Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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