Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Difference between revisions

** For that matter, a ''lot'' of people in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' show this: Arc speaks and acts like a spoiled child, spends more time smiling and cheering than anything else, and is generally a really pleasant girl to be around ([[Weirdness Magnet|if you don't mind getting into trouble]])...but [[Laser Guided Tykebomb|when faced with Apostles she reveals her true nature as the single most badass vampire in the world]]. Ciel is more the [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] type, but it's still significantly upsetting how one can be a pleasant, curry-obsessed high school student by day and a ruthless Church Assassin by night.

* When Mic Sounders XIII of ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' was initially introduced, he was a childish, goofy robot who looked like the bastard child of a walkie-talkie and a Speak'n'Spell. However, he had an alternate mode -- a rocker who could kick ass and energize teammates with the power of music. This mode was locked to ensure that the AI wouldn't abuse its power -- or, more specifically, so that he wouldn't accidentally ''destroy the world'' -- but came out on its own to protect Mic's friends (and in particular, the sister of the man his AI was based on). Later on, the limiter was released and Mic could change between modes at will.

** Ryōga at least is the main character's [[The Rival|rival]], and as such has to be just slightly weaker than him. Being slightly weaker than the main character pretty much requires that he be stronger than everyone else, he is portrayed as enormously strong and makes the [[Made of Iron]] characters look to be [[Made of Plasticine]]. Of course, Ryōga IS a bit of an idiot and a rather nice guy when not being overly paranoid, so this might still qualify.

*** It is generally thought by fans that Ryōga is physically stronger than Ranma (though the manga does not explicitly show this, it is possible that Ranma just has better control of his strength than Ryoga does), however Ranma is faster, better trained, and better at working out how to overcome any given opponent.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Married... with Children]]'''s Al Bundy. On occasion, for whatever reason, Al - schlubby loser Everyman Al - would take it upon himself to beat the living shit out of some poor bastard and he would do so with the psychotic glee you would expect from a man with often literally no other joy. Of all the things Al Bundy failed at - and Al Bundy failed at almost everything he put his hand to - he never once lost a fist fight (or was even mentioned to have lost a fistfight) in the show's entire history.

** T-Bo, a background character who runs the Goovy Smoothy and is normally seen just putting random items on sticks to sell and being wierd, reveals himself to be one in ''iStill Psycho'' when he helps [[Mama Bear|Mrs. Benson]] [[Big Damn Heroes|rescue the iCarly gang]] from [[Ax Crazy|Nora]] and her equally insane family. Not only does he kick down the basement door so Carly can rescue Spenser, he singlehandedly takes down Nora's father.

* Played with in Disney's ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|The Suite Life]]'': Apparently London Tipton is quite the athlete (notably in volleyball), but only when she's mad.

*** Wasn't it an olive loaf?

* Typically, the Crocodiles in ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' are [[Too Dumb to Live]] (oftentimes literally so). But on one occassion, Rat, in a variation of the Pied Piper, used music to lead stupid people to a lake to drown them. When he attempted to do this to the Crocs, he gloated about this, and in an uncharacteristically angry (but characteristically badly-pronounced) reply, one croc mentioned "We can sweem."

* Satchel from ''[[Get Fuzzy]]''. The guy has about half the IQ of a rock, but as Bucky is often reminded, pushing Satchel too far is a very bad idea.

 

* The Black Baron of ''[[MadWorld]]''. An [[Uncle Tomfoolery]] who is constantly killed by his own deathtraps and girlfriend, it's hard to believe he poses any real threat, even when {{spoiler|he turns out to be the final boss. Most players saw an easy fight...and then he goes Super Saiyan, kicks at you with lightning and punches you with a black hole.}} Sadly, when he meets his final end, he's reverted back to his moron stage.

* In one instance of ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'', Radagast the Brown walks through a wight-infested swamp talking to little animals while the players have to fight all around him. In the end, he incapacitates who seems to be the endboss with a single hit, saving the players.

** In this case, Emil seems to take a leaflet out of [[Harry Potter (novel)|Neville's]] book here; over time, Emil loses the coward part of himself, even pulling a few moments of role reversal on Marta when the latter isn't up to her best (the pair [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] this in an [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|aptly named]] skit named "Role Reversal"). {{spoiler|In fact, in the very last chapter of the game, he out and out ''seals away the Ratatosk side of his personality'', and you get to play as ''Emil himself'' in battles from that point onward.}}

* [[Distressed Damsel|Princess Peach]] from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', when she [[Let's Get Dangerous|decides to fight]]. Especially her ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'' incarnation.

* Cielo in ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]''. Usually a calm and cheery ALBINO BRAZILIAN WITH JAMAICAN ACCENT, untill {{spoiler|a guy from the security eats his comrades in order to get power. Cielo proceeds to make a badass speech}}. There's also the time {{spoiler|that in order to protect Sera and Serph, he destroys two fighter jets by chewing on their pilots and cutting their wings, dying in the explosion.}}

* Karl Blaine in ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]''. Even before Rico meets him, he's established as the unreliable, comedy relief contact on the island nation who you have to rescue from a government sting. Later, Blaine's captured and successfully interrogated as years as a drunk in a tropical paradise have left him soft and out of practice as a spy. {{spoiler|Much later, during Rico's assault on the evil president's hideout, Blaine sneaks out of his cell BY HIMSELF, and gets past the [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninja guard]] to suicide bomb the President without any assistance from Rico.}} [[What the Hell, Hero?|This doesn't stop Rico from taunting him for giving into the torture, however.]]

* [[Space Quest|Roger Wilco]] will even admit he's far from the sharpest knife in the drawer. Hell, he's a marginally competent janitor who is prone to taking on-shift naps in the closet. When "it" hits fan, though? Tricks a nasty creature twice his size into blowing itself up. Kills an ''entire ship'' worth of Sariens to prevent them from nuking his home planet. Stops an evil genius from invading his home planet with a clone army (granted, it was an army of insurance salesmen...), rescues two programmers from slavery and beats their [[Bad Boss]] with a [[Humongous Mecha]], destroyed the evil genius in a rematch after the evil genius took over his homeworld, took down the Confederation's shiny flagship with a garbage scow, and stopped another mad scientist from committing [[Grand Theft Me]] on a close friend. Do not piss off the [[Almighty Janitor]]!

* ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' [[Adult Child|isn't particularly smart]], he has a [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|terrible attention span]] and [[The Unintelligible|can't even speak English]] for the most part. He has also consistently beaten the evil schemes of Cortex and any other [[Big Bad]] Wumpa Island has faced for "fifteen flippin' years" now. Oh, and [[Big Brother Instinct|don't hurt his little sister]], especially if you value your throat...