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This is a character that everyone knows and loves. So long as they aren't involved in ''their'' plans, they love them anyway. The klutz bumbles and fumbles at seemingly anything they do, but they are kept around for one reason or another. The unstated reason is that they make a great [[Plucky Comic Relief]], and serve as a humanizing accessory to a hero if he is [[The Stoic]].
There are varying degrees of klutziness, of course. Some characters are fairly capable with a notable tendency to trip, drop things, forget important tasks, or [[
A broader supertrope covering those characters that cannot be fit into the narrower [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]
Often used as an excuse to inject [[The Pratfall]] and other elements of [[Slapstick]] comedy.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Osaka of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]''.
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* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Usagi is as much a klutz as she is [[The Ditz]]. Yuuichirou, the guy who works with Rei at the shrine is also klutzy.
* [[Dojikko|Misuzu]] from ''[[AIR]]'' is exactly this. Much of the comic relief lies in her tripping and falling on her face whenever she starts running.
* Akane Tendo of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' is the klutz in spite of being a [[Tsundere]] with greater-than-average strength and martial arts training (if severely outclassed by every other fighter in the series). She gets teased for it a lot, even in the threat of her [[Hyperspace Mallet]]. Unlike some other examples, though, she usually learns from her
* Proud, noble and powerful Yeon from [[Tower of God]] is capable, but on two occasions she burnt up her entire team, and when their strength was measured, she slipped and barely touched the measuring plate with her knuckles while bumping her head against the machine. {{spoiler|She still got in third place and was first place at the time.}}
* [[Naruto]] starts out as a klutz in the beginning of his series.
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* Louie from ''[[Rune Soldier]]'' to the point where the first volume of the US DVDs is called "Enter the Klutz".
* Amelia from ''[[The Slayers]]'' manages to be a formidable magic user, in spite of general klutziness and sometimes being [[The Ditz]].
* Mai's mother in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'', explained as being due to a lack of
** Yes, you read that correctly. Mrs. Mishou is an archaeologist who, seemingly unique on television, actually spends her time on research and on carefully excavating dig sites with small, precise tools.
* Taiga Aisaka from ''[[Toradora!]]''.
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* Dino from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]!'' takes this to extremes: when his fellow mafia family members are present, he's especially skilled and all-around awesome. Without them, though, he gets ''so'' clumsy that he can't even eat a simple meal without getting it on himself, or walk up or down stairs without tripping and falling (mostly onto Tsuna for added effect.) When the series shifts into action territory, however, this trait seems to be all but written out of the plot.
** He still does this in most appearance where he does more than just standing around being the [[Combat Commentator]], including falling down the stairs of the Namimori Shrine. Luckily he's [[Made of Iron]].
* Daisuke in ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' is another male example, and an odd one. Given that he's a bit of a ditz at times, he has a tendency to trip or not watch where he's going. That being said, he's been trained since he was a young child to be a [[Phantom Thief]], so he normally can perform an aerobatic
* The Loveless family maid Roberta from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is completely inept in any housework. She's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|using the job as a cover]], being a former FARC guerrilla fighter and international terrorist.
** Greenback Jane from her self-titled arc is another big example, though she's nowhere near the unstoppable badass Roberta is.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Adam Savage of ''[[
** And if Adam isn't hurting himself, chances are colleague Tory Belleci ''is''.
*** If he isn't too busy hurting Grant Imahara.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|"Let's egg him on until he hurts himself. That's always fun."]]
* Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor from ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''. Oh oh oh ''oh oh oh'' '''OH'''.
* Susan Mayer of ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''. Sometimes her accidents actually steer the plot.
* [[Family Matters|Steve Urkel]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Extremely obscure ''[[
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'': Colette is such a klutz that some of her attacks are essentially her falling on someone (with an added bonus effect of [[Kleptomaniac Hero|stealing their items]]). Her tendency to stumble and fall on the ''[[Shaggy Search Technique|exact thing]]'' the party was looking for (a rare book, the off switch for a trap) leads her companions to call it a "divine clumsiness", which doesn't preclude her being just plain clumsy at
** Another wall that Colette leaves a Colette-shaped hole in is ''still'' there in the second game and used as the town's tourist attraction (an NPC suggested it be used for such a thing in the first game). This place is one place that IS reasonable to trip, as it is at the end of a steep downward slope.
** At one point, in Welgaia, she trips ''into a deactivated machine, turning it on.'' Not only that, but later in the game she manages to trip and fall over despite ''[[Winged Humanoid|being able to fly]]''. That's an achievement in itself.
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* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|In gameplay]], [[Neverwinter Nights|Linu]] would be a competent cleric if her A.I. weren't problematic. However, every conversation you have with her mentions some bit of chaos that she caused through clumsiness, usually by way of [[Disaster Dominoes]] (e.g. spilling a drink in a bar and causing a [[Bar Brawl]] that destroyed most of the building.)
* Anthony the pageboy, one of ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'''s Chosen, is a protagonist example. Let's see, he [[Curiosity Killed the Cast|reads a cursed scroll he was meant to take straight to the king]], knocks open a coffin containing the body of a priest who was killed by [[Body Horror|Bonethieves]], drops a vase (which turned out to contain a component for [[Magick]], so no problem there), potentially ''stabs himself''... yeah, it's hard to think of a hindering flaw as cute rather than worrisome in a Lovecraft [[Expy]] work. The only thing that would keep him from getting himself killed is that thanks to the curse he spends his chapter gradually turning into a zombie and therefore unable to die normally or significantly injure himself.
* Though all ''[[Dead Rising]]'' characters besides Frank have limited screentime, Paul does a good job of looking
* Cal-Vina in ''[[Agarest Senki Zero|Agarest: Generations of War Zero]]'' is so clumsy that Routier specifically - and very seriously - asks Eugene to make sure he never holds a knife. As she says:
{{quote|'''Routier:''' "You see, my brother is awfully clumsy. So much so that it is, at times, mistaken for a strange sort of skill." }}
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== Web Comics ==
* Gwynn from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' sometimes gets like this when she [[Blind Without'Em|takes off her glasses]].
* [[Bird Boy]]: Bali in the opening pages [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115104947/http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-5 falls flat on his face] -- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115104638/http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-9 twice]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115104848/http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-14 Plus once on his butt]
* Vincent the Lucario in the [[Pokémon]] fanfic ''[[Random Doom]].''
* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', both [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/homeagain/ Monica] and [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/unscathed/ Tina] are a bit on the clumsy side.
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== Western Animation ==
* Young Hercules in Disney's ''[[Hercules (
* ''[[Lilo
* [[Goofy]] is well known for being the klutz.
* Eugene in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', who is not just extremely clumsy, but is also just [[The Chew Toy|a bad luck magnet]] in general. In one episode it was revealed that he was born on Friday the Thirteenth, which explains a lot.
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