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** The Seventh Doctor also has his moments of this, seeing how he often appears to play the buffoon only to continually outwit the enemy without effort. Particularly highlighted with his 'adjustment' of old quotes. |
** The Seventh Doctor also has his moments of this, seeing how he often appears to play the buffoon only to continually outwit the enemy without effort. Particularly highlighted with his 'adjustment' of old quotes. |
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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' "A stitch in time...takes up space."}} |
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' "A stitch in time...takes up space."}} |
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** "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6/E01 The Dominators|The Dominators]]" demonstrated what happens when this trope combines with [[Ham and Cheese]]. "The clever ones tell us what to do, you see!" |
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** To be fair you could name millions of these in Doctor Who alone, but the essential one's gotta be "Smith and Jones", surely! "I must appear to be human..." "Well you're very welcome to come home and meet the wife, she'd be honoured. We can have cake!" |
** To be fair you could name millions of these in Doctor Who alone, but the essential one's gotta be "Smith and Jones", surely! "I must appear to be human..." "Well you're very welcome to come home and meet the wife, she'd be honoured. We can have cake!" |
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* John Crichton from ''[[Farscape]]'' does this very, very well. Many of his plans rely on the villain of the week dismissing the dumb human as inferior...leading to their ultimate defeat. John is an accomplished physicist and aerospace engineer, who designed the titular Farscape spacecraft to test his own theory, and at one point late in the show he builds his own thermonuclear weapon. From scratch. From ''memory.'' Even the rest of the crew underestimates the guy. |
* John Crichton from ''[[Farscape]]'' does this very, very well. Many of his plans rely on the villain of the week dismissing the dumb human as inferior...leading to their ultimate defeat. John is an accomplished physicist and aerospace engineer, who designed the titular Farscape spacecraft to test his own theory, and at one point late in the show he builds his own thermonuclear weapon. From scratch. From ''memory.'' Even the rest of the crew underestimates the guy. |
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* Otoya Kurenai from ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' combines this with his [[Genius Ditz|savant-level]] violin playing to pretty much get whatever he wants. The problem is that it works a little ''too'' well, and when he tries to tell people [[Cassandra Truth|what's really going on]] the results are [[You Have to Believe Me|somewhat predictable]]. |
* Otoya Kurenai from ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' combines this with his [[Genius Ditz|savant-level]] violin playing to pretty much get whatever he wants. The problem is that it works a little ''too'' well, and when he tries to tell people [[Cassandra Truth|what's really going on]] the results are [[You Have to Believe Me|somewhat predictable]]. |
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' has a case based on ignorance rather than stupidity: {{spoiler|throughout the series, Ryotaro's sister Airi is a sweet, caring big sister whose memory seems to have been altered so she doesn't even remember her fiancé Yuuto Sakurai following his mysterious disappearance. In a later episode, she reveals to Ryotaro (and the teenage version of Yuuto) that she knew all along, and in fact helped create Sakurai's [[Plan]] to protect the [[Cosmic Keystone]] (their future daughter Hana) from the [[Big Bad]]. In order to throw the villain off the trail, Airi had to pretend to be innocent and clueless so he never realized she was important until Ryotaro was strong enough to defeat him.}} |
* ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' has a case based on ignorance rather than stupidity: {{spoiler|throughout the series, Ryotaro's sister Airi is a sweet, caring big sister whose memory seems to have been altered so she doesn't even remember her fiancé Yuuto Sakurai following his mysterious disappearance. In a later episode, she reveals to Ryotaro (and the teenage version of Yuuto) that she knew all along, and in fact helped create Sakurai's [[Plan]] to protect the [[Cosmic Keystone]] (their future daughter Hana) from the [[Big Bad]]. In order to throw the villain off the trail, Airi had to pretend to be innocent and clueless so he never realized she was important until Ryotaro was strong enough to defeat him.}} |
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* Vila Restal from ''[[Blake's |
* Vila Restal from ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'' is a genius safecracker/pickpocket who spends the majority of his time acting like a cowardly imbecile. While he ''is'' a coward, he isn't stupid. |
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** Very, very good at both obfuscating stupidity and drunkenness. He once managed (episode Stardrive) to simultaneously tell the rest of the crew what difficult and dangerous technical feat they had to do to save the ship, and convince them he was FAR too drunk to do it himself: "Because my lovely Dayna, and Soolin, no one ever tells someone who is drunk to volunteer." |
** Very, very good at both obfuscating stupidity and drunkenness. He once managed (episode Stardrive) to simultaneously tell the rest of the crew what difficult and dangerous technical feat they had to do to save the ship, and convince them he was FAR too drunk to do it himself: "Because my lovely Dayna, and Soolin, no one ever tells someone who is drunk to volunteer." |
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*** Another time he figured out he should hold on to a looted sidearm because the guy whose hospitality they were sharing kept his booze under lock and key. Vila, a drinking man, found this very suspicious. |
*** Another time he figured out he should hold on to a looted sidearm because the guy whose hospitality they were sharing kept his booze under lock and key. Vila, a drinking man, found this very suspicious. |
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