Crazy Awesome/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'', nearly every protagonist is [[Badass]] Awesome on their own, and 95 percent of them remain sane. Villains however, aren't that immune to insanity. [[Big Bad|Jail Scaglietti]] is [[Crazy Prepared]] -- emphasis on "crazy". Thousands of [[Mecha Mook|Gadget drones]] aren't enuff? He has [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|cyborgs]]. Saint Cradle [[Battleship Raid|is ambushed by a squadron of]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|overpowered Mages?]] Laugh and DANCE that he's managed to [[Break the Cutie|break the heart]] of [[Mama Bear|two]] [[The Reveal|of the]] [[For the Evulz|most powerful mages in the universe and laugh]]! That's crazy awesome.

* Klein Sandman in ''[[Gravion]]'' is this. He's a [[Cultured Badass]] who sounds awesome giving cheesy [[Transformation Name Announcement]]s, does death defying stunts to pull people's asses out of hot water (with the same amount of tension you show waiting for toast to quit toasting), and has (in dead seriousness) led his [[Meido]] squad in powering up his [[Super Robot]] ''with freaking karaoke''! His most illustrious [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] involved a ping pong game, bath slippers, and over the top [[Calling Your Attacks]], and frankly, he just wouldn't be awesome without the crazy.

{{quote|''Sandman: BOW DOWN TO OUR HEAVY METAL GOD! GRAVION!

Raven: Sir, what was that?

** Maybe it's more accurate to say that everything and anything in ''[[Getter Robo]]'' is Crazy Awesome, even the [[Hotblooded Sideburns|epic sideburns]].

** This is true, it's even brought up by the characters in the series that most of the [[Humongous Mecha]] pilots seem to be completely nuts.

** Not to mention Graham Specter, who enjoys "breaking" things (including ''people''), uses a wrench to catch a flying bullet, and idolizes [[Axe Crazy|Ladd]] [[Blood Knight|Russo]]. Oh, and one of ''the'' most popular characters, possibly due to the insane rambling philosophy he has.

* Juzo Kabuto from ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'' is one of the most awesome [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] around, performing many ridiculous stunts and generally being [[Crazy Prepared]] in the most bizarre ways. The highlight of this was when he snapped his grandson (a [[Humongous Mecha]] pilot) out of a [[Heroic BSOD]] by ''surfing a rocket punch'' through the air and jumping off it into the cockpit.

* Siegfried in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]''—which needs a shorter title incidentally—who can only have his crazy awesome status described by the fact that since his martial arts form is essentially unique, he could not find a master to teach him more. So he decided to imitate a spinning stone that Tibetan monks use... for forty days straight. Spinning. Also sings constantly, will stop fighting to write music and can use his loud voice as an attack while singing. Despite this, Kenichi's masters describe him as a genius with abilities that are already nearly at the master level.

** And then he {{spoiler|senses his friends need him, gets a plane, fly three days straight, finds the incredibly defended island the friends were, as they are shooting his plane down without a parachute, dodging missiles, and SINGING, in the way down, get up, join his friends team, and fight. As soon the fight is victoriously over he collapses from exhaustion, from his 3 straight days flying. Oh, and his 40 days straight spinning. Yes, he just stopped straight his training as soon as he felt the friends needs, and got on a plane. He IS that awesome.}}

** Master Fuurinji also has his moments, like entering a tournament intended for teenagers as "[[Paper-Thin Disguise|Mysterious Teenager Garyu X]]" by putting a mask on and changing nothing else about his appearance. He also took on a fully armed combat force by throwing their own soldiers back at them.

*** And doing [[Clothing Damage]] in the process by ''accidentally'' cutting their clothes with said spoon.

*** She then request that they attack her again. The result is the same except this time she's wielding a plastic sword controller.

** Also in the manga, when {{spoiler|Kimbley is consumed by Pride and trapped in a typhoon of anguished souls he is able to retain his sense of self because, as stated by Kimbley, [[Loves the Sound of Screaming|"Howls of anguish are like lullabies to my ears!"]].}}

** Greed definitely deserves a spot here. "I'm Greed the avaricious! I want everything you could possibly think of. I want money, women, power, sex, status, glory. I demand the finer things in life!" He also reacts rather insanely.

* Drosselmeyer in ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. His character design is surreal, and he's first introduced to the audience and the main character as an ominous, booming voice, then materializing upside-down in front of her bit-by-bit in a Cheshire Cat fashion. As the series goes on, it becomes QUITE clear that he's absolutely off his nut, and quite enjoying the tragedy playing out in the story. And then, as the series nears its end, it's revealed that {{spoiler|while dead, he exists in a netherworld filled with gears and mocking puppets he controls, has been pulling the strings of everyone in the hopes of making the story have a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] ending, and when his hands were cut off before his death, ''wrote the story controlling the town with his own blood using the stumps of his arms''.}} And he finds the whole thing hilarious.

* Before [[Cerebus Syndrome]] strolled into town, [[Dragon Ball|Goku]] had this as his super power, turning Rock Paper Scissors into an attack, acting like a monkey in the middle of battle, and defeating Monster Carrot by putting him on the moon.

** He's so [[Hot-Blooded]] that ''explosions'' keep going off behind him! (That must get expensive!)

* ''[[Death Note]]'': Teru Mikami is utterly insane, but he can overdo writing more so then his fellow Kiras. Light also falls into this.

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' RUNS on Crazy Awesome, living up to the "bizarre" in its title with some ludicrously cool moments -- like a ''[[Rock-Paper-Scissors|rock-paper-scissors match]]'' the likes of which you've very little chances of witnessing in real life...or any other work of fiction, for that matter. There's at least one main character in each of its many installments who acts as an exponent of this trope; [[Trickster Archetype|Joeseph Joestar]] being the most prominent example.

* Yuno of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'', who is [[Ax Crazy|just]] [[Yandere|plain]] [[Murder the Hypotenuse|crazy]] to boot. When a [[Mad Bomber]] takes over the school and forces the hostages to attack Yuno and her boyfriend/[[Stalker with a Crush|stalkee]]? Yuno decides that this makes the hostages her enemies and starts ''setting the bombs off''. She also firmly believes [[Murder Is the Best Solution]] and has a tendency to appear out of nowhere with a [[Girl with Psycho Weapon|knife, ax]] or [[Improvised Weapon|similar object]].

** Yomotsu Hirasaka AKA Twelfth,is a whole handful of crazy awesome. A total whackjob, who dresses like a deranged Sentai character, and steals a bomb, just so he can make a flashy entrance. Did we mention he does all this, while being ''totally blind?''

* ''[[One Piece]]'' is filled to the brim with [[Crazy Awesome]], but the series personification of the trope is Franky. [[Fartillery|Coup de Boo]] anyone?

* ''[[Bleach]]'': Isshin is initially depicted as a crazy, [[Bumbling Dad]] who'll beat up his son and headbutt him simply for comedy. Later on in the manga, it's revealed it's actually a method for helping Ichigo focus. {{spoiler|When fighting [[Big Bad|Aizen]], Isshin's crazy father antics are so familiar and normal that it actually acts as a thread of sanity helping Ichigo refocus on the danger he's in. Even Aizen pauses for a moment to take in dissonance between Isshin's antics and the situation everyone's in.}}

** Kuukaku Shiba is a pyromaniac. She loves fireworks and crazy buildings to the extent where she's something of an outcast - her house is so bizarre no-one wants to live near her. Even Ichigo's group don't want to be seen entering a home that weird. Turns out these two crazy talents of hers are exactly what's required to help the group break into Seireitei. She's invented a giant cannon that fires fireworks and effectively turns the gang into a giant firework to blast them through Seireitei's normally impenetrable shield.

** Kenpachi is the manga's resident berserker, in the traditional sense: the warrior that on the battlefield fights as though possessed by madness to the extent where they often laugh maniacally. Historical berserkers were considered very creepy and part of their effectiveness in battle was precisely because of how creeped out their crazy fighting style had on opponents. Kenpachi plays this perfectly. The more he's cut, the more he laughs and in several fights, his opponent has lost their cool and become mentally undone by Kenpachi's love of being injured when he should have been afraid, slowed down by his injuries or at least wary and hesitant. His berserker behaviour on the battlefield unsettles his opponents so much he often gains a psychological advantage over them that helps him win fights even when he's by far the least skilled warrior. He's a good example of the "[[Ax Crazy]] Awesome" version of this trope.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Jeremiah]] counts, somewhat. Maybe not at the beginning, but the character slowly evolves from a forgettable and unlikeable foe to a [[Woobie]] to a [[Ax Crazy|deranged, ferocious]] mild version of this trope in the first season finale. Eventually he calms down and fully evolves into his own in R2 as a somewhat unhinged, but ridiculously competent pilot and fighter. Some of [[Magnificent Bastard|Lelouch/Zero]]'s plans count, too.

* What about [[Full Metal Panic!|Sousuke Sagara]]? He certainly has innovative methods to solve every situation. For example, when a guy wanted to blackmail Kaname by putting less-than-idolized pictures of her onto the internet, how did Sousuke stopped him? He unleashed a freakin' EMP blast and destroyed every piece of electronics in the school. Or a more radical example: when a Hind was chasing his [[Humongous Mecha]], how did he got rid of it? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJVCK_LGpM=18#t=50s This is how].

{{quote|''An amphibious... '''submarine'''?! Impossible... who the hell ARE those guys?!''}}

* [[Eyeshield 21|Hiruma Youichi]]. Has taken over his school from the shadows, {{spoiler|throws a long pass as a quarterback with his broken arm}}, runs across America for 40 days without showing any fatigue until the end, Has blackmail material for half the people in the world, and throws together a high-school American football team within a year {{spoiler|that manages to beat an all-star high school team that has never lost before}}, among other examples.

** The protagonist fights with a kendama. Kendama is a kind of toy—a hammer and a ball tied to it.

** His [[The Lancer|rival]] uses a Battle Scoop. All the early enemies claim it is just a farm tool.

* Subverted in Diebuster 2's Nono. She's a total ditz, and wants to be a mecha pilot, in spite of being a robot who doesn't have the genetic qualification for doing so, and you just KNOW that she's going to somehow manage to succeed anyways, by sheer force of ditz luck, until {{spoiler|it's revealed that she is actually one of the mecha in question (obviously, not needing a pilot), has an army of a million drones which can be configured into a giant extension of her own body that's larger than the bloody planet, and is entirely composed of badass}}

* [[Battle Angel Alita|Desty Nova]] is the kind of guy who saws the top of his head off to prove a point, gives random people bodies that account for weapons of mass destruction, makes a backup of his brain (and head) on his belly, or becomes inmortal in a way that turns him into a literal plague, and with at least 3 of himself with separate agendas and working against each other; all for <s>the lulz</s> [[For Science!|KARMATRON DYNAMICS]], and meanwhile he eats flan, laughs madly, and wears spectacles that makes him look like a maniac. We also have Zekka, who does miracles by hitting things really hard. No seriously.

** Also, Izaya.

* ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]''. What happens when you put an [[Expy]] of [[Tomokazu Seki|Domon]] [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|Kashu]] up against one of [[Nobuyuki Hiyama|Gai]] [[GaoGaiGar|Shishioh]], then have [[Yosuke Akimoto|the Undefeated of the East]] get involved? [[Crazy Awesome]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjTCmzVNYdM that's what.]

** Hell the whole cast fits this trope, whether it be the Trap Shouta Chiharu, the younger sister Yume, who spends a good amount of time Angsting over the fact that Shinra ''doesn't'' molest her or the Big Sister Mihato, who is a Brocom and proud of it. Seriously the most "Normal" one among them is a [[Older Than They Look]] [[Token Mini-Moe]] who [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|supports them all.]]

* The Principal is easily a [[Crazy Awesome]] character despite his being in the charmingly cutesy "Hidamari Sketch". The Principal appears completely out of place compared to the other characters, and his actions make him appear more so. For example as The Landlady for the Hidamari apartments strolls by the school gates from across the street she abruptly stops to see The Principal dash towards the gate perfoming three full front flips as he leaps over, perfectly landing next to her and proceeds to thank her for taking care of the students. Another is when Yoshinoya is spraying him with a water gun several times over before The Landlady tosses him his own to which he reacts by dodging Yoshinoya's shots at rapid speed before firing directly at her forehead. In these scenes The Principal's animation style changes drastically from Cutesy to Extremely Serious.

** Rock also has a few moments of this, most notably when he conceives of a plan to get rid of a military helicopter that has the Lagoon cornered... by ''ramping off a shipwreck and torpedoing said helicopter''. [[Crazy Awesome]]? I think so. Less conventional examples from Rock stem from the fact that, actually, this guy is just ''smart'', and when he can get over the fact that he's now living in a [[Crapsack World]] without any morals where violence is very much the norm, he can often accomplish a lot more with his words than even Revy can with her guns.

* Accelerator from ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' exists for this trope. His face and his laugh when maiming his victims, and the way he killed a squad of soldiers, including shotgunning a woman in the face will forever be in the minds of any fan of this series. they don't show this in the anime, but when he shotguns her in the face, a piece of her jaw gets blown off and lands on his face. you know what he does with it? "...Oh hoh hoh, so your face turned to something good for a fuckin' pacifier."

** At the very end of his final fight with Kihara, he becomes so pissed at the guy he lifts him by his face, mutters "ihbfKILLwq" and '''''launches him into the sky with so much force the guy burns up from atmospheric friction'''''.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has Jonouchi/Joey. Regardless of language, his deck depends heavily on chance. Of course, in this anime, chance falls as the plot demands.

** Mic Sounders' famous Tower Bridge Guitar Riff also qualifies. He literally defeats Percurio alone, by playing rock music on Tower Bridge. By using the bridge as a huge guitar, no less!

** Soldato-J riding a torpedo through several walls, and hits one of the Primevals, who're about to finish off Guy. Not because he wants to save Guy, but because he wants to defeat the 31 Primevals and Guy himself.