Ocean Madness: Difference between revisions

 

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* Hikari and Ken from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' go mad (or at least have very bad [[Freak-Out|FreakOuts]]) whenever they return to the Dark Ocean

** Though it's less from the usual reasons, and more because they basically stumbled into a [[Cosmic Horror Story]].

* In the [[Omake]] episode of ''[[Tsukuyomi Moon Phase|Moon Phase]]'', Seiji Mido has gone completely mad from being trapped out at sea for several weeks. Though he could be considered the [[Only Sane Man]], as everyone else is completely blase at their house being intact and floating in the middle of the ocean (the giant cork just has to be left alone).

 

== Film ==

* Results in a [[Disney Acid Sequence|particularly delirious]] musical number in ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]''.

{{quote|We've got Cabin Fever!

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'' is essentially about a crazy old man accosting a random guy in the street and making him listen to an extremely gruesome experience of Ocean Madness.

** Hopefully. Because if he ''was'' actually sane when he saw [[Nightmare Fuel|all that stuff out there]]...

* Captain Wolf Larson, in Jack London's novel ''[[The Sea Wolf]]'', starts off as a sadistic [[Nietzsche Wannabe]], but degenerates into a full-blown psychopath with a [[Death Seeker|death wish]].

* From ''[[Nation]]'': "''Calenture''...meant a special kind of madness...sailors got [it] when they'd been becalmed at sea for too long. They'd look over the side and see, instead of the ocean, cool green fields. They'd leap down into them and drown." Although, since it's [[Complete Monster|First Mate Cox]] doing the explaining there, it's entirely possible that he [[Kick the Dog|pushed them in himself]].

* Likely happened to Pi in ''[[Life of Pi]]'', becoming most if not all of the conflict in the story.

* Inverted in John Masefield's "Sea-Fever":

And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking. }}

 

* In the TV-movie of ''Noah's Ark'', after the rain ends, the ark drifts for weeks across a sun-drenched and scientifically impossibly ''dead calm'' sea, and Noah and his sons and daughters-in-law all gradually go around the bend. However, Noah's ''wife'', being the Mommeee, is supposed to be an infinite source of self-sacrificing nurturance, so when ''she'' starts to crack, all the other characters stare at her in shocked amazement and suddenly go sane again.

* On ''[[Lost]]'' the crew of the freighter is slowly going mad while anchored near the Island. However, the main cause is the time-twisting effect of the Island rather than just being at sea.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The background for the villain Cannibal from the Dark [[Champions]] sourcebook ''Murder's Row'' involves him going mad while stranded on the ocean in a lifeboat and discvering he has [[I Am a Humanitarian|taste for human flesh...]]

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer, Bart, Ned and Todd start to succumb to this after they get stranded out at sea in a raft.

* The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Futurama]]'', despite this instance actually being a [[Cassandra Truth]]. When the crew gets stranded underwater, Fry sees a mermaid, resulting in everyone brushing it off as ocean madness. However, Fry really ''did'' see a mermaid, and no one actually goes mad.

 

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[[Category:Madness Tropes]]

[[Category:Instant Index, Just Add Water]]

[[Category:Tropes At Sea]]