Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 216 - Kindhearted Simpleton

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

In the event of a tie between 4 or more nominations, a tiebreaker poll will be run the next day to determine a winner.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
The Woobie
Trauma Conga Line
Evil Costume Switch
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Enemy Mine, was Mario and Bowser (Mario RPGs), which got 6 votes.

Previous winners: Day 181 onwards
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)
Clipped Wing Angel - Genie Jafar (Aladdin)
Cruel and Unusual Death - Executions (Danganronpa)
That One Level - Escape from the Water Slums (Jak II) / Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
The Reason You Suck Speech - Quagmire to Brian (Family Guy)
Magic Knight - Geralt (The Witcher) / Bayonetta
Dem Bones - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Acrofatic - Po (Kung Fu Panda)
Game Breaker - Detective Mode (Batman Arkham Series)
Fluffy the Terrible - Fluffy (Harry Potter)
Deathbringer the Adorable - The Grand Master of All Things Bad (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon)
Storming the Castle - Leeroy Jenkins
BFS - Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)
Fat Bastard - Eric Cartman (South Park)
Mentor Occupational Hazard - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Oddball Doppelganger - Mimikyu (Pokemon)
Mood Whiplash - The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)
Names to Run Away From Really Fast - Shelly DeKiller (Ace Attorney)
Hostile Show Takeover - Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Lean and Mean - Voldemort (Harry Potter) / Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) / Slenderman (Marble Hornets)
Identical Stranger - Guy Incognito (The Simpsons) / Kingsonn Dededoo (Brawl in the Family)
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You - Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
Humiliation Conga - Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
Shock and Awe - Pikachu (Pokemon)
Fat and Skinny - Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch)

Today's trope is Kindhearted Simpleton. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KindheartedSimpleton

There are many characters who are dumb or airheaded. However, for some of these, what they lack in intelligence they make up for in compassion and altruism. The Kindhearted Simpleton isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but is always well-meaning and compassionate to other characters. Probably will not be quite as dumb as a standard Ditz or as airheaded as a Cloudcuckoolander, since that is not the focus of their character. If the Brainless Beauty isn't being an Alpha Bitch, then she (or he) is this instead (also compare Spoiled Sweet).

Due to their well-meaning nature but below-average intelligence, these characters have the potential to be taken advantage of and manipulated by smarter (and occasionally evil) characters. The Kindhearted Simpleton should beware of Manipulative Bastards and Guile Heroes. (They should also know it's a snake when they bring it in.) These characters rarely, if ever, get angry, but when they do, it's usually because someone has taken advantage of their trusting nature one time too many, or has dared to hurt the ones they love. This may occasionally result in the character taking a level in badass, or revealing a hidden badass side, but this type of character is very effective at delivering An Aesop without having to resort to violence, whether it's through a Shut Up, Hannibal! speech, giving the villain his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, or asking a friend What the Hell, Hero?, though they are also just as likely to inform hero and villain that You Are Better Than You Think You Are. But then, the tendency to be large also give cause to Beware the Nice Ones.

TL,DR: They may not be very bright, but they're lovely people.

Nominations:
Lennie (Of Mice and Men)
Forrest Gump
Winnie the Pooh

Papyrus (Undertale)
Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney)
Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent (Baccano!)
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Papyrus (Undertale)
Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
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Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney)
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Lennie
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Tom Cullen (The Stand)
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Goofy (Disney)
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Forrest Gump
Luigi
Homestar Runner
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Lennie (Of Mice and Men)
Forrest Gump
Cyrus (Phantasmagoria)
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Papyrus (Undertale)
Ed (Ed Edd n Eddy)
Goofy (Disney)
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Forrest Gump
Gumshoe
Pacha (The Emperor's New Groove)
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Pirateking2000 posted...

Ed (Ed Edd n Eddy)

Oooo yeah he'd be my 4th pick
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Winnie the Pooh
Forrest Gump
Ed
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Lennie ( Of mice and men)
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Hodor (Game of Thrones)
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Lennie
Forrest Gump

Ed (Ed Edd n Eddy)
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Rankings so far:
Forrest Gump - 6 votes
Lennie (Of Mice and Men) - 5 votes
Papyrus (Undertale) - 3 votes
Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) - 3 votes
Ed (Ed Edd n Eddy) - 3 votes
Goofy (Disney) - 2 votes
Winnie the Pooh - 2 votes
Isaac Dian (Baccano!)
Miria Harvent (Baccano!)
Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
Tom Cullen (The Stand)
Luigi
Homestar Runner
Cyrus (Phantasmagoria)
Pacha (The Emperor's New Groove)
Hodor (Game of Thrones)

Hot Pie?
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