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* ''{{Touhou}}'' has Gensoukyou]], basically a nature preserve for all the [[FantasyKitchenSink weird and wonderful things]] the rest of the world doesn't want anymore, and it very much shows. Most notably, when a pair of goddesses decided to move to Gensoukyou and bring their human priestess with them, said priestess spent the next few games going completely mad, to the point where "You can't let yourself be held back by common sense!" is almost her BattleCry.

** It's both subverted and played straigth ''at the same time:'' Japanese society is actually extremely conservative, shunning everyone and everything that dares to stray from the norm. Bashing CloudCuckooLanders is SeriousBusiness. For example: Being into {{Cosplay}} durring your highschool years can cost you any chance of ever going to college. Acting or looking strangely in bublic will likely cost you your job. And don't you ever show to much emotion in public! Of course, this applies only if MoralGuardians find out it's you. Annonymous Cloudcuckoolanders can't be bashed. And unusual trends that manage to stay around against all odds will eventually "earn" acceptance and from then on be treaten as perfectly normal and like it has been this way all the time. Karaoke is a good example. And keep in mind that all of this is unwritten law, but expect everyone to follow it.

** It's both subverted and played straigth ''at the same time:'' Japanese society is actually extremely conservative, shunning everyone and everything that dares to stray from the norm. Bashing {{Cloudcuckoolanders}} is SeriousBusiness. For example: Being into {{Cosplay}} durring your highschool years can cost you any chance of ever going to college. Acting or looking strangely in bublic will likely cost you your job. And don't you ever show to much emotion in public! Of course, this applies only if MoralGuardians find out it's you. Annonymous Cloudcuckoolanders can't be bashed. And unusual trends that manage to stay around against all odds will eventually "earn" acceptance and from then on be treaten as perfectly normal and like it has been this way all the time. Karaoke is a good example. And keep in mind that all of this is unwritten law, but expect everyone to follow it.

* The ''{{Xanth}}'' series is basically ''set'' in CloudCuckooLand, but even they have regions crazier than normal - the Region of Madness, comic strips and to a certain extent Ida's moons.

* ''ImprobableIsland'' actually [[JustifiedTrope justifies this]]; the premise of the game is that a device known as the Improbability Drive is generating chaotic energy, causing all sorts of weirdness to ensue. As a result... well, the entire place and all its inhabits can get [[{{Understatement}} quite surreal]] most of the time.

** This wiki. [[Cloudcuckoolander YOU]] are crazy for reading it, and all the crazy stuff on it. [[DeadpanSnarker Don't deny it, now...]]

** It probably says something about how well it fits in when [[GIFT GIFTs]] could be misread as GIFTS;- as in [[GiantSpider Giant]] [[Avernum Intelligent Friendly Talking]] [[GiantSpider Spiders]].

** It probably says something about how well it fits in when GIFTs could be misread as GIFTS;- as in [[GiantSpider Giant]] [[Avernum Intelligent Friendly Talking]] [[GiantSpider Spiders]].

->--'''''TheGoldenGirls'''''

->'''Rose:''' We had a big black hole back in St. Olaf! Right in front of the courthouse where Charlie and I got our marriage license [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and our permit to have kids. Oh, it was a lovely hole. Everyone in town would stand around and look into it. Sometimes, we'd point too!

* Tri-Ace loves this trope in their optional dungeons. Lots of Fourth Wall breaking abounds, from the developers readily acknowledging {{Retirony}} on an early character in ''ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'', to the announcements from nowhere informing the characters that they're entering BonusDungeon territory (and from time to time, characters even noting that "[That enemy] was a lot tougher than in the main story!"), to absolute unbridled madness (such as kobold versions of main characters in ''ValkyrieProfileSilmeria'', and the constant barrage of unending craziness from mostly everyone in ''Covenant'', ranging from [[spoiler: old characters discussing their advanced age in a JRPG, most of the female cast mercilessly mocking the main character and mistakenly getting the impression that he's done {{Squick}}-worthy things with a pair of underaged characters with their mother present in the conversation, Hrist challenging the party just because she's pissed over the fact that she hasn't gotten her own game yet, Freya challenging the party because the party's resident {{Jerkass}} mage told her that she's extremely beautiful yet wouldn't even consider getting into a relationship with her because of her undeniably advanced age despite her being a goddess and immortal, the resident CreepyTwins getting their own FourthWallMailSlot where they read letters from the programmers and harrass TheHero for butting in and and Gabriel and Ethereal Queen lamenting over the fact that Seraphic Gate is starting to show its age and slowly falling apart while trying to get their next role in a reality show starring Silmeria]] to enemies getting progressively weirder names, from tall armored warriors getting names like [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Unit 00]], vampires that are literally called Accepting Blood Donors, bug enemies getting names like [[TheBeatles George and Ringo]], wolf enemies being called Dire (unfitting animal name here) and Gabriel himself getting an everchanging title on each playthrough, including Posessed, Obsessed, Depressed and Underdressed and Wylfred's father getting increasingly stranger meanings for "father". When all the above is juxtapositioned with the main quest's extreme seriousness and and [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe over-the-top Olde English]], it's even funnier.)

* Tri-Ace loves this trope in their optional dungeons. Lots of Fourth Wall breaking abounds, from the developers readily acknowledging {{Retirony}} on an early character in ''ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'', to the announcements from nowhere informing the characters that they're entering BonusDungeon territory (and from time to time, characters even noting that "[That enemy] was a lot tougher than in the main story!"), to absolute unbridled madness (such as kobold versions of main characters in ''ValkyrieProfileSilmeria'', and the constant barrage of unending craziness from mostly everyone in ''Covenant'', ranging from [[spoiler: old characters discussing their advanced age in a JRPG, most of the female cast mercilessly mocking the main character and mistakenly getting the impression that he's done {{Squick}}-worthy things with a pair of underaged characters with their mother present in the conversation, Hrist challenging the party just because she's pissed over the fact that she hasn't gotten her own game yet, Freya challenging the party because the party's resident {{Jerkass}} mage told her that she's extremely beautiful yet wouldn't even consider getting into a relationship with her because of her undeniably advanced age despite her being a goddess and immortal and Gabriel, the resident CreepyTwins getting their own FourthWallMailSlot where they read letters from the programmers and harrass TheHero for butting in and Ethereal Queen lamenting over the fact that Seraphic Gate is starting to show its age and slowly falling apart while trying to get their next role in a reality show starring Silmeria]] to enemies getting progressively weirder names, from tall armored warriors getting names like [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Unit 00]], vampires that are literally called Accepting Blood Donors, bug enemies getting names like [[TheBeatles George and Ringo]], wolf enemies being called Dire (unfitting animal name here) and Gabriel himself getting an everchanging title on each playthrough, including Posessed, Obsessed, Depressed and Underdressed and Wylfred's father getting increasingly stranger meanings for "father". When all the above is juxtapositioned with the main quest's extreme seriousness and and [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe over-the-top Olde English]], it's even funnier.)

* Tri-Ace loves this trope in their optional dungeons. Lots of Fourth Wall breaking abounds, from the developers readily acknowledging {{Retirony}} on an early character in ''ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'', to the announcements from nowhere informing the characters that they're entering BonusDungeon territory (and from time to time, characters even noting that "[That enemy] was a lot tougher than in the main story!"), to absolute unbridled madness (such as kobold versions of main characters in ''ValkyrieProfileSilmeria'', and the constant barrage of unending craziness from mostly everyone in ''Covenant'', ranging from [[spoiler: old characters discussing their advanced age in a JRPG, most of the female cast mercilessly mocking the main character and mistakenly getting the impression that he's done {{Squick}}-worthy things with a pair of underaged characters with their mother present in the conversation, Hrist challenging the party just because she's pissed over the fact that she hasn't gotten her own game yet, Freya challenging the party because the party's resident {{Jerkass}} mage told her that she's extremely beautiful yet wouldn't even consider getting into a relationship with her because of her undeniably advanced age despite her being a goddess and immortal and Gabriel and Ethereal Queen lamenting over the fact that Seraphic Gate is starting to show its age and slowly falling apart while trying to get their next role in a reality show starring Silmeria]] to enemies getting progressively weirder names, from tall armored warriors getting names like [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Unit 00]], vampires that are literally called Accepting Blood Donors, bug enemies getting names like [[TheBeatles George and Ringo]], wolf enemies being called Dire (unfitting animal name here) and Gabriel himself getting an everchanging title on each playthrough, including Posessed, Obsessed, Depressed and Underdressed and Wylfred's father getting increasingly stranger meanings for "father". When all the above is juxtapositioned with the main quest's extreme seriousness and and [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe over-the-top Olde English]], it's even funnier.)

* ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' has a similar premise and thus its own (less surreal) Cloud Cuckooland.

* The land of Ooo from AdventureTime