Bebop and Rocksteady's classmates: let's talk about the dumbest cartoon characters.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Icebot

There was also Cosmo and Timmy’s dad from Fairly Oddparents. Cosmo was pretty dumb and Timmy’s dad did countless dumb things.

Also Dingo from Sonic Underground.

Does Inspector Gadget count? He gets it wrong sometimes and thinks the bad guys are the good guys and tries to arrest the ones who are actually the good guys.

Gadget is an odd case. He's a mix between being extremely overzealous of his job to the point everyone he sees is a MAD agent, and his gadgets don't work right, though that's not necessarily his fault. Many times he's asking for the right gadget he needs but something else comes out instead.

You know at time seeing Gadget fall for real MAD agents tricks or the whole Team Rocket deal makes me wonder if in-universe the bad guys really ARE cleverly disguised but they only look paper-thin obvious for the benefit of us the viewers, considering most of these shows were for little kids.

[The Great Saiyaman]

Well, it is as old as animation itself, to have a man of power who isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer appear, as exemplified by Bold King Cole here in the Felix the cat episode which carries his name.

Bold King Cole is a braggart, boastful and constantly praising himself about his acts of bravery, when in reality he's a coward, afraid of his own shadow, in the episode, the spirits of his ancestors come to haunt his castle to teach him a lesson about how fed up they are about his boasting. But despite his obnoxious character traits, he isn't evil, in fact he's quite affable, welcomes Felix into his castle with open arms after finding out that Felix is no threat. After Felix defeats the ghosts, Bold King Cole shows his gratitude by crowning him Prince.


King Julien XIII.

The "Madagascar" movies and the spin off TV series "The Penguins of Madagascar" and "All hail King Julien" established straight away that King Julien is vain, very much a control freak, competitive, not beyond cheating when actually in a competition and a bad loser and an even worse winner. His subjects put up with all of this by being even more dumb than their monarch is. King Julien isn't evil but DOES have a mean streak, in one episode of "The Penguins" when his right hand man Maurice wanted to make himself a cocktail Julien stole the thing from underneath his nose before Maurice even had the chance to place the cherry on the top. Julien being all too happy to remind Maurice of the fact that as king he's entitled to do so and Maurice as one of his subjects is not allowed to go against his wishes. Needless to say Julien's entitled, egotistical attitude doesn't make him many friends.