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!!Comic Books
* Even when Jackie from ''ComicBook/AdolescentRadioactiveBlackBeltHamsters'' isn't brainwashed, he's still talking to himself and chattering away with crazy thoughts.
* ''[[Franchise/{{Tintin}} The Adventures of Tintin]]'': Professor Calculus in ''Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure''. In all the other books, his hearing problem leads to simple, albeit comedic, misunderstandings. In ''Red Rackham's Treasure'', though, it's so bad that he's completely off in his own little world. Like all good examples of this trope, he even spouts random non-sequiturs out of the blue. Any of the Calculus scenes in this particular book could be considered a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* ''ComicBook/AmbushBug'': he's crazy, MediumAware and regularly breaks the fourth wall.
-->'''Ambush Bug''': Hello, room service? Send up a plot and three pages of dialogue right away! The weekly grind is tearin' me apart! '''''[[ComicBook/FiftyTwo Fifty-two]]!!!'''''
* Jughead Jones from ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' with his big eating, his girl-hating, and his oddball dress and trademark crown. His oddness tends to vary from barely noticeable to completely insane DependingOnTheWriter, but he's always the weirdest of the group.
** One issue had a rather [[TearJerker sad]] take on this where Jughead only played the part of the oddball to garner laughs as a means of coping with his homelife: his (implied to be single in this issue) mother was ''very'' sick and Jughead would fall into a state of depression if he wasn't making people laugh. [[spoiler:It ends with the whole gang, even [[{{Jerkass}} Reggie Mantle]], showing up at his house [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming to help him with the housework and provide moral support]]]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'':
** The OneSceneWonder (even though played by no actual actor) of the British gardener in Asterix in Britain. Trespass on his lawn and he will ''stab you''.
** ''Squareonthehypotenus'', who goes ''absolutely insane'' in his attempts to raise the Mansion of the Gods.
* Norbert Sykes, a.k.a. ''ComicBook/TheBadger'', is a prime example. The author tended to vacillate between presenting Badger's mental illness as serious or just an excuse to make him goofy.
* Quite a few of the characters in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' will occasionally lapse into {{Cloudcuckoolander}} territory, but none moreso than Smiley Bone, whose unique worldview makes sense only to him, and who gets quite a few CrazyAwesome moments during the course of the comic.
-->'''Rat Creature 1:''' This is insane!\\
'''Rat Creature 2:''' It's stupid!\\
'''Smiley:''' Hey! Nothing we've done so far has been ''un-stupid,'' and we're still alive, aren't we?\\
'''Rat Creature 1:''' I can't really argue with that, but I feel like I should.
** The two Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures also have strong tendencies towards this trope -- of the two, the stupider, quiche-obsessed one (generally depicted with brown fur in the color versions) is the most consistent practitioner of the trope, but the smarter, more aggressive one (usually depicted with purple fur, though the colorist occasionally gets confused) has more than his fair share of moments as well.
* The Frenchman and The Female in ''ComicBook/TheBoys''. Apparently, they understand each other's private moon logic quite well. Well enough to play Monopoly on a Cluedo board, anyway.
%%* ''{{Deadpool}}'' is made of this trope, and a good number of his adventures derive from it.
* The Doomguy from the comic ''Comicbook/{{Doom}}''.
--> Doomguy: "WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF? I'M A MAN AND A HALF!"
** In his defense he was buzzing on a berserker pack when he said that, but he's pretty damn strange throughout the whole comic.
* Mento of ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' fame sometimes qualifies as this when wearing the psionic helmet that gives him his powers. It enhances his mind in many ways, but the consequential increased mental activity makes it difficult for him to concentrate. When the helmet malfunctions, it make him fairly eccentric and at one point gave him cancer and dementia.
** [[OrphanedPunchline Well at least]] [[HeardAnyGoodJokesLately it didn't]] [[http://www.thefurrymonkey.co.uk/jokes_cancer.htm#badworse give him cancer]].
** Grant Morrison's run has a villainous example in the form of The Brotherhood of Dada, who believe that good and evil are concepts of an outmoded age and they must simply do things because they can. Their first major "performance" involves their leader, Mr. Nobody, throwing a dead chicken to the ground and saying they've conquered the world, another member turning a gendarme into a toilet filled with flowers, and the use of a magical painting to trap all of Paris.
%%* ''{{Dreamkeepers}}'': Wisp seems to live off this trope.
* Bob Burden's ''ComicBook/FlamingCarrot'', a blue collar surrealist superhero who suffered brain damage from reading 5,000 comic books in one sitting, wears [[GogglesDoNothing flippers constantly]] (in case he has to swim) and fights crime because he "needed the exercise."
* Airtight from ''GIJoe'' is described as that weird kid nobody wanted to be around, grown up even weirder. This guy keeps scorpions as pets and eats peanut butter and tomato sandwiches, you guys.
** Don't knock them until you've tried them. Just make sure you toast the bread.
* Maps from ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' is the type to fall in love with a ''grapple gun''.
* Nathanael Beauregard in ''ComicBook/TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael'' - when he falls on another man, his first act is to reassure him that he isn't up to anything gay. He also thinks that limbo is a plot by Native Americans to double-kill him.
%%* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' seems to ''live'' in {{Cloudcuckooland}}. ''GothamCitySirens'' is just where she rents space in her time off.
* ''I Luv Halloween'' - Finch's psychotic little sister, "Moochie", whose a mix of both cloud-cuckoo lander and ax crazy. In volume 2, she goes on a zombie-laden quest to hunt for the "King of the Chonklit Monkeys" whom she believes live within peoples' bowels and take all the Halloween candy and replace it with their poo (she ends up being right in the end). She also disembowls an obese woman and rips her face off with her teeth, extracts molars from the mouths of the dead and the living because she was dressed as the tooth-fairy for Halloween, believes a still-born fetus she finds is her sister, and cuts off a man's buttocks and spanks it as victory for exorcising the chonklit monkey king. Moochie: "Is the much oompah oompah victory parade! Spanked his brown bottom we did! Is trick or treaties for everyone! Yay!
%%* Happy Noodle Boy from "JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac."
* Starman in ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' is a TalkativeLoon who hears voices, sometimes BreaksTheFourthWall, and is on medication for schizophrenia. When not on the job, he lives in a psych ward.
* The eponymous ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' of Roman Dirge's comic is a rather dark take on the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, as her inattentiveness, tenuous grasp on reality, and near-nonexistant understanding of the concept of mortality leads her to frequently inadvertently cause the deaths of the people and animals she deals with. She could be considered AxCrazy, but she's not truly insane, and usually doesn't intentionally mean to cause harm.
* Not Pinkie Pie (for a change), but Rainbow Dash in the second story-arc of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'', who suggests using an enlarging ray on her (so she could transport an entire army to the moon all by herself) and a time machine to rescue Rarity.
* Essentially all the kids from ''ComicStrip/OneBigHappy'' qualify. Central character Ruthie is pretty obvious, but she has even weirder friends, like vacuum cleaner fetishist Earl.
* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'': "... the man trying hard not to hump your TV is The Drummer."
-->"First name The, second name Drummer."
-->"You'll regret being so damn abusive when the electric UFO gods transphase in from Dimension Ten to appoint me Manager of the Universe.... [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud I said that out loud, didn't I?"]]
* Max from ''SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' qualifies big time. His capacity to distinguish between fantasy and reality is directly rooted in Sam's capacity to remind him what the difference is.
** According to WordOfGod, Max is actually a powerful psychic multi-dimensional hive mind whose thoughts and memories are consistent across all time and all the universes, and the hallucinations we see when looking through his eyes in ''The Devil's Playhouse'' are reflections of the adventures other versions of himself are going on in the past, the future and other worlds. This probably explains why he qualifies so much for this trope, but [[TeasingCreator could just as easily have been the creator trolling his fanbase]].
* Delirium from ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' sometimes comes close to this trope -- since she's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of insanity, it's probably reasonable to assume that she is genuinely crazy (insofar as this means anything regarding one of the Endless), but nonetheless she does have at least one moment during the series where she pulls herself together and becomes briefly 'sane', though it's made clear that she finds it very difficult to do this. It has been implied that she's not just the incarnation of insanity, but the incarnation of ultimate, painful, sanity-breaking clarity. She also has a few other moments in which she seems to become temporarily slightly more lucid, and comes out with a very perceptive or useful comment before reverting to her usual chaotic self.
** Shivering Jemmy also qualifies. She's an incarnation of Chaos (but not [[Film/TheDarkKnight like that]]), after all.
** For a more mortal and habitually horrible example, see the treatment of Doctor Destiny in the same series; an insane supervillain with control over dream realities, and just enough clarity to use that power to his own advantage.
* The characters in ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' tend to run in and out of this sometimes, but most famously is Scott himself, with such winning lines as:
--> '''Stacy Pilgrim:''' Maybe you should start thinking about the future, Scott.\\
'''Scott:''' The future? Like, with jet packs?
** And:
---> '''Wallace:''' Scott. It's time to get serious. Break out the L word.\\
'''Scott:''' ...Lesbian?\\
'''Wallace:''' No, Scott, the other L word.\\
'''Scott:''' ...Lesbians?
** And the follow-up joke:
--->'''Joseph''': Have you used the L word yet?\\
'''Scott''': Why is everyone obsessed with lesbians!?
* Ragdoll. The self-castrating, dead-friend-stuffing, sister-fancying, weird-phrase-spouting, limb-contorting freaky-pants of Gail Simone's fantastic ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' series. He's quite possibly the only person in the DCU who can make SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker appear sane by comparison.
-->'''Ragdoll:''' I'm buying a monkey house and a variety of little monkey outfits.
** "I was thinking what it would be like to be abandoned and tortured and abused and forgotten. When your life is so worthless that your only degraded value to anyone is when your pain gives them amusement, and the person entrusted to care for you sees you as more disposable than used tissue... [[MoodWhiplash but then I thought... 'I wonder what it's like to f*** a butterfly.']]"
** From the same team, King Shark is shaping up into one of these quite nicely.
-->'''King Shark:''' I got a unique problem. I like to eat people with eating disorders.
* ''SpiderMan'': Mary Jane was like this in her earlier appearances. Readers eventually find out there was some [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smiling going on]] and in the modern era her character is about 100 times more grounded (still a fun character, just not bat crap crazy). Earlier appearences of Aunt May also indicated that she lived in Cloud Cuckooland (the joke being she was senile). Like MJ, she's since mellowed out a lot, creating some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for readers who go back and read collections of the old trades.
** As far as Spidey villains go there's [[JokeCharacter White Rabbit]]. If the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' theme weren't a tip off then the fact her first villainous plan was to rob fast food joints despite being incredibly wealthy and demanding her ransom on the city of New York be paid in quarters should send red flags. And no, unlike the above she never has mellowed (and never will).
* ''ComicBook/TheTick'' is this trope and CrazyAwesome turned UpToEleven. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment His very first appearance]] was escaping from an insane asylum.
--> '''TheTick''': And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick-pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky's the limit!
* The Séance from ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy''. Although admitably it's his constant use of drugs that cause him to be as crazy as he is, he still qualifies.
-->"Ever wonder what a vegetable thinks about? Firecrackers... bee stings... happy face eggs."
* Hay Lin from ''[[Comicbook/{{WITCH}} W.I.T.C.H.]]'': very quirky and artistic, cheerful and absent-minded, constantly writing on her palms and using her own expressions like "spacious" (instead of "cool") and "weirdific."
* Marrow during her time with ''ComicBook/XForce''. She seemed to be completely dissociated from reality, barely able to focus on the task at hand, and spent most of her time babbling to an imaginary someone she addressed as "baby." [[spoiler:This was later revealed to be her unborn child; she sacrificed the baby to regain her powers, and had suffered a psychotic break as a consequence]].
%%* Blindfold from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comes off like this thanks to her powers giving her a warped sense of time and causality.
* [[TheFlash Bart Allen]], especially as Impulse as he appeared in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', is a perfect example of this trope. He was raised at {{superspeed}} in virtual reality in the 30th Century, so it's kind of unavoidable.

!!Comic Strips
%%* Perhaps the ultimate funny-pages example of this type is the title character from Kevin [=McCormick's=] ''[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/arnold.html Arnold]]''.
* Raoul the werewolf in ''ComicBook/TheBojeffriesSaga'' is somewhat out of touch with reality, for example giving a black workmate white supremacist propaganda because he thought it was too silly to be taken seriously, and failing to notice that all his relatives moved out of their house for years.
* Calvin from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' [[MrImagination possesses such a runaway imagination]] -- he truly lives in {{Cloudcuckooland}}.
-->'''Ms. Wormwood:''' Calvin, pay attention!! Now, what state do you live in?\\
'''Calvin:''' Denial.\\
'''Ms. Wormwood:''' ''(sighing)'' Well, I suppose I can't argue with that...\\
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-->'''Calvin ''(during the pledge of allegiance on the first day of school)'':''' I pledge allegiance to Queen Fragg and her mighty state of Hysteria.
** The very fact that he sees Hobbes as real and everyone else doesn't (which often makes them suspect that Calvin is insane) also establishes him a place in this trope. The very fact that ''Hobbes'' thinks Calvin is crazy would fit him into this trope if that didn't. There's also the time where he comes into his class dressed as his superhero alter-ego, Stupendous Man. His classmates' facial expressions are the natural reaction anyone would have toward a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
---> '''Calvin:''' You know why birds don't write their memoirs? Because birds don't lead epic lives, that's why! Who'd want to read what a bird does? Nobody, that's who! ''(beat)'' This is changing the subject, [[HypocriticalHumor but have you ever noticed how somebody can say something totally loony and not be aware of it? What are you supposed to do, just let it slide??]]
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'', Gunk exhibits various odd behaviors and abilities (explained by the fact that he's from some place called "Flyspeck Island"), as [[RuleOfFunny required by the plot]].
* The entire ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic, since Max Allan Collins left. Bad guys getting squashed by steamrollers or having their eyes gouged out; businessmen (both good and bad) who dress like playing cards; characters being incinerated in giant fireballs; hillbillies defending themselves with bear traps; and every once in a while, something that seems to make sense. Rarely.
%%* Kenny from ''ComicStrip/DogsOfCKennel'', so very much.
* Jon Arbuckle from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', since the late nineties, has gone from a slightly-dim, arrogant loser to a full-fledged {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in some strips, with lines of pure insanity like "I think my feet are jealous of my hands because they get to point at things." This without even getting into the surrealistic brilliance of ''[[http://garfieldminusgarfield.net Garfield Minus Garfield]]'' and other projects to improve the strip.
** Garfield himself had his moments in the strips (before he got {{Flanderized}} into a full-time DeadpanSnarker). Remember when he became Banana Man? Or Amoeba Man?
** The animated special ''Garfield's Feline Fantasies'' was all about his mind wandering off into fantastic stories.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Gaston, who is a clumsy dreamer who is always seen either dozing off or inventing stuff without any regard for the people in his vicinity. Seriously, who would set the entire floor of his apartment underwater just to make his goldfish feel more at home?
* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'': Both Bucky and Satchel occasionally display these tendencies, and many of Bucky's feline visitors ''really'' do.
* A few characters from the ''Ink Pen'' comic strip is this, the main example being ''Captain Victorious''. ''[[http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2011/02/14/ Here]]'', for instance. Or ''[[http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2010/11/10/ here]]''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}'': Professor Gobelijn, an AbsentMindedProfessor, who is often doing stuff that either brings him or his town in danger, but he always realizes this when its already too late.
* ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''. S/he thinks that getting bricks thrown at her/his head is a sign of affection.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': Abraham Tuizentfloot, an insane dwarf who dresses himself up as a 17th century pirate and attacks everybody with his sabre. Despite that he can't even swim! The comic strip in itself is also full of eccentric and insane characters.
* Sally from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' has her moments:
-->'''Sally''': Wake up, SantaClaus came last night and he didn't leave you anything! ''* Pause* '' April fool!
** Her friend Eudora even more so:
-->'''Eudora''': This is my literature report. The book I chose to read was the TV guide.
** Lucy in the earlier strips. Notably the TropeNamer for LittleKnownFacts--she thought, for instance, that birds flew to the moon.
** Snoopy.
--> '''Charlie Brown:''' [[CatchPhrase Why can't I have a normal dog like everybody else?]]
** Peppermint Patty. To name but one example of her weirdness, she thought that Snoopy was an odd-looking little kid for ''years''.
* Hillary's classmate Nona from ''[[ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward Sally Forth]]''. Tends to take Hillary and Faye's idle {{Zany Scheme}}ing and run with the idea into surrealism. All in the same tone of voice one would normally use when discussing lunch.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Lambik is often seen doing stupid and crazy things he didn't actually thought through. In ''De Stalen Bloempot'', for instance, he tries climbing out of a castle by rope. His rope then breaks and he plummits down. Lambik tries to solve this problem philosophically by letting the rope go, thinking this will make him stop falling. This, of course, doesn't work.
** A real cloud cuckoolander is Vader Van Zwollem, a man who is literally insane, and protected and taking care of by his daughter Anne-Marie Van Zwollem.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'': Wammes Waggel, a naïve goose who is so optimistic and carefree that he never realizes any real danger and thinks everything is a joke.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor'': Vortex and Metalhawk get this way when sprayed with chemicals which mess with their processors. Sprocket is revealed to be this way after some feedback when he integrated into a ship. Now he believes that non-sentient machines talk to him, and speaks to imaginary friends. [[spoiler: It's gotten to the point where in the final issue, he doesn't even know his brother died, and continues to talk to him as if he was still there]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'': Everybody in this comic strip is pretty daft, especially Urbanus and César. They often engage in zany schemes that others just go along with.
* Meanwhile, ''US Acres'' had Bo Sheep, who showed more tendencies of this in the comics than the ''Garfield and Friends'' animated series.
* Pierce from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' seems to be always doing his own thing, on impulse, with little regard for consequences.
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** One issue had a rather [[TearJerker sad]] take on this where Jughead only played the part of the oddball to garner laughs as a means of coping with his homelife: his (implied to be single in this issue) mother was ''very'' sick and Jughead would fall into a state of depression if he wasn't making people laugh. [[spoiler:It ends with the whole gang, even [[{{Jerkass}} Reggie Mantle]], [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming showing up at his house to help him with the housework and provide moral support]]]].

%%* Blindfold from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comes off like this thanks to her powers giving her a warped sense of time and causuality.

* Marrow during her time with ''ComicBook/XForce''. She seemed to be completely dissociated from reality, barely able to focus on the task at hand, and spent most of her time babbling to an imaginary someone she addressed as "baby". [[spoiler:This was later revealed to be her unborn child; she sacrificed the baby to regain her powers, and had suffered a psychotic break as a consequence]].

* The eponymous ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' of Roman Dirge's comic is a rather dark take on the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, as her inattentiveness, tenuous grasp on reality, and near-nonexistant understanding of the concept of mortality leads her to frequently inadvertently cause the deaths of the people and animals she deals with. She could be considered AxCrazy, but she's not truly insane, and usually doesn't intentionally mean to cause harm.

* The Doomguy from the comic Comicbook/{{Doom}}.
--> Doomguy: "WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF? I'M A MAN AND A HALF!"
** In his defense he was buzzing on a berserker pack when he said that, but he's pretty damn strange throughout the whole comic.
* Hay Lin from ''[[Comicbook/{{WITCH}} W.I.T.C.H.]]'': very quirky and artistic, cheerful and absent-minded, constantly writing on her palms and using her own expressions like "spacious" (instead of "cool") and "weirdific".
%%* [[{{Dreamkeepers}} Wisp]] seems to live off this trope.
* ComicBook/AmbushBug: he's crazy, MediumAware and regularly breaks the fourth wall.

%%* ComicBook/HarleyQuinn seems to ''live'' in {{Cloudcuckooland}}. ''GothamCitySirens'' is just where she rents space in her time off.

%%* {{Deadpool}} is made of this trope, and a good number of his adventures derive from it.
* Ragdoll. The self castrating, dead friend stuffing, sister fancying, weird phrase spouting, limb contorting freaky-pants of Gail Simone's fantastic ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' series. He's quite possibly the only person in the DCU who can make SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker appear sane by comparison.

* "... the man trying hard not to hump your TV is [[ComicBook/{{Planetary}} The Drummer.]]"
-->"First name The, second name Drummer."
-->"You'll regret being so damn abusive when the electric UFO gods transphase in from Dimension Ten to appoint me Manager of the Universe.... [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud I said that out loud, didn't I?"]]
* Bob Burden's ''ComicBook/FlamingCarrot'', a blue collar surrealist superhero who suffered brain damage from reading 5,000 comic books in one sitting, wears [[GogglesDoNothing flippers constantly]] (in case he has to swim) and fights crime because he "needed the exercise."
* Mento of ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' fame sometimes qualifies as this when wearing the psionic helmet that gives him his powers. It enhances his mind in many ways, but the consequential increased mental activity makes it difficult for him to concentrate. When the helmet malfunctions, it make him fairly eccentric and at one point gave him cancer and dementia.
** [[OrphanedPunchline Well at least]] [[HeardAnyGoodJokesLately it didn't]] [[http://www.thefurrymonkey.co.uk/jokes_cancer.htm#badworse give him cancer.]]
** Grant Morrison's run has a villainous example in the form of The Brotherhood of Dada, who believe that good and evil are concepts of an outmoded age and they must simply do things because they can. Their first major "performance" involves their leader, Mr. Nobody, throwing a dead chicken to the ground and saying they've conquered the world, another member turning a gendarme into a toilet filled with flowers, and the use of a magical painting to trap all of Paris.
* The Frenchman and The Female in ''ComicBook/TheBoys''. Apparently, they understand each other's private moon logic quite well. Well enough to play Monopoly on a Cluedo board, anyway.
* ''[[Franchise/{{Tintin}} The Adventures of Tintin]]'': Professor Calculus in ''Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure''. In all the other books, his hearing problem leads to simple, albeit comedic, misunderstandings. In ''Red Rackham's Treasure'', though, it's so bad that he's completely off in his own little world. Like all good examples of this trope, he even spouts random non-sequiturs out of the blue. Any of the Calculus scenes in this particular book could be considered a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* Airtight from ''GIJoe'' is described as that weird kid nobody wanted to be around, grown up even weirder. This guy keeps scorpions as pets and eats peanut butter and tomato sandwiches, you guys.
** Don't knock them until you've tried them. Just make sure you toast the bread.
* [[TheFlash Bart Allen]], especially as Impulse as he appeared in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', is a perfect example of this trope. He was raised at {{superspeed}} in virtual reality in the 30th Century, so it's kind of unavoidable.
* ''I Luv Halloween'' - Finch's psychotic little sister, "Moochie", whose a mix of both cloud-cuckoo lander and ax crazy. In volume 2, she goes on a zombie-laden quest to hunt for the "King of the Chonklit Monkeys" whom she believes live within peoples' bowels and take all the Halloween candy and replace it with their poo (she ends up being right in the end). She also disembowls an obese woman and rips her face off with her teeth, extracts molars from the mouths of the dead and the living because she was dressed as the tooth-fairy for Halloween, believes a still-born fetus she finds is her sister, and cuts off a man's buttocks and spanks it as victory for exorcising the chonklit monkey king. Moochie: "Is the much oompah oompah victory parade! Spanked his brown bottom we did! Is trick or treaties for everyone! Yay!
* Norbert Sykes, a.k.a. ''ComicBook/TheBadger'', is a prime example. The author tended to vacillate between presenting Badger's mental illness as serious or just an excuse to make him goofy.
%%* Blindfold from the ComicBook/XMen comes off like this thanks to her powers giving her a warped sense of time and causuality.

* Essentially all the kids from ''ComicStrip/OneBigHappy'' qualify. Central character Ruthie is pretty obvious, but she has even weirder friends, like vacuum cleaner fetishist Earl.
* ComicBook/{{Asterix}}:
** The OneSceneWonder (even though played by no actual actor) of the British gardener in Asterix in Britain. Trespass on his lawn and he will ''stab you''.
** Squareonthehypotenus, who goes ''absolutely insane'' in his attempts to raise the Mansion of the Gods.
* Nathanael Beauregard in ''ComicBook/TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael'' - when he falls on another man, his first act is to reassure him that he isn't up to anything gay. He also thinks that limbo is a plot by Native Americans to double-kill him.
%%* Happy Noodle Boy from "JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac"
* Max from ''SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' qualifies big time. His capacity to distinguish between fantasy and reality is directly rooted in Sam's capacity to remind him what the difference is.
** According to WordOfGod, Max is actually a powerful psychic multi-dimensional hive mind whose thoughts and memories are consistent across all time and all the universes, and the hallucinations we see when looking through his eyes in ''The Devil's Playhouse'' are reflections of the adventures other versions of himself are going on in the past, the future and other worlds. This probably explains why he qualifies so much for this trope, but [[TeasingCreator could just as easily have been the creator trolling his fanbase]].
* The characters in ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' tend to run in and out of this sometimes, but most famously is Scott himself, with such winning lines as:
--> '''Stacy Pilgrim:''' Maybe you should start thinking about the future, Scott.\\
'''Scott:''' The future? Like, with jet packs?
** And:
---> '''Wallace:''' Scott. It's time to get serious. Break out the L word.\\
'''Scott:''' ...Lesbian?\\
'''Wallace:''' No, Scott, the other L word.\\
'''Scott:''' ...Lesbians?
** And the follow-up joke:
--->'''Joseph''': Have you used the L word yet?\\
'''Scott''': Why is everyone obsessed with lesbians!?
* Starman in ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' is a TalkativeLoon who hears voices, sometimes BreaksTheFourthWall, and is on medication for schizophrenia. When not on the job, he lives in a psych ward.
* Quite a few of the characters in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' will occasionally lapse into {{Cloudcuckoolander}} territory, but none moreso than Smiley Bone, whose unique worldview makes sense only to him, and who gets quite a few CrazyAwesome moments during the course of the comic.
-->'''Rat Creature 1:''' This is insane!\\
'''Rat Creature 2:''' It's stupid!\\
'''Smiley:''' Hey! Nothing we've done so far has been ''un-stupid,'' and we're still alive, aren't we?\\
'''Rat Creature 1:''' I can't really argue with that, but I feel like I should.
** The two Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures also have strong tendencies towards this trope -- of the two, the stupider, quiche-obsessed one (generally depicted with brown fur in the color versions) is the most consistent practitioner of the trope, but the smarter, more aggressive one (usually depicted with purple fur, though the colorist occasionally gets confused) has more than his fair share of moments as well.
* ComicBook/TheTick is this trope and CrazyAwesome turned UpToEleven. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment His very first appearance]] was escaping from an insane asylum.
--> '''TheTick''': And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick-pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky's the limit!
* [[SpiderMan Mary Jane]] was like this in her earlier appearances. Readers eventually find out there was some [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smiling going on]] and in the modern era her character is about 100 times more grounded (still a fun character, just not bat crap crazy). Earlier appearences of Aunt May also indicated that she lived in Cloud Cuckooland (the joke being she was senile). Like MJ, she's since mellowed out a lot, creating some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for readers who go back and read collections of the old trades.
** As far as Spidey villains go there's [[JokeCharacter White Rabbit]]. If the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' theme weren't a tip off then the fact her first villainous plan was to rob fast food joints despite being incredibly wealthy and demanding her ransom on the city of New York be paid in quarters should send red flags. And no, unlike the above she never has mellowed (and never will).
* Not Pinkie Pie (for a change), but Rainbow Dash in the second story-arc of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'', who suggests using an enlarging ray on her (so she could transport an entire army to the moon all by herself) and a time machine to rescue Rarity.
* Even when Jackie from ''ComicBook/AdolescentRadioactiveBlackBeltHamsters'' isn't brainwashed, he's still talking to himself and chattering away with crazy thoughts.
* Maps from ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' is the type to fall in love with a ''grapple gun''.
* Jughead Jones from ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' with his big eating, his girl-hating, and his oddball dress and trademark crown. His oddness tends to vary from barely noticeable to completely insane DependingOnTheWriter, but he's always the weirdest of the group.
** One issue had a rather [[TearJerker sad]] take on this where Jughead only played the part of the oddball to garner laughs as a means of coping with his homelife: his (implied to be single in this issue) mother was ''very'' sick and Jughead would fall into a state of depression if he wasn't making people laugh. [[spoiler:It ends with the whole gang, even [[{{Jerkass}} Reggie Mantle]], [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming showing up at his house to help him with the housework and provide moral support]].]]
* Marrow during her time with ComicBook/XForce. She seemed to be completely dissociated from reality, barely able to focus on the task at hand, and spent most of her time babbling to an imaginary someone she addressed as "baby". [[spoiler:This was later revealed to be her unborn child; she sacrificed the baby to regain her powers, and had suffered a psychotic break as a consequence.]]

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'', Gunk exhibits various odd behaviors and abilities (explained by the fact that he's from some place called "Flyspeck Island"), as [[RuleOfFunny required by the plot]].

* Meanwhile, ''US Acres'' had Bo Sheep, who showed more tendencies of this in the comics than the ''Garfield and Friends'' animated series.
* ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''. S/he thinks that getting bricks thrown at her/his head is a sign of affection.

%%* Perhaps the ultimate funny-pages example of this type is the title character from Kevin [=McCormick's=] ''[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/arnold.html Arnold]]''.
* The entire ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic, since Max Allan Collins left. Bad guys getting squashed by steamrollers or having their eyes gouged out; businessmen (both good and bad) who dress like playing cards; characters being incinerated in giant fireballs; hillbillies defending themselves with bear traps; and every once in a while, something that seems to make sense. Rarely.

* Hillary's classmate Nona from ''[[ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward Sally Forth.]]'' Tends to take Hillary and Faye's idle {{Zany Scheme}}ing and run with the idea into surrealism. All in the same tone of voice one would normally use when discussing lunch.
* A few characters from the ''Ink Pen'' comic strip is this, the main example being ''Captain Victorious''. ''[[http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2011/02/14/ Here]]'', for instance. Or ''[[http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2010/11/10/ here]]''.
* ComicBook/TransformersWingsOfHonor: Vortex and Metalhawk get this way when sprayed with chemicals which mess with their processors. Sprocket is revealed to be this way after some feedback when he integrated into a ship. Now he believes that non-sentient machines talk to him, and speaks to imaginary friends. [[spoiler: It's gotten to the point where in the final issue, he doesn't even know his brother died, and continues to talk to him as if he was still there.]]
%%* Kenny from ''ComicStrip/DogsOfCKennel'', so very much.
* Pierce from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' seems to be always doing his own thing, on impulse, with little regard for consequences.
* Raoul the werewolf in ''ComicBook/TheBojeffriesSaga'' is somewhat out of touch with reality, for example giving a black workmate white supremacist propaganda because he thought it was too silly to be taken seriously, and failing to notice that all his relatives moved out of their house for years.
* ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske: Lambik is often seen doing stupid and crazy things he didn't actually thought through. In ''De Stalen Bloempot'', for instance, he tries climbing out of a castle by rope. His rope then breaks and he plummits down. Lambik tries to solve this problem philosophically by letting the rope go, thinking this will make him stop falling. This, of course, doesn't work.

* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Gaston, who is a clumsy dreamer who is always seen either dozing off or inventing stuff without any regard for the people in his vicinity. Seriously, who would set the entire floor of his apartment underwater just to make his goldfish feel more at home?
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}'': Professor Gobelijn, an AbsentMindedProfessor, who is often doing stuff that either brings him or his town in danger, but he always realizes this when its already too late.
* ComicBook/TomPoes: Wammes Waggel, a naïve goose who is so optimistic and carefree that he never realizes any real danger and thinks everything is a joke.
* ComicStrip/{{Nero}}: Abraham Tuizentfloot, an insane dwarf who dresses himself up as a 17th century pirate and attacks everybody with his sabre. Despite that he can't even swim! The comic strip in itself is also full of eccentric and insane characters.

* Nathanael Beauregard in ''TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael'' - when he falls on another man, his first act is to reassure him that he isn't up to anything gay. He also thinks that limbo is a plot by Native Americans to double-kill him.

* TheTick is this trope and CrazyAwesome turned UpToEleven. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment His very first appearance]] was escaping from an insane asylum.

%%* Blindfold from the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} comes off like this thanks to her powers giving her a warped sense of time and causuality.

* ComicBook/AmbushBug: he's crazy, GenreSavvy and regularly breaks the fourth wall.

* Marrow during her time with ComicBook/XForce. She seemed to be completely dissociated from reality, barely able to focus on the task at hand, and spent most of her time babbling to an imaginary someone she addressed as "baby". [[spoiler:This was later revealed to be her unborn child; she sacrificed the baby to regain her powers, and had suffered a psychotic break as a consequence.]]

%%* [[VillainousHarlequin Harley Quinn]] seems to ''live'' in {{Cloudcuckooland}}. ''GothamCitySirens'' is just where she rents space in her time off.

* Jughead Jones from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' with his big eating, his girl-hating, and his oddball dress and trademark crown. His oddness tends to vary from barely noticeable to completely insane DependingOnTheWriter, but he's always the weirdest of the group.
** One issue had a rather [[TearJerker sad]] take on this where Jughead only played the part of the oddball to garner laughs as a means of coping with his homelife: his (implied to be single in this issue) mother was ''very'' sick and Jughead would fall into a state of depression if he wasn't making people laugh. [[spoiler:It ends with the whole gang, even [[{{Jerkass}} Reggie Mantle]], [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming showing up at his house to help him with the housework and provide moral support]].]]

* ''KrazyKat''. S/he thinks that getting bricks thrown at her/his head is a sign of affection.

* ''GetFuzzy'': Both Bucky and Satchel occasionally display these tendencies, and many of Bucky's feline visitors ''really'' do.

* Sally from ''{{Peanuts}}'' has her moments: