Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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