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{{quote|'''Solomon Grundy:''' ''(to [[Lex Luthor]])'' You're crazy.

''[[There Was a Door|Enter Joker, stage left]]''

 

For a very long time, TV writers seemed to think that one of the universal signs of mental illness was a total inability to perceive one's self as acting oddly. It's tempting to have a mentally ill person utter such classic [[Mad Scientist]] lines as, "[[They Called Me Mad]], but I'm not mad, ''they're'' the ones that are mad!" And certainly, the near sociopathically quirky characters you find on the average [[Sitcom]] seem to think themselves perfectly ordinary. However, in the real world, some, but by no means all deeply disturbed individuals are like this.

'''Bloodnok''': ''What a splendid judge of character this fellow is.'' }}

 

** The Malkavians of ''Masquerade'' have a variety of opinions on their madness and [[Mad Oracle|the insight it brings]]. A good chunk of the clan just views them as part and parcel of one another (heck, the clan's formal nickname is "The Clan of [[Lunacy|the Moon]]"), whereas a few holdouts (such as Dr. Netchurch in the books, or Alistair Grout in [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|Bloodlines]]) view themselves as perfectly normal individuals with keen insight into the ways of the world.

** This has led to a particularly contemptible sort of player character known as the "fishmalk"[https://web.archive.org/web/20151102194043/http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Fishmalk], who is crazy in a way they think is "wacky" but all the other players think is juvenile, stupid, and distracting from the rest of the game. It is named after a bizarre picture of a Malkavian kissing a fish, check it out at that link.