Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Difference between revisions

== Web Comics ==

 

** He's such a crouching moron, that while he's fighitng the [[Big Bad]], his own teamates assume he has run and hid.

* {{spoiler|Gamzee Makara}} from ''[[Homestuck]]''. He starts being introduced as the most useless of the trolls. But we later find out from references that in the trolls' final battle in their session, {{spoiler|Gamzee}} did more damage to the Black King than anybody else, which shocked his teammates and their opponent. {{spoiler|When [[Suddenly Sober|he's cut off from his mind-rotting sopor pies]], he also becomes sadistic, competent and utterly terrifying as he [[Hero-Killer|declares he will murder all his friends]]. He's off to a good start.}}

** Also John, who is by now {{spoiler|the most powerful out of his group of friends, being the only one to have reached his God Tiers so far}} despite being the most "average kid-like" out of all of them. He's also managed to masterfully counter-[[Troll]] Karkat despite apparently being the most naive and innocent of them all (with the possible exception of Jade).

* Trace from ''[[Twokinds]]'' is basically the same, only substituting [[Functional Magic]] for [[Psychic Powers]]. His powers mostly makes an appearance when he needs to protect Flora, his [[Catgirl]] girlfriend. Had a full-blown [[Amnesiac Dissonance]] meets [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] episode, but is currently tending towards [[The Messiah]].

* Arguably Liquid Snake of ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' also applies, considering it's been implied that despite his borderline idiotic behavior he is in reality a killing machine, but has lost the majority of his skills due to an accident caused by his overly aggressive behavior. He gets more intelligent as the comic moves closer to the events of the Shadow Moses rebellion of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.

{{quote|'''Big Boss:''' How's Joyce doing? Why has she made no progress?

'''Professor Doc:''' Big Boss, we can't ''afford'' to fix her! Do you know how many times she's saved the world's collective ass with her psychotic outbursts?

* Smoke from ''[[WTF Comics]]'', starting as a little pocket Monk with seemingly no real battle capabilities besides dodging things, until {{spoiler|Nikisha stabs Anna in front of him, and make him go "all out" in rage with annihilating an entire bridge of Mooks along with the bridge itself under them, nearly killing her too in the process.}}

** Oh, and did we mention that he can also {{spoiler|teleport, modify his own perception of time, resurrect the dead, and see the very fabric of the Timespace around him}}?

** While lacking the Crouching Moron element, Lilah is notable for having insanely good game playing skills whenever she's really angry with Ethan.

* [[Complete Monster|Xykon]] in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''. He's funny and a fan of what one might call "[[Leeroy Jenkins|Leeroy Tactics]]". However, if you challenge his reputation, he'll smash the whole ceiling on you. And gods help you if you lose his phylactery...

** Dan's best friend, and the other half of the title, Mab, also qualifies, though for different reasons. She generally seems innocent-to-downright-nuts, with her main hobby being 'hugging things', feared mostly for her nightmare-inducing brownies...however, she IS a Fae, and resultingly, has god-level magical abilities - and when forced to use them, she can frighten ANYONE into submission - and then go right back to her perky, airheaded self again. {{spoiler|Also, it turns out she's actually a [[Magnificent Bastard]] above all other [[Magnificent Bastard]]s, plotting out everything, including the path that the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] will take, in order to create the best possible future. She knows who will live and who will die.}} She just doesn't know how to bake.

*** By extension, this applies to pretty much the entire Fae race - Mab is merely the one most often found mixed up in the main plot. Being superdimentional beings of pure magic and/or insanity will do that to a race.

* Hod from ''[[Brat Halla]]'' is one of these after he [[Took a Level in Badass]]. His brothers have a thing for it as well tough. And his father. And his mother. And his back-up dad...

* Stanley the Tool from ''[[Erfworld]]'', who on first appearance seems more concerned with the fact his [[MacGuffin]] turns walnuts into pigeons when cracked than the impending destruction of his forces. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0125.html Then he decks Chief Warlord Caeser in one hit].

* Diva Beelze from ''[[Evil Diva (webcomic)|Evil Diva]]'' is kind of a little...silly, but she's pretty bad ass in chapter 2 in that she {{spoiler|beats the crap out of the devil thugs without hardly doing anything. She has the super special wand but...so did Sailor Moon!}}

* Sir Muir, a scarred old Darsai knight from the webcomic [http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/ Harkovast] appears to be a prattling, senile goofball when nothing exciting is happening. However he proves that he's quite a competent (though distractible) fighter when the situation calls for it.

* Kharla'ggen from ''[[Drowtales]]'' plays with rubber duckies and rarely, if ever, utters a complete sentence. Her guards barely care about their job. But she's the leader of one of the major clans in the setting and her laissez-faire rule is undisputed because she also [[Psychopathic Manchild|likes to play]] with [[And I Must Scream|dolls]]. Her power is such that in a side-story she was able to 'play' with a greater demon, made of a composite of lesser demons, who collectively barely escaped with their lives.

* {{spoiler|Buwaro}} from ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' is like this without {{spoiler|his star pendent.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Eddie]] from [[Emergency Exit]], if [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=998 hit] [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=999 in] [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=1004 the] [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=1005 head.]

* Gregory of [[Dominic Deegan]]. Loves making couch forts. Can take on about a dozen members of [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|the Chosen]] by himself.