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* Actress Bubbles Blastoff from WesternAnimation/TheJetsons episode “To Tell The Truth” she is beautiful but doesn’t seem to be the brightest, she is very sweet and considerate of others though.

* Amber from ''Brickleberry'' - the embodiment of this trope. She is the most attractive character to have ever appeared on the show, and her stupidity rivals that of Steve, who is the least intelligent of the main cast.

* Natsuru of ''Literature/{{Kampfer}}'' is an example of one of these as a ''protagonist''. [[GenderBender S/he]] manages to achieve the unique combination of thinking entirely with his non-existent penis...''and being ObliviousToLove''. The result is a "hero" that just sorta stands there with a vacant expression as all the lesbians nearby start drooling, and the conspiracy involving a magical girl war he was drafted into just sorta drifts by. Every adaptation makes this worse; s/he managed to have moments of competence to round out the physical attractiveness and utter idiocy in the light novels, had significantly less but still a few in the manga, and in the anime, s/he has all the brains of a pile of unusually stupid (but pretty) rocks.

** Joey is a hunky actor who is consistently the dumbest character on the show. Has moments in which he's street-smart.

** Joey is a hunky actor who is consistently the dumbest character on the show.

''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': While most of Shuchi'in's top beauties are also at or near the top of their grades in terms of test scores, Osaragi is considered to be ''the'' most beautiful girl in the school ([[IndifferentBeauty despite not doing anything to accentuate it]]), yet she has the lowest grades out of the entire named cast. Although, it's implied that this is more due to apathy towards school rather than a lack of academic ability, as she's otherwise shown to be rather observant [[spoiler:and one of the epilogue chapters makes mention of her attending grad school.]]

* Joel from ''Film/{{Colossal}}''.

%%* Paul Metzler in ''Film/{{Election}}''.
* Brad the gigolo from ''Film/{{Extract}}''.

%%* Gemma Honeycutt from ''Film/FoolsGold''.

%%* Shelley from ''Film/TheHouseBunny'' is a rare example of a protagonist who qualifies.

* Peaches Page from ''Film/RacketGirls''.

%%* April Mercedes from ''Film/StuckOnYou''.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', one of Tengen Uzui's wives, Suma, comes off as incredibly silly and extremely emotive, but her time as a covert courtesan is shown to be very successful, it is commented by other Oirans that Suma was extremely popular, quickly becoming the main face of her house; [[spoiler:which meant the demon they were investigating in the Red-Light District quickly made Suma a target]].
** Daki is a villainous take on this: She looks very attractive, but is ''also'' prone to act without thinking twice. [[spoiler:Muzan only kept her around due to [[HighClassCallGirl her Oiran disguise]] being profitable and even admitted that her KnightTemplarBigBrother Gyutaro would be better off without her as an Upper Rank Kizuki.]]
* Subverted with Tomoko Nomura in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'', who proves to have HiddenDepths after Onizuka enters her in a BeautyContest. Not only does it help her self-confidence, she ends up becoming popular with her peers and getting an acting career.

* ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' has ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s good looks but the usual Bizarro dimwittedness.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': The Heyday triplets (three of the [[Franchise/WonderWoman Holliday Girls]]) are often referred to as the "Three Pretty Girls," and two of them are so clueless their grandmother left their inheritance to their sister figuring it would do them more good in her hands.

* In Creator/AlanMoore's ''Lost Girls'', Dorothy recounts losing her virginity to a farmhand whom she describes as attractive, but not very bright. He's the equivalent of the Scarecrow from ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Misty's older sisters have built up this reputation, due to their incompetence as Gym Leaders.
* Downplayed with Mako in ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection''. She's considered quite the looker, with Ryuko blatantly [[EatingTheEyeCandy eyeing her up on many occasions]], but she's considered rather dim and ditzy, with her teachers usually commenting "at least she's pretty". That said, she is smarter than most give her credit for, given that she was able to establish and manage the Safe Zone by herself.
* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Every character treats Walburt like this due to his boisterous attitude and [[NoIndoorVoice lack of indoor voice]]. But Haara slowly realizes during their adventure that he's more clever and competent than anyone—including himself—thinks.

* Karen Smith from ''Film/MeanGirls'' is described as "one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet", and even [[AlphaBitch Regina George]] admits to Cady that she's the prettiest girl in the school and should really be Spring Fling Queen because of this, but "everyone forgets about her because she's such a slut".
* All the male models (except for David Duchovny's hand model - they're different from the face and body boys) in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}''. Case in point, a group of Derek's friends get themselves killed because one [[ExplosiveStupidity decided to light a ciagrette while surrounded by gasoline]], which they were all covered with in the first place [[TooDumbToLive because they were having a "gasoline fight"]].

* The titular characters from ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion'' are pretty but dumb. The popular girls who pick on them also qualify for this trope.
%%* Matt in ''Film/TheOppositeOfSex''.
%%* Paul Metzler in ''Film/{{Election}}''.
* Pavi Largo from ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' is this by way of inverted InformedDeformity; despite being horribly scarred and wearing masks made of other people's faces, his admirers consider him beautiful. The "brainless" part is not up for debate. His sister Amber Sweet has had multiple cosmetic surgeries and is more conventionally beautiful. She's not as brainless as Pavi, but she's also not smart enough to know when to stop. [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie, her recent surgery causes the skin to slide off her face. She has another surgery to replace it, while her former face is saved and auctioned off to the highest bidder... Pavi.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/MightyAphrodite'': Linda uses her sexual charms to get by, but she later turns out to be sadly aware of the fact, tries to improve her life without relying on beauty, and deeply regrets not being able to take care of the child she put up for adoption. In the end, she gets better.

* The song "'Cause I'm a Blonde" from ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' is made of this trope.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': Rocky Horror, a blonde-haired {{Hunk}}, is almost literally brainless. He's only got half-a-brain and, quite frankly, he ain't too bright. It doesn't help that he's a day old, either.
%%* April Mercedes from ''Film/StuckOnYou''.

* Subverted in ''Film/SupermanIII''. Lorelei [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretends to be an airhead]], when she's actually a genius. Alone, she delves into deep reading, and reveals she's a computer expert, too. She's so intelligent she ''knows'' behaving intelligently will get her fired since her ''job'' is to be "Ross'".
-->'''Lorelei:''' ''[reading Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"]'' How can he say that Pure Categories have no objective meaning in Transcendental Logic? What about Synthetic Unity?
%%* Mia from ''Film/StanHelsing''.
* Marcia in the '90s ''Film/TheBradyBunch'' films. Even allowing for the uh, [[DiscoDan singular worldview]] the rest of the family has, she's pretty clueless and she's quite amazingly shallow:
-->'''Marcia:''' I'll go first because I'm the prettiest.

* In ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', Chris the fireman is a nice, hunky, simple guy who knows how to put out fires but not much else. He's totally out of his depth around the erudite C.D. and Roxanne.
* Destiny Demeanor in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' literally has nothing between her ears - at one point while making out with the hero she seductively asks him to blow in her ear. When he does so we hear an echo like someone blowing across the top of an empty beer bottle and see the hair on the opposite side of her head billow in the breeze.
* In the original ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Buffy was one, though she matured out of it thanks to discovering her HiddenDepths.
* Jenna from ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' qualifies as this, or the AlphaBitch.
* Brad the gigolo from ''Film/{{Extract}}''.
* Jack Bartlett (Creator/JamesMarsden) in ''Film/SugarAndSpice'', and he is close to being TheDitz as well.
* Party girl Maggie from ''Literature/InHerShoes'' tells her sister "I'll let you do my resume if you let me do your hair."

* Played with and painfully [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in the film ''Film/{{Bachelorette}}''. Katie is a gorgeous airhead and for most of the film, her lack of intelligence is played for laughs. However, in a candid moment, she admits to her fears about her stupidity to Joe and how she doesn't actually like her life or know how to behave around people she has feelings for, other than via sleeping with them.
* Kevin from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}}'' is incredibly handsome and incredibly dim. The girls only hire him to be their receptionist because he was the only one who answered the ad.
* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'': AllThereInTheManual: [[https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/rappaports-law-en Aristotle Twelvetrees was a competent man, but his daughter, Dorcus, was as dim as she was pretty]].

* Joel from ''Film/{{Colossal}}''.

* Missy "[[RunningGag I mean Mom]]" from the ''Film/BillAndTed'' movies. She's very pretty but not exactly the brightest bulb in the lamp.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'' has Danielle, the president of the AlphaBitch sorority, introduced in both the movie and [[Film/HappyDeathDay2U the sequel]] in outfits that show off her body. She's also a moron who, for starters, confuses Helen Keller for Anne Frank.
* ''Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri'': Mildred's ex-husband Charlie is dating a girl named Penelope, [[MayDecemberRomance who is stated to be around nineteen years old.]] She gets polo and polio mixed up and can't read the room when she catches the Hayes family in the middle of a violent argument. However, she ''does'' state [[AnAesop the Aesop]] of the film toward the end, saying she "read it on a bookmark."
* Babbette the FrenchMaid in ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'', who does not know what a microscope is.
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': DudeMagnet and HeadturningBeauty Ling-Ling is the most dim-witted of the protagonists, to the point she thought it was a reasonable idea to go to the special force academy wearing all kinds of vanity items such as acrylic nails, high-heels, make-up, etc. She spends most of the training arc being chewed on by the instructors for this behavior.
* The Ice Princess in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' combines this with DumbBlonde. While rehearsing for the Tree Relighting Ceremony, she thought she had press the big button ''after'' the Christmas tree lights up. She's also unaware on who The Penguin is, despite all the attention he's been getting for "rescuing" the Mayor's baby and his mayoral campaign.
* ''Film/SevenDaysInHell'': Charles, played by Creator/KitHarington, is an excellent tennis player and truck driver, but is completely inept at everything else due to his ridiculously overbearing StageMom never giving him a formal education. Notably, he keeps saying the word "indubitably" in an attempt to seem smarter than he actually is, which only makes him look even dumber. His ex-girlfriend notes that he's "the thickest man [she's] ever met" and compares him to a child with brain damage.
* PlayedForLaughs in the second ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' movie. Creator/AugusteRodin’s ''The Thinker'' can’t come up with a coherent thought without showing off his muscles to a beautiful lady.
* ''Film/Barbie2023'': The Kens are all handsome men but on the whole not very smart. Stereotypical Ken [[spoiler: transforms into a TestosteronePoisoning society due to a childish understanding of the patriarchy while the rest blindly follow him]]. Allan points out that a group of construction worker Kens is building a wall upwards and not around, and have not yet realized this fact.

If a character's stupidity is a result of them coasting through life on their looks, it is also a case of BeautyBreedsLaziness.

-->-- '''Official Bio''' for Lindsay, ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''

When a character's stupidity (and/or other negatie personality traits) prove more notable than their admittedly impressive good looks, that's a WastedBeauty.

* Natsuru of ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'' is an example of one of these as a ''protagonist''. [[GenderBender S/he]] manages to achieve the unique combination of thinking entirely with his non-existent penis...''and being ObliviousToLove''. The result is a "hero" that just sorta stands there with a vacant expression as all the lesbians nearby start drooling, and the conspiracy involving a magical girl war he was drafted into just sorta drifts by. Notably, every adaptation makes this worse; s/he managed to have moments of competence to round out the physical attractiveness and utter idiocy in the light novels, had significantly less but still a few in the manga, and in the anime, s/he has all the brains of a pile of unusually stupid (but pretty) rocks.
* ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'': Aqua has the looks of [[WaterIsWomanly an elegant water goddess]], so you expect her to act like a graceful lady just because she has healing and purification powers, right? Turns out Aqua is not only a {{Womanchild}}, but also [[PowerfulButIncompetent an incompetent]] [[IdiotHero and dim-witted]] LoserDeity who would throw [[ProneToTears overexaggerated crying fits]] like a SpoiledBrat.

** Her sisters, however, both fit this trope.

* ''Series/Scoundrels2010'': PlayedWith with Heather West. She's a HeadTurningBeauty whose only goal in life is to become a famous FashionModel and is quite TheDitz and considered stupid by most of her family, especially her little sister Hope. But she does have moments to show she's [[ObfuscatingStupidity not as dumb as she looks]], such as when she scams her rapist SmoothTalkingTalentAgent and leaves him ChainedToABed after he [[DateRapeAverted tried to drug her]].

* All the male models (except for David Duchovny's hand model - they're different from the face and body boys) in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}''. Case in point, some of Derek's friends got themselves killed because one [[TooDumbToLive decided to light up while surrounded by gasoline]].

The Brainless Beauty can be any gender. Female examples (who are usually also TheChick) tend to be classic [[DumbBlonde blonde idiots]]; male examples, often called "himbos", are {{Hunk}}s (if overlap with DumbMuscle) or more rarely {{Pretty Boy}}s. Neither [[ChickMagnet has much difficulty]] [[HeadTurningBeauty getting the attention of the opposite sex]]. The Brainless Beauty is rarely the hero; they tend to be {{foil}}s for more intelligent (though less successful romantically) characters. Some are [[KindheartedSimpleton sympathetic good-natured dullards]], others are presented as annoying obstacles for our heroes. Either way, expect a smart but [[HollywoodHomely plain]] character to be left fuming at the unfairness of it all.