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== Anime and Manga ==
* The TV Series of ''[[Black Rock Shooter]]''. The only sane person is Yuu. {{spoiler|Nope. Actually, Yuu vanished into Otherworld years ago. The person we've been seeing named Yuu is actually her Otherself Strength. She's not crazy, however, she IS the crazy.}}
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' may well be the king of this trope. Keeping within the circle of main characters, we have: Shinji, the shy, borderline-depressed protagonist with negligible self-esteem and self-worth; Rei, an emotionally-repressed [[Extreme Doormat]] who sees no issue with considering herself totally expendable; Asuka, a self-hating, abrasive, attention-seeking [[Tsundere]] borderline-narcissist; Misato, a [[Broken Bird]] who craves love and acceptance but fears more than anything the very commitment that comes with the deeper relationships said desire entails. [[:Category:Yandere
** In fact, [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'s cast is sufficiently messed up that the viewer practically 'needs' similar issues of their own to identify with them. Those who don't may well find it easier to identify with a cast of Mary Sues. This is a big part of Evangelion's polarizing nature.
** It should be noted, however, that the manga version (written by character designer Sadamoto) features a much less screwed up cast. However, Evangelion is technically [[Anime First]]; the manga was only made as an advertisement initially. This being Evangelion, of course, there's still plenty of dysfunction to go around.
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* ''[[White Album]]''. Touji is a slacker and seemingly can't take any kind of initiative, Yuki is an [[Extreme Doormat]], Yaoyi is... well, not particularly functional, Haruka seems to be something of a [[Wild Child]], Misaki is pretty much incapable of functioning, Mana is neglected by her parents, Eiji is... Well, just crazy. All in all not the most mentally stable of casts.
* While not nearly as angsty or drama-milking as other series, there's barely a character in ''[[Baccano!]]!'' that isn't maladjusted, severely traumatized, or (most commonly) [[Cloudcuckoolander|just]] [[Talkative Loon|plain]] [[Ax Crazy|nuts]]. You know your cast belongs on the wrong side of the crazy train when even the [[Only Sane Man]] is an orphaned, Mafia-raised teenager with the [[Ghost Memory]] of a centuries-old [[Mad Scientist]].
* ''[[Durarara!!]]''—you know you've got a messed up cast when ''every leg of your [[Love Triangle]]'' is a [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere
** ...and that even if you include two of them in the "weird, but ok" group, you can still count how many characters are in it with one hand.
** Technically, it's a love ''square''. What makes it a square, you ask? ''[[A Love to Dismember|A freaking head]]''. [[Cute and Psycho|The]] [[Ambition Is Evil|rest]] [[Stepford Smiler|of]] [[Abusive Parents|the]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|cast]] [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|isn't]] [[Lack of Empathy|really]] [[Yakuza|that]] [[Tin Man|much]] [[Dark and Troubled Past|better]], [[A God Am I|either]]. [[There Are No Therapists|And they're]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|only]] [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant|getting]] [[Serial Escalation|WORSE]].
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*** Which is even more ironic when you take into consideration that Seras is one of the most sane characters in the entire series, despite having [[Dark and Troubled Past|every reason]] [[Nightmare Fuel|not to be]].
{{quote|"Makes you wonder if anybody normal works in this place..."}}
* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''. Just about the whole cast is [[Ax Crazy]], ''especially'' [[:Category:Yandere
* ''[[Sora no Woto]]''. Save for {{spoiler|Kanata}}, the rest of the cast has a tragic past related to the war. But they believe you can [[Earn Your Happy Ending]], though.
* Practically everyone in the manga ''[[Manga/Under Grand Hotel|Under Grand Hotel]]''.
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* The characters of ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]'' easily count. The protagonist is a cutter who's bullied and [[Butt Monkey|can never seem to be happy for long]], her ex-friend's boyfriend is a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] who has [[Abusive Parents]] {{spoiler|and who's girlfriend set him up to get beat up}}, her only friend is a delinquent of sorts who misses school in order to have a job, there's a boy in the series who was severely bullied in middle school..
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' is full of them. Heero is orphaned very young. He's used as an assassin and trained as a [[Child Soldiers|child soldier]]. Duo [[Street Urchin|live on the streets]] with other kids and steal to stay alive. He ends up in a orphanage and all his friends are adopted except for him. OZ and the Alliance then massacre everyone leaving him the sole survivor. Trowa is trained as a [[Child Soldiers|mercenary]] with no memory of his lost family. Quatre has a low esteem of himself and thinks his father doesn't love him because he was born as a test tube baby (in reality he was conceived naturally and doesn't know it). Wufei lost [[Arranged Marriage|his wife]] during an OZ attack on his colony. Zechs lost his parents during an Alliance invasion and had his pacifist homeland conquered.
* In ''[[Sakura Gari]]'' between Souma's childhood, {{spoiler|being raped and tortured DAILY, silently and lonely while everyone pretends it doesn't happen}}, Matasaka's childhood {{spoiler|and rape and torture at the hands of Katsuragi}}, the ''entire'' situation with {{spoiler|Youya, and Souma's stepmother}}, [[Complete Monster|Katsuragi]] and [[:Category:Yandere
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''—unsurprisingly, since it was created by [[Gen Urobuchi]].
** Madoka is a shy little girl who has no self-worth and feels useless, {{spoiler|which enables her to delete herself from existence to save the world}}.
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** Homura is pretty much the ''queen'' of dysfunction. She {{spoiler|watched her only friends die ''multiple times'' while desperately trying and failing to save them through her [[Groundhog Day Loop]] powers, which eventually became so traumatizing that she abandoned all emotions and went from being a sweet little Moe with glasses and braids to a cold, hard Badass who fights with an armory of guns and bombs she stole from the ''Yakuza''. In the current timeline, she has to watch her best friend Madoka - the girl she's relived a single hellish month over and over to save - shy away from her in fear and treat her like she's an intimidating stranger.}}
** Kyubey {{spoiler|can't feel emotions - in fact, his species regards feelings as ''mental disorders''.}}
* [[Mawaru Penguindrum]]: To list all of the characters' respective problems would be incredibly spoiler-riffic and take up half this page. Suffice to say that every major character must deal with ''several'' serious issues ([[:Category:Yandere
* ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'', besides being a slice-of-life school comedy, also details the lives of seven socially-inept members of the Neighbors Club, particularly its principal trio (which also serves as a [[Love Triangle]] of the sorts) -- Kodaka is an otherwise [[Only Sane Man|well-adjusted boy]] whose social life suffers due to being frequently mistaken for a [[Delinquent]]; Yozora is an [[Jerkass|abrasive loner]] with almost [[No Social Skills]]; Sena is a notorious [[Rich Bitch]], her [[Ms. Fanservice|shapely figure]] notwithstanding; Yukimura is an [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|extremely-effeminate boy]] with [[Gullible Lemmings|a severe lack of self-confidence]]; Rika is a [[Teen Genius]] with an [[Lovable Sex Maniac|incredibly perverted streak]]; Kodaka's little sister Kobato is under a [[Mr. Imagination|constant self-delusion]] of being a vampiric [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]; and Maria is their [[Sensei-chan|ten-year-old advisor]] with severe [[Cloudcuckoolander|reality-testing issues]]. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
* Just about ANYTHING by [[Kaori Yuki]]. ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' and ''[[Count Cain]]'' deserve [[Crapsack World|special]] [[World of Woobie|mention]].
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{{quote|'''Light:''' L... [[Hypocritical Humor|You're not exactly the sanest person I've ever met, but after seeing three other examples produced by the same environment, I just have to ask... how come you're not any more off the wall?]]<br />
'''L:''' I started meddling with [[Serial Killer|serial killers]], [[Ax Crazy|psychos]] and [[A God Am I|megalomaniac]] [[Evil Overlord|criminal masterminds]] instead. [[Lampshade Hanging|That must have saved my sanity.]] }}
* ''[[A Cure for Love]]'': Whoo boy... [[Death Note|Matt]] got pressured into working for a [[Western Terrorists|terrorist organization]] in order to keep his boyfriend safe {{spoiler|he was pressured into this by his boyfriend's MOTHER no less}}. [[Dating Catwoman|L and Light are mortal enemies and deeply in love with each other]] and that goes about as well as you might expect they ''were'' [[Tragedy|happy together]]... until {{spoiler|Misa conspires with Astraea to return to Light his Kira memories.}} After his [[Relationship Upgrade]] with Light, [[Horrible Judge of Character|L considered Misa to be one of his only friends]] even if she is a [[Serial Killer]] that wants him dead. Light caught L talking with Mello in a clandestine meeting and [[Crazy Jealous Guy|assumed he was cheating on him.]] Light kills {{spoiler|[[:Category:Yandere
== Film ==
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