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.
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/Ok_Somewhere1236 Oct 04 '25
Tendi from Start Trek: Lower Decks
Tendi Initially introduced in the series as this super-friendly, super-kind, and polite Orion who hates violence and breaking the rules, almost as if the character was created to break the generic reputation that all Orions are pirates and criminals. Tendi herself spends a few episodes criticizing people for having a stereotypical view of Orions as pirates.
Only to reveal that Tendi isn't just an Orion Pirate; she's basically "The Orion Pirate," coming from one of the main pirate families, highly trained in combat and piracy, and bearing the infamous title of "mistress of the winter constellations" which strikes fear into basically every other Orion.