Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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