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* ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (and its film adaptation) is practically the [[Trope Maker]].
** If you're looking at McMurphy's side; on Chief Bromden's side it's almost a subversion.
* [[Fredric Brown]]'s "Come and Go Mad" involves a character who had once [[Napoleon Delusion|believed he was Napoleon]] being returned to an asylum to uncover a conspiracy. In fact, he really ''was'' Napoleon, having been body-swapped by the real conspirators—red and black ''ants'' who have secretly manipulated all of human history. He [[Go Mad
** Possibly a subtle case of [[Unreliable Narrator]], given the premise as described.
* ''[[Shutter Island]]'' (and its film adaptation) is based on this premise. {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|Or is it?]]}}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* When Helen {{spoiler|breaks up with Dave}}, in ''[[Narbonic]]'', she actually remarks "You don't want to go among mad people." This refers of course to herself and her colleagues. {{spoiler|1=Ironically, after reading the quote in context, specifically the page quote, [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10983 Dave himself goes mad], exactly what Helen was trying to prevent by breaking up with him.}}
** More accurately, she was revealing {{spoiler|to him that he wasn't the one sane person in the crazy house that he thought he was - he was an emerging Mad Scientist who Helen had been studying for years to try and nail down what made Mad Scientists mad. When the original context for the quote is revealed, everything suddenly falls into place for him, and he hyper-calmly embraces his madness and almost supernatural technical skills.}} Although {{spoiler|he cracks and goes a bit Destroy The World shortly afterwards, when he's been shot in the head and killed.}}
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