{{Seth}}: Removed -

''But that's just the tip of the iceberg, baby. He's got an odd sense of humor, can be easily distracted, seems to choose friends and associates through the RuleOfCool, and is a huge Comicbook/{{Batman}} fanboy. He's a weirdo. Never change, Doc.''

- from the Doctor [=McNinja=] example since it goes off point. Kept here for posterity.

{{Scrounge}}: Added it back. It's the ''entire'' point. His first response to a tough situation is "What would Batman do?"

MorganWick: Doesn't come off that way. It just comes off as Doctor Mc Ninja love. TheLongList doth not an example make. And none of it, as phrased, makes him a BunnyEarsLawyer, especially in comparison to the "doctor/ninja" one, especially in the world of fiction. I mean, "an odd sense of humor"? "Easily distracted"? Please.

{{Scrounge}}: Fine. We'll leave it out until someone can word it better, okay?

{{Jefepato}}: Does Dexter really count? I'd think that having a low-key quirk that other characters don't know about would be the opposite of Bunny Ears.

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***Shocking that Zuko's uncle Iroh hasn't been included in this yet. He's a genial and faintly bumbling old man who's obsessed with tea, which masks a mind like a steel trap, a Firebending talent equal to that of his prodigy niece Azula's, and a military history that saw him come closer than anyone before him in history to conquering Ba Sing Se and led to his being nicknamed "Dragon of the West". Even when it looks like he's out, he's not out.

Pulled this. Iroh fits general ObfuscatingStupidity better. He doesn't really use his ideosyncracies as an advantage in combat, even early on, when he ''is'' pushed to fight he uses entirely sensible combat strategies for the situation, he's just masking his actual skill by not actually fighting unless he really has to.

Bumi might be your actual BunnyEarsLawyer though. Or at least, what Bunny Ears Lawyers grow up to be when they take a few dozen levels in badass.

ThatOther1Dude: With the exception of the time he was in jail, Iroh falls more under CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, as I'm pretty sure it's not an act, he just ''is'' that odd and goofy when he's not serious.
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{{Sketch}}: Pulled the following examples -

* Sokka on ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', due to his lack of bending powers and his role as the PluckyComicRelief, often comes off as an harmless oaf, often getting involved in exaggerated SlapStick. However, behind this is a innovative tactician, a trait which he inherits directly from his father. Sokka is usually the one to come up with plans for victory, and over the series, gradually develops as a warrior.
**One good demonstration of these skills comes from "The Library":
--->'''Sokka:''' Oh great spirit, check this out! (does a few hand tricks and presents a butterfly knot) It's a knot, a special knot!
--->'''Knowledge Spirit:''' You're not very bright are you?
--->'''Sokka:''' (under his breath) Bright enough to fool you.
** Another example from ''The Western Air Temple'': [[spoiler: Sokka defeats Combustion Man by working out the angle of his fire-blasts and nailing him with a boomerang shot from behind cover.]]

Because that's not a BunnyEarsLawyer. Sokka's just a BadassNormal with occiasional bouts PluckyComicRelief and ButtMonkey. And That "The Library" example is ObfuscatingStupidity.

* Practically the entire crew in ''{{Firefly}}'' counts, having their own oddities and weirdness about them. As a bonus, the one person on the boat who doesn't actually help out that often as a crew member is also [[WaifFu the single most dangerous fighter on the entire ship]], and ''she'' happens to be an actual AxCrazy.

That is the definition of ''stretching it.''

* Uryu Ishida of ''{{Bleach}}'' is an extremely odd person...who just happens to be a powerful, spiritually aware human and the top-ranking student in his class.
** Not to mention he has leet sewing skillz and likes to wear his Quincy uniform - even when the rest of the cast opts for casual clothes.

Unless being TheStoic is "odd" (because LonersAreFreaks), he is not a BunnyEarsLawyer.

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*Requesting that the description of Clinton as 'deranged' be pulled. That's politically biased and oh-so-not true.

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{{Nornagest}}: Yanked --

-->* A character in a story this troper wrote was a very talented areospace engineer who just happened to dye her hair green.
-->* This troper had an original story as a teenager where practically ''everyone'' in the cast were Bunny Ears Lawyers.

The first doesn't qualify for the trope. The second is just uninformative. Both would probably be better placed in TroperTales.

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{{Elihu}}: This trope is not a dumping ground for damaged geniuses. This is NOT the place for people like House. A BEL has highly noticeable quirks. QUIRKS. Being a heavy drinker or a JerkAss or a violent person is NOT a quirk, it's a character flaw, and most interesting characters have them, especially if they're going to be the best at something in the narrative world. Because of these ideas, this trope tends to apply mostly to comedic figures - it's not exclusive to them, but just think of the image of a bunny-eared lawyer. It's quirky, it's odd, it's comedic.

For once, the instinctive reaction to add a DeathNote example is perfectly fine. The other instinctive adds... not so much. Here are some of them:

* Melissa Mao of ''FullMetalPanic'' is a top AS pilot and combat officer. She also, if her apartment when staking out Kaname's school is any indication, [[BottleFairy goes through enough beer in a week]] to kill a bear through alcohol poisoning.
* MisatoKatsuragi from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is one of the world's most competent combat tacticians, yet is well known for her messy, [[BottleFairy heavy-drinking ditzy]] lifestyle outside of her job.
* [[IronMan Tony Stark]] starts off his movie as only slightly less quirky than the other examples - he spends virtually all of his time either partying or working, to the point where he can make speeches while drunk and rarely shows up on time. Somehow he heads Stark Industries, probably because of [[TreacherousAdvisor Obidiah Stane's]] help, the fact that the company was founded by his father, and his unbelievable skill at building things. And then, at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: he reveals that he is a ''super hero''.]]
* Dr. House from ''{{House MD}}'' is a cynical, sardonic, unsympathetic drug addict, and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he didn't have to, but is an unparalleled genius as a doctor. It's revealed that he [[spoiler: only became a doctor so everyone would have to listen to him, even if he was an intolerable drug addict, so in effect he always wanted to be a BunnyEarsLawyer]]. In one episode his [[HospitalHottie hot boss]] casually informs him that she earmarks a part of the budget specifically for legal fees relating to House's doctor-patient interactions.
* There is ''one'' AxCrazy BunnyEarsLawyer I know of: ''{{Dexter}}''. However, his Bunny Ears-ness is low-key, and mostly involves being AxCrazy -- which the other characters don't realize.
* Joshua Norton was famously a well-spoken, extremely intelligent, and kindly man who acted normally outside of his delusion that he was the Emperor of America. He is rare example of a real BunnyEarsLawyer treated as understandingly as in fiction, as the people of San Francisco were willing to support Norton and treat him respectfully rather than incarcerating him in an asylum... It might be more accurate to say they simply made all of San Francisco into his asylum.
* Tim Burton. Most of his movies are considered charmingly quirky, though [[YourMileageMayVary some like him better then others]]. He is one of the few directors to have made successful big-budget movies on the outright bizarre. Oddly enough, his more mainstream type films are less well received.

Such a huge deal is made of House and Stark's personality defects that they can't qualify. Norton wasn't actually good at anything, not exceptionally.

The TruthInTelevision section is just a stash of weird people, some of them not quirky, some of them not good at anything beside having a political position, and most of them not fitting the trope at all.

Wow, that sounded really bitchy, didn't it? Sorry.

* {{Raekuul}} has a Question: Can we change Delicious Coffee to be more... understandable? I'm in the middle of a Sailor Moon kick and I didn't make the connection to Tomoe until I went to the Sailor Moon page. What I thought it was, was a reference to Usagi/Serena's fiasco at the finishing school...

*XenonZaleo: I wholeheartedly endorse this Elihu's point, and suggest further culling of many of these examples. Sumeragi from Gundam 00 is an alcoholic, but it not only never interferes with her work, but is a completely common trait sadly. Alcoholism isn't quirky. Waltfield from Gundam SEED loves his coffee...but doesn't sit around in his mobile suit or on the deck of his battle ship making it. It's called a hobby. I'll try to avoid just listing things I feel should be removed, but I think this trope page has lost its way, as most of the examples are about things the characters do in their off-time, or is of a situation that's so off the wall that there is no "normal", and hence who can say that wearing bunny-ears isn't the best solution?
**However, as an aside, I do believe that House is perhaps the Trope's near ur-example. He's addicted to drugs, is a complete jerk, is totally lazy, refuses the vast majority of cases that are sent his way, has broken several laws, and avoids almost all contact with the people he's supposed to be treating. There's absolutely no chance he should be still employed, and his quirks are several magnitudes above simple bunny-ears. While yes,these flaws are pointed out several times a season, if not an episode, in the end, nothing or next to nothing is done about them. Cuddy and Wilson are 90% talk, and in the end, simply enable and put up with his ridiculousness because of the results he brings. But other than THAT, I agree with previous troper.
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PlasmaHydra: I couldn't resist adding the picture, when I saw it on a rerun of ''BostonLegal''...

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{{Madrugada}}: deleted examples that were either not quirks or not particularly good at what they did. Lincoln's hat was not a quirk. Grant's drinking is not a quirk. LBJ's attitude to Vietnam was not a quirk. Blagoevich was not good at what he did. Also deleted natter.

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The Pocket: I just wanted to say, to whoever added that global warming guy with the funny hats... I never watch "lecture-style" YouTube videos, and I mean NEVER, assuming that any given one will be boring and uninformative at best, and, given the average intelligence level of that site's users, obnoxiously grating and horribly misinformed at worst. And yet... his inclusion in this list compelled me to click, and I wound up watching like a third of all his material and thoroughly enjoyed it. And, thinking of how I could convince anyone else to watch them, nothing really compelling comes to mind. This is pretty much the only context in which I would have even bothered clicking. And the hats, the whole reason it was on here, had almost nothing to do with anything anyway! So... thank you? And please don't ever let it get removed? o_o