Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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