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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Lord Percy:''' The fashion today is towards the tiny.
'''Blackadder:''' In that case you have the most fashionable brain in London.
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'''The Ditz''' is a character whose defining characteristic is profound stupidity. Female ditzes tend to be sweet and
Unlike [[The Fool]],
A good looking Ditz (of either sex) might be the [[
A more competent Ditz will often become [[The Fool]]. Taken to its extreme, the Ditz can evolve into a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
One reason you can find
See also [[Genius Ditz]], [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], and [[The Klutz]].
Can overlap with [[This Loser Is You]], but isn't the same thing.
{{examples|Like, examples of ''The Ditz'' include:}}▼
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== Advertising ==
* The women in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MpqyQRaBo This ad] for the LA County Fair.
== Anime and Manga ==
* Usagi "Dumpling Head" Tsukino from ''[[
* Milfeulle Sakuraba from ''[[Galaxy Angel]]''.
* ''[[
* Floe from ''[[Simoun]]''.
* Mihoshi, who began as a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]/[[Genius Ditz]] in the
* The title character (and arguably most of the cast) of ''[[Excel Saga (
* Kousaka from ''[[Genshiken]]'' isn't ''quite'' as dimwitted as some; his ditz qualifications comes mostly from his utter lack of a filter between his thoughts and his mouth.
* Brutally [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] in ''[[Elfen Lied]]''. Director Kurama's ditzy secretary, Kisaragi, is decapitated by Lucy in the first 10 minutes of the show. She's [[Too Dumb to Live]].
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* Yayoi of ''[[Koi Koi 7]]'' (the pink-haired one, not the one with the eyepatch.) When standing in the middle of a heated battle with [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|the shots missing her]], her only response is "Fireworks!"
* Mahiro Muto from ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', after spending time early on as a distressed damsel.
* Isaac and Miria, the [[Outlaw Couple]] pair from ''[[Baccano
** It's probably [[Stealth Pun|not an accident]] that "Baccano!" sounds like "[[Baka]] no..."
* The characters of ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' tend to pass the [[Idiot Ball]] around quite a bit, but Hayashida is particularly stupid. [[The Other Wiki]] describes him as "dumber than a gorilla"
* Himeko from ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]''. She's so dumb, she faints upon SEEING English letters, since her brain can't take it.
* Gourry Gabriev in ''[[The Slayers]]''.
* Minori from ''[[Toradora
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Italy]] from ''[[
* Touta Matsuda from ''[[
** Sidoh, the Shinigami, is a particularly sweet example.
* Rino Rando from ''[[
* And while we're on the subject of ditzy high school heroines, Tenma Tsukamoto from ''[[School Rumble]]''. When you're the lead character of a [[Love Dodecahedron]] series, [[Love Makes You Dumb|it just sorta comes naturally.]]
* Patty from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' who mix it with [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (disturbing in some ocassions)
** Also Meme from ''[[Soul Eater Not!]]'', having the memory of a goldfish.
* Lizlet, A.K.A. the Teacup Maid, of ''[[Omamori Himari]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon (
** Ash, at least initially. He was just plain stupid: "Hey, that Mankey just stole my hat!" *screams and climbs up a tree after it, while the others just stare at him* He's gotten a lot better since then.
** The Team Rocket trio seems to have become cursed to this position ever since encountering Ash, but this tapered off after the beginning of the ''Best Wishes'' series.
** May and Dawn when they first started as trainers - May was a bit less competent because she didn't really want to train Pokemon, which was before the anime introduced Contests. This even passed on her starter Torchic, who [[Took a Level
* Kanako from ''[[Maria Holic]]'' is marvelously dumb. She flunked nearly all her exams and, when given notes that "even an idiot could understand" by Sachi, she fails to comprehend even that. She's so single-minded in her pursuit of finding [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|girl-love]] that she's dim in everything else.
** Including the fact that liking girls makes her a lesbian.
* [[Idiot Hero|Luffy]] from ''[[
** Though it is implied on a few occasions to be a case of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
*** What's confusing about Luffy is that he ''is'' genuinely stupid most of the time, so it's quite hard to notice the situations where he probably is smart, but just acts like a ditz.
* An extremely ditzy [[Terrorists Without a Cause|Re-Coder]] shows up in ''[[Code
* Lala of ''[[To
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has [[Genki Girl]] Makie filling this position. Konoka can also act ditzy, but it's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|almost certainly an act.]]
* Loui from ''[[Rune Soldier]]'' has a complete disregard for his own or anyone else's safety: ''"When it comes to the odds, I have done worse than 20 precent!"''
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** Actually, so is Rosette in the beginning.
* Nai is a boy version of this from ''[[Karneval]],'' {{spoiler|although he's really a cute little animal.}} Yogi is more of the "lovable oaf" kind when he's not being serious, which is often.
* The main lead of ''[[
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Tsukasa Hiiragi]] from ''[[
* The toad Gamatatsu in ''[[
** Naruto himself fits this in part 1, though it's really more a case of [[Book Dumb]]. He outgrows it after the timeskip.
* Arguably, the titular character from ''[[
* [[Split Personality|Outer]] Moka from ''[[Rosario
* The frequent use of this trope as a [[Charm Point]] was parodied in a [[Stinger]] skit in ''[[
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** Ringo-chan is a straight example; she's not the brightest bulb in town. In ''High School Boys and Panties'' it took her an hour to diagnose the reason for a network problem: ''the wire was never plugged on''. Then she unwittingly flaunts her panties to Motoharu, the President and the Vice-President; fortunately for her she doesn't get to see them in the act, much less their [[Heel Realization|horrified reaction]].
== Comic Books ==
* Dumb Bunny from the Inferior Five ('60s humor comic from [[The DCU|DC]]), whose name says it all, really. She's "stronger than an ox - and almost as smart!"
* <s>Boom-Boom Meltdown</s> Tabitha Smith of ''[[Nextwave]]'': trailer-trash klepto with the power to make things go boom. She says "[[Leet Lingo|zomg]]" out loud and misspells ''her own name.''
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** {{spoiler|Forbush Man}}'s mental powers do not work on her. Guess why. Her explanation? "I gave him the explodo because I am clever."
* The Parademon from the ''[[Secret Six|Villains United]]'' miniseries. He even fully admits to wanting to die in a stupid gesture.
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== Film
* Babs from the Nick Park movie ''[[
** Jane Horrocks is not unfamiliar with this kind of role. Bubble from ''[[
* Tow Mater from the ''[[Cars]]'' series of movies.
* Oscar from ''[[Shark Tale]]''.
* One of Scamp's sisters in ''[[Lady and
* Charlotte from ''[[The Princess and
* Gracie Allen's [[Alter Ego Acting]] personality.
* Cher Horowitz in ''[[Clueless]]''... kind of. She's certainly no genius level intellect, and is definitely more than a little naive and '[[Title Drop|clueless]]', but she's savvy enough when she needs to be and has enough wits about her to 'negotiate' her grades with most of her teachers.
* [[Mr. Bean]] in ''Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie'' and ''Mr Bean's Holiday''. Also [[Johnny English]] to some extent.
* Brick in [[Anchorman]].
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'''Brick:''' [shouts] Loud noises }}
** Though he turns out to be a bit of a [[Genius Ditz]] in Wake Up Ron Burgundy (a bonus 'film' on made of deleted Anchorman scenes)
* Virtually every character played by famed comedian Lou Costello of the [[Abbott and Costello]] comedy duo. Occasionally he will even lampshade ''himself'', such as when one of his characters in the film ''Who Done It?'' turns on a radio and hears "Who's on First?" (one of Abbott and Costello's most famous routines) and immediately turns it off, remarking how stupid the "short, chubby guy" (actually Costello himself) is.
* ''[[Bullshot]]''. Rosemary Fenton, [[Damsel in Distress]] and daughter of an [[Absent-Minded Professor]] with a dangerous habit of [[Education Through Pyrotechnics|knocking over equipment]] in Daddy's lab.
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'''Rosemary''': "How dare you! I've done pretty well without brains so far!" }}
* Officer Ed from ''[[Scotland, PA]]''. Why would anyone trust this man with a loaded gun? {{spoiler|They don't.}}
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* Karen from ''[[Mean Girls]]''.
* Charlie from ''[[Mystery Team]]''.
* The [[Idiot Hero|"Male" Jessica]] from ''[[The Hot Chick]]''.
* [[Elf|Buddy the elf]].
* Russell Brand's variation of ''[[Arthur (
* Sarah from ''[[Hocus Pocus]]''.
* Colonel Mustard in ''[[Clue (
* Mathew
* ''[[Enchanted]]'': Giselle is a subversion. She seems to be stupid at first, but it eventually turns out she’s every bit as smart as Robert (who allows Giselle to stay at his apartment until Edward picks her up) himself is. And she adapts to being in New York City surprisingly quickly, though she first assumes that NYC is also a fairy tale world.
== Literature ==
* Lydia, Kitty, and Mrs. Bennett in ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', making this [[Older Than Radio]].
* Raziel from ''[[Lamb:
* Volatilus, the sweet but not too bright little dispatch dragon from the ''[[Temeraire]]'' books.
* In ''[[
* Mrs Korobochka the widow in ''[[Dead Souls]]'', who hesitates selling her "[[Title Drop|dead souls]]" and suggests that "you could still need them".
* Tawneee (yes, three 'e's), a minor character from [[Discworld]].
* Lettice Protheroe from ''[[Murder
* Jack Pumpkinhead from the [[
** Could be [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that [[Meaningful Name|he's got a pumpkin for a head]], which was confirmed in a later book, where he explained his stupidity was a result of the jack-o-lantern - which it seemed, had been a little overripe to begin with - was starting to spoil. He eventually discovered he could just replace it with a ripe one, and became smarter as a result.
* [[Mother Goose|Simple Simon]] was one, "simple" being a common term for "stupid" when the poem was written. After his meeting with the pieman, he tries to fish for a whale in a bucket of water and then tried to find plums on a thistle bush.
== Live Action TV ==
* As in the film example above, Gracie Allen's ditz character supported ''[[The Burns and Allen Show]]'', although there was a usually a weird sense of logic behind her statements.
* Edith Bunker from ''[[All in The Family]]'' was one of these a lot of the time.
** Her [[Trans
* Mrs. Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell, from ''[[
** Mrs. Howell would probably be better described as [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]]. Gilligan himself certainly qualifies as The Ditz, as well.
* Vera from ''[[Alice]]''.
* Bull Shannon from ''[[Night Court]]''.
* Matthew Brock from ''[[News Radio]]''.
* Perceval from ''[[
* Lowell from ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]''.
* Tony Banta from ''[[Taxi]]''.
* In [[Eureka]], Sheriff Jack Carter is by no means stupid, but being of average intelligence in a town of the country's brightest scientific minds often puts him into the ditz role by default.
* Coach Ernie Pantuso from ''[[Cheers]]''. His [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|replacement]] on the show, Woody Boyd, was even more of one.
* Phoebe and Joey from ''[[Friends]]'' ([[Flanderization|by the end]], at least).
** Joey's ditziness especially shines through in the subject of [[Global Ignorance|geography]] - at various points in the series he has thought that the Netherlands was where Peter Pan lives, described Chandler's "going to Yemen" ruse for getting rid of Janice as clever because "it almost sounds like a real place", and gone to the bank to try changing dollars into "Vermont money".
* Ted and Georgette from ''[[
* Monroe from ''[[Too Close for Comfort]]''.
* J.D. from ''[[Scrubs]]'' is an interesting case. Despite being a talented and well educated doctor, he's a massive [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who can't stop daydreaming and is constantly blurting out [[Non Sequitur
** There's a couple of issues of ''[[Young Justice (
* Lucy Moran and Deputy Andy Brennan from ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080918035250/http://www.tv.com/debralee-scott/person/17269/summary.html Debralee Scott], in any of her [[Game Show]] appearances of the 1970s and early 1980s.
* Dougal from ''[[Father Ted]]'' (in the UK, a [https://web.archive.org/web/20051109043403/http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/channel4/ch4/idents/ch41997dougal.rm Channel4ID] had him forgetting what channel he was promoting).
* Alice from ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''.
* Kelso, from ''[[That '70s Show]]''.
* Rose, from ''[[The Golden Girls]]''.
** A beautiful [[Double Subversion]] of this trope occurred in the pilot of ''Golden Palace'', a short-lived and otherwise unremarkable spinoff of ''[[The Golden Girls]]''. Rose, confronted by a robber at the front desk of the hotel the girls are running, is too ditzy to even realize that she's being robbed. The robber eventually leaves, with nothing, in frustration. The trope is subverted as Rose immediately calls the police, providing a detailed description of the robber, where he's headed, what kind of car he's driving, etc., ending with "Who is this? Oh, just someone who's not quite as dumb as she appears," much to the delight of the audience. The subversion itself is then subverted as we hear Rose's next line into the phone: "Oh, this is ''four'' one one?"
* Bridget Hennesey, from ''[[8 Simple Rules]]''.
* Christmas Noelle "Chrissy" Snow (Suzanne Somers' archetypal role) from ''[[
** Her [[Trans
* Kelly Bundy of ''[[Married...
* That [[Token Minority|token black kid]] on ''[[Hip Hop Harry]]'', affectionately nicknamed "Stupid Scott" by Joel McHale of ''[[The Soup]]''. Despite being roughly around the age of 12, he expresses the cognitive skills of a 6-year-old and has to have explained to him (by the [[Positive Discrimination|smarter Asian girl]]) things like how to fill up a bathtub or why its not a good idea to feed ice cream and hot dogs to a pet gerbil. The program goes out of its way to make viewer wonder how on earth he manages to cross streets on the way home.
* Susan Meyer from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' started out as the Ditz, but it was largely limited to being a [[Lethal Chef|horrible cook]] and having a tendency to trip over things. This has since been Flanderized to the point where she occasionally just seems mentally disabled, such as her being so desperate to get the new neighbors to like her that she kidnapped their dog planning to heroically "find" it later. It...didn't work out very well.
** Susan's mother Sophie is far ditzier than her daughter, especially when it comes to men, coming across as an aged [[Brainless Beauty]]. Susan's daughter Julie on the other hand is smart and mature. If this family trend continues ''Julie's'' daughter might be the next Marilyn vos Savant.
* Dean Winchester, from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', is like this for anything that doesn't relate to hunting, his family or his car. Most of the time it's adorable but sometimes he can come off as an annoying [[Brainless Beauty
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'''Sam:''' ...she gave you her myspace address.
'''Dean:''' What's that? Porno? }}
* [[Mr. Bean]], although sometimes he can be quite bright.
* Edmund Blackadder in the first season of ''[[
* Hank in ''[[
* Waldo Geraldo Faldo, Eddie Winslow's friend from ''[[Family Matters]]''.
* Two Words: [[Big Wolf
* Pippa in ''[[Dead Set]]''.
* Neil in ''[[The Inbetweeners]]''. It sort of works to his advantage because it stops him from realizing just how wrong everything keeps going for him.
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* London Tipton from ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''. She may be one of the most idiotic girls on TV. Hilariously so, but still. However, initially she was just [[Book Dumb]] and acted a lot like Zack, but she was [[Flanderization|flanderized]] into a ditz.
** Arwin also qualifies.
* Vinton Harper from ''[[
* Brittany from ''[[
** [[Running Gag|Dolphins are just gay sharks, and the square root of 4 is rainbows.]]
*** [[Third Time's the Charm|Her cat reads her diary, and she can't remember what her middle name is.]]
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*** In Puck's case, it's sort of implied that he's not really stupid at all, it's just that he usually doesn't put in that much effort. The moments when he does put in effort in things, he usually does just fine. Finn, however, plays this trope straight.
* Luke in ''[[Modern Family]]'' is always tripping, jumping on the trampoline while on a pogo stick, getting his head stuck in the staircase railing...
** He inherited it from his [[Bumbling Dad]] Phil and shares it with his sister [[
* Dee Dee Starr from ''[[Hearts Afire]]''.
* Alicia Gianelli from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Canada's Worst Driver
* [[Dumb Blonde]] Faith on ''[[Hope And Faith]]'' is an extreme example.
* Both Troy and Pierce from ''[[Community]]''.
* Andy Dwyer from ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'':
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* Lauren Miller from [[Still Standing]]
** Bill as will to an extent.
* Dauber from ''[[Coach]]''.
* Paisley, Gibson, and Fletcher on ''[[
* Max from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''. The only person who could write "One Syllable" as the answer in a game of charades.
* Chelsea from ''[[That's So Raven]]'' was derailed into one in later seasons.
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* '''Cause I'm a Blonde'' by [[Julie Brown]]. "Because I'm blonde, I don't have to think, I talk like a baby, and never pay for drinks..."
* 2D of [[Gorillaz]]. The man introduced himself in an interview with "Hi, my name is 2D, and I'm the singer, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and I need the toilet]] ..." Then in ''Rise of the Ogre'' he was quoted as saying:
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** He is, however, implied to have some [[Hidden Depths]], as he is still capable of composing stunning music and saying some surprisingly philosophical things once in a blue moon. 2D may be more of a [[Genius Ditz]] or [[Brilliant but Lazy]], when he's not thick with painkillers.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Aniela, the fiancee of Guido Biganzoli, in ''[[Modesty Blaise (
== Professional Wrestling ==
* Maria from [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] is a good example of a ditz, though this was subverted in the "Trial of Eric Bischoff" episode of ''WWE Raw'', by Maria making a particularly more-intelligent-than-usual speech about Bischoff's failings as a general manager. In a later appearance, Bischoff accused Maria of pretending to be "stupid and sweet" in order to win the fans' favor, which, if true, would make this an example of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
== Puppet Shows ==
* The puppet for [[George W. Bush]] in the French satirical show ''[[Les Guignols
* Ditto for Reagan in ''[[Spitting Image]]''.
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*** Though thankfully, {{spoiler|Levin turns out to be [[Obfuscating Stupidity|a lot smarter than he lets on]], so you don't have to suffer his supposed "idiocy" forever.}}
**** {{spoiler|Danette gets a little better as well, after the seal of her memories (and seemingly other brain functions) is broken.}}
* Cirno in ''[[
** Since then Cirno has been nicknamed "Nine-ball" or simply "⑨".
** Rumia is known for constantly blinding herself with her own [[Casting a Shadow|darkness powers]] and knocking into trees while flying.
** The same series also has [[Ravens and Crows|Utsuho]] [[I Love Nuclear Power|Reiuji]], also known by the similar [[Fan Nickname]] "⑥" (Six-ball) and often called "birdbrain" by other characters. It's even stated that the power she received is more effective the dumber the user is, and she was the perfect vessel.
* Lucia in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant'' is described by her own teacher Carla as "slow".
* Both Lloyd and Colette of ''[[
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'''Colette''': Oh, I see.... There must have been Dwarven Vow memory ingredients in the food.
'''Lloyd''': Huh? R...really?
'''Colette''': I wonder if I can memorize all the Dwarven Vows if I eat Dirk's cooking.
'''Regal''': No, Colette, that's not it. Lloyd's desire for food temporarily strengthened his memory.
'''Colette''': Oh... So Dirk's food has powers like an Exsphere to increase people's abilities.
'''Lloyd''': I see!
'''Regal''': ...Why does the topic of conversation go out the window when talking to Colette? }}
** Taken to further extremes in [[Oddly
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'''Emil''': I can't believe he's still thinking about that.
'''Colette''': I honestly don't see any mud on you. But what's wrong with getting mud on you anyway? Everyone gets a little dirty now and again.
'''Marta''': I don't think he meant that sort of mud.
'''Colette''': Well then, what sort of mud did he mean?
'''Emil''': No, listen. There was never any mud to begin with.
'''Colette''': Oh! So was it more of a muck? Or maybe a slime?
'''Tenebrae''': So now I'm slimy?
'''Colette''': I have to say, I prefer mud to slime myself. It's easier to clean.
'''Tenebrae''': Well, it would depend on where the slime came from.
'''Emil''': Yeah, but think about your fur. Slime would stick to it, while mud would just wash off, no problem.
'''Marta''': Someone, anyone, please make it stop! }}
* One of the female cheerleaders in ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'', Aoi Kanda (the pink haired [[Meganekko]]), is completely clumsy when it comes to anything outside cheerleading, whether it's failure to make a meal for sale, failure making a pottery, dropping foods on floor (or not chewing it properly), spacing out on class, [http://crackedrabbitgaming.com/guides/ouendan-obsession/ and the list goes on, see the bottom of the page]. And those are only examples from the ''first'' game.
* ''[[Dragon Age 2]]''. Merrill.
** For context, she's not incapable but she tends to miss things in conversations and dig herself into holes while speaking. A good compilation is [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Merrill/Dialogue here].
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* Minori in ''[[Brass Restoration]]'' is a perfect example.
* Sarrie from ''[[Star Ocean|Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]'' is the living, breathing embodiment of this trope. Just how bad is it? {{spoiler|She wakes up on a sacrificial alter, in a room with greenish light...and simply says "Good Morning!" She then remembers that "guests" came in through her window, and she was going to serve them tea...}}
* Aino Heart from ''[[
* Taokaka from ''[[
* Shion Uzuki from the ''[[
* Viki from the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series.
** Viki is actually implied to be pretty smart, but suffering from a severe case of time-displacement-induced confusion. Her younger self, who has done less timehopping, is very smart, observant and has a knack for pointing out other people's idiocy - including her own future self's. To be fair, being randomly teleported up and down the timestream whenever she sneezes too hard has got to be bad for your self-awareness after a while. And we have absolutely no idea ''how'' long this has been happening to her, as many characters in the ''Suikoden'' series are [[Older Than They Look]] and often [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|much older]].
* Pete Wheeler from the ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' series.
* Helion in ''[[Eien no Aselia]]'' is rather scatterbrained most of the time. She's probably not actually stupid, but tends to act without thinking.
* [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice]] shows some real [[Dumb Blonde]] qualities in the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' game, particularly when, while [[
* Captain Blubber in the ''[[Banjo
* ''[[
== Visual Novels ==
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== Web Animation ==
* Several characters on the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' site. Homestar himself is the most noticeably ditzy, but there's more than one [[Idiot Ball]] being passed around among the cast.
* All of the characters in the video podcast ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080921211032/http://www.tikibartv.com/tikibar_display.php?pver=qh&vid=40 Tiki Bar TV]'' drift in and out of this. This is largely because the dialog is improvised while the actors are drunk, leading to some bizarre exchanges that drift back and forth between [[The Fool]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and generally end up falling around
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* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''
** Caboose gradually degrades from The Ditz in the first series to being completely retarded and [[Cloudcuckoolander|almost completely disconnected from reality]] (at one point, he loads his gun with crayons and forgets how to spell his name).
** Donut also qualifies and stays
* The Pink and Blue unicorns from the two ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]'' [[YouTube]] videos ''appear'' to be this at first, {{spoiler|but seeing as they tricked him into donating his kidney-- with''out'' consent-- in the first movie, and ended up robbing him in the second, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|they're something else entirely]].}}
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* Raven from ''[[Questionable Content]]''. She has her moments, which makes some people think she's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|smarter than she looks]].
* T-Rex in ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' is another male example, as well as a giant green dinosaur example. He worries about being racist against taxi drivers, and makes good-natured attempts to use every school of philosophical thought in recorded history to justify the things he does every day (mainly stomping on people and things).
* Monette started out this way in ''[[Something
* Cube from the [[Stick Figure Comic]] ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' can be a bit ditzy.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
** Elan is a definitive version...though it was toned down a bit after [[Took a Level
*** As of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1030.html strip 1030], he's noticing it:
** Crystal, the [[Goth]] assassin. Uncommon in so far that she has neither the good attitude nor the good looks most ditzes have. If she wasn't [[The Rival]] of Haley Starshine (which lets her gain a level every time Haley gets one, for the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' rules), she'd probably still be at 0th level. Crystal's little pickle stunt moves her closer to [[Too Dumb to Live]]. [[The Ditz]] may be stupid, but there's stupid and there's unbelievably retarded.▼
{{quote|'''Belkar:''' We don't have to go fight Durkon, and you're a moron.
'''Elan:''' Explain.
'''Belkar:''' You're not very smart, and you make poor decisions.
'''Elan:''' I meant the first part.}}
▲** Crystal, the [[Goth]] assassin. Uncommon in so far that she has neither the good attitude nor the good looks most ditzes have. If she wasn't [[The Rival]] of Haley Starshine (which lets her gain a level every time Haley gets one, for the ''[[Dungeons
** The Monster in the Darkness could also qualify.
** Thog from the Linear Guild.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
** Kiki is a combination
** Sam is this combined with [[Casanova Wannabe]].
* Kia from ''[[Fletcher Apts]]''.
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** Duchess Letita is very ditzy, although whether it's due to her stupidity or just her [[Cloudcuckoolander|strange viewpoint]] is somewhat debatable.
** Her younger daughter is a straighter example, though it's implied that she's only ditzy because she thinks she's entitled to everything and ''chooses'' not to use her brain.
* In the ''[[Cross Time Cafe]]'' Ky is
* Dustin from ''[[Spacetrawler]]''. He's so consistently stupid that the other characters just start doing the opposite of whatever he advises.
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== Web Original ==
* Zack in the [[TV Tropes]] original webseries ''[[
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'''Zack:''' The ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714120106/http://community.sparknotes.com/tag/tiffany-thongbiscuit Tiffany Thongbiscuit]. When she heard from The Vogue (Pronounced "the vagooey") that "[[Mad Men]]" was fashionable. She went to school dressed like a literal mad man.
* At the [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the [[Whateley Universe]], one example is the minor character Bubble. Someone comments to herself, "She has a bubble all right. Between her ears." Another good example is the egocentric, villainous Solange, who isn't smart enough to be an ''effective'' villain. She uses her powers to absorb an ethereal protagonist and steal said character's powers; she gets run through the [[Humiliation Conga]] for her efforts.
* Tiffany from [[Me and My Dick]]
* February from ''[[Starship]]''. She takes the fact that she removed her helmet before she was supposed to on an unfamiliar planet as a sign that she's "super ahead of schedule". Bug and Junior have their moments, too.
* [[
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''.
** Ed
** Stereotypically, Nazz and May Kanker, the only blondes in the show, also fall under this.
* Luanne, from ''[[King of the Hill]]''. [[Depending
* Officer Barbrady from ''[[South Park]]''. Butters also shows ditziness often.
* Starfire from ''[[Teen Titans (
* Lor McQuarrie from ''[[The Weekenders]]''.
* Twister Rodriguez from ''[[Rocket Power]]''. Subverted in "Twist of Fate", where after being ridiculed for being a fan of a cartoon on safety, Twister ends up using the knowledge he's learned from that show to get his friends out of trouble in the Grand Canyon, showing that (to paraphrase Rose) he's "someone who's not quite as dumb as he appears".
* Cosmo from ''[[The Fairly
* Patrick Star and [[SpongeBob]] from ''[[
* Big Dog and Little Dog from ''[[Two Stupid Dogs|2 Stupid Dogs]]''.
* Gir, from ''[[Invader Zim]],'' is ''amazingly'' ditzy. He often heads into [[Cloudcuckoolander]] territory, depending on the local humidity and/or piggy count.
* The perfect example of a ''male'' ditz is Gonard from ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'', who at one point forgets where his hat is. It's on his head. Also, he takes part in the auditions for a new cast member for [[Show Within a Show]] "Lily Mu", despite already being a cast member. All this is in the ''pilot'' episode. "Cheerful buffoon" is putting it mildly.
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* Chris Griffin on ''[[Family Guy]]'' has an intelligence somewhere between that of a sign post and a bag of moldy French fries. [[
* Madison from ''[[Class of 3000]]''.
* Amy Wong from ''[[Futurama]]'' is a black-haired Ditz - she fails at haggling, confusing it with bidding at auctions, and flirts with all men. Fry is also
* Bebop and Rocksteady from the 1980s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
* Da-da-da-da-da - ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''.
* [[
* C2 from ''[[Carl Squared]]''. (He ''is'' only a few months old, and part dog, so some of it is excusable.)
* Cal of ''[[Undergrads]]''.
* The titular character from ''[[
* ''[[
** The (except the Chief and probably Justice the dog) Action League from the ''[[Action League
** Bob of ''Prometheus and Bob''.
** June used to be one of Nickelodeon's biggest ditzes until her change into the [[Deadpan Snarker]] starting in season two.
* Robin Hood from ''[[King
* Numbuh Three from ''[[Codename
* Freddy in ''[[What's New, Scooby
* I.R. Baboon, Weasel's [[Foil]] from ''[[I Am Weasel]]''; his stupidity is one of his most prominent traits (along with his rotten luck), his very name (which he writes on his t-shirt upside-down) indicating his poor grammar, as he tends to use "are" when he should use "am".
* Lola Bunny from ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''. Daffy also has his ditzy moments.
* Ringo Starr in the Hanna Barbera ''[[Beatles]]'' cartoon was portrayed as a complete bumbling idiot.
* [[American Dad
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* ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'': Lime Chiffon Her laugh alone should count along with her parrot being the smart one of the pair.
* Rancid Rabbit, Mr. Sunshine and The Greaser Dogs from ''[[
* Principal Pixiefrog, Neardy Crocodile and The Prietties (Marget's Rhino's gang) from ''[[My Gym
* Joe Tabootie and Reggie Bullnerd from ''[[
* Lok, Pupununu Tribe, Zariah, Slog, Blod and Bleeta from ''[[Tak and
* [[Yakkity Yak]]
* Kyle, Ranger Stu, Oscar and Leon from ''[[Squirrel Boy]]''
* Gerold and Mr. Heelo from ''[[The Goode Family]]''
* Sandra from ''[[Will and Dewitt]]''.
* Pinkie Pie from ''[[My Little Pony:
** I wouldn't say that. She's extremely intelligent, just fucking insane.
** Derpy/Ditzy, as seen in her recent debut as a main character.
** Snips and Snails certainly qualify, especially the latter.
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** Wind Whistler is this in the toys and G1 comics, though the cartoon made her [[The Spock]].
** Back to ''Friendship is Magic'', Sweetie Belle is a mild example of this.
* Brittney ''and'' Kevin from ''[[Daria]]''. Of the pair, Brittney tended to be the smarter one (which isn't saying much).
* Nester from ''[[
* T.J. Detweiler in ''[[Recess]]''. Lawson is this even moreso.
* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''
* Lucky Bob, Pepper, and Toast from ''[[Histeria
* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'': Pretty much everybody from time to time, but Bullwinkle J. Moose was a full-time ditz. He was immune to Boris Badenov's brainwashing gas: "No brain, no effect!"
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