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* Besides his famous [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a series of humorous adventure stories about [[Large Ham]] Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard. While in some stories, Gerard is rather clever and appears competent despite his inflated opinion of himself. On the other hand, he is a dolt in others and very much an [[Unreliable Narrator]].
* [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Bertie Wooster]] constantly wavers between "mildly ditzy" and "hopelessly idiotic," the guiding rule seeming to be "[[Rule of Funny|whatever is funniest in the current situation]]." For instance, he'll briefly become [[Literal
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* After [[Booker T]] became "King Booker" in June
* Also might apply to the many wrestlers who underestimate [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] ''after'' he has already beaten them! [[John Bradshaw Layfield]] definitely counts (and, in fact, this trope ultimately cost him his entire career), but, shockingly, also [[What the Hell, Hero?|perennial babyface]] ''[[Shawn Michaels]]'', who once taunted Mysterio to go back to the locker room because "Hornswoggle isn't out here yet!"
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** Maybe she's just really bad at Sense Motive, and thus easily fooled by Bluff checks. She's pretty smart otherwise, with the minor exception that she's not real clear on the differences between humans and sprites.
*** [[Fish Out of Water]] is the explanation that is invoked with her. It works better than you might think; she looks extra-foolish from our point of view since we know what she's getting wrong, but that's from ''our'' point of view. Of course, this is not to say it doesn't get done in an exaggerated way as well.
** Same comic, different character: It's hard to tell if Elan in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0597.html this strip (spoilers)] is showing
*** 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.
* Joey from ''A Game of Fools'' is beyond a doubt the most sexually experienced of the main characters and his sheer ease at picking up women is frequently commented on (and shown). He also does stuff like [https://web.archive.org/web/20101029182728/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_42.html this].
* 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
* 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.
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