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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Dragonball Z]] generally implies that the more insane the villain, the more powerful. The series went from the generally sane, but evil Frieza, to Cell, to the unbelievably psychotic that is Majin Buu.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** Also, {{spoiler|Satoko}} doesn't get violent when it is activated.
*** She knocks {{spoiler|Keiichi}} off a bridge in one continuity and kills both {{spoiler|Shmion and herself}} in a [[
*** Don't forget about {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan|her parents]]}}.
** Of course, the main {{spoiler|symptom of Hinamizawa syndrome is extreme paranoia, and when you think somebody is about to kill you, what do you do?}}
* Farfarello of [[Weiss Kreuz]] falls under this, particularly in back story. As a child, he {{spoiler|snapped and killed his whole family, despite apparently being a perfectly normal kid before hand.}}
* Chiri Ktsu of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* Taken to the extreme in [[Soul Eater]]. Insanity, fear, madness, etc. is basically this universe's [[The Virus|Virus]]. You can be infected with insanity, and being insane means that you have the urge to hurt things. By killing humans and eating their souls (which is what insane people do, apparently), one can actually become an Eldritch Abomination. This is how the series' [[Big Bad]] Asura became the Big Bad-- he was a nervous person who succumbed to his fear, and took the life of an innocent human and consumed their soul in order to gain power. (Ironically enough, consuming the soul of a corrupted, insane person in this series has no negative side effects whatsoever.)
* Andrea Cavalcanti/Benedetto in ''[[Gankutsuou]]'' is an effortlessly charming fop who happens to also be a wild-eyed rapist with daddy issues. Best demonstrated when he tries to ''rape'' his fiance Eugenie and suddenly attacks Haydee.
** Also, The Count.
* [[Ax Crazy|Alois Trancy]] in the second season of ''[[
* Akito of ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.
** Also, Ren.
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* [[Deadpool]] becomes more unhinged than usual during the Black Box story arc of ''Cable & Deadpool''. Even though he can't remember it later, it is revealed that {{spoiler|he murdered a terrorist who was living on Cable's island}}. When asked why he did it, he replies that he doesn't know. Since his mind is more out-of-whack than usual, he just killed for no reason.
** However, Deadpool was pointlessly violent since long before he was portrayed as insane.
* Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen (
** Nite Owl notes that, before he goes nuts, Rorshach was actually the ''normal'' one in their little group.
* When Harry Osborn became the third Green Goblin, he was not under influence of the Goblin Serum (though it was later retconned that his father did gave him some), but merely under the influence of drugs and insanity.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Jason, the hockey-mask-wearing psycho from the ''[[Friday the 13th (
** Most slasher movie villains in general are either this or some supernatural thing that's returned for revenge. Unless it's [[Recycled in Space|In Space]].
*** Unless it's a psycho killer [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]], like one of the Jason flicks, one of the Pinhead flicks, ...
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** In the TV miniseries remake ''Stephen King's The Shining'', Jack (played by Steven Weber) is more clearly a nasty person only when he's drunk, an aspect King felt Kubrick's film lacked (in Nicholson's portrayal, Jack seems a bit scary even before he falls off the wagon). Problem is, Weber isn't nearly as frightening. As Kubrick said, when some of his actors complained he was pushing them into unrealistic, over-the-top performances, "Real is good. '''Interesting''' is better."
* In ''[[Love Actually]]'', Laura Linney's character's brother is in a mental hospital. We only see and hear from him briefly, and it seems he has some kind of paranoid disorder (he thinks the nurses are trying to kill him and wants to hire either the Pope or Jon Bon Jovi to perform an exorcism for him). When she visits him, he hauls off and tries to hit her without warning and for no reason. A hospital worker rushes in to stop him and then he's fine again.
* In ''[[Miracle
** Subverted, in that not only is he harmless, well...
* [[Psycho|Norman Bates]], who seems harmlessly socially awkward at first, and is gradually revealed to be a {{spoiler|dissociating murderer}}.
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** The subversional ones are actually truer to life; the spoilered example is sedate, but utterly detached from reality, and occasionally wanders a bit. Lockhart doesn't just get treated like an overexcited child, he ''behaves'' like one as well; he's aware that he seems to be incredibly famous, but has no idea why, and the whole thing is an exciting mystery to him.
* Peeta in ''[[The Hunger Games|Mockingjay]]'' when he is [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. {{spoiler|The first thing he does when he sees Katniss is try to strangle her}}. It is [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that {{spoiler|the brainwashing was specifically done to turn him against Katniss and make him want to do violent things to her}}.
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
* After the main character of [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]] goes crazy trying to unlock the secrets of his student's perpetual motion machine, he ends up building a death ray. Violence ensues.
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** The Reavers are also a trope. "Bushwhacked" gives us the descent of someone exposed to their brand of madness (revealed in the movie to be {{spoiler|the Pax they were exposed to, which subverts the trope some 99% of the time where [[Long Title|Insane Equals So Apathetic You Dehydrate To Death Because You Just Don't Feel Like Getting A Drink Of Water]]}}).
* Alpha from ''[[Dollhouse]]'' appears to be this trope - the composite event that gave him a whole host of imprinted personalities made him into an insane genius and also a psychopathic killer. {{spoiler|Actually an aversion, as his original personality was ''already'' psychopathic before the composite event, and by the time of Epitaph Two has developed a non-insane personality based on all of his component personalities, much like Echo.}}
* In the ''[[
* ''[[I, Claudius]]'' manages to subvert this despite featuring the actual Caligula. His violent / psychopathic tendencies are explicitly shown NOT to follow from his psychotic delusions: he's a killer from childhood, but doesn't go mad until after he becomes Emperor years later. Livia and other murderous characters are described as "mad" by other characters, but are not shown as irrational - even Nero, explicitly called "as mad as... Caligula", is clearly nothing of the kind.
* Insanity in ''[[Star Trek]]''-land seems to consist of attacking people, yelling, having bulging eyes and sweating a lot. And being played by Morgan Woodward.
* Averted in ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', where Reid points out that the insane are less likely to be violent, but that when they ''are'', it's usually a lot worse than normal violence.
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** Of course, it's a shorter list the number of criminals on [[Criminal Minds]] who ''aren't'' mentally ill, and as it's almost never pointed out the majority of them are non-violent, this comes off a bit flat to some.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[The Closer]]''- the father of a disorganized schizophrenic confessed to a murder even ''he'' thought his son had committed, when in fact the son had merely discovered the body.
* In ''[[
* In [[Six Feet Under]], the one character who is bipolar is also psychopathic and tries to carve off the tattoo on his sister's back, after slicing off his own.
* There's quite a few characters in ''[[Oz]]'' that fall under this.
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** Also the spell Call Forth the Beast in the Heroes of Horror book. The next time the target goes to sleep, they immediately wake up with a bloodthirsty, psychotic attitude with the sole goal of as much violence and bloodshed as possible. After the spell wears off they fall back asleep and wake up with no memory of what happened.
** In 4E, there is a whole of powers that force your enemies to attack each other; most have "madness" or some synonym thereof right in the title.
* The Marauders from [[Mage: The
== Toys ==
* Vezon from ''[[Bionicle]]'' basically has [[New Powers
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** Though there ''are'' others who you never fight, such as the guy who just walks in a straight line, forever.
* Subversion in ''[[Scribblenauts]]''. Entering the word "Psycho" spawns a girl with a knife, but like any neutral NPC, she only attacks when frightened and holding a weapon.
* Splicers from ''[[
** Addiction to ADAM also helps.
** This is disturbingly averted in ''Bioshock 2'' where the player can find some splicers who do not attack and just sit there, rocking back and forth.
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* In [[American McGee's Alice]], the whole plot of the game is about violently abusing and protecting yourself from the mutated enemies seen as mere small cartoons in the Disney movie.
** The second game is an aversion. Alice is violent in her fantasies but almost completely helpless in real life. The only time she actually hurts someone, the player would too if he could.
* Demon Lord Ghirahim from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]''. He's [[Ax Crazy]] and has unabashed bloodlust, first promising to beat Link within an inch of his life, then burn him alive, and then finally torture him until he's deafened by his own screams.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* A variation appears in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' with those who play the game, especially since many are eventually driven insane, if they didn't start out that way. [[Justified Trope|By necessity]], "players" are distrustful and hostile towards everyone else, as they aim to be the winner and [[Sole Survivor]], and many attack all other people on sight. Sometimes this verges on [[Chaotic Stupid]] behaviour.
* When Freeze Man from ''[[In
* Both averted and played straight in ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]''. Most agents are a little crazy, but those who have real-world disorders aren't any more violent than anybody else (which, granted, isn't saying much when it's a PPC agent you're talking about). However, insanity induced by contact with too much horrible fan fiction does occasionally make agents find themselves a flamethrower and start burning things.
* Flippy of ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.
* Common in the [[Darker and Edgier|grimdark]] Tumblr blogs of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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* Donald Duck in [[Fun and Fancy Free|Mickey and the Beanstalk]], shown in the trope picture, having a hunger-induced breakdown and attempting to kill their cow so he, Mickey and Goofy can eat.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]:'' Azula has always had a penchant for violence, but she was most likely to only use it when it was most needed, to dire effect - an apt comparison to the trick for lightningbending. However, when she [[Villainous Breakdown|goes round the bend,]] her sadism and violence rocket the hell up. But on the realistic side, she gets considerably less effective when insane. It's doubtful the heroes could have defeated her if she'd stayed sane.
* Interestingly, this is often subverted in ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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