Basic Trope: A character who is so stupid it's unclear how they've managed to survive until now.
- Straight: Alice's stupidity is of such baffling magnitude that it's unclear how she even functions.
- Exaggerated:
- Downplayed:
- Cloud Cuckoolander... That being, an outlandish character that might be mistaken as foolish by common folks, but they're actually rather functional.
- While Alice may be scatterbrained, she isn’t really dumb, and can do just as well as others.
- Alice is a Genius Ditz.
- Justified: Alice suffers from a brain disorder that severely restricts her mental development.
- Alice was dropped as a baby.
- Inverted:
- Alice is Surrounded by Idiots and she is the only exception to them.
- Alice is a TV Genius who is more competent than the rest of the cast put together.
- Alice is The Smart Girl and more intelligent than nearly everybody else in the series.
- Subverted: Alice is revealed to have been the Big Bad pulling strings from behind the scenes the whole time while putting up an idiotic facade to avoid suspicion.
- Double Subverted: Even after being revealed as the Big Bad, Alice doesn't display any signs of anything beyond the most basic cognitive functions.
- Parodied:
- Alice's brain can be completely removed without any noticeable effect.
- An intelligence-eating Puppeteer Parasite locks onto her head, and goes gray over the course of the episode. it finally falls off, and the cause of death is "Malnutrition. Poor thing starved to death."
- Alice tries to think. Her head explodes.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Alice is presented as stupid, sometimes of average intelligence, and sometimes a genius.
- Averted: Alice can be stupid, but still capable of carrying out normal human activities.
- Enforced: "We need a character who makes even the stupidest characters look smart by comparison."
- Lampshaded: "Alice isn't the brightest crayon in the box."
- Invoked: Alice stands under a coconut tree and a very large coconut lands on her head.
- Exploited: People use Alice's stupidity to get things from her.
- Defied: Alice keeps her smarts up any way she can.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Seeing that Alice has absolutely no concept of morality or consequences and that nobody would ever suspect her of anything, the Manipulative Bitch convinces Alice to play a "game" with her friends involving a shotgun. Alice then spends the rest of her life in a mental hospital, with no idea why her friends won't ever come back. (This actually happened to Hod in Norse Mythology, only with mistletoe.)
- Reconstructed:
- To prevent her from being manipulated into harming anyone (including herself), Alice is always accompanied by her guardian/attendant Carol. Carol lampshades all the bizarre stuff Alice does and says, and - due to being constantly by her side - probably has a minor Butt-Monkey status.
- Alice proves Too Dumb to Fool and unwittingly causes the Manipulative Bitch's plan to backfire in some way.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice is mentally handicapped to the extent that she's like a young girl who cannot comprehend many things. The work focuses on her family's struggle to raise her and give her a good life.
- Alice's stupidity causes problems - and possibly even death - for the other characters.
- Alice is just smart enough to be painfully self-aware about her lack of intelligence. Unfortunately, because she is The Ditz, she can't figure out a way to meaningfully improve upon what she lacks.
Back to The Ditz.
