History Main / CrazyIsCool

* [[ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight'': Lex Nova, the deranged vampiric detective. He monologues out loud to himself without knowing it, and seems to truly believe that he's in some kind of insane detective novel. He still somehow manages to be effective, and really, one of the [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire nicest vampires in the series]].

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': Minsc, especially in the second game, as his already-tenuous grip on sanity seems to slip further and [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]] really [[LargeHam throws himself into the role]]. This is, after all, a character who believes in solving problems with swords, thinks "shirking" is a painful sharp thing you do to people who would steal nuts from squirrels, and gets most of his inspiration from a ''hamster''. A miniature giant space hamster no less. Who is mighty and wise and probably quite stringy.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

* Italy's infamous Gabriele D'Annunzio. On the crazy side, he ([[UrbanLegend supposedly]]) had his lower ribs removed to be able to use his mouth when masturbating (among his many antics). On the awesome side, his record during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: he charged at an Austro-Hungarian trench line while wearing a BadassCape and with [[GunsAkimbo a revolver in each hand]] (yes, Italian military issue revolvers of the era were underpowered, but he remained the only one to actually do it) and a combat knife in his mouth, in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bakar's Mockery]] he took three MAS (speedboats with torpedoes strapped on them) in the most well-defended harbor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fired torpedoes at the moored ships (that survived only because the Austro-Hungarian admiralty [[ProperlyParanoid had placed torpedo nets everywhere just in case]]) and left [[IShallTauntYou mocking]] [[MessageInABottle messages in bottles]] (in the attempt to convince the ships into giving chase and be torpedoed by a waiting force as they left the bay of the port. The Austro-Hungarians didn't fall for it), and when the Austro-Hungarians carried a demonstrative bombing raid on Milan he ''personally'' led a raid on ''Vienna'' and dropped propaganda leaflets (a quarter with a poetic message written by D'Annunzio itself that was considered a war crime and so wasn't translated, and the others with a more understandable message that could be resumed in "You've lost the war, you're fighting against the whole world, surrender while you still can and before we change our minds and return with bombs") to prove that they could bomb the Austrian capital itself but were too civilized to actually do it. Oh, and he couldn't actually fly a plane, he was there merely because he had the idea.

** Topping the list we've got Dante. Even the most cheesy and narm-tastic lines sound badass when spoken by a red longcoat-wearing, gun-slinging, BFS-wielding half-demon Demon Hunter. Anyone who can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UeC6a-GveU&t=6m6s defeat a horde of hellbeasts with half a slice of pizza in his mouth]] deserves to be listed here. And in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3: Fate of Two Worlds'', he fights none other than the equally crazy awesome Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}}. Lampshaded by Dante himself if he beats Deadpool:

* Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} being crazy awesome was key in defeating the [[Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster Taskmaster]] in hand-to-hand comba- '''[[HostileShowTakeover *rghk!*]]''' ''Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nobody but me gets to talk about me! It's just too fun! [[BlatantLies Now I don't mean to brag,]] but beating Tasky's no small feat, considering that his powers allow him to copy and second-guess anyone's fighting style, including, but not limited to, Captain America, Daredevil, and any other fighter in the entire Franchise/MarvelUniverse. However, I am so [[strike:crazy]] sexy, I don't ''need'' [[ConfusionFu a recognizable fighting style]]. My brain having exploded from my sheer, goddamn handsomeness also [[InsanityImmunity makes me near-impossible to mind-read or mind-control]], and let it be known that I was once (FYI, this "once" I'm talking about started when [[MyRealDaddy Joe Kelly adopted me]], and it's still going) the only person who could save humanity by a combination of this and my willingness to ''[[GroinAttack kick Captain America inna nerts]]'' to do so.''
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'''s protagonist Spider Jerusalem.
** After beating the snot out of a [[LawyerFriendlyCameo thinly-veiled]] grown-up Charlie Brown to get to a source of information, he throws another of her bodyguards out a barroom window... and onto a dog who is a dead ringer for Snoopy. (This being ''Transmetropolitan'', it might even be an intelligent dog.) Whose corpse he claims [[ExtremeOmnivore as his dinner]].
** And that's just Spider winding ''up'' to his "A" game. This is the man who owns a [[BrownNote Bowel Disruptor,]] [[note]] The settings of wich are, in order of least to most potent... loose, watery, fiery, burning anal geyser, rectal volcano, prolapse, unspeakable gut horror, shat into unconsciousness, and fatal intestinal maelstrom. Yes, this means that he can make you crap yourself to death. [[/note]] has a phone grown into his forehead, started the series by blowing up his former local bar, [[RefugeInAudacity overthrew the corrupt president of the United States]], and once got away with [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking writing an entire article consisting only of the word Fuck copy-pasted over and over. 8000 times.]]
* Snowflame from ''[[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians New Guardians]]'' #2 is a {{supervillain}} whose powers come from snorting massive amounts of cocaine, worships cocaine, and is basically the religious leader of a cult that also worships cocaine.
* [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], especially in "The Long Halloween" which involves the Joker attempting to steal Christmas. While reciting [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas a certain Dr. Seuss book]], no less.
* [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast The Creeper]] ''definitely'' fits the bill. Imagine a ChaoticGood (sometimes) guy with bad jokes, exchanging JokerImmunity for NighInvulnerability, and the hots for Characters/{{Harley Quinn|TheCharacter}}, and you get the man the Joker considers, with no irony whatsoever, "a LUNATIC!!!"
* ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick, the living cartoon. Defeats a rampaging vigilante at the mall by kissing him on the lips. Foils a five-year-old MadScientist with a spanking. Stops a rampaging irradiated nuclear bum (no, that's not a typo) with a cup of coffee. And tops it all off by ''[[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0_ynVlwAg9U/RgXoGtCU7pI/AAAAAAAABW0/eWYHK-O8dM0/s1600-h/9d.jpg dumping a bucket of water on Ghost Rider's flaming head.]]''

* Creator/BenTemplesmith's ''ComicBook/WelcomeToHoxford'' brings us delusional serial killer Ray Delgado, whose first reaction to a werewolf snarling in his face is to [[NowThatsUsingYourTeeth bite off its tongue]]. Of course, [[PowerBornOfMadness he did believe himself to be Kronos, Lord of the Titans at the time]]. He later decides he's a werewolf too, challenges the ten foot tall alpha, and successfully chews out its throat.
* Mike Allred's ''ComicBook/{{Madman}}'' is, well, a madman. In the first few pages of his first appearance, he knocks a guy out with a lead-filled yo-yo before prying one of his eyes out and eating it. He was doing this to psych out another malcontent, you see. "Now... be quiet. I'm going to touch you." To be fair to Madman, he threw the eye up when the coast was clear. The point is that he's crazy enough to try anything to get what he wants. Although this is somewhat of a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. Allred didn't even like that scene right after he wrote it. For the rest of the series, Madman was much more childlike.

* ComicBook/MoonKnight, especially when they play up the multiple personalities. He's considered insane by the other superheroes, regularly fights werewolves and ghosts, and is known to fly around in ''a moon-shaped helicopter''. He's also a BadassNormal who once took on [[PhysicalGod Count Nefaria]] in a one-on-one battle armed only with his fists, a set of wrist blades, and a fake Captain America shield. ''And he actually held his own''.
* [[ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight 30 Days of Night]] brings us Lex Nova, the deranged vampiric detective. He monologues out loud to himself without knowing it, and seems to truly believe that he's in some kind of insane detective novel. He still somehow manages to be effective, and really, one of the [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire nicest vampires in the series]].
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has The Frenchman, who might not be legally insane, but certainly acts like he is. While he has his moments of lucidity, and he certainly displays competence in the more cerebral parts of The Boys' line of work, he also often goes into non-sequiturs, is friends with [[{{Tykebomb}} The Female]], and his main contribution to the team is as muscle, AKA putting on his goggles and going apeshit, despite his otherwise genial and mild-mannered nature. While the origins of each other member of The Boys, past and present, have been told during the series, The Frenchman's past as he tells it is not even remotely believable, and the other characters clearly state at the end of his story that he might not be entirely there.
* Groucho from ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' looks identical to [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] and [[PungeonMaster makes puns with pretty much every phrase he says]], [[LamePunReaction often causing groans and rage in the listeners]]. Said puns have sometimes saved the day, with such things as keeping up the morale of people blinded by a mysterious illness, [[ItMakesSenseInContext taming the gremlins that had taken control of the British nuclear arsenal]], and bringing Bloch out of a coma (Bloch had been shot, and the doctors expected him not to pass the night. Then Groucho entered his room and started telling him puns until [[LamePunReaction Bloch woke up screaming for someone to drag the punster out]], [[AllAccordingToPlan exactly as Groucho was planning]]).
* ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin is a comic series that runs on Crazy Is Cool. The first issue has the titular Scud, a robot assassin bought out of a vending machine, fighting a monster with mousetraps for hands, a three-pronged plug for a head, and mouths on it's knees. And it only gets weirder from there, including a cult that worships manliness and unnecessary explosions, an immortal voodoo priest Benjamin Franklin controlling zombie dinosaurs, and a werewolf astronaut looking to gain power from standing on the moon.
* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'''s second long-term villain, Negan is a whirlwind of insanity and awesomeness. His witty dialogue, filled with dark humor and [[SirSwearsalot (many) swear words]], wacky behavior such as deciding whose skull to bash in with a baseball bat with a kid's nursery rhyme, to loving his signature weapon [[CargoShip a little too much]] are just some examples of why he's one of the most beloved characters of the series.
* Sgt. Savage from ''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}'': originally a soldier from the 1940’s, he was transported to the future and proceeded to go totally insane and fall in love with 90’s pop culture. Now he’s an ultra-upbeat [[Creator/RobLiefeld Liefeld]]-style BadassNormal {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who speaks entirely in TotallyRadical dialogue and spends his days fighting ninjas and skateboarders.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': Minsc, especially in the second game, as his already-tenuous grip on sanity seems to slip further and Creator/JimCummings really [[LargeHam throws himself into the role]]. This is, after all, a character who believes in solving problems with swords, thinks "shirking" is a painful sharp thing you do to people who would steal nuts from squirrels, and gets most of his inspiration from a ''hamster''. A miniature giant space hamster no less. Who is mighty and wise and probably quite stringy.

** ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Super Street Fighter IV]]'' gives us Juri [[EvilIsSexy Han]]. A [[KickChick Tae Kwon Do]] fighter who joins the tournament simply [[ForTheEvulz because]] [[BloodKnight she's bored]], and is nothing short of [[AxCrazy f'in insane]], as is evidenced in her ending, when she [[spoiler:overthrows [[PhlebotinumRebel Seth]] and takes over S.I.N]]. She also delivers classic villain lines such as [[DeathCryEcho "I'll have my]] [[WeWillMeetAgain reveeeennnnnggggggeee"!]] when she loses, which is nothing short of hilarious. She tones it down a bit in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', though she's still plenty sadistic.

* Italy's infamous Gabriele D'Annunzio. On the crazy side, he had his lower ribs removed to be able to use his mouth when masturbating (among his many antics). On the awesome side, his record during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: he charged at an Austro-Hungarian trench line while wearing a BadassCape and with [[GunsAkimbo a revolver in each hand]] (yes, Italian military issue revolvers of the era were underpowered, but he remained the only one to actually do it) and a combat knife in his mouth, in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bakar's Mockery]] he took three MAS (speedboats with torpedoes strapped on them) in the most well-defended harbor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fired torpedoes at the moored ships (that survived only because the Austro-Hungarian admiralty [[ProperlyParanoid had placed torpedo nets everywhere just in case]]) and left [[IShallTauntYou mocking]] [[MessageInABottle messages in bottles]] (in the attempt to convince the ships into giving chase and be torpedoed by a waiting force as they left the bay of the port. The Austro-Hungarians didn't fall for it), and when the Austro-Hungarians carried a demonstrative bombing raid on Milan he ''personally'' led a raid on ''Vienna'' and dropped propaganda leaflets (a quarter with a poetic message written by D'Annunzio itself that was considered a war crime and so wasn't translated, and the others with a more understandable message that could be resumed in "You've lost the war, you're fighting against the whole world, surrender while you still can and before we change our minds and return with bombs") to prove that they could bomb the Austrian capital itself but were too civilized to actually do it. Oh, and he couldn't actually fly a plane, he was there merely because he had the idea.

* Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Highlights of his life include his expulsion from the SAS because he blew up a dam in a Wiltshire village as a protest against 20th Century Fox, hacking off his own frostbitten fingers with a power tool, forgetting his own frostbitten toe and leaving it beside his bathtub when it came off, discovering the [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucking]] ''lost city of Ubar'', and [[CoolOldGuy reaching the peak of Everest in his sixties]], but perhaps the best has to be running 7 marathons, in 7 days, on 7 continents, only a few months after a heart attack and bypass operation—and, with doctor's orders not to let his heart go over 130 beats per minute, he forgot his heart monitor.

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** Brainstorm is one of the Autobot's most prevalent weapons makers and also holds the record for creating the most unethical and deadly inventions ever, a fact which he is proud of. There's a fight about to happen? Well he'll be sure to give you some sort of morally dubious gun to do some damage. Such inventions include a gun designed like a children's toy that says catch-phrases when fired, a bomb that demoralizes enemies by thinking they're in a comic, and a devise that "allegedly" accidentally snuffed out a sun. Whirl admits that he could listen to Brainstorm for hours going on about whatever murder machine he's cooked up.

** And then there's Anghel Higure, a bleeding-heart bird who proclaims himself to be a [[FallenAngel fallen servant of God]] and the heroine to be his reincarnated lover who sealed him away eons ago, [[DynamicEntry enters through glass windows instead of doors]], and treats everything around him like some grand battle to be fought or some vile thing containing demon spores that must be eradicated to the tune of epic battle music. No one's quite sure [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what this bird is doped up on]], but whatever it is, it's ''awesome''. [[spoiler: A side comment from Bad Boys Love says that Anghel's body secretes hallucinogenic pheromones that [[RequiredSecondaryPowers Anghel himself is not resistant to]].]] In fact, Anghel Higure's route is the only one in which [[spoiler: Dr. Shuu is actually ''defeated''; all the other routes have you escaping his attentions (knowingly or no) or getting murdered]].

* The Principal is easily a CrazyIsCool character despite his being in the charmingly cutesy ''Manga/HidamariSketch''. The Principal appears completely out of place compared to the other characters, and his actions make him appear more so. For example as The Landlady for the Hidamari apartments strolls by the school gates from across the street she abruptly stops to see The Principal dash towards the gate perfoming three full front flips as he leaps over, perfectly landing next to her and proceeds to thank her for taking care of the students. Another is when Yoshinoya is spraying him with a water gun several times over before The Landlady tosses him his own to which he reacts by dodging Yoshinoya's shots at rapid speed before firing directly at her forehead. In these scenes The Principal's animation style changes drastically from Cutesy to Extremely Serious.
* Pretty much everyone in ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi''; it's basically a CrazyIsCool ''world''. This begins to set in with chapter one, but is firmly established by the point where Junichiro Koizumi sets himself on fire scraping a mahjong tile made of depleted uranium with his fingernail hard enough to scratch the top half millimeter off in a room with too much oxygen.

** Taken to extremes with Kimblee: to sum, a SociopathicSoldier BloodKnight {{Troll}} crossed with the SocialDarwinist and ThePhilosopher. [[spoiler: Even before his death]], he's an unsettlingly realistic example of high-functioning [[TheSociopath sociopathy]]. [[spoiler: He also proves that, in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', both badassery and Crazy Awesomeness need not be influenced by silly things such as death. After being devoured by Pride, he surfaces momentarily, maintaining his identity specifically ''because'' he LovesTheSoundOfScreaming, and pulls off a VillainousRescue, delivering a crushing ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Pride before disappearing into the mass of tortured souls.]] In the flashbacks, he inspired the heroes to redeem themselves and Amestris, and unlike most NiceJobFixingItVillain cases, he probably would have been genuinely proud of their success. Yes, his sense of morality is just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality that screwed up]].
** Ling as well. He actually let [[spoiler:himself become the host of the new Greed to gain a Philosopher's Stone, knowing that he'd have to fight the spirit of a homunculus for control of his own body, for the sake of saving his country (and become the emperor of said country).]]
* Drosselmeyer in ''Anime/PrincessTutu''. His character design is surreal, and he's first introduced to the audience and the main character as an ominous, booming voice, then materializing upside-down in front of her bit-by-bit in a Cheshire Cat fashion. As the series goes on, it becomes QUITE clear that he's absolutely off his nut, and quite enjoying the tragedy playing out in the story. And then, as the series nears its end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:while dead, he exists in a netherworld filled with gears and mocking puppets he controls, has been pulling the strings of everyone in the hopes of making the story have a ShootTheShaggyDog ending, and when his hands were cut off before his death, ''wrote the story controlling the town with his own blood using the stumps of his arms''.]] And he finds the whole thing hilarious.

** Crona. Their weapon of choice is [[spoiler:an enormous shrieking black puppet made of congealed blood that erupts out of her back and can turn into a sword.]] Also their eyes are always, always moving. [[spoiler:This isn't actually by choice, more as a result of having Medusa for a mother, who experimented on them.]]

** Fukuro is a cross between an owl and a man, sees himself as a superhero, has MegaManning powers and, most of all, uses two missiles as a jetpack.

*** Encountered one of the most badass furries ever? Tell him you are going to make him [[spoiler:your cat.]]

*** [[spoiler: Before finding out the guy shared a backstory and friendship with Igneel, he intended to '''EAT''' Atlas Flame, a humongous fire dragon, and use that power up to kick Future!Rogue's ass. From what it looked like, one could believe his plan would have ''worked'']].

** A more humorous example from ''Index'' is the #7 Level 5, Gunha Sogiita. Nicknamed the "Attack Crash", the guy thinks he is and act like a textbook {{Shounen}} hero. His powers include incredible durability, SuperStrength, shockwave creation, and other assorted things... but nobody knows how they work. Even ''he'' doesn't know how they work! He doesn't care either. All he ever does is shout about "GUTS!" and run around beating up troublemakers.

** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Jeremiah]] counts, somewhat. Maybe not at the beginning, but the character slowly evolves from a forgettable and unlikeable foe to a {{Woobie}} to a [[AxCrazy deranged, ferocious]] mild version of this trope in the first season finale. Eventually he calms down and fully evolves into his own in R2 as a somewhat unhinged, but ridiculously competent pilot and fighter.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} being crazy awesome was key in defeating the Taskmaster in hand-to-hand comba- '''[[HostileShowTakeover *rghk!*]]''' ''Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nobody but me gets to talk about me! It's just too fun! [[BlatantLies Now I don't mean to brag,]] but beating Tasky's no small feat, considering that his powers allow him to copy and second-guess anyone's fighting style, including, but not limited to, Captain America, Daredevil, and any other fighter in the entire Franchise/MarvelUniverse. However, I am so [[strike:crazy]] sexy, I don't ''need'' [[ConfusionFu a recognizable fighting style]]. My brain having exploded from my sheer, goddamn handsomeness also [[InsanityImmunity makes me near-impossible to mind-read or mind-control]], and let it be known that I was once (FYI, this "once" I'm talking about started when [[MyRealDaddy Joe Kelly adopted me]], and it's still going) the only person who could save humanity by a combination of this and my willingness to ''[[GroinAttack kick Captain America inna nerts]]'' to do so.''

* ComicBook/TheJoker, especially in "The Long Halloween" which involves the Joker attempting to steal Christmas. While reciting [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas a certain Dr. Seuss book]], no less.
* ComicBook/TheCreeper ''definitely'' fits the bill. Imagine a ChaoticGood (sometimes) guy with bad jokes, exchanging JokerImmunity for NighInvulnerability, and the hots for ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, and you get the man the Joker considers, with no irony whatsoever, "a LUNATIC!!!"

* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Larfleeze, the only member of the Orange Corps of Greed. He had an ImTakingHerHomeWithMe moment with Scar, a corrupted, demonic Guardian who serves [[GrimReaper Nekron]] because.... she was evil, so she was different than other Guardians, so she was worth more. And he really wanted his own Guardian. There's also the fact that his defining character trait, greed, leads to his power being more effective. Unlike the lights of the other Corps, the Orange light of greed is best when wielded by only one person.

*** And because he wasn't mad enough, it eventually turns out [[spoiler:he'd been pretending to be a mole for the Decepticons for centuries, if not more, just to scam them into giving him the parts he needed to build a time machine. And he gets away with it.]]

* [[ComicBook/ThirtyDaysOfNight 30 Days of Night]] brings us Lex Nova, the deranged vampiric detective. He monologues out loud to himself without knowing it, and seems to truly believe that he's in some kind of insane detective novel. He still somehow manages to be effective, and really, one of the [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire nicest vampires in the series]].

* Groucho from ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' looks identical to [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] and [[PungeonMaster makes puns with pretty much every phrase he says]], [[LamePunReaction often causing groans and rage in the listeners]]. Said puns have sometimes saved the day, with such things as keeping up the morale of people blinded by a mysterious illness, [[ItMakesSenseInContext taming the gremlins that had taken control of the British nuclear arsenal]], and bringing Bloch out of a coma (Bloch had been shot, and the doctors expected him not to pass the night. Then Groucho entered his room and started telling him puns until [[LamePunReaction Bloch woke up screaming for someone to drag the punster out]], [[JustAsPlanned exactly as Groucho was planning]]).
* ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin is a comic series that runs on CrazyIsCool. The first issue has the titular Scud, a robot assassin bought out of a vending machine, fighting a monster with mousetraps for hands, a three-pronged plug for a head, and mouths on it's knees. And it only gets weirder from there, including a cult that worships manliness and unnecessary explosions, an immortal voodoo priest Benjamin Franklin controlling zombie dinosaurs, and a werewolf astronaut looking to gain power from standing on the moon.

** Perhaps the finest example of this is in the sequel's side story, ''Unfinished Business'', where he responds to the imminent Battle of New Orleans by ''turning the city's bedrock into a giant amp'' and blasting out first ''We Will Rock You'', then the ''Film/Shrek2'' version of ''Holding Out For A Hero''. He tops this all off with coordinating the counter-measures to the global plus scale outburst of WildMagic by the ArcVillain by taking it up a notch, using a newly manifest Swamp Thing to hijack [[spoiler: her]] skyscraper sized spell magnifying amp and act as a living instrument, playing tunes specifically selected to a) ground out the magic, b) distract the ArcVillain, c) annoy the ''shit'' out of her.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6985795/1/Xerosis Xerosis]]'' runs on this-- surviving the apocalypse and being the star of a PeggySue fic has warped Harry's mind and with Voldemort as his partner and Luna as his sidekick they come up with the perfect "muggle solution" [[spoiler: to move all wizards to the moon and leave the Earth to the PunyEarthlings.]]

** Though they serve as {{Mooks}} for Immortan Joe, the War Boys have a huge fan following because of their savage fighting skills, meme-worthy lingo, and the fact that they consider an epic death to be the highest honor. Summed up best by War Boy Nux as he drives his interceptor into a sandstorm and sees his mates' vehicles exploding in the air:

* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': Almost all of the characters are overshadowed by Willy Wonka himself in the latter half of the film, due to his over-the-top inventions, sardonic sense of humor, and a legendary performance by the late Gene Wilder.

*** Rocket Raccoon is a TriggerHappy HeroicComedicSociopath who gets DrunkWithPower at the idea of MoreDakka, [[MadBomber hoards bombs in a shoebox,]] is obsessed with stealing random trinkets from his enemies and even people he's currently working for [[StickyFingers just because he finds it funny]] and hangs out with a talking tree. No wonder he's already the EnsembleDarkhorse even before the movie opens.

** Cohen the Barbarian. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis He tried. To blow up. The realm of the Gods. Almost succeeded.]] In fact, only failed, because ''he'' stopped it. Later, he [[spoiler:decided that he wasn't dead...so he wasn't. The Valkyries tried to take him to Valhalla, but instead he ''mugged'' them and rode their flying horses into the stars to look for a space fantasy setting so that he could keep on barbarianing.]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Eldest Brother Gruff]]:''' Likest thou jelly within thy donut?\\

* ''Series/DeadliestCatch''

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''

* ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'': Yayoi follows in her grandfather's footsteps when she [[spoiler: ''jumps into Plezuon's open mouth while screaming "Brave in!"'' so he can help save the day.]]
* John Crichton of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' becomes like this as the series progresses. One particularly awesome example is [[spoiler:dancing on a table in front of Scarran Emperor Staleek with a NUCLEAR BOMB strapped to his hip.]] One of Staleek's attendants calls Crichton insane, to which Aeryn responds, while grinning and having eyes only for her nutty boyfriend, "Isn't it fun?"
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': The titluar character is a guy who, instead of just questioning the witness, pretends to be an old friend of her purportedly deceased husband and then more or less purposely gets things wrong while talking about him just so the widow will correct him and tell him more than he’d get out of a standard interview. He also keeps a [[CompanionCube skull]] on his mantle that he apparently used as his sounding board before meeting John, he spattered himself with pig’s blood for a case and claimed it was tedious, and one time he played ''{{TabletopGame/Cluedo}}'', he insisted that the only possible solution was for the ''victim'' to have done it. He has referred to the poisoning of children with mercury as “neat” because of ''how'' it was done, and walks around with a mind palace that, when accessed, can feed back to him practically everything he’s ever known that he considered important enough to save (including [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]). Oh, and did we mention that he refers to his brain as a hard drive and refuses to remember basic astronomy because it would clutter said mind palace up? (This, as well as the pig’s blood, is a reference to the [[Literature/SherlockHolmes original stories]].) Add in the fact that he gets himself out of arrest by [[spoiler: ''taking his best friend hostage'']], and the man has CrazyIsCool coming out of his ears.

* Hooch from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' is one of the more popular minor characters due to him being very AxeCrazy.

*** The Ninth Doctor [[DoesNotLikeGuns swaps guns for bananas]] and Ten -- who defeats an army of Cybermen ''and'' Daleks with a pair of 3-D glasses.

** Creator/MichelleGomez's Master...er, [[GenderBender Mistress]] is cranking up her own brand of this; dressing like a Gothic Mary Poppins, fishing for compliments from a {{Mook}} before killing him and creating a Cyberman army as a ''gift'' to her old frenemy The Doctor to try and impress him. And she's genuinely hurt (well as genuinely as The Master can be) [[UnwantedGiftPlot when he treats the whole idea like a]] HomemadeSweaterFromHell.

* Dr. K, who has twice taken out TheDragon using a ''[[MusicalAssassin violin]]'', and is so [[NoSocialSkills forced and unnatural in social situations]] that it goes past awkward, past being simply funny, and into ''pure awesome''. One of the two violinnings was with an amplifier to create a sonic weapon, and once was by ''using the violin to remotely control the base's ventilation system''. She also keeps a laser cannon in the refrigerator (ready to fire the moment the door is opened), has created an experimental clothes-destroying weapon, and once blackmailed the person who is ostensibly her superior with the threat of her maybe kinda possibly having worked on an undetectable chemical that causes a case of diarrhea "a thousand times more extreme than the worst case of dysentery ever recorded." If it was anyone else, it would sound ridiculous and be seen as a harmless joke. With her, he caved instantly.

* Ork freebooter [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Kaptin Bludflagg]]'s whole crew qualifies. The aforementioned Mr. Nailbrain keeps the aforementioned battlewagon, and has a radar-like thing device he calls his "gitfinder", which can apparently be set to [[{{Elfeminate}} "Panzee"]], Spookums is one of the few sneaky orks you'll ever (not) see, despite carrying enough explosives to level several buildings at once and not being afraid to throw about half of them at anyone he ambushes, and once tried to [[NoodleIncident hide in lava]], and Brikkfist has a penchant for strapping huge rockets to his back for a chainaxe-assisted DynamicEntry at will, and would gladly use one of the Imperium's planetbuster missiles for this if he could get his claws on one. How effective is this bunch of loonies? [[spoiler: They take down a centuries-old ascended marine, who used to be a Chaptermaster, an Eldar craftworld, a good chunk of several legions, among others, leaving a good part of the sector in ruins, and loot a gigantic Space Hulk, taking it as their new [[CoolShip krooza]] and teleporting away to get themselves some new victims while Aurelia's still burning]]. And might we remind you, the Kaptin did all this for a hat.

** Topping the list we've got Dante. Even the most cheesy and narm-tastic lines sound badass when spoken by a red longcoat-wearing, gun-slinging, BFS-wielding half-demon Demon Hunter. Anyone who can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UeC6a-GveU&t=6m6s defeat a horde of hellbeasts with half a slice of pizza in his mouth]] deserves to be listed here. And in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3: Fate of Two Worlds'', he fights none other than the equally crazy awesome ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Lampshaded by Dante himself if he beats Deadpool:

** Cicero in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' doubles as this and CreepyAwesome. Despite dressing as a jester and coming across as nuttier than Sheogorath, his insanity belies the fact that he's a highly skilled assassin of the Dark Brotherhood. The advantages of this are obvious - in fact, [[spoiler:in the Brotherhood questline, he uses his theatricality to pull a Wounded Gazelle Gambit ''and'' a Xanatos Gambit simultaneously. After he completely snaps and you're tasked with hunting him down, he pretends to be dying to make you either leave him alone or drop your guard trying to finish him off.]]

* [[VideoGame/AlphaProtocol Steven Heck]]. It's not the fact that he's willing to torture his employees to find his car keys. It's not the insane conspiracy theories. Its not the penchant for fire, or [[WordSaladTitle the funny names he gives his operations]], and or his capacity for use of the ImprovisedWeapon (including decapiting people with soccer balls). No, it's the fact that he [[spoiler:[[CrazyPrepared welded a minigun onto a subway car and strafed a subway terminal when Mike Thorton hired him to play fire support.]]]] He's a fun guy.

** Qrow's introduction consists of him turning up drunk to goad Winter Schnee into a fight, and then keeping pace with her the entire time. He enjoys beating his nieces at video games, telling them inappropriate stories, and is one of the best Huntsmen alive despite the alcholism.
** Tyrian is quite literally LaughingMad, is introduced taunting Cinder's injuries and revelling in the chance to hunt down Ruby Rose; he gets disappointed when he can't kill, becomes frighteningly insane when he disappoints his boss, and fights in a wild, high-speed, dance-like manner that makes him one of the most dangerous, crazy and enjoyable villains in the show. He can even block sniper fire with his tail without looking.

* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'': Scarlet, even more so once [[spoiler:her sisters start helping.]] For starters, she once made a lawn mower design that incorporated a ''black hole'' and, more recently, cracked perpetual motion with a [[BlandNameProduct Slanky]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' makes repeated mentions of Dr. Bowman, some manner of programming, computational, and biochemical genius (in that he designed the brain maps for the setting's {{Uplifted Animal}}s and, unexpectedly, its robots) who is also implied to be incredibly secretive and stubborn--there are over 10,000 false identities claiming to be him. That's weird, but that's not why he's crazy awesome. [[spoiler:We're finally [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02467.htm introduced to him]], and he turns out to be an ''uplifted chimpanzee''. He's kept in an isolated base at the south pole of planet Jean, has a shock collar attached to him, has his own "tantrum room" to vent his frustrations, and is considered so dangerous that he requires toxic gas, barbed wire, and capture drones to contain. It turns out that these are entirely necessary, as not only does he have a bit of an ego but he proves both clever and dexterous enough to pick a high-security metal door inside 30 seconds and ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02464.htm hack a coffee machine]]'' so he can back-talk the base's commander. In spite of this, he happily offers to wear the shock collar so Florence doesn't feel threatened by his species' notoriously uncouth behavior, and when the base commander tries to take Florence back (her presence alone is ''causing'' a GambitPileup), Dr. Bowman holds ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02469.htm himself]]'' hostage so that he can take a moment talk to Florence, and it's implied he's held himself hostage before]]. Wow.
* ''Webcomic/InWilysDefense'' gives us the one and only Freeze Man! To name a few things, his first line in the comic is [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=373 "Hello, ground! Nice to see you again!"]], he's [[ComedicSociopathy hilariously violent]] for the sole reason that he's ''just plain insane'', {{Satan}} lives in his head, he constantly refers to himself as "Franchise/{{Batman}}", and he's [[MediumAwareness aware]] that he's both in a [[AnimatedActors TV show]] ''and'' a webcomic.

* [[Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} Robin]] [[Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}} DeSanto]]: [[GenkiGirl Hyperactive]] [[SuperSpeed speedster]]. [[SuperSoldier War hero]]. Was elected to Congress three times, twice because she appealed to the desires of toy collectors and once because she flashed her boobs out a balcony. Tried to pass a bill to outlaw cancer. Once built a RubeGoldbergDevice to [[ShipperOnDeck get two men to bang each other]]. [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2008/comic/book-7/10-palin-comparison/wolves/ Tried to upstage Sarah Palin by hunting wolves with rocket launchers and machine guns while jumping out of a helicopter on a surfboard wearing nothing but a jetpack and a camouflage bikini]]. And later won a fight by shoving Faz ''up Sarah Palin's ass''. If all that doesn't qualify her, than the definition is clearly broken.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Jade Sinclair, codename Generator . What has she ''not'' done? She has defeated opponents with her flying Hello Kitty makeup compact. She once defeated a guy in power armor who was holding her hostage ''by impaling herself on his knife''. She took over part of a Syndicate hardsite by making everyone think she had turned dead [[{{Mook}} thugs]] into ''zombies''. She let a MadScientist experiment on her, including ''cutting her foot off!'' (She got better.) When she shouted, "People! I am not crazy! And the voice in my head agrees with me!" her friends laughed, because it's ''exactly true''.

* Franklin Sherman from WesternAnimation/TheCritic is admired for being a wealthy businessman, his charity work, and for being a scholar, former governor, and Cabinet member, but he is completely nuts, he does and says the most random and crazy things, like gluing furniture to the ceiling, sticking a banana in his ear to feed the monkey that he claims lives inside his head, and claiming to be the first black female head of the Ku Klux Klan among other things, according to his wife Eleanor he began acting like that the moment he had his first alcoholic beverage.

** Old Man [=McGucket=]. He's not just the self-declared local kook, he's also a MadScientist who builds things like [[spoiler: a giant mechanical replica of a local lake monster.]]

** The DCAU's other Ditko creation is fairly awesome too. ComicBook/TheCreeper has your basic superhuman strength, stamina, reflexes, etc. But while he's a good guy, what makes him a problem for other characters is that he is ''even crazier than the Joker''. He is in fact the only person that the Joker refuses to fight.

** The ''Unlimited'' version of Toyman is about the only guy in that world that can beat the crap out of other supervillains with a ''yo-yo''.
* Varrick from WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra is a brilliant inventor and charming businessman... who decides his business partners with staring contests, hides from the law inside a taxidermized platypus bear, and comes up with new ideas by hanging upside down after eating chile peppers. He's also self-aware enough to recognize that he's likely to end up in jail one day, so he [[CrazyPrepared builds himself a super-comfy cell in the local prison]]. With a hang glider stored inside just in case a hole opens in one of the walls, somehow [[note]]Like one did in the finale of Book 2.[[/note]], and he can escape. By the time of Book 4, he's aware of how other people view him, and uses that to his advantage to pull off several {{Bavarian Fire Drill}}s.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask''. If it's not funny, he won't pull it off to beat the VillainOfTheWeek. He is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is very much like a little kid who just wants to have fun but he does a good job of being a superhero and his enemies are very afraid of him to the point of holding a meeting of how they should get rid of him only that they find out that he found out where they were hiding and he defeats all of them in a few seconds. The Mask is also powerful as well conjuring things out of thin air and uses them to defeat the supervillains that attack the city he lives in and protect the people who live in it as well and as a Troll he uses it to trick his enemies into thinking he is dead or defeated only to reveal himself at the last moment and defeats them in the end putting himself at the top showing that he is genuinely very smart despite behaving and acting like a kid and changes his appearances as well to fit any situations that is appropriate for it. His forms are brilliant in defeating his enemies while being hilarious at the same time which shows just how creative The Mask is with his insanity and his knowledge of pop culture showing why The Mask is very efficient with his job as a superhero.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'': The Duke of Detroit. He has [[spoiler: a tank that shoots limos. As in, it uses limos as ''ammo''.]]

** Pinkie Pie: Major {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, tends to do most of the musical numbers, and is one of two characters with MediumAwareness. She can also [[TheCatCameBack pop up pretty much anywhere]] and break the rules of magic in the series through operating by inexplicable cartoon logic. To the point that there's an episode where Twilight decides to find out ''exactly'' how Pinkie's Pinkie-ness works, and by the end it seems the moral of the story is that [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow there are things pony was not meant to know]]. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite "Sweet and Elite"]] introduces us to her Party Cannon. '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It shoots parties.]]''' Not as the target, as ''[[AbnormalAmmo ammo.]]'' In the two-parter "A Canterlot Wedding", she [[spoiler:uses said Party Cannon as a ''weapon'' to beat the crap out of changelings!]] In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess "Secret of My Excess"]], she attempts to defend Sugarcube Corner from a rampaging dragon by throwing ''cakes'' at him.

-->'''Isabella:''' [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun You built a roller coaster through downtown!]] You made giant tree house robots - you traveled through time, for crying out loud! ''Twice!''

* The SpacePirate Hondo Ohnaka from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has earned this as of late. Not only does he have the balls to snark off to not just Dooku, not just Grievous, but also [[spoiler: '''''Darth fucking Maul''''']], he just so happens to fight off droids not with a blaster...but with a '''''sword'''''.

** One mustn't forget Wheeljack, a mad scientist who creates weapons of mass destruction and transforming robot dinosaurs, and he's a ''good guy''. Said robotic dinosaurs are crazy themselves, being fire-breathing robot dinosaurs that transform into robots, have no respect for the main hero, don't care what they smash, and they're ''also'' good guys.

** Hunter Gathers. The man [[spoiler:faked a sex change]] to avoid capture, for one.[[note]]For the record [[spoiler: the sex change wasn't fake. He actually had a sex change operation. ''Twice''.]][[/note]] He's also Brock's mentor, and a truly badass one at that.
-->'''Hunter:''' ...Are you still ready for anything?\\

** Then there's Hunter's boss... General Timothy Treister. General Treister outstrips Hunter Gathers by miles: the season 4 finale has Treister [[spoiler:pretending to think he was a 'hulk' to root out traitors in his organization. He then reveals that he engineered the circumstances for Hunter Gather's defection to see if he had the balls to replace Treister. And he tops it off by revealing he has cancer, and launching himself into space in a rocket wearing nothing but an American flag and a sticky note that says 'Fix It!', addressed to alien races that may be able to cure him]]. Then we get ''All This And Gargantua-2'', where [[spoiler: not only did Treister survive getting launched into space, but he picked up [[TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight gamma rays that cured his cancer]] ''and'' [[HulkingOut turned him into an actual hulk.]]]]

* Doc Brown in ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''. He builds all manner of gadgets, including a time machine. Built out of a [[CoolCar [=DeLorean=]]] because he wanted to do it with style. To get it up to the eighty eight miles an hour to time travel is almost as impossible as time travel. The idea to make it possible came to him after he hit his head on a toilet seat. He gets the plutonium needed for it to work by ripping off Libyan terrorists with a suitcase full of pinball machine parts, claiming it's a bomb they asked him to build for them. On its test he has himself and Marty stand right in the car's path believing the car would go through time rather than run them over. In the past, he slides down an electric cable from the clock tower and electrocutes himself to get the time machine to work when the cable got disconnected just before it was due to be hit by a bolt of lightning. When he is accidentally sent to the Old West, he has Western Union deliver a letter to Marty at the exact time and place where the [=DeLorean=] malfunctioned, seventy years later. He built a giant SteamPunk machine to make ice cubes and a sniper rifle out of a telescope. And at the end after swearing off time travel, he builds another time machine, built ''out of a flying locomotive,'' with his children Jules and Verne and his wife from a hundred years ago. [[CoolOldGuy That should do it.]]

** Cohen the Barbarian. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis He tried. To blow up. The realm of the Gods. Almost succeeded.]] In fact, only failed, because ''he'' stopped it. Later, he [[spoiler:decided that he wasn't dead...so he wasn't. The Valkyries tried to take him to Valhalla, but instead he ''mugged'' them and rode their flying horses of into the stars to look for a space fantasy setting so that he could keep on barbarianing.]]

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* {{Music/Trivium}} put an epic guitar solo on top of an epic solo in an 8-minute [[EpicRocking Epic Rocker]] which was filled with ''arguably crazier shit'' like USING TAPPING FOR RIFFAGE. "The Crusade" is [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] ''amazing''.
* PowerMetal in general revolves around the principle that lyrics [[RuleOfCool need only sound cool, whether they make even the slightest amount of sense is completely unimportant]].
** [[Music/DragonForce OUR SWORDS ARE MADE]] [[CaptainObvious OF STEEEEL]].[[note]]Wait, how is that obvious? Swords could be made of IIIRROOONN or BRROOOONNZZE or even, in some parts of the world, OOOBSSIIIDIIIAAANN.[[/note]]
* Music/NickiMinaj and all ''twenty-eight'' of her alter-egos.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpjQFBuQQM The [[Music/TheWho Who]]. Most notably Keith Moon, who embodied the "crazy drummer" stereotype. He wasn't called "Moon the Loon" for no reason. One of his most famous anecdotes: as the band's limo was halfway to the airport, he suddenly screamed "STOP! We have to go back to the hotel immediately!" When they got back, Moon raced up to their former suite, tore a TV set from the wall and threw it through the window into the swimming pool below. His comment? "I almost forgot to do that. We can go now."
** Along with his already CrazyIsCool [[AchievementsInIgnorance unlearned drum (anti-)technique and pioneering use of massive drum kits in rock]], Moon broke his two front teeth diving from his hotel room to an empty swimming pool on his eighteenth birthday, was known for destroying toilets with explosives, throwing TVs out of windows and wrecking hotel rooms (the band were banned from Holiday Inns as a result), crashed through a corrugated iron roof at a Carlton Athletic Arena concert as a grand entrance, was incapacitated in the middle of another concert after an near-fatal overdose of animal tranquilizer, crashed his Rolls-Royce (he had no driver's license) into his swimming pool and swam to the surface during a party, and a joke of his that a supergroup he and John Entwistle was to form with Jimmy Page "going down like a lead zeppelin" would lead to [[Music/LedZeppelin]] getting its band name. An incident where he unknowingly overloaded his drum kit with explosives during the Who's appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour to the point it singed Pete Townshend's hair and damaged his hearing permanently (Pete partially blames his tinnitus on this event) and causing Bette Davis, who was waiting in the wings, to faint into Mickey Rooney's arms.. Oh, and Animal from [[Franchise/TheMuppets]] was based on him. [[TearJerker Unfortunately]], this recklessness might have been the byproduct of being an ADD/hyperactive case; it cost him his marriage, led to his paunchy figure in his last years, and ironically, he died from taking an accidental overdose of the pills he took to cure him of his alcoholism. Moon was taking steps to get his life back together when he died.
* And you know what? [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic]]. This is a guy who writes songs about bologna and Star Wars, turns popular music into polka songs on every album and once made a movie where Michael Richards blasted a kid in the face with a firehose. He's had ten gold albums, six platinums, three grammys, nine nominations and has [[WeirdAlEffect outlasted many of the ''real'' artists he's parodied]].
** And provides the voice for the ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated]]'' incarnation of the aforementioned Wreck-Gar.
*** Speaking of animated incarnations, his [WesternAnimation/[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave And The Bold]] incarnation [[AsHimself was himself]]. And he defeated a supervillain. [[DidYouJustPunchOuCthulhu By playing his accordion]].
** His band deserves a mention, too; they're good enough to play literally ''any'' kind of music, and play it ''well'', and they're "just" making parody music.
* Singer, model and actress Grace Jones fits this trope from beginning to end. She's well-known for playing May Day in the 007 movie ''[[Film/AViewToAKill]]'', in which her character ''jumped off the Eiffel Tower in a parachute''. Most awesomely, this is something she'd probably do in real life. If you're skeptic about this, just check out [http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/86897/Grace+Jones.jpg this picture], used as cover art for her album ''Island Life'', or [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/15949517/Grace+Jones+Sunday+Times+2.jpg this picture]], or watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-skp6ZLSgg&feature=related this video]]. Or search for anything related to her. She's just that awesome. Oh, by the way, she's 61.
* {{Music/Bjork}} and Music/ToriAmos are both eccentric in different ways, and that's what makes them [[CrazyIsCool ‘’crazy’’ awesome]].
** Likewise, [[Music/KateBush]].
* {{Music/Pink}}. Alecia Moore = [[CrazyIsCool Crazy Awesome]], ''especially'' in concert. She did a world concert tour for her "I'm Not Dead" album, and at every venue sang [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbgWXNlIsU "Fingers" while doing a 'Cirque de Soleil' act forty feet above an ''unpadded'' stage. With no net if she fell]]. Even real Cirque de Soleil performers don't perform songs at the same time! ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stsDXki__U She did something similar at Series/TheGrammys, but with her song "Glitter In The Air"]].) This tour, she's singing a song and simultaneously doing a trapeze act that starts with her being lifted into the air blindfolded.
* Music/[VanCanto is an a cappella band. ''A HeavyMetal a cappella band.''
** More specifically, their subgenre is Hero/ PowerMetal, which focuses on making everything sound as [[RuleOfCool epic as possible]]. Most bands need [[OrchestralBombing orchestra]] and tons of studio magic to pull it off. This group accomplishes it with 5 vocalists and a drummer. Their "lead guitar" vocalist performs guitar solos which sound almost dead on like a real guitar, with the only vocal modification being his microphone fed through a guitar amp. They held auditions for an a cappella drummer while forming the band, and while it was possible to emulate the instrument, every auditioner passed out trying to keep up with the rapid double bass pedals. Also unlike most a cappella groups, they don't focus on covers. More than half of their material is original, spanning three studio albums. According to an interview, their live performances are usually met with confusion and laughter at first, but singing along and roaring applause by the end.
* Music/OzzyOsbourne, through his entire life. His escapades include: Biting the head off a bat, biting the head off of two doves at a meeting with record execs, pissing on the Alamo, shooting all of his chickens and lighting their remains on fire, giving a Great Dane cocaine (which made it expel every particle of shit in its body and frantically run around for three days straight), snorting a line of ants, asking Betty Ford where the bar is at the Betty Ford Clinic and blacking out, obliviously pissing out the window of [[Def Leppard]]'s dressing room onto the fans lined up to get in, taking a shit in the elevator of a posh hotel and waking up in the middle of a busy interstate miles from his previous location. The cap to all of this is getting in a wild man contest with [[Music/MotleyCrue]] and winning by appearing on stage stone drunk wearing a dress, lifting up the dress to reveal white tighty whities and screaming "LETS GO FUCKING CRAZY!". After that tour everyone involved had to go to a treatment center.
** You forgot the part where he pissed in the Alamo while wearing his wife's dress because Sharon tried to stop him from going out drunk by hiding his clothes.
*** And when he walked down a street dragging an old shoe (that he got from a dumpster) on a leash, carrying an empty guitar case. And took three times the normal dose of sedatives to be put to sleep for a colonoscopy. He watched for a moment and in his book comments that he was "glued to ''Journey To The Centre Of My Arse'' on the screen".
* {{Music/Buckethead}}. At first sight, arche-typical BunnyEarsLawyer, but (speaking of Ozzy) one look at his [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] entry suggests something greater.
* Yamantaka Eye. Best known for his work with Boredoms and as the singer for Naked City, Eye is also known for performing under the name Hanatarash. Live performances for these were notorious for their [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hanatarash dangerous and destructive nature] with antics that include a backhoe and trying to throw a Molotov cocktail on stage.
* Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison. Pretty much invented ProgressiveRock, and was completely off his rocker.
* Music/PinkFloyd Syd Barrett. Just listen to ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''.
** Not to mention his solo works ''The Madcap Laughs'' and ''Barrett''. Which some regard as brilliant, while others lament them as merely documenting his descent from [[CrazyIsCool Crazy Awesome]] into [[CreatorBreakdown just plain crazy]].
* Music/TenaciousD.
* Music/FrankZappa. Listen to any of his instrumentals.
** He's also the only man to get a "Parental Advisory" on an instrumental album!
** He certainly fit the "crazy" part. Look at what he named his children!
* The late Ol' Dirty Bastard from the legendary Music/WuTangClan. This is a guy who had a crew from MTV follow him and his family as he picked up welfare checks in a limo. This is a guy who attended rehab and recorded an album ''while on the run from the law''. This is a guy who organized the rescue of a four-year old girl from a car accident and, in the evening after, wandered onstage at the Grammys to complain that he spent so much money on a new suit in anticipation of winning an award for ''Best Rap Album'' [[AwardSnub only to lose to Puff Daddy]].
* Music/IronMaiden already has one of the [[LargeHam hammiest]] singers in business, and a really hyperactive bassist. Yet this trope is best represented by drummer Nicko McBrain. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajD1duxKSuE#t=1m22s He's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZDutANzms4 just]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmyoMTp60cE hilarious]]. (said bassist, when writing a profile for Nicko: "I know people see him on the videos and that, and they think he’s crazy - and he is!")
* Music/NinaHagen. Exhibit A: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CST7XOxw4Dk "New York New York"]]. Exhibit B: ''Nunsexmonkrock'' in its entirety.
* Karin Dreijer Andersson, better known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFb5z3kUSQ Fever]] Ray or the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhQ5TiBHVk singing]] half of The Knife. Her music is famous for being mind-blowingly [[NightmareFuel creepy]], complemented by even more [[http://www.withusoragainstus.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/fever-ray-video.png terrifying]] [[http://awmusic.ca/1/photos//HLIC/c11efd2e323dbc39a9b87c2480d7822b.jpg imagery]]. She once made an acceptance speech that consisted of just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU guttural moaning]].
* Forget the FiveManBand! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXMuWi0dUBc This guy from Croatia]] is a OneManBand ! He plays the guitar, the tambourine, the kazoo, the harmonica, a bicycle horn, ''and'' a kick drum! Not simultaneously, but it actually sounds like an actual band!
** And the inversion, by Stringfever: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MLNMgpywk 4 Cellists, One Cello.]]
* [[Music/Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra]]. This guy randomly ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979. Part of his political platform was (among more serious proposals): forcing businessmen to wear clown suits within city limits, erecting statues of Dan White (who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978) all over town and allowing the parks department to sell eggs and tomatoes with which people could pelt them, and a citywide ban on cars (this [[ItMakesSenseInContext wasn't that extreme]] - San Francisco was suffering from a horrendous pollution problem). He came in fourth place. Also, he was the leader of the [[Music/DeadKennedys]], probably the most crazy cool punk rock band ever witnessed.
* Most of the "Real Life" examples of Xenophones were invented by people who, to varying degrees, fit this type, with [[wikipedia:Harry Partch|Harry Partch]] being an excellent example.
* Genesis P-Orridge evokes this trope by merely ''existing''.
* Two words: Music/LadyGaga.
** Want proof that Lady Gaga is Crazy Awesome? Two more words: [[http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/9/14/16/enhanced-buzz-15488-1284496566-20.jpg Meat]] [[http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2010/stylewatch/blog/100927/lady-gaga-300x400.jpg Dress]]. Not only did she wear it, in public, in a ''totally'' casual way, but she ''actually managed to make it look good''.
* I'll see your Music/LadyGaga, and raise you {{Music/Rammstein}}. How many other musical artists can you think of that have [[IncendiaryExponent lit themselves]] [[ManOnFire on fire]] for 3+ minutes once a show ''every show'' for three straight tours with solely the protection of [[GogglesDoNothing a pair of welding goggles]], and have been claimed to [[NightmareFetishist ''enjoy'']] [[DeathSeeker it]]? The drummer Cristoph Schneider was quoted once as saying that the band's motto was "Do your own thing. And overdo it!"
** And of course the wine-spraying dildo.
** When played live, "Mein Teil" sees the lead singer drag the keyboardist out in a ''boiling pot.'' And then ''using a flamethrower on it while the poor guy is still in there.''
* {{Music/Kesha}} ''GLITTER''
* Both members of {{Music/Angelspit}}. These are the guys who created a music video about a secret society devoted to cannibalism and vivisection, regularly use synths to fuck songs up beyond belief, ''built their own instrument and subsequently destroyed it for the purposes of recording the sounds it made while being destroyed'', made some awesome music out of a salad bowl and a lampshade, and instead of simply making a video asking for video entries from those who wished to be their new videographer, created a video where ZooG killed the old videographer, asked for video entries, and finished the vid with 'I need a knife, a fork, and an oven built for one. Happy New fucking Year!'
* Music/EmilieAutumn.
* Music/AmandaPalmer.
* {{Music/Gorillaz}}, especially [[{{Jerkass}} Murdoc]]. Giant elk, zombie apes, combat helis and [[NightmareFuel cheery, appearently sentient jellyfish being frozen and sold as microwave breakfasts]]? Hell yes.
** Three quarters of the band are drugged up most of the time and all four of them are cartoons. Yet they're still one of the biggest and most unique bands- in style and in concept- in history.
* [[Music/DevinTownsend is pretty much this trope incarnate. Having lots of [[CreatorBreakdown breakdowns]] during his career and being able to survive through every one of them? Check. [[CursedWithAwesome Channeling his mental problems torward his music and making them awesome]]? Check. (Seemingly) getting rid of his drug problems and some mental illnesses and finding out his songs can be even more awesome when his mind is clearer? Check. And showing us that's true? Check. Devin Townsend had a career of 16 albums he produced himself, including Ziltoid The Omniscient, on which he has done almost EVERYTHING, including the 5+ voices featured, and more are on the way. Oh, and he has bipolar disorder.
* Guitarist Wilko Johnson is known for erratic stage behaviour, including deploying a herky-jerky clockwork saunter and a [[MadEye rather aggressive wiLd-eyed stare]], and seems to be a meathead off-stage as well. Whilst playing with Dr. Feelgood, he decided to have a go at flying the plane him and his bandmates were on and proceeded to perform twists and loops. All he said to the pilots was "Look, I know what I'm doing."
* Music/EltonJohn 's concerts; especially during the 70's. During the Hollywood Bowl, he appeared onstage in a frilly costume, and later, let a live crocodile roam the stage while playing "Crocodile Rock".
* {{Music/Tiesto}}. He can skydive into his concerts and update his Twitter feed at the same time.
* Music/KaizersOrchestra is quite the embodiment of this trope. Think alt-rock and Norwegian folk music stuck in a blender with [[Music/BlueManGroup Blue Man Group-style]] theatrics on stage and a dark musical mythos involving lunatic asylums, the mafia and an only semi-defined "resistance" operating in the midst of it all. As for the "awesome" part? Well...[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxv0LsJ9kvc her] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNozTHSQH_o du] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrPdOCM4y0 går], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOKLu-jX7YQ min] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOGgviDEV2I Costanze].
* The [[Music/TalkingHeads Talking Heads]] album ''Fear of Music'' is basically a musical DSM-IV, full of songs about neurotics and psychotics, but nobody denies it's one of their best albums. David Byrne's dancing may well qualify, too.
* The Rev from Music/AvengedSevenfold [[TooCooltoLive was]] this in spades. Just check the SugarWiki/CrowningMomentofFunny entry on their page or look up some videos of him. Hell, just look at some of the songs he wrote, both in [[Music/AvengedSevenfold]] and with Pinkly Smooth, which could have competed with [[{{Music/Primus}}]] in terms of CrazyIsCool, [[DiedDuringProduction if only they could have continued]].
* {{Music/Queen}} staging an all-female nude bicycle race to promote "Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race", to say nothing of some of their concert acts and videos (Freddie Mercury swordfighting [[Series/Highlander Connor MacLeod]] with a microphone stand in the "Princes of the Universe" video, just for example)
* Everything Music/DoctorSteel does is cool, awesome, and/or funny, over-the-top, or a combination thereof.
* Music/ProfessorElemental has gone mad from too much tea. But in a good way.
* [[http://lemondemon.wikia.com Lemon Demon]]!
* [[Music/JethroTull Ian Anderson]], a man who's had a successful rock band for over forty years with the central instrument being a flute. He also spends most of his performances with a SlasherSmile on his face.
* Music/JohnLennon.
* Music/Voltaire.
* Music/BustaRhymes, and how.
* [[Music/[AliceCooper Alice]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' [[Music/AliceCooper Cooper]]. Just check out one of his shows (any show).
* Music/TransSiberianOrchestra. They combine classical and rock/metal in an insane blend of awesomeness. Don't forget the epic ballads.
* [[{{Muse}}]]. Just Muse. But in particular, this is all owned to Matt Bellamy, especially back in the early days. [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll Drugged up, constantly horny]], [[ConspiracyTheorist fascinated with the occult and conspiracy theories]] [[HeavyMithril that often weave their way into the band's lyrics]], [[AbsurdPhobia most afraid of]] [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong being impregnated by an alien]], and also very talented with the guitar and piano, and boasting a vocal range that often gets him compared to [[{{Music/Queen}} Freddie Mercury]]. That should be enough.

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* [[{{Music/Trivium}}]] put an epic guitar solo on top of an epic solo in an 8-minute [[EpicRocking Epic Rocker]] which was filled with ''arguably crazier shit'' like USING TAPPING FOR RIFFAGE. "The Crusade" is [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] ''amazing''.
* PowerMetal in general revolves around the principle that lyrics [[RuleOfCool need only sound cool, whether they make even the slightest amount of sense is completely unimportant]].
** [[Music/DragonForce OUR SWORDS ARE MADE]] [[CaptainObvious OF STEEEEL]].[[note]]Wait, how is that obvious? Swords could be made of IIIRROOONN or BRROOOONNZZE or even, in some parts of the world, OOOBSSIIIDIIIAAANN.[[/note]]
* [[Music/Nicki Minaj]] and all ''twenty-eight'' of her alter-egos.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpjQFBuQQM The [[Music/TheWho Who]]. Most notably Keith Moon, who embodied the "crazy drummer" stereotype. He wasn't called "Moon the Loon" for no reason. One of his most famous anecdotes: as the band's limo was halfway to the airport, he suddenly screamed "STOP! We have to go back to the hotel immediately!" When they got back, Moon raced up to their former suite, tore a TV set from the wall and threw it through the window into the swimming pool below. His comment? "I almost forgot to do that. We can go now."
** Along with his already CrazyIsCool [[AchievementsInIgnorance unlearned drum (anti-)technique and pioneering use of massive drum kits in rock]], Moon broke his two front teeth diving from his hotel room to an empty swimming pool on his eighteenth birthday, was known for destroying toilets with explosives, throwing TVs out of windows and wrecking hotel rooms (the band were banned from Holiday Inns as a result), crashed through a corrugated iron roof at a Carlton Athletic Arena concert as a grand entrance, was incapacitated in the middle of another concert after an near-fatal overdose of animal tranquilizer, crashed his Rolls-Royce (he had no driver's license) into his swimming pool and swam to the surface during a party, and a joke of his that a supergroup he and John Entwistle was to form with Jimmy Page "going down like a lead zeppelin" would lead to [[Music/LedZeppelin]] getting its band name. An incident where he unknowingly overloaded his drum kit with explosives during the Who's appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour to the point it singed Pete Townshend's hair and damaged his hearing permanently (Pete partially blames his tinnitus on this event) and causing Bette Davis, who was waiting in the wings, to faint into Mickey Rooney's arms.. Oh, and Animal from [[Franchise/TheMuppets]] was based on him. [[TearJerker Unfortunately]], this recklessness might have been the byproduct of being an ADD/hyperactive case; it cost him his marriage, led to his paunchy figure in his last years, and ironically, he died from taking an accidental overdose of the pills he took to cure him of his alcoholism. Moon was taking steps to get his life back together when he died.
* And you know what? [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic]]. This is a guy who writes songs about bologna and Star Wars, turns popular music into polka songs on every album and once made a movie where Michael Richards blasted a kid in the face with a firehose. He's had ten gold albums, six platinums, three grammys, nine nominations and has [[WeirdAlEffect outlasted many of the ''real'' artists he's parodied]].
** And provides the voice for the ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated]]'' incarnation of the aforementioned Wreck-Gar.
*** Speaking of animated incarnations, his [WesternAnimation/[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave And The Bold]] incarnation [[AsHimself was himself]]. And he defeated a supervillain. [[DidYouJustPunchOuCthulhu By playing his accordion]].
** His band deserves a mention, too; they're good enough to play literally ''any'' kind of music, and play it ''well'', and they're "just" making parody music.
* Singer, model and actress Grace Jones fits this trope from beginning to end. She's well-known for playing May Day in the 007 movie ''[[Film/AViewToAKill]]'', in which her character ''jumped off the Eiffel Tower in a parachute''. Most awesomely, this is something she'd probably do in real life. If you're skeptic about this, just check out [http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/86897/Grace+Jones.jpg this picture], used as cover art for her album ''Island Life'', or [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/15949517/Grace+Jones+Sunday+Times+2.jpg this picture]], or watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-skp6ZLSgg&feature=related this video]]. Or search for anything related to her. She's just that awesome. Oh, by the way, she's 61.
* [[{{Music/Bjork}}]] and [[Music/ToriAmos]] are both eccentric in different ways, and that's what makes them [[CrazyIsCool ‘’crazy’’ awesome]].
** Likewise, [[Music/KateBush]].
* [[{{Music/Pink]}}]. Alecia Moore = [[CrazyIsCool Crazy Awesome]], ''especially'' in concert. She did a world concert tour for her "I'm Not Dead" album, and at every venue sang [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbgWXNlIsU "Fingers" while doing a 'Cirque de Soleil' act forty feet above an ''unpadded'' stage. With no net if she fell]]. Even real Cirque de Soleil performers don't perform songs at the same time! ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stsDXki__U She did something similar at Series/TheGrammys, but with her song "Glitter In The Air"]].) This tour, she's singing a song and simultaneously doing a trapeze act that starts with her being lifted into the air blindfolded.
* [[Music/[VanCanto]] is an a cappella band. ''A HeavyMetal a cappella band.''
** More specifically, their subgenre is Hero/ PowerMetal, which focuses on making everything sound as [[RuleOfCool epic as possible]]. Most bands need [[OrchestralBombing orchestra]] and tons of studio magic to pull it off. This group accomplishes it with 5 vocalists and a drummer. Their "lead guitar" vocalist performs guitar solos which sound almost dead on like a real guitar, with the only vocal modification being his microphone fed through a guitar amp. They held auditions for an a cappella drummer while forming the band, and while it was possible to emulate the instrument, every auditioner passed out trying to keep up with the rapid double bass pedals. Also unlike most a cappella groups, they don't focus on covers. More than half of their material is original, spanning three studio albums. According to an interview, their live performances are usually met with confusion and laughter at first, but singing along and roaring applause by the end.
* [[Music/OzzyOsbourne]], through his entire life. His escapades include: Biting the head off a bat, biting the head off of two doves at a meeting with record execs, pissing on the Alamo, shooting all of his chickens and lighting their remains on fire, giving a Great Dane cocaine (which made it expel every particle of shit in its body and frantically run around for three days straight), snorting a line of ants, asking Betty Ford where the bar is at the Betty Ford Clinic and blacking out, obliviously pissing out the window of [[Def Leppard]]'s dressing room onto the fans lined up to get in, taking a shit in the elevator of a posh hotel and waking up in the middle of a busy interstate miles from his previous location. The cap to all of this is getting in a wild man contest with [[Music/MotleyCrue]] and winning by appearing on stage stone drunk wearing a dress, lifting up the dress to reveal white tighty whities and screaming "LETS GO FUCKING CRAZY!". After that tour everyone involved had to go to a treatment center.
** You forgot the part where he pissed in the Alamo while wearing his wife's dress because Sharon tried to stop him from going out drunk by hiding his clothes.
*** And when he walked down a street dragging an old shoe (that he got from a dumpster) on a leash, carrying an empty guitar case. And took three times the normal dose of sedatives to be put to sleep for a colonoscopy. He watched for a moment and in his book comments that he was "glued to ''Journey To The Centre Of My Arse'' on the screen".
* [[{{Music/Buckethead}}]]. At first sight, arche-typical BunnyEarsLawyer, but (speaking of Ozzy) one look at his [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] entry suggests something greater.
* Yamantaka Eye. Best known for his work with Boredoms and as the singer for Naked City, Eye is also known for performing under the name Hanatarash. Live performances for these were notorious for their [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hanatarash dangerous and destructive nature] with antics that include a backhoe and trying to throw a Molotov cocktail on stage.
* [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]]. Pretty much invented ProgressiveRock, and was completely off his rocker.
* [[Music/PinkFloyd Syd Barrett]]. Just listen to ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''.
** Not to mention his solo works ''The Madcap Laughs'' and ''Barrett''. Which some regard as brilliant, while others lament them as merely documenting his descent from [[CrazyIsCool Crazy Awesome]] into [[CreatorBreakdown just plain crazy]].
* [[Music/TenaciousD]].
* [[Music/FrankZappa]]. Listen to any of his instrumentals.
** He's also the only man to get a "Parental Advisory" on an instrumental album!
** He certainly fit the "crazy" part. Look at what he named his children!
* The late Ol' Dirty Bastard from the legendary [[Music/WuTangClan]]. This is a guy who had a crew from MTV follow him and his family as he picked up welfare checks in a limo. This is a guy who attended rehab and recorded an album ''while on the run from the law''. This is a guy who organized the rescue of a four-year old girl from a car accident and, in the evening after, wandered onstage at the Grammys to complain that he spent so much money on a new suit in anticipation of winning an award for ''Best Rap Album'' [[AwardSnub only to lose to Puff Daddy]].
* [[Music/IronMaiden]] already has one of the [[LargeHam hammiest]] singers in business, and a really hyperactive bassist. Yet this trope is best represented by drummer Nicko McBrain. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajD1duxKSuE#t=1m22s He's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZDutANzms4 just]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmyoMTp60cE hilarious]]. (said bassist, when writing a profile for Nicko: "I know people see him on the videos and that, and they think he’s crazy - and he is!")
* [[Music/NinaHagen]]. Exhibit A: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CST7XOxw4Dk "New York New York"]]. Exhibit B: ''Nunsexmonkrock'' in its entirety.
* Karin Dreijer Andersson, better known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFb5z3kUSQ Fever]] Ray or the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhQ5TiBHVk singing]] half of The Knife. Her music is famous for being mind-blowingly [[NightmareFuel creepy]], complemented by even more [[http://www.withusoragainstus.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/fever-ray-video.png terrifying]] [[http://awmusic.ca/1/photos//HLIC/c11efd2e323dbc39a9b87c2480d7822b.jpg imagery]]. She once made an acceptance speech that consisted of just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU guttural moaning]].
* Forget the [[Five-Man Band]]! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXMuWi0dUBc This guy from Croatia]] is a OneManBand ! He plays the guitar, the tambourine, the kazoo, the harmonica, a bicycle horn, ''and'' a kick drum! Not simultaneously, but it actually sounds like an actual band!
** And the inversion, by Stringfever: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MLNMgpywk 4 Cellists, One Cello.]]
* [[Dead Kennedys|Jello Biafra]]. This guy randomly ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979. Part of his political platform was (among more serious proposals): forcing businessmen to wear clown suits within city limits, erecting statues of Dan White (who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978) all over town and allowing the parks department to sell eggs and tomatoes with which people could pelt them, and a citywide ban on cars (this [[ItMakesSenseInContext wasn't that extreme]] - San Francisco was suffering from a horrendous pollution problem). He came in fourth place. Also, he was the leader of the [[Music/DeadKennedys]], probably the most crazy cool punk rock band ever witnessed.
* Most of the "Real Life" examples of [[Xenophone]]s were invented by people who, to varying degrees, fit this type, with [[wikipedia:Harry Partch|Harry Partch]] being an excellent example.
* Genesis P-Orridge evokes this trope by merely ''existing''.
* Two words: [[Music/LadyGaga]].
** Want proof that Lady Gaga is Crazy Awesome? Two more words: [[http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/9/14/16/enhanced-buzz-15488-1284496566-20.jpg Meat]] [[http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2010/stylewatch/blog/100927/lady-gaga-300x400.jpg Dress]]. Not only did she wear it, in public, in a ''totally'' casual way, but she ''actually managed to make it look good''.
* I'll see your [[Music/LadyGaga]], and raise you [[{{Music/Rammstein}}]]. How many other musical artists can you think of that have [[IncendiaryExponent lit themselves]] [[ManOnFire on fire]] for 3+ minutes once a show ''every show'' for three straight tours with solely the protection of [[GogglesDoNothing a pair of welding goggles]], and have been claimed to [[NightmareFetishist ''enjoy'']] [[DeathSeeker it]]? The drummer Cristoph Schneider was quoted once as saying that the band's motto was "Do your own thing. And overdo it!"
** And of course the wine-spraying dildo.
** When played live, "Mein Teil" sees the lead singer drag the keyboardist out in a ''boiling pot.'' And then ''using a flamethrower on it while the poor guy is still in there.''
* [[Kesha|Ke$ha]]''GLITTER''
* Both members of [[Angelspit]]. These are the guys who created a music video about a secret society devoted to cannibalism and vivisection, regularly use synths to fuck songs up beyond belief, ''built their own instrument and subsequently destroyed it for the purposes of recording the sounds it made while being destroyed'', made some awesome music out of a salad bowl and a lampshade, and instead of simply making a video asking for video entries from those who wished to be their new videographer, created a video where ZooG killed the old videographer, asked for video entries, and finished the vid with 'I need a knife, a fork, and an oven built for one. Happy New fucking Year!'
* [[Music/EmilieAutumn]].
* [[Music/AmandaPalmer]].
* [[{{Music/Gorillaz}}]], especially [[{{Jerkass}} Murdoc]]. Giant elk, zombie apes, combat helis and [[NightmareFuel cheery, appearently sentient jellyfish being frozen and sold as microwave breakfasts]]? Hell yes.
** Three quarters of the band are drugged up most of the time and all four of them are cartoons. Yet they're still one of the biggest and most unique bands- in style and in concept- in history.
* [[Music/DevinTownsend]] is pretty much this trope incarnate. Having lots of [[CreatorBreakdown breakdowns]] during his career and being able to survive through every one of them? Check. [[CursedWithAwesome Channeling his mental problems torward his music and making them awesome]]? Check. (Seemingly) getting rid of his drug problems and some mental illnesses and finding out his songs can be even more awesome when his mind is clearer? Check. And showing us that's true? Check. Devin Townsend had a career of 16 albums he produced himself, including Ziltoid The Omniscient, on which he has done almost EVERYTHING, including the 5+ voices featured, and more are on the way. Oh, and he has bipolar disorder.
* Guitarist Wilko Johnson is known for erratic stage behaviour, including deploying a herky-jerky clockwork saunter and a [[MadEye rather aggressive wiLd-eyed stare]], and seems to be a meathead off-stage as well. Whilst playing with Dr. Feelgood, he decided to have a go at flying the plane him and his bandmates were on and proceeded to perform twists and loops. All he said to the pilots was "Look, I know what I'm doing."
* [[Music/EltonJohn]]'s concerts; especially during the 70's. During the Hollywood Bowl, he appeared onstage in a frilly costume, and later, let a live crocodile roam the stage while playing "Crocodile Rock".
* [[{{Music/Tiesto}}]]. He can skydive into his concerts and update his Twitter feed at the same time.
* [[Music/KaizersOrchestra]] is quite the embodiment of this trope. Think alt-rock and Norwegian folk music stuck in a blender with [[Music/BlueManGroup Blue Man Group-style]] theatrics on stage and a dark musical mythos involving lunatic asylums, the mafia and an only semi-defined "resistance" operating in the midst of it all. As for the "awesome" part? Well...[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxv0LsJ9kvc her] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNozTHSQH_o du] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrPdOCM4y0 går], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOKLu-jX7YQ min] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOGgviDEV2I Costanze].
* The [[Music/TalkingHeads Talking Heads]] album ''Fear of Music'' is basically a musical DSM-IV, full of songs about neurotics and psychotics, but nobody denies it's one of their best albums. David Byrne's dancing may well qualify, too.
* The Rev from [[Music/AvengedSevenfold]] [[TooCooltoLive was]] this in spades. Just check the SugarWiki/CrowningMomentofFunny entry on their page or look up some videos of him. Hell, just look at some of the songs he wrote, both in [[Music/AvengedSevenfold]] and with Pinkly Smooth, which could have competed with [[{{Music/Primus}}]] in terms of CrazyIsCool, [[DiedDuringProduction if only they could have continued]].
* [[{{Music/Queen}}]] staging an all-female nude bicycle race to promote "Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race", to say nothing of some of their concert acts and videos (Freddie Mercury swordfighting [[Series/Highlander Connor MacLeod]] with a microphone stand in the "Princes of the Universe" video, just for example)
* Everything [[Music/DoctorSteel]] does is cool, awesome, and/or funny, over-the-top, or a combination thereof.
* [[Music/ProfessorElemental]] has gone mad from too much tea. But in a good way.
* [[http://lemondemon.wikia.com Lemon Demon]]!
* [[Music/JethroTull Ian Anderson]], a man who's had a successful rock band for over forty years with the central instrument being a flute. He also spends most of his performances with a SlasherSmile on his face.
* [[Music/JohnLennon]].
* [[Music/Voltaire]].
* [[Music/BustaRhymes]], and how.
* [[Music/[AliceCooper Alice]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' [[Music/AliceCooper Cooper]]. Just check out one of his shows (any show).
* [[Music/TransSiberianOrchestra]]. They combine classical and rock/metal in an insane blend of awesomeness. Don't forget the epic ballads.
* [[{{Muse}}]]. Just Muse. But in particular, this is all owned to Matt Bellamy, especially back in the early days. [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll Drugged up, constantly horny]], [[ConspiracyTheorist fascinated with the occult and conspiracy theories]] [[HeavyMithril that often weave their way into the band's lyrics]], [[AbsurdPhobia most afraid of]] [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong being impregnated by an alien]], and also very talented with the guitar and piano, and boasting a vocal range that often gets him compared to [[{{Music/Queen}} Freddie Mercury]]. That should be enough.

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** Harry can only hold a candle to the true master of this trope, Sorcerer Supreme Stephen Strange, whose MO basically revolves around this trope. For example, how does he react to a council of {{Physical God}}s deciding that Harry is a threat and needs to go? To take the Tesseract (Thor gives it to him--he could've stolen it from Asgard's highest-security vaults, but that would've taken too long), bring them all to the Rock of Eternity, which is basically the ''ultimate'' prison, give them a BadassBoast, stick an uppity Zeus (a peer of Odin's for raw power) in
a crystal prison, and tell them that they will either actively assist his plans, stay out of his way, or get stuck in the Rock of Eternity for as long as he pleases and still serve his plans as "gigantic fucking batteries." It '''works.'''

* Italy's infamous Gabriele D'Annunzio. On the crazy side, he had his lower ribs removed to be able to use his mouth when having ADateWithRosiePalms (among his many antics). On the awesome side, his record during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: he charged at an Austro-Hungarian trench line while wearing a BadassCape and with [[GunsAkimbo a revolver in each hand]] (yes, Italian military issue revolvers of the era were underpowered, but he remained the only one to actually do it) and a combat knife in his mouth, in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bakar's Mockery]] he took three MAS (speedboats with torpedoes strapped on them) in the most well-defended harbor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fired torpedoes at the moored ships (that survived only because the Austro-Hungarian admiralty [[ProperlyParanoid had placed torpedo nets everywhere just in case]]) and left [[IShallTauntYou mocking]] [[MessageInABottle messages in bottles]] (in the attempt to convince the ships into giving chase and be torpedoed by a waiting force as they left the bay of the port. The Austro-Hungarians didn't fall for it), and when the Austro-Hungarians carried a demonstrative bombing raid on Milan he ''personally'' led a raid on ''Vienna'' and dropped propaganda leaflets (a quarter with a poetic message written by D'Annunzio itself that was considered a war crime and so wasn't translated, and the others with a more understandable message that could be resumed in "You've lost the war, you're fighting against the whole world, surrender while you still can and before we change our minds and return with bombs") to prove that they could bomb the Austrian capital itself but were too civilized to actually do it. Oh, and he couldn't actually fly a plane, he was there merely because he had the idea.

* ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'': Larfleeze, the only member of the Orange Corps of Greed. He had an ImTakingHerHomeWithMe moment with Scar, a corrupted, demonic Guardian who serves [[GrimReaper Nekron]] because.... she was evil, so she was different than other Guardians, so she was worth more. And he really wanted his own Guardian. There's also the fact that his defining character trait, greed, leads to his power being more effective. Unlike the lights of the other Corps, the Orange light of greed is best when wielded by only one person.

* In ''FanFic/NegaverseChronicles'', Quackerjack is undeniably insane. He was even committed for a time. On the other hand, this is also the reason why he can make so many toy-like weapons that are effective enough for him to hold his own on a team of superpowered heroes. His insanity is also suspected to be the reason why he can see [[OriginalCharacter the Voice]] through the glamour.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':

* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' has a Joker that for all its insanity and malice, it's still so damn fun. Specially in the bonus maps where he's playable, as the guy can leapfrog over attackers, uses a joy-buzzer and a comical eye-poke in combat and can use chattering teeth bombs in his predator challenges, yet he can still be as badass as Batman.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Minamimoto. Not many villains can claim to activate their ultimate attack by reciting ''[[MouthfulofPi pi to 150 decimal places''.]]

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': The titluar character is a guy who, instead of just questioning the witness, pretends to be an old friend of her purportedly deceased husband and then more or less purposely gets things wrong while talking about him just so the widow will correct him and tell him more than he’d get out of a standard interview. He also keeps a [[CompanionCube skull]] on his mantle that he apparently used as his sounding board before meeting John, he spattered himself with pig’s blood for a case and claimed it was tedious, and one time he played Cluedo, he insisted that the only possible solution was for the ''victim'' to have done it. He has referred to the poisoning of children with mercury as “neat” because of ''how'' it was done, and walks around with a mind palace that, when accessed, can feed back to him practically everything he’s ever known that he considered important enough to save (including [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]). Oh, and did we mention that he refers to his brain as a hard drive and refuses to remember basic astronomy because it would clutter said mind palace up? (This, as well as the pig’s blood, is a reference to the [[Literature/SherlockHolmes original stories]].) Add in the fact that he gets himself out of arrest by [[spoiler: ''taking his best friend hostage'']], and the man has CrazyIsCool coming out of his ears.

* [[SuperStrength Shizuo Heiwajima]] from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. For one, he can punch people out of their clothes, his favorite weapons tend to be vending machines and street signs, one of which he uses to slice a car's roof off.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': Graham Specter enjoys "breaking" things (including ''people''), uses a wrench to catch a flying bullet, and idolizes [[AxeCrazy Ladd]] [[BloodKnight Russo]]. Oh, and one of ''the'' most popular characters, possibly due to the insane rambling philosophy he has.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* Issei Hyodou in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' is this seeing as almost everything he does post-transforming into a devil has so much crazy stuff he can think on the fly that it ''actually works.'' [[TheNudifier Shred clothing?]] No problem. [[spoiler: [[HearingVoices Hear breasts talk?]] Sure he can do that. [[WeDoTheImpossible Summon a god from another dimension]] that ''other mythologies don't even know about?'' Even ''gods'' thought that was crazy.]]

** Harry can only hold a candle to the true master of this trope, Sorcerer Supreme Stephen Strange, whose MO basically revolves around this trope. For example, how does he react to a council of {{Physical God}}s deciding that Harry is a threat and needs to go? To take the Tesseract (Thor gives it to him--he could've stolen it from Asgard's highest-security vaults, but that would've taken too long), bring them all to the Rock of Eternity, which is basically the ''ultimate'' prison, give them a BadassBoast, stick an uppity Zeus (a peer of Odin's for raw power), and tell them that they will either actively assist his plans, stay out of his way, or get stuck in the Rock of Eternity for as long as he pleases and still serve his plans as "gigantic fucking batteries." It '''works.'''

* Hanners of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is a neurotic NeatFreak with [[SuperOCD crippling OCD]] in addition to being the resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. She is also one of the strip's most memorable and popular characters. When she swings into action, it's usually awesome and somewhat unusual.

** He even had a memorable appearance in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' where he [[spoiler:gets the better of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Desire of the Endless]], essentially a god of mind control,]] through the clarity of his madness.