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[[File:CAD-20070317-bestfriend_9209.jpg|link=Ctrl Alt Del|frame|[[Sustained Misunderstanding]] no extra charge.]]

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

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

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

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

** 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 [[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|another webcomic]], 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".

* Elan of ''[[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]].

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'''s Lieutenant Pibald turns into one of these when he forgets to take his medication, acquiring delusions of having hyperbolically exaggerated status or talents which he doesn't. This wouldn't be as serious a problem as it is if his hobby wasn't ''homemade explosives''... that ''[http://schlockmercenary.com/d/20080306.html metastasize]'' and form ''[http://schlockmercenary.com/d/20080307.html colonies]''.

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

* Summer Glau's recent portrayal in ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]''. Sample dialogue: "I can extrude hair, but I can't retract it."

* ''[[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 On 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.]

* 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.

* Sensei Greg of ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' seems to be one. Being an anime-style martial arts instructor, he has obviously watched way too much anime, and 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 Half|dumping a bucket of cold water on his head]].

** Speaking of his student Elliot, he has recently discovered an ability to shift through three alternate personalities, while still able to break through them. One of these personalities? ''Heidi,'' perhaps the zaniest character in the comic. As Elliot first noted upon becoming her, ahem, '' "Holy crap I feel like I chugged down an expresso not literally 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 Brewster 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]]".'' When the personality is in the forefront of Elliot's mind, we are treated to observations that "Superheroes are bouncy" and "Chipmunks have great judgement". These only sort of [[It Makes Sense in Context|make sense]] [[Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|in context]]. Hell, she was nicknamed Heidi simply because of how Un-Elliot she is. It stuck in both the author's and the fandom's mind.

* Arkady from ''[[Freakangels]]'', 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.

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

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