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The Wonka is the genius nut who should, by all logic, be fired. That's never going to happen — this genius nut runs the show. The Wonka makes perfect sense to himself (and is usually male), but utterly confuses those around him and leaves them wondering whether or not he really is all there. The Naïve Newcomer will think he's genuinely nuts until he does something amazing that proves he's merely using a different brand of logic. Long term employees will either groan at the craziness, become like him, or be so desensitized they'll regard it as mundane and pay no attention. These sort of characters are usually Freakish Loners, but if they do have friends, they will be close ones. Genius qualities do not make a Wonka, but they must show some sort of prowess in at least one area in order to confirm that they are in fact not mad, but merely "differently sane". Other common traits include irreverence, lack of social skill or any sense of danger and doing bizarre things that, nevertheless, make perfect sense if you take a step back and think outside the box, because that's where Wonkas live. From a psychological standpoint, The Wonka perfectly characterizes the schizotypal personality. Different from a Cloudcuckoolander in that Wonkas have their heads in Loonyland and their feet on earth, whereas Cloudcuckoolanders are completely in orbit. Also, Wonkas tend to be more extroverted and energetic than drifty, dreamy Cloudcuckoolanders, and they tend to be more grounded in logic, even if it's of the "lateral thinking" sort. For example, a Cloudcuckoolander may carry a gas mask around once to scare away evil spirits, but a Wonka will carry a gas mask around everywhere "in case there's a gas leak. Duh," and then act as though you're the odd one because you don't. Also different from Bunny-Ears Lawyer in that the lawyer is a brilliant employee who isn't fired because they are so good at their job. The work they do is worth tolerating their weird mannerisms and unusual quirks. They win a cost/benefit analysis. The Wonka is a brilliant employer (or otherwise an authority figure) and can't be fired because they own the company. Also the Wonka's unusual brand of sanity is likely the reason for their success while success and quirks are unrelated in the Bunny-Ears Lawyer. If you have a case where The Wonka indeed runs the entire show, you have The King of All Cosmos. If the roles are reversed such that The Wonka is the one who's the normal one and it's everyone else who's crazy, you've got the Only Sane Man. Compare with Inexplicably Awesome and Eccentric Mentor. Contrast with Genius Ditz and Obfuscating Insanity. (Like The Mad Hatter, Wonkas don't have an act to drop.) Also contrast The Caligula, where being mad and powerful makes the person a danger to himself and others. Please note that this trope doesn't necessarily apply to parodies of Willy Wonka himself. For that kind of trope, please see Charlie and the Chocolate Parody. |
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In Sherlock the eponymous character usually comes off this way to people who've just met him. This is due to his insanely fast thinking passing through several logical steps (or simply making an intuitive leap) to a seemingly bizarre conclusion within the space of a few seconds, and then either just blurting out the answer or stating where they need to go next to find more information. That's usually when people go "huh?" Luckily, John's not freaked out by this. Moriarty is basically The Wonka running a criminal enterprise. He is Sherlock's Evil Counterpart, after all. |
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Made in Abyss: Becoming a top-ranked "White Whistle" cave-diver seems to require this type of personality. They all must be doing something right to become legendary adventurers in a place that devours humans like popcorn, but how they pull it off isn't always clear (and may have a lot to do with their particular insanity). Lyza is (or was) at the low end of the scale, but she's still a Blood Knight (her nickname is "The Annihilator") and weirdly lackadaisical, or even masochistic, about the dangers and horrors of the Abyss (she got excited when she heard the next area would make her bleed from every orifice). Ozen, Lyza's mentor and operator of an outpost partway down the pit, seems to want to help the heroes... in some sense. Shortly after meeting them she beats the crap out of them both, ostensibly to prove they weren't ready to travel deeper on their own, but she admits to enjoying it a little too much. And then there's Bondrewd, a Mad Scientist who gets away with all sorts of atrocities thanks to his high status, and seems to be a total sociopath. He does accomplish impressive things, at even more impressive cost. |
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Damage Control: John Porter. Given the nature of the cases they have to deal with, it's understandable. | |
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Deconstructed in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which featured a wealthy Wonka-like toymaker who is secretly a serial pedophile, using his charming eccentricity and natural rapport with children to lure in his victims. He unfortunately goes completely unpunished due to bribing family members of his victims into creating reasonable doubt for him, though they at least are arrested for obstructing justice. | |
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Roger Bacon of Shadow Hearts has comprehended the will of God, he has handled that about as well as you might think. He is now an eccentric hermit living alone in an observatory that would be sci-fi by today's standards, and this takes place in 1912. His mind has been so warped that he can talk directly to the player. | |
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Robert and Rosalind Lutece from Bioshock Infinite escort Booker Dewitt to the lighthouse where his mission to Columbia begins, treating the player to a Cryptic Conversation on the way and as they depart the island. They somehow end up on Columbia, and keep running into Booker to offer supplies and cryptic advice. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Rotor Walrus, especially during the early comics. To put it in perspective, in the future he will create the living computer NICOLE; as a kid, he grossed his friends out trying to make carbonated milk shakes. | |
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Bleach: Kisuke Urahara, the owner of a candy shop is this in spades. He seems childish and a little crazy but he's a brilliant scientist and a captain level shinigami. The fact that he owns a candy shop could be a subtle reference to the trope namer. | |
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Kelsier from Mistborn gathered a gang of thieves to rob the resident Physical God. And to Kill the God and take over the empire. Questions about his sanity are very commonplace. | |
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The Simpsons Goose Gladwell, a Willy Wonka parody, from the episode "Fat Man and Little Boy". Goose is a former Green Beret who fought in Vietnam and claims that his experiences from those days are what made him crazy. Hank Scorpio, a fast-talking, casual, but caring Diabolical Mastermind. |
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The Warden of Superjail! can only be described as a psychotic Willy Wonka, right down to the clothing. | |
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Agent Francis York Morgan from Deadly Premonition as well as Agent Dale Cooper, the character he's based off of. | |
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Llewellyn from Ozy and Millie. In the creator's own words, opinion is divided between those who think he's incredibly wise, and those who think he's got a screw loose. The reality, of course, is that both are true. It's just sort of a dragon thing, in general, to judge by his relatives. Their occasionally-successful dabblings in the surreal also make them a mild case of Inexplicably Awesome. | |
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Eniko Maragos from Holystone fits this pretty well. She doesn't seem to grasp the concept of "decorum", talks to gods as though they were equals, and her best friend is a pirate. But she's got an astounding head for policy and history, and seems to be a good judge of character. | |
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SCP Foundation: The current head of the Dr. Wondertainment toy company, Dr. Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment, is a hyperactive Womanchild who binges on sweets regularly and has an army of pet corgis, all named Jeremy. She's also the possibly-magic/possibly-reality-warper genius behind most, if not all, of the Dr. Wondertainment products the Foundation currently holds. She's basically if Willy Wonka had a twin sister who made toys instead of candynote Although she's made candy as well and had an even more fucked up sense of whimsy, even though tales focused on her indicate that she does genuinely want to bring wonder and joy to people. | |
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Whateley Universe: Cheese. One of the very few people on earth so smart that Jobe respects his intelligence. In fact, Jobe fears his intelligence, and with good reason, as seen in the short story Bad Seeds. No one even understands why he specialises so much in new kinds of lactose based technology. Thorn. A 15-year-old mutant with the power to create literally anything from ectoplasm, who dresses and carries himself— by choice— as a Victorian era gentleman, and has an express taste for surrealistic humor.... and surrealistic behavior in general. He even looks like The Wonka, specifically the Johnny Depp version, and dresses in Victorian garb, from top hat to spats. |
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Discworld Captain Carrot. The other characters can see some sort of sense in his optimistic, simple and innocent way of thinking, but how he can honestly, truthfully sail through events that would drive anyone else mad with a childlike smile on his face is so far beyond everyone's comprehension that most characters at least suspect that it has to be an act. Not only that, but he also has near-supernatural powers of persuasion despite very rarely using threats or violence and being shocked at the idea of blackmail, and is so literal-minded that almost any idiom or bit of sarcasm gets totally lost on him. Mustrum Ridcully is rude and overbearing, has a very limited attention span and is willfully ignorant at times, but somehow seems to be an effective Arch-Chancellor. Cohen the Barbarian. He takes violent exception to being called any word he doesn't know to be harmless, considers odds of 1:100,000 to be an amazing bargain, shouts terms that in anyone else would count as hate crimes, and yet he ends up as emperor of the Agatean Empire. |
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Kel'thuzad from Warcraft. Among his eccentricities are his completely unique spells, Nightmare Fuel creations, sadism, staggering arrogance and penchant for creative insults. By far his weirdest trait however, is his servile attitude towards the Lich King. He lords it over the Death Knights and the Four Horsemen, but despite the Lich King not being a Magnificent Bastard (rather, he bizarrely retains Arthas' down-to-earth Royals Who Actually Do Something persona) Kel'thuzad treats him as if he was a god. This is despite Kel'thuzad being a brilliant general in his own right. the Shadowlands expansion reveals why. Kel'thuzad has always been working for The Jailor: who was the creator of the Helm of Domination, worn by the Lich King. The Jailor actually IS a Physical God. | |
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The eponymous Irresponsible Captain Tylor is this through and through. His idiosyncrasies annoy his commanders so much that when they gave him a medal, they put a bomb in it. | |
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Westworld: Probably the darkest personification of this trope ever portrayed, Dr. Robert Ford. As Westworld's creator, he's a technological genius who created lifelike androids and runs a role-playing amusement park where guests can indulge their darkest impulses. At first glance he seems an eccentric old man, concerned only with his robotic toys and being pushed out the door by the park's parent company. As the series unfolds, we see that he has actually anticipated and outmaneuvered anyone who even thinks of making a play against him, ruthlessly keeping an iron grip on his creations as he plans his ultimate masterpiece: Nothing less than the complete eradication of mankind and the androids' ascent as the dominant life form. | |
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Yu Narukami, the protagonist of Persona 4, is generally regarded to be the quirkiest protagonist in the series. He delights in trolling the people around him, can spend entire days at a time petting stray cats, will attempt to eat grass if given a chance, spends huge amounts of money on strange costumes to wear into dungeons, and more. Other characters frequently state that they don't understand how his thought processes work, and even the fans can't work out if he's being a weirdo on purpose or just so comically serious that he doesn't realise that what he's doing is odd. Nevertheless, Yu is an extremely powerful Persona-user and a naturally charismatic leader. He's persuasive and his weirdness gets good results, so he remains in charge of the Investigation Team. | |
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The Last Jedi has the Vice-Admiral Amilyn Holdo. While highly intelligent and competent, she is known for her eccentricity and peculiar fashion taste (such as dyeing her hair wild colors and wearing a dress that looks like a ballroom gown onboard a military ship). Her unconventional leadership style and her tendency to be secretive about her plans results in confrontation between her and her subordinate Captain Poe Dameron, who accuses her of incompetence and even of treason, and eventually starts a mutiny against her. Eventually it's revealed that Holdo knew all along what she was doing, and Poe's mutiny foiled her plans. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic anchors the Channel Awesome organization with his insightful, poignant analysis of nostalgic popular culture. His personality, however, ranges from Manchild to violent, criminal insanity. More than once, mental health professionals — apparently always standing by off camera in case of complete psychotic break — have intervened during reviews. It gets deconstructed, as he's regularly depressed that his only talent seems to be riffing on cheesy nostalgia. | |
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The 2013 stage musical adaptation (Douglas Hodge plays him on the cast album) focuses on Wonka's incredible creativity to the point that he's a sensitive Mad Artist as well as a Mad Scientist. One of his songs, "Simply Second Nature", has him admitting that while it isn't easy to have a restless imagination (i.e., Hearing Voices is a side effect), "I'd rather be this way than be a bore!" He loves to speak in riddles and more than one twist is placed on the Secret Test he's putting everyone through. With regards to the darker side of the character, his blithe indifference to the fates of his misbehaving guests is more pronounced, and overall he's a good example of a Sugar-and-Ice Personality Anti-Hero. | |
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Niizuma Eiji from Bakuman。 knows as much about creating brilliant manga as he doesn't about normal behavior. | |
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The film version is even more so; inventing AI's that snark back at him. | |
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Iron Man: Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Industries, can be a bit of an oddball. The film version is even more so; inventing AI's that snark back at him. |
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The Grandmaster plays a villainous version of this in Thor: Ragnarok. He's a despot, who loves Gladiator Games but treats life as a giant festival and is far more concerned with having fun than anything else. As a bonus, "Pure Imagination" plays during the expository video that introduces him to Thor and the audience. | |
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Dr. Crafty has a strange approach to life. He spends his days dead-set on satisfying his childish whims, all while acting like a bumbling supervillain. Consequentially, he starts out being somewhat difficult to work with; his rudeness and lack of common sense occasionally clashes with his cohosts, especially Nurse. Yet it's still apparent to his friends that those eccentricities come from a genuine place, even more so after "Crafty Hearts Re:Grouped." There, a dream conversation with Sasha helps Crafty put things into perspective about how he's handled his life since they last met. Taking Sasha's words to heart, he starts changing how he expresses himself to cultivate stronger relationships with his his coworkers, who he quickly starts viewing as friends. Through a Dr. Crafty anniversary party, those same friends celebrate how much of a positive impact that Crafty has had on them during "Happy Crafty Day!" | |
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Michael from the Knight and Rogue Series is this. He does whatever he wants within the law and just smiles when people laugh at his odd idea of being a knight. Though he claims it took him a while to get used to this, and he does still care when dealing with his father or being treated like a retard. | |
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Whether he was truly a genius or not depends on personal opinion of his controversial ideas, but by his own admission, "right to die" advocate Jack Kevorkian thought he was like this. To quote from an interview from 60 Minutes: The whole interview is here. |
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In CLANNAD, whatever you may say about her odder traits, Kotomi is still the most successful student in the school. Why carry scissors around everywhere? To cut paper, of course! | |
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King Bumi of Omashu from Avatar: The Last Airbender, a man who takes great pride in being called a 'mad genius'. He always preaches the importance of "opening your mind to the possibilities" and demonstrates this to Aang through three trials that were only passable through his brand of outside-the-box thinking. | |
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The leader of The A-Team, Col. John "Hannibal" Smith. He's very unorthodox, in charge of the team, completely addicted to danger, comes up with brilliant and crazy plans, and is easily as crazy as Murdock, if not more so (it's just he, unlike Murdock, doesn't look like it at first glance). | |
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And in the words of his crew in the second film: | |
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Phineas from Phineas and Ferb is a child example. He even gets to dress up as Willy Wonka in the episode where he and Ferb take over a factory. (Which isn't even a chocolate factory, but hey.) Another character to be considered a Wonka in that episode was the head of the company that owns the factory. Not only did he have a chocolate river in the factory (even Phineas questioned the logic of having a chocolate river in a toy factory), but he once wore nothing but his underwear and claimed to be wearing clothes only intelligent people could see. | |
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Deconstructed in Bendy and the Ink Machine with Joey Drew, head of the animation studio and old friend of the protagonist. His eccentricities (such as insisting on using the titular Ink Machine) grated on his employee's nerves and interfered with the production of new cartoons, eventually causing the studio to tank. Plus, it's revealed over the course of the game that, beneath his sunny public face, Joey was really a sociopathic jerk who ruthlessly exploited his employees and didn't even buy into the "Believe in your dreams" rhetoric he spouted. | |
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Miss Frizzle of The Magic School Bus. Everyone knows she's unconventional, and she seems to love that label. She regularly takes her class out on wacky and often dangerous adventures, turns them into animals, and shrinks them down to bug size (sometimes even smaller) just to teach an elementary-level science class. And yet somehow, nobody ever gets hurt and everybody always learns something. Huh. | |
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In Brave10, the Braves regularly comment on how they don't know what Yukimura is thinking, but they also know he's brilliant even if he comes off like a good-for-nothing lord and operates in hard-to-follow and often irritating ways. | |
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Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future trilogy. He constantly comes up with weirder-by-the-minute inventions, steals plutonium from terrorists, and sets all of his clocks to run exactly 25 minutes slow. The first time Marty meets him in the past, he's wearing a metal cage mind-reading contraption on his head that puts jungle gyms to shame. Oh, and he invented Time Travel. It's a deconstruction: he has no employees and this could be why. Played straight in Back to the Future: The Ride where he's head of The Institute of Future Technology. And is still eccentric. |
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Chick from Bates Motel is a villainous example. He's a completely random and unpredictable guy who swings between acting creepy and sinister to kind and gentle within a few minutes. However, he's also a gun runner who planned out a combination of a Uriah Gambit and a Xanatos Gambit. | |
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Kousei Kougami from Kamen Rider OOO. He runs a company invested in the phlebotinum that constitutes/powers the series' monsters, and sits around baking cakes. And did we mention, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!" | |
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The principal in My Hero Academia is a somewhat downplayed example. Generally he acts sane and rational, but one has to wonder why the boss of the world's most prestigious superhero school is a... giant mouse? Ferret-bear? He doesn't even have a super power, per se, he's just a super-intelligent and hard-to-identify Uplifted Animal. His Mask of Sanity slips quite a bit when he plays the role of a villain for the final exam, gleefully smashing Conveniently Empty Buildings with a wrecking ball. | |
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Steve Valentine's persona as the host of Estate of Panic. Imagine Depp's Wonka, but 20 years older. | |
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Jimmy James from NewsRadio, although considering how crazy the rest of the cast can be, he can sometimes be seen as just the leader of a pack of lunatics to Dave Nelson's Only Sane Man. | |
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Futurama Professor Farnsworth's cloned son berates him as a total crackpot, only to later discover that the Professor's theories and inventions all work because he thinks outside the box. In his case, a fair amount of his behavior is chalked up to senility, though by no means all. Hermes can be spacey at times, such as in the Valentine's Day Episode where he yelled at himself for slacking on the job. |
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In Code Geass, Lloyd is this to ASEEC, and a Bunny-Ears Lawyer to The Empire. However, ASEEC is independent enough for it to count as this, because they're sponsored by Prince Schneizel, who understands that this aspect of Lloyd's personality will pay off for them if they let him run his operation the way he pleases. | |
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Cave Johnson from Portal 2 is a Deconstruction of this trope. He's crazy and ran Aperture Science into the ground because of it. (Advisors telling you to stop making prerecorded messages to save on budget? Make more prerecorded messages — you're the boss! Can't afford to buy moon rocks? Hell, buy 'em anyway!) While Johnson's company did see massive leaps in various fields, they were consistently passed over in favor of Black Mesa due to the competitor company being (outwardly) more sane and due to Johnson having burned many bridges due to his eccentricities (the Government offering research contracts probably didn't appreciate what he did to those astronauts...). In a nutshell, he's what happens when someone disregards all safety precautions, warnings, and advice; He died broke, miserable, bogged down by lawsuits, and only his precious Caroline left. | |
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Kang the Mad from Jade Empire; Completely off his rocker, oblivious to most forms of danger, loves explosions more than anyone sane ought to, creates working fighter planes from Bamboo Technology, refuses to replicate his designs due to Uniqueness Decay. Then again, he's actually Lord Lao, a minor god of technology and invention. He completely forgot about this, and the player needs to solve his sidequest to jog his memory about it. | |
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Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. It's downplayed in the sense that she's not overtly eccentric in her behavior, but Daenerys is sometimes known to do things many people would find irrational or bizarre that have worked out extremely well for her. For example, everyone thinks she's been driven mad with grief when she fearlessly walks into Drogo's funeral pyre, but she is certain she'll survive because she has observed her apparent immunity to heat damage (though there's a big difference between hot baths and an actual inferno) and she also figures out she can hatch her dragons this way, even though the eggs are supposedly fossilized and only she can sense life in them. And then there's walking right up to an angry dragon, climbing on its back and commanding it to fly. As Tormund states in Season 8, only "a madman" would do something like that...and Dany subsequently became the first person to ride a dragon in over a century. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, all of the councilors of Great House Telvanni qualify. Each, in one form or another, is a massively powerful wizard while also being of questionable sanity. They use sorcery to extend their lifespans by thousands of years, summon lesser Daedra as guards and test subjects, openly defy Imperial law, and have a system of advancement centered around Klingon Promotion and Might Makes Right. The reason they can get away with it is because they are such ancient, powerful wizards. Even Reasonable Authority Figure Master Aryon has his moments of Pragmatic Villainy and needs his Imperial attendant to pull him back to reality from time to time. | |
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God from Dogma. He/She/It comes to Earth occasionally to partake in such wondrous acts as smelling flowers, playing Skee-Ball and doing handstands. | |
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Denny Crane from Boston Legal is the definition of this trope. He shoots clients, aggressively hits on anything that moves, spouts blatant racist comments without even realizing it, and repeats his full name about 20 times per episode. As he frequently points out, he's a Senior partner, and his name comes first in the practice title. Slight aversion, in that Denny's behaviour is partly down to his early stage 'Mad Cow' disease. Also, his apparent level of sanity improves when he's in court (most of the time). | |
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In his own words from the third film (when about to use the recoil from a cannon to catapult him over to the Black Pearl, which also conveniently takes out Beckett's ship's mast): | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor has saved and ended worlds countless times, yet acts like an excited child or a petulant teenager more often than any form of adult, leaping backwards and forwards between highly technical, rapid-fire scientific explanations to "It's my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff." This could apply to any incarnation of the Doctor. They've ranged from an archetypal Trickster to a bit of an old grump, but fundamentally they're always the same lovable, ineffable weirdo. Bonus points for also doubling as Inexplicably Awesome, as we really have no idea how they ended up this way, but either their logic or understanding of people always eventually saves the day (after a lot of running in corridors). For instance, in Terror of the Vervoids where the best way the Sixth Doctor can think of to combat a plant race is to accelerate their life-cycle. The John Simm incarnation of The Master, who was a closer Evil Counterpart than usual — dancing around to the Scissor Sisters whilst trying to destroy the world, for instance. He kept it up even while pretending to be a human politician, mocking the US President and quoting Little Britain in a speech to the nation. |
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Child of the Storm: Dumbledore is more or less as canon, in that he's a complete oddball who gleefully takes the opportunity given by a massive food fight to stealthily drown a visiting Cornelius Fudge in a tidal wave of jam. He is nevertheless a very important figure in wanded magical society, and a widely respected figure in the supernatural world as a whole — partly because some of the silliness is put on or exaggerated for effect, partly because holy hell, you do not want to cross him. Tony Stark, again, as per canon, qualifies both as this and as the Bunny-Ears Lawyer (in terms of his membership of the Avengers) — he's definitely a bit weird (frankly, more than a bit) but he's utterly brilliant, and a scarily adept pilot of his suits who can fly rings about any would-be rivals. Doctor Strange is generally agreed to be at least half mad, and that's on a good day. He's perfectly aware of it and revels in his weirdness, if only because it's all that stops him from completely breaking down. He's also until he abdicates the title in chapter 29 of the second book, faking his death in the process the Sorcerer Supreme, Earth's leading magical defender, and de facto leader of the heroes when he actually involves himself, because he's an extremely powerful seer and masterful manipulator who's got the road-map to victory in his head. |
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Pegasus, the brilliant but loopy creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Duel Monsters. His employees take his eccentrics in stride. (Note that he was indeed a villain originally, and did use some rather immoral methods; he got better (in the anime, at least).) | |
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Where to begin with Vince McMahon? From his pathological hatred of everything from sneezing to smoking to his habit of shaving several times a day to avoid any hint of stubble to his love of Toilet Humor to his being Married to the Job and never taking vacations to his Non-Idle Rich competing in matches himself, bleeding all over the place and taking vicious beatings on par with wrestlers half his age, Vince is either a mad genius or just plain mad. | |
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Psmith from P. G. Wodehouse's series. Other characters are constantly confounded by his refusal to follow a normal conversation, although he's completely reasonable in his own way. | |
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Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) of Fantasy Island. The charming host of Fantasy Island and his staff invite you to spend a weekend on his exotic island where you can live your wildest fantasy. Roarke can accomplish this by working in mysterious ways or very mundane means (such as talented actors playing whatever roles the charade fantasy requires), all aided by Roarke having intelligence on his clients that rivals the NSA. He is accompanied by a cherubic assistant named "Tattoo." While the island's staff does their utmost to fulfill each guest's fantasy, Mr. Roarke does insist on one thing: he alone makes every decision on his island and those decisions are final. 'The customer is always right?' Not here. Roarke will give you what you want, but be careful what you wish for. He gives his guests their ultimate fantasy in the form of a moral lesson, and he offers it in the hopes that his guests leave better persons. He is always on hand to offer daunted guests encouraging advice as he simultaneously manipulates them to seek out their greatest fantasies. Just who is he? Tattoo: "Some people call him...points folded prayer hands heavenward...some people calls him...points prayer hands downward...I just call him Mr. Roarke."However...at one point Roarke did confront the Devil...and told him never to set foot on Fantasy Island again. | |
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In Luigi's Mansion, there's Professor E. Gadd, a nutty and eccentric scientist who helps Luigi. Apart from inventing the Poltergeist 3000, Ghost Portrificationizer, and F.L.U.D.D., he thinks barnacles in a diesel marinade is a nice old family recipe. | |
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Jacob Rabon IV, better known as Alpharad, has been the host of multiple charity events, and even as a host, he still maintains his eccentric, trollish personality, which ultimately leads to more traction and more revenue due to the uniqueness of the events. | |
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Edward Magorium from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. He operates by his own brand of logic, which is to be expected from a 200-year-old owner of a sentient toy store. | |
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Yuyuko, the Ghost Princess of the Netherworld from Touhou. She acts utterly, completely loopy to nearly everyone (save for her old friend, Yukari), treating, for example, an investigation of an incident as a midnight stroll for snacks. However, she's also one of the oldest and wisest beings in Gensokyo and is one of its major power players despite (or perhaps, because of) her unique brand of logic. This becomes apparent in the games where she's playable. While everyone is frantically investigating the cause of the latest incidents, Yuyuko tends to have already figured out the cause and the parties responsible from the very beginning; all her loopy antics are just ways of passing the time while waiting for everybody else to come to the same conclusion. | |
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The central premise of Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger is that each team member is the ruler of their own kingdom in the world of Tikyū, with every single one of them proving to be an effective and just ruler who is very dedicated to the safety and prosperity of their country and people. However, they are still a Super Sentai group, meaning they all quite quirky and downright eccentric as they go about their day-to-day duties. | |
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Yakuza: Goro Majima. Where do we begin? Between his increasingly bizarre dress sense, penchant for crossdressing, thick and blatantly fake Kansai accent and tendency to obsess over things like karaoke, slot car racing and fighting series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, he definitely has the nuttiness down pat. However, he is also an extremely savvy businessman, who managed to claw himself from being a nobody to one of the most powerful men in the Japanese underworld, while running a number of extremely profitable businesses on the side. His subordinates respect his skills and groan at his antics, and remain steadfastly loyal even when Majima decides they've earned a beatdown. | |
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Shinra's father in Durarara!! Apparently a relatively well-respected doctor, he goes around everywhere with his lab coat on and a gas mask. After all, everyone knows lab coats protect your body from contamination (that's why you wear them in the lab) and modern-day city air is so filthy it's bad for your lungs. | |
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Fantastic Four: Reed Richards drifts near to this trope sometimes. His wife Susan Storm-Richards usually has to reel him back in. | |
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Mr. Lemoncello, from the books of the same name, speaks mostly in Shout Outs, dances around wearing burping banana shoes, and builds extremely high-tech libraries, but his company is very successful thanks to their creative games. He’s compared to the Trope Namer in the first book. | |
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Fallen London: The Manager of the Royal Bethlehem Hotel, a jolly, energetic man with a very shiny uniform who, despite his odd interest in the mad that leads him to give every madman he finds a free stay at his hotel until they get better, manages to keep it afloat and extremely luxurious, to the point only the richest in London can even afford a room and yet there's always another willing to pay the price for it. Really, his eccentricities let him know exactly what his guests, insane or not, could want or need, so stays at the hotel are always magnificent. | |
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Minaka Hiroto from Sekirei is a brilliant scientist and the CEO of a powerful MegaCorp. He also runs around in a cape because he can, and organized the entire Sekirei Plan because It Amused Me. His second-in-command and secretly his former(?) lover, Takami, spends a lot of time hitting him with things. | |
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On an episode of Frasier, both Crane brothers were hired to testify on opposing sides of a hearing in which a rich eccentric old man was accused of being incompetent. Frasier believed that the man was The Wonka, whereas Niles thought he was suffering from dementia. Niles was right. | |
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Viceroy's Pride: Deconstructed. Henry Ibis is basically a big kid who made his billions through stories and games. So when he wants to make sure the new magic acts like his stories and games, no one can actually stop him. In particular, he subjects Dan to an unnecessary and dangerous medical procedure using experimental technology just because he wants the story to be a LitRPG. | |
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Dave of Civil Protection is prone to doing whatever random thing comes into his head, like pretending to be a ninja because he's bored. He does seem to be the smarter of the two main characters, though, and he knows a lot of random trivia (often about dangerous things, like how to make napalm). | |
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Deconstructed in Gravity Falls with Quentin Trembley. Despite being an efficient President of the United States, his insanity got him kicked out of office. He's so embarrassing that there's a Government Conspiracy in place to prevent people from knowing he ever existed. However, he managed to successfully preserve himself in peanut brittle for at least 150 years. | |
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Judge Harry Stone from Night Court. As he points out in one episode, he might have been last on the list of people considered for becoming a judge, but he was on the list nevertheless. In a nutshell: The exiting Mayor of New York had to appoint a judge before he left office. It was a Sunday and he went down the list, calling the prospective candidates. He got to the last name on the list, which was Harry, and got through. As Harry put it, he was appointed that Sunday because "I was home." | |
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