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* Brutally averted in the ''[[Wizardry]]'' series, as bards are decent characters with good lockpicking skills, but more importantly, the ability to play a wide variety of instruments that replicate various magical spells, up to and including the most powerful damage dealing spell in the game, all for no MP and a bit of energy.
* These types of characters have appeared in various ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games.
** ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' featured the Gadabout/Goof-off/Jester, who is either a clown (male) or a bunnygirl (female). An NPC will outright ''tell'' you that they're useless. Their stats are below average all across the board (except luck, [[Dump Stat|which does almost nothing]], only reducing the chance of chance of being inflicted with a stat effect by a ''fraction of a percent'' in a game where the primary stats [[Cap]] at 255), and they will often waste a turn doing something silly rather than attacking. On the other hand, [[Magikarp Power|Gadabouts are the only class that could become a Sage without the use of a special item]]. The SNES and GBC remake made them a little better, giving them the Whistle ability that calls a random battle, saving some time when level grinding.
** ''[[Dragon Quest IV]]'' had Torneko. Once you got him in Chapter 5, he started goofing off just like the Gadabouts in III. He's something of a subversion, though, because while he's an underwhelming fighter, he isn't useless, and unlike the Gadabouts of III, his goofing off will almost always result in something useful. He's still more useful for what he can do outside your party rather than in, though.
** Gadabouts made a return in ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]'', and are given a few more abilities to make them more useful, but remain below average. There are also Dancers, who can use a variety of dances to do bad things to the enemy for no MP, up to and including instant death, although you don't get the good abilities until you've mastered the class. Both of these classes, however, must be mastered in order to get the much more useful Luminary class which does ''not'' follow this trope, as it gains very useful abilities, including Hustle Dance which can heal the entire party for ''no MP''!
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