With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Difference between revisions

** Knux's dad Locke, obsessed with the prophecies surrounding his son, genetically engineered himself and infused Knux' egg with energy from the Master Emerald in an attempt to fulfill those prophecies. They're more or less estranged, now, because of this.

** Knux himself isn't safe from this, having recently appropriated Dimitri's mantle of Enerjak to avenge his race's decimation at Eggman's hand, only to quickly degenerate into "technology = evil" and attempt to wipe out all cybernetics from the planet, including those of the Dark Legion and his own girlfriend Julie-Su.

*** In the future of an alternate universe, Knuckles not only tried to change the world, but he succeeded in conquering it after harnessing the power of the all the emeralds. He ripped the souls out of nearly all the main characters (Eggman, Sonic, Shadow, Tails, his own mate, etc.), sunk a continent, and then decided to try and amuse himself by conquering other dimensions. He uses the souls of his victims to create his Prelate Army. Oh, and he took on the name Enerjak in this timeline because "Enerjak the Hero" sounded cool.

** Some versions of Sonic's Super form are like this, becoming a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. This is mainly seen in the British Fleetway comics, where Sonic always becomes a psychopath when he changes to Super Sonic.

* ''[[Xenogears]]'' also features mecha pilots given performance enhancing drugs that cause them to go insane. This has caused the [[Capulet Counterpart|main female protagonist]] Elly a good deal of trauma as she's brutally murdered dozens of her fellow soldiers with her bare hands whilst under their influence.

** {{spoiler|Fei's degeneration into Id, where he unlocks his true power and turns into a lunatic with severe Freudian overtones.}}

* Queen Zeal of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' fame went mad with power when she came into contact with Lavos, plotting increasingly dangerous ways to drain its awesome power for personal use, even at [[And Man Grew Proud|the cost of her own kingdom]].

* Part of the problem with Fusion in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' is that doing so allows the demonic souls the Harmonixer fuses with to attack his sanity. In the first game, this is shown by having to pay a significant amount of the [[Sanity Meter]] to fuse. In the second one (and third, though that instead represents Shania losing herself in the power of the spirits), the fused character's Sanity Points run down at a faster rate instead. This is partially mitigated by how Fusion-capable characters start with much more Sanity Points than the rest of the cast (representing the incredible strength of will needed just to ''use'' the power).