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{{quote|''"There's always that one guy on the team too, he was a last minute replacement. He's not one of the original gang.<br />
''But one of the other guys vouches for him. 'No, no, dude... trust me, this guy's cool. He's solid and he's cool.' But he's not cool, is he? He doesn't really say anything ever, right?<br />
''He just stands there, looks cool... and then at one point he might be like... 'Let's kill these bitches.'"''|'''Dane Cook'''}}
 
Getting along with a group of people in everyday life is hard, working together with a group of people under stressful situations can be downright murder.
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A group of survivors is rarely written as a cohesive group, or if they are, there's one little catch. One of them is emotionally fragile, and given the right situation, will have a psychotic breakdown, usually due to crossing the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. So now the group of survivors has to be wary of not only external threats, but an internal one as well, from someone who could possibly slaughter everyone in the group without knowing it. This character isn't (normally) evil, but they are a convenient obstacle for the protagonists. Usually, there's a tough decision on whether or not to kill the person in question. When it's someone whom you least expect to flip out, the trope becomes that much more chilling.
 
Could be a result of a [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|maddening revelation]].
 
Contrast with [[Token Evil Teammate]], Could also overlap with [[A House Divided]], and [[Zombie Infectee]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Gundam ZZ]]'' has Elpeo Puru. Normally she's a [[Genki Girl|hyperactive young girl]] with a sisterly attachment to Judau, but sometimes her obsession with him can go a bit... far. {{spoiler|The worst case was when she tried to kill Leina, seeing her as a rival for Judau's brotherly affections. Judau manages to stop this and calm her down, and Puru is heartbroken over Leina's supposed death a short time later.}}
 
== Comic Books ==
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** While he can be considered psychotic, he doesn't count. He is a trusted member of the team; and doesn't crack under pressure. It is the American astronaut who nobody knows, that is the problem. All the others have worked together for many years on the oil rig.
*** Except they didn't trust him to detonate the nuke.
* Quentin from ''[[Cube (Film)|Cube]]''.
* Goke from ''[[The Zombie Diaries]]'', but he may have always been nuts.
* Arguably Andre from [[Zack Snyder]]'s ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead 2004]]''.
* Blair from John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]''. Although there's a good chance he was right to act so crazy. At first, anyway.
* Ridley from ''[[Diary of the Dead (Film)|Diary of the Dead]]''.
* ''[[Panic Room]]'' - Raoul. Things would really have been a lot better if Junior hadn't gotten him involved.
* Ian from ''[[Final Destination (Film)|Final Destination]] 3''.
* Pvt. Miguel Salazar from ''[[Day of the Dead (Film)|Day of the Dead]]''.
** Arguably Capt. Rhodes, although he's the most practical, and the only one that makes any sense.
** Logan as well.
* Harlan Ogilvy from Spielberg's ''[[War of the Worlds]]''.
* Pinbacker from Danny Boyle's ''[[Sunshine (Filmfilm)|Sunshine]]'', {{spoiler|who lost his marbles and killed his crew members}}.
* Xavier from ''[[Saw (Film)|Saw]] II''.
* Ash from ''[[Alien]]''.
* {{spoiler|Corporal Gallo}} from ''[[Pandorum]]''.
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* Arfy from ''[[Catch-22]]''.
* Craig Toomy in [[Stephen King|Stephen King's]] ''[[The Langoliers]].'' He's already bubbling on the verge of a breakdown before the story heats up, but he's pushed over the edge by the [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|maddening revelation]] that {{spoiler|the stale-time-eating Langoliers he heard stories about in his youth are real.}}
 
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Theater ==
 
* In [[Bat Boy: theThe Musical]], {{spoiler|Dr. Parker's already somewhat loose grip on reality is shattered when his wife takes Edgar's side over his, and he begins killing people and framing Edgar for the crimes.}}
 
== Video Games ==
 
* Although it's hard to say for sure under all the [[Unreliable Narrator]] issues and [[Mind Screw]], Maria in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' is definitely a little unbalanced. It's particularly clear in the first and fourth arcs; in the former, she doesn't react at all to the gory murders, and in the latter, she {{spoiler|kills (or at least appears to kill) her mother over and over and over in the meta-world.}}
* The [9]th Man of ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Visual Novel)|Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors]]'' splits in as soon as the Nonary Game begins. He takes Clover hostage with a knife, and demands for their co-operation in him entering a door. By doing this, though, he breaks the rules of the game and dies horribly.
** Not only him, but {{spoiler|Ace, panicking after [[The Reveal]], and Clover, who goes [[Ax Crazy]] after her [[Sanity Slippage]] of losing her brother.}}
* In [[Republic Commando]] Scorch worries that Sev may be one of these in one of the loading screens:
{{quote| '''Scorch:''' Boss, Keep an eye on Sev. He's been talking in his sleep lately, and I gotta tell you... it's scary stuff. Very scary stuff.}}
* [[Byronic Hero|Anders]] of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', due to being a [[Demonic Possession|demonically possessed]] [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]].
* In a reference to Ash from ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Alien]]'', above, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Darth]] in Cube's chapter of ''[[Live a Live]]''. {{spoiler|He turns out to be not only a good guy, but one of only two human survivors.}}
 
== Webcomics ==
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