Crazy Awesome/Video Games

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  • World of Warcraft has its share of Crazy Awesome characters scattered around the worldspace, but the grand daddies of all things both awesome and completely batshit crazy are: the entire goblin race. To wit, Azeroth's goblins are your run-of-the-mill green midgets hopped up on intelligence-boosting kaja'mite which turns them into an entire race of Mad Scientists. They put that mad science to work being Azeroth's premiere hustlers, con-artists and extortionists, as well as being the reigning kings of stuff which blows up as well as some of the wildest inventions you could possibly imagine; shark-shaped submarines with head-mounted laser cannons are just the tip of the iceberg with these guys.
    • To elaborate, you can find a fair few topics asking why the Cenarion Circle, or the Earthen ring hasn't decided to turn on any of the goblin franchises because of the repeated, guiltless, and blatant environmental damage assosciated with the entire race. The simple truth is, They can't. The entire economy on Azeroth is controlled by said goblins. If they were challenged, it would ruin the worldwide economy.
      • And this is, of course, assuming the combined might of both Horde And Alliance could withstand the sheer number of resources the goblins could level at them.
    • What is a Worgen rogue fighting a Forsaken rogue besides a tophat-wearing werewolf-zombie knifefight? Why, it's apparently rather awesome.
  • One of the bosses, Biggy Man from Splatterhouse. Possibly because he has CHAINSAWS where his hands should be.
  • Once again, The Joker, with special mention to Batman: Arkham Asylum. Ridiculous thematic weapons? Check. Sauntering, acrobatic brawl maneuvers? Check. Bomb threats to keep the GCPD from entering? Check. Finding out said bombs consisting of marzipan and kittens? Check.
    • Explosive Gel Punch.
  • Dante of Devil May Cry. Even the most cheesy and narm-tastic lines sound badass when spoken by a red longcoat-wearing, gun-slinging, BFS-wielding half-demon Hunter. Anyone who can defeat a horde of hellbeasts with half a slice of pizza in his mouth deserves to be listed here.
    • And in the trailer for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, he fights none other than the equally crazy awesome Deadpool.
    • Lampshaded by Dante himself if he beats Deadpool:

"Sometimes you gotta out-crazy the crazies if you wanna beat 'em."

  • All of the characters of Team Fortress 2.
  • A number of the assassins in No More Heroes.
    • Travis Touchdown: A socially oblivious Otaku and complete loser that happens to be surprisingly skilled at killing people with a Beam Katana, is quite thoroughly Made of Iron, and can stop time by faking opponents out.
    • Destroyman: A dirtbag mailman that cosplays as a superhero that convinces Travis to turn his back on him, get zapped by his joy buzzer to the brink of death, has machine guns in his nipples, and a laser codpiece. And he likes announcing his attacks.
      • He's not cosplaying. He's actually the star and producer of the independent Destroyman films. And calling attacks actually activates his SFX converter, which is the device that launches his attacks.
    • Letz Shake: Singaporean punk rocker with a Brain In a Jar-earthquake maker and has the honor of the most spectacular if not enraging death in the game
    • Harvey Moseiwitsch Volodarskii: He's a stage magician, for starters. A stage magician that you fight in the middle of a live performance, while he summons pigeons to attack you, flips the screen upside-down (not that it helps him much) and getting out of his instant-death attack involves a Houdini-esque escape trick.
    • Speed Buster: A deaf little old lady with a shopping cart... that turns into a (roughly) fifty-foot long Wave Motion Gun. And her BGM is called "Mach 13 Elephant Explosion".
    • Bad Girl: Her being listed here would depend on whether it's possible to be a Complete Monster and Crazy Awesome, but regardless... in her spare time she chugs beer and beats gimps in S&M get-up with a baseball bat...in a lolita getup. She'll also spit booze on to the bat to light it on fire halfway through the fight. Be careful when she goes down.
    • Dark Star: Giant Dragon Beam Katana, for starters. Story-wise and metafictionally speaking, the only reason he exists is to set the player up for a Mind Screw as he, by revealing his face, convinces Travis that he's his killed-in-front-of-Travis'-eyes-dead father... only he's not, which ought to qualify for something—if not crazy-awesomeness then a defining moment in Suda 51-ism.
    • From the sequel: Skelter Helter: Has a fairly bizzarre gun, but other than that, is fairly unremarkable... until a few minutes after his decapitation, he tells Travis he's not done with him, then raves on about how killing someone isn't the same as ending their life.
    • Charlie MacDonald: Not only is he an assassin, but so's his harem of twenty-four cheerleaders, and apparently their collective modus opperandi is summoning a Humongous Mecha from space (or they transform into said Mecha, either way is awesome).
    • And then we have the game's creator himself, Suda Goddamned 51.
  • While the game itself is a perfect example of this trope, Grim Fandango simply have too many distinctly awesome elements that deserve a mention. The demon Glottis has a mindbogglingly huge enthusiasm for driving really fast. So when Manny Calavera, an unsuccessful Reaper and the game's protagonist, is in need of a driver to take him to the Land of the Living after his rival gave his usual driver the day off, he desperately persuades Glottis to become his new driver. Glottis begins his career as a driver by sending Manny to get the boss' approval to make "slight alterations" to Manny's company car. It all goes downhill from there.Beholdthe awesome.
  • Max from Sam and Max. For example:

Max: Gratuitous acts of senseless violence are my forte!

(He turns to face an unconscious man hanging by his chin from the bannister. Max nudges him off and he hits the ground with a thud.)

Sam: You're such an adorable urchin, Max.

  • Minamimoto from The World Ends With You: his final attack a big ass-nuke is activated by reciting pi to 150 decimal places!
  • Age of Mythology has a relic called the "Boots of Kick Everything". Also, there's a power that makes chickens fall from the sky, spew methane gas, then burst in to flames.
  • President Michael Wilson of the GREAT United States of America!!! Screw Democratic or Republican, this guy runs on the Badass party ticket.
  • Even he's likely to be outcrazied by President Howard Ackerman of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 running on the Attack Dolphin party with the slogan of "Screw 'Em All". His immigration policy? Attack Dogs! Those without health insurance? He'll donate a pint of his blood a week to render your immune system indestructible! Special Interests? None! He's too busy serving the Dirty Communists a steaming platter of shame with a side order of suck it! Vote for him if you want to live! He's also a Japanese android!
  • Sheogorath! How, you ask? Well, his quests in Morrowind and Oblivion respectively involve killing a giant floating cattle-like jellyfish with a cursed fork and fulfilling a prophecy involving stinky cheese and burning dog corpses raining from the sky.

"I once dug a pit and filled it with clouds... or was it clowns... come to think of it, it began to smell... must have been clowns. Clouds don't smell, they taste of butter. And tears."
"Time for a celebration! Cheese for everyone! Wait, scratch that, cheese for no one. That can be just as much of a celebration, if you don't like cheese. True?"
"I'm so happy, I could rip out your intestines and strangle you with them!"

    • That's nothing, try attacking him in The Shivering Isles. He paralyzes you, then teleports you about a thousand feet over the island. If you can actually find the area he teleports you to, you find a dead body. The man was executed... for having a mustache. It's not called the Realm of Madness for nothing, you know!
    • Sheogarath also fulfills this trope in a somewhat more literal way, what with being the God of Madness and all—the less crazy he is, the less powerful he is! He also inspires this trope in his followers, sometimes.
  • Albert Wesker, from the Resident Evil series, is a perfect example of this trope: his master plan involved getting stabbed through the chest (by a Tyrant's large, clawed hand, no less) so that an experimental virus he injected into himself would reanimate him, with glowind red, cat-like eyes, superhuman strength and speed. It sure as all living hell worked.
  • Drei from Phantom of Inferno starts off as a sweet, somewhat bratty little girl but the Not as You Know Them after the timeskip is made of this. Stepping out in front of big gangsters and daring them to shoot her, sniping items off the belts of her targets from atop a motorcycle, walking down the streets of Tokyo in a rage and trying to pick fights with random youths despite not knowing a word of Japanese, having sex with the main character in the middle of a gunfight...
  • Princess Sapphire Rhodonite is gloriously off her nut, and that's why we love her. Take her idea for "opening up Mao's heart," for example...

Almaz: Princess!? What's the chainsaw for?

  • Kefka, the main villain of Final Fantasy VI, manages to be both an Laughably Evil source of humour and a genuinely threatening (or outright scary) Monster Clown by the virtue of being Crazy Awesome. To bully around a foreign leader, he sets a whole castle on fire and quips about having started a barbeque.
    • Dissidia Final Fantasy actually lets Kefka speak, and if anything, he's even more Crazy Awesome in the cutscenes. In addition, he subscribes to the Confusion Fu school of fighting—his fighting style revolves around wacky, unpredictable spells that zig-zag through the air, home in on the opponent, or hit around the opponent to catch them on the dodge. In essence, his entire fighting style is that he's Crazy Awesome - if he used normal spells, his entire gimmick would go out the window.
    • And then there's Gilgamesh, the Ensemble Darkhorse who has managed to cross the Final Fantasy multiverse on a search for rare swords. Amazingly hammy, boisterous and absurd, he manages to combine being badass and cool with being a complete moron. Dissidia's prequel gives him attacks reflective of this—Missile fires a giant homing missile that he pulls from Hammerspace, Rocket Punch has him launch a pair of giant boxing gloves at opponents, and he Jump attack has him leap into the air and descend to deliver a diving headbutt. And if he misses, he crashes into the ground head-first and has to pull himself out.
  • Mole Mania. All of it. By the time you realize you play a mole that's delivering suplexes, along with the fact you're beating people to death with cabbages, the game stops being just plain crazy and starts being full blown amazing.
  • Miror B. from Pokémon Colosseum and XD. Disco dude with an enormous Poké Ball-colored afro and this for a battle theme.
    • Whether by extension or (considering they came first) because of Miror B....Ludicolo is definitely part of this trope. A pineapple duck with a rain-collecting hat...that dances.
      • Not to mention, the first time you meet him in Pokémon XD, he moonwalks in. On lifts.
  • Darkstalkers presents Lilith, Morrigan's incomplete clone. Her super consists of using the same bats that make up her clothes and sending all of them out in a whirlwind attack with the usual consequence. Her other unique super is her turning into a Playboy Bunny and tossing out a top hat which on contact, sets up a stage with the hapless enemy as the star, and playing a dancing mini-game that deals more damage to them the better you do. You also inflict them with more elemental attacks, and a perfect super can even be a One-Hit Kill Finishing Move.
  • In The Sims 3, you can give your Sims the "Insane" trait, which lets them to do all sorts of hilariously ridiculous things, like fishing in swimming pools (and actually catching fish this way!).
    • Similarly, the "Neurotic" sims get compulsive, yet easily fulfilled wishes (like checking the oven) which put them in a positive mood, and have access to a special "Freak Out" command which puts them in a "happy place" mentally that means that for several hours, their Fun need meter won't degenerate no matter what kind of stresses they're subjected to. Quite a powerful ability in the Sims universe!
  • Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure stars a awesomely British Adventurer Archaeologist who summons a Steampunk Humongous Mecha via the Power of Teatime. His dialogue consists of classic British cliches such as "Good show!" or "Poppycock!".
  • Dwarf Fortress. The whole freaking thing.
    • Adventure Mode takes it Up to Eleven...even the rules are Crazy Awesome, such as armour-piercing throwing sand and the use of entire skeletons as melee weapons.
    • The following lines are all taken from the Bay 12 forums. Context can sometimes be inferred, but is rarely necessary.

"I like the fact that we are seriously discussing how to drop dwarfs off towers using kittens as cushions."
"I would fill it with magma if there was any on my map; there isn't, so I'm filling it with rhesus macaques."

"Apparently having a redundant creature entry causes the game to say "Oh look, it's crazy world now. Nothing makes sense! Alligators live in houses!"

"Exactly, except that instead of watering lawns, it's destroying ecosystems!"

"To this day, I'm not sure how a grizzly bear manages to sneak into the fort and steal my beer."

"Odd how 'experiment' in DF is often synonymous with 'raging inferno of death and despair'."

"And now the thread is about starfish porn."

"Only geologists and Dwarf Fortress players get this excited about pictures of rocks. Although for geologists it's professional, wheareas for Dwarf Fortress players it's more like porn."

"Personality-wise, dragons are nothing more than giant, scaly, fire-breathing cats."

"If in doubt, magma."

"The Pointless Tower is progressing according to plan, which is impressive since I don't have a plan for it."

"I have a 'drunk fort', which I only work on when significantly under the influence. I checked it out one time when sober, and couldn't make head or tails of what the flip was going on."

"The best part of the thermonuclear catsplosion[1] is that they don't explode if they're in a cage...you know what I'm thinking. Place cages throughout the map, link them to levers...you now have cat-mines."

"[...]of course, I could never have predicted that duplicating a creature entry would result in boiling silk that freezes people to death. Go figure."

"Such is life. Sometimes you succeed in your goals and sometimes you and everyone around you is murdered by a gigantic spider."

"I even had a dwarf woman marry a male livestock dwarf, then milk him, then butcher him, and cook his meat along with his milk."

"You have proven yourself to be a real dwarf, by nuking hell with cats, impaling demons with ballista arrows and crushing them catapults. Armok would be proud."

"But lo and behold! Flat worm clown[2] corpses! My prodigious butcher shop gets to work and pretty soon I find myself the proud owner of 118 globs of flat worm clown tallow. I'm currently waiting for it to be rendered, but the solution is obvious: I need to make me some flat worm clown soap."

"But wouldn't poison squirrel demon soap dissolve the flesh of anyone who uses it? I THINK WE HAVE OUR NEXT EXPORT TO THE ELVEN KINGDOMS, GENTLEMEN!"

"Now all you need to do is wield 300 shields and 300 spears and then singlehandedly reenact Thermopylae"

Minsc: Butt kicking for goodness!
Minsc: I grow tired of shouting battle cries when fighting this mage. Boo will finish his eyeballs once and for all, so he does not rise again! Evil, meet my sword! SWORD, MEET EVIL!!
Minsc: What? Boo is outraged! See his fury! It's small, so look close. Trust me, it's there.
Minsc: Go for the eyes Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!
Minsc: (as he is promoted to party leader) Magic is fine, but now Minsc is in charge! Swords for everyone!!!
Minsc: (alternate party leader promotion quote) Minsc will lead with blade and boot! Boo will take care of the details. *squeak!*

HK-47: Statement: It's just...you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water. How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea.
HK-47: My master had quite the collection of tortured individuals that seemed unable to confront their basic personality conflicts. Let me cite some specific examples. Mockery: (as Carth's voice) 'Oh, master, I do not trust you! I cannot trust you or anyone ever again!' Mockery: (as Bastila] 'Oh, master, I love you, but I hate all you stand for, but I think we should go press our slimy, mucus-covered lips together in the cargo hold!' Such pheromone-driven human responses never cease to decrease the charge in my capacitors and make me wish I could press a blaster pistol to my behavior core and pull the trigger.

    • Jade Empire. Black Whirlwind, to whom killing is like drinking wine.

Black Whirlwind: These Lotus Assassins really aren't all that tough; they're just trained well. I've seen men a lot tougher than this run scared from a fight, but not these guys. They're like well-trained dogs, and just as dangerous... though they smell slightly better, and I'm willing to bet they wouldn't taste as good over a plate of rice. Damn it, now I'm getting hungry... and thirsty. Let's get this finished so I can get something to drink.

    • Mass Effect. Urdnot Wrex in the first, Mordin Solus in the second.

Wrex: It's good for you, a nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp.
Wrex: If these executives don't blame Anoleis for provoking this, they're fools! You should eat them!
Mordin (during romance between Garrus and female Shepard): Wanted to talk. Medical matters... Sexual activity normal stress release for humans AND turians. Still, recommend caution. Warn of chafing... Will be here studying cell reproduction. Less alcohol and mood music required.
Mordin: My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a scientist salarian!
Mordin: Have killed many people, guns, drugs, knives, tech attacks, once with farming equipment, but never with medicine!!

    • Also Shepard him/herself, especially with liberal use of Renegade dialogue when it involves such things as headbutting a Krogan to shut him up.
      • Effective use of the Vanguard's Charge ability requires a degree of this, since you're flying headlong into the middle of the enemy's ranks.
    • Jack is stark raving mad and awesome enough to tear apart three YMIR mechs with her bare hands (despite the fact that they are still rather difficult boss monsters individually at that point in the game).
  • Two words: Tytree. Crowe. Imagine Kamina with the happiness, optimism and Hot-Blooded-ness turned Up to Eleven, meaning that he never gets depressed and is the only character who has the balls required to give Veigue a much-needed What the Hell, Hero? speech. And if that still doesn't convince you, then bare his fighting style in mind: martial arts in conjunction with an arm-mounted crossbow. And one of his Mystic Artes involves him turning his crossbow into a BIG FRICKIN' WAVE-MOTION GUN! Made OUT OF LIGHTNING!
    • Tales of Hearts took this one step further and gave Hisui two arm-mounted crossbows.
    • Anise Tatlin from Tales of the Abyss has the crazy awesome fighting style of riding on the back a giant, animated teddy bear, which then proceeds to plow enemies into the ground like it's nothing. HOLY SHIT.
  • Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. The game itself. Period. The premise is so silly it has to be seen to be believed but somehow the game makes it immensely awesome.
  • MUGEN is a breeding ground for these. Rare Akuma being the most definitive example.
  • Patricia Tannis from Borderlands. She leaves a series of recordings you can listen to, following her quick descent into various forms of madness. For example, after killing an intruder, she then comes up with an entire backstory and name for him out of starvation for human contact. Did I mention this was after a rocky relationship with her personal audio recorder? Also, did I mention that she was the person to actually discover the location of the Vault?
  • According to Otacon, Solid Snake is this.
    • If he's anything like Naked Snake AKA Big Boss, who practically finds zen enlightenment from hiding in a cardboard box, then yes.
    • Otacon's argument was that Snake was insane for going up against a tank with grenades, alone, and winning, and not finding that remotely unusual. However, amongst other things, Snake has punched a man dressed entirely in metal plates, identified a female soldier by stalking her until she needed to use the bathroom, grabbed a statue's penis, deliberately enticed a wolf to pee on him to disguise his scent, blown up a rat with industrial explosives, disguised himself as a woman, disguised himself as a corpse, shot a bunch of hamsters with a machine gun, shook a woman to death using a psychic puppet, and hatched an owl from an egg to use its hoots to convince a guard that it was nighttime. Big Boss has murdered people with a fork, recharged his batteries by eating glowing mushrooms, disguised himself as a Bishounen, an androgynous Japanese diety, a zombie, a monkey and a crocodile, and defeated enemies by tying them to helium balloons.
    • Let's not forget the time when Big Boss held up and entire camp of soldiers... With a banana.
      • Arguably, Crazy Awesome is just part of the genetic makeup of Big Boss and his clone-sons.
  • The Truth and Maccer from GTA: San Andreas. Must be seen (and heard) to be believed.
  • I like to think Eggman is an example of this trope. Trap Sonic in a space ship, drain the chaos emeralds from his BODY, power up a large gun, blow up the planet, then turn around and build Eggmanland an amusement park.
  • Doctor Wily from the Mega Man series. He built a robot made of wood.
    • Wily in the Battle Network series, too. He constructed the server for SoulNet inside an active volcano...and it works. He also has the balls to walk into said volcano while aforementioned server is exploding (NOT from the heat of the volcano, mind you) and give his son, Dr. Regal Laser-Guided Amnesia that makes him forget all about what he's done for the past two games.
  • Saints Row. Any of the major Saints will have an element of this, but Johnny Gatt and the Boss are particularly vibrant examples.
    • The game themselves. One mission has Angel (played by Hulk Hogan) place a tiger in your car. No, that's not a typo, a tiger. It will swat at a very freaked boss as paparazzi chase them. In a world where giant dildos are used as weapons this is pretty normal.
  • Faust from Guilty Gear. He's nucking futs, even after his Heel Face Turn. Turning into a baseball player, swimming through air, attacking you with a giant scalpel, and implanting a nuke on you, all while trying to save the world. Gotta love him.
    • Also Slayer, whose Insta Kill involves punching you to a different galaxy using only the power of haiku.
  • Terumi Yuuki... Candy-flavoured zombie Jesus on a stick, Terumi! A Fallen Hero who has decided to kill God, or something, and to that end initiated a Groundhog Day Loop that has pretty much destroyed the world some 700+ times over, and when finally someone who might actually be a threat to him and his plans appears, or even someone who ISN'T a threat appears, what does he do? He TROLLS 'em.
  • Juri Han from Super Street Fighter IV. A Tae Kwon Do fighter who joins the tournament simply because she's bored, and is nothing short of f'in insane, as is evidenced in her ending, when she overthrows Seth and takes over S.I.N. She also delivers classic villain lines such as "I'll have my reveeeennnnnggggggeee"! when she loses, which is nothing short of hilarious!
    • Also from SSFIV, Hakan. A blue-haired, red-skinned Turklish oil wrestler who lugs around a gigantic barrel of said oil with him everywhere he goes (think Gaara's giant gourd of sand), which he then proceeds to dump on himself at the beginning of every match. His moveset revolves around using his oily body to slide around the arena, and one of his Ultras has him almost literally launching you out of his ass.
  • Father Grigori from Half-Life 2; a Badass Preacher armed with a shotgun, holed up in the zombie-infested city of Ravenholm, where he's not only survived against the monstrous hordes, but also built several traps to kill said hordes easier on his own. Including at least three cars suspended in the air that are bound by nothing more than a few ropes, that act as falling anvils of death.
  • Steven Heck. It's not the fact that he's willing to torture his employees to find his car keys. It's not the insane conspiracy theories. Its not the penchant for fire, or the funny names he gives his operations, and or his capacity for use of the Improvised Weapon (including decapiting people with soccer balls). No, it's the fact that he welded a minigun onto a subway car and strafed a subway terminal when Mike Thorton hired him to play fire support. He's a fun guy.
    • It's possible - and never entirely confirmed or disputed - that one day, Heck just happened to think it would be cool to become a super-secret operative and so became one on strength of nothing but his sheer undiluted batshit.
    • Also, he invented his own style of martial arts based on unpredictable movements and his own insanity.
  • Professor Layton kind of runs on this trope as a general rule, but the latter two-thirds of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future are made out of pure concentrated Crazy Awesome.
  • In Just Cause, Rico Rodriguez has this as part of his job description. Part of the tutorial for the second game involves a carsurfing gunfight and two fights against helicopters with only his pistols and Grappling Hook Gauntlet. The hook itself allows for absolutely insane things (such as strapping a bad guy to a passing jumbo jet) and is even practical. The craziness keeps ramping up throughout the story, including a fights against an APC and a Kill Sat-
  • Sin and Punishment is this in game form. You never have time to wrap your head around what just happened (Not that it would help) but you won't care because, despite the difficulty, you're having to much fun.
  • Durandal of Marathon has some elements of this: he loves composing songs and poems, waxing philosophical, and is very, very snarky. Some of his antics include "The Humbling of Battle Group Seven", in which he took on an entire Pfhor fleet with a single upgraded medium-sized ship and almost won, carving an epitaph (in Latin) into a moon visible from space using a Wave Motion Gun, and scaring the crap out of humanity by buzzing Earth in a Precursor warship for the lulz.
  • Carmen Sandiego. She stole the Moon. And Gandhi's glasses. And an entire peninsula. And an entire country. And the letter n. And these are some of the tamer ones.
  • Souji Seta. Not only does he create the Velvet Room with his mind, he turns it into a time-traveling limousine.
  • Cave Johnson of Portal 2, CEO of Aperture Science, and a grade-A certified Mad Scientist whose inventions are both brilliant and hilariously dangerous. His finest moment, though, is his proposal on what to do when life hands you lemons...[3]
    • Scarier still - GLaDOS agrees with him.

GLaDOS: Burning people! Oh, I like this guy. He says what we're all thinking!

  • In a trailer of World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, the Russians paradrop a freaking heavy tank into a battle to rescue a squad of paratroopers pinned down inside a mall. As someone on YouTube commented, "only the Soviets have balls to drop MBT off of an airplane".
  • Asura's Wrath, where not only do you fight insane enimies with some really awesome designs, but one of the Earliest Bosses in the game is BIGGER THAN EARTH and his finger is big enough to out rival some of the biggest bosses in the history of Hack and Slash games with just his FINGER, you know you have a recipe for this. Bayonetta dosen't have shit on this.
  • Rance beats everyone in this list. His lifestyle includes: banging women, saving countries, and kicking ass. Were he in another series, he'd be the Complete Monster. However, his theme music, his plight, and his relationship with his slave Sill makes him likeable. To the point he was voted as the number one most famous Visual Novel character till they made the poll into a female-only poll. And that's not what even makes him Crazy Awesome. No, what makes him Crazy Awesome is that it's his story for twenty whole years! And it's still ongoing!
  • Mega Man ZX Advent brings us Vulturon. A headbanging robotic vulture skeleton who uses a guitar for a weapon. Not crazy enough? He can use said guitar to reanimated discarded metal, thereby creating zombie robots. And he does use that guitar for performances...usually to aforementioned zombie robots.
  • "Conduit2" is a obscure Wii FPS, that among other things, has a gun that has a scope allows you to see through walls, or turns you invisible, or even allows you to launch motherfucking Black Holes after you kill someone, presumably to steal his soul. But none of that counts. In the ending it one ups the Fallout example above by having the main character meet Abraham Lincoln and George Washington themselves. The Kicker? It takes place in the Modern Day, Abe and George are in suits of powered armor, and their only line is "We're here to help."
  • Champions Online has probably one of the most awesome villains ever... in the form of the lunatic Foxbat. Using a ping pong ball gun that launches custard pies, massive amounts of pre-chewed bubblegum, high exlosives, and the homing device for an orbitally launched ten ton weight (that says "Ten Tons" on it), as well as robot fan boys, he proceeds to: 1 ) Use voodoo dolls to mind control an entire clan of vampires as part of a bid to marry a Superhero / Pop Star, 2 ) Manage to get a time machine that (in an alternate timeline) required more power than the city's power grid to work to somehow work multiple times, grabbing cowboys, samurai, vikings, cavemen, and Roman legionaires to help fight fallen angels, and 3 ) Takes over a local TV Station so he can broadcast the Foxbat show, in "thrilling Fox-O-Vision". Oh, and lines he spouts when fighting you include asking you if you want to be his sidekick. Only Grond has become more of a meme in the CO universe than Foxbat.
  • Lollipop Chainsaw is fixing to be this. In short, Buffy carrying around the severed head of her boyfriend as she uses a chainsaw to slice rock zombies in half from the groin.
  • Kirisame Marisa.

Alice: Ordinary people would go insane in less than 5 minutes. Are you okay, Marisa?
Marisa: Yeah, I'm insane to begin with.

  • God Hand has this in spades, with the main character Gene, and many of the side bosses are awesome because they're so insane.
  • Eikichi/Michel of Persona 2. He's a narcissist, to the point where he'll ask demons and even undead Nazis for his autograph, and he carries around a guitar case that turns into a machine gun.
  • While most people in Monkey Island deserves a mention, Guybrush Threepwood, while appearing normal on the outside is crazy once you think about it (sort of related to how the games themselves work), but he's killed zombie pirates by spraying him with root beer, he once locked a man in a coffin (which he sold, used) to steal a key, he took instructions to complete a maze by listening to his dead parents singing it to him in a dream, he purposely drank poison to kill himself, then coming back to life to claim a life-insurance all while stealing just about anything he could see.
  • Hatoful Boyfriend has Oko San, a super-fast track star pigeon who's completely obsessed with finding the perfect pudding that will awaken the pudding god and banish sadness forever. No really; he accomplishes exactly that in one of his endings where he becomes the pudding god himself and turns the entire world into gooey happy pudding.
    • And then there's Anghel Higure, a bleeding-heart bird who proclaims himself to be a fallen servant of God and the heroine to be his reincarnated lover who sealed him away eons ago, enters through glass windows instead of doors, and treats everything around him like some grand battle to be fought or some vile thing containing demon spores that must be eradicated to the tune of epic battle music. No one's quite sure what this bird is doped up on, but whatever it is, it's awesome. A side comment from Bad Boys Love says that Anghel's body secretes hallucinogenic pheromones that Anghel himself is not resistant to.
      • In fact, Anghel Higure's route is the only one in which Dr. Shuu is actually defeated; all the other routes have you escaping his attentions (knowingly or no) or getting murdered.
    • Both Anghel and Oko San have moments of saving the day in the "Bad Boys Love" route, specifically because of the things that make them crazy: Anghel's hallucinations cause him to be more aware of actual threats and able to warn (in warped metaphors) and rally the other birds in response to said threats; Oko San's speed lets him pull a Big Damn Heroes moment, and his ignorance of social complexities enables him to reassure Sakuya when the latter is a broken haughty.
    • Let's not forget the biggest example of Crazy Awesome here...Moa, the game's creator. Making a Visual Novel/Dating Sim where the entire cast (except for your character) is birds? Crazy. Making such game one of the greatest things you'll ever play? That's where the "awesome" half of the trope gets tacked on.
  • Xenoblade deconstructs this with the character of Dunban - while he is an awesomely Badass character, his recklessness severely damages his right arm and almost gets him killed. Ultimately, the much more restrained Shulk gets his Monando, and he ultimately takes a level in badass when he gets a level in common sense.
  • Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity is a Crazy Awesome game.

This is a level where you kill a bunch of enemies on conveyer belts and then get sucked into a Gradius level. Then Dr. Wily makes a dark clone of you that stands on the ceiling and takes four of your weapons with the patented Dr. Wily Stealing System.

But it's Pure Sabe, so it's manageable.

  1. ↑ a minor mod that raises a cat's body temperature to that of the surface of the sun
  2. ↑ "clown" being the Unusual Euphemism for The Legions of Hell
  3. ↑ "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!" And it's actually not out of the question that he did.
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