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* Subverted with Marechiyo Omaeda of [[Bleach]]. While he does act like a big buffoon and is regularly smacked around by his captain, he actually uses this trope as a form of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], leading his opponents to ''believe'' he's incompetent and only got his high position through connections and name, but is actually skilled enough to deserve his rank of lieutenant.
* Kojiro Sasahara from ''[[Nichijou]]'' behaves in a fashion like this. He wears a frily ascot with his uniform, he always holds out his pinky when he drinks or even laughs. Despite these and a few [[Cloudcuckoolander]] traits, he's really more of an Upper Class Twit ''wannabe'', as he's revealed early to be the eldest son of a family of farmers.
* Another Kojiro: the ''[[Pokémon (
== Comic Books ==
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== Fan Fic ==
* Joe MacDonald in ''[[The Luck of Dennis St. Michel, Viscount Stokington
== Film ==
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* The heroines of the Hilary and Haylie Duff comedy ''Material Girls'' are classic airhead heiresses. They're actually [[Spoiled Sweet|pretty nice]] people but are extremely pampered and ditzy (to the extent of accidently burning down their own mansion).
* Harvey Baylor in ''[[Planet of the Dinosaurs]]''. He seems completely oblivious that he's trapped on a primitive alien world and often tries to use his former position as a company president to get the others to do things for him.
* In the older (black and white) version of ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (
* ''[[
== Jokes ==
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== Literature ==
* Bertie Wooster - so archetypal that this trope could have been named for him - in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
** In the [[Stephen Fry]]/[[Hugh Laurie]] TV adaptation, he's also an excellent piano player (mainly because [[Hugh Laurie]] is an excellent piano player). Too bad he's too stupid to make something out of it.
** To be entirely fair, however, Bertie is at least a ''sweet'' twit. He isn't intelligent, not by any means, but he's good-natured, generous and usually kind to the people around him, which makes him a damn sight better than most of the characters on this page.
** [[
* While several members of the nobility from the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' are rich idiots, the dumbest has to be Lady Arymilla of House Marne, who plans to take over Andor in a civil war. The only problem is that she's a complete idiot, whose success is largely due to a senile old man, and the fact that members of the Shadow are helping her. She's largely oblivious to the world around her, and only cares about herself.
** Honestly though, the readers really knew she had absolutely no chance whatsoever when it was revealed that she planned to use the entire nation's coffers just to erase her own debt. Once that was out in the open, any [[Genre Savvy]] reader knew right then that she was gonna suffer from a massively [[Epic Fail]].
** Lord Weiromon deserves special mention as well. Don't remember him? He's the guy who always insists that the correct solution to any and all of life's problems, bar none, is a cavalry charge. [[Blade
** Between this tendency and his miraculous ability to survive unscathed, it's been speculated (it may have been [[Jossed]] now) that Weiromon is actually a Darkfriend whose purpose is to get as many soldiers as possible killed, so that they can't stand against the armies of the Dark One.
*** {{spoiler|Not jossed. ''Confirmed'' (as of ''Towers of Midnight'').}}
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* Ippolit Kuragin in ''[[War and Peace]]''. A minor character compared to his siblings [[Casanova|Anatole]] and [[Hello, Nurse!|Helene]], whose one moment in the sun is during a soirée in which he has a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] moment:
{{quote| "The road to Warsaw, perhaps," Prince Ippolit said loudly and unexpectedly. Everyone turned to him, not understanding what he meant to say by that. Prince Ippolit also looked around with merry surprise. Like everyone else, he did not understand the meaning of the words he had spoken. In the course of his diplomatic career, he had noticed more than once that words spoken suddenly like that turned out to be very witty, and, just in case, he had spoken these words, the first that came to his tongue.}}
* The aristocrats in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
** Take note, this IS coming from a group of people who believe that the best strategy is a full frontal assault, that if, after the battle, you subtract your fatalities from your enemies and get a positive number it was a great victory, that rudeness is the same as straight-talking, and that if you talk LOUD AND SLLLOOOWW enough anyone can understand you, even if they don't speak the same language.
*** Also from Discworld there's Lieutenant Blouse in ''[[Discworld
* The standard protagonist of Decadent fiction, as well as the standard author. You have to wonder if they'd be so filled with existentialist ennui if they quit moping around the house all day long and got jobs. The pinnacle of the Decadent novel (and this trope) was ''A rebours'' by Joris-Karl Huysmans, so recognized it was alluded to in ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' as simply "the little yellow book." The entire novel is about a rich guy moving to his country house and then thinking of expensive and strange things to put in it, up to and including a tortoise with jewels embedded in its shell. Which dies because it has heavy jewels embedded in its shell.
* Many of Sharpe's enemies fit this trope. They tend to end up dead.
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* Patrick Bateman's social circle in ''[[American Psycho]].'' Lots of people probably think he's one too.
* This appears to be the default state of being for all [[Hobbits]] above a certain wealth bracket in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', with rare exceptions (e.g., Bilbo and Frodo).
* Pavel Young, de facto [[Arch Enemy]] of one [[
** Captain Michael Oversteegan, of the same series, is a subversion. He is deliberately given just about ''every'' possible trait of an [[Upperclass Twit]] from his culture (many of them affected, some still genuine) except for actually ''being'' a twit. He's as competent as he is irritating.
* Mr. Toad of ''[[The Wind in
* Dorothy Sayers' [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] pretends to be one of these when necessary, as a form of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
* The ''[[
* Sir Percy Blakeney uses this as an [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] disguise to hid the fact that he is [[The Scarlet Pimpernel (
* Many characters from ''[[Dead Souls]]'', esp. Manilov.
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] periodically by [[The Saint|Simon Templar]] when he's baiting scam artists, since the ideal quarry of a scammer is a) rich and b) stupid. One such disguise was described as "an asinine young man [[High-Class Glass|with a monocle]] [[You Fail Statistics Forever|who believed in racing systems]]".
* Oliver Rushton in ''[[
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'''Terry Jones:''' No one in the history of the world has ever been able to fly like that!<br />
'''Graham Chapman:''' Oh, I suppose ''mater'' told you that while you were out ''ridin'''! }}
* The various incarnations of Percy and George in the ''[[
** While those who were more used to his [[Upperclass Twit]] roles from before ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' often took quite a while to stop expecting House to goggle mindlessly or burst into [[Upperclass Twit]] Speak ("I say, Jeeves, this fellow's looking jolly green about the gills, what?").
** In the first (medieval) series, Blackadder himself (the [[Rowan Atkinson]] character) was an Upper Class Twit, and his servant Baldrick <ref>better known as the [[Bumbling Sidekick]] he becomes</ref> was a [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]].
** He played a [[Crosscast Role|female one]] in an ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' sketch, opposite [[Stephen Fry]] as the Duke of Northampton. And the [[Black Comedy|very dark]] "Jack and Neddy/Teddy" sketches from the show, in which Fry manipulates him into acts like planting a bomb in a restaurant, have been described as what ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' would have been like if Jeeves used his powers for evil.
* Most of the members of the Bluth family in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' fall into this trope to varying degrees, with Gob and Buster being the strongest examples. The show itself is largely based around exploiting this trope and how wealthy twits deal with being separated from their money (i.e. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|poorly]]).
* Tim Nice-But-Dim from the ''[[wikipedia:Harry Enfieldchr(27)s Television Programme|Harry Enfield's Television Programme]]''.
* London Tipton from ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' is a good example of the heiress subtype (a hotel heiress named after a European capital... hmm). If she was bit crueler and considerably smarter she might qualify as the [[Rich Bitch]], but her self absorption seems to stem more from being [[The Ditz|one of the stupidest characters on television]] than any intentional meanness.
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* Dick Casablancas from the TV show ''[[Veronica Mars]]''.
* Just about every character played by Penelope Keith is a likeable but dim upper class twitess.
* Jefferson D'Arcy from ''[[Married...
* Traci Van Horn from ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' falls solidly into the airhead heiress variety.
** Some might put Hannah Montana herself in that category.
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** Actually, all the Banks children could qualify. Not their parents Phillip and Vivian though, as both of them came from common origins and [[Self-Made Man|achieved success by dint of hard work]].
*** Interestingly enough, Will started out as being the streetwise guy who was totally unlike the rest of the family...but the show hinted in at least one episode that Will became more like the Banks's after living with them for a while. Will's reaction when this dawns on him can only be described as hilarious.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Dr Julian Bashir starts as a bit of this. Class is downplayed in the Trekverse, but he is the {{spoiler|genetically enhanced}} son of a prominent family on Earth, which in Trek is the paradisiacally well-supplied and well-run centre of [[The Federation]]. He loves to expound on how he's excited to be doing "frontier medicine" with primitive equipment - in front of people for whom the "frontier" is their homeworld[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOWQnX6VOyo .] Luckily, he undergoes [[Character Development]]--but not until after an early episode gives him a perversely enjoyable [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]. (This is an interesting case because Bashir is ''not'' [[The Ditz]], instead being an [[Insufferable Genius]], but still fits the character type well.)
* [[Nathan Barley|Nathan Barley's]] eponymous protagonist. The character was created by Charlie Brooker and first appeared in his [[TV Go Home]] book, which revealed Barley lived off cheques from his parents and spent his days working out "which job to pretend to do next". In the series he spends his parents' money on an office full of video editing equipment and gives himself the job title "self-facilitating media node".
* Thurston and Lovey Howell from ''[[
* [[Stephen Colbert]] from ''[[The Colbert Report]]''.
* Alfie Baron, the false mark Carlton Wood and Harry Fielding use in an attempt to sting the ''[[Hustle]]'' crew in "The Road Less Travelled".
* As mentioned above under Literature, Bertie Wooster (and most of his friends and relations) in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', the TV adaptations of the [[
* In ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' Leslie's opponent for city council, Bobby Newport, is the son of the man who employs half the town. He is so used to being given everything in life that he has difficulty comprehending someone competing with him. When she runs a mildly negative ad, he complains that it hurt his feelings and asks her to abandon her campaign so he can win. He doesn't understand why she refuses. That's not him getting mad at her for refusing, mind you. That's him ''failing to comprehend the concept'' of someone not wanting to please him.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', its revealed that before becoming a vampire, Spike was once known as William Pratt, a meek, effete young Victorian Gentlemen and [[Momma's Boy]]. His sobriquet of "William the Bloody" actually derives from the fact he wrote bloody awful poetry.
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** Sir Andrew Aguecheek in ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. [[Upper Class Wit]] Sir Toby Belch spends the entire play mooching off him and otherwise taking advantage of him.
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] examples:
** The ridiculously incompetent Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. in ''[[
** The Peers in ''[[Iolanthe]]'' are proud of their [[Blue Blood]], though they have to admit that it hasn't given them much in the way of brains.
* Sir Evelyn Oakleigh in ''[[Anything Goes]]''. ([[
* ''[[
* In ''The Little Foxes'', Leo acts this part, even though his family is really only [[Nouveau Riche]].
* The 'music hall' (popular entertainment, mainly working-class, in the 18-1900s, a collection of songs and comic skits)is a rich mine of these characters: 'Gilbert the Filbert, the Knut with a 'K'', 'Burlington Bertie' [the more famous ditto from Bow is a parody] and so on.
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== Video Games ==
* The Preppies in ''[[Bully (
* Alfonso in ''[[
* [[Suikoden|Oh Sheena]], you lazy, lecherous, upper-class bastard.
** [[Suikoden IV|Snowe Vingerhut]] actually ''wants'' to contribute by joining the Gaian Marine Knights. Sadly, he's made captain by virtue of daddy's money and nothing else, and [[Minor Injury Overreaction|doesn't deal well]] [[Never Live It Down|with his first major crisis]]...
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* Nobles in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' are mostly useless in gameplay, and make often difficult or impossible demands. [http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Unfortunate_accident Finding ways to kill them off] solves many problems.
** [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|And it's entertaining to boot!]]
* In the ''[[
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToumKORTtgM&feature=related Rich Guy] in [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]].
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* Milo Taylor of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''. Dear god, Milo. Let's just say that to call him [[The Ditz]] would be an understatement
* In the story "Heart of the Lion" from ''[[
== Western Animation ==
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* Ed Wuncler III from ''[[The Boondocks]]'' is an upper class twit who's also psychotic, and [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|uses his grandfather's connections to keep him out of jail]], since all his poorly planned robberies are simply Wuncler establishments. Wuncler Sr. said it best in the episode "The Garden Party": "Someday, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|that boy]] will be President of the United States... and he'll ''still'' be a fucking moron."
* Sam's parents in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' seem to be this on the surface, a characteristic Sam herself vigorously averts.
* Lemongrab of ''[[
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' villainess [[Punny Name|Camille Leon]] was a Paris Hilton [[Expy]] who turned to crime to finance her lifestyle when her parents cut her off. She also possessed [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] powers due to an experimental cosmetic surgery procedure. Came complete with an expensive pet, a Sphinx cat named Debutante.
* Guinevere in ''[[King
* [[Thomas the Tank Engine|Gordon the Big Engine]] has become this from Season 8 onwards due to [[Flanderization]]. He's in the higher ranks of the Sodor Railway and granted, he was always rather arrogant, but his pride was taken [[Up to Eleven]] and he has gotten into scrapes in almost every episode he's been in. He is however, very intelligent, when his pride has been brought down a notch or three.
** In a case of [[Early Installment Weirdness]], The Fat Controller played this in the episodes adapted from ''Three Railway Engines'', shouting orders to the passengers and crew but refusing to take part himself ("[[Lame Excuse|My doctor has forbidden me to push]].") After those stories, though, he's played as more of a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** If he was from "normal" royalty, that'd be bad enough. But Blueblood is the great-great-great-great-great-great(and so forth) nephew of [[God-Emperor|Princess Celestia]], Goddess of the Sun. So he is literally a divine being.
* Beamer and Coco Van Der Creame, aunt and uncle of the puppies, from ''[[101 Dalmatians
* From [[The Critic]], Jay Sherman's father Franklin can come across as an upper class twit, until he reveals himself as being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
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