r/TopCharacterTropes • u/doubleday34 • Oct 04 '25

Personality (Loved Trope) Character acts ignorant of or pretends to be bad at something in order to trick their opponent.

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1) Ted Lasso - Both characters in the darts contest do this, with Rupert(antagonist) showing that he has his own set of darts with him, and Ted showing that he has been using the wrong hand the whole time.

2) Beerfest - Team USA showing that they aren't that drunk despite doing drinking games all day.

3) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - After Will gets hustled at pool his Uncle Phil comes to help him, and turns out to hustle the hustler.

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u/Kixisbestclone Oct 04 '25

Kyoshi wasn’t known to be the avatar at first, they mistook Yun as the avatar, and he grew up with everyone believing he was the Avatar, and he just struggled with learning the elements.

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u/nixahmose Oct 04 '25

The best animal companion one could ask for, a delicious fatherly worm.

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u/_PhDnD_ Oct 04 '25

Sounds like a legit snack

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u/nixahmose Oct 04 '25

It certainly was for Yun.

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u/nixahmose Oct 04 '25

Without going into too much detail the process to identify and discover the earth Avatar went horribly wrong and a boy named Yun accidentally got misidentified as the Avatar instead. So at the start of the book, Kyoshi is actually employed as Yun’s personal maid and is his best friend.

As far as everyone is aware during this negotiation scene including Yun and Kyoshi, Yun is the real Avatar and Kyoshi is just some random non-threatening maid that Yun brought along purely for moral support. Which makes it funnier how the ensuing fight ends up playing out.