The Mad Hatter/Playing With

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Basic Trope: A crazy character is aware of and acnkowledges their insanity.

  • Straight: Alice is crazy and mentions this fact.
  • Exaggerated: Alice mentions her insanity in literally every sentence.
  • Justified: Alice has a mental disorder that renders her able to understand that she's not quite right.
  • Inverted: Alice reminds people that she is the sane one in a cast full crazy people.
  • Subverted: Alice says that she's crazy, but it turns out she's not really crazy.
  • Double Subverted: It turns out that she actually is crazy and continues to say that she is.
  • Parodied: Lots of Alice in Wonderland jokes pop up in the work, all directed at Alice and her insanity.
  • Deconstructed: Alice has severe mental psychological problems that she is aware of but can't fix, leading to a slow breakdown causing pain to her and the people around her.
  • Reconstructed: Alice finds a medication that takes away the worst problems that her madness causes. She still has a few quirks, but nothing major, and she continues to (mostly jokingly) refer to herself as insane.
  • Zig Zagged: We can never tell if Alice is really insane or not.
  • Averted: Alice is crazy, but she doesn't recognize it.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Let's face it. I'm just crazy."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Alice refuses to believe that she's crazy. Or, she knows she's crazy, but she refuses to talk or think about it.
  • Discussed: "I thought crazy people weren't supposed to know they were crazy. How come Alice does?"
  • Conversed: "I thought crazy people weren't supposed to know they were crazy. How come all the fictional loonies do?"

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