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

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** Alice is so odd that she is constantly misunderstood by the remainder of the groupgroup.
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** 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.]]

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** Alice's mind trumps the insanity of an EldritchAbomination and her imagination consists of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Inconceivable]] 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.]]
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** Alice is a hyperactive child, where such behavior is expected.
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** Alice acts crazy, but acts more normal when she encounters someone or something crazier than herself. However, after she leaves that person or thing, she goes back to her crazy self, and so on.
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** 7. Alice's unusual mindset impacts her ability to communicate, leading to PoorCommunicationKills [[InnocentlyInsensitive coming]] and [[CassandraTruth going]]. This leads people to [[UnderestimatingBadassery overlook]] that she's [[GracefulInTheirElement fully functional]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer and capable]], [[CondescendingCompassion condescendingly assuming]] she's at best InspirationallyDisadvantaged.


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** 7. People poor first impressions only last until they see what Alice [[LetsGetDangerous can actually do]], and either just accept that [[KnowWhenToFoldEm they'll never completely "get" her]] or [[FriendshipMoment figure out how to better communicate with her]].
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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless screwball who lives in their [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} own little world]].

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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless screwball who lives in their [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} their own little world]].



* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is [[TheLoonie loony]] and the PluckyComicRelief.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is [[TheLoonie loony]] and the PluckyComicRelief.[[PluckyComicRelief a massive goofball]].
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is [[TheLoonie the loony]] and the PluckyComicRelief.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is [[TheLoonie the loony]] and the PluckyComicRelief.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is the loony and the PluckyComicRelief.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is [[TheLoonie the loony loony]] and the PluckyComicRelief.

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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless screwball who lives in their own little world.

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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless screwball who lives in their [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} own little world.world]].



** Alice is in a constant and unalterable state of general weirdness. In most episodes it makes her the weirdest member of the cast, but it also grants her InsanityImmunity to stress, chemicals, and various forms of phlebotinum, making her the OnlySaneMan when the rest of the cast is going crazier than she already is.

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** Alice is in a constant and unalterable state of general weirdness. In most episodes episodes, it makes her the weirdest member of the cast, but it also grants her InsanityImmunity to stress, chemicals, and various forms of phlebotinum, making her the OnlySaneMan when the rest of the cast is going crazier than she already is.



** 3. Her strange behavior 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.
** 4. She becomes so entrenched in her imagination she is considered as a schizophrenic and thus thrown into a mental hospital.

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** 3. Her strange behavior alienates everyone around her, 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.
** 4. She becomes so entrenched in her imagination she is considered as a schizophrenic and thus thrown into a mental hospital.



** 2. [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but language is too limited for her to express her vision. [[TranslatorBuddy She has a buddy for that]].

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** 2. [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but the language is too limited for her to express her vision. [[TranslatorBuddy She has a buddy for that]].



* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is the loony and the PluckyComicRelief.
* '''Implied''': [[InsufferableGenius Frederick]] informs [[NaiveNewcomer Ben]] about how he had to deal with not only [[KindheartedSimpleton Danny's]] [[SpannerInTheWorks unwitting]] [[UnwantedAssistance behavior]] and the annoying [[InsufferableImbecile Bob]] that visit him from time to time, he also mentioned how he befriended Alice when [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold her loony behavior made her seem friendly]] and giving some insight that helped out Frederick balancing his mishaps, temper, and flaws [[MoralityPet to better himself]] and implies that [[PlatonicLifePartners she visits him every weekend to partake in fun activities with each other]].



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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless character who lives in their own little world.

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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless character screwball who lives in their own little world.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a non-standard perspective on life.

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'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless character has a non-standard perspective on life.who lives in their own little world.
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** Alice is using ObfuscatingStupidity, but while she's ''smarter'' than she lets on, [[BunnyEarsLawyer she really is that weird]].

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** 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 bad decisions most rational people would not commit.
** Her strange behavior 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.
** People find her incredibly annoying and exasperating, due to her quirks.
** Alternatively, none of her oddities hurt herself. Instead, they hurt others when she acts so InnocentlyInsensitive. She doesn't know what she's doing is wrong.

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** 1. Alice's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies come from insanity, another a mental condition caused by a psychological disorder (like Disorganized Schizophrenia), or a very screwed up childhood.
childhood, a head injury, etc.
** 2. Her unusual thought process, though amusing and unique, causes her to make bad decisions most rational people would not commit.
** 3. Her strange behavior 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.
** 4. She becomes so entrenched in her imagination she is considered as a schizophrenic and thus thrown into a mental hospital.
** 5. People find her incredibly annoying and exasperating, due to her quirks.
** Alternatively, none 6. None of her oddities hurt herself. Instead, they hurt others when she acts so InnocentlyInsensitive. She doesn't know what she's doing is wrong.



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

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** [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight 1. Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but language is too limited gets treatment for the mental condition (medicine, therapy, etc.) and the randomness simply becomes part of her to express her vision.perfectly functional personality.
** 2. [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Alice has astonishing psychological, spiritual, or psychic insight]], but language is too limited for her to express her vision. [[TranslatorBuddy She has a buddy for that]].
** 3. Alice has [[TrueCompanions friends who understand]] her, one of whom is her [[CloudCuckoolandersMinder minder]], which are sufficient to keep bullies away (most of the time) and her mind present.
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Alice's intuition works so fast that the steps between her thoughts, while plausible if spelled out, can't be seen.
seen. Once she takes the time to spell out every little step, she is released from the mental hospital with an apology, and goes on her merry way while pretending to be an airplane.
** 5. She's just random.random. Some find it funny, some find it annoying and others are willing to bear with her because [[BunnyEarsLawyer she's otherwise effective at what she does.]]
** 6. [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Alice has a minder]] to point out social norms that she doesn't know, forgets, or misinterprets.
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** As weird as Alice is, she's has [[OnlySaneMan more sanity than the rest of the main cast combined]].

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** As weird as Alice is, she's she has [[OnlySaneMan more sanity than the rest of the main cast combined]].
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice has an slight character quirk, but is otherwise quite grounded in reality.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice has an a slight character quirk, but is otherwise quite grounded in reality.
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* '''Straight''': Alice has a very strange thought process, but is still intelligible

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* '''Straight''': Alice has a very strange thought process, but is still intelligibleintelligible.

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

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Everyone thinks Alice is crazy, but then it turns out that's she's so genius no one can understand her thought process but other geniuses, so she's sent to a special school for geniuses, [[EveryoneHasStandards where she's considered weird by the other people who DO understand where she's coming from.]]]]
** Alice is in a constant and unalterable state of general weirdness. In most episodes it makes her the weirdest member of the cast, but it also grants her InsanityImmunity to stress, chemicals, and various forms of phlebotinum, making her the OnlySaneMan when the rest of the cast is going crazier than she already is.
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** Alternatively, none of her oddities hurt herself. Instead, they hurt others when she acts so InnocentlyInsensitive. She doesn't know what she's doing is wrong.

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