History BunnyEarsLawyer / VideoGames

** The STARS team were definitely... unconventional in general, with their NonUniformUniform and general casual behaviour towards each other. Chris is noted to frequently disobey orders but "it always leads to better results so he hasn't faced any serious penalties yet". While in later games he's much more serious and responsible (while still having ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight tendencies), it's implied that while he was at STARS he had a tendency to mess around, it's outright stated that "Chris, Joseph and Forest usually get into some kind of trouble when they hang out together", and he brings his electric guitar to work. He's also the best marksman at the RPD. Jill is generally much more professional, but is very secretive about her background: she's an expert at picking locks but refuses to tell the team how she learned this (her father was a criminal). Rebecca is 18-years-old and seems naive and harmless but is a genius who already has a degree. Barry is a loud, hammy BoisterousBruiser (made worse -- or better? -- by his narmy and badly translated dialogue in the original game) but a weapons expert. As for Wesker... well, see below.

* Double H from ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil.'' On one hand, he has a tendency to quote things at random from his military training manual in an [[LargeHam UNECESSARILY LOUD VOICE]], he [[UseYourHead runs things over with his head]] and [[TwentyFourHourArmor never takes off his armor]] because it makes him "feel manly", and he gets really worked up over hovercraft racing. On the other hand, he's the [[LaResistance IRIS Network's]] best operative, he's good at following directions, and he's [[MightyGlacier pretty strong in battle]]. Pey'j too -- He's a Texan-accented [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic pig]] with a habit of [[CurseOfTheAncients swearing like a prospector]], and he has an [[{{Fartillery}} unusual special attack.]] He's also a brilliant inventor and engineer. [[spoiler: And, you know, the all-mysterious and all-powerful leader of a rebel organization.]]

* The majority of ship girls in ''VideoGame/KanColle'' have major quirks that ranges from random brusts of craziness to being almost constantly ditzy, yet they are all exceptionally good at doing their jobs as long as the admiral is capable. The most notable examples being the crazily energetic Kongo sisters and Shimakaze the CloudCuckoolander.

* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'': Agent Francis York Morgan ("Call me York. That's what everyone calls me") is an FBI investigator who we first see driving a car while working on his laptop and arguing on the phone with his superior over his theory on how WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry are in a codependent, sadomasochistic relationship. He is also routinely late for appointments[[note]]which is to say, ''you'' are routinely late due to the game giving you extremely generous windows of time to show up for things, and never penalizing you for just plain taking multiple days off to pursue various side quests; York's weirdness does a good job of wallpapering over the AntiFrustrationFeatures that would otherwise be a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation[[/note]], rambles on endlessly about old movies and their directors when he's not cheerfully discussing [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant grisly murders and serial rapists over dinner]], and goes over his every action and decision with his imaginary friend, Zach. His methods of "investigating" consist less of actual forensic work and more of chain-smoking until he gains visions of the past, and seeing visions of the future in the milk he pours in his coffee every morning. Despite all this, he's an extremely competent detective who [[InsufferableGenius isn't at all shy over that fact]].

* Sara Valestein in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' is nothing more than the hero's teacher who has no problems drinking off the clock, being messy with her room, and passes work to her students while she just lazes around. She also happens to be one hell of a bracer and is a famous A-ranked bracer called "[[RedBaron Purple Lightning]]".
** Similarly, Mint is extremely clumsy, but also a talented engineer who remains steadily employed at Thors Military Academy's engineering department.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', though, there's only two such kooky teachers, and they are far less bizarre. An older gentleman who likes to teach with a little hand puppet of himself, and a female history teacher, Ms. Sofue, who always wears an Egyptian pharaoh's headdress and carries a ceremonial crook. She's actually the sister of Mr. Edo from Gekkoukan High School above, though unlike him she has a love of history in general instead of being fixated on one era, and so she carries out her lessons with general enthusiasm.
** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' brings us Tae Takemi, who runs a back alley clinic in Tokyo, dresses like a goth, and has a very morbid sense of humor. In spite of these idiosyncrasies, she is actually one of the most brilliant doctors in the country, and as you forge a bond with her, she'll provide you access to her own homemade medicine, all of which are very beneficial during your ventures into the Metaverse.

** It might not be immediately noticeable because he's the BigBad of most of the series, but try and imagine what it would be like actually working with Wesker. By his own admission in one of his reports, he's an such InsufferableGenius (especially when younger: he apparently learned to tone that down enough when necessary to manipulate people and get the STARS team to trust him), he had a [=PhD=] by the age of 17. While at STARS, he had a reputation for being able to solve cases no-one else could, but also for being very secretive about his past, and supplementary materials state he was known to ''smile'' when in dangerous situations. In the first game you can find him shooting bees, and he also [[NightmareFetishist describes the Tyrant as "beautiful"]] and thinks fighting an Ivan "should be intriguing". Let's not forget the famous SunglassesAtNight that he always wears. [[https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Albert_Wesker?file=Arklay_Staff_picture_REmake.jpg Photos from his time at Arklay also show a certain disregard for the dress code]] (the man on the far left is even side-eyeing him).

* All the Goddess [=CPUs=] in the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' series. Neptune is TheSlacker par excellence, Noire is highly efficient but socially clumsy and neurotic, Blanc enjoy writing trashy fiction and has a staggering temper, and Vert is an online gaming addict and a YaoiFangirl. Their sisters? Nepgear is more work-oriented but easily flustered and gets distracted by machines, Uni is a military otaku with an inferiority complex next to her sister, and Rom and Ram are children. It's joked the nations could do a better job taking care of themselves... and in ''VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII'', [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor we see that happen]]. [[spoiler:The world falls apart, due to Gold Third's inept leadership. C-Sha tried to gently guide Lowee from the shadows, but instead let a corrupt man seize power an institutionalize a dystopian license system to quash dissent and stop social mobility. K-Sha outright ran away from ruling Lastation and allowed a corrupt mercenary group to seize power and take the nation on the warpath. S-Sha is holding Leanbox together only because she needs its resources to meet her personal goals and her short-sighted policies are causing looming problems. Only Planeptune continues more or less the same, because Histoire still has authority and B-Sha is a SurprisinglySimilarSubstitute to Neptune, although the former is afraid with monsters.]] As eclectic as they are, the Console Patron Units hold power by more virtue than simply being PhysicalGods.

* A good deal of the commanders in the ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' series. A spectacular example is Javier, who wears plate armour all the time and acts like Literature/DonQuixote, and is a BoisterousBruiser to awesome effect.

* Andreas Maler, the main protagonist of VideoGame/{{Pentiment}}, can be played as an EccentricArtist, but even without deliberately playing it up, Andreas's vivid lucid dreams and the fact that his inner thoughts are all portrayed by famous theological, literary and historical characters means he's not entirely ''normal''. Despite this, he is still a smart, artistically talented man who is capable of solving the murders in Tassing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' gives us Milla, Sasha, and Ford. Milla appears to be [[DiscoDan mentally stuck in the 1960s]], Sasha is a [[TheSpock borderline emotionless stoic]] with an [[BerserkButton irrational hatred for tacky lamps]] and Ford is... well, ''[[SplitPersonality special]]''. Despite this, they form a crack team of psychic spies unparalleled to none.

** The STARS team were definitely...unconventional in general, with their NonUniformUniform and general casual behaviour towards each other. Chris is noted to frequently disobey orders but "it always leads to better results so he hasn't faced any serious penalties yet". While in later games he's much more serious and responsible (while still having ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight tendencies), it's implied that while he was at STARS he had a tendency to mess around, it's outright stated that "Chris, Joseph and Forest usually get into some kind of trouble when they hang out together", and he brings his electric guitar to work. He's also the best marksman at the RPD. Jill is generally much more professional, but is very secretive about her background: she's an expert at picking locks but refuses to tell the team how she learned this (her father was a criminal). Rebecca is 18-years-old and seems naive and harmless but is a genius who already has a degree. Barry is a loud, hammy BoisterousBruiser (made worse -- or better? -- by his narmy and badly translated dialogue in the original game) but a weapons expert. As for Wesker...well, see below.
** It might not be immediately noticeable because he's the BigBad of most of the series, but try and imagine what it would be like actually working with Wesker. By his own admission in one of his reports an InsufferableGenius (especially when younger: he apparently learned to tone that down enough when necessary to manipulate people and get the STARS team to trust him), he had a [=PhD=] by the age of 17. While at STARS, he had a reputation for being able to solve cases no-one else could, but also for being very secretive about his past, and supplementary materials state he was known to ''smile'' when in dangerous situations. In the first game you can find him shooting bees, and he also [[NightmareFetishist describes the Tyrant as "beautiful"]] and thinks fighting an Ivan "should be intriguing". Let's not forget the SunglassesAtNight. [[https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Albert_Wesker?file=Arklay_Staff_picture_REmake.jpg Photos from his time at Arklay also show a certain disregard for the dress code]] (the man on the far left is even side-eyeing him).
*** After getting superpowers he becomes hammier and weirder, mostly to show off and taunt his opponents: he'll pause to slick back his hair or answer phone calls in the middle of a fight, T-poses and spins around after beating Chris up in Code Veronica, throws his coat away in Siberia just to look dramatic, and in Umbrella Chronicles the game at one point switches from first to third person for him to do a PistolPose. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', he throws his sunglasses at Chris to distract him during a fight. It works. He also makes puns such as "Your Umbrella has folded", "your future ''hinges'' upon this fight!" (while kicking Chris through a door), or in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' "zombies to truly...marvel". Not to mention that in 5 he spends the entire game wearing tight black leather with a collar like he's in The Matrix. Of course, by 5 he's gone way past this trope and into full-on crazy supervillainy, trying to take over the world, kill 6 billion people and become a god...and he nearly succeeds.

** The Boss falls into this a lot, but never more so than in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''. Whether it's singing along to the radio on the way to a fight, pretending to shoot things with a sniper rifle while on lookout duty, installing stripper poles in [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent the renamed White Crib]], proclaiming yourself "the patron saint of America" (even if the accent you use is French or Cockney), blowing up statues of the bad guy just out of spite, doing a striptease routine at the most ridiculous possible moment or bestowing all rights to the Nyte Blayde franchise to a teammate after fighting through their dubious-quality fanfiction, you get up to some fairly ridiculous stuff, but at the same time you prevent nuclear disaster by climbing up a missile ''in flight'', parlay that into becoming the President of the United States, and then bring an interstellar empire to its knees through an unequalled gift for killing stuff.

* Most of the henchmen you recruit in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'' tend to ''start'' at "kooky" and go very strange places from there, and usually [[AxeCrazy axe-related places]] at that, but they also bring skills that utterly humiliate the [[SurroundedByIdiots minions]] you start out surrounded by.

* Much like its sister series of The Elder Scrolls, the Fallout universe tosses so many oddball characters at the audience that it could fill a Vault 10 times! Whether from the allies you add to your party, to the NPC's and Vendors you sell your loot from. Hell's bones, you can role-play your character into being a crossdresser while wiping out a Raider war-band in under 3 minutes!

* The Guardians in ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' are basically a whole faction of Bunny Ears Lawyers. Y’know all the weird stuff RPG players tend to do, like spamming dance emotes, [[LootDrama obsessing over loot]], [[RainbowPimpGear playing dress up]], and silly things like that? Here that’s not GameplayAndStorySegregation, it’s ''canonically what Guardians act like''. There are numerous lore entries in which people wonder why the defenders of humanity do things like dance in water fountains or crash into walls while trying to do stunts on their hover bikes. Many of the NPC Guardians are just as crazy; Cayde-6 spends most of his time playing pranks and finding excuses to not do his job, Ikora Rey’s social life is a mess, Zavala is TheComicallySerious to a ridiculous degree, Eris Morn is a crazy NightmareFetishist who may or may not be turning into a Hive monster, and Shaxx is [[BloodKnight a total lunatic]] who’s [[NoIndoorVoice constantly shouting]] and has [[SkewedPriorities no priority higher then hosting sports matches in enemy territory]]. And that’s just some of the important ones. They’re all still extremely powerful heroes and the City’s greatest hope for survival.