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* The Malkavian Clan in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', and their spiritual descendants the Malkovian Bloodline in the [[Re Boot]] ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]''. Although all Vampires lose their sanity over time, these guys start out full of crazy and then some. Their madness may have a mystical explanation, or it may just be the fact that since they live in a total [[Crapsack World]] where insanity is inevitable, you may as well skip merrily to bonkers and enjoy yourself.

** 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"[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.

** 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.

* Occasionally played very darkly in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' as a symptom of corruption by Chaos, particularly by Tzeentch.

** And by the good guys. [[State Sec|Inquisitors]] and other Imperial officials occasionally muse that to the average man, doing things like blowing up your own planet to stop the enemy from claiming it, or abandoning millions to die because they aren't worth the cost of life required to save them, are unfathomably evil acts. Yet those who know the true nature of the threats facing the Imperium realize that such atrocities make a chilly sort of sense. "The very existence of the human race is the prize for victory. Our sanity is the sacrifice we make to win that laurel."