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Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity
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A device or effect that makes people less intelligent. (Usually temporarily.) Generally played for comedy, with the afflicted people talking in exaggerated "stupid" dialect and making decisions that are a Take That! against whatever the writers oppose. In almost all cases, the effect hits both "book smarts" and "common sense", even though they're different kinds of intelligence. For extra fun, one character will be functionally immune to the effect due to already being stupid. Can be used to justify the Idiot Ball. When someone's using this as a weapon, it's a type of Stupidity-Inducing Attack. Contrast Genius Serum. |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: In the episode "Sting Operation," the penguins use one of Kowalski's inventions to make themselves stupid so that they can't feel the hornets' stings. In another episode, Kowalski's attempt to boost his intelligence backfires and makes him stupid instead. |
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Mentioned offhand in Megamind when the main character says that one of his planned inventions was an illiteracy beam. | |
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Maul of the comic book Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm) has size-changing powers that makes his intelligence inversely proportional. Not only does growing make him dumber, he later discovers he can shrink to get smarter, although this proves exhausting. | |
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FreedomToons: Being present on The Echo Chamber causes Ben Shapiro's IQ to drop precipitously. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson's stupidity isn't natural: a crayon lodged in his brain takes 50 points away from his previously average IQ. This is worsened by the fact that the nuclear power plant where he works doesn't use proper shielding. All the slapstick violence in the form of blows to the head certainly can't help, either. Word of God is that he loses 5 IQ points a season from brain damage, and at this point he's basically "a dog that can talk."note Given how long that show has been on the air, he could have been the world's smartest man in Season 1 and still ended up a blithering idiot by the present day at that rate of IQ decay | |
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In the Eureka episode "E=MC...?", eating cloned chicken meat causes most of the town to lose their knowledge, common sense, attention span, emotional maturity, etc. | |
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In Teen Titans Go!, Beast Boy becomes sick of being the team's idiot, so he steals Raven's spellbook to make himself smarter with magic. When he screws that up, he realizes that to have a similar effect, he can just make everyone else on his team dumber than he is. He succeeds at that, but becomes frustrated with having to take care of four people who are bordering on Too Dumb to Live. He decides to fix the dynamic... by making himself even dumber than his brain-drained teammates. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown features the Woozy Shooter, whose effect consists of creating a mist that makes its targets hallucinate and act madly goofy. The Ring of Nine Dragons also has a similar effect as splitting yourself into nine duplicates of yourself only divides your brainpower instead of increasing it. | |
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In Tom the Dancing Bug, "Flowers for Trinitron" uses this trope to create "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome. A television causes stupidity. A man is watching NYPD Blue when the cable goes out. The man, cut from TV, becomes gradually smarter over the next six days. He reads East of Eden, volunteers at a homeless shelter, and shifts his handwriting from print to cursive. He is about to destroy his TV, when the cable comes back and Wheel of Fortune comes on. The man soon reverts to stupidity. | |
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The novel Bimbos of the Death Sun is centered around the author of a novel within a novel with the same name, whose basic premise involves solar radiation messing up computers; as a side effect, it also make women world-wide lose intelligence. Despite what it sounds like, he wasn't doing it to make any kind of social point or be chauvinistic — the idea was simply based off of the fact that some diseases are linked to sex. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-714 is a ring that, among other symptoms, reduces the wearer's mental capacity, but also makes them resistant to other forms of mental manipulation. SCP-1056 is a Sizeshifting device that will often reorganize a living organism's body design in order to keep the organism's circulatory, pulmonary, and nervous systems functional despite the change in size. But scaling humans down below 0.50 results in their brains being simplified to the point of losing cognitive function — and scaling them back up won't restore their brains because the device is now extrapolating from the simplified composition. The SCP Foundation first discovered SCP-1056 at a high school where many students "displayed significantly impaired language skills, abnormally poor attention span, long-term memory, and impulse control" as a result of using the device "for recreational purposes" without realizing what it was doing to their brains. |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series has Experiment 319, named Spike, who can spray spikes that raise people's silliness by 99%, leaving them only 1% clever, for 48 hours. Notably, they failed to do anything noticeable to Jumba, who notes his Super-Intelligence is vast enough that even at 1% he's still a genius. | |
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In Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, Danette appears to be The Ditz for much of the game, but it turns out that the block on her memories is to blame. When it's finally removed, she's only a little bit ditzy. | |
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Johnny Test: Susan and Mary Test built an intelligence amplification machine, and Johnny used it to give them an IQ of 22. | |
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: In "Grounder the Genius", Dr. Robotnik invents a helmet that uses a microchip to increase his already high intelligence. Near the end of the episode, the chip is swapped out with one that makes him stupid instead. In "Attack on Pinball Fortress", Robotnik builds a ray that he plans to use to make the population of Mobius stupid so they can be easily ruled. While Sonic wants to destroy it, Sergeant Doberman wants it because stupid soldiers are easier to train, while Wes Weasley wants it because stupid customers are easier to sell to. |
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DuckTales (2017): In "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!", Black Heron builds an intelligence-draining ray that she plans to use on Scrooge. Steelbeak ends up using it on her after she presses his Berserk Button one too many times, then later plans to make Duckburg literally Too Dumb to Live. It also has a reverse setting. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Ravenloft, the mysterious Dark Powers that control the Demiplane of Dread maintain this as a general effect on the inhabitants so that they do not question the bizarre nature of the world they live in or the way its individual domains cross different Technology Levels and genres. For example, the inhabitants of the domain of Lamordia (based on Frankenstein), are not great believers in magic despite the neighboring domain of Darkon being a Standard Fantasy Setting. Dungeons and Dragons proper has a spell known as feeblemind, which (as of Fifth Edition) if it successfully hits deals significant psychic damage and forces an Intelligence save. On a failed save, the target's Intelligence and Charisma both plummet to 1. The minimum Int for a sapient being is 3, so this spell leaves the target absolutely mindless (although, since their Wisdom isn't affected, they can still tell friend from foe and follow very simple orders). And unless it's cured by an outside source, the victim only gets one save per month to recover from it. |
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In Mass Effect 2, Jacob Taylor's loyalty mission takes you to the planet Aeia in search of his father, Ronald, who'd crashed there eight years ago. As it turns out, Aeia's native vegetation causes neural decay when ingested, gradually reducing cognitive function, and while most end up docile and childlike, a few become violent. It turns out that Ronald Taylor exploited this by forcing his surviving crew to eat the toxic food while bagsying the ships' rations for himself, allowing him to reduce the female crew to his personal harem and set himself up as a god. Fortunately, recovery appears possible once the victims have been weaned off the toxic food. | |
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CatDog: In "Smarter Than the Average Dog", Cat tries to make Dog smarter with educational videotapes. As a result, Dog becomes smarter to the point where his brain expands, while Cat has his intelligence drained and becomes a pinheaded dolt. | |
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Mass Effect Reaper Indoctrination is initially a form of mind control that subtly compels afflicted individuals to follow the Reaper's commands, often encouraging them to view it with superstitious awe in the process. However, the more control the Reaper can exert over a victim, the more mental damage they sustain until they are no longer capable of independent thought; when the Reapers' harvest is over, the organic servants they leave in their wake are so blighted by this process that they ultimately starve to death or die of exposure, lacking even the instincts to care for themselves. In Mass Effect 2, Jacob Taylor's loyalty mission takes you to the planet Aeia in search of his father, Ronald, who'd crashed there eight years ago. As it turns out, Aeia's native vegetation causes neural decay when ingested, gradually reducing cognitive function, and while most end up docile and childlike, a few become violent. It turns out that Ronald Taylor exploited this by forcing his surviving crew to eat the toxic food while bagsying the ships' rations for himself, allowing him to reduce the female crew to his personal harem and set himself up as a god. Fortunately, recovery appears possible once the victims have been weaned off the toxic food. |
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The plot of the point-and-click adventure game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders revolves around aliens who took over the phone company and are sending out a signal that makes people stupid. | |
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In Super Mario Bros. #5 (from Valiant Comics), King Koopa's (full name "Bowser Koopa") science team comes up with "the Stoopid Bomb." The King of the Mushroom Kingdom, being an idiot, is unaffected, but everyone else becomes foolish, including King Koopa's own troops, as the bombs are on a hair trigger and keep getting dropped. There are also antidote Smart Bombs, but they are all used on one Shyguy, who becomes a genius and temporarily wrests control from Koopa. Too bad he's now the Only Sane Man. | |
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Superman: The end of Lex Luthor's President Evil arc explains his blaming Superman for a kryptonite meteor heading for Earth, putting on Powered Armor, and ranting madly on national TV, by him having injected himself with a mind-altering mixture of Bane's Venom formula and liquid kryptonite. Geoff Johns later threw in a revelation that Lex's recent bouts of stupidity were caused by the presence of his Alternate Universe 'counterpart', Alex Luthor Jr., somehow... even though he is actually the son of his universe's Lex. This above gets some possibly unintentional Fridge Brilliance from the fact that before Luthor's total breakdown, in Adventures of Superman #600, he had a brief period of amnesia during which he became a radical anti-corporate villain, in essence, the opposite of regular-Luthor. During this story, he called himself... Alex. |
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In an episode of ChalkZone, Craniac 3 tries to get Rudy with a smart bomb. It is sentient, though, and does not want to blow itself up. He instead opts for the Dumb Dart, which lowers intelligence. | |
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In the ReBoot episode "Enzo the Smart", Enzo messes with the clock speed of Mainframe in an attempt to make himself smarter. He asks it to make him twice as smart as everyone. Instead of making him smarter, it just makes everyone twice as stupid as him. | |
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An episode of Kim Possible had Dr. Drakken using "silly hats" to reduce the world's leading scientists to blithering idiots. | |
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In an early episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy has a brief bout of "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome and builds a "brain drain" helmet to lower his intelligence to that of an average person, but it accidentally gets cranked up to maximum stupidity without him noticing, and turns him into a total idiot. | |
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Cow and Chicken: Played with in an I Am Weasel short in which I.R. Baboon manages to publish a book that apparently turns everyone who reads it into complete and utter idiots. Lamenting on this turn of events, I.M. Weasel decides to expose himself to the "stupid powers"... but remains unaffected. He eventually realizes that everyone around him was already a stupid twit, and he just didn't notice it. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "The Cloud Minders", the mineral zenite emits a colorless, odorless gas that decreases intelligence and increases aggression. Fortunately, removing the subject from exposure makes the effects gradually wear off, and a simple filter mask can protect one from exposure. | |
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In the Futurama episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", Fry is the only one immune to the giant brains' stupefying effect due to a deformity in his brainwaves caused by his... unique ancestry. In practice, this basically means he's already so stupid that the brains can't make him any stupider. | |
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Used as a brief gag at the end of one episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Robot Buddy XR has had files he's not supposed to have on his brain chip throughout the episode. At the end he deletes them. However, he also erases most of his IQ by mistake. | |
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In Psychonauts, using super-powerful sneezing powder to make people literally sneeze their brains out results in the person turning into a listless zombie obsessed with television (and hacky-sack, for some reason). The trope is also inverted in the case of Ford Cruller, who (due to a crippling psychic battle) develops dissociative identity disorder when he's not near the Psitanium deposit. The Confusion power is a psychic ability that induces confusion on others. This manifests in the form of a question mark, the dot used like a grenade, creating a temporary cloud of green smoke. Enemies hit with it attack other enemies, NPCs give disoriented dialogue, and if Raz is affected by an enemy's Confusion gas, the screen becomes blurry and the controls are reversed. |
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An episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle featured "goof gas". Bullwinkle was too stupid to be affected by it. Boris remarked something like, "Goof gas affects the brain. No brain, no effect." Pretty much the exact same thing, with different phlebotinum, happened in The Movie. | |
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Dogstar: In "Mensamania", Fenwick creates a stupidity virus that Bob Santino unleashes on Mensa, the most intelligent planet in the galaxy, as a test run. If it works there, he intends to use it on Earth to make the population stupid enough to buy his latest product. | |
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Geoff Johns later threw in a revelation that Lex's recent bouts of stupidity were caused by the presence of his Alternate Universe 'counterpart', Alex Luthor Jr., somehow... even though he is actually the son of his universe's Lex. This above gets some possibly unintentional Fridge Brilliance from the fact that before Luthor's total breakdown, in Adventures of Superman #600, he had a brief period of amnesia during which he became a radical anti-corporate villain, in essence, the opposite of regular-Luthor. During this story, he called himself... Alex. | |
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An episode of Invader Zim had a power amplifier that "radiated pure stupid" when GIR hooked himself up to it. | |
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Eragon: At one point, the titular character is captured and jailed, where he's given food and water laced with a drug that renders him, quite frankly, too stupid to do anything but smile, stare at the wall, and think highly of the warden who brings his tray ("Wasn't that nice of him?"). When Eragon misses a single meal, he regains just enough intelligence to realize what's happening and thus keep from eating until his mind is restored. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: "Not so fast, archvillain! We still have the Orb of Confusion!" Which, by the way, causes a wave of confusion that starts with the person who turned it on, making it a very literal Idiot Ball. The episode "Salsa Imbecilicus" has Plankton making salsa with Patrick's DNA that makes almost everyone in Bikini Bottom as dumb as Patrick, Plankton himself included. |
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"AUM" in the Illuminatus! trilogy is a hallucinogenic drug cocktail that renders users highly creative and supremely gullible at once. When one character tests it by spiking the punch at a meeting of a Fictional Counterpart to the Knights of Columbus, the group ends up renouncing Christ and adopting geocentrism. Unlike most examples, this stuff tends to make people more intelligent, not less. Initially they believe almost everything that follows some kind of logic, but since it stimulates inquisitiveness and curiosity, it tends to produce more knowledgeable and open-minded people, on average. It's implied that sometimes the opposite can happen as well, but those examples are never seen in the book. |
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Judge Dredd has an experimental weapon named "the Stupid Gun" which falls into the wrong hands. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Trixie Lulamoon takes hold of the Alicorn Amulet, an artifact that amplifies magical power exponentially, to the point where she can fire off aging spells casually. However, the longer she keeps it on, the more mentally unstable she becomes. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus — In the "Gumby Surgery" sketch, the head surgeon (Graham Chapman) is perfectly intelligent and lucid while asking the nurse for glasses, mustache, and handkerchief. As soon as the latter is put on, he turns into the usual Gumby idiot/madman: "I'm going to operate!" | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has the First One's disk, which is capable of infecting many forms of technology as shown in "System Failure" and "White Out". This includes She-Ra's sword, which causes Adora to act like she's heavily drunk. | |
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In Monster!, the curse on the town of New Purgatory means that every three years when the title Monster resurrects and goes on its rampage, the town is forced to abide by horror movie rules, which includes making people act in line with those rules. As a result, everyone but the 'movie's' designated protagonist will be Genre Blind and Police Are Useless is Enforced. | |
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In the first Djinn arc of The Wotch, a wish turns all girls except blondes into stupid bimbos. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Beer Bad". Buffy drinks cursed beer which turns her into a cavewoman. (Although she still looks the same, the guys who drink the beer literally look like cavemen. Granted, Xander expressly cut her off before the rest) Ends with a Spoof Aesop: Of course, the beer itself wasn't a good idea for someone who can literally punch through car doors. "Band Candy" had Ethan Rayne selling chocolate that made people act like particularly irresponsible teenagers. This is notable because "book smarts" weren't affected so much as common sense was. Buffy wound up having to be the responsible, mature one. It seemed to depend on what sort of person the reverted individual was as a teen. The principal was, and became again, a dweeb and mindless hanger-on to whoever seemed coolest (in this case, Buffy.) Giles was, and became again, a danger to everyone around him. |
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In Stargate Atlantis the Wraith serum raises physical abilities but seriously dampens intelligence. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Baby Stewie", Brian convinces Stewie that he'll lose his genius intellect when he grows older, so Stewie builds a machine to rewrite his DNA and keep himself smart. It instead reduces his intelligence to that of a normal 1-year-old. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods: The Organization employs several measures to make the characters act stupid. They put a chemical in Jules's hair dye to make her dumber and hornier. They use a combination of chemicals, subliminal suggestions that manipulate the characters into filling their typical Slasher Movie roles and doing dumb things (such as entering the basement, or reading the forbidden book out loud). | |
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In the Breadwinners episode "Crumbskull", Buhdeuce gives Ketta what he thinks is a loaf of Double Chocolate Fun Bread, but turns out to be Triple Chocolate Dunce Bread, which turns her into an idiot. | |
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