Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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