Tropescilloscope: Cloudcuckoolander

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

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