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For your convenience, we have provided a handy chart for easily differentiating between this trope, [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]].
{| class="wikitable"
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!Bunny Ears Lawyer
!Cloudcuckoolander
!Crazy Awesome
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|Bizarre personality and behavior are ultimately
inoffensive to others or society at large.
|'''Yes''' (merely off-putting).
|'''Yes''' (generally [[Played for Laughs|Played]]
[[Played for Laughs|For Laughs]]).
|'''No''' (expect them to be
dangerous).
|-
|Manages to be competent at whatever it is
they do for a living.
|'''Yes''' (in spite of their
craziness).
|'''No''' (they tend to be too
weird to hold down a job).
|'''Yes''' (and they manage
this ''by'' being crazy).
|-
|Inherent craziness synergizes with the
effectiveness of their role in the story.
|'''No''' (it can hinder their
job competence).
|'''Yes''' (their role is to be
as weird as possible).
|'''Yes''' (their craziness lets
them do amazing things).
|}
For example: let's say [[The Chosen One]]'s best friend, Ed Smith, wears a traffic cone on his head. Said traffic cone is spray painted metallic purple and has a grinning chimpanzee's face painted on the front. And Ed ''insists'' that you call it Sheldon. Yet despite this, Ed is very loyal to [[The Chosen One]] and can hold his own against the army of [[Mooks]]. So far, he seems like your average [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]], right? The traffic cone is an eccentric trait if there ever was one, but it's not necessarily why he's liked by the audience. Now suppose about ten episodes into the series, the [[Big Bad]] decides to drop a bomb on the Hero's [[Doomed Hometown|city]], and only Ed can do something to stop it. If Ed were to catch the bomb in his hand then kick it back to the Big Bad's jet, thus destroying them both, he's still not Crazy Awesome, he's a [[Badass]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]].
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