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* The characters in ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' both often have [[Crazy Awesome]] moments. In fact, Gabe is given that exact title in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/8/19/ this comic].

* Tedd of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. [http://egscomics.com/?date=2007-02-02 Observe].

* Eddie from ''[[Emergency Exit]]''.

** [http://eecomics.deviantart.com/art/Hammerchucks-104741965 HAMMERCHUCKS.]

** Rocky, leaning out the window of a burning truck: "Are you questioning my logic?"

* Richard from ''[[Looking for Group]]'' has a number of [[Crazy Awesome]] moments, mostly since he makes the most jokes and pop culture references. He's also a <s>Heroic</s>[[Heroic Sociopath|Sociopath]].

** He bitch-slapped a shark just for the sake of doing it. Oh, and remember, the orphangage attacked ''him''. It was self-defense.

** A lot of Sluggy runs on this, though it doesn't always have to be associated with a character so much as the whole story's premise. And there's also Bun-bun. Now, he doesn't actually act crazy or necessarily do very crazy things, but his entire premise is that he is theoretically the strip's cute talking animal, being a small, cute rabbit and all, but contrasting with this and turning it on its head [[Refuge in Audacity|ridiculously]] [[Badass]] and very evil. At first that's just a joke, but it soon elevates him to Crazy Awesome as he is shown to be one of the coolest characters around.

** As for stories that are Crazy Awesome, how about "Holiday Wars"? What starts out with jokes about an evil rabbit trying to kill Santa Claus develops into {{spoiler|a years-long arc that goes through Santa starting to go insane and creating an Easter Bunny [[Terminator]] to go after Bun-bun, then Santa being infected by alien DNA and trying to take over the world only to be stopped by Bun-bun and elves with nerf-weapons, and finally escalates with Bun-bun threatening to take over the world by killing many of the [[Anthropomorphic Personification|anthropomorphic personifications]] of the various holidays—such as the Pumpkin-Headed King of Halloween and the Alien Santa—to steal their powers.}} And it's as cool as it is insane.

** Largo [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1040 decapitates a zombie]... with a giant radish... from the seat of a three-wheeled muffin cart.

*** Largo has also managed to somehow [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1262 WEAPONIZE a RickRoll]. Top That.

** One memorable quote: "What kind of sparks are you guys? Not one death ray among the lot of you!"

** Also, "calming pies". You don't eat them. You throw them. They work, too, as long as the amount of nutmeg is correct.

*** "Vait! Hy is not done mit tryink de sottle!!"

* ''[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader's]'' resident mad scientist Smic is known for his crazy awesome moments including, but not limited to, harnessing the power of sunspots to fill the house with pizza, firing a cannon using cream as gun powder and defeating an alkaline super-monster using his bare hands. He is also extremely British.

* Dude Guy in the Nsider comic ''[[Shy Guy Tale]]'' was regarded by fans as the most awesome thing ever. This was lampshaded in one comic by Dude Guy poofing away a would-be attacker, and replying "I'm just that awesome" when asked how he did it.

* ''[[In Wily's Defense]]'' gives us the one and only Freeze Man! To name a few things, his first line in the comic is [http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=373 "Hello, ground! Nice to see you again!"], he's [[Comedic Sociopathy|hilariously violent]] for the sole reason that he's ''just plain insane'', [[Satan]] lives in his head, he constantly refers to himself as "[[Batman]]", and he's [[Medium Awareness|aware]] that he's both in a [[Animated Actors|TV show]] ''and'' a webcomic.

* Katarakis from ''[[Starslip]]''. He tried to take over the world with art, visited the formation of the universe, and destroyed the timeline ''and the site itself'' with a spork.

* Both Killroy and Brandon in ''[[Killroy And Tina]]'', which is probably why they get along so well.

* Elan of ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', as demonstrated in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0551.html the arc starting here].

** Xykon has some aspects of this as well. Dude tossed a bouncy ball with a Symbol of Insanity spell inscribed on it into a room full of paladins. The outcome contained a balance of Hilarious and Horrific worthy of the Joker.

* Jim of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' with his [[Mind Screw]] plan for freeing Anakin in episode 1.

** Better yet, General Grievous. His dialogue was written to give the impression that he is stark raving mad of the completely and totally ''nuts'' variety, yet he is still a four-armed lightsaber-wielding giant bone-colored cyborg.

** Schlock himself, as well.

* ''[[Path to Greater Good]]'' has Burk. He would like you to know that he is "The Future".

* '''Everyone''' in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' lives and breathes this trope. Start with Dr. McNinja, who runs a medical practice with a gorilla for a secretary, regularly fights hundred-foot-tall giants, [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punched out Death]], air-surfed a robotic Dracula, battled laser-eyed cyborgs, saved the world with tennis, and massacred countless [[Send in the Clones|clones]], [[Sky Pirate|Sky Pirates]], and [[Mooks]].

** Then you have the supporting characters -- his entire ninja family, his raptor-riding 12-year-old sharpshooter sidekick, his mentor the Ben Franklin clone, Dracula himself, the time-traveling ex-astronaut Mayor, his college superhero team and his motorcycle. The only person who isn't crazy awesome is his ex-girlfriend, and ''she'' once skyjacked an airplane while dressed up as an ancient Incan robot.

** Having noticed his own reputation for creating such characters, the author finally said "screw it" and created King Radical. He's a king of the "cereal mascot" variety from an alternate universe called the Radical Land who became the leader of the Cumberland<ref>Population: 21,518</ref> mafia after sealing away the evil unicorn king Sparklelord. He routinely rides his motorcycle over alligator pits, has trumpeters on skateboards announcing his presence, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|eats only fresh, locally produced organics, prepared simply and with passion]].

** Also from AGC: Nuclear Dan, who can solve any problem by fireball and concussion.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Bro]]. Like Dave, he has a katana too, but prefers to kick Dave's ass with a different weapon: '''[[Demonic Dummy|Li'l Cal]]'''. And when said [[Curb Stomp Battle|ass-kicking]] is over, he flies away on a ''rocket-skateboard''. In a series that runs off the sheer absurdity of the characters and situations, it really says something when this guy is the Crazy-Awesomeest of them all.

* [[Badass|Hat]] [[Fan Nickname|Guy]] from ''[[Xkcd]]''. He may not always count, But he has his moments, Like when he became Secretary of the Internet just so that he could turn the Capital Rotunda into a giant ball pool. Or when he commandeered a Russian submarine so he could go get his hat back.

** Randall Munroe himself. The guy made a map of the internet. ''[[Beyond the Impossible|Twice.]]''

** That the guy frequents a bar called the Trainyard that is full of crossdressers (and not the pretty kind) because he likes the margaritas, throws bottles of beer with devastating accuracy to silence loud students in class, renamed an entire yakuza clan after a high school mascot, and improved his boxing skills by training with a giant panda. Oh, and he often communicates via puppet.

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' has Adharia, who is easily just a (bi-curious at best) [[Fish Out of Water]] otherwise... except for the fact she carries ''a freakin' Efreet around her neck'' and can order it around.

** Max Facepuncher, as with everything else, takes it to eleven, introducing himself to the main character by jumping out of a plane that's doing a swoop at high speeds, then immediately starting a fight. That's pretty much how he says hello.

* ''[[Axe Cop]]'': The comic rivals ''Dr McNinja'' in Crazy Awesome territory due to the fact that the story is based on the imagination of the artist's six-year old brother (which also makes ''him'' Crazy Awesome, as the comic is quite popular).

* It varies from individual to individual, but most of the cast of ''[[A Magical Roommate]]'' is crazy awesome to at least a small degree. [[Half-Human Hybrid|And]] [[Made of Explodium|then]] [[The Stoic|there's]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|X...]]

* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' has Captain Fang, the Dread Pirate. He either utterly insane, or have near-terminal case of dyslexia which he doesn't try to circumvent and is easily distracted. He's also either absurdly lucky or a good enough pilot to go into tricky waters, get even with a crack crew in an artillery duel ([http://yafgc.net/?id=677 while sitting on the cannon] ''face to the breech'') [http://yafgc.net/?id=897 and... somehow...] got into semi-final of a great tournament. All the while rambling and apparently not paying attention to anything.

** And may be the person solely responsible for World War 3. Maybe. We only have his word for it.

* [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels|Scarlet]] from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' lives her hyperactive life [[Cloudcuckoolander|somewhere]] [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=75 on the other shore of the sugar shock]. She remembers [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=82 stuff she obviously has no use for in the normal life], but can [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=184 observe a turning washing mashine with interest] for hours and [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=197 then] [[Free the Frogs|set the socks free]]. A joking suggestion to "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=197 fix everything broken]", however, applied to the souvenir blaster from a comics convention had rather hilarious results. Later she [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=310 turns out] to be a [[Mad Scientist]], or rather {{spoiler|a part of [[Mad Scientist]] [[Hive Mind]]}}.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Tip Wilkin of ''[[Skin Horse]]''. Wears designer dresses on field assignments. Uses his appearance to seduce [[Anything That Moves]].

** He went to Canada to investigate missing U.S. soldiers and boinked the town sheriff, who handcuffed him to her bed. Just before she and everyone in the town turned into werewolves. At which point he escaped and saved his temmates. His teammates are an unstoppable fast zombie and a genetically engineered battledog, and ''he'' got the [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. And he got an [[I Call It Vera]] moment at the same time.

 

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