Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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