Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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