Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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