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* Sapphire Gem, the zombie girl from ''[[Monsterful]]'' , an extremely random protagonist. In these ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20101007000118/http://www.monsterful.com/chapter07page04.htm/ two]'' ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20101007001125/http://www.monsterful.com/chapter07page05.htm/ pages]'' a nice example is given, there are a ton others though. She's also an [[Idiot Hero]], and these two traits combined always lead to instant madness.

* Roger and Lily Pepitone in ''[[College Roomies From Hell (Webcomic)|College Roomies From HellCRFH]]''

{{quote| '''Stephen:''' It's strange how we have an invisible postal worker who delivers the mail by altering history so it was always here.<br />

'''Sid:''' We don't. We have a normal mailman who comes by before you're awake.<br />

* ''[[Ctrl +Alt +Del (Webcomic)|Ctrl Alt Del]]''.

** Ethan

{{quote| '''Chef Brian:''' Yes, Clancy! My existential shell is filled with the dreams of wild chipmunks! Thank you for asking!}}

{{quote| '''Cube:''' Pirates give me gas.}}

** Hannelore might also qualify on occasion. [[Word of God]] has it that she's channeling [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Osaka]].

* Kwerki in ''[[GhastlysGhastly's Ghastly Comic]]''. She started off seeming to have [[No Social Skills]], but quickly turned into a chatty little loon who [[Epileptic Trees|believes citrus fruits squirting juice in your eyes is an S&M thing for them]], among the other crazy and not-particularly-worksafework-safe theories she has to explain equally mundane things. For example, her wedding toast... At a reception she wasn't invited to, and most likely doesn't know anyone at. And it involves a rather 'unique' use of a bottle as a prop.

* Wonderella from ''[[The Non -Adventures of Wonderella]]''. And her sidekick, Rita, is even ''more'' of one.

* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|8-bit Theater]]''

** Red Mage is convinced his world runs on [[Tabletop Games]] rules. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/10/10/episode-085-i-turned-my-bag-of-holding-inside-out-wrapped-it-around-me-and-walked-through-the-dungeon-walls/ He carries around a character sheet], rolls twenty-sided dice to see if he succeeds at things, and [[Munchkin|is obsessed with manipulating these rules to his advantage.]] If he were in [[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|another webcomicweb comic]], this would make him [[Genre Savvy]]. However, the world of ''8-Bit Theater'' doesn't actually run on [[Tabletop Games]] rules; it runs on the [[Rule of Funny]] instead. That means he's just a Cloudcuckoolander, except when it would be funnier for him to be right. He's simply insane all the time, in his own special way, and often oblivious to logic, warping reality with his own bizarre ideas. Just because his crazy schemes occasionally briefly succeed (like the Chocobo breeding experiment) doesn't make him sane. You would never ever think of Red Mage as "the only truly sane person of the group".

** Since Red Mage [[Min -Maxing|took mild forms of insanity as character defects in order to maximize his skill points]], including a "3-point Hallucination flaw", it is possible for him to be [[Mind Screw|both insane and yet correct in his perception of the universe]].

* Elan of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]''. For instance, when Haley argues that, as they are adventurers, everything they do counts as an adventure... he takes off his shirt, covers himself in jam, stands on one hand, hangs a lantern from one foot, puts a squirrel on the other and plays with a paddle-ball with his free hand. And shouts "I'm on an adventure!" In an earlier strip, Elan found out that wearing armor incurs an armor-check-penalty on certain skills, including Hide. Therefore, he decided that removing all his clothes would increase his Hide skill to the point of invisibility. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity Ensued]]. He much later concluded, when {{spoiler|a newly resurrected Roy}} was standing naked in front of him, "You're invisible!" Elan is now less Cloud Cuckoolander and more hyper-[[Genre Savvy]].

* Fluffmodeus, aka Little Blue Friend, in ''[[Something *Positive]]'', especially his first appearance.

{{quote| "And and and and this other time? I was at the zoo and the man at the zoo was all 'You can't feed animals here' And I was all 'But why not?' And he was all 'Cause there's no one to feed 'em to.' HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA It's funny, new friend! It's so funny! ...it only takes [[American Customary Measurements|seven pounds]] [[Unit Confusion|of pressure]] to crack open a man's head... from the inside. Kisses now!"}}

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'''s got Lieutenant Pibald, turnsat into one of theseleast when he forgets to take his medication, acquiring delusions of having hyperbolically exaggerated status or talents which he doesn't. This wouldn't be asmuch seriousof a problem. asThe itproblem is ifthat his hobby wasn'tis ''homemade[[Mad explosivesBomber|blowing stuff up]]'' and his actual skill with nanoassemblers allows him to disguise robotic mini-factories as ant farms... Making explosives that ''[http://schlockmercenary.com/d/20080306.htmlreplicate metastasize]''from raw materals, and formif let loose, ''[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080307.html2008-03-06 spread and form colonies]''.

* Captain Fang from ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' istalks arguablycompletely insane and is either stupid (thoughor whoso easily distracted that no one can tell for sure with him?), but he's the ultimate king of absurd non-sequitur[http://yafgc.net/?id=493 absurd] [http://yafgc.net/?id=206 Anon-sequitur]. It's [http://yafgc.net/?id=493677 fewalso] impossible to tell whether he's absurdly lucky or [[Crazy Awesome|actually competent at what he does]]. [http://yafgc.net/?id=702 examples Then there's] [[Drunk Sailor|Captain Corona]] who is drunk enough to reach almost the same level of loonie.

* Quilt from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' has no brain (he's a necromantic golem, a la [[Frankenstein's Monster]]), and thus can be a little... out there. When told to keep his eye on someone, his response was to take his eye out of the socket and point it at the subject. But [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328091311/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-13 this] is probably where he exhibits the trope the most.

{{quote| "We are men of vision. Like when Magellan crossed the Sahara, or when the Persians first made cheese in a can. We are living in an advanced age where man can look to the stars and walk on Uranus. I foresee a future for this company when our products are as popular as Frogger, or even... dare I say... Burger Time. It is our destiny, gentlemen, to forge ahead like Marcel Marceau and to take charge like that fellow Charles... who was apparently in charge. Look to the future men, for we may never see it again!"}}

* iddy pop (not to be confused with a certain Stooges singer) from ''[[My Life in Blue]]'' lives and breathes this trope.

* In the ''[[Triquetra Cats]]'' spinoff ''[[Polonian Tales]]'', the character of Nalaynee was specifically modeled after Osaka.

* Inquisitor Eastwood from <s> [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] [[Warhammer 4000040,000|40K]]</s> ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' takes refuge in Cloudcuckooland sometimes when [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|giant]] [[Demonic Spiders|spiders]] show up. To protect his fragile brain from the shock, he has been known to begin calculating the number of teapots a walrus could eat while juggling George Clooney and David Hasselhoff.

* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20191206025214/http://www.fletcherapts.com/ Fletcher Apts]'': Kia is the cute ditzy girl who seems to be in her own world all the time, and any jokes told to her or aimed at her just fly right over her head.

* Sylvester from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200313130906/http://www.agameoffools.com/ A Game of Fools]'':

{{quote| "Pfft, it's not aliens you should be worried about. It's the carrot people."}}

{{quote| "I'm going to upload my brain onto the Internet and live in perpetual electronic bliss."}}

* Franky, from ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]'':

{{quote| "Have you tried [[Counting Sheep]]? When I couldn't sleep, I walked all the way to the nearest farm to count the sheep. By the time I got there I was so tired, I nodded off right away!"}}

* Summer Glau's recent portrayal in ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcdxkcd]]'' portrays [[Summer Glau]] like this. Sample dialogue: "[http://xkcd.com/581/ I can extrude hair, but I can't retract it.]"

** [[Shout -Out|Does that seem right to you?]]

* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]:'' Subverted and generally bent into a pretzel by Quinn Akaelae. She can actually teleport into another dimension and often speaks with two residents of said dimension, who can only be seen by her.

* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' has a weird meta-example with ''the entire fan forum community.'' [[Interactive Comic|The majority of commands in the various series are suggested by the fans]], which leads to lots of [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|zany antics]] within the comics' continuties.

** ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' gives us a few in-universe examples with [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002674 Jade] (hit the "==>" arrow) and the [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002621 Wayward Vagabond.]

* Yuki from ''[[Ménage à 3]]'', though lampshaded by the fact that growing up around her father's comic art really did mess her up pretty badly.

* James from ''[[What Do You Do (Webcomic)|What Do You Do]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]; he once stops his party just to build a stone walrus, which he then levitates and uses as a mount. Really, the whole comic takes place in [[Cloudcuckooland]].

* Coyote from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' shows signs of this and [[Large Ham]]. Annie also has elements of this, often seeming to occupy a separate world to her classmates, and the pair ''definitely'' rub off on one another. Though she got along wonderfully with kids from the House Foley - the one made up of former fairies and forest animals.

{{quote| '''Lucy:''' Ready for the games, David?<br />

'''David:''' Am I ever!<br />

''(Floating hearts, [[Bishie Sparkle]])''<br />

'''Kizuna:''' Ah... um... <br />

'''Kizuna:''' H- Hi!<br />

''(More Bishie Sparkle)''<br />

* Sensei Greg of ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' seemsstarted tohis bemartial one.arts Beingschool anlike the old masters did anime-style martialafter arts[[Enlightenment instructor,Superpowers|enlightenment]]. Which he hasgot obviouslyfrom watchedwatching wayanime toofor much168 anime,hours andstraight. itHe created "[[Supernatural Martial Arts|Anime-Style Martial Arts]]" school. It seems to effect his behavior. His first appearance had him attempting to go [[Dragonball Z|Super Saiyan]], and later after learning one of his male students could [[Gender Bender|turn into a girl]], attempted to make it happen by [[Ranma One Half½|dumping a bucket of cold water on his head]].

** Speaking of his student Elliot, he hasgot recentlya discoveredspell anallowing abilityhim to shifttake througha three[[Flying alternateBrick]] personalities, while still able to break through themform.. One of these personalities? ''Heidi,'' perhaps the zaniest character in the comic. Asand Elliot first noted upon becoming her, ahem, ''three "Holydisguise" crapalter Iego feelwith liketheir Iown chuggedpersonalities. down an expresso not literallyOne of course that would hurt unless it was cold which wouldn't taste as good wow I look different than I thought I would but I guess it sort of makes sense I look what's the word I think it's spunky but I'm not sure [[Motor Mouth|that makes me think of a spunky Brewster although I don't know what a spunky Brewsterthese is or was it a punky Brewster I've only heard of it before was that a tv show or something]] [[Captain Obvious|wow I'm full of energy]]"Heidi".'' When the personality is in the forefront of Elliot'sshe mindappears, we are treated to observations that "Superheroes are bouncy" and "Chipmunks have great judgement". These only[[Makes sortJust ofas [[It MakesMuch Sense in Context|make sense]]only [[Makesslightly Justmore As Much Sensesense in Context|in context]]. Hell, sheShe was nicknamed Heidi simply because of howbeing Un-Elliotextremely sheunlike is.his Itother stuckpersonalities... inand bothslightly scaring the author'sone andwho thenicknamed fandom's mindher. As Elliot first noted upon becoming her, ahem,

* Arkady from ''[[FreakangelsFreak Angels]]'', due to an overdose, is quite flighty, but certainly seems to be perfectly in control of most every situation and the only one willing to push her powers beyond their assumed limitations.

* ''[[Girl Genius]]:'' Certainhas certain Jägermonsters acting are this, interestingly enough. Or not, considering they lived for centuries enthusiastically serving their [[Mad Scientist]] creators. Whetherafter orvolunteering notfor ita transformation that's interestingmore thatlikely theyto qualifykill one, theybut certainlymay areturn interestinginto guys eithernear-immortal way[[Super Soldier]].

* Occela from ''[[Rumors of War]]'' is a high-functioning [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. Though at times it seems like she only suffers a little because she [[Bones|doesn't know]] [[Shout -Out|what you mean]].

* Bliss from ''[[The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred]]''. And to top it off, only one person can hear her speaking as she rambles on about colour theory, how a combustion engine works or something else with no relevance to the topic at hand.

* ''[[Archipelago]]'' gives us Blitz. He's a bit of a tragic case, as he's a man-child whose mind was badly broken {{spoiler|in the same incident in which his eye was gouged out}}, but with that aside, he's a happy-go-lucky [[The Pollyanna|overly optimistic]] sidekick who is the poster child for [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]] and goldmine for humor.

* [[Gas Mask Longcoat|Zee Captain]] from ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic (Webcomic)|Romantically Apocalyptic]]''.

* Reece in ''[[At Arm's Length (Webcomicwebcomic)|At ArmsArm's Length]]''. Her train of thought frequently gets derailed at the station. She's known to focus on non sequitarssequiturs during an action scene.

* Everyone in ''[http://eqcomics.com/ Edmund Finney's Quest]'' hails from Cuckooland, except Edmund himself, who is the [[Only Sane Man]] on the planet. For example, Edmund meets [http://eqcomics.com/2012/02/14/an-archer/ this nutjob] while traveling with a pair of hunters with [["BANG!" Flag Gun|"Nice To Meet You" guns]], who are trying to find a Yeti using only a coffee stain and an extraordinary misinterpretation of some guy's comment about a sandwich.

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