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Or it could possibly relate the shocking sensation of electricity that would cause a person to twitch and how the ''typical'' psychotic person twitches. It's then just A+B=C+B=D
Despite this, it is '''not''' a case of [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]. There are still many heroes and good characters that have lightning abilities. It seems to be one of those "double-edged sword" powers where it can help people just as much as it can harm them, but the great potential for destruction is still there and may serve to enforce how careful they need to be.
Compare [[Pyromaniac]], [[Ride the Lightning]].
The moral- and personality-neutral trope is [[Shock and Awe]]. Contrast [[An Ice Person]] and [[Playing With Fire]], the other two elements that form the [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]] trio.
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* She doesn't actually have electrical ''powers'', but Shion Sonozaki from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' might still count with her, um, ''enthusiastic'' taser usage.
* If we are talking tazers then [[The World God Only Knows]]' Kanon Nakagawa should come to mind: As a result of her neurosis, she, in her early stages, zaps Keima when ever he crushes her little self-esteem by ignoring her. When she is that way she is amazingly creepy.
* [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Misaka WORST]]. Being the youngest (and at the same time oldest) Misaka clone, her older sisters maybe a Tsundere letting off a lot of steam, a network of tenthousand military trained [[Rei Ayanami Expy|Rei Ayanami]] [[Stealth Pun|Clones]] and the most adorable [[Morality Pet]] that has crossed the screen since [[Inuyasha|Rin]], but she is so far the only one that managed to make [[Heroic Sociopath|Accele]][[
** Her older, but younger sister - and the original - Mikoto Misaka is in regards to main character Kamijou Touma very… zap-happy. Granted, it's because he can take nearly anything, but when you get improvised sand-saws, electro-shocks, railgun bullets and thunderstorms summoned upon you, you really start wondering if this is just [[Tsundere]] or [[Yandere|manic obsession and sadism]].
* Similar to the above, taser-wielding "knight" and title character Ame Ochibana of ''[[Denpa Teki Na Kanojo (Light Novel)|Denpa Teki Na Kanojo]]'', who, while not malicious, [[Strange Girl|clearly has a few screws loose]].
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* Sasuke from ''[[Naruto]]'' after his [[Face Heel Turn]].
* Pikachu when possessed by the Blue Orb in the ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime.
* If the taser thing is anything to go by, then [[The World God Only Knows|Kanon]] would fall under this as well. Bonus points for both [[Dual
* Spooky Electric, one of the [[Artificial Human|synthetic humans]] of the [[Ancient Conspiracy|Towa Organization]] in [[Boogiepop Series]] has power over electricity. Aside from being able to taze people with touch, he can also control electronics ''and'' brainwash people by subtly altering their brainwaves.
* Megatron of ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]''.
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** In the Threeboot Legion, Mekt is still crazy, but this time it's because, being a solo birth on a planet of twins, he's missing out on a bond shared by everyone else he knows, and this naturally leads to depression. {{spoiler|He gets over it when he realizes he owes it to the Wanderers not to die}}, but he's still got anger issues.
** And Storm Boy, whose non-natural powers kept him from being accepted into the Legion. He's since had over 75 separate operations to increase the voltage of his bolts and also to see what they can do with his face.
* Subverted in ''[[Top Ten]]'', whose character Shock-Headed Peter is a [[Fantastic Racism|robot hater]], but definitely NOT psychotic. He also [[
* Averted with Zafir, one of the few costumed enemies of the "original" Paperinik. She is a violent criminal, but not psychotic in the least.
* Superman villain Livewire's powers [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|affected her brain]], kicking her natural [[Attention Whore]] tendencies [[Up to Eleven]]. Superman eventually fixed this by giving her one of his old containment suits from [[Dork Age|that time he was an]] [[Energy Being]], facilitating a [[Heel Face Turn]].
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* Sith Lords in ''[[Star Wars]]'', most notably, Emperor Palpatine.
* Horace Pinker, [[Serial Killer]] who made a [[Deal With the Devil]], in ''[[Shocker]]''. The movie is only otherwise notable as it starred [[Hey
* M. Bison in the ''[[Street Fighter (Film)|Street Fighter]]'' movie has these vibes. [[A God Am I|FOR I BEHELD SATAN AS HE FELL FROM HEAVEN...]][[Large Ham|LIKE LIIIIGHTNIIIING!!!]]
* ''[[Prison (Film)|Prison]]'' revolves around an electrically charged ghost who wants revenge.
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** It's debatable whether he gets that violent towards Raikov, though. We get a couple good long looks at him scantily clad and he seems just fine. She just manages to piss him off.
** Still, there's a reason his boss music is named: "Clash With Evil Personified." Hell, halfway through the game he takes one of his own people he believes to be a traitor and rather than interrogate him, stuffs him in an oil drum and beats him death while he's inside it.
* Averted in ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''. You'd expect this to happen to Raiden, [[The Obi
** Well, there's the whole "defend Earthrealm or I'm going to fucking kill you" shtick he adopts...
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'': Sheena Fujibayashi failed to form a pact with the summon spirit of Lightning in her backstory and it flips out and causes much destruction, as opposed to the other elemental summon spirits who just didn't give you the pact and left.
** Problem was that Volt didn't speak English. Or Tethe'allan. But mainly English. Volt speaks a language few other characters speak in the game and interprets nearly everything as a threat.
** There's also Kvar, the electricity-based [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Grand Cardinal]], who is the most sadistic of the lot and also {{spoiler|responsible for the death of Lloyd's mother}}.
** And the other lightning-user, [[Well
* Lightning is the element of choice for Hasta, the resident [[Blood Knight/Psycho For Hire|Psycho For Hire]] of ''[[Tales of Innocence]]''.
* Shock Treament, a minor [[NPC]] from ''[[City of Heroes]]'' was insane before the ECT. Now, she's insane ''with'' powers.
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* As the article quote implies, ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' use this trope in the fourth game, with Lightning spells being within the domain of Chaos magic, the "hey, let's burn the world to ashes" spell school.
** Which is an association inherited from Magic: The Gathering, as the schools in Heroes IV are equivalent to the five colours in Magic. Master of Magic has the same thing (with lightning spells coming, again, from the Chaos school) with both Master of Magic and Heroes IV also subverting the trope by having the lightning-using creatures belonging to each game's equivalent to M:TG's blue magic.
* The users of Tesla weapons in the ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' series. Especially the Shock Trooper from the original Red Alert, who would declaim deranged [[Bond One
** Soviet commander Moskvin from Red Alert 3 is a former Tesla Trooper, and tends to be very aggressive and erratic, with unpredictable mood swings.
* Although lacking actual superpowers, {{spoiler|Manfred von Karma and his infamous stun gun scene}} from ''[[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]'' probably counts.
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* The midget torturer in ''[[Wet]]'' is pretty clearly one of these, given his [[Electric Torture|choice of torture equipment,]] and it's apparently not his only "issue"...after capturing Rubi, Sorrell orders him to "finish her off...then you can do whatever you want with her."
* [[Evil Old Folks|The Matron]], one of your henchmen in ''[[Evil Genius]]'', is a sweet, grandmotherly old lady with a morning-star and a penchant for electro-shock therapy. During her time as a 'carer' in a Swiss mental institute, she'd administrate her torture until either the fuses were about to blow or the arthritis in her hands started to flare up. It was only uncovered when the electricity board decided to check on why a small village in the mountains was sucking up more juice than Zurich.
* Averted completely in [[Fragile Dreams]]: The [[Big Bad]], a [[Mad Scientist]] ghost named Shin, has [[Shock and Awe|electrokinesis]] as part of his [[Psychic Powers]]. He, however, is [[The Stoic]], and never acts sadistically or without purpose. He also seems quite sane, except during his "words are meaningless" rants. {{spoiler|Once you discover [[Motive Rant|what he means by that]], it's hard [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|not to feel for him]].}}
* [[City of Heroes|Shock Treatment]]. Electric, all around crazy, and at least once she will turn on you seemingly against her will. As her name implies, an excess of shock therapy was the source of her powers.
** Averted however with the signature character Synapse. Although rather hyper (the electric powers also gave him super speed), he seems quite sane. Interestingly, he got his powers in pretty much the same way as Shock Treatment.
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* Sparky from [[Lilo and Stitch The Series]] is a subversion of this trope- although he starts out as a destruction-happy monster, he is rehabilitated and put to constructive ends, such as powering an abandoned lighthouse.
* In [[WITCH (Animation)|WITCH]] Quintessence manifests itself as lightning, and Nerissa, wielder of this power since her days as a Guardian, went corrupted by her power and insane, in contrast to Will, her successor as a Guardian and wielder of the same power who does her utmost to NOT end like her.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]: [[Evil God|Nightmare Moon]] zapped three [[Praetorian Guard|Royal Guards]] when they [[Suicidal Overconfidence|tried to apprehend her]]. Then she proceeded to bring [[The Night That Never Ends]], possibly [[Fridge Horror|dooming all of Equestria in the process]].
== Real Life ==
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''[[Complete Monster|These people]] [[Just for Pun|have gone ec-static]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|with the powers they've conducted,]] [[Ax Crazy|aren't exactly down-to-earth]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|and may get a jolt out of doing]] [[Moral Event Horizon|revolting things.]] [[All Blue Entry|Indeed, sometimes they]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] [[For the Evulz|for a simple surge of enjoyment,]] [[Multiple Reference Pun|and as such should never be left in charge.]] [[Hurricane of Puns|Notably, most of them go with the current, do watt they do best and sometimes,]] [[Start of Darkness|with a shocking past from their childhood's ohms as the driving spark,]] [[Pungeon Master|they run down the wire and]] [[Deadly Euphemism|pull the plug]] [[And Your Little Dog, Too|on a few puppies.]] [[Stealth Pun|Suffuse to say,]] [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|their power has corrupted them]] [[Brought Down to Normal|and is reason enough to have them grounded for life]] [[Karmic Death|and/or put in the chair.]]''
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