Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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