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Too Dumb to Fool

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Too Dumb to Fool	comment	A character too dumb to fool is someone who's completely immune to logic traps and fallacies because he ignores anything that he can't understand in favor of what he can. It's not his only advantage. He also doesn't manage to fool himself. If something is too simple to be seen, count on them seeing it. Cutting the Knot is frequently suggested by such a character. And it's really, really, really hard to sucker him with ideological explanations. Trying to Break Him by Talking is a bad idea. He probably won't understand your attempts to undermine his confidence or self-esteem, or understand why he's supposed to care about what you have to say. His counterargument will be to merely tell you to Shut Up, Hannibal!, and make you Talk to the Fist. A Kansas City Shuffle won't work against him either because he doesn't pick up on the signals that are supposed to make him react the way you need him to. Often The Fool is mentally disabled, though he may merely be Book Dumb. Children can also fall under this; when the Constantly Curious child comes up with an Armor-Piercing Question, this often comes into play. Frequently the Spanner in the Works and the Only Sane Man who can detect the Devil in Plain Sight. Sometimes he does not detect the sarcasm in the Sarcastic Confession. And Exact Words won't work with him either because he won't actually see anything but. Sometimes produces the Fearless Fool and Achievements in Ignorance. It is not unknown for them to be able to ignore Schmuck Bait. If a smart person is assuming this role on purpose to frustrate a would-be scammer, it's Obfuscating Stupidity, though admittedly it can be hard to distinguish the two. Often a Foil to Too Clever by Half. See also Dumbass Has a Point, Nobody's That Dumb, and Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal. Contrast with the Seemingly Profound Fool, who may seem clever partly because they are Too Dumb To Fool. The concept derives from the idea that the simple-minded have an earthy sort of wisdom, and that the simplest solution is usually the best. In certain circumstances, especially when a Masquerade is in place, this simplicity of thought allows a Fool to see things for what they truly are, even when this really ought to require some kind of metaphysical super-senses. This is one major way in which idiocy is turned into a Disability Superpower. See also Disability Immunity for where a character is similarly unaffected, but has a physical, easier-to-recognize disability. Not to be confused with the similarly-named Too Dumb to Live, in which a character does a suicidal thing that can get themselves killed, like Bullying a Dragon. Often this can be a result of someone trying to pull I Know You Know I Know and think three moves ahead of someone who hasn't even reached the first move.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_108cd205	comment	The Wizardry series of RPGs uses this trope with characters of low intelligence (like Lizardmen). Characters with low intelligence aren't as prone to mental conditions or psionic (mind-based) attacks and effects.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_124e4ce9	comment	In an episode of Smart Guy, T.J. loses a game of chess to a computer. Marcus, feeling bad that he bet against his brother, does his best to help him practice for a rematch despite only knowing how the pieces move. Marcus is limited to moves that are so stupid T.J. doesn't know how to respond to them, and in the middle of telling Marcus this, he realizes he's found his strategy.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1305c32	comment	Gentaro Kisaragi, the protagonist of Kamen Rider Fourze, is a self-admitted Idiot Hero who tries to befriend everyone. However, when Ryusei Sakuta tries to join the Kamen Rider Club, Gentaro shocks everyone by refusing. He says that Ryusei isn't showing his real face, and he doesn't want to be friends with someone who can't be honest — and he's 100% correct. Later on, Ryusei becomes enraged with Gentaro and punches him, nearly breaking his cover, but Gentaro just smiles and says now they can be friends because that punch gave him a glimpse of the real Ryusei.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1520dbc2	comment	Song of the South: Br'er Rabbit uses reverse psychology (also known as Briar Patching) to trick Br'er Fox into increasingly elaborate murder methods until he decides to do what Br'er Rabbit wants him to. Br'er Bear is against it and wishes to just "knock his head clean off". While Br'er Bear is too dumb to even realize what the Rabbit tries to do, his simple thinking also makes him immune to the trick, while the Fox, who is far from the sharpest tool himself, falls into it.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_15cb81b6	comment	The ogre in Tale of Tales, albeit only in his first scene. Everyone's trying to guess what animal a hide is from — because the one who guesses it gets to marry the princess — but they can't, because it's from a giant flea, and nobody can guess a flea could be that big. The ogre just smells that it smells like a flea.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You: Beat is like this. He doesn't get offended when people make fun of him... because he's too stupid to realize he's being insulted. He's also the Spanner in the Works that causes Kitaniji's careful and perfectly laid plans to fall apart, right when Neku seems to be doomed.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1b386512	comment	In one Ranma Â½ fan fiction, UkyÅ� tries to keep RyÅ�ga from a certain location by giving him a map. Of a different city. However, RyÅ�ga's No Sense of Direction is so bad that the inaccurate map actually helps him get to where he wants to go, to UkyÅ�'s bewildered confusion.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: In the Age of Apocalypse, the extremely dimwitted Sunder is the only member of Forge's resistance trope to realize the "new guy" is actually the horseman Mr. Sinister.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance:
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1c552432	comment	Inside Job (2021): Cognito, Inc. has to create a robot replica of the president because the one they backed in the last election turned out to be too stupid to manipulate.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1e6653ca	comment	If you read the long, and highly extensive Wall in The Neverhood, you'll find a story about Willie Trombone, who is found by some monsters. The monsters assume that Willie is no fool, and that they'll have to trick him before eating him. Of course, Willie is a fool among fools, and each attempt to trick him gave Big Robot Bil more time to come to the rescue.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1e91c61c	comment	Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm): Tao (the Tactical Augmented Organism) is the ultimate manipulator, capable of bending anyone to his will with time. However, when he tries his tricks on Ladytron, they simply don't work. She spells it out for him: He can influence the way rational people think, but she's a violent, stupid criminal — anything but rational. It's then immediately subverted when he switches tactics and uses effective emotional manipulation on her just long enough to take her out. Tao gets Hoisted by His Own Petard in this fashion again in an issue of GenÂ¹Â³, when he is able to manipulate all of the kids (and Helspont), but not Grunge.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1fc7499e	comment	Reaper Man provides a possible explanation: it's not so much that Ridcully is stupid, but that his mind is like an old locomotive; it takes a while for it to get up to speed...but once it's at speed, it's going at a pretty good clip. It just can't be steered.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_1ff419c5	comment	Goofy falls under this in Kingdom Hearts II. Upon encountering Mulan for the first time, it takes him a bit before he announces, "Oh, you're pretending to be a boy!" He not only saw through the disguise effortlessly, it took him extra time to realize it was there in the first place. It should be noted that of the three protagonists, for some odd reason Goofy is portrayed as the smartest, whether or not this was intentional is unknown, but Goofy seems to be both the Voice of Reason of the group and the one who notices when things are amiss. Given how he was in various other media, this makes his actions in the Kingdom Hearts games rather jarring. In Chain of Memories, even after realizing his mind is being actively rewritten, Sora decides to charge straight ahead, beat up bad guys, and hope for the best... and Organization XIII's duplicity and infighting ruin all their plans from within by the time he gets there.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2172e43f	comment	Batman: Arkham Knight: The Riddler attributes Batman continuing to solve his riddles to this (it can't possibly be that Batman is smarter than him after all). In particular, if you solve a colored switch riddle note The Riddler tells you hit colored switches matching the color in the order you see them. Since he said 'see' and not 'read', you go by the color of the ink rather than the word itself e.g. the word 'red' written in blue ink would require you to hit the blue button., he'll conclude that Batman can't read. He'll later make comments about underestimating Batman's stupidity, and forgetting to treat his stupidity and incompetence as separate factors.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2350acad	comment	In an early episode of Cheers, Harry claims to be able to levitate a coin. Norm doesn't believe him. Harry bluffs Norm into taking the wrong side of a bet about the truth of the claim. After the coin falls to the floor, Harry takes Norm's money and leaves. Norm then tries the same trick on Coach, who merely accepts the claim without comment. A cold open of a later episode has a prank caller trying the "is your refrigerator running" joke on Woody, who rather than fall for it instead lectures them on the grammatical structure of the joke. That Lilith apparently tried explaining the joke to her would-be victim apparently didn't help.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_24ffd341	comment	Ben the Soldier from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is one of the few completely nice and good characters on the show who hasn't had his life wrecked by the gang; any attempts to sucker him backfire because he can't follow along with the explanation for their scheme, so he'll just politely say no and walk away.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "The Joy of Sect", Homer resists the most powerful persuasion techniques of the Movementarian cult thanks to his negligible IQ and attention span. They eventually succeed when they use a technique that's as stupid as he is: change the lyrics to the 1960's Batman (1966) theme song from "Batman" to "Leader". In "Last Exit to Springfield", there was also Mr. Burns' numerous attempts to negotiate with Homer when he became head of the union for the Power Plant. Homer being Homer, he mistakes the innuendo Mr. Burns is using to offer Homer a bribe for sexual innuendo, and leaves thinking Mr. Burns is coming on to him. Lampshaded at the end of the episode when Homer celebrates his victory for the union with an extended Three Stooges esque "woop woop woop woop" leading Mr. Burns to comment that Homer might not be the master negotiator that he'd taken him to be. In "Homer's Enemy", Frank Grimes, who is frustrated by Homer's dumb luck, attempts to show the power plant the follies of putting a complete idiot in charge of plant safety by tricking Homer into entering a "Design Your Own Power Plant" contest meant for elementary school age students. Homer enters a power plant with aerodynamic wings to lower wind resistance and a racing stripe, and even after Grimes tells Homer that the contest was meant for school-age children, Mr. Burns and the plant employees still give him a standing ovation, much to Frank Grimes' chagrin. In "Homer the Moe", Homer took over Moe's duties as bar tender. When Bart tried his usual Prank Call, Homer immediately recognizes that it is Bart pranking him but is eager to go along. He doesn't get the joke however, even after Bart explains it to him, so Bart just hangs up in disgust. In "Dead Putting Society", Lisa tries to deliver the classic Koan of "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" to Bart. He simply slaps the fingers and palm of one hand together. Lisa has better luck with "If a tree falls in a forest and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound?". Bart initially gives the technical answer that yes it does, until Lisa points out "how can sound exist if no one can hear it?"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_27777760	comment	This is essentially the premise of the show Eureka. Jack Carter is a regular guy surrounded by super-geniuses, some of them a little evil. However, even when the bad guys have the entire town fooled, Carter always spots the detail that they missed. Carter also likes to apply common sense solutions to uncommon problems. And he isn't afraid of using SCIENCE! to get it done. In this case it's somewhat of a deliberate Obfuscating Stupidity. He's not smart enough to understand most of the super science principles at work in most of his cases, but he's still a competent investigator who can make logical connections between cause and effect. The fact that he's not AS smart as the rest of the town also means that the villains tend to underestimate him and spend most of their efforts trying to undermine the scientists rather than the "dumb" cop who ultimately ends up foiling them.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_27831967	comment	Andy Dwyer from Parks and Recreation. In the second and third seasons, April's attempts at Operation: Jealousy fail because he's too naive to be tricked and too nice to really be outwardly malicious towards anyone. More specifically, in the episode "Jerry's Retirement", after the resident Butt-Monkey Jerry retires from his job at the Parks Department, Tom becomes the new designated punching bag of the department (which also functions as Laser-Guided Karma for him, as he's often the most outwardly antagonistic towards Jerry). Tom desperately tries to make Andy the new "Jerry" by making him undergo humiliating things, but it doesn't work because while Andy is a clumsy and slovenly idiot, he also lacks any sense of shame and is sincerely comfortable in his own skin, meaning that people laugh with him rather than at him whenever he screws up.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2a8943c0	comment	In the Miraculous Ladybug fanfic Fox Rain, Zoe Chevalot, better known as Zoe the Fangirl due her obsession with Adrien, knows he's actually Chat Noir because it would be cool if he were a superhero.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk" has an instance where Bugs Bunny tricks the Giant into a duel at twenty paces, counting on the latter's giant steps to take him far away. Instead, the Giant's steps take him all the way around the cloud they're on, putting Bugs right back where he started.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2c2a56e3	comment	In The Phantom Menace Qui-Gon attempts to disable a group of droids by using a Logic Bomb and although the droid is briefly confused by it, its AI isn't exactly super advanced so it doesn't overthink the paradox and simply attempts to arrest them anyway.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2cae0547	comment	In Surviving Romance, when Seyeong tries to manipulate Rina into helping her isolate Chaerin from the rest of the class, it fails completely due to Rina's simple-mindedness. As the spectating Chaerin puts it, you can always win an argument against Seyeong, if you don't have any logic in the first place.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2d01f8dc	comment	Beavis and Butt-Head: In "Feel a Cop", Officer Linda goes undercover, posing as a prostitute, to trick whoever asks for her advances into getting arrested, with Beavis and Butt-Head being her first "subjects". Of course, her scheme ends up backfiring because the duo was so stupid that they kept using euphemisms instead of making their demands specific. In "Prank Call", when the duo harasses a man named Harry Sachz with prank calls one too many times, he gets Caller ID to trace the call back and calls them pretending to be a pizza delivery man. The only problem is that the two are too stupid to even know their own address, so they instead give him Stewart's address from some mail they took from him.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2f8201f1	comment	In Toradora!, Ryuuji's mother Yasuko is a Hard-Drinking Party Girl who tends to be rather immature, but she often says or does exactly the right thing to make people feel better or understand each other without even realizing it.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_2fc7f6b9	comment	Donkey Kong Country Returns: Donkey Kong himself appears to be capable of resisting Kalimba's hypnosis (which had taken over most of the other inhabitants of DK Island by then), most likely due to his thick-headedness and scrap-happy nature.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_30963b69	comment	In the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series, specifically Callahan's Lady, Tony Donuts (don't ask) is a grade-A imbecile who is simply too violent for most people to even try to scam, and too stupid for nearly anyone - even the Professor - to scam successfully. When the Professor states he's made his plan foolproof, Mary points out that he did not make it moron-proof. This worry is proven justified when they rob a bank to pay Tony Donuts with real money instead of returning his counterfeit bills: a bank would certainly give them numbers in sequence, but Tony, being too dumb to use the printing press correctly, made his counterfeit money all with the same serial number.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Something like this occurs during the Chunin Exam arc, when Sasuke comes up with a plan to figure out if somebody is infiltrating the group using a transformation jutsu. His plan was to come up with a very, very, long password. Later, when someone does come disguised as Naruto and gets the password right, Sasuke immediately realizes that it's an impostor because he knew Naruto would never be able to remember the whole thing. Also comes to Naruto's aid during the first part of the Chunin Exams. The ninja candidates are given an insanely difficult written test, with the implicit understanding that what's really being tested are their covert information gathering skills (i.e. being able to cheat on the test without getting caught). However, the way the test is set up (You get ten questions, the tenth of which is a "Leave Your Quest" Test. For the first nine questions, the proctors are watching like hawks and will fail you if you get caught cheating enough. Students are told that wrong answers will also lose them points, but this doesn't actually happen because if you answer the tenth question correctly, you automatically pass.) means that the only thing that will actually get you failed is getting caught cheating. Naruto manages to pass the test without doing anything at all, as he didn't know the answers to the questions, was dumb enough to miss the implication that the test was really on his cheating skills, and brave enough to pass the Secret Test of Character at the end. Sakura also never realized that she was supposed to cheat, because she didn't need to - she was smart enough to just work out the answers legitimately.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_31c31084	comment	In an episode of The Weekenders, dimwitted Bluke figures out the answers to the clues for the scavenger hunt because he doesn't bother to think they're cryptic and complicated, as the main cast assumes... and nets them second place and a pizza — which he similarly correctly realizes is a better prize than the first-place pool table, since the game was played by five-person teams, and you can't "split" a pool table.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: Bikke has earned this title. When Sarda tries to taunt the Dark Warriors with the fact they don't know how to actually use the Orbs, Bikke responds by chucking his at Sarda's head. Mind you, this does end up working in his favor. Sarda is so amused by his pluck that he promises You Will Be Spared. Or at least suggests it... Similar thing occurred when Black Mage tries to use his hypno-vision on Fighter. It doesn't work, and Fighter hardly notices that he attempted it. Fighter comments that trying to hypnotize him won't work because he isn't smart enough to be hypnotized. Fighter even says at one point, "It may not be possible to fool me, 'cause of how smart I am." While his teammates discuss how best to fool him. And succeed. With the plan that he was listening to.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Shake creates multiple Meatwads everytime he cuts one in half. Carl decides to scamming them by teaching them poker and making up the rules while using flashcards. When Carl collects the pot, he realizes the Meatwards have been using fake bills from a board game, rending the victory moot.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_3583b777	comment	Chattur'gha in Eternal Darkness (who is essentially Dumb Muscle incarnate) has the advantage over Xel'lotath (whose entire MO involves illusions and trickery) because of this.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_35af2104	comment	In The Fifth Elephant, it is suggested that one reason the Clacks is so efficient that it can function as a Bamboo Internet is that it employs Discworld's gargoyles, who are good at watching and too uncreative to make mistakes.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_37b56f7	comment	Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn: Your party encounters a con man who attempts to sell him a planar sphere that's just materialized spontaneously in the Slums. While the dialogue varies between NPCs, Minsc has one of the best: he declines because according to Boo (his pet miniature giant space hamster), the sphere is not a good buy, because — get this — it's too big to fit in even Minsc's pocket. Also, if a mage casts maze on a party member, a really dumb character will escape the spell before a moderately intelligent character.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal almost uses the trope name verbatim in this comic, where an alien species attempts to destabilize human governments by generating fake-but-perfectly-realistic footage of world leaders performing Satanic rites and eating babies. Turns out that the people who opposed those world leaders already saw them that way and weren't surprised, and the people who supported them quickly rationalized it as something we shouldn't rush to judge. The aliens decided that no attempt to fool humanity with fake information could possibly equal the fake information that humanity gives itself.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_3f4a104b	comment	In a 1996 Dilbert comic strip, Dogbert tries to sell his services, updating the company's computers to make them Y2K compliant, explaining that if something isn't done, then massive problems will occur when the computers think it's the year 00. Dogbert then says that his work is guaranteed for one year. It's here.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: In "Fun with Jane and Jane", Luanne joins the Omega House sorority, unaware that they're actually part of a cult. However, Luanne's ditziness make her practically immune to their programming. Meanwhile, her aunt, the Know-Nothing Know-It-All Peggy, not only encourages her to go back to the cult after she escapes, but falls under their sway almost effortlessly.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_468bebb0	comment	A related concept is that children on the Discworld don't have a Weirdness Censor, because they don't know they're not supposed to be able to see the Grim Reaper.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_46a7fe88	comment	Nextwave: Forbush Man traps the team in illusionary realities that exist entirely within their own minds... only to realize too late that Tabitha escaped the ploy because she has no mind to control. One explosion later, Tabitha claims she got out of it because she's "clever."
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4cd32aa7	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: One of the NPCs mentioned in the book Denizens of the Empire is Hansup the Ogre, an officer of the Nuln City Watch, so named because he says it all the time and who taught himself to read by reading the town charter (and even then he is dumb even by Ogre standards). The description then goes on to say that Hansup has become the terror of the city's criminals because he is virtually implacable, incorruptibly diligent, and his standard method of dealing with anything that looks suspicious is "arrest 'em all and let my boss sort it out".
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4ce56986	comment	Kitboga (like some other scambaiters) adopts the persona of characters who seem like they should be easy targets for scammers, yet somehow they can never manage to follow the scammersâ€™ instructions well enough to be successfully fleeced, stringing the scammers along for hours and frustrating them to no end. Of course, this is all fully intentional.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape also has the Clueless — basically the assumption that anyone from the Prime Material Plane is an idiot who doesn't understand how the planes work. There is a running theme in most supplementary materials, however, that point out that this can make primes the most unpredictably dangerous beings to deal with, especially from some worlds (like Krynn) where the lack of planar contact may mean they assume any planar is automatically a demon. There's also the fact that while planar factions engage in ideological struggles, it is the Prime where most of the belief that shaped the plane come from. The player guide in the campaign setting also notes that Clueless make popular mercenaries, since they don't have any factional loyalties.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4e5b6428	comment	Also seen in Making Money, where Moist tests his paper currency on particularly "slow" shopkeepers (although he does distinguish between "slow" and "stupid", with the implication he can persuade a stupid man of anything). If he can convince them, he can convince anyone. "Slow" here refers to mental inertia. These are men to whom new ideas are very dodgy. Not stupid (they can make wrong change as quick as you can blink), but set in their ways.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4e849071	comment	Fun and Fancy Free: Mickey Mouse tries to get Willie the Giant to turn into a housefly so he can swat him. But Willie's insistence on turning into a pink bunny thwarts this scheme.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4f46b380	comment	In a deleted extension of the scene in X-Men: First Class where the team is infiltrating a base in Soviet Russia, the search dog that the checkpoint guards have still sensed that something was amiss in the seemingly empty truck. Charles says that the reason is that his telepathic power doesn't work well on dogs.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4fa61cf3	comment	Adachi Hana from Flunk Punk Rumble proves to be this. When a bunch of creepy monsters start scaring Student Council members while they're doing work at school overnight, and they sneak up on Adachi and Shinagawa, she simply assumes they're Shinagawa's friends because they're following him. The creatures shout "Why aren't you scared?!" and reveal themselves to be members of the Occult Club who were trying to start rumors of school hauntings to get more visitors to their presentation at the next school festival.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_4fc0eb9b	comment	A Cardboard Crack strip shows a Magic: The Gathering player trying to make a subtle bluff and failing miserably because his opponent doesn't even know the basic rules of the game.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_50555681	comment	Katanagatari: Yasuri Shichika isn't exactly dumb — but he has No Social Skills, with his only human interaction being his father and his sister until Togame came along and the series started. As such, he is barely able to distinguish between people, and when a ninja used an impressive technique to impersonate Togame, Shichika immediately punched him even when he didn't know who it was yet. Shichika has been on the receiving end of this as well. His first major defeat was against a super-strong little girl named Konayuki who had no understanding of combat and who just swung her sword around wildly. Shichika practices a martial art that focuses heavily on feinting and predicting your opponentâ€™s moves, neither of which worked on her.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_507dfb6a	comment	In EarthBound (1994) and Mother 3, if any of the protagonists or enemies has a low enough IQ stat, PK Brainshock will have a chance to fail on the target.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_51d31800	comment	In Space Marine Battles novel Siege of Castellax, the Iron Warriors plan to slow the Ork assault down with a minefield full of converted nuclear warheads, hoping that detonating one will make them stop and think. However, rather than stop and wonder where the other "mines" may be, the Orks simply charge into five-miles-across crater left by the one they've blown up.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_53738439	comment	In the film adaptation of Wit, Susie the nurse is uneducated and simple in comparison to her brilliant colleagues and patient, but she alone understands human dignity, and no amount of philosophizing or cynical research or even inevitable death will take that from her.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_55842645	comment	The main character of Octodad wears a very Paper-Thin Disguise that fools everyone except experts on fish (Like the Sushi Chef or the Aquarium Scientists ). However, by the end of the second game, when he has to present himself to his kidnapped (human) family, his younger daughter immediately calls out "Daddy!". When everyone turns to look at her, she immediately quips "What? Am I the only one who noticed?"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_55c20cb5	comment	The paladin Remedios in Overlord (2012) is too lacking in patience, intelligence and leadership abilities to accomplish much despite being the leader of the Holy Kingdom's paladins. She's aggressive, reckless and has poor judgment except in one respect: Unlike everyone else around her, she never forgets even for a second that Ainz is an undead abomination and therefore cannot possibly be motivated by genuine altruism and concern for human life like he claims. During one particular scene he saves her from an enemy demihuman and is met only with seething resentment. He assumes she's just being an Ungrateful Bastard and never considers for a moment that she's angry because she can see right through his calculated PR campaign just by virtue of keeping in mind that he is undead. But in the end it doesn't matter because she's also too dumb (and mean) to convince anyone and too weak to stop him.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_565376b1	comment	In Orcs Must Die!, the Apprentice is the only war-mage left because he was the only one too stupid to realize how hopeless the conflict really is and too obtuse to give in to the Sorceress' offers. It's a bad thing that he becomes wiser as the game progresses, because with wisdom comes the realization that he and the rest of the world is pretty much doomed. He's so stupid that he's the only one to come up with the one guaranteed way to stop the Orcs: just close the gates that supply the magic.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Elan is a somewhat complicated example. He's pretty dumb, but he's also highly Genre Savvy. This makes trying to predict what he'd do in any given situation a crapshoot, because he could be too dumb to fall for the trick, too dumb to fall for it but decide that, for example, stripping off his armor before the big fight would be a good idea anyway, Genre Savvy enough to see and avoid the trick, or Contractually Genre Blind enough to see the trick but choose to fall for it. The one thing Elan can always be counted on to do is whatever's funniest. To whit, he once broke Nale's brain through his abuse of a trope, claiming that he knows about it but knows that he couldn't know about it in order to preserve the trope's existence. The Lotus-Eater Machine plotline is sort of an example of this trope plus Character Development. No one else realizes what's going on because they see themselves fulfilling goals that are both plausible and beneficial (stopping the Big Bad, getting rich, etc.) Elan's greatest dreams, however, are implausible and ultimately childish (for example, his parents remarrying), and this clues his higher brain functions on to the fact that something is amiss.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_58df67fa	comment	In The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret , a terrorist family tries to con Todd into refusing payment for a large purchase by implying that it won't leave them with enough money for the mother's medication. They all turn to Todd expectantly, waiting for him to suggest that he accept payment later, but he just stares blankly back at them, too socially inept to read the unspoken request. After an awkward pause, they give up and try a second tack, which Todd is dumb enough to fall for.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_595bc57f	comment	Nozomi Yumehara of Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is a ditzy girl who stumbled onto the Call to Adventure due to her Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! Yet, in Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 3, she's the first one to realize that she's trapped in a dream world and ultimately rejects it. Then again her Cure identity IS "Cure Dream". The funny thing about it and how it fits the trope is because Nozomi is Book Dumb, yet in her dream, she magically writes down the answers of the subject she is teaching, despite actually not knowing said answer. That is the moment she realizes that what she is experiencing is a dream. Because as of the way she is now, she is too dumb to be a teacher in the first place.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_5a3538ca	comment	In Super Robot Wars 30, Swaile Qujuppat is using his Geass to confuse Kallen Kozuki into attacking her friends Sayoko and Lloyd, thinking they're him. Enter Van of the Dawn, who is equally Geass'd but for some reason just decides to keep swinging his sword at everyone â€“ Qujappat included. To Qujuppat's horror (and even C.C. suggests similarly), Van is just too dense for his strategy to work, forcing him to retreat.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has Paralyzing Contradiction, a spell in which caster tells a Koan, and everyone nearby who hears it has to come up with a personal interpretation before they do anything. Unless they have intelligence 1 or less, in which case they're too stupid to realize there's a puzzle.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_5e16d550	comment	Asta from Black Clover is very aware of his lack of smarts, which is why he won't consider any We Can Rule Together or I Surrender, Suckers kind of offers. When Ladros tried those, Asta refused to listen and went straight to defeat him and knock him out.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_613886d0	comment	Hadouken Dude's Four Swords Misadventures 6 had a moment in which Green Link and a drunken Red are attempting to answer a series of questions. The last one, 'What's the quickest way to a man's heart?' was answered by Red as 'Chuck Norris's fist' Surprise surprise, it's the right answer! When Green asked him how he came up with the answer, Red replied 'Dude, Chuck Norris is everywhere...'
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_626a75bc	comment	In BlazBlue: Continuum Shift the resident Big Bad has Trolled part of the cast into such frustration that they've been unable to do anything about his evil master plan; he has verbally Mind Raped another part of the cast as a part of said evil master plan and he has manipulated the rest of the cast into playing him straight into his hands... When Taokaka enters the frame, however, he finds that she's not only too stupid to notice that he insults her and too shallow and carefree to be lectured, she also has a three second/three steps attention span/memory combo, making any attempts at manipulating her a crash course in futility. Consequently, the Big Bad quickly decides that, in this situation, Murder Is the Best Solution... Luckily, Taokaka's Cool Big Sis busts her out. Later, in Central Fiction, Izanami fails to manipulate Tao as she has most of the other chosen - when shown a vision of her perfect world, and then told that another person is preventing it from being created, Tao realizes that she would rather have the world she has now due to it being authentic and having the memories she cherishes with her village mates. Therefore, if someone is maintaining that world, she should protect them - exactly the opposite of what Izanami was intending.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_62a7de21	comment	Tomo proves to be this in Azumanga Daioh — amusingly enough, Osaka of all people is the one to run afoul of it. In an attempt to be called "Ayumu Kasuga" instead of "Osaka," she tries telling Tomo that she didn't live in Osaka for the most part, and lists several other locations she's lived. Tomo, being too stupid to remember these other places, just sticks with "Osaka" because she can remember it. If she looked at a map, though, she could just as easily point out that all of the other locations are just suburbs of Osaka.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_638624c8	comment	The revelation that Xellos from Slayers is a Mazoku comes as a shock to everyone — except Idiot Hero Gourry, who noticed from the beginning and didn't say anything because he thought it was so obvious, surely everyone else had noticed too.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_65e12be4	comment	Actually lampshaded by the author in Dark Studios Kids Next Door when Numbuh Three is the only member of Sector V to be unaffected by the boogeyman's nightmares in Operation N.I.G.H.T. His attempts to frighten her completely fail because she can tell they're just bad dreams.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_67dfa016	comment	Played with in the 2007 adaptation of Hairspray, when Velma Von Tussle tries to seduce Wilbur Turnblad. She assumes that he is not responding to her advances because he's an idiot, but it's implied that he knows what she's trying and is deliberately ignoring her.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In the latter-series episode "Scary Monsters", a kid with uncontrolled psychic powers starts hurting people because he manifests illusions of a variety of monsters and threats and they hurt or kill themselves trying to fight them off. Agent Doggett, however, is able to fend off the illusions because he is a hard-core Agent Scully (to Agent Scully — he is clever, just not "Mulder and Scully" clever) and scares the kid into submission by applying Thought-Aversion Failure (he tosses water all over the room and lights up a match and tells the kid to not think he is setting the room on fire, and sure enough, the kid imagines an inferno and knocks himself out).
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Some compulsion spells have as a condition that the target must have a minimum amount of Intelligence (usually 3) to understand what you're trying to compel them to do. However, that isn't quite this trope because less than that is animal intelligence. It'd be like trying to hypnotize a cat. Though some other powers will affect only a stricter range of intelligence, sparing those who are either too smart or too stupid. For example, the 2nd Edition psionic devotion "post-hypnotic suggestion" only works on a subject with a score between 7 and 17. All compulsion and most illusion spells have an intelligence requirement of "some". Many creatures, such as undead and constructs (fantasy robots) can solve logical problems but lack a conscious intellect and are thus immune to mental manipulation, including bluffs and feints in combat. And, obviously, anything that involves manipulating a creature in a specific way (giving orders, etc.) usually requires that it be smart enough to know your language... which can be an issue for perfectly intelligent, say, goblins or giants who simply aren't multilingual and don't get the common language by default. This applies to both mundane social skills and spells; a caster with powerful mind-affecting magic or insanely good social stats can be paralyzed by sharing no languages with a weak-willed creature that should be their plaything. Planescape also has the Clueless — basically the assumption that anyone from the Prime Material Plane is an idiot who doesn't understand how the planes work. There is a running theme in most supplementary materials, however, that point out that this can make primes the most unpredictably dangerous beings to deal with, especially from some worlds (like Krynn) where the lack of planar contact may mean they assume any planar is automatically a demon. There's also the fact that while planar factions engage in ideological struggles, it is the Prime where most of the belief that shaped the plane come from. The player guide in the campaign setting also notes that Clueless make popular mercenaries, since they don't have any factional loyalties. Zigzagged with the Fast Talking proficiency from the second edition's Complete Thief's Handbook. Any attempt to use said proficiency against someone with an Intelligence score of 3 or less automatically fails; the text explains anyone with that low a score can't understand one's fast talking. The same text though points out that such stupid characters can be fooled in other ways.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_6b0dbcec	comment	Inferior Five: Dumb Bunny. "I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid!"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_6b1e9070	comment	PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White: In one of the Decolora Adventure episodes, everyone but Ash, Jessie, and James are hypnotized by crew of Beeheeyem. When the three eventually question why they were unaffected, the Beeheeyem state that hypnosis doesn't work on idiots.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: The protagonist eventually gains a bodyguard who hates using her head, but is extremely loyal to her. Some incidents have shown part of that loyalty to come from the fact that any third-party attempts to make the bodyguard act otherwise requires the latter to think, which is something she's very rarely willing to do. This is slightly zig-zagged in that she reamains easily lured away by the prospect of an interesting activity if her charge is left in the same room as other people who are able and willing to protect her.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_6c8b9d4f	comment	Adventures of the Gummi Bears: In "Music Hath Charms", Duke Igthorn orders a magicial bagpipe that hypnotizes people, but it only works on intelligent creatures, which leaves out his dimwitted ogre henchmen.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_73b4d4c1	comment	In Call of Cthulhu, losing a certain amount of sanity in one go - as caused by say, seeing an Eldritch Abomination or reading a Mythos book can cause temporary insanity... unless the Investigator fails an Idea roll... essentially, meaning they're too dumb to realize the full enormity of what they're just experienced and are thus spared some of its horror.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_740815bb	comment	Throughout Interesting Times, whenever someone says they would rather die than betray the Emperor, Cohen kills them. When the Silver Horde encounters a guard by the name of One Big River and ask him whether he'd rather die than betray the Emperor, One Big River (who isn't bright enough to see in terms of metaphor) answers, "I tink I rather live." The Horde, seeing value in a man too dumb to think in the empire's strict mental paths, bring him along.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_7785278d	comment	Implied in BioShock, where Fontaine gloats that Rapture was an easy target for him precisely because everyone there was very intelligent and overconfident because of it.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_77be988d	comment	Thief of Time, where the story of the Emperor's New Clothes is mentioned, and the book then points out that the story ended before it got to the bit where the kid was beaten for being rude to royalty.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_77e22425	comment	During the "Brainwashed" multi-parter near the end of Pinky and the Brain, the mice are captured and, appropriately enough, brainwashed. Or, at least, Brain is. Pinky is entirely unaffected due to his low intelligence. Later, as Brain starts to return to normal, he manages to Logic Bomb the brainwashing computer by introducing it to the concept of "Narf", which Pinky cannot help but "define" when the computer derides it as a non-word.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: Discussed in "The Checks" where George hires the cult Sunshine Carpet Cleaners to clean his carpet.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_7aa5ebea	comment	Squidbillies: When Early walks in on his wife naked with the band .38 Special, and they try to convince him nothing is going on:
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_7bfdcea7	comment	In The Emperor's New Clothes, all the adults in the crowd convince themselves that they can see the Emperor's non-existent outfit because it's claimed that only those worthy of their position can see it. Only one child is simple and uninhibited enough to realize, "The Emperor has no clothes!"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_7d1c83da	comment	This creates a lot of problems in Better Call Saul, when Nacho decides to rob the drug thief Daniel Wormald. Nacho surmises, having ripped off many a petty criminal, that Daniel won't go to the cops, because while Nacho might get busted, Daniel is also going to be under suspicion because the cops will want to know what Nacho stole and what his motive was, and the answer is "he wanted the thousands of dollars of drug money I used to buy the ludicrously expensive car sitting in front of my one-bedroom flat." Unfortunately, Nacho's gambit falls apart because Daniel is too much of an idiot to realize he shouldn't go to the cops and reports the theft instead, which necessitates Mike and Jimmy to step in before everyone involved goes to prison or worse.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_7de09a4a	comment	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has the king and titular protagonist being chased by an angry mob. They cross a stream and then climb a tree to avoid pursuit, then Hank realizes someone might figure out what they did, so they climb into a neighboring tree. Cue the mob sending someone to climb the first tree...who accidentally climbs the second one instead and discovers them.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_80d8708a	comment	In Numenera (and its attached Cypher System), one of the descriptors a character can get is "Scatter-Brained". The disadvantage of getting this descriptor is a strong penalty to logic-based rolls (and the note that the character is plagued with Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!), but as a bonus the character is pretty much immune to people trying to swindle him.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_81202666	comment	In Chainsaw Man, Idiot Hero Denji manages to frequently outwit foes smarter & stronger than him by either completely blowing past their attempts to deceive him or pulling out some insane plan that's so utterly ludicrous and impractical that no sane tactician would ever expect an opponent to try it. During his fight with the Falling Devil, when she attempts to Mind Rape him he reveals that in situations like this he'll invoke this trope and give himself brain damage with his Healing Factor taking care of the rest.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Kevin, who had made it to the world series of poker, correctly infers when they are playing poker that Phyllis thinks her hand isn't great, but loses because she had a flush she didn't notice. In another episode, Michael Scott proves he's too dumb to fool when Andy is trying to convince Michael that Dwight is an incompetent boob. Every time Andy makes an attempt to talk negatively about Dwight, it goes right over Michael's head, including when Andy says that when someone does something dumb in the office, they say they "Schruted it." When Michael doesn't catch on, Andy points out that this is probably because of Dwight Schrute. Michael disagrees and says they're probably unrelated. Subverted when Michael clearly states in his interview at the end of the show that he prefers Dwight to Andy because Andy is just a general suck-up while Dwight sucks up because he really believes Michael is special. Comes up for Michael again in the episode "Did I Stutter?". Early in the episode, Dwight strong-arms Andy into selling him his car for an absurdly low price. He tries the same thing on Michael later on to convince him to give Dwight "emergency power" over everyone in the office; the attempt completely goes over Michael's head.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8300bb14	comment	Fletch. When he's caught red-handed trespassing by a guard with a shotgun, the title character tries to bamboozle him with a line of patter: claiming to be Don Corleone, saying he's with the mattress police, etc. The guard (who's obviously not too bright) isn't impressed, and insists on calling the cops. Since it's one of the few times where Fletch's wit fails him, it takes a well-timed Groin Attack to get him out of hot water.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_86e51bb5	comment	Invoked in-universe by Taako of The Adventure Zone: Balance; apparently the reason he was able to resist the temptation to claim and use the Artifact of Doom is because he's simply too stupid to be tempted. Ultimately subverted when it's revealed that the real reason he, Magnus, and Merle can resist the temptation is that they're their creators.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8889afa3	comment	Rogue Trader's Navigators all have a power called The Lidless Stare. If mastered, it can instantly kill people who look into the Navigator's Warp Eye — unless they have less than Intelligence 20... Note that the lowest human intelligence possible during character generation is 27, but that's only the player character minimum, and the PCs are high-powered in Rogue Trader.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8960828c	comment	Good Burger: Roxanne's attempts to seduce Ed into giving her the secret sauce fail because he is too dumb to realize she's hitting on him. He's also too dumb and goofy to understand when he's being insulted or provoked. Subverted, however, when Dexter robs him blind in a terrible business deal because Dexter knows Ed doesn't understand basic arithmetic.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_89bf8ce	comment	In an episode of 30 Rock, Kenneth turns out to be an ace poker player; "you can't read his thoughts 'cause he doesn't have any."
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8ad6e76f	comment	Carpe Jugulum highlights a "Too Singleminded to Fool" aspect of Hodgesaargh, Lancre's falconer. It's not that he's dumb, exactly, more that his thoughts are pretty much entirely oriented around birds — with the result that when the Count, the villain of the story, takes a look into Hodgesaargh's mind, the Count concludes he doesn't need to influence a mind "crammed end to end with hawks", but isn't certain he could.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8aef1fcf	comment	Space Quest: Roger Wilco gets himself out of (and into) trouble because he's often not bright enough to lie, and prone to childish pranks and laziness. The people he opposes, like Sludge Vohaul, are usually Too Clever by Half and tend to forget key details when running their big plans.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8bf307b3	comment	Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Goofy. Most famously shown in a story by Floyd Gottfredson, where he remained immune from being hypnotized when everyone else fell for the trick (the Villain of the Week was a hypnotizer, playing his tricks on everyone, including Mickey. Goofy, on the other hand, lived up to this trope, naturally).
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8ebd23f4	comment	In Muppets Most Wanted, Animal is the only one not fooled by the impostor Constantine's Kermit impression. Apparently it's because he doesn't smell like Kermit.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8eda89ef	comment	In Darker than Black, the Wrong Genre Savvy, none-too-bright Clueless Detective is one of the only people to notice that that cute Chinese exchange student, Li, keeps showing up. Additionally, almost the only person to figure out the Black Reaper's identity was a Loony Fan who was more interested in stalking the hot guy than anything else.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: In "For Bros About to Rock", Lincoln and Clyde are arrested and thrown in mall jail, and Lincoln's sister Luna comes to bail them out while disguised as their mother Rita. Unfortunately, ditzy Bobby Santiago is working at the mall, and he isn't fooled by the disguise one bit, even blowing Luna's cover and getting her arrested. In "Grub Snub", Lincoln's friends attempt to stop his ditzy sister Leni and her posse from hanging out at Gus's Games and Grub by placing caution tape near the games. Leni ends up thinking the tape means they're VIP. In "Party Fowl", the Casagrandes' parrot Sergio is locked out of the Loud House at night and wakes Leni up, trying to convince her to open her window and let him in under the impression that it's all a dream. Unfortunately, Leni instead opens her closet and then goes back to sleep on the floor, foiling his plan.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_8f422dc7	comment	In Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Poet's Circle of Memory Destruction doesn't work on Don Patch, 'cause he's stupid!
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9004922f	comment	Banjo from Hogfather is far too clueless to follow the criminal gang's plotting, yet he notices that the bar suddenly has a waiter (actually, Mr. Teatime). He also proves Too Dumb to Corrupt, as he loves Santa the Hogfather as much as a child would, so doesn't listen to offers of wealth that would make Hogswatch presents unnecessary.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9045b1b7	comment	A pretty grim version of this appears (and is discussed) on World War Z by Todd Wainio as he's retelling the Battle Of Yonkers. He explains that the Battle was just a display of Hollywood Tactics that would have scared off a more conventional enemy through "shock and awe", but the zombies (being literally brain-dead) only saw a huge amount of humans to eat and kept on coming regardless of losses and ignoring the massive explosions and gunfire that was going on around them. As a result, because the higher-ups decided to use weapons that were highly intimidating but lacked anti-personnel power and hadn't arrayed the defenses better to suit the enemy (among other stupid decisions); the Battle instead became a massacre.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9233c51d	comment	In Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises, during Mayor Joe Biden's emergency meeting, a horde of protestors chant Let's Go Brandon from below. The mayor himself not only misses the insult but is convinced they are cheering him on despite not knowing who "Brandon" is.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9284ad43	comment	The protagonists of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Dual Destinies come to the conclusion that Detective Fulbright was put in charge of Blackquill because he's too dumb to fall for his mind games. This is very much not the case.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_934f9373	comment	In Boarding School Juliet, the school is a web of politics and racial conflict in which carrying out a forbidden relationship is surprisingly easy, because there are a billion reasons why Towans would never date Westerners and such a relationship would be doomed anyway. However, Somali (who doesn't care about bigotry, or indeed anything except violence and her Love Interest) sees only two people who go to great lengths to be together, even if 'logically' they should be nemeses. note Possibly. It's left ambiguous as to whether she really does know, or Romeo and Juliet are just seeing things that aren't there.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_95f7353a	comment	Jimmy Bond in The Lone Gunmen has the personality and intellect of a Golden Retriever in a man's body, but he's also amazingly good when it comes to reading people's motives and being too dense to misdirect, skills that are more useful than they look in The X-Files universe.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_969d3d9	comment	In Valkyrie, the plotters use the fact that General Fromm is inevitably doomed if the Nazi regime continues (due to not having reported their plot despite having known about it) to attempt to win his (crucial) support. Fromm however is too proud to admit this and therefore opposes the plotters, causing them to fail and him to lose his only chance at survival.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_989c6002	comment	In The Law of Ueki, BJ starts off trying to win fights by claiming to be Robert Haydn, causing people to run in fear. While Mori falls for this, Ueki just remembers that BJ introduced himself as BJ earlier that day, and just can't seem to understand BJ's claims that his name is really Robert Haydn... and keeps insisting that he's really BJ. The fact that he doesn't even know who Robert Haydn is probably helps.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: In one comic, there was a charismatic Con Man who could convince people to buy anything he wanted them to by putting ideas in their heads. He tries this on Moose, but it doesn't work as he doesn't process ideas very well. He does know when he is being insulted, however, and promptly decks the guy for calling him a stupid lard bucket, depriving him of his charming voice.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Pirate Captain Monkey D. Luffy has displayed this sometimes, although he's also been fooled a lot. On one occasion his crew lamented that he was 'just the kind of idiot who would fall for that,' and were right, but when the chips are down, or just when he already knows the bad guy is a bad guy, he has used this trope. He's more often just Too Dumb To Confuse or To Distract.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon with the Unaware ability ignore their opponents' stat changes, by simply not noticing that those stat changes happened. Additionally, as of PokÃ©mon X and Y, the Oblivious ability not only prevents infatuation, but also prevents Taunt from forcing them into using only attacking moves. Come PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield, it also prevents their attack stat from being lowered by an opponent's Intimidate. The Klutz ability makes the Pokemon too clumsy to use their held item. This includes harmful items like the Sticky Barb, the Flame Orb or the Lagging Tail.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Fry is immune to the effects of the Brain Spawn because of his "special" mind. Special because he's his own grandfather, thanks to Time Travel shenanigans.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a4cdab75	comment	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Working-class Muggle Jacob Kowalski doesn't question or argue much when he stumbles into the Wizarding world and all the odd stuff he encounters, bluntly telling Newt "I ain't got the brains to make this up!"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a535581a	comment	The Emperor's New Groove: Treacherous Advisor Yzma tries to rationalize to Kuzco why she's doing his job, but he doesn't listen because he has the attention span of a goldfish. This is shown by her dialogue not being audible to the audience either and replaced by Kuzco's internal monologue about Yzma's ugliness. He then fires her on the spot, which was the right decision, albeit for the wrong reasons.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a6492af2	comment	Tom Cullen from The Stand is mentally handicapped, which makes him immune to the villain's array of mind powers. For example, Cullen has a catchphrase where he says, "M-O-O-N spells X," where X is important to the current topic and might provide a clue. When trying to find him with Tom Cullen, Randall Flagg can only sense the thought, "M-O-O-N, that spells moon." Flagg specifically has some sort of aspect of the old order - our world, reason, and civilization - while Cullen is an innocent child-man full of faith.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a6b9b759	comment	In The Guild, Mr. Wiggly is admitted into the Knights of Good only because they need one more player and he is Clara's husband. He manages to beat a powerful member of a rival group only because he does things so stupid that the enemy didn't think to defend against them. As he says "Sheer idiocy is my gaming specialty."
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, a player keeping two Islands untapped implies that they have a Counterspell in their hand. Similarly, a player tapping all of their Forests except one implies that they are holding a Giant Growth. Sometimes, players will attempt to bluff their opponents by keeping those lands untapped even when they don't have the necessary cards in hand. This tactic works best against intermediate players, because beginners don't yet know enough about the game to know what two untapped Islands or one untapped Forest signifies, and expert players are usually able to see through their opponents' bluffs. Many a Magic : The Gathering player has seen a bluff fail completely because they didn't realize that their opponents were, ironically, too inexperienced to fall for it.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: In "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", it's revealed that March 15th is the day Crocker is more of a Sadist Teacher than the rest of the year, torturing all students in specific ways. While wondering what to do with Timmy Turner, he decides against using rhetorical questions (like he did with A.J.) because Turner isn't intelligent enough to get frustrated by them.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a895e9d3	comment	In Portal 2, GLaDOS attempts to kill Wheatley with a Logic Bomb. ("This...sentence...is...false!")note donthinkaboutitdonthinkaboutitdonthinkaboutit Wheatley, however, is too obtuse to recognize it as a paradox. ("Uh...true. I'll go true. Well, that was easy.") In comparison, the frankenturrets, Wheatley's own creations, a combination of turret guns and boxes, seize up and start groaning in agony upon hearing the same statement, and they're not supposed to even be fully sentient. This makes sense when you realize that Wheatley was specifically designed to be as stupid as possible.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_a9f06cb6	comment	In the VeggieTales episode "Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed," Larry's scatterbrained nature makes him totally disinterested in listening to the titular character's lies.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_abfcff6a	comment	Rocky and Bullwinkle: Bullwinkle's own natural stupidity makes him immune to "Goof Gas", an IQ-lowering drug. Later in the same arc, Boris and Natasha attempt to use it to attack the US Congress, but the inanity of the politician's political debates cause them to think someone already "goofed" congress. Another Bullwinkle example when he enters an elevator that says "out of order" only to fall in the empty shaft, but happened to contain the hidden stash of counterfeit boxtops. Also in "Missouri Mish Mash", Bullwinkle is taken in by Boris and the Hatfuls to be brainwashed, but they can't do it because "not enough brain to wash".
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_ad29dc16	comment	One episode of All in the Family has most of the group stumped by Gloria's riddle of "A father and son go driving. There's an accident. The father is killed instantly, the son is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. The surgeon walks in, takes one look at the patient and says, 'I can't operate on this boy. He's my son.'" While Archie and Meathead quibble over trying to find some manner of Technical Truth like "the father was a stepdad and the surgeon was the biological father" to explain it, because their sexism won't even allow them to consider the doctor isn't male, Edith is too thick to consider this and suggests the doctor is the child's mother. She's right.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_b0028436	comment	Okuyasu Nijimura in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is notable for being explicitly none too bright in a world where clever plans are everywhere and Genius Bruisers predominate, but he still manages to find and defeat Akira Otoishi when the guy was disguised as a Speedwagon Foundation employee by not even bothering to Spot the Impostor- he just decided to beat up both and apologize to the real one later (luckily, he got Akira first try). It should probably be noted, however, that Akira had already fooled him previously in the battle by baiting him into uncovering an underground power line, enabling Red Hot Chili Pepper to get to the dock. And later on, Yoshihiro Kira tricks him into helping him escape rather easily. So heâ€™s not consistently Too Dumb to Fool, itâ€™s just that this particular circumstance was one where overthinking the problem wasnâ€™t going to help.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_b1072514	comment	Forrest Gump: The title character. A combination of being mentally disadvantaged, very swift on his feet, and plain dumb luck not only keeps him out of trouble (like drug addiction that Jenny and Lieutenant Dan suffered), but also enables him to try strange, but ultimately successful, ideas that end up making him a very wealthy and mostly happy man. For example, he is ragged on by a drill instructor who yells in his face, "What's your sole purpose in this army?" Gump replies, "To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant." To which the D.I. can only reply, "Goddamn it, Gump! You are a goddamn genius!"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_b12cd4	comment	In Zombie Roomie, George and Hunter try to infiltrate an Anti-Zombie group to save Robert. George pretends he's his own twin brother, Lucas and that he hates zombies because they turned George into one. The rednecks however think that he's one in disguise because Lucas and the zombie!George look the same (clearly not understanding the concept of twins) and throws them in a cell.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_b5b4b976	comment	Your party encounters a con man who attempts to sell him a planar sphere that's just materialized spontaneously in the Slums. While the dialogue varies between NPCs, Minsc has one of the best: he declines because according to Boo (his pet miniature giant space hamster), the sphere is not a good buy, because — get this — it's too big to fit in even Minsc's pocket.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	In Critical Role, this trope is the reason Craven Edge is safer in Grog's hands than anywhere else. He doesn't even know that it's trying to manipulate him, and just treats it like a Cool Sword that happens to talk to him.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_bb3a8454	comment	In Twisted Metal Head-On, Cousin Eddy is one of the few contestants who manages to avoid being screwed over by Jackass Genie Calypso. This is because he's a simple-minded man with simple-minded desires. He simply points to his RV and demands that Calypso "Make. It. Better". There's no real way to twist a wish like that, much to Calypso's annoyance.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_bb931b09	comment	Arthur in Fire Force is very dumb and delusional, which comes in handy when it comes to seeing through deception. He realized one of the Company 7 twins was an impostor before anyone else, even when the others tried to call him out on the supposedly baseless accusation.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_bc5acbd4	comment	A sufficiently talented Illusion Weaver in Kroniki Drugiego Kręgu can convince someone's body that it was stabbed or burned, but most animals (like frogs) are too stupid to fall for this, so they don't really react even if you use the power to make them appear to be on fire.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: Over the course of the series, Squidward has conducted various schemes to get rid of SpongeBob and Patrick. Naturally, they never work, as the two tend to take the schemes in a completely different direction. In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Plankton impersonates a psychologist to trick SpongeBob into revealing the Krabby Party formula. Of course, SpongeBob is too simple-minded to understand any of his ploys, rendering Plankton's plan entirely moot.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Orks of Warhammer 40,000 fit this trope. They cannot be fooled with a cunning tactical ruse, they won't attack an enemy's command structure or supply chains, they'll simply charge at whatever is right in front of them. This causes no shortage of headaches for many of the setting's centuries-old commanders, who can't break out of the deceptive warfare habit. It doesn't help that they sometimes mix it up with completely random tactics on a whim, which frequently results in Achievements in Ignorance or a case of "Who Would Be Stupid Enough?". It makes sense considering the Orks' two deities, Gork and Mork, embody brutal cunning (hits you even harder when you're looking) and cunning brutality (hits you when you're not looking) respectively. It's a tossup which Ork deity's philosophy an Ork considers the best. The most dangerous Orks are the ones who are brutally cunning and cunningly brutal.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_c0d295c4	comment	The Soldier of Team Fortress 2 is a weird example of being both Too Dumb to Fool and Dumb Enough to Fool Everyone Else. A Cloudcuckoolander bar none, he often sees through deceptions and disguises (well, most of the time) in the supplemental comics, once sussing out Miss Pauling when she's in disguise when everyone else, including Merasmus, was taken in by it. At the same time, he's managed to disguise himself as a robot and eavesdrop on secret robot meetings as well as misleading them into attacking incredibly obviously fake Mann Co sites he built. He's also completely immune to logical fallacies. In the video "Expiration Date", the Medic and Engineer reveal that the base's teleporters, teleporters that the whole team has been using for ages, have been filling the bread they send through it with tumors. They then ask if everyone else realizes what that means. The Soldier, extremely upset, screams that they "cannot teleport bread anymore". And while initially he seems to be Comically Missing the Point, it turns out that he was absolutely correct, because the obvious (and wrong) implication everyone else noticed never even occurred to him. Everyone else was jumping to conclusions, because, yes, that was all the Medic and Engineer's experiments proved: that putting bread through teleporters gives bread tumors. None of them even bothered to check if it actually gave tumors to anything else. And it turned out that it doesn't. The Soldier could be said to be exactly the right kind of dumb for the world of TF2, where everyone is a little bit stupid/insane in their own way, and his own brand of insanity manages to perfectly tap into those blind spots by accident.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Day of the Doctor", three incarnations of the Doctor devise a way to open a lock using a My Future Self and Me setup. The War Doctor (the incarnation between Eight and Nine) records the information in his sonic screwdriver, which decodes the lock over the centuries between the Doctor's incarnations so that Eleven can open the lock with the data the screwdriver has already figured out by the time he meets his past selves... while Clara (who's not unintelligent by any means, but merely isn't as intelligent as the superhuman Doctor) just decides to open the door, which was unlocked the whole time. In "Flatline", the psychic paper, which has fooled everyone except super geniuses, is defeated by Fenton, the supervisor of a community service program. This is possible because he has so little imagination that his brain can't picture anything on the paper. Classic Series Companion Peri Brown was usually depicted as The Ditz and a Ms. Fanservice, especially when compared to brainier companions like Sarah Jane Smith. However, she's one of the only humans who was ever able to completely No-Sell The Master's extremely powerful hypnosis. For perspective, the Master (in disguise as a politician) was able to brainwash the entirety of England into voting for him in the Revival, but Peri simply ignored his attempts and blew him off.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_c717e9ce	comment	Subverted in The 10th Kingdom. The village idiot repeatedly mentions that the dog Prince reminds him of someone, implying that he can sense the dog is actually the shape-shifted prince. Later when Tony asks him, it turns out he was thinking of a dog he knew when he was a kid, completely unrelated to the prince.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_c97b4034	comment	An especially terrifying example is the Hiver in A Hat Full of Sky. It cannot be tricked, it's too stupid.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_ca309e8e	comment	In Christian Grey vs. Pepper Potts, this is essentially the entire reason Christian is able to evade the Avengers and other superheroes for as long as he does. They're so used to using advanced tactics to track down evil geniuses and cunning villains that they're not at all prepared for an idiotic spoiled brat.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_cac2138f	comment	Jam has a sketch revolving around an agency that hires out stupid people for tasks for which they are particularly suited - especially arguments, which the agency's boss states they're especially good at because "they're too thick to realise that they've lost". The example shown is a woman getting a man's parking fine waived simply through being so obnoxiously stupid she provokes the cashier into a bellowing fit that gets his supervisor to let her off.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_cae652c	comment	Gon Freecss from Hunter Ã— Hunter is too childish and naive to fool. In a game where he and his opponent had to light candles and keep them burning, he was presented with two choices. Pick the long one or pick the short one. His friends speculate that the long one could be a trap but the short one could also be a trap. He picks the long one because it would obviously burn longer. However, it turns out that it doesn't burn longer because the candle he picked was special and burned three times as quickly as the shorter one. His opponent eventually reveals to us that he hid several booby-trapped candles under his shirt and would've given Gon a booby-trapped candle no matter which candle he picked. And despite all the deceptions and trap-laying, Gon realizes that his booby-trapped candle is burning so fiercely that there's no way it could be extinguished short of running out of wick. He then puts it down and uses his superior speed to move in and blow out the enemy's candle himself.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_cbe7f8d0	comment	In the Tremors series, the Graboids and their other stages zig-zag on this Trope. They can learn how to solve problems, yeah, but for the most part they are a race of Super-Persistent Predators that will attack anything that they perceive as food and anything that gets in the way of getting said food — and in doing so, they systematically destroy everything the humans can use to get away from them, lure them into a trap, ask for help, or fight back. In the second film, for instance, the Shriekers keep attacking crucial targets like vehicles and the radio tower, but eventually the cast learns that the monsters hunt by heat and were just drawn to anything warm.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_cc2b38ea	comment	This trope takes a serious turn with Izza from Elijah and Azuu, who is too stupid to understand the concept of lying (despite being a demon), and as such is wholly immune to optical illusions.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_ce50887e	comment	In the Muscle Tower mini-arc of Dragon Ball, Ninja Murasaki tells Goku to close his eyes and count to thirty while he hides under a fake rock. This works... until Goku forgets what comes after seventeen, looks behind and sees Murasaki's hiding spot. In the Garlic Jr. arc, Krillin's girlfriend Maron ends up playing cards with Yajirobe and Master Korin and both of them lose badly (the former has been stripped down to his underwear). When Yajirobe asks Korin why he doesn't read her mind, he replies that "there's nothing to read".
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_cefd252d	comment	In Scarlet Lady, when ChloÃ© complains about not being able to go to New York because she has to stay to protect Paris, Tikki suggests her to leave the Ladybug earrings with Chat Noir or Marigold so she can leave. ChloÃ© doesn't fall for it, not because she realizes the other heroes wouldn't return the earrings, but because she's so egotistical that she doesn't want someone else to steal the glory and believes the others wouldn't succeed without her.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_d4fe015f	comment	The usual role of Alan Davies on QI is to be the Butt-Monkey who always rings in the obvious, well-known, but incorrect answer. However, in later seasons, the show has taken to giving questions that are double-bluffs: the obvious answer is correct, but everyone expects it to be wrong, so only Alan rings it in.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_d5505073	comment	In David Brin's The Uplift War, a subplot has one alien ambassador trying to scam another by faking evidence of a massive coverup. The victim appears too simple-minded to spot the planted clues, (and too stolidly indifferent to be psychically induced to be curious), causing the hoaxer to wonder whether this is true idiocy, or a sign of deep wisdom. However, the target of the scam does pick up on the evidence that someone else seems to be shadowing their movements: the ambassador's confederate who is planting the false clues.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_d736423c	comment	Harry's baby sister in The Rigel Black Chronicles always recognises her, even when she's being "Rigel".
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_d8f7ed7c	comment	One of the murder victims in "East is East" by Emma Lathen qualifies. He can't understand the details of Midland Research's financials, set up to hide the money MR's founder is stealing from the company, so he just looks at the bottom line. Getting his head smashed in because he asked said founder to explain the financials to him is a different trope.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	The Seiren race from No Game No Life are stupid notorious enough for other races to use their name as an insult synonymous with idiot. To quote how they're depicted in this series, Seiren only know how to sleep, eat, have sex, and play. The majority of them don't even realize or understand they're on the verge of extinction. Their temporary representative, Amira, is formidable simply because she knows and acknowledges she is dumb, unlike the rest of her race. Thus she manages to outplay a Dhampir with more brains than her simply because the opponent didn't think her capable of it.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_df1e73ec	comment	In this Ducktales 2017 fancomic, Gosalyn is trying to trick Drake and Launchpad to say Penis by getting them to say Peanuts without the "T". She's less successful with Launchpad.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e081af79	comment	The title character in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is made of this. Perhaps most notably here.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e0ef9c69	comment	Big Trouble in Little China: Justified, as this is the reason why only Jack can face the Seven-Faced Widow. Anyone more knowledgeable in Chinese mythology would have heard all the stories about her vast prophetic powers and be too afraid of her to call her bluffs, thus would quickly fall into her mind games and be driven mad. Since Jack only knows what he's seen, he quickly realizes she's full of crap and absconds with the MacGuffins she's holding in short order.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: It is revealed that Homestar is the only character that realizes that The Thnikkaman is just Bubs in a Paper-Thin Disguise... although this doesn't stop him from inexplicably idolizing him like everyone else. The email "secret recipe" is basically about this, with Strong Bad's attempts to disgust other characters backfiring because they either like his concoctions or end up doing something even more disgusting (except for Coach Z, who falls for Strong Bad's "free ice cream" that was really sour cream and The Cheat's hair). For instance, his plan to eat white chocolate while pretending it to be deodorant fails when he walks in on the King of Town eating deodorant. It concludes with Strong Bad tricking Homestar into eating a pinecone, at which he declares "So long, suckers!" and walks off looking pleased with himself. Making it even dumber, Homestar was the one who tried to trick Strong Bad into eating the pinecone in the first place, meaning he fell for his own trick.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e3c46dbc	comment	In the Sienkiewicz Trilogy's Potop, Roch Kowalski was tasked with guarding the good guys specifically because he's too much of a Dumb Muscle to be convinced by Zagloba to change sides or let them go. But ZagÅ‚oba manages to muddle his brain even more - and he changes sides!
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e3ec6dd6	comment	In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Regained, Caliban receives the staff with the spirit of evil wisdom in it because he's too stupid to be corrupted by it; it only manages to raise him to a high normal intelligence.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e42697e1	comment	The "Know Your Stars" segment of All That features a cast member or celebrity guest getting mocked, slandered and degraded by an unseen announcer, usually quite successfully. However in one episode, the announcer has a hilarious Villainous Breakdown when the featured guest is so stupid, they never realize they're being insulted.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS has the disadvantage Clueless, which (as well as, naturally, some flaws) gives you bonuses against attempts to seduce you, among other things.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends explains that one of the main reason Hutts tend to hire Gamorreans as guards is that the males are too stupid and too stubborn to take bribes.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e650c1d4	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Too Dumb to Fool / int_e650c1d4	comment	In Poker, there's the saying "Never bluff a donkey." While experienced players will fold if they think their hand isn't strong enough to call a high bet, a beginner will call almost any bet with a hand he likes, even if this hand is just strong enough to beat a bluff, if nothing else.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_e75c6d45	comment	Minmax of Goblins has his moments. It's especially funny when his teammates are trying to confuse him (It Makes Sense in Context) and failing.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In "I Dream of Jesus", Peter is able to realize a records store employee is Jesus, despite Jesus's disguise never having been broken before in 2,000 years.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_ec522504	comment	Groo the Wanderer: Groo has had his bacon saved by this on several occasions. In The Life of Groo, a comic special that covered his early years and first adventure, he was facing an evil sorcerer-king who had imprisoned his parents; the sorcerer-king tried to read Groo's mind, only to recoil in horror, screaming "There is nothing to read!" Since this same sorcerer had been the one to make Groo mindless through a curse on his father, this was poetic justice. And who could forget his immortal line "Trying to fool Groo is like trying to freeze Ice!"
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_ee829854	comment	House of Anubis gives us Alfie. While he is more of the class clown than a complete fool, he is rarely taken seriously by the others. However, he usually solves problems and figures things out much quicker than anyone else in Sibuna, mostly in season 3. The others tend to shoot down his ideas, only to find out later that he was correct.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_eedac02b	comment	In Durarara!!, manipulative sociopath Izaya names this as the reason why he hates Heiwajima Shizuo — the guy is just too thick (and too angry) to fall prey to Izaya's mind games. The fact that Shizuo returns the sentiment (so every time he believes he is stuck in a mind game, his first strategy always is "find Izaya and bludgeon him to a bloody pulp", which turns out to be a pretty effective counter) is only icing on the cake.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f40b9420	comment	Teen Power Inc.: Richelle is more Brilliant, but Lazy (and detached) than genuinely dumb, but she is constantly picking up on simple truths faster than her friends. This is because she isn't imaginative enough to bother thinking too hard about something extraordinary with lots of Red Herrings (like solving a tricky math puzzle or speculating about whether a local couple is guilty of Insurance Fraud). Whether Richelle herself realizes the implications of what she's saying or merely gives someone else a "Eureka!" Moment varies.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f519a74f	comment	In The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle is immune to Fearless Leader's Mind Control television broadcast because he's too stupid to be affected by it.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f565604d	comment	In Eyeshield 21, Riku of the Seibu Wild Gunmen realizes, to his horror, that Rikiya Gaoh of the Hakushu Dinosaurs is too single-minded to fall for his feint, on top of being too big and strong to have to worry about it. Although Gaoh isn't dumb at all — he's just too unsubtle, blunt and single-minded to be tricked.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f603672f	comment	In Daily Equestria Life with Monster Girl, everypony knows that earth pony magic is limited to the Cornucopia Effect and enhanced strength... due to the fact that the entire earth pony tribe is engaged in a massive conspiracy to cover up the true extent of their powers. Cerea, however, is from another planet and doesn't know even the most basic things about how Menajeria works... and as such, is able to immediately figure out the real extent of earth magic, because she never learned that earth ponies have no true magic.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: in the episode "Between the Darkness and the Light", when Garibaldi, Lyta, and Franklin attempt to gain access to the cell where is being held in order to rescue him, Garibaldi (having Heel Face Turned after Face Heel Turning) uses the fact that he was a recent hero to the Clark regime for turning in in the first place, to gain the guards' trust. He asks them "Don't you watch TV?" (i.e. don't you recognize me), to which one of the guards responds in a sort of programmed, deadpan-rote fashion: "I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite."
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f858847a	comment	Additionally, as of PokÃ©mon X and Y, the Oblivious ability not only prevents infatuation, but also prevents Taunt from forcing them into using only attacking moves. Come PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield, it also prevents their attack stat from being lowered by an opponent's Intimidate.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_f9bf945b	comment	In Equestria: A History Revealed, the Lemony Narrator claims that the earth ponies didn't fall for "Celestia's lies" like the pegasi because they were too busy being amazed by the working outhouses. The narrator, being an earth pony herself, believes this is a sign of her race's superiority.
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Too Dumb to Fool / int_fbaafac1	comment	Anything Goes: Due to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh being engaged to the love of his life, Billy spends a decent amount of the show either messing with him, trying to frame him, or just insulting him. Fortunately for Evelyn, heâ€™s such a Nice Guy that he never even suspects heâ€™s being played at any moment, which causes him to not only remain almost completely unharmed in the face of Billyâ€™s plotting, but he even winds up benefitting big time from one of them.
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His Girl Friday / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Rocky and Bullwinkle	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
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Carpe Jugulum / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Discworld / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
86 EIGHTY-SIX / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
HermeticMillenium	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
Interesting Times / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Jingo / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
John Putnam Thatcher / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Katanagatari / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Lord of the Flies / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Magic 2.0 / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
No Longer Human / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Ruled Britannia / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Sienkiewicz Trilogy / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Slayers / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Space Marine Battles / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Super Powereds / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Damned Trilogy / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Dumb Bunnies / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Emperor's New Clothes / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Fifth Elephant / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Unseen Academicals / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Team Fortress 2 (Machinima) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
ItsASpongebobChristmas	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
OperaOlavEngelbrektsson	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
Ptitlekyvqx5xp	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
Ptitlexsjxloj5	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
TooDumbtoFool	sameAs	Too Dumb to Fool
Karakuridouji Ultimo (Manga) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Law of Ueki (Manga) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Trigun (Manga) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (Manga) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Dorothy of Oz (Manhwa) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Hot Blooded Woman (Manhwa) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Stellar Firma (Podcast) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
This Sounds Serious (Podcast) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Burns and Allen Show (Radio) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Friday Night Dinner / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
High Stakes Poker / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
La que se avecina / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
QI / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Sunset Beach / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The 10th Kingdom / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The IT Crowd / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Storyteller / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Rogue Trader (Tabletop Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Tabletop Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Opera Olav Engelbrektsson (Theatre) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Wit (Theatre)	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
Counter-Strike (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Orcs Must Die! (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Star Control (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Super Mario Maker (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Super Robot Wars 30 (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The What-Iffers in: Final Fancy (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
50 Ways to Die in Minecraft (Web Animation) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Recreyo (Web Animation) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Team Fortress 2 (Web Animation) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Drew Gooden (Web Video) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Kitboga (Web Video) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Solid jj (Web Video) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Elijah and Azuu (Webcomic) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Ben's City / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Carmen Sandiego / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Fun and Fancy Free / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
George of the Jungle (2007) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Goofy / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Inside Job (2021) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
ItsASpongebobChristmas	seeAlso	Too Dumb to Fool
Pinocchio (1992) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Taz-Mania / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Timon & Pumbaa / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Machinima) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (Visual Novel) / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool

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