Tropescilloscope: The Ditz

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

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