her. Konatsu is also ditzy in the more GenkiGirl fashion.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed by Director Kurama's ditzy secretary, Kisaragi, who gets decapitated by Lucy in the first 7 minutes of the show because she's TooDumbToLive. This is made better in the German dub, where she tells her colleagues "[[HarsherInHindsight I just don't lose my head]]." moments before.
** Anna (after she returned to normal) is another example, being unable to solve basic mathematical problems.
* The title character (and arguably most of the cast) of ''Manga/ExcelSaga''.
* Kousaka from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' isn't ''quite'' as dimwitted as some; his ditz qualifications comes mostly from his utter lack of a filter between his thoughts and his mouth.
* Tomoko from ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is clumsy, BookDumb, and doesn't have any real friends when Onizuka meets her. In the manga, her classmates nickname her [[MaliciousMisnaming Toroko (Slo-mo-ko in English)]] since she's so "slow". She turns out to have HiddenDepths, though.
* Joshua Lundgren in ''Anime/GunXSword'' straddles the line between ditz and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. He once looked for Wendy by heading into every women's restroom in a train station, not understanding why the women were screaming until he got arrested for it.
* Satomi Ookuma of ''Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl'' is the "Sheltered Girl" in the title. She's completely oblivious to how her friend at college, Mizuki Kanda, is not a man but actually an androgynous-looking woman, and thus the "Handsome Girl." It's implied that Ookuma's overprotective parents may be part of the problem, especially since they have some rather strange ideas; her father wants any prospective boyfriend to submit a resume to him.
* Shizuka Marikawa from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead''. Her entire character is practically this and MsFanservice (though, to be fair, most of the girls in this series are that).
** [[LampshadeHanging Literally pointed out]] in episode twelve.
--->'''Shizuka:''' That's so cool!
--->'''Saya Takagi:''' Ugh! You're such a ditz!
--->'''Shizuka:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall Well, that is my character, after all.]]
* [[MoeAnthropomorphism Italy]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': the name of the series is even a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "hopeless" and "Italy". Italy is such a DistressedDude that it's a wonder he survived until Germany formed an alliance with him. One notable example is when Germany tries to teach him how to throw a grenade. Italy throws the pin, leaving the grenade ''clenched in his mouth''. He then just sits there blankly, while Germany screams at him to throw the grenade before they both get blown up. The one time Italy manages to plant a grenade correctly he stands there cheering... as a Russian tank comes up behind him. Romano later does the same thing, suggesting that this trope runs in the family, which in the dub Germany immediately lampshades. America is more of the 'lovable/obnoxious oaf' kind.
* ''Manga/ImaizuminChiWaDouyaraGalNoTamaribaNiNatteruRashiiDeep'': Ruri often forgets the point she's trying to make. Reina calls her having 30 IQ.
* Subyss from ''Manga/{{Innocent}}'' is a darker example. He is a TortureTechnician with a sadistic streak a mile long, but he is kind of silly in an almost amusing way. He'll ask the wrong questions, get drunk at inopportune moments, is professionally unlucky, and is dumb enough to believe his job is something to be proud of.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Suzi Q isn't exactly that smart, something that's best shown when [[TheHero Joseph Joestar]] [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral arrives at his own funeral]], learning that the rest of the cast spent the last few weeks thinking he was dead because Suzi ''forgot to send the telegram telling them that he's alive'' (Then again, there have been several moments that have shown she's actually [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than She Looks]], and it's implied that [[ObfuscatingStupidity she acts like this]] to {{Troll}} Joseph).
** Okuyasu Nijimura from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' openly admits that he's not very smart. His ditz status is especially notable in a cast of intelligent, creative heroes, traits which are almost a requirement to make the most out of the more esoteric [[FightingSpirit Stand]] abilities. By contrast, Okuyasu's Stand, The Hand, has the ability to erase anything with its right hand, is incredibly powerful and would be an outright StoryBreakerPower if Okuyasu was smart enough to use it more creatively (in fact, his EstablishingCharacterMoment is managing to ''knock himself out'' with his own Stand).
** L.A. Boom Boom of the [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Boom Boom Family]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' apparently inherited his not-so-great intellect from his mother, something his [[AbusiveParents father]] and even his brother mock him for.
** [[DumbBlonde Hato Higashikata]] from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'' is ''extremely'' air-headed. [[spoiler:[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Don't underestimate her in a fight, however]]]].
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''Manga/{{Karneval}},'' [[spoiler:although he's really a cute little animal]]. Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* In ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', Hululu, the Humboldt Penguin member of the PPP, is both a ditz on and off the stage.
* Yayoi of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' (the pink-haired one, not the one with the eyepatch.) When standing in the middle of a heated battle with [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the shots missing her]], her only response is "Fireworks!"
* Shinobu of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'' is hardly bright. One of the earliest strips showed her scoring zero in math, and despite her European ForeignCultureFetish, she doesn't know much English (and tried to read an English paper!) and may or may not even know that England and France are part of Europe at all!
* Nadeshiko from ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' doesn't appear to be very bright; nearly the first thing we know about her is her ''not'' bringing a cell phone nor having any meaningful amounts of cash (just 100 yen) when she cycles in the countryside of a place she moved into a day ago.
* Tsukasa Hiiragi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a sweet girl who's also airheaded, forgetful and [[BookDumb regularly gets poor grades in school]], putting her [[PolarOppositeTwins in contrast with her smarter and more responsible twin sister]] Kagami. Even mundane tasks like following a study schedule, reading a newspaper or finding her own cellphone number prove to be very challenging for her.
* Kanako from ''Manga/MariaHolic'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding girl-love that she's dim in everything else. Including the realization that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
* Papi of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' and her [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' are both [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[{{Stripperiffic}} barely wear anything]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl have just as much upstairs]].
--> '''Kimihito Kurusu and Mamoru Onodera''': She's a birdbrain!
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': The '''entire point''' of the series is that it's a RomanticComedy driven by a cast full of characters who are "just a little dumb" (in the author's own words); however, they're all depicted as lovable goofs or space cases rather than simply idiots. Special mention goes to the female lead Youko Shiragami, whose goofiness has more often than not put [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire her secret]] at risk.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[ObfuscatingStupidity almost certainly an act]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The toad Gamatatsu is rather childlike and obsessed with food.
** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of BookDumb. He outgrows it after the time skip.
* Aoba of ''Manga/NewGame'' can be pretty spacey and oblivious at times, like forgetting her ID card multiple times, or failing to recognize that Sophia was inspired by her own appearance. In fact, when designing Sophia, she started to do a search for reference material on twintails -- the style of hair that ''Aoba herself has''.
* Himeko from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** [[TerribleTrio The Team Rocket trio]] seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, (with the exception of the ''Best Wishes'' series).
** Misty's Psyduck stumbled from place to place with a vacant look on its face. He was also shown to be unable to swim despite being a Water-type. He is somewhat more competent in his return in a ''Sun & Moon'' episode, though.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers -- May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on to her starter Torchic, who TookALevelInBadass and evolved into Combusken in the middle of Hoenn, eliminating this trait.
** Cameron from the Unova arc was ditzier than Ash was in almost the entire anime, as he practically had to be handheld as a Trainer through all of his appearances. In spite of all this, he beats Ash after bringing 5 Pokemon to a 6-on-6 Pokemon League battle.
** Ash's Rowlet is shown to be this when it isn't [[{{sleepyhead}} asleep]]. Its first appearance in the anime showed it mistaking a wind chime for food.
** Casey from the Johto saga is cute, but she's not the brightest kid. In her first appearance, she [[BullyingADragon insulted Ash as a trainer]] despite only just starting her journey and having about a few days of being a trainer, and insisted on battling him despite this, which [[CurbStompBattle predictably ends with her losing miserably to Ash's Charizard]]. Being [[FanGirl a huge fan of the Electabuzz baseball team]], she also tries to sing their fight songs... [[CuteButCacophonic and she really sucks at it]]. Misty once had to stop her because her singing was so terrible.
* In the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, the pink-themed leaders might be the sweetest girls they can be, have nifty skills that set them apart and great leadership skills, they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed. Examples include [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]], who infamously got kicked out of every school club possible due to her clumsiness, and [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika]], who kept thinking the [[{{Bifauxnen}} boyish girl]] was a handsome boy ''even when she transformed into a Cure herself''.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': Despite being the most enthusiastic in being taught be Fuutarou, Yotsuba Nakano also gets the lowest grades out of her sisters; her test grade in Chapter 2? '''''Eight''''' out of one-hundred. Additionally in Chapter 20, not only she has the lowest overall grades out of her sisters again, her score in mathematics is '''''Nine''''' out of one-hundred.
* The main character of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Usagi "Dumpling Head" Tsukino. Her ditzy personality is tied together with the rest of her character.
* Tenma Tsukamoto from ''Manga/SchoolRumble''. When you're the lead character of a LoveDodecahedron series, [[LoveMakesYouDumb it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': Mina doesn't seem to be dumb or anything, but she tends to overreact to things, and once walked into the toilet, saw Takagi and asked if she and Nishikata were dating (Takagi said no), left the toilet, ran into Nishikata and his friends and mentioned her conversation with Takagi, and then remembers she went to the toilet because she needed to pee. She also apparently once got hypnotized while watching a hypnotist on TV.
* Mihoshi, in the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' television series ({{Flanderiz|ation}}ed from a BunnyEarsLawyer / GeniusDitz in the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs). She is an endless source of frustration and despair for not only Kiyone, her long-suffering partner in the Galaxy Police, but also Washu, whose projects are always being [[SpannerInTheWorks ruined by her stupidity]].
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' qualifies. Sure, she's five years old, but what kid that age doesn't even know how a swing works? She can also be led by the nose rather easily. Any moderately intelligent five-year-old would eventually figure out that Danbo is simply Miura in a cardboard box, for instance.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Both [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] and "Grunkle" Stan Pines [[spoiler:in contrast to their more bookish and academically talented brothers]]. Although he's not college-educated, Stan's shrewd business acumen and strength as a con man are second to none, [[spoiler:and he managed to fix the broken portal just by reading up extensively on physics despite his lack of experience in the field]]. Mabel is highly creative and socially gifted, to say nothing of her mean hand with a grappling hook.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Both [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] Pines and "Grunkle" Stan Pines [[spoiler:in contrast to their more bookish and academically talented brothers]]. Although he's not college-educated, Stan's shrewd business acumen and strength as a con man are second to none, [[spoiler:and he managed to fix the broken portal just by reading up extensively on physics despite his lack of experience in the field]]. Mabel is highly creative and socially gifted, to say nothing of her mean hand with a grappling hook.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Both [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] and [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan "Grunkle" Stan Pines]] [[spoiler:in contrast to their more bookish and academically talented brothers]]. Although he's not college-educated, Stan's shrewd business acumen and strength as a con man are second to none, [[spoiler:and he managed to fix the broken portal just by reading up extensively on physics despite his lack of experience in the field]]. Mabel is highly creative and socially gifted, to say nothing of her mean hand with a grappling hook.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Both [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] and [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan "Grunkle" Stan Pines]] Pines [[spoiler:in contrast to their more bookish and academically talented brothers]]. Although he's not college-educated, Stan's shrewd business acumen and strength as a con man are second to none, [[spoiler:and he managed to fix the broken portal just by reading up extensively on physics despite his lack of experience in the field]]. Mabel is highly creative and socially gifted, to say nothing of her mean hand with a grappling hook.
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* The Pink and Blue unicorns from the ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' Website/YouTube videos ''appear'' to be this at first, [[spoiler:but seeing as they tricked him into donating his kidney -- with''out'' consent -- in the first movie, and ended up robbing him in the second, [[ObfuscatingStupidity they're something else entirely]]]].
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* The Pink and Blue unicorns from the ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube videos ''appear'' to be this at first, [[spoiler:but seeing as they tricked him into donating his kidney -- with''out'' consent -- in the first movie, and ended up robbing him in the second, [[ObfuscatingStupidity they're something else entirely]]]].
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* Many, many innocent bystanders in ''Website/{{GoAnimate}}''. Many videos depict the troublemaker planting an obvious trap in the ground with the people ''falling into the trap, unaware that they were just trapped''. Idiots!
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* Many, many innocent bystanders in ''Website/{{GoAnimate}}''.''Platform/{{GoAnimate}}''. Many videos depict the troublemaker planting an obvious trap in the ground with the people ''falling into the trap, unaware that they were just trapped''. Idiots!
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* One Website/YouTube video showed an amazing example of this trope. A poorly educated Chinese man with no electrical training builds complex robots out of stuff from junkyards. His creations are amazing. He is clearly ingenious and clever.
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* One Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube video showed an amazing example of this trope. A poorly educated Chinese man with no electrical training builds complex robots out of stuff from junkyards. His creations are amazing. He is clearly ingenious and clever.
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* ''ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics'''s Meggan was illiterate, and insecure around her Illuminati-level genius physicist boyfriend (later husband) [[ComicBook/CaptainBritain Brian Braddock]]. She was learning to read and was able to write down phone messages by the end of the series. By the time of ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'', she was capable of masterminding a revolution in ''Hell'' and doing a DealWithTheDevil (Hades, to be more accurate) that actually worked out in her favor. However, she's still a bit insecure about her lack of education when it comes to her and Brian's BrainyBaby, as she worries that her baby won't need her.
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* ''ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics'''s Meggan was illiterate, and while far from stupid, BookDumb and socially naive, leaving her deeply insecure around her Illuminati-level genius physicist aristocrat boyfriend (later husband) [[ComicBook/CaptainBritain Brian Braddock]]. She was learning to read and was able to write down phone messages by the end of the series. By the time of ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'', she was capable of masterminding a revolution in ''Hell'' and doing a DealWithTheDevil (Hades, to be more accurate) that actually worked out in her favor. However, she's still a bit insecure about her lack of education when it comes to her and Brian's BrainyBaby, as she worries that her baby won't need her.
