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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.|''[[Blackadder]] II''}}
The Ditz is a character whose defining characteristic is profound stupidity. Female ditzes tend to be sweet and naive, while male ditzes tend to be oafish but lovable.
Unlike [[The Fool]],
A good looking Ditz (of either sex) might be [[The Brainless Beauty]]. An independently wealthy Ditz is an [[Upper Class Twit]]. An exceptionally clumsy Ditz is a [[Dojikko]]. A Ditz that's a [[Mighty Glacier]] (Most commonly as [[The Big Guy]] or [[The Brute]]) is a [[Dumb Muscle]].
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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]], [[Dumb Blonde]], and [[The Klutz]].
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* 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]]''.
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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 ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'' has his moments (it's more a combination of [[Nice Guy]], [[The Klutz]] and [[Selective Obliviousness]] actually), but then we have the most fearsome and brutal of the Shadowy seven: Hishida Haruka! Yep, she's
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Tsukasa Hiiragi]] from ''[[Lucky Star]]'' qualifies.
* The toad Gamatatsu in ''[[Naruto]]''.
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* Ted and Georgette from ''[[Mary Tyler Moore|The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''.
* 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 (comics)|Young Justice]]'', set in 'Australia', where the artist apparently made the same mistake (there ain't no mountains like that in Sydney, bub!). And ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it.
* Lucy Moran and Deputy Andy Brennan from ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.
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* Bridget Hennesey, from ''[[8 Simple Rules]]''.
* Christmas Noelle "Chrissy" Snow (Suzanne Somers' archetypal role) from ''[[Three's Company]]''.
** Her [[Trans Atlantic Equivalent]] in ''[[Man About the House]]'' (on which ''[[Three's Company]]'' was based) was something of a subversion. Not only was the "Chrissy" character the brunette in the British
* Kelly Bundy of ''[[Married... with Children]]'' was eventually [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] into [[The Brainless Beauty|a brainless trollop]] who hadn't enough mental capacity to remember her homework and the members of her own family at the same time.
* 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.
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== Puppet Shows ==
* The puppet for [[George W. Bush]] in the French satirical show ''[[Les Guignols De L Info]]'' is very much this. He was regularly portrayed as
* Ditto for Reagan in ''[[Spitting Image]]''.
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** The same series also has [[Ravens and Crows|Utsuho]] [[I Love Nuclear Power|Reiuji]], also known by the similar [[Fan Nickname]] "⑥" (Six-ball).
* Lucia in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant'' is described by her own teacher Carla as "slow".
* Both Lloyd and Colette of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' both qualify quite well for the title of
{{quote|'''Lloyd''': Since I was a child, I memorized one before each meal and was tested on it. And if I couldn't say it, I didn't get to eat.
'''Colette''': Oh, I see.... There must have been Dwarven Vow memory ingredients in the food.
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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 ''[http://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
{{quote|Dr. Tiki: I'm a PhD MD USB for a reason!}}
* ''[[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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* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''
** Elan is a definitive version...though it was toned down a bit after [[Took a Level In Badass]].
** 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 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.
{{quote|'''[http://spacetrawler.com/2012/02/19/spacetrawler-207/ Pierrot]:''' Dusty thinks it's a bad idea, it must be sensible.}}
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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. [[The Brainless Beauty|Jillian]], Brian's ex-girlfriend, is another example. Peter too, [[Depending on the Writer]].
* 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|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' fit this
* Da-da-da-da-da - ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''.
* [[The Brainless Beauty|Lindsay]] from [[Total Drama Island|the Total Drama series]]
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