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{{trope}}
[[File:klutz.png|frame|Oh no, you dropped your ''blank sheets of paper''.]]
Here's the formula: Take an attractive girl or woman and make her more approachable by adding in some [[The Klutz|klutziness]].
Like many other klutz characters, a
▲Like many other klutz characters, a [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]'s clumsiness rarely does ''her'' serious harm, but can often set off [[Disaster Dominoes|Rube Goldberg-like chain reactions of disasters]]. She's never seriously injured, though, and she always pops back up with a good-natured, but rueful, smile. It is almost inevitable that at some point her clumsiness will result in a [[Crash Into Hello]].
Occasionally, the klutziness pseudo-flaw is used for a male character, but only rarely, as it is not quite as endearing in males, [[Double Standard|somehow]].
See also: [[The Klutz]] (the superclass) and the fanspeak page [[Dojikko]] (for an examination of this character in anime-specific subculture). If the klutziness tends to take care of her enemies without her even realizing it, she is also [[The Fool]].
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Mihoshi in ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''.
* Kaho in ''[[
* Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon in ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
* Yomiko Readman of ''[[
** Even more so is Joker's assistant Wendy, to the point where she considers it a major triumph to deliver a tray of tea unscathed. (However, by the [[
* Wagashino Azuki from ''Sweet Ninja Girl Azuki'', so much so that "I'm so sorry Master Sanae!" might well be her [[Catch Phrase]]. Combines this with [[Genki Girl]] traits, with disastrous(ly comical) results.
* Similarly, Mutsumi Otohime of ''[[Love Hina]]''.
* Taeko from ''[[
* Nodame of ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]''.
* Tashigi from ''[[
* Tessa from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. At times it's hard to believe a girl who can't even keep her balance while ''walking'' is [[Teen Genius|the captain of the world's most advanced submarine.]]
* Lucia from ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''.
* Ayu from ''[[
* Misuzu from ''[[
* ME-Tan, [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the Windows ME operating system from the "OS-Tan" Internet meme, has a tendency to crash a lot. Just like the operating system.
* Matsuri from ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]''. Lampshaded in an episode which summarizes her average day, showing that she can barely get through a day of school without constant help from Ana. After hearing the summary, Miu comments "That's the usual!? [[This Is Reality|This isn't a manga for crying out loud!]] Do you really think Matsuri will be able to function in the real world!?"
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** Nana also counts. It's justified since {{spoiler|all her limbs were sliced off by Lucy, and she has to use artificial limbs controlled by her vectors. In fact, they constantly become detached due to her clumsiness}}.
* One of Doremi's (''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'') classmates gives her the nickname Dojimi.
* Kimura's <s>wife</s> [[Memetic Mutation|waifu]] from ''[[
* Male example: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080424063411/http://www.bleachflame.com/content/media/files/m14.jpg Hanatarô Yamada] in ''[[Bleach]]''. Also, sometimes Orihime Inoue - she even provides one of the examples listed (banging head into male lead's head)...heck, in the anime her first appearance is when she [[Crash Into Hello|bumps into him and falls down]].
* Miyuki in ''[[
* The title character of ''[[Karin]]'' has so much trouble when excited that she might as well be wearing stilts on roller skates.
* Priscilla from ''[[Claymore]]'' was introduced as one of these, first seen falling on her face, then babbling apologies for being held up by some [[Our Demons Are Different|youma]] in joining the hunt team she was assigned to. Shortly afterwards we (and her aggravated colleagues) look around the corner to see [[Badass|how many youma she just plowed through]].
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** Though she ''might'' have been faking on that one- she was supposed to stall for time so that the aliens would have to use the bathroom.
* The eponymous ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. A ballet student who's actually a ''duck'' in diguise, Ahiru is constantly falling out of bed, messing up her ballet moves, and crashing into the other characters. Her walk is described as looking like a duck's waddle on at least one occasion.
* Chiri from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* Toujo Aya and Mukai Kozue of ''Strawberry 100%'' definitely fall into this, although Aya starts out as [[Hollywood Homely]].
* Minawa from ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' has never met an object she can't ''repeatedly'' trip over. This accounts for most of the apologies she spends all her time making. On the bright side, she's [[Robot Girl|very unlikely to hurt herself]].
* Azmaria Hendrich in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''.
** "Ack! I tripped!" "On what?!"
* Rio Takeuchi in ''[[Spiral]]'' is a subversion. She acts cute and harmless, even pathetic. She kills a man by tripping in front of him, and then stabbing him when he helps her up. This man was previously established as cautious and intelligent, but having already formed an opinion of her as a meek and unlucky girl, he drops his guard, and she murders him right in the middle of a school.
* Male example: Eisuke Hondou from ''[[Detective Conan]]'' A [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] is hung on this when one of the characters comments that he would be very cute if he were a girl. {{spoiler|OTOH, while he ''is'' clumsy... some of his clumsiest moments are more like [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].}}
** A case '''not''' [[Played for Laughs]] is Hikaru Yasumoto, the housekeeper for the Araide family. Her boss treats her ''very'' harshly for commiting blunders in her housework, {{spoiler|and flipping the lights on at the worst moment possible actually makes her the [[Unwitting Pawn]] in said boss's ''murder''. Good thing that the [[Sympathetic Murderer]], Conan and Megure decide to keep her [[Locked Out of the Loop]] in these regards..}}
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** In the [[Fan Web Comics|4komas]], [[Cool Big Sis|Ginga]]. A ''big'' one. To the point that when {{spoiler|she's [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed]] by the bad guys}}, the heroes recognize her because of the [[Banana Peel|thing on her path]]...
* Yeon from [[Tower of God]]. Being a black haired beauty and having bare shoulders makes her more of a hot clumsy girl. Literally, since she often enough accidentally burns her teammates so hard that they fall out of the current test. But that's just part of her character. Which got, despite appearing only in three chapters so far got her to be one of the most popular characters of the series.
* Athena from ''[[
* Saya "Sae" Sawanoguchi from ''Magic User's Club,'' as the quote on the [[Dojikko]] page states, once resolves to stop tripping when there's nothing to trip over, to stop running into walls, and to not collide with other people. Naturally, she does all three in short order.
* If Mikuru Asahina from ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' doesn't do this herself, Haruhi actually goes out of her way to ''make'' her drop the tea...
** She's actually a subversion in that while she has all the stereotypical personality traits fitting the trope, and isn't exactly athletic, she isn't least bit clumsy in ''normal'', everyday activities. Haruhi, who wants to follow tropes at all costs, berates her for ''forgetting'' to drop the tea tray every now and then.
* Mayu of ''[[Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun]]'' has this to such an extent that she's described as a natural weapon, devastating an entire island of armed men. "Waugh! Gomenasai!"
* Momiji from ''[[Blue Seed]]'' often [[Panty Shot|shows her panties]] by tripping over everything.
* ''[[Pokémon (
** And from Best Wishes, we have Bianca. She ([[Running Gag|Without fail]]) [[Crash Into Hello|crashes into Ash]] every time they meet up. She fumbles with her bag whenever she tries to take something out. She even spends an entire tournament arc chasing after a Pokemon that can transform into people. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Failing, of course.]]
* Masaki from ''Ice Revolution''; especially sad in that she's a fairly skilled martial artist who wants to be a ''figure skater''.
* Tomoko in ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' is another example.
* Chise in ''[[Saikano]]'' both falls into and inverts this trope. Normally she's rather klutzy, but in her [[Person of Mass Destruction|Ultimate Weapon]] mode she is [[Lady of War|incredibly, horrifically graceful and efficient]].
** In the OVA she's seen stumbling cutely in the battlefield to the confusion of the American soldiers who try to determine if she's a threat or not. Then she vaporizes everything in a mile radius.
* [[Naruto|Hinata Hyuuga]] fits the bill when around her crush; otherwise, she seems to be fairly competent, although typically pretty [[Shrinking Violet]].
* That is the first opinion Ritsu gave to Yui in ''[[
* Miyako from ''[[Sasameki Koto]]''. Though her appearance hides a somewhat manipulative personality.
* Saki from ''[[
** Izumi seems to have this as part of her personality as well.
* Satsuki Miyanoshita from ''[[Ghost Stories]]'' shows of her panties to the same boy once each in the first two episodes. One with a thoughtless fall in a new room of her new house, once when tripping on a can purposefully put in her place.
* Male example in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. Dino, when he isn't around his subordinates, is a complete klutz, taking this trope to the extreme.
* In ''[[
* Kamyu in ''[[Utawarerumono]]''.
* Lettuce from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has never met a plate she hasn't dropped.
* Kisaragi of ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'', like, being "it" in a game of tag for ''157'' minutes.
* ''[[
** Tsubame Tsubasa. Whose clumsiness is actually caused by the conflict between the lifestyle she is ''supposed'' to practice (being a top-class ninja) and the lifestyle which she ''wants'' to practice ([[I Just Want to Be Normal|being a normal schoolgirl]]). But she becomes a top-class fighter when she's stripped.
** Kagome. It's hinted at in the anime, but better stated in the manga, that this is (also) why she sits out of PE classes and why she doesn't practice martial arts like her eldest sister.
* Sanae Shikikigami of ''[[Ladies
* P-ko of ''[[Arakawa Under the Bridge]]'' first appearance was stepping on her banana peel trap causing a chain reaction of banana peels then, smashing her face-first into a wall.
* Hotaru of ''[[Girls Saurus]]'' [[Walking Disaster Area|takes this up to 11]].
* Natsu in ''[[
* Taiga Aisaka of ''[[Toradora
* This is the defining trait of Akira Miyata from [[Pani Poni Dash!]].
* Mey-rin, Ceil's maid from ''[[
* Miranda Lotto from ''[[D
* ''[[
* Tear from the recent chapters of [[To
* Misaki from ''[[Hana no Mizo Shiru]]'' is a male example. He knocks things over, drops things and runs into people at the train station frequently. Naturally Arikawa, his [[Boys Love|love interest]], finds it cute.
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* Francis Veber's comedy ''Le Chevre'' uses both male and female versions of this. The female version who fits the description very well has been kidnapped, and a male character who combines clumsiness with [[And You Thought It Was a Game]] behavior is used to help find her, on the assumption that he will exhibit the same behaviors/take the same route as she did.
* [[Jessica Alba]]'s character in ''[[Good Luck Chuck]]''.
* In ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973
* Julianne Moore in ''[[Evolution (
* Female leads in romantic comedies are guaranteed to either trip in their high heels or some similarly "cute" pratfall at least once.
* A (young, timid) male example: Danny in ''[[Local Hero]]'' is endearingly clumsy.
* [[Rachel Weisz]] as Evy in ''[[The Mummy
* [[Amy Adams]] in ''[[Leap Year]]''. Amongst many other disasters she manages to demolish an (admittedly slightly shabby) hotel room while simply trying to plug in her Blackberry.
* Rapunzel from [[
* Prudence Perkins in the Western spoof ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'', although she mitigates it somewhat by being an expert shot with a rifle.
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Star Trek:
* Bella Swan of ''[[Twilight (
* Geraden from Stephen Donaldson's Mordant's Need is a male example; one incident among many is falling into a pigswallow in his eagerness to meet the king, and so appearing before his monarch dripping dirty water and rotten vegetables.
* Tonks from [[Harry Potter]]. The first thing she does in the series is smash a plate. Amazingly, this woman is somehow a world class dark wizard hunter.
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* On ''[[Scrubs]]'', JD's girlfriend Julie was this in spades. In attempting a slow motion romantic run across the field to hug each other, she managed to miss him and clothesline him with her arm as she tripped and did a full flip before coming down on top of him. Whenever she pulls something like this, the other characters usually shake their heads and comment that "she is not graceful."
** Elliot had her moments as well.
* Chrissy on ''[[
** After Suzanne Somers, who played Chrissy, left the show over a salary dispute, they brought in Chrissy's cousin Cindy who was even more clumsy, with Jack being the one injured whenever she was around.
* Ensign Sonia Gomez on ''[[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Sign]]'', a [[Korean Drama]], Dr Go Da Kyung knocks over an entire bookshelf in Dr Yoon Ji Hoon's office and ends up pinned underneath it.
* Grace during the first season of [[Student Bodies]].
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** Current model Rachel Reynolds is getting a bit of that reputation: She crashed a prize car into a stage door, for starters.
* Susan in [[Desperate Housewives]] is the embodiment of this trope. She can't walk five feet without tripping and setting something on fire.
* Nova the fairy and her real-world incarnation as Sister Astrid in ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]''
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* Haruka Amami from ''The Idolm@ster''.
* The DS ''[[Castlevania]]'' games feature the "Student Witch", whose main attack is to take to the air on her broomstick, then fall on you when you walk under her. They're almost too cute to kill, and indeed the game doesn't let you: Defeating them causes them to turn into cats and run away (though some of them are kind enough to leave their souls).
** Special Mention must go to Charlotte. While her skirt obviously flies up at the slightest provocation (jumping down, ducking and standing up, etc.) an especially funny joke is with the [[Meido|Persephone]] armed with her vacuum. She'll blow air under her skirt causing her to hold it down for a second. Especially funnier in the Japanese dub, since "Nani?!" is inherently funnier than "What?!". To be fair, it's much more played for laughs than to titillate (In the Sorrow series, you can pull the same trick on Persephones and Student Witches with your own vacuum).
** Also, whenever Charlotte falls from a high place, gets knocked down, or gets hit in mid-air, she lands on her little bottom instead of on her feet. She does land a little bit more gracefully than the student witch though.
* Meru from ''[[The Legend of Dragoon]]'' has a victory pose where she proudly thrusts her hammer skyward, then falls over. She then sits up and rubs the back of her head in embarrassment.
* Viki from the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series. Her clumsiness manifests in her tendency to sneeze herself through time and space. At the end of each game, she accidently teleports herself from the victory banquet into the next game, despite each game being set many years apart, and not in chronological order. As a result, Viki has served in at least five wars non-stop. Six if you count the time there was two of her in ''[[Suikoden III]]''.
* Carol from ''[[Wild
* Colette from [[
** Colette eventually even turns her clumsiness into an attack, which involves falling on the enemy. ''[[Video Game Stealing|And stealing from them.]]''
* Linu in [[Neverwinter Nights]], played up for extreme comedy.
* Merrill in [[Dragon Age 2]]. While her awkwardness is certainly adorable, it contrasts sharply with her status as [[Black Magician Girl]].
* Selphie from ''[[
* Yuffie from ''[[
* Rikku from ''[[
* Lolo from ''Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil''. Resolves to be more careful in holding on to the Elements and wastes no time in proving her point by ''dropping one''. And she falls on her face in just about every other cutscene, including her variant of the title screen intro.
* Mignon from ''[[Video Game/King Of Fighters|King Of Fighters]]: Maximum Impact''; her introduction in both games is to run into the arena... and trip on the door. When she uses her super moves, they typically throw her back several feet.
* Even ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' invokes this with Royal Cousin Honey; the King describes her with "She's very clumsy, but We think that's what makes her so cute!"
* Shurelia from ''[[Ar
* ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]'' for PSP makes [[Meido|Roll]] look like
* Sakura Shinjouji from ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'', but she's not nearly as bad as Erica Fontaine from the third and fourth games. In the latest installment of the series for the DS, Erica can actually trip while your party's walking around and lose HP (which doesn't stay cute for long).
* Yoriko in [[Da Capo]] is rather ditzy and bad at the housework she insists on doing. Though in a subversion, once she learns how she's actually not very clumsy at all and rather good at cooking.
* ''[[Dragon Quest VII]]'' gives us Aimy from Litorud, who tends to start each morning by falling down the stairs at the inn where she works. This actually ties into the plot, as it turns out {{spoiler|the reason she falls down the stairs every morning is
* Yuuko from ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', with bonus points for being a [[Meganekko]] librarian. When you meet her, she'd dropped a book under the table, then dropped her pencil while looking for it, and then hit her head on the table when she heard you coming in. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to much affect her side job as a waitress.
* One stage in ''[[Super
* Pamela Ibis of the ''[[Atelier Iris]]'' and ''[[Mana Khemia]]'' was apparently one of these until she died and became a [[Cute Ghost Girl]]. According to ''Atelier Iris 3'', she died because she fell off a stool while trying to get some cooking implements out of a cupboard and landed on her head.
* Adrian Andrews from [[
* Downplayed slightly with May from ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. Her entrance when a fight starts isn't exactly graceful, landing clumsily and flailing her arms for a second or two to keep from falling. But she straightens up quickly.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS]]'', Dark Magician Girl has a problem similar to May's; when the player summons her, she makes a dramatic entrance, only for the brim of her hat to fall over her eyes, forcing her to adjust it as she positions herself.
== Webcomics ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Amy Wong from ''[[
* June and Loopy of ''[[
* Jeanette from [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]].
* Bridgette from ''[[
* Daphne in the early days of [[Scooby Doo]].
* Melody on [[Josie and
* The [[Jabberjaw]] Bubbles. The Bubbles on [[The Powerpuff Girls]] has some random moments of ditziness but she balances it out with some common sense that her sisters are unaware of and don't possess.
* [[Girl of the Week]] Annie from ''[[Generator Rex]]'' serves as a rather terrifying parody of this. Within the time span of ''one date'', she has managed to put Rex's life in danger no less than ten times.... and it's implied that he only survived that long because he happens to be a superhuman [[Swiss Army Hero]]. Previous dates were... less lucky.
* Irma in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
* Sweetie Belle from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** [[Ascended Extra|Derpy Hooves]], who manages to continue to break things by ''sitting down and doing nothing'' as ordered.
* Dr. Roxanne "Rocky" Ballentine from the [[Mysteryofthe Batwoman]] Dini-verse animated Batman movie. {{spoiler|This is an impressive feat, concidering she's also one of the Batwomen and has learned to fight in an idential fashion to her two, more obviously physically gifted, team-mates.}}
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