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{{quote|'''''"[[Too Dumb to Live|I drop my trousers and wizz on the king]]!"'''''}}
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Often an underlying reason to [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]] and [[Leeroy Jenkins]]. Compare [[Too Dumb to Live]], [[It Amused Me]]. For what happens when other alignments are played to a degree it becomes stupid, see [[Stupid Good]], [[Lawful Stupid]], [[Stupid Evil]] and [[Stupid Neutral]].
{{noreallife|[[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Calling somebody "stupid" is not a compliment]].}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Wrath from [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime adaptation]] of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] is this due to his utter lack of impulse control or thinking things through. To illustrate, he fused with Trisha Elric's remains to prevent them from being used on his mother surrogate Sloth. {{spoiler|After he got done killing Lust, he fuses with Sloth while both her and Ed know what that would do, merging her with the remains and leaving her paralyzed, allowing Ed to finish her off.}}
* While not an Adventure example, [[Genki Girl|Tomo Takino]] of [[Azumanga Daioh]] qualifies as this. For example, the time that she threw the keys to [[Beach Episode|Chiyo's Summer Home]] into the forest just as Chiyo was about to unlock the door. And thought that it would be funny if she did it a second time.
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* [[Deadpool]] is the face of Chaotic Stupid in modern comics [[Depending on the Writer]]. He beat the Taskmaster (whose power is an almost supernatural ability to "read" and understand the fighting styles of his opponent) in hand-to-hand combat by taking a break in their fight to dance and otherwise make himself unpredictable. He even begins his gambit by pushing a female X-men member through a skylight into a indoor pool entirely filled with pancakes. Which were only there in the first place because he just suddenly decided to make a few thousand pancakes when he woke up that day. Then again this from the guy who [[No Fourth Wall|knows he's in a comic book]]. Maybe he's [[Genre Savvy|onto something]].
** It gets taken to 11 when he fights Evil Deadpool.
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* [[The Ghost|Sam's mother]] on ''[[iCarly]]'': The woman drove her car after getting eye surgery, causing her to crash through a wall at the school. Sam and Melanie were born on a bus because she took one while having labor pains instead of calling a cab.
* Spike from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' half the time. He's always holding the [[Villain Ball]], and sometimes the [[Idiot Ball]]. "I had a plan, a good one, but I got bored".
** He had a good teacher. [[Angel]]us once led Faith into a trap, had her nearly beaten to death by a demon that blocked out the sun, then betrays and kills said demon
* Ziggy Sobotka from ''[[The Wire]]''. Lighting hundred dollar bills on fire, buying a pet duck and giving it beer, repeatedly picking fights with bigger and tougher people, whipping out his member in a crowded bar - it it's stupid, and he thinks there's a laugh in it, he'll do it. Although he finally wises up when it's too late to do any good.
* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'': Upon being declared the gang's "Wild Card," Charlie takes it as an excuse to go absolutely insane, including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtjpIwamos cutting the brakes of the van Mac is driving and jumping out.]
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* Reese from ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' is a clear distinction between Chaotic Stupid and [[Stupid Evil]]. Reese himself is Chaotic Stupid and sees no problem in doing something [[For the Evulz]], but [[Even Evil Has Standards|he's morally against something]] that 's just [[Stupid Evil|unamusingly cruel]]. For example, an ice cream truck refusing to sell anything during a heat wave traffic jam.
{{quote|'''Reese:''' This is just wrong! You can make money and please children! This is a senseless act! You are evil! ''Pure evil!''}}
== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''[[Dragonlance]]'' setting of ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Planescape]]'' basically had an entire faction based around this trope. The Xaositects believed that the universe had no inherent order to it, and that truth could be found only in chaos. Naturally, this meant speaking in [[Word Salad]] and genrally acting like lunatics as much as possible. This is how they're described in the sourcebooks, so it's '''NOT''' just players taking things too far in this case.
** And the Slaadi, who are literally [[Chaotic Neutral]] (and consequently Chaotic Stupid) personified.
{{quote|"He said he was looking for the Happy Hunting Grounds. I didn't know what he was talking about... so I ate him."}}
*** In fact, 4th edition gave Slaadi the official alignment of [[Chaotic Evil]] (they were traditionally [[Chaotic Neutral]]) because they are so Chaotic Stupid that they want to tear down all of the rules everywhere... Including the rules that keep the very fabric of existence functioning. [[For the Lulz]].
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' [[
* A good part of why Chaos hasn't yet conquered the galaxy in [[Warhammer
** It's not that they hate each other. [[Enemy Civil War|Well, they actually do, but]] it's more that they cannot '''EVER''' be organised. It's called [[Shaped Like Itself|Chaos]] for a reason, ya know?
** Tzeentche may or may not be actively preventing a solid Chaos victory with his plots, because [[Victory Is Boring]].
== Toys ==
* Vezon from ''[[Bionicle]]''. He's an insane, [[Ax Crazy]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Genius Ditz]] [[You Talk Too Much|who talks too much]] and suffers from [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]], and yet he's not powerful enough to pose a serious threat to anyone, so he's generally been [[Played for Laughs]] for the past few years of the story.
== Video Games ==
* Sheogorath, of the ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'' video game series, and his antics fall pretty squarely in Chaotic Stupid territory. He's not called the Mad-god for nothing. In one of the expansions it's revealed that {{spoiler|he even moonlights as his own [[Lawful Stupid]] archnemesis -- or, more accurately, that Jyggalag, Daedric Prince of Order, was cursed back in the day to become the relatively ineffectual Sheogorath, Prince of Madness}}.
** In Morrowind, he had rather less of this, giving the impression not that he himself was mad (at least not to [[Cloudcuckoolander]] levels, though he may have been slightly cracked), but that it amused him to drive mortals crazy and observe the results. His voice acting is the most "normal" of all the Daedra lords in the game, his image simply a distinguished gentleman. From Oblivion onwards, Chaotic Stupid is in full force.
*** Fridge Brilliance: bipolar is also a form of insanity. Morrowind was just him during a calmer period.
* The Umgah from ''[[Star Control]]'' are an entire ALIEN RACE of this trope, having genetically engineered themselves to the point of insanity. Their idea of 'funny pranks' involve invoking wars between evil spiders and hippy bird people, making a powerful psychic lifeform sentient once more so they can see if it will do tricks for them, [[Apocalypse How|dropping planetoids into the oceans of inhabited planets]], and [[Murder Arson and Jaywalking|scaring the crap out of an easily scared race of mollusk things]]. Over the course of one conversation, you liberate them from the aforementioned powerful psychic lifeform and get named their "Great Hero," they give you ships, and then they decide that "Great Hero" is boring, name you "Great Enemy" instead, and declare war on you.
** They then attack you with an infinite wave of ships, which you can attempt to combat with the identical ships they just gave you. ''They probably think this is hilarious.''
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* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' Has a [[Dummied Out]] "evil option" that would let you sell a baby into slavery. Instead, you just... keep the baby. In your [[Grid Inventory]]. {{spoiler|[[Easter Egg|You can use it as a key]] in Hordes Of The Underdark.}}
* The [[Raving Rabbids]] from ''[[Rayman]]'' are [[Planet of Hats|an entire race]] of Chaotic Stupid [[The Ditz|ditzes]]
* ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'' introduced [[Planet of Hats|an entire race and realm]] of chaos, filled with people who sometimes speak backwards, play games like Everybody Runs Around, and, when asked a yes or no question, respond with "Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes." The only named member of the Chaosrelmers is Havik, the Cleric of Chaos, who will fight for anyone regardless of alignment if they will bring chaos. He even gets a [[Lawful Stupid]] nemesis in Hotaru.
== Web Comics ==
* Elan from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' sometimes veers off into a rare example of Chaotic Good Stupid, with actions such as trying to persuade the gods to add a hand puppet to their pantheon. Although it's hard to tell if this is overplaying the chaotic part of his alignment, or just being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
** Of course, the gods were actually interested; the priest being offended at the idea is what chased him off, much to Odin's disappointment.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130101034948/http://www.fanent.com/product/the-gods-love-heroes.html The gods love heroes. They also love a good laugh. Think about it...]
* Sonic from ''inSONICia''. He's the kind of guy who will push a [[Big Red Button]] that will bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]], then yell at you to stop criticizing him. It gets to the point where Sonic becomes [[The Scrappy|so annoying]] and [[The Load|useless]] that it's a wonder nobody [[Just Eat Gilligan|just offs him to save themselves a headache]].
* Rayne from [[Least I Could Do]] has been drifting into this alignment since 2004, and is now merrily swimming within it, his actions are almost totally random and utterly incomprehensible to the outside observer, so much so that people barely notice anymore unless his zany antics directly impact on them, which they usually do
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* {{spoiler|Chaos, appropriately enough}}, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', recently took a hard right into this trope. Let's face it, he took an idea from ''[[The Ditz|Fighter]]''.
** And planned on acting on another one that Black Mage suggested, for the sole reason that it's crazy and random enough that it's the type of thing that people ''should'' expect of him, but don't anyway.
* Invoked in ''Home on the Strange'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20140507154743/http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=18 I told you I'd play Chaotic Neutral if this didn't stop!]
* In ''[[Miscellaneous Error]]'', Jack lives his entire life according to this trope. His activities include [[Catapult to Glory|catapulting himself]] [http://miscerror.thecomicseries.com/comics/5 across his backyard] [[For Science!|for vaguely scientific purposes]].
* In ''[[The Zombie Hunters]]'', two characters (who thankfully are not actual examples) are at one point described by a [[Fan Nickname|Snarky Gas-Mas Guy]] as [http://www.thezombiehunters.com/index.php?strip_id=82 "chaotic shortbus aligned"].
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651. My alignment is not Sarcastic Good.
742. Apparently Chaotic Angry and Neutral Hungry aren't real alignments either.
863. Even if there is no alignment in Traveller, giving feuding [[Technology Levels|TL]]1 tribes [[Technology Levels|TL]]12 weapons and putting the results on PPV is just wrong.
1059. Even if the villain is [[Lawful Evil]], slapping a cease and desist order on him isn't going to work.
1949. Can't free the hostage with a surprise game of Red Rover. }}
* Also known as "[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost8239-Spider%2Ejpg Psychotic Neutral]".
* Everyone in ''The [[Binder of Shame]]''. "We're Chaotic Neutral, that's practically a get-out-of-plot-developments-free card!" Blobert Smith has a particular tendency to this, his roleplaying described as being like a cross between regular gaming and performance art. Some of the other players come across this way in their real-life personae.
* Tednugent, the long-suffering protagonist of [[Interactive Fiction]] Fanfic Parody [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916113941/http://www.thelittlestmurloc.com/ You Awaken In Razor Hill] is repeatedly forced into this trope and this sort of behavior, as a character whose actions were controlled by the whims of the readers of the story. Many of them - MANY of them - chose to Command Ted to do outright moronic things regardless of the severity of any given situation he was in - such as
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' is known to feature shenanigans of this sort. They were quite prevalent during [[Problem Sleuth]], when the comment boxes were open and everything was explicitly coming from player suggestions; sometimes, if the characters really insisted on being engaged in something productive, the players would bid the character continue with what they were doing, but in a sillier manner. ''[[Homestuck]]'' had a few really good ones early on, before Hussie locked the suggestion boxes, but here and there you still get someone being a bit of a dipshit.
* [[
* Much of the ''[[SMG4 (web video)|SMG4]]'' series universe runs on this - Bowser, Wario, Bob... even [[Only Sane Man|Meggy]] has her moments. Perhaps the most prominent example is Mario himself: He has a constant hunger for spaghetti and mushrooms, enjoys riding his kart in circles, abuses Yoshi (while singing the famous ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' melody) because he is too lazy to walk by himself, [[Naked People Are Funny|undresses randomly]] in public, etc. An adventure with him ''never'' gets boring, at least. However, ''[[Berserk Button|never]]'' [[Beware the Silly Ones|get between]] him and his spaghetti!
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'':
*
** Blitzwing's Random face usually falls in this category as well.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'':
** The eponymous character
*** Perhaps the best example of this for Zim is the incomplete episode "The Trial", where he invented an Infinite Energy Absorbing Monster solely to impress his superiors; it does [[Gone Horribly Right|exactly what it would be expected to do]], killing Zim's fellow scientists and even one of the Irken leaders, then her counterpart not long after, then most of the Irken armada...
** [[
* And in another, and even more outrageous [[Richard Horvitz]]-voiced case of random stupidity: [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[Beavis and Butthead]] epitomize this trope.
* IR Baboon from ''[[I Am Weasel]]''.
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[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]
[[Category:Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid]]
[[Category:Stupidity Tropes]]
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[[Category:Tabletop Game Tropes]]
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