Line #42 PlayingWith/Cloudcuckoolander


1	'''Basic Trope''': A usually harmless screwball who lives in [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} their own little world]].
2	* '''Straight''': Alice has a very strange thought process, but is still intelligible.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice is so odd that she is constantly misunderstood by the remainder of the group.
5	** Alice speaks in an alien language all the time and always dances.
6	** Alice's mind trumps the insanity of an EldritchAbomination and her imagination consists of 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.]]
7	** BlueAndOrangeMorality
8	* '''Downplayed''': Alice has a slight character quirk, but is otherwise quite grounded in reality.
9	* '''Justified''':
10	** Alice is actually from another planet and isn't familiar with local customs, etc.
11	** Alice is genuinely insane.
12	** Alice's real self is possessing another body.
13	** [[MushroomSamba Alice is on hallucinogens]].
14	** Alice is a hyperactive child, where such behavior is expected.
15	* '''Inverted''': Alice is the [[OnlySaneMan one voice of reason among a cast of surrealists]].
16	* '''Subverted''':
17	** Alice seems to be crazy, but turns out to be [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight eerily accurate]].
18	** Alice is using ObfuscatingStupidity or ObfuscatingInsanity.
19	* '''Double Subverted''':
20	** It turns out to be a SeeminglyProfoundFool.
21	** 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.
22	** Alice is using ObfuscatingStupidity, but while she's ''smarter'' than she lets on, [[BunnyEarsLawyer she really is that weird]].
23	* '''Parodied''':
24	** Alice's head can't be seen -- it's just a fluffy pink cloud that spouts cheerful nonsense.
25	** She's constantly a blur and is ultra-annoying.
26	** As weird as Alice is, she has [[OnlySaneMan more sanity than the rest of the main cast combined]].
27	* '''Zig Zagged''':
28	** 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.]]
29	** 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.
30	** 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.
31	* '''Averted''': Alice has normal intelligence and sanity.
32	* '''Enforced''':
33	** 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.
34	** "Everyone loves TheLoonie."
35	* '''Lampshaded''':
36	** "Alice, where did that train of thought come from, and where is it going?"
37	** "I'm not crazy, I'm just.... differently sane."
38	* '''Invoked''':
39	** Alice is perfectly capable of making sense, but is cheerfully random as a way to avoid serious conversations.
40	** Alice acts this way to cover up her [[StepfordSmiler many dark, serious issues]].
41	* '''Exploited''': Alice is an attention-seeker using ObfuscatingStupidity or ObfuscatingInsanity to get noticed.
42	* '''Defied''': Alice says something that earns her weird looks, only to assure her team that she is not, in any way, eccentric at all.
43	* '''Discussed''': "Try to be wary of Alice. She's a bit... off."
44	* '''Conversed''': "Why are so many happy-go-lucky morons in this show?"
45	* '''Deconstructed''':
46	** 1. Alice's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies come from a mental condition caused by a psychological disorder (like Disorganized Schizophrenia), a very screwed up childhood, a head injury, etc.
47	** 2. Her unusual thought process, though amusing and unique, causes her to make bad decisions most rational people would not commit.
48	** 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.
49	** 4. She becomes so entrenched in her imagination she is considered a schizophrenic and thus thrown into a mental hospital.
50	** 5. People find her incredibly annoying and exasperating, due to her quirks.
51	** 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.
52	** 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.
53	* '''Reconstructed''':
54	** 1. Alice gets treatment for the mental condition (medicine, therapy, etc.) and the randomness simply becomes part of her perfectly functional personality.
55	** 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]].
56	** 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.
57	** 4. Alice's intuition works so fast that the steps between her thoughts, while plausible if spelled out, can't be 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.
58	** 5. She's just 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.]]
59	** 6. [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Alice has a minder]] to point out social norms that she doesn't know, forgets, or misinterprets.
60	** 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]].
61	* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is [[TheLoonie loony]] and [[PluckyComicRelief a massive goofball]].
62	* '''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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65	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}}.
66	-> I thought the plural was ''octopi''?
67	--> ''octopuses'' also works.
68	---> It's "octopese", duh.
69	----> Isn't the plural form of ''octopus'' octopus, just like fish is fish when there's many fish?
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72	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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74	%%* '''Implied''': ??? ; still kept here in case this gets removed for any reason.
75	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
76	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? ; still kept here in case this gets removed for any reason.

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