Strange Girl



""Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.""

- Lydia, Beetlejuice

She's not normal, that's for sure. The only thing you can pin down about the Strange Girl is that she's hard to pin down (when she isn't doing the pinning, that is). She's visually distinct from her normal peer group, typically in both physical appearance (she's likely to be an Eerie Pale Skinned Brunette/Raven Hair Ivory Skin) and dress, but sometimes only one of the two. As far as demeanor is concerned, she can be anything from The Wonka, a Cloudcuckoolander, The Stoic, a world conqueror, The Messiah, The Ophelia, an Emotionless Girl, Haruhi... or quiet, sensible and even friendly. Anything goes as long as it stands out from the series' norm.

The unifying trait of all Strange Girls is that they are protagonists and most importantly, are different from their peers (though rarely will she be completely friendless). Her family or home life will be... interesting to say the least. Usually she is in touch with the supernatural aspects of her setting, even if she doesn't have powers herself. Because of this tendency to experience strange and supernatural adventures, it's not uncommon for their social clique to grow into a veritable Monster Mash of friends they've helped in various adventures, though they'll likely start out the series with at least one or two Unfazed Everymen as completely human friends. Before long she's likely to have seen so much weirdness little if anything will faze her.

This character is very likely to be a Goth or show noticeable Goth influences, both in style of dress and in personality. The Goth subculture is particularly well-suited to this character type because it's made up of people who enjoy strange, morbid things, on top of the fact that being different from the mainstream is one of the things that defines all countercultural subcultures. That last part means that it would also be quite reasonable for a Strange Girl to be a member of the punk or Emo subcultures, among others.

Compare Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Rei Ayanami Expy, or The Ophelia. Contrast The Snark Knight.

Anime

 * Suzumiya Haruhi. "Normal humans don't interest me. If anyone here is an alien, a time traveler, slider, or an esper, then come find me! That is all."
 * Sasaki might be vying for her position here. She seems far more normal, but is the one who actually does weird Kyon out due to always speaking with male pronouns when talking to boys, and the subject of most of her conversations being bizarre philosophical stuff.
 * Urabe Mikoto, the titular character of the manga Mysterious Girlfriend X. Urabe being really, really, really weird is pretty much the entire point of the manga -- Urabe is somewhat unemotional and unsocial to the point of being a complete outcast, but seems to have some form of psychic powers -- specifically, she knows without a doubt that she will lose her virginity to the main character, Tsubaki Akira (the thought causes her to enter hysterics out of the blue during class), and shares an empathic connection with him that is initiated by spit -- a common trick she uses on him when she suspects him of dirty thoughts is to stick her finger in his mouth and suck on it before he can react -- she then instantly knows exactly what he was thinking. Similarly, Tsubaki is addicted to her spit, and has to have a dose a day or he suffers withdrawal. She can also cut things apart with superhuman speed and precision with the craft scissors she carries around in the waistband of her panties.
 * It's hard to say whether Senjougahara Hitagi from Bakemonogatari is Tsundere, Yandere or something else altogether, but either way she's unbelievably strange. She considers herself more powerful than Shen Long and carries a entire classroom worth of stationery concealed on her person. She promises her boyfriend that he'll be the first person she ever murders, and if someone else kills him then she'll avenge him - and she considers this romantic.
 * Rei Ayanami, of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Right from the start, her albinism, emotionlessness and Extreme Doormat personality make her a highly strange girl. It might have to do with her being a with a  who may or may not have a
 * And then there's Mari Makinami from Rebuild of Evangelion, who loves fighting, is fond of the smell of LCL and is socially awkward to the point that Rei could fit in better than her. Of course, she'll fit right in with the rest of the cast.
 * Kousaka Shigure from Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple should count. She speaks in monotone. She isn't quite...a people person. In fact she seems better with her pet rat, than anyone else.It shows when she keeps putting deadly traps around Ryonzanpaku, and doesn't turn them off even with guests (read:non-martial artists). Though her possible fondness for Kenichi might suggest she's beginning to warm up to people.
 * Sunako from The Wallflower.
 * Minori in Toradora even makes all the other characters stop and stare half the time with her refined taste in scenery.
 * Lavinia of Soukou no Strain draws close to a Cloudcuckoolander in a cast otherwise mostly filled by fairly normal people. Bizarre plots, showing up in Rambo-style battle gear to 'save' Sara, making out with a random girl in the shower (okay, she thought it was Sara, but still) and running around a ship naked after said incident... and this is thought of as a fairly minor extension of her normal personality, attributed to stress.
 * Tsukuyomi of Negima is a Psycho Lesbian Stalker With a Crush (and more) and pretty much the only girl in the series who is flat out creepy/crazy. Granted that all the girls here are strange, she's strange in a much different way.
 * At the "odd/harmless" end of the scale is Zazie Rainyday. Almost completely silent (but still eloquent), she can see ghosts and apparently has a few following her around.
 * And for a more neutral character that actually shows up once in awhile, Haruna. Technically, she should actually be a good guy but manages to come off as more evil/psychotic than Evangeline.
 * Maria from Umineko no Naku Koro Ni is on speaking terms with many witches, ghosts, talking animals and other strange beasts, but never seems to have mastered interacting with her fellow human beings. As might be expected of, Ange follows suit.
 * Quon from Rah Xephon.
 * Kokoro from Wallaby can be considered strange, or just insane, seeing that she talks to a stuffed animal.
 * C.C. from Code Geass, whose theme song even shares the trope name.
 * From Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei we have... Uhm, pretty much the entire friggin' cast? ... Well, except for that one girl.
 * In Ranma One Half, pretty much every girl would be considered unusual in a more real-world setting, seeing as how they include a busty Big Eater who's really a guy, a Girl Next Door who can jog up a flight of stairs while carrying a fridge single-handed, an Anime Chinese Girl from a hidden warrior village who turns into a cat when splashed with cold water and plows headlong through concrete walls rather then use the door, and a cross-dressing okonomiyaki chef who never goes anywhere without a giant spatula strapped to her back. And yet, each and everyone one of these girls unquestionably considers Kodachi Kuno the weirdest person in town, hands down. While played up a bit more in the manga, in either version she has such traits as hunting down potential boyfriends like animals, even going so far as to paralyze them so she can kiss them, while insisting that they are the ones chasing her, spiking just about any food or drink she makes with paralysis or sleeping powder (even her own brother is hesitant to eat them without testing them first) and laughing like a loon.
 * Natalia aka Belarus from Axis Powers Hetalia. She's a beautiful, small, dainty-looking blonde girl in Elegant Gothic Lolita clothes... and very, very frightening. So much that she's the only nation-tan able to scare someone as feared as Russia.
 * Tsubaki Kasugano and Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki. To start.
 * Rosario to Vampire: In a Harem Comedy filled with Cute Monster Girls, Mizore the snow-woman stands out. She wears an oversized shirt, striped stockings, and loose belts instead of a school uniform, is stoic, and a not-terribly Covert Pervert who once put blood in her succubus friend's bed to trick her into thinking she'd lost her virginity so she'd have a love-scene with the Chivalrous Pervert who was trying to keep her warm ("but why are you shirtless?!"). And I do mean scene: she hid under their bed with a camera!
 * Erza from Fairy Tail, when she's not in Stern Teacher Mode.
 * Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica comes across as this at first due to her apparent lack of emotion.
 * Many a female character from Pandora Hearts.
 * Mei Misaki from Another
 * Rei Asaka from Oniisama E.
 * Koharu from Koharu no Hibi.

Comic Books

 * Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl is one of the stranger Strange Girls. She was embalmed between 1905 and 1910, and has been "alive" since then. While she's not necessarily evil, Lenore lacks tact, "doesn't do guilt" and frequently, accidentally massacres innocent bystanders.
 * Emily The Strange of Hot Topic fame is actually a cynical anarchist who doesn't like other people and sincerely wants to take over the world one day. She doesn't exactly have any plans for it, and kind of assumes that it'll happen through sheer force of attitude.
 * And judging from some recent news, she may be a partial copy of Rosamond mentioned below.
 * Little Gloomy, of the comic of the same name. Kind of. She's the only non-monster in Frightsylvania, which is pretty freaking bizarre. But she's also completely off in a few other ways (she has nails in her house, but no hammer. She needed the nails... but not a hammer.)
 * Serenity Rose, one of only 50 witches in the world and a borderline MacGuffin Girl in her own series.
 * Courtney Crumrin, also with her own series.
 * Supergirl in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, who has fantasies about herself as the successful and beloved Moon Supergirl (who stops the Moon Beagle Boys from stealing moon money), insists her nostrils are petite, and treats keeping ice cream cold with her ice breath like a dire responsibility.
 * Delirium of the Endless of course, from Sandman. Notable because she manages to be a strange outsider, not only when she travels amongst mortals, but even amongst the other Endless who all are mighty peculiar themselves. The only one who sort of kind of still has a connection to her is Dream, presumably because dreams can get all kinds of weird and non sequitur-ish as well.
 * Wonder Woman not only fills these criteria in-universe, but is sometimes deemed too strange for many writers to get a firm grasp on.

Fan Works

 * Kawada Asa from Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon seems to fit. Though her peers pick on her just for watching kids' shows, her strangeness is really found in her ridiculous plans, being either Wrong Genre Savvy or Dangerously Genre Savvy, jumping to weird conclusions mostly due to the above, writing badfic, and sleeping through other people's presentations. Through it all, she tries to take an I Am What I Am attitude, although at times it breaks down and we realize that she knows how weird she is and that it's cost her a normal life.
 * In the Doctor Who / Firefly crossover The Man With No Name, the Doctor and River meet. He calls her "odd." Yes, even a millenia-old alien is weirded out by River.

Film

 * Lydia, from Beetlejuice.
 * Ladles and gentlethings, give it up for Wednesday Addams! Just don't ask her to smile. Unless it's Wednesday from the '60s show, in which case she's a Perky Goth.
 * Moonie from New Waterford Girl.
 * Lisbeth Salander fits all aspects of this trope minus the supernatural element.
 * Eli from Let the Right One In. Then again, she might not count...
 * Esther, the titular Orphan, is a rare villainous version.
 * Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald from Ginger Snaps.
 * Enid, and to some extent Rebecca from Ghost World.
 * Hanna is a very strange girl indeed.

Literature
""My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.""
 * The residents of Wonderland consider Alice a very strange little girl, while ironically they are far more strange than her.
 * However, she is very strange by real world standards. She pretends to be multiple people, talks to herself, spent several minutes pondering whether cats eat bats or bats eat cats, gives herself advice and ignores it, plays chess with her cats, tries to get her kitten to pose like a chess picece, and once BOXED HER OWN EARS after cheating in a game AGAINST HERSELF.
 * By real world standards, giving yourself advice and ignoring it is technically known as "being human" (as anyone who's tried to give up smoking, drinking, eating junk food or crystal meth knows only too well.) Gahan Wilson said that "sensible Alice" was the only thing about Lewis Carroll's fiction that wasn't utterly terrifying.
 * How could anyone forget Angela? She wants to prove that toads don't exist, knows every poison and potion known to man, and always knows what the next big event is, where it is, and somehow always manages to get there on time. Isn't that just the least bit strange?
 * Pippi Longstocking a.k.a. Pippilotta Victualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump. Friendly? Yes. Strange? Oh hell yes.
 * Nate the Great's friend Rosamond, something of a cross between Cloudcuckoolander and Perky Goth.
 * Luna Lovegood. Tonks, too, a little bit.
 * Anne of Anne of Green Gables is thought to be a Strange Girl when she first arrives at Avonlea but she is just a girl with a vivid imagination that the Avonlea residents aren't used to.
 * Coraline, the protagonist of Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name.
 * Mary Katherine (Merricat), the protagonist of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in The Castle.


 * Tithe is about one whose strangeness is explained; it turns out she's actually a a weirdness aura. She's not entirely sure whether this is awesome or annoying.
 * Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli, has the titular Stargirl. Her real name is Susan Caraway, but she decided that Stargirl suits her better. She'll go to school in a kimono, knows everyone's birthday and takes a ukulele to sing Happy Birthday to them in the cafeteria, meditates to be at one with the universe, attends funerals where no one knows her, and follows random people around to watch their lives. No one knows what to make of her.
 * Olivia Kidney, who talks to dead people. The cute pink cover on Ellen Potter's book is misleading; the book is reminiscent of Coraline and similar creepfests.
 * The titular character of Daisy Miller is Europe's local freaky, bizarre American girl.
 * Isabella Swan in Twilight . She is The Stoic, the Straight Man, and The Quiet One all at once, hangs around sparkly vampires and American Indian werewolves, and has both magical blood that attracts magical creatures toward her and a magical mental shield power and a vampire boyfriend that keeps her safe from harm.
 * Susan Sto Helit in Discworld is an interesting variation. Goth look? Check. Unusual home life? Check. Connection to the supernatural? Big check. However, she Just Wants To Be Normal, and usually tries to ignore the weirdness that's attracted to her in the hope that it will take the hint and go away.
 * Tiffany Aching is a straighter example, except that she looks like a perfectly ordinary milkmaid, which seriously irritates her.
 * The semi-autobiographical Diana Wynne Jones short story "The Jones Girl" paints the author herself as this, as a child.
 * The three Baudelaire orphans are most definitely strange children.
 * Perdita Wiguiggan from "Walking Naked" by Alyssa Brugman. She has above-average intelligence, but isn't exactly good with people and frequently acts in a very childlike manner. She is aware of her strangeness, and makes no attempt to conceal it.
 * Rachael Elizabeth Dare from Percy Jackson and The Olympians. One of the main reasons for her strangeness is . Also, in The Last Olympian, we learn.
 * Maggie in How NOT to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler is like this, only not supernatural. Her parents are hippies who move anywhere they want to and don't really believe in material possessions. She has been to 10 high schools, and when she gets to her 10th she decides she's had enough and pretends to be weird so that nobody will like her and she won't have to worry about leaving behind friends when she moves.
 * Lydia of Caught In The Act by Peter Moore.
 * Raven of Vampire Kisses.

Live Action TV

 * Firefly's River Tam is most definitely strange, though she's got her reasons for it.
 * Zora from Sonny With a Chance.
 * Portius Wheeler's illegitimate daughter in the miniseries The Awakening Land.
 * Amy Pond from Doctor Who is a grown up strange girl.
 * Doctor Who is full of 'em. They span the gamut from somewhat odd to downright unearthly.
 * I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and ran away!
 * Abby from NCIS.
 * Elvira Mistress of the Dark
 * Harper Finkle from Wizards of Waverly Place.
 * Willow in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', at first (before the producers moved away from the "softer side of Sears" look).
 * Parker from Leverage, with many characters asking what is wrong with her or that she is nuts.
 * Topanga Lawrence from Boy Meets World was one of these in the first season, before her character was retooled to be more normal.
 * Jess, the titular character played by Zooey Deschanel in New Girl is this trope. And quite adorkably so.

Music
""She had a tattoo above her ankle of a Trident submarine
 * The very creepy young girl who lipsynches in the video for Portishead's All mine"
 * The girl being sung of in Lonestar's "Unusually Unusual".

She says it symbolizes awesome power hidden deep within our dreams

And I knew the shoes she wasn't wearing, they fit her just right

And she said, 'Hey man, did you know, we used to be brothers in some past life?'""

"In room 123, she's elusive you see
 * Cameo (the "Word Up" guys) have a song called "She's Strange".

Like the invisible man in drag

And when you come to meet her, you'll never greet her

She'll be waving her skirt as a flag!"

Newspaper Comics

 * Dethany Dendrobia from On the Fastrack
 * Nemi, a goth environmentalist who gets severe brain-damage around hot guys and has childlike glee when it actually snows enough to go sledding.

Video Games
""Did she say something to you? Please forget it. She mumbles strange things from time to time. She can be an odd girl at times.""
 * The female Malkavian of Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is by far one of the most bizarre of any Strange Girl characters. Since her lines are unvoiced, the player is left to fill in the sound from their own imagination, yet she simultaneously gives the impression of complete silence. Not only is the content of her lines head-spinningly insane, these impressions of muteness and derangement combine to make it seems as if the voices in her head are communicating with everyone else, an impression supported by other characters' reactions to her.
 * Persona 3 - It's unclear what, exactly, Elizabeth is (the closest we get to an answer is "Resident"), but she doesn't seem to operate by most human rules. Probably because she doesn't know what they are.
 * Her older sister Margaret from Persona 4 is similarly strange, though perhaps not quite so much so.
 * Lute from Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones. A very skilled Black Magician Girl who destroys monsters "with love", locks herself in the local library, meets those who go recruit her by check on them to see if they're monsters, etc. Lampshaded if she gets married to Cultured Badass Kyle, with their common ending saying that Kyle's friends were VERY weirded out by his choice in brides.
 * Also Sara from Thracia 776, a cute White Magician Girl who asks Leaf if she can join him by saying that she can hear his voice in her head and speaks very nonchalantly about how  Even her caretakers in   regard her as being weird!


 * American McGee's Alice. While it should go without saying, one need only remember that the warped, disturbing, just plain wrong nature of the entire game's world is nothing more than Alice trying to beat her own broken psyche back into submission.
 * Bella of The Colour Tuesday looks and sounds like someone out of the 18th century, addresses Kyle as if he were a Knight Errant, and treats Alex like a dirty commoner. The setting is a modern, if dystopian one.
 * Mirania is described as being a deeply spiritual person... by those who aren't straight-up weirded out by her.

Visual Novels

 * Miku in A Profile, contrasting the very normal Miou and the slightly clingy Rizu. While those two are basically normal, Miku has a way of flipping between extremely shy and very cold and dismissive. While this is typical Sugar and Ice Personality behavior, it really stands out in this context.
 * Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. Extremely smart but has virtually no social skills, to the point where she doesn't even acknowledge people talking to her.
 * Toko and Stella in Kara no Shoujo. The former has a kind of twisted way of thinking and is sort of bewitching which stands in great contrast to the mostly zombie like student body at her school. The latter is a spacey foreigner both in speech and in the way she doesn't seem entirely grounded.
 * Ririko in Sharin no Kuni is weird. I... she just... Ahem. Her 'interactions' with Touka when she was a child, her apparent liking of 'teasing' Kenichi, difficulty holding a train of though together and other random bizarre attributes are just the start of it.
 * To underscore how weird (and Badass) she is, for years she undergoes a punishment that is intended to essentially drive people insane and into suicide. You'd think, at the very least, her personality would be severely twisted by what she went through, like some of the other heroines, right? Heh, nope. Ririko goes back to acting pretty much the same way she always has after one day more or less deciding she's not gonna put up with it anymore.
 * Arcueid from Tsukihime. Sure, all the girls here seem to have superpowers or secret tragic pasts, but she's different in that she doesn't actually seem to care. Plus a Cloudcuckoolander and a bit of a ditz. Why is the vampire Tyke Bomb the one that's usually the least crazy?
 * Rin from Katawa Shoujo, who paints strange murals which even she can't explain, speaks in a cryptic manner, and usually has her head in the clouds. She was also born without arms, but since the game takes place in an academy for disabled students, this isn't seen as that unusual.

Webcomics

 * Minus. That is all.
 * Tegan Cassidy in Holiday Wars is a very strange girl and doesn't fit in with anyone from her high school, as seen in this strip
 * Antimony Carver of Gunnerkrigg Court is a far more "normal" Strange Girl. She's very stoic and has deep-seated issues, but is caring, friendly and ready to lend a hand whether you're a robot, fairy, or ghost. She's visually set apart from her peers by the unusual lipstick and eye-shadow she wears.
 * Zimmy might also qualify. Her strange skin tone and eyes covered in black gunk make her stand out visually, she wears her school uniform all the time, she's afflicted with the unfortunate combination of some kind of Reality Warper powers and horrifying hallucinations, she doesn't sleep, she's got a Psychic Link with another girl who serves as her Power Nullifier... Honestly, the stuff that can be quantified is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot of mysteries and open questions surrounding Zimmy as well.
 * Not to mention what an encounter with her may or may not have done to Jack...
 * Zoe from the webcomic Blue Zombie.
 * Millie from Ozy and Millie.
 * Honeydew Syndrome has the 1950's-obsessed Odette.
 * Fio from Circumstances of the Revenant Braves.
 * Molly from The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.
 * Toni Ipres from Hanna Is Not a Boys Name. She is fashionable, talented, upbeat and friendly, but sports some rather strange behavior due to being
 * Drow Tales' Fourth Wall Observer Kiel'ndia is often lampshaded as this.
 * It's almost Catch Phrase for her and her best friend Naal'suul to have the exchange "you're wierd", and "I know."

Web Original

 * Now even Survival of the Fittest has one, of all places! Version 4's Anna Chase is... a little off. To get an idea, she is an Eerie Pale Skinned Brunette with some level of Perky Goth to her, that is obsessed with horror movies, and is a massive Cloudcuckoolander. At one point (in her introductory thread in pre-game) she tells her best friend not to eat her brains (It Makes Sense in Context... sort of). And that's not even going into some of her other personality traits. Overall, she is generally seen as somewhat eccentric by other characters.
 * And then there's Lily Ainsworth, also from v4. She's even more of a Cloudcuckoolander. Her father was a historian, which caused her to grow up in a British castle most of her life due to his work, and she herself has a tendency to ramble off certain facts as an attempt at conversation, while generally having No Social Skills. Add in her odd dress sense and her perky nature, and most characters also see her as a little odd.
 * Endling gives us his beloved Lilith, who is indeed, quite strange, though Ree certainly is strange, she's not at Lilith-esque levels.
 * The Nostalgia Chick is a Cute but Psycho Woman Child. And even when she's not in that mental state, she's still pretty freakish.
 * Homestuck's Jade Harley is pretty much constantly upbeat and energetic, and is her friends all seem to think she is a normal, if slightly excitable, girl.
 * And to a lesser extent, Rose Lalonde, what with her general stoicism and love of psychoanalysis, wizard fanfiction, overly elaborate diction and the zoologically dubious.
 * Any of the female trolls would qualify as a Strange Girl were it not for how weird all of the trolls are and how Troperiffic Homestuck is in general, but Aradia and Vriska stand out. Aradia spends most of the story as an Emotionless Stringy Haired Ghost Girl who sets the trolls' side of the plot in motion because the voices of the dead told her to. Vriska's a filthy-rich serial killer with a fixation on spiders and a Complexity Addiction who manages to scare most of the other trolls despite them being a race of bloodthirsty Jerkasses. The two of them also have the strongest Psychic Powers of all the trolls, not to mention.
 * There's also Kanaya, who is extremely strange within Troll society. Not only can she stand sunlight, but she actually enjoys it; she is one of the only trolls that actually cares about fashion and even makes her own clothes; she famously wields a chainsaw disguised as a tube of lipstick. Even her blood is strange, as her particular shade of green is probably rarer than any other troll in the cast save Feferi and . As it turns out, her role in the trolls' session is analogous to Jade's, so being a strange girl might be a qualifying characteristic for Heroes of Space.
 * Jade Sinclair (Generator) of the Whateley Universe. Petite, of Japanese descent, and looking only about ten even though she is fourteen or so. She is also Jinn Sinclair (it's complicated) who claims to be Jade's dead older sister. She is also a cabbit and a Hello Kitty compact and a living lawn mower blade. Like I said, it's complicated. Even the other members of Team Kimba think she's wacky.

Western Animation

 * Mandy of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is like Emily, planning on world conquest. She's ruthless, not entirely without compassion or standards, but cross her and you will suffer.
 * Growing Up Creepie has Creepie, an orphan raised by insects. All things considered, her down to earth attitude is either a flying contrast to her upbringing or a completely logical result.
 * Ruby Gloom fits this trope perfectly, being bright, cheerful and friendly in every situation. The only thing that can get her down is bright colors. The strange thing is that the merchandise on which the show was based kind of gave Ruby a very melancholic feel, but whatever.
 * Izzy from Total Drama Island fits this trope rather well and is a popular character because it.
 * Revenge Of The Island's Dawn is on the mellow end of the scale.
 * Gaz from Invader Zim.
 * Pi is a rare male example from Sabrina the Animated Series. He always wears a hat that covers his eyes and seems obsessed with aliens and paranormal.
 * Lilo, whose classmates reject her for being weird...The creepy homemade doll, making voodoo on her hula halau-mates using spoons and pickle jars ("My friends need to be punished"), Elvis obsession, and worship of a fish (who apparently controls the weather) don't help her case. Fortunately, Lilo has good friends in a bunch of aliens who came to Earth. And a hovercraft!
 * Hell, one could even say that's the main reason none of the islanders give a rats ass about there being a shitload of aliens all over the place. After some of the weird stuff Lilo has gotten into in the past, they are just used to strange shit happening on a regular basis.
 * Well, that and they're Hawaiians, whether by birth or by locale, and Hawaiians tend to have "hang loose" embedded in their DNA somewhere.
 * Heloise on Jimmy Two-Shoes. A Mad Scientist Enfante Terrible who works for Satan.
 * Daria is pretty strange, and also may be considered an Emotionless Girl.
 * Ellen from Edgar and Ellen. Her twin brother Edgar would qualify as a male version, as he is just as strange.
 * Increasingly as a result of Sanity Slippage, Meg from Family Guy.