Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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Room Full of Crazy Artistic License – Biology Death of a Child Badass Bookworm Smug Snake The Atoner Sequel Hook Face Death with Dignity Does This Remind You of Anything? Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Eye Scream Reality Is Unrealistic Earn Your Happy Ending Morality Pet Ambiguous Ending Pre-Mortem One-Liner Drives Like Crazy Rule of Three Oh, Crap! 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Loads and Loads of Characters Flipping the Bird Armor-Piercing Question A.I. Is a Crapshoot Woman Scorned From Nobody to Nightmare Belligerent Sexual Tension Genre Savvy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Names to Run Away from Really Fast Badass Longcoat Abhorrent Admirer Back from the Dead The Remake Covers Always Lie Sci-Fi Horror Mundane Made Awesome Mooks My Greatest Failure Mythology Gag Unreliable Narrator The Cavalry Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism And I Must Scream Grey and Gray Morality Fiery Redhead Karma Houdini Determinator Deliberate Values Dissonance Irony Mr. Exposition Stalker with a Crush Monumental Damage Aside Glance Affectionate Parody Straight Gay Mercy Kill Hair-Trigger Temper Calling the Old Man Out Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Hero Intergenerational Friendship Insistent Terminology Eiffel Tower Effect Air-Vent Passageway Kill 'em All Laughing Mad Revenge Chekhov's Gun Based on a True Story Flashback Horror Films Hollywood Law Historical-Domain Character Funny Background Event Dissonant Serenity Aww, Look! 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Retired Badass The Great Depression Idiot Ball Word of God Twist Ending Ambiguous Disorder Bait-and-Switch Adapted Out Department of Redundancy Department Villain Ball The Alleged Car Wicked Cultured Ship Tease Red Oni, Blue Oni Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bad Boss Anachronic Order The '90s Zombie Stories Police are Useless Bittersweet Ending Cowboy Cop Action Prologue Better to Die than Be Killed Gory Discretion Shot Unusual Euphemism Playing Gertrude Off-into-the-Distance Ending "Awesome McCool" Name Not So Stoic Kill It with Fire Camp Gay Get Out! Badass Normal Suspiciously Specific Denial Grievous Bottley Harm Age Lift Bloodless Carnage Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Brick Joke Adaptational Attractiveness Once More, with Clarity! Jump Scare After the End Ms. Fanservice Faking the Dead Artistic License – Law Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Creator Cameo Unwitting Instigator of Doom Recycled IN SPACE! Death Seeker N-Word Privileges Cool Guns Papa Wolf Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dirty Old Man Artistic License – History Offscreen Moment of Awesome Final Girl Non-Indicative Name Aluminum Christmas Trees Silence Is Golden Obstructive Bureaucrat Same Language Dub Bottomless Magazines Boom, Headshot! What Happened to the Mouse? Deal with the Devil Male Frontal Nudity The Starscream Reality Has No Subtitles Visual Pun Taking the Bullet Improvised Weapon One Steve Limit Made of Iron German Films A God Am I Author Appeal Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Not Using the "Z" Word Parental Incest Self-Deprecation Adaptation Dye-Job Male Gaze Historical Hero Upgrade No-Sell Works Set in World War II Funny Foreigner Punctuated! For! Emphasis! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Chekhov's Gunman Novelization Eyepatch of Power Fish out of Water Anti-Hero Ass Shove Darker and Edgier My God, What Have I Done? Reckless Gun Usage Sealed Evil in a Can Man on Fire Arch-Enemy Stealth Hi/Bye Mystery and Detective Films The Casanova Children Are Innocent Happily Married The Vamp Fake Shemp A Date with Rosie Palms Adult Fear Drugs Are Bad Red Eyes, Take Warning Sinister Minister Would Hit a Girl Vomit Indiscretion Shot Paper-Thin Disguise timeperiod Taking You with Me Soft Glass Central Theme The Brute As Long as It Sounds Foreign Gainax Ending Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Training Montage Ripped from the Headlines Pimped-Out Dress Ironic Echo 20 Minutes into the Future Naïve Newcomer Disney Villain Death Corpsing Spiteful Spit Bring My Brown Pants Hoist by His Own Petard B-Movie It Can Think Tranquil Fury Truth in Television "Well Done, Son!" Guy Never Trust a Trailer Serial Killer Romantic False Lead Noodle Incident Rousing Speech Fat Bastard Disproportionate Retribution Greater-Scope Villain Mighty Whitey It's All About Me Deadpan Snarker Brainless Beauty Determinator aka: The Determinator Artistic License – Geography This Is Gonna Suck The Dreaded Disney Death Italian Films Coming-of-Age Story Canadian Movies Rewatch Bonus Took a Level in Jerkass Film Noir Index Call-Forward Chiaroscuro Framing Device The Smart Guy The Hero Dies No Name Given Imagine Spot Authority Equals Asskicking Older Than They Look No Celebrities Were Harmed Drill Sergeant Nasty Contrived Coincidence True Companions Bland-Name Product Those Two Guys Kick the Dog Russian Films Epic Fail Dropped a Bridge on Him Deus ex Machina Improbable Weapon User Conspicuous CG May–December Romance Sacrificial Lion Here We Go Again! Riddle for the Ages Wretched Hive Dutch Angle Music Stories Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Didn't Think This Through Dying Moment of Awesome Defrosting Ice Queen Slasher Smile Wounded Gazelle Gambit Accidental Misnaming Major Injury Underreaction Big Bad Duumvirate And Starring Military and Warfare Films Overprotective Dad Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Star-Crossed Lovers Red Shirt Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Kids Are Cruel Only a Flesh Wound More Dakka The Smurfette Principle Ghost Fiction Darkest Hour Parental Neglect Neck Snap Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spell My Name with an "S" Peek-a-Boo Corpse No OSHA Compliance Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Berserk Button The Stoic Race Against the Clock Honor Before Reason You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Match Cut Scenery Gorn Running Gag Improbable Aiming Skills Biopic Amoral Attorney Only Sane Man "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Unspoken Plan Guarantee Silent Movie Bare Your Midriff '80s Hair Bond One-Liner Dull Surprise Hell Is That Noise Big Brother Instinct Manly Tears Amusing Injuries Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Mafia Animal Motifs Face–Heel Turn Crucified Hero Shot Spanner in the Works Slasher Movie Intrepid Reporter Decoy Protagonist Big Applesauce Antagonist Title An Arm and a Leg Christmas Movies Index Distracted by the Sexy Sequel Escalation Adaptational Badass Villain Protagonist Easily Forgiven One-Man Army Pragmatic Villainy Pay Evil unto Evil The Cameo Daylight Horror Logo Joke Comically Missing the Point An Aesop Narrator Would Hurt a Child Those Wacky Nazis Yandere Madness Mantra Scare Chord Shower Scene Bar Brawl Reasonable Authority Figure How We Got Here Knight Templar Your Head A-Splode A Father to His Men Those Two Bad Guys Big Damn Heroes Mugging the Monster And the Adventure Continues Posthumous Character Pragmatic Adaptation Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Action Genre Bolivian Army Ending Stepford Smiler Dramatic Gun Cock Television Movie Index Take a Third Option Big Eater Cool Old Lady Death by Sex Only One Name Lock and Load Montage Needs Wiki Magic Love Parental Substitute Token Minority Wham Line Villain Opening Scene Show Within a Show O.O.C. Is Serious Business La Résistance Blackmail Facial Horror Famous Last Words Country Matters Every Car Is a Pinto Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies He Knows Too Much Roaring Rampage of Revenge Deliberately Monochrome Hope Spot Death by Adaptation No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Blood from the Mouth All Girls Want Bad Boys Action Survivor Crazy Jealous Guy Bloody Hilarious Let's Get Dangerous! Sassy Black Woman Too Dumb to Live Setting Update Black Comedy Malevolent Masked Men Animated Credits Opening Bond Villain Stupidity Never Found the Body Heroic BSoD The '70s Insult Backfire In Name Only Stock Footage Death by Irony Getting Crap Past the Radar Tap on the Head Shell-Shocked Veteran Cool Car You Killed My Father Hollywood Darkness Red Right Hand Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Screw the Money, I Have Rules! In Medias Res Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Heel Realization Small Name, Big Ego Car Fu Apocalypse How She's Got Legs Vitriolic Best Buds Reality Ensues Evil Is Hammy Poor Communication Kills Double Entendre Half the Man He Used to Be I Have Your Wife Black Best Friend Laser-Guided Karma Rule of Symbolism Guile Hero Hypocrite Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Power of Love Bavarian Fire Drill Extreme Doormat French Films Femme Fatale Knife Nut Book-Ends The Big Guy Motor Mouth Sole Survivor All Just a Dream Outrun the Fireball Combat Pragmatist Ambiguously Gay Serious Business Groin Attack Green-Eyed Monster Properly Paranoid Really Gets Around Plot Hole The End... Or Is It? Woman in White Fourth Date Marriage Epic Movie Villainous Breakdown Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heroes Want Redheads Crapsack World Danny Peary Cult Movies List All Men Are Perverts The Dragon Psychological Thriller Early Installment Weirdness Bloodier and Gorier I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Shown Their Work Bald of Evil Jerk Jock Gratuitous English Sir Swears-a-Lot Ax-Crazy Meaningful Background Event Does Not Like Shoes Death Glare I'm a Humanitarian Psychopathic Manchild Manipulative Bastard Large Ham Index of Film Westerns BFG Leitmotif Slashed Throat Blood Knight The Chessmaster