Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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