History Cloudcuckoolander / VideoGames

* ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' allows you to play one in the form of a Malkavian. Funny dialogue choices, even funnier if you've played the game before and know what the dialogue is normally like. You also get the chance to have an argument with a stop sign. ("No, ''you'' stop!")

* [[ElegantGothicLolita Agitha]] of [[LegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]] probably classifies. She's the self-proclaimed Princess of the Bug Kingdom, is seemingly ignorant of the fact that most people have no particular desire to bathe in snail slime, and demands that the Legendary Hero Chosen by the Gods go fetch bugs for her ball. Oddly enough, she's one of the most popular NPCs.

* The Soldier of ''TeamFortress2'' fame acts like this a lot. His version of history includes the dubvious fact that Noah was actually Sun Tzu, the animals were bought via fight money, and after they were on the boat, Sun Tzu beat them all up. ("And from that day forward, anytime a bunch of animals are together in one place, it's called a ''zoo!'' ...Unless it's a farm!") This was discovered during a DrillSergeantNasty speech to a collection of severed heads. He also joined the World War 2 effort -- in ''1949'', in his backstory. But then, a lot of the cast goes into this a little; the Heavy is under the impression that both his {{BFG}} ([[ICallItVera lovingly called Sasha]]) and [[HyperactiveMetabolism sandvich]] are people, and talks to them a lot.

**** The Sniper is the most well-balanced of them all, as he explains to his parents:
---->'''Sniper:''' I'm ''not'' a crazed gunman, Dad... I'm an assassin! The difference being one's a job, the other's a mental sickness!

** [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.88952?page=1 This]] fanfic goes into detail about it.
** Although still [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic]], The Engineer seems to be fairly sane.

* Any FinalFantasy character of the kook archetype, according to ZeroPunctuation. ([[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1569-Final-Fantasy-XIII See here]])
* ''TheSuffering'' gives you a drugged-out and half-naked teenager out of his mind, begging you (who he thinks is his father, in his overdose-laden delusions) to protect him and help him to safety.

*** In an amusing turn of events, In "the Passing" Ellis suddenly becomes VERY concerned about how he appears to others. In particular, [[spoiler: Zoey]]
* The Truth from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas clearly rambles in a style suggesting he's mad, but at the same time, seems to know a great deal about things not obvious to CJ. Of course, he's also a stoner. And he apparently got high with some really ''awesome'' polar bears.

* Steven Heck from {{Alpha Protocol}} fits this well. He nearly poisons his associate with dry-cleaning solution because he can't remember where his keys are, asks a security guard about TV cooking shows before killing him, writes the single longest rambling sentence in existence in an e-mail, builds a mini-gun on a subway car "just because it might be useful later" and thinks the protagonist's middle name is "Finnegan", because a minotaur told him this when he got stoned. Although he did doubt the logic of the minotaur's argument.

* Yuyuko from ''[[{{Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'' is an ObfuscatingStupidity version of this trope. She seems to do everything based on whimsy or her base needs and also seems to have a hard time paying attention to what's right in front of her or how others are reacting to her.

** Another "even by Touhou standards" candidate would be Kotohime from the PC-98 game ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream'', whose primary character traits were [[TheCollectorOfTheStrange compulsively collecting random stuff]] and being delusional and thinking she was a police officer. [[CrazyAwesome Her danmaku abilities are never explained.]] She also displays the "uncanny understanding of the plot" aspect, as her victory quote to Chiyuri is to start reciting the Periodic Table of the Elements (despite living in Gensokyo, where magic reigns supreme and science is heresy), and [[spoiler: she recognizes the electrical equipment in the hypervessel]].
* FinalFantasyXIII gives us Vanille. Whether she's molesting sheep for their wool, cooing over Chocobos, or skipping around acting like a sugar-high idiot, she never seems to be much of anything beyond this trope. [[spoiler: By midgame, it becomes apparent that while this may have been her personality 500 years previously, at present time it's mostly just an act to keep her StepfordSmiler facade unnoticeable to the rest of the party, especially Fang.]]

* {{Borderlands}} has Patricia Tannis, former Dahl scientist who after spending quite a while on [[DeathWorld Pandora]] has become part this and part AxCrazy, though is still pretty calm about it. Her [[ApocalypticLog journal entries]] show her descent into madness as she develops a relationship with her [[CargoShip recorder]] (they're just friends now) and instills a personality into the corpse of a bandit she killed (his name is Leslie and he turned to violence due to being mocked for his name). After collecting her entries for her, she requests for you to bash your head in with a rock to forget everything you read.
* The titular [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent characters]] of ''DwarfFortress'' seem to have a rather tenuous association with reality. Even the least of them is afflicted with AngstDissonance and [[TooDumbToLive a staggering lack of common sense]], and others branch out into {{Mad Artist}}s, [[AxCrazy axe-murderers]], {{Upper Class Twit}}s, and various flavors of BunnyEarsLawyer.
* Sonny Joon, TheUnseen from the NancyDrew game series, is probably this trope, to judge by his coatimundi phobia, UFO obsession, and generally weird doodles. Rentaro from ''Shadow at the Water's Edge'' shows signs of this too, particularly when he's gushing about his love of numbers or mimicking the expressions of deer.

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** He's not so much this trope, as his odd quirks and limited vocabulary are caused by his mental challenge rather than being a genuinely odd person.

* In {{Dragon Age Origins}} you meet the dwarf trader Bodahn Feddic who found his somewhat retarded son Sandal in the Deep Roads. The only thing Sandal ever does is enchanting your weapons while [[PokemonSpeak saying "Enchantment!"]]. Near the end of the game you find him surrounded by Darkspawn corpses. When you ask him what happened he just happily answers "Enchantment!". May also qualify as {{Nightmare Fuel}}.

* In Dragon Age Origins you meet an Dwarf who found his somewhat retarded son Sandal in the deep roads at first all it seems is that it's a dwarf boy who says Enchantment and enchants weapons near the end of the game you find him surrounded by Darkspawn corpses when you ask him what happens he just happily says "Enchantment!" May also qualify as nightmare fuel

*** I think he's just [[ShaggyFrogStory nervously mixing up phrases]].

* {{Borderlands}} has Patricia Tannis, former Dahl scientist who after spending quite a while on [[DeathWorld Pandora]] has become part this and part AxCrazy, though is still pretty calm about it. Her [[ApocalypticLogs journal entries]] show her descent into madness as she develops a relationship with her [[CargoShip recorder]] (they're just friends now) and instills a personality into the corpse of a bandit she killed (his name is Leslie and he turned to violence due to being mocked for his name). After collecting her entries for her, she requests for you to bash your head in with a rock to forget everything you read.

** Another "even by Touhou standards" candidate would be Kotohime from the PC-98 game ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream'', whose primary character traits were [[TheCollectorOfTheStrange compulsively collecting random stuff]] and being delusional and thinking she was a police officer. [[CrazyAwesome Her danmaku abilities are never explained.]]

** Another "even by Touhou standards" candidate would be Kotohime from the PC-98 game ''Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream'', whose primary character traits were [[TheCollectorOfTheStrage compulsively collecting random stuff]] and being delusional and thinking she was a police officer. [[CrazyAwesome Her danmaku abilities are never explained.]]

* Cysero from many of the ''ArtixEntertainment'' line of games is somewhat an example of this trope. While very coherent and attentive to a problem at hand, he sometimes slips into Cloudcuckooland, which inevitably means something weird is going to happen or is already in the works when he gets involved.
** The Staff member the charcter is based on can be as big a Cloudcuckoolander at times, though weather or not this is his real personality or him acting like his ingame counterpart is unknown.

* Rin in ''KatawaShoujo'' rivals Osaka for sheer out-of-touch-with-reality-or-possibly-just-on-a-different-plane-of-it-ness.

* Princess Peach can come off this at times in [[SuperMarioBros her home series]], but it's most pronounced in [[SuperSmashBros the Subspace Emissary]]. She takes a casual stroll atop the [[{{Kirby}} Halberd]] [[FailedASpotCheck while it's being bombarded]] by an [[StarFox arwing]], and doesn't even flinch until the gun battery she's standing by is blown to smithereens. Less than a minute later, she keeps [[StarFox Fox]] and [[TheLegendOfZelda Sheik]] from [[LetsYouAndHimFight tearing into each other]]... by offering them tea.
** Given how most of the trophies resort to fighting first and sometimes for little reason (Marth and Meta Knight fought each other ''just by meeting each other'' for crying out loud!), one could make the argument that she's one of the few sane ones.

* Princess Peach can come off this at times in [[SuperMarioBros her home series]], but it's most pronounced in [[SuperSmashBros the Subspace Emissary]]. She takes a casual stroll atop the [[{{Kirby}} Halberd]] [[FailedASpotCheck while it's being bombarded]] by an [[StarFox arwing]], and doesn't even flinch until the gun battery she's standing by is blown to smithereens. Less than a minute later, she keeps [[StarFox Fox]] and [[TheLegendOfZelda Sheik]] from [[LetsYouAndHimFight tearing into each other]]... by offering them tea.

* Or during post-battle dialoge.

* Princess Peachcan come off this at times in [[SuperMarioBros her home series]], but it's most pronounced in [[SuperSmashBros the Subspace Emissary]]. She takes a casual stroll atop the [[{{Kirby}} Halberd]] [[FailedASpotCheck while it's being bombarded]] by an [[StarFox arwing]], and doesn't even flinch until the gun battery she's standing by is blown to smithereens. Less than a minute later, she keeps [[StarFox Fox]] and [[TheLegendOfZelda Sheik]] from [[LetsYouAndHimFight tearing into each other]]... by offering them tea.