History Cloudcuckoolander / VideoGames

* Princess Peach can come off this at times in ''Super Mario Bros'', her home series, but it's most pronounced in the Subspace Emissary from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. 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.

-->''What is this? You have released all of my tests subjects? How wonderfully mad of you. I did not expect this in the least, so dangerously risk it is.''\\

** The BigBad at some point seems to invoke this trope with a bit of GodzillaThreshold when you [[spoiler:release crazy (and dangerous) spellcasters from the asylum to confront him:
-->''What is this? You have released all of my tests subjects? How wonderfully mad of you. I did not expect this in the least, so dangerously risk it is.''\\]]

** 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 saw 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]].
* In ''BaldursGateII'', the BigBad at some point seems to invoke this trope with a bit of GodzillaThreshold when you release crazy (and dangerous) spellcasters from the asylum to confront him:
-->'''What is this? You have released all of my tests subjects? How wonderfully mad of you. I did not expect this in the least, so dangerously risk it is.''\\

%% * Charmy Bee from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''. Somewhat justified in that he is a hyperactive 6-year-old.

* Nugget from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' is a bit more aware of things than he first seems, but he still isn't completely there. He has [[{{Cloudcuckoolanguage}} odd speaking patterns]], is obsessed with [[TrademarkFavoriteFood chicken nuggets]], and has a hobby of [[TunnelKing digging holes]], and a fidget spinner is enough to distract him from [[AnArmAndALeg a missing arm]].

*** All of his incarnations to date have at least a few odd quirks in-game as well. For example, in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', he fishes alone on a remote island while 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 five 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''.

* Bella from ''[[VideoGame/TCTRPG The Color Tuesday]]'' is... a bit odd, generally acting like a lady of status from the 18th century in a game set in a parallel of the 20th. Her pretentiousness pisses Alex off no end.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'':

*** Yusuke, an apprentice painter who joins your party, is obsessed with making art, to the point where he doesn't really care about most other things. He doesn't even blink over the fact that Morgana is a talking cat. He justifies remaining with the Phantom Thieves by saying that the EldritchLocation of the Palace will allow him to find interesting subjects to paint. And in an example of 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 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, and one in ''Mother 3'' busies itself by staring at the ceiling.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has the '''''ever'''''-so-flighty Taokaka, resident CatGirl. She often [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] by slamming directly into the screen and 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.

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* Bella from ''[[VideoGame/{{TCT RPG}} The Color Tuesday]]'' is... a bit odd, generally acting like a lady of status from the 18th century in a game set in a parallel of the 20th. Her pretentiousness pisses Alex off no end.

* Arguably, ''everyone'' in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' has a tendency to dip into this. SIGINT will actually ask if he's the only normal one around.

** Being a Cloudcuckoolander seems to be an inherent aspect of living in [[FantasyKitchenSink Gensoukyou]]. When Sanae, a human that was transported to Gensoukyou, is introduced in ''[[TouhouFuujinrokuMountainOfFaith Mountain of Faith]]'', she's fairly reasonable, but by ''[[VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TouhouHisoutensokuChoudokyuuGinyoruNoNazoOOe Hisoutensoku]]'', she's 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.

* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekJudgmentRites'', the ''Enterprise'' encounters a ship full of [[AmbiguousDisorder mental patients]] attempting to land on top of a Federation colony. The ship's passengers range from the mostly-sane (Moll) to the dangerously paranoid (Tuskin), the child-like adult (Jakesy) and even the outright delusional (the "King"), none of whom have any idea where they're from, why they're on the ship, nor where it is going. To make matters worse, the most unhinged of them all is the ''ship's computer'', known as the Phays, who simultaneously recognizes Kirk and the others as outside visitors while also spending most of its time [[MyBelovedSmother trying to convince them to eat something]] as though they were mental patients too.

%% Azuregos falls in love with a Spirit Healer. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what is a Spirit Healer and why is it odd to fall in love with one?)

** Azuregos falls in love with a Spirit Healer. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what is a Spirit Healer and why is it odd to fall in love with one?)

* 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. Despite this, even they have their own eccentricities.

* The ''VideoGame/WonderlandAdventures'' series has Loopy in multiple games. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': 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]].

%%* The ''VideoGame/WonderlandAdventures'' series has Loopy in multiple games. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

%%** Azuregos falls in love with a Spirit Healer. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what is a Spirit Healer and why is it odd to fall in love with one?)
* [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Xenoblade Chronicles 2]]: [[LargeHam ZEKE!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis VON! GENBU!]] [[TheMagnificent Bringer of Chaos!]] [[spoiler: He actually didn’t start out this way; after his father didn’t approve of his lifestyle, he ran away from home and has since been a wandering nomad. Years of isolation aside from [[TrueCompanions Pandoria]] has loosened a few of his screws.]]

** Patricia Tannis is a 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 you collect her entries for her, she requests for you to bash your head in with a rock to forget everything you heard. She returns in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', 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]].

** 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 {{Character Blog}}s. On Kitty Bubai's profile, he goes off on a random tangent on how he got ringworm from a cat once.