History Main / LunaticLoophole

->''"God looks out for fools, drunks, little children, and the United States of America."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', or '''UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck'''... somebody said it...

* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', crazy Russian guy is one of the few guys that survives. Also Creator/SteveBuscemi's character, who gets "space dementia." It helps that the rest of the crew [[BoundAndGagged duct-taped him to a chair]] because of it.

Obviously, this is a sub-trope of CrazyAwesome as well as KarmaHoudini. Also related somewhat to JokerImmunity. Also sort of related to TheFool, except this character's insane, not stupid. Also similar to InsanityImmunity.

* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', crazy Russian guy is one of the few guys that survives. Also Creator/SteveBuscemi's character, who gets "space dementia." It helps that the rest of the crew [[BoundAndGagged duck-taped him to a chair]] because of it.

* Averted by Haywire in ''Series/PrisonBreak'', who [[spoiler:does make it out of the prison at the end of season 1, but is unceremoniously killed off halfway season 2.

%%* Cyclonus[=/=]Snow Cat is one of the few named Decepticons to survive both ''WesternAnimation/TransformersArmada'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersEnergon''.

->''God looks out for fools, drunks, little children, and the United States of America.''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', or '''UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck'''...somebody said it...

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* By the end of ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 4'', it appears that the severed head of Zombie ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} has escaped the destruction of all the other super-zombies.

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* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', before the Battle of Stirling Bridge, crazy Irish guy declares that God told him he would survive the battle, but he wasn't so sure about the main character. Turns out both of them survive. [[spoiler:This turns out to be foreshadowing, since at the end of Wallace's revolt he's brutally killed while the Irish guy looks on helplessly (while not dying).]]
* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', crazy Russian guy is one of the few guys that survives. Also Creator/SteveBuscemi's character, who gets "space dementia." It helps that the rest of the crew [[BoundAndGagged duck-taped him to a chair]] because of it.

* In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', the titular Grand Admiral muses that perhaps the greatest reason why the Rebel Alliance, now the New Republic, was so successful and stayed alive where other rebellions failed was because they [[RefugeInAudacity had the audacity]] to enact [[CrazyEnoughToWork strategies that looked absolutely insane]] ([[Film/StarWarsANewHope such as sending a bunch of snub fighters to take on a planet-destroying battlestation]]).

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* Cyclonus[=/=]Snow Cat is one of the few named Decepticons to survive both ''WesternAnimation/TransformersArmada'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersEnergon''.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', CanonForeigner and [[PsychoForHire complete]] [[AxCrazy nutcase]] Ryuji Yamazaki is the only one of the Eight Kings of {{Orochi}} to actively challenge and disregard him... [[DeathByBackstory and survive to tell the tale.]] He is also the only one of the Eight Kings to [[spoiler: be alive as of the beginning of KOF XIV; Vice and Mature are only apparitions, all of the Heavenly Kings have been KilledOffForReal for some 20 years, and Gaidel was DoomedByCanon.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', CanonForeigner and [[PsychoForHire complete]] [[AxCrazy nutcase]] Ryuji Yamazaki is the only one of the Eight Kings of {{Orochi}} to actively challenge and disregard him... [[DoomedByCanon and survive to tell the tale.]] He is also the only one of the Eight Kings to [[spoiler: be alive as of the beginning of KOF XIV; Vice and Mature are only apparitions, all of the Heavenly Kings have been KilledOffForReal for some 20 years, and Gaidel was DoomedByCanon.]]

* By the end of ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 4'', it appears that the severed head of Zombie {{Deadpool}} has escaped the destruction of all the other super-zombies.

* In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', the titular Grand Admiral muses that perhaps the greatest reason why the Rebel Alliance, now the New Republic, was so successful and stayed alive where other rebellions failed was because they [[RefugeInAudacity had the audacity]] to enact [[CrazyEnoughToWork strategies that looked absolutely insane]] ([[Film/StarWarsANewHope such as sending a bunch of snub fighters to take on a planet-destroying battlestation]])

* Captain Jack Sparrow rides on a wave of such loopholes through the three ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies.
** In the fourth one, efforts are made to make it look more planned than stumbled through. YMMV on how good of a choice that was.

-->-- '''WinstonChurchill''', or '''OttoVonBismarck'''...somebody said it...

* Joan of Arc. One of the reasons she was so successful in warfare was because [[CrazyEnoughToWork her strategies were so crazy that her enemies were caught completely off-guard]].

* David Gemmell's ''Echoes of the Great Song'' has an Elric style Failing ex Master Race. They are attacked by invaders from another world and the book ends with a suicide mission to blow up the enemy ammunition dump. The only survivor is the one who disabled the Stun Setting on his Laser Bow because he can't think of any time he would point it at anything without wanting to kill it.

** Which is actually a PlotPoint: he's protected from harm by an [[EldritchAbomination exceptionally malevolent]] WeirdnessCensor. [[spoiler: Which is dispelled by the end of the series, necessitating a WalkTheEarth ending.]]

* Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal's character, Raven, in ''CecilBDemented'' definitely qualifies as the craziest of the Sprocket Holes (and that's saying something). Making this example particularly egregious is when Honey Whitlock (Creator/MelanieGriffith's character) is being arrested, Raven actually calls to her, to tell her the movie's finished, and throws Honey a devil-kiss, and ''not one cop'' notices her, as she then hides in the back of a hearse.

* He's not ''completely'' crazy (probably) but it has been proposed that one of the reasons that the {{Big Bad}}s generally spare [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor's]] life is that they're genuinely curious about [[CloudCuckoolander the way his mind works]]. (Of course, narrative causality probably carries a bit of weight too...)

* Cyclonus[=/=]Snow Cat was one of the few named Decepticons to survive both ''TransformersArmada'' and ''TransformersEnergon''.

* Joan of Arc. One of the reasons she was so successful in warfare was because [[CrazyEnoughToWork her strategies were so crazy, her enemies were caught completely off guard]].

->''God looks out for fools, drunks, [[InfantImmortality little children]], [[{{Eagleland}} and the United States of America]].''

So you've organized this [[TheCaper major heist]], with a motley [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits team of criminals of all different personalities]], which has GoneHorriblyWrong, and the whole [[BolivianArmyEnding Bolivian army]] is at your doorstep. Things look dire. But you can be assured of one thing: The batshit insane one ''will'' get away, and probably go on to have adventures of their own.

* Johnny from ''JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, manages to avoid being arrested for or even suspected of any of his murders. This trope is taken to an extreme as said murders include draining the blood of a flower vendor, on a crowded street in broad daylight, with numerous horrified witnesses present.

* By the end of ''MarvelZombies 4'', it appears that the severed head of Zombie {{Deadpool}} has escaped the destruction of all the other super-zombies.

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* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', crazy Russian guy is one of the few guys that survives. Also SteveBuscemi's character, who gets "space dementia." It helps that the rest of the crew [[BoundAndGagged duck-taped him to a chair]] because of it.

->''God looks out for fools, drunks, [[InfantImmortality little children]], [[{{Eagleland}} and the United States of America]].''

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* Joan of Arc. One of the reasons she was so successful in warfare was because her strategies were so crazy, her enemies were caught completely off guard.

* The crazy character in ''Film/{{Cube}}'' is the only one to survive the events of the film.