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Clueless Deputy

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53 feature instances
58 referencing feature instances

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Clueless Deputy	label	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy	page	CluelessDeputy
Clueless Deputy	comment	Sheriffs and marshals often have deputies to assist them. In order to explain how this person isn't the sheriff or marshal, the writers will often make the character clueless. In its benign form, this just makes the Clueless Deputy The Watson for their boss, or the protagonist detective. But it can rapidly slide downhill until the deputy acts like an idiot. Generally, the deputy has some redeeming qualities, such as incorruptibility, shooting skills or at least the willingness to serve in a dangerous job for low pay, but if the sheriff is a Small-Town Tyrant, the clueless deputy may simply be a relative who needed a job. The clueless deputy can be counted upon if the writer needs a The Guards Must Be Crazy moment to justify the heroes getting out of jail, or to act as an Obstructive Bureaucrat to keep information that could resolve the plot from reaching the sheriff. On rare occasions, the clueless deputy of a corrupt sheriff is unaware of their superior's criminal activities, and when incontrovertible evidence is presented, will arrest the crook to preserve law and order in the county. In actuality, Sheriff’s Deputies are required to attend the same Police Academies that the State Police or Highway Patrol do, so the average deputy will be no more clueless or clued in than the average state trooper. In fact, since the Sheriff is most likely a former cop who became a politician to get elected Sheriff, he may actually be somewhat more “clueless” than a deputy who has been taught more modern police techniques and procedures. See also Clueless Detective, Inspector Oblivious and Police Are Useless for other clueless law enforcement forces.
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Clueless Deputy / int_14295904	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_14295904	comment	Jake in the western spoof Support Your Local Sheriff, although he manages his smart moments as well. (It's more a lack of enthusiasm than his being genuinely clueless.)
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Clueless Deputy / int_172b1048	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_172b1048	comment	Droop-a-Long Coyote was the deputy to Sheriff (ping-ping-ping) Richochet Rabbit in Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote.
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Clueless Deputy / int_1840dba7	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_1840dba7	comment	Hooded Angels: Given Roy's complete inability to handle the confrontation between Wes's men and the bushwhackers, the impression given is that the sheriff of Twin Forks left him to guard the town while the Posse chased the bank robbers because he is useless. This uselessness saves his life as the posse gets massacred.
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Clueless Deputy / int_18916544	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_18916544	comment	Fillmore!: In the episode where Fillmore visits his old partner in Tennessee, the Small-Town Tyrant Safety Patrol sheriff has a Clueless Deputy who's among the few non-corrupt members of the Safety Patrol.
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Clueless Deputy / int_18e5537e	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_18e5537e	comment	The more you play LEGO City Undercover, the more you wonder how Frank Honey made it through the academy.
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Clueless Deputy / int_1df8f66b	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_1df8f66b	comment	Constable Hugh Collins in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. He hasn't been on the police force very long. However, as time goes by, he matures. And he is at least sensible enough to recognise his own limitations.
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Clueless Deputy / int_1f6197c0	comment	Stan Against Evil: Leon is not good at his job. The only thing keeping him employed was Stan's apathy, and no other candidates to fill the position.
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Clueless Deputy / int_22532d78	comment	Gus Grimly in Fargo admits that he isn't a very good cop, and that he mostly deals with stray animals. He is much happier when he becomes a mailman.
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Clueless Deputy / int_22e860f4	comment	Psych: Detective Carlton "Lassie" Lassiter is a borderline case: he's very much a competent policeman who's earned his place as the agency's head detective. The biggest problem is that he's the no-nonsense Straight Man while the protagonist is a Bunny-Ears Lawyer who only succeeds because he's so unorthodox. Lassie is hence the easiest mark for Shawn's antics, which puts him in the unfortunate position of being the dumbest of the core cast.
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Clueless Deputy / int_414b833	comment	By Gerald's Game, Norris is now sheriff (apparently one result of some of the events of Needful Things), and has apparently gotten a bit better at presence of mind (see description of handling of Joubert's van). By Lisey's Story, he's even managed to find a wife.
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Clueless Deputy / int_45e4a9ca	comment	In Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, Deputy Ferguson is a clumsy, nervous guy who does a poor job issuing evacuation orders and has difficulty drawing his gun successfully. He's also a Vomiting Cop.
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Clueless Deputy / int_4a059a74	comment	At some point between The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, Cobb Vanth got himself a deputy by the name of Scott. Scott is something of an Overzealous Underling who is Too Dumb to Live; his refusal to leave Vanth's side despite a direct order to gets him killed by Cad Bane in a Mexican Standoff, and his distracting presence in the standoff gets Vanth shot too.
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Clueless Deputy / int_4bcd81b8	comment	Constable Barlow in Red Hill, who is asleep at his desk when Shane arrives, and gets caught cold by Jimmy while he is awake later on.
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Clueless Deputy / int_4d04208	comment	Barney Fife, of The Andy Griffith Show, is perhaps the paradigmatic example of this trope. In order to make sure the audience knows that Deputy Fife is one these type of officers, the very first show has a kid scrawl this limerick on a wall to taunt Barney: After Barney's departure from the show, the character of Warren Ferguson was introduced in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the same role.
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Clueless Deputy / int_4efed37e	comment	In Disney's version of Robin Hood (1973), the vultures Nutsy and Trigger play this straight and subvert it, respectively. The sheriff himself isn’t exactly incompetent, but he’s complacent, whereas Trigger is Properly Paranoid.
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Clueless Deputy / int_4f847312	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_4f847312	comment	Nero Wolfe: Sgt. Purley Stebbins is vaguely this. He's not so much clueless; it's just that he's there to arrest the criminals, not to actually solve the crimes.
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Clueless Deputy / int_4fd7969b	comment	In House of 1000 Corpses, Deputy Naish's hotheaded attitude masks his general insecurity, to the point Otis is able to make him drop his gun just by yelling at him.
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Clueless Deputy / int_546d9f5d	comment	Sgt. Nails of Eagle Eye Mysteries falls most unfortunately into this category, although he's actually quite competent as an arresting officer; it's his skills as a detective that are pretty poor, as he tends to overlook certain critical clues when carrying out investigations.
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Clueless Deputy / int_58f9e49e	comment	Officer Jong-goo, the protagonist of The Wailing, starts the movie as a fat, bumbling idiot who constantly shows up late at crime scenes, forgets to take his rain coat when it's clearly pouring outside, can't take any initiative on his own and needs to be told everything, and is so terrified by a lone, frail (though very Ax-Crazy) woman that he's completely unable to do anything to defend himself, let alone to restrain her and ends up lying on the ground, embarassing himself and all the police force at once. One of the point of the movie is to show how far he's willing to change when his family is in danger. He is still better than his own deputy, who is about as cowardly and needs to be told not to manhandle a murder weapon.
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Clueless Deputy / int_5921531b	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_5921531b	comment	Adachi is this to Dojima in Persona 4, mostly by saying too much and not really making the connections between the victims. As with some of the other spoilered examples above, this is because he's really the bad guy, using Obfuscating Stupidity to deliberately throw suspicion and hinder the investigation.
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Clueless Deputy / int_5acc5b8d	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_5acc5b8d	comment	Deputy Bart of Harry Potter Comics. Because Sheriff Ned is immune to memory charms, Bart's brain has been fried a bit too much from wizards hitting him in their attempts to mind-wipe the Sheriff. Bart remains effective at what he needs to do, though.
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Clueless Deputy / int_5ba6595e	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_5ba6595e	comment	The entire cast of Reno 911!. (Except Dangle, who's a lieutenant.)
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Clueless Deputy / int_60275f51	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_60275f51	comment	Hank in Go West, Young Lady. At one point, he is sitting in the dancehall when he sees the sheriff go racing out in a tearing hurry. He concludes something important must be afoot and decides he should follow him. Right after the next song. General consensus among the townsfolk is that Killer Pete doesn't consider him worth killing.
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Clueless Deputy / int_6ae1d164	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_6ae1d164	comment	Commander Fuzzel in Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders. He's struck a deal with Jabba the Hutt, who will turn in dead criminals for the reward money, and is completely oblivious to the fact that the criminals' brains have been removed and put into other bodies, despite noticing the strange injuries.
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Clueless Deputy / int_727850de	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_727850de	comment	Junior Justice (son of Buford T. Justice) from the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Seriously, we're talking about a guy who refuses to keep his gun loaded because "it gets too heavy."
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Clueless Deputy / int_77a1d66e	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_77a1d66e	comment	Holmes on the Range: Local deputy Jim Martin in the first book (his boss is never actually seen) is a bit unimaginative and described as cowering during the final fight. Tommy in The Crack in the Lens is earnest, and brave, but a bit gullible and impressionable. Flip Compton, the deputy in The Double-A Western Detective Agency is a reasonable man, but a bit slow, and easily overwhelmed. This actually works in the brothers favor, as he is happy to let them take point in the case after his boss is murdered, and listens to their insights.
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Clueless Deputy / int_78fc0025	comment	Deputy Andy Brennan of Twin Peaks is soft-spoken, sensitive and squeemish at violent crime scenes. He's also accident prone, simple, and often timid in confrontation. On the other hand, he's loyal as a hound, has a heart of gold and a strong sense of justice.
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Clueless Deputy / int_7ab7da61	comment	Three's Company: Chrissy's distant cousin, Jay Garfield, who gets in trouble with his superiors for misplacing his patrol car.
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Clueless Deputy / int_82c7c129	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_82c7c129	comment	Brett Mobley from Eagleheart can't read and is more often used as a club than a police officer by Marshal Chris Monsanto. It's all Obfuscating Stupidity designed to torment Chris, of course: Brett is actually Satan.
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Clueless Deputy / int_8ba4613a	comment	Touta Matsuda in Death Note is consistently the slowest on the uptake in the investigation team. However, this naïve innocence is why he was chosen as assistant to chief Soichiro Yagami. He is also the best shot on the team, shooting Light's hands as he is about to kill Near.
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Clueless Deputy / int_8d81f086	comment	Randy Disher from Monk. Some episodes show that he's a good cop who simply isn't prepared to deal with the caliber of cases that Monk gets called in for. Other episodes... not so much.
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Clueless Deputy / int_8e436fcf	comment	In Nichols, the Ketchams install their cousin Mitch Mitchell as Nichols' deputy to serve as their spy and agent. However, Mitch is so dumb that he serves as just as much an impediment to their schemes as he does to Nichols' law enforcement.
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Clueless Deputy / int_94cf08d6	comment	Python: Greg's coworker Lewis, who doesn't quite know the proper way to question suspects or radio in his position, and once leaves a murder suspect alone in a room with a gun. Averted with Greg himself, who, after getting over his jealousy, is the most reasonable and competent of the three cops.
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Clueless Deputy / int_a1737300	comment	Clinton Pell, in Mississippi Burning (in physical appearance, almost an evil Barney Fife).
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Clueless Deputy / int_a89a9d78	comment	Muller from Mystery Road comes off as this. He is even accused of being a mole because of how much he hinders the investigation in the first season.
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Clueless Deputy / int_ae2f01f5	comment	In Starkweather, Sheriff Karnopp's primary deputy is his brother-in-law Dale, who is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Karnopp has prevent him from trampling all over the first crime scene, and he is keen to write the first murder off as being the work of a drifter, until Karnopp points out all the factors that make that unlikely. Is somewhat counterbalanced by his unwavering loyalty and bravery.
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Clueless Deputy / int_aede6cc2	comment	Lonely Are the Brave: Many of Johnson's men are a bit lazy, slow on the uptake and inexperienced with real trouble.
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Clueless Deputy / int_b0c3c145	comment	Mystery Road: Constable "Robbo" Roberts does a poor job of securing the crime scene, not taping off the footprints while also displaying some general ignorance when asked about some details. Later on, he hovers around and lets Johnno do all the talking during drug arrests. Of course considering that he’s the Dirty Cop, that cluelessness was probably deliberate obstruction.
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Clueless Deputy / int_b370c364	comment	Euclid Baker, in Tank, a bullying weasel who also gets slapped around by his boss, Cyrus Buelton.
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Clueless Deputy / int_b5021b19	comment	Every cop in Drowning Mona is a complete idiot, except (possibly) the Chief of Police.
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Clueless Deputy / int_b66e5da0	comment	Sam Wood, in In the Heat of the Night.
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Clueless Deputy / int_b9e26f05	comment	Officer Lou, Marge Gunderson's assistant in Fargo.
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Clueless Deputy / int_ba83d772	comment	The Ferg in Longmire is something of a joke in the sheriff's office, as Walt employed him as a favor to his father. However, while he is not much of a street cop, the later seasons do show him to be a canny investigator.
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Clueless Deputy / int_bac8c243	comment	Doyle in The Mask. In one scene, Kellaway tries to relay to Doyle that Stanley's secretly holding him at gunpoint. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Clueless Deputy / int_c03be4b4	comment	Rollerblade: Goodman's deputy is absolutely useless. Best example is when he imprisons the punks and gets knocked out by them immediately afterwards so they can escape easily.
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Clueless Deputy / int_caa09b7a	comment	The Deputy Dawg Show: Deputy Dawg. How he ever got sworn in is a mystery, although once in awhile he'll come out ahead of the swamp critters who try to outwit him.
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Clueless Deputy / int_d53a59cd	comment	After Barney's departure from the show, the character of Warren Ferguson was introduced in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the same role.
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Clueless Deputy / int_d9404add	comment	Deputy Perkins, of B.J. and the Bear and The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo.
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Clueless Deputy / int_dfd06a22	comment	Every now and then in the Lake Placid movies. Dale from the second film stands out, being tougher than usual, but not appearing to know about Freedom of Speech (or maybe he just doesn't care) and condescendingly boasting about having tied a secure knot around the crocodiles mouth right before it breaks loose and eats him. In Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, Deputy Ferguson is a clumsy, nervous guy who does a poor job issuing evacuation orders and has difficulty drawing his gun successfully. He's also a Vomiting Cop.
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Clueless Deputy / int_f12c8a56	comment	Festus Haggen of Gunsmoke was Book Dumb, though otherwise pretty sharp. His predecessor, Chester Goode (called Chester Proudfoot in the radio version), was a little slower-witted, although both have proven to be a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass.
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Clueless Deputy / int_f74b5f80	type	Clueless Deputy
Clueless Deputy / int_f74b5f80	comment	On Babylon 5, Garibaldi was occasionally assisted by a security guard named Jack, who came off this way, particularly when going through their investigation in the first season finale. This was because Jack was The Mole and was willfully hindering Garibaldi's investigation.
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Clueless Deputy / int_fdbace96	comment	Deputy Durland from Gravity Falls. While Sheriff Blubs isn't much better, at least he learned how to read.
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Clueless Deputy / int_fe1652fe	comment	Deputy Tevetino in Season 2 of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a stoner who only took the job because the sheriff is her best friend and she wanted to hang out with him.
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