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* German movie ''Didi -- Der Experte'' by/with comedian Didi Hallervorden. Car mechanic Willy Schulze (an apolitical guy) is mistaken for the political expert Willy Schneider. They both have lost their memory in a car accident and starts successfully helping the mayor of Berlin with slogans like "We have to pull on the screws" or "Why change the engine?". Until he regains his memory and decides to take revenge. This ends in a massive landslide loss for BOTH major parties.
* ''[[Zelig]]'' played by [[Woody Allen]] evolves into this, because his only real skill is the ability to [[Blank Slate|blend in]] and [[Feigning Intelligence|feign expertise]]. This leads him to [[The Zelig|meet famous people]] and [[Kavorka Man|bed numerous women]].
* [[John Candy]] played exactly this character in ''Who's Harry Crumb?''. Harry (Candy) is almost in [[The Simpsons (animation)|Ralph Wiggum's]] league. He was sent in by the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] because the executive wanted to send the worst possible detective in the world. Eventually, some characters do catch on to Crumb's stupidity, but by the end are wondering if it was [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. It {{spoiler|probably was not.}}
* The driving concept of the comedy ''[[The Man With One Red Shoe]]'', in which a clueless musician (played by Pierre Richard in the original french film and [[Tom Hanks]] in the american remake) gets mistaken for a powerful and highly competent spy. Everything he says and does for the rest of the movie is spied, filmed, analyzed and dissected by real government counterintelligence agents who become more and more convinced of his [[Informed Attribute|so-called cunning]] when he is in fact none of those things.
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