History PlayingWith / ChaoticStupid

* '''Enforced''': "Lets show how crazy Maxine is. Having her break rules for no reason is a good way."

** She is crazy, stupid and loves to cause chaos but [[EveryoneHasStandards she still maintains some principles]] and doesn't actively wants to cause ''evil''. The measuring stick other characters use to see if some act is unforgivably evil, then, is ask Maxine if she would do it.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The story starts with a number of heroic characters on a journey. There's a KnightInShiningArmor, a [[ThePaladin Paladin]], and a [[TheBeastmaster Beastmaster]] who are all strong and majestic, striding through a forest with the sun on their faces and the wind in their hair... and a ChildMage who keeps summoning a bunch of stupid fish, turning things purple, and summoning slime to fall on her teammates. Then it turns out we're seeing a dramatization of a TabletopRPG, and she's the AnnoyingYoungerSibling who insisted on joining the game.
* '''Played For Laughs''': The creators of the show wants Maxine to be PluckyComicRelief, but really overdoes it. But it actually works, and everyone [[EnsembleDarkhorse loves Maxine]].

** Maxine's lack of impulse control is her [[StartofDarkness Start of Darkness]].
** ThePlague is spreading rapidly, and people like Maxine ruin attempts to keep it under control because their idea of "chaotic" means "always disregard what you're told and just go off doing whatever". Furthermore, many of the things they go off to do [[LethallyStupid get many of them hurt or killed]] because they forgot that just because there is no longer a law that says "don't do that" ''per se'' it doesn't means they can disregard things like gravity or lacking the necessary skills.

'''Basic Trope''': A character who has "Chaotic" (and usually Neutral, too) in their alignment overemphasize that and does stupid [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough things]] in the name of being a CloudCuckooLander.

* '''Reconstructed''':

** ThePlague is spreading rapidly, and people like Maxine ruin attempts to keep it under control because their idea of "chaotic" means "always disregard what you're told and just go off doing whatever".

** Maxine is of a {{chaotic| neutral}} [[ChaoticGood moral]] [[ChaoticEvil alignment]] as well as a very focused, [[TheSpock intelligent, rational, and unimpulsive]] woman who makes clever schemes in the name of intellectual pursuits and rebels because she spent so much time deconstructing and analyzing rules that she sees right through them. So she, not only is she smart, but rebellious because of it. As opposed to a ChaoticStupid character, who is portrayed as just plain old chaotic because they're stupid.

* '''Parodied''': Mad Maxine's behavior gets her StuffedIntoTheFridge. Or PutOnABus. AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.

'''Basic Trope''': A character who has "Chaotic" (and usually Neutral, too) in their alignment overemphasizes that, and does stupid things in the name of being a CloudCuckooLander.

** Mad Maxine paints ''herself'' purple and cartwheels naked in front of the BigBad just because she can. She is very impulsive, and does not (or cannot) control her impulses.

* '''Straight''': Mad Maxine paints her dog purple just because she can. She is very impulsive.

** Mad Maxine is a BunnyEarsLawyer

* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Maxine is a loony, other times, she appears to be a perfectly sane, reasonable, high-functioning, intelligent, well-behaved member of the team.

* '''Justified''': Maxine has some kind of mental disorder or disability that prevents her from having the awareness or self-control necessary to control her impulses.

* '''Reconstructed''': Maxine learns when it's OK to do crazy things, and when it's not. She might still exhibit impulsive behavior, but will stop if asked or reminded.

* '''Defied''': Mad Maxine is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ashamed of her behavior in the past]], and does the best she can to control her impulses for the good of the party she's with now so she won't be "that" person again.

** Maxine paints the front of her house purple one day for no reason. And then wears a yellow dress because it goes so well with the freshly painted purple house. She always asks her neighbors if she can paint there house purple, even the king at one point, because she loves painting and still has leftover paint.

* '''Invoked''': The DM has this campaign [[{{Railroading}} on the rails]] and the other players are a bunch of {{Munchkin}}s. [[TheLoonie Maxine's player]] has damn well had enough of this. She CAN play a more rational character, even a more rational ChaoticNeutral character, but when everyone else is [[StopHavingFunGuys so]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[{{Munchkin}} serious]], [[RuleOfFun where's the fun in being logical?]]

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The story starts with a number of heroic characters on a journey. There's a KnightInShiningArmor, a [[ThePaladin Paladin]], and a [[TheBeastmaster Beastmaster]] who are all strong and majestic, striding through a forest with the sun on their faces and the wind in their hair... and a ChildMage who keeps summoning a bunch of stupid fish, turning things purple, and summoning slime to fall on her teammates. Then it turns out we're seeing a dramatization of a TabletopRPG, and she's the AnnoyingYoungerSibling who insisted on joining the game.