Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 27: The Fool

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Yesterday's Results:
Pennywise - 10
Kefka Palazzo - 8
The Joker - 6
Sweet Tooth - 3
Twisty - 2
Captain Spaulding - 2
Piedmon - 2
Marx - 2
Violator - 1
Cloyne - 1
Firefighter nightmare clown - 1
Doink - 1

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS 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
Fat Best Friend - Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Creepy Child - Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Genre Savvy - Abed Nadir (Community)
Wrong Genre Savvy - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
Enemy Outside - Piccolo (Dragonball Z)
Ascended Extra - Harley Quinn (Batman)
Final Girl - Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
The Adjectival Man - The Illusive Man (Mass Effect)
Adaptational Hero - Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us)
Adaptational Villain - The Monster (Frankenstein)
Superpowered Evil Side - Yami Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Mad Bomber - Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
Regretful Traitor - Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Boromir (Lord of the Rings)
Bare-Fisted Monk - Captain Falcon (Smash Bros.)
Sexy Priest - Kirei Kotomine (Fate series)
Butt Monkey - Jerry Gergich (Parks & Rec) / Luigi (Mario Bros.) / Toby Flenderson (The Office)
Eldritch Abomination - Cthuhlu (The Call of Cthuhlu) / Giygas (Earthbound)
Scapegoat - Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
Heavy - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Gentle Giant - Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter) / John Coffey (The Green Mile) / Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Older Than They Look - Eli (Let the Right One In)
Messianic Archetype - Aslan (Chronicles of Narnia)
Invincible Hero - Saitama (One-Punch Man)
Your Size May Vary - Bowser (Mario Bros.)
Mad Artist - The Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera)
Gentleman Thief - Joker (Persona 5)
Monster Clown - Pennywise the Dancing Clown (It)

Nominations
Tomboy & Girly Girl
Ensemble Dark Horse
Iconic Sequel Character
Unexpected Character
Mix and Match Critters
Nerd
Big Bad
The Dragon
The Beserker
The Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Innocent Flower Girl
Heterosexual Life Partners

Today's trope is the The Fool
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFool

The Fool has no idea what he's doing, he has a dim idea at best who his enemies are or whether he's in danger, and only has his cheerful disposition to protect him.

The Fool's strength comes from supernatural fortune bordering on Karma. Since The Fool is such a good person, nothing bad happens to them.
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I'd recommend looking at more than just the trope page here, what it lists there is pretty incomplete (and only like half-accurate)

Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

HM:
WALL-E (WALL-E)
Lt. Frank Drebin (The Naked Gun)
Derek Zoolander (Zoolander)
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
Andy Dwyer (Parks & Rec)
Caboose (Red vs. Blue)
Ash Ketchum (Pokemon)
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Nom The Rival
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Marty Mikalski (The Cabin in the Woods)
Shaun (Shaun of the Dead)
The Dude (The Big Lebowski)

Also anyone looking for ideas, there's a bit of crossover with the Idiot Hero trope.
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Isaac & Miria (Baccano!)
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Kronk (The Emperor's New Groove)
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Mister Satan (Dragonball Z)
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Chauncey Gardener (Being There)

Winnie the Pooh
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Yu Narukami (Persona 4)

Forrest Gump
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Jason Stackhouse (True Blood)
Bill & Ted
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Andy Dwyer (Parks & Rec)

Snake5555555555 posted...

Also anyone looking for ideas, there's a bit of crossover with the Idiot Hero trope.

the only issue with those is that the fool is specifically an idiot that good things always happen to, like the universe is on his side. compare that to The Dude, who gets like constantly shit on by everyone
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Nominate Beware the Nice Ones
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feste (twelfth night)
andy dwyer (parks and rec)
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Andy Dwyer
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Nominate:
Eyes always closed
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up
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please stop eating my noms
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NFUN posted...

please stop eating my noms

oh wtf I dont know how that keeps happening
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Meatwad (ATHF)
Inspector Gadget
Forrest Gump
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The Sultan/Caliph (Iznogoud)
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Ron Stoppable (Kim Possible)
Elan (Order of the Stick)
Fighter (8-Bit Theater)
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Ron Stoppable
Inspector Gadget
Maxwell Smart
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Elan (Order of the Stick)
Fighter (8-Bit Theater)
Inspector Gadget
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Pinky (Pinky and the Brain)
Fighter (8-Bit Theater)
Puck (Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Inspector Gadget
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hope to get this updated tonight
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Elan (OotS)
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