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== Fanfic ==

* There is a ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]'' fanfic called "[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3259192/1/Waking_Up Waking Up]" in which all the characters slowly discover that all of the fantastic elements of the series ([[Ki Attacks]], [[Martial Arts and Crafts]], Ranma's [[Forced Marriage|engagements]] and Jusenkyo Curses) and even parts of their personalities (Akane's anger, Ranma's ego, Nabiki's love of money) were delusions caused by chemicals the legitimately crazy Kodachi was putting into the town's water supply. They spend part of the story trying to adapt.

 

 

* A storyline in ''[[Fans]]!'' sees the [[Government Conspiracy|F.I.B]] kidnap Shanna Cochran and - reasoning that, as the supposedly least imaginative and most 'mundane' member of the Science Fiction Club, her mind would crack under too much pressure - attempt to convince her that she is imprisoned in a mental hospital and merely hallucinating her admittedly far-fetched adventures in order to get her to turn on her friends, or at least reveal important information about them. Unfortunately for the F.I.B, however, this backfires quite spectacularly; convincing Shanna that she's crazy merely serves to [[The Unfettered|break the self-imposed restraint]] on her imagination that she adopted after her own mother really went crazy, meaning that the now 'crazy', yet [[Crazy Awesome|fiercely imaginative and inventive]], Shanna finds it remarkably easy to outwit her captors, escape, and play a not-insignificant role in thwarting their latest plan.

{{quote|''"The pain clears my head.. and reminds me of something I heard one time... [[Did Not Do the Research|It's impossible to get out of a straitjacket, because it uses the way your bones lock together.]] Of course, some people have escaped by dislocating their own shoulders... But to mutilate yourself, just to escape a straitjacket? While you're still in a locked cell in a holding facility? Why, to do '''THAT''', you'd have to be...stark...raving..."''}}