Tropescilloscope: Obfuscating Stupidity

Smart enough to intentionally act dumb. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Distracted by the Sexy Empathic Environment Villainous Breakdown The Hero Small Name, Big Ego Tagline Gorn Storming the Castle Adorkable Sanity Slippage The Remake The Casanova Badass Grandpa Bound and Gagged Take That! Armor-Piercing Question One Steve Limit Heel–Face Turn Noodle Incident Shipper on Deck Never My Fault Femme Fatale Wicked Cultured Evil Is Petty '80s Hair Sir Swears-a-Lot Adaptation Distillation And I Must Scream Insistent Terminology Facial Horror Wham Line Your Cheating Heart Creator Cameo Children Are Innocent Meaningful Name Non-Indicative Name Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Big-Bad Ensemble Dumb Blonde Nice Guy Bland-Name Product The Stinger Shoot the Shaggy Dog No-Sell Death by Irony Faux Affably Evil Japanese Films Arc Words Eldritch Abomination Not So Above It All Big Brother Instinct Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Implacable Man Composite Character Chekhov's Gunman Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Hollywood Darkness Mistaken for Gay Blonde, Brunette, Redhead From Nobody to Nightmare Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Our Vampires Are Different Plot Hole Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Vomit Discretion Shot Police are Useless Disproportionate Retribution What You Are in the Dark "Awesome McCool" Name No Celebrities Were Harmed Here We Go Again! Public Domain Feature Films Artistic License – Gun Safety You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Frame-Up Soft Glass Jerkass Has a Point Fat Bastard Men Are the Expendable Gender Motor Mouth Heroic Sacrifice Back from the Dead Advertised Extra Cool Old Lady Black Comedy Cool Old Guy Anachronism Stew You Have Failed Me Big Bad Ascended Extra Dissonant Serenity Not Using the "Z" Word Whole Plot Reference Film Noir Index Hidden Depths Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Anti-Hero As Himself Soundtrack Dissonance In Name Only Improbable Aiming Skills Rape as Drama Naïve Newcomer Dirty Old Man Spared by the Adaptation Cool Shades Toplessness from the Back Defiant to the End Broken Bird Lighter and Softer "Well Done, Son!" Guy She's Got Legs Psychopathic Manchild It Can Think Show Within a Show Maybe Ever After Beard of Evil Impaled with Extreme Prejudice All There in the Manual Animated Credits Opening Crazy Jealous Guy The Ditz Creepy Child Scenery Porn Wham Shot French Films Horror Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Bad Boss Too Dumb to Live Blood Knight I Need a Freaking Drink Genre Shift Translation Convention Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Spanner in the Works Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil Is Hammy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Film Noir Dressing as the Enemy Anti-Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Hoist by His Own Petard All for Nothing Made of Iron Scary Black Man Hero Antagonist Put on a Bus Anachronic Order Oh, Crap! The '90s Have a Gay Old Time Biopic Spiteful Spit Bloodier and Gorier Drives Like Crazy Male Gaze La Résistance Corrupt Corporate Executive The Film of the Book Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hair-Trigger Temper Playing Gertrude "Shaggy Dog" Story Only One Name Action Genre Fish out of Water Hypocrite Visual Pun The Starscream Obfuscating Stupidity Evil Plan Deconstruction Unwitting Instigator of Doom Alliterative Name Stalker with a Crush Stealth Hi/Bye Darker and Edgier Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Shirtless Scene More Dakka The Lost Lenore Retirony Cold-Blooded Torture Disney Villain Death Knife Nut Dogged Nice Guy From Bad to Worse Big Fancy House Manchild Authority Equals Asskicking Mundane Made Awesome Becoming the Mask Drowning My Sorrows Jerkass Slasher Smile Vampire Fiction Aluminum Christmas Trees Pyrrhic Victory Redemption Equals Death Dutch Angle Handicapped Badass Vitriolic Best Buds Names to Run Away from Really Fast Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Black Best Friend Genre Throwback Disappeared Dad Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Immune to Bullets Video Credits Darkest Hour Captain Obvious Breaking the Fourth Wall Face–Heel Turn Morality Pet Love Triangle Missing Mom Car Fu Abhorrent Admirer Broken Aesop O.O.C. Is Serious Business Adaptational Attractiveness Slasher Movie Took a Level in Jerkass Australian Movies Horror Comedy Ambiguously Gay Ironic Echo Double-Meaning Title Comically Missing the Point Heroes Want Redheads Karmic Death Villain Opening Scene Trailers Always Spoil Babies Ever After Death by Sex The Dreaded No Ending Not Even Bothering with the Accent Body Horror For the Evulz Cool Guns Chekhov's Gun Would Hit a Girl Cat Fight Disney Death Say My Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall Reality Ensues Rich Bitch Framing Device Last-Name Basis Friend to All Children And the Adventure Continues Rule of Cool It's Personal Early Installment Weirdness Scenery Gorn Let's Get Dangerous! Off-into-the-Distance Ending Straight Gay Would Hurt a Child Major Injury Underreaction Mooks Laser-Guided Karma Greater-Scope Villain Action Survivor Narrator Jump Scare Bait-and-Switch My Greatest Failure Mr. Fanservice Diabolus ex Machina Rousing Speech Sports Stories Book-Ends Disguised in Drag Hypocritical Humor An Axe to Grind Homage Dull Surprise Domestic Abuse The Sociopath Fainting Works Set in World War II Covers Always Lie Kill 'em All Only a Flesh Wound Evil-Detecting Dog Laughing Mad Once More, with Clarity! Sealed Evil in a Can Our Zombies Are Different Up to Eleven Real Life Writes the Plot Red Right Hand Brainless Beauty Deadpan Snarker Rule of Three Stylistic Suck Fire-Forged Friends The '60s Freudian Excuse Affectionate Parody The Ace Broken Pedestal Not So Stoic Naked People Are Funny Pet the Dog Training Montage Offscreen Moment of Awesome Large Ham Silent Movie Historical Villain Upgrade Batman Gambit Paper-Thin Disguise Daylight Horror BFG The X of Y Never Trust a Trailer Overprotective Dad Papa Wolf Bad "Bad Acting" Artistic License – Geography Bunny-Ears Lawyer Death Seeker As Long as It Sounds Foreign Flashback Asshole Victim Redshirt Army Get Out! Bottomless Magazines The Smart Guy Serious Business Tempting Fate Call-Back Action Prologue Riddle for the Ages Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Manly Tears Evil Brit The Power of Love Conspicuous CG Big "NO!" Sadistic Choice Random Events Plot Hope Spot Needs Wiki Magic Love Hollywood Law You Killed My Father Retcon The Quiet One Fourth Date Marriage Gender Flip Bowdlerise Bond One-Liner Happily Married Bond Villain Stupidity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Fan Disservice Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ship Tease Ax-Crazy Extremely Short Timespan Unusually Uninteresting Sight folderlabel Continuity Nod Military and Warfare Films Time Skip Plucky Comic Relief Improvised Weapon Blackmail Manic Pixie Dream Girl Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Lancer Real Life Failed a Spot Check Deliberate Values Dissonance Lock and Load Montage Left the Background Music On Calling the Old Man Out Ripped from the Headlines Sole Survivor Yandere Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bar Brawl Imagine Spot Karma Houdini Bilingual Bonus Your Head A-Splode Psychological Thriller Bloody Hilarious Offscreen Teleportation A Father to His Men Cowboy Cop Famous Last Words Adaptation Name Change One-Man Army Cluster F-Bomb Daddy's Girl And Starring Flipping the Bird Every Car Is a Pinto Romantic Comedy Ms. Fanservice Depraved Bisexual Take a Third Option Black and Gray Morality Same Language Dub Cat Scare Room Full of Crazy Freeze-Frame Bonus Instant Death Bullet Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Brother–Sister Incest Dark and Troubled Past In Medias Res Slashed Throat Pragmatic Adaptation Killed Mid-Sentence "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mystery and Detective Films Superhero Red Shirt My God, What Have I Done? She Cleans Up Nicely Adaptational Badass Martial Arts Movie Twist Ending Nice Hat Rule of Funny Pretty Little Headshots Hero of Another Story Adaptational Villainy Mythology Gag Together in Death Historical Hero Upgrade Dramedy Unspoken Plan Guarantee Driven to Suicide Word of God timeperiod Dropped a Bridge on Him Villain Song Arranged Marriage Author Avatar The '70s Chiaroscuro Dramatic Irony Bloodless Carnage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Alcoholic The '50s Jerk Jock Five-Man Band The Chessmaster Amusing Injuries Obstructive Bureaucrat Music Stories Scare Chord Determinator Pre-Mortem One-Liner Brick Joke Cruel and Unusual Death Neck Lift Artistic License – History Logo Joke Defrosting Ice Queen All There in the Script For Want of a Nail Unresolved Sexual Tension Beta Couple Sinister Minister Combat Pragmatist Deal with the Devil This Is Gonna Suck Mercy Kill No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Stock Footage Age Lift Curse Cut Short Parental Abandonment Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sassy Black Woman Betty and Veronica Better to Die than Be Killed Kick the Dog Card-Carrying Villain Big Bad Duumvirate After the End Well-Intentioned Extremist Mind Screw Recycled IN SPACE! Obviously Evil Kick the Son of a Bitch Adults Are Useless Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Adapted Out Genre Savvy May–December Romance Intrepid Reporter Agony of the Feet Kill It with Fire Faking the Dead Wretched Hive Parental Substitute Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Retired Badass Love at First Sight Break the Haughty Ambiguous Disorder Canon Foreigner Reality Has No Subtitles Deus ex Machina Canadian Movies Decoy Protagonist Eyepatch of Power Reasonable Authority Figure Adult Fear Celebrity Paradox What Happened to the Mouse? Shell-Shocked Veteran Never Found the Body No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sequel Hook Punch-Clock Villain Truth in Television Bolivian Army Ending Dies Wide Open The Un-Reveal Catapult Nightmare Police Brutality Mighty Whitey Ghost Fiction Thriller No Name Given Blood from the Mouth Improbable Weapon User It's All About Me Wrong Genre Savvy The Oner Star-Crossed Lovers Monumental Damage Determinator aka: The Determinator Adaptation Expansion Jitter Cam Meet Cute I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Mole Good Is Not Nice Funny Background Event Anguished Declaration of Love Does Not Like Shoes Contrived Coincidence Precision F-Strike Intergenerational Friendship Title Drop Moment Killer Expository Hairstyle Change Fingore Mama Bear Insane Troll Logic NO INDOOR VOICE Air-Vent Passageway Enemy Mine Shower Scene All Girls Want Bad Boys There Is No Kill Like Overkill Eye Scream The Hero Dies Fate Worse than Death The Ghost Fanservice The Stoic Alas, Poor Villain I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Vacation Films Be Careful What You Wish For Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Voiceless Crazy-Prepared Reality Is Unrealistic Woman in White The '80s Product Placement Did Not Get the Girl Parental Neglect Drugs Are Bad Dual Wielding Sacrificial Lion World of Ham Humiliation Conga Mugging the Monster Historical In-Joke Stuff Blowing Up Documentary Smug Snake Fatal Flaw Boom, Headshot! Department of Redundancy Department Big Applesauce Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Idiot Ball Demonic Possession Suspiciously Similar Substitute Grievous Bottley Harm Guile Hero Dirty Coward Closed Circle Black Dude Dies First Exactly What It Says on the Tin Poor Communication Kills Even Evil Has Standards Death Glare Mad Scientist Fantasy Films Those Two Bad Guys Belligerent Sexual Tension Butt-Monkey Madness Mantra Bury Your Gays Dramatic Gun Cock Double Entendre Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dirty Cop Aside Glance The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite All Men Are Perverts Bullying a Dragon Damsel in Distress Those Wacky Nazis Chase Scene Rule of Symbolism Very Loosely Based on a True Story Re-Cut Rasputinian Death Token Minority Hell Is That Noise Knight Templar Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Alleged Car Death by Adaptation N-Word Privileges Mr. Exposition Gainax Ending I'm a Humanitarian Apocalypse How Camera Abuse Historical-Domain Character Fanservice Extra Suspiciously Specific Denial Bi the Way Even Evil Has Loved Ones Pay Evil unto Evil MacGuffin Badass in a Nice Suit Meaningful Echo Stepford Smiler Artistic License – Law Amoral Attorney Manipulative Bastard Bittersweet Ending Sexy Discretion Shot Demoted to Extra Everyone Has Standards Red Herring Suddenly SHOUTING! Irony Fantastic Racism Creative Closing Credits Only in It for the Money Artistic License – Biology Self-Deprecation Revenge Antagonist Title Make It Look Like an Accident Sequel Escalation Curb-Stomp Battle Spiritual Successor Easily Forgiven Not Quite Dead The Atoner Russian Films Dwindling Party Throwing Your Sword Always Works I Did What I Had to Do Malevolent Masked Men Rewatch Bonus The Great Depression Reckless Gun Usage British Films Gold Digger Peek-a-Boo Corpse Destination Defenestration Tap on the Head A Minor Kidroduction Index of Film Westerns Badass Bookworm The Reveal The Cameo The Dragon Zombie Stories Annoying Younger Sibling Married to the Job Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Smurfette Principle Evil Sounds Deep Refuge in Audacity Artistic License – Military Shut Up, Hannibal! Henpecked Husband Big Damn Heroes I Have Your Wife Downer Ending Dark Reprise The Faceless Romantic False Lead Male Frontal Nudity Face Death with Dignity Overly Long Gag Psycho for Hire Totally Radical Establishing Character Moment A God Am I Camp Gay Took a Level in Badass Man on Fire Actor Allusion Nothing Is Scarier Early-Bird Cameo Film Series Evil Laugh Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping All Just a Dream Christmas Movies Index Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Eureka Moment The End... Or Is It? Artistic License – Physics Informed Ability Light Is Not Good Science Fiction Films Awesome, but Impractical Badass Boast Super Strength No Antagonist Made of Explodium Worthy Opponent B-Movie Unusual Euphemism Those Two Guys Villain with Good Publicity Insult Backfire The Dog Bites Back Green-Eyed Monster Pragmatic Villainy As You Know Taking You with Me Leave the Camera Running Protagonist Title Loophole Abuse Auto Erotica Neck Snap War Is Hell Break the Cutie Corpsing Extreme Doormat Spell My Name with an "S" Drill Sergeant Nasty Outrun the Fireball Interrupted Suicide Bavarian Fire Drill Casting Gag Honor Before Reason What the Hell, Hero? Silence Is Golden Fake Shemp True Companions Character Development Dying Moment of Awesome Important Haircut Accidental Misnaming Kids Are Cruel A Date with Rosie Palms Beauty Is Never Tarnished Television Movie Index Tranquil Fury Gory Discretion Shot Undying Loyalty Humans Are Bastards Shout-Out Shown Their Work The Mafia Race Lift Coming-of-Age Story Italian Films Eagleland Country Matters Victoria's Secret Compartment Final Girl Evil vs. Evil Animal Motifs Gone Horribly Right Deliberately Monochrome Ass Shove The Cavalry Pretty in Mink Heroic BSoD Market-Based Title How We Got Here Rated M for Manly Based on a True Story Foil Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bald of Evil An Aesop Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Stoner German Films The Bad Guy Wins Woman Scorned Big Eater Badass Longcoat Stealth Pun Match Cut Slap-Slap-Kiss Gilligan Cut Red Eyes, Take Warning Setting Update Smoking Is Cool Cain and Abel My Beloved Smother Expy Due to the Dead Dark Is Not Evil Chewing the Scenery Pimped-Out Dress Heel Realization Cassandra Truth Call-Forward Hong Kong Films Berserk Button Danny Peary Cult Movies List Cloudcuckoolander The Brute Earn Your Happy Ending Crucified Hero Shot Punny Name Fun with Acronyms Gratuitous English Despair Event Horizon Groin Attack Anyone Can Die The Bully Lampshade Hanging Hooker with a Heart of Gold Action Girl Arch-Enemy Epic Fail In the Back Race Against the Clock Badass Normal Foregone Conclusion Sci-Fi Horror Fatal Family Photo Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Off with His Head! Skewed Priorities Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Unreliable Narrator "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Award-Bait Song Only Sane Man Older Than They Look Animal Title Index Foreshadowing Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Heterosexual Life-Partners He Knows Too Much Evil Counterpart Exact Words No OSHA Compliance Alpha Bitch Bring My Brown Pants Dark Action Girl Almost Kiss Ominous Latin Chanting Only Known by Their Nickname Parental Incest Captain Ersatz The Vamp Ungrateful Bastard The Big Guy Fiery Redhead Abusive Parents Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Musical It Will Never Catch On You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Grey and Gray Morality Actually Pretty Funny Black Comedy Rape Really Gets Around Running Gag Kubrick Stare Four-Temperament Ensemble Ambiguous Ending Posthumous Character A.I. Is a Crapshoot He Who Fights Monsters Crapsack World Cool Car Developing Doomed Characters The Chick Hate Sink Taking the Bullet Villain Ball Costume Porn Brutal Honesty Beware the Nice Ones Blatant Lies Novelization Meaningful Background Event Chekhov's Skill Loads and Loads of Characters Accidental Murder The Place Adaptational Heroism Funny Foreigner Half the Man He Used to Be Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Leitmotif Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Mood Whiplash Attempted Rape Mexican Standoff Affably Evil Didn't Think This Through One-Word Title Vomit Indiscretion Shot Death of a Child Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Properly Paranoid As the Good Book Says... Red Oni, Blue Oni The Load Credits Gag Guns Akimbo Does This Remind You of Anything? Bare Your Midriff Not What It Looks Like 20 Minutes into the Future Central Theme Author Appeal Serial Killer Eiffel Tower Effect Adaptation Dye-Job Catch-Phrase Line-of-Sight Name Villain Protagonist An Arm and a Leg Not So Different Epic Movie