Dunce

Sell both your kidneys on the internet

Melbourne International Film Festival

Dumb Ways to Valentine

Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games

Dumb Ways to Die 3: World Tour

Dumb Ways to Dash!

Dumb Ways to Die: Superheroes

The Dumb Ways to Die Fan Sisters!

**Dunce** is a bean who sold both of his kidneys on the internet.

## About

*"When it comes to money matters, Dunce is about as smart as a stick. So in a bid to solve his ongoing financial dilemma he once sold both his kidneys on the internet. (Anatomy isn’t one of his strong points either.) Selling both kidneys solved his financial problems but created an entirely new dilemma for Dunce: death."*

*- Dumb Ways to Die: Crazy Chronicles Activity Book*

## Appearance

Dunce is a light blue kidney-shaped bean, he has red stitches on his sides after selling his kidneys on the internet.

## Videos

### *Dumb Ways to Die*

Dunce is seen shaking around holding dollar bills, resembling playing cards, he received selling both his kidneys on the internet. He dies from the lack of the sold organs, but his death does not happen onscreen.

### *Melbourne International Film Festival*

In the Melbourne International Film Festival video, he is sitting in-between Hapless and Pillock.

## Games

### Dumb Ways to Die (Application)

#### General

In both versions Dunce is the 1st bean to arrive at the train station(when the player starts to play), he is unlocked by default.

Dunce acts as a bar of lives, and he appears when you click the red button to pledge to the train safety. If you use Build a Bean and press Use in Game, the lives will be changed to that bean.

#### Kidney Bean

In his game, you have to stitch his surgery wound closed by dragging a needle between the stitch holes. If you succeed, he tosses his money in the air and massages his sides. If you fail, he collapses from blood loss.

#### Organ-ize

He later got a second game where the player has to put his organs back in his body. If the player loses he will faint and bleed to death. If the player wins he will pose in front of a mirror with visible stitches on his body and blow a kiss.

#### Champain

His Christmas mini-game has him balancing on a ladder pouring champagne into glasses that are stacked up. The player must tilt the screen to balance Dunce on the ladder. Failure consists of him falling and smashing all the glasses, getting cut in the process. If you win then other DWtD characters will be drinking champagne.

#### Hot Date

He even has a mini-game where he is at a fancy restaurant meeting Ninny, his mate. In the mini-game, you must tap and hold candles to light them. If you succeed, he will wink at Ninny. If you fail, he will try to light them up, but then he'll slip and the table will fall and he'll bleed from his stitch.

#### Louvre at First Sight

His Europe mini-game has him on a rope trying to steal a painting from a museum. The player must use their finger to guide Dunce away from the lasers. Failure consists of him falling with a newspaper headlined "Bumbling Thief Dies Dumbly!" If you win, he gets the painting with a newspaper headlined "Expert Thief Steals the Mona Beana!"

#### Fool's Gold

In this minigame, the player has to keep Dunce's hand away from the trap. If the player makes Dunce resist getting the coin in the trap, he will find a pile of gold. If Dunce's hand gets in the trap, his arm will be bitten off, resulting in failure.

### *Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games*

In the success scene of "Rattle Shake Mistake", Dunce shows up and play the maraca with her while dancing. In the minigame, "Stay Behind the Yellow Line", if the player lets Dunce go to the yellow line or if the player doesn't do anything, a train comes in and rips his face off. In success, Dunce will be dancing with Stupa and Bard.

## Kills

* Christmas post: Set up a fireplace with Lax, that may have burned Klaus (hinted by the mention of Santa).

## Deaths

* original video: Bled out from selling his kidneys (**Not seen in the video**)
* Dumb Ways to Valentine: Bled out due to ripping his heart out for Ninny.
* Proposal post: Bled out after trying to get his ring from a sink (**Death not seen and debatable**)
* Narwhal post: Impaled by a narwhal's horn.
* Waterfall post: Fell down a waterfall while log battling with Botch.
* Knife Store Post: Attracted lots of knives to him with a magnet, and ultimately got stabbed by them.

## Trivia

* Despite him still having a mouth, he doesn't sing in the chorus.
* Dunce doesn't do anything but shake, but in the final chorus, he stops during the pause.
* He is one of the five characters who does not follow any other dancer. The other ones are Stupe, Bungle, Calamity, and Clod. However, Bungle and Clod do not dance at all, and Calamity does little to no dancing, as she ate the glue.
* He does the exact same move in the chorus that he did in his line of the song. He also does this move when he is the lives bar.
* Dunce acts as the life bar in the game. When you lose a mini-game, he will fall and toss his money in the air. Then a gravestone pops up.
* He is often depicted as Ninny's boyfriend, as seen first in the *Dumb Ways to Valentine*, where he cuts out his heart.
	+ He also made another romantic scene with him in the mini-game "Hot Date" of Dumb Ways to Die (Application), where he appeals himself with a wink and smile to him in the success.
	+ Despite these, he did not blow a kiss to him, even though in Organ-ize, he blew a kiss to the mirror.
* According to the original source of his name, He is confirmed as being a male by Ms. Waymark's mention, in which she said "*My favourite is "Dunce" who sells both **his** kidneys on the internet. I love that **he**'s so pleased with **himself** that **he** keeps dancing even when the others don't.*".
* According to an older version of the shop page, Dunce is said to be irresponsible with money, hence his intention to sell both his kidneys on the internet. He is also known to not have a decent knowledge of anatomy either.
* In his mini-game "Cham-pain", his stitches are not seen but with his undamaged body; and other characters involved in there do either.
* In an early storyboard, his mouth was closed when he was dancing with the money.
* During the Easter Update in *Dumb Ways to Dash!*, one of the dialogue says that Dunce has a warehouse.

## Gallery

His sides are empty with stitches in the poster.His plush productFace scraped off by train.In DWTD3