Ping-Pong Naivete: Difference between revisions

** Same comic, different character: It's hard to tell if Elan in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0597.html this strip (spoilers)] is showing Ping-Pong Naivete, [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], or just [[The Pollyanna|not believing a teammate would really harm him]] .

*** Elan does this pretty often; he usually isn't competent at much besides [[Pungeon Master|punning]] and tends to [[Idiot Hero|miss obvious things for the sake of humor]], but he occasionally [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0816.html picks up on things that flew over the heads of his smarter friends] for no apparent reason.

* Grace from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', even though she's smart and learns quickly. In part because she was raised by mad scientists and so has [[No Social Skills]] and remains [[Face Palm|facepalmingly]] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-12-01 naive in some areas], in part because [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-26 she thinks] messing with people is funny—and it's not quite clear which case is which. One side of this was her smooth transition from [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] to [[The Tease]] playing [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] for her boyfriend.

* The cast of ''[[Homestuck]]'' are all thirteen years old or about that age. Sometimes they act in extremely adult ways, but other times they remind you that they are children. John watches R-rated action movies and has a huge crush on Liv Tyler (and arguably [[Nicolas Cage]]) but when Karkat implies Vriska likes him, he freaks out and says he's never felt that way about anyone before.