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* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', a few fanfic authors like to play with the idea that Richard Moore is aware of what Conan is doing, or faking being asleep. Has a basis in the simple fact that being injected countless times with the same sleeping drug will eventually result in the body resisting it.
* Crabbe and Goyle of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' are quite commonly described as doing this. Sometimes they are just shy or quiet, and that combined with their appearance, their love for food and their status as Draco Malfoy's cronies make people think they are stupid. Other times they are actively pretending to be stupid so that people won't expect anything of them. In both cases they either actually like Draco and he likes them, or they protect Draco physically (as is implied in canon) and he protects them socially. In one particular fic, they weren't stupid, but since they suffered from undiagnosed dyslexia, everyone thought they were.
* Kyon, in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]''. He is shown to be highly fluent in English, easily beating the brigade in Scrabble, and invokes [[Gratuitous English]]. He also learns German from Tsuruya extremely quickly. Aside from language skills, Kyon also managed to convince a renegade time traveler to pull off a [[Stable Time Loop]] for him, or risk being killed, because Kyon can go back in time to take his place, thus rendering his [[Contractual Immortality]] moot.
* The ''Evangelion'' fanfic ''Matters of Faith'' has [[Emotionless Girl|Rei]] [[Teen Genius|doing]] '''[[Reluctant Mad Scientist|SCIENCE]]''' [[Alternate Character Interpretation|without anyone knowing]]. When one of Shinji's innocent comments back her against a wall in a conversation, [[Wrong Genre Savvy|she suspects him of doing this]] (with the justification that it's probably [[In the Blood|Gendo's genes]] in play).
* {{spoiler|Italy}}, of all people, in ''[[Heta Oni]]''.
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