Sanity Slippage: Difference between revisions

** One particularly notable incident from ''[[Code Geass]]'' is when {{spoiler|Nina goes full on [[Yandere (disambiguation)]], to the point of showing up with a nuke to kill Zero, even though it would likely take everyone around with it, even her friends. She sounded beyond unhinged at the time, wild-eyed and shouting with grief and anger. Thankfully, it was defective...but then Nina switched to working on [[Applied Phlebotinum]] [[Fantastic Nuke|fantastic nukes.]] Oy.}}

** ''End of Evangelion'' decides to do away with the incremental slips and jumps right off the edge thanks to [[Eldritch Abomination|the ritual to awaken Lilith]] leaving [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|Shinji a shrieking]] [[Freak-Out|broken mess]].

* [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Kaede]] from ''[[SHUFFLE!]]''. In the anime version, anyway.

* Mima and Rumi of ''[[Perfect Blue]]'' both experience this. Mima gets better but Rumi [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|doesn't]].

* Koharu Mutsuki ''[[Koharu no Hibi]]'' acts more [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] as the story progresses as a result of her love for Akira.

** Notably, Knives didn't get this. Knives went promptly and utterly over to [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|mad from the revelation]], and acted like he'd blocked it out and was perfectly okay right up until enacting Plan [[Kill All Humans]].

* ''[[Ultimate SpiderWoman: Change With the Light]]'': Jack O'Lantern, the [[Arch Enemy]] of [[Ultimate SpiderWoman|Spider-Woman]], commits increasingly violent and destructive crimes as the series progresses. He goes from robbing banks to taking people hostage to going on killing sprees to orchestrating a bloody city-wide [[Mob War]]. Even in jail, we see him fantasizing about carving up human heads the way people do Halloween pumpkins. What's unusual is that Jack always had these sadistic urges-the Sanity Slippage comes from the escalating nature of his crimes.

* [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Austria/Roderich Edelstein]] in the ''[[Nineteen Eighty Three1983 Doomsday Stories]]'' is portrayed for the most part as undergoing through this. His obsession in finding out [[Hope Spot|whether Hungary survived]] [[World War III|Doomsday]] grows increasingly desperate (and irrepressible) over time to the point that others eventually start wondering if he's gone delusional from grief. {{spoiler|He doesn't.}} It's also mentioned to have happened as well with Romano (hijacked by [[The Mafia]] as his brother's successor) and Poland (having his personality shattered).

* Zac Hobson in ''[[The Quiet Earth (film)|The Quiet Earth]]'' begins suffering this when he realises that he may very well be the last human being alive. After the [[Good Times Montage]], he begins dressing in women's clothes; he fills his garden with cardboard cutouts of celebrities; he fires his shotgun wildly at televisions; he declares himself President of the World and gives his [[New Era Speech|inaugural address]] to the cutouts. [[It Got Worse|And then the power goes out]], leaving Zac standing on his balcony, in total darkness and utterly insane. He gets [[Bored with Insanity|better]].

* [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Alex Forrest]] in ''[[Fatal Attraction (film)|Fatal Attraction]]'' grows increasingly unhinged the more Dan Gallagher tries to distance himself from her, until she reaches the point where she's willing to boil his daughter's bunny in the pressure cooker, kidnap her, and then try to knife his wife to death.

** Joy: {{spoiler|a meek girl with self-image problems, using her intelligence to get to power and ending a [[Knight Templar]]. Then she realises that she could actually have a boyfriend and it drives her completely [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] over a couple of chapters.}}

** Michael, the most notable, being the narrator: over a couple of chapters {{spoiler|he suffers severe head trauma, discovers alcohol, discovers that the girl of his dreams is a slut and what's worse, she only started an affair with him to get back at his brother... he starts hearing voices, having memory gaps...}} By the end of the story he is so broken, that when he discovers what {{spoiler|he is now a boyfriend to a [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] and they just murdered his ex in cold blood }}, he decides to just roll with it.

* A daily occurrence in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''; living in an endlessly terrible [[Crapsack World]] will do that. Witches/psykers are especially vulnerable to Slippage, thanks to the source of their powers being the home of [[The Legions of Hell]].

* ''[[Devil Survivor|Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor]]'' has an odd example of an ''[[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|AI]]'' apparently undergoing this. [[Mad Oracle|The Laplace Mail]] starts out giving news from the future, but as the game wears on (and the protagonists [[Screw Destiny|repeatedly prevent its predictions from coming true]]), it starts to get glitchier and glitchier, first capitalizing random letters and eventually adding in weird symbols in place of them, changing its "Have a nice day" ending to "Have a nice ''death''", and finally spitting out an error message and discontinuing all together.

* Jack from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. He started off as a pretty normal guy, then he briefly got pulled into a [[Dark World]] and saw some ''very'' unpleasant things. Since then he became increasingly antisocial, paranoid (at one point he starves himself because he's convinced the Court has laced his food with nanobots to track him) and amoral (compare his treatment of the Laser Cows to his treatment of the Guard Robot). [[mediaMedia:Jack Progress 7447.jpg|Heck, even his appearance became worse over time.]] Fortunately, now that {{spoiler|the whitelegs is out of his head,}} he's gotten almost back to normal. Oh, and {{spoiler|[[The Cuckoolander Was Right|he was right about the food]].}}

* The [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Let's Play) Sonic 2006|epic LP]] of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 (video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' by [[Pokecapn]], Medibot, Kung-Fu Jesus, IlluminatusVespucci and John Condit. They played the entire game in less than two days, playing almost non-stop, with only one of them sleeping at any point. Most involved are mildly [[Cloudcuckoolander]]-ish to begin with, but as the game progresses, their commentary is filled more and more with non-sequiturs and [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]]. A quarter of the way through, they've ordered and consumed copious amounts of General Tso's chicken because it's "full of ideas" (and thus, eating the chicken will ''give them'' ideas. It makes perfect sense!). Halfway through, one of them ironically blares out an a cappella version of [[Mega Man (video game)|Flashman's theme]] at random moments. Three quarters of the way through, they [[That One Level|get stuck in the last level]], and over the two hours it takes them to beat the level, they can be heard cycling through the [[Five Stages of Grief]] (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance). By the end, one of them is reciting song lyrics in Shatner-esque spoken-word renditions, including "Rocketman", "Fast Car", and finally "[[Michael Jackson|Thriller]]" over the final boss fight. When combined with the slow, melancholic choiral music used in the later stages, it borders on [[Tear Jerker|being strangely touching]], depending on your mood.

* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. Buzz ''really'' doesn't take realizing he's a toy well.

** In "Best Night Ever", [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] snaps at the Grand Galloping Gala due to all of the animals running in fear from her. After her increasingly desperate methods fail, she goes into full blown [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] mode, unleashing animal-based chaos with the line [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwp60eYuie0 "You're... going to LOVE MEEEE!"].

** [[Adorkable|Twilight Sparkle]] goes through a complete psychotic break in "Lesson Zero". Convinced that she's about to fail her duty to Princess Celestia, her mane goes disheveled, her teeth grind, her eyes becoming unfocused, she [[TalkingInner to ThemselfDialogue|talks to herself]], and she starts [[Teleport Spam|teleporting at random]] while undergoing a complete nervous breakdown, culminating in an (unintended) mass hypnosis that requires the Princess herself to intervene, furious at her student abusing her powers. .

* Though he starts out stable, Dib's sanity eventually starts to slip after his attempts to expose [[Invader Zim]] for the alien menace he is go unsucessfulunsuccessful for the umpteenth time.

** Extreme stress can also cause illusions,purely which differ fromvisual hallucinations in that they're purely visual, and the sufferer ''knows'' they're not real. The person ''knows'' the walls aren't melting, the lamp isn't flickering, there aren't any kaleidoscope patterns spinning through the air. But they're seeing it all anyway and they ''can't make it stop''. The patterns persist even with their eyes closed. Their brain isn't functioning properly and ''they know it'', but there's nothing they can do about it. No amount of rationalizing about how all those unsettling things aren't really happening will make it go away. [[And I Must Scream|Imagine knowing that you're standing right on the precipice of insanity and being unable to stop yourself from taking that first step down]].