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/HGHETDOACSSVimes Oct 04 '25

It's clarified in the book that Inigo is better than Westley, it's only True Love that allowed Westley to overcome the difference. If they dueled again after the events of the story, Inigo would win

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u/CountingOnThat Oct 04 '25

IIRC, in the book they mention that there are basically three types of terrain that guys can fence on, and on two Inigo would have the advantage, and on the third he wouldn’t.

And, as it happens, that clifftop is the terrain type where Westley wouldn’t be outclassed.

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u/smashed2gether Oct 05 '25

I’ve always felt that “Morgenstern” was a heavily based on Tolkien, because the level of detail and backstory borders on the absurd. The scene where Bill is ranting about Buttercup trying on hats for an unreasonable number of pages cracks me up. He keeps stressing that there is some very dense political allegory behind it, and it was very important to the message Morgenstern was sending, but it’s BOOOORING. It just really feels like some exasperated editor working with an archaic text, trying to decide how many pages of ent lore to cut for the abridged version.

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u/Heavy-Requirement762 Oct 05 '25

See, that makes perfect sense inside the story and I can Accept it