History PlayingWith / CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is [[TooDumbToLive very dumb]], to the point where he [[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket can't even solve very simple problems]]. However, during the final battle, he starts flying, shooting fire from his hands and lasers from his eyes, and causes massive explosions by snapping his fingers.

* '''Inverted''': Bob is very smart and respected, with people believing him to be a badass, but he is actually very weak and incompetent during actual battles.

'''Basic Trope''': [[TheDitz A seemingly dumb]] or [[TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket incompetent]] character is revealed to actually be very strong and/or skilled.

'''Basic Trope''': A seemingly dumb or incompetent character is revealed to actually be very strong and/or skilled.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is very dumb, to the point where he can't even solve very simple problems. However, during the final battle, he starts flying, shooting fire from his hands and lasers from his eyes, and causes massive explosions by snapping his fingers.

** The super strength was an EleventhHourSuperpower granted to Bob in exchange for some of his intelligence.

* '''Straight''': Bob is the more... [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} Outlandish]] member of the heroes, but during the final (or otherwise important) battle, he shows to have superhuman strength.

** Bob is a HeartBrokenBadass and acts like a moron to entertain himself to prevent him from being depressed.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** Bob is equal levels of moron and non-badass -- he just happened to be at the right place within a perfect storm of random factors that turned Evulz into a sitting duck for Bob to kill with ease. It could have been anybody and both heroes and villains know it (or [[MistakenForBadass don't know it]], at least at first, but they have a ''[[GutFeeling very strong]]'' suspicion), and decry why is it that ''this'' '''moron''' [[InvincibleIncompetent had to get all the luck]].

* '''Defied''': Bob tries to become super strong, but the villain kills him before he can.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is TooDumbToLive, to the point where he can't even solve very simple problems. However, during the final battle, he starts flying, shooting fire from his hands and lasers from his eyes, and causes massive explosions by snapping his fingers.

* '''Inverted''': Bob is very smart and respected, with people believing him to be a BadAss, but he is actually very weak and incompetent during actual battles.
* '''Subverted''': Right when it looks like Bob is about to turn his BadAss mode on, he trips and ends up doing absolutely nothing.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob turns into a BadAss while fighting the BigBad, but isn't ''quite'' strong enough. Then Jacob, another seemingly stupid character, steps in and proves he is also a competent fighter, so he and Bob team up and defeat the villain.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is a hilarious idiot, then turns into a BadAss that is ''still'' stupid. He makes funny and irrelevant comments all while kicking the villain's ass, then ends up forgetting the whole thing and going right back to being an idiot.

'''Basic Trope''': A seemingly dumb or incompetent character is revealed to actually be very strong or skilled.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob is the more...[[{{CloudCuckooLander}} out there]] member of the heroes, but during the final (or otherwise important) battle, he shows to have superhuman strength.

* '''Deconstructed''': After learning thousands of deaths could have been avoided had Bob acted sooner, they immediately lose all trust in him...
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''ZigZagged''': Bob turns into a BadAss while fighting the BigBad, but isn't ''quite'' strong enough. Then Jacob, another seemingly stupid character, steps in and proves he is also a competent fighter, so he and Bob team up and defeat the villain.

* '''PlayedForLaughs''': Bob is a hilarious idiot, then turns into a BadAss that is ''still'' stupid. He makes funny and irrelevant comments all while kicking the villain's ass, then ends up forgetting the whole thing and going right back to being an idiot.
* '''PlayedForDrama''': Bob is actually ObfuscatingStupidity because he doesn't want to seem strong to the BigBad, or he'll get killed first. He wants to [[{{TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou}} fight the villain himself,]] because the villain actually [[{{YouKilledMyFather}} killed his father.]] He's been saving this strength for the final battle, ready to slay the villain for doing this. After doing so, Bob dies, having used up all of his power, but he's glad because he avenged his father's death.

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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Justified''': Bob tries to avoid using his super strength because he doesn't want to hurt or kill innocent people.

* '''Parodied''': All the heroes are [[{{IdiotHero}} idiots]] (or otherwise quirky) but become super strong during battles.

* '''Averted''': Bob is just as smart and strong as everyone else.

* '''Straight''': Bob is the more...[[{{CloudCuckooLander}} out there]] member of the heroes, but during the final (or otherwise important) battle, he shows to have superhuman strenght.