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== Fan Works ==
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* The main character from [http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers_in_the_Dark Whispers in the Dark], a [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] fanfiction [[Spin Offspring|about the daughter of Thalia and Luke]].
* [[Author Avatar]] Art of the [[Mass Effect]] self-insert [[Mass Vexations]]
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Fan Works
MOD: These need to be moved to Cloudcuckoolander/Fan Works if they aren't there already.
- The main character from Whispers in the Dark, a Percy Jackson and The Olympians fanfiction about the daughter of Thalia and Luke.
- Author Avatar Art of the Mass Effect self-insert Mass Vexations
- Kyouko in You Got Haruhi Rolled.
- Mattie in Part Right, Half Wrong, a Third Crazy is a beautiful combination of Cloudcuckoolander and Deadpan Snarker. Where would we be without his arguments with his bedside lamp, among other things?
- Tristan from Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series is a combination of a Cloudcuckoolander and a ditz. Almost every line that he gives is an illogical non-sequitur, such as his randomly given cry of "Burn the Witch!" and "Take off your clothes!"
- The sad thing is, these two examples are him being coherent in the context of the scene.
- More extreme examples of his CloudCuckoolandiness include "I like pudding!" and "I farted, it's funny!"
- Marik is this and Poke the Poodle. His evil plans include pushing Yugi off a boat so that his hair will get wet and it'll take hours to dry, and borrowing Yugi's puzzle and not giving it back to him...for at least another 2 months. He also invited Dan Green to the Evil Council because he played a villain in one of the Pokemon movies, and seems to believe that there is a difference between killing someone and just 'destroying them a little'. And then there's the standard weirdness.
Marik: By the way, Bakura, your costume could use some work. |
- Momoko from Wedding Peach Abridged:
Jamma-P: HEY, I DIDN'T WRITE THIS SCRIPT SO DON'T COMPLAIN TO ME!!!!! |
- Nappa of Dragonball Z Abridged:
Vegeta: Nappa! No! It's a trick! |
- There's also Super Kami Guru.
- Major Raikov in the Metal Gear Solid fanfic Stray is "always the type who took sanity more as a suggestion," to the extent that Ocelot considers Raikov's Psycho Electro boyfriend to be the stabilizing influence in the relationship.
- Raocow takes on a persona like this in his Let's Play entries. See: his Kamek's Revenge Let's Play, where he declares a fear of circles and refers to a flower that spits items when fed an egg or enemy to be "an altar to our dark flesh god".
- He has weird names for the characters of Super Mario World. He calls Yoshi "stupid horse" even though he is a dinosaur. He calls the Charging Chuck "Football Charlie" because they are in football player uniforms.
- To quote Raocow himself: "I'M SO GODDAMN WACKY"
- Demykins from the Kingdom Hearts fanfic Those Lacking Spines behaves in this manner, with a multitude of his lines as shoutouts to other media; when he doesn't quote from various works, he ignores the situation altogether.
- Which is also the common fanfiction depiction of regular old Demyx, because 90% of the people who write fanfiction have absolutely no concept of what makes Demyx Demyx. Or any other character, themselves.
- Farfalla The Butterfly Kitten, a prolific Fan-Fic author and creator of the All-Ages Kirk/Spock Archive, is clearly one of these. Just look at her name. Also, only a Cloudcuckoolander could write This. Or This.
Farfalla's note before one Fan Fic Header: I sometimes refer to slashy bits in canon as 'sardines', because they're thrown like little rewarding treats to us little loyal dolphin-like fans... but that has nothing to do with this story. |
- DRACO MALFOY in A Very Potter Musical.
- Snape is an even bigger example, especially in the Potion Master's Corner.
- Marty McSuperfly in Captain Garlic's Let's Play of Icewind Dale 2. Watch out for him when he gets near the wisdom-enhancing items, or goes by the mushroom fields in the Underdark.
- The fan-made role-play Deadly Mistakes has Mathew. Given that he's also a Talkative Loon, he provides a lot of comedy.
Music
- Frank Zappa
- Buckethead
- Regina Spektor
- Lady Gaga
- Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine
- Kate Bush
- Tori Amos
- Bjork
- John Lennon
- Ke$ha
- Wesley Willis
- Morten Harket
- Cerys Matthews
- Cyndi Lauper. Much of the appeal of watching the current season of Celebrity Apprentice is in watching her exist on a different plane of existence than every other competitor.
- Syd Barrett
- Yuki Kajiura
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Singer/songwriter Anna Nalick- probably because she identifies so strongly with Alice in Wonderland and often admits that she IS Alice and lives in her own world. This Facebook status will prove the point:
- Nicki Minaj
- Andrew W. K.
- Believe it or not, Justin Bieber revealed himself to be this on Ellen: I blow dry my hair like whoosh! whooosh!
- Michael Jackson
- Peter Gabriel once crossdressed as a fox in a long red dress and it was awesome.
- David Byrne
- Brian Wilson
- Adam Young. Listen to his lyrics.
- Matt Bellamy. Firstly, it seems to be In the Blood, since he grew up in a superstitious family who made frequent use of an Ouija board. He's obsessed with conspiracy theories. He's claimed to believe that humans evolved from spiders that float around in space, and he's also said that he wishes the gravity on Earth was lighter so that spiders would die. He likes dressing up in costumes, drawing veins on his arms, and trees. Unsurprisingly, he's used shrooms in the past.
- Japanese rocker Gackt is well-known for his odd behavior, particularly in interviews: Instead of answering questions in a straight-forward manner, he instead says things that are deliberately absurd, nonsensical, or lewd, but always with a straight face, making it difficult to tell if he is joking or being serious.
- Those infamous Utaban interviews ("The Pork Belly blocks...get them for me. They are back there. I know they are." / "Well I'm [referring to his penis] a Magnum." / "I haven't felt like being naked much lately.")
- One of his most well-known jokes has led some fans to think that he seriously believes he's a 496 year old vampire. Even after he revealed his true age, there were still fans who still believed the vampire shtick.
- But for most fans, it's all part of his charm.
- Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band, if getting kicked out by one-time roommate David Lynch for being too weird is anything to go by.
- Michael Stipe
- Nick Carter embodies this trope, especially as of late. Check out his Twitter.
- Rudy "?" Martinez of ? and the Mysterians says that he has travelled time and seen dinosaurs.
- Jazz bandleader Sun Ra kept his past shrouded in mystery, claimed to be from outer space, and created a Myth Arc surrounding this.
- Tommy Scott, formerly of Space. He's heavily inspired by films - which he wanted his songs to sound like - and cartoons, rather than music, and has pretended to be various personalities when singing, such as Speedy Gonzales and Marlene Dietrich. And then there's the 'Suburban Rock 'n' Roll' video, where he's dressed up as a lion. Yeah.
- Captain Beefheart. Captain Beefheart for the win. He seems to have lived on a plane so different from the rest of us, it's a wonder that he was able to survive as long as he did.
- Paul McCartney. In addition to coming up with some truly baffling lyrics on occasion, he's prone to rambling and non sequitur in interviews, notwithstanding his reputation as a savvy PR man. For instance, Paul on painting:
- The Rev.
- Bob Dylan. Along with drawing moustaches on himself, carrying huge lightbulbs and wooden puppets, he was known for giving hilariously nonsensical interviews to reporters in the mid 60s, with gems such as:
"There's a glass in the back of my head. I'm a very sick person. I can't see too well on Thursdays. And another thing, my toenails don't fit." |
- FULL (Furukawa Tomo) of Guniw Tools fame, judging by any of his lyrics, interviews and art.
- Tyler, The Creator, of hip-hop collective OFWGKTA, though it's unclear how much of it is an act. He's referred to himself as a unicorn, a table, and a purse.
"I AM STILL THE MOST SWAGGED OUT UNICORN IN THE FUCKING EXISTENCE OF FUCKING UNICORNS NIGGA. FUCK PEGASUS, HE'S A FUCKING FAGGOT. OFUGKTA" |
- Any of The Protomen to one degree or another, between the rambling non-sequiturs that make up their "press releases", the insistence on codenames and general mystery about the band itself, half the things they've ever said (including the claim that their bus was destroyed by a vengeance-crazed rodent) and it takes a certain type of person to make a Rock Opera about Mega Man in the first place. The craziness is a big part of their appeal, though.
- Keith Moon
- Ian Anderson, on stage at least.
- Damo Suzuki of Can. Just read the guy's interviews. His predecessor, Malcolm Mooney, also qualifies.
Professional Wrestling
- WWE wrestler Al Snow became most famous as a Cloudcuckoolander who has "HELP ME!" inexplicably written backwards across his head and gets advice from a mannequin head (appropriately named "Head"). One particularly memorable storyline had him thinking that Head betrayed him and stole the Hardcore Championship from him, so he started using Pierre, a taxidermied deer head, to substitute for Head. Another had Al winning the European Championship, and deciding that, in order to better represent "the citizens of Europea", he would dress in the traditional garb (and come out to the national anthem of) a different country each week (including, inexplicably, a '50s style greaser outfit for Greece). And then there was his tag team with Steve Blackman, WWE's resident Comically Serious, in which he insisted that Blackman wear a hat shaped like a wedge of cheese so they could call themselves "Head Cheese", and that they make their entrance surrounded by midgets holding sparklers... and his infamous hardcore match with himself... yeah, Al Snow was one weird dude.
- The explicability is obvious! Where else would greasers come from?
- Jeff Hardy, full stop. Doubly so because it's not just his TV character. His TV character is in fact considerably more normal than he is in real life. His closest friends claim that one of his favorite activities outside of wrestling is "digging holes and filling them back in." His sculpting material of choice is aluminum foil. Also, there's his alter-ego Itchweeed. Sadly, much of this seems to stem from his personal habits
- Colonel Cossack of the TWF.
- Haaghiuaheydtrihaoivuhyarwehtoiuhadvhaiherr--Deliroius.
- The Ultimate Warrior.
TheBrian Kendrick's move to TNA gave him a gimmick that seems to be the Karate Kid on acid.- Raven. Genius-level IQ + years of hardcore wrestling and drug use = very odd, hyper personality. Just watch his vlogs.
- R-Truth following his heel turn in 2011. He turned face a few months later, but still maintain this trait.
Puppet Shows
- Most of the Muppet characters on Sesame Street would qualify. Yes, even Straight Man Bert, who has an unusual obsession with bottle caps and paper clips. Being a Nerd doesn't mean you're sane.
- Sometime around 1988-92 was Ruby, a furry yellow monster who would often do things like wear a blindfold to see what it would be like to be blind or pretending she's a kangaroo after having her hair done up in a ponytail. She really makes Big Bird look sane.
- Most of The Muppet Show cast would qualify, but Gonzo is the Poster Boy for this trope. Very much so. The word "Muppet", as used in Ireland, means what "Cloudcuckoolander" does here. It can be used as an insult, or a term of endearment, or both at once.
- The entire cast of the highly surreal Norwegian puppet show Reparat ørene Kommer (The Repairmen are Coming), later renamed Pompel & Pilt after the two main characters. If Cloud Cuckooland is an actual land, this show takes place in it. Pompel & Pilt is Norwegian television's most beloved Nightmare Fuel.
Sequential Art
- The Englishman Mister "Pief" (Peeve?) from a story by Wilhelm Busch who walks around while always looking through a telescope.
Toys
- In Bionicle Vezon was Flanderized into a Cloudcuckoolander.
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