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* Abe from ''[[Alien Loves Predator]]''.

** Red Mage is convinced his world runs on [[Tabletop Games]] rules. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/10/10/episode-085-i-turned-my-bag-of-holding-inside-out-wrapped-it-around-me-and-walked-through-the-dungeon-walls/ He carries around a character sheet], rolls twenty-sided dice to see if he succeeds at things, and [[Munchkin|is obsessed with manipulating these rules to his advantage.]] If he were in [[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|another webcomic]], this would make him [[Genre Savvy]]. However, the world of ''8-Bit Theater'' doesn't actually run on [[Tabletop Games]] rules; it runs on the [[Rule of Funny]] instead. That means he's just a Cloudcuckoolander, except when it would be funnier for him to be right. He's simply insane all the time, in his own special way, and often oblivious to logic, warping reality with his own bizarre ideas. Just because his crazy schemes occasionally briefly succeed (like the Chocobo breeding experiment) doesn't make him sane. You would never ever think of Red Mage as "the only truly sane person of the group".

** Maybe during the earlier parts of the comic, before Sarda really started having an effect on the plot.

** Fighter has a few Cloudcuckoolander traits, but is generally closer to a [[The Ditz]].

* Elan of ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]''. For instance, when Haley argues that, as they are adventurers, everything they do counts as an adventure... he takes off his shirt, covers himself in jam, stands on one hand, hangs a lantern from one foot, puts a squirrel on the other and plays with a paddle-ball with his free hand. And shouts "I'm on an adventure!" In an earlier strip, Elan found out that wearing armor incurs an armor-check-penalty on certain skills, including Hide. Therefore, he decided that removing all his clothes would increase his Hide skill to the point of invisibility. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity Ensued]]. He much later concluded, when {{spoiler|a newly resurrected Roy}} was standing naked in front of him, "You're invisible!" Elan is now less Cloud Cuckoolander and more hyper-[[Genre Savvy]].

{{quote| "Have you tried [[Counting Sheep]]? When I couldn't sleep, I walked all the way to the nearest farm to count the sheep. By the time I got there I was so tired, I nodded off right away!"}}

* Summer Glau's recent portrayal in ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]''. Sample dialogue: "I can extrude hair, but I can't retract it."

** Also the white beret guy.

* Brad from ''[[Fur Will Fly]]'' fits the bill of a classic Cloudcuckoolander almost perfectly, complete with boubts of [[Fridge Brilliance]]. The sequel, [[Coming Up Violet]], expands on the mahem with his doughter Beatrice, who is a chip off the block in almost every respect.

* Kevin in ''[[Rhapsodies]]''

* Kevin from ''[[Overlord Academy]]'' definitely qualifies as this.

* Bliss from [[The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred]]. And to top it off, only one person can hear her speaking as she rambles on about colour theory, how a combustion engine works or something else with no relevance to the topic at hand.

* ''[[Miscellaneous Error]]'' quickly makes it apparent that main character Jack is rather detached from reality.

* Several examples from ''[[Survivor Fan Characters]]'', including [[Ted Baxter|Craig]], a fourty-year-old maniac who thinks he's a strategic mastermind [[Catgirl|Kala]], a [[Catgirl|Wolf Girl]] who speaks to inanimate objects such as her "Happystick", and [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Gatemaster]], an oaf who controls the entire season without even realising it.

* Reece in ''[[At Arm's Length (Webcomic)|At Arms Length]]''. Her train of thought frequently gets derailed at the station. She's known to focus on non sequitars during an action scene.

* Bunny of ''[[Blade Bunny]]'' is a hyperfocused killing machine in combat, otherwise she is oblivious to social nuances.