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Normally, when working on something important, a character will eventually have to stop. Fatigue, starvation, or even just enemies bursting into the workplace will put a damper on anyone's study habits. There are also moral reasons to
[[Mad Scientist|Mad scientists]] think that kind of attitude is for wimps.
When these guys get
Those [[Power Born of Madness|who have found the Madness Place are very productive]]...for a time. [[Go Mad
For obvious reasons, this trope is usually associated with the [[Mad Scientist]], but it can appear alongside other [[Cloudcuckoolander|personalities]]. As touched upon above, those in the madness place tend to [[Forgets to Eat|forget to eat]], bathe, and sometimes talk. They may think they've said something, or think it's so blindingly obvious they shouldn't have to mention it. In a sense, [[It's All About Me]].
Compare [[Happy Place]]. Not to be confused with [[Escape From the Crazy Place|the Crazy Place]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[The Woobie]] Chrona in ''[[Soul Eater]]'' spends time in this, a [[Happy Place]] and a [[Black Bug Room]]. [[Ambiguous Gender|S/he]] spends much less of the anime in it due to a [[Earn Your Happy Ending|happy]] [[Gecko Ending]] ( {{spoiler|[[
* Arguably, what Fran of [[Franken Fran]] goes into when she begins an operation.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days]]'', Yui is still alive; one of her jobs at NERV is to gently nudge Gendo out of the Madness Place from time to time.
== Fan Works ==
* Cited by name in ''The Scourge from the North'' by [[Doghead Thirteen]], as evidence that [[Harry Potter]] is indeed a worthy heir to the crown of the Orks.
== Film ==
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* ''[[Superman]]: Last Son of Krypton''. When Superboy gives a teenage Lex Luthor his own laboratory, Lex goes into this state.
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* In ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (the book, not the musical), the title character tells [[The Hero|Christine]] that he sometimes goes weeks on end working on his opera, ''Don Juan Triumphant'', without eating or sleeping much. Unfortunately for him, [[Deconstruction|a few weeks in the madness place have to inevitably be made up for by another few weeks of sleeping most of the time due to being utterly exhausted]].
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' Geniuses are known to do this, but there's no actual rules for it.
* The Lunar [[Exalted]] have this as a power in the shape of Inevitable Genius Insight.
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* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'': In this game, your dorfs will sometimes be taken by a 'strange mood', which will cause them to find a workshop, kick out whoever's using it, and lock themselves up in it. They will then start either yelling, mumbling, or drawing the materials they want, unless they're psychotically depressed, in which case they'll either steal a corpse or kill a dwarf and use his remains to make their project. The will never leave for food, booze, or rest. If you get them all the materials they want, they'll create a valuable artifact and instantly gain legendary experience in the field of whatever they were making (with the exception of one mood). Failure to get them the materials, however, will cause the dorf to slip into incurable insanity and invariably die (and in the case of one flavor of insanity, [[Ax Crazy|try to take your other dwarves down with them]]).
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. The first three panels of [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-02-02 this strip] with Tedd in full [[Mad Scientist]] mode. Note the [[Scary Shiny Glasses]].
** This is also the focus of the [http://egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=87 "One Way Road"] arc. Only it's referred to as "Obsessive geek overdrive mode."
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]]. When Sparks <s>retreat</s> advance to their Madness Place, amazing things can happen.
** Note: Amazing things may or may not include
* ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'' has this happen fairly often to [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder|SRMD]] sufferers, often after they get caught (though fortunately the symptoms are pretty predictable at that stage).
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