The Know It Alls Guide To Movie Trivia
The current record holder for most prolific mother goes to Valentina Vassilyeva , who had 69 children over the course of her lifetime. Her husband, Feodor Vassilyeva later remarried and had 18 more children, making him father to 87 children total though only 82 survived. That only repels female humans or maybe just me.
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The Order of the Phoenix Justin Bieber is Googled more often than Jesus. In a process called triboluminescence , Wint-O-Green Lifesavers give off little sparks when they are eaten in the dark. Jane Jetson was a teen mom. In the show, Jane is 32 years old while her daughter is That means that Jane was 16 when she got pregnant.
China owns every panda in the world. Around people die in the series Breaking Bad. When flipped upside-down, sharks enter a state of tonic immobility, rendering them unable to move for 15 minutes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. There are imaginary numbers, just not the ones he's thinking of. Autor from Princess Tutu fits this trope to a T He's an insufferable know-it-all who believes that he's a descendant of Drosselmeyer and also the absolute expert on the subject of his powers.
He puts another character who wants to learn about his powers through a series of ridiculous 'training' exercises, including standing in the middle of a room for three days without eating or sleeping and only using "blue and black ink in a seven-to-three ratio". Eventually he's humiliated when the character he's training proves to have much more power than him In the end it's slightly subverted, however—the character he "trained" is forced to go back to him for help because he actually is one of the best experts on Drosselmeyer.
No one takes responsibility for condoms. Takashi Yamazaki from Cardcaptor Sakura is always making up lies he claims to be facts. Interestingly enough, while most know he's lying, both Sakura and Syaoran both tend to believe him at first, before Chiharu breaks it to them that they're being lied to and lays the smackdown on Yamazaki , though one or two times, he is right in his extravagant speeches. Umino Gurio in Sailor Moon , academically smart, just very lacking in common sense. Sakuragi Hanamichi from Slam Dunk is actually pretty stupid but always goes around saying "Ore wa tensai!
In the original version, he was a cultured gentleman. The Geneon Gag Dub turned him into a total nitwit who is always either stating the obvious or completely ignorant of the obvious — for instance, upon noticing an opulent dining fork, he proclaims it "a dining implement of some kind; a bit showy, whatever it is.
Saori Takebe in Girls und Panzer tells the girls on their Tankery team all about how to win over a guy. Then one of them innocently asks if she has a boyfriend, to which she becomes speechless, since she never had one in the first place. The girls try to cheer her up anyway. Sakura Haruno is a practical Deconstruction of this trope from Naruto. While she was one of the top students of the Academy second only to Ino who had became the Kunoichi of the Year , she considered herself a lot stronger than the 'Dead-Last' Naruto Uzumaki since she equated 'knowing more about textbook things translates to real life'.
During her first real mission in the Land of Waves, she realized Naruto was not only stronger than her but had pulled far ahead and during the Chunin Exams, she sacrificed the long hair she had grown meticulously so Sasuke would notice her in an attempt to save her teammates who were unconscious from the battle with Orochimaru. In Umi Monogatari , the Elder Turtle has shades of this; not only is he wrong about which priestess will fall into darkness, he doesn't comprehend what Sedna truly is and gives wrong information as a result.
From Dragon Ball , Krillin when he was a kid. He is knowledgeable about martial arts, but he likes to act like he knows more than he actually does. This is made worse that his training partner, Goku, is really naive and often defers to Krillin when something confuses him. He thankfully gets better as the series goes on.
Later episodes demonstrate that Max's battle tactics suck. Whisper from Yo-Kai Watch keeps on insisting he's incredibly knowledgeable on yokai when he uses a Wiki for help and gets facts wrong on his own. It later comes out that this trope is the kind of Yo-kai he is, with his power being spewing a gas that induces others to confidently state made-up facts to whoever's around, though that wasn't the case for the 1st game, and even then, he's still quite intelligent and capable in the rest of the games, even when he's using the Wiki more often than the 1st.
Hell, he's usually the one to figure out any Yo-kai mischief nearby in ALL the games instead of just bizarrely denying it like in the anime. Beyond his tin foil hat theories about the Jesuits founding communism as part of a centuries-long plot to get Russian gold, he even manages to get very basic facts wrong. Wilhelm and his ancestors had been Protestant - first Lutherans, then Calvinists, then Altpreussische Union an amalgamation of the two - for ca.
Always quick with an answer for everything, but really not as smart as he thinks he is. In particular, Clarabelle Cow easily outsmarts him whenever they cross wits. Unfortunately, this makes her think she's smarter than she really is. Burt Schlubb and Douglas Klump from Sin City are two crooks who like to use large, important-sounding words to make them appear intelligent; unfortunately, their wordy speeches which are often full of malapropisms do little to hide how dimwitted they actually are.
Lambik, who fancies himself an intelligent, brave, strong and civilized gentleman, but is actually Too Dumb to Live. Brainy Smurf has a library of books, all written by him, all useless.
Whenever he gives a useless lecture to The Smurfs , they hit him with a hammer. He also insists that "Papa Smurf is always right. Ritsuko Akagi insists that she knows what's going on when confronted by something outside her understanding, despite others having as much or even better knowledge than her. Such as Shinji turning into an Alicorn in '' Shinji's Nightmare. Similarly in Alpha and Omega Book 2: The Fallen, Ritsuko claims Shinji doesn't know anything important about Councilor Tevos' situation even though, given that Shinji's the only one who knows her species, he clearly knows more about Tevos than anyone else present.
Though Ritsuko doesn't know that Shinji also has a medical doctorate from his mother's memories and has studied Asari physiology. It takes her years to recognize that the creature hatched from Hagrid's egg and imprinted on Harry is a velociraptor and even when Jurassic Park is being built, she doesn't make the connection or understand why people are becoming more interested in dinosaurs.
Though part of her problem comes from her insistence that dinosaurs are extinct and thus irrelevant. Escape From the Moon: In the sequel The Mare From the Moon , Spliced mentions having had to deal with a few of these in her classes as a younger pony, including one student who, after failing a history exam, still insisted he was right and the textbook was wrong. Then there was the one who went as far as trying to change the historical records to match up with what he claimed was right, but was caught almost immediately.
He mistakes a fork for a fancy comb and a tobacco pipe for a musical instrument, and he also uses a telescope backwards. This gets lampshaded later on in the film when he's trying to warn Sebastian about something. Sebastian is understandably skeptical, and Scuttle shouts "Have I ever been wrong?
I mean, when it's important? The 'advice' he gives Bambi and his friends is actually terrible advice to give to young animals. Fortunately, it mostly gets ignored once "twitterpation" sets in. Timon from The Lion King authoritatively explains that stars are really fireflies stuck on "that big bluish-black thing. His shtick with Horace is that Horace hits upon what's really going on and then Jasper emphatically calls him an idiot for getting such a stupid idea.
Thicknose in the eighth The Land Before Time film turns out to be this. Originally respected as the smartest resident of the Great Valley, having "been everywhere and seen everything", he soon confesses to the kids that he gets most of his knowledge from second-hand sources. In the original film, Cera was this. She frequently boasted about always knowing the right way to do things, only to go on to prove that she, in fact, did not. She ended up suffering quite a bit of humiliation because of it—particularly after she lands the gang sans Littlefoot in trouble while trying to lead them to the Great Valley—and she loses the trait in the sequels.
Nim Galuu from Epic is only as powerful as the scrolls that write the forests' activities, which cannot predict the future, and can only record so much. In the climax, MK calls him out on how he's relatively useless on his own. World Police , believe themselves to be highly knowledgeable and compassionate intellectuals, but they're really just Stupid Good actors who have no idea how the world outside of Hollywood works.
Let me explain to you how this works: Moe of The Three Stooges is arguably the best example ever of this trope. He often rudely bosses Larry and Curly and Shemp around for goofing up and considers himself smarter than them but is clearly every bit as dim as they are. His Real Life self, however Oliver Hardy's character in Laurel and Hardy also presents himself as the bossy, arrogant, intelligent, more polite and civilized one of the duo, but is actually not that much sharper than Stan Laurel's character.
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To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape? Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself.
Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. What do you know, Mr. I lived with death for three years in Korea. And what about life? He struggles with his answer ] Well I survived the war Sounds like you know more about death than you do living.
Adrian Mole considers himself an "intellectual" and brilliant author with a wide knowledge of art, literature, history and culture. In reality his writing all unpublished is terrible and he frequently confuses writers, important events, public figures and branches of the arts. He is also shown to have limited general knowledge, such as not knowing why someone called Pandora would have the nickname "Box", or thinking that someone in the UK could take a day trip to China.
Patrick Bateman in American Psycho claims to be a big music buff who knows all the best tunes. An actual music buff reading his recommendations would kindly describe them as "entry-level", with almost all his favorites being big '80s pop hits. He also rejects anything remotely experimental by his favorite bands, and makes a number of outright errors apparently, " You Can't Always Get What You Want " is by The Beatles. This is much in line with Bateman's desire to be seen as special, contrasting with his inability to do anything outside the box.
Rachel's mother Naomi, who doesn't adapt well to going from high powered attorney to camping with aliens and subordinate to her teenage nephew. Not at first, but Naomi eventually proves herself rather useful, helping the Hork-Bajir draw up their own Constitution and persuading Captain Olston to lend his support to the team.
The target of Montresor's hatred in Edgar Allan Poe 's The Cask of Amontillado , the wealthy and well-connected Fortunato, proclaims himself an expert wine connoisseur, but when Montresor suggests inviting a mutual friend with them to sample the titular spirit, he admonishes the idea because the friend "wouldn't know sherry from Amontillado. He also guzzles an expensive fine wine like cheap swill, holds plonk brands in high regard and samples wine while already heavily drunk, something no real wine connoisseur would do; all actions that do little to refute Montresor's opinion that he is really a boorish idiot.
This is Texas Jake's shtick in Cat Pack. Marco can read and knows the answers to many things, but Texas thinks his answers are silly and insists his off-the-wall answers are more accurate. Mani, the founder of the Manichees, claimed to have great spiritual and scientific knowledge. As Augustine learned that eclipses aren't caused by the moon's fear of the dark, he came to understand Mani was too ignorant to know he knew nothing. In The Day of the Locust , aspiring but talentless actress Faye Greener meets screenwriter Claude Estee at a party through their mutual friend, set designer Tod Hackett the novel's protagonist.
Rather than ask for advice from the only person in the book who has actually achieved success in the film industry, she positions herself as the one who knows how to achieve success and talks at length about her career ambitions and how she plans to make them a reality, based on half-remembered and less-than-half-understood things she has read in fan magazines and trade papers.
Discworld Sergeant Colon from the Discworld series is a mild version of this. He does consider himself well informed, but the only person he tries to impress this on is Nobby Nobbs, who he's aware may be winding him up. Such as when Colon identifies hieroglyphs as a type of mollusk, and is asked if they go lower they'll find loweroglyphs, and decides to go for broke - everyone knows you don't get loweroglyphs in these waters. It is said he had a broad education; he went to the school of 'my dad always said', the college of 'it stands to reason', and is now a post graduate student at the university of 'what some bloke told me in the pub'.
Becomes a point of Hypocritical Humor in Jingo , when someone in the crowd is saying questionable facts and Colon mutters "There's always a know-all. Everyone, that is, save Ponder Stibbons, who occasionally fakes it, spouting his own ridiculous explanations because he knows the real facts will only kick off another off-topic argument among his colleagues the Bursar who can actually translate Stibbons' explanation into layman's terms when he's not away with the frogs , Ridcully who is definitely Obfuscating Stupidity and the Librarian.
And of those four, the Bursar is insane, the Librarian is an orangutan, and Ridcully is not averse to flying off into tangential arguments of his own.
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Though, again due to Obfuscating Stupidity , he could be doing that on purpose. In Unseen Academicals he deliberately starts an irrelevant discussion on whether the wizards are in fact "toilers by hand and brain" or "slackers by hand and brain", before deciding that "[h]e could do this all day, but life couldn't be all fun. Granny Weatherwax does this as well, insisting that elephant is "a kind of badger".
Granny is well aware of her own shortcomings, but her 'Headology' requires her to make the common folk consider her nearly omniscient. In the Greyfriars stories, Billy Bunter lives and breathes this trope along with its accompanying trope, Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance , unless the plot requires him to always temporarily come to his senses. They devote their entire lives to math, music, philosophy, astronomy, and politics, failing at each one spectacularly. Harry Potter Gilderoy Lockhart initially appeared to be one of these in Chamber of Secrets , although in the end it turns out he's well aware of his own incompetence, and is impressively competent at concealing it, at least to those who don't know him well.
Dolores Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix is definitely one. She has virtually no ability to actually teach Defense Against the Dark Arts having only been put there by the Ministry as a "Ministry-approved" instructor and is shown to be incompetent in an actual fight. He's an above-average Keeper and has some decent tactical ability, but believes he can play every position better than everyone else on the team.
When he takes over for Ron during Gryffindor's second match of the year, he tries to command the players in Harry's place, lectures his own team's Chasers for losing the Quaffle to the point of failing to defend the hoops, and takes the Beater's bat out of one Beater's hand with intention to 'demonstrate how to hit a Bludger'. That last one results in him hitting the Bludger at his team's Seeker , cracking his skull and knocking him out for the rest of the match, causing Gryffindor to lose I don't want to stay [in the hospital wing] overnight.
I want to find McLaggen and kill him. From off to the right A dismal demon who was mostly mouth, he was ready at a moment's notice to offer misinformation on any subject. And, while he often tumbled heavily, it was never he who was hurt, but rather the unfortunate person on whom he fell.
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