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{{quote|'''Spongebob:''' Squidward, you don't need television. Not as long as you have... [[Everything's Better with Rainbows|*makes rainbow appear from hands*]] '''''[[Memetic Mutation|Imaaginaaation!]]'''''|''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''}}
{{quote|'''Spongebob:''' Squidward, you don't need television. Not as long as you have... [[Everything's Better with Rainbows|*makes rainbow appear from hands*]] '''''[[Memetic Mutation|Imaaginaaation!]]'''''|''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''}}


A person with a huge imagination, who spends most of the time in his or her own imaginary world, frequently out of touch with reality. Often the main character, and usually a [[Cheerful Child]] and/or a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. A show with them has lots of imagination sequences (like a [[Dream Sequence]], [[Power Fantasy]], or extended [[Imagine Spot]]). May have an [[Imaginary Friend]]. In many (but not all) instances, the imaginative character is a [[Reality Warper]], and his/her odd daydreams can temporarily become real.
A person with a huge imagination, who spends most of the time in his or her own imaginary world, frequently out of touch with reality. Often the main character, and usually a [[Cheerful Child]] and/or a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. A show with them has lots of imagination sequences (like a [[Dream Sequence]], [[Power Fantasy]], or extended [[Imagine Spot]]). May have an [[Imaginary Friend]]. In many (but not all) instances, the imaginative character is a [[Reality Warper]], and his/her odd daydreams can temporarily become real.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Osaka from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', who is also the embodiment of the [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* Osaka from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', who is also the embodiment of the [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
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* Snoopy from ''[[Peanuts]]'' was deliberately created as a canine [[Expy]] of [[Older Than They Think|Walter Mitty.]].
* Snoopy from ''[[Peanuts]]'' was deliberately created as a canine [[Expy]] of [[Older Than They Think|Walter Mitty.]].
* Alice Otterloop from ''[[Cul De Sac]]''.
* Alice Otterloop from ''[[Cul De Sac]]''.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* Probably half the people here.
** Definitely everyone at [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
* Many people in the entertainment business and fiction authors of any genre, which are two fields that require a large and constantly expanding imagination in order to be successful.
* Anyone who's been to [[Disney Theme Parks|Epcot]] might recognise these lyrics: "'Cause at the start/of everything that's new/just one spark/lights up for you..."
* In the [[Myers-Briggs|MBTI]], most people who get typed as a INxx type will usually fall under this trope, though INFPs tend to be the quintessential example.


== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Rufus is this in spades in the pilot for ''[[The Dreamstone]]''. Oddly despite being a dominant trait, and the key reason he gets a job assisting the Dream Maker, it is only refered to in a handful of episodes afterwards.
* Rufus is this in spades in the pilot for ''[[The Dreamstone]]''. Oddly despite being a dominant trait, and the key reason he gets a job assisting the Dream Maker, it is only refered to in a handful of episodes afterwards.
* Mac of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' is the most-often seen one, though his ''own'' "imaginary friend" Bloo has an active imagination himself. Goo, however, is this as her main characteristic. In her premiere episode, she creates a crisis in that her imagination is way too active that her imaginary friends, which become real, immediately overcrowd the mansion the show is set in.
* Mac of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' is the most-often seen one, though his ''own'' "imaginary friend" Bloo has an active imagination himself. Goo, however, is this as her main characteristic. In her premiere episode, she creates a crisis in that her imagination is way too active that her imaginary friends, which become real, immediately overcrowd the mansion the show is set in.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* Probably half the people here.
** Definitely everyone at [[Wild Mass Guessing]].
* Many people in the entertainment business and fiction authors of any genre, which are two fields that require a large and constantly expanding imagination in order to be successful.
* Anyone who's been to [[Disney Theme Parks|Epcot]] might recognise these lyrics: "'Cause at the start/of everything that's new/just one spark/lights up for you..."
* In the [[Myers-Briggs|MBTI]], most people who get typed as a INxx type will usually fall under this trope, though INFPs tend to be the quintessential example.


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