Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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