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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''God looks out for fools, drunks, [[Infant Immortality\|little children]], [[Eagle Land\|and the United States of America]].''\|'''[[Winston Churchill]]''', or '''[[Otto ~~Von~~von Bismarck]]'''...somebody said it...}} So you've organized this [[The Caper\|major heist]], with a motley [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits\|team of criminals of all different personalities]], which has [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], and the whole [[Bolivian Army Ending\|Bolivian army]] is at your doorstep. Things look dire. But you can be assured of one thing: The batshit insane one ''will'' get away, and probably go on to have adventures of their own. Maybe crazy people are invisible to police, or maybe God has a plan for this individual, though what that plan is is anybody's guess. Or maybe God just loves a lunatic. Obviously, this is a sub-trope of [[Crazy Awesome]] as well as [[Karma Houdini]]. Also related somewhat to [[Joker Immunity]]. Also sort of related to [[The Fool]], except this character's insane, not stupid. Also similar to [[Insanity Immunity]]. {{deathtrope}} ~~This is most obvious as a [[Death Trope]] (everyone ''except'' the lunatic dies), so expect '''''UNMARKED SPOILERS!!!'''''~~ ~~----~~ ~~==== '''Examples''' ====~~ {{examples}} == [[Comic Books]] == * By the end of ''[[Marvel Zombies]] 4'', it appears that the severed head of Zombie [[Deadpool]] has escaped the destruction of all the other super-zombies. * Johnny from ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'', which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], manages to avoid being arrested for or even suspected of any of his murders. This trope is taken to an extreme as said murders include draining the blood of a flower vendor, on a crowded street in broad daylight, with numerous horrified witnesses present. ** Which is actually a [[Plot Point]]: he's protected from harm by an [[Eldritch Abomination\|exceptionally malevolent]] [[Weirdness Censor]]. {{spoiler\|Which is dispelled by the end of the series, necessitating a [[Walk the Earth]] ending.}} == [[Film]] == * [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]]'s character, Raven, in ''[[Cecil B. Demented]]'' definitely qualifies as the craziest of the Sprocket Holes (and that's saying something). Making this example particularly egregious is when Honey Whitlock ([[Melanie Griffith]]'s character) is being arrested, Raven actually calls to her, to tell her the movie's finished, and throws Honey a devil-kiss, and ''not one cop'' notices her, as she then hides in the back of a hearse. * Garland Greene, [[Steve Buscemi]]'s character in ''[[Con Air]]''. At the end, when all the other convicts are either dead or being arrested, Greene just walks off into the Sunset Strip and starts gambling. * In ''[[Menace II Society]]'', pretty much every main character, both sympathetic and not, dies by the end, except for the main hero's completely unsympathetic, psychotic, trigger-happy partner. Line 26 ⟶ 25: * Captain Jack Sparrow rides on a wave of such loopholes through the three [[Pirates of the Caribbean]] movies. * Averted in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', where Mr. Blonde is definitely the lunatic of the bunch, but {{spoiler\|the very rational Mr. Pink}} is the only one to make it out alive. ** Which is ironic as he is played by {{spoiler\|Steve Buscemi who is listed two times on this page as surviving because of the [[Lunatic Loophole]].}}] == [[Live Action TV]] == * Murdock of ''[[~~The A-Team (TV)\|~~The A-Team]]'' occasionally escaped arrest when the rest of the team was arrested. * He's not ''completely'' crazy (probably) but it has been proposed that one of the reasons that the [[Big Bad~~\|Big Bads~~]]s generally spare [[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~\|the Doctor's]] life is that they're genuinely curious about [[Cloudcuckoolander\|the way his mind works]]. (Of course, narrative causality probably carries a bit of weight too...) == [[Western Animation]] == Line 45 ⟶ 44: [[Category:Madness Tropes]] [[Category:Lunatic Loophole]] [[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]