Trope Pantheons/Council of Cloudcuckooland

The Council of Cloudcuckooland

Their meeting room is behind the back door of the Pantheon of Mentalist Gods. It's constructed entirely of cardboard and duct tape, and the walls are scribbled on. There is always a faint smell of treacle in the air, even though all the food items in the cardboard fridge are cardboard cut-outs.

Sometimes, their faces are hidden behind handmade masks; sometimes they wear cosplay outfits to hide their identities; but often they confuse each other anyway under their Paper Thin Disguises.

Our intelligence hasn't been quite able to make out what they are planning and if they are planning at all; possibly they are talking in code.

In case the Council of Shadows were to attack, they might be the only ones able to fight back.

Below a breakdown of their momentary members:

Ayumu Kasuga, Goddess of Daydreams, Ambassador of Cloudcuckooland and Leader of the Council of Cloudcuckooland (Osaka)
 * Intermediate Goddess
 * Symbol: Chiyo's Dad, Sea slugs
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Cloudcuckoolanders, Osakan Oddballs, People always referred to by nicknames, Book Dumb, The Fool, Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, Pungeon Master
 * Domains: Dream, Illusion, Chaos, Mind, Transcendence
 * Osaka thinks even Luna Lovegood is too weird even for her, but that hasn't stopped them from hanging out with each other at every opportunity.
 * Undisputed Queen of Daydreams, Osaka's mind is a realm of curning creaticity even the bravest Psychonauts do not dare to enter. Her advisor, Chiyo's Dad, may or may not be a creation of herself.
 * Is rumored to have forgotten her own name. She can't remember if the rumor is true or not, but she hopes it is, as she finds it unreasonably funny.
 * Trapped in a Lotus Eater Machine? Suffering through Your Worst Nightmare? Have you found to your horror that Your Mind Makes It Real? Prayers often go up to Osaka for protection from these situations. She's happy to help, but sometimes she just makes things stranger.
 * Was elected leader of the Council on the grounds that she was the most focused and down-to-Earth of the group. No, really.

Luna Lovegood, Goddess of Zany Theories (Loony)
 * Lesser Goddess
 * Symbol: Crumple-Horned Snorkack horn
 * Alignment: Lawful Good
 * Surely Chaotic Good? And don't call...
 * Portfolio: Epileptic Trees, Head in the Clouds, Appalling Honesty, Vacant Staring
 * Domains: Intelligence, Magic
 * She and her closest deity friend, Osaka, are constantly one-upping each other to see who can tell the weirdest story.
 * Occasionally, characters who feel that they have been wronged by their canon portrayal will make a pilgrimage to Cloudcuckooland to seek an audience with Luna. If she sympathizes with their tale of woe (and she almost always does), she will plant an Epileptic Tree on their behalf. As a result, many characters who would otherwise be followers of the Alliance of Evil have a soft spot for her. (A GREAT many. Just look at the Wild Mass Guessing section.)

Lady Gaga, Goddess of Catchiness
 * Lesser Goddess
 * Symbol: A telephone
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Cloudcuckoolander, Crazy Awesome, Costume Porn, Ear Worm
 * Domain: Madness, Glory, Persistence
 * Gaga has succeeded in creating some of the most incredibly catchy songs the world has ever experienced. The only possible explanation has to be divine power. Her cult is widespread.

Goo, Goddess of Imagination (Goo Goo Gaga)
 * Lesser God
 * Symbol: A Rainbow Afro
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Rampant Creativity, Unintended Creation, CloudCuckoolanders, Reallyreallyreallyreallyfasttalking
 * Domains: Creation, Mind, Chaos
 * Claims to have created a house full of imaginary friends in a single night. Most of them are barely identifiable as sentient beings, but she's working on fixing that.

Ralph Wiggum, An Eternal Constant of Non-Sequiturs (The Sleep Viking)
 * Quasideity
 * Symbol: A nose with a finger stuck up its nostrils
 * Alignment: True Neutral
 * Portfolio: The Ditz, Fools, Ditzes, Cloudcuckoolanders, Flanderization Sufferers
 * Domains: Chaos, Dream, Illusion
 * Followers: Isumi Saginomiya (Hayate the Combat Butler), Mr. Kimura (Azumanga Daioh), Homsar (Homestar Runner)
 * Ralph 3:16: "My cat has fleas"

Christopher Walken, God of Creepy Villains
 * Lesser God
 * Symbol: His head, slowly moving closer
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: Talkative Loons, Rule of Scary, Character Filibuster, Cloudcuckoolander
 * Domains: Chaos, Madness, Craft
 * Just by the knowledge of his very existence, the Greater Gods classified him as such and locked him in a closet. Osaka and Luna Lovegood have attempted and failed numerous times to break him out.
 * Because of his current state, the Council of Cloudcuckooland have reserved this spot for him when he is finally freed.
 * Is un-fucking-believable!

Elan, God of Genre Savvy Morons
 * Quasideity
 * Symbol: Banjo, God of Puppets
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Genre Savvy, Lack of any other Savvy, Banjos.
 * Domain: Illusion, Wisdom (only aplies to genre related knowledge), Inspiration
 * Allies: Flonne (Disgaea)
 * Elan was raised up by Banjo himself, as his high priest.
 * He has also raised up several lesser hand puppet gods, and is being considered for promotion because of this, on the philosophical grounds that anyone who can create a god is greater than one. This is being blocked by anyone who hears it, as no one wants this info to get around.

Walter Bishop, God of Fringe Science
 * Symbol: Fringe Patterns
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: Omnidisciplinary Scientist, The Smart Guy, Mad Scientist, Genius Ditz, Idiot Savant, Cloudcuckoolander, Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Domains: Intelligence, Insanity, Experimentation
 * Followers: Peter Bishop
 * Is the go to guy for the House of Defense whenever something unexplainable happens. Chances are, Bishop had performed an experiment for that exact phenomenon and has the data to rationalize it... if you're willing to overlook his many personality quirks.
 * Luna Lovegood and Osaka are regular visitors to Bishop's basement laboratory and have started calling him "Grandpa Bishop", much to Peter's annoyance. They've even let him into the Council of Cloudcuckooland, but he rarely attends meetings due to his experiments.
 * Also keeps a cow in his laboratory, though everybody is too afraid to ask why.

Andy Kaufman, God of NEVER Explaining the Joke (Tony Clifton; Foreign Man; Latka Gravas; the Intergender Wrestling Champion of the World; the King of Memphis, Tennessee; and "Andy Kaufman" himself)
 * Lesser God
 * Symbol: A child's record player with a 45 of the Mighty Mouse theme song cued up
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: Fourth Wall Medium, Secret Identities / Alter Egos, Subverted Kids Shows, Funny Foreigner, All Part of the Show?, Large Ham, Worked Shoots for Any and All Occasions
 * Domains: Theater, Craft
 * Followers: Robin Williams, Paul Reubens, and many other comedians, though they don't follow his footsteps exactly. R.E.M. honors him in song, and Jim Carrey is his high priest.
 * Opposed by: Tony Clifton (who goes berserk if anyone suggests he is an aspect of Andy), Jerry Lawler
 * Even upwards of two decades after his death -- yes, he is dead; that's why he's here -- everyone still argues about whether he's a great comedian or not. He feels the argument is pointless as he is not a comedian but a "song-and-dance man". And a wrestler -- his secondary holy symbol is a neck brace.

Homsar, God of Gag Characters
 * Demigod
 * Symbol: His bowler hat
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral, with occasional forays into Chaotic Stupid
 * Portfolio: Acceptable Chaotic Stupidity, Talkative Loons, Non Seqiturs, Being Nonsensical
 * Domains: Chaos, Madness
 * Followers: Sir Not Appearing In This Film (Monty Python and The Holy Grail), Senor Cardgage (Homestar Runner)
 * Allies: Ayumu Kasuga, Strong Sad
 * Enemies: Strong Bad
 * Is the child of a Chipwich and a cup of coffee.
 * It isn't known for certain how he ended up ascending in the first place. Some say he was left here by aliens, or abandoned at least. Others are convinced he came to retrieve his hat and couldn't find his way out.

J.D., God of Guy Love Increased By Fanon (Vanilla Bear, many, many girls' names)
 * Demigod
 * Symbol: A notebook with a unicorn horse with a sword on his head on the cover
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Bunny Ears Lawyers, Cloudcuckoolanders, Victims of Ho Yay, Inner Monologues
 * Domain: Healing, Radiance, Competition, Emotion, Pride
 * When not here, J.D. can be found hanging out in his temple in the House of Love with his co-deity and "Chocolate Bear", Turk.

Kotomi Ichinose, Goddess of Dreadful Music
 * Lesser Goddess
 * Symbol: Violin
 * Alignment: True Neutral
 * Portfolio: Dreadful Music, Fake Magical Girl, Tsukkomis, Cloudcuckoolanders, Teen Geniuses, Senseless Violins
 * Domain: Family, Craft
 * Follower: Cacofonix (Asterix)
 * Kotomi is a frequent figure on Celestial Idol, but in recent years has been shown the door repeatedly before she even gets a chance to unpack her violin case. Simon Cowell is still trying to block out the days-old ringing in his ears.
 * Just as long as she doesn't bring her violin, she's always welcomed to any party. But if she ever brings her violin, she'll end up Bound and Gagged in the corner. It's a law put by O-Haruhi-sama to put up more Fetish Fuel in the Pantheon after hearing about Kotomi's follower...

Deadpool, Destroyer of the Fourth Wall (Merc With a Mouth, Wade Wilson)
 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: a yellow narrative box
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: The No Fourth Wall, Painting the Fourth Wall, Lampshade Hanging, Meta Guys, Being Genre Savvy, Medium Awareness, Crazy Awesomeness
 * Domain: Madness, Chaos, Destruction, Illusion
 * Followers: Etna (Disgaea) (Nope, ascended), The Warner Brothers and their Warner Sister Dot (Animaniacs) Ambush Bug, who did it all first.
 * Deadpool wonders if his position means he can now talk in bullet-point format
 * "Oh, little bullet point format, I've missed you so! We will have so much fun together!"

Murdock, God of Knowing That You're Crazy (H. M. "Howling Mad" Murdock") "I'm not going anywhere with that crazy fool!"
 * Lesser God
 * Symbol: Airplane
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Mad Hatter, Balloonacy, Meaningful Name, Obfuscating Stupidity, Trickster Archetype, Flies Like Crazy
 * Domain: Travel, Mentalism, Ambiguous Sanity, Mad Pilot Skills
 * Opposed by: B. A. "Bad Attitude" Baracus.


 * Had his cell relocated to the meeting room for easier access. Still breaks out of his cell to go on missions with the A-Team, even though he's allowed to leave whenever he wants.

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, Gods of Stairs (Dude, Man, Dog, Bro, Dunkass, Shithead; all can be applied to both of them)
 * Lesser Gods
 * Symbol: 8^y
 * Alignment: CHAOTIC RADICAL
 * Portfolio: Stylistic Suck, a parody outliving the source material, stairs, mixed sports metaphors, toking up on a joint
 * Allies: The Big Man
 * They are widely assumed to have a preoccupation with warning people about stairs - they do, but they only do it once per person and it only comes up again if you don't heed their initial warning.
 * Legends tell of Jeff's birth - that he hatched from an easter egg belonging to Bro and was promptly placed underneath his own posterior.
 * Regardless of how it happened, the two were born through the as-yet unspecified work of Dave Strider. Neither of them have any idea of that, though. Nor does anyone else.

Shadow Crystal Mage, SUPREME OVERLORD OF ALL CRACK!
 * Lesser God, though he's seeking to correct that
 * Symbol: the most current Fanfiction.net Logo.
 * Alignment: Chaotic Silly
 * Portfolio: Crack Fic, Crack Pairing, Crossover, Adaptational Badass, Alternate Character Interpretation, Schedule Slip, Serial Escalation, Genre Savvy, Hilarity Ensues, Lampshade Hanging, Loads and Loads of Characters, No Fourth Wall, and many more! He seems to collect them...
 * Domain: Insanity, Craft, Fanfic, Plot
 * Allies: Daidouji Tomoyo and Tuxedo Kamen, both of whom he has given upgrades...; Snowflame
 * Followers: Officially, none yet. But that's all according to plan...
 * A most insidious being, SCM has been known to suddenly appear without warning, encourage people to worship him, and leave...
 * The only active planner on the Council of Cloudcuckooland, many wonder why SCM is here rather than the Council of Shadows. SCM maintains that "this is more fun"; most of the Council of Shadows maintains that SCM's plans are too convoluted, confusing and all out weird even for them.
 * Legend that didn't exist until recently, but now has existed for untold eons, says that the day shall come when Shadow Crystal Mage leads the legions of madness to conquer all that is, thereby getting His name on every TV Tropes page.
 * Is simultaneously trying to keep Chrisopher Walken locked up AND trying to keep him slightly stronger than any hero who gets in his way, so that he will be sufficiently scary.
 * He is currently trying to take the position of leader away from Ayumu, and intends to do so as soon as he has enough support...

Pinkie Pie, Goddess of the Unexpected Audiences
 * Intermediate Goddess
 * Symbol: Her Cutie Mark (Three Balloons: two Blue ones and a yellow one)
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good (Heavy on the Chaotic)
 * Portfolio: Awesome insanity, being out of this world, being ditzy... or not, cute hyperactivity, curly mane which occasionally changes to reflect her mood, acting like a child (even skipping like one), minimal attention span, fun ponified, pranking, eating a lot, Breaking the Fourth Wall, defying the laws of reality, "okey dokey lokey", talking a lot, parties, alternate personalities
 * Domain: Friendship, Laughter, Parties, Fun, Hyperactivity, Innocence
 * Allies: Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy
 * Followers: Bronies
 * Had somehow ascended extremely quickly and has been seen making friends with many of the Gods and Goddess of the various houses, however she's just as likely to annoy and confuse everypony.
 * Can teleport, pop out of small objects, exist in two different places at once, run at ludicrous speed and otherwise defy the laws of reality.
 * Has probably thrown (or at least attempted to throw) parties for every single deity in the pantheon by now. That includes Evil gods and even entities on a cosmic level. Some were delighted. Some were pissed. Some were pissed at first, but THEN were delighted. Some of these attempts didn't go all that well, though, like that time Pinkie attempted to decorate Unicron in frilly ribbons and balloons.
 * Albeit associated with the House of Theater Pinkie spends a lot of her time in the House of Food, where she bakes, and eats, a lot of sweets. Yes, including cupcakes. No, not THAT KIND of cupcakes.
 * Rumors that Pinkie Pie has attempted to assassinate other gods to steal their power and turn their skin into clothing are really just rumors. It IS known that Pinkie has a darker and allegedly more insane side which manifests when things don't go her way, though.
 * As a Goddess of Periphery Demographics, people would assume that she should be opposed to Barney, God of Periphery Hatedoms. But that isn't the case at all. They actually get along splendidly; their respective shows even air next to each other in certain countries. This baffles many.

G.I.R, God of Insane Robots
 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A Taco (He loves the little tacos. He loves them good)
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: Non sequiters, Memetic Mutation, Extreme Omnivore ism
 * Domain: Chaos,Madness
 * Followers: Bender.
 * When Osaka offered him a position in the council, he nodded. How much he understood is debatable.
 * G.I.R spends much of his time preparing waffles for the rest of the council, then throwing them out the window.
 * Is currently working on a sequel to his doom song.

Raocow, God of Complete and Utter Nonsense
 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A larval horse in a football helmet.
 * Portfolio: Unexpected Topic Changing, Inappropriate Laughter, Socks
 * Domain: Gaming, particularly hacks.
 * Followers: Demo
 * Has the potential to claim leadership of Cloudcuckooland for himself, but he's content just playing video games instead.
 * Once had the power to reverse time, but has since given it up, as he considers it to be cheating.

CrazyDave, God of Unintelligible Nonsense
 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A saucepan.
 * Portfolio: Craziness, Catch Phrases, Unintelligible Nonsense, Zombies, and Weird Plants
 * Domain: Insanity, the Undead
 * Followers: Millions of gamers worldwide
 * Has a tendency to set up a lawn and go Wall-nut bowling in the middle of meetings. The Council of Cloud Cuckooland usually doesn't get disrupted much by this; meetings of other houses, though, are. As such, Crazy Dave often has to rely on the rest of the Council of Cuckooland to save his bacon... and his health, too.