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When these guys get involved--or perhaps we should say ''[[Science-Related Memetic Disorder|obsessed]]''--with a project, they ignore all distractions. The prisoner's crying? I don't hear anything. Crime against nature? I haven't been outside in ten years, so I don't really care. Food, sleep? Obstacles. And enemies jumping into the lab are like volunteers you don't have to hunt down with a taser.
 
Those [[Power Born of Madness|who have found the Madness Place are very productive]]...for a time. [[Go Mad From the Revelation|Sometimes even a long time]]. But eventually, [[Bored Withwith Insanity|they come back]], and have to deal with mere mortals again.
 
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]].
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* [[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|[[Heel Face Door Slam|less so in the manga]]}}). [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Stein]] is constantly at risk of slipping into his. Other "victims" include {{spoiler|Justin Law and (for now) Death The Kid}}.
* 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.
 
== Film ==
 
* ''[[Re -Animator]]''. Herbert West lives there. And in ''[[Re-Animator|Bride of Reanimator]]'', he gets Dan to visit.
* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': Jack Skellington spends a lot of time attempting to figure out Christmas after returning to Halloweentown from Christmastown.
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|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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== Webcomics ==
 
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|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 killing, rebuilding a glider in mid flight, building an escape machine in your sleep, and killing and reanimating yourself and your boyfriends to cure one of them of a disease.
* ''[[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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