Basic Trope: A jock is The Ditz.
- Straight: Steve, the captain of the school's football team, is a Dumb Muscle.
- Exaggerated:
- Steve is Too Dumb to Live and/or Lethally Stupid.
- The whole football team is incredibly unintelligent.
- Downplayed: Steve is more of a Genius Ditz.
- Justified: Steve put all of his academic effort into playing football rather than studying.
- Inverted: Steve is the captain of the football team and also a Genius Bruiser.
- Subverted: Steve at first seems to be a Dumb Muscle type, but reveals that he's a Genius Bruiser.
- Double Subverted: He was Feigning Intelligence after all.
- Parodied:
- Steve is a literal Neanderthal that they brought into the present-day, and "plays" sports using rocks.
- Someone picks up a sports ball and their IQ level drops dramatically.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Steve is relatively intelligent.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Steve's a damn good player, but wow, I've seen oysters that were smarter than him!"
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama:
- Everyone looks down upon Steve for being dumb and not doing well in school, from his teachers, his parents, to other students, ev-no, ESPECIALLY the nerds, and his self-esteem plummets.
- Steve is so dumb because of head trauma sustained during his games, and it's a Very Special Episode.
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