Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

An oddball character who lives in their own little world. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Extreme Doormat Brother–Sister Incest Dutch Angle Take That! Undying Loyalty "Well Done, Son!" Guy Not Quite Dead Character Development Artistic License – History Broken Aesop And the Adventure Continues The Alleged Car The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mama Bear Works Set in World War II Never Trust a Trailer He Knows Too Much Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique As Long as It Sounds Foreign Left the Background Music On Distracted by the Sexy Covers Always Lie Love at First Sight Male Gaze Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Adaptational Heroism Leave the Camera Running The Mole The Chessmaster Historical-Domain Character Actually Pretty Funny Beta Couple Big Fancy House Man on Fire Twist Ending Men Are the Expendable Gender Gilligan Cut An Aesop Affably Evil Woman in White Historical In-Joke Freudian Excuse Epic Fail Dissonant Serenity Screw the Rules, I Have Money! It's Personal Slap-Slap-Kiss Faux Affably Evil The Stoner Visual Pun Happily Married The Remake Sassy Black Woman Adaptation Expansion What You Are in the Dark The Faceless Famous Last Words Maybe Ever After Bavarian Fire Drill Hate Sink Accidental Misnaming Video Credits Becoming the Mask Author Appeal Frame-Up The Brute Take a Third Option Artistic License – Gun Safety Psychopathic Manchild Irony Motor Mouth My God, What Have I Done? Bait-and-Switch Lock and Load Montage Kill It with Fire Scenery Porn Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Death by Irony The Lancer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Improbable Weapon User Say My Name timeperiod Scary Black Man Downer Ending Riddle for the Ages Overly Long Gag Blood from the Mouth Jump Scare Gender Flip Evil Brit Ambiguously Gay Paper-Thin Disguise Book-Ends Punch-Clock Villain BFG Alas, Poor Villain Bowdlerise Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Military and Warfare Films Destination Defenestration Demonic Possession Framing Device British Films Faking the Dead Action Genre Conspicuous CG In Medias Res Continuity Nod Only Sane Man '80s Hair Ironic Echo Amusing Injuries I'm a Humanitarian This Is Gonna Suck No-Sell Country Matters Central Theme Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Kubrick Stare Dramatic Irony Older Than They Look Same Language Dub Villain Opening Scene Wounded Gazelle Gambit Ambiguous Disorder Pay Evil unto Evil The Un-Reveal Self-Deprecation Extremely Short Timespan Taking the Bullet The '70s Unresolved Sexual Tension Jerk with a Heart of Gold Meet Cute Those Two Guys Once More, with Clarity! Bunny-Ears Lawyer Stealth Hi/Bye Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Romantic False Lead Have a Gay Old Time I Need a Freaking Drink Naked People Are Funny Psychological Thriller Bland-Name Product Would Hit a Girl Bad Boss Christmas Movies Index Kick the Dog The '60s Heel Realization Malevolent Masked Men Cain and Abel The Power of Love Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bond One-Liner Developing Doomed Characters Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Blood Knight Black Comedy As Himself Serial Killer Easily Forgiven Truth in Television Canon Foreigner Didn't Think This Through Ass Shove Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Chekhov's Gunman Scare Chord Blackmail Plot Hole Pretty Little Headshots Australian Movies Dark and Troubled Past Vitriolic Best Buds Jerk Jock Mexican Standoff Anachronism Stew After the End More Dakka "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Deconstruction Big Brother Instinct Attempted Rape Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mistaken for Gay Kids Are Cruel Wham Shot Improvised Weapon Evil Laugh Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Does Not Like Shoes Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Random Events Plot No Antagonist Stalker with a Crush Market-Based Title Slasher Smile Homage Almost Kiss Artistic License – Geography Freeze-Frame Bonus Room Full of Crazy Butt-Monkey One-Man Army Gone Horribly Right Pragmatic Adaptation Death of a Child Cloudcuckoolander Earn Your Happy Ending Super Strength Be Careful What You Wish For Camp Gay The Smurfette Principle Smug Snake Damsel in Distress Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fantastic Racism Corpsing Early-Bird Cameo Creepy Child Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Monumental Damage Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Film of the Book Tempting Fate Smoking Is Cool Crazy Jealous Guy Alliterative Name Pyrrhic Victory The Great Depression Babies Ever After Femme Fatale Precision F-Strike The Hero Casting Gag Captain Ersatz Stepford Smiler Last-Name Basis Dies Wide Open Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane I Did What I Had to Do Cat Fight You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Establishing Character Moment The Voiceless Annoying Younger Sibling Body Horror Retcon Double Entendre Biopic Wicked Cultured Insane Troll Logic Black Best Friend Overprotective Dad Obstructive Bureaucrat Hollywood Darkness Dark Action Girl Mystery and Detective Films Canadian Movies Big Eater The Big Guy Anti-Hero Red Oni, Blue Oni Demoted to Extra Gratuitous English Dark Reprise Break the Haughty Anguished Declaration of Love Hope Spot Yandere Bare Your Midriff Heroic Sacrifice Nice Guy Death Seeker The Load Empathic Environment World of Ham Science Fiction Films Redemption Equals Death Adaptational Villainy Only a Flesh Wound Exactly What It Says on the Tin Taking You with Me Anachronic Order Real Life The Cameo Mighty Whitey Rape as Drama In Name Only Cluster F-Bomb The Ace Badass in a Nice Suit The Dragon Flashback Villainous Breakdown Well-Intentioned Extremist Word of God Early Installment Weirdness Insult Backfire O.O.C. Is Serious Business La Résistance All There in the Script And Starring Disney Death Camera Abuse Foreshadowing Darker and Edgier Stealth Pun Deliberately Monochrome Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Greater-Scope Villain Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" For Want of a Nail One Steve Limit Due to the Dead In the Back The Dog Bites Back An Arm and a Leg Breaking the Fourth Wall Adaptational Attractiveness Lampshade Hanging Fanservice Oh, Crap! Pimped-Out Dress How We Got Here Fish out of Water Took a Level in Jerkass Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Suddenly SHOUTING! Better to Die than Be Killed Red Herring Music Stories Brick Joke Closed Circle Really Gets Around Interrupted Suicide Break the Cutie Bolivian Army Ending Artistic License – Biology Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Setting Update The Place Batman Gambit Spiritual Successor Fun with Acronyms Serious Business Domestic Abuse Knight Templar Vampire Fiction Ax-Crazy Animal Title Index Peek-a-Boo Corpse Refuge in Audacity Here We Go Again! The '50s Double-Meaning Title The Stinger Action Survivor Anyone Can Die Obfuscating Stupidity Comically Missing the Point Heel–Face Turn Foil Match Cut The Smart Guy My Beloved Smother Straight Gay Beware the Nice Ones It's All About Me Killed Mid-Sentence Romantic Comedy Betty and Veronica Mr. Exposition From Bad to Worse Even Evil Has Standards Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Atoner Reality Ensues Cold-Blooded Torture Rich Bitch Four-Temperament Ensemble He Who Fights Monsters Big-Bad Ensemble Crucified Hero Shot Shipper on Deck Badass Normal Manchild True Companions Chiaroscuro Adaptation Dye-Job Gainax Ending Big Bad Duumvirate Product Placement As the Good Book Says... Brainless Beauty Mooks Film Series Armor-Piercing Question Took a Level in Badass Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism No Name Given Stuff Blowing Up Manipulative Bastard Green-Eyed Monster Fourth Date Marriage Guns Akimbo Determinator Big Applesauce Big Bad Funny Background Event Determinator aka: The Determinator Slasher Movie Disappeared Dad Slashed Throat Arranged Marriage Papa Wolf Bond Villain Stupidity Mad Scientist Police Brutality Bloodless Carnage Parental Substitute Blatant Lies Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Vomit Indiscretion Shot Anti-Villain Fanservice Extra Outrun the Fireball Chase Scene Get Out! Darkest Hour Sole Survivor Adaptational Badass Narrator Shower Scene Rule of Symbolism Woman Scorned Guile Hero Advertised Extra Drives Like Crazy Lighter and Softer Catapult Nightmare Epic Movie Eagleland Improbable Aiming Skills Noodle Incident The Stoic Does This Remind You of Anything? Every Car Is a Pinto Department of Redundancy Department Pet the Dog Hidden Depths Let's Get Dangerous! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Expy Friend to All Children Your Head A-Splode Cowboy Cop An Axe to Grind Groin Attack Those Wacky Nazis The Vamp Credits Gag Defrosting Ice Queen Sequel Escalation Adaptation Distillation Bar Brawl Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Oner Handicapped Badass Meaningful Name Sequel Hook Evil vs. Evil Pretty in Mink Rousing Speech Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass And I Must Scream Tap on the Head Evil Is Hammy Reality Is Unrealistic All Just a Dream Brutal Honesty Mercy Kill A Minor Kidroduction Victoria's Secret Compartment Mugging the Monster Abusive Parents Love Triangle Running Gag Meaningful Background Event Off with His Head! As You Know Tagline Spell My Name with an "S" I Have Your Wife No Good Deed Goes Unpunished A God Am I Villain with Good Publicity Token Minority Made of Explodium Title Drop Poor Communication Kills Black and Gray Morality Cool Car Daddy's Girl Creator Cameo Karma Houdini Cool Old Guy For the Evulz Mr. Fanservice Gold Digger Up to Eleven Humans Are Bastards Tranquil Fury Idiot Ball Curb-Stomp Battle The X of Y Disguised in Drag Bring My Brown Pants Deliberate Values Dissonance The Alcoholic Our Vampires Are Different Worthy Opponent The Reveal Not What It Looks Like Novelization Rule of Three B-Movie Sinister Minister Morality Pet "The Reason You Suck" Speech Martial Arts Movie Only Known by Their Nickname Your Cheating Heart Soundtrack Dissonance Nothing Is Scarier Time Skip Dirty Cop Captain Obvious Mythology Gag Drugs Are Bad Manly Tears Toplessness from the Back No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Not Using the "Z" Word Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ascended Extra Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Japanese Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Important Haircut Off-into-the-Distance Ending Fake Shemp Heterosexual Life-Partners Fire-Forged Friends Naïve Newcomer Call-Forward Adorkable All There in the Manual The Ghost Would Hurt a Child Coming-of-Age Story Face–Heel Turn Recycled IN SPACE! Mind Screw "Awesome McCool" Name A.I. Is a Crapshoot What the Hell, Hero? Horror Films Deal with the Devil Alpha Bitch Russian Films A Father to His Men Aside Glance The Quiet One The Cavalry The Musical Missing Mom Intrepid Reporter Offscreen Moment of Awesome Call-Back Suspiciously Specific Denial Knife Nut Broken Pedestal Dumb Blonde Documentary Index of Film Westerns Jitter Cam Villain Protagonist Male Frontal Nudity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Eiffel Tower Effect Together in Death Silence Is Golden Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Trailers Always Spoil Red Shirt Bilingual Bonus Final Girl Informed Ability Villain Song Honor Before Reason Driven to Suicide Sadistic Choice Depraved Bisexual Hong Kong Films Plucky Comic Relief Back from the Dead German Films Awesome, but Impractical Villain Ball Evil-Detecting Dog Age Lift Asshole Victim Skewed Priorities Funny Foreigner Cool Guns A Date with Rosie Palms Kill 'em All Hero of Another Story Not So Above It All Protagonist Title Broken Bird Defiant to the End Stylistic Suck Unreliable Narrator Punny Name Sanity Slippage Madness Mantra Chekhov's Skill Rasputinian Death Hypocritical Humor The '80s Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Action Prologue Sir Swears-a-Lot Did Not Get the Girl Too Dumb to Live Bloody Hilarious Red Right Hand Rule of Cool Bald of Evil Eyepatch of Power Dramatic Gun Cock Karmic Death Properly Paranoid Fatal Family Photo Made of Iron French Films Hypocrite Mood Whiplash Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bound and Gagged Badass Boast Dirty Coward Politically Incorrect Villain Immune to Bullets You Killed My Father Card-Carrying Villain Ms. Fanservice Real Life Writes the Plot Air-Vent Passageway Hollywood Law Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Shout-Out Eureka Moment Intergenerational Friendship Unspoken Plan Guarantee Put on a Bus Hooker with a Heart of Gold Hero Antagonist N-Word Privileges Instant Death Bullet Eldritch Abomination Daylight Horror Evil Is Petty Implacable Man Names to Run Away from Really Fast Non-Indicative Name Disney Villain Death Evil Plan Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Exact Words The Ditz War Is Hell Calling the Old Man Out Half the Man He Used to Be Actor Allusion Shell-Shocked Veteran Action Girl What Happened to the Mouse? She Cleans Up Nicely Genre Throwback Historical Hero Upgrade Shirtless Scene Chekhov's Gun Award-Bait Song Sports Stories Flipping the Bird Bad "Bad Acting" Hoist by His Own Petard You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Shown Their Work Accidental Murder Neck Lift Television Movie Index Drowning My Sorrows Laughing Mad Based on a True Story Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality folderlabel Small Name, Big Ego The Sociopath Loophole Abuse Loads and Loads of Characters Reasonable Authority Figure Bullying a Dragon Bottomless Magazines Fantasy Films Big "NO!" Not So Stoic The End... Or Is It? Reckless Gun Usage Children Are Innocent No OSHA Compliance Aluminum Christmas Trees All Men Are Perverts My Greatest Failure Obviously Evil The '90s Adaptation Name Change No Ending Jerkass Never Found the Body Black Comedy Rape Car Fu Disproportionate Retribution Catch-Phrase Animated Credits Opening Imagine Spot Translation Convention Big Damn Heroes Evil Sounds Deep Combat Pragmatist Evil Counterpart Genre Shift Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Public Domain Feature Films The Bully Retired Badass Animal Motifs Despair Event Horizon Ungrateful Bastard Arch-Enemy Berserk Button Film Noir Nice Hat Wrong Genre Savvy MacGuffin Fainting Affectionate Parody It Will Never Catch On No Celebrities Were Harmed Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Mafia Grey and Gray Morality Ambiguous Ending Training Montage Large Ham Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Black Dude Dies First Whole Plot Reference Laser-Guided Karma Hair-Trigger Temper Badass Grandpa I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Shut Up, Hannibal! Dropped a Bridge on Him Make It Look Like an Accident Neck Snap Everyone Has Standards Eye Scream Enemy Mine Stock Footage Dying Moment of Awesome Thriller Historical Villain Upgrade Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Creative Closing Credits Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Spanner in the Works Spiteful Spit Shoot the Shaggy Dog Kick the Son of a Bitch Boom, Headshot! Redshirt Army Vacation Films Horror Comedy Show Within a Show Rewatch Bonus Meaningful Echo Cruel and Unusual Death You Have Failed Me Bittersweet Ending Wham Line Bi the Way Posthumous Character Playing Gertrude Logo Joke Five-Man Band Fingore Superhero Humiliation Conga Scenery Gorn Italian Films Only in It for the Money Henpecked Husband Artistic License – Military Spared by the Adaptation Ripped from the Headlines Getting Crap Past the Radar Hell Is That Noise Sealed Evil in a Can Death by Adaptation Parental Neglect Light Is Not Good Foregone Conclusion Bury Your Gays It Can Think "Shaggy Dog" Story Arc Words Very Loosely Based on a True Story Artistic License – Law Corrupt Corporate Executive Race Against the Clock Celebrity Paradox Facial Horror 20 Minutes into the Future Reality Has No Subtitles Rule of Funny Curse Cut Short The Dreaded Dramedy Psycho for Hire Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Soft Glass Badass Longcoat Grievous Bottley Harm Never My Fault Line-of-Sight Name Moment Killer Silent Movie Gory Discretion Shot Adult Fear Heroic BSoD Cool Old Lady Jerkass Has a Point The Chick Parental Abandonment Our Zombies Are Different Dogged Nice Guy She's Got Legs Bloodier and Gorier Deus ex Machina Needs Wiki Magic Love Belligerent Sexual Tension Not Even Bothering with the Accent Major Injury Underreaction Ominous Latin Chanting Beard of Evil May–December Romance Revenge From Nobody to Nightmare Costume Porn There Is No Kill Like Overkill Fatal Flaw Sci-Fi Horror All for Nothing Not So Different Diabolus ex Machina Drill Sergeant Nasty Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Face Death with Dignity Cool Shades NO INDOOR VOICE Offscreen Teleportation Rated M for Manly Retirony Zombie Stories Those Two Bad Guys Race Lift Wretched Hive Insistent Terminology Even Evil Has Loved Ones Red Eyes, Take Warning Cassandra Truth Artistic License – Physics Amoral Attorney Good Is Not Nice Leitmotif The Hero Dies All Girls Want Bad Boys Re-Cut One-Word Title Authority Equals Asskicking Crapsack World Police are Useless The Lost Lenore Dwindling Party Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Antagonist Title Deadpan Snarker Unusual Euphemism Sacrificial Lion Gorn Fate Worse than Death Agony of the Feet Death by Sex Film Noir Index Ship Tease Vomit Discretion Shot Death Glare Genre Savvy Adults Are Useless Expository Hairstyle Change Apocalypse How Pragmatic Villainy Storming the Castle Dressing as the Enemy Contrived Coincidence Chewing the Scenery Badass Bookworm Fiery Redhead Married to the Job Beauty Is Never Tarnished Adapted Out Composite Character Failed a Spot Check Decoy Protagonist The Starscream Dark Is Not Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Abhorrent Admirer Crazy-Prepared Heroes Want Redheads Fan Disservice Only One Name Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cat Scare Parental Incest Dull Surprise Star-Crossed Lovers Dual Wielding Dirty Old Man Totally Radical Manic Pixie Dream Girl Author Avatar The Bad Guy Wins Fat Bastard Ghost Fiction Sexy Discretion Shot The Casanova Auto Erotica Mundane Made Awesome