Crazy Awesome: Difference between revisions

'''''Note:''' This [[Trope]] has been subjected to some misuse. Please read this article before listing it on a work's character page.''

 

 

What separates this character from being a plain old [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] and the like is that it is ''because'' of his/her [[Refuge in Audacity|extravagant]] madness that the Crazy Awesome can both [[Rule of Funny|function in the work]] and have such appeal.

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]].

 

 

In other words, it is ''because'' of Ed's quirkiness that he is an effective cast member. He would not be as effective (or, indeed, the same character) without the eccentricities. There can't be one without the other.

 

 

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[[Category:Absurdity Ascendant]]

[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]

[[Category:Hidden Badass]]

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