Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 112: Obfuscating Stupidity

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Yesterday's Results: No One Could Survive That
Liquid Snake - 6
Seto Kaiba jumping out of his office window - 6
Bear Grylls - 1
Heihachi Mishima surviving dozens of exploding robots - 1
The Bride getting shot and later buried alive - 1
Id getting a battleship dropped on him - 1
Josh appears to be bisected (Until Dawn)
James Bond getting shot off a train on a bridge - 1
Michael Myers taking multiple gunshots to the chest from Dr. Loomis - 2
Cigarette-Smoking Man - 1
Wade Wilson being impaled through the chest and the lab burning to the ground around him - 1
Nemesis - 1
Sephiroth being stabbed and thrown into the lifestream in Nibelheim - 1
Kratos going to hell - 1
Gauron - 1
Phoenix Wright surviving a fall off a bridge 40 ft above a fast flowing river in the winter - 3
Nuking the Fridge - 1
Terminator surviving the fuel truck explosion - 1
Those stuck in the Missile Base when it explodes (Final Fantasy VIII) - 2
Rasputin - 1

Nominations
Always a Bigger Fish
Tall, Dark And Handsome
Flaming Hair
Glass Cannon
Evil Brit
Spotlight-Stealing Squad
No One Could Survive That
Calling Your Attacks
Magnificent Bastard
Disney Death
Bittersweet Ending
Combat Commentator
Interface Screw
Quest for Identity
Identity Absorption
Battleships
Signature Moves

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.

Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Cain and Abel - Solid and Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
Double Reverse Quadruple Agent - Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
Defeating the Undefeatable - Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors)
What Could Have Been - Silent Hills
All-American Face - Captain America (Marvel)
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - Ed (Ed, Edd n Eddy)
Nigh-Invulnerability - Superman (DC)
Intelligible Unintelligible - Boomhauer (King of the Hill)
100% Approval Rating - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Upgrade vs. Prototype - Mewtwo v. Mew (Pokemon: The First Movie)
Spider Limbs - Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man)
Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics - The entire movie Wanted
The Man in Front of the Man - Alex (Golden Sun) / Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)
Batman in my Basement - Eleven (Stranger Things)
Franchise Killer - Mass Effect Andromeda
Supervillain Lair - Castlevania (Castlevania)
Combat Commentator - Howard Holmes and Kreese Kreely (MadWorld)
Double Agent - Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
Villainous Breakdown - Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
No One Could Survive That - Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) / Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Today's tropes is the Obfuscating Stupidity
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObfuscatingStupidity

Also sometimes known as "playing dumb", a tactic whose effectiveness is predicated on characters convincing others they are complete oafs and therefore harmless. Acting like an ignorant hayseed, misinformed tourist, Handsome Lech, or Funny Foreigner is popular.
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Mayor West (Family Guy)
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Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
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Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects)

HM
Matt Murdock (Daredevil)
Yanni Yogi and also Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
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Yanni Yogi (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
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Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects)
Budd (Kill Bill)
Columbo (Columbo)

HMs:
Bruce Wayne (Batman)
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Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Verbal Kint/Keyser Sze (The Usual Suspects)
Yoda (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)

Yoda totally fits this in Empire.
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Sans (Undertale)
Eggsy (Kingsman)
Lord Shojo (Order of the Stick)
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Columbo

Good thinking, Snake.
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Columbo.
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Actually, yeah. Substitute Eggsy for Columbo.
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Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects)
Budd (Kill Bill)
Columbo (Columbo)
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Columbo
Jack sparrow
Matt Murdock
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vash the stampede
himura kenshin
the usual suspects
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monring
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Jack Sparrow
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Captain Jack Sparrow sure
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SeabassDebeste posted...

vash the stampede
himura kenshin
the usual suspects

this
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Ooh got a good one for any Steven Universe fans

Navy Ruby
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Dylan Rhodes From Now you see me.
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current
Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects) - 6
Columbo - 6
Captain Jack Sparrow - 5
Vash the Stampede - 3
himura kenshin - 2
Budd - 2
Mayor West - 1
Maximillion Pegasus - 1
Yanni Yogi (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) - 1
Yoda - 1
Sans - 1
Lord Shojo (Order of the Stick) - 1
Matt Murdock - 1
Navy Ruby - 1
Dylan Rhodes (Now You See Me) - 1
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Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects)
Himura Kenshin