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Unwise Owl
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Throughout history and literature, owls are seen as being very wise. Some say it's because owls were a symbol of the Greek goddess of wisdom. More modern interpretations say it is because they look like they are wearing glasses, another sign of a reader and, thus, intelligent. However, this has also led creators to subvert this multiple times and instead have made owls that one is expected to discover to be intelligent and wise, but they are not. Hence, the trope of the Unwise Owl. In spite of the usual portrayal of owls, this trope is Truth in Television. Owls in real life are actually less smart than other birds — their brains aren't as developed for intelligence with their skull space mostly taken up by their eyes — and some cultures even consider them stupid instead of smart. This is obviously a subversion of The Owl-Knowing One, and related to Dumb Dinos (as owls, being birds, are part of "surviving" dinosaurs). Sister trope Owls Ask "Who?" can be used as a sign of a lack of intelligence on the owl's part. See also Doofy Dodo for another type of bird with low intelligence. A subtrope of Species Subversives. |
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The Legend of Lucky Pie: Ah-Pie is a Noble Bird of Prey and is of average intelligence (subverting both The Owl-Knowing One and the more common version of this trope for owls). The rest of the Owl Kingdom plays the more negative stereotypes about owls straight as a rail, being one the antagonistic factions along the Dog Kingdom. | |
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz: A featured minor character is called the Foolish Owl, who is just that. | |
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The Owl House: Hooty is an owl demon who is a Cloudcuckoolander. | |
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Visionaries: When Leoric activates his Wisdom stave, the responding image is that of an owl. However, while its advice may be correct, the advice is generally of no use until the very last moment. | |
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Bambi: Disney's version of Friend Owl initially appears to be wise but turns out to be a Know-Nothing Know-It-All. | |
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Pokémon Sun and Moon: Among the members of the Rowlet line, Dartrix is described to be "a bit of a birdbrain" that tends to make mistakes and tries to cover them up, only to make them worse. | |
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hololive: Nanashi Mumei, the Guardian of Civilization and Barn Owl flips between this and The Owl-Knowing One on a regular basis. She is the keeper of all the wisdom that comes from watching Mankind's development over countless millennia. However, with it comes the ability to outright forget mankind's accomplishments as well, as even her own knowledge ends up lost with the decline of civilizations. Right in her very debut, she introduced herself three times over in quick succession because she couldn't remember if she introduced herself. She is a bit scatterbrained and has the tendency to "forgor" things. Even by her admittance, her current name is simply the last one she can remember. | |
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Central Park: Discussed in "Rival Busker" when Owen points out that owls are not intelligent. | |
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The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw: Sandorst is a complete inversion of The Owl-Knowing One. He is short-sighted, ignorant, and a terrible judge of character. His daughter Enna is thankfully smarter and more rational. | |
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Winnie the Pooh: Owl, while Book Smart, still "hasn't exactly got brain", as Piglet puts it, and is a bad speller as well. | |
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In a sketch in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Patsy Straightwoman finds herself interviewing an owl (voiced by Finnemore), who openly shows himself to be pretty stupid and comments that he doesn't know where they got associated with wisdom from, seeing as most of their skulls are taken by massive eyes that don't leave room for a brain. He does make one very clever-sounding comment at one point... only to admit he doesn't know what it means, it's just something he heard a crow say once. | |
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The Adventures of Pinocchio: One of the Know-Nothing Know-It-All doctors that visits Pinocchio while he's fainted following the hanging he received is an owl, who's little more than a verbose contrarian to anything his colleague observes. | |
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