Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Slayers]]'' anime: Gourry Gabriev is a swordsman with extremely poor memory (often forgetting whoever he and his companions fought in the past) and a bumbling idiot who can't grasp onto any explanation, but if he's provoked enough, or if anyone, namely [[Redheaded Hero|Lina]], is in danger, he becomes an utterly badass swordsman and pushes the [[Badass Normal]] creed as far as it can go.

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' has Jean-Pierre Polnareff, a ladies' man who's normally dumb as a bag of hammers and repeatedly has bad encounters with foreign toilets. However, when the chips are down (like with his fight against Vanilla Ice), he turns badass, {{spoiler|accepting his death with a calmness that most would kill for.}}

* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Black*Star's absolute confidence in himself makes him into one of these. Unless he is truly pushed he is too busy [[Chewing the Scenery|chewing scenery]] to fight well. Death the Kid is a form of inversion; he's normally [[The Stoic|stoic]] and [[Badass]], but if his [[Fatal Flaw|OCD]] gets activated he usually devolves into an ineffectual, sobbing wreck. That said, if his OCD is [[Berserk Button|pushed too far]], it results in Kid's reaction in episode 3: obliterating his asymmetrical target and inadvertently demolishing the pyramid it was in.

** The normally goofy Shinigami can be wonderfully Badass when the need arises. He reacts to Asura's resurrection by calmly inquiring how he is...and pointing out that, unfortunately the Kishin is "going to have to die again". A Shinigami Chop that smashes Asura to the ground from however high up he was is only the start of the ensuring fight.