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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': * {{spoiler|Iroh}} pretends to go insane when he's imprisoned, to a rather disturbing effect. He does drop the act for one particularly friendly, kind guard - but when nobody's looking, he's actually {{spoiler|[[Took a Level in Badass|bulking up]] to prepare for his escape.}}
** King Bumi is a poster boy for this trope.
*** King Bumi is a poster boy for this trope. Keep in mind, Bumi is exactly as insane as he appears.; Itit's just that he is [[Crazy Awesome|just as competent as he is crazy.]]
* [[Looney Tunes]]: In "Hare Brush", Elmer Fudd apparently thinks he's a rabbit, while Bugs Bunny (who'd been lured into taking his place in the asylum) is "cured" to think that he's Elmer Fudd. The cartoon ends with Bugs-as-Elmer being hauled off to face tax evasion charges, after which Elmer-as-rabbit [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|tells the audience]], "I may be a screwy wabbit... but ''I'm not going to [[The Alcatraz|Alcatwaz]]''!"
* In season 4 of [[The Venture Brothers]], General Trayster tells Hunter Gathers that his office is trashed because he's been turning into a Hulk following gamma ray therapy for his cancer. {{spoiler|In truth he's well aware that agents Carholder and Doe are trying to [[Gaslighting]] him into thinking this so that the government will think him insane and remove him from OSI leadership, leaving them both in charge. He's been manipulating events so that Gathers will take his place once Doe and Cardholder get exposed as moles.}}
 
 
== [[Real Life]] ==