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Brainless Beauty protagonists are most common in film (''Zoolander'', ''The House Bunny'', ''Blonde & Blonder'') but occasionally turn up on TV (''Joey'').
A Brainless
Contrast with [[The Vamp]] and the [[Casanova]], who are also good looking and sexually active but have a ''lot'' more going on upstairs.
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Sometimes overlaps with [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]].
See also: [[Popular Is Dumb]]. It is a reasonably good rule of thumb that [[The Cheerleader|most cheerleaders]] will be presented as being Brainless Beauties, unless the movie or show is actually focused on them. The same applies to [[Jerk Jock
[[Dumb Blonde]] covers some of the same territory, but (obviously) not all Brainless Beauties are blonde, and by no means are all Dumb Blondes as sexualised as this trope. Female Brainless Beauties will often possess a [[Simpleton Voice]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Pavi Largo from ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' is this by way of inverted [[Informed Deformity]]; despite being horribly scarred and wearing masks made of other people faces, his admirers consider him beautiful. The "brainless" part is not up for debate.
* Subverted in ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]'': Linda uses her sexual charms to get by, but she later turns out to be sadly aware of the fact, tries to improve her life without relying on beauty and deeply regrets not being able to take care of the child she put up for adoption. In the end, [[It Gets Better|she gets better.]]
* Shelley from ''[[The House Bunny]]'' is a rare example of a
* Brace Channing from ''My Favourite Martian''.
* The song "'Cause I'm a Blonde" from ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'' is made of this trope.
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* In ''[[Roxanne]]'' (the Steve Martin update of Cyrano de Bergerac), Chris the fireman.
* Destiny Demeanor in ''[[Loaded Weapon 1]]'' literally has nothing between her ears - at one point while making out with the hero she seductively asks him to blow in her ear. When he does so we hear an echo like someone blowing across the top of an empty beer bottle and see the hair on the opposite side of her head billow in the breeze.
* In the original film version of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Buffy was a
* Jenna from ''[[Max Keeble's Big Move]]'' qualifies as this, or the [[Alpha Bitch]].
* Brad the gigolo from ''[[Extract]]''.
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** Raziel appears again in a later Christopher Moore book as the titular character. And what's the title of that book? [[The Stupidest Angel|The Stupidest Angel.]]
* Olivia Ryan from ''[[The Clique]]'' is described as a naturally beautiful blond that lots of guys in her grade like but she is considered as the dumbest girl at their school.
* In ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Oathbreakers]]'', [[Mercedes Lackey]] has an unusual example of a
* In the ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms]]'' series, unicorns are breathtakingly gorgeous and head-thuddingly stupid. There seems to be an in-universe law that beautiful magical creatures are usually dumb as rocks, while intelligent ones are seldom beautiful.
* Subverted in [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' ''[[Dark Lord of Derkholm|Year of the Griffin]]''; minor character Melissa is both beautiful and dumb, but rather than trade on her looks she's working to learn magic, even though it's hard for her.
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* Harmony from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]''.
** Glory makes Harmony look like a rocket scientist.
** Cordelia Chase, on the other hand, subverts the trope; she appears at first to be a classic
* Jessica from ''[[Sweet Valley High]]''.
* Ethan Craft from ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''.
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** Finn is a male version.
** Sam fits this as well. He's beautiful to the point of [[Shirtless Scene|having his shirt off every other scene]], yet is totally clueless most times as to what is going on, especially with his [[Armoured Closet Gay|closet lesbian girlfriend]].
* Erin from the American version of ''[[The Office]]'' is a mild version of the
* Haley from ''[[Modern Family]]''. Heavily inverted by Gloria who despite being drop dead gorgeous who initially comes across as a [[Gold Digger]] is actually very sweet, smart, and genuinely loves her older husband.
* Nate and Serena on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''.
* Amanda and Hilda on ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' are variations as they're not so much [[The Ditz]] as [[Book Dumb]].
* Chrissy on ''[[Three's Company]]'' was turned into the poster child for this trope by season 5.
* In one episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', Sabrina was temporarily turned into a literal
* [[The Danza|Drake]] from ''[[Drake and Josh]]''
** Possibly a case of [[Brilliant but Lazy]]. He displays an ability to predict exaclty how long it will take for him and Josh to sneak home compared to their parents' timing, claiming he could do that but is failing math because that situation was "actually important."
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* Hedy LaRue in ''[[How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying]]''.
* Kendra from ''[[13]]''.
* The play ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'' centers around a
* Lois Lane ([[Superman|no, not that one]]) from ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]''.
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** Tara also falls into this on occasion.
* Clover from ''[[Totally Spies]]'', however at times she can be quite clever.
* Ty Lee from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' although she also gets by on her super fighting skills. She's always happy, pink and perky, flirting successfully with everyone. However, she is shown to have some [[Hidden Depths]]; she purposely does everything to get noticed after being [[Freudian Excuse|ignored in her childhood]] and it appears that her overly cheerful demeanor is to avoid being hurt by [[Magnificent Bastard|Azula]]. In the end {{spoiler|she is shown to be a loyal
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' 'Spin-Off Showcase' episode Lisa refused to participate in a cheesey family variety show so was recast by a pretty blonde cheerleader of a decidedly less intellectual bent.
{{quote|'''Fake Lisa:''' "I'm Lisa Peppy, blonde and stunning. Sophomore prom queen five years running. Go Lisa!"}}
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