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''"You must be," said the Cat, "or you would not have come [[World of Chaos|here]]."''|'''[[Lewis Carroll]]''', ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''}}
It may be some [[Cloudcuckoolander|quirky ideas]], the meddling of a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] or other villain, having [[Only Sane Man|noticed something]] [[Invisible to Normals]], an attempt to dodge jail by getting a jury to call [[Insanity Defense]], or just a good old fashioned screw-up, but somehow a reasonably sane character undergoes severe therapy, often in an [[Bedlam House|asylum]].
Despite their relative normality, they struggle to convince the therapists of the fact. And the more they struggle, the closer they get to lunacy itself, [[Fisher Kingdom|sometimes becoming indistinguishable from the others around them.]]
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Professor Milo from the [[DCU]] is supposed to have been committed to Arkham Asylum while under the influence of madness gas, and then failed to convince the wardens he was sane.
** At least two other [[Batman]] stories have used the same idea; in ''Batman Villains: Secret Files And Origins'' a man accused of murdering his family is locked in Arkham as an excuse for the story to give us a tour of the place, and Dr. Arkham gets the news that he was innocent just as he goes [[Ax Crazy]]. In ''[[
** Actually, it's a fairly accepted fact that if you aren't crazy going into Arkham, you're sure as hell crazy coming out.
* Todd Casil, from the ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' Spinoff ''Squee!'' was sent to an insane asylum by the end of his series, despite being one of the few sane characters ever presented in the comic. It is implied he quickly escaped somehow, however.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Second Sight]]'', the protagonist (and the [[Love Interest]]) is drugged to make them appear insane and loocked away to keep them from revealing a conspiracy (as they have [[Psychic Powers]]). Luckily they get better after the drugs have worn off. Unlike many uses of this trope at least one psychiatrist seems angry with the way the protagonist is treated (albeit because the drug used is experimental having been tested on monkeys, rather than actually believing that they're really sane) and can be heard complaining to the orderlies about it.
* In ''[[Sanitarium (video game)|Sanitarium]]'' the [[Player Character]] starts in the titular asylum, even though he may not be quite insane.
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