Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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