History PlayingWith / CloudCuckooLander

** Or Alice is genuinely insane.
** Or Alice's real self is possessing another body.

** ...And then turns out to be a SeeminglyProfoundFool.

** Alice's head can't actually be seen -- it's just a fluffy pink cloud that spouts cheerful nonsense.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Everyone thinks Alice is crazy, but then it turns out that's she's actually so genius no one can understand her thought process but other geniuses, so she's sent to a special school for geniuses, where she's considered weird by the other people who DO understand where she's coming from.

** "Alice, where exactly did that train of thought come from, and where exactly is it going?"

* '''Conversed''': "Why are so many happy-go-lucky morons in anime?"

** Her unusual thought process, though amusing and unique, causes her to make very bad decisions most rational people would not commit. And worst, end up getting people killed.

** [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but language is too limited for her to express her vision. Alternatively, her intuition works so fast that the steps between her thoughts, while plausible if spelled out, can't be seen.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Invoked''': Alice is perfectly capable of making sense, but is cheerfully random as a way to avoid serious conversations.

Done playing with this trope, like an octopus (hey, the plural of ''octopus'' is ''octopodes'', so if two octopodes lived on opposite ends of the earth, would they be ''antipodal octopodes''?) playing with a tin can or something? 'Kay, back to {{CloudCuckoolander}}.

* I thought the plural was ''octopi''?
** ''octopuses'' also works.
*** It's "octopese", duh.
**** Isn't the plural form of ''octopus'' octopus, just like fish is fish when there's many fish?

* '''Up To Eleven''': Alice's mind trumps the insanity of an EldritchAbomination and her imagination consists of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable]] AlienGeometries, sometimes with actual {{Eldritch Location}}s and entire {{Chaos World}}s inside them. [[AMindIsATerribleThingtoRead Trying to read her mind would be suicidal and will cause you to be trapped in her alien imagination, forever.]]
* '''Downplayed''': Alice has an slight character quirk, but is otherwise quite grounded in reality.

** Alice seems to be crazy, but turns out to be [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight eerily accurate]].

** Alice is [[DoubleSubversion feigning]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity feigning stupidity]] and is making it blatantly obvious because she doesn't want people to know that she really is crazy.

** She's actually [[OnlySaneMan more sane than the rest of the main cast combined]].
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Alice's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies come from insanity, another psychological disorder (like Disorganized Schizophrenia), or a very screwed up childhood.
** Her unusual thought process, though amusing and unique, causes her to make very bad decisions most rational people would not commit. And worst, end up getting people killed.
** Her strange behaviour alienates everyone around her, and makes her more prone to being bullied, leaving her with only her imagination, causing her to go even further into insanity and depression.
** She becomes so entrenched in her imagination she is considered as a schizophrenic and thus thrown into a mental hospital.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but language is too limited for her to express her vision. Alternatively, her intuition works so fast that the steps between her thoughts, while plausible if spelled out, can't be seen.
** She's just random.

** "everyone loves TheLoonie."

* '''Invoked''': Alice is perfectly capable of making sense, but is cheerfully random as a way to avoid serious conversations.

** ''octopuses'' also works.

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** She's actually more sane than the rest of the main cast combined.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is so odd that she is constantly misunderstood by the remainder of the group

* '''UpToEleven''': Alice's mind trumps the insanity of an EldritchAbomination and her imagination consists of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable]] AlienGeometries, sometimes with actual {{Eldritch Location}}s and entire {{Chaos World}}s inside them. [[AMindIsATerribleThingtoRead Trying to read her mind would be suicidal and will cause you to be trapped in her alien imagination, forever.]]

* '''Justified''': Alice is actually from another planet and isn't familiar with local customs, etc.

* '''Subverted''': Alice seems to be crazy, but turns out to be [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight eerily accurate]].

* '''Double Subverted''': ...And then turns out to be a SeeminglyProfoundFool.

* '''Parodied''': Alice's head can't actually be seen -- it's just a fluffy pink cloud that spouts cheerful nonsense.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies come from insanity, another psychological disorder (like Disorganized Schizophrenia), or a very screwed up childhood.

* '''Reconstructed''': [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but language is too limited for her to express her vision. Alternatively, her intuition works so fast that the steps between her thoughts, while plausible if spelled out, can't be seen.

* '''Enforced''': The writers don't have the whole series plotted out yet, so they want a character to drop vague hints and suggestions which they can call on later on.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice, where exactly did that train of thought come from, and where exactly is it going?"

* '''Double Subverted''': ...And then turns out to be a SeeminglyProfoundFool.

** WideEyedIdealist

* '''UpToEleven''': Alice's mind trumps the insanity of an EldritchAbomination and her imagination consists of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable]] AlienGeometries, sometimes with actual {{Eldritch Location}}s inside them. [[AMindIsATerribleThingtoRead Trying to read her mind would be suicidal and will cause you to be trapped in her alien imagination, forever.]]

* '''UpToEleven''': Alice's mind trumps the insanity an EldritchAbomination and her imagination consists of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable]] AlienGeometries, sometimes with actual {{Eldritch Location}}s inside them. [[AMindIsATerribleThingtoRead Trying to read her mind would be suicidal and will cause you to be trapped in her alien imagination, forever.]]

** Her strange behaviour alienates everyone around her, leaving her with only her imagination, causing her to go even further into insanity and depression.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight, but language is too limited for her to express her vision. Alternatively, her intuition works so fast that the steps between her thoughts, while plausible if spelled out, can't be seen.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...And then turns out to be ChanceTheGardener.

Done playing with this trope, like an octopus (hey, the plural of ''octopus'' is ''octopodes'', so if two octopodes lived on opposite ends of the earth, would they be ''antipodal octopodes''?) playing with a tin can or something? 'Kay, back to {{CloudCuckoolander}}.

* '''Subverted''': Alice seems to be crazy, but turns out to be someone who is smarter than the rest of the cast.

* '''Averted''': Alice has normal intelligence