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* In ''Captain Britain,'' the precognitive Cobweb goes mad when she makes the mistake of looking into the very near future, which has just been invaded by a cybernetic nightmare from another dimension and is steadily being dominated by an insane [[Reality Warper|reality-warping]] Prime Minister by the name of Mad Jim Jaspers. Naturally, after puking her guts out and mumbling a few [[Mad Oracle|garbled prophecies]], she tries to swallow her tongue.

** Captain Britain himself had his own brush with this trope when he was first confronted with a supernatural occurrence he couldn't [[Flat Earth Atheist|dismiss or explain away]] - in this case, extradimensional beings contacting him in the middle of a Trans-Atlantic flight. He promptly freaked out and jumped out of the plane. Note that at this point in time, Brian got his powers from an amulet and scepter given to him by Merlin and Arthur. ([[Knights Of The Round Table|Yes, them]]). This has been [[Retcon|retconned]] at some point to Brian getting his brains rattled by a psychic attack and jumping to protect the plane's passengers (At this point he couldn't fly yet).

* One issue of ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' features a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] priest who gets into the habit of calling the police when teenagers start confessing their misdeeds to him- and at one point, he goes so far as to physically assault a girl who confessed to having sex with her brother. And then the Devil shows up; after letting him know how badly the teenagers have suffered, he ushers the priest back into the confessional and lets him hear ''his'' confession. Minutes later, the priest burns the church to the ground; from then on, he's straight-up [[Ax Crazy]], murdering people from one end of the country to the next, culiminating in his attempt to rape a young John Constantine- which results in him getting a razorblade wedged in his face, being arrested, and committed to an asylum. After being released over twenty years later, he bumps into Constantine again at a local church; by now completely lucid, he explains everything, then [[Eye Scream|jams a pencil in either eye]] and [[Driven to Suicide|headbutts the pew in front of him.]]

** And, of course, John himself was pretty horribly traumatized by what happened in Newcastle in '79, and had to go in and out of institutions for several years afterword.

* ''[[Hunter: The Reckoning (Tabletop Game)|Hunter: The Reckoning]]'': You are a normal guy who realizes that humanity is just the playthings of vampires, werewolves, fairies, zombies, etc, and always has been since the dawn of time. Of course, the voices in your head telling you this is the truth doesn't exactly help.

* [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/chk/unspeakable The Unspeakable], from the ''[[Magic the Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]'' Kamigawa block vignettes.

** Then there's [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=29721 Obsessive Search].

*** Which is from the set cal let '''Torment'''... and has the keyword ability Madness...

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