History Cloudcuckoolander / VideoGames

** The Pyro. [[TheUnintelligible Nobody has a clue what he (or she) is saying]], but he wears a number of odd hats (including a propeller beanie and one of the Engineer's rubber gloves), wields weapons like a rake and a mailbox, and "Meet the Pyro" shows that they view the mayhem they create as [[spoiler:them blowing bubbles in a cutesy SugarBowl full of diapered cherub versions of his enemies]].

* Everyone in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series qualifies as this trope. [[UpToEleven Even those outside]] of [[DeathWorld Pandora]] add to the overly long list of crazies due to the enlargement of the chaotic CorporateWarfare on several planets, and Pandora just so happens to be at its peak. Finding an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane]] [[UnfazedEveryman Unfazed Man]] on a colonized planet is a rarity; [[VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands Rhys and Fiona]] are two of them. Here are some more specific examples:

** While the game counts many crazy folks, [[UpToEleven the Temmies take the cake]]: [[PlanetOfSteves they are all named the same]] ([[OddNameOut except for Bob]]), speak in a strange way, have their faces separated from their bodies, and always vibrate in battle. Their shopkeeper, [[ScholarshipStudent who works to go to "cool leg"]], is the only one in the game who buys you your old items ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome something others consider economically suicidal]]) and when she has enough money to pay her rant, her body goes while her face stays in the shop. Her craziness takes creepy proportions [[spoiler:after she obtains her degree, when she develops [[UltimateBlacksmith the most powerful armor in the game]], [[HiddenDepths whose price decreases every time you die]].]]

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', numerous dialogue options and journal entries portray [[TheHero the Warrior of Light]] as this, coming off as a cheerfully oblivious IdiotHero whose brain marches to the beat of its own drum. For instance, in the sidequest "Too Many Cooks", it never occurs to them that the "squishy" spices they just retrieved from a shipwreck are moldy until after they've thrown it in the soup. In another sidequest, they can respond to questions about how the (distinctly Miqo'te) criminal they're chasing could have fled the craggy cliffs of Outer La Noscea so quickly by saying that he's actually a Roegadyn. Skaetwys, a Roegadyn herself, sarcastically quips that [[SarcasmMode of course Roegadyn can sprout wings and fly]] before wondering if the Warrior is making a stupid joke of if they're really that daft.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'': When he went Maverick, Gigabolt Man-o-War started displaying shades of this. His attack cries have him should food names, or some GratituousEnglish in the Japanese version. His intro also has him deny his nature as a Maverick, and claim that he is in complete control. And his death cry? "Oh yeaaah!!!"

** Jinx is what happens when this trope combines with AxCrazy. Her Joke animation is to take out Fishbones, which is a ''rocket launcher'', and talk to it while flapping its sharklike jaw up and down like a puppet, with the rocket launcher generally playing the CloudcuckoolandersMinder and encouraging her to settle down and stop blowing things up, which she never will.

** Dogen Boole is spacey and a little odd, tying into his AmbiguousDisorder. He's obsessed with hats, and rates the ones the other kids wear on their CharacterBlogs. On Kitty Bubai's profile, he goes off on a random tangent on how he got ringworm from a cat once.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': Shegor appears to be a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} under the delusion that her kidnapped pet turtle can talk and has the answers for everything. When you finally rescue her turtle, after it just sits there for a while... it actually ''does'' start talking and its plan does solve everything -- at least for the moment.

* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series takes place seemingly in a world full of them. From old lady security guards shooting prosecutors with fake laser guns to Defense Attorney assistants with very interesting ideas about how law works, the world is full of crazies and the player characters (Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, Ryuunosuke Naruhodo, etc.) tend to be the only sane ones.

* ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'' plays this one for drama. One of the various Afflictions heroes can suffer when their SanityMeter is topped out is becoming Irrational: Essentially, they completely snap under the pressure and start to behave extremely erratically, wandering all over the place, refusing to act, doing things at random, refusing healing for stupid reasons and constantly ramble about nonsensical things. Their usefulness drops ''fast'' once they've gone insane in this manner.
* Agent York from ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition.'' When the game itself describes him as having a "surreal demeanor," there's little doubt that he's a little off-beat. He does things such as smoke, use his laptop, and talk on the phone about ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry...'' [[DrivesLikeCrazy all while driving]], crack jokes about eighties movies during autopsies, and of course, [[ImaginaryFriend he's constantly talking to his imaginary friend Zach]], no matter who's around to overhear. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified, in that he's trying to protect Zach from the outside world, who doesn't want to form close relationships with people in fear of getting hurt. Acting like a weirdo is a pretty good way to do that]].
* Subverted with Princess Sapphire Rhodonite in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''. At first she appears to be a slightly out-of-it RebelliousPrincess who is [[CutenessProximity easily distracted by things that are small and cute]] (like Raspberyl, [[MarshmallowHell as Beryl uncomfortably learns]]). It's not much later that we get a glimpse into her head and discover that she [[CrazyPrepared prepares plans in her head]] [[AxeCrazy on how to most efficiently kill anyone she meets]], should the time come. Kinda like if [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] was raised by Machiavelli.
** In the first ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' manga, we've got Lamington. "Do you want to talk to my bonsai?" (He constantly seems to be baking cakes...)
** As a gullible space case who takes everything from [[GrammarNazi typos]] to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood sardines]] extremely seriously, Valvatorez from ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|A Promise Unforgotten}}'' easily earns his InSeriesNickname of "Mr. Weirdo."
** Flonne from the [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness first game]], though smarter than she looks, is also more than a little out there. For example: In ''Disgaea 4'', she [[spoiler: blows Artina's cover in a casual conversation, despite Artina having explicitly asked her not to use her real name while she was at work]]. And this happens literally minutes after she makes her appearance.
-->"Nice to meet you. I'm an assassin. Whoops. I wasn't supposed to say that."
* [[ActionGirl Leliana]] and [[BigGuy Sten]] from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. Leliana believes that she is on a [[MissionFromGod journey from the Maker]], and if romanced, describes your eyelashes as being like butterflies she wants to catch and keep in a jar. Sten tries to understand your dog's inner nature by engaging in a contest of growls with it, and at the end, proclaims him "worthy of respect." Sten at least is from {{Cloudcuckooland}} (he is a staunch adherent of the Qun, which is a BlueAndOrangeMorality philosophy from the perspective of Ferelden and the player). Leliana, based on the other Orlesians in the game, has no such excuse.
** Sten believes the entire Ferelden people are this, due to their [[UndyingLoyalty unconditional devotion]] to their Mabari Hounds, which makes up a great deal of their culture. If the Warden is imprisoned at one point in the game and Sten and the Dog are chosen to rescue them, he starts to converse with the Dog, before realizing what he's doing;
---> '''Sten''': And now I am talking with an animal... [[GotMeDoingIt I have been in this country]] ''[[GoingNative too long!]]''
* Merrill the Dalish elf blood mage from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. She often blurts out ponderings that have nothing to do with anything (such as how qunari scratch their heads, or whether Isabella has a peg leg and an eyepatch when she's standing right next to her and can clearly see that she doesn't) and has absolutely no concept of ordinary social graces. Varric and Isabela adopt her as a MoralityPet. Varric even gives her a ball of string, so she can leave a trail and find her way home, after she gets lost on the way to the market and ends up in the dangerous slums. Again.
** She's also ended up in the Viscount's bathing chambers, and knows how deep the harbor is because ''she's fallen into it''.
** If romanced, it's mentioned that she often ends up wandering into other people's gardens, picking flowers and playing with the guard-dogs. Apparently Aveline regularly has to get the charges of trespassing dropped, while Hawke has taken to paying off a ''lot'' of their Hightown neighbours and their guards, in attempt to keep the peace.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'':
** Tsarevna Alena can be a bit strange at times, especially in party chat conversations.
** Torneko is often doing bizarre little things on his own during battles. Although he might just have a weird sense of humor.
** Maya has very misguided priorities that can make her a bit difficult to deal with.
* Manah in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', when she's not trying to be [[EnfanteTerrible actively evil]], has all the charm of a cute little girl playing with imaginary friends. [[spoiler:Except they're not imaginary -- she's connected to the malevolent deities of the Drakengard setting, the Watchers]].
* Archmage Rakorium from ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'' is probably the craziest and most powerful wizard on Aventuria. He's constantly absent-minded, has an irrational hatred for reptiles of any kind and turned a whole band of brigands to stone because he believed they were dragon worshipers.
* The museum Curator from ''VideoGame/DungeonMakerIITheHiddenWar''. He's [[CampStraight campy as all getout]], plus is lacking in basic knowledge and common sense and constantly coming up with ridiculous theories to explain things everyone else already knows. Case in point: at one point he theorizes that snakes shed their skin because they can't use moisturizer cream, so when their skin dries out they just take it off. When he discovers the real reason (snake skin isn't stretchy and snakes will outgrow it) he treats it as if it's a major scientific discovery.
* The [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent eponymous characters]] of ''VideoGame/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.
** ''Dwarf Fortress'': the only game in which being on fire is cause for a good drink.
** Dwarf psychology works like this: My wife and child were killed by serial murderer elephants and the fortress has been attacked by a beast lost to time, but I'm happy because that dining room was really nice.
%%** Dwarvern engineering: The more useless, the better.
%%** The player community as a whole tends to embrace and encourage this sort of behavior.
* You could make a case for the Mr. Saturns in ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'' and [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} its sequel]]. Their grammar is off-the-wall and punctuated by words like "boing" and "zoom", they have a tendency to say odd things like "Dakota" and "rice paddy" apropos of absolutely nothing, the font they speak in looks like a young child's handwriting... one in ''Mother 3'' busied itself by staring at the ceiling.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

--->"I've been waiting for you, or someone like you, or someone not like you."
--->"Well, looks like the cat's out of the bag now... who puts cats in bags, anyway? Cats ''hate'' bags."
--->"But enough about me. Let's talk about you. I could turn you into a goat. Or a puddle. Or a bad idea. I could make you eat your own fingers. Or fall in love with a cloud. Perhaps... I could make you into something useful."
--->"I once dug a pit and filled it with clouds... or was it clowns?... Come to think of it, it began to smell... must have been clowns. Clouds don't smell, they taste of butter. And tears."
** Sheogorath's chamberlain, Haskill, confirms that the "pit full of clowns" story is true in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s ''Shivering Isles'' expansion.
** As one might imagine, most of Sheogorath's followers also qualify. For example, Big Head, once you give him the Fork of Horripilation he was searching: "Happy day! Happy day! The blind shall see! The lame shall walk! The short shall tall! Forks for all!" Considering that the Shivering Isles is {{Cloudcuckooland}}, this is hardly surprising.

*** M'aiq is a known a FourthWallObserver (and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Leaner]] and ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall Breaker]]'') who [[AuthorAvatar voices the opinions]] of the series' creators and developers, largely in the form of {{Take That}}s, to both the [[TakeThatAudience audience]] (given the ''ES'' UnpleasableFanbase) and isn't above above [[SelfDeprecation taking some]] at [[TakeThatUs Bethesda itself]]. Given his role, he comes off as very detached from the setting and many of his statements make absolutely no sense in-universe, making him appear as one of these.
*** All of his incarnations to date have at least a few odd quirks in-game as well. For example, in ''Morrowind'', he fishes alone on a remote island wearing a stylish but impractical hat. In ''Oblivion'', he often enters ruins and caves (which has likely startled more than a few players) to search for calipers for 5 hours at a time, enters Valenwood along his route between Anvil and Leywiin, and has been known to occasionally chase deer. In ''Skyrim'', he always has [[FantasticDrug skooma]] on his person and can be encountered in a wide variety of odd situations, including him standing next to a burned cart, several dead human bodies, and the corpse of a ''dragon''.

*** Riften's court mage Wylandriah in is an especially bad case of this, as she keeps launching into non-sequiturs, rambles on about pseudo-magical things without realizing they make absolutely no sense whatsoever to anyone else (even other mages!), and somehow has the ability to "misplace" items from her laboratory ''across half the country'', often in places that someone like her would normally have no business being in the first place. Surprisingly, she hasn't blown anyone or anything up yet... although a few [=NPCs=] fear it's only a matter of time before she accidentally transports Riften into Oblivion or something.
*** Cicero in ''Skyrim'' ''seems'' like one of these at first...but not only is he a ''lot'' more competent and dangerous than he looks [[spoiler:he single-handedly almost kills the rest of the Brotherhood when they finally push him too far]], he is also completely right about how unwise it is for the Brotherhood to stray from centuries of tradition.
* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' has not just one or two, but an entire ''team'' of cloud cuckoo landers - the Five Oddballs, which describes a group of five exceptionally talented, but also exceptionally ''weird'' idols who were the student council president's main targets during the War:

** Wataru, a gigantic LargeHam who has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace and is constantly spouting GratuitousFrench. He has the best relationship with the student council president - Eichi particularly looked up to him before the war, and afterwards, he joins Eichi's group, ''fine''.

** Shu, a ControlFreak {{Jerkass}} who not only has a passion for clothing (especially {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es), he constantly carries around a Victorian doll named Mademoiselle who he speaks for as if she is a separate person. He was the most deeply damaged due to Eichi's actions, being part of the previously top group Valkyrie, and loathes Eichi with a probably unmatched passion.
** Natsume, a creepy magic-obsessed jerk who sometimes speaks in 'magic language' (represented by a different font, almost always amounting to BrutalHonesty) and treats other students like rats to be experimented on. He is the youngest of the oddballs, being the only second-year, and so the others chose to protect him from the worst of Eichi's reach; in return, he adores them all.
** Finally there's also Leo, who is often acknowledged to be a borderline-oddball: he is extremely whimsical, with an obsession with space and quite an emperor complex, and likes to use the made-up greeting 'uchuu~' (which literally means 'space').
* Moira Brown in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''. She apparently thinks digging a well with a miniature nuclear warhead is a perfectly fine idea, among many other zany ideas. There is a quest line in the game involving the Player indulging her cuckoolander propensity. You can also [[BreakTheCutie convince her to stop]]. YouMonster. She is actually an incredibly smart person with more of a passing relationship with normal. You can find this if you hack her comp "Q: How to prevent raider attack. A: raider would not sit down for an interview." Despite that, she very well knows just how important the entire records of a library are, and how to make use of the knowledge.
* Some of the less-crazy Nightkin in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', such as Lily (who behaves as a kindly grandmother and thinks The Courier is her probably long dead grandchild), Tabitha (LargeHam host of a radio station, though she's bordering to AxCrazy) and Davison (a nightkin leader worshipping a brahmin skull and speaks with a odd speech pattern).
* There's a few of these in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''. The most prominent are Deacon (though this is at least partially ObfuscatingStupidity) and Curie (who [[FishOutOfTemporalWater never quite adjusts to the post-apocalyptic future]]).
* ''Franchise/FarCry''
** Hurk Drubman Jr., a RecurringCharacter in the games who first appears in ''VideoGame/FarCry3''. A HalfWittedHillbilly who thinks [[WeaponizedAnimal monkeys would make perfect suicide bombers]], then tries to make up for it by stealing monkey idols from Royal Army dig sites and offering them to a "Monkey God" (and thinks that the size of the captive animals he releases is proportional to the satisfaction of said Monkey God, hence his jubilation at releasing an elephant). He even names his son in ''New Dawn'' after ComicBook/{{Blade}}! Presumably, this type of behaviour is a family trait, since we get to meet Hurk's caveman ancestor Urki in ''Primal'', and he's just as out-there as his descendant.
** Agent Willis Huntley, also introduced in ''3'', is a pretty weird man. Apart from being an insanely patriotic jingoistic American, he also talks about politics, human history, and warfare like he's in an off-color propaganda reel. Also, Doctor Alec Earnhardt, the English pharmacist who lives on the Rook Islands, who is nearly always high due to taking his own drugs ([[OutlivingOnesOffspring though there's a sad reason for that]]). Appropriately, since the game is an AliceAllusion, Earnhardt is TheMadHatter.

** Faith Seed in ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' is an evil CuteButPsycho version of this. She bounces between talking about trying to kill herself and meeting [[SinisterMinister Joseph "The Father" Seed]] like a giggling little girl. Then again, we only see Faith behave like this in a hallucination. In real life, she's a lot more vicious.
** Hurk's cousin Charlemagne "Sharky" Boshaw, also introduced in ''5'', is just as eccentric as his cousin. His mind goes to some funny places when he's going around Hope County with the Deputy, and he treats everything that happens to him [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall like one big video game]]. [[BewareTheSillyOnes He's also]] a veritable {{Pyromaniac}}.
** Selene (pronounced like "Felony") the NewAgeRetroHippie from ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' is a pretty far-out girl most of the time, due to spending most of her screen time off her head on drugs. She uses pretty creative profanities, and cautions the Captain about exploring a flooded bunker to collect her medical supplies, because "where there's water, there's [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodiles]]". She later amends this to "Where there's [[SnakesAreSinister snakes]], there's crocodiles. No, wait, that's water." Of course, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight given that you meet at least one crocodile in the flooded bunker]]...
** As mentioned above, Hurk's caveman ancestor Urki in ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal''. He's known as "The Thinker", and is prone to coming up with ingenious ideas on stuff to create (such as a wingsuit, ballistic armour, and bear deterrent), but due to being BornInTheWrongCentury, his limited tools ensure each attempt backfires on him. Also, when you first meet him, he's throwing birds at the wall of his tent after swinging them in one hand, to try and find out how they fly (not very well, since he's swinging them). And upon being addressed by Takkar from behind, he thinks ''the bird in his hand'' is the one speaking to him instead.
** Tensay the shaman, also in ''Primal'', is the most prominent example in the series. In terms of appearance, he's a skinny man covered in white TribalFacePaint with a MadEye and a wolf skin hood with two antlers attached that he never removes throughout the game. Takkar first meets him doing a funny dance with his staff in his cave, he has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace when chatting with Takkar, he ''urinates on a mask'' before making Takkar [[{{Squick}} put it on]], and he's constantly getting Takkar to drink creepy blood potions in order to give him {{Vision Quest}}s. Thankfully, Tensay is correct about nearly everything somehow, and he's always doing things in the Wenja tribe's best interests, so he's CreepyGood.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' there's a rambling man in a cabin [[spoiler:whose the father of one of your party members.]]
** Laguna in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. That dude said the darndest things.
---> "We'll be killing two pigs with one stone!"
*** One of his better moments is, after throwing his TrueCompanions off a cliff to the water below so they can escape from enemy soldiers, he looks over the edge:
----> '''Laguna''': You guys are crazy. You know how tall this cliff is?
*** Selphie from the same game is arguably worse.
** Quina Quen in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. 7 of your team are out to SavingTheWorld from the {{Big Bad}}. Your 8th member (Quina) is out to discover ''yummy yummies''.

** ''VideoGame/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]].

** The entire party in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates'' to varying degrees, although Yuri is a little more grounded after the TimeSkip. Most of Rebena Te Ra's population are at least a little loopy, too--in the case of the magicite shopkeeper, undergoing SanitySlippage as the church grows more oppressive.
* Throughout the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' franchise, there's usually at least one character per game whose behavior could be described as eccentric, especially when one considers that most of them are battle-hardened soldiers. Treck from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', however, takes it to a new level. Supports with him reveal all the player ever learns about his personality, but it's enough since his behavior includes: ice-fishing while not actually trying to catch anything, falling asleep in the saddle, forgetting other people's names, stating such forgetfulness is a hobby, placidly accepting his and his comrades' deaths, forgetting ''his own name'', interrupting conversations with tangential platitudes and dreading the possibility of turning into a horse...

* The Truth from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' 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. He's also a stoner. And he apparently got high with some really ''awesome'' polar bears.
* Trevor Phillips of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is this in addition to being AxCrazy, which can make for some terrifying situations. He can be found starting fights with body builders because he's convinced they're stuffing their shorts with socks, waking up in the middle of the desert wearing a sundress while surrounded by dead bodies, and riding a motor-scooter down the freeway with another person on a scooter - a complete stranger whom Trevor has decided is his "scooter brother."
* Merlin of ''VideoGame/{{Guenevere}}'' frequently behaves in erratic, nonsensical ways, like making reference to things that haven't happened or handing out carrots to the royalty for seemingly no reason. Given [[Myth/KingArthur the character]] this incarnation was [[TheOnceAndFutureKing inspired by]], he may just be operating on a different scale of time.
* Rhyth/Mew from ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' is definitely this; she always has something random or just plain strange to say, such as
-->"I love everything about Tokyo-even the things I hate."
* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}!'' He's just a happy-minded person who always thinks of food and sleeping. Particularly notable is ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'', where Kirby only saved the world because ''[[TheFool his cake was missing]]''. There's also Captain Waddle Dee, who works for Meta Knight...
-->'''Axe Knight:''' Kirby is moving along the base of the ship.\\

'''Waddle Dee:''' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And it's cold]].

** Lulu the Fae Sorceress is a young yordle girl with a boundless imagination who went off to play with with [[TheFairFolk the fairies]] for several [[RipVanWinkle (hundred)]] years and learn their magic. Upon returning to normal life in the rest of Valoran she's completely cuckoo, albeit [[CuteWitch adorable]], and talks in nonstop nonsense. "Never look a tulip in the eye!"
---> "Yup! That tasted Purple!"

** Ivern is a very friendly version. While he was human once, it's is ''so long'' that he doesn't understand much about human life any more, and so is prone to rambling incoherently.

--->'''Nunu:''' (attacking the Blue Sentinel) He's sucking up all the blue in the world! We gotta stop him, Willump!

* If not Ellis from ''Videogame/{{Left 4 Dead 2}}'', then definitely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zG-w3XwgEE his friend Keith]].
** Ellis' Cloudcuckoolander status is especially apparent in Dark Carnival, where he expresses great displeasure that the survivors cannot go on any rides. In the middle of a ZombieApocalypse. In an amusing turn of events, In "the Passing" Ellis suddenly becomes '''''very''''' concerned about how he appears to others. In particular, [[spoiler:Zoey]].
** From his [[http://www.l4d.com/survivors/ellis/ character description]]:
--> "Ellis is a mechanic with a love of life, a firm belief in his own immortality, and the ability to treat any setback as a fun dare to impress his friends.... Then the zombies had to go and spoil it. Now Ellis is looking for new things to occupy his time, and finding plenty. It turns out the zombie apocalypse is one big dare, and there�s no shortage of crazy stuff he can try to impress his new buddies."
* [[ElegantGothicLolita Agitha]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' 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=]. And apparently, she cheerfully chats with wolves, in a world where most people just run. ''While referring to them as puppies''.
** Let's not forget the [[AmericansHateTingle infamous Tingle]]. He's a middle-aged guy who dresses in a [[FanDisservice skintight green outfit]] in order to emulate the "fairy boy" (Link). He's obsessed with Rupees, he flies all over the place using a red balloon, his CatchPhrase is "kooloo-limpah", and he forces his brothers and employees to dress in outfits similar to his. There's a very good reason why he was in a jail cell on Windfall Island in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''.
* Herbert Higginbotham from ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet 2'' qualifies. Most of what he says makes very little sense. [[spoiler:Even after he's cured of a mental illness, where he ranted just as nonsensically and ate everyone's socks]].
--> "There were these geometries, these fractal star-worms, and they were competing for my affection, and they were amazed when my eyes... were pies, and they were spinning, and cooking, and dancing in figures of eight."
* Many of the lines said by Et from ''VideoGame/ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy'' are out of context with the current party's conversations. Goto and Pepperoni also fit this trope to some extent, but at least they manage to say something coherent.
* The ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series on Nintendo's various handhelds features Fawful, a nonsensical weirdo who on the surface looks and sounds like a goofy bumbling minion, thanks to his swirl-eye glasses, giant grin, and tendency to speak in a combination of [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny terribly mangled English]] and [[TalksLikeASimile absurd similies]]. Go a little further and you'll discover that he's a MadScientist and TheChessmaster of all things. He exists in his own bizarre little world about 80% of the time, but he's still proven himself to be more terrifingly competent and effective than the better portion of Mario's RoguesGallery.
* Miis with the "Airheaded" personality in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' tend to be this. They ''easily'' get distracted on battles and sometimes attack the wrong enemies, or worse, ''play with them''. Hopefully, it has its advantages as it can distract the monsters for some time.
* Para-Medic, one of the {{Mission Control}} characters in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' is definitively a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, deciding that the person she never saw before (Actually the Player character wearing a {{Latex Perfection}} mask) must be an alien -- "A Venusian, not the crab kind."
** Arguably, ''everyone else'' in the damn game has a tendency to dip into this, the creator of the above mask decided that making a mask blink is more important then making the mouth move, Naked Snake discussing how being [[CompanionCube in the box brings inner happiness]], among other things.
*** SIGINT will actually ask if he's the only normal one around.
---->'''SIGINT:''' Aw, hell! This FOX unit is a nutfest!
* ''Mutant Football League'''s color commentator Brickhead Mulligan. He's a little off-kilter because he took a lot of bad hits in his MFL career, suffered adverse reactions to league-mandated performance enhancing drugs, ''and'' he had half his gray matter replaced with cement (it was cheaper than the brain surgery). Demonstrated spectacularly when a joke about Montezuma's Revenge leads him on a ''three minute long'' tangent about hotel towels.
* Sonny Joon, TheUnseen from the ''VideoGame/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.
* Aldanon in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' is a wizard equivalent for the absent-minded professor stereotype, exhibiting qualities like lapsing into rambling doublespeak with [[{{Metaphorgotten}} metaphors abandoned halfway]], changing subjects mid-conversation, forgetting his own orders, or mistaking a prison cell for his own house.
** At one point, he begins listing off a number of RPG tropes that he claims your team will have to perform, complete with "reforge the broken key" and "acquire some rare, arbitrary items." Only to be almost immediately shot down by one of his servants, who he had commissioned to do the exact thing he supposedly needed the arbitrary items for. Then he congratulates himself on a job well done.
** Grobnar is another example, he is a gnome bard with a tendency to go off on tangents about [[AccidentalInnuendo his mouth and his codpiece]] and with a lifelong quest to find supposedly deific beings known as Wendersnaven that are apparently undetectable and all-powerful.
* Undoubtedly, Liz Allaire from ''Videogame/TheNextBigThing''.
--> "Dis...concerting."
* This trope accurately describes Creator/{{Nintendo}} as a company. To fans and gamers, they're both brilliant and frustrating at the same time. Fun and confusing, smart yet oblivious. They often cling to traditional ideals. Defy all means of conventional wisdom, and make ridiculous leaps in logic to fit their often bizarre practices and decisions. Love them, or hate them, Nintendo is one fascinating corporation.

* Bunnylord of ''VideoGame/NotAHero''. His Power Point presentations and dialogue make up his character.

** Bomb King is pretty much your stereotypical abusive, dictatorial, power-mad monarch, but wouldn't be out of place as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain in a Saturday morning cartoon. He assumes that everyone else exists only to serve him, shouts a cheerful "Goodbye!" before making an enemy explode, and doesn't pass up any opportunity to mention how superior he is. [[BewareTheSillyOnes None of this makes him any less dangerous in-game]].
** Grohk is an orc shaman who is completely off his rocker, with bizarre euphemisms and vocal inflections on the most ordinary of call outs. He believes he's a snowman when stunned, wonders if he can eat items he's purchased, and giggles and snorts at random. It says something that having blue skin is the least bizarre thing about him.
* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' has Jorji Costava, a rather inept illegal immigrant who seems to come from a different ''planet'' than everyone else; he starts by believing that Artstozka is so awesome that he doesn't ''need'' a passport to enter and gets worse from there. He shows up with an obviously forged passport from a fictional country drawn in ''crayon'' next, then constantly fails to produce other important entry documents, or show horribly outdated forms of entry. In spite of what should be growing frustration, he's incredibly happy in spite of being turned away [[spoiler: or being arrested when you catch him smuggling drugs, which gleefully admits to]]. While Jorji is a strange individual who doesn't act quite like everyone else, he's very likable, and in several endings he [[spoiler: proves to be your salvation]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''
** Of the main party, there's Yukiko Amagi. Outwardly a YamatoNadeshiko, she later reveals a very strange sense of humour, [[LethalChef puts starfish and chocolate in curry]], and enjoys telling bizarre ghost stories. To put it in perspective, the rest of the cast usually reacts to [[PungeonMaster Teddie's terrible jokes]] with [[LamePunReaction groans]]. For Yukiko, odds are 50/50 whether she [[TheHyena bursts into hysterics]] or [[ComicallyMissingThePoint misses the joke entirely]].
** A minor NPC, appropriately described as a "Spacy Girl", sometimes pops up in the Central Shopping District and the Samegawa riverbank. Some fans have likened her to [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Osaka]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'':
** Yusuke, an apprentice painter who joins your party, is obsessed with making art, to the point he doesn't really care about most other things. He doesn't even blink over the fact Morgana is a talking cat. He justifies remaining with the Phantom Thieves by saying the EldritchLocation of the Palace will allow him find interesting subjects to paint. And in a GameplayAndStoryIntegration, his idle animation has him framing his surroundings with his fingers as if he's looking for a new subject, regardless of the situation.
** You also have the option to play the Protagonist as completely insane, as there's a weird or joke response option in most {{Dialogue Tree}}s.
*** While trying to get into Kamoshida's Palace.

*** After Morgana shows up in the real world.
--->'''Ryuji:''' A cat's speaking! Can you hear it too?\\
'''Protagonist:''' Meow.
* Ignus from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has a single-track mind and a wisdom score so low that, StatisticallySpeaking, he is barely considered sentient. He basically lives in his own cloudcukooland and only occasionally comes down to talk to The Nameless One due to a personal connection he shared with one of your prior incarnations. PlayedForDrama to an extreme degree as he is an AxCrazy PyroManiac and his single-track mind is entirely focused on fire and the potential for everything around him to be ignited. If The Nameless One wasn't around to control him Ignus would default to [[OmnicidalManiac trying to burn the world down]] for no other reason than that it ''isn't'' currently on fire...
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' features Crazy Dave, who [[SpeakingSimlish speaks his own language of incomprehensible mumbling]], wears an upside down pot on his head and has the CatchPhrase "'cause I'm craaaaaaaazy!"

** Wigglytuff from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness]]'' is the leader of the Pokémon guild, but is unbelievably flighty, oblivious to villains and their plans, and also [[BewareTheNiceOnes really, really strong]]. With a {{Berserk Button}} [[spoiler:When he doesn't get his favorite food Perfect Apples]]. Oh, and he's an {{Idiot Savant}} of sorts, able to spot things no-one else can when it comes to exploration.
** Bianca, one of your childhood friend from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', is a milder case, being flighty, airheaded, very clumsy, and overall very, very naive. N comes off as a little loopy before you start to learn who he really is... and after. Justified; both of them have... questionable home lives and are quite sheltered. [[spoiler: N is also clearly abused, having been at the center of the evil plans of his ManipulativeBastard of an adoptive father [[TheManBehindTheMan Ghethis]] since extremely early childhood. Ghethis pretty much manipulated and brainwashed his young mind to fulfill his goals, raising him to be pure and innocent in order to gain the trust of [[OlympusMons Reshiram or Zekrom]], depending on the version of the game]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''
** [=GLaDOS=] , despite being an all-powerful AI, seems to have a very loose grip on reality. She regularly makes childish insults at the player in later portions of the game and tries to convince you that one of the puzzles is impossible to test your resilience in an atmosphere of "extreme pessimism." She also instructs you to take the infamous Weighted CompanionCube (a box with hearts on all its sides) with you on one of the tests, then [[spoiler:asks you to euthanize the inanimate object at the end by dropping it in an incinerator. And guilt trips you over it]].

** Wheatley, a literal IdiotBall.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeKMS62GrTI The Space Core]].
--->'''Wheatley:''' Let go! We're in space!
--->'''Space Core:''' Space?! SPACE!!! ''(launches itself through the portal leading to [[spoiler:the Moon]])'' '''SPAA'''[=AAAAaaaaaaa=]....
** The Fact Core could probably qualify as well.
--->'''Fact Core''': The square root of rope is string. Cellular phones will not give you cancer. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Only hepatitus]]. 89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery. Error. Error. Error. File not found.
** Aperture Science in general didn't have much in the way of sanity even before the insane AI killed everyone and took over. Probably due to the aforementioned Cave Johnson -- anyone who wasn't already crazy would either quit, be fired, die in an accident, or go nuts.
* The ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' games are filled to the brim with these.
** St. Mystere is {{Cloudcuckooland}}.
** Stachenscarfen. How does he get around so well? Pavel too. '''''No one''''' can be that bad with directions.
** Brock from ''[[VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter The Last Specter]]''. His house gets destroyed and he '''''laughs'''''.

** But also played straight with... well, about [[EccentricTownsfolk half the cast]], give or take.
** Naturally, it's a game about psychics and their line of work of entering people's minds, since the campers have...hilarious quirks, and most of the adults have Dark or [[{{Tearjerker}} Depressing]] backstories, it's to be expected.
* When you first meet the Moontouched Girl from ''VideoGame/{{Pyre}}'' she can't even remember her own name; it seems she doesn't consider it all that important. She was exiled from the Commonwealth ostensibly for vagrancy, but actually for being really weird - and for telling the truth about its corrupt rulers. She hears the words of the long-dead Scribes, but has a tenuous understanding of their meaning, and her grasp on the physical world is even vaguer - despite the horrors she witnesses and endures in her backstory and during the game, she can't understand people except through her optimistic filter, and assumes that even the villains are nice people. Although this should be a crippling deficiency for social interactions, when the more liberal New Order arises at the end of the game, the Moontouched Girl becomes a hugely popular religious figure, showing her followers how to be excellent people.
* [[MadArtist Rakesh]] from ''VideoGame/{{Roommates}}'' thinks just about ''anything'' can be a good excuse for art...or a good ''place'' for art...or a good ''medium'' or ''tool'' for art... There's absolutely nothing wrong with cutting into the kitchen wall to give it some added life, for example, and covering himself with paint in order to redecorate his bedroom is all in a day's work.
* Mist from ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' and ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier'' is prone to saying odd things about the weather, turnips, and things about the world in general. Some of it doesn't make sense to anyone until later.
** Persia from ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'' does the same...only she talks about squid. She's also prone to randomly bursting into song.
** The song's title is "Die, Giant Squid!", too. While we're on the subject, Evelyn has some of this in regards to her fashion (Cabbage and fish are her favorite decorations).
%%* ''VideoGame/CastleOfShikigami'': Reika is certainly... "out there."
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' features a great many wild and eccentric characters - some of them mentally ill, others just logical consequences of ending up in an UrbanFantasy environment where AllMythsAreTrue.

** Gladstone's opposite number among TheIlluminati, Dr Charles Zurn, is also pretty out-there: a frazzled barbiturate junkie with a long history with MK-ULTRA, rarely a minute goes by without him saying something off-the-wall. In his introduction alone, he offhandedly asks the guards dragging you away if they've ever seen anyone void themselves after exposure to pink noise, jokingly pretends to be Dr Christian Szell while having you StrappedToAnOperatingTable, spins around wildly in his swivel chair, and takes several hits out of a suspicious-looking inhaler. Plus, when your mental training simulation is over, he also asks you if you've ever seen a jaguar tripping...
** The Illuminati leader, the Pyramidion. This guy spends two thirds of his time spouting loosely-connected public service announcements and context-relevant memes; the remaining third [[BunnyEarsLawyer is usually pretty sensible]], however, so he remains frighteningly effective despite this.
** The Fallen King, a street prophet ranting to passers-by in London. However, despite his weird puppet antics and bizarre tirades, he may be more than he seems: in fact, he might have some supernatural ability, given that one of his speeches apparently sends the player back in time to the Tokyo Incident.
** Dave Screed, a ConspiracyTheorist in Brooklyn; while he's dead right about fearing the power of the Illuminati, the man's paranoia has left him eccentric to the point of all but ceasing to function. Among other things, he's convinced that VideoGame/PacMan is a vision of how the Illuminati see the world, he believes that his girlfriend is an Illuminati robot sent to spy on him, and he's so terrified of the world changing in his sleep that he's resorted to increasingly dubious means of remaining consciousness: vitamin supplements, energy drinks, nicotine gum, Pop Rocks, hair spray... oh, and for added fun, despite his paranoia, he doesn't see anything odd about being photographed in conversation with you. [[spoiler: Said photographer is actually Leah Cassini, the Illuminati Syadmin.]]
** John Galahad, a homeless man claiming to be the Arthurian character Sir Galahad; for good measure, he speaks in a very flowery, archaic dialect that only makes his trouble adjusting to modern life all the more bizarre. The Secret World being what it is, nobody can tell if he's the real Galahad or just a Literature/DonQuixote-style madman.
** Deputy Andy Gardener tends to ramble off in very odd directions about human sacrifice and dead kittens in mid-conversation, apparently due to being traumatized by the ZombieApocalypse in Kingsmouth, though conversations in calmer times prove that he's also a little bit of a doofus in his own right.
** [[TheWonka Headmaster]] [[BlackMage Hayden]] [[TheSpock Montag]] of [[WizardingSchool Innsmouth Academy]] is obsessed with the occult, fixated on the morbid, and almost completely clueless when it comes to normal human interactions: his literal-mindedness means that he's been known to completely overlook sarcasm, his love of disturbing magical trivia has been known to traumatize listeners, and his inability to recognize potentially offensive content in his lectures has resulted in him being retired from the Reparation Committee - and even today, he's still not allowed anywhere near grieving parents. Plus, his attempts to appear more personable only make him seem even ''weirder,'' given that he apparently "auditions" certain words for future conversations.
** Nassir, the resident MadBomber of the Marya: a fan of Hollywood action movies and Bollywood musicals, he often peppers his dialogues with references to Film/RockyBalboa, Franchise/DieHard, and Film/TaxiDriver, and can often be found dancing around with an AK-47 in the background... when he isn't playing catch with live hand grenades, of course.
** Played very darkly in the case of Rada Nastase, a Morninglight VIP trapped up in the Carpathian Mountains. Like many examples on this list, she tends to ramble on with very little connectivity or context, but it's because she's being drugged by her Morninglight "handler," Adrian Zorlescu. Plus, the stress of being trapped in a lodge besieged by vampires and with only the increasingly-abusive Zorlescu for company hasn't done wonders for her sanity. As such, she tends to sound a little vague and ephemeral at the best of times - ie, when she isn't being made to shovel down pills and chug wine straight from the bottle: in bad times, she can only whimper that "these people aren't my friends" and burst into tears.
** Kurt "Buster" Kusczac, a tank driver traumatized by the arrival of the Filth in Tokyo, is now convinced he's in charge of a squad of imaginary soldiers and can often be heard discussing strategy with imaginary officers. Plus, he believes that the Black Signal can be warded off with Christmas Carols.
** Yuichi Nakahara has ended up as one of these following his disastrous time with the Fear Nothing Foundation and the emergence of the Filth. Now dressed in a bizarre homemade outfit with no pants, he refuses to remove his "space hat" for fear that the vampire squids will eat his brain if he ever takes it off, and reasons that because he made the hat in the first place, it's a part of him. Also, he has a habit of spouting LittleKnownFacts when he's under stress - meaning he spends most of his time rattling off trivia. Notable given that his situation is played just as much for tragedy as it is for comedy: his sister Harumi fears that he's actually in the process of withdrawing from reality under the strain, and at times doesn't seem to know if she exists or not. Plus, Yuichi is almost incapable of looking after himself and likely in serious need of psychiatric care - which, thanks to the ongoing state of emergency, he isn't going to get anytime soon.

** By far the most spectacular ''human'' example of this in the game would have to be Daimon Kiyota. A firm believer in SuccessThroughInsanity, Kiyota has made a conscious decision to be a CloudCuckooLander in order to make himself perfectly adaptable: an top of using a lot of 1920s-era slang, he also tries to tell the future with the aid of a Pachinko machine, casually chows down on an apparently lethal plate of Fugu, calls in favors that result in his allies throwing half-empty bottles of whisky out of windows for no clear reason, bombards the players with lectures that even he doesn't entirely understand, and randomly cartwheels and moonwalks around his office. Plus, these antics not only net him results but actually give him a serious advantage over his opponents, much to their bewilderment.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Shockwave}} Shockwave 2]]'' has a pair of them, both humans who have been stranded on alien worlds for twenty years.
** Counselor Bob, formally the UNSF Omaha's science officer, has gone nuts in an alien prison, where he's learned at least five different languages and has to translate everything between groups of inmates. He's ''very'' glad to be rescued [[spoiler: and turns on you later]].
** Doctor Yamada, who has had it even worse than Bob by being stranded ''alone'' among hostile aliens who would kill him at first sight. When he's discovered, he's been dissecting one every now and then ForScience and has learned how to turn a bone in their reproductive organs into an earpiece for humans that amplifies sound. [[spoiler: Despite being less stable at first glance, he is, unlike Bob, just grateful to be rescued and joins the crew]].

%% --> '''Charmy:''' Oh, flower, pretty flower, show your face and I'll sting you![[note]]In context, that quote is one of his lines for when you find a giant purple teleporting flower in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', which are activated only by Charmy's stinger.[[/note]]
* Psymon Stark from the ''VideoGame/{{SSX}}'' series. Apart from a noticeable facial tic, Psymon's... condition is just that; He's had a long history of mental illness ever since he tried to jump some power lines on his bike. His in game dialogue only makes his lack of lucidity all the more apparent, with lines like "Knock knock ''who's there!?''" and "Oh sweet, ''sweet'' pain...", and his gold medal cutscenes show him yelling things like "You're all crazy!" or "Hurt me, hurt me!" Overall, he's a natural disaster just waiting to happen, and spectators, competitors, and event organizers alike all anxiously watch Psymon compete in fear that this is the year he'll go ''too far''. Oh, and his signature move, the Guillotine, is so suicidally dangerous (as you might expect from the name) that you'd ''have'' to be crazy to even think it up.
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''
** Sakura, with most of her victory quotes, such as asking Chun-Li if they could switch outfits for a day for fun. After beating the snot out of her.
** Rufus, with his victory quotes often being nothing but random ramblings about his life, confusing opponents for Ken or occasional LampshadeHanging on character traits like Chun-Li's hips. Again, after beating the snot out of people.

* Princess Peach can come off this at times in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', her home series, but it's most pronounced in [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros the Subspace Emissary]]. She takes a casual stroll atop the [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Halberd]] [[FailedASpotCheck while it's being bombarded]] by an [[VideoGame/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 [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Sheik]] from tearing into each other... by offering them tea. Oddly, she's ''simultaneously'' [[OnlySaneMan a voice of reason and sanity]]: most of the trophies [[LetsYouAndHimFight attack each other on sight, often for no clear reason]], whereas Peach actually tries to keep them focused on dealing with the Subspace Army.
* Many characters in the Mario [=RPG=]s are somewhat like this, but maybe the biggest case is the Pixls from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' (except Tippi). They don't get much dialogue, but each one has an opening speech when you first meet them that is full of random questions and nonsensical language which has little to do with your quest at hand.
** This tips slightly over into FridgeHorror when you realize that they probably got this way because they have been imprisoned in chests for hundreds or thousands of years and have most likely been driven to insanity.
** And on into FridgeLogic when one of them asks you whether you like Internet shopping. How would he have known what that was?
** Luigi's [[EraSpecificPersonality characterization]] in the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series is pretty much this, and it gets worse as he goes along.

* Pascal from ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' From her appearance to beginning and end of game baffles the entirety of the party.
* Grune from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' takes the cake -- she doesn't even realize that she's fighting for her life, instead thinking that everybody's on a picnic. Somewhat justified in that she's got LaserGuidedAmnesia and can only remember her name (just barely) and how to speak, but still. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24r4XqCEcxU I'm going to give it my all! Charge!!]]"
* Colette Brunel from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' often falls under this, especially during the skits.
-->'''Regal:''' Why does the subject of the conversation seem to go out the window when talking to Colette?
** Or during post-battle dialog.
-->'''Sheena:''' And don't come back! '''Colette:''' I don't think they CAN come back. '''Sheena:''' You're becoming more like [[IdiotHero Lloyd]], aren't you?
* The Soldier of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fame acts like this a lot. His version of history includes the dubious 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 - stopping in ''1949'' only after hearing that the war ended. 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 [[CompanionCube people, and talks to them a lot]].
** ''All'' of the characters in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' are disturbed or insane in some manner, but the Soldier does seem to have the weakest grasp on reality and also personifies this trope with his rapid changes in subjects. Further evidenced in the War Update, where the reason he is fighting the Demoman is because he managed to get fooled by an obviously faked message using the Demoman, in which he apparently reveals the Soldier's status as an actual civilian. Even after acknowledging that the voice sounds robotic, he still buys what is said.
*** Also from the War Update, the Soldier's new domination taunts are very telling of his state of mind. He has a number of taunts where he refers to the Sniper as "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Bilbo Baggins]]" or [[AccidentalMisnaming some variant]] (the joke being that Sniper is Australian, and Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand).
*** The reveal from the comics that Sniper actually is from New Zealand can make this an example of The Cuckoolander Was Right.
** ''Expiration Date'' takes it up to near-TalkativeLoon levels. Among other things, he takes a bizarre glee in putting bread in the teleporter, and, for no obvious reason, wants the Spy's idea bucket.
** The Pyro; [[TheUnintelligible nobody has a clue what he (or she) is saying]], but he wears a number of odd hats (including a propeller beanie and one of the Engineer's rubber gloves), wields weapons like a rake and a mailbox, and "Meet the Pyro" shows he views the mayhem he creates as [[spoiler: him blowing bubbles in a cutesy SugarBowl full of diapered cherub versions of his enemies]].
** In the comics, the people of Teufort have been rendered this way due to lead poisoning. Mayor Mike, in particular, does things like building a collage of things related to the forthcoming execution of the Scout and Spy and covering it in pregnancy-related stickers because those were all he had to hand, and it turns out near the end of that issue that he randomly ordered one of Teufort's residents to call himself Guiseppe and speak in a pseudo-Italian accent. The Soldier's mental instability is implied to (partly) be due to drinking the same water (or at least made it worse), judging by his surprised reaction when Miss Pauling mentions that this is the reason she gives the team bottled water. Either that, or he's so crazy that lead poisoning has no discernible effect on his sanity.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': [[RobotGirl Alisa Bosconovitch]] shows signs of this, likely because, as a robot, she doesn't have the same grasp of reality her companion [[TheHero Lars]] has, for example.
** [[{{Acrofatic}} Bob Richards]] is a straighter example, especially in his Scenario Campaign stage - where he will accuse anyone standing with Alisa (whether they are men, women, girls younger than her, bears, or wooden dummies) of kidnapping her, mindless of her protests.

** Lee Chaolan/Violet shows definite signs of this in the Fight Lab mode in ''Tekken Tag 2''.
* The ''VideoGame/TouchDetective'' games has Penelope. A banana loving girl who is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} to the point that her very ''hair'' is soft and fluffy and cloud-like. A good example of her air-headedness is displayed in a conversation between protagonist Mackenzie and shopkeeper Daisy.

* While the cast of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' qualifies to some degree, Yuyuko is out of touch with reality even by the series' standards, as well as 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. It really doesn't help that she has been slowly [[GhostAmnesia losing her memories]] over the past millenium. She's sometimes shown to be extremely smart and perceptive, though. In both ''Imperishable Night'' and ''Ten Desires'', she's shown to have figured out exactly everything since the beginning, and in the SpinOff manga ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', she manages to troll ''[[TheChessmaster Yukari]]'', of all people.
** 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. [[CrazyIsCool 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 Gensoukyou, where magic reigns supreme and science is heresy), and [[spoiler:she recognizes the electrical equipment in the hypervessel]].
** Being a Cloud Cuckoo Lander seems to be an inherent aspect of living in [[FantasyKitchenSink Gensoukyou]]. When Sanae, a human that was transported to Gensoukyou, was introduced in ''Mountain of Faith'' she was fairly reasonable, but by ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' and ''Hisoutensoku'' she was as unstable and unpredictable as everyone else, as well as being upgraded to player character status. Gensoukyou: the land where common sense is a weakness.
** Moriya Suwako often gets this treatment in fanon due to her [[ConfusionFu bizarre fighting style]] in the fighting games and that she fights the player character out of boredom in Mountain of Faith.

** The SpinOff gag manga ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' shows [[ImmortalImmaturity Kaguya Houraisan]] to be one as well. She frequently comes up with strange ideas in her spare time (and got bored of them as easily, too) and doesn't seem to think much of abusing the Earth Rabbits...or [[ButtMonkey Reisen]]. In one instance, When her ArchEnemy Mokou challenges her for a duel, she ''ignores her completely'' and asks for tea.

* While ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' counts many crazy folks, [[UpToEleven the Temmies take the cake]]: [[PlanetOfSteves they are all named the same]] ([[OddNameOut except for Bob]]), speak in a strange way, have their faces seperated from their bodies and always vibrate in battle.
** Their shopkeeper, [[ScholarshipStudent who works to go to "cool leg"]], is the only one in the game who buys you your old items ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome something others consider economically suicidal]]) and when she has enough money to pay her rant, her body goes while her face stays in the shop. Her craziness takes creepy proportions [[spoiler:after she obtains her degree, when she develops [[UltimateBlacksmith the most powerful armor in the game]], [[HiddenDepths which price decreases every time you die, and]]]] after you deny her offers twice:
--> [[spoiler:Before the degree:]] "[[TranquilFury You will regret this.]]"
--> [[spoiler:After the degree: "[[TranquilFury Is this a joke? Are you having a chuckle? Ha ha, very funny. I'm the one with a degree.]]"]]
** Papyrus is a '''HotBlooded''' Cloud Cuckoolander, being a self-assured and enthusiastic skeleton who, while helpful and well-meaning, tends to do and say some surreal stuff (even by the standards of this game).
--> "I WISH I HAD EIGHT LEGS... SO I COULD WEAR 4 PAIRS OF HOT PANTS."
* ''VideoGame/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 (and realize that the character [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight is able to see the true plot in advance, but doesn't comprehend it]]). You also get the chance to have an argument with a stop sign. ("No, ''you'' stop!")
** And you can even spread your insanity to other people, like convincing a guard that you're a keyring so you should be given the keys. And it works.
** While Malks [[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness in the setting]] are expected to be genuinely insane and often veer into TheMadHatter territory, in the game it is downgraded to this trope. Speaking nonsensically, BreakingTheFourthWall, and using InsaneTrollLogic as a combat ability are the only ''non-normal'' things that PC Malkavian will do, and in other aspects he/she could be just as logical and reasonable as any other PC. It's just his/her [[InsaneTrollLogic logic is not of the normal kind]].
* The ''VideoGame/WonderlandAdventures'' series has Loopy in multiple games.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a '''''ton''''' of these. The first few that come to mind are Azuregos, [[MeaningfulName Budd Nedreck]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Harrison Jones]], and, in a way, Tirion Fordring.
** Azuregos falls in love with a Spirit Healer. Budd...just...anything with Budd present. "I'M A MANATAUR!!" anyone? Harrison...every single quest he gives, especially the one where he pointlessly destroys an ancient Egyptian-like temple.
** Tirion Fordring might not seem like one at first, but...the guy makes you fight and kill his own people, unrestrained monsters, and demons in his own personal Thunderdome for no apparent reason. He also makes you "beat each other with pointy sticks" aka joust, quite possibly the most hated quests in the game. In another example, the guy also puts two people who won't hesitate to try and murder each other (Garrosh and Varian) within a few feet of the other one while observing his special games. He claims this is to promote peace, but he has an encounter that does exactly the opposite with your faction fighting the other faction, for '''''no reason at all!''''' Perhaps his TraumaCongaLine messed with his head?

* The AI behind ''VideoGame/AIDungeon2'' can be quite loony with its logic and directions for the story. Things can start off fairly simple and, before you know it, your character is somehow facing off against Cthulhu on the Moon with a chain laser sword. [[https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042942/ai-dungeon-nick-walton-openai-gpt2-text-adventure-game-web-version-launch The Verge]] personally describes it as 'running on dream logic'.
* Cysero from many of the Creator/ArtixEntertainment line of games (''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', ''VideoGame/DragonFable''...). While very coherent and attentive to a problem at hand, he often slips into {{Cloudcuckooland}}, which inevitably means something weird is going to happen or is already in the works when he gets involved. Naturally for a guy who once used a black hole generator to stretch spaghetti and has a wizard's tower infested with Dirty Laundry Golems, the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' parody in one game casts him as the Mad Hatter.
** Nitroglycerin sponges. Which is not as crazy as it sounds, [[FridgeBrilliance since it's how you make dynamite!]]
** The Staff member the character is based on can be as big a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} at times, though whether or not this is his real personality or him acting like his in-game counterpart is unknown. As an example, at one con the team went to, he gave socks out to random fans and wore the bathrobe from Artix's hotel room to their panel.
** Korin, from ''VideoGame/{{Mechquest}}'', never seems to understand what's going on, he wears a paper bag over his head at all times, and although completely omnipotent, he doesn't really want to do anything at all to help save the world. Luckily, he isn't evil, so you don't have to worry about him going against you.
* Steven Heck from ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' 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.
* Some of the villagers in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games tend to be like this -- particularly the villagers with the "lazy" personalities. For example, the following conversation between two villagers in City Folk:

** And speaking of Lobo, he and others of his personality sometimes compare looking at a model of a room to looking into someone's home through the window. Lazy-type males still hold the crown, though, with Big Top once deciding that a snail's classification was "food" (on the basis that snails were delicious). In context, he was asked what it was if it wasn't an insect, and came up with that response.

* The legendarily bizarre ranger Minsc and his "Miniature Giant Space Hamster" Boo from the ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series.
** Edwin is seemingly his Evil Counterpart, a self-important wizard with a strange obsession for calling everyone monkeys, and constantly talks to himself in such a way that everyone hears him -- and is shocked that people can do that. Interestingly, these two hate each others' guts. Though that has less to do with their different varieties of Cloud Cuckoo-ness and more to do with Edwin being a Red Wizard of Thay and Minsc being a warrior of Rashemen -- the Red Wizards are seen as monsters in Rashemen and most of them, including Edwin, live up to that reputation.
*** Edwin won't stop mocking him about the death of his witch in the second game.
** Jan Jansen has a long, rambling, nonsensical story involving either him or one of his many, many relatives for every situation. Some of his lines border on PaintingTheMedium (like talking about how ever since he was a kid, everyone he sees would glow bright red at night, which is how the game depicts Infravision for the player.)
*** The only situation he ''doesn't'' have a story for is [[spoiler: when the party is sent to Hell]].
* It can be argued that, if late to the "trope-naming party", the final level of [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]] should well be considered among these hallowed halls, since it is indeed called "[[http://banjokazooie.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_Cuckooland Cloud Cuckooland]]." To say the place was crazier than an asylum is an ''understatement''.
%%** The people themselves, however, were roughly as sensible as the people from anywhere else. (This is not saying much.)
* Double H from ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' is a former military officer who constantly quotes from the military handbook and doesn't seem all that right in the head. Justified, as when you finally meet up with him, he's been in a Domz torture device for several hours and claimed that his brains feels like jelly. Though there are some signs that he was like that before the torture, like having apparently begun the infiltration mission he was captured on by swimming half a mile in full body armor.
* In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', there are about half a dozen denizens of Rapture with even a tenuous grasp of reality, and whimsy and delighted singing are common. One of the few examples where this is used to make things [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant creepy as fuck]].
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' gives us Robert and Rosalind Lutece, who talk like [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Tweedledee and Tweedledum]], give very cryptic references, and are seemingly quite insane. [[spoiler: They are genius physicists, and responsible for the entire plot; but they're also technically ghosts and are permanently out of sync with both time and probability in our universe. It's not too surprising they are kinda confusing]].
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has the '''''ever'''''-so-flighty Taokaka, resident CatGirl. She often [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] by slamming directly into the screen, staring at the player, and can celebrate winning a match by patting her butt or running away and slamming right into a pole that strangely wasn't there before...
* ''VideoGame/BloodBorne'' gives us Micolash, Host of the Nightmare: his experiments with [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Insight]] have smashed his mind to little chunks of crazy, and by the time you find him he's babbling off-kilter prayers to [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Kos (or some say Kosm)]]]], howling like a wolf at random intervals and [[GigglingVillain cackling like an imbecile]]. Whether it's terrifying or hilarious is a matter of personal interpretation, but none of it makes him any less dangerous.
* Everyone in the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series certainly qualifies in this trope, [[UpToEleven even those outside]] of [[DeathWorld Pandora]] pretty much added on the overly long list of crazies due to the enlargement of the chaotic CorporateWarfare on several planets, and Pandora just so happened to be at its peak. Finding an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane]] [[UnfazedEveryman Unfazed Man]] on a colonized planet would be a rarity; [[VideoGame/{{TalesFromTheBorderlands}} Rhys and Fiona]] in particular are two of those.
** One person in particular 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 heard.
** Tannis returns in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', claiming that she ate a Siren's hair out of scientific curiosity, and that it tasted like fried pickles. The game also confirms that Tannis has Asperger's Syndrome, which [[AmbiguousDisorder barely explains half of her madness]].
** One of Roland's allies is Tiny Tina, a happy-go-lucky CreepyChild with a fondness for explosives. A side quest sees Tina holding a tea party with guests such as a large jar with a top hat and monocle on it and a larval varkid stuffed inside, a doll with a hand grenade for a head, and [[spoiler: a bandit who sold her parents out to the Hyperion corporation, whom she gleefully electrocutes to death]].
** The DLC pack "Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage" has the eponymous Mr. Torgue, founder of the Torgue Corporation who's obsessed with explosions, action, and manliness.
--->'''Torgue:''' That sentence had [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness too many syllables!]] '''Apologize!'''
** Psychos, as the name implies, constantly babble on about puppets and Bicycles made of meat. One of them is even available as a DLC player character, Krieg the Psycho, although he subverts the trope by having a completely sane inner self who has no control over his actions.
---> '''Krieg:''' I'M THE CONDUCTOR OF THE '''POOP''' TRAIN!

** 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 Gensoukyou, where magic reigns supreme and science is heresy), and [[spoiler:she recognizes the electrical equipment in the hypervessel]].

** Their shopkeeper, [[ScholarshipStudent who works to go to "cool leg"]], is the only one in the game who buys you your old items ([[RealityEnsues something others consider economically suicidal]]) and when she has enough money to pay her rant, her body goes while her face stays in the shop. Her crazyness takes creepy proportions [[spoiler:after she obtains her degree, when she develops [[UltimateBlacksmith the most powerful armor in the game]], [[HiddenDepths which price decreases everytime you die, and]]]] after you deny her offers twice:

* Lulu the Fae Sorceress from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a young yordle girl with a boundless imagination who went off to play with with [[TheFairFolk the fairies]] for several [[RipVanWinkle (hundred)]] years and learn their magic. Upon returning to normal life in the rest of Valoran she's completely cuckoo, albeit [[CuteWitch adorable]], and talks in nonstop nonsense. "Never look a tulip in the eye!"
--> "Yup! That tasted Purple!"

* Nuri from ''VideoGame/TheChainsOfSatinav'' believes, among other things, that jellyfish can fly, various plants are sapient, and mishandling powerful magic crystals that she has been explicitly told not to touch is a good idea. This might have something to do with being raised in a Fairy Land and having minimal contact with humans.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' there's a rambling man in a cabin [[spoiler:whose the father of one of your party members.]]
* Laguna in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. That dude said the darndest things.
--> "We'll be killing two pigs with one stone!"
** One of his better moments is, after throwing his TrueCompanions off a cliff to the water below so they can escape from enemy soldiers, he looks over the edge:
---> '''Laguna''': You guys are crazy. You know how tall this cliff is?
** Selphie from the same game is arguably worse.
* Quina Quen in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. 7 of your team are out to SavingTheWorld from the {{Big Bad}}. Your 8th member (Quina) is out to discover ''yummy yummies''.
* Brother from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' is about as weird as they get. Not only does he say outlandish things, he's almost always dancing in place or flailing his limbs while talking.
* ''VideoGame/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]].
* Nothing describes Cinque from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0'' better than this trope. Her brain seems to work on a completely different wavelength than the rest of Class Zero, or even ''the rest of the world''. She's also strangely upbeat for a ChildSoldier sent on a massive world war. She does take her job seriously, though, [[BewareTheSillyOnes and has the strength to back it up]].
* The entire party in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates'' to varying degrees, although Yuri is a little more grounded after the TimeSkip. Most of Rebena Te Ra's population are at least a little loopy, too--in the case of the magicite shopkeeper, undergoing SanitySlippage as the church grows more oppressive.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry'':

** Their shopkeeper, [[ScholarshipStudent who works to go to "cool leg"]], is the only one in the game who buys you your old items ([[RealityEnsues something others consider economically suicidal]]) and when she has enough money to pay her rant, her body goes while her face stays in the shop. After the obtention of the degree (and the funny hat that goes with it), her crazyness takes creepy proportions [[spoiler:when she develops [[UltimateBlacksmith the most powerful armor in the game]], [[HiddenDepths which price decreases everytime you die, and]]]] when after you deny her offers, she taunts you this way:
--> "[[TranquilFury Is this a joke? Are you having a chuckle? Ha ha, very funny. I'm the one with a degree.]]"
--> "[[TranquilFury Is this a joke? Are you having a chuckle? Ha ha, very funny. I'm the one with a degree.]]"

** Their shopkeeper ([[ScholarshipStudent who works to go to "cool leg"]]) is the only one in the game who buys you your old items ([[RealityEnsues something others consider economically suicidal]]) and when she has enough money to pay "cool leg", her face stays in the shop. After the obtention of the degree (and the funny hat that gooes with it), her crazyness takes creepy proportions [[spoiler:when she develops [[HiddenDepths the most powerful armor in the game, which price decreases everytime you die,]]]] and when after many refusals to sell her your items, she taunts you with a surprisingly correct grammar:

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has the Temmies, a Cloud Cuckoolander species [[PlanetOfSteves who are all named like that]] [[OddNameOut (except for Bob)]], speak in a strange way, have their faces sperated from their bodies and always vibrate in battle.

* ''VideoGame/''{{Undertale}}'' has the Temmies, a Cloud Cuckoolander species [[PlanetOfSteves who are all named like that]] [[OddNameOut (except for Bob)]], speak in a strange way, have their faces sperated from their bodies and always vibrate in battle.

* Papyrus of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is a '''HotBlooded''' Cloud Cuckoolander, being a self-assured and enthusiastic skeleton who, while helpful and well-meaning, tends to do and say some surreal stuff (even by the standards of this game).

** Selene (pronounced like "Felony") the NewAgeRetroHippie from ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' is a pretty far-out girl most of the time, due to spending most of her screen time off her head on drugs. She uses pretty creative profanities, and cautions the Captain about exploring a flooded bunker to collect her medical supplies, because "where there's water, there's [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodiles]]". She later amends this to "Where there's [[SnakesAreSinister snakes]], there's crocodiles. No, wait, that's water." Of course, [[TheCuckoolander was right given that you meet at least one crocodile in the flooded bunker]]...

** As mentioned above, Hurk's caveman ancestor Urki in ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal''. He's known as "The Thinker", and is prone to coming up with ingenious ideas on stuff to create (such as a wingsuit, ballistic armour, and bear deterrent), but due to being BornInTheWrongCentury, his limited tools ensure each attempt backfires on him. Also, when you first meet him, he's throwing birds at the wall of his tent after swinging them in one hand, to try and find out how they fly (not very well, since he's swinging them). And upon being addressed by Takkar from behind, he thinks the bird in his hand is the one speaking to him instead.