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Compare: [[Humans Are Morons]].
 
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]''. No matter where they went in history, no matter which historical figure they abducted, nobody really seemed to care that they'd fallen out of the sky in a phone booth and absconded with [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. That is of course until they ended up in medieval England, where they were {{spoiler|put on the chopping block to the sound of a man screaming that they came from the sky, and just barely escaped with their skins.}} Also subverted in the fact that neither Bill nor Ted are the sharpest knives in the drawer...
{{quote| '''King''': Put them in the iron maiden.<br />
'''Bill and Ted''': [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]]? [[The Not -So -Harmless Punishment|Excellent! *Air guitar*]]<br />
'''King''': Execute them!<br />
'''Bill and Ted''': Bogus. }}
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** And then there are the members of the aristocracy like [[Magnificent Bastard|Littlefinger]] or [[Too Clever By Half|Tyrion]] who could possibly be smarter than anyone ever.
* Taking place as it does in a quasi-medieval mishmash of an era, [[Discworld]] plays around with this trope quite a bit. That said, even towards the more peasantry, circa 1400 mindset parts, people tend to just be people.
* In ''[[The Sword of Truth]]'' one of the morals is [[Family -Unfriendly Aesop|"People are stupid"]] and boy does it show. From the first book, there's a crowd of people being moved to tears by Michael's impassioned speech about the evils of ''fire''. The Mud People, despite living for generations in a place where it rains all the time, have somehow never figured out how to make roofs that don't leak. And there's the group of peasants sent by Darken Rahl to attack Zedd on the belief he's a witch. First he tells them the term is warlock. Then he talks the angry mob into having a ''brainstorming session'' about all the terrible things warlocks can do until they get scared and give up.
** Mostly avoided in the TV series ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', based on the books.
* In the [[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]] series, this is how downtimers are initially portrayed, but the portrayal becomes more nuanced and positive as the story progresses.
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