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An '''Invincible Incompetent''' is a hero who defeats powerful opponents, despite having very little skill or ability. Frequently, they keep this up for years, heroically gaining almost no power as they progress, so as to make their constant victories even more impressive.
The method by which they do so differs. Some win on sheer, blind luck. Others know exactly when to say "[[Let's Get Dangerous]]", or intelligently exploit a major weakness of their enemy before returning to their previous state. Many get by on the efforts of mentors and other side characters. However they do it, it makes them effectively invincible, despite being largely incompetent.
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## Despite the inevitable failure of Fred's convoluted traps to catch the monster, the monster usually ends up trapped by the end of the episode anyway.
** The later shows and movies, though still often playing on this trope, gave the gang a bit more of a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] cred, displaying more acts of genuine competance and bravado.
* Rufus and Amberley from ''[[The Dreamstone]]'', outside a few early episodes, rarely showed any true individual strengths or competence, yet defeated the Urpneys time and time again, due to dumb luck, a stronger ally intervening or the Urpneys basically defeating themselves for them. This is an unusual variation, since the Urpneys themselves are incredibly pitiful [[Harmless Villain
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'': Gadget thwarts Doctor Claw again and again, almost solely on the strengths of his [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Hyper Competent Sidekicks]] or [[The Fool|well timed]] [[Spanner in the Works|slapstick bumbling]]. On the ''very'' rare occasions [[Sanity Ball|he gets a clue what's going on]] however, he is shown to be [[Let's Get Dangerous|surprisingly competent]].
** Parodied in an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' where Dr. Claw's finally put two and two together and turns Gadget into [[The Terminator]] to kill Penny.
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