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* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. All over the freaking place.
** In fact, the first thing you see in the second arc, even before the opening, is a scene of {{spoiler|Rika stabbing herself in the neck while Shion laughs maniacally}}. It then takes about 10 episodes before you're finally told the context, and that makes it even creepier.
** For your viewing pleasure, [http://youtu.be/-OJek7d6ars some] [[
* In the intro of ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', everyone is laughing. In the most unlikely situations, such as a guy in freefall, a drowning woman... what better way to tell you're about to get [[Mind Screw|mindscrewed]]?
* Kotonoha from ''[[School Days]]'' does this frequently after her descent into [[:Category:Yandere|crazyville]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* This is generally how [[Batman]]'s enemy the Joker is portrayed as going insane. [[Go Mad
* A flashback in ''[[The Sandman]]'' shows this happening to Delight during her transformation into Delirium.
* In a flashback to the future, [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Hobgoblin 2211]], after having her brain warped by a computer virus, cackles psychotically and goes on a rampage.
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** Played completely straight in the infamous Hercules/Aladdin crossover episode ''Hercules and the Arabian Nights'', however: Shortly after Jafar is revived by Hades, he starts using his cane to cause huge amounts of destruction in Hades' lair, while laughing maniacally, causing Hades to object and even go as far as to take away his cane (which is his only lifeline) to get him to obey.
{{quote|'''Hades:''' The laughing, what's with that?!
'''Jafar:''' [[Rule of Cool|It's a flourish.]] ''AAAAHAHAHAHAH!''
'''Hades:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|You are such a freak...]] }}
*** Later on he ''joins in,'' commenting that he gets why Jafar does it; 'it's refreshing'.
* Beyond Re-animator: After Philip's girlfriend is murdered, Dr. Herbert West brings her back to life by infusing her with the lifeforce of the corrupt warden who killed her along with his previously developed re-agent so she can retain her memories, skills, and motor functions as a zombie. Unfortunately she comes back as a kinky crazed and dangerous zombie and Philip is forced to incapacitate by cutting off her head. When the guards find Philip weeping over her headless corpse, they drag him away as he tries to convince them that she is still alive by urging her and her headless body to speak to them. When she doesn't respond, he goes into a fit of insane laughter and then when he and the guards are out of sight, her head starts laughing and thus the movie ends.
* In many ''Hamlet'' adaptations Ophelia's madness is like that: she switches between sadness (tears) and moments of happiness (insane laughter).
* Buzz Lightyear in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' does this after realizing he's just a toy. ("You see this hat? I am Mrs. Nesbitt!") He stops after [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Woody slaps him]] with his own detached arm.
* Happens to Dr. Leo Marvin in ''[[What About Bob?]]?''
* In the 1932 film ''[[The Mummy (film)|The Mummy]]'', after Ralph Norton sees the eponymous creature rise from its tomb and walk off, he is found giggling insanely and gibbering "he went for a little walk!"
** Speaking of classic Universal horror films, we'd be remiss not to mention [[Dwight Frye]]'s Renfield in the 1931 ''[[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]]''.
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* Cody Jarrett winds up this way in ''White Heat''.
* Chief Inspector Dreyfus in ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' has a small bit of this after being "saved" by Clouseau on the day of his sanity hearing, triggering his escape from the asylum and sending him on a course to try to [[Take Over the World]].
* Insurance fraud investigator John Trent punctuates his [[Go Mad
* ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''. An insane shrieking is heard from the xenomorph as it [[Sound-Only Death|kills Lambert]], though this was never heard in the sequels.
** That... wasn't the Alien making that noise.
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* In a variant, there's a really nightmarish scene in ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'' where a character prophesizes the slaughter of Penelope's suitors by seeing them all racked with painful, hysterical laughter and choking up blood. And still continuing to laugh as they're slaughtered.
* Vera Claythorne does this in ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' when she realizes U. N. Owen is enacting the bedtime rhyme and they're all gonna die.
* In [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft's]] ''The Call of Cthulhu'', one of the two people who survives after seeing Cthulhu [[Go Mad
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Pool of the Black Ones," while [[Conan the Barbarian]] and Sancha are watching giants who fall in the [[Uncanny Valley]] and have captured their comrades, he has to slap his hand over her mouth to prevent her hysterical giggle.
* The men with no pain from the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' giggle madly in battle.
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* [[Vincent Price]] at the end of [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Thriller".
* Twilightning's "Rolling Heads" from the ''Bedlam'' EP ends with mad laughter.
* Heard in the end of [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]'s "Diamonds of the Black Chest" when the song's protagonist finds the titular chest. [[Go Mad
* [[Napoleon XIV]]'s "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" It's right there in the title.
* The [[Bonzo Dog Band]] did a cover of "Monster Mash" that was pretty faithful to the original, until the ending, where vocalist Vivian Stanshall goees into an [[Evil Laugh]] that grows more and more manic through the fade-out.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Numerous followers of [[The Corruption|Chaos]] in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', Adorjan the Silent Wind is considered the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Yozi]] patron of [[Ax Crazy]]. As a result, her chosen Infernals tend to get access to Charms that reflect this, such as Broken Silence Laughter Defense (which allows the Infernal to throw off attempts to influence them by laughing inappropriately) and Eloquence in Unspoken Words (which gives the Infernal telepathic communication, at the price that they can only vocalize laughter).
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** Majora's Wrath from [[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]] qualifies a lot, given the fact that its insanity has just reached its peak.
** Also, {{spoiler|[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Zant]] after [[Villainous Breakdown|breaking down]] over the course of the battle against him.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'''s Fou-lu starts laughing {{spoiler|after realising that [[Human Resources|Mami was used to fuel]] the Hex Cannon}}, [[Wafer-Thin Mint|which is what ultimately breaks him]] and decide to [[Kill'Em All]] on those bastard humans.
* The Heavy and Scout from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' can laugh maniacally if you get trigger-happy enough with the Minigun/Natascha and the Force-a'-Nature, respectively. Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdJ6la9tMU the Announcer].
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* Sandra Eastlake in Zebra Girl, [http://zebragirl.keenspot.com/d/20070526.html just after her heroic BSOD/Face Heel Turn.]
* When Computer returns to perform horrifying acts of vengence against the [http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com J&C] cast she is always seen grinning madly, though not laughing.
* Valentino descends to this after being tricked into [[Deadly Graduation|killing her one and only friend]] from her [[Training
* Rocky and Freckle in ''[[Lackadaisy]]''.
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