History Main / InexplicablyAwesome

Since then much of his background has been revealed. Plans to explicitly portray his origin [[hottip:*:A concept that eventually became ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' ]] and plans to demolish it with a RetCon [[hottip:*:The "Cartmel Masterplan" was a story outline created before ''DrWho'' went on hiatus: what we know about the Doctor a lie, the Doctor turns into a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] with connection with one of the founders of Time Lord society.]] to restore the enigma have both failed to happen. The Doctor remains half-shrouded and still strange -- we never get to the bottom of everything he does.

* Richard from {{Looking for Group}}. Hilariously entertaining and something of a {{memetic badass}}, we don't really know anything about Richard's past.

* Guybrush Threepwood, from the ''MonkeyIsland'' series. We know absolutely nothing about his life before he washed up on Melee Island.

* ''PaniPoniDash'' is already packed random insanity, but even the other characters can't begin to wrap their minds around their class president, Ichijou. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2cMzgzeHFA Observe]]. If anyone tells you they know what's up with Ichijou, they are '''lying!'''

* ''InspectorGadget'' - Gadget manages to be a superb example of InexplicablyAwesome despite also being InspectorOblivious. Never mind that it is his niece Penny and his trusty superintelligent dog Brain who actually do all the investigating (and get none of the credit): just how the hell did he end ''up'' as walking Swiss Army Hammerspace Knife who would probably be the most dangerous crimefighter in the world if he wasn't such a flaming idiot? The show never tells us, and that is more fitting than any mundane explanation. TheMovie takes a stab at it, but it predictably does not go well.

* Pinkie Pie in MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic regularly ignores, leans on or stares at the 4th wall, defies the laws of physics whenever plot or humour convenient, and launches into musicals when nopony else does. She's popped out of locations too small for her to fit, appeared inside of mirrors, and even fought the closing circle at the end of the episode. While this itself isn't unusual for a cartoon, ''she's the only one'', and everypony else is well aware that Pinkie Pie doesn't really work with the same rules as everyone else, and just does their best to ignore the weirdness. Her strange actions drive the plot in several episodes.

* [[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Guu's]] powers are never truly explained though its hinted that she's a HumanoidAbomination.

* Raphael from ''TenshiNiNarumon'' is this [[spoiler: even though he's not really doing much throughout much of the series - he's an angel professor from Angel Academy located somewhere in Heaven, has only one wing (the reason for this is probably the series' biggest unexplained mystery), has very laidback and mischievious attitude and is in a relationship with his male student. For many fan(girl)s he's just Awesome incarnated]].

* The closest thing ''RubyQuest'' has to a full-fledged antagonist is Ace, a mysterious [[BigGuy hulking bruiser]] wearing a bird mask. What little is divulged about him ([[spoiler: he used to work as an orderly at the Metal Glen before going berserk, he was actually ''excavated'' from the bottom of the ocean, and his real face looks like a mass of writhing tentacles]]) fails to explain the questions of what he is and who he ''really'' works for.

* The twins from {{Superjail}} have RealityWarper powers, effect the plot in ways that border on DeusExMachina to DiabolusExMachina and almost never interact directly with the other characters, but there doesn't seem to be any explanation at all as to why they can do these things. They don't even seem to be Superjail employees or inmates and don't seem to have any specific reason for messing with the jail (besides maybe hating the Warden which is sometimes sort of implied).
* Pinky Pie in MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic regularly ignores, leans on or stares at the 4th wall, defies the laws of physics wheneven plot or humour convenient, and launches into musicals when nopony else does. She's popped out of locations too small for her to fit, appeared inside of mirrors, and even fought the closing elipsise at the end of the episode. While this itself isn't unusual for a cartoon, ''she's the only one'', and everypony else is well away that Pinky Pie doesn't really work with the same rules as everyone else, and just does their best to ignore the wierdness. Her strange actions drive the plot in several episodes.

It should be noted, that they only are this trope if they are genuinely unique in their setting. If "he/she must be a [[DoctorWho Time Lord]]" is a [[EpilepticTrees workable explanation]] for a character and the series ''isn't even DoctorWho'', odds are it's this trope. They can be anyone from a [[GreatGazoo near omnipotent being]] to a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mere weirdo]], but that does not make them any less weird either way.

* The twins from {{Superjail}} have RealityWarper powers, effect the plot in ways that border on DeusExMachina/DiabolusExMachina and almost never interact directly with the other characters, but there doesn't seem to be any explanation at all as to why they can do these things. They don't even seem to be Superjail employees or inmates and don't seem to have any specific reason for messing with the jail (besides maybe hating the Warden which is sometimes sort of implied).

It should be noted, that they only are this trope if they are genuinely unique in their setting. If "he/she must be a [[DoctorWho Time Lord]]" is a [[EpilepticTrees workable explanation]] for a character, odds are it's this trope. They can be anyone from a [[GreatGazoo near omnipotent being]] to a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mere weirdo]], but that does not make them any less weird either way.

* ''MaryPoppins'' is not only an example of this trope, but quite possibly ''scarier'' than the Joker once you realize that in [[AdaptationDecay the original books,]] she was practically a PhysicalGod. She wasn't the nice, motherly, "oh children, what ''shall'' I do with you?" type of nanny either, but the "put you through IronicHell until you cry uncle and promise to behave" type.

* ''MaryPoppins'' is not only an example of this trope, but quite possibly ''scarier'' than the Joker once you realize that in [[AdaptationDecay the original books,]] she was practically a PhysicalGod. She wasn't the nice, motherly, "oh children, what ''shall'' I do with you?" type of nanny either, but the "put you through IronicHell until you cry uncle & promise to behave" type.

Someone who is InexplicablyAwesome is CrazyAwesome ShroudedInMyth. Whatever backstory, secret origin or mysterious past an Inexplicably Awesome character has is by definition locked away: her existence is a conundrum; she usually displays powers or abilities that are unusual if not downright bizarre for the setting, and exhibits eccentricities to match. One would assume that such an impenetrable enigma would be a source of gallons of plot, and they'd be right, although not in the obvious way: [[OntologicalMystery rather than being a puzzle to solve]], [[WeirdnessMagnet their very]] ''[[WeirdnessMagnet presence]]'' [[WeirdnessMagnet is typically a plot generator]], setting people and events in motion as a direct result of their oddball take on reality.

* Derek Leech in ''The Quorum'' by KimNewman. He first appears standing on the bed of the river Thames in 1961. He already has "language, knowledge, purpose" and a name, but he doesn't have any history before then. He goes on to build himself from nothing into a highly influential CorruptCorporateExecutive who is part RupertMurdoch, part Richard Branson and part {{Satan}}, working inexorably towards a diabolical purpose, not sleeping and chewing constantly to keep his rat-like teeth from growing to long, but there's never a explanation of where he came from.

* ''TheMagicSchoolBus'', featuring the eccentric and wonderful Ms. Frizzle, was a set of picture books before it was a cartoon series.

* The G-Man from the ''{{Half-Life}}'' games. He is creepy and sinister. He has few [[TheWonka Wonka-like tendencies]] and that puts him in a minority for this trope. He has great visual normalcy: he appears to be a plainly dressed businessman with a speech impediment. Yet he pulls the weirdest tricks in the whole game, freezing time and walking right into scene as if through the fourth wall. The way he speaks, the words he choses, the refrences he makes accecutate his oddness.