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->''"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."''
-->-- '''Creator/HunterSThompson'''

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Someone who is Crazy Awesome is completely nuts, in a hilarious way, and is effective at what they do ''as a result''. In real life they would get fired, get arrested and eventually be committed, or just flat out get maimed or die. Not so in the world of fiction; thanks to the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character liked or loved by the audience. Please note the difference between a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, who is simply out-there and the BunnyEarsLawyer, who is someone who is still effective ''despite'' or ''alongside'' their quirks.

On average, every other action the Crazy Awesome does is [[RuleOfCool cool]], awesome, and/or [[RuleOfFunny funny]], [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]], or a combination thereof. The HeroicComedicSociopath is AxCrazy Awesome. A LargeHam is a verbal Crazy Awesome. If their crazy awesomeness prevents them from being killed or arrested when anyone else would be, they just benefited from a LunaticLoophole. They may also be a LethalJokeCharacter. Expect lots of InsaneTrollLogic to be behind their plans and antics.

As previously mentioned, a character that can "work" without the quirks ([[TheyChangedItNowItSucks but still wouldn't be the same]]) is a BunnyEarsLawyer. If they're just crazy, they're a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

Compare PowerBornOfMadness, EccentricMentor, and TheWonka. Compare and contrast CreepyAwesome.

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!!Example Subpages:
[[index]]
* CrazyAwesome/AnimeAndManga
* CrazyAwesome/ComicBooks
* CrazyAwesome/FanWorks
* [[CrazyAwesome/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
* CrazyAwesome/{{Literature}}
* CrazyAwesome/LiveActionTV
* CrazyAwesome/{{Music}}
* CrazyAwesome/{{Roleplay}}
* CrazyAwesome/TabletopGames
* CrazyAwesome/VideoGames
* CrazyAwesome/WebComics
* CrazyAwesome/WebOriginal
* CrazyAwesome/WesternAnimation
* CrazyAwesome/RealLife
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!!Other Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* This is how you fight an invasion using a giant chicken, a fish and tons of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBBPJtqr34I&feature=related Coca Cola Zero.]]
* He can speak French... in Russian. If he were to pat you on the back, you would put it on your resumé. If he were to punch you in the face, you would have to fight off the strong urge to thank him. Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact. He is... Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JspHqoegTkc The Toyota NZ Hilux ad]], where the protagonist was driving on his Hilux, offroad, over this mountain, through a valley, in the middle of a cyclone, which caused a flood, which triggered a landslide, before he finally got to this volcano... He carries on for almost a minute, [[spoiler: until you find out [[CassandraTruth he was telling the truth]].]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkTsyll1SUo Qatar Airways and Barca's ad]] Barca FC as a fantasy land? Check. Pique playing grumpy customs officer? Check. Iniesta painting a wall with just a ball? Check. Leo Messi leading a dance class showing off his snazzy moves? Check that one please, '''''and Carles Puyol freakin' headbutts a falling FLOWER POT??!!''''' '''CHECK PLEASE!!'''
* Trolli has tried to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this with their advertisements for their candies. Major YMMV as to whether it works or not.
* Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvtany3mSE Evidence]]. He's on a horse.
* Advertising/JohnJameson:
** During the Great Storm of 1781, John Jameson lost a barrel of his beloved whiskey. He said goodbye to the crew, and went in after it. In hindsight, [[SeaMonster that probably wasn't a good idea.]] Weeks later, a funeral was held. All of Ireland was in attendance, [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral including John Jameson.]]
** To most people, the Hawk of Achill was just a legend, except for those who knew better. When it took the mason's daughter, it was tragic. When it took a barrel of John Jameson's whiskey, [[SeriousBusiness well, that was another matter.]] But Jameson was generous, and the hawk, greedy. Very greedy. And in the end, the pursuit of the whiskey would prove foolish... for the Hawk of Achill.
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* Buck of ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs''. Nothing he says makes sense... and yet he somehow makes it make sense with how he's the only mammal in the entire underground world he's in. Just get past the fact that he's married to a pineapple... [[InsistentTerminology An ugly pineapple.]] But he loved her.
* The major motion picture version of ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has two: one as Earl—that is his name, yes?—and the other, Manny(?), as non-crazy but technically fitting variation.
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[[folder:Folklore]]
* Not all, but many, incarnations of Myth/RobinHood in {{Film}}, LiveActionTelevision and {{Literature}} can be CrazyAwesome, usually depending on how supernaturally talented he is with a bow and on just how much the odds are stacked against him.
* Par for the course for TallTale heroes. If it weren't for the fact that their crazy plans always succeed [[RuleOfFunny somehow]], they'd be considered just plain demented.
** Myth/PaulBunyan, when frustrated that all the hills in Kansas are making it difficult for him to use his three-miles-long saw, decides to get rid of the hills by flipping the entire state upside down, so all the hills are underground and there's only flat land on top.
*** Or when he got into the oil drilling business and found that there was no oil where he'd been digging. Rather than just give up on the giant hole he drilled, he cuts up the hole into thousands of smaller pieces and sells them as fence post holes.
*** Or how he made sure he always knew where oil was in the future: find some dinosaur footprints, then keep following their trail until the footprints stop; where they stop will be where the dinosaur died 65 million years ago, and since dinosaurs turn into oil when they die, there must be oil on that spot.
** Pecos Bill once thought that killing a buffalo for its hide was a waste. Instead he skinned them alive and turned them loose to grow new hides. And it ''worked'' ... at least until winter, when all the skinless buffalos froze to death.
*** This is the same guy who [[RuleOfCool lassoed a tornado and rode it like a bucking bronco]].
*** And dug the Rio Grande with a signpost.
** Febold Feboldson solved the grasshopper infestation in Kansas by importing a bunch of flying fish to eat them. He got rid of the flying fish plague by bringing in timber wolves to be the new apex predators. When folks started complaining that the wolves were ''worse'' than the fish or the grasshoppers, he simply goes out and bends some trees into a U shape so they start growing down into the ground. The wolves, being ''timber'' wolves, went where the timber was and burrowed down into the ground as well, adapting to the new environment by becoming smaller and smaller, until eventually [[JustSoStory they became prairie dogs]].
** Jack the Dullard, most commonly known from H.C. Andersen's version of the story, happily collects rubbish he finds on the road: A dead crow, a broken clog, and common mud. This all comes in handy when he woos the princess later on.
* A book of riddles found in folklore tells the story of a particularly eccentric but cunning judge. A poor young boy was selling sticky buns on a street corner next to a large rock. The boy dozed off, and when he woke up, the money that he'd stashed at the bottom of his bun-basket was stolen. He went to a local judge, who deduced that, obviously, the rock must have stolen the money! He put the rock on trial, interpreted its silence as a confession of guilt, and sentenced it to public flogging when it refused to yield the money. The crowd that had gathered to watch laughed loud and long; the judge then turned on ''them,'' calling for each to pay a five-cent fine -- dropping their money into a huge jar of water. He watched as each person shuffled forward and paid their fine -- until he pointed at a man walking away and cried "Arrest him! He stole the boy's money!" Astonished, the thief confessed and turned over his contraband. [[spoiler: His frosting-covered coins left a greasy film on the surface of the water -- and exposing him was the goal of the entire sham trial.]]
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* Doctor Javolt from ''Podcast/FalloutIsDragons''. In a magitech post apocalyptic world of colorful talking ponies, he is the amnesiac science-obsessed elderly donkey who (apparently) replaced his own leg and eyes with cybernetic counterparts after shrapnel took them away in an explosion. Also he wears an electro-cape, which basically amounts to having a pair of tesla coils for a collar.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/RandyOrton. Crazy? Awesome? Let's see. Kicks his boss in the head to keep him from being fired, okay. RKO's his own girlfriend to prove he's ruthless, yep. Stealing Wrestling/TheUndertaker's urn? Been there, done it. Going toe-to-toe with Wrestling/MickFoley in a hardcore match and winning? He can do it. ''Trojan Horsing himself into an EXPLODING CAKE in order to sneak attack Wrestling/TripleH?'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pR0YfQUJPI He absolutely went there.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4cpamYcBWU RKO'ing someone in the middle of a Shooting Star Press from]] ''flat on his back?''
** You neglected to mention the fact that he threw The Undertaker into a coffin and then [[KillItWithFire lit it on fire.]]
* Four words: [[Wrestling/MickFoley popcorn bag of doom]].
** Mick Foley in general, but notably Mankind. Too crazy to quit. No risk he won't take.
** Which is quite mild compared to Cactus Jack, who's even more crazier than the Mankind persona.
* Wrestling/RicFlair, is, and always has been crazy awesome, but has slid a little bit to more awesome because of how crazy he is.
* Two words: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypMDcqPIRQc Beer Truck ]].
* [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] post 2011 FaceHeelTurn. And hell, even after his early 2012 HeelFaceTurn of sorts, as he's still as crazy and awesome as he was before.
-->'''R-Truth:''' ''[during a pre-Elimination Chamber debate]'' Oh yeah? ''[crowd chants [[BigWhat what]]]'' Well, if I'm elected...\\
'''Wrestling/{{Dolph|Ziggler}}:''' ''[in time with the crowd's BigWhat]'' [[FlatWhat What.]]
* Wrestling/AJLee. How many ways? She pushes people off ladders both to show she is sick of them toying with her affections and to show she's sweet on them. She dresses as Kitana from ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' and attempt a fan lift on one of the biggest baddest divas. She sent '''''Wrestling/{{Kane}}''''' packing by acting like she had a schoolgirl crush on him and ''kissing him.'' Being called crazy is a BerserkButton even if she completely is. These are just some of the things she's done to convince Wrestling/VinceMcmahon, no bastion of sanity himself, that she is as insane as he is and he appointed her general manager of Raw for her troubles.
* Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura of course. His quirky mannerisms, taunts and facial expressions have come a long way in establishing him as one of the true standouts of pro wrestling. Needless to say, the guy's really talented and insanely charismatic. ''[[CatchPhrase YeaOh!]]'' Just watch him rock his [[RedBaron King of Strong Style]] [[CostumePorn attire]] down the aisle [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kxjp6 at Wrestle Kingdom 9]].
* Wrestling/DeanAmbrose lives and breathes this trope.
* Wrestling/MattHardy, specifically BROKEN Matt Hardy is the most literal example of this in pro-wrestling. He's the only wrestler who can have a stable that involves a dilapidated boat, a drone and a Mexican gardener. He obsesses over deleting people and calls every enemy "Brother Nero" (including his own brother, whose middle name ''is'' Nero). His fashion sense looks like he'd fit in with something Creator/TimBurton could've come up with, he has strange "premo-NEE-tions" and can sense the souls of famous historical figures inside ''zoo animals'' (like George Washington in a giraffe, or Joe Frazier in a kangaroo, which he wrestled).
* [[Wrestling/ProgressWrestling Jimmy. Fucking. Havoc.]] Who else would think to wrap Barbed wire around his arm during a deathmatch before hitting his finisher?
* Los Ingobernables de Japon's own Ticking Time Bomb Hiromu Takahashi. So much so that he manage to get a stuffed animal over.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
%%* Flippy from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.
%%* Just about everyone in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' is this at some point or another.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8ApUM&feature=relmfu This]] animation by [[Creator/NeilCicierega Neil Cicierega]], AKA Lemon Demon. Yes, the Lemon Demon responsible the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. Which also qualifies. In fact, just about everything this guy has made qualifies.
* If [[http://babbletrish.deviantart.com/art/Awesome-Overload-163856643 this]] parody/example doesn't qualify, nothing does. [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot Nothing beats]] a wolf riding a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' that is holding a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] and a [[ThreateningShark shark]] holding a [[{{Eagleland}} flag of America]] ''and'' is itself riding a [[NobleBirdOfPrey bald eagle]]!
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Nora Valkyrie. Outside of battle, she comes up with odd plans, like using sloth calls to send a secret message. Despite being told that sloths don't make a lot of noise, she deems that this makes this plan even more perfect. In battle, she uses her Magnhild, a rocket-powered warhammer capable of converting into an M32 grenade launcher, with wild abandon. Using Magnhild, she can actually use the rocket power as a RecoilBoost, and generally flies through the air while giggling like a maniac. Nora is one part CloudCuckoolander, one part [[BoisterousBruiser fearless warrior]], one part [[PerpetualSmiler incorrigibly cheery,]] and one part BloodKnight, all wrapped up in an [[CuteButPsycho adorable but psycho]] shell.
** Yang Xiao Long easily rivals her JNPR counterpart in this regard. When she is launched into a forest via a catapult, she calmly puts on some [[CoolShades aviator sunglasses]] and [[http://youtu.be/1JZgPfbKbU4?t=57s well... does this]]. During a battle with a giant raven monster, jumps up into it's mouth, keeps it's beak held open with one arm, and uses the other arm to repeatedly punch incendiary shotgun rounds right down it's throat, [[PunctuatedPounding punctuating each one]] with "I! HOPE! YOU'RE! HUNGRY!" There's also the memorable scene where she attracts [[CatGirl Blake's]] attention using a laser pen, [[MyInstinctsAreShowing which hilariously works]], the whole room decorating scene (she wants to improvise "incredibly dangerous" bunkbeds simply because it's "super awesome"), and the scene where Nora is shown throwing grapes for her to catch (come to think of it, Yang and Nora are seen bonding together often). For bonus points Yang was actually ''called'' "CrazyAwesome" in-universe after winning a fight by practically destroying the entire arena. Considering her dad, Taiyang, has an off-screen establishing moment where he sends a live corgi puppy to her through a mail tube, she very likely inherited this trait from him.
** Zwei, the corgi in question, may have rubbed off on the Xiao Long family as well. When Team RWBY and Professor Oobleck are trying to stop an explosives- and mech-laden train, one of the mechs on board tries to block their path. At a single bark from the pooch, Oobleck responds by ''batting Zwei at the mech with his weapon, LIGHTING HIM ON FIRE in the process'', and destroying the mech without a single hair out of place. Zwei even wags his tail at the end as if the whole thing was just another happy romp around the house.
** Her sister, Ruby, while most of the time relatively sane has her moments as well. When fighting the giant raven mentioned above she improvised huge slingshot from her friend's weapon and launched ''[[FastballSpecial herself]]'' at it to finish it of by draging him by neck with huge scythe while running up a wall. It's just as awesome as it sounds. Later when she needed to reach an airship she did it by flying on top of a rocket locker and jumping of in mid-air.
* Saige from ''WebAnimation/DeadlySpaceAction'' has an assortment of weird hobbies and fixations, but is probably the most consistently competent member of the crew.
* Gordon Freeman of ''Machinima/FreemansMind''. Ross Scott (the creator) said that he went for a mentally unhinged and quirky characterization because he couldn't see a normal person surviving the events of Half-Life. His more eccentric attributes do indeed save his life a few times. In later episodes, he also gets pretty lax with his personal safety, seeing as how he considers running right past a Bradley through an open killing field while it attempts to hit him with its autocannon to be a completely viable strategy. Perhaps his crowning moment of this is taking out a bunch of soldiers and a tank while singing Modern Major General and adding a new verse.
* Although it's entire runtime is about 30 minutes (with eight of those being the final episode's credits), ''WebAnimation/InfernoCop'' has established itself with a [[FlamingSkulls fiery]] [[DemBones skeleton]] cop from hell [[{{Cyborg}} that gained the ability to turn into a]] [[TimeTravel time traveling]] [[CoolCar car]], [[OneHitKill with a gun that kills with a single shot most of the time]] [[ImprobableAimingSkills that almost never miss]] [[SuperMode and can go Super Saiyan]], doing battle with thugs, [[EnfantTerrible babies that turn into sea monsters]], superhero judges, [[ProfessionalKiller The]] [[FBIAgent FBI]], [[HumongousMecha a mecha version of himself]], God, mummies and a [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Scarlet Witch]] {{Expy}} [[AssimilationPlot who engineered the]] [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Third Destroy Finale]] [[ComicBook/HouseOfM to turn everyone into Inferno Cop,]] [[AffectionateParody all the while parodying every single anime trope through]] SurrealHumor. [[StylisticSuck Oh, and it's all done with clip-art animation and about four voice actors.]]
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* Lydia Bennet from ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries''. When she was ten, she made her father promise that if the world's largest energy company fell to bankruptcy, she would have a pony. After Enron sadly fell to bankruptcy, she got a pony. When he left, she got a cat. She named her Kitty, and gave her a twitter account. Now, they both have a twitter account on which Lydia socializes and influences her admirers. Using her social life and wits, she made herself invited to a party with Mr. Bing Lee. Since her sister has a crush on him, she made sure he would promise to host a party at his home, waiting until he was drunk. After the party, he and her sister spent the whole evening talking to one another, and her sister now lives at his place (episode 28).
* ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning'': Reginald Cuftbert's MO is this, in the room with two people you need to kill? Blow up the room, while still in it! Crazy monsters walking a casino? Punch them out! Want revenge on someone? Blow up his pants, stealthily! Annoyed? commit genocide! or alternatively punch the people annoying you out of existence by accident.
* Gavin becomes [[spoiler:quite literally]] Crazy Awesome towards the end of ''WebVideo/{{KateModern}}''. Becoming a FourthWallObserver is definitely part of it, as is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome a certain scene involving a pen]].
* Everything Music/DoctorSteel does is cool, awesome, and/or funny, over-the-top, or a combination thereof.
* ''WebVideo/{{Tobuscus}}'' has shown signs of this. The most obvious example is when he took contact with an auction website about them giving him an Ipad because he had spent about 500 dollars on their website:
-->'''Tobuscus:''' [...] I bet on an Ipad like 500 times and lost, can you just retroactively give me one for free?\\
'''Spokesperson:''' No.\\
'''Tobuscus:''' Okay. [...] I have an idea. How about you give me two, and I give one away on my [=YouTube=] channel?\\
'''Spokesperson:''' That's not a compromise, you just added another iPad!\\
'''Tobuscus:''' Shhh. Let me finish. Also give anyone who signs up for your website through my channel five dollars. Deal?\\
'''Spokesperson:''' WHAT! You just added another thing, are you nuts?\\
'''Tobuscus:''' Yes.\\
'''Spokesperson:''' Oh. Alright, let's do it.
* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'':
** [[spoiler:Evan]] from ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' tried to clobber Slender Man with a baseball bat. It didn't work, but... well, he ''attacked [[EldritchAbomination Slender]] [[HumanoidAbomination Man]] with a baseball bat''. [[spoiler:And ''lived''.]] Later he manages to not only [[spoiler:survive a close encounter with the Rake, he than manages to ''throw it out a second story window''!]]
** Speaking of the Mythos, [[Blog/AReallyBadJoke Maduin]] pretty much has this as his schtick. Among other things, he once marched straight up to Slendy, handed him [[MemeticMutation a twenty-dollar bill]], then just turned and walked away, leaving the EldritchAbomination standing on the sidewalk and presumably wondering what the hell just happened. [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]] when Maduin puts a face mask on TPF and he goes bananas. Earlier he caught a proxy, knocked it out, tied it up, set it in front of a mirror and had it dressed like Slendy. Maduin is the king of [[CrazyAwesome Crazy Awesome.]]
* In ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', [[spoiler:Jay actually tackled the Operator. Granted, this [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu erased 7 months from his memory]], but a direct tackle is ballsy]].
* Fegelein in ''WebVideo/HitlerRants''. Not even the laws of physics will stop him from committing increasingly surreal and hilarious antics against Hitler. The other Masters of Antics also qualify, but not to the same extent.
* [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] [[spoiler: helping Linkara defeat Lord Vyce with an army of Angry Joes]] in the Doctor Who Classics 17 review on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''.
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': James is to games, [[SoBadItsGood especially shitty ones,]] as [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben]] [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} is]] [[VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}} to]] the Internet: Its Secret Ruler. The Nerd's battle with [[DemonicPossession possessed consoles]] in his review of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', his battle against R.O.B the Robot, and so other many battles with famous characters are just a start of what AVGN can do.
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!!'''Note:''' This has been subjected to some misuse. Please read this article before listing it on a work's YMMV page.

* After Wrestling/MattHardy became BROKEN he became this. He's the only wrestler who can have a stable that involves a dilapidated boat, a drone and a Mexican gardener. He obsesses over deleting people and calls every enemy "Brother Nero" (including his own brother. His fashion sense looks like he'd fit in with something Creator/TimBurton could've come up with, he has strange "premo-NEE-tions" and can sense the souls of famous historical figures inside ''zoo animals'' (like George Washington in a giraffe).
* [[ProgressWrestling Jimmy. Fucking. Havoc.]] Who else would think to wrap Barbed wire around his arm during a deathmatch before hitting his finisher?

** Her sister, Ruby, while most of the time relatively sane has her moments as well. When fighting giant raven mentioned above she improvised huge slingshot from her friend's weapon and launched ''[[FastballSpecial herself]]'' at it to finish it of by draging him by neck with huge scythe while running up a wall. It's just as awesome as it sounds. Later when she needed to reach an airship she did it by flying on top of a rocket locker and jumping of in mid-air.

* Saige from ''[[WebAnimation/CartoonDriveThru Deadly Space Action!]]'' has an assortment of weird hobbies and fixations, but is probably the most consistently competent member of the crew.

[[folder:Roleplay]]
* O ye who think you have seen true madness, listen well, for you know nothing of this til you have read the tale of the one, the only, '''Fanfic/OldManHenderson''', the patron saint of TheRoleplayer everywhere, the living manifestation of sheer [[OffTheRails aggressive campaign derailment]], and widely known as "The man who '''[[DefeatingTheUndefeatable won]]''' at ''Trail of Cthulhu''." When one thinks of what your usual ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' PC is like, one probably doesn't think "Hawaiian shirt-wearing dyslexic/schizophrenic Vietnam veteran who wears [[CoolShades aviator sunglasses]] [[SunglassesAtNight at all times]], talks to [[CompanionCube the stuffed parrot on his shoulder]] in a nigh-incomprehensible Scottish accent, and is motivated for revenge against the cult because [[SkewedPriorities he thinks they stole his garden gnomes.]]" And this is only ''scratching the surface'' of the sheer insanity that the character manifested.
** Group of enemy cultists holding a secret meeting in a heavily guarded building? Henderson steals a tanker trunk that's refueling a nearby gas station, drive it towards the building, jumps out just before the truck crashes and blows the cult (along with two other player characters) to kingdom come, landing safely because he installed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heelys Heelies]] in his combat boots.
** GM is planning to kill you off via lethal sanity damage when you snatch a page of the Necronomicon? Henderson ''rolls the Necronomicon into a blunt and '''smokes it''''', incurring no sanity damage because [[DisabilityImmunity he is already completely fucking insane.]]
** There's a reason that [=1d4chan=] has a scale to measure how any given action by a player has [[OffTheRails disrupted the GM's intended plot.]] That scale is also ''named after Henderson.''
* Elsinore of ''Fanfic/ThatGuyDestroysPsionics'' may be the only PC in history to achieve a full two Hendersons worth of plot derailment. You can't get much more OffTheRails than a PC killing the BigBad ''three times in a row'' using [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the GM's own house rules]] during the ''first'' session.
* ''RolePlay/WeAreOurAvatars'':
** @/{{Katsuun}}'s version of TheGrinch in , after learning the true meaning of Christmas. One example? He wields a freaking Katana into battle against those who wish to harm Christmas.
** Estella Fury is apparently this trope, fighting an EldritchAbomination, [[EyeScream her eyes got horribly maimed by the mere sight of it, and acid burned up her eyes]], which were eaten while she was being bathed in lava, she survived, and then not just shrugged off being Mind Raped, but [[ExtremeOmnivore ate Lava Zombies]], and went to hunt Orc Mummies and rip out Cyclops intestines
* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': A large number of the characters.
** One of the more notable examples being [=TT2000=], who happens to be the original creator, whose inherent effectiveness stems entirely from the total lack of effectiveness that his actions inherently possess.
** Similarly, there's Tricky the clown. Tricky is the only character to repeatedly defy the curse of repetition, and the only listed reason: He's an insane psycho zombie clown.
** Then you have leon and his fish of death. And nimble and his insanity tubas. And pretty much anything that involves Jon Danger in the Wiki/TVTropes session.
* Edgardo from the [[Roleplay/TheBalladOfEdgardo self-titled]] story. He wanders into a forum full of [[NinetiesAntiHero violent, edgy jerks]] playing an [[GenreRefugee idealistic shonen anime brawler]] and, upon immediately arousing the anger of the rest of the players there, attacks them despite being massively under-level and stuck with [[AwesomeButImpractical cripplingly bad]] stats. Then when in the process of trying to take his revenge, he discovers that his supposedly useless ability is actually '''the''' [[DifficultButAwesome strongest build in the entire forum]] and uses it to kill every high-powered magic user and godlike warlord who threatens him by [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower punching them really hard in the face.]] To reiterate: Edgardo's player managed to turn a build that everyone thought was [[TierInducedScrappy functionally useless]] into an [[GameBreaker unstoppably powerful]] attack that no one can resist -- [[AchievementsInIgnorance by accident.]]

* CrazyAwesome/ProfessionalWrestling
* CrazyAwesome/{{Roleplay}}

* CrazyAwesome/{{Webcomics}}

* CrazyAwesome/FanFic
* CrazyAwesome/{{Film}}
* CrazyAwesome/{{Folklore}}

!!Examples

%% Please note that this is about CHARACTERS whose usefulness hinges on patent insanity. Under no circumstances does a work belong here.

* CrazyAwesome/{{Advertising}}

Someone who is '''Crazy Awesome''' is completely nuts, in a hilarious way, and is effective at what they do ''as a result''. In real life they would get fired, get arrested and eventually be committed, or just flat out get maimed or die. Not so in the world of fiction; thanks to the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character liked or loved by the audience. Please note the difference between a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, who is simply out-there and the BunnyEarsLawyer, who is someone who is still effective ''despite'' or ''alongside'' their quirks.

On average, every other action the Crazy Awesome does is [[RuleOfCool cool]], awesome, and/or [[RuleOfFunny funny]], [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]], or a combination thereof. The HeroicComedicSociopath is AxCrazy Awesome. A LargeHam is a verbal Crazy Awesome. As previously mentioned, a character that can "work" without the quirks ([[TheyChangedItNowItSucks but still wouldn't be the same]]) is a BunnyEarsLawyer. If they're just crazy, they're a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. If their crazy awesomeness prevents them from being killed or arrested when anyone else would be, they just benefited from a LunaticLoophole. May be a LethalJokeCharacter. Expect lots of InsaneTrollLogic to be behind their plans and antics. Compare PowerBornOfMadness, EccentricMentor, and TheWonka. Compare and contrast CreepyAwesome.

Someone who is '''Crazy Awesome''' is completely nuts, in a hilarious way, and is effective at what they do ''as a result''. In real life they would get fired, get arrested and eventually be committed. Not so in the world of fiction; thanks to the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character liked or loved by the audience. Please note the difference between a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, who is simply out-there and the BunnyEarsLawyer, who is someone who is still effective ''despite'' or ''alongside'' their quirks.

->''I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.''

On average, every other action the Crazy Awesome does is [[RuleOfCool cool]], awesome, and/or [[RuleOfFunny funny]], [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]], or a combination thereof. The HeroicComedicSociopath is AxCrazy Awesome. A LargeHam is a verbal Crazy Awesome. As previously mentioned, a character that can "work" without the quirks ([[TheyChangedItNowItSucks but still wouldn't be the same]]) is a BunnyEarsLawyer. If (s)he's just crazy, (s)he's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. If his/her crazy awesomeness prevents him/her from being killed or arrested when anyone else would be, (s)he's just benefited from a LunaticLoophole. May be a LethalJokeCharacter. Expect lots of InsaneTrollLogic to be behind their plans and antics. Compare PowerBornOfMadness, EccentricMentor, and TheWonka. Compare and contrast CreepyAwesome.

Someone who is '''Crazy Awesome''' is completely nuts, in a hilarious way, and is effective at what they do ''as a result''. In real life they would get fired, get arrested and eventually just lurk around bus station. Not so in the world of fiction; thanks to the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character liked or loved by the audience. Please note the difference between a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, who is simply out-there and the BunnyEarsLawyer, who is someone who is still effective ''despite'' or ''alongside'' their quirks.

One who is '''Crazy Awesome''' is someone who's completely nuts, in a hilarious way, and is effective at what they do ''as a result''. In real life they would get fired, get arrested and eventually just lurk around bus station. Not so in the world of fiction; thanks to the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character liked or loved by the audience. Please note the difference between a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, who is simply out-there and the BunnyEarsLawyer, who is someone who is still effective ''despite'' or ''alongside'' their quirks.

* CrazyAwesome/CrazyAwesome

One who is '''Crazy Awesome''' is someone who's completely nuts, in a hilarious way, and is effective at what they do ''as a result''. In real life they would get fired, get arrested and eventually just lurk around bus station. Not so in the world of fiction, thanks to the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character liked or loved by the audience. Please note the difference between a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, who is simply out-there and the BunnyEarsLawyer, who is someone who is still effective ''despite'' or ''alongside'' their quirks.

Someone who is Crazy Awesome is someone who's completely nuts, in an amusing way, and is effective at what they do ''because of'' that craziness. In real life they would get fired from whatever job they have, or even arrested—at the very least, the things they do just plain wouldn't ''work''. But somehow, as their every action is generally protected by the RuleOfCool, they manage to be both effective and a character that the audience likes or even loves.

However, this has been subject to much misuse and misunderstanding. A plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is just a weird character. A BunnyEarsLawyer is someone who is still effective ''despite of or alongside'' their quirks, but a Crazy Awesome character is effective ''because'' of his/her quirks.

For example: Let's say TheChosenOne'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 TheChosenOne and can hold his own against the army of {{Mooks}}. So far, he seems like your average BunnyEarsLawyer, right? The traffic cone is an eccentric trait if there ever was one, but it's not necessarily why he's effective. Now suppose about ten episodes into the series, the BigBad decides to drop a bomb on the Hero's [[DoomedHometown 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, only a {{Badass}} BunnyEarsLawyer.

If, instead, Ed pushes an inconspicuous button on the underside of Sheldon's base, and a jack-in-the-box chicken head springs out of the top and shoots FrickinLaserBeams out of its eyes that disintegrate both the bomb ''and'' the jet in the space of five seconds, ''then'' Ed Smith (and Sheldon) has become Crazy Awesome.

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.

!!'''Note:''' This {{trope}} has been subjected to some misuse. Please read this article before listing it on a work's YMMV page.

However, this trope has been subject to much misuse and misunderstanding. A plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is just a weird character. A BunnyEarsLawyer is someone who is still effective ''despite of or alongside'' their quirks, but a Crazy Awesome character is effective ''because'' of his/her quirks.

%% Please note that this trope is about CHARACTERS whose usefulness hinges on patent insanity. Under no circumstances does a work belong here.

On average, every other action the Crazy Awesome does is [[RuleOfCool cool]], awesome, and/or [[RuleOfFunny funny]], [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]], or a combination thereof. The HeroicComedicSociopath is AxeCrazy Awesome. A LargeHam is a verbal Crazy Awesome. As previously mentioned, a character that can "work" without the quirks ([[TheyChangedItNowItSucks but still wouldn't be the same]]) is a BunnyEarsLawyer. If (s)he's just crazy, (s)he's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. If his/her crazy awesomeness prevents him/her from being killed or arrested when anyone else would be, (s)he's just benefited from a LunaticLoophole. May be a LethalJokeCharacter. Expect lots of InsaneTrollLogic to be behind their plans and antics. Compare PowerBornOfMadness, EccentricMentor, and TheWonka. Compare and contrast CreepyAwesome.

What separates this character from being a plain old {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, BunnyEarsLawyer and the like is that it is ''because'' of his/her [[RefugeInAudacity extravagant]] madness that the Crazy Awesome can both [[RuleOfFunny function in the work]] and have such appeal.

For example: let's say TheChosenOne'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 TheChosenOne and can hold his own against the army of {{Mooks}}. So far, he seems like your average BunnyEarsLawyer, 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 BigBad decides to drop a bomb on the Hero's [[DoomedHometown 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}} BunnyEarsLawyer.

Patrick Jane from "The Mentalist." I'm relatively certain that 90% of the confessions he gets out of suspects would be inadmissable in court (and with good reason), but the Rule of Awesome seems to keep the viewers from really giving too many shits about that.

Someone who is Crazy Awesome is someone who's completely nuts, in an amusing way, and is effective at what (s)he does ''because of'' that craziness. In real life (s)he'd get fired from whatever job (s)he has/would have, or even arrested—at the very least, the things (s)he does just plain wouldn't ''work''. But somehow, as his/her every action is generally protected by the RuleOfCool, (s)he manages to be both effective and a character that the audience likes or even loves.