History CloudCuckoolander / FIlm

* [[LiloAndStitch Lilo]]. She feeds a fish peanut butter sandwiches because she believes that it controls the weather, and makes voodoo dolls of her so-called "friends" out of spoons.

* "Ping" (''Disney/{{Mulan}}'') ''appears'' to be this to others, but it's caused by a combination of trying to act manly, having to hide her gender, and being sabotaged by the others after making an initial bad impression.

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'': Amelie and her male counterpart, [[BirdsOfAFeather Nino.]]

** And then there's [[Disney/Tangled Rapunzel]]. With her using a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] as a weapon to her waking bare feet through towns, bars and forests, you've gonna admit she defiantly ''looks'' the part. Not to mention the fact that she doesn't know much about the outside world because she has been locked in a tower her entire life.

%%* Brick from ''{{Anchorman}}'' veers between this and TheDitz.

* Every ''IceAge'' film has one of these.

** Willy Wonka in '''any''' version of this story, whether it's the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory source novel]], [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory 1971 film]], [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 film]], or [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2013 stage musical]]. His particular combination of eccentricity and authority is the basis for a related trope (TheWonka).

** Willy Wonka in '''any''' version of this story, whether it's the [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory source novel]], [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory 1971 film]], [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2005 film]], or [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2013 stage musical]]. His particular combination of cloudcuckoolandishness and business acumen is the basis for a related trope (TheWonka).

** Willy Wonka in any version of this story, whether it's ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'' or ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''.

%%* Tonto from ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', full-stop. Even by the standards of other Comanches.

:: Just [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes see for yourself]]. And ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/quotes The Sequel]]''. He's credited as [[YouLookFamiliar "Jacobs"]].

* Brick from ''{{Anchorman}}'' veers between this and TheDitz.

* [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]] is this both in film and in real life.
* Mark from ''EmpireRecords''. It's not clear how much is the influence of drugs and how much is just him being special.
** Who cares, he's {{Adorkable}}!
** Oh, speaking of which, no matter how many drugs you eat, you will ''never'' see yourself get eaten by the world maggot during the video for "Saddam A Go-Go".
** Lucas, though, doesn't have even drugs for an excuse.

* Frank, the paranoid lizard from ''TheRescuersDownUnder'' is clearly off his rocker.

:: But he also has a worrying tendency towards conversations with himself...

:: At one point in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} 2'' he argues with himself to explain the concept of sacrifice to the other animals...

:: In the 1st movie he uses a skeletal hand as a scepter. In the 2nd movie he goes through four different crowns.

* In ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', the Ghost of Christmas Present fits this pretty well, if she's not a perfect fit. She also has JerkSue tendencies, minus the feminism.

* Ed and Rafiki from ''Disney/TheLionKing''.

* Zuzu Petals from ''TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane''.

* Bettie Heslop in ''Film/MurielsWedding''
* In ''Film/DownPeriscope'', Nitro definitely qualifies, from having "absorbed a lot of voltage" as an electrician/radio operator during his time in the Navy. E.T. "Sonar" Lovicelli is one of these as well, to a lesser degree.

* Agnes in ''DespicableMe.'' ADORABLE though. She's also '''four'''.

* Crispina from ''TheMagdaleneSisters'', [[spoiler: until she completely loses her mind]].

* Everyone in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'' has this to a certain extent, but Renfield is the most obvious one.
* The ''MysteryTeam'' has shades of this.

* Dr. Emmett Brown in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* Admiral Benson / President Benson in the two ''Film/HotShots'' films.

* For all his villainous aspirations, Justin Hammer from ''Film/IronMan2'' is just plain ''weird''.

* Tonto from ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', full-stop. Even by the standards of other Comanches.

* The film adaptations, more than the book-versions, of the ''Harry Potter'' series, show Bellatrix Lestrange as one of the few malevolent versions of this trope. Fittingly, she's played by [[Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter]].
** Luna Lovegood is a more benign example--pretty much the canonical {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. And J.K. Rowling herself considered [[Creator/EvannaLynch]] (already a longtime fan and pen pal of Rowling's) to be one of the best casting decisions in the film.

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* Harpo Marx's characters. Consider ''DuckSoup'': despite being a spy, he walks around cutting things with scissors, ruining a JerkAss stallholder's business, and generally being, well, a Harpo character. Becomes even more HilariousInHindsight when it was eventually revealed that he was a covert government courier in RealLife. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Seriously]]. [[SilentPartner Well, he wouldn't need to worry too much about making a]] FreudianSlip.[[hottip:*:Yes, Harpo spoke all the time off-camera, but consider the RuleOfFunny]].

:: At one point in {{Madagascar}} 2 he argues with himself to explain the concept of sacrifice to the other animals...

* All of the lemurs in ''{{Madagascar}}'' seem crazy to some degree, but King Julien XIII is definitely the worst. He clearly comprehends all that goes on around him (which may be why he's King)...

* The film adaptations, more than the book-versions, of the ''Harry Potter'' series, show Bellatrix Lestrange as one of the few malevolent versions of this trope.
** Luna Lovegood is a more benign example--pretty much the canonical {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. And J.K. Rowling herself considered Evanna Lynch (already a longtime fan and pen pal of Rowling's) to be one of the best casting decisions in the film.

** In fact, Fred Willard's primary role in Guest's ensembles is to be the most obvious {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in the cast; which is truly a feat, considering that nearly all of Guest's main characters qualify as [=Cloudcuckoolanders=] to varying degrees. According various people who have worked with him, he really likes to play this trope [[TruthInTelevision in real life]] as well. Christopher Guest described him on the Charlie Rose show as a man who "got into character twenty-five years ago, and has never gotten out"]].

* Karen from ''Film/MeanGirls''. ("My breasts can always tell when it's going to rain. Well, they can always tell when it's ''raining''." and ''standing in the rain, feeling her breasts'' "There's a... 30% chance it's already raining")