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{{quote|''"Live people ignore the strange and unusual. [[Genre Savvy|I myself
|'''Lydia''', ''[[Beetlejuice]]''}}
She's not normal, that's for sure. The only thing you can pin down about the '''Strange Girl''' is that she's hard to pin down (when she isn't doing the pinning, that is). She's visually distinct from her normal peer group, typically in both physical appearance (she's likely to be an [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]/[[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]) and dress, but sometimes only one of the two. As far as demeanor is concerned, she can be anything from [[The Wonka]], a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[The Stoic]], a [[Take Over the World|world conqueror]], [[The Messiah]], [[The Ophelia]], an [[Emotionless Girl]], [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Haru]][[Suzumiya Haruhi|hi]]... or [[The Quiet One|quiet]], [[Straight Man|sensible]] and even friendly. Anything goes as long as it stands out from the series' norm.
The unifying trait of all
This character is very likely to be a [[Goth]] or show noticeable Goth influences, both in style of dress and in personality. The Goth subculture is particularly well-suited to this character type because it's made up of [[Nightmare Fetishist|people who enjoy strange, morbid things]], on top of the fact that being different from the mainstream is one of the things that defines all countercultural subcultures. That last part means that it would also be quite reasonable for a
Tends to overlap with [[Dark Is Not Evil]]. Compare [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]], [[Rei Ayanami Expy]], or [[The Ophelia]]. Contrast [[The Snark Knight]].
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== Anime ==
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]].'' "Normal humans don't interest me. If anyone here is an alien, a time traveler, slider, or an esper, then come find me! That is all."
** Sasaki might be vying for her position here. She seems far more normal, but is the one who actually does weird Kyon out due to always speaking with male pronouns when talking to boys, and the subject of most of her conversations being bizarre philosophical stuff.
* Urabe Mikoto, the titular character of the manga ''[[Mysterious Girlfriend X]]''. Urabe being really, really, ''really'' weird is pretty much the entire point of the
* It's hard to say whether Senjougahara Hitagi from ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'' is [[Tsundere]], [[Yandere]] or something else altogether, but either way she's unbelievably strange. She considers herself more powerful than [[Dragon Ball|Shen Long]] and [[Improbable Weapon User|carries a entire classroom worth of stationery]] [[Hammerspace|concealed on her person]]. She promises her boyfriend that he'll be the first person she ever murders, and if someone else kills him then she'll avenge him - and she considers this ''romantic.''
* Rei Ayanami, of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]].'' Right from the start, her [[Heroic Albino|albinism]], [[The Stoic|emotionlessness]] and [[Extreme Doormat]] personality make her a ''highly'' strange girl. It might have to do with her being a {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues|clone]]}} with a {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid|hybrid mix of human and angel DNA]]}} who may or may not have a {{spoiler|[[Soul]].}}
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* Natalia aka Belarus from [[Axis Powers Hetalia]]. She's a beautiful, small, dainty-looking blonde girl in [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] clothes... and very, very ''frightening''. So much that she's the only nation-tan able to scare someone as feared as ''Russia''.
* Tsubaki Kasugano and Yuno Gasai from [[Mirai Nikki]]. ''To start''.
* ''[[Rosario
* Erza from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', when she's not in [[Stern Teacher]] Mode.
* Homura Akemi from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' comes across as this at first due to her [[Emotionless Girl|apparent lack of emotion]].
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* ''[[Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl]]'' is one of the stranger Strange Girls. She was embalmed between 1905 and 1910, and has been "alive" since then. While she's not ''necessarily'' evil, Lenore lacks tact, "doesn't do guilt" and frequently, ''accidentally'' [[Sugar Apocalypse|massacres innocent bystanders]].
* ''[[Emily The Strange]]'' of Hot Topic fame is actually a cynical anarchist who doesn't like other people and sincerely wants to take over the world one day. She doesn't exactly have any plans for it, and kind of assumes that it'll happen through sheer force of attitude.
** And judging from [https://web.archive.org/web/20130116204913/http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?p=1701 some recent news], she may be a partial copy of Rosamond mentioned below.
* Little Gloomy, of the comic of the same name. Kind of. She's the only non-monster in [[Monster Town|Frightsylvania]], which is pretty freaking bizarre. But she's also completely off in a few other ways (she has nails in her house, but no hammer. She needed the nails... but not a hammer.)
* Serenity Rose, one of only 50 witches in the world and a borderline [[MacGuffin Girl]] in her ''own'' series.
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* [[Supergirl]] in ''Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade'', who has fantasies about herself as the successful and beloved Moon Supergirl (who stops the Moon Beagle Boys from stealing moon money), insists her nostrils are petite, and treats keeping ice cream cold with her ice breath like a dire responsibility.
* Delirium of the Endless of course, from ''[[Sandman]]''. Notable because she manages to be a strange outsider, not only when she travels amongst mortals, but even amongst the other Endless who all are mighty peculiar themselves. The only one who sort of kind of still has a connection to her is Dream, presumably because dreams can get all kinds of weird and non sequitur-ish as well.
* [[Wonder Woman]] not only fills these criteria in-universe, but is sometimes deemed too strange for many writers to get a firm grasp on.
== Fan Works ==
* Kawada Asa from ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon]]'' seems to fit. Though her peers pick on her just for watching kids' shows, her strangeness is really found in her ridiculous plans, being either [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] or [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], jumping to weird conclusions mostly due to the above, [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue|writing]] [[Self Deprecating Humor|badfic]], and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|sleeping through other people's presentations]]. Through it all, she tries to take an [[I Am What I Am]] attitude, although at times it breaks down and we realize that she ''knows'' how weird she is and that it's cost her a normal life.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' / ''[[Firefly]]'' crossover ''[[The Man
== Film ==
* Lydia, from ''[[Beetlejuice]]''. She seems proud of it.
* Ladles and gentlethings, give it up for [[The Addams Family|Wednesday Addams]]! Just don't ask her to [[The Un-Smile|smile]]. Unless it's Wednesday from the '60s show, in which case she's a [[Perky Goth]].
* Moonie from ''New Waterford Girl''.
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* Enid, and to some extent Rebecca from [[Ghost World]].
* [[Hanna]] is a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|very]] [[Little Miss Badass|strange]] [[Child Soldier|girl]] [[Emotionless Girl|indeed]].
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'' a.k.a. Pippilotta Victualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump. Friendly? Yes. Strange? Oh hell yes.
* ''Nate the Great'''s friend Rosamond, something of a cross between [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Perky Goth]].
* [[Harry Potter|Luna Lovegood]]. Tonks, too, a little bit.
* Anne of Anne of Green Gables is thought to be a Strange Girl when she first arrives at Avonlea but she is just a girl with a vivid imagination that the Avonlea residents aren't used to.
* [[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]], the protagonist of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s novel of the same name.
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* Perdita Wiguiggan from "Walking Naked" by Alyssa Brugman. She has above-average intelligence, but [[No Social Skills|isn't exactly good with people]] and frequently acts in a very childlike manner. She is aware of her strangeness, and [[I Am What I Am|makes no attempt to conceal it]].
* Rachael Elizabeth Dare from [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]. One of the main reasons for her strangeness is {{spoiler|she is a "clear-sighted" mortal, meaning she can see through the Mist, seeing the true world - monsters, greek gods and all - clearer than even demigods}}. Also, in ''The Last Olympian'', we learn {{spoiler|she is fated to be the next Oracle}}.
* Maggie in ''How NOT to Be Popular'' by Jennifer Ziegler is like this, only not supernatural. Her parents are hippies who move anywhere they want to and don't really believe in material possessions. She has been to 10 high schools, and when she gets to her 10th she decides she's had enough and pretends to be weird so that nobody will like her and she won't have to worry about leaving behind friends when she moves.
* Lydia of ''Caught In The Act'' by Peter Moore.
* Raven of ''[[Vampire Kisses]]''.
== [[Live
* ''[[Firefly]]'s'' River Tam is ''most'' definitely strange, though she's got [[Mind Rape|her]] [[Psychic Powers|reasons]] [[Go Mad
▲* ''[[Firefly]]'s'' River Tam is ''most'' definitely strange, though she's got [[Mind Rape|her]] [[Psychic Powers|reasons]] [[Go Mad From the Revelation|for]] [[There Are No Therapists|it.]]
* Zora from ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''.
* Portius Wheeler's illegitimate daughter in the miniseries ''The Awakening Land.''
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** [[Sapient Ship|I wanted]] [[Cool Starship|to see the universe,]] [[The Alleged Car|so I stole]] [[Robo Ship|a Time Lord]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|and ran away!]]
* Abby from ''[[NCIS]]''.
* [[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]] has made a career out of this.
* Harper Finkle from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''.
* Willow in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', at first (before the producers moved away from the "softer side of Sears" look).
* Parker from ''[[Leverage]]'', with many characters asking what is wrong with her or that she is nuts.
* Topanga Lawrence from ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' was one of these in the first season, before her character was retooled to be more normal.
* Jess, the titular character played by [[Zooey Deschanel]] in [[New Girl]] is this trope. And quite [[Adorkable|adorkably]] so.
== Music ==
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* ''[[Persona 3]]'' - It's unclear what, exactly, Elizabeth is (the closest we get to an answer is "Resident"), but she doesn't seem to operate by most human rules. Probably because she [[No Social Skills|doesn't know what they are.]]
** Her older sister Margaret from [[Persona 4]] is similarly strange, though perhaps not quite so much so.
* Lute from ''[[Fire Emblem:
** Also Sara from ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Thracia 776]]'', a cute [[White Magician Girl]] who asks Leaf if she can join him by saying that she can hear his voice in her head and speaks very nonchalantly about how {{spoiler|she hates her grandfather Manfloy for killing her dad before she was even born.}} Even her caretakers in {{spoiler|the Lopto Sect}} regard her as being weird!
{{quote|''"Did she say something to you? Please forget it. She mumbles strange things from time to time. She can be an odd girl at times."''}}
* [[American McGee's Alice]]. While it should go without saying, one need only remember that the warped, disturbing, just plain ''wrong'' nature of the entire game's world is nothing more than [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|Alice trying to beat her own broken psyche back into submission]].
* Bella of [[TCTRPG|The Colour Tuesday]] looks and sounds like someone out of the 18th century, addresses Kyle as if he were a [[Knight Errant]], and treats Alex like a dirty commoner. The setting is a modern, if [[
* [[The Last Story|Mirania]] is described as being a deeply spiritual person... by those who aren't straight-up weirded out by her.
* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, this Trope often overlaps with female Trainers who use Psychic, Ghost, or Fairy Pokémon. [[Pokémon Red Blue and Yellow|Kanto Gym Leader Sabrina]], [[Pokémon Black and White|Unova Elite Four members Shauntal and Caitlin]], [[Pokémon X and Y|Kalos Gym Leaders Valerie and Olympia, and many rank and file Trainers, like the Hex Maniacs and Fairy Tale Girls in Generation III.]]
** Sabrina goes from "strange" [[Nightmare Fuel|to "terrifying"]] in the ''[[Pokémon Let's Go!]]'' games, as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_brUc_X_DM this video of the Gym Battle shows.]
* Agatha from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]''. On the surface she's just a [[Quest Giver]] who collects bugs and needs you to find 24 golden bugs. But her dialogue when you bring them to her, how she talks to them, how she sings to them, how [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick| she ''likes'' it when they sting and bite her]]... Yeah, just get the Wallet upgrades from her and move on, Link.
** Of course, Agatha was far a too [[Crazy Awesome]] character to waste, so she was brought back in ''[[Hyrule Warriors]]'' as a genuine [[Action Girl]] and [[Beast Master]], able to attack enemies with swarms of golden butterflies and summon ''giant'' ones. She can even sprout her own golden butterfly wings in one of her moves. Oh, and [[Suddenly Always Knew That|she can also pick locks.]]
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* Miku in ''[[A Profile]]'', contrasting the very normal Miou and the slightly clingy Rizu. While those two are basically normal, Miku has a way of flipping between extremely shy and very cold and dismissive. While this is typical [[Sugar and Ice Personality]] behavior, it really stands out in this context.
* [[TV Genius|Kotomi Ichinose]] from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''. [[The Wonka|Extremely smart but has virtually no social skills]], to the point where she doesn't even acknowledge people talking to her.
* Toko and Stella in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]].'' The former has a kind of twisted way of thinking and is sort of bewitching which stands in great contrast to the mostly zombie like student body at her school. The latter is a spacey foreigner both in speech and in the way she doesn't seem entirely grounded.
* Ririko in [[Sharin no Kuni]] is ''weird.'' I... she just... Ahem. Her 'interactions' with Touka when she was a child, her apparent ''liking'' of 'teasing' Kenichi, difficulty holding a train of though together and other random bizarre attributes are just the start of it.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Minus]]. That is all.
* Tegan Cassidy in [[Holiday Wars]] is a very strange girl and doesn't fit in with anyone from her high school, as seen in [http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-6 this strip]{{Dead link}}
* Antimony Carver of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is a far more "normal" Strange Girl. She's very [[The Stoic|stoic]] and has [[Shell Shocked Senior|deep-seated issues]], but is caring, friendly and ready to lend a hand whether you're a robot, fairy, or ghost. She's visually set apart from her peers by the unusual lipstick and [[Body Motifs|eye-shadow]] she wears.
** Zimmy might also qualify. Her strange skin tone and eyes covered in black gunk make her stand out visually, she wears her school uniform all the time, she's afflicted with the unfortunate combination of some kind of [[Reality Warper]] powers and horrifying hallucinations, she [[The Insomniac|doesn't sleep]], she's got a [[Psychic Link]] with another girl who serves as her [[Power Nullifier]]... Honestly, the stuff that can be quantified is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot of mysteries and open questions surrounding Zimmy as well.
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* Millie from ''[[Ozy and Millie]]''.
* ''[[Honeydew Syndrome]]'' has the 1950's-obsessed Odette.
* Fio from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170802124754/http://www.revenant-braves.schala.net/ Circumstances of the Revenant Braves]''.
* Molly from ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]].''
* Toni Ipres from ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]''. She is fashionable, talented, upbeat and friendly, but sports some rather strange behavior due to being {{spoiler|a werewolf.}}
* [[Drowtales]]' [[Fourth Wall Observer]] [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=608 Kiel'ndia] is often [[
** It's almost [[Catch Phrase]] for her and her best friend Naal'suul to have the exchange "you're wierd", and "I know."
== Web Original ==
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* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] is a [[Cute but Psycho]] [[Woman Child]]. And even when she's not in that mental state, she's still pretty freakish.
* [[Homestuck]]'s Jade Harley is pretty much constantly upbeat and energetic, and is her friends all seem to think she is a normal, if slightly excitable, girl. {{spoiler|She lives on an uncharted island in the somewhere in the Pacific, which was discovered by her grandfather, a business tycoon and noted polymath. [[Posthumous Character|After his death]], she taxidermied his body, as is the Harley family tradition, and mounted his corpse in the foyer. She is a narcoleptic, and [[Fainting Seer|frequently has visions in her sleep]]. She is currently cared for by Becquerel, her [[Big Friendly Dog|Big Friendly]] [[Big Badass Wolf|Badass]] [[Reality Warper|God Dog]].}}
** And to a lesser extent, Rose Lalonde, what with her [[The Stoic|general stoicism]] and love of psychoanalysis, wizard fanfiction, [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|overly elaborate diction]] and [[Eldritch Abomination|the zoologically dubious]].
** Any of the female trolls would qualify as a
*** There's also [[Team Mom|Kanaya]], who is extremely strange within [[All Trolls Are Different|Troll society]]. Not only can she stand sunlight, but she actually enjoys it; she is one of the only trolls that actually cares about fashion and even makes her own clothes; she famously wields a chainsaw disguised as a tube of lipstick. Even her [[Alien Blood|blood]] is strange, as her particular shade of green is probably rarer than any other troll in the cast save Feferi and {{spoiler|Karkat}}. As it turns out, her role in the trolls' session is analogous to Jade's, so being a strange girl might be a qualifying characteristic for Heroes of Space. {{spoiler|She's actually a [[Our Vampires Are Different|Rainbow Drinker]], which explains a lot of the strangeness.}}
* Jade Sinclair (Generator) of the [[Whateley Universe]]. Petite, of Japanese descent, and looking only about ten even though she is fourteen or so. She is also Jinn Sinclair (it's complicated) who claims to be Jade's dead older sister. She is also a cabbit and a Hello Kitty compact and a living lawn mower blade. Like I said, it's complicated. Even the other members of Team Kimba think she's wacky.
* Penny Polendina of ''[[RWBY]]'', when she first appears toward the end of Volume 1, comes across as profoundly odd. {{spoiler|It turns out that it's because she's a [[Robot Girl]] experiencing the world outside the facility where she was built -- and meeting non-military people -- for the first time. She actually ends up learning from the experience and becoming more human in her behavior by Volume 2.}}
== Western Animation ==
* Mandy of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Growing Up Creepie]]'' has Creepie, an orphan ''[[Raised by Wolves|raised by insects]]''. All things considered, her down to earth attitude is either a flying contrast to her upbringing or a completely logical result.
* ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' fits this trope perfectly, being bright, cheerful and friendly in every situation. The only thing that can get her down is bright colors. The strange thing is that the merchandise on which the show was based kind of gave Ruby a very melancholic feel, but whatever.
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* Pi is a rare male example from ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]].'' He always wears a hat that covers his eyes and seems obsessed with aliens and paranormal.
* [[Lilo and Stitch|Lilo]], whose classmates reject her for being weird...The creepy homemade doll, making voodoo on her ''hula halau''-mates using spoons and pickle jars (''"My friends need to be punished"''), Elvis obsession, and worship of a fish (who apparently controls the weather) don't help her case. Fortunately, Lilo has good friends in a bunch of aliens who came to Earth. And a hovercraft!
** Hell, one could even say that's the main reason none of the islanders give a rats ass about there being a shitload of aliens all over the place. After some of the weird stuff Lilo has gotten into in the past, they are just used to strange shit happening on a regular basis.
** Well, that and they're Hawaiians, whether by birth or by locale, and Hawaiians tend to have "hang loose" embedded in their DNA somewhere.
* Heloise on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. A [[Mad Scientist]] [[Enfante Terrible]] who works for [[Satan]].
* [[Daria]] is pretty strange, and also may be considered an [[Emotionless Girl]].
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