Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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