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* Belldandy of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' is extremely competent and powerful with goddess magic, but woefully ignorant of most everything else, to the chagrin of her [[Love Interest]], Keiichi.

* Hinoka from ''[[Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan]]'' is a highschool student who is fairly good at construction, as we see with her renovation of the Amber Tea House, but her methods are rather unorthodox. And by unorthodox, I mean [[Chainsaw Good]].

* Nizuma Eiji, mangaka prodigy of ''[[Bakuman?]]'', can't work without making lots of loud sound effects and preferably turning up the stereo to battlefield volume. His way of blowing just about everybody off makes [[Dollhouse|Topher]] look like a master of tact in the workplace. Altogether, the T.O. team seems to have branched out by making the Bunny Ears thoroughly obnoxious.

* The Phantomhive Staff from'' [[Black Butler]]'' are hopelessly incompetent at their service jobs. {{spoiler|But cooking, gardening, & cleaning aren't what they were REALLY hired for, as they are top notch assassins.}} Also Grell as a Shinigami, but ONLY in the manga.

** Also Chapter 66 of the manga had a significant portion of the cast wearing literal bunny ears. (The reason is that it was an easter special)

* Dr. ''[[Black Jack]]''. The global medical community isn't quite sure how to feel about the greatest surgeon alive dressing like a vampire, chewing out half of his clients, and obstinately refusing to get a license because it limits the ridiculously high fees he charges. Nonetheless, most hospitals find themselves paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to sneak him in for an operation at least once.

** Black Jack has, on two separate and unrelated occasions, been mistaken for the leader of an alien invasion.

* Leigharch from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is an Irish getaway driver [[Badass Driver|whose car driving skills are completely flawless]], even though he drives under the influence of so many drugs that he tends to spend his workday screaming various non-sequiturs about pop culture. {{spoiler|Eventually he overdoses and winds up in an institution.}}

** Urahara was this back when he was still the Captain of Squad 12. The only shinigami scientist better than Mayuri... and just as eccentric. To date, he's the played the role of the [[Eccentric Mentor]], the [[Gadgeteer Genius]], he'll use [[Obfuscating Insanity]] as a weapon... and just to pass the time of day.

*** By the time of the main narrative he's grown into [[The Wonka|a strange business owner]]. He's so competent the manga can be viewed as one long chess game between him and the main villain Aizen. Doesn't stop him being an utter [[Cloudcuckoolander]] when he feels like it, such as telling Ichigo to survive his training by putting on a silly bandana and gloves and yelling out a summons for the "hands of justice"... just because he felt like it.

** The 11th division's reputation is simple: They're rough, they're violent, they're uncouth, they're undisciplined, they're sweaty, filthy, loincloth wearing men (to quote Isane and Rangiku). And then there's Yumichika. He fusses about his [[The Fashionista|appearance]], he worries about his [[Bishonen|looks]]. He will [[The Dandy|delay entering battle]] if he needs to change his clothes first. And he will [[Berserk Button|kill you without a second thought]] if you call him ugly. He [[Badass|gets away with it]] because he's the third strongest ''man'' in the entire division and is capable of defeating vice-captains in battle.

** Then there's Kenpachi's vice-captain, the only known female in the division, small [[Rose-Haired Girl]], a [[Genki Girl]]: Yachiru. There's no way she looks like she should be there... and she spends most of her time doing almost anything under the sun for sweets. And then you notice that every single person in the entire division except the captain is absolutely terrified of her. As are the communication corps. (With damn good reason.)

* Nanvel, from ''[[Burn Up]]'': she can make some incredible things, and has won several awards for her inventions, but, they're always designed in some absurd way that's supposed to be 'cute'. She also has a massive sweet-tooth, eats a certain snack exactly at 3:00 PM, never misses dessert, and loves children's programming.

* ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' has the Arcadia's entire ''crew'' like this. Oddly, Captain Harlock and Kei Yuki are the only ones who remotely seem to be serious about the whole pirating thing.

* Lloyd Asplund of ''[[Code Geass]]'' is a goofy, graceless social misfit who is bluntly honest and speaks of everyone (even the Emperor) in an almost mocking tone. He's also one of the most brilliant engineers in the world, being the creator of the [[Super Prototype]] Lancelot. He's also one of the few Britannians to not be racist. Rakshata Chawla, a former classmate of Lloyd's who works for [[La Résistance]], is equally brilliant and can usually be found lounging on a sofa (even on the bridge of their battleship!) with a pipe in her mouth and a teasing remark on her lips.

*** However, Gino's behavior doesn't sound like a problem when you know Knight of the Round include an [[Emotionless Girl]] frequently mind-raped, a [[Complete Monster]] who fight for the pleasure of killing, and a [[The Quisling|Quisling]] {{spoiler|with a [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]}}.

** L, the most brilliant detective in the world, is a reclusive and eccentric young man who locks himself away in an appartment and solves cases from around the world. He has awkward mannerisms and almost no social skills. He's always crouching in his chair and staring fixedly at something. He grips everything from the top with two fingers, like you might hold up a salamander or wet noodle. Because he burns so many calories by simply ''thinking'', he's a [[Big Eater]] with an incredible sweet-tooth. He's almost always toying with or devouring a mountain of candy or pastries.

** Mello and Near come from the same school for giften children as L and are basically proto-Ls. Like L, they also have their eccentricites. With their powers combined, they are as good or better than L, and appropriarely they split his habits: Near is always toying with things, in this case actual children's toys. Mello is always eating candy, in this case chocolate.

* Muten Roshi of ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. A [[Methuselah Syndrome|300-year old]] [[Dirty Old Man|perverted man]]... who happened to be the creator of the [[Kamehame Hadoken|Kamehameha]], tutor of Goku and Krillin and in early parts of the series the greatest martial artist on Earth.

* In ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'', the Ginyu Force are a team of ''extremely'' campy, silly, overconfident apparent idiots who have odd quirks like striking embarrassing poses before a fight, betting chocolate bars on a fight's outcome, and playing [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]] to decide who gets to fight. However, there is a ''reason'' Frieza hired them as enforcers and ordered them to take down Vegeta. They are ''just that good at what they do''.

* Mr. Takuma of ''[[Elf Princess Rane]]'' is a brilliant Jack-of-All-Trades who insists on speaking backwards. All the time. If you look closely at the subtitles, he says at one point, "If I talk backwards, people will think I'm smart!"

* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has a host of eccentric but skilled football players:

** Yoichi Hiruma has a penchant for firearms of all kinds, and never hesitates to discharge them in the general direction of his teammates. He also enjoys heaping verbal and physical abuse upon them, to the point of kicking people he likes. And let's not get started on his use of [[Blackmail]] to help his team. However, he is a highly skilled quarterback and tactician.

** Wide receiver Monta's resemblance to a monkey is not helped by his bad temper, his obsession with bananas, and his tendency to take his shoes off and grab things with his toes.

** Otawara, also of the White Knights, is extremely slow-witted and crude; Running gags involve him farting and his pants falling down. Oh, and, while he isn't the most powerful lineman around, he's close, and he's [[Lightning Bruiser|incredibly fast for someone his size]].

** Kengo Mizumachi of the Kyoshin Poseidons is a spastic, energetic, irrepressibly cheerful guy who is constantly making a fool of himself but couldn't care less. Also, the only reason he started playing football is because no other sport provided an adequate level of challenge for him.

** Agon Kongo is a dark take on the trope, along with being a kind of insufferable genius. He never trains and spends his days lazing about, picking fights, womanizing, and [[Murder Arson and Jaywalking|giving his brother (the team captain, no less) noogies]], yet he gets away with it because he's the most talented athlete of the century.

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', Mithril appears to employ a number of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Lawyers]]. There's Kurz Weber, a skilled AS pilot, top-grade sniper, and a complete [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]... and Teletha Testarossa, a sixteen-year-old [[Dojikko]] with a bit of inferiority complex who's also a [[Teen Genius]], the captain and designer of the [[Cool Boat|Tuatha de Danaan]], and the others' commanding officer. Sousuke, meanwhile, is a consummate professional when he's in a military setting... and a hopeless [[Fish Out of Water]] with [[No Social Skills]] in any non-military situation.

** In the novels, Sousuke himself takes on elements of the trope even within the military setting. He uses part of Mithril's military maneuvering ground to house his giant pet tiger (whom he referred to as a cat in his report to Tessa, making her largely regret approving it), and along with Kurz ends up completely trashing multi-million dollar Arm Slaves on a pirate treasure hunt. These and other shenanigans - including the incident from ''Ending Day By Day'' which ''did'' make it into the anime at the end of ''The Second Raid,'' in which Sousuke outright demands that Mithril's high command reinstate him as Kaname's bodyguard - are tolerated because Sousuke is [[Ultimate Job Security|the only person who can operate the Arbalest and its Lambda Driver]], which are the only weapons Mithril has that can equal Amalgam's technology.

** He's either this or he's just [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. Or he just love his wife and daughter to a [[Overprotective Dad|crazy extent]]. I mean, would ''you'' draw a gun on children for wanting to play with your daughter?

** In the manga most of Mustang's men are portrayed as excellent military men (Breda graduated at the top of his class) who just act goofy.

** Armstrong also counts. He tends to be a tad... wacky, but it's not long before you realize it's a good idea not to piss him off.

*** [[Memetic Mutation|THE BUNNY EARS LAYWER TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS!]]

* Clair Fortran from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''. Her behavior can be a little... off at times. But being a very competent worker at the Sugo Team, she is an excellent machine designer.

* Narumi from [[Gakuen Alice]].

* Every single member of the ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy]] [[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Angel]]'' Brigade. Minus the competence part, in the anime.

* Date Masamune from ''[[Gate 7]]''. He's a [[Bratty Half-Pint]] who doesn't like to be reminded of that, wants to be an adult quickly and therefore he lies saying that he's in 6th grade since he was in 1st grade; he's acts as the tipical in-love-teenager girl towards Hana to the point to imaginate her as a [[Catgirl]] at the middle of a serious fight and ''it's even [[Lampshaded]] that he is comic relief once''. Who would believe that this boy is really a excellent swordfighter and a honor's student?

* Everyone in ''[[Gintama]]''.

* ''[[Kingyo Chuihou|Goldfish Warning]]'': inverted with Tanaka, the worst lawyer/butler ever, who somehow remains employed by his former client's daughter's rival, & literally wears bunny ears on a several occasions.

* A double-decker example in ''[[Gosick]]'': the detective Grevil acts pretentious and sports a ridiculous hairdo, but [[Police Are Useless|the police]] overlook these things because he solves difficult cases so reliably. Except...he's secretly [[Inspector Lestrade|completely incompetent]]. To solve his cases (even the simple ones), he relies on a real [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Victorique, an arrogant, manipulative, rolling-around-on-the-floor-to-express-boredom girl who is, unlike Grevil, genuinely very good at deciphering mysteries.

* Let me ask you a question. Would you trust the former most notorious gang leader of your country, who just happens to be a pervert, a [[Man Child]] who is also [[One of the Kids]], a slacker, and a klutz whose M.O. is destruction everywhere? That's exactly what Holy Forest Academy did when they hired Eikichi Onizuka to be a ''high school teacher'' in [[Great Teacher Onizuka]]. It turns out his unorthodox method of teaching is quite possibly the greatest thing to happen to the school.

** Graham Aker is pretty much what happens when an [[Otaku]] gets into military... except this Otaku is just about as [[Badass]] as he can get, to the point that he gets special permission to act as he wants, because his superiors figured out bad things tend to happen to their enemies when Graham gets to do things his way.

** Andrew Waltfeld, the Desert Tiger, in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]''. He takes his coffee making very, ''very'' seriously, to the point of boiling it in an elaborate chemistry-set-looking contraption, talking about percentages of ingredients he's changed, and randomly mentioning it before or during serious combat situations. However, he's also a brilliant and decorated military commander and an ace mobile suit pilot, so his soldiers don't seem to do more than just blink in temporary confusion when he offers them the chance to try his latest brew.

*** [[Big Bad|Rau]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Le]] [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Creuset]] of the same show manages to ''pretend'' to be one of these. He's [[The Obi-Wan]] to the deuteragonist, [[The Rival|Athrun]], and a senior military commander with the ear of the high-command...who happens to wear a white mask on all occasions and speak in cryptic, philosophical terms. No one seems to mind as his perceived competence, strategic ability and sheer [[Badass]] outweigh these considerations. And then he decides to [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|drop the]] [[Axe Crazy|act...]]

** Glemmy Toto of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ]]'' combines this trope with [[Stepford Smiler]], using his quirky behaviour and [[Laughably Evil|goofy personality]] to cover up the fact that he is screaming on the inside.

* ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'': A rare villainous example in Bryan Hawk. He spends all his time screwing around with women, to the point that it seems the only thing he's interested in apart from boxing, is a gigantic jerkass, has absolutely no social tact and basically does whatever he wants. Oh, and he's lazy. Too lazy to train. And despite all that, he's one of the most fearsome boxers in the entire story. His natural talent is so big that even without training, he easily curbstomps his opponents.

** Takamura can also be considered a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]], considering how similar he is to Hawk. Tremendous [[Jerkass]] who pranks people in the shower, has an ego of the size of Japan itself, chases women around and has been featured in newspapers as a huge pervert... and yet he's a brilliant fighter who works very hard for his prowess and wins every fight he's in.

* In ''[[High School DxD]]'', Rias describes the four lords of hell as this in their private lives and later on, the other leaders of the different factions are this and it ''shows''. Serafore loves to cosplay as a [[Magical Girl]], Sirzechs and Azazel made an ''entire [[Super Sentai]] TV series'' based on Ise and Rias {{spoiler|after Ise achieves [[Powered Armor|Balance Breaker]] by pushing Rias' nipples}}, and Odin visits ''love motels'' just to name a few.

* Tabane of ''[[Infinite Stratos]]'' is the creator of the titular [[Powered Armor]], even creating it at the age of 15, but she acts like an hyperactive idiot in public, and LITERALLY wears bunny ears and dresses up as Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

* The spaceship crews of ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' and ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''.

* Mr. Shinhue the coroner from ''[[The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]'' is a pathologist, mortician, embalmer and historian of ancient Egypt who is an expert on giving customers a pharaoh-style burial (and fairly good at most other forms of burials and respectful body disposal). He also dresses like a mummy, complete with funeral rites in hieroglyphs on the insides of his bandages. While he has severe burns that necessitates wearing bandages 24-7, he seems to ''like'' the attire.

** A throwaway appearance in a later chapter, placed two hundred years in the past, implies that he may actually ''be'' a mummy. The story may be non-canon, however.

* [[Legend of Galactic Heroes|Yang Wen-Li]], a social misfit with an alcohol problem who almost flunked out of military academy where he only entered because he had no money to pay for his education to become a historian. He sits on his flagship's instrument panel during important fights (when he is not simply sleeping) and claims to everyone that he hates working. No one, '''no one''' ever wonders how he became admiral by 30; his skills make it obvious to any character (ally or enemy) that he deserves to be at the top of the chain of command.

* Usami Akihiko of ''[[Junjou Romantica]]'' is a brilliant best-selling award-winning author of both literary and popular fiction... who sleeps with a teddy bear in a room full of toys.

** And then there's his head publisher. Misaki on meeting him is absolutely shocked to find out that he's brilliant at what he does.

* Kogarashi in ''[[Kamen no Maid Guy]]'' - even though he's wearing a dress and frequently harassing Naeka and her friends, most of the time his plans ''work''. Naeka and Fubuki do occasionally [[Amusing Injuries|beat him up]] when he goes too far, but [[Made of Iron|that can't stop him forever]].

** That doll fighting game he drags the girl to? He created it. And [[Chobits|not to mention computers that look like cute, teenage girls]].

* Kakashi Hatake from ''[[Naruto]]'' is chronically late, reads porn (sometimes even in mid-battle), and is a bit of a goofball, but [[Papa Wolf|threaten his students]] or anyone else under his care and he'll kick your backside all over Fire Country.

** Mr. Kishimoto seems to like these: Such as Gai and Lee who are [[Love Freak|Love Freaks]] and have [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]] but they're very strong and noble. Tsunade, who likes to drink and gamble, hates paperwork to a degree most people would reserve for their work enemy, and is a bit of a [[Vain Sorceress]] but also a competent leader as well as a kickass medic and fighter; Jiraiya, who's a self-proclaimed "super pervert" and porn writer but one of the strongest ninja in the world (to the point that some of the other top-tier ninja are wary of fighting him even with a numerical advantage) and who {{spoiler|dies heroically}}. Anko ([[Stripperiffic]] and smartass kunoichi {{spoiler|who was among the survivors of Orochimaru's experiments with Cursed Seals}}) and Shikamaru (genius strategist who is so lazy he'd rather [[Obfuscating Stupidity|hide his smarts than do paperwork]]) might also count.

** Killer Bee tops all the others, though. He fights using seven swords, none of which he holds in his hands, because he prefers to keep them free so that he can write rap lyrics in the middle of combat.

* Misato Katsuragi of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. One would think that blatant alcoholism and a driving quest for revenge against the Angels would preclude a person being assigned to a post as important as Director of Tactical Operations. She even gets called out on the latter when it seems she will take unnecessary risks to avenge her father's death. Then again, this is ''Evangelion''. She's practically a bastion of sanity and rational thinking compared to much of the rest of the cast.

* In ''[[Nerima Daikon Brothers]]'' there is a character named Ichiro who is the head host of a successful host club...who grows algae in a jar as a hobby and is in love with a ''panda''.

* The Galley-La Company of ''[[One Piece]]'' is full of these kind of characters. As is Cipher Pol 9. And the Marines. And the World Government in general. And the Straw Hat crew. [[Overly Long Gag|And nearly every single group in the manga]]. And [[Author Appeal|Oda himself is one.]]

* Gwen Khan from ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' has a very eccentric personality, repeating himself, and having a speaking pattern that is basically him talking to himself. He's also the most brilliant mind in the universe having created both the Outlaw Star and Melfina.

* Xerxes Break, "The Mad Hatter" in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]''. He talks to a little doll on his shoulder. It may be [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], though.

** He also does circus acts for no reason, has a case of [[Crazy Consumption]], and is known to act [[Cloudcuckoolander|CloudCuckooLanderish]] on occasion.

* Eiji Kikumaru from ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' is child-like, happy, has a flashy playing style and is somewhat of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] as well... but he also has the sharpest vision in the whole team (only matched by Ryoma), is extremely flexible and capable of very high jumps, works as hard as the others to keep himself atop of his team, and is fiercely loyal to his doubles partner Oishi {{spoiler|1=to the point that one of the OVAs and a whole match in the manga are fully dedicated to Eiji's struggle to show Oishi that he's not a burden to him *and* that he wants him back in the team}}

** The former Seigaku captain Yuudai Yamato acts and looks like a full-blooded [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (and looks like [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|a teenaged John Lennon]]), so much that even Ryuzaki-sensei sometimes can't understand him - but [[The Heart|he has excellent insight into people's psyche]] and, if you're willing to listen to him, [[Big Brother Mentor|you can't get better advice from anyone]].

* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has Professor Cat, the main characters' ballet instructor who is literally an anthropomorphic cat. He's shown to be a very competent teacher and is greatly respected by other dancers, but he's obsessed with love and marriage, often threatening his young female students that if they don't keep up with their practice he will have them [[Large Ham|"MAAAAAARRY ME!"]] Often followed by him doing something cat-ish like falling to the floor to scratch his back, running into a paper bag, or scratching his claws against a wooden board.

* Happosai of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fame is this to an extent. He's constantly seen skirt-chasing, peeking, panty-stealing etc. but he is still one of the, if not the most powerful martial artist around. Same goes for his pupils Soun and especially Genma, who trained Ranma, who in turn has [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] streaks himself.

* Yomiko Readman (and indeed, almost all Paper Masters) from the ''[[Read or Die]]'' universe. Deadly with their weapon of choice, and bibliophiles to the ''extreme''. The mangas take this to their logical conclusion, as Yomiko and Michelle sometimes get totally physically immersed in their work, allowing the paper from their books to contact their skin...with [[Fan Service|sexy results]].

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Minako Aino, a.k.a. Sailor Venus, is the most battle experienced member of the Sailor Team. Which is hard to notice amidst all the ditzy moonstruck behavior she constantly exhibits as well as how she cheerfully [[Malaproper|murders all kinds of axioms, verbs and phrases]]. This is downplayed in the [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon|live action version]], where she is more of an [[Ill Girl]] [[Broken Bird]].

** The manga version of Queen Beryl can testify Sailor Venus is the most competent of the Sailor Senshi, and asks her to stop disemboweling her every time they meet.

* ''[[Saiyuki]]'':

** Dr. Nii Jienyi carries a stuffed bunny everywhere and babytalks to it, makes completely inappropriate comments to his female assistant, and does not appear to be proficient in social niceties such as regular bathing. He also earned a doctorate at 17, is the only one who knows how to manipulate the Tenchi Kaiden sutras to revive Gyuumoah, and {{spoiler|is the bearer of the Muten sutra and the second-youngest person ever made a sanzo priest}}.

** From ''Gaiden'', Field Marshall Tenpou can't for the life of him keep his office clean enough to find the floor, bathes with a rubber ducky, and walks around in a labcoat and shower sandals rather than military uniform. He's also a [[Four-Star Badass]] capable of taking on whole units by himself and a peerless strategic mind.

** The sanzo priesthood is essentially an entire religious order of Bunny-Ears Preachers. Because the purpose of a sanzo priest is to protect the sutra they are entrusted with, they are not required to abide by the normal rules of Buddhist monasticism. Every sanzo seen so far has completely ignored the precept of shaving one's head, as well as flouting at least one other precept each. Genjyo Sanzo probably takes this the furthest, as by [[Word of God]] the only precept he's (coincidentally) complied with is chastity and he doesn't even personally identify as Buddhist. Weird as they may be, however, do not EVER cross a sanzo. They got where they are by being the most competent mofos around.

* Amae Koromo from ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'' is a monster of a Mahjong player whose bandana looks exactly like bunny ears {{spoiler|and her power(?) draws from the full-moon, fitting the bunny theme.}}

* [[Perpetual Smiler|Sendo]] from ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' is considered this. He's great at basketball but is always late for meetings and hardly ever looks serious.

* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' has a few: one of them is the scythe handpicked by Shinigami-sama himself, who is skirt-crazy (and has been quoted, when asked how he got somewhere so quickly, as saying "Nobody is faster than me when chasing a woman's ass") and [[Overprotective Dad|obsessed with his daughter's safety, especially from boys]]. Another one is a [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]] who [[Memetic Mutation|wants to dissect you]] [[For Science!]] and has no issue making you feel awkward if it amuses him, but is the most powerful person his school has ever produced. Together, [[They Fight Crime]] under the biggest of them all: The [[Genki Girl|Genki Boy]], [[Spot of Tea|tea-party throwing]], doting father that is The God of Death himself.

** Being eccentric yet ridiculously skilled seems to be a pre-requisite for being in the Shibusen faculty. Of the few staff introduced, only Azusa lacks some odd behaviour. And even she has her crazy map-drawing skills.

** Note that this show takes it so far over the top that two of its main trio basically have crippling mental illnesses (one is such an [[Attention Whore]] that he literally can't restrain himself from yelling YAHOO at the top of his lungs and [[I Have the High Ground|leaping atop the most prominent nearby object]] when he's trying to ambush someone, the other has such [[Super OCD]] he's been paralyzed with doubt and suicidal self-loathing because of worries over whether or not he folded the end of the toilet paper roll in his bathroom at home) and yet they're still incredibly powerful combatants… When their act happens to be together.

** The bad guys have Crona, a sad, insane, awkward little gender-ambiguous pink-haired kid...who's been fused with the demon sword Ragnarok and turned into the ultimate weapon. At one point they even refer to Crona as "Ragnarok", implying that Crona's presence is merely incidental. And then there's the friendly, excitable werewolf Free, who's depressed after breaking out of a decades-long imprisonment because [[Rule of Cool|he didn't escape awesomely enough.]] He was imprisoned in the first place because of his arsenal of magical abilities and his super agility and strength.

* [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Haruhi Suzumiya]] is considered by most of her fellow students to be a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], but since she's also good at absolutely everything, they're willing to overlook that during events like sports and culture festivals when they need her help to do well. Bonus points for [[Playboy Bunny|actually wearing bunny ears.]]

** She's not good at ''absolutely'' everything - she's a ''godawfully'' bad filmmaker (due to her phenomenally huge ego which makes her believe that anything she does is automatically Academy Award-worthy). She's pretty hopeless at video games too, due to being too [[Hot-Blooded]] to believe in minor trivialities like "strategy".

* Pretty much everybody in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', but Kamina probably qualifies the most. Of course, his particular insanity happens to ''work'' in this Universe, and spreads to just about everybody else over time.

** Leeron may be an even better example; no one questions the [[Gadgeteer Genius|ridiculously brilliant mechanical and technological abilities]] of a [[Flamboyant Gay|flamboyantly gay]] man in red heels and purple eyeshadow.

* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' has Barnaby Brooks Jr., a skilled and popular superhero who is more than a little maladjusted. Apart from [[Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training|never actually bothering to learn any interpersonal skills]] and suffering from a very apparent case of PTSD, he has a number of odd quirks that range from an aversion to keeping "unnecessary things" (including furniture) to a fondness for suits with an entirely excessive amount of buttons.

** There's a lot of {{spoiler|1=[[Fridge Horror]] involved here, given how much of Barnaby's personality and actions are a result of [[Treacherous Advisor|Maverick's]] memory-alteration NEXT power. Keeping him obsessed with catching his parents' killer (re-enforcing the PTSD) and ensuring he didn't develop significant relationships with anyone, Maverick had spent several years abusing Barnaby's unconditional trust in him to keep the young man engaged in his work-driven lifestyle, which helped to further Maverick's goals in making [[Show Within a Show|HeroTV]] a more profitable enterprise.}}

** Several of the others count: Sky High is a very successful hero in spite of being quite the Ditz; Origami Cyclone's fanboyism (which is actually his selling point) belies his actual talents (not helped by Ivan's lack of confidence). You also wouldn't expect that the showy, flamboyantly camp Fire Emblem ''owns'' the company he's affiliated with, meaning Nathan must be pretty successful to stay associated with HeroTV.

* [[Tower of God|Phonsekal Laure]] is a narcoleptic, lazy bum who sleeps almost all the time, takes pillow and blanket anywhere and is one of the most talented [[Functional Magic|Shinsoo]] users of the entire cast. Learning and deepening that skill is in universe the most time-consuming and difficult tasks for a Regular and everybody sure appreciates his skills.

* Dr. Irabu in ''[[Trapeze]]'' is, save for profession, almost ''literally'' a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]--but considering his ''actual'' occupation the implications are ''worse''; in the anime, he's a ''psychiatrist'' who does most of his therapy ''largely in a psychedelic fursuit'' (complete with tye-die mascot-esque bear head). The series only [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|gets more insane from there]].

* Paiway Underberg of ''[[Vandread]]''... although it's hard to determine if she's any good at her job, since Duero supplants her as head doctor within the first three episodes.

* Weather "fairy" Amasawa Chitose from ''[[The Weatherman Is My Lover]]'' does broadcasts in a different [[Cosplay]] outfit every day. He also predicts the weather via his [[Spider Sense|hair]].

* Keima Katsuragi, from ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', is an unrepentant [[Dating Sim]] [[Otaku]], so committed that he constantly plays them in class - his teachers only tolerate his behaviour because he gets perfect grades in most of his subjects, apart from PE.

** Also Elsie, airhead low ranked daemon who, nevertheless, is the most successful daemon in the Runaway Spirit Squad. Subverted as she actually depends on Keima and would be useless by her own.

 

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