Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

A character whose defining trait is being dumb. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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