Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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