History Main / UpperClassTwit

** For half of her screen time in the first season, Euphemia is pretty ditzy, [[RebelliousPrincess but turns that around]] [[spoiler: and then she dies ''horribly''.]]

A popular subtype and the female counterpart to the usually male Upper-Class Twit is the ''Airhead Heiress'' -- a young, brainless, fashion slave party girl heiress. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Any resemblance to Paris Hilton or one of the Kardashians is purely coincidental]]. Less wealthy or successful examples are typically small-time would-be influencers (possibly modeled after Caroline Calloway) living dysfunctional and/or outright pathetic lives (typically sustained by nothing but a trust fund and possibly an [=OnlyFans=], with a lifestyle that is typically beyond their means) who are so deep in the depths of narcissistic self-delusion that they cannot see that most of their followers are there out of pity or amusement.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' series Morrigan Aensland starts out like this causing her guardians constant worry. Its only after her adopted father dies, and she combines with Lilith that she becomes responsible.

* Another Kojiro: the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' character [[{{Woolseyism}} otherwise known as James]] was this before [[RunawayFiance running away to escape]] an ArrangedMarriage. [[TheDitz Now he's just a twit]]. The 4Kids dub makes him something of a SouthernGentleman with shades of English aristocracy (he enjoys [[SpotOfTea tea]] and crumpets).

* Both the old Earl of [[MeaningfulName Squanderfield]] and his son in William Hogarth's ''Art/MarriageALaMode'' embody everything the artist found objectionable about the English aristocracy. The old Earl is proud of his [[BlueBlood documented descent from William the Conqueror]], but he is [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense terrible with money]], having built a lavish yet badly-designed house that has [[ImpoverishedPatrician emptied the family treasury]], requiring his son to be [[NobilityMarriesMoney married off]] to a NouveauRiche alderman's daughter. The Viscount is no better, being [[TheDandy a stupid fop]] who dresses in the French fashions Hogarth loathed and is more interested in his own reflection than in his fiancée, and whose conspicuous BeautyMark and spindly legs imply that his sexual indiscretions will likely speed him to an early grave - if his hotheaded penchant for getting into duels doesn't get him there first.[[note]] Which it does, eventually.[[/note]] Small wonder the alderman's daughter looks so unenthusiastic about [[ArrangedMarriage marrying into the Squanderfield family.]]

** Porteous Glaves is a rich man who buys his commission and has no military experience. Impising uncomfotable collars on the men causes instant loathing from them. AFter seeing battle, he's horrifed and tires to desert immediately afterward.

* ''Literature/TaiPan'': William Longstaff isn't a ''complete'' imbecile, but he is kind of dim, very set in his Victorian upper-class mentality and not particularly decisive, which makes him a very bad man to deal with the [[SelfMadeMan self-made China traders]] and [[InscrutableOriental Imperial officials]] his job as Governor of Hong Kong requires him to deal with.

* Downplayed with Ninzaburo Shiratori from ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. Shiratori is by no means an incompetent detective or man in general; this is just the worse he can be in cases when his arrogance gets the best of him.

** [[TropeNamers Named]] for the sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ba1OKY7Xc "Upper-Class Twit of the Year"]], where five Upper-Class Twits compete in events like "Kicking the Beggar" and "Taking the Bras Off the Debutantes," finishing with the winner being the first to shoot himself.

* Until advertising of tobacco products was banned in Britain, Lanbert and Butler cigarettes ran a series of posters featuring an Upper-Class Twit called Lambert, and his butler [[ShapedLikeItself called Butler]], (clearly based on JeevesAndWooster) who was the only one to speak. The last poster, when the ban was imminent, had their faces blurred out and Butler saying "I think we've been outlawed, sir."

* The title character of the 1980s movie ''Film/{{Arthur}}''. The main conflict of the movie is that he's going to be cut off from the money if he doesn't [[ArrangedMarriage marry the rich girl whose father his father has made an arrangement with]], and he's fallen in love with a working-class girl. He becomes a RunawayFiance, but the family eventually relents and allows him to remain rich. He and his [[TheJeeves manservant, Hobson]] are pretty overtly based on [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Bertie Wooster and Jeeves]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'':

On the off chance that the Upper-Class Twit has a job, it will usually be a sinecure with no apparent duties, though some may get some sort of reasonably prestigious white-collar position handed to them, usually by someone who owes their family a favor. A Twit in a position authority may become a PointyHairedBoss, but that is less common than one might expect: a PointyHairedBoss has responsibilities which he bungles, while a true Twit has no responsibilities at all. To become a ModernMajorGeneral is a more respectable career path for a brainless young aristocrat. An older one, [[GenteelInterbellumSetting especially in 1920s-1950s settings that involve murders in libraries]], may well be a retired Major or Colonel, being referred to by that rank. If this character actually ends up in an active military position they'll often end up as the EnsignNewbie, or worse yet a GeneralFailure.

On the off chance that the Upper-Class Twit has a job, it will be a sinecure with no apparent duties. A Twit in a position authority may become a PointyHairedBoss, but that is less common than one might expect: a PointyHairedBoss has responsibilities which he bungles, while a true Twit has no responsibilities at all. To become a ModernMajorGeneral is a more respectable career path for a brainless young aristocrat. An older one, [[GenteelInterbellumSetting especially in 1920s-1950s settings that involve murders in libraries]], may well be a retired Major or Colonel, being referred to by that rank. If this character actually ends up in an active military position they'll often end up as the EnsignNewbie, or worse yet a GeneralFailure.

** Lord Rust is such a powerful example of this trope that it ''bends reality''. Every military battle he's ever been in has led to the wholesale slaughter of his troops, and yet he himself is never harmed, despite always fighting from the front lines (if nothing else, he is quite brave). He is simply so utterly convinced that he can come to no harm that it becomes true.

** Subverted by Raymond Stiched, the museum curator in ''Literature/{{Thud}}''. While he is, by a large margin, the snootiest character to appear in the series, and speaks in a language so posh it is nigh-incomprehensible, he is also nothing but friendly and polite to the distinctly working class Colon and Nobbs. He is also not dismissive of their ignorance about art, but instead takes that as an excuse to give them a personal tour, while gushing about his exhibitions like any nerd introducing a neophyte to their favorite hobby. To top it off, he proves to be quite bright, and while he can't spot any of the clues the art thieves left behind, he is very quick to put together a probable sequence of events when they are pointed out to him.

A popular subtype and the female counterpart to the usually male Upper-Class Twit is the ''Airhead Heiress'' -- a young, brainless, fashion slave party girl heiress. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Any resemblance to Paris Hilton or one of the Kardashians is purely coincidental]]. Less wealthy or successful examples are typically small-time would-be influencers (possibly modeled after Caroline Calloway) living dysfunctional and/or outright pathetic lives who are so deep in the depths of narcissistic self-delusion that they cannot see that most of their followers are there out of pity or amusement.

Usually used as a foil for TheJeeves or some other more intelligent but lower-class character. The male Upper-Class Twit is often a prime target for {{Gold Digger}}s.

A popular subtype and the female counterpart to the usually male Upper-Class Twit is the ''Airhead Heiress'' -- a young, brainless, fashion slave party girl heiress. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Any resemblance to Paris Hilton or one of the Kardashians is purely coincidental]].

* Most of the members of the Bluth family in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' fall into this trope to varying degrees, with Gob and Buster being the strongest examples. The show itself is largely based around exploiting this trope and how wealthy twits deal with being separated from their money (i.e. [[IncrediblyLamePun poorly]]).

* Tahani Al-Jamil from ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' says things which are completely inappropriate for the moment and is more concerned with planning soirees than anything remotely pragmatic.

TheDitz with a trust fund. The Upper-Class Twit is either an [[BlueBlood aristocrat]] or a relative of someone in the upper echelons of society, and is automatically provided with [[InfiniteSupplies all of his living expenses]]. In other words, he was a SpoiledBrat as a child, and now he has no reason to contribute to society, which is just as well, since he doesn't have the skills to contribute anyway. More often than not, he leads a hedonistic lifestyle that embarrasses his family. Highly prone to ConspicuousConsumption. Embarrassing the family enough or doing something [[MoralEventHorizon truly heinous]] as opposed to just assholish may get them cut off, but this is not exactly common. Instead, they will usually just be leashed to a trust fund and kept out of sight, as it is simply easier to provide for them and clean up their messes in private than to unleash them on the world and risk them bringing shame to the family or drawing unnecessary attention from shady associates who want their money.

TheDitz with a trust fund. The Upper-Class Twit is either an [[BlueBlood aristocrat]] or a relative of someone in the upper echelons of society, and is automatically provided with [[InfiniteSupplies all of his living expenses]]. In other words, he was a SpoiledBrat as a child, and now he has no reason to contribute to society, which is just as well, since he doesn't have the skills to contribute anyway. More often than not, he leads a hedonistic lifestyle that embarrasses his family. Highly prone to ConspicuousConsumption. Embarrassing the family enough or doing something [[MoralEventHorizon truly heinous]] as opposed to just assholish may get them cut off, but this is not exactly common.