Idleness Index

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Tropes about laziness and characters who do little to no work. I don't feel like expanding the description.

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Tropes:

• All Work vs. All Play: One character works hard while the other slacks off.
• Ambitious, but Lazy: Someone tries to achieve great things without having to work.
• Arrogance Breeds Laziness: Too overconfident to bother putting in the work.
• Basement Dweller: A character who still lives with their parents and hasn’t applied for a job.
• Beauty Breeds Laziness: An attractive character is lazy because of the perks of their good looks.
• Being Unambitious Is Bad: A character is considered lazy for not having any ambition.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: A smart character who is too lazy to apply their knowledge.
• Cats Are Lazy: Cats are depicted as lazy.
• Creature of Habit: A character whose laziness might be why they prefer to stick to routine.
• Deliberate Under-Performance: A character intentionally performs below everyone's standards for them.
• Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain: A hard-working hero is contrasted with a lazy villain.
• Dismotivation: A character doesn't have the drive to succeed. Often a reason why they're lazy.
• Do-Nothing Housewife: A so-called housewife who does nothing but loaf around.
• Fat Slob: Overweight people are depicted as lazy and unhygienic.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: Lazy divine beings.
• Idle Rich: Rich people who hardly do anything.
• Laborious Laziness: Lazy characters who work harder than doing the actual work.
• Laid-Back Koala: Koalas are stereotyped as lazy or ditzy creatures.
• Laziness Callout: A lazy character is rebuked for their laziness.
• Lazy Artist: An artist who does little work on their art.
• Lazy Boss: A person in a position of authority is a lazy.
• Lazy Bum: A character who is lazy.
• Lazy Dragon: Dragons spend most of their time either sleeping or curled on their hoards in their lairs.
• Lazy Husband: A man sits around the house while his wife does all the work.
• Lazy Mexican: Mexicans who are depicted as lazy people.
• Lazy Neutered Pet: A pet is lazy because they have been neutered too much.
• Lazy Reptile: Reptiles sleep most of the time and do nothing.
• Lethal Negligence: People are endangered, harmed, or killed because of a another character's laziness.
• NEET: A character who doesn't attend school and/or is not employed at a job.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Characters who never seem to do the kinds of activities implied by their job description.
• Playing Games at Work: Someone's goofing off at work and not doing their job.
• Pretty Freeloaders: Female character(s) who live with a male character and are too lazy to get a job.
• Professional Slacker: A lazy employee.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: Someone who ridiculously puts off something 'til the last minute.
• Skipping the Basics: A character tries to use or learn advanced techniques without learning the basics first.
• Sleepyhead: A chronically drowsy character.
• The Slacker: A character who is determined to get by with as little effort as possible.
• Sluggish Seal: Seals, walruses, and sea lions stereotyped as lazy or slow creatures.
• Sluggish Sloths: The stereotype of sloths to be slow in everything as well as lazy in media.
• Stupid Slothfulness: A character is slothful to the point of stupidity.
• Surveillance Station Slacker: Someone who's meant to watch something is lazy and goofs off.
• Suspiciously Idle Officers: A corrupt employee is never seen doing their job.
• Too Proud for Lowly Work: A character refuses to do work that they feel is beneath them.
• Too Smart for Education: Someone is so intelligent, they think they don't need to go to school.
• The Watcher: A character who doesn't do much of anything except watch other characters and occasionally give advice.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Someone wins by doing nothing and letting their enemy(s) take themselves out.