Basic Trope: A character does something stupid and never suffers the consequences for it.
- Straight: Danny made an unintelligent decision, but never faces the repercussions for it.
- Exaggerated: Danny made a decision which makes him Too Dumb to Live, but he is rewarded for it!
- Downplayed: Danny gets a question wrong on a math test, but the answer sheet the teacher uses has the wrong answer marked as correct, so he gets the question right.
- Justified: The gods above have mercy for Danny because his good-hearted nature outweighs his daftness.
- Inverted: A character does something smart, only to suffer the consequences for it.
- Subverted: Danny is unaffected by his actions for a long time, until something heavy hits him at high speeds. In other words, an Idiot Houdini Warranty.
- Double Subverted: The heavy thing turns out to be a large gold nugget. Danny gets richer as a result of his dumb decision, even after the medical bills are paid.
- Parodied: Danny is warned by an Insufferable Genius classmate that if he says something unintelligent, he will be struck down with lightning. Danny asks what is lightning. A few minutes later, nothing happens, and the classmate suffers a Villainous Breakdown.
- Zig Zagged: Danny gets rewarded for an unintelligent decision, but then he's punished for his next. He is rewarded for the one after that, but punished again for the one after that, etc.
- Averted:
- Danny suffers the consequences for his incompetence.
- No one in the work is dumb.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "What? Whenever that idiot does something stupid, he always get away with it."
- Invoked: "If stupid people get away from the consequences, then I must pretend that I'm stupid."
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Another character who's sick of Danny evading the consequences of his stupidity decides to make him realize the consequences. Depending on how hardheaded Danny is, that may require some percussive teaching, so to speak.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Every time Danny does something dumb, nothing happens to him, and he gets more arrogant. Eventually, his luck runs out, and he dies.
- The deities smile down on Danny because he is an ignorant fool, and people who are more needy and who's only crime by the apparent rules of the universe is having read a book at some point in their lives get the shaft.
- Reconstructed: Danny has some kind of magical protection that means he never has to face the consequences of his actions.
- Played For Laughs: One of the show's minor Running Gags is how Danny, who is The Alleged Expert and Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket, just keeps falling upwards as things happen around him.
- Played For Drama: Danny's stupid decision results in the death of innocent bystander Alice. Bob, Alice's friend, is furious, and scolds Danny for his idiocy, but the rest of the town doesn't seem to blame him, and he isn't arrested or sued despite his clear responsibility. This makes Bob even angrier, and he shames the town for equating stupidity with a lack of culpability.
- Played For Horror: Danny is a Lethally Stupid Lethal Klutz who is lethal on a huge radius. Hundreds of people have been victim of him being a walking manifestation of Death in a fashion worthy of a hundred more Final Destination films and the Fates will make sure that anybody who has a problem with it dies too because they love the way Danny says "…did I do that?"
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