History Cloudcuckoolander / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'': Izzy just as crazy as back on Total Drama.

* In ''Fanfic/TheOutside'', Ryuuko is a deconstructed (and justified) version of this, as she's this due to being raised so sheltered and isolated by her older sister. To add to this, as a result, she views anything that isn't her house to be a different world and imagines her sister has always existed and that "everything materialized around her", however, she's aware that her views make little sense (she calls her ideas "absurd as hell") but, as she says, has plenty of time alone to her thoughts (turning into this to cope with her situation).

* ''Fanfic/ThreeCanKeepASecret'' deconstructs the dynamic of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and their [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder minder]] by showing its long-term effects on [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Dipper's and Mabel's]] development. The fact that Dipper's and Mabel's previous environments had validated Mabel's creative yet unpredictable behavior and, intentionally or not, put the burden of responsibility for her behavior onto Dipper meant that Mabel in particular grew up [[LivingEmotionalCrutch extremely codependent]] and couldn't handle their separation in a healthy way, because she'd never properly learned how to deal with being independently responsible for her own behavior. While being Mabel's minder in all things to compensate for her lack of self-control was an unfair burden to put on her sibling, breaking this dynamic after it had already developed and been relied upon for years led to Mabel going out of control, both [[MoodSwinger emotionally]] and [[{{Delinquent}} behaviorally.]]

* ''FanFic/BringMeAllYourElderly'' has movie!Zhao, who is '''In possession of knowledge from the Super Secret Spirit Library!!!'''... erm, slightly more unhinged than usual.

* For a moment, [[ComicStrip/CalvinandHobbes Calvin]] in the fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4893134/1/Theories_About_Nuclear_Winter# Theories About Nuclear Winter]]'' when talking to Susie Derkins about [[MakesSenseInContext working on a shrimp farm in Florida, and wondering if they farm crabs]].

* [[BountyHunter Gahmah Raan]] in ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy Star Wars: Paranormalities]]''. Starting with his debut in [[http://gahmahraan.deviantart.com/art/Paranormalities-Episode-I-Chapter-9-Hunters-308997761 Chapter 9]] of Episode I, he just comes off as incredibly eccentric, [[FourthWallObserver is aware of things no one else would be aware of]], and annoys the other bounty hunters on the same contract. However, [[BunnyEarsLawyer he is by no means incompetent]], as by the end of the bounty hunter arc, he had eliminated nearly all of his competition and captured his target, lure Zolph Vaelor over to Maesterus, and match Zolph in a duel that ends in a stalemate. Still doesn't keep him from being fascinated by things like Maesterus's wings and asking if he can keep them. Episode II then revealed that his eccentricity is a result of him being passively driven insane by an EldritchAbomination on his own homeworld as a child, and according to him, [[OnlySaneMan he and his wife are among the only sane members of their species]]. However, while he is genuinely insane, it is suggested that [[ObfuscatingStupidity he sometimes exaggerates it to get potential enemies to underestimate him]].

* Ignacio "Cio" Lumbre in ''Fanfic/SevenDevils'' is this trope, considering that when there was a fire, he tried to save the puppies before himself. Of course he did start the fire, and felt a little guilty.

* ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' features ''many'' characters with a tenuous grip on reality. [[ContrastingSequelMainCharacter Morgan]] herself has her moments, but also [[KiddieKid Haley]], [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Ami]], [[LazyBum Maximillian]], [[ScatterbrainedSenior Mayor Joe Biden]], with the biggest offender [[UpToEleven by a country mile]] being [[LonersAreFreaks Clay]].

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* ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' features many characters with a tenuous grip on reality. [[ContrastingSequelMainCharacter Morgan]] herself has her moments, but also [[KiddieKid Haley]], [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Ami]], [[LazyBum Maximillian]], [[ScatterbrainedSenior Mayor Joe Biden]], with the biggest offender [[UpToEleven by a country mile]] being [[LonersAreFreaks Clay]].

* ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' features many characters with a tenuous grip on reality. [[ContrastingSequelMainCharacter Morgan]] herself has her moments, but also [[KiddieKid Haley]], [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Ami]], [[LazyBum Maximillian]], [[ScatterbrainedSenior Mayor Joe Biden]], etc.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of Dumbledore [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking (who happily exploits his reputation for political gain, magical advantage, and psychologically tormenting Cornelius Fudge)]], and Doctor Strange, who sometimes seems as if he lost his marbles a very long time ago, generally being quirky, sarcastic, strangely dressed and all-round odd. However, as is revealed, while he probably is mad, he's also by far the most switched on character in the cast, a {{Seer}} and TimeMaster without peer, and a schemer who's considered a member of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness for ''very'' good reason. Oh, and everyone's scared him, ''also'' for very good reason.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of Dumbledore [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking (who happily exploits his reputation for political gain, magical advantage, and psychologically tormenting Cornelius Fudge)]], and Doctor Strange, who sometimes seems as if he lost his marbles a very long time ago, generally being quirky, sarcastic, strangely dressed and all-round odd. However, as is revealed, while he probably is mad, he's also by far the most switched on character in the cast, a {{Seer}} and TimeMaster without peer, and a schemer who's considered a member of WMG/TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness for ''very'' good reason. Oh, and everyone's scared him, ''also'' for very good reason.

** Oboro Shinozaki/Kirihara is shown in a few of her internal thoughts in [[https://www.deviantart.com/blackmambauk/art/Father-Son-and-the-Mother-Hen-768606229 Father, Son and the Mother Hen]] to be quirky herself with the she way she narrates breaking her legs for a year once trying to fly with that it caused her to awe. Or the fact she has a picture of a duck in her guest room.

* Ganmed Lomust in ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}''. Spacey, ObliviouslyEvil subjugglator who writes truly terrible fanfiction. One of the more popular fantrolls, probably for this exact reason.

* ''FanFic/TheChangelingOfTheGuard'': Exiled changeling protagonist Idol Hooves, having spent most of his life in the hive and being mostly ignorant as to how the outside world works, has some very strange ideas and thought processes, some of which threaten to expose him for what he truly is. He genuinely has no idea what things like jail cells and cement are, and takes a leisurely stroll through an ancient booby-trapped crypt [[AchievementsInIgnorance without realizing that the traps are supposed to be deterring him]].

* ''FanFic/HarmonyTheory'': Blaze's speeches are enough to make some fans suspect him to be Pinkie's descendant.
* ''FanFic/MyLittleMagesTheNightmaresReturn'': Pinkie Pie, obviously, though being human somehow makes it seem more extreme.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4942679/1/The_Long_Walk The Long Walk]]'' has Leonardo musing on the OriginalCharacter Breech Loader, thinking about what it must be like to have to ''try'' to be normal. Breech Loader is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with a badly warped appoach to grasping normality, and a tendency to 'lose it' at the most inappropriate of times. As a quote from the story itself:

* ''EnterKenFinlayson'': The titular character is viewed as one by the people of Norrisville due to his belief in the cryptozoological, the extraterrestrial and the supernatural but he really isn't. Still, many in-story believe him to be.
* Marty [=McSuperfly=] in CaptainGarlic's LetsPlay of ''[[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/IWD2/ Icewind Dale 2]]''. Watch out for him when he gets near the wisdom-enhancing items, or goes by the mushroom fields in the Underdark.

* ''FanFic/MegaManRecut'' has Dust Man and Metal Man.
* Ignacio "Cio" Lumbre in ''FanFic/SevenDevils'' is this trope, considering that when there was a fire, he tried to save the puppies before himself. Of course he did start the fire, and felt a little guilty.
* Eric the Hedgehog from ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' embodies this trope. He's an IdiotSavant TalkativeLoon who loves breaking the fourth wall and talks to his weapons like they have personalities. Deconstructed later on - not only is it revealed that he's physically brain-damaged [[spoiler: due to imperfections in Maledict's cloning process]], but he's fully aware that his thoughts aren't entirely normal and has hidden crippling depression as a result.
* Major Raikov in ''FanFic/{{Stray}}'', a ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' fanfic, is "always the type who took sanity more as a suggestion," to the extent that Ocelot considers Raikov's PsychoElectro boyfriend to be the stabilizing influence in the relationship.

* In the ''Fanfic/MotionPractice'' series, which recasts various Marvel superheroes as lawyers, [[Comicbook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] is a legal aid lawyer with no brain->mouth filter and no dress sense.

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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': To say Italy is hard to read is a ''massive'' understatement, even to his family and closest friends. His mind is just too strange after all. So strange, that nobody saw his [[HiddenDepths internal misery]] beneath his [[StepfordSmiler brilliant smiles]].
* ''Fanfic/PartRightHalfWrongAThirdCrazy''
** Mattie, a beautiful combination of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and DeadpanSnarker ("The lamp, by the way, is a terrible conversationalist"). Where would we be without his arguments with his bedside lamp, among other things?
** Gilbert ("may or may not be wearing only a cape right now").

* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' features Cerasse- one of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad fairy sisters]]. She has a thing for Tserk, one of Ami's minions... A [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tentacle monster]]- to the extent that she has a great deal of trouble preparing calimari ("Oh, I can't! The poor little tentacles!"). When the sisters contemplate 'rescueing' Jadeite from Mercury, she is quick to volunteer that they ought to rescue Tserk as well, earning her some ''strange'' looks...
* In ''FanFic/HuntingTheUnicorn'', Nick of the Warblers is a HotBlooded [[TheStoner stoner]] who's prone to strange logic despite his general intelligence. He has "three definitions of truth" according to Wes, his ComingOutStory at sixteen involved getting drunk ''and'' high after his mother kicked him out, and when his best friend Jeff is upset at being [[LockedOutOfTheLoop the last one to find out about his bisexuality]], Nick offers to pretend it didn't happen yet. Jeff's response is "[[CaptainObvious Nick, you can't]] ''[[CaptainObvious redo]]'' [[CaptainObvious coming out]]!"
* Fanfic/RoanapurConnection: So far, OC Nathan Andre seems to be somewhat quirky in how he acts or speaks at points. Main example of when he came skipping into a meeting between Ganabati and the exiled Maharajah and Maharani. Or the fact he carries a snake around on his shoulders in public. Though there are hints that he likes to ObfuscatingStupidity around certain people.

* [[BountyHunter Gahmah Raan]] in ''[[FanFic/StarWarsParanormalitiesTrilogy Star Wars: Paranormalities]]''. Starting with his debut in [[http://gahmahraan.deviantart.com/art/Paranormalities-Episode-I-Chapter-9-Hunters-308997761 Chapter 9]] of Episode I, he just comes off as incredibly eccentric, [[FourthWallObserver is aware of things no one else would be aware of]], and annoys the other bounty hunters on the same contract. However, [[BunnyEarsLawyer he is by no means incompetent]], as by the end of the bounty hunter arc, he had eliminated nearly all of his competition and captured his target, lure Zolph Vaelor over to Maesterus, and match Zolph in a duel that ends in a stalemate. Still doesn't keep him from being fascinated by things like Maesterus's wings and asking if he can keep them. Episode II then revealed that his eccentricity is a result of him being passively driven insane by an EldritchAbomination on his own homeworld as a child, and according to him, [[OnlySaneMan he and his wife are among the only sane members of their species]]. However, while he is genuinely insane, it is suggested that [[ObfuscatingStupidity he sometimes exaggerates it to get potential enemies to underestimate him]].

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* The ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4942679/1/The_Long_Walk The Long Walk]]'' has Leonardo musing on the OriginalCharacter Breech Loader, thinking about what it must be like to have to ''try'' to be normal. Breech Loader is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with a badly warped appoach to grasping normality, and a tendency to 'lose it' at the most inappropriate of times. As a quote from the story itself:

* Viole from the "Webcomic/TowerofGod" fanfic Dei Fabula; About to get burned by flames that can melt rods of steel in milliseconds? Ice-cream daydreaming time!

* ''FanFic/TheSomewhatCrackedMindOfUchihaItachi'':

* In the ''Fanfic/MotionPractice'' series, which recasts various Marvel superheroes as lawyers, [[{{Comicbook/Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] is a legal aid lawyer with no brain->mouth filter and no dress sense.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of Dumbledore [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking (who happily exploits his reputation for political gain, magical advantage, and psychologically tormenting Cornelius Fudge)]], and Doctor Strange, who sometimes seems as if he lost his marbles a very long time ago, generally being quirky, sarcastic, strangely dressed and all-round odd. However, as is revealed, while he probably is mad, he's also by far the most switched on character in the cast, a {{Seer}} and TimeMaster without peer, and a schemer who's considered a member of the WMG/OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness for ''very'' good reason. Oh, and everyone's scared him, ''also'' for very good reason.

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* ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'': Pori, Zazu's [[spoiler: LoveInterest in Series Four]], is a hyperactive, insane hornbill. [[spoiler: [[UndercoverCopReveal It turns out she's faking it, though]]]].
-->'''Zazu:''' If I had a mango, and you had a mango, then how many mangos would that be altogether?
-->''(Pori just stares at Zazu, smiling.)''
-->'''Pori:''' I like mangos!

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of Dumbledore [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking (who happily exploits his reputation for political gain, magical advantage, and psychologically tormenting Cornelius Fudge)]], and Doctor Strange, who sometimes seems as if he lost his marbles a very long time ago, generally being quirky, sarcastic, strangely dressed and all-round odd. However, as is revealed, while he probably is mad, he's also by far the most switched on character in the cast, a {{Seer}} and TimeMaster without peer, and a schemer who's considered a member of the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness for ''very'' good reason. Oh, and everyone's scared him, ''also'' for very good reason.

* In ''Fanfic/TheOutside'', Ryuuko is a deconstructed (and justified) version of this, as she's this due to being raised so sheltered and isolated by her older sister. To add to this, as a result, she views anything that isn't her house to be a different world and imagines her sister has always existed and that "everything materialized around her", however, she's aware that her views make little sense (she calls her ideas "absurd as hell") but, as she says, has plenty of time alone to her thoughts (turning into this to cope with her situation).

* ''Fanfic/YetAgain'': [[Anime/{{Naruto}} The Oogakari family]]. ''Dear sweet Jesus'', the Oogakari family. They are possibly the nuttiest characters in the whole fic.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of Dumbledore [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking (who happily exploits his reputation for political gain, magical advantage, and psychologically tormenting Cornelius Fudge)]], and Doctor Strange, who sometimes seems as if he lost his marbles a very long time ago, generally being quirky, sarcastic, strangely dressed and all-round odd. However, as is revealed, while he probably is mad, he's also by far the most switched on character in the cast, a {{Seer}} and TimeMaster without peer, and a schemer who's considered a member of the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness for ''very'' good reason.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of Dumbledore [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking (who happily exploits his reputation for political gain, magical advantage, and psychologically tormenting Cornelius Fudge)]] Doctor Strange, who sometimes seems as if he lost his marbles a very long time ago, generally being quirky, sarcastic, strangely dressed and all-round odd. However, as is revealed, while he probably is mad, he's also by far the most switched on character in the cast, a {{Seer}} and TimeMaster without peer, and a schemer who's considered a member of the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness for ''very'' good reason.

* Demykins from ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'', a ''KingdomHearts'' fanfic, behaves in this manner, with a multitude of his lines as {{shoutout}}s to other media; when he doesn't quote from various works, he ignores the situation altogether.

* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' features Cerasse- one of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad fairy sisters]]. She has a thing for Tserk, one of Ami's minions... A [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tentacle monster]]- to the extent that she has a great deal of trouble prepareing calimari ("Oh, I can't! The poor little tentacles!"). When the sisters contemplate 'rescueing' Jadeite from Mercury, she is quick to volunteer that they ought to rescue Tserk as well, earning her some ''strange'' looks...