Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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Refuge in Audacity The '70s Award-Bait Song The Oner Say My Name Wicked Cultured True Companions It's All About Me Happily Married Whole Plot Reference My Beloved Smother British Films Karmic Death Implacable Man And the Adventure Continues Light Is Not Good Cold-Blooded Torture Annoying Younger Sibling Bottomless Magazines Police are Useless Never My Fault N-Word Privileges Parental Incest Instant Death Bullet Bowdlerise The Great Depression Get Out! 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Leave the Camera Running From Bad to Worse The Voiceless Driven to Suicide Adult Fear Armor-Piercing Question Book-Ends As Himself I Did What I Had to Do After the End Knight Templar Once More, with Clarity! Those Wacky Nazis Let's Get Dangerous! Men Are the Expendable Gender A.I. Is a Crapshoot Coming-of-Age Story Advertised Extra Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dark Reprise Ship Tease Made of Explodium Did Not Get the Girl Only One Name Meaningful Background Event Vacation Films Unresolved Sexual Tension Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Pet the Dog Ambiguously Gay Major Injury Underreaction Unusual Euphemism Drives Like Crazy Expository Hairstyle Change Bare Your Midriff Big Fancy House Black and Gray Morality Deadpan Snarker Bloodless Carnage Interrupted Suicide I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fantastic Racism Faking the Dead Spell My Name with an "S" Animal Title Index All Men Are Perverts Skewed Priorities Dropped a Bridge on Him Babies Ever After Random Events Plot Pay Evil unto Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Shipper on Deck Big Brother Instinct Hypocritical Humor Red Right Hand Hollywood Law Manchild It Will Never Catch On The Sociopath Pimped-Out Dress Horror Films Yandere Epic Movie The Dreaded Names to Run Away from Really Fast Maybe Ever After Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Evil Plan Dark Is Not Evil Drowning My Sorrows Manly Tears Wounded Gazelle Gambit Super Strength Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Counterpart Green-Eyed Monster Leaning on the Fourth Wall Age Lift I Need a Freaking Drink Distracted by the Sexy Soft Glass Idiot Ball No-Sell Villain Opening Scene Vampire Fiction Bury Your Gays Diabolus ex Machina Obviously Evil Aluminum Christmas Trees One-Word Title Awesome, but Impractical The Film of the Book Token Minority The Remake Sequel Hook Revenge Intrepid Reporter Getting Crap Past the Radar Tap on the Head Really Gets Around Call-Back The Ghost Suddenly SHOUTING! Index of Film Westerns Villainous Breakdown Back from the Dead Informed Ability The '80s The Mafia Gone Horribly Right Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Despair Event Horizon Anguished Declaration of Love Even Evil Has Loved Ones Television Movie Index The Place The Musical Fainting Playing Gertrude Ms. Fanservice Bad "Bad Acting" Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Big Eater Final Girl Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Wham Line Police Brutality The Un-Reveal Loophole Abuse Humiliation Conga Translation Convention Large Ham Half the Man He Used to Be Shower Scene Dark Action Girl One Steve Limit Fanservice Extra Broken Pedestal Defiant to the End Parental Neglect Death by Adaptation Deconstruction Music Stories Arranged Marriage Mexican Standoff Character Development Obfuscating Stupidity Overprotective Dad Crapsack World Adults Are Useless Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Parental Substitute Not So Stoic Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Would Hit a Girl An Aesop Camp Gay Ass Shove Toplessness from the Back Author Avatar Action Girl Children Are Innocent Outrun the Fireball Domestic Abuse Novelization Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Title Drop Fire-Forged Friends Twist Ending Depraved Bisexual Rated M for Manly Betty and Veronica Shirtless Scene Fan Disservice Only a Flesh Wound Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Cloudcuckoolander Unusually Uninteresting Sight Hero Antagonist Offscreen Teleportation Face Death with Dignity Chekhov's Gunman The Faceless Eureka Moment Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Arch-Enemy Off with His Head! Trailers Always Spoil Married to the Job Abhorrent Admirer The '60s May–December Romance Darkest Hour Jerkass Has a Point Historical In-Joke Blackmail Laser-Guided Karma Up to Eleven Does Not Like Shoes Stock Footage Together in Death Adapted Out Extremely Short Timespan Rich Bitch Our Vampires Are Different Unwitting Instigator of Doom Cowboy Cop Bar Brawl Celebrity Paradox Jitter Cam Monumental Damage Rule of Symbolism Kubrick Stare Honor Before Reason Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Animal Motifs Kick the Dog Made of Iron Room Full of Crazy Continuity Nod Extreme Doormat Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Guile Hero Chewing the Scenery Never Found the Body She Cleans Up Nicely Card-Carrying Villain Car Fu Death Glare Credits Gag Wretched Hive French Films Evil Is Petty Irony Country Matters Earn Your Happy Ending Brainless Beauty Covers Always Lie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Superhero Shout-Out Roaring Rampage of Revenge Action Prologue Attempted Rape Offscreen Moment of Awesome Overly Long Gag Double Entendre Catapult Nightmare Victoria's Secret Compartment Jerkass Easily Forgiven Heroic BSoD Amusing Injuries Beard of Evil Brutal Honesty Bi the Way Foil Soundtrack Dissonance Badass in a Nice Suit Stalker with a Crush Daylight Horror Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Improbable Aiming Skills The Stoner Hell Is That Noise Hair-Trigger Temper Alpha Bitch Nothing Is Scarier Cassandra Truth Greater-Scope Villain Woman in White Cain and Abel Sacrificial Lion Recycled IN SPACE! Romantic False Lead Red Shirt Oh, Crap! Hong Kong Films Would Hurt a Child Closed Circle Madness Mantra The Stoic Good Is Not Nice Authority Equals Asskicking Fiery Redhead MacGuffin Knife Nut The Power of Love He Knows Too Much Documentary Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Bad Guy Wins Gold Digger Curb-Stomp Battle Mama Bear As the Good Book Says... Actually Pretty Funny Accidental Murder For the Evulz "Well Done, Son!" Guy Flashback Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Training Montage Totally Radical Your Head A-Splode Serial Killer As You Know Narrator Nice Guy Rule of Cool Red Eyes, Take Warning The Casanova Bond One-Liner Abusive Parents Demoted to Extra Nice Hat Face–Heel Turn The Mole Vomit Indiscretion Shot Guns Akimbo Bavarian Fire Drill Captain Obvious Manipulative Bastard Suspiciously Similar Substitute Downer Ending Black Comedy Stealth Pun Badass Normal All There in the Script The End... Or Is It? 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Disappeared Dad Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Artistic License – Biology Gender Flip All There in the Manual Decoy Protagonist More Dakka Sir Swears-a-Lot Eiffel Tower Effect Shut Up, Hannibal! Grievous Bottley Harm Fate Worse than Death Setting Update Death by Irony Dull Surprise Grey and Gray Morality Early-Bird Cameo Eye Scream folderlabel Insistent Terminology The X of Y Reasonable Authority Figure Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dirty Coward For Want of a Nail Affably Evil Dutch Angle Bittersweet Ending Better to Die than Be Killed Film Series Rule of Funny A God Am I Badass Bookworm Reckless Gun Usage One-Man Army Broken Aesop Genre Savvy Eagleland The Atoner Double-Meaning Title Sealed Evil in a Can Reality Has No Subtitles Adaptation Distillation NO INDOOR VOICE Bolivian Army Ending Based on a True Story Conspicuous CG Butt-Monkey This Is Gonna Suck O.O.C. Is Serious Business "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue A Date with Rosie Palms Running Gag Hero of Another Story Composite Character Air-Vent Passageway Demonic Possession Body Horror Department of Redundancy Department Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Pretty in Mink Canon Foreigner The Cameo Lampshade Hanging The Starscream Bait-and-Switch Missing Mom Bloodier and Gorier Tranquil Fury The Bully Ambiguous Ending No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Improbable Weapon User Historical Villain Upgrade "Awesome McCool" Name Slasher Movie Everyone Has Standards Slashed Throat The Hero I'm a Humanitarian Stepford Smiler Hoist by His Own Petard No Celebrities Were Harmed Pragmatic Adaptation Batman Gambit Badass Boast The Dog Bites Back Chekhov's Gun Tagline Jerk with a Heart of Gold The '50s Visual Pun Politically Incorrect Villain Killed Mid-Sentence Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Plot Hole Mr. Fanservice 20 Minutes into the Future Redshirt Army Catch-Phrase Meaningful Name Psychopathic Manchild Fake Shemp Blood from the Mouth Gilligan Cut Dual Wielding Fat Bastard Jump Scare Big Damn Heroes Adaptation Expansion Friend to All Children Put on a Bus Ungrateful Bastard Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Genre Throwback Adaptational Badass Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Death Seeker Dies Wide Open Frame-Up Ironic Echo Male Frontal Nudity Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dumb Blonde Take That! Same Language Dub Death by Sex Gorn Only in It for the Money Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Lighter and Softer Anachronic Order Not Using the "Z" Word Sports Stories Berserk Button Mind Screw Four-Temperament Ensemble Video Credits I Have Your Wife Handicapped Badass Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Motor Mouth Pyrrhic Victory Cool Shades Kill 'em All Non-Indicative Name Asshole Victim Meaningful Echo Arc Words Big "NO!" 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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Deliberately Monochrome Big-Bad Ensemble Stylistic Suck Cool Old Lady Moment Killer Sinister Minister Gratuitous English Bilingual Bonus Chase Scene Disguised in Drag Mercy Kill Black Comedy Rape Be Careful What You Wish For Eldritch Abomination Product Placement And I Must Scream Man on Fire Improvised Weapon Camera Abuse Evil-Detecting Dog Film Noir Artistic License – Geography Bald of Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Psychological Thriller Leitmotif Exactly What It Says on the Tin Disproportionate Retribution Flipping the Bird Stuff Blowing Up Poor Communication Kills Tempting Fate Combat Pragmatist Undying Loyalty Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Creepy Child Insane Troll Logic Agony of the Feet Faux Affably Evil Noodle Incident Ripped from the Headlines Psycho for Hire Brother–Sister Incest Time Skip Important Haircut Red Oni, Blue Oni Big Bad Becoming the Mask Suspiciously Specific Denial The Alcoholic No Name Given The Alleged Car Morality Pet There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Big Guy In Name Only Ghost Fiction Fun with Acronyms Destination Defenestration Creator Cameo Scary Black Man Creative Closing Credits Does This Remind You of Anything? Jerk Jock Blood Knight The Smart Guy B-Movie In Medias Res Dissonant Serenity Loads and Loads of Characters Determinator Historical-Domain Character Groin Attack Malevolent Masked Men Fatal Flaw Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil vs. Evil Taking the Bullet Affectionate Parody The Chessmaster Rape as Drama My God, What Have I Done? Heterosexual Life-Partners Smug Snake Naked People Are Funny Aside Glance Storming the Castle Mundane Made Awesome Never Trust a Trailer Reality Is Unrealistic The Stinger Stealth Hi/Bye As Long as It Sounds Foreign Vitriolic Best Buds Alas, Poor Villain Adorkable Christmas Movies Index What the Hell, Hero? Match Cut Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Papa Wolf Worthy Opponent Deliberate Values Dissonance Hope Spot Empathic Environment Badass Longcoat Those Two Bad Guys Kick the Son of a Bitch She's Got Legs Spiritual Successor Plucky Comic Relief The Smurfette Principle Small Name, Big Ego Slap-Slap-Kiss Cool Car Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fourth Date Marriage A Father to His Men Cat Fight Adaptational Heroism Male Gaze Market-Based Title Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas My Greatest Failure Dwindling Party Gory Discretion Shot Humans Are Bastards Anti-Villain World of Ham Belligerent Sexual Tension The Dragon Mugging the Monster Deus ex Machina Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Chekhov's Skill Mooks Fatal Family Photo Sci-Fi Horror All Girls Want Bad Boys Vomit Discretion Shot Japanese Films Bound and Gagged A Minor Kidroduction Alliterative Name Star-Crossed Lovers Bring My Brown Pants Damsel in Distress Logo Joke What Happened to the Mouse? Artistic License – Military Exact Words Bond Villain Stupidity Call-Forward Show Within a Show Horror Comedy Retcon The '90s Break the Haughty Epic Fail Too Dumb to Live Developing Doomed Characters Biopic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown timeperiod Early Installment Weirdness Actor Allusion Slasher Smile Anachronism Stew