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Some characters have pervasive or extremely noticeable personality quirks, but somehow remain faithfully employed because they are just that good at what they do. Coworkers, superiors, and friends are willing to overlook certain informalities because of this (e.g., a hypothetical highly successful lawyer who happens to wear fuzzy pink bunny ears during all his cases) so long as they get the job done and cause a minimal amount of intentional problems. This is a cost/benefit ordeal: if they weren't so good at their job or their quirks were too obstructive an employer would consider them a necessary sacrifice for sanity.
Much like the [[Genius Ditz]] it is a strange mixture of brilliant and bizarre, the unexpected quirks only tend to bother new characters who don't know them well. Their quirks don't seem to be ''intrinsic'' to his success, a la [[Crazy Awesome]]. Compare the [[Insufferable Genius]], whose quirk is more often just being a [[Jerkass]]. The [[Insufferable Genius]] might insist everyone address him as "sir" or "Dr. Smith". The
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A form of [[Ultimate Job Security]]. For situations where the strange guy is the one in charge (and uses their strange behavior to run their business) see [[The Wonka]]. Uniformed examples may overlap with the [[Military Maverick]].
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